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' CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher_
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Guarantees Freedom
Thoughtful men and women would oppose any tendency in this
country to place limitations upon the individual’s right to think and
express his thoughts regardless of the topic discussed. Any effort
to curb intellectual freedom in an attempt to perpetrate the present
Status is an obstacle to progress and freedom.
Even in educational circles sometimes, the course of inquiry
and conclusion is restricted, usually to placate financial, economic
or religious groups, whose patronage the intelligence - dictators
would either have continue or begin. The future welfare of human
ity is sacrificed for such current favors.
Tolerance of discussion, based upon sincerity of belief, is the
foundation alike of both democratic government and the mainten
ance of humam liberty. Without freedom for criticism of both doc
trines and deeds, no error can be corrected and no improvement
may be looked for when human beings have been totally subjected
to mental control and censorship.
A particularly disagreeable fact in every case where some dic
tatorship decrees beliefs and opinions for everybody is the savagery
with which opposition is attacKed and physically obliterated. Those
who proclaim the unquestionable certainty and superiority of their
own view-point fear to let it mix in free competition with other
ideas and examples, a terror which entirely refutes the confidently
expressed conviction of certainty.
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We Face Further Restrictions
The ban upon construction designed to provide facilities for the
amusement of the American people is an evidence of the tightening
situation in connection with steel and other products needed for the
execution of military projects.
The people of this country may expect more stringent regula
tions in connection with many peace-time operations. The extent of
eur rearmament program and the military assistance that we are
sending abroad make it impossible for the nation to continue nor
mal production of peace-time products.
While it may be vexacious to have our activities curtailed, one
should not object to any restriction that is reasonably necessary to
the defense of this country or to the preparation of adequate forces
to successfully prosecute any war that may occur in the near future.
The apparent end of large-scale fighting in Korea should not mis
lead any American as to the urgency of our defense program.
The size of the rearmament project, as announced some months
ago, makes it clear that the program was not, and is not, designed to
meet the "crisis” in Korea. Adequate men and material were avail
able to handle the Korean situation, but neither is available in suf
ficient quantity for another world war.
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Advertising may not solve the business man’s problems but it
certainly helps and will solve the shopper’s problem.
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The problems of agriculture cannot be successfully settled by
conferences around a desk.
SUBSTITUTE PRIEST
STUART — Rev. A. J. Pas
chang and his sister, Miss Eliz
abeth Paschang, went to West
Point for Thanksgiving. Rev. Jo
seph Kaup, of Omaha, substitut
ing for Reverend Paschang, con
ducted mass on Thursday morn
ing.
I
KEEP YOUR HEAD in an emergency—that’s
good advice. Advice that's easier to follow
when a phone is handy to bring a reassuring
voice or summon help. Take a moment to
figure out the value of such a call. Pretty hard
to find a cash equivalent, isn’t it? Finding the
actual cost is easy.
Keeping ahead of demand is one of our
never-ending problems. It takes long-range
plans, careful esti
mutes, a precise bal
ancing of new "plant”
against probable need
■—and money.We get
the money—not from
what you pay for serv
ice— but from inves
tors who are willing to
put their savings in
our hands with hope
of earning a reason
able return. They are
attracted by the profit
we make on supplying
service to you. if the
profit is adequate, the
money is forthcom
ing. If not—well, how
would you feel about
investing in a business
whose earnings were
below par?
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PRAIRIELAND TALK—
Fatherless Refugee Family Furnishes
New Meaning for Thanksgiving
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — A little girl sat
beside her mother across the ta
ble as a group of eight were un
dergoing an inward filling from
the bounties that had been con
verted by deft hands into the
Thanksgiving dinner.
That little girl had known suf
fering, had experienced in her
_ brief life of 7
Romaine
Saunders
years the fear
of the hunted.
She ate with
maidenly man
ners as one be
i n g watched
and her dark
brown eyes
turned from
side to side as
if fearing the
stealthy ap
proach of a
foe. Then as if
to awake to the
consciousness of her surround
ings she would lean over to her
mother’s side with her full round
face beaming with smiles. Moth
er, daughter and two others had
been driven from their home, the
husband and father taken away,
their home destroyed and every
thing of the family’s possessions
taken over by the invaders.
Today they are safe in Ameri
ca—all but the father of the fam
ily, yet with tragic hope mother
clings to the belief that he will
•■one day be restored to them.
The story of refugees, of
displaced persons, is that of
the 20th century saga of hor
ror.
Warned in the night or at noon
by one in whose breast throbs
the milk of human kindness the
hunted ones flee not knowing
where to go. The mother, who
with her children were guests at
the Thanksgiving dinner of a
kindly Lincoln couple, said that
at one time they were loaded in
to a boat to be conveyed to a
distant camp and the little girl
was taken with the measles. The
weather was cold, no shelter out
on the water and but little cloth
ing. The one directing the mov
ing of the group of refugees
wanted to throw the little girl
overboard. In broken English
and much facial expression and
hand movement the mother told
us at the table how she saved her
daughter from such a fate. They
eventually got into the American
I zone of Germany, where they
spent nearly six years.
The mother and elder daughter
now have employment in Lincoln
and the little girl and boy of 14
are in school. The little girl has
received her first doll, and now
has six of them.
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The list of Americans killed,
i wounded and missing in Korea
I grows from day-to-day as the
bloody work goes on. And, as an
other of our boys falls, isolation
sentiment grows at home. Fa
thers and mothers who get the
fatal telegram from the govern
ment arc now wondering what
business we have in Korea. High
government officials that have
for the third time in a generation
drawn American life blood in
foreign wars have indulged in
sults and indignities on all who
think we should keep out of the
disputes of other nations. Every
man, woman and child in Amer
ica stands ready to tear limb
from limb any invader that
would venture within our bor
ders, in defense of home and
country. What if the youth of
America would rise up and say
here we are to serve in defense
of our country, but we are not
going abroad to fight the battles
of other peoples. Isolationist!
Had we remained such there
would not be the crosses, row
upon-row, now marking the biv
ouac of our dead in distant lands
that stand as mute witness to the
tragic folly of meddling abroad.
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The radio news announcer this
morning came out of the ether
waves with a tragic story of fires,
floods, traffic knockouts, drown
mgs, robberies, murders and
death. One bright glow came out
' of prairieland to mingle with the
melancholy scene, the report of
{the gathering of a large church
group out in the state. Plans are
1 forming within government cir
Jcles to forge out of carnal weap
i ons a 50-billion-dollars national
defense. Never was there a time
such as the present when church
es the country over should arm
with the sword of the spirit and
go forth into the gloom of crime
and depravity to work a moral re
generation. This can be done only
if those who stand in the pulpits
recapture some of the militant
force of earlier crusaders. It
can t be done with book reviews,
reciting Tennyson’s “Sunset and
Evening Star,” dramatic mouth
mgs and senseless platitudes,
wmch make up much of the pul
piteering. It may require a T. De
wit Talmadge, a Lyman Abbot,
a Dwight L. Moody or even a
William Miller to enliven the
dry ecclesiastical bones.
What are excess profits?
What has become of Charles
Lindberg, one Henry Wallace,
John Nance Garner, Alt M.
Landon? What is a flying sau
cer? Does nationalism mean
the same thing as patriotism?
To what does the leading lady
lead? What is jet propulsion?
What use is a hall of fame?
What has become of Bob Fel
ler? Is the north pole made of
cottonwood? Who is Uncle
Dudley? What is a side-kick, a
simoleon, a Simon Legree?
How do you go about it to
stick one's neck out? Who are
the sob sisters, the snow birds,
small potatoes, a stick-in-lhe
mud, a stew?
• • •
Over at Council Bluffs, la., is
a young widow with three small
children. The husband and father
was found dead, the victim of a
heartless outlaw. Another home
by horror haunted, another wife
thrust into the battle for bread,
another tragedy drowning the
smiles and laughter of childhood;
days of anxiety, nights of loneli
ness and sorrow. The mother has
her children to sustain and guide
in right ways. Brave women ev
erywhere are facing these prob
lems of life bereaved of their
mate and out of the ashes of de
spair arise to lift the cross and go
on.
* * •
The range country has always
had the loco weed. Now another
poisoned plant bearing the fear
some botanical name halogeton
glomerata is reported growing on
range lands that is fatal to live
stock. Suspicion points a finger
in the direction of Siberia, hith
erto the only such place such a
plant was known. It will be pop
ular now to trace an imaginary
trail to a Muscovite evil genius
as the source of everything un
welcomed, from a strange breed
of rats to earthquakes.
, * * •
A farmer friend from down in
Thayer county says he has the
season’s corn crop in the cribs,
8,500 bushels. At $fc.30 per bushel
that cornfield yielded in cold
cash over 11 - thousand - dollars.
And the wheat field on the same
farm contributed several more
thousand to the coffers of a Ne
braska plutocrat who stays by
the farm. Maybe the state and
federal tax collectors will let him
DO YOU
KNOW THAT
. . . Nebraska lias more
river miles than any
other state in the Union?
It’s a fact! With the mighty
Missouri along the Eastern
border . . . with the Platte
traversing the state’s entire
length . . . with the Repub
lican, Niobrara, Loup, Blue,
Elkhorn and scores of other
tributaries, Nebraska has
many, many miles of rivers.
Your state rates high in
other things, too. For in
stance, the state’s tavern
owners are being commend
ed for their diligent efforts
to operate their places in
the public interest. These ef
forts should merit for them,
the respect and good will
of the citizens in the com
munity.
Aided by the brewing in
dustry’s continuing educa
tional program, retailers are
applying proved methods
which have resulted in bene
fits to the community as
well as to themselves.
NEBRASKA DIVISION
United States
Breuera
Foundation
710 Firat Nat'l Bank Bid*., Lincoln
have enough to see him through
the winter.
* * *
Some years ago Gene Tunney
said: “It is 13 years since I re
tired from the heavyweight
championship. But here’s a chal
lenge — if Joe Lewis will start
smoking and inhale a couple of
packages of cigarettes every day
I’ll engage to lick him in 15
rounds.’’ Well, Joe has been de
throned, the common lot of ring
champions, as time marks them
for the downfall.
An Illinois court let a man off
with 14 years prison life after his
conviction for the murder of his
wife by revolting butchery. The
fellows involved in the attempt
on President Truman’s life reap
: the punishment their deeds de
: serve, swift and full measure of
! retribution that all convicted of
murder are entitled to. It seems
to make a difference whose ox
is gored.
* * *
It costs too much to run for of
fice. It should not be necessary
to spend thousands of dollars for
any Nebraskan patriot to try liis
luck as a candidate in the polit
ical contests. Limited financial
investment to get your name be
fore the public and qualifications
for the job sought is proper
enough but the .large expendi
tures should be discouraged.
• • •
Quarter-inch rope stretched
from side-to-side and end-to-end
to form a network, a tick filled
with straw laid upon that, a fea
therbed on the tick and a solid
“poster” to hold such arrange
ment was the bed of our fathers
and mothers. And for really
something to woo the favor of
Morpheus that contrivance has
not yet been equalled.
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Louisville, Ky., reports the J
first arrest of the kind, a woman
trying to make her way on a bi
cycle over the highways when
she was too drunk to tell a red
light from a green one.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lower
and daughter spent Thanksgiv
ing in Illinois with Mrs. Lower’s
parents.
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