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The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
Bugs In the Budget
W By GEORGE s.BENsoN
President Of Harding College
Seary Arkansas

DID YOU KNOW that income of
the federal government for the
next fiscal year will be nine times,
maybe ten tiles, what it vas in
the boom period Of 1929? 1t will
be at least seven times the re-
ceipts the federal government had
in 1889. Weak nation it would be,
indeed, that could not balance a
peacetime budget with the receipt
side Of the ledger at enormous
%peacetime highs.
Just to balance the budget dur
ing boom times, however, is not
enough. We must retire debt and
reduce taxes. Looking at another
angle, the federal government
wants to spend more than four
times as much as it did in any
year of the Thirties, when deficit
spending was in the habit-form-
ing stage. Has it now become
fashionable for our government
to spend all it can get? Have we
forgotten that the more we spend
the more we shall have to tax?
Begin IF WE CAN'T, under
At Home favorable conditions of
high employment and
prosperous trade, get hold of our
selves long enough to retire our
national debt and cut our taxes,
at what future time do we expect
to do SO? Is our budgeting SC out
Of hand that Congress cannot
gain control over it? Or is the
public thus unmindful Of the
trouble we're in for under a tax
load required by the spending Of
$37, 500, 000, 900 annually?
Both the President and the
Congress have given evidence of
honest desire to keep the expen-
diture side of the budget down.
But the pressHres that are ap-
piled from every direction call for
spending more money. As a peo-
pie. We shall have to exert great
moral fortitude at this time if we
expect, an about-face in q spend
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
FEE
ARE

The fee for going into bank
ruptcy has been increased from
$50 o S45, but that doesn't mean
it will cost more. instead, it will
cost less, according to Joseph P.
Fradenburg, Federal Court Pc
fierce in Bankruptcy.
Previously-up to July There
was the $50 fee, plus the referees
expenses. The base charge for
this was S21.37, plus 20 cents for
notifying each creditor.
Now, with the referee receiving
a salary, instead Of fees, the Gov
eminent pays the additional ex-
penses. The S45 fee paid for fill
-ng in FederaI Court is the only
expense.
This fee applies to individuals
and corporations in general cases
with certain exceptions.
Since the war the number of
bankruptcy cases filed here has
been small. Only 10 were filed in
1947, none since July /.
In certain places in the East
bankruptcies are increasing. In
one city, Mr.. Fradenburg learn
ed, there were SO in one week
in contrast to IA for the cores
ponding week last year.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
FARM INCOME UP % PCT.

Total farm income was % per
cent higher during the first sew
en- months Of 1947 than it was
during the corresponding period
last year, the Bureau Of Agricul-
tural Economics reported Thurs
day.
Marketing receipts al Ii" W re
p per cent higher but Govern
ment payments fell off. Total
farm income th.~Cc1 July was
Receipts from livestock and
livestock products were up 80
per cent. and prices were up 80
per cent over 1916. Meat animal
receipts were up IS per cent,
dairy products 20 pr cent and
poultry and eggs 10 per cent.
Grain receipts were up so per
cent with grain prices IS per
cent higher.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
COM LAW MAY
TRIM ASSISTANCE

Nebraska's new community
property act will have a mater
ial effect on many assistance
cases, Assistant Attorney General
Homer Kyle said Thursday in an
opinion to Neil Vandemoer, dir
ector of assistance.
Income of a husband and wife
will be divided evenly after Sept
ember Z, when the act becomes
law.
One Of the conditions Of old-age
assistance is that tn recipient
have no child able to support him.
Mr.. Kyle used as an example,
a wife who has no income but
whose husband makes four thou
sand dollars a year. The wife's
legal income after September Z
would be two thousand dollars
annually. Should she have parents
on relief rolls they perhaps would
no longer be qualified to receive
assistance.
Mr.. Vandemoer said he had no
basis on which to make a defin-
tie estimate, but said there would
be quite a large number" of
cases affected by the act.
In another opinion, Mr.. Kyle
advised State Banking Director
]. F. McLain that building and
loan associations are legally auth
orized to make mortgage loans
insured by the Federal Housing
Administrator, even though the
note and mortgage is negotiable
in form.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

ing philosophy grown almost ira
ditional. We need not complain
to the government for being
spendthrift, if at home we insist
upon being spendthirsty about
our pet projects. Economy begins
first at home.
Examine ALTHOUGH the war
Everything has been over nearly
two years, your gov
eminent wishes to spend more in
the next fiscal year alone than
was spent during the whole of
World War /. OF course, this is
a dangerous era, and no one
wants to hamstring u national
~,defenses. The whole nation wants
the occupation program to sue
coed. But more efficiency and the
least possible waste Of manpower
and money should be the order OF
the day.
AS late as November the War
and Navy Departments were still
employing more than a million.
civilians. Spending in every de-
partment, military or non-mili-
tary, should be studied carefully.
Everyone knows it is easier to
keep on spending government
money than to retrench. This 10
just as true of the national de-
Tense. Despite warnings of what
may happen, Congress will Go
well to examine these expendi.
lures. 4
Trimming down expenses Is nos
an easy task for Congress. Snail's
progress will be made unless the
people make themselves heard. a
big and wasteful budget now, AR
rying with it a tax penalty upon
the enterprise of our people,
could do much to start as down,
hill toward the kind Of economy
Russia has. Most Americana,
! believe. would rather be allowed
TO spend their own money than
haxe the goytrnment spend Il foy.I
nem.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
%. Primitive or,g,r

The universally of mans love Of
color was demonstrated early In
antiquity. Each region and sub-re-
gion OF the globe developed its w,
aye sources. 1t is estimated that
nearly 1890 different plants. vines
shrubs and trees were, at one time
or another, employed for extrac.-
ing dyes However. .14y a few Of
me primitive ayes survived to a
cient and medieval times.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
Kneckabout Chair

If you have knockabout chairs, in
the sunroom or on "sabbatical
leave" from the summer porch and
their appearance is not everything
you desire. consider making simple
sHpcayers for them. Use strong fab
RIGS like ticking or oilcloth in fast
%colors, SO they a be tossed regu-
larry into the washing machine.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
THEFT ON THE INCREASE

Larceny is on the increase in
Omaha, police reports showed
Saturday.
The rise is not alarming. Some
business firms say it is due to
the high cost Of living.
Perhaps the nan who was nab
bed trying to get away with a
dozen diapers was trying to cover
an area his pay check would not
reach, police reasoned.
Maybe, they added, the men and
women who daily take the small
expensive items from store count
ers r seeking to fill wants their
budgets won't permit.
But police let no emotions run
away in talking about store bur-
glaries. Whiskey, cigarets, radios.
wrist watches hardly come under
the cost-of-living classification.
Police records show there have
been LOIS cases Of larceny in the
first six months Of this year. Ar
rests have cleared up 343 cases.
There we're 90s larceny reports
last year, 735 in 1945. This year
is about equal to the same period
in pre-war 1910 and 1871. About
a third of the cases are cleared up
by arrests.
Larceny covers all reported
thefts where there is no breaking
and entering. Thus many minor
thefts n Jumped into the total.
The number of burglaries also
is getting back to the pre-war
figure. There have been 3S4 sc
far this year. This is a slight in
crease over the past two years
Robberies ARE up slightly over
1945 and 1916, but far below pre-
war. There have been 40 50 far
this year.
Cash, cigarets and whiskey, in
that order, are the favovrite loot
in store burglaries, said police.
Cigarets are easily marketable.
Police cast a jaunticed Y on
some reports of liquor thefts. Dry
Kansas is close and there are ru-
mors around the police station
that burglary reports sometimes
blanket a liquor transfer.
Food store burglaries are not as
common as in OPA days When
ration stamps were choice LOOT
Significantly, there has been only
one filling station burglary thi,
year. Nobody needs gasoline
stamps any more. Food storee-
however, are noting an increase II.
shoplifting.
Most food stores are outline
down the height of their island
displays SO all parts Of the store
can be seen by a clerk at the
check stand.
The many-itemed variety stores
r not SO fortunate. One store
executive said his place is taken,
for $500 to $1,000 worth of mer-
chandise daily.
C~ontenders for the 1947 crown
include the man who walked away
with a full set of golf clubs an
other who lifted the fan cooling
a store from its spot in the front
window, or the men who stole
Two suits Of clothes from q char
liable organization.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Americans behave toward certain
racial, religious and cultural min-
ority. We deny them jobs, refuse
them equal opportunities and re-
fuse to admit them to hotels and
restaurants. There are the jim
Crow laws and customs. In seven
teen states and the District of
Columbia the laws forbid Ameri-
cans to attend the same schools,
use the same parks or swimming
pools. Some ven go SO far as TO
forbid Christians to worship to-
gether unless they bow to the 10.
cal god of race and sit in segre
gated sections. It was not in Hit
ler's Germany, but in a church
in a large city of the United
States of America and only a few
years ago that the police entered
a church building and made sup
posedly free Americans get up
and separate themselves out by
colors and sit in Jim Crow Sec
lions.
Anyone who reads the New
Testament must understand that
no man is right with God who is
not right with man. And yet how
strange it is that this aspect of
the life and teachings of Jesus
has become the most neglected
area in our daily practices.
We must know the facts about
people-why they behave as they
do and what they are like. But
knowing all about them is not
enough. We must be willing to
act in the light Of that knowledge
ever when it means we must SUBJ
ordinate personal interest to the
common good.
Many of you should think of
the fact, if you were blind.
would have to get some n to
tell the ace of most individuals
you might Notwithstanding that
there was nothing in their speech
to give a hint of any difference
in race. The fact is that a great
many of the ordinary prejudices
that divide human family would
disappear if the gift of sight were
to be suddenly taken away.
1t is strange. 1t is unreasonable
and christian for anyone to let
differences that are primaril7
visible and superficial raise such
violent emotions within u.s.. Do
you want to let the gift of sight
cheat you of the gift of brother.
hood?
Even sight isn't worth such a
price. e Ez
In a world OF radar. atomic
bombs, and superfortresses. man.
kind faces an awful and urgent
choice. We of this earth must
to live together or perish
There is no time to wait Or aro,,e
Two hundred million people live
on a planet on which man has
conquered distance and has nried
from nature the secret of incred.
ible power. The story is told in
Hiroshima" and in the statement
that no place on the globe is NOR.
than sixty hours distance from
ones own airport.
In the field of physical science
We have reached the Atomic Ace
In the field Of human relations
we haven't gone 50 far. PROGRESS
IN the science of human relations
on at least two things. They
are knowledge and motivation
we cannot build a cooperative
world on ignorance and error.
Science agrees further that all
mankind is related, that all hi.
man beings are of one blood. In
all normal human beings we find
The same number of toes, fingers.
Teeth, muscles and bones. There
TO Be Continued Next Week
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

The five senses-touch, taste.
sight, smell and hearing-are
hardly enought. We need two
others horse and common.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Now that a pencil with a built
to the pen that writes under
waterwe ought to be able to bear
up a while longer, despite the
chaotic world sitution.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

One would think women as
pretty as those in the washing
machine ads could marry men
who are able to hire the washing
done.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
Handled Many Times

Iron ore is handled FIVE times
from the time it Is removed from
the earth until it emerges from the
furnace as liquid metal.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Egotism is an anesthetic Ma
ture gives to a man to deaden
the pain of being a darn fool.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Are you broker"
All a pickpocket could get
from me is practice"
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

If you're too far ahead Of the
procession you're just as much a.
lone as if you were way behind it.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Conference: A meeting at which
people talk about the things they
should be doing.
Pedestrian: A person who
should be seen and not hurt.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Reputation is a live and grow
ing plant, requiring day by day
nourishment and care.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

It's more important to know
What's What than to be listed
in who's Who.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
DU M Munitions

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The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Marriage is a game of give and
take: what you don't give, she
takes.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Living a double life will get
you nowhere twice as fast.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

You, too, sometimes Ear deduct
the cost of parties, liquor and
presents for girls from your in.
come tax, But
A Bureau of internal Revenue
official warned Thurday that the
Government must be convinced
that your entertainment deduct.
auctions were ordinary and nee
essary," business expenses.
The law under which Howard
Hughes claimed deductions for
his entertainment spendig is
that simple-"ordinary and nee
essary."
However, the Government ap-
plies a strict Interpretation. The
expense must be both ordinary
and necessary. The type of bust
ness, its customs and the size of
the expenditure make a lot of
difference.
Both individuals and corpora,
tons can claim entertainment de-
auctions which come under the
head of business expenses. Indivi-
duals must make an itemized re
turn, however, whereas corpora
tons can list entertainment as q
lump sum-until it is challenged.
In some businesses and pro-
LESSONS, entertainment is an re-
cognized part of the buiness," a
bureau expert said. The travel
ing salesman, for example, must
take prospects out to dinner. and
there is no question that this is
a legitimate expense.
But how could a ribbon clerk
claim that lavish entertainment
was necessary to his job?
There are no percedents on
whether money spent to entertain
companionship TO a customer is
an ordinary and necessary ex.
pense." Nor has it been decided
whether money spent to entrtain
public officials and Congressman
is deductible.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
ONLY Bupuenot Church

Only Huguenot church in Amer
lea is at Charleston, S. c. It was
founded in 1887.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
WE'RE MORE ALIKE
THAN DIFFERENT
BY N ALICE RICH

We human beings have some
hard lessons to learn. They will
not be easy to learn, but we can
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

There Are No Boundaries Il
The World Of Thought
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
Little 'Fat" In Retailing

Just how much fat is there in the retail merchandising business
that is, the difference between what merchants must pay for the
supplies m their shelves and the price they charge their customers:
Unless you're an unusually well.informed consumer, you'll be
astonished to learn how small the fat is. For example, one of the
country sprincipal food chain systems recently reported that when
consumers spend $l.00 in its stores they actually got SO cents worth
of food, figured on the wholesale cost. The remander-fourteen
cents-is all the system retains to pay wages, taxes, rent and all the
hundreds of other expenses incidental to running its business, includ-
ing an extremely small profit on each sale.
1t is obvious that all kinds of stores connot operate n an equal
ly small margin. Volume of business, special services rendered, the
kind of goods sold, and many other factors regulate the amount Of
"fat" a store must have. But it is a fact that ninety-nine stores out
of a hundred re operating on a small a margin as possible. The
hundredth store, whose management is out to boube the consumer
sumner resistance and competition will see to That.
Bear this in mind next time you are tempted to bame the shu
keeper for high prices. He dislikes them as much as you do-he is
well aware that the system of mass production and mass distribution
which distinguishes America from other nations is based upon keepink
prices within the reach of all. He has voluntarily absorbed many
inflationary spiral. But he can't do the impossible-which means
that he can't operate at a loss.
Discrimination, in any form, must be rooted out of our hiring
and promotional practices Carroll E. French, director, NAM In
dustrial Relations Dept.
eff you don't want your elephants head smashed, come get him
out of my tulip bed."-Lansing, Mich, housewife, calling circus
headquarters.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

eff you don't want your elephants head smashed, come get him
out Of my tulip bed."-Lansing, Mich, housewife, calling circus
headquarters.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16

Discrimination, in any form, must be rooted out of our hiring
and promotional practices."5Carroll E. French, director, NAM In
dustrial Relations Dept.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-16
BUSINESS COST

You, too, sometimes can deduct
the cost of parties, liquor and
presents for girls from your in.
come tax, But
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-11
Mayors Proclaim
July A Service
Insurance Month

The Mayors of Miss Point and
Pascagoula this week joined Gov
ernor Fielding L. Wright in pro-
claiming the month of July as
National Service Life Insurance
Reinstatement Month"
In their joint proclamation,
Moss Point Mayor F. w. (Bob)
Cirlot and Pascagoula Mayor
John r. Watts called on World
War ii veterans in the two cities
to take advantage now of the
splendid life insurance benefits
recently granted them by Con
gress."
"In keeping with a proclama-
ton issued by Governor Fielding
L. Wright, calling World War II
veterans attention to the many
benefits of National Service Life
Insurance and to the present OPP
portunity of restoring their for
mer insurance protection, it gives
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-11
ORDINANCE NO. s-is47

ORDINANCE NO. s-ls4T
An Ordinance granting an electric
franchise TO Mississippi Power Com
panY, liz successors and assigns. In
the City OF P~ascssoula. Mississippi.
BE 1T ORDAINED, by the Board of
Mayor and Commissioners of the City
of Pascagoula, Mississippi:
SECTION |. In consideration of the
benefits that will accrue to the City
of ~Pascagoula, and the inhabitants
thereof, and of the payment by the
Grantee TO the City of a sum of money
equal TO two per centum t2el per
year of the total revenue of the Gran
tee from the sales of electric energy.
excepting therefrom sales for resale and
sales in interchange of energy with
others. within the corporate limits of
the City. or the sum of two hundred
dollars (S200l per year. whichever is
The greater payable quarterly on or
Before thirty days following the close
of each calendar quarter during such
period as the Grantee operates in sato
City. but not to exceed twenty-five
t25l years from the effective date of
this ordinance. Mississippi Power Conn
ANY its successors N assigns. here
In referred to as the Grantee, is here
by given and vested with the right,
authority. easement. privilege and
franchise to construct. erect, suspend.
ileAaAAr AOAlGNs l0RaAlH AttdAAlA0AAiH NHNA
ate and conduct in the City a plant
or plants and system for the manufac-
ture, distribution and transmission of
electric energy for all purposes what
soever..
SECTION 2 The Grantee is hereby
further given and vested with the
right, authority. easement. privilege
and franchise to construct. erect. sus-
pend. install. renew. repair. maintain.
operate and conduct in the City a
system of poles. towers. conduits.
cables. conductors. transforming sta
tions. fittings and all appliances or
apurtenances necessary or desirable
to the transmission, distribution. or
sale of electric energy for all pur-
poses whatsoever in. over. under.
along. D o and across all streets. ave
nues. alleys. ways. bridges. and pub
lie places in the City as they now
exist or may hereafter be laid out
or extended. together with the FUR
ther right. privilege and franchise tc
construct. erect, suspend. install. re-
new. repair. maintain and operate
such poles. towers. conduits. cables,
wires. conductors, transforming sta
tions. fittings and all appliances and
appurtenanees necessary or desirable
10 the transmission within. into,
through, W and beyond the City
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-11

specifications and must be sccompsni-
ed by Cash. Cashiers Check. Certifi-
ed Check or Bid Bond In an amount
equal TO not less than 5% Of the total
amount bid. This bid security shall be
made payable to the City of Pasea-
goula. Mississippi. and viii be forfeit
ed as liquidated damages, not penalty.
by any bidder who is awarded the
contract and who fails to execute a
contract and furnish bond as provided
for in the proposal and within the
specified time.
No bid maj be Withdrawn after
the scheduled closing time for the
receipt of bids for a period of 80
days.
The bidder is to furnish all mater
ials. labor and everything necessary
to furnish a complete fence at the
points designated.
The owner reserves the right to re-
ject n and all bids, and to waive
informalities.
The contract will be awarded TO the
lowest and best responsible bidder.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN OF THE
CITY OF PAscAGoULA, MIssIssIP-
PI.
fSeaD j. n. WATTS.
ATTEST: Mayor.
v. r. DeJEAN.
Clerk.
AZ I'd II IA 15
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-11

US. as Mayors of the Cities of
Moss Point and Pascagoula, great
pleasure to set aside the month
of July, 1947, as National Life In
surance Reinstatement Month in
Moss Point and Pascagoula," the
proclamation said.
I'VE further calf upon all World
War II veterans living in Moss
Point and Pascagoula to take adj
vantage of the splendid life in
surance benefits recently granted
them by Congress"
Veterans wishing to reinstate
their insurance should contact
Jim King, Veterans Contact Off
Ger representative in the Bacot
Building, across the street from
the court house in Pascagoula.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-07-11
NOTICE
NOTICE 10 CONTRACTORS

Sealed bids for the construction of
a chain-link metal owe wire fence
with metal posts set in concrete at the
Municipal Beach Park. will be reeeiv-
ed by the Board of Mayor and Coun-
eilmen of the City of P~ascagoula.
until 3 o'clock p. M, on August 5.
l947, at the City Hall in the City of
P~ascagoula. Mississippi. at which time
and place they will be publicly open
ed and read aloud.
The work is to consist of $500 lineal
feet of chain-link galvanized wire
fence with metal posts set firmly in
concrete. The fence is to be s feet
high with two strands barbed wire at
the top and corner and end posts
shall be furnished with the fence plus
any necessary braces needed at the
angles and TIE ends. There shall also
be included two double metal gates
Installed in this fence at points to
be designated and the installation shall
include the necessary metal posts and
metal fasteninEs for the gates. This
fence is to be installed at the rear
of the Beach Park Pavilion in accord
ance with the provisions of the speei-
fications.
Bids must be submitted on the blank
proposal forms furnished with the