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EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes ON DUMB WOMEN Viscountess Astor, Virginia-born lady, who often makes the headlines with her quips, recently spoke out on women, 1953 version. The first woman to sit in the British Parliament blasted her own sex in a speech before an organization which has long pressed for women's rights. Viscountess Astor says: "Women today take everything for granted," and that they "have a dumbness about them because they do not know why we got the vote." She also said that women seem to get dumber and dumber. Lady Astor is obviously bitter at the members of her own sex, all the reasons for which we do not pretend to know. How ever, it seems to us that she is off the track on the issue of woman's mentality. In stead of getting dumber and dumber, all the evidence seems to indicate that women are making progress in every major field and that they are more capable and more intelligent than ever before. And as for the dumbness because they do not know why they got the vote that charge is a legitimate one concerning many members of the opposite sex. So we cannot agree with Lady Astor, espe cially when she says glamorous women make her sick. ' Obviously, some fellow members of her own sex have ruffled the feathers of the British M. P. HORSE-RACING AND BASEBALL It was recently revealed that horserac ing has been attracting more and more spectators and that it is probably going to draw more spectators this year than base ball. The report prompted some to con clude that horse-racing is fast becoming a national pastime. While Derby month is no time to be little such a claim, it appears to us that the wagering factor in horse-racing is part ly responsible for the huge crowds. Those who like to wager money on the outcome of a sport cannot do so at a baseball park. They go to the track, where the windows are opened before each race and where the men and women behind them are glad to accept their bets. ' j f' Perhaps the greatest single factor in the development of baseball is the way the sport has been kept clean and out of the hands of gamblers. With few exceptions, baseball and gambling have remained at arms length. The fan in a baseball park is there to watch the players perform. Al though there is no way of knowing how many baseball fans bet on their favorites, it is a safe assumption that the great ma jority in each park are merely spectators. The sport of kings would draw even more racing fans were the laws against betting repealed in many of the states. Aside from that, neither baseball nor horse-racing draws the most spectators. It is not generally known but basketball outdraws them both. kECORD TAX HAUL Ticklers By Georg A psychologist is a fellow who uses $2 words to explain a failure caused by lazi ness. ' It is the love of other people's money that is the root of all evil. - We are fast approaching that season when the wife can put anything on a let tuce leaf and call it a salad. ' About the only thing that can cure you of arguing with your wife is arguing with vour wife. A local man says it's a relief to be cured of his insomnia. Says he lays awake half the night now thinking how he used to worrv about it. " They arrested a guy out on the golf links here Sunday he was driving while intoxicated. Sometimes it would be a good idea for people who listen to public speakers to get up and talk back. Hard work never killed a man, but the country is full of cripples who were injured trying to dodge it. duced $1,579,599,382. That was over $200,000, more than cigarettes produced in 1951. ' The biggest tax-paying states remained unchanged and are New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California. There is a possibility that 1952 taxes will remain a record tax haul since some taxes are scheduled to be reduced in July of this year. Certainly there will be no $12,500,000,000 increase in taxes this year, if any-increase at all, as was recorded in 1952 over 1951. Down Memory Lane THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOl PArnr pottti Monday. May 1 Legislative SIDELIGHTS.. by BERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation Price Support Pins ' I In a previous column, it has j been pointed out that farm price ' support piai rc r: eration a modernized two-price eu,-UU44u A tavn r n5' system which would set up a consumer and taxpayei and ; Lem f certificatS to pr0-rate lJ K ' 7 ifVE . SUfPlus costs in the agricultural t.i c , lido aii'va mi'- i'-'v.L vimu vi iv- rk'ht price support program will j:olve all farm problems. Also ncinted c.'t has been the fact carry out the basic operation. This sort of prui operated by provic?in tv "ejection of a '.surplus disrosal fee," the funds of which were used for the nur cna.se ar- disncsal cf surpluses at a loss in which amounted to a rystn of pro-rating the net less back to individual farmers. Th? National Grange has at the present time under consid- that a'moit every farm organiza tion and commodity group and many individuals each has its or his own pet farm price sup port plan which is supposed to solve the ills of agriculture. In general, price support plans fall into variations of the follow ing major proposals: Two-price systems which con template setting up one price for system. The proposed program considered by the Grange is labelled a 'self-financing two price system of farm price sup port." The plan contemplates relatively little governmental "cooperation." (The plan will be explained at a greater length in a coming column). The recent highly controver sial Brannan Plan was a pro duction payment plan in which the crop would have been per mitted to move to market with the government making up the bushel mark in seme tesis. G. E. Smith, agronomis University of Missouri, w m charge ot tne tests, sal 'Well fertilized corn had! from five to 15 per cent at harvest than corn noS ized. Apparently the m fertility improved germ emergence of hte seedli survival of the corn plan more rapid growth of tilized corn probably resil less destruction of it b cultivation." Dr. Weldon says that wi quate fertilization, the levels of soil fertility in soil types become of le portance. In the Missouri testa containing less plant nl yielded nearly as high in sections where soil higher in nitrogen and matter content and had producing superior co years. domestic sales and another price difference between the selling i'Okay you guys.which one of you jokersmountedmy Agriculture Benson, who was co- i is the premature heat in the 10 R The Internal Revenue Bureau recently reported that it had collected $58,500,000, 000 in all forms of taxation in 1952. That is about twelve and a half billion dollars more than was collected in 1951. The largest single source of revenue was produced by Federal individual in come and employment tax collections. They rose about twentv per cent over 1951, and totaled $35,995,895,681. Next in line came taxes from corporations, which in creased thirty-four per cent over 1951, and totaled last year $22,139,733,198. Aside from income taxes, the largest single tax source was cigarettes, which pro- THOUGHT FOR TODAY Men ndrcr wish afdently for what they only wish for from reason. La Rochefoucauld YEARS AGO Fred Vincent, chief air raid warden here, has announced that an air raid war den class will be organized here for train ing . . . Mr. and Mrs. Roy O. Cole cele brated their 25th wedding anniversary at their home Sunday . . . Martha Gorder, daughter of Mrs. Etta Gorder has been commissioned a lieutenant in the WAAC . . . The Fred H. Sharpnack family has moved to Cleveland, Ohio Glen Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Parker, is recov ering following an attack on his person by a swarm of bees . . . Miss Hazel I. Kelley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Kelley, and Lt. Stuart J. Sedlak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Sedlak of Plattsmouth were married May 18th . . . Oscar James San din will graduate as bandmaster from the U. S. Navy School of Music. YEARS AGO r Vera Hutchison has been elected worthy president of Aerie No. 365, Fra ternal Order of Eagles at Plattsmouth. H. L. Thomas was named vice president. Charter member James Rebal was elected treasurer . . . Unemployment is on the de cline in Cass county. Full employment at BREX, reopening of a crushed stone com pany at Weeping Water, and increased employment at Norfolk Packing Company mark the decline . . . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blunt are the parents of a son born May 11 . . . Dr. G. H. Gilmore led an archae ology party on a search south of Murray where they uncovered many relics of early homes in the area . . . Miss Ann Sanders and Miss Helen Smetana were hostesses at a shower honoring Mrs. Lawrence Stor johnn, the former Dora Soennichsen. 20 The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 r'lMihhfM iiii-Yek1y, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street. I"la.tt.snnHitl)( Cass -County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" Second in 1951 First in 1952 (In CiticH Over 2000 Population) RONALD R. PURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertising Mgr. SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editoi The Washington Merry-Go-Round ew a. n NATIOMAt MOntMIU. ASSOOAJKM Entered at the Post Office at Plattsitjouth, Nebraska, s second class mail matter In accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1878. SUBSCRIPTION TIATE: $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 or. two weeks. iCopyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON. SAYS: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINIS TRATION DEFEATED BY GRAIN DEALERS ON QUESTION OF GRAIN INSPECTION; CLEANUP OF RAT INFESTED WHEAT HALTS UNDER PRESSURE; TORNADO DESTRUC TION SIMILAR TO BOMB EXPLO SION. WASHINGTON One of the most amazing backtracks of the Eisenhower ad ministration took place verv auietlv a fPW days ago when it reversed a program for keeping rat droppings and weevil waste out of wheat and other grain sold to the American housewife. The rat-cleanup program had begun last fall, Oct. 15, 1952, under the Demo crats, and on April 6 was widened by the food and drug administration under the Republicans. It was then extended to weevil-infested grain. - However, one of the first official acts of Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby after she be came a full-fledged-member of the Eisen hower cabinet was to suspend this grain cleanup program by an order issued May 1. The food and drug administration is under her. Simultaneously Secretary of operating in the grain cleanup, also dropped the program. The sudden reversal came aft er 45 carloads of wheat had been seized for having an excess of rat droppings. It also came aft er the program, was vigorously opposed by big grain dealers, with several of them protesting direct to the White House. Pressure against the cleanup program was also exerted by Sen. Andrew Schoeppel of Kan sas, who in turn was pressured by Walter Scott of the Kansas City Commodity Exchange. Kan sas City grain dealers went so far as to threaten that they could not handle the southwest grain now stored in farm bins if the government persisted in its new program. They advocated a voluntary cleanup by the grain industry instead. The government's grain clean up actually had got under way with the encouragement of many millers and all the bakers. With their cooperation, the food and drug administration last fall set standards whereby grain con taining more than one rat drop ping per pint of grain was con demned for human consumption but classified as O. K. for animal consumption. Likewise grain containing more than 20 surface weevils or other insects, dead or alive, per 1,000 grams of wheat would be declared unfit for hu man consumption, but could be used for animal food. The grain trade objected to this partly on the ground that it set up two standards for prain: That for human con sumption and that for animals. Grain dealers also claimed that their own voluntary cleanup pro gram was sufficient. However, Food and Drug Com missioner Charles Crawford and his assistant, George Larrick. went ahead with the cleanup program. Immediately there arose an angry demand from the grain lobby that they and two assistants, John L. Harvey and M. R. Stephens, be fired. For a time Mrs. Hobby was on the verge of doing so. Then, as the scandal over fir ing Dr. Allen Astin of the bu reau of standards got hot, ad visers cautioned that the Eisen hower administration couldn't afford another firing scandal. and Mrs. Hobby decided to let them remain. Government Has Weevils Too Thereafter , pressure was brought on the agriculture de partment and on the White House direct. The Commodity Credit Corporation, the arm of the agriculture department which stores grain under the price-support program, was warned that some of its own grain would be declared unfit for human consumption. Under the new inspection program Secretary Benson was told by grain dealers that about $25,000,- 000 worth of government grain would be declared weevil-infested. A meeting held at the depart ment of agriculture, attended by some of the biggest grain men m the country, also dropped veiled inreats tnat they wouldn't store the bumper crop expected this summer which the government must handle for farmers Simultaneously, the senate ag riculture committee under the prodding of GOP Senator Young of North Dakota hauled uo George Larrick, food and drus deputy commissioner, gave him a stiff senatorial third degree. Testifying against him was William F. Brooks, executive sec retary of the National Grain Trade Council. Finally, Mrs. Hobby and Secre tary Benson tossed in the towel. Tfy issued joint statements lTAlc.dUy inspected "icy were going bacK to the old system of "voluntary cooperation" to prevent erain contamination. g Freak Tornadoes The weather bureau - which tion for thhf no pat cxplana south this year pvonf Tornadoes are TZZ:, south this year. The weather bureau has some other interesting observations to make about tornadoes, as fol lows: A tornado, they point out, isa funnel-shaped, rapidly ro tating cloud. Its terrific power is due to the fact that the low air pressure in the black cone differs greatly from the high air pressure in the surrounding at mosphere. When a tornado hits a house or any other build? nr:. the high air pressure in the house is sud denly forced out by th. Inrinh ing cone of low air prcs"re, cre ating a vacuum in wlvch the cone explodes somewhat iik? a bomb. That is the reason ;cr the great destruction caused by tor nadoes. The damage isn't caus ed by strong winds, but by the for export sales. Some of these two-price systems involve the government to a comparatively miner role. Domestic allotment plans are set up to give each producer an allotment of the total market, for particular commodities or for a group of commodities. This allotment is based upon cropping history and entitle? the holder to sell his quota in a supported market. Such quotas or allot ments tend to attach to the land and freeze patterns of production. Export-Import tie-in plans which have never been clearly worked out supposedly would set up certificates for importers of American farm products which could be used to pay import du ties on products they sent to the United States. In effect, such certificates would operate as subsidies on exported American farm products or import subsi dies on products imported to the United States. Production payment plans in volve letting the whole supply of a crop move into the free mar ket to sell at what price it will price and the parity price which would provide equality with the rest of the economy. The Bran nan Plan also contemplated, however, certain controls or lim itation on the amount of com modities for which government payment could be made. The plan set up a total of approxi mately 1800 units to which each farm was entitled. PRESIDENTIAL TOUR President Elsenhower j tatively scheduled to mi speeches away from Vv ton from June 10 throng 14. On June 10. he is at Minneapolis, June 11 rison Dam, N. D.; Junl Rapid City, S. D.; JurJ Dartmouth College in 3 N. H.; and June 14 at Oy (Lcng Island N. Y. pxnlnstnn nf thf rentpr of the 'JI1". BweiumcHt -i , inrr thp lndivirtual funnel-shaped cloud. Tornadoes are nearly always i difference between farmer the the market preceded by hail or thunder storms, or both. The average path of a tornado is only 1,200 feet wide and the average trav eling length of a tornado is only 16 miles. The longest in weather bureau history was a 1917 tor nado in Illinois and Indiana thai, traveled 2S3 miles. Merry-Go-Round Roy Conn, chief investigator for Senator McCarthy, has a lot of people laughing at him as a result of his recent antics in Europe. But his father still loves him. Papa, Jut'ge Albert Cohn of New York, told friends in Washington last week, "peo ple don't dislike my boy, Roy. They're just jealous cf him." . . . More than a hundred thousand spectators are so anxious to see the coronation parade that they're planning to sleep on Lon don sidewalks the night before. The British Broadcasting Cor poration will cooperate with the police by playing special wake up music through loudspeakers. Airplane Noise The airline industry is collect ting a fund to "educate" irate citizens who complain about the noise of low-flying planes. The fund is used to send speakers to club meetings, pub lish stories in local newspapers and influence state legislatures. The campaign is aimed at Cach ing the public that planes can not land at airports without dis turbing the neighborhood peace to some extent, though the air lines are doing their best to cut plane noise to a minimum. What touched off the propa ganda campaign was angry pub lic reaction to the three tragic air crashes in the residential dis trict near the Newark, N. J., air port. This was followed by a city ordinance at Cedarhurst, Long Island, prohibiting planes from flying lower than a thou sand feet overhead. This would have made it practically impos sible for planes to land at near by Idlewild, the giant Trans Atlantic air terminal. "How can we land on the ground without getting below a thousand feet?" snorted one pi- l0As a result, both scheduled and nonscheduled airlines air craft manufacturers and labor unions, private plane owners and airport managers forgot their in- ternal bicsering anu " to counteract public indigna tion. For A Good Buy Give the Journal Classifieds a try. price and the support price. Such a plan would probably entail complicated administrative ma chinery and setting up a system Fertilizer Gives High Grain Yield On Poor Land Corn yields up to 100 bushels per acre are possible on land formerly thought too poor to grow corn, when crop is fertil ized on the basis of soil tests. Dr. M. D. Weldon, extension soils specialist at the University of Nebraska says that in reports given by the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee, corn yields averaged 92.3 bushels per acre over a six year period in 208 Missouri tests when nitro gen, phosphate and potash fer tilizers were added according to the soil needs. This was an increase of 35.4 bushels above the 56.9 bushel average obtained on unfertilized or inadequately treated fields. The tests were conducted on a wide variety of soils in various sections of Missouri. In some in Edwin T. Mc ATTORNEY oince in Corn Grow 1 State Bank Murdock Net of policing government pay- j years, yields went over the 100 mcnts so as to avoid fraud and j - i nisrepresentation. i i-nce support plans are gen- j ?raliy considered as being of i two types: (lt flexible supports! in which the support price var- j ies with supply and demand; and ; 2t high fixed supports which j become rigidly fixed guarantees j of price for farm commodities, j Both types of price support are i more or less based upon support given to crop prices through government purchases on non recourse loans, both of which have the undesirable feature of causing government owned sur pluses which, short of war, do not find a ready market, except at great loss to the government. The higher the price support and the more rigidly fixed it is the more necessary it - becomes to set up controls on production and marketing to prevent the government becoming swamped with stored farm commodities. The old McNary-Haugen bill of the late 1920s was based upon a two-price system which would set up elaborate purchase and sale price support machinery, with an Equalization Board which would contract with pri vate and cooperative agencies to CL1I! fQli(-n.l 1 -i massif warm, moist a r from For Car and Fire INSURANCE Wm. S. Wetenkamp Real Estate & Insurance nffi S. 6th Thone 5176 vVM " al;V-k" "'"ng a coldmass ov-ck- the record number of tornadoes cf air from th nAtu c! When You Think of SHOES Think of WOST X-RAY FITTING ESFS J. Howard Davis LAWYER Soennichsen Building Phone 264 Plattsmouth REAL ESTATE LOANS! 5 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment Plattsmouth Loan &. Building Ass'n. SEPTIC -TANK CESSPOOL Cltl Eliminates digging & pi Removes sludge, fibra roots, STIMULATES BA Other Eoyer Prod) Toiler SovI Clcansr Drain Pipe Opener, ! Extra rowerfui I 13-oz. Can - - Brush Cleaner, Or. 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