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EbifORiALS Purse's Fresh Flashes irton ADVICE ON GIVING Advice is usually worthless because U In calling attention to the generosity older people have had more experience of the American public, which has con tributed more than $4,000,000,000 a year to philanthropic purposes, Mr. F. Emerson Andrews, of the Russell Sage Foundation staff, points out that there are dangers in generalizing about giving. There are some, he says, who want to head contributors' lists for selfish reasons, some unable to find causes that challenge them, some so close to a subsistence mar gin that they have nothing to give and others who have a margin in their finances but "none in their sympathies." Mr. Andrews gives twenty sugges tions for more effective giving. We think they are worth passing on to our readers: 1. Give to your own community, where you are most likely to know about needs and ser vices; but remember also poorer communities, which have greater needs and fewer able to help. 2. Give nationally and internationally, for we need to be one world. 3. Give to relieve physical need, in an em ergency or when relief from the constituted agencies is for some good reason inappropriate or impossible. 4. Give in such ways that the gift will not sap effort or confirm a feeling of inadequacy, but will stimulate the recipient to renewed activity on his own behalf. 5. Give toward rehabilitation rather than relief. 6. Give toward cure rather than treatment. 7. Still better, give toward prevention. 8. Seek no personal credit for your gift and do not expect gratitude. 9. Give to no organization unknown to you without investigation. 10. Avoid giving to organizations which un necessarily duplicate work already being effic iently done. 11. Avoid giving to organizations whose col lection costs are high or methods doubtful. 12. When you give, give absolutely, with no expectation of control over the recipient. 13. Give while living, that you may see your gifts in action and learn the art of giving. 14. Give in ways that will stimulate larger giving from others. 15. Give in order to open doors of oppor tunity for the talented, and to make possible for others that greatest gift, their personal service. 16. Give adequately for the need, but not lavishly. 17. Give toward research and discovery, and especially toward discovery of the conditions of health and well-being. 18. Give toward demonstrations of useful new .services and ideas, and when these have proved themselves, withdraw support and let them be maintained by the users or the community. ; 19. If you give substantial amounts or for the long future, give under provisions which will permit changing the purpose of your gift. ; 20. Finally, in all your giving, give thought ."Somebody must sweat blood with gift money," ;said Henry S. Pritchett when president of the Carnegie Foundation, "if its effect is not to do more harm than good." But with thoughtful giving even small sums may accomplish great purposes. The man or woman who is too busy to take a vacation is in for a great sur prise; when he, or she, dies, the world will hardly miss them. THIS MIGHT SAVE A LIFE 1 May we once again, without imper tinence, advise parents of Cass countv, to carefully store pistols, guns and other weapons out of the reach of children? ; Almost every day some little child is killed in the United States through the .handling of a firearm by another child, who usually "finds it" where the parents "thought" it was safely hidden. Many Americans might be Inclined to .overlook the fact, but the public school System is the great bulwark of independ ence and liberty. THOUGHT FOR TODAY ' Circa t caters and great sleepers arc incapable of anything else that is great. Ilcnrv I and rarely heed it and younger people know everything and do not need it. One little kid, living down the street here in Plattsmouth, has learned to swear terribly, but it doesn't bother his mother much as she says although he knows all the words, he hasn't yet learned to put any expression in'em. It is truly a woman's world. When a man is born, people ask about the mother. When he marries, it's "what a lovelv bride." And when he dies every body wants to know how much he left her. Asked the son the other night why he kept scratching himself. He told me he was the onlv one who" "knows where I itch." If you want to know who is boss in the family just keep your eyes on the one a salesman concentrates on when hus band is buying a suit. Tourists are people who travel thous ands of miles to get a picture of themsel ves standing beside their car. We can't see what keeps some girls from freezing this kind of weather, but, then, mavbe we're not supposed to. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, breezed in the other morning with some more good advice- Fanny says to let a fool kiss you is stupid, but to let a kiss fool vou is worse. The moon doesn't effect the tide as much as the untied. DOWN MEMORY LANE LAFF OF THE WEEK OtWLV. CAPITOL : NEWS I By Golly It IS Ticking! Let's Mark It Insufficient Posraae And Send It Back!" . YEARS AGO Rev. H. G. McClusky of I ranee The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper t:st.ht.ttki tn Published semi-weekly. Mun.Jays an.l Thursdays, at 4W-U3 Main Ptro-t. 1'lntts m.vith. -as County. Nbr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor (on loave HARRY J. CANE Manaerin Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mf?r Helen E. Heinrlch & Donna L. Rhoden Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation ttsoemrton, SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. Knlorc at th I'--'-t OiTir- nt nattMiioulli. NoJ.raska. us yToi).J cla.-s mail .matter in iM.-cordaui.-e villi the A-t of Coiicress ojC March J. lb. J. i OA L3 Rev. H. G. McClusky delivered ad dress to student body of local high school U. S. justice dc on Lincoln's Birthday observance, em-fafmed directio: phasizing the Inner Lite oi ADranam Lincoln." . . . Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Grass mueck, former pastor of the Christian church here, visited friends enroute to their home at Arlington . . Fontenelle Cha pter D.A.R. held a colonial tea and display of quilts and antiques at the Presbyterian Fellowship room . . . The Elks lodge of this city closed their club rooms on North Sixth streets with activities being moved to the country club as of March 1st. .-. in YEARS AGO 1U The kindergarten pupils at Columbian school held a patriotic program under direction of their teacher Miss Sylvia Kor bel . . . Miss Leona M. Meisinger and Frank J. Bierl were married at rectory of St. John's church here by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Geo. Agius . . Marie Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Anderson of Ne- hawka was awarded a scholarship to Doane College through her merits in 4-H club work . . . Plattsmouth State Rank was host at an annual party tendered by the officials of the bank to the farmer patrons. (Copyrif?ht, 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: FRIEND SHIP TOYS SAIL FOR EUROPE; GERMAN-SWISS DYE FIRM BE COMES PAWN OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICS; BUSINESS TYCOONS HELP TRUMAN CAMPAIGN FUND AND ANGLE FOR GENERAL ANI LINE AND FILM. Washington. Today' the SS Aag tedyk sails from Philadelphia, city of brotherly love, bearing the first cargo of the Tide of Toys to Europe. This is a friendship cargo which the American Legion has painstakingly collected from all parts of the U.S.A. for the children of Europe and the families of American GI's in Korea Last year the Legion sent 3,000,000 toys to Europe. Frequently drives of this kind slacken after the first year. People get tired or discouraged, figure the need isn't quite so great. But the Legion has reversed this trend, and the amazing total of 7,000,000 toys have now been contrib uted by children who could spare a toy from under their own Christmas tree. What the Legion and its friends have realized is that money cannot buy friend ship. Nor can the shipment of arms build friendship. Nor can the rebuilding of Eur opean factories, important as that is', build friendship. It is the people-to-people un derstanding, such as comes through a gift of a toy bearing a message from one child to another, which really builds the kind of enduring friendship we need." Note The Legion did such a good juu euueciing irienosnip toys tins year that the cost of shipping became much greater than last year. Whereupon a group of patriotic businessmen in New York, led In- i ,.irw PncuK.tinl L.(mi,i :,, j I uowever. it may or may noi b Lew i.-, Koseubtiel, stepped in to raise a COincicience that the Swiss $50,000 to cover overhead expenses. ALIEN PROPERTY POLITICS j One of the little-noticed but I festering political sores of Wash- I ington is General Aniline ana Film, the giant German-Swiss' chemical corporation, formerly affiliated witn the notorious I. G. Farben cartel and now a pawn in the cutthroat game of democratic politics. If a senate committee ever pries into the political ramifi cations of General Aniline and Film it will make the current probe of the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation seem pallied by comparison. Technically, the German-Swiss company is sup posed to be operated by the alien property custodian of the justice aepartment. But department has ion oi tne com pany to various friends who helped Harry Truman get where he is. First of all, snrewd, tarsighted Victor Emanuel, tycoon oi the American Aviation Company, appointed Leo Crowley as head of his Standard Gas and Elec tric Co., when Leo was a power in the Roosevelt administration. At that time 1939 and the years following Crowley had the unique privilege of drawing $75,000 irom Standard Gas and Electric at the very same time ne was working for U. S. taxpayers as head of Federal Deposit In surance and as alien property custodian. An indication that Crowley was serving two masters came later when he rewarded the man who paid him $75,000 annually by making Victor Emanuel a di rector of the giant German firm, General Aniline and Film. As alien property custodian. Crow ley could appoint the directors of this German firr.i, and he ap pointed not only Emanuel, but Emanuel's close friend, George Allen. PROFITABLE BACK- SCKATCHING After Crowley stepped down as alien property custodian, he placed his own friend and as sistant, Jim Markham, in this key position. And Markham, in turn, appointed another friend of Victor Emanuel's, Louey Johnson, on the board of Gen eral Aniline and Film. Johnson became not only a director, but general counsel at a retainer of $37,500 annually. Later, when Markham stepped out as alien property custodian, he got a job in Louey Johnson's law firm. Thus, everybody scratched each other's back all the way round. However, a lot of politicians had their eyes on the giant German-Swiss firm. Manufacturing as it does ansco film, hormones, and 1,000 different synthetic dyes, it was the juiciest property seized by the government during the war. Its factories spread out from Grasselli. N. J., to Binghamton and Johnson City, N. Y., and a total of $1,000,000 a year was paid out to top ex ecutives and directors. So, in 1947, Bob Hannegan of Democratic national committee fame, induced Attorney General Tom Clark to appoint Jack Frye as head of General Aniline. Frye, a party faithful, had been eased out of his job as head of Trans World Airlines, but now stepped into the presidency of the giant German-Swiss firm at $72000. BATTLE OF TYCOONS About that time Victor Em manuel's influence began to wane, and the influence of rival tycoon, Floyd Odium, began to increase. Both, incidentally, had carefully sweetened the kitty of the Democratic party, but in 1948 Odium had gone down the line for Truman while Emanuel flirted with the Repub licans. At any rate, today finds Rich ard C. Patterson, a satellite of Floyd Odium's, on the board of General Aniline, and significant ly appointed as U. S. ambassa dor to Switzerland. Patterson has no outstanding qualifica tion for the U. S. ambassador ship to Switzerland, having re cently served in an opposite area of the world Guatemala. However, it may or may not be are WASHINGTON REPORT By Howard Buffett, 2nd Dist.. Nebraska Before the recent wage-price freeze order was issued, this of fice was beginning to receive a few letters urging a new OPA. Actually I was surprised that we didn't get more requests con sidering the way pricls have gone up. Rising prices are a cruel and bitter problem for most people. This problem has so many angles that it is hard to discuss it satisfactorily. But the rising cost of living, or mre accurate ly the steady decline in the buying power of the dollar is about the most important eco nomic fact in our lives. In earlier years this column emphasized one fact over and over again. It was that prices were not coming down, but were going higher. Wrhy was I so sure? The answer is simple. The financial policies of the Roose velt and Truman Administra tions were deliberately designed to decrease the value of the dol lar. And they still are! Price-fixing is an economic narcotic, used to postpone the painful discovery that a swindle is taking place. It does not deal with the cause of inflation. Price-fixing is exactly the same as treating a decayed and ach ing tooth with novacaine. Hitler used it, Stalin uses it to con ceal a rotting currency. My heart aches for those hurt the worst by inflation white collar workers, pensioners, young married couples, and all thrifty folks with fixed incomes. Their standard of living is being de liberately wrecked by the gov ernment that is sworn to pro tect them. Can inflation be stopped? Cer tainly. Two moves will head us toward stability. (1) An end 'o the foreign handouts that bleed us white. (2) A halt to the issu ance of irredeemable paper money. These actions, especi ally No. 2, are decisive correc tives. In their absence, proposed remedies are humbug or worse. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEIvU-VveeaLY JoUniiA PAGE FOUR Monday, February 12, 1951 over General Aniline, in fact, have sued the U. S. government, while the Swiss government has made representations to the state department on behalf of the European investors in Gen eral Aniline. So naturally the question is being asked as to whether a Floyd Odium as ambassador to Switzerland could not perhaps intervene in this delicate, dif ficult situation. SONGBIRD DIRECTOR Other interesting political ap pointments to the board of Gen eral Aniline, made by a politi cally minded justice department, are: Morton Downey, the Coca Cola singer, who is a delightful personality but knows little about dyestuffs; Colvin Brown, publisher of the Motion Picture Daily and great friend of ex Postmaster General Frank Walker- WTilliam J. Mahaney of San Francisco, who gave $5,000 to the Democrats; and Donald Lin coln law partner of Louey John son, who contributed $1,000 to the' Democrats. , Meanwhile, General Anilines earnings have dropped. Mean while, also, the U. S. government has followed a general policy of selling off other German property seized during the war. General Aniline and Film, how ever, remains unsold, and the juiciest industrial pawn in all party politics. ; To be prepared for all emer gencies, a home builder should make certain that his chimney is large enough to handle any type of fuel. LINCOLN Nebraskans who don't like the 1951 license plates and there are a lot of them judging by legislator's mail won't have to put up with the new style next year, if the cur rent sentiment in the unicam eral holds up for a few more days. A United Press survey of the 43 members showed that 29 want the old numerical system back; three favor giving the lettered plates a little longer trial and the rest just don't care very much one way or the other. The legislature's public works committee lost little time last week rushing out to general file a bill to change back to the 1950 method. It is L. B. 116, intro duced by Sens. Earl Lee of Fre mont, C. C. Lillibridge of Crete and Otto Prohs of Gering. The new plates, which Sena tor Lee described as "something the dreamboys here in this dreamhouse (state capitol) got up to show us," had no friends at the hearing. Owen Boyle, director of the motor vehicle di vision in the state highway de partment, attended the hearing, but did not testify. Three representatives of the Lincoln police department told the committee they favored the old style. Police Chief Joe Car roll said all the attendants at th-3 recent police school here preferred the old plates "to the man. iraiiic captain J. Paul Shively said the new tags are harder for an excited accident victim or witness to read. "I don't see why we should make it any tougher for the law en forcement officer," he said. In spector Eugene Masters, criminal-division chief, said his opin ion was that the old, establish ed plates were more easily rec ognized. One word of warning was sounded by Clarence Keller, su perintendent of the license plate factory at the reformatory, who said there might be trouble get ting 150,000 pounds of aluminum of the proper size to return to the old system by 1952. But at week's end, it remained fcr Chris Kuhner, a member of the Lancaster County board of commissioners, to come up with the simplest solution of all: abolish license plates, said he, make the owner paint his own number on the car. Fireworks has been a touchy subject in the legislature for the past several sessions and a bit of well-timed oratory by Sen. Jack McKnight of Auburn prevented passage in the 1949 session of a bill by Sen. O. H. Person of Wa hoo to outlaw the noisemakers. Everybody got a big laugh two years ago when debate on the measure was interrupted by the explosion of a giant firecracker in the cloakroom. But nobody laughed last week at the hearing on L. B. 79, Sen. Sam Klaver's bill to prohibit the sale or possession of fireworks in Nebraska. Nobody laughed be cause one of those who testified for the bill was nine-year-old Robert Hardy of Scribner, who is partially blind and whose face is disfigured because of a fire cracker explosion which burned him horribly and which nearly cost his life. Reporters are supposed to be a pretty hard-nosed class of citi zens. But even the newsmen were a little lumpy around the throat when Robert broke into sobs after he started to tell how the accident happened. Senator Person, chairman of the public health committee which was hearing the bill, com forted the lad and then asked his father to tell the story. Frank Hardy, a Scribner farmer, came forward and stood with his arm about the weeping Robert. In slow, simple words, he told how the boy and his two brothers were in a car, lighting firecrack ers. Robert tossed one out a window. It hit a tree and bounced back into his lap where he held a boxful of fireworks. Then he described the awful minutes when two doctors and three nurses fought to force blood into the lad's collapsed veins. "When you've got a child," he said, then stopped to gain con trol of his voice, "and they're giving him blood, a drop at a time, it goes awful slow." The committee took only a matter of minutes to speed the bill out to general file and this week it was well on its way to ward passage. Simple Kindness Brings Fortune IF YOU HAVE THOUGHT simple acts of kindness do not pay, wu me siuiy ut iviiss iviarina v. uiDrem, rasiover, in. u. Miss Culbreth is in her late teens; she has been reared to thoughtful o v J9 -v..v .j it, nwiu nmwuvj, W cKa ft m. Ani: a. m m n . i r- aw ummg d vdcauuu at xviyrue ueacn, an elderly woman sitting wearily down in a noiei loDDy, it was just second nature to her to go over and see if she could do anything for her. She could; the woman would like to have a glass of water. Well, that was little enoueh to no. so Martha brought the glass of water forthwith. Her spirits nrtea oy tne cool drink, the woman, who proved to be a Mrs. Baker of Philadelphia, chatted in friendly fashion with Martha. Back in her job at the Carolina Music Carnegie Company store in Fayetteville, Martha thought nothin of the kindly act of hers, but she did think how pleasant it was to have formed a nice friendship with the woman who asked for the water. Came Martha's nineteenth birthday. She spent it in the store, as usual. But this proved to be an unusual day, for into that store walked Thomas M. Baker, the son of Martha's new friend. Ho handed her an envelope saying it contained a birthday presrnt from his mother. A birthday present. Well, when she looked at the present, it was a check for $7500. Mrs. Baker, too, was geared to kindness. Martha could hardly believe her eyes, or the in!: on that check, for she feit she was dreaming, perhaps th? victim oT a joke. When Mr. Baker asked if there was anything els? mio wanted, she touched a piano and replied, ilYes, this." Mr. Eakcr learned the price of the piano and wrote a chock for it, thc-n asked if she wanted anything else, maybe she would li:;o th? store, too? Laughingly, Martha said, "Oh, yes." The store became hers as quickly ns the trausaelbn could be consummated. You may not always reap such a harvest from a kind deed, but if you watch yourself, you will find that the lift you get from performing one will bring reward in some degree. fet dinner and hockey game last week. But Carson had a good excuse: he and Mrs. Carson were in a minor traffic accident and she was a bit shaken up . . . Together, these men form a ma jority of the committee. Support for the bill within the committee will come from Metzger, a co introducer, and perhaps from Sens. Earl Lee of Fremont and Charles Wilson of Norfolk, who voted against killing the 1949 bill. "But," said Burney with a shrug, "you have to keep plug-. gmg away at a umig iih.e unb, year after year." A sigh of relief went up in the legislative chamber on (he first day of the session, when Dick Harvel. the 6 foot, 5 inch freshman from Hastings, an nounced there would be no water diversion bill this time. Re membering the bitter fights over diversion that have split recent sessions, veteran lawmakers ap plauded loudly. But for several hours on the last day for introduction of bills by members, the specter of a diversion fight invaded the chamber, personified by C. G. Wallace, of Hastings, who brought along several copies of a bill to lift the state's ban on j diverting water from one water- j shed to another. j Even after the deadline had 1 passed, Wallace said he would carry his fight to the governor. Wallace has filed an action with the state irrigation bureau claiming water rights for a sec tion of his farm which cannot be irrigated with diversion. Campaign To Open At Greenwood Soon The Salvation Army Service unit committee of Greenwood ! will conduct its annual campaign to raise funds for local and re gional welfare needs soon. Local committeemen cooper ating with and sponsoring the unit in Greenwood are Rev. C. Jannen. chairman; Marie L. ! Schweppe. treasurer: E. P. Mc- 1 Hugh, Murdock, chairman, and John C. Peglow and Mrs. Verna Rasmussen, chairman and treas urer at Gretna. Lnjuwjad Mrs. Grac Plybon Mrs. Colo was able to teach this week after convalescing in her home in January, while Mrs. Orval Gerbeling took her place in the grammar department. Mr. and Mrs. LaMoyne Spohn and daughters are enjoying their newly enlarged and redecorated home on their farm south of town. Mrs. Dreeszen of Lincoln spent a few days this week with her daughter, Mrs. Don Hollenbeck and family. Mrs. Hollenbeck is slowly recovering from her bro ken arm. A number of people gathered at the Roy Sterner property on Thursday afternoon for the sale of the house and four lots. As the final bid was only $1,570, Mr. Sterner, who was here from Ne braska City, decided to post pone selling until later. Claude Johnson, real estate man. and Ellis Lacy, auctioneer of Avoca did their part well, however. Mrs. Lester Preston enter tained at her home with a Stan ley party on Thursday after noon. The lady from Louisville planned and conducted the games and arrangements. Mrs. Mary Miller and Mrs. Downing are enjoying a new television set in their home. It is a Zenith make. Class 1 railroads in this coun try bought $318,642,000 worth of bituminous coal in 1949. Loaioas A crop failure, or complete de flation are about the only things that will prepare Nebraskans for acceptance of a sales tax, Sen. Dwlght Burney of Hartington has concluded with some sad ness. Burney, with Sens. C. E. Metz ger of Cedar Creek and Charles Lindgren of Campbell, is the in troducer of a two per cent sales tax bill which will be heard soon by the revenue committee. Chairman of the group is Sen. Charles Tvrdik of Omaha, who moved to kill Burney's sales tax bill in the 1949 session. And the rest of the committee is pretty much loaded against Burney. Two other Omaha members, Jack Larkin and Karl Vogel, voted to kill the bill two years ago. as did Sens. Jack McKnight and C. C. Lillibridge who are on Tvrdik's committee this time. Ben a bad case of the jitters with his bill to outlaw parimuiuci among uicm' CECIL KARR ACCOUNTING Income Tax Service Bookkeeping Systems Installed Ph. 6287 Donat Building $1,000 or Less LOANS MADE ANYWHERE Write or Come in AMERICAN LOAN PLAN O. T. NICHOL, JR., Mgr. 112 No. 5th St. Ph. 3213 Plattsmouth now doing their best to take a i ..r i-.ntlii-.fr lvo! lint 4 1 . . II ntl lllll 111 IJi.Llll.-. .... More mail' iu"u" - . bituminous com """' . .r. nf t.n. 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