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T . i m -g- "x. " .v THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL rAGE FOUR Monday, January 4, 9o4. EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes THE AMERICAN WAY Capital News rARM POLICIES KEY TO ECONOMY The overwhelming vote of cotton farmers in some twenty states for Federal acreage quotas recently shows clearly how policies of the Department of Agri culture affect the national economy. As a result, the Government will once again set cotton acreage quotas, and support the price. Although farm profits have slackened steadily for almost two years farm income was still relatively high in 1953, because of government price-supports. A further decline, however, could bring about serious consequences and the pinch being felt by many farmers is already being translated into other fields. Thus the role of Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson becomes a key one in the effort of the Republican Ad ministration to maintain a high level of prosperity. That there will be a conflict .between the Secretary's farm policy proposals, and those who back them, and Congress is an accepted fact. The American Farm Bu reau, meeting in Chicago, recently en dorsed the flexible price support program as opposed to the fixed ninety per cent parity support program now in effect. It is known, however, that many Sen ators and Congressmen, especially from the South and West, are not inclined to go along with the flexible system of price supports. They feel that as long as cot ton farmers, for example, vote in favor of acreage quotas, they should be given a fixed and high support level. Apart from the controversy over the farm program of the future, it is an ele mentary fact that further declines in farm income will have a serious adverse effect on the national economy. The re duction in income already suffered by many farmers has siphoned off the ex cess, or spendable percentage of their income, and it must be kept in mind that this income is always a great primer for business, practically all of it being spent for luxuries or new commodities. The test of the Administration's agri cultural policies in 1954 will be whether farm income is kept uu to a level at least as high as that of 1953. Any further de cline is almost certain to involve the Re publican Administraiton in serious trouble at the polls next fall, and this should be kept clearly in mind by the politicians as well as the economists. TOLL ROAD NOT ANSWER " In the past year a number of propos als have been made for toll roads and turnpikes, as the answer to crowded high way conditions confronting the nation. Several new toll roads have been opened and are apparently highly successful. The consensus of opinion at the Na tional Chamber of Commerce's National Conference on Highway Financing, how ever, was that toll roads are the solution on only about 8,000 miles of the most heavily-traveled roads in the country. For other roads, another solution will have to be found to current over-crowding. - One of the most interesting ideas dis cussed, at the National Conference was the proposal of the Conference of State Governors that the Federal Government get out of the gasoline taxation field. The idea would be that this source of revenue , would be left to the states, which would gain increased revenues to finance high way improvements. Under this proposal, Federal highway aid would also be with drawn,. Objections were voiced to the pro posal on the theory that the end of Fed eral taxation might not always be followed by increased state taxes on gasoline, in which case there would actually be less revenue for highways in some areas than before. Another year has passed into history, but we're getting up to that age where we j; The thing that-worries us most when decked bus is we wonder wno s driving. The merchant who doesn't advertise has nothing on the man in jail he isn doing anything either. A local kid, visiting Joslyn Memorial the other day, says the pictures are a right, but there are no jokes under them ir If a hitch-hiker hikes Much more than he hitches, He'll wear out his shoes Before he wears out his britches. A local spinster advertised for a hus band recently and got hundreds of re plies. They all said the same thing . . . you can have mine." There are too many hydromatic peo ple shiftless and easy going. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says it takes a wile for a gal to get a husband. fct v f ' cWcir i i: a about tuc job vou m I :--H-; ixL:- :A a lot wo Mm t ,rt f v, f? .--J t,as.S2d by the 1D49 Le 't I- SrrSr?' i4. ' 'I' vVXVSTrAr-;! r.ll ud and clGUii til t.V.V X.,- ,MK,'1v' Tlx? test wse I 4 i i JMX - -f:-:VV2' --Cy br&u5:lit by a group of i.- . r--v s k r t r r N : - -A WSC ' the rcdistricUng of II - -i UM Jr '"iS , "i-k xr. J try fchcol districts by "X ff 'Jkf V' :.te.l district. f:4 bus sTops-r;. F02- KisTony IGirOHIHY Q in pin I rv LINCOLN The program cf reorganiation cf school districts in Nebraska may have been giv en its biggest shot in tbe arm ,by a recent State Suprcms Court decision. The high court, said the law under which reorganization is proceeding is constitutional. In fact the court upheld the law, gisature, e line. had been Kearney opposed their coun- into the Ax- knocked down every one of their argu ments. The opinion, written by Judge Adolph Wenke, said that the stature gave due opportun ities for public hearings and elections on the question of any given reorganization, that it de- j prived no one of property with- ! out due process of law, and ' that it was proper for the Legis lature to delegate this kind of rower. Wenke wrote that since the reorganization is carried out ; by a duly elected committee it is a proper procedure. State Sunt. F. B. Decker called it a "milestone" toward progress road fight instead of a national partment laid before it a sug- m eaucaiiun in lNeuraistta.. ne mehwav Question. gesiea may cuiuanung auuui .i i 'WE BETTER GO INSIDE . OUR HIRED MAN CAN'T KEEP HIS EYES OFF YOU." May His Successor Do Better The proper solution to the nation's over-crowded highways is going to be a nainful one and nrobablv lies in increased -tofn "cwinoi nvnanHiiMo tv, r, v. way. Backstage, however, two Sentiment at , j i n x: t't- cf the most powerful groups m meeting was posai mautJ uy onnecucuL niginvay tha n!,tinn Thp Anioriran mous. however. commissioner that metropolitan areas Legion and the American Medi- doctors spoke up in disagree- look into the possibility of new, taxes like cal Association are getting ment. payroll or sales taxes, to finance high- ready for a cutthroat battle Dr. William O'Brien of Ne- J . , i 1 . f, against each other that will end vada asked if tns ffroup thought way improvements may be close to the ug in the halls of congress. it would be wise for medical so- solution, although such new taxes vould The issue, in effect, is "social- cieties to tell the nation's doc- constitute a hisrhlv irritatine method of ized medicine." obtaining new funds. Probably the best The American Medical Asso- coted cass solution is to be found in an increase in ciation, wThich ranks second among regis terea wasningion said it proved what his office Recardless of the decision 6200 miles. John Hossack, chief has contended all along that -nm.b riismnv Wi; fpt thnt the of the Department's planning the reorganization act is very S ? , remmission voted bv division, said the plan would democratic in the way it op- "rpfiint ?P TPwture connect all major towns with urates. nprifiraiiv stated that all busi- eacn other, service every town One staff member said the 51 ncai iy state dusi aboye the population of 900 biggest advantage would be that opponents of reduistricting , A. x f fho ,i,MH.Hnr.v couldn't get up in public meet- VLnttemoc,ra"c . 7"e. u-nl"f TT- ings and charge that the law is. .o pernaps me most mmg- t three These arc Harri5 d Qrvpral unconstitutional. For the bu- cover roads carrying 85 per cent of Nebraska's highway travel, and service every county seat part of the meeting was a ,,,.- ofwiii nnH Trvnn TTn. . .1.M..U. full cndlo attanlr hr mpmhpr Dnn P' . . J preme uourt m very aeimite rJ .v.... ... saCK sai aa out inree sanamua terms has said it is. Hanna of Valentine on the suf areas would be within 20 miles ficiency rating system. This f road.on the system Tniv pnTitirmPfi this wppk that ' me thod, developed by the High a bipartisan committee which way Department determines by l-.iiQViincr thp rpturn nf Kp. scientific methods which braska to the two house Legis- stretches of road need repair lOrs noi lO CUie li lii-usu: v:v-c- rr" r tT" anH imnrn.vPTr.Pnf- first Hnv new '-1 V A lature system is xiaving muie 7 A , , : : , " . zir trouble getting rolling than had Robert Crosby has pledged that been anticipated. First task for , his road program will be based thP p-rnim is tn FPt fin nnn signers iucliiuu anu mus lar r?ucldl AlJCimauics' lobbies, spent $270,174 to in- a:c?yL "r..JC: .2 nn nD t inr,s Vn thP m to !he has not deviated mi-W (11 1 ll l 1 Llla L 111 AULU UittOViU Dr. Walter E. Martin, -oresi both state and painful as that solution may be The number of automobilss an usinP" thp hiffhwavs is mcreasincr r mi Tx .. ine tcP icDoying spenaers to in- rr" " a much trouble. 'the will of the people liic-hwiv? and P-nrts nrpdirt that im- f i One doctor, whose name was But the reck on which the the old political pressure ' sys- nignvas, ana eprts pieaict mat un- But m tls case the battle inpntifiPd in thp minutes effort may be foundering is that tern of building roads was bet- less the states, aided by the federal deeper than congress, with the asj-eci s fellow doctors what there are a lot of Republican ter because at least you know Government, are to provide for expected a. m. a. encouraging doctors to plan they had for treating the Party leaders who don t want WOMEN IN OFFICE According to the 1953 survey of "women in public service," there are now more women in Con gress, in state legislatures and in other state elective offices than ever before. Congress has a 12 women members. State legLs- fluence congress in 1952. The waiXlcu -A u. ' oo An no 00Droi iMjft h,i wan fhA cvpm -o d trucks Legion which ranks eighth, doctors would l "get our let next November. No one "undemocratic" because it did- latures have 28 women members, ta Vr v , -inrp,r,tc. rnt nnrl o-ot in thp rio- seems 10 tnins mat win oe too 11 1 aiiow lor any expression oi . ... . -t-. He said ' no women, lawmaicers ua- heavy increases in traffic in the next ten infiltrate the Legion as ordinary 87 cent nonservice-connec- to go back to the two house " ..K-la . - mi i - veterans in order to fight the t(,P!lw Legislature Nebraska had before jv-i,., l.v, .x ..v v-v.... scciaiizea-meaicme oattie irom VTTrmr- hp nnprriPH "rnnlri lya. some want an lmprove- has thpep n-stiontQ hp ninnpH in si- ment of the Unicameral such acute. the inside. The A. M. A Increased Federal aid can be provided even set up a -front" group, ready overcrowded local hos- as making it partisan or in- ii : ri? j i i 4.1 i. J-lie iiaiiuuai mi.uii.ai .vtLnauj nita ? Hmr rJnpc it hp r TnP ucuauifi 111c mcmucioiutJ. v-iii- inrouiii ecoiioinies eiiecteu bama, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Virginia. , H in thp npvt Tne. National Medical .Veterans pitals How does it help the ' creasing the membership Q, 11 J"? f, r Society, to fight tne .socialized- taxpayer if the burden is simply ers like it just the way it ,ate ma nae medicine battle and warns its ohiffp frnm thp federal to th It's been no secret th; is. Democrats are i.t:v .vcrtis, ttitiiuun int: suae maj nave mcaicme Dame ana warns ns shifted from the federal to tht to raise some taxes for their new rev- members to confine their state- Inpnl rmvprnmpnt. " enue. Since the answer to this situation ments to remarks "cleared After .warning the doctors issue. Now there seems to be reauires biff monev. relativelv soon, the r.l ' "l "ia that their proposal was imprac- ncreas ea Jviaen ce mat me ite voter might as well face the facts and be thing." prepared to shell out. what people in the district IT'S HIS NUMBER wanted. j Hamilton, Ohio The infant The Valentine man's cripe was ; son of Mrs. Henry Saylor cer Vrith the fact that the current tainly can claim '11" as his two year Highway Department number. He was born at 8:11 program includes improving j a.m. on the eleventh month and State Highway 2 northwest of j the eleventh day at Mercy hos Anselmo. Hanna said this isipital ere. He weiced 11 oounds. ill say the s ame final thP riplpo-atn nripd: "if , publicans are, also. the doctors do not know that ins arive is Dsmg lea Dy aiaie Chairman Dave Down Memory Lane that the a cood enouch stretch of con split over the crete. Instead of "pouring" money there, it should be used on a nearby stretch of road, he stated. j . . . Hanna said he thought the 11 miles of gravel road just north of Thedford on the US 83 route leading to Valentine should be paved first. He said that peo ple in the area would rather have it this way. Crosby immediately rose to defend the system. He said he o I better roads is because nnripr Significant Action the "political pressure" method The new State Adivosry High- it could never match the east way Commission took certain end vote for vote. It stands a steps at its latest regular much better chance under the monthly meeting which may sufficiency rating method, Cros- Man orujinatcs in muck, wades a while in muck, makes muck, and in the end returns to "". J. F. C. Schiller The Plailsmoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Tlattsmouth Casa 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 Cities Over 2000 Population) ' I r T rri"- in 4 1 T 7 V VOe O lort A -- on n,Ar I lilt JLJ C lUil 111 LUXAi. C 4. W I I it; 11,11 L.Lu J1C lidVC JL 1 ed its 18,C00 posts to star t shoot- special regard for veterans, the Martin of Kearney and State ing at the A. M. A. Bluntly, congress does know it." j Democratic Chairman William The American Legion Magazine Dr. Oscar B. Hunter of Wash- 1 Meier of Minden. Both deny warns: "The Legion has defi- ington. D. C, told the group j that there is any trouble, nitely lost patience with the that their proposed changes in i A meeting was called of the American Medical Association's v. A. medical care would have eight-member steering commit weaviner twisting, .opportunistic toueh sledding in congress. . He tee in Lincoln. Only four attacks on the federal system reminded the doctors that the showed up, or not enough lor had decided against building 1 f YEARS AGO of care for veterans. A. M. A. "is in some disrepute in a quorum. Martin told reporters political roads. And he remind- I U Tha m.rriflffP nf Hplpn Ppht HqnQ-h "Never before," says the Leg- congress and during recent con- j that apparently the others were ed Hanna that one reason why Jle marriage oi iieien rerrj, aaugn . h d th a M A defined gressional hearings the con-1 on vacation over the holidays, western Nebraska doesn't have lci ui mis. uicu icu,), aim ncv. i aui ivci- socialized medicine in such a gressmen asKea questions Q3.ii- son was an event of December 27 at the way as to compel America's war ed' against the doctors." home -of the bride's mother. The groom veterans to be for it," . Meanwhile the American Leg- ic tha mn nf Mr Fmilv Tvprnn of Platte- Nonservice Disabilities don Magazine, not exactly known is the son oi Mrs. bmil lerson ot Flatts- wh&t thg baUle boiI, down as a socialist organ, has publish- moutn. . . . ihe iiiH,A Downng team is n nmnnsai hv thp rinntnr; ed a stinging editorial accusing leading the Plattsmouth Bowling league to ban free hosnital care bv the the A.M. A. of "urging that in-, prove indicators of how they by asserted. with a 25-11 record. Woster shoe store is government for nonservice-con- digent, disabled veterans be I will operate The governor said that if there in w,nnH nlnro xvith 1 mark Al nected disabilities. In other thrown back upon their commu- ; .By a 5 to 1 vote the commis- was enough mony to go around in secona place wun a -u marK. . . . ,ai words when a veteran gets iCk nities for indigent care in order i sion backed up the State High- that would be one thing. 'But bin E. Chovanec, a naval training student for reasons other than a disa- to save the country from so- way Department in its proposed since there isn't, there must be at Cape Girardeau, Mo., is visiting at the bility suffered in war, he would cialism.' i relocation of US 183 in Rock a way of dividing it up. Crosby home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. Ted be denied treatment in a vet- , TTVTgTT rTTI. '21 nJffnnpH Sd he w.uld Sticl by scif ?ninstat srp nnrpnt nf n oti horn erans administration hospital. UNUSUAL CLUB , groups of ranchers appeared tific procedure rather than the kpaustat are tne parents oi a son corn Actually this affects not Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh before the commission. One "political pressure" way. Christmas day. . . . Kev. J. W. laenzler merely the American Legion but has an unusual club, which group, led by Floyd Lackaff and o will serve both the Plattsmouth and Mur- about 20,000,000 vets, or 40 per meets only on Friday, the 13th'p. Everett Satterfield. wanted to Fulfills Fears rav Christian churches. He was recently cent of the adult male pooula- It's the "Friday th? Thirifenih keep the highway where it is. Obervers pointed out that it Tailor! hprp ATi Dnrnthv ATnrh tion of the U. S. A. - " t Club of Pittsburgh," composed The other group, headed oy was just exactly this sort of recalled here. . . . Miss Uoiotnv Marsn, To prepare for its caKipaign of fourteen Pittsburgh business Homer Buell, came to tell the thing which opponents of the daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. tr. .iarsn to eliminate this medical serv- men, who meet for luncheon, commission, they favored the highway commission have said of Omaha, and Lyle Jewell, son of Mr. ice, the A. M. A. held a closed- and a program which calls fcr Highway Department's proposed would happen. Those fighting and Mrs. Troy Jewell of Weeping Water door session at the Sheraton enuring the dinin? room bv route three miles farther west the highway commission idea wprp marripH TlPfPmhpr 91 Hotel in Chicago. While the walking under a ladder, sitting and on higher ground. have said it would lead to seven wt;it, iiictinuu uetuauu i. minutes were not made public, beneath open umbrellas at ta- Also in on thefun were the men working hard to get roads this writer has obtained a copv Hps decorated with black cats, Eassett Chamber of Commerce built into their own home towns. vrACC Aro and since they effect 40 per cent throwing salt on the floor, and the Highway 183 Associa- o yfl of the adult male population, breaking mirrcrs and paying for tion, both of which backed up, Trunk System &-J Miss Ruth Bestor, daughter of Guy it seems appropriate to quote meals with $2 bills. Tne club, the Highway Department. In I The commission started work Rpstnr of Plattmnnnth was marripd at from them. formed a few years ago, has as fact L. A. Chandler of Ansloy, on the basic task handed it by r ; V3 i evi q V vTot Dr. Louis N. Orr of Orlando, its officers, thirteen vice-presi- vice president of the association, the Legislature laying out a umcago to Edward ldenius on oaiuraa, Fla chairman of the closed- dents and a vice-president in snorted that Rock County was trunk highway system of 6,500 December 23. . . . The annual meeting of door meeting told the doctors: charge of vice-presidents. acting like this was a township miles. The State Highway De- the Plattsmouth Loan and Building Asso- "we have a tremendous job ; ciation will be held January 9 according merely informing our own mem , n a t-uo nf bers many of them are not t C:v Johnson, president. . . . Deputj sold on ih $25 dues to the A. Sheriff J. E. Lancaster has won high hon- m. a." iors at the shooting gallery with a score Pressuring Congress nf 90 rmf nf u rr.c:ihlp .0 Hp hnrl 9. fix Dr, Joseph D. McCarthy of 11 ounces. His parents reside at 611 South Eleventh street. NATO -NATO nations will have spent $65,500,000,000 on defense dur ing 1953 and it is expected that 1954 spending will be slightly greater than that figure. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents o.So&uow You know, folks, a good habit is actually as ensy to form as a bad oct For instance, even though the habit of spending money urenis in credibly easy, the habit of aving money is easier. Far easier if you pet into the habit of buying United States Savings Bonds through the Payroll Saing9 Plan. Because once you've finned up, your Savings Uonds come to you regularly auto matically ... you don't even lift a finder. Your employer does every thing for you puts your money aside from your paychecks buya your Saingd fiends for you even hands them to you. Join the Payroll Savings Plan today! successful shots before missing. Fred Omaha, a member of the A. M. A.'s committee of current Peru college team. it RONALD R. ITJRSE HARRY J. CANE FRANK H. SMITH SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Publisher ... Editor News Reporter Society Editoi KAIIONAl COHCIUAl ASSOOilSai Ipt! -lit in Rpthort, coach at Plattsmouth, and Bern- gave the doctors a r::ck at A.' afd Galloway, ex-athlete here now in the M. A. lobbying tactics. Ho ex coaching profession, joined alumni cagers plained that his lebtive com- from Peru in a basketball game with the gev of the United States to alert key men in those states on press ing legislative problems. These key men, in turn, are responsible for getting in touch with their senators and repre sentatives and informing them of the medical profession's at titude toward proposed legisla tion." "This method," Dr. Mc Carthy added, "has worked ad mirably in the past." Dr. William B. Walsh of WTash . ington president of A. M. A.'s ("front" organization, The Na tional Medical Veterans Society, 'cautioned doctors against de- the The Washington Merry -Go-Round Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska. 18 second class mail matter in accordance with the Kct of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year iri 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 week. , (Copyright, 1952, By th Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEAPvSON SAYS: . A. M. A. AND AMERICAN LEGION GIRDING FOR SOCIAL-IZED-MEDICINE BATTLE; DOC TORS WANT TO BAR FREE NON-SERVICE MEDICAL ATTEN TION FOR VETS; LEGION MAG AZINE CASTIGATES DOCTORS. lyft1 ..am . l Wl If IKJ A VYARW . ll Wl AW.E! OM f AWDV. WWESS' VOL) 5 FUKTJNiS WE CAM i AMP SIP5, POM THAN) AKY- THiNG I KK!0V- Tpil,' i -b - AH.' MUsPc 1 3 me? 7? i i ever WASHIINGTON Mr. John Q. Public will be chiefly watching tares; so- cial security, national defense, and other bovs)- the doct0rs will be more headline issues as congress gets under effective in an ordinary post." daring open warfare cm'" Legion. "Education," he main tained, '"is the cornerstone cf; the campaign." ! And as part of that education, ! he said, '"we must encourage I physicians to join the American Legion, but to avoid the ere- ' ation of doctor's posts. Bv re- ; maining informal (one of the fi TAME THE 5AVA6E , fv BEX5TS.' Is tjllP That music remsnps me of cuz. court ship DAt5. PAW, WHEN OU 5ECENADED ME.' REMEMBEe HOW yOU PZOKISZU ' ID LIVE IN A S1LDED CASTLE. WITH PEARLS ANU DIAMONDS AT MY FEET? r-W.Ul HEH, If nrsTi i ( WJLX HEH- P j PAi MARILYN WELu.I'LL TAV A p-i c? rnLrc nil . ulp: . - -'.7 MU5IC 5HCULD BE YM LEFT TO THE SAVAGE rt&ll Zr.... wv BEASTS i!'