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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1947 THE JOURNAL. PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA PAGE SEVEN The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 I 'ii 1.1 is lifil v.-mi-wof kl v. Mornliivs nml Tlmrs ihtys, Jt 4 0 ft- 1 :! Mnin Strfet, 1 1 sm.n I h. 'it x " i fi t v, N'. lirn s k a. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-rublishcr James Monro, Advertising Manager Thelma Olson, Society Editor, ilolon E. Iloinrich, News Editor. T.WIp D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent flarry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department TntM'Ml nt tlif T'ostff TifP Ht I'lti 1 1 smriut li. Nt-l.r.'isUa iis sci-fintl cln mail mntt.-r in ;n -toidfuitf villi Hie At of Onnsiess of March SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 15 cer:ts for two weeks. EDITORIALS FOR VALUE RECEIVED Among criticisms commonly heard in regard to the American medical system, are unavailabil ity of doctors in sparsely settled areas, high costs, and inadequate facilitiesThose who are unable to see anything good in established American insti tutions such as medicine, have magnified these criticisms to the point where many people have lost perspective. A short time ago, to illustrate a few of the good points in our medical system, a party of vacationists was cruising on a small boat in the northwestern section of the State of Washington, among the San Juan Islands. It is a remote area. One evening a small child in the party developed a high fever. By the time the nearest island vil lage was reached, it was very late. The parents located a doctor who came to the boat immedi ately and spent nearly two hours with the child. He had just completed a "residency" with a well known hospital. When questioned about local hos pital facilities, he said there were none but that lie cooperated closely with the Coast Guard. Emergency cases were taken to the mainland an hour or so away by high-speed cutter. His per sonal interest in the child was apparent. He re turned home at 1 A. M., but was back at the boat at 7 A. M. for a final check. The next night the party and the little patient were once more moored in an out-of-the-way spot. Again it was necessary to call a doctor and aftain an efficient, courteous individual appeared late at night. This time arrangements were made for admission to a Seattle hospital at 2 A. M., where still another doctor took immediate charge. Complete examinations covering a thirty-six-hour period followed. Through it all appeared the same personal concern for a patient's welfare. TWO KINDS OF BOSSES George V. Ormsby, the London correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, recently wrote that nationalization of industry is not "proving .the Utopia the workers imagined it would be, but merely the changing from a private boss to a state boss.-' He cites an instance where an cx dircctor of a nationalized coal mine met one of his former workers and asked him how he liked the new regime. "Not so good," said the miner. "I thought I was going to be where you were, but I've only got a new boss." . A good many million people must feel a simi lar disillusionment with the super-state. It is cfne thing to work for a private boss, and a very dif ferent thing to work for a state boss. The private boss can be controlled by law and public opin ion. He can be forced to arbitrate with his em ployes and give them higher wages and better working conditions and other benefits to which they may be entitled. The government and the unions are always ready to pounce on him if he steps out of line. The state boss, on the other hand, is a bird of another feather. .When government becomes a mass-employer, it determines its own employment policies. The right to strike must be directly or indirectly abrogated. The decisions of the gov ernment musi be final, and the worker who feels he is unjustly treated has no redress. The heads ot government invariably become more and more sesitive to criticism, and move in one way or an other to silence it. Every phase of the national life is entangled in red-tape, and the freedom of the individual is inevitably limited. It is a no table fact that even England is now seriously considering what amounts, in principle, to a la bor draft to force reluctant workers to accept em ployment in the coal mines. The super-state can have only one end and that is total dictatorship. Most of Europe is a mis erable example of that truth today. To trade the private boss for the state boss is to risk trading freedom for slavery. DOWN MEMORY LANE August, 1916 Thirty-one years ago the Brandeis baseball team of Omaha play ed the Red Sox on the local diamond . . . Platts mouth Improvement Company reported progress on new apartment house at Third and Vine . . . Mrs. Philip Lambert of near Murray died ... Frank E. Schlater visited wife in Omaha hospital . . . Hard Times social held by Epworth League at home of Golda and Fern Noble . . . Officer William Wilson entered Omaha hospital . . . Tom McQuire visited relatives at Osmond . . . City council granted contract for Chicago avenue sew er construction to J. H. McMaken . . . Police Chief William Barclay reported 16 arrests for month of July . . . Mrs. R. A. Kirkpatrick of Nehawka attended the gofden wedding observance of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Waybright . . . Visitors arrival begun for Homecoming Days . . . T. H. Pollock, Ford dealer, advertised $80 reduction on Ford cars . . . Carl Sergum shipped his threshing out fit to Gothenberg, Nebraska . . . Mrs. Ella Bis Fett and daughter of York and Mr. and Mrs. Linerman of Cleveland, Ohio, were guests of Furse's Fresh Flashes Why women cry at weddings is a mystery to rhe. It's not their error. At least a local Democrat and Republican have one thing in common. They are mad at the same banker. The war is over and now furniture manufac tures will be forced to make their furniture good enough to last at least until the last payment is made. X it One doctor we know was really "burned up" recently. After forbidding his daughter going with a certain boy because he thought him no good, the boy told him it wasn't the first wrong diagnosis he had made. Many a man has been rapped in slumber be cause he has a ter.dancy to snore. A Plattsmouth employer has solved the ''sit down" problem around his place of business. He makes all his employee's keep his hip pockets loaded with loose thumb tacks. i SB , , i - r sri - is x W Tffiiii'iitWn 1 llll ! Like a w wvHim mvw tm m m mi i m Vf." wa QMS' s , The government reports that the life of a dol-; is welded together near J-a lar bill is only eight mon.hs. We have never had i Junta, Colo., to form a six-inch anv die on our hands giant snake, steel pipe 'line, kerosene, diesel fuels, pro-1 handles and throu C"l rado pane. and. butane at the rate of .wheat country. It will be joined Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twis ter, asked us the other day how to address a gentleman. She said she might mee t one some day and the knowledge would be useful. the J. E. Wiles and Henry Spangler families . . . Ten Years Ago . . . Mildred Young and Town- 0000 barrels a day. Now nearing pipeline from Dumas. Texas, to completion, the line runs through La Junta which will carry gaso- the Texas and Oklahoma pan- at La Junta running 135 NEA Telephoto. by a four-inch line miles to Denver. ! story printed in this column sev I oral months ago about how Lin i coin rescued a British ambassa- dor from an embarrassing pre dicament in LaFayette Park late one night. I Sir Wilmott said the tale re- Jan Masaryk. able Foreign Min ister of Czechoslovakia and son er Livingston married . . . Mr. and Mrs. John P , minded him of the experience of of the "Founding Father" of the Sattler. Jr., entertained at picnic party for mem- j another Englishman. The latter bers of Guenther family . . . Happy Home project j heard that an old classmate was club he ld annual picnic at Will Keil farm at La- ; in jail and visited him. Platte . . . Rosen auto agency moved to new loca- j "What are you in for, John?" tion in the O. K. Garage building: Chevrolet i asked. agencv moved to Fourth and Main: Bryant ga- ! JIapY n , , , , , o 4.u r f.t ! Good lord, did vou really rage moved from Hasslor building to South Fifth ! .. ' , , -r, tt it j . t- t j j ! commit rape? street . . . W. R. Holly and C. E. Ledgeway de- , .. Qd ff low j reay didn-t parted for vacation in Colorado . . . H. A. Schnei- But tho cvidence produced at der returned from outing at Minnesota Lakes ... I the trial was so flattering that Robert Poisall of Danville, 111., visited the old ; I pleaded guilty." home town . . . Louisville municipal band paid ' FRANKFURTER ON tribute to its oldest member, Frank H. Nichols I VACATION Word has reached Washington j which they are entitled after dis that Joseph Stalin has regained ! charge from service, his health and is again in fine i At nis office in the court house fettle. ! L. A. Behrends. county veterans Source of the information is ; service officer. ha the new list of deadlines for Vet Benefits. World War II. ;s revised August 1. 1947. This gives the time-limits within which veierans and their survivors and dependents are entitled to exercise rights, bene fits and privileges to which they are entitled. Mo-t of the time-limits listed expire later than Januarv 1, 194R. However, there are a few that ! are void alter that date. These ! include reinstatement of term j "NTatirinl T if. Tnc-i . mnrr. i 1 Vs m 1 1 ' physical examination and appli- .in his 57th year of musical work in city . . . Miss Evelyn Meade of Murray elected as member of local faculty . . . Ann and Shirley Martin were recipients of a piece of Mary Pickford's wedding cake sent by their great aunt. Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart of California . . . Everett Family hold re union at farm home southeast of Union . . . Con crete poured on river deck . . . Junior drum corps walked off with first honors at Nemaha county fair at Auburn. Chunky little Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter is no ted in the capital for his garrul- all alcoholic beverages, including i subscribed. MERRY- S0- ROUND Br DREW PEARSON ROBERT S. ALLEN SAYS: . LEE BLAMED FOR WARTIME SUPPLY FAILURFS: JUSTICE FRANKFURTER IS STILL TALKING: STALIN'S REGAINED HEALTH. NOW IS TEETOTAL: THIRTY-TWO WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS ARE TOO. (Editors note While Drew Pjarson is on a brief vacation, the Washington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old partner, Robert S. Al len.) WASHINGTON. To European veterans, the current uproar ove-r pomp-loving Lieut. Gen. John ("God Almighty") Lee is no surprise. It long has been a mystery to them how he has es caped public notice. Three of the most notorious supply episodes of the war occurred under Lee as chief of supply of the European Theater. One was the infamous "cigarette scandal." For weeks, practically no cigarettes reached the fight ing troops. Subsequent investgation revealed that the shortage was due to two causes. Huge pilfer ing and black marketing by supply personnel in the rear echelons, and the failure of Lee's organi zation to move to the front great quantities of cigarettes lying in Normandy dumps. Another incident was the breakdown in the de livery of 1944 Christmas mail to the troops. Un der government urging to mail early, over 125. 000 sacks of mail piled up in Cherbourg awaiting distribution. Additional thousands of sacks were in the U. K. General Bradley vigorously urged Lee get the mail moving. At that time there were plenty of transport planes and trucks available. Eut the mail didn't move. ' Then the fierce Battl? of the Bulge cracked and every ounce of availbale transportation was required to haul ammunition and other desper ately needed battle supplies. As a result, the men in the lines went without the morale-boosting Christmas mail oUed high in stacks at the rear. The third scandal was the failure to get shoe pacs. parkas, fur gloves, snow camouflage and other winter-warfare equipment to the line units. As a result, thousands of casualties were sus tained from frozen limbs, with a considerable proportion of these men permanently disabled. Lucky Forward, forthcoming bare-knuckled history of Patton's Third arm3r, reveals that when i the Third army finally got a shipment of shoe j pacs late in the Battle of the Bulge, it was found that Lee's outfit had failed to send along the ne- cessary inner felt linings. Patton, however, j didn't wait additional weeks for Lee to trace the i missing liners. Patton improvised them by or dering blankets cut up for that purpose. IRRESISTIBLE EVIDENCE Sir Wilmott Lewis, brilliant Washington cor respondent of the famed Times of London inim itable raconteur, was greatly intrigued by the his once-beloved Vodka. When toasts are offered, abstainer Stal in drinks onlv water. INTERCEPTS The War and Navy depart ments are excitedly in the throe? of a new chain-letter craze. Some of the deadlines depend upon the date of discharge. With in 00 days veterans must com plete application f r reinstate ment in permanent job held at time of induction. Until six months after dis- j charge veterans who have not : completed UCAFI educational which started, of all places, in j charge veterans may enlist in the Justice department. Accord- ' Enlisted Reserve Cerps in same ing to its hectic participants, the grades held at timo of discharge, scheme offers the chance of a i L'ntil nine months after dis- $2,448 pay off . . . Thirty-two members of Washington's Alco holics Anonymous are newspa per correspondents . . . No cne knows why wives of Senators are always referred to as "The ladies of the Senate." while wives of Representatives are "The women of the House." (Copyright. 1947, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) indomitable little republic. Mas- aryk's report was received through diplomatic channels. He spent several weeks in Mos cow negotiating a trade agree ment in return for Czechoslova kia's abstaining from the Paris Conference on the'Marshall Plan. Czechoslovakia first agreed to go. then backed down under So viet pressure. Masaryk had sev eral long conferences with Stalin. According to Masaryk. Stalin's j cation by veteran or serviceman health is completely restored as ' for entry of alien fiancee or fi a result of his go:ng4n the wag- j a nee to U. S. under nonquota im on. j migration status. The- later ap- The No. 1 Communist now is a 1 P!l:,s only to aliens whose coun- ity. On and off the bench, he t complete teetotaler. He eschews try's immigration quota is over- talks incessantly. Eemg on vaca tion, apparently, has no effect on him. He's still talking. The other ewening, Frankfur ter talked lengthily to a group of local postmasters at Charlemont in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, where he is sum mering. On the whole, it was not an entirely auspicious occasion. Frankfurter had barely seated himself when one of the waiters, an inexperienced college student hired for the evening, spilled a bowl of soup down Frankfurter's neck. The august Justice gra ciously made light of the acci dent. "Oh. well," he said, "at least we'll now be able to tell whether .this is good soup. I've found that if soup is eood. the spots will come out of your clothing quite j easily. But if the soup isn't good. ! it's a job for the cleaners." j After an effusive introduction ! by James P. McAndrews. head of j the Wrestern Massachusetts Post- masters' Association, Frankfur- ; ter told his listeners that while j times were dark there was still j hope. i "We must not forget that we j are living in one of the most j hopeful eras in the history of j this country," he orated. "Fear is the worst of all counsellors. This is a great Democracy. If we use the material and human resour ces which we have, and which we have shown we can use, we have no foreign country nor ideology to fear." Frankfurter also took a sly dig at the recent hoopla Brewster Ferguson investigation. Referring to an editorial in the Pittsfield (Independent Repub lican) Evening Eagle caustically assailing the probe, he said, "My wife thought the editorial was just about perfect. She felt it covered the subject completely and that nothing more need be said on the subject." After numerous other observa tions, Frankfurter finally con cluded with this pertinent re mark. "On the way over here, Mrs. Frankfurter told me I really ought to keep my mouth shut be cause she knew once I got started. I'd talk mv head off." REJUVENATED JOE EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN , BY rFTFP. EPSON NEA Washington Correspondent "' . ...... '. Z- . Yf'ASTIINGTON, D. C. (NEA) Biggest poi.ncai f".!!mi o: i.ie. (' ia?t session of Congress was the Sugar Act of 1348. A Demo cratic White House zdmmir.tratior. supposed to be opposed to cartels, allowed the U. S. mainland and off-shore sugar producers to dic-ate a hill which sets up a virtual sugar trust. A Re publican Ccngress supposed to be dedicated to free enterprise passed a bill which is full cf controls.: It was smart politics, all right, to get the bill passed this year. That avoids seven months of wrangling in 1L48. When the industry-written bill hit the House floor a little over a month ago, however, it im mediately drew fire. Rep. John W. Flannagan of Virginia former chairman cf the House Committer on Agriculture, in which the New Deal's original sugar quota control legislation had been written, called the new act. "the most vicious piece cl nrnncsed in Congress. I am in the role of the lone wolf," said Flannagan. am the only one who will oppose this bill." Flannagan wanted to know what the State Departments 202-e cmendment to collect claims from sugar-producing.countries m default to U S citizens really meant. Who would produce the sugar that would be cut from the quotas of these defaulting countries? Hastily, the bill was amended to give such quotas to U. S. producers. NE of the changes which Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Ander- nn had proposed was to strike out several provisions carried over from the old Sugar Act of 1937. They required U. S. sugar growers to pay their labor a fair wage and to observe child labor standards . On Flannagan's insistence, plus pressure from CIO sugar workers unions and the Florida and Louisiana cane growers, these provisions went back in. That was the only fight, however, made against the bill in the House. - In the Senate, the bill had a much narrower squeak. With only five davs of the session remaining, Sen. Dennis Chavez cf New Mexico bean to get excited about Section 202-e. He offered an amendment to kill it. The sugar lobby boys began to sweat blackrtrap molasses. If the Chavez amendment carried, the bill would go back to the House. There wasn't time fcr the House to act, and, in that case, their bill would be dead. - It came up for fmal consideration on the next to the last day oi the session. . N The debate was hot and the vote was dose. Eut m the end the State Department's Section 202-e was kept in, to U. Alter max, passage of the bill was a mere formality. THE fight since then.' however, has gone on unabatcdT The sugar industry people and the Department cf Agriculture feel that the act "has" been given a black eye because of the State Department i amendment, which hides the other provisions oi tne mil. ine new ' bill, they claim, will stabilize the industry and insure supply in line ! with .demand at fair prices. i There are certain price guarantees for domestic sugar producers ; in the new bill, carried over from the act of 1937. There are benefit payments to cane and beet growers who stay within their allotted i acreages. And if growers are rlso producers, they are guaranteed a fair price for their cane or beets, regardless of the price of refined 1 sugar. 0: Deadline On Benefits For War II Vets Many veterans are -failing make use of the benefits Red Ryder j courses begun in service are eii i ible to complete such courses and take end-of-course examinations. ! Other time-limits are stated as being indefinite. Surplus Proper : ty Priority can be exercised as long as the WAA has any sur- plus items for sale. Veterans may j have job-finding assistance I through public employment off j ices for an indefinite period. I Veterans who are not posted on the time-limits of their rights ' and privileges are urged to be come familiar with them. The bulletin may be seen in Mr. Behrends' office. hit tA IN mk j "i ' ,W A X AUG. 31 to SEPT. 5 NATIONAL HEREFORD SHOW Between 400 and 500 head of Here forcls from twenty states will be ex hibited in conjunction with the State Fair. s The only 4-H show v. state wide in scope vin Nebraska. to to See Mutual Loan & Finance Co. first for a loan. THRILLING RACES - Harness races through ' Thursday, September 4. Auto races Friday and Saturday, September 5-6. LINCOLN, NEERASKA Fred Herman If Hawaii becomes the 49th State, some 40 000,000 flags now in use will have to be replaced or altered. 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