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EDITORIALS Purses Fresh Flashes THE NEW FARM BILL Passage of President Eisenhower's flexible price support farm bill is one of the Administration's greatest legislative victories. If one will think back a few months, it will be remembered that in Jan uary chances for a flexible price support system were considered nil. Even as late as April, and May, Con gressmen on both sides were confidently predicting they would extend rigid price supports at ninety per cent, and there seemed little to indicate they were wrong. The President's forces, however, worked slowly but steadily, and finally emerged with a victory in the House, reducing sup ports from a fixed ninety per cent to a flexible eighty-two and a half per cent to ninety per cent . In the closing days of the Senate's ses sion, the same proposal was adopted, by a narrow decision of 49 to 44. Had any three of the ten Democrats, who joined thirty nine Republicans passing the measure, switched sides, the President would have been defeated. President Eisenhower himself has called passage of the new farm legislation a sweeping victory for his administration. It represents a tactial victory in Congress, since formidable opposition had to be over come before the bill passed both Houses. The lone remaining question is now whether the bill will be a political asset or liability to the administration, and whether it will result in better or worse conditions for . the farmer. November's elections may give a clue as to the political wisdom of the administration's farm pro gram. We believe the new farm program will not better the farmer's plight and that the President's farm program will prove a liability. It will take effect January 1st, and it may be until the Fall af 1955 before the reoult is completely obvious. it STUDEBAKER WORKERS ACCEPT CUT The automobile workers at the Stude baker Corporation's South Bend, Indiana, plant recently voted to accept a sizeable pay cut rather than force the company to close down its plant. The company had warned workers to accept the cut or see the automobile-producing plant closed down. The workers had at first refused to accept the pay cut, and Studebaker had notifed the union that it was terminating its contract. Studebaker also said it was paying wages higher than the average in the industry and that it could not continue to pay such wages and remain in a competitive position. The company had also only recently released a statement showing it had suf fered heavy financial losses in 1954. ' By accepting the cut, even tardily, the automobile workers in South Bend will save the Studebaker plant and retain jobs for themselves which would otherwise have disappeared. It was the only solution, and any other course by the auto workers would have been one of blindness and folly. Union leadership in this case has con sistently urged the workers to accept the pay cut, although they did not at first agree. What narrowly missed being a labor "hess of the squeeze in the automobile in dustry is unmistakably clear. No doubt the automobile workers in South Bend, Indi ana, are not aware that the economic re cession is over and such situations, if mag nified on a broad scale, will certainly be reflected at the polls in November. THOUGHT FOR TODAY He zi-ho would climb and soar aloft, must needs keep ever at his side, the tonic of a wholc- Clough some pride. The Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1SS1 Published Seir.i-Werkly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr. HONEST JOHN'S USED TRAILERS oo C3 CD a cd CD CD mo 10 "QB do io OO lD 1 A fried chicken dinner always reminds us that a bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. A wise merchant is the one who puts the "ad" in trade. It is not necessary for a politician to be a good liar, but it helps. Our idea of a philosopher is a man with a good liver, heart, stomach and bank account. We know an ice cream man that will never be able to follow his trade in the next world. We never have any trouble meeting ex penses they're right there at every turn. We couldn't tell what the weather was like the other morning. We couldn't see it for fog. A Plattsmouth man says he never tells his wife everything she already knows everything. i t i a , , nx , T , . Some of Ike's leaders have his program through and he A local fellow picked a fight with a been so battered and bruised learned the Rooseveltian tech stranger in a bar here the other day. All that their political future is du- nique of keeping himself aloof, his friends are away on vacation S bious- But the Gallup Poll sl-.ows . but the enemies made by those . . i Eisenhower's rating is still in i rough and tumble tactics may TTT . , ' tne upper DracKets. benator We know a bachelor here that will. Knowland has been so tough, never marry. Says he's ate in too many has aroused so much resentment restaurants that advertise "Home Cook- tha he may be ditched at the . next uongress. congressman Halleck in the House cracked ! the whip so hard some of his Republican colleagues hate him. The President was able to stay ! aloof, unsullied. j Collected His Fee Late Most important lesson Eisen- hower learned was what every . lawyer knows: "Collect your fee 0" YEARS AGO while your client's tears are Z-KJ nnmAnof;n f T.n,!.,,. hot." He failed to collect his fee Capitol News By Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association ... . ..-ru ki cd d a en A SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PLAI IJMUUin, ' ,i9v Auffiist 23. 1954 iVIUiiuiAj , a THE PAGE FOUR teeman and on the state party. In the case the 86 committeeweman' slaughter f6 committee of each ticn oi "er,chinB soclai ,m wv 1 Dact of this. In 1867, there were of the Republi- SclOI75,rep,000 to. 125.000,000 v?:: cans, the 86 state commit uffaloes ranging Uie western tt members meet apart from the "J" By 1883, only a few hun- LINCOLN The Democrats stat conventlcm to elect thri J . t, But the country and the Republicans m Neoras- t t chairman. The Democrats u.cnnpned t0 settlers, the i, n.n.sr) tViic ii'OP Lr WIT n . , i i i,s.w,o- in aavi r i -l t jvu. piuvccucu . name tneir state ciiaumau plans for their post-primary n conventi0n. state conventions next montn. m wor unpmnloved from the East and South found Jobs hnffalo hunters, anu new- ly building railroads were savea from DanKrupicy ujr "But there must be something wrong with it." The Democrats meet at Has- ChoDD:ne Block tines' Sent. 2 and the Repulm- ot ot Tnv Commissioner ! cans so to Norfolk just two riorir.a pPt.prcnn's iob may be;-uoc oi frpisht. At the same weeks later. Party organizations on the politiCai chopping block time, however, the Indian Trars fcr the-next two years will be. next January no-matter which were an outgrowth and there completed, and strategy outimed can(iidate for Governor wins in w.are other bitter legacies be for the coming fall election jovember, and despite the f act qUcathed to future generations, campaign. he holds a six-year office. i Mari Sandoz was born in the Secretary of Agriculture Ezra This comes about through the, homestead era of northwest Ne Bsnson wiil headline the Repub- fact the Legislature last spring braska, and experienced all its Mean convention program. Al- did not confirm him along with hardships and thrills. As a child though billed as the Keynoter, some other interim appoint-, she knew many of the famous he probably will not give his ments Gov. Robert Crosby had' Incian warriors, fur traders, address until the convention has made. trappers and hunters; stories of mmnlpt.pd its formal business o-roor. nil ffalo hunts were "com- 1 iiic i casuii x v ci- i jvii i t,"-"" ,i i. mon arouna uui i4"u stove," she recalls. "I knew two old-timers who helped destroy tvio last, nf the Republican Herd - - ,. j DUuaniK lires sessions. confirmed is that the Legislature : A "testimonial" dinner is- hesitated to do so in face of the scheduled for the evening of act that the voters in Novem- j sonvention day at Norfolk, and uDr. rUi hov? hpfnrp them a nro- .hanFP.5 arp that the auditorium j ,f;0i ,mcnrtTripnt , nf Knffnlop.? bv will be opened to the public aft- -rt,,?Hir,cr tsv rnmmision fiinn-? the South Platte ana er the dinner so any who wishould be set up in j,iace 0f the, shooting every buffalo that ap- may hear the secretary. present office of tax commis- j sinner. Business ', PPtrsnn would be safe until proached the river in his desper ate thirst." Down Memory Lane the Republican vote m the county primary. last year when his popularity Approximately 2,200 Republicans and was at its height and his power 2,800 Democrats cast ballots in selecting over Congress at its peak. In party nominees . . . Miss Mayone Eileen stead j. collecting he let Con .n -t. j j. -Z gress adjourn last summer after Capwell was united in marriage to Mr. passing only the Refugee Immi- william LeRoy Cook in a pretty church gration Bill, a curtailed mili- wedding solemnized at Elmwood. The tary budget, and other minor bride is the daughter -of Mr. and Mrs. legislation. Howard F. Capwell and the groom is the ! Almost the entire program was seriously affect the coming elec tions. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Cook . . . Fred L. Carsten of Avoca has won the demo cratic nomination for state representative from the second district comprising Cass, Sarpy and Otoe counties . . . August Rieke of Wabash sustained a fractured ankl-3 when a cow wrhich he was milking kicked him . . . Contract for $1,182,251 has been awarded for construction on the St. Marys -Plattsmouth bend of the Missouri river . . Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Marie Schneider of Omaha and Leslie Gansemer of Mynard. 1 r YEARS AC? William R. Holly of Plattsmouth has . been elected garde de la porte of the state 40 & 8 society . . . An average reduc tion of 10 percent in electrical rates has been announced by Consumers Public Power District . . . One of the city's oldest landmarks' is gone. A well on North 5th street has been concreted up and the pump that stood there for many years has been removed . . . While the county is billing the present fair as the 24th annual county fair, the records show that county fairs were held as early as 1883. Don Johnson was president of the fair from 1883 thru 1885 . . . John Barkhurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Barkhurst, has been wounded in France and is now hospitalized in Eng land . . . The Child Care Center started here recently will continue throughout the year, following a grant in aid to the board of education from the federal government . . . Mrs. Doris Coatman Frohlich of Alvo has been named to the facultv of Elmwood high school. postponed until this year. That was the reason for the log jam, for the killing pace at which Congress has been working in recent weeks. For by this time Ike knew he was up against the wall, that he had to get his program passed at this session or never. He had I learned the importance of col- r . 1 lecung your iee wmie your cli ent's tears are hot. He had also realized that his tory would mark him a mediocre president unless he got results this " time . around. To a close friend he had confided last wunter: "If I had remained a military man, my record would have stood alongside that of any of our great military figures." Then he went on to say that now, as President, he realized his place in history would not be based on his record as a military man but on his record as Pres ident. And he sounded a bit sorry that he had taken on the job but also determined to make it a success. That's the background behind Looking Backward It is funny how times change. If you look back at the news paper headlines of three years ago, they were splashing barrels of ink over the firing of Gen eral Douglas MacArthur because he had urged that Chiang Kai Shek's troops be sent to fight in Korea. When MacArthur wrote a letter to speaker Joe Martin about this, Truman fired him . . . Congressmen made speeches, commentators declaimed, the presidential campaign of 1952 was highlighted with accusa tions that a great mistake had been made because Chiang had been kept under wraps or if you re-read the headlines at the time that President-Elect Eisen hower flew to Korea, there was more talk about Chiang's troops being released later. When Ike got into the White House he withdrew the Seventh Fleet with an official announcement that Chiang's navy was now free to attack the mainland During all this time General Omar Bradley and Dean Acheson quietly argued that the chief problem was not attacking the Chinese mainland or sending Chiang's troops to Korea, but of protecting Chiang himself Today, judging from the head lines and the official statements, it looks as if they were right it always happens when you let politics get mixed up with for eign policy. Only real business for the con- ioc o if v, hepn confirmed. ventions to transact is the nam-' the Legislature. But the lav ing of state central committee makers chose to wait and see members to serve for the next v,j,at happens to the commie two years, and selection of state ; gion proposal, party officers. j " William Ritchie of Omaha, The Republicans are expected n,tni;n nnminep fnr rtnvpr- to keep William W. Spear roV says L- C. Sholes, member of shortly after irrigation can rc- ricuiuiii, wiiu tujft. ""ti1. tfe Omaha rax Appraisal, auce uie waici uuiviuv.. David Martin of Kearney resign-; Boara- WOuld make a good tax j third, University of California ed last Spring to run for tlw commissioner. Sholes is a Re -' irrigation specialists report. U. S. Senate. ! mihiic.nn. but Ritchie said ths! a inrle nass with a tractor a For the Democrats, it , is more state should not be deprived oi few days after irrigatiing cut Packed Soil By Tractors Reduces Water Penetration a t.rflft.nr movins: over soil of a problem. William H. Meier, his services for partisan rea- oi JYLinaeii, .riesiueiit iicuiiiiaii, cqps won the nomination for short- j name of state sen. Arthur term Senator, and is leaving the Carmocjy 0f Trenton has come chairmanship. Those mentioned into speculation in connection as possible successors include .-fH th nnssihii piert.inn of the 1.1 - tr- 1 n v, v. r " . I Linn. 1 IIP UCib ..ZSr.L . T.rS'i .tti Republican nominee, Victor b. ,mtll the soil is verv dry and SSSSnd.l3SeSSr PaulBusch. 5SeT LLl' SK5BI chisel or subsoil the compacted r, ' , , . cava 11c uao xn-o-iu. aiuwuj , nrpo down water penetration from 1V2 inches a minute to oniy z inch in tests there. Once a soil is compacted, it is difficult to correct the condi tion. The best method is to wait Howens editor nenry iey, m;ntn hut. HHs "T - - . - VV1V v w wwww vyayne: Leon bamueison, ran- made no commitments." nn; ana r ran neea, venus have Day to Honor be repeated. Close observation of individual fields are essential after the seedlings are up. Populations of five or more grasshoppers per square indicate that control measures are necessary. Also, Roselle points out, grasshoppers j 1 killed now will not lay eggs for f hatching next spnn The Washington Merry -Go -Round Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Bcn Plaques for - "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities Over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor VERN WATERMAN .Advertising SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor uixai isiiow mflcsra Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March o, 1879. (Copyright, 1954, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS : EISEN HOWER DISPLAYS INCREASING SKILL AS ANOTHER CONGRESS COMES TO END; GAINS POLITIC AL PRESTIGE WHILE HIS LEAD ERS LOSE FACE; TIME CONFIRMS BRADLEY-ACHESON CONVICTION RE CHIANG. WASHINGTON Most important de velopment to come out of the current ses sion of Congress was not the legislation passed but the education of Dwight D. Eisenhower. He has now learned the tech niques of being President. Ike went into the first session of Con gress more than a year ago, nervous, ill-at-ease, dubious about his job. He has come out of this session with political know-how. He now knows how Congress works, how to crack the whip, how to push a program through despite opposition. He knows how to stay back in the gen eral headquarters tent and let the Lieuten ants -slug it' oirb in the first line trenches. This was something Franklin Roosevelt knew how to do to perfection, but which Harrv Truman never learned. Truman JIZBA & JIZBA Registered in Engineering and Architecture Design, Surveys, Estimates, Supervising 5417 Ogden Omaha, Nebr. Phone PL6361 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. Hopper Control Advised Before Seeding Legumes Grasshoppers can cfeuse se rious damage to new legume seedlings says Bob Roselle, ex tension entomologist at the Col lege of Agriculture. If numbers of hoppers are xxjhl s uie uaugiuu iu uiii , present in the margms 0f the the drive, the determination to , fiekLs to be to alfalfa kec-p Congress at it far after the or clovers they should be con. scheduled time for adjournment trolled before seeding. As the It s been a rough session, but it infestations continue to develop snouio pay pomicai uiviucuu or migrate, the controls should in tne ena. Ike's Tough Machine Every President develops his "machine" to influence votes on Capitol Hill. But none has ever operated more efficiently, more ruthlessly than that which rammed Ike's program through Congress. Instead of one lone Capitol Hill contact man, such as Jim Barnes or Joe Feeney, used by Truman, Ike had a bat tery of eight. Its leaders were: Maj. Gen. 'Slick" Persons and Gerald Morgan, once paid $10, 000 a month to lobby for private business. In addition, various cabinet members backed up the battery. Secretary of the Treasury Hum phrey was chief backstage wire puller in passing the St. Law- General Summerfield took the prize of heaviest-handed. When Congressman Robert Corbett and James Fulton of Pennsylvania, both Republicans, failed to support Summerfield's Postage Stmp Increase Bill, a traveling post office hatchet man named Gerald Cullinan turned up in their home dis tricts to apply the pressure on the voters back home. Other non-conforming Con gresrmcn were hauled down to Summerfield's office. Congress man Joe Evins of Tenneesse was told to vote "right" or expect no help on a mail transportation problem in his district. And when Congressman Otto Pass man of Louisiana signed a dis charge petition to force the Postal Pay Boost Bill out of the Rules Committee over Summer field's head ,an unusual thing happened in New Orleans. Summerfield had fired the the Postmaster of New Orleans, A.x Frank Fairley, who, happened to be a "good friend' of Congress man Passman's. But, believe it or not, when Passman agreed to take his name off the petition to force a vote on the Postal Pay Bill, Postmaster Fairley was re- More Plans planning sessions this week at WrifPI" flQ NpW Omaha, and the Republican "lllCi U5 new candidates for statehouse offices Dnnt Pu 1I ich as4 will get together again Aug 28. j DOOK rUUMbllUU in Lincoln. j Nebraska's Governor Robert One thing the Republican b. Crosby has designated Aug campaigners must consider is ust 23 as "Mari Sandoz Day" the caravan, which has been a m honor of her new book. ' The fixture of Republican general Buffalo Hunters" to be publish election drives in Nebraska since ed on that date. This will be a 1940. fitting tribute to a Nebraska woman who has already so mag Procedure nificently recorded life in the The process which culminates frontier days . of the 'Plains with selection of top party of- stales in her "Old Jules," "Cra ficials at next month's state zy Horse," and "Cheyenne Au conventions began with the tumn." naming of precinct delegates to This book tells the epic but county conventions at the pri- tragia story of the incredible maries Aug. 10. ' These delegates now must meet in county conventions to choose delegates to the state conventions. At the state conventions, the delegates will caucus by legisla tive districts to choose central committee members. Each of the 43 districts has a commit- RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 MEDICAL RESEARCH The U. S. Public Health Serv ice has granted $14,685,671 for 1,442 medical research projects on major diseases. The awards went to scientists at 355 colleges, universities and research insti tutions and cover research into the causes and treatment of can cer, heart disease, mental ill ness, arthritis, multiple sclero sis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, tooth diseases, influenza, the common cold and other diseases. REAL ESTATE LOANS! 5 Percent Interest , Charge Reduced for each monthly payment Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. imiKiniaimii El The Centennial Book Is Going to Press Tilled with pictures, history, and stories by the old timers ... all about Plattsmouth when it was a youngster and how it grew . . . Don't fail to get a copy . . . the supply will be limited, play it safe, order your copy now! is Name ... Address 'M Check Here the Num ber of Books Wanted Check Here if You Want it Mailed Amount Enclosed Money Must Accompany This Order . . . Send Check or Money Order. Send Cash at Your Own Risk. Price $1.00 Per Copy Include 25c additional to cover handling charges, if you wish your copy mailed to you. Mail to: CENTENNIAL, Box 285, Plattsmouth, Nebraska ' id u a u u B E B B could never resist oing into battle him self, almost seemed to relisn getting his instated. nose bloodied He never ler his cabinet $ were toe tactidm members take the punishment for him. Ike sessions of Congress Washington does. has seen in this century. Ike got $fcfi&iX r' 1 I-V TOD KNOW, AY vl I f;P)') I ifry stop V tfw- v-'. (& i