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pwrtiit''''"" The G.O.P. And Farmers One of the critical jubs facing the Re publican Party one which must be solved between now and 1960 if the He publicans are to remain in office is the problem of lower farm prices. Prices being received by farmers to day are fifteen per cent below the level prevailing when President Eisenhower went into office. And, farm surpluses are about three times as large as they were at the time. Add to that the fact that the Eisen hower Administration spent more on ag riculture in the first four years of its op eration than was spent in the preceding twenty years and you can get an idea of the urgency of the farm problem as faced by the Republicans today. It is true that Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra lienson had to go along with price support laws which were already on the books of two years after President Eisenhower was elected. However, if he has not solved the surplus problem some what and brought farm income back up to at least the level of 1953, after six years of operation under laws framed mostly by the Department of Agriculture, then it is un likely the Republicans will get much sup port from the farm states in the Presi dential election of 1960. There are many who have doubts about the workability of the Soil Bank program a much-publicized adminis tration answer to the growing surpluses and lowering prices. The Department is currently authorized to pay farmers up to $1,200,000,000 a year to retire land from the production of surplus crops. However, many farmers are taking their poorest land out of production, using great amounts of fertilizer on their best land and trying to keep production about where it was. If this is done, then the sur pluses will not be reduced in spite of the outlay. Complicating the fact is that the De paprtment of Agriculture's export pro gram may not be continued at its liberal rate. In 1954 Congress authorized the De partment to sell $3,000,000,000 worth of larm surpluses to friendly countries, at low prices, and also in return for the cur rencies of those countries. This $3,000,000 000 has been used up and President Eisen hower has requested only one billion dol lars more for the period ahead. Obviously, the; President has been hoping that the Soil Bank will help solve the surplus prob lem. - However, if the Soil Bank program does not, then the presently - envisioned export subsidy program might be inade quate. -Another problem, as outlined by Mr? Benson, is that caused by provisions of the present Crop Control and Price Sup port laws Which require the Secretary to raise price support rates and liberalize allotments as soon as surpluses decline. Mr. Benson thinks such action will cause an end to any decline in surpluses and, therefore, prevent a solution to the prob lem. Newspaper Advertising Up Although the advent of television brought about a large outlay of money from manufacturers and producers, it is interesting to note that national adver tisers invested a record $737,000,000 in the newspapers of the United States last year. According to semi-official tabulations, the 1956 total was over six per cent above THOUGHT FOR TODAY Being myself no stranger to suf fenny, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others. 'iryil. The Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Papers ESTABUMIKH IN 1XXI PuIiUmIiciI Somi Weekly, Mondays anil Thursdays, at 410 Muin Street, IMattsnioutli, Ca--s County, Nelir. Entered at Hie I'o-t Office at l'l.itt smouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance nitlt the Act of Congress of March 8, 1S79. Contents of The Plattsmouth Journal are the sole property of this newspaper and use of, or reproduction, In whole or In part. Is expressly forbidden to any person, persons, or publications other than legal newspapers (as defined by Nebraska statutes) without written consent of the publisher. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1D53 Ak-Sar-Ben First Place Plaque 1955 for OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE National Second Place Winner 1955 Presented Nebraska Press Association 'GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First In 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher EARL S. DAPP News Editor MARGARET DINGMAN Woman's Editor H. M. JOHNSON ....Advertising Manaeer JANET PTAK Bookkeeper DON WARGA Shop Foreman tt w - r SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4 00 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $5.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 25 cents for two weeks. (Copyright, 1957, By The Hell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: JOE MCCARTHY WANTED TO DIE; HE WAS LONELY AND FOR GOTTEN BY THE FRIENDS WHO ONCE TOOK HIM UP TO ' THE MOUNTAIN TOP; M c C A R T 1 1 Y WROTE LETTER RETRACTING HIS ONETIME CHARGE AGAINST ME. Washington. Joe McCarthy tele phoned me some days before he died. He and I had not conversed since I found my self looking into his face, arms pinned io side in the men's cloakroom of the Sul grave Club. We were separated by the rnuNC Furse's Fresh Flashes There's one advantage of being mar ri?d a man can't make a fool of him self without knowing it. A local man we know never swears, but when he gets mad he spits and where he spits the grass doesn't grow anymore. A speaker here the other night asked if we had ever seen "the golden-red fing ers of dawn speeding across the eastern sky, the red-stained sulpherous islets floating in a lake of fire in the west, the ragged clouds at midnight blotting out the shuddering moon . . .?" That's when we left we've been on the wagon for over a year. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Married people are no more miser able in Weeping Water than they are in Plattsmouth. A local doctor told an 80-year-old codger here that he was going to give up half his love life. He asked which half thinking about it or talking about it. One nice thing about having a son about nine, years old is that you always know where your tools are they're lost. Car sickness is that feeling you get every month when the payment falls due. the total spent; for newspaper advertising in 1955. General advertising increased 12.5 per cent last year. All of which seems to prove that the newspaper is fitill the backbone of the advertising world, constituting a perma nent record which housewives may keep and study ;as with grocery prices and which can continue to work for the advertiser long after his message is first seen by the reader. Down Memory Lane YEARS ACO V City of Plattsmouth won a case in the supreme court when the court denied a re-hearnig to the Standard Savings Loan Association. The city had bought at tax sale certain real estate in which the Stand ard was interested and the district court allowed the association to redeem the pro perty at the bid price of the city. The su preme court held that the redemption could only be made if all the taxes were paid Blown safe and fire at the Cass Theatre was revealed at the theatre in the afternoon when the fire was discovered in the office of the theatre located just off the balcony which was extinguished by the fire department without loss. It was revealed that the safe was missing from its usual place near the balcony stairs. It was later found in the ladies rest room, with the door blown off. It is thought that it was the work of the same gang that had blown a safe at Weeping Water and also burglarized a store at Avoca Rotarians received a report of the district conven tion at Fremont by Dr. It. P. Westover, Fred Lugsch and A. II. Duxbury. Four members of the Nebraska City club were at the meeting here, J. Hyde Sweet, of the News Press, Mac McLean of the Bur lington, Walter Kirtley, lumberman and A. M. Stevenson; hotel manager The Plattsmouth high school band of thirty five pieces gave a concert at the Nebraska Masonic Home under the direction of Lee Knolle. QA YEARS ACO Collection of old time pictures at II. M. Soennichsen's store disclosed show ing T. H. Pollock in his uniform with the baseball team of 1887. "Bert" was the lo cal Babe Ruth -with the team James Dahlman was re-elected mayor of Omaha to start his 19th year in that office Owners of the Murray bathing beach are contemplating the expenditure of consid erable money on the beach this season Officer Dave Pickrel rounded up a number of colored men who had arrived in the city and informed them that this city was not in the habit of having a large colored population. The men accordingly depart ed for the east with Chicago as their des Washington Merry-Go -Round Look Out Below! V2rr MIDEAST VES vice president of the United States. Seven years had passed. Sud denly I picked up the telephone to hear a cheery voice as if nothing had ever happened. "Drew," said the voice, "this is Joe McCarthy. Are you sit ting down?" "Yes," I replied, also as if nothing had ever happened. 'I wanted to make sure you were sitting down, because if you were standing up you would faint," continued Joe. "I've just put your column In the con gressional record. 'I haven't always agreed with your column," he said, "but in this case I'm sure it's completely accurate, and I wanted to tell you in advance what I'd done so you wouldn't faint." The column pertained to the doublecross given Israel regard ing her withdrawal from the Gaza strip and the Gulf of Aqaba. Just a short time be fore, Joe had led a Senate fight to keep a filmed TV report of mine on Israel from being showTn in the Senate caucus room. That was how perverse he could be. Joe Was Lonely I suppose no one newspaper man suffered more economically than I did from Joe McCarthy. But I felt sorry for Joe in these latter years. He had been so famous once. He was so lonely lately. He used to walk through the halls of Congress, a sheaf of handouts under his arm, offer ing them to newspapermen, of fering to pose before the TV cameras. But his press handouts hit the wastepaper basket and his face didn't appear on TV any more. Once the cameramen had lined up outside his office glamoring for "one more shot." Press associations dogged his footsteps, worked in shifts, never let him walk down a cor ridor alone- But now he walked alone. That was what killed Joe. Fame is a cruel thing. It can lift you to the mountain tops. It can forget you at the bottom. It can exhilarate you with see ing your name in headlines. It can leave you crushed and won dering why you are all alone. Joe's Friends Forgot In Joe's case he was forgotten by the alleged friends who saw the political importance of pin ning the Communist label on a democratic administration. It was not Father Edmund Walsh who was really respon sible for taking Joe up on the mountain top. True, he first planted the idea in Joe's mind, first told him that the man who focused on Communists in the State Department would become a national hero- My attorney, Bill Roberts, was present when Father Walsh and Joe first talked. But the subsequent, absurd idea that there were "205 card carrying Communists known to the Secretary of State" would have remained an absurd idea if certain politicians and certain publishers hadn't seen this as a heaven-sent chance to pin the Communist label on Dean Ache son, thus pull down 20 years of Democratic rule. Suppose he finds only one communist in the State Depart ment," said Bob Taft, who never lifted a finger to stop Joe's witch-hunting. Joe never did find that one communist in the State Depart ment. Ho found some in other walks of life. But the one al leged Communist in the State Department. Val Lorwin, indict ed for denying he was a Com munist, was excused by none other than Attorney General Brownell with an apology from the court. Why Joe (Jot III Joe could have enjoyed fame much longer if he had not made the mistake of lurninn on the man he helped put in the WhiL House. When he did that, he Capitol News By MELVIN PAUL Statehouse Correspondent the Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN In one respect, the Nebraska Unicameral apparent ly does not differ from the two house U. S. Congress. That Is in the problem which comes in the final days before adjournment. It's the hustle and bustle that comes with getting everything done before adjournment. Re cently U. S. Congressmen have complained that the national law making body has been putting off decisions on important bills. These decisions, the lawmakers complain, will come during the final hectic days when the fili buster problem will be acute. . Here the Unicameral differs. Debate can be stopped by a motion and vote from the floor. If a senator strays from the subject he can be ruled out of older upon protest from another lawmaker or by the lieutenant governor. Motions to stop debate have been frequent on the floor of the Legislature. They become more so in the waning days of the session as the lawmakers get anxious to return home. Nebraska lawmakers may con sider a Memorial Day recess for one last rest before the final push to adjournment expected lost newspaper support. The big publishers who once gave him headlines suddenly gave their hero no more headlines. He was attacking Ike, Ike's army, Ike's foreign policy- Ike and Dulles, he said, were soft on commun ism. So Joe got the silent treat ment, and that was what really killed him. The exhilarating stimulus of the crowds, of the headlines, of the kleig lights ruined Joe's ef fectiveness in his earlier days. The exhilarating stimulus of alcohol ruined his effectiveness in recent days. These last three weeks, he had been on a literal whisky diet. He had been on It be fore and gone to the hospital three times in nine months. Once he had kicked a hospital corpsman, had been kept "in restraints," had sometimes been out of his mind. Perhaps he was haunted by the Annie Lee Mosses, the Val Lowrins, the John Services, and John Carter Vincents. Perhaps he saw them as he lay on his hospital bed crying out in the night. They would have been justi fied if they had come to haunt him. I know something of the ridicule, the abuse, the anony mous letters, the scathing phone calls, the falling away of spon sors that can come when a Senator takes the privileged floor of the United States Sen ate to call you a Communist- But I for one am sorry Joe died when he did. Toward the end he had begun to revert to the McCarthy he was when he first came to Washington. To ward the end he also wrote me a letter retracting that I was ever pro-Communist. Toward the end, he had started to vote once again for little business, for the farmer, for little people. He had begun to champion little Israel. He was about to adopt another baby. Most important of all, he had begun to make peace with his Maker. I'm afraid Joe wanted to die. He would not have stuck to his diet of whisky had he wanted to live. Had he lived, had he forgotten the heady wine of headlines, had he been content to be just another Senator, he might have undone the harm he did and become a Senator who truly deserved fame- to come the first two weeks in June. Memorial day is on Thursday, May 30, this year. The senators probably will take Friday off also, returning to work Monday. Tax Bills A bill to hike the cost of cigar etes to Nebraskans a penny per pack has squeezed through the Legislature. Following closely was a measure to Increase old age assistance payments. The two proposals have been closely allied all the way across the legislative board. Reason for this has been the economy tone set by lawmakers. They do not want to increase state property taxes at all, and as little as possible Is some hike is needed. As a result the cigaret tax Income reckoned at $1.4 mil lion per year will go to pay old age hikes which are $5 per month to recipients requiring maximum payments. Money from the tax levy on smokes will go into the state's general fund sixty per cent of which comes from the property tax. Budget on Floor The long awaited budget bill has hit tne Iloor of tne Legis lature, following much the lines ligured by observers that of a "hold the line" approach. Under the leadership of Sen. Karl Vogel of Omaha, the bud get committee recommended a general fund outlay of $66.6mil non, a cut of $l.b million from the level set by Gov. Victor And erson. The total budget Is $294 mil lion, $3.3 million below the fig ure set by the governor. Recommendations ot the com mittee for the total budget are 24 per cent above the amount appropriated for the 1955-57 per iod, but nearly all the Increase would come from higher allo cations of federal money for the interstate highway. No figures are available on what the proposed budget would do to the pocketbook of the aver age taxpayer. The reason for this is tnat there is no certainty in what the Legislature might do to change the budget. However, it is believed when the Legislature acts, there prob ably would be no major increase in the state property tax of $8.09 for each $1,000 assessed value of property. Along with a comprehensive report from the budget commit tee came an unprecented minor ity report from two budget com mittee members Sens. Otto Lie bers of Lincoln and Harry Pizer of North Platte. Those two senators dissented on the committee's decision to chop the governor's recommen dation of a $3.2 million tax hike for the University of Nebraska to $2.2 million. It was the first such report in the 20-year history of the Unicameral, according to Legis lative Clerk Hugo Srb. Of the total budget, about $77 million, or 26 per cent, was for salaries and wages for state em ployes. Outside of the cut for the University, the biggest reduc tion from Gov. Anderson's bud get was in funds for the Board of Control which governs state institutions. The board's alloca tion was cut by some $222,000. Of the total budget, $62.4 mil lion would come from the gen eral fund, $75.5 million from cash receipts and $114.5 from the fed eral government. Special property tax levies would account for $19.1 million and left over funds from the current biennium would total about $22.5 million. Total appropriations for the 1955-57 biennium were $237.3 million. Highway Problem Leaders in the controversy ov er whether more revenue is need ed for Nebraska highways are going to tell their story to the Legislature. The senators, after an hour of debate, asked leaders on both sides of the controversy to make an appearance May 13 and ex plain their positions to them- Requested to appear are State Engineer L. N. Rcss. and spokes men for farm, trucker, and pe troleum groups. Pending in the Legislature are three highway revenue bills which will decide whether a road revenue program will be enact ed this session, and if so, how much. Capital Corner Ily Representative (ileii Cunniiu;ham I am pressing my investiga tion into the administration of federal matching funds. There are several dozen programs of this type, in which Uncle Sam says to state or cities, "I'll put up half the cost of a certain program if you put up the oth er half." What happens is that the fed eral government takes monev from the taxpayers in the slates, takes out the administration cost, and then returns what is left THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section U Thursday, May 9, 1957 By Stanley Jamrt, Joamtl WMWnrtn"i WASHINGTON, May U Arch itects of the Eisenhower Doctrine tne new U. b. loreign policy in the Middle East can now claim a tentative victory lor tne new U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East. That victory could disintegrate If Jordan coiiapses ana tne gov ernment of King Hussein loses out m tne power struggle. But, as of this moment, it doesn't look as tnougn tne pro-western government will lose out. To back King Hussein in his fight against the pro-Communists tne United Stales has announced a 10 million dollar aid offer, which was made public tne same day the Amman Government de emed not to invite special, U. S. Ambassador James P. Richards to tne country to explain the Eisenhower doctrine. That announcement was tak en to indicate that Hussein was trying carelully to placate the die-hard Leftists with a show of enough independence to steal their thunder. Hussein had al ready appealed to the Lettitsts with several moves that were popular among the "neutralist'' clique in Jordan and this seems to De his way of gaining lull control of his country. He was close to losing con trol, it is now known, when he decided to strike hard lor loy alty and allegiance, and reten tion of his crown and the in dependence of his native land. Syrian troops were already in to the states for these programs. The catch in some of the pro grams is that the state nas to match the federal money with state funds within a certain time or the federal money goes to other states. If NebrasKa doesn't want the federal money for a program, and in lact doesn't want the program at all, then the share of tnis federal money reserved for Nebraska goes to some other state which lias the money to spend on the program. Thus Nebraska taxpayers are paying for programs in other states. What I am doing is determin ing how many programs of this type there are. It involved ob taining reports from all of the departments and agencies which administer these many programs then checking to see how the programs are run. So far I have found four programs und er which the money due Ne braska ( or any other state) can be reapportioned among other states that ask for it. This type of program only causes more and more spending by taxpayers in states and lo calities (in addition to the a mounts paid in federal income and other taxes) for programs they may not want, need, or have the money left to operate. The importance of holding the line and reducing taxes is clear ly demonstrated by some new figures released in Washington. These figures show that the es timated tax in 1957 will be $106 billion for federal, state and lo cal governments. This will be more than the total amount spent by our people for food, clothing, medical care and re ligious activities. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ; Denizen of the Deep HORIZONTAL 1 Depicted fish 8 It has a mouth 13 Interstices 14 Come in 15 Pedal digit 16 Puff up 18 Female sheep 19 Kuthenium i (tymbol) . 20 Antagonistic v 22 Half an em 23 Domestic slave 3 Driving command 4 Field officer (ab.) 5 Ileum (comb, form) 6 Salts 7 Warmth 8 Stagger , 9 Atop i 10 Shoshoncan'- Indian ' 11 Most recent 12 Wet f 17 Palm lily 25 Round plate 27 Expensive ' 28 Curse 29 Chemical ' suffix ' 30 Thousands . (ab.) 31 Lutecium I (ab.) 32 Ibidem (ab.) 53 Brother of " Cain (Dib.) 35 Bound 38 Be borne. 39 Unbleached 40 Railroad (ab.) 41 Greets 47 Measure of area 48 H resembles the SO Panama seaport 61 Full of (suffix) 52 Soil r 54 Dispositions Efi Annoy 67 Worshipers VERTICAL 1 Detestation 2 Waken 20 Greek hero 21 Esau's descendants . (Bib.) 24 Secured Jordan, and Syria was pushing hard to get Jordan In tne pro Communist camp. Jordan, with a small army estimated to number just over 3a,uuu troops was siiany be cause the loyalty of these troops was questionable and the loyalty of the chiefs of the arm eu services was also in doubt. About 5,000 Syrian troops had moved mo Jordan wnen Israel attacked Egypt and they were a menace. Hussein could count on help from Saudi Arabia, but that was not enough. The support he re ceived i rum Iraq gave him the backing he had to have, and he actively appealed to ins loyal troops, with confidence that Sau di AraDla and Iraq were support ing him, to put down the re volt winch was quietiy taking place against his authority. One lactor that might have figured in Hussein's decision la the possioility tnat ne had been deceived by Egypt and Syria. Egypt parucuiany had applied pressure to get the British-trained and British-led Arab Legion in out of the Middle East. Great Britain had for years Amman and had seen to it that the Arab Legion was a modern lighting force, led by British General John Bagot Glubb. But Hussein fired Lt. Gen. Glubb, two years ago and, since that time, ne nas not received the linancial aid from Egypt and Syria that these countries promised to send. Maybe Hussein finally saw through the maneuver. Egypt had been responsible for stir ring up anti-British sentiment and getting rid of the Arab Leg ion. Then Syria and Egypt had steadily gained influence jn Jor dan and were letting the coun try starve economically. It be gan to look as if Jordan was about ready to pick, when Hus sein finally moved against the Leftists. Washington thinks the new U. S. foreign policy might well have saved the day lor Hus sein. There was no doubt but that President Eisenhower had the authority to use U. S. armed forces in the crisis and, when the Sixth Fleet left for Jordan ian waters so suddenly that 150 sailors were left behind, it ap-i peared the President was ready' to use force, if necessary, to pre serve Jordan's independence. It could be the turning point for the West in the Middle East after years of political defeat there. If the Eisenhower Doc trine is indeed responsible for the latest success, in conjunction with the courage of Hussein, of course, recent events in Jordan could add up to the biggest dip lomatic triumph for the State Department in many years and these triumphs have been few and far between. DIDN'T PASS TEST LOS ANGELES. Asked by examiners o show uo for a driver's test. John Rigby, 81, complied with a vengeance. Rigby struck three cars before his auto smashed into a fence near department offices during part of his test. Rigby didn't return to finish the test. Here's the Answer Jiib.q.OiVl M s MlA 3-L5 a $3 fmm 3 3. -.'ivwTi Type of poetry 44 Forearm bone Take into 45 Leaping custody i amphibian Two-banked 46 Within rallcy (comb, form) Expunger Compulsion Measure of land Behold! 49 Meadow 51 Mineral rock 53 While 55 Abraham's home (Bib.) , I Id 15 H IS 6 1 I i 1 lid 1 1 hi '3 i w'i rr -5" M i ! S L hl 35 ' 1 AL L 33 - -