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CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper SECTION 2 NEA TF.I.KPHOTO UNITED PRESS SERVICE The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 uWlsfcfl Punl.wecklv, Mondavs and Thum flays at 409-41:: Main Strt. Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Kntfr-d at the Poptoffioe at Plattsmouth. Nliraska as second class mail maKer in ac cord pi. e with the .Act of Congress of March S. 1S79. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts month, 15 cents for two weeks. ' Furse's Fresh Flashes EDITORIALS 2 STORES AND IDEOLOGIES It isn't often commented upon, but retail rtores here and in the Soviet Union are an ex cellent example of essential differences between free enterprise and government enterprise. In Russia, for instance, there are various "classes" of stores. A few modern shops carry good stocks and go in for attractive displays and nigh standards of service. But these stores, un der present policy in the workers' paradise, are cpen to only a relatively few top level people important officials, high-ranking officers, artists whose work is in favor with the ruling clique, foreigners with diplomatic status, etc. The stores vvhich the masses of the people can patronize ae dreary and dirty, and carry only the barest of necessities and few of those. The worker has io deal in the black market to keep alive. There isn't of course, any competition between stores the state owns and runs them all, and the custo mer is always wrong. By comparison, America has the finest retail system in the world. Every store is in direct com oetition with many others. Chains and indepen dents, department stores and super-markets, specialty shops and mail-order houses, are all out for the business. The customer is king, and every possible device is used to attract him courteous service, lower price, interesting adver tising, colorful displays, and so on. Anybody can buy wherever he pleases, and if he doesn't like one store he is free vo take his money down the street. The average Russian just wouldn't be lieve the truth about American retailing just as, living in his totalitarian darkness, he wouldn't believe what free enterprise achieves for all the people. DOWN MEMORY LANE YEARS AGO oiul ruripr nimnr in raririn rn iiepp rrvm - meter! ntiVitpon vaht.c- a .nVininc4; ..!- I during the first semester . . . Dr. O. Sandin, , chief and Franklin Kief, president of the fire de- punmem attended scnool of instruction at (jrana Island . . . Charles A. Patterson of Arapahoe vis ited at the T. H. Pollock home . . . Four former Plattsmouth high school athletes were awarded gold footballs as co-champions of the Missouri conference at Tarkio, they were Geo. Adam, Ken neth Armstrong, btuart Porter, Joe Case . . . First Christian Church completed addition of new room in the basement . . . Edgar S. Wescott was named advertising- manager of Bankers Life Insurance company of Nebraska at Lincoln. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO St. Luke's Guild was entertained at the home I Mrs. V. V. Leonard . . . Methodist Church choir visited the Masonic Home to entertain them with a musical program. Solo numbers were given ers meeting held with Girls Restrve Home Ec- THE FINAL CURTAIN The following editorial is reprinted from the Leader-Press, Elsinore, California: " British Dcctors Will Be Paid $1,200 Yearly For Practice in Socialized Medicine.' "That headline . . . over a press report from London hearlded the decline of British medical practice to the point where the State has finally become the General Practitioner, and the pa tient a numerical nonentity. "The new Eritish system, virtually wiping out private practice, stops just short of telling the doctor what diagnostic procedures he shall use, or what color pills he shall prescribe. Everything stems from the Minister of Health in London and not only doctors, but dentists, druggists and op ticians alike must bow to a supreme hierarchy. "As one writer observes, perhaps it was in evitable from the first day of the panel system in England now being discarded for the new regulations that the doctors would one day lose their freedom of action entirely. The fact ;hat the quality of medica elare degenerates un der State control seems to have been completely ignored, and the British Medical Association's complaint that doctors will be obliged to divide their loyalties between patient and State has been unavailing. "In America . . . socialized medicine has failed to fix its talons on the doctor or to turn Lis patient into an anonymous pill-seeker, be cause the doctors are leading the fight to provide pre-paid, budget-basis care to the millions needing :t, within the framework of voluntary choice. "It is this sort of enlightened self-restraint 'hich will prevent the final curtain from being rung down in this nation as it has been in Eng land, on the private practice of medicine." When a man is built like a sturdy oak, many a girl pines for him. A local little girl told her mother she didn't care for any supper. "I just ate the raisins off the fly paper." A woman approached the 'Pearly Gates" and spoke to St. Peter: "Do you know if my husband is here? His name is Smith." "Lady, we have lots of them here. You will have to be more specific." "Joe Smith." "Lots of them, too you'll have to have more 'dentification." "Well, when he died he said if I was ever untrue to him, he'd turn over in his grave." "Oh, you mean "Pinwhecl Smith." e Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twis ter, says tight clothing may prevent circulation, but she assures us it's what keeps her circulating No question about who's the best man on earth he's the fellow your wife could have married but didn't. The surest way in the world to get your pants kicked and your reputation run down is to de vote yourself and your time whok-lieariediy tj work that you think is for the betterment of the community A reader tells us his wife's pancakes are so tough he can play them on their new console phonograph, but they're hard cn the needles. r.omis and Manual Training departments in charge of program . . . Mrs. Roy Gregg of near oy Mrs. William Weber, Miss Vyral Fossler, Mrs. Edward Roman, J. A. Capweh, Jesse P. Perry and Mrs. E. H. Wescott . . . Alvo Parent Teach Murray entertained honoring Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fulton recently married . . . Eight Mile Grove residents tendered farewell party for Mr. and j Mrs. L. H. Puis who were leaving to reside in j Greeley, Colorado . . . Street Commissioner Jess j Elliott completed work of installation of stop j signs on side streets in business section leading j to Main Street. - - - ."MW-ij . .111 ''W ) THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA. .JOURNAL Thursday, February 5, 1943. PAGE ONE Willi IJW I 1 jM Edson f MERRY-(SO-aOUMD By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT HOSPITAL ITY STIFFENS TOWARD RUSSIAN AGRI CULTURE MISSIONS; U.S.A.'S GRAND DRAGON GREEN TELLS KLANSMEN HER MAN TALMADGE IS PRO-LABOR; U.S.A.'S COLDEST TOWN TURNS DOWN BLACK MARKET OIL WASHINGTON. For two years the Agricul ture Department has been trying to crack the "Iron Curtain" and inspect a Russian project that might teach us new lessons in how to conquer the southwest's great "dust bowl." But repeated ap peals for a look-see have been turned down by the Russians. As a result, the Argiculture De partment will now stiffen its own hospitality to ward Russian agriculture missions. The Russians project is a scientific "shelter belt," planted with trees to save the soil from erosion. Reportedly it was started more than 50 years ago, but American soil experts didn't learn of it until after the war. By visiting it, they hoped to learn new methods for controlling the restless topsoil in our own southwest. Despite Soviet secrecy, however, the Agricul ture Department so far has turned the other cheek and shown Russian experts all aspects of American agriculture, even though the Russians always carried cameras and asked exhaustive questions. For example, a Russian mission inspecting the Forest Product laboratories at Madison, Wis., wanted to know the cubic measurements of each building, how many people each would hold and intricate details about the equipment. On the other hand, they refused t0 participate in a seminar and exchange information about their own research. . ' Also the Soviet embassy always sent more peo ple than stipulated, such as a recent mission to Oregon State college. Arrangements were re quested for two, but five showed up and stayed on until they wore out their welcome. From now on, U. S. hospitality, if at all, will be frigid. THE MERRY MORTICIAN Senator Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska's "Merry Mortician," can't resist a snicker when Indian names are read on the floor of the Senate. Three years ago it was he who demanded an explanation of the name, "Winnie Left Her Be hind." an Indian woman who had a claim before Congress. Senator Harlan Bushfield of South Da kota replied without developing the thought that he thought there were some with funnier names in the Senate than most of the Indian names. Last week Wherry again jumped up when the reading clerk made an error in reading the bill by Montana's Senator Zales Eaton to authorize the issuance of a patent-in-fee for land to an Indian lady, "Mabel Townsend Petty On Top." Immediately Wherry was on his feet. "What's that?" he snickered. "What was that name?" , None of his colleagues seemed interested. Wherry subsided as the clerk corrected his reading- to: "Mabel Townsend Pretty On Top." WASHINGTON REPORT r Howard Buffert CongrtMtnan, 2nd Nebraska District Inside the KKK Grand Dragon 'Green came back to Atlanta the other day very irate to find that during a two-weeks' absence, some of his klansmen had kicked over the traces against Herman Talmad". So. resuming his role of Grand t Cyclops of Klavern No. I, Green j gave tne kiansman a long pep talk. Here are the minutes of what he said: Dr. Green was also sore be cause so few were present at the meeting and because only seven were initiated. However, he seemed even sorer because sec rets were leaking out of klan meetings. So he started off by blasting Drew Pearson for re porting that Herman Talmadge was not for the workingman. Green said that he had talked with Herman, and that Herman was going to back up labor strong. "Since Drew Pearson came out and said there was a big row in the klan about supporting- Tal madge," proclaimed the Grand Dragon, "it proves that we still have a rat present who is tell ing about every move we make. I want all klansmen present to try to find this stool pigeon. If you have any suspicions, come and tell me. I am going to find that dirty rat if it's the last thing I do." Dr. Green als0 said he thought the rson no more people were joining the klan was because Pearson had scared them. The Grand Dragon reminded the klansmen that the hearing on the Negro policemen is com ing up before Bond Almond, a former kiansman. The date, he said, was not announced, but Green was sure a decision would be handed down that would suit the KKK. The klansmen were invited to participate in the Swainsboro parade which the Grand Dragon said means much to the klan because it seems there has been some trouble with the Negroes and this will put them in their place. Several klansmen wanted to know why the klan was not more active in Atlanta. They wanted to see some activities similar to the old days. Dr. Green promised that as soon as possible he would see that they got plenty of action. "The year 1948 is going to be a hot year for the Ku Klux Klan," he said. "There will be a lot of parades and cross-burnings." He also said the klan had been busy in many ways that it had not told its members about, since he had been afraid to talk too much about klan activities be cause Drew Pearson or someone might announce it before it could even take place. Note. Meanwhile a new kla vern is being established in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a membership of 289 klansmen. Coldest Town in V. S. A. The hardy little town of In-, C CBII TDCV HJUrDITFIl? ternational Falls, Minn. coldest " ' " city in the U. S. A. would rath- WHAT CAUSES IT? er buck 40-btlow temperatures , A bookit contain! h opinion of fo than buy fuel oil on the black r movi doctori on thi initrttinB wbiec market. Hearing cf the town's j . t t,nf free. wh;t ih iof. to on anti-inflation fortitude, Presi- j reader writing lo the Educational Division dent Truman, himself, has pro- 537 fifth Ao- Now York. N. Y. Dept. ! psycho-neurotics, did they? Pon 1 dor that tragedy a moment. 396, 1 000 American heroes died in j uniform. But those who came What would be the conse quences of another world war? One thing sure the conse quences would not be the pro mised intentions. "When a war is bcg'jn, it will run its course and bring its consequences. What the intention was makes no difference." William Gra ham Sumner. Before World War II you were promised the Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms "for everybody, everywhere." Where are those intentions now? The leaders who beat the war drums didn't tell you that communism would be the real victor, did they? Also they didn't tell you that after Churchill's "joybells of victory" rang in London. Eng land would be herded into so cialism and labor slavery, did they? They didn't tell you that 457, 000 American boys who left home with sound minds would now be drawing payments as mised to send an emergency car go to the rescue at regular prices. International Falls almost straddles the Canadian border. Latest cold spell pushed the mercury out of the bottom of the thcrmom t'er. Simultaneously, certain unscrupulous oil dealers brought in fresh supplies and jacked up their prices. Rather than pay black-market rates, many citizens closed their homes and doubled up with rela tives and neighbors. One angry gvoup threatened to overturn an incoming truck, and the nervous dealer started arming his trucks. Other citizens wrote to their congressman, young ex-paratrooper John Blatnix, who in turn went to see the President. Mr. Truman promised immedi ate action. Note. The oil industry will ingly sent ten tank cars to an other Minnesota town, St. Cloud, which had less than shivering International Falls. The reason: St. Cloud is in the district of powerful Ways and Means Chair man Harold Knutson, who writes the taxes. back mentally wounded, their families, have a daily often worse than death. Going way back to World War I, what were you told? That when the Kaiser was licked, the world would have lasting peace and would be saved for democ racy. Actually, as afterward ad mitted by Mr. Churchill, our in tention prolonged that conflict and resulted in communism com ing to power in 1918 in Russia. As scare stories, appeals for intervention, and propaganda for the 1948 handout on Operation Rathole in Europe passes before you, ponder this challenge from Reverend James M. Gillis: "The job of combating communism . . . cannot be done by diplo matic strategy or economic pressure. Nor by the distribu tion of cash and credit. Least of all can it be done with the atom bomb. Killing Communists is not the way to kill communism. If we drop another one of those bombs, we shall create more Communists than we kill . . .' Commissioned strength of the U. S. Army by grade as of June 30. 1939 197 EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY TETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C. (NEA) A Turkish embassy c!'acL-. hero' in Washington was talking about the highway system of his natie country. He threw up both hands in a gesture of complete helplessness. Mud! he exclaimed. 'You never see such mud." He dropped his nanas to nis mps. - up 10 neie. ,-na n summer ': Dust! Ah, you never see such duit." He dropped his hands again to his knees. The Turk then told stories about the sport r.f going hunting in an automobile, and being held up' by brigands. Somebody asked him if there were filling stations along the road, and garages where cars could be repaired. He just smiled. Gasoline., he explained, was sold only in the bigger towns., and in cans. The main highway from the capital at Ankara to Istanbul was 300 miles long, but it took a whole day to make it by car in good weather. The general impression was that it was hopeless to expect that things could ever be better. But a team of American. ! highway engineers is now about to tackle the job of helping Turkey 1 lay out a modern highway network in two years. Under H. E. Hilts, j deputy administrator of the U. S. Public Roads Administration, the. first task force will supervise the work. A COUPLE of million dollars' worth of road-building equipment has already been placed on order. Some of it has already been shipped, and is being unloaded under U. S. Army supervision at Istanbul and Iskenderum formerly known as Alexandretta a tiny port at the northeast corner ol the Mediterranean. t 1 The whole highway job has to be done from scratch. The first thing Hilts plans to do when he arrives is set up a laboratory to te-t soils, sand, gravel and rock the materials he will have to work with.' When his engineers know about them, they will place orders fcr. American rock and gravel crushers, cement and asphalt plants. In all Turkey, there are now only four smell cement plants, which combined might equal the output of one fair American plant. Asphalt is now shipped into Turkey by the oil companies in drums. The country has only one small steel mill. It may be able to produce enough reinforcing rods, mats and small shapes. The bridges will probably have to be built in the U. S. Full U. S. participation in this Turkish road-building program will cost $5 million. The money comes from the S100 million appropriated by Congress for aid to Turkey under the Truman doctrine. The original amount earmarked for roads was SI million, but when it was pointed out to the military that their modernization of the Turkish army would be wasted and useless unless there was a modern high way grid over which to haul it, the allocation was increased five times., fYX top of this the Turkish Republic has appropriated S13 million to pay native labor and buy materials. About 5000 Turkish work men will be employed at peak construction. Fart of the jcb cf the Hilts mission will be to train Turkish engineers. This road building is perhaps the only part of the Turkish aid Drosram with which there can be no quarrel. Eenefits aren't juit: military. Turkey has big farm and livestock areas which are r.cv; and isolated. Thev can't move their crops to market. fate j Of the 27,000 miles of roads on the Turkish map, 12.000 miles are classified as macadamized and 15.000 are dirt. But only a third cf this mileage is considered passable. When the American road mission gets through, it hopes to have a 20,000-mile net of main highways surveyed. Construction will be-( pin next spring. There will be three classes of road, ranging from. 24 to 30 feet in width. Little of it will be modern concrete highway 1 in the modern American sense, outside the cities. ' In 1944 Turkey had only 13,000 motor vehicles, which is half as , nany as Puerto Rico has, and a third of what Cuba has. Witii a rrm-ro. rr led mnrtrn hiehwav svstem. the Turks should provide a jood nitrket for American cars, trucks, filling stations even roadside hot-dog stands. . est play "stinks." Their seconds met in a court of honor and decided, rather than to authorize a duel out of season "a grave bieach of form," according to Confrevon that "the challenge and ac ceptance resulted from a mis understanding, not an affront." TOTAL 23,129 Gen. of Army 0 General 1 Lt. Gen. 0 Maj. Gen. 59 Brig. Gen. 103 Colonel 1554 Lt. Colonel 3.232 Major 5.736 Captain 8.291 1st Lt. 4.550 2nd Lt. 4,591 (Note: World War II August 14, 1945). 153,052 4 10 29 195 440 7,698 13 567 20.552 44.439 54,033 12.035 ended Fire losses during 1947 are ex pected to reach the all-time high Walter II. Harold R. Smith & Lebens Attorneys-at-Law Donat Bldgr. - Plattsmouth of S700.000.COO. a figure that equals the estimated cost f f running the New York State government in 1947-43. ELECTRICIAN HOUSE WIRING General Electrical Contractor W. R. HERRING Phone 3020 See Me For Wiring OUT-OF-SEASON DUEL VETOED IN PARIS PARIS (UP1 Certain Paris so cial circles say the 1948 dueling season docs not open until Feb. 15. "It's much too early to duel," said Michael de la Confrevon. a j Lrj young industrialist who claims 1 G to be an authority on such mat-jt ters. j At any rate, the first duel of j J( 1948, scheduled this month be- p tween Jacques Hebertot, Paris ! V theater manager, and Herve Lau- I H wick, drama writer for a Paris I n3 weekly, was called off, LauwickirJ 1 1 : . 1 4 T T . l 1 i I 1-H naci wiiiit-ii mat ntuci iui s icti- HOME FOR SALE! Four-room home on gravel road, complete bath, hardwood floors, built-in cupboards, automat ic hot water, basement, attic, enclosed porch, elec tric range and circulating oil heater included. IMMEDIATE POSSESSION LOPxIS B. LONG Licensed Real Estate Broker 126 N. 4th St., Fouchek Bldg. Dial 5239 or 4250 9 i Our Clearance Continues! WHAT CAUSES EPILEPSY? A booklet containing the opinion! of fa mous doctors on this interesting subject will be sent FREE, white they lost, lo any reader writing to the Educational Division. 537 Fifth Ave., New York. N. Y Dept. Fine Portraits $5.00 A Dozen And Up Friday, 1 to 6 P. M. Saturday, 1 to 8:30 P. M Plattsmouth Hotel E. M. BLANCHARD Mgr. COLVIN-HEYN STUDIO I WITH GREATER REDUCTIONS ON COATS AND SUITS P3 DRESSES 8 Ln up to $20 reduced to $5.00 and $10.00 c Other Items included in our sale are Skirts-$2.98, $3.98, $5.98 Children's Coats, Snow Suits and Suits a all at Drastic Reductions. Must be sold to make room for Spring merchandise. -3 3