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The Piattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 r'uMishAcl trml-wefklv. Mnmlavs snd Thurn-cays-, at 4 0 f -4 1 ri Vain Street. I'iattsmouth, C:us County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FUnSE FRANK II. SMITH .Publisher Editor Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department KntTf-a nt tVip Poictoffioe at Piattsmouth, Nelirsiska nv sff-orid lass mail matter in ac-rr-,if, r,( e with the Act of Corisress of March 3. 1ST9. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $.3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city cf Piattsmouth. Ey carrier in Platts nior.th. 15 cents for two weeks. Furse's Fresh Flashes EDITORIALS LIVE ALL YOUR LIFE Walter Russell Bowie tells of a letter he re ceived from a small boy who was just learning to write. The letter concluded with these wcrds: "I send you my love. I hope you lie all vour life." That sentence impressed Doctor Bowie so much that he wrote a book with this thought as its central theme. He entitled the book: "'On Eeing Alive." Most cf us are not living" all of our lives. We are nat getting out of life all that we should. We ro about .obvious to the beauties of nature, having eyes but not seeing. We meet people and fail to discover the treasures buried in their lives. We live in the little corner of the world and never thrill of adventuring into strange places. We listen to music without really hearing it. Of ten we are less than half awake to what life has to offer. Many of us fail to experience the joy of aiding e thers so that they, too, may have a happier day. We sometimes become so miserly toward our relves that we fail to ever feel the warmth with in our bosom that comes when your contribution to a worthy cause aids in a job well done. Pe:r.aps we should heed the small boy's ad vice ar.d waks un and ' live all our lives." THINK THE OLD TOiVX IS TIGHT? A person remarked to us the other day that Piattsmouth was a backward town. It was tight with its pur?e strings, although generous of heart and friendly in feeling. That its citizens failed tu contribute to worthwhile projects that make and build a town. This may be true of a small percentage of cur citizens. It miyht be even more true in past years, that is, prior to 1940-47. Opportunities may have been passed during tnose years that would have made Piattsmouth a bigger and better city than it is today. But, during the past two years we hardly think our business people in the majority could be called ''tight." We'd like to point out a few of the contributions to worthwhile causes. We would also like to have a list of communities that can beat its record: First on the list is the construction of the Memorial Athletic Field on Washington Avenue. While this project is far from completed, to date considerable more than SI 0,000.00 has been spent on the field, all of it donations from business men and women, residents of the city, and p few of cur rural friends. The balance when need ed will be ready! In its efforts to solve the housing shortage, a group of Piattsmouth business men and women have raised another fund of more than $10,000.00 for the construction of near 40 homes in the new Hillcrest subdivision in the west part of the cit'. This project is underway at present and with the coming of spring, localities will see activity a they have never seen before. Another project that required capitalization was the bringing of the Sothan Body and Manu facturing Company to Piattsmouth. Several lo cal men subscribed to substantial blocks of stock in this company that has done, and is doing its part in adding to the pay rolls of the city. Several thousands of dollars has been raised for the staging of the Kass Kounty King Korn Karnival each year, all subscribed by donation? of our business men at the rate of $25 to $150 each. We could name several more if space per mitted, donations to road funds, donations to church groups for special events, support of Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, Red Cross, March of Dimes, etc. Has Piattsmouth failed to comf through? At the present time other projects for thp building of a better city and more pay rolls are in the making. It is going to require more money to see the projects through The Journal doesn't think I'iattsmouth business is "tight." We ex pect to carry the headlines proving again that a worthwhile plan can be put across in this city DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Weeping Water was swept by worst fire in history of the town when the C. H. Gibson store suffered less estimated from $65,000 to $75,000. Fire Departments from Louisville and Elmwood responded to call for aid and only one injury was reported, that to Bud Blair, Louisville fire man who was cut and bruised . . . Mr. and Mrs. D. C. York and sons, Joe and Randall, returned from a trip to the southland which took them to the Rio Grande valley of Texas where they formerly resided . . . Mrs. Eugene Nutzman of Nehawka was guest speaker at Auxiliary meet ing at home of Mrs. Raymond Larson, district vice-president . . . City Treasurer M. D. Brown reported condition of city finances best in years with bonded indebtedness at a low figure . . . When a man is born people say, "How is the mother?" When he marries they say, "What a lovely bride." And when he dies they say, "How much did he leave her?" In a school essay en parents a small girl wrote: "We get our parents when they are so old it is very hard to change their habits." One way to trim the budget would be to trim off some of the trimmings. We do not have any poor relation that we know of, nor do we have any rich one's that know us. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twis ter, told her new boy friend there was just one thing she wanted to tell him before he went any further. It was, "Don't go any further." A Piattsmouth woman, appearing before po lice court told the judge "That's my side cf the story. Now I'll tell you his." An idea won't work unless you do. Alcohol will preserve almost everything but secrets. A local minister asked everyone who would contribute $5 to the church please stand up. Then he started singing the Star Spangled Ban ner. Read this notice in a country weekly recent ly: "Anyone found near my chicken house at night will be found there in the morning." Platters scored victory over Nebraska City in basketball, 38 to 30. Ray Wooster gaining high honors in the game. TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO Alois Kaufmann, 19-year-old, arrived from Walthaverv Baden. Germany to join his brother, Peter Kaufmann in this city . . . W. C. Schaus resigned as deputy to Sheriff Bert Reed to ac cept Federal position. M. G. Scott of Weeping Water named to succeed him . . . James M. Ro bertson named as president of trustees of the board of control of Nebraska Masonic Home association at Omaha . . . Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Carey cf near Mynard closed their farming in terests and moved into town. qiie YOSHMGIDN yERBY-GO- mum By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: SECRETARY OF ARMY ADMITS HE VIO LATES LAW; CONGRESS CALLS SECRE TARY ROYALL ON CARPET RE-CONSCRIPTION PROPAGANDA ; ROYALL TRIES TO SELL CADILLAC SEDAN ON BLACK MARKET. WASHINGTON. Bluff, genial Secretary of the Army Royall has a unique way of combining charm with an ability to put cabinet colleagues cn the hot spot. His retention of Ed Pauley as special assistant to the Army has caused Harry Truman more trouble than any other recent political bombshell. Perhaps more fundamental, though little noticed, has been the hole into which Royall placed his friend, the Attorney General. He has given Attorney General Tom Clark the alternative of either prosecuting Royall or vio lating his own oath of office by failure to prose cute. The law in question is Section 201, Title 18 of the U. S. Code which declares it to be a criminal offense to use Federal funds to influence legisla tion before Congress. The law is clear and cate goric. It provides no exceptions or alibis. Yet Royall has brazenly flouted the law in using more than $50,000 of Federal funds to propagandize for military conscription. On top of this, when called before Congress he not only admitted he had violated the law, but said he had "No apologies to make." First Congressional report on Royall's activi ties was made July 23 by the House Expendi tures subcommittee, Rep. Forrest Harness of Indiana, chairman. HOW THE ARMY LOBBIED This showed that the Army had spent $36,293 to produce a military training propaganda film, plus $14,244 of the taxpayers' money to distri bute the film. Also, the War Department had paid two civilians Alan Coutss of New York City and Mrs. Arthur Woods, a former lieutenant colonel with a fine record in the WAC $25 a day ,plus expenses, to tour the country, 'drum ming up public support for peace-time con scription. The report also quoted former Assistant Sec retary of War Howard C. Petersen as admitting that Mrs. Woods and Mr. Coutts were employed "To sell the (UMT) program to the public with the hope that the public would sell it to the CcngressV' "Mrs. Woods .admitted that she laid particular emphasis upon the spiritual values of universal military training in her discussions with Girl Scout groups," the Harness report stated, adding that she had endeavored to interest the national board of the Girl Scouts of America in showing "A Plan For Peace" at their meetings. Harness also quoted the following paragraph from an Army-prepared "Outline For Veterans" Radio Panels": "The opposition to universal mili tary training is generally not based on fact, but rather on such generalities as Democracy, mor als, aggression, education, and pacifism. The chief opponents are parents, church groups, educators, subversive groups, and a large section of the public which does not think." j In other words, the Army was trying to tell mm mw ml W L-tw 1 THE PT.ATTSMOUTTT. XEnRASTCA. .TrTTiX,T. : Monday, January 26, 1948. PAGE THF.r E EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN (One oj o series on the Marshall Plan) BY PETER EDSOV NEA Washington Correspondent W7ASHINGTON. (NEA). President Truman's message en the shall Plan was sent to Congress on the last day of the 5r tr veterans what they should say family, once served as mayor of in radio broadcasts supposed to Laramie, had a sensational ca- be voluntary efforts of the veterans themselves. The Harness report further charged that numerous people "cf all walks of life" had been flown in military planes at the taxDavers' exDense to the Armv's UMT experimental camp at J Fort Knox, Ky., where they were "conducted on tours of the unit by selected guides, who were able to sell the virtues of the plan under consideration." Will Justice Department Prosecute? This Congressional report was approved bv the entire commit tee both Democrats and Re publicans even including Jim Wadsworth of New York, father-in-law of Stuart Syming ton, at that time Assistant Sec retary of War for Air. It was then sent to the Justice Depart ment. There it has been gathering dust ever since. Inquiries at the Justice Department last week brought the reDlv from alleged ' 'ou Tnformstinn Officer T.pn PaHinn ' Sore that "The FBI is still investigat ing." That, however, is not true. From other sources, it was as certained that the FBI finished its report long ago and that it is highly unfavorable to Secretary shall billions are to be given mostly to socialistic governments reer in charge of the Anti-Trust in Europe. What is the difference divison and as judge of the U. S. j between Socialists and Commun- v . . . - r a i tt; . . w,uu Appear. nu etuiiumic , ;-t-, Wp11 nn UTjtpr nut Socialists wear neckties and shave oftener. They have bet ter manners at least they have some manners. communists have none a,nd are proud of it. But both make serfs of the Thpnripc or tVso cvqM rvrvnncito nf PnKerfenn'c 1 it v uer in l cLiiig iu src: which one Wyoming voters pick to renresent them in the Senate. WASHINGTON REPORT 1lH& Howard Buffett jjVJ Congremn, 2nd N'ebruk Diitrict A constituent writes, "The most outspoken opponents of the Marshall Plan are to be found in the Cominform and in the Republican party. Unless you come out in full support of the Marsha Plan. I will vote against Well, there's another vote I am opposed to Marshall's "Ooeratkn Rathole" not on de tails, but in toto. Is Stalin for or against the Marshall Plan? Many who op posed Communism when Truman and Marshall were playing pal- neoole. The Marshall Plan would fail worse than the British Loan While it was failine. our econ omy would be wrecked by re pressed inflation and it was Lenin himself who declared that ruining the money of a nation was the surest road to Commun ism. Europe is in deep trouble partly because of past Truman Marshall blunders. But the only people who can save Europe are the Europeans. Our meddling politicians only make matters worse. pean Recovery Program." The question of just what it's all about has been lost sight of, however. In the mear.ij. critics oi tne ftiarsnau fian iceu nae Dtta i-uv.. a field day. There will probably be a month cf public b.ezr'.r.zz cn the plan before Senate and Houie Foreis A: fairs Committees, another month cf floor debate before a bill to authorize the European Recovery Frogram can be voted on, and then another mor.tri of hearings and more floor debate before money :i appropriated to carry it out. It is only then that a definite answer can be given on what the Marsria'.l Plan really is. If ECA the Economic Co-operation Administration is in business by April 1, it will be a miracle. In all this fog of millions of words and millions cf figures, the reil nature and intent cf the Marshall Plan are apt to be lost aga-o. It therefore becomes necessary to keep clearly in rrund juct v. hat tr.e Marshall Plan fundamentals really are. UNLESS you wish to become involved in a mire of trade statistic?, administrative detail and political bickering, there are really four basic questions: Why is it necessary to have any Marsha" Pln at all? Can the United States afford to finance it? Couldn't it re done some other way for less money? What would happen if nctl-ui5 were done? Ac tn tKa firct nnpctinn thtr srp nr!v two h',P industrial aretlS i3 the world the U. S. and western Europe. Eefore the war. the made about 95 per cent of the world's manufactured poods. Only o.ie of those areas is now capable of full production the U. S. Ity therefore called upon to produce more than its share. Until t.i.e European productive machinery can be put bad; in operation-, tne world's shortage of goods is bound to continue. And inflaticn more serious in other countries than in the U. S. will also cont-aue. The only choice for the U. S. is to restore European producuan. Can the U. S. afford to finance this effort? The answer given is that it has made far greater efforts in the past, without harm. Seven items Europe needs worst will pinch the American cccncrrr. They are petroleum products, bread grains, nitrogen fertilizer, steel, industrial and farm machinery, and freight cars. Because these lie-n are in short supply all over the world, furnishing them in qoant-ta to Europe may force American prices stiil higher. IF it is felt that the U. S. cannot stand the impact of this full burden, it may be asked if the job could not be done for less money by a smaller Marshall Plan, perhaps. The answer given here is that, as in any new business, .the greatest danger of failure is in not giving il enough capital. If it is then held that the U. S. should do nothing at all. the con sequences of such a step must be carefully weighed. Soviet Russia wants the Marshall Plan to fail. Americans who oppose the Marshal) Plan are thus playing the Communist game. The reason the Rus sians don't want the Marshall Plan to succeed is that The Communist: want to control the western European productive area. If the European industrial area falls to the Communists, the effecti on the U. S. would be catastrophic. The inevitable result of this would be a major American depres3icn American production might be cut by a fourth or $50 billion a year With that would come severe unemployment. The cost of the reiiei bills in the U. S. might easily be greater than the cost cf the Euro' pean Recovery Program. Moreover, if the U. S. stuck to its traditional free-enterprise systeftv it would have to prepare for another war. And the cost of nation defense, for America, alone in the world and without allies, zr.lg:. easily outstrip tne cost oi tne iviarsnau nan. latest burglar-proof devices, are j London, British Railways again on display in the Tower of ' ports. Tr- Jewels Back to Tower After long war retirement in bomb-proof storage, the British crown jewels, guarded by the . 1 1 ...uu vni;n..n 4 v. f Royall. It found him guilty of i'" V Z Marshall Plan. Their reason- violating the law On top of all this. Royall was called before the House Expen ditures subcommittee just a few days ago. This was when he bra zenly refused to promise that he would not violate the law in the future. Royall and Black Market Secretary Royall also violated the spirit of President Truman's repeated attempts to hold down prices when he advertised his 1947 Cadillac sedan for sale at S4.200 after he had paid S2.925 for it. Royall first approached the Cadillac agency in Washing ton and asked them to buy the car. They offered him the regu lar list price. To do otherwise would have put them in the black market. But this high-up member of the official Truman family refused to sell for the legal price and advertised his car for sale at $4,200. When this columnist and others called to inquire about the car, some body pot worried and it was hurriedly withdrawn from sale. Note The Army and Congress might find it worth while to study the plan of ex-Congressman Kent Keller of Illinois for an American School Army a series of universities for under privileged boys. B'jr Business vs. Little Most interesting Senate race of the year is shaping up in Wyoming, where Judge Thurman Arnold, the trust-bustinij ex Assistant Attorney General, plans to challenge one of the biggest businessmen in the state, GOP Senator Edward V. Robertson. The issue of big busi ness vs. little business will be laid right on the line between them. Robertson, born in Britain, j came to Wyoming at the age of 31 and married the daughter of H. H. Rogers, a partner of old John D. Rockefeller. The Sena tor now manages the Coe ranch, one of the biggest in the state and owned by his brother-in-law. Backed by the big cattle men, Robertson has some of the most isolationist, conservative records in the Senate. Arnold, who will oppose him, j ing is impressive. In Russia the people are con trolled and regimented. Stalin is afraid of us because we have ' liberty and free enterprise. To carry out the Marshall Plan, we must be shackled by controls j and regimentation so say the sponsors. Then Stalin would have achieved his goal, people regimented everywhere free- 1 Qom eliminated. j.nmK mat over. Stalin is certainly smart enough to know that his open approval of the Marshal Plan would kill it dead. He also knows that needling us in Europe by strikes and threats will help geta the Marshall Plan passed. And those atctics are exactly what he is doing. The Marshall Plan has other attractions for Stalin. The Mar- CASE SALES and SERVICE! C &M IMPLEMENT COMPANY Murray, Nebraska FARM FOR SALE 1 have 120 acres listed for 30 days. 1 mile south of O street, between Xehawka and Avoca, on, south side of O. Lights and plenty of water. We If improved. Immediate possession. Also 40 acres on pavement near Murray. See or call REX YOUNG Piattsmouth, Nebraska I i BRED SOW SALE! 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