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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1947 THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA PAGE FIVE The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1831 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Publishing Company. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-Publisher Thelma Olson, Society Editor. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Iola Ofe, Circulation-Office Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 187.4. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 15 centos for two weeks. Furse's Fresh Flashes Nothing but Gloom i EDITORIALS A Plattsmouth man says his wife has the worst memory of any persn he knows. He says she remembers everything. e We attended an old settler's picnic one time and one incident has always stood out in our memory of the occasion. A wman won the rolling pin throwing contest and her husband won the hund red yard dash. In spite of all the home accident statistics, we preftr to take our chances with bath-tub soap rather than a five-ton truck. A man up the street says that if he ever takes an ocean voyage he will book transportation on a stabalized ship. It costs more, but expense is not what he has to keep down. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twis ter, says that if love makes a gal grow younger, she's going to have to get out her dollies. . It would be a fine thing' if a lot. of our law makers were limited to one term provided they served it in the right place. IN TIIK KKillT DIRECTION The American Federation of Labor has pub lished a series of advertisements in opposition to pending labor legislation in Congress. The gist of its argument is that the proposed bills were highly discriminatory, would destroy basic rights, would subjugate labor, and would wertken American traditions of freedom lor all. The AF of L, like all parties to this controver sy, has every right In the world to obtain the widest possible circulation of its views. It is doubt ful, however, if readers who have troubled to ex amine the labor bills will accept its stand. Both the House bill and the Senate bill were prepared with great care, after the oppropriate committees took thousands of pages of testimony from labor leaders, industrial executives, workers and repre sentatives of all groups concerned, reflecting every position from the extreme right to the extreme left. Congressional leaders feel that the differenc- j CONGRESS e.s between the bills can be ironed out. and that the resulting measure will receive a substantial ma jority of the final vote. Every effort to protect real labor rights has been and will be made. There is nothing in either bill which would give a con scienceless employer the slightest leeway in ex ploiting his workers, and destroying their unions. There is, on the other hand, an admirable ef fort to cure abuses, pursued ruthlessly by some labor leaders, which endanger the welfare of all the people and which weaken our prestige in every corner of the world. It is recogni2ed that the pow er of labor bosses to decide whether or not a man shall be allowed to work at his trade and earn a living, most be curbed. - It is reeognia! tba one man or group of men must no longer be able to stop, by fiat, the production of essential goods. It is recognized that democratic control by members over the unions they support must be restored. Many think the final bill Congress will pass may be too weak to be really effective. But it will represent a start toward refrms which are vital to the future of this country'. A man back in Cleveland succeeded in balanc ing 5.400 matches on the top of a beer bottle. President Truman should get hold of that guy and see what he could do with the budget. Noticed some women raving over a baby that had it's first two teeth and they said it looked cute. But. when a man gets down to only two teeth he sneaks down the back alleys. 6 By D&EW PEARSON I I j ! Edson's Washington Column BT PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent THE STRENGTH OF A COUNTRY The basic strength of this country lies in its philosophy of life and government not in its nat ural resources and its industries and its wealth. These last, vital as they are, are but the conse quence of the first. They are the natural develop ment of a system which places maximum free dom for the individual - above all other considera tions. Other nations have great resources greater, in some particulars, than our own. Russia is a case in point. But other nations have not been able despite grandiose "five-yecr plans" and similiar schemes, to put them to full use for the benefit of the people. Super-goverrlnent, which robs the individual of his freedom, likewise robs him of his ingenuity and his ambition. The individual is sim ply the tool of the state. He Is denied much and often most of the fruits of his labor. Results are gained by mass action, by driving and terrorizing the people. But the individual, save for the man in Dillon-Read loan. Drew Pearson says: TRUMAN WILL ASK FOR LATIN AMERICAN ARMS PROGRAM: REPUBLICANS LEARNED HOW ARMS BREED WAR; ANOTHER MISSOURIAN WLL HEAD INTELLIGENCE UNIT. WASHINGTON President Truman is sending a special message to Congress asking for authority t to arm and train our good neighbors in Latin ' America, including our not-so-good neighbor Ar-' gentina. This arms program has a lot of kinks that may not at first catch the eye of the average congressman. It it a program which previous re publican administration wrestled with, and it was hoped the democrats had prifited by their lessons. Back in the 1920's. the present Secretary of the Navy. James Frrestal, then part of Dillon. Read, International Bankers, helped loan $20,000 000 to Bolivia which went to the Bolivian army. The Bolivian people and even part of the Bo livian cabinet did not know too much about this, but through a bribe (The more polite word is "commission") to the Minister of Finance, the : loan was put across. Incidentally, it has never been repaid. Most of the money went to Vickers, Ltd., British munitions firm, though part went to pay; Missourian German military instructors to train Bolivia to, fir"t picked wage war on its neighbor. Paraguay. j That attack started in 1928. Fortunately, Frank B. Kellogg, a republican Secretary of State, and Charles Evans Hughes, a republican ex-Secretary of State, happened to be engaged in a Pan Ameri can conference at the time of the attack, and they succeeded in heading off war temporarily. For some time thereafter, both Hughes and Kellogg did their best to undo the work of the Dillon-Read mon-1 ey which whetted the appitite f the Bolivian army. In the end. Kellogg and Hughes, though able! men. were unsuccessful. Full-scale war broke and lasted so long that the democrats inherited it. 1 HOW TO BREED WAR As the war continued, President Roosevelt ap-, pointed Spruille Braden to try to patch up peace between the two countries. Braden moved to South America and spent a hectic, thankless year of his life undoing the martial influence of the prove its sanitation and drinking water. Some Ecuadorian cities are cesspools of disease. But be cause Qf the economy drive, higher-ups in the State department. . . T - 3 . . - . . Will especially unuerMtirwi) m j Clayton said no. I Shortly thereafter, the U. S. j Army came in with a demand j that Ecuador get $1,000,000 to buy j arms. Though money couldn't be j spared for Ecuarodian health, it was proposed to spare SI .000 000 to entrench the military clique that rules the country. The final disposition of this arms request remains to be seen. j v-vriiri? xfKniRU' i - . - . . . ------- President Truman has now picked another Miseourian, Ad miral Roscoe Henrv HHlenkoet.ter. to be Chief of Central Intelligence. This is the new super-duoer so called "sov" agency set im since the war to ferret out what's go ing on in other countries. Admiral HiHenVnetter net only was born in St. Louis, hut com manded the battleship which makes him a super-duper The man Truman to head Central In telligence was .also a Missourian. Ar)rnirol Sulnev Sellers of St. Louis He was snrpeded hv Op" tra TTNirt VariderVv . nephew of M'Hfan spnatn. pi A-l fn-in" o'i"r but no whirlwind at SjiT-.cnvinPr. i Admiral Hinenkoetter, whether ! it's hpr"p hp's froi Tfissoii'M i or for ofbpr roicnju. has n ev. renntation and mav h ph'e to fivfi-on1" he rlisqstrins fart that this vital age"'"'" has Vioon unrr en jvanv '-different r. in wry c-V, 1 i T"V". p iri the oiiril r""ip "i Vw- oeratic action will call for cooper- tien from all political parties in an emergency plan to prevent another depression. The 3 ex-OPA chiefs will offer specific proposals dealing with prices, wages, unemployment, rnt control, tax and spending policies, housing, toreign loans, and agriculture. Among other things, they will reemmend that a voluntary price adjustment board be set up under the corn price reductions for industry, merce department to work with The Justice department would business leaders in a national drive to bring prices down. The three former OPA chiefs will also challenge congress and President Truman to act on their projxsed program within three months if a serious post-war de pression is to be averted (Copyright 1947, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Utah Mrs. Thesnas Wjrtey TT'AFHINGTON, D. C. (NEA ) Whether or not congress fan rss5 any laws that will effectively outlaw communism will be sne';i:ng to watch. Granting that the end result is highly desirable, the I'ita that any code of laws can end communist actions and com- munist ways oi minting is uuuuLcivauic, ccu j. Congress were willing, to set up an ideological po lice force to see that such laws were obeyed. " In Japan under the war lords there was a "Thought Police"' which tried to control what the people should or should not think. It was one of Japan's most hated institutions, and it was the first to be abolished when General MacArlhur took over. Hitler's Germany had its Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment with an elite corps of black uniformed pluguglies to burn books and even burn people if they held "wrong" ideas. And Soviet Rus ciVc r,n-rk tfcret nnlirp hv shppr tprrorism keeps the cbon .comrades in line with the Kremlin or else. If the totalitarian countries can thus tell their people what to think, it ihouid of course be all right for non-totalitarian countries to do the same-. But a few years ago there was a rumor around here that a war was being fought to preserve among other things freedom of speech. Just how freedom of speech cabe preserved while free dom of thought is prohibited is something mat Congress is now going lo Cry ,to demonstrate. pONGRESSMAN J. PARNELL THOMAS of New Jersey will start hearings later this ..ionth on eight or a dozen bills intended to hamstring, hamper, and hogtie Communists in every direction. His Cvr-nmittee on Un-American Activities recommends a new division in the Department of Justice to prosecute subversives, deport them, txin their holding public office or office in labor unions, and so on. .. All these proposals are echoed in the siatement which Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellcnrch made before the House Labor Com mittee. "I think Communists should be excluded from any type of public activity, including the right to sit in chambers of commerce or to hold office in trade unions." he said. "They have advocated overthrow of the government, and they should not be allowed to have nv part in government." The question arises as to why the high crimes of communism can cut be handled as treason or sedition. Tt-.c U. S. government has had considerable difficulty in proving e-niuon. During the war some 20 defendants .ere charged with sedi'ion. But their trial was interrupted by the death of the judge ; in District of Columbia court. Their retrial in still under consideration. ' pART of the difficulty in obtaining convictions is that the sedition ' A laws are weak and vague. Their strengthening has been suggested many times, but Congress has never taken action. In view of present alarm over communist infiltration, a general tightening of the sedition laws now would enable the government to act against its enemies whether of communist or fascist leanings. ,' Tnere is plenty of reason for doubting if the more specific proposals ' to outlaw only communist activities would accomplish desired results. All sch measures might do is drive the Communist Party still further unctgtound than it already is. i K'-opiig communism out in the open where it can be fought, the bet method of combating it would seem to be by continuous cam paigns of education and exposure. Such campaigns are now being conducted with increasing effectiveness by the American press, .-tui-ches schools, public officials, and private citizens. Recent self started purges of communist influence in the labor unions oOer best rvidence that the.-e campaigns are taking hold. Continuous pressure aiust be applied to keep up that good work. - Then ir communist activity is as much of a criminal con"-iracy r.tinst the United States as it is thought to be. let the consn.--ators he jitti ana punished under laws against sedition. LOUISVILLE ( Special) Sunday Missouri. afternoon the garage at the George Dolan property caught fire - and Mrs. Sam Rector received a gift of a corsage of two orchids, for Mother's day, from her son-in-law and' daughter. Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Severn, of Yakama. Washington. The orchids came from Hawaii. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Anderson, Miss Naoma Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Renos Anderson and sons, spent Mother's day at the home of Mrs. Peter Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wahl quist, of Grand Island, were weekend guests at the home of Mrs. Wahlquist's mother, Mrs. J. R. Shannon. Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Stoker, of Shelby, Iowa, were Saturday eve ning guests at the home of Mrs. sung by the choir, ryn Ellis at the pi Sterling Marshall, on a thirty day sided at the organ lude and the offer Mr. and Mrs. entertained at a funday. when the gether for the fir years and a half, the dinner were John Opp, Mrs. with Miss Kath pe organ. S-Sgt. who is at home furlough, pre- during the pre- atory. Enos Plunkett family dinner family were to st time in four Those attending Mr. and Mrs. Plunketts par ents, her brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Ehlers and children, her brother Donald, .vice and this is their first meet ing since Gerald graduated from Weeping Water high school, four years ago this spring. was almost a total'loss. A stiff i Smoker's mother, Mrs. Thomas wind blowing at the. time en dangered the house but same was saved from destruction by the ef forts of the firefighters. Cause of the fire is unknown. The family was not at hor-e and the alarm was turned in bv neighbors. Murtey. Mrs. Lloyd Ranney and sons John and Elbert. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ranney and Miss Margar et Ranney. i Weeping Water Congregational ! church had a special Mother's day service of poetry and songs WIESNETK READY MIX CEMENT Any Place Any Time Any Amount Louisville, Nebr. PHONE 50 STEPHEN M. DAVIS Writing Insurance & Bonds of Every Type Available 2nd Floor Plattsmouth State Bank Building PHONE 9 Red Ryder Fred Herman WHILE The OUTLAWS RE EEir$3 PATCHEO UP IK) eROK.EK ICE r the saddle, never benefits. This country grew great under the Constitu tional idea of a government of limited powers a government which maintained the Army and Navy, the courts and other essential services, and acted as an arbiter in the economic affairs of the country but never as a competitor or participant. Today, Spruille Braden, assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, has been doing his best to dissuade President Truman and Secretary Marshall from repeating the mis-1 Latin America to buy arms. However, the U. S. Army is against him. It This is the kind, and the only kind, of government j ,s determined to start an arms program in Latin under which the rights and freedoms of the people can be preserved, and it must not be undermined here. THE SALESMAN IS COMING BACK According to a Business Week article, many manufacturers are now becoming confronted with Xhe problem of increased selling costs. This is due to the fact that unsolicited business is getting scarce and it is necessary to built up sales staffs and put salesmen on the road. During the war and immediately thereafter, practically every concern had more orders than it could fill. Times have changed, and the salesman,' com plete with swindle sheet, is coming back into his own. This has an obvious bearing on the elfort to reduce prices. In some lines sales costs, when full prewar selling staffs go back into action, may reach 25 percent of the value of the business. In many line 10 percent is considered normal. J We wish some college would give the thermom eter a few honorary degrees for keeps. "Teachers Strike for More Pay" headline. The folks who hav been teaching youngsters to be smart are getting smart themselves. America, and Secretary of State Marshall, quite naturally, is swayed by the army. Moreover, sin cere and honest though he is. his own experience in Latin America is limited. Unfortunately, the State department already has seen some of the effects of a U. S. arms pro-' gram in Latin America. Two things happen: 1. Latin American neighbors, hitherto reason-! ably peaceful, see another nation getting arms and J immediately want an army or navy bigger than the other fellow's. This leads to rivarlv. bank ruptcy, and war. 2. The . governments in nower many of them dependent on the army become stronger than ever, and hold power more or less forever. Rein- J forced by U. S. arms, it is impossible for the op position to vote them out. This makes for revold and communism just what we want to avoid. I An illustration of point 1 occurred recently between Peru and Columbia. Columbia bought some transport planes from the United States. Then Peru came in and wanted to buy some fight ers. Immediately, Columbia was back and wanted to buy fighters too. ' ; MUNITIONS BEFORE HEALTH i Another inside incident recently occurred in dicating the eroes-fire existing between the U. S. Army ad the State department. The latter was anxious to get a moderate loan for Ecuador to im t i i, $ i. : c "I understand, Adhiral," said Bridges, "that while you were Naval Attache in Paris last month the news of your appointment as head of the Central Intelligence was published in the Paris press. 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