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CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper N SECTION 2 UNITED PRESS SERVICE NEA TELEPIIOTO .' I H ' f i : v J I! ' I i A .1 i 1 I y -i u 1 H f The Plattsmoulh Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 PuMistifd ml-wklv, Mnndava and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Pass Poiintv. Nebraska. 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 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. Entered at the Postofftoe at Plattsmouth. Nebraska a eernrul class mall matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congre of March . 1879. EDITORIALS PORTRAIT OF A TYPICAL AMERICAN For the typical American who boasts he's a typical American, Dr. George Gallup, tireless tester of the nation's tastes, has presented his vo luminous' findings on what eleven years of poll taking revealed about the species homo Ameri canus. Ninety-six per cent believe in God, 76 per cent in life after death, half go to church, and one-third say grace. Thirty-eight per cent are very happy, 57 per cent fairly happy, 4 per cent unhappy, and 1 per cent don't know. Th? average male is 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 158 pounds, likes bes't to watch baseball and basketball, spends fifteen minutes traveling 2 miles to work, gambles occasionally, and says he losos more than he wins. Six-tenths prefer brunettes, only three-tenths blondes, the res't redheads. The typical male thinks married men are happier than bachelors. To him, a wife's most important qualities aie not beauty, but good companionship, intelligence, and homemaking talent. He complains that mo dern girls kiss and pet too much before marriag?, thinks women nag too much, and opposes' the idea of a woman President. The typical female is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighi 132, swims and walks for exercise, plays cards for fun, thinks s"he eats too much for her health, wishes her husband wouldn't drink so much, wants to be her husband's partner in household finances, and prefers marriage to a career. She would excise the word "obey" from the marriage ceremony but wants' deferential courtesies from men. To her, a husband's most important qualities are kindness, good temper, and consideration. She wishes her husband would be more roman tic after marriage and would shave more regu larly, but thinks' it's silly for him to kiss her hand. She also hopes her husband will help take care of the three children she wants. They go to bed at 10 p.m. on week nights and 11 p.m. on Saturdays', fall asleep easily and get uo at 6:30 a. m. on weekday and 8 a. m. on Sundays. WHAT ABOUT YALTA? There has been a considerable tendency on the part of critics' to denounce the agreements made with the Russians at Yalta by the late President Roosevelt. It is fairly easy, of course, to denounce the pacts when one forgets the cir cumstances under which they were made. burner Secretary of State James' F. Byrnes, referring to the Yalta Agreements, says there was 'nothing wrong" and that "the Soviet Union later made a mockery" of them. Mr. Byrnes says that a realistic approach to the agreements reveals that the Soviet Union pot very little that it was not able to take "without agreements." In view of the course followed by the So viet Union since the end of the war in Eastern Europ?, it is evident that Mr. Byrnes speaks the truth. When the United States withdrew its soldiers from Europe, in response to the almost hysterical demand from the homefront, it left the Russians in a position to do what they pleased, agreement or no agreement. IS YOUR JOB RIGHT? Speaking of the road to success, Lorin F. Deland, noted advertising man, once made this" comment: "Neither enterprise, nor thrift, nor industry, nor sagacity, nor courage, nor all of these qualities combined, can supply the place left vacant by imagination." When a man is in the wrong job, each day's work is a distasteful chore. His imagination stifled: he is not inspired to think creatively about his work, and consequently he does not originate ideas that might increase his useful ness. He is wasting- his capabilities as well as his chances for success. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Miss Vestetta Robertson entertained for a from Lincoln for a vacation trip that took her to Banff in Canada; she also visited at Vancouvfr and Seattle . . . Work was begun on a new firo station at the south end of the city hall . . . Director C. A. Marshall presented the Platts mouth Legion drum corps' of some thirty-eight uniformed members in an exhibition drill . . . Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Evers took a carload of Boy Scouts to court of honor in Lincoln. The group consisted of George Jacobs, Robert Grassman, Robert Webb and Raymond Evers, all advanced to second class stouts . . . Mrs. William Wol- Furse's Fresh Flashes Senator Barkley closed his speech at the Convention Monday night with a prayer. We've always thought the Democrats s'nould do a little praying, but whether they've started soon enough only the November elections will tell. A local little girl after her first trip tc church says she liked the music very much, but she thought the commercial was a little long. The human goose keeps' on growing a fresh crop of feathers no matter how often he gets skinned. "I'll bet you wouldn't marry me," a local young swain said to his best girl here a few years ago. Well, she called his bet and raised him five. Poli Lies' makes strange bedfellows they say, but we've noticed they all soon get used to the same bunk. Under present conditions about the only thing that is holding us on this earth is the law of gravity. We don't know how they held on be fore the law was passed. A wife is' not experienced until she can tell whether her husband is pouting about something or just trying to be dignified. Business g-sts cold feet, labor gets hot headed anti the consumer gets the chills. cott and daughter, Helen, entertained for group of members of the class of 1933 at a party at their home. TWENTY ONE YEARS AGu Miss Westetta Robertson entertained for a number of school friends n honor of her house gues't, Miss Brownie Bess Bergquist of Omaha and Josephine McKarron of St. JosJph . . . Ghrist & Ghrist, local furniture dealeir, shipped a load of furniture to Crete to be used in one of the summer cottages there . . . The Murray Bathing Beach was a popular spot for old and young during the heat spell . . ; William Weber. Jr., foreman of local machine shops' of the Bur lington, was transferred to the shops at Aurora, Illinois . . . The South Omaha area of Eagles prepared tract of land near La Platte for a sum mer camp. e VMK6T0S" fc2mar-0-Regno By DUW FKAKSOV (Copyright. 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: ANTI-TRUMAN PLOTTERS' PHILADELPH IA HOTEL ROOM FILLED WITH COCA COLA BOTTLES. NOT, CIGAR SMOKE: TRUMAN'S NOMINATION MEANS VOTES FOR WALLACE; JOE DANIELS' 1944 DES CRIPTION OF DEMOCRATS EXPLAINS PARTY'S CONFUSION TODAY Sort of Took the Spring Out of the Springboard SSL en 1- w u-p jy I7t :s cautiously caued fcr tv tr.e ballot?" He asked, adding that Jimmy Roosevelt had called him to ask that he get a petition signed for Truman in California. . "I had to rut 16 men on the; job and it took several days." ; explained Di Silva. "I don't) deal with politicians or rich peo-, pie. I deal with workers, and I can tell you they're against j Truman." j Also present was Leonard Finder, New Hampshire publish-: er and initial booster of General Eisenhower. "I sDeak as- an independent Republican, not as a delegate, and as one who carried the flag for General Eisenhower as long as it could be carried." Finder told the Democrats. "I know WASHINGTON t REPORT Howard Buffer! Congressman, 2nd Nebraska District The 1947 World Almanac esti mates the population of the world to be 2 billion, 151 million peo ple. The U. S. Army and Navy together now have on hand ' around 12 million tons of ammu nition. Measured in pounds these i stocks come to 24 billion pounds, ' nr ahnut 11 mnnri? rtf ammiini- that I am speaking for thousands tkm for e human being on . earth. These supplies of ammunition j would seem to be sufficient to blow every person on earth into eternity with enough left over 1 to take a good whack at Mars ton supply of other explosives. Military appropriations for the current year are equal to U. S. military spending for 18 years ending July 1, 1939. Does this colossal war preparation plus peacetime conscription indicate that America is moving into mili tarism? "We oppose militarism. It means conquest abroad and in timidation and oppression at home. It means the strong arm which has been ever fatal to free institutions. It is what millions I of our citizens have fled from in i Europe." Democratic National Platform, 1900. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, July 15, 1948. PAGE ONE WASHINGTON COLUMN 30th Congress' UN Support Leaves Much to Be Desired BY TETER EDSOn' " NEA Washington Correspondent TTASHINGTON (NEA) Whet the last Ccr.re?S Cld to the United " Nations was both good and bad.cnrefsrr.ca siiU view LTi with fishy eyes. " . Most important favorable action was Ser.ete passsfe cf the V--denberg resolution, reaffirming U. S. intent to wcik for pcce thrcurh UN. Being just a Senate action not requiring a vcte by the House nor signing by the President, the Vandenberg resolution is ret law. But it is an important policy statement. It tacks up Jie PrciIe-t. State Department and U. S. mission to UN. Ultimate revision cf the UN charter Vandenberg resolution if other, voluntary means for ending Uie cZ the veto on international dispute cases and admission c r.ew rr.e fcers do not prove successful. Main purpose cf the Vandenberg refdu-cn. however, is to let the world know that the Senate is behind all e.Toru to promote regional security pacts and disarmament, vhIe at trie lame time strengthening the United Nations world police fcrce. ' "DECORD of the last Congress falls short cf this goal. Cct.ttss x provided enough money over $13,000,000 for the U. S. share of UN expenses It provided another million plus for pay cf the U. S. mission to the UN now numbering 183. Congress failed, Lcwever. to authorize appointment of another U. S. deputy to serve cn the Security Council with Ambassador Austin and Dr. Philip C. Jessuy. Congress also failed to complete action on a $65,000,003 ncn-interest loan to finance construction of new UN headquarters buildings cn tiie Rockefeller-donated site in New York. ' Toward auxiliary organizations cf the United Nations, the Ccrrec3 showed pretty general indifference, if rot outright distrust. -- After much pressure upon it, Congress approved U. S. ifflllitrcn With the World Health . Organization. However, three reitr.ct.e conditions were tied on to the measure. - Congress also tied conditions onto U. S. participation in the l-sr national Children's Emergency Fund relief work. Last year Ccr.freiS gave ICEF $40,000,000. This year Congress was asked for SSO.QCU,0CJ more. It cut this to $35,000,000, specifying that none cf this mo.-ey could be spent behind the iron curtain. It also provided that ether countries would have to put up $23 for every $72 put up by the U. S. For International Refugee Organization, Congress also d-d scm e fancy cutting It provided $70,000,000 for the U. S. share, with ether countries putting up $54.25 for every $45.75 from the U. S. Ar.cther qualification was that only 60 per cent of the U. S. funds could fce spent unless the diet in the refugee camps was reduced. W7T1ETHER any of' these limitations on an international sger.cy ty the U. S. Congress can be made binding is a question no cne can now answer. . , "4 j Congress also' refused to ratify a convention cn privileges an.? In- munities for officials of other governments serving the UN in the U. S. ; Authority to loan U. S. government technical experts to UN organi zations also failed to get action. " ' - Revisions in the International Labor Organization charter were approved, but some of the ILO conventions were not ratified. U. S. membership in an Intergovernmental Llaritime Ccnrul re organization was not acted on. - An international wheat agreement which would have set tcr sr.cl bottom prices for the principal exporting and importing nations faIecl to get action. As a result, the cost of Marshall PLn relief purchases of wheat is expected to be increased. 'w Charter of the new International Trade Organization was net rub mitted to Congress for ratification this year. That, the UN buiidir! fund loan and many cf the otber matters which could nxA. be ccn- sidered will be up before the next Congress. " of independent voters when I say that if the Democrats nomi nate Harry Truman they will forfeit any chance of winning independent Republican votes." josephus DaJiiels' Diagnosis Out of Old Nebraska By James C. Olson Superintendent, State Historical Society Nebraska's present day prob- PHILADELPHIA. The smoke-filled room tht put Harry Truman into the White House was Ed Flynn'-, suite at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago in 1944. The so-called smoked-fiUed room "tha tried to take Harry Truman out of the White House in 1948" was the club room at the Drake Hotel in Philadelphia. Only it was filled with Coca-Cola bottles' rather than cigar smoke. In Chicago, Mayor Kelly of Chicago, Mayor Hague of Jersey City, Ed Flynn of the Bronx and Bob Hannegan gathered to chart the Truman strategy, and to talk long distance to FDR on his special train enroute west. In Philadelphia, Kelly, Ffynn. Haguk? and Hannegan were all unhappy about Truman's in sistence that he run again. But the real plotting against Truman was chartered by Bill Ritchie of Nebraska, Harry Carlson of New Hampshire, Barnet Hodes of Chicago, August Scholle of Michigan, Carl Rice of Kansas, Senator Claude Pepper of Florida. George Gooch of Florida, and Jack Kroll of Ohio. Whereas the pro-Truman bigwigs met late at night and in strictest secrecy at the Blackstone. the anti-Truman plotters at Philadelphia met with half a dozen newsmen banging on the door demanding to be let in. They were not ad mitted. Bill Ritchie, Democratif National Chairman from Nebraska, presided. He said he was tired of "phantom candidates," such as Eisenhower, and wanted one he knew was ready and willing to ru'i. ' Jimmy Roosevelt's representatives Irving Schuman and Joe Di Silva reported that Jim my had phoned Justice Douglas asking him to run not for vice president but for president and had urged Douglas to make a forthright state ment publicly that he would resign from the court. "WHY PICK A LOSER? Several present did not think Douglas would do that, and meanwhile they proposed Senator Pepner of Florida. "Truman's renommation without a fight guarantees' another 5.000.000 votes to Henry Wallace," warned Jack Kroll, head of CIO-PAC, who is also a delegate from Ohio. 'The party is certain to lose with Truman." he continued "so why pick a loser?'' The only man willing to run who could take several million votes away from Wallace, Kroll continued, is Claude Pepper. "The Democratic Party will be out of power for at least twenty years," Kroll warned, "if Truman goes unchallenged." Joe Di Silva of California agreed. "Why nominate a guy that you couldn't get enough names on petitions for to get him on the The late much-loved Josephus j or the Moon. In 1939, however, iCm of providing an adequate our ammunition supplies were highway system is in a sense but Daniels. Woodrow Wilson s sec retary of the Navy gave this description of the Democratic Party in 1944: "We are a party of minorities'. There is the south, where the party is the strong est. Yet no southerner can be elected President. One of the biggest Democratic groups is the Catholics, yet no Catholic can be President. Another group is the Jews, and no Jew can s'it in the White House. Finally there are the Negroes', and they are excluded from being Presi den. Thank God." concluded Daniels, "for Franklin D. Roose velt." That description explains the confusion at Philadelphia, for Roosevelt is no more. Merry Go-Round First thing the South Caroli na Democrats aid wnen tney moved into the Philadelphia Ho tel was" to rip down all pictures of Truman and hoist the South Carolina State flag instead . . . Democratic leaders tell you on the Q. T. that Truman will swing more than a million votes to Henry Wallace in New York State alone. The right-wing li beral r'arty in New York will do its best for Truman but won't be able to stop the overwhelming tide to Wallace . . . Frank Pa lumbo, Philadelphia restaurateur, was the height of hospitality to the Democrats. . He also bought an airplane, which he placed at the disposal of delegates for emergency trips home . . . .Af ter the Eisenhower boom fell to pieces, South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston coined this phrase to prescribe the confusion: "Or ganize inertia." Jut An Ex-Cabineteer One prominent convention delegate is popular ex-Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson As soon as the land wa3 occu- 1 pied settlers began forming their I own rosds, thus providing means j of communication with their neighbors, the village and the various territorial roads. These roads ran along section lines, which were designated road ways in the Federal survey act di viding the land into townships and counties. Until the coming of the auto mobile the railroad served the primary means of through trun nn that is, we didn t have any. Yet some folks claim that our national defenses are like 1939. In World War II Allied Air Forces did a pretty thorough job of wrecking Germany, Japan, and way stations enroute. Most of UtV. l V-iliVS Ail HIWC 1U11UO v x i v. largely reduced to rubble, rats an extension and an aggravation of a problem which has existed since the beginning of white settlement on these plains. American explorers discovered very early that if they were go- I ina tr not ihrnilfrh the central e t portion of the Trans-Missouri west they would have to go on portaticn. Thus, tr.fcie was no particular need f.r additional through routes. The automobile, however, changed the picture, making through routes as well as improved and highly expensive local roads an absolute necessity. J in, v j j hand: the rivers simply weren't , -jr.- r 'suited to navigation. Out of tms only required a fraction of our i .... , . - .M 4. tn , rru condition developed the great present ammunition stocks. The . , . ., u-u ZiA f , , 4 , overland trails which carried entire bomb tonnage used in The L, j 4V, ,.v, iu v. thousands of wagons through the Platte Valley to California, Ore gon and Utah. The valley itself served as the highway and the all Allies was 3.356.400 tons. That was the total for 6 vears of war. 7 j- - , , .heavy wagons ground ruts into are not directly comparable be-", Y . ?u ,6 , bombs but also all ether ammu- Sometimes the actual roadwav was hundreds of nition. Yet the atomic bomb is 1 feet wide as successive waves of not included. It may be as des- ! grants sought to avoid the ruts tructive as our whole 12 million ant in charge read out the car assignments he made no mention of Anderson. "Well, Clint," quipped Secre tary Symington, "here's where you find out you're not a cabinet member any more." The Illinois' convention train, dubbed the "Eisenhower Spe cial." was about as cood as its 1 of Turtle Hill river. dug by their predecessors. Shortly after the territory of Nebraska was created the Federal Government provided for a num ber of through roads. One of these was to lead from Omaha to Fort Kearny, another was to ernnect Ihe Platte and Runninf Water (Niobrara) rivers. Still another was to run from Omaha to Virginia City. Montana by wav These roads This Summer... Visit the , Chicago Railroad Fair! -July 20 through Labor Dayl .A -1 r V candidate, arrived seven hours not all of them completed late . . . Chicago's ex-Mayor Ed ! wre desiened primarily from Kelly claims to have a $300 "atomic medical gadget" which will cure anything from rheu matism to gallstones . . . One newsman, reporting the dullness of the convention, wired his edi tor: "I hope you won't deduct my time here from my vaca tion." When Clint Anderson was military considerations. The local interests of the sett lers were looked after by the territorial legislature, which in its first session in 1855 made pro vision for towrshin. countv, and territorial roads. Under this lej ilation 10 territorial roads, total- i Unrt Qnnrftviniatplv 75) miles Secretary of Agriculture, he gave ! desif,nated. These were to an occasional riae in nis govern-1 ment car to one of his assistants , cxistence and the Charles Brannan Now that , . whifh the Brannan is Secretary of Agri-! , . , , , , , . . , now running for the senate from , culture, Anders'on promotes rides i naa aeMgnau Hew ; fr(1m u;c enrrpar Th el ' lJf In addition, the legislature iNew Mexico. Anaeison new frorn hjs successor from Washington to Philadelphia . Bellevue-S'ratford Hotel offered with a group of his old cabinet ; the Democrats a giant rubber j sought to imornve transnorta colleagues, including- Attorney ; donkey inflated by compressed ' tion by encouraging individuals General Tom Clark. Secretary of ; air in rfemmte thf hotel marouee. ! to establish ferries across the the Treasury John Snyder, Sec- . gut tv,e Democrats, mindful of retary of Agriculture Charles j how the G.O.P. elephant was Brannan, and Secretary for j repeatedly deflated by smolder Air Stuart Symington. i ing cigarette butts, declined with The group was met at thew thanks. Instead, the Democrats' Philadelphia airport by a police t trotted out a papier mache don- more imnortant streams. Ferry corrtDanies were chartered with exclusive rieht in certain pre scribed areas. A few bridee com panies were chartered also, but bridges were looked upon as too escort and a fleet of official key with elecrtic eyes that flash i expensive ever to come into gen cars. When the police lieuten-1 on and off. ' eral use. mix. GO BURLIPl&l urv n For convenience and comfort M The thrills of 100 years of railroading . : . the scenic highlights of America you'll find them both on the breeze-swept shores of Lake iuicmgan, July 20 through Labor Day! Don't miss the Chicago Railroad Fair, 50 acres of thrills-one of the outstanding events of 1948 educational and exciting! See all these Fair features and many, many more: Wheels A-Rolling a stupendous outdoor pageant of railroading! Cast of hundreds . . . actual trains of the past and present! -J- Deadwood Central Railroad historic narrow- gauge train that you can ride through the fairgrounds! JU Big free Western rodeo show nine hours of thrills every day at the old corral! Real Western Musk! Old. Faithful Geyser an actual working model of this seeic wonder of the world with a 4-5-foot plume of water! fr Lifelike dioramas of Western wonder spots! Whn you go fo the Chicago Railroad Fair Go Burlingtottt You'll travel in eomf or!... rid. r.lax.d and arriv. r.fr.ihdl it X ; : Phone 5211 feKilt' " ' y - N JTr