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XLVm 48 Drinking Water Prejudice Scientists and engineers are doing so many amazing things in these latter days. They progress so rapidly that the run-of-the-mine citizen cannot keep up with them. A. M. Rawn, chief engineer of the Los Angeles Sanitation district, tells of the feasibility of "water reclamation" from municipal sewage, in an Engineering News-Record article.

He refers to water-reclamation plants using sewage to produce an "all-purpose The process must be perfect and fool-proof. The engineers know they can reclaim water that has run down the sewer and make it safe as drinking water. But "public prejudice" raises its unlovely head and registers disapproval. He points out that on "ethical to do with prejudice prevents direct reuse of water reclaimed from municipal sewage for domestic purposes. The reclaimed water even though it meets all the tests for safety, cannot Win approval which its scientific analysis justifies.

"By a universal writes the engineer, "this prejudice does not exist if the reclaimed water is purified by what is termed a 'natural' process." In other words, water from a river; into which sewage is dumped, if clarified and purified by running through percolation beds of sand is accepted more readily than that which is reclaimed scientifically from raw sewage. There has been much discussion of the question of how communities, in has become more and more dense, can be supplied with water. In California cities, as they keep spreading out and putting an ever increasing demand upon the city water supply, the problem is most acute. Water supply puts a limit upon the extent of growth and density of population. Using the same water over and over again- is the only answer to the problem, unless a clamp is put upon the boom, which no seasoned Californian would consent to.

Citizens of boomless Nebraska, before they migrate to the crowded west coast, should pause and consider the blessings our boomless state affords. One blessing is the vast natural reservoir of the sandhills. They are trying to form a farm-labor coalition with a popular farm leader to carry the flag. One leader popular with the farmers seemed a likely candidate for the senate; then it was learned he was not available as a candidate on the Democratic ticket, being registered Republican. The Upper Room After hearing a lot of talk, and spending a good bit of time studying the document itself, it appears to me that the central issue, and the primary merit of the charter has to do with remedying a basic, fundamental and inescapable weakness of the city government we now have.

That weakness is that there are so few men in a position to run for city commissioner. Zurich, Switzerland, gets a return of $12,000 a year from its municipal forest. It has been operating for centuries and is in better condition now than it was originally. We have a lot to learn about forestry from foreign lands. Out For Taft's Scalp Organized labor generally is laying plans to get the scalp of Senator Robert Taft in the 1950 election.

Chiefs of the big organizations, CIO and AFL and the railroad unions, are intent upon liquidating the author of what they call the act. But they have no easy task before them. It's an old adage of politics that you can't beat somebody with nobody. And the Ohio senator surely is not only a somebody, but an important one. Taft's courage in permitting his name to be used in connection with a bill to regulate labor organizations marks him to be a man of courage.

Many rank-and-file citizens in Ohio who have no axes to grind must be attracted to a man of courage. Finding an effective standard-bearer for their cause is no easy chore for the labor strategists. Democrat Governor Lausch is reported to have been urged to accept the nomination of his party for the senate seat, But he apparently chooses to run for another term as governor. Anyway, he has expressed greater admiration for Taft than a politician usually does for a man he intends to run against. The anti-Taft strategists have considered several possible challengers to take the Democratic senate nomine tion, and make the race in 1950.

Think it over in your mind. How many people do you know who would be in a position to hold a job as commissioner? It is a full-time job, pays about $2,100 a year (the commissioner who is mayor gets and may be terminated abruptly at any election. That limits the field of candidates pretty much to men who are retired, who have an independent income, or to whom the pay looks good enough, even though the job security is mighty precarious. Think, on the other hand, who you know who could run for city councilman under the proposed Home Rule Charter. You would have to find citizens able to devote an evening or two per month to city business.

Administrative functions, now split up among the three commissioners, would be centered in the mayor and such department heads as the city engineer and the clerk- treasurer. Councilmen would meet one or two evenings a month, (regular meeting of the commissioners now are twice a month). That opens the field to practically everyone in town. As possible candidates, under the charter, you would have businessmen who wouldn't possibly be able to abandon their businesses, wage earners who couldn't afford to give up their jobs, professional men, and salaried people. In short, it opens up the field to everyone.

The broader the field you have to pick from, the better results you should get. It is for this reason that a high school with an enrollment of 500 usually has a better football team than a school with an enrollment of 75. That is not only real American democracy, but good horse sense, and it appears to me, above argument. The other central issue is that of Home Rule At present the people of Beatrice are permitted to make only certain decisions for themselves. On large matters, the decisions rest with the state legislature.

The constitution of Nebraska wisely provided that cities which felt sufficiently grown up to handle purely local affairs could do so, by adopting a charter. That is Home Rule. The people of Beatrice are sufficiently "grown up" to handle their own affairs wisely; they are sufficiently mature to untie the apron strings. There are many other charter features, but they are not central issues. As time goes by, it is very likely that some of them will be changed, just as the state and federal constitutions have from time to time been amended.

But the basic principles remain as they were written by the founding fathers, because they were sound. Likewise these basic principles of the proposed charter are sound. The people of Beatrice should make a decision on the real fundamentals, without being diverted by clever and devious argument on secondary issues. Barbs BT HAL OOCHRAN When a college student gets a job in spite of his education it's the power of mind over Mater. OUT OUR WAY Williams An Oklahoma youth was arrested for yelling at policemen.

Perhaps he just had hey fever. A pump was turned into a grain scale by an eastern farmer. Where there's a well there's a weigh. Don't Just Buy Auto Insurance When you buy clothing, food, auto, merchandise of any kind, you always look for the best. Be that way with your insurance.

State Farm Auto Insurance Company in the world 7,500 Representatives in U.S. and Canada Bob Burget, Representing State Farm, has nothing to see that you buy the correct contract when he writes your application, and see that you have first dass service, if you have trouble. or See- Bob at 1809 E. Court, Phone 1285J AUTO LIFE FIRE Robert (Bob) Burget IS PLEBElAM THIS AM AMDALOSIAN TAA.KIWS THAT CA SEE PlKK) VAUDEVILLE SOt I PROB- UKe A MAM CALL, Out of the Past SIDE GLANCES 4 Rv flalbraith Will Give Recess Appointment BY PETER EDSON Two boys arrested for swindling' said their father had trained them. Gyps off the old block.

WASHINGTON (NEA) Ex. Gov. Mon C. Wallgreen of Washington state is still in the running for a presidential recess appointment as chairman of the Na- ional Security Resources Board, after Congress goes home. The governor was sent out of the country on a special mission just to get him out of town after his original nomination was the Senate for three opposed months, and the President withdrew it.

But he'll be back one of these days and the understanding is that the President never one to let a pal down is i the SSRB chairmanship open for his old Senate crony. In the meantime Dr. John Steelman, the assistant to the President, is still sitting in as acting chairman of NSRB, in addition to his other jobs. And he is trying to give the top war mobilization planning agency a plete reorganization. Economic Warfare, Office of Civilian Defense and so on.

Because of resignations and no replacements, only a few of these offices now have active heads. Capt. Granville Comvay, former head of War Shipping Administration, has been working in Washington a few days each week on transportation problems. Frank Shields has been acting director of industrial production. Fredei-ick 10 Years Ago The Beatrice Safety council had passed a resolution requesting the city council to install a traffic light on the east side of the Sixth and Elk intersection and another in the west side of the Sixth and I High intersection.

Mr. and Mrs. John Ritterhush and their daughter. Mrs. Ardelh Castor, and husband were among those from this city who attended the state fair at Lincoln.

The Pioneer high school biweekly newspaper had received "first place award" for its second semester editions from the Quill and Scroll, national society of high school journalists. 20 Years Ago Miss Ida Glover had entertained a group of friends at a dinner party at the home of her sister, Mrs. Maude Warfield, honoring Mrs. W. P.

Grimm, who was moving to Denver and Miss Lois Moore of Washington, D. C. i The piano pupils of Miss Sadie Hepperlen had entertained their mothers with a musical program at Miss Hepperlen's south Beatrice home. Charles Mudge, a farmer living south of the city, suffered a heavy loss when 36 head of hogs out of a herd of 38 died of Cholera. 30 Years Ago Dr.

J. L. Webb had sold his farm south of the city to G. Forke of Garland. for $71,230.

The farm comprised 429 acres and had two sets of improvements. A meeting was held at the Com- munity club rooms for the pur- pose of launching a half-million- I dollar creamery project. M. Witz- enburg of Blue Springs, president of the county union, presided at the meeting and Frank Malicky of i Barneston served as secretary. i H.

E. Foster had purchased the 9-JO COPR. BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T.

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"But you'd like this movie, dad! It's a love picture and no shooting or police sirens you could go right to sleep!" Winant of the State Department 'Robert Jolly property at Eleventh Edson com- In this planning, Dr. Steelman has as his special assistant young Jack Gorrie, one of the three aides that Governor Wallgren brought East with him when he thought he was going to get the NSRB chairmanship. Congress squawked at Wallgren and his three assistants going on the payroll and occupying offices across the street from the White House before the governor's nomination was confirmed. Two of the three then got other jobs. Under Steelman's part time chairmanship, NSRB personnel has been allowed to fall from a top of about 320 to 240.

The jobs of many temporary officials who resigned have not been refilled. Armed Services Lose Out The role of the armed services in NSRB affairs has been greatly reduced. Many NSRB functions have been transferred to the Departments of State, Commerce, Agriculture, Interior, Labor and other executive agencies of government. Copies of the reorganization plan have been circulating in these agencies of government. Copies of the reorganization plan have been circulating in these agencies for the past two weeks.

It will probably be put into effect, in the near future. Under the new plan, the four principal operating branches set up by Arthur M. Hill of Greyhound Bus, who served as NSRB chairman until last December, have been split into eight offices. They cover the fields of industrial production, materials, transport, manpower, economic management, foreign activities, civilian mobilization, energy ariH utilities. These offices would be the nuclei for expansion into civilian war agencies in event of an emergency.

They would take the places of what were, in the last war, the War Production Board, Office of Defense Transportation, War Manpower Commission, Office of Price Administration, Board of has been working on foreign economic planning. Hands Out Advice A new slate of appointments to fill other XSRB top jobs may soon be annouced by Dr. Steelman. But at present NSRB lias been reduced in status from a big- time operating agency to a purely advisory capacity for the President. Most of the active NSRB operations have been passed on to other government agencies.

This deflating of NSRB has been the result of several grabs for power. When Arthur M. Hill was NSRB chairman, he called on New York investment banker Ferdinand Fberstadt for helo. He drew up a plan which put NSRB in the National Military Establishment and would have given it the power to issue directives to the civilian agencies of government, right over the President's head. The President would have none of that.

He moved NSRB from the Pentagon to the old State Department and made it reoort to him. Hoover Commission reports on reorganization of the government endorsed these moves. They recommended that NSRB and civilian defense be transferred from the military to the executive office of the President. These moves are now incorporated in the President's Reorganization Plan No. 4, and Elk streets and had moved his family from Ellis to this city.

40 Yearn Ago The Beatrice police were having a little trouble with persons who got drunk on ginger essence which nearly all alcohol and was procurable at drug stores on pretense of pain in the stomach. The new Fence factory of the J. H. von Steen company was about ready to begin operation. It was located at Third and Market streets and was formerly the Lester Barn.

Thomas Floyd of the Star Hack line had purchased a fine team of horses and a new hack to be used in his business. which will soon go into effect. off Doctor Says BY EDWIN P. JORDAN, D. Headache, backache, nervousness, palpitation of the heart.

and many similar sensations have been frequently mentioned in this column in association with various diseases. All these feelings which people may have are known asj symptoms and nearly everyone has something similar at one time or another. It would be a i a ke, how- aver, for anyone feel that every SCHOOL HAS ITS BAD business ot going to school can be tough, as Johnny Roth of Emniaus, learns. Johnny is on the receiving end of Dr. Fred Martin's vaccination needle, as school nurses prepare the next "victim." The final tiff was touched un by Bernard Baruch.

The White I hueadache mean House gives Baruch credit for hav- that some sel ing thrown his weight against Wallgren's confirmation in the Senate. When Baruch made a speech saying that the Truman administration was guilty of vacillation and neglect in mobilization planning, the President's dander really rose. Jordan ious disease was present or that any other ache or pain was a sign of the presence of a dangerous condition. Symptoms are only sensations, that is, "feelings." There can be many symptoms connected with any one disease; it is equally true that the same sysmptoms can be present, without any serious dis- f.i<•"•«. In fact, is well known that.

worry alone can bring on symp- tuiiis i.ia..e symptoms which have no real meaning appear to be much worse than they are. Don't Severe Pain There are some symptoms which should be taken seriously. The presence of a severe pain should not be ignored. Neither should a pain be neglected which does not go away in a fairly short time. The presence of a lump anywhere in the body also deserves to be investigated.

A considerable and persistent loss weight or gain in weight which cannot be explained by did may be an item of importance. These are perhaps the most important symptoms. There are, course, others, but. with only occasional exceptions the minor aches and pains of life can he dismissed without too much concern. Today, when so much is written about sysmptoms and what they moan, there has been a great increase in the amount of worry and this has caused a great many people to become unduly alarmed about theif health, Reds Again 'Asked To Release Pair BERLIN, Sept.

10 many's U. S. high commissioner, John J. McCloy, called on the Russians today to release at once two American cyclists detained in the Soviet zone. In a letter to Gen.

M. I. Chui- kov, Soviet military governor, McCloy said detention of the two youths, Warren Oelsner, 21, of Oyster Bay, N. and Peter Sellers, 18, of Radnor, "is creating a very bad reaction" against Russia among Americans. The two cyclists have been held by the Russians since they rode their bicycles into the Soviet zone July 30.

from a cook's eye In the early European universities, the professors were hired by the students. Carnival By Dick Tumef Its easy to see that the automatic clocks on the new gas ranges give you real cooking freedom. The "Insta-matic" clock control watches your oven dinner, turns the gas on, regulates the cooking and turns the gas off again. The "Minit-Minder" guards top-of-the stove cooking when you set it and chimes sound to remind you to look at your dinner. Take a cook's eye view of the new automatic gas ranges that save time, work and money on display at your favorite dealers had it en a trial! I assume your I.