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The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 riiMlstid m!-weekly. Mondavs and Thurs days, bt 409-417 Main Strt. I'Uttsmouth. rM County. Nbrk. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor VERN WATERMAN ..Advertising Manager Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry "Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department SUESCRIPTION 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 monih, 15 cents for two weeks. Knterf'd at ihn Postoffiee at Plattsmouth. Nebraska a second class mail matter in ac-cord:im-e with the Act of CongresB of March 3. 1ST9. Furse's Fresh Flashes EDITORIALS "BACKWARD AMERICA" BUNK All the proponents of socialism, communism and the other what-have-you isms argue that thc'ir systems offer the "common man" greater s'ecurity and material benefits. As Al Smith used to say, let's look at the record. b England has gone in for socialism in a big- way. And what has happened? Once a great coal ex porting nation, she can now hardly produce enough for her own needs. Her electric power in dustry has gone down hill and rates are higher than under private ownership. Her whole socializ ed economy is as shaky as a tree in a storm. Russia, of course, has gone whole hog in its version of a '"people's government," to own or control all productive activity, and only a miser able minimum of consumer goods is produced. Her retail stores all of which belong to the state a-e stocked with only a few necessities and even these are strictly rationed. Prices, measured by average earning power, are far higher than in this" country. "Backward America." on the other hand, still clings to representative government and a cap. italLst economy. The 'tragic" results of this are seen on every hand the most efficient industries on earth, the highest standards of living in the world in spite of inflation, more leisure and op portunity for all, retail stores groaning with every kind of commodity, and a competitive system which has to please the people or go out of busi ness no "take it or leave it" system. The socialists have a sad story. It just doesn't make sense. And yet they are working here to have government monopolies supplant private en terprise. Will we fall for it? CAPPER QUITS AT 82 The announcement by Senator Arthur Capper of Kanras, that he will not be a candidate for rec-lection calls attention to a service which began in 1910 and now comes to an end at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Senator Capper has had a long and distinguish ed career, being the present head of the Senate Committee on Agriculture. Without disparaging his contribution in the field of government, one may question the wisdom of any individual's serv ing in the legislative halls at such an age. The Kansas Senator is' not the only man to hold office in the Senate at an advanced age. There have been others but we cannot help believing that three should be some retirement age for Congressmen. JUST A PRESIDENTIAL YEAR The nation is in the first phase of a presidential campaign that will result in an increase of par tisan thinking and a decrease of intelligent vot ing. President Truman, in his trip to the West, de niunced Congress and his citicis'm was promptly taken up by Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio who suggested thai Congress "might as well adjourn." Thia is not the best atmosphere for an intelli gent debate of the issues but it has been apparent for some time 'that "politics" is more important than the issues that confront the country. Both parties have been guilty of playing politics, with the result that the general welfare of the nation suffer: even though the politicians pick up the support of certain minority groups. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. James Rebal celebrated their golden wedding anniversary June 26 . . . How ard Schroeder of San Francisco arrived by plane to visit at the Emil Ptak and A. J. Snyder homes . . . Miss Augusta Robb. Union, was renamed chairman of the Cass County Chapter Red Cross; Elmer Sundstrom, vice-chairman and Mrs. H. A. Tool, Murdock. secretary-treasurer . . . Mrs. C. A. Johnson and daughters departed for a vaca tion in California . . . Spencer Tracy, noted film actor who was at "Boystown" in connection -with the filming of movie by same name, visited Pla more park, popular resort of "Rick" Lindsay on north side of the Platte river near La Platte'. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO Mrs. Louis Smetana departed for New York, where on July 2nd, she sailed on the Leviathan for Cherbourg, France, later going to Prague and Vienna and then on to her birthplace at Frysava, Czechoslovakia, for a three months visit . . . Don Arries. son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Arries and Marion Dickson, a former resident, sailed for a visit in Europe. They planned to spend several months seeing the sights and looking over the scenes familiar to them while in service in World War I . . . Marriage of Miss Esther Delzell, daughter of Dean WT. N. Delzell, Peru, to Samuel M. Brownell of Lincoln, was solemnized at Peru 4 c , . ... . . . jvid.srjn.ic memDers ana iastem star ladies gave farewell for Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Holmes, who left for Villisca. Iowa, to make their home . . . Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Jacobson of Louisville celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Love makes the world go 'round to the real estate offices and furniture stores. "A young, boy down in Oklahoma was carried three miles by a recent flood and was rescued. Now he is safe, and is three weeks ahead with his' baths. The best thing in the world to hide old clothc-s behind is a pleasant smile. Most wrinkles in faces are caused by worrying over ihings never will happen and never have. The present price cf gas'oline, oils and tires, makes going broke a short trip by auto. Why is it so many speedy drivers always follow the middle of the road policy? We're already wondering what they will blame everything on after this presidential year has passed. There's a fellow over noar the river who has" a wife and some applejack working hard for him at the present time. Our biggest trouble is that we often have to undo tomorrow what we have done today. Occasionally a man and his wife have a good time at the same party, but not often. Baby sitting covers youngsters up to three and four year Id and we have seen s'ome that really need to be sat on. ?ti.e VAS!!lt:6T0:i MEftW-dO-ElOUtiP Br DKEW FKAKSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: GOP CONVENTION MUFFED CHANCE TO WIPE OUT MISTAKES OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESS; OFFICE GIRL DELIVERED MACARTHUR REQUEST TO SENATOR VAN DENBERG TO DELIVER NOMINATING SPEECH FOR MACARTHUR; BIGGEST BACKSTAGE CONVENTION JOCKEYING WAS OVER PALESTINE. WASHINGTON The republicans had a great opportunity at Philadelphia to wipe out the mis takes of the recent republican congress, but they muffed it. progressive leaders of the party tried and tried hard during closed-door debates on the GOP platform. But they lost out to the right wingers'. The most significant platform battles were over exactly the same issues fought out in the recent congress public housing, Tidelands oil and Pub-J lie Power. The final platform the principles the GOP will follow for four years if elected was a victory for the reactionaries. Stormiest sercret debate was over Tidelands oil. Gordon Richmond of Orange, Calif., managed to insert the plank in the original sub-committee draft giving the control of submerged oil lands to the states just the opposite of the ruling by the U. S. supreme court. But alert Sen. Cabot Lodge cf Massachustettes, chairman of the platform committee, caught the insert and scratched it out. Later in the full committee meeting, delegate Richmond tried to reinsert it. He was opposed by Senator Donnell of Missouri, who threatened to stay up all night rather than see Lhe Tidelands oil land go back to the states. The argument got bitter. "That's the New Deal theory of government'." shouted Richmond. "What the hell are you trying to do favor Truman o'er congress?" Chaiiman Lodge supported Donnell, argued that Federal control of the coastline was vital i to national defense. But Senator Baldwin of Connecticut and governor Herbert of Ohio, plus the Texas delegate jumped in on the side of California. The final vote favored state control of Tidelands oil. PUBLIC POWER Liberal republicans rowing over housing also inserted a plank favoring public power in the draft of the GOP platform, but somebody leaked this draft to the press, and the power lobby got busy. That afternoon, when the platform com mittee met in secret session, all reference io Public power was thrown out. ; However, Utah delegate Vernon Romney of Salt Lake City moved to put it back. He warned I that a lot of questions would be asked, especially in the west, if the republicans backstaged. j So as a compromise, it was reinserted, with two additional words, which tended to cut the ground out from under public power. The two words were "incidental thereto," pertaining to navign tion and flood control. In other words the re publicans went on record that water power could not be developed for water power alone, but onlv in connection with navigation and flood control. PUBLIC HOUSING Another tough battle was waged over public housing-. At first the right-wingers wanted to omit it altogether. Eut Senator Ives of New York argu ed that the big eastern states had helped the west ern states pay for reclamation, now it was up to the western states to help the congested eastern state pay for housing. This argument struck home and the right-wingers finally agreed to federal support for housing with a big "if attached, namely that the states spend the money. In other words, the federal government supplies the housing money and the states spend it. That seemed to make all the republicans happy. BACKSTAGE MOVE MacArthur's boom one of the most fantastic backstage moves at Philadephia came when Gen eral MacArthur requested senator Vandenberg to deliver the nominating speech for MacArthur. Believe it or not but the request was delivered to Vandenberg by an office girl from MacArthur's Headquarters. Yeah, but, Gee Whiz, Let's Be Practical i It looks' as if MacArthur has been taken in by his supporter's propaganda. They circulated an outdated article, printed Febru ary 12, 1944, by Vandenberg telling- why he was for MacArthur. But a lot of people can change their minds between 1944 and 1948. GOP On Palestine It didn't leak out. but the big gest backstage jockeying over principles. not politicans, at Philadelphia was regarding Palestine. The debate arose over the original plank in the GOP platform which merely greeted the new state of Israel with no thing said about Palestinian borders or United Nation's sup port. This was a big comedown from the GOP platform of 1944 which put the republicans vigorously on record for an independent Palestine, naturally when Zionist leaders heard of this", they hit the ceiling. Senator Lodge, they found, had drafted the comprise Palestine resolution after conferring with senator Vandenberg, who, they believed had been in touch with Pro-Arabs in the state depart ment. Immediately Zionists appealed to Governor Dewey and senator Taft. Both were sympathetic. Dewey called in his chief foreign adviser, John Foster Dulles, while Taft as"ked senators Millikin of Colorado, Donnell of Missouri and Brooks of Illinois, all mem bers of the platform committee, to write a stronger resolution. When the full r volutions com mittee finally met, senator Ives of New York led the move to re write the Lodge-Vandenberg Palestine pronouncement. "This resolution you've got here," he said, "says less than a New Year's Greeting Card." In the end, the republicans went on record in support of the United Nations' plan for the par tition of Palestine. Out Of Old Nebraska ANIMALS ALSO HAVE SLEEPLESS WORRIES St. Paul (U.R) Domestic ani mals, as humans, suffer from in somnia, the University of Minne sota farm school reports. The "contented" cow is not too sound a sleeper, according to W. E. Petersen. Cattle worries include being dropped from the social order of the herd, malad justment and poor caretakers. Horses worry when removed from familiar surroundings and friendly stablemates, and often go for weeks without lying down. They do catch a few winks while on their feet Sheep, the neurotics of the do mestic animal kingdom, keep an ear cocked while asleep and poise on the alert. The pig. however, is a hearty sleeper. H. G. ZavoraL animal husbandman, said the grunty snores of pigs serve as music to lull pen-mate to sleep. Consumption of turkey meat averaged about two pounds per person in 1932 to 1934, and jump ed to 42 pounds in 1945 and 1946. By James C. Olson Supt., State Historical Society A little more than 100 years ago a subject of constant fasci nation for a certain group of American artists was the Ameri can Indian. Even then the Indian was regarded as a vanishing race, and it seemed important to cap ture the look of this stalwart group of people who once held dominion over North America. One of the first of these artists in the West and the first really important one was George Cat lin. Although he was trained in the law and practiced for a time at Luzerne, Penn., he was much more interested in painting, and apparently considerably more successful before an easel than before a jury. In any event he moved to Philadelphia while still a young man and devoted his full time to painting. While living in Philadelphia he saw a group of Indians walk ing through the street and decid ed to devote his life to the paint ing of these original Americans in their native surroundings. In carrying out that work he travel led to all parts' of the country and endured many hardships. On various occasions he barely escaped with his life. Catlin first came west in 1832 as a passenger on the steamer Yellowstone, which the year be fore had made the first steam boat trip to the upper Misouri river. At every possible opportu nity the artistexplorer painted pictures of Indians, buffaloes, and western scenery. Among the Ne braska secens captured by his brush were Blackbird Hill, the trading post at Bellevue and the junction of the Platte and Mis souri rivers. Catlin was the first white man to visit the red pipestone quarry on the Minnesota-South Dakota border, from which Indians all through the west got materials for making pipes. In his honor this stone now is called Catlinte. AH told, Catlin produced more than 600 paintings of notable In dians and of their dwellings and equipment. These were axhibited in the United States and Europe and created a great deal of excite ment wherever they were shown. A great merit in Catlin's paint ings is that he portrayed his sub jects just as he saw them, and did not follow conventionalized pattern. Without his work the task of studying- life in Nebraska prior to the coming of the white man would be much more diffi cult than it is. RAILROAD THAT ISN'T PAYS DIVIDENDS ROCHESTER, N. Y. (U.R The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad is the only line 'in the nation entirely debt free. But. then, the railroad isn't running either. However, for a railroad which doesn't run, the R. & G. V. doesn't do badly for its stockholders. It pays them a total annual divi dend of four per cent on $555, 200. And that dividend is guaran teed every year until 2051. It happened this way: In 1851 the railroad was organized by a group of Rochesterians to run from Rochester to Avon. It had a capital structure of $555,200 and a 200-year franchise. In 1871, the Erie Railroad want ed to buy the R. & G. V. The stockholders refused to sell, but THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Monday, June 28, 1948 PAGE THREE - WASHII1GT0N COLOMH iiV ft ILK LliiUS PHILADELPHIA, June 25 (NEA) Convention postscripts there ought to be some easier way to name Presidential candiC; t Best speech, Herbert Hoover's . . . Worst speech, most ai th-" others. They were so bad that even the radio audiences were pour ing complaints. Biggest flop, the MacArthur boom . . . E. bust, the Taft balloon that floated to the high ceiling, hit a h-.-t light and exploded, letting a "Taft for President" pennant fail symbolically to the floor . . . Most enthusiastic but worst sir. Congressman George Bender of Ohio, leading the Taft dc-monruu- . tion in the conventions .most over-worked tune, "Ffur Leaf Clo ver," which should now become a symbol for bad luck. Best press conference, Gov. Earl Warren of California. II? made a hit as the scjuarest shooter at the convention and a men whose word could be depended on . . . He was the only candid-: u who infused to predict his own election . . . Difference betwtv-t. Dewey and Warren: Dewey said Congress had mace a remarks en record in a number of fields . . . Warren said frankly that C -v-' gress had failed to tackle many of the fundamental problems i--ing the country today. Eiggest boo from the crowd, to Sen. Ed Martin of Pennvl vania, when he came to the platform to nominate Dewey and sa:d, "This is the most historic moment of my life." Biggest demonstration, Harold Stassons three .A M. shew . . . All the other "spontaneous demontiatior.s." staged mcsi'.v I y ringers and not by delegates, were put on by grim-faced old timer-; and extras for the mob scene. The Stassen following had youth a: i color and perhaps hope that the G.O.P. would become really pro gressive. Biggest let-down, also Harold Stassen's. The day before bcll't ing began, Stassen declared that the "Grundy-Dewey deal"' hd injured the Republican party. Next day Stassen proposed making Dewey's nomination unanimous. When Stassen did this, his follow ers in the crowd yelled, "No," gave him a few boos and cried. "We want Stassen." But once again a convention chose a candidate who had the delegates, but not the support of the crowd. It happened in 1920 when the Republicans passed up Hoover for Harding, ar.d when the Democrats passed up Al Smith for John W. Davis in 1924. Last man to give up on trying to make Ckn. Eisenhower the G.O.P. nominee was C. D. Hicks. Missouri manufacturer. In spite of all the pre-convention hullabaloo about Ike, he didn't get ore vote. Last line in Speakers Joe Martin's speech after his election as permanent chairman was, "We have come cf age. In our maturity, with the help of God, let us greet the future." Martin turned a round and there, facing him, was Herbert Hoover. Man who did most to spoil Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg's can didacy was Sen. Vandenberg himself. When ho isued a perr'ectlv meaningless 13-line rtatement after arrival in Philadt Iphia. it w as shown to one of his most ardent backers. This politician real th; statement grimly, paced the floor of his hotel rocrr. a couple of times and then remarked, "Did you ever hear about the country girl?" When asked, "Which one?" he replied, "The one who was so damn coy she nevei did get kissed." Dirtiest crack heard at the convention. "Well, were goir.z tr get rid of the haberdasher, all right, by turning the store ever to a model out of the window." they offered to lease the line to j Once, however, in the ea: the Erie in return for a guaran- j 1940s', the stockholders agreed teed annual return of six Der cent ' make a concession to the Er to of the capitalization. The Erie agreed and a lease was signed running until 2051. Since then the Erie has had all the responsibility, and the R. & G. V. stockholders have just col lected dividends. They allowed the interest rate to be lowered to four per cent. Picacho Peak in southern Ari zona is the site of the only battle of the Civil War fought in Ari zona. 4' FELDHOUSEN'S Real Estate LOANS! 4y2 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment. Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. Double Stamp Day Specials Prices Good for Wednesday, June 30th, Double Stamps on All Purchases of $1.00 and Over. 29c Size Saccharine Tablets, 2 or 30c $1.25 Size Rosemary Cologne, 2 or . .$1.25 Epsom Salts, 5-lbs 29c In Nursery Glass Cotton Applicator 39c 50c Size Nursola, Antacid Powder . . . 29c 35c Size Cleaning Fluid, 2 or 35c Waxtex, Wax Paper 19c SI. 25 Size Hem Toilet Soap, Box 75c POc Size Assorted Talcums. 2 or 60c SI RfrSrerator Deodorant Airtone. 2 for 69c FELDH0USEN DRUGS "Your Friendly Drug Stor" Rrmcr II Your PrescriDtions Phone 6117 Walter H. Harold R. Smith & Lebens Attorneys-at-Law Donat Bldg. - Plattsmouth BOYS' SHIRTS! Having decided henceforth to handle only KAYNEE boys shirts, we are clearing our stock of all other brands. Beginning Tuesday morning, June 29th, and until they are all gone we will sell these shirts at two ridiculously low prices. 4c 9 and These shirts consist of both long and short sleeve styles in plains and plaids. The sizes are broken but range from age 2 to 14 years. Some of . them sold as high as S2.95. They are all perfect no seconds. It is almost unbelievable that right now when prices are high that you can provide for back-to-school needs at these prices, but we are deter mined to affect a speedy clearance to make room for our new Fall line of KAYNEES. Come early and get first choice. All sales final and strictly cash. ALSO BOYS' POLO KNIT AGSC0WS OUR STORE CLOSED ALL DAY 5HIKT549 ' muP(UA, JULI aln SINCE 1879