Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1948)
NEA TELEPIIOTO UNITED PRESS SERVICE pass rorxTvs XEWS'jiaper SECTION 2 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published soml-wepklv, Moniiavs nnd Thum-daj-H, at 409-41 :5 Main Street. Plattsmouth. C.iss County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK IT. SMITH - Editor Helen E. Ileinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Knterel at the Postoffloe at TMattf mouth. Nebraska e" sefonil class mail mnMer in ae-oonl.-i nee with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1S79. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 nor year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts month, 15 cents for two weeks. EDITORIALS NOW, COME! COME! LINCOLN Not that this new,napcr is greatly interested, but the following taken from the Lincoln State Journal has greatly perturbed our Mayor Woster: Plattsmouth Names Street Commissioner PLATTSMOUTH. Neb. Chaun cey Woolhiser was 'appointed Plattsmouth street commissioner at a special meeting of the Village Board of Trustees. He succeeds LaRue Williams who resigned to become manager of the Farmers elevator here. We realize our esteemed Capitol City is suf fering from "growing pains." In fact, the form er saintly little metropolis is now contributing its share of drunks, robberies and murders along with its slightly bigger sister, Omaha, but please do not overlook the fact that Plattsmouth has long ougrown the village status, boasts a full fledged Mayor and City Council, police depart ment, and over 6.000 loyal citizens. One thing of which we do not boast, however, is the lack of an elevator. Farmer's or otherwise. We discovered that one day last harvest time when we attempted to get the "'markets." CORN AND MAN Man's dependence upon corn for food, feed for his cattle, and many products vital to his industries, is pretty well known. Less widely appreciated, outside of agricultural circles, is the fact that corn is absolutely dependent upon man. Corn, as we know the grain today, cannot grow wild, for it is unable to reseed itself. If man should vanish from the earth, corn would follow him a couple of years later. Untended by man. the corn plant would drop its kernel-laden ear at the foot of its stalk. The next year perhaps sev kernels would sprout from the half-buried ear, producing a clump of small corn plants so close together that no ears would grow. The follow ing year the corn would have died out com pletely. Coin's dependence upon man is a striking commentary on the extent of cultivation it has had in the centuries since it grew as a wild plant. Botanically, corn is a grass a very special grass, as special in its way as the creeping bents and Kentucky blues which carpet putting greens and fine lawns. According to Corn Industries Research Foundation, plant scientists estimate that corn's development, from a wild grass bear ing rudimentary ears of small seeds to the plant we know today, has taken at least 20.000 years. Research men, tracing corn's evolution back wards to its original ancestor, have found that one and possibly only one seed-bearing grass is related to the present-day corn. This grass, called teosinte, is a native of Guatemala. A clue to the relationship is the fact that corn will cross pollinate with teonsinte. Many other domestic plants can revert to their wild state if man abandons them. But corn has come so far from its wild form that it is now dependent on man for its successive generations. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO New automatic telephone equipment replaced at Murray by new dial system . . . Cass County Sportsmans club was formed with Milton Muncie president, Fred Lugsch vice-president and W. H. Mason secretary-treasurer . . . Mrs. W. H. Puis returned home from six weeks spent in Cali fornia . . . Guests of Miss Olive Gass were Mr. and Mrs. Aron and Dr. H. Luella Carter of Doane College, Crete . . . Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Kerr entertained the members of the Chess club . . . Supt. L. S. DeVoe and Frank A. Cloidt ap peared on guest night program of Fremont Ro tary club in that city . . . Social Workers Flow er club tendered farewell party to Mrs. E. B. Hutchison and Mrs. Ray Wiles who were leaving to make their home in Iowa, at the home of Mrs. J. L. Stamp . . . Junior High School, under di rection of Coach H. C. Boggess, presented fine program. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO Residence of Earl Lancaster near Murray looted of $400 while fire at barn was being fought ... Dr. George E. Condra of the Uni versity of Nebraska visited here making survey for state geological map . . . Harry Johnson was possessor of a relic of the costumes of a half century ago a vest of seal skin fur that was at one time a real part of the Sunday dress of the English gentlemen in the rural section . . . S. R. Furse's Fresh Flashes i. Why do women who are dieting accept din ner invitations? A local woman finding a half-filled bottle in the garage stuck it under her husband's nose with the curt inquiry, "Is this yours?" "No, honey," he replied, "if it was mine it would be r-'V Jrt" ' '-iiTHl. & ,! Thursday. February 12, 1948 -fisvj :;. & ' ; ;- t - THE rLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, JOURNAL IWCE U.NL empty." Not licve I dollars. having a million dollars, would be miserable if I I cannot bo had a million A young Plattsmouth husband is in the dog house because he took one of his new bride's pancakes for a chamois and polished the car with it. A local lad who went to the city several years ago to seek his fortune certainly must have been successful. We see where the government has offered a $20,000 reward for information about him. When cornered by Massachusetts state troop ers, an escaped eVphant was headed in the gen eral direction of Maine. Elephants do remember. Reading the other day where automobile manufacturers are preparing to buy huge quan tities of scrap iron to step up the production of steel for the manufacture of new ears, reminds us of a similar circumstance a number of years ago. A farmer out in the central part of the staie pent in a shipment of scrap iron and junk tin from the roof of an old shed. Several days later he received this message, "Although your ear was in pretty bad condition, we shall be able to make it as good as new in a few days." Suffering from a severe cold for the past ten days, everyone has advised us to go home and stay in bed. It's good advice, but a country editor has to work for a living. About the only person we know of that can take one of those bed-time recuperation periods is the President. It seems that being- a bartender isn't all joy and pleasure. They say the lip stick is hard to get off the beer glasses. Villi I'lifPI'I'BF! w- Eg! ;ton column Switch in Federal Reserve Creates Political Pickle BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent AY' ASHING TON (NEA) By shuffling chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from Marriner Eccles to Thomas B, McCabe of Philadelphia, reducing Eccles to the vice chaii manshii President Truman has put the honorable Board in a political pickle. The President's refusal to explain his moves has rr.ly heighteneJ speculation in congressional and banking circles. No -ne question! the President's right to appoint whom he chooses. But this is ;Isc public business. And with threats of more serious inflation still facing the country, the need for keeping the Federal Reserve Board on-an even keel is now more necessary than ever. Congress can t ail intelligently on Truman's appointments unless it knows ail the back ground of what goes on here. The desire to purge another New Dealer meaning Eccles hai been suggested. Also the thought that the administration might lika to have a Republican McCabe to work with the GOP Congress to blame in case the country headed into economic distress. B;t tj get a fuller understanding of this situation it becoir.es r.ccesaay tj look over the membership of the full Board of Governors. THIRST name that strikes -the eye is Vardaman Jr. It will be recallec that of Commodore James K. lied that Vardaman one of tho Missouri boys had been Truman's naval aide. lie was appointed to Federal Reserve Board in January, 1946. At that time, it was generally assumed Vardaman would be Tru man's man on the Board and ultimately would become chairman. Shortly after taking his seat, Vardaman began feuding with Eccles. " While it might therefore be assumed that Vardaman was the man , who "got" Eccles, it ain't necessarily so. In the last two years, Var- daman has lost his former position as court favorite. i Eccles, an rggrcssive, fast-thinking and fast-acting personal ityj nlways dominated the Eoard. Lawrence Clayton, formerly assistant -'o Eccles, later a Boston banker, was named to the Board at Eccles' : J insistence a year ago. (m There are three other members of the Board. Ernest G. Draper. . Washington manufacturer, R. M. Szymczak, Chicago banker. Evans, an Iowa fanner, and M. S. in December to talk about McKelvie was speaker at Scout Banquet at First Christian church . . . Smith Service station at Weeping Water was destroyed by fire. MERRY-QO-EIOUMD By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: FRIENDSHIP FEVER SPREADS THROUGH OUT UNITED STATES; AMERICAN PEOPLE DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT WELFARE OF FELLOW MEN; GOOD-WILL AMBASSA DORS GO TO EUROPE. WASHINGTON. When the first Friendship Train finished its run across the country, Henry Kaiser, who acted as special conductor on the New York Central division, suggested that one way to solve European relief w-as to let the American people run a series of Frienship Trains from different parts of the country. My reaction was that it couldn't be done. In the first place, the job seemed too tremendous. Second, I thought we had imposed enough on the railroads for free freight. Finally and selfishly, I told Henry that my office had been turned topsy-turvy by the job of running one Friend ship Train, that I was a physical wreck from riding on it, and that I didn't sec how any more trains could be organized. However, Henry Kaiser was right. Even as we talked, the Wichita Eagle and other energetic citizens of the southwest had organized a special wheat section of the Friendship Train. Simul taneously patriotic New Englanders had started organizing a Friend Ship carrying food and clothes to the British Isles, while today two Abraham Lincoln Friendship Trains leave from Lincoln, Nebraska, and Springfield, Illinois. So it is appropriate and fitting on the birthday of the Great Emancipator to review the attempts of many Amercians to carry out his advice; "It is for us the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." So much of this work has been carried on by individual citizens and groups of citizens that it is hard for any newspaper to cover it all. But it illustrates the fact that the American people have a deep and almost religious concern for the welfare of their fellow men; also that they them selves want to play a part in American foreign policy, not leave it entirely to diplomats. And if the Marshall Plan is able to harness this initiative, if it is able to use this healthy desire of the A.merican citizen to be an active part of his 'own State Department then the Marshall Plan will be a success. Unquestionably, a central, coordinating agency such as that provided for under the Marshall Plan is necessary to direct European reconstruc tion. However, the wise Marshall Plan admin istrator will go out of his way to use the tre mendous drive rnd desire of th3 American peo ple to help their fellow men. For instance, here are just a few of the things j individual Americans, quite independent of their government, have done to capry on "the unfin ished work" and build friendship abroad. MAINE TO LOUISIANA Up in Maine, a state which the Friendship Train could not visit, the Bath Iron Works re ceived an order to build 30 fishing trawlers to replace part of the French fish ing fleet lost in the war. And instead of sending these ships to France empty, the 33 Rotary clubs of Maine undertook to fill the first trawler, "The St. Pa trick" with food and clothing for the people of France. And on the other side, the Rotary club of Nantes, France, has enthusiastically agreed to distribue this food and clothing in such a way as to build up French and American friendship. In another New England city, the Eastpcrt, Me., Sentinel car ried an editorial suggesting that the sardine industry contribute a carload of sardines to the Friendship Train. Whereupon the Maine Sardine Packers asso ciation raised a carload and sent it to Europe through the Uni tarian Service committee. Meanwhile, down in New Or leans, which the Friendship Train had to bypass, various pa triotic citizens got together decided to adopt the city of Or leans, France. "While the city of Orleans, France, was being bombed," says Mrs. Henry Lanry, head of the Orleans foundation, "our .own New Orleans gained 100,000 in population. We are prosperous. Out Of Old Nebraska By James C. Olson Superintendent, State Historical Society This February 15th marks the 79th anniversary of the estab lishment of the University of Nebraska. On that day in 18G9 the legislature passed an act pro viding, among other purposes, "for the location and erection of a State university, agricultural college, and State lunatic asy lum." In the original draft of the bill the words "State lunatic asylum" preceded the words "State university,'" but by an amendment the order was re versed. The University had been lo cated at Lincoln by the same act which designated the city as the anri I state capital. Funds for the WiiLiN t.ccies went to the white House his own reappointment as chairman, it was also to lecommend. hat Szymczak be named vice chairman, succeeding the late Ronald Ransom. Early last January, the President decided to name McCabe to the i-acancy caused by Ransom's death, and make him chairman. Ecelesf four-year term as chairman expired on Feb. 1, 1S48. McCabe was apparently told he could pick his own vice chairman. '- McCabe said he wanted Szvmczak to be his vice chairman. The were provided by the proceeds 'resident crossed this up. There was a delay of a week or so in' from lot sales in the city of Lin- 't .elling Eccles he was to be demoted. When he was told, he was c0n j -hrown the ?op of vice chairmanship. Eccles considered resigning. 1 fter talking the situation over witn congressional leaders, he oeciau 10 stay on and stick it out. But. as the Board lines up now, the period ahead is bound to be lifTicult. McCabe is an organizer. Vardaman is likely to side with jim against Eccles. Eccles is a fiscal expert with pronounced views ;hared by Clayton. Draper and Evans are uncertain. The man caught ;quare in the middle is Szymczak. There is little doubt about his confirmation. He becomes key man on the Board. His job will be !o reconcile whatever differences may arise between McCabe and Cedes. If Eccles' leadership prevails, McCabe will be in an uncom fortable position. If McCabe turns out to be the strong mun, Eccles aiay find it convenient to resign. Tho cornerstone for the first i building Old University Hall now about to be razed was laid September 23. 18G9. Mem bers of the Masonic order took charge of the exercises, and, as the capital city did not boast a brass band, rn; was imported from Omaha 1o furnish music for the occasion. In the evening there was a banquet, and the day, according- to contemporary newspaper accounts, .was a red letter one in the history of braska. one religious-group, to the dctri- e" j mcnt of others. In order to avoid ! this, care was taken in the be- The University first opened its erection of donrs to students in September. 1871. Out of a total enrollment of 130 only 20 wore college s'u dents. The remainder were in the Latin or preparatory school. For a number of years the prenon- j derar.ee of high school students '. in the University student body resulted 'in its frequently being referred to as the Lincoln High ginning to ors were among the insure that Profess evenly distributed various faiths. The original curriculum pro vided no ck'ctives and students were limited in choice to one of three prescribed courses, the classical, the scientific and the Latin-scientific. Tlu- primary difference between the classical (Continued on Page Six) part of the country and consign a package either to a friend in Europe or to an American re lief agency which will distri bute the seed. Enough seed to grow five tons of food is con- So we are giving a little of our : tained in each package. surplus to the starving people from whence we came." Accordingly, the SS Maid of Orleans is sailing from New Orleans the latter part of this month loaded with food. Out in Detroit the other day, Jean Beliard of the French Em bassy was addressing the Michi gan Junior Chamber of Com merce which raised a Friendship caravan for France. Suddenly he got a phone call from Kalamazoo. "This is Henry Ford speaking," the first building J School. This condition, of course, 1 ' ' was unavoidable until the state possessed sufficient number of high schools to prepare students for regular college work outside the University. There was considerable fear among various elements of the state, that the University would come under the domination of Meanwhile several druggists in Camden, N. J., led by Sidney Zuckerman and Max Schwartz have been working on the plan of a drug Friendship Train; and in North Carolina, the council of churches has conducted a clothing drive under the slogan "Fill a Ship With Friendship." Finally en the west coast there was the great job done by the states of Washington, Ore gon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska in filling a special Friend Ship; while from California, the state's HOME FOR SALE! Four-room home on gravel road, ccrrsplete bath, hardwood floors, built-in cupboards, automat ic hot water, basement, attic, enclosed porch, elec tric range and circulating oil heater included. IMMEDIATE POSSESSION L0RIS B. LONG Licensed Real Estate Broker 126 N. 4th St., Fouchek Bldg. Dial 5239 or 4250 said the voice on the other end I Maritime training ship, "Golden of the line. "No, not Henry Ford , rjcar," is carrying a special car- the auto man. but Henry a era, the Mayor of Kalamazeo. We've adopted the city of Fougeres in France, and we want you to come over and give us a brief talk." Beliard went. He reported to his government later and he has never seen a group where enthusiasm was so contagious. Friendship Seeds Meanwhile the seed-growers of Minnesota have worked out a counter-part of the CARE pro gram, whereby packages of seed can be sent to European families so they can grow their own food. Reducing prices from $5.50 to $3.95, the seed-g-rowers have arranged so that anyone can walk into a seed store in any go of canned milk along with 100 Marine cadets as special am bassadors to help deliver the food. One of the most important phases of this whole spontan ee us move toward America,n European friendship is that most of the Deonle who organized these drives are sending their own representatives to Europe as unofficial good-will ambassa dors. And it was the experience of those of us who traveled on the first Friendship Train through France and Italy that the Americans took the trouble to visit them personally. We dis covered in real fact that the 'Gift without the giver is bare." Vs RANGES MATNEY FURNITURE STORE 424 Main Straet DIAL 3136 rlmmS'M-Ci, o N E W E E K 502 Main St. Plattsmouth Dial 289 One-Week Shopper Speesa STARTS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH ENDS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH p I- C L I 1 L "ACOLO" RUBBING ALCOHOL Abbott's Scented 59c Pint Only 47c "ANIDON" Valentine Laboratories Formula similar to Anacin 89c Bottle of 100 Tablets Only 67c TYSON WATER BOTTLE Two Quart Capacity Regular 69c Value Only 47c Mary Lake's LAVENDER LOTION Smooths and Softens Dry Skin 49c Six Ounce Bottle Only 1 3IC Fin iw dtottw mi..wH jl uat ogJBar GILBERT GUARANTEED CLOCK-40 Hour Alarm S2J95 Regular $3.85 value Only