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i) Mftf. To, Classified History DON OAKUfeY What of A. probfe the 'ttrtfigi and primitive ftotiety af thousand before them, they may have i handy gttde classified pages of 86 pnafceta Review, noting that the classified book fe one of the most Widely consulted hi America. A review of dbangel to die Manhattan directory bear A out the tjontesrBon that ft jwwldes a unitme view life ft the 20th century, Of interest to women te the fact that th i first directorial listed no coin laundries, tfry tiof, of course, any appliance deatof ia "good" old won! ance six after Kitty Hawk. Five pages were devoted to laee- trie" by 1910, and pager to the "Automobile.

Stables, carriages and blacksmiths Wert still plentiful. was first seen in 1919. The emancipation of women is perhaps -ra- fleeted by "Reducing Treatments" and "Beauty Shops." new in 1923. were conspkuoul by their absence during the Prohibition era. atomic bomo gave rise to a host of new listings: "Atomic Sprays," "Atomic Cteanen," etc.

Another important addition after WorM War IT of interest to historians: "The United Nations." But the changes of the past lifetime are as sweeping as they seem. The first Manhattan directory in 1878 listd 271 businesses. Today 50 of them are still in operation, four of them at the same address. Gold Treasure Find 1 Federal and state authorities face a bewildering maze of law to establishing rightful ownership pf a small treasure in. gold coins unearthed by a bulldozer in Utah where it was buried more than half-century ago- by a thrifty housewife.

In the case of gold coins, at least, finders are not keepers; One of the first acts of the New Deal in 1933 was to call in all gold coinage and outlaw the gold clause in all private contracts. Whoever determined to be the lawful owner of the coins, therefore, 'must surrender them for legal money. 'Direct descendants of pioneer rancher who huilt his home on the site in 1868 say gold represented has wife's life savings from profits on eggs, milk and produce sold, and that they are rightful heirs to the- treasure under state law. i The average American without, any direct tladm to the treasure, however, must be content to reflect upon such abstractions, illustrated in a larger way at Fort Knbst, as civilizations' system of digging gold from the ground in one place and- burying it at another, and the relative worth of a gold dollar in eggs, milk and produce a half-century ago. Florida Times.

Drew Pearson Hruska votes for high drug costs WASHINGTON. When you go to the drugstore this year and next and have to pay 10 times more far certain than they pay in Holland, England or Argentina, 'A will be because of certain secret moves made recently inside the Senate Judiciary Committee. 5 These were chiefly made by Sen. Ev- jerett McKinley Dirksen, the Republican leader, who sometimes to be as reactionary as the 1896 GOP president for whom he was named. During the Senate hearings over the high price of drugs, Dirksen's office became what seemed like a branch office for the drug industry.

for the big drug companies were busy as bird-dogs on Capitol Hill, but few senators received as much attention as the senator from Illinois, who incidentally happens to represent the executives of one of the bigger drug companies. One of the biggest contributors to the Republican Party is Spencer Olin of the Olin Mathieson combine, sole owners of Squibb, one of the bigger drug companies of the USA. Spencer Olin Was long financial chairman for the Republican National Committee and a generous contributor to Dirksen's election. In 1956, the last year ade- ijuate records were kept on campaign contributions, Spencer Olin put up a whopping $34,600 for the GOP campaign chest, his brother John, with his wife, put up $14,950, and another Olin Mathieson, director, Laurance Rockefeller, and wife, contributed $25,550. Contributions from other 'known Olin Mathieson executives included: Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Nichols, Mr. and Mrs, J. W. H.

Palmer, $1 000; Arnold B. Chace, $800; Russell R. Casteel, $500; -E. R. Quesada, $500 and Robert G.

Stone, $500. This amounted to a grand total of $100,750 from executives who are making handsome profits from high drug prices. Practical Politics Ev Dirksen is a good, honest Republican; also a practical politician. And here is what he did, behind the scenes the other day, when Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee tried to get an OK on his bill to reduce the high coft of drugs to the American people.

The bill had to pass the Senate Judiciary Committee of which Dirksen is the most influential GOP member. Kevauver had spent 28 months on careful drug hearings. Every phase the problem was known to senators, especially Dirksen, who is a member of Kevauver's subcommittee, But Dirksen moved to refer Kefauver's drug to the Patents Subcommittee, on the ground that more time has needed to study Kefavuer's proposal to require any one company-to share the patent of a new drug with other firms at a generous 8 per cent royalty after three years of exclusive use. This would break the monopoly cm hiphpriced drugs, but this is chiefly what the big drug companies, such as Squibb, object to in the Kefauver bill. Sen John McClellan of Arkansas happens to tiie patents committee.

McClellan is one of most active senators on Capitol Hill when ft to prosecuting jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters, but when jj comes to certain other matters can fee as deliberate as a southern solon debating the noil tax. Backstage Wfenuever A year McClellan gave Kefauver his ii would cMio jwisOictian The Upper Room publishing industry has been go- Ing through hard times. Gigantic gross income often whittled down to very small net after operating expenses, taxes etc. And now the Curtis Publishing for many years the most profitable Institution in the industry, hoc adopted drastic plans to reduce lasses. Saturday Evening Post will reduce the number of issues from 52 to 45 hi a year.

The Ladies Home Journal will cut from every month, 12 to- a year, to 10. Curtto company reports tosses of HI million to the first three-quarters of last year, 1961. No statistics on the whole year of 1961 were not made public, Some months ago, a new editor WM installed to redesign the Post. He lasted three months and resigned. President Robert E.

MacNeal predicted the cost-cutting program would "put" the house of Curtis in order." I have received from Bro. Sweet an article he had cribbed from Hugh Foster in Holiday magazine, concerning wives of tt "Dolley" in reference to wife. Also Mr. Poster says the proper way to the wife of a President to "Mrs." Martha insisted on bejng called Lady Washington and Dolley inclined her ear to "Ladyship" or "Excellency." AbagaK Adams was called Her Grace, the Duchess of Braintree (Mass.) but not to her face, because she always was telling how "well born" the Adamses were. Eleanor plumped more pillows for visiting Near Greats than any other White House lady and loved to have 'em all, except one the Lady from Formosa, otherwise known as Madame Kai-Chek, who ordered the White House staff around as though they were coolies.

Strange behavior, too, for a gal who attended democratic Methodist college in the U.S. but actually never could understand the purposes of popular government. A millionaire's daughter, she couldn't possibly have the common touch. Foster described how friends greeted Rachel, Andy Jackson's wife. It was: "Howdy, Miz Rachel." Bro.

Sweet greatly admires the memory of Lucy, wife of Rutherford B. Hayes. She locked up the booze cellar and sent all wine and whiskey glasses to the attic. She served hard liquor only twice, and each time to a visiting Russian. Ask anyone who was the President's wife who banished liquor from the White House, and nearly everyone would answer Lucy Hayes.

But less than one in a hundred would answer Sarah Childress, wife of the eleventh president, James K. Polk. She prohibited liquor and dancing in the White House. Florence Kling Harding who spent a lot of conferring with gypsy fortune tellers was known as "The Boss" or "The Duchess." She played poker with the boy? and did a very good job of it. She hated the Coolidges who by a quirk of fate succeeded her the White House! Foster says the most handsome White House women were Grace Coolidge and Edith Wilson.

Evidently he wrote his article prior to the advent of Jackie. The presidency is not an easy position. We now have three living ex-presidents, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. Wives who have occupied the White House, and are still living are Mrs.

Truman, Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Edith Boiling Wilson died a short time ago.

Famous Fables E. E. Edgar PATIENCE: An admirer once asked pianist Ignace Paderewski. "Is It true that you still practice every day?" "Yes," aaad the pianist. "At least eight a day." "You must have a world of patience," said the other.

"I have no more patience than the next fellow," said Paderewski. "I just use mine." the drug bill. But Ev. Dirksen ia a charming, astute, and persuasive politician. A little, gentle prodding from Dirksen persuaded McClellan to reverse himself.

Dirksen made his first move behind closed doors of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee which Kefauver heads. Newspapermen were not admitted. However, I can report what happened. "Senator McClellan, chairman of the Patents Subcommittee, would like to review the patent section," Dirksen announced Taken aback, Kefauver agreed that McClellan had the right to review the bill. But Colorado's judicious Sen.

John Carroll remarked sourly: "The hill will lie for a long time In the committee." Sen. Roman Hruska, Nebraska Republican sided with Dirksen, but in the showdown vote, Kefauver, Carroll, and Missouri's Sen. Ed Long, all Democrats, overrode the two Republicans. Dirksen then appealed to the full Judiciary Committee. Again it wae behind closed doom.

Again the press was not admitted. Again he moved to sidetrack the low-cost drug bill.to McClellan's Patents Committee. This time, Dirksen had carefully lined up the senators in advance, Kefauver jumped up and protested that he had cleared all the Patents legislation with McClellan in advance. The Arkansas senator acknowledged this was true but insisted he would still like to study the specific phraseology of the Kefauver bill. "My subcommittee will act expeditiously on this matter," he said, but conceded he was pretty busy with his rackets investigation and When a senior senator like McClellan wants to a bill, he almost always gets his way.

Even long of Missouri changed his vote and agreed to refer the bil.1 to McClellan's subcommittee. In the secret vote, only Michigan Sen. Ph i 1 Hart went along with Kelauver, Voting with and McClellan were Eastland of Mississippi, Johnston of South Carolina, and Long of Missouri, all Democrats; Wiley of Wisconsin, Hruska of Nebraska, and Keating of New York, RepubJicanj, Dirksen came out of the closed-door meet. been the cobweb-covered corner of Mc- ing smiling like a Cheshire cat. The hard-fought drug reforms, after 28 months of hearings, bad PftflMf Reflection Hal Boyle Anyone who wants to regard '20s as good ol' days go to it NEW YORK (AP) Homesick ness for the past can bring many a nostalgic joy.

But don't you think we've al gone on something of an emotion al jag in remembering the so- called "Roaring 20s" with such suffocating affection? The decade between 1920 and 1930 certainly had its memorable moments. But was it really as wild and free-wheeling as it has been pictured recently in books movies and on the A television screen? If one judged the 1920s only as seen through this mist of fonc recollection and unchecked imagination, here is how life was in those palmy days: No one really worked for a liv- ng. Everybody made his money on the stock market or in the Florida land boom. There were only three York Chicago and Hollywood. The rest of the country was empty- There was only one author.

His name was F. Scott Fitzgerald. There were only two important classes of gangster who made. illegal liquor, the federal agents who trapped and shot them down. (Nobody seemed to have to gel up to milk cows or deliver breat or mine coal or bring home the bacon in ther prosaic ways.

There was only one dance. It was called "The Charleston." Every man under 25 was in col lege. He wore a coonskin coat, waved a hip flask in one hand and college banner in the There were only two colleges then and Princeton. Every girl went to college, too. She was called a flapper, rolled her hose below her knees, and did all her courting in a rumble seat.

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10 TO evening B.uu-Yogl Bear bTdwardt er4krt 6: 7: 8' 8: Storm 9: Bells draw rgucho Berg. The few who got married were wed by a judge with Mayor Jimmy Walker acting as best man. Everybody else enjoyed what was known "as free love" or "trial marriage." Bobby Jones sank a 50-foot putt every morning, Babe Ruth knocked a home run every afternoon, Jack Dempsey knocked out a handsome but underweight foreigner named Carpentier every evening. Every Saturday Red Grange laid aside his iceman's tongs and scored two touchdowns to win the game in the last minute of play. Oh, those razzle-dazzle, mad, bad "Roaring Wedl, maybe that was the way life really was in what Westbropfe Pegler has immortalized as "The era of wonderful nonsense." But most of the mature survivors of the decade I kriow don't recall having all that fun.

They say it was just as hard to get up the rent money then as it is now, and in most families it was probably harder. Anybody who wants to regard the 1920s as tihe good old days, is welcome to his emotional binge. Out of the Past 10 Ago Winners of the Gage County spelling contest were: in the written contest, Marilyn GreU, first, Catkryn Reimer, second, and Laura Herman, third; and in the oral contest Ronald Wiens, first, Lance Johnson, second, and Marilyn Grell, third. The top four contestants, Marilyn Grell, Cathryn Reimer, Ronald Wiens, and Lance Johnson, were to attend the District Spelling contest. Hans Andreaseh left Beatrice for New York City, from where he was to sail aboard the OsJof- jord for Denmark to visit relatives.

He was to dock in Copenhagen on Easter Sunday. 20 Years Ago Don H. Kirschnef, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold" Kimchner, was cast in a leading role in Drake University's all-university production of 'My Heart's in the Highlands." Kirschner was a junior in the college of the Bible and was majoring in sociology at Drake.

Jack Gobble, chairman of the conference committee, in Kansas City opened a four-state conference on "The Chamber of Commerce in Wartime," for officers, direct- oral and members of chambers in the four-state area. Secretary of the Beatrice Chamber, Gobble was also president of the Nebraska association of commercial organization 30 Years Ago McCown, son of Rev. and, Mrs. Ross McCown and a freshman at Hastings college, was a member of tiie debate team which went to the semi-fina'Is in the state debate tournament, held at Wesleyan university. They were defeated by Wesleyan, the team which won the tournament.

The Davison estate was building a new home just north of town to replace the one destroyed here by fire. John Ossowski-and family were to occupy the house upon its completion. Howard Souder was in charge of the work. 40 Years Ago The body of Arthur Bitting, one of the heroes World War was on its way here, according to a message received here by his father, Herman A. Bitting.

His remains lad arrived at Brooklyn, N. Y. from tihe St. Miheil cemetery at Thiaucourt, Meurthleet-Mosell, in France, where it had been buried years before. Plans were underway at the Bitting Norman post for the funeral of Arthur Bitting, in whose honor the post was named.

Side By Galbralth "Don't tun through our trip so fast, dear! I'd rather straighten you out as we go along!" For most ot us, the good old days are now. Harry Vote For A. MUke 1429 North 13th Street 4TH WARD 2 YEAR TERM Young enough'to handle the job, and old enough to give serious thought to all issues to make this a better place to live. YOUR VOTE WILL BE APPRECIATED Each weekday during Lent a prominent American invites you to join with him in his favorite prayer. Today, join with: JoltN ANDERSON JR.

Governor of Kansas God, Soul of the Universe. Spirit of Jesus Christ, whose word is hidden In the framework of the world, lighting the mind of man, from whom and in whom we have our being, we thank Thee that Thou has so formed the world and so made the heart of man that we cannot escape Thee. "Thou, who visitest the heart every experience, who comest to us through every channel of impression, though we oft- times fail to recognise Thy hand, ever and always findest a secret way within and announceth Thou art there. "Interpret to the movement of the world and the motives of men's minds so that our search for peace among men may no longer be shrouded in blindness and delusion? 1 "For this'we pray In Christ's name. Amen." 1 through 'the co-operation of The Laymen's tlonal Committee, by Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

Shortage of farm laborers in spring LINCOLN State Labor Department's Division of Employment said it: looks for a severe shortage of farm in the state later this spring. So far, however, adverse weather and moisture conditions have restricted farm activity except in the southwestern aad Panhandle areas. Requests for farm workers are increasing, the division said. The Alliance employment office reported 14 unfilled for ranch hands. VOTE FOR William W.

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