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PAGfcBIX TEX BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS 1 THK COURIER NEWS OO. H. W. HAIMES, PubUibw JAKEB VZRHOXFT, EdJtol- FAUL D. HUMAN, Tork Ertry Afternoon Jtntwed aecood clut it the port- BlythevUIe, Arluntu.

under ol Con- October WIT. Member ol The Associated SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By carrier In city of Blythevllle or suburban town where carrier service mala- Ulned. 200 per week, or 85c per month. By mail, within a radius 50 00 per year, for six months, for three months; by mall outside 60 mile zone, $10.00 per year payable In advance. Meditations But I trusl In Urd lha( 1 FhlllppUtu 1:24.

I would sooner walk in Die dark and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust In the light of the brightest day tlmt ever Spurgeon. Barbs Monte Cailo, planning to add the American game of craps to 1U gambling repertoire, cent director to Reno to learn the game. He should have brought a barrel to go home In. Just jet too In your oun war If you to fet Jbi way of A California!) built a house on the chassis of old truck. Home, fleet home) Cntti h.vf been back on panU for quite but It's still b.rd lo el pants on the ciifY.

An Oklahoma auctioneer was found unconscious In bed from gas. he talked In his sleep. New Social Security Plan Gives Meaning to 'Security 7 The long-promised and long-delayed plan to revise and extend the social se- program has finally been put into action. The two bills which have been introduced in the House of Representatives President Truman's program. But actually the basic idea is not a par- tiaan matter.

It was included among the pledges of both major parties in their 1948 platforms. What this new program actually is give some meaning to the second word in the phrase, "social security." it removeg the occupational penalties that the present law imposes. And it does these things at a bearable cost. Today a single person or couple over 65 can scarcely hope to get along on old- age insurance benefits alone. The maximum payment is $85 a month, and the beneficiary may earn only in addition without losing the benefit The proposed law would double this total amount by raising the maximum payment to $150 and permitting $50 month in earnings.

This 311 't UJSl but it promises reasonable comfort. Most retired persons or couples would not get the maximum payment, of course. Yet for those who received that amount or something near it, some dignity and independence would accrue to old age even without other savings. is not possible under" the present soctal security law except at a drastic reduction in Jiving standards. While the President's proposal does offer a measure of comfort for some it is not so lavish a boimty as lo eliminate the incentive for private saving it a balance between the present inadequacy al the element of risk which is necessary to the progress of a dynamic society based on private own- is neither state socialism nor state neglect.

The broadened base socia i Mcur 6W bi 3 would end 8ome nminatl0n would rcsl 2,000,000 persons removed from the social security rolls by the last Congress The new eligibles include the self employed-such farmers, Ot es men and proprietors of smal businesses-, arm worke employes of non-profit organiTat ons and varlous federal, state and local ernment workers not presently covered under a retirement plan. ThU would not only correct in- uld also increase the country's working force. his desirable both for the individual the national economy. A without having to con- of hit past or thu of payments In tht uncwtain future. both parties in geem on the fundamental goali of a new social security law, any drastics change before its passage is unlikely.

country ma well be thankful for this bipartisan domestic policy for the benefits which it.promises to secure, Unemployed Salesmqn Fritz Kuhn, the old bund leader, complains of German though German appeals court freed him after he had served less tiian a year of a 10-year sentence as a major Nazi Apparently he feels thai the Germans showed a callous ingratitude by putting him in jail at all after his ardent efforts to sell the late Third Reich to the American people. Only in America, says Kuhn, could he get real justice. And so he is going to try to regain "iis American citizenship. We hope that there is no question as to the outcome of such appeal. Khun would be a only as a monumental he is put But we rather think lie will be less a menace right where he is.

A a we recall his speeches the bund days, we can't think of anything that would curb a possible revival of in Germany anyxbetter than to have Frit trying to peddle the master-race philosophy VIEWS OF OTHERS Men With Tough Jobs Men women with Jobs just about as hard in the country days are meeting In Louta. They are more and "'ore relatively less less. And th are caned on to do a of U.ce to the whole idea of self-government. We refer to the ladles and gentlemen attending the As a resuult of high pay the war inQustr Ul lt rintic Uvlng costs owlng the removal of wartime controls, of teachers wcnl i nto other )ines of In the war years, ch.Uanoog., for example. 41 per cent of its public school teachers This depletion or the teaching ranks has had two type, of One has been to bring In substandard teachers, 80me i 25i000 whom have obtained posts.

The other been co. up schools and leave hlWr.n wiii, ont pub lo school educational facilities. Recent tajllc. showed 45,000 Arkansas children, or li per cent. i no school to attend.

This, however, is only half -nibm In population Is putting heavy demands on the to do more than they have Aaw before. A half million more children will emcr ichooj this year than entered four years ngo us figure will increase, so Prof John Norton ot Columbia Ifliiverslty snld at the association's press conference, until the school' arc handling an Increase between 5,000,000 and 10,000000 Federal aid, as proposed In Senate ill will help, ft will help especially in ra 5 cutloiwl standards In states which now spend a larger proportion of their budgets on public enu cation still are not able to provide the school facilities equal to those wealthier states which proportionately on education. Every level of school support, city, consolidated school district and state, however, must Join In a com mon attack on this vast national problem 1 The New York Times' education editor Dr Benjamlne Fine, has made a fhsf-ba, lri cm cl study of public schools on a national scale he conies to the conclusion that In many place, "Our Children Arc- Cheated." Even 50, as le says, the public schools "are still mir gr atC5t asset. Democracy cannot neglect the schools without Imperiling itself from within. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.

SO THEY SAY I have been graduated at a comparatively early age lo the role of elder statesman which someone has aptly defined as a politician who is no longer a candidate for anj Ti, 0 mas E. Dewcy of New York. The youth ol today want too much hev are -dopllng the "lalsse -fairc" ph llos ophy 0 life They should have a good objective in order to et real sense of responsibility -Dr. William H. Coleman, dean bucknell University.

The housing shortage is more than a postwar Phenomenon, it has actually been growing dl ing the last quarter Edward Condon, head of National Bureau of Standards. Our greatest opportunity and challenge loda, the peace of the world. We had world leader ship thrown at us 30 years ago, and ne Ignored it -Sen. Esles D. Kefauvcr of Tennessee.

A vtciiUon by car is not what its ckc() to Jane Ace, radio comedienne. Doctors strongly object to my making anv lonB u- fitelln. 'Where's the Credit Buying Curbs, Even Though They Hurt, May Be Good Medicine for Business in the Bv fflrr By Peter Edson th WASHINGTON, (NEAT-'pres- ires on the Federal Reserve Board ease up on bank reserve rcmiirc- cnts and on Installment have been hot and heavy ever since the current rules were announced last Sept. 20. And now "iat PRB crmirman Thomas has told the Joint Congret tlmi on Economics tlmt he favors extension and some ma' etUt The case of the used car dealers what oT 1Pl i-nr there were TOOO used car dealers -o Unllcct Stales.

Today there re 40000. Reasons for this nearly expansion are fnirlv obvious, in the hopes of making a klll- In the postwar market, without controls, the number of used dealers has zmmied iu above vhat will be reriuircd to handle the normal turnover of used cars In a itabillzed market. tiJr VTOCess of shaking down this business to proper size, lot of enterprising with too big I in Inventory and not enough capi- al are golns to et hurt. Some of them been hurl already They are the ones yelling the loudest for Federal Reserve to relax on Regulation credit restrictions, it now irescribcs that car buyers must pay ine-third down anti the balance within 15 months If the price is mder $1000. or 18 months if the irlce is over $1000.

On 11 other lines of furniture ncl household appliances down payment must be one-fifth the purchase price, hut (lie lime limits nre the same as for cars, Reserve Hoard Must Consider All Angles In coiuidcrinif any relaxation of these Federal Keserve Board has to feel ils way carefully One line of argument is that the Wg down payment works against a hardship on people of low income who mny have (he worst need for cars mid home furnishings Another approach Is that since the of higher-priced cars and furnishings has lt with demand, there might ij some man- ufnctnruig unemployment caused by inablli to sell because of credit restrictions. For the protection of consumers hc bo (i nnut whether it should allow buyers to go too deeply in debt while the prices of all goods bought on the installment are high. If real rtcpression should set In. all such tune purchasers would be caught as bad a way as they were when the crash came in. 1829 Looking at the figures on all consumer credit buying In I948 may appear 1)a TotBl ciedit has risen steadily tram 000.000,000 at the end of the war to over 58.000,000,000 at the end of IfHS.

Viewed from this lofty pin- I 'mete of debt. It can be argued Hesulruion wasn't made toui-h ciioiigh to check-this particular In- iintioiuu-y pressure. But It Is believed to have done some good. It has eased some of the bis demand for all lines of dur- goods in short supply, and so lias helped keep their prices down. McCabe Country Fnvors Restrictions In a recent 8000-mile swing through the West, visiting Federa Reserve Banks and branches chair man McCabe says he toimd over whelming support for continuation of Regulation w.

Also, he found support among bankers for contin uation of and extension of Federa Reserve controls on banlc reserves These two actions. It is felt have materially helped in changing th economic outlook. The banking sys lem is in a sounder condition than it has ever becn. The banks themselves have done a lot of self-policing. There has been no stock mar- Kcl spree.

And controls can easllj be relaxed if the financial community gets in trouble. Six months ago everyone wanted an arfjuslment and a reversal of inflationary trends. But now that these things are beginning to be realized, it is being revealed tha lot all businessmen were fully prepared for them. For perhaps the first lime In eight years, retailers have real competitive merchandising problems, customers aren't willing to take whatever is offered them, ff price Is high, they demand quality. If cy CIU1 rft what, they want, they're willing 'to Instead of merely sitting In their slores nrtd taking or filling order" when the customers roll In merchants now have to get out and sell in this approach to a buyer's market the creative forces of the country again have to go to work competitively fighting for business' MJS bound to be a healthy thing MARCH 7,1949 Shifting of Molotov's Leaves the Outsiders Guessing Th.

DOCTOR SAYS HA wv.v.«ij, ij Written for NEA Service Just one child -entering school whooping cough can sm-parf ih. tl la by no a "harm- Se Who cough car- SHHS? op; asthma, bronchitis and oth- common. compllcatlo fairly Children from one to tc In inf CB Cal t. Iii Infants arid old neonie It particularly rl oi. VomlUng often acco ni ai) i whooping cough and when tmy children get the disease 1 teC lle Starved and Exposure Time Varies The time between exposure and ,7, oe of symptoms varies from lur lo twenty days, but is usually ten.

At first the symptoms shVht kC a cold, with slight fever, running nose, watering eyes, and slight cough. After a week ten days the cough begins to 0 an(i the '5'Plcal pi Mackendw Whatever may be the exact re son for the sensational release Vyacheslav Molotov from sltlon as Soviet foreign it strikes me we may take it granted that it Isn't a purely mestlc affair. It portends some Importance to foreign nations There are many guesses what Is the wind. Only deve'ol menu wilt tell, for Moscow 0 In mysterious ways. However oil can see that it might mean a ehnnJ in fore.gn 0 ii elthcr a hard it 01 an easing of it.

It could be that Molotov, has been Stalin's right han is being prepared to relieve generalissimo of some of tha that the change renr shelving Moloto the origmal old to IN HOLLYWOOD By Erskinr Johnson NBA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (NEA Every year about this time 534 press agents claim their clients gave Oscar, the Academy award statuette, his name. Here's the true story again, as told by M-Q-M art director Cedric Gibbons. Olbbons made the original sketch of Oscar, which later was modeled sculptor George Stanley. Back 1931, Margaret Hcrrlck. the Ac- idemy'E first secretary, arrived for ler first day nt work.

She was in- roduccd to the statuette. She aughed and said: 'Isn't he cute? Ife reminds me I my Uncle Oscar." The ntme stuck, Republic will reissue Ken Muray's Oscar winner. Bill and Coo," catch the Easier trade. Publicity release: "Virginia Mayo given a mink coat by her studio or being such a good girl." There's switch I Cleveland Story Bill Williams will play one of the roles In the documentary about he Cleveland Indians, "The Clcve- and Story." A western star, raver than E. Flynn on the screen, as trapped the other night in a hone booth at the Dells rcslurant.

fe was hiding from his cx-wlfc dining at Ihe same place) to whom owes a wad of back alimony. Advertisement In a Hollywood paper: "535. Man's Toupee, ranrt new. never cut. Light brown, ost SS5." Any dandruff? 9 John Lund's agents are trying io onvincc Mrs.

Lund to return to ie screen. She was under contract RKO but gave up her career hen Jt.rm clicked Marsha Hunt as her choice of two Broadway lays. "Lily Henry" or "Collector's lem. Dottle Lamour and Kay tyscr will be co-starred In an RKO nislcal Jimmy Cagney may rn- trn lo Warner Brothers tor the larrmg role In "John Paul Jones." Anne Jeffreys probably will star road company Cole Por- 1 K'M MB, Kate." The road shows will be launched In Los An- ecles this summer. Inflation Note: The Cole inn now a quartet.

They Just added a drummer to the group. Waiter Wanger would like Bob Preston for the role of the Dutch sen caplnln in "Anne of the In- mcs," the Susan Hayward starrer which will be filmed in South Africa. Van Who? Van Johnson will have an exhibition of paintings at a local gallery In a few months, but the paintings will carry a nom de pumc Added scenes In London on her British film cost Peggy Cummins the lead oposlte Blng Crosby hi "Broadway Bill." Oeraldinc Brooks will get a new star build-up at M-G-M following her work In Highland Las-sle." In case you want to get Howard Hughes on the telephone these "ays. you have to contact one of his "VP mate In a separate office in a different section of Hollywood. Wyman will get big cash ooinis from Warner Brothers if she wins that Oscar for "Johnny Be- ilnrta." Viveca LIndfors will marry director Don Sicgal after sne sheds her Swedish husband.

Job Applicant Follows Instruction to Letter HARTFORD, March 7. United Aircraft Corporation yc.slerday told the story Saturday of a job applicant wlio followed instructions to the letter. The application asked him to licit his In.st nnme first. The applicant that. Then cnme a line reading "Otherwise known as (a space for aliases or former names).

He wrote: Shot, Hot. McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By William E. McKcnney America's Authority Written for NEA Servlct This Psychic Bid Made Small Slam The winner of the world cham- ploiuhip musters individual tournament, held recently a the Park Sheraton Hotel In New York City, George Kapce, son of the late Evno Rapee, who WAS known musical director of the Radio City Music Hall. Rapce AJ81 AK7 S3 AQJS Stone A 109752 VI) 8 if 109864 Tournament E-W Smith H'r-rt North 1 3 Pass A 3 iir American wolverine, svliicli Is HIP size of a bulldog, has the body and pam of a besr. Rapee, who had previously won thti.

tournament in 1944, became the ieconct player in history to win it twice. B. Jay Becker of New York "My won it In 193T and again lust I'ear. fn the four times that Rapee competed in the tournament, he das won it twice, finished third another time, and ill the first ten the fourth time. He is one ol the most spcctacvi- lar ptnycrs In the country, and probably rales in anyone's list ot the lending three great rubber bridge players.

Rapee thought, that today's hnnd was the most unusual in the individual tournament, His partner tn the South was Tobias Stone of New York City, who to tftt Kho might become Infected. Rest bed good nursing care, and spe- Inl attention to the nutrition Is necessary. Most doctors believe that he vaccine against whooping cough will give active Immunity and pro- ectiori to children. These Injections re usually begun when the child about, six months old. Whooping pugh Is serious and all possible teps should be taken to avoid It Note: Dr.

Jordan Is unable to twwer Individual questions from eaders. However, each day he will nswer one of the most frequently questions In his column QUESTION: What is nervous ex" 0 aUd What are the symp Phis is a vague term used to cover symptoms of various causes believed to result from too much strain ou the emotions and brain. The symptoms vary and the term cannot be used for any single group of conditions. Feeling the heart beat, difficulty wl sleeping, irritability, and similar complaints frequently relied the 1 condition known by this name. "tuugu ai can happen these days.

It wouldn't be surprlsine a shift in Russian foreign 1,011,1 There certainly is room for a cliniul of policy Europe, Soviet policy hasn't' been dividends. Western Europe has recovering economically lmdoi Marshall Plan. And along with there has been a great slrengtherl Ing of the defenses against a es sion from any quarter The morale of the Western Eurc can democracies has been movin upward. We get a good dlcation of that the prolec North Atlantic alliance, to who Moscow objects bitterly. So it's quite possible Russia ma 'il" I 10 1 Ig One Way to Get a Suit PORTLAND, Me.

youn- man tried on a brown striped suli size 36. in Moris Raddin's store decided it looked perfect and dashed away, leaving his old one behind. blggmg with a psychic one spnde bid. When West made a vulnerable overcall of two diamonds, Ra- pee (North) felt quite certain that his partner was on a psychic bid So he took it a little easy, bidding three clubs. East's bid of three diamonds conlirmed that stone had nothing, and West also had read the psychic when he jumped to five diamonds.

Rapee doubled and would have set that contract 500 points. However, Stone was afraid to leave the double in, having opened on such a weak hand and bid five spades. Rapee realized now that his partner either had a singleton or was void in diamonds. He was confident also that the Mng of clubs was in the West hand, to justlff the jump to five diamonds; so, In spite of the fact that he knew South have nothing more than a ''ing or so in his hand, Rapee went six spades. The opening lead of the Jack hearts was won in dummy with the king Stone discarded his eight of diamonds on dummy's ace of hearts.

Two rounds of trumps were taken, then Stone led a club. When the king dropped, it gave seven-odd for a. top score on Whether these mysterious move may signal some new tactics in th cold war remains to be seen I this: eVent Wleve we Whatever change there mav be i Soviet tactics, as I see it, there wi be no alteration in the fundament a'n" Destroying wotlcl being chary about Interpreting tlJ Moscow mystery, pending furU.o developments. They recognize only a handful of people In thl highest Soviet councils can re the Molotov riddle at this June tin 15 Years Ago In Blytheville Mrs. Fred Smidcfur was electee! president the Beta CM sun da Ch, aSS the Presbyterlarl Church Monday afternoon.

A ea Gcsse Mis, Mary Outlaw and Mrs. Edgar Boi-J Members of the Tuesday Contract Club were guests of Mrs. Mav Aid-! ridge, this week for afternoori A cold plate was sen-cdj with beaten biauit and coffee. Mr Chamblin won the high score! bioominB piant a Smith has returned' from Meridian, where she! has been visiting with relatives forl the past 10 days. I Just a Pa! FORT WORTH, A man -reaten for injuries received wheiil rut over the head by a beer bottle'l told authorities he didn't want Ille charges.

He explained that person who struck him was Beost of Burden HORIZONTAL 1 Depicted ruminant 7 Renti 13 Roved 14 Arched puiage 15 Cereal grain 16 Measures of paper 18 Immerse 19 Not (prefix) 20 Perceive by sensej 22 Tantalum (symbol) 2.1 Fasten 25 Image 27 Icelandic myths 28 Dung beetles 29 (symbol) 30 Atop. 31 Hypothetical structural unit 32 Note of scale 33 Measure of land 35 German king 33 Malt beverage 39 Close 40 Abraham's home 41 Breaks 47 Tellurium (symbol) 48 Drink slowly 50 Once 51Japanese outcast 52 Hebrew ascetic 54 Submerged Nets 57 Compound VERTICAL 1 Waken 2 Accommodated 3 Touch lightly 4 Nforning SWax 5 Arabian gulf It belongs lo the genus 8 Formerly 9 Toward (prefix) 10 Sorrowful 11 Reviser 12 Divisionj of the calyx 17 20 Maligns 21 Phantoms 24 Approve 26 Give 33 Mistreats 34 Shade of red 38 Hat maker 37 Mountain nymphs 42 Horse's neck hairs 43 Er 4-1 It is native to (ab.) 45 Secrete 46Seth's son (Bib.) 49 Greek letter 51 Compass point 53 Half an em 55 Note of 1 ii 3 a HI so "r- 7 14 1 11 30 31 55 Hi bi 10 8 bl 1 a 34 12 31.