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CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper SECTION 2 TTME CPtLATTTSiMldDtUTrtH JdDlUTOAtL LTTITEn PRESS SERVICE NEA TELEPIIOTO -A' t f , J I- r U H t f i The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published fml-weklv, Mondavs and Thura 4iyi, at 409-413 Main Street. 1'Uttsmouth. Cat Coutitv, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising Manager Helen E. Heinrirh. News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Surjerintendent 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 outsidp the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts month, 15 cents for two weeks. Fntered at the TVistoff loe. at Plattsmouth, Nebraska a reoond class mull matter in a c rorlnnre with the Act of Congresa of March S. 1879. EDITORIALS ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING? NeUhcr presidential convention produced any important surprises. Governor Dewey moved to the iop of the GOP list when he beat Stassen in Oregor. His organization made those of the other hopefuls look woefully amateurish, and he was clear!" the logical choice. The stop-Truman move ment within the Democratic party was nofc'y, but it nevor controlled many votes, and when Eisen hower refused unequivocally to run it promptly died. The vice-presidential selections came pretty close to being non-controversial. Governor War ren is a magnetic figure, with a remarkable re cord of vote-getting in the important state of California. Senator Barkley has performed ardu ous anJ faithful service, and the delegates obvi ously wished to honor him. The platforms, like the keynote and nominat ing speeches, were exactly what were to be ex pected. They were designed to offer something to everybody and, so far as is humanly possible, to off-?nd nobody. Couched in general terms for the most part, they are subject to practically any interpretation. In this connection, it would be interesting to know just how many voters' pay attention to the platforms anyway. Certainly, they are completely over-shadowed by the state ments and personalities of the contenders. All ef the commentators reported that a pall of glo m overhung the Democratic conclave. The party leaders were going through -the motions out of necessity. Delegates wandered out while the speeches' were going on. The spectators' seats were only partly filled. More important, the ma chine leaders the men who run the vital state and city organizations and g-et the vote out were conspicuous by their absence. They were always present, certain of victory, in Roosevelt's day. The Republicans, on the other hand, were jubilant when they met in the same hall. They were cbviously convinced that after 16 years of starvation they were at last in sight of the prom ised land. All the polls bear them out in this so far though it's a long time until November. And most ni the commentators are writing as if the election were over, and Dewey is about to enter the White House. WHY TOLERATE COMPULSION? The last Congress did not act on the proposal to saddle the country with compuls'ory sickness insurance a project which would add five or six billion dollars year to the social security bill cf the American people through more de ductions from payroll checks. But that does not mean the scheme is dead. The forces behind it are vocal and well organized, and it is to be ex pected that they will work harder in the future than ia the past. There might be some justification for political domination of medicine if it were the only way to safeguard our national health. But every ob jective survey yet made shows that the health standards of our people are among the best on earth, and are steadily improving. Again, com pulsory sickness insurance might be justifiable if there were no other way to prepare ourselves for meeting unexpected doctor and hospital bills. But the voluntary plans of which the largest now ho" more than 30,000,000 members have brought this protection within the reach of almost all workers and their families at a remarkably moderate cost. And the fact that the various plans are competing for clients assures that the widest range of benefits at the lowest price is provided. We must realize that the next logical step be yond compulsory health insurance would be socialized medicine. That view has been express ed by Senator Morse and others in high positions who have made a study of it. And every country which has tried socialized medicine has run into the same trouble. The overall cost of medical care has gone up while the standards of medi cal service have gone down. What else can be expected when the doctor is subjected to the politician and the bureaucrat? The examples' of other nations should alone be sufficient to block every scheme that would endanger free medicine in this country. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Mr. rnd Mrs. Lester Barkus and daughter Bon nie Jean of San Bernardino, California were guests at the Frank L. Barkus home . . . Viva Palmer entertained at a miscellaneous shower for Mis Lucille Case . . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Furse's Fresh Flashes One way to put a lasting finish on your car is try to beat the train to the crossing. Right now the average man is boss in his own home the wife is away on vacation. Columbus sailed from Europe 456 years ago. Smart man. Some of the summer styles are so sensible we don't expect them to last long. When all the people who don't vote in the com ing elections are placed in one group, they'll start criticising the candidate elected. It's twice as easy to start doing nothing as it is to stop. Amor.g the other good reasons for keeping your temper is that nobody else wants any part of it. Gardens are swell examples if you expect to make anything out of them you have to get out and dig. Heard this one the other day: Mama Skunk was worried because she could never keep track of her two children. They were named In and Out. And whenever In was in, Out was' out. One day she called Out in and told him to go out and bring In in. So Out went out and in no time at allLrought In in. "How," said Mama Skunk, "in all this great forest, could you find In in so short a time?" "It wus easy," said Out. "In stinct." Cloidt and daughters returned from a trip to Canada and the Pacific Northwest . . . Ruth Chaoma-:, head of the children's home in Chicago was a pjest of her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Chapman of Nehawka . . . John Rishel and Bill Rosencrons returned from' a vacation at Estes Park. TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO Kenneth Katterson, well known clerk at Platts mouth State Bank, resigned to accept position as assistant cashier at First State Bank in Gothen burg . . . Neighborhood in section of city on MarbV and Rock streets stirred up by visit of a "Peeper" . . . Sheriff Bert Reed reported recov ery of ;.n expensive four passenger Studebaker coupe found abandoned near South Bend, with no clues to ownership . . . Fire Chief Sandin sub mitted flattering report to city council of local fire fighters work for year . . . Miss Mathilde Soennichsen accompanied by Miss Martha Jep. son of Omaha visited in the cast on a combined pleasure and business trip . . . Mrs'. C. A. Young and BKiy returned to Dayton, Ohio following a visit with Mrs. Young's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Seybert. EVIDENTLY THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN SIGNS 3 LETTER BOX THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEW! I-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, July 20, 1943 . PAGE OXE ft I f fact, the Japs floated them all the way across the Pacific to Wash ington and Oregon. Their bal loons, however, carried missiles of death, these would carry mes sages of friendship. have been reading newspaper columns for years, but yours to day, suggesting using our B-29s to carry leaflets to the Russian people so impressed me that I I am writing rnv first letter to a This columnist holds no brief I columnist . . . L. R. Dillingham, for any particular means of j Portland, Ore. Your suggestion reaching the Russian people. If any other way is better than balloons, fine. But I do maintain that as a nation we are doing al most nothing to get behind the relative to the friendship bal loons is a grand idea, especially if they were carrying such arti cles as you mention. It's these simple, convincing things that Iron Curtain and show the Rus-j reach the heart of mos; people. The general tendency of all peo- sian people that we are not what the Moscow propagandists Say we are. until we nave some pies is friendliness M. S. Rackett, Richmond, Va. This Br WtW PBAKSOV (Copyright, 1948, by The' Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: U. S. WITHDRAWAL FROM BERLIN WOULD RUIN CHANCE OF REBUILDING WESTERN GERMANY, BUSINESS ENTERPRISE THERE DISCOURAGED BY RUSSIANS, SAYS AMB. ROBERT MURPHY; U. S. PUBLIC FAVORS GETTING INFORMATION TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE VIA BALLOONS OR ANY OTHER WAY. WASHINGTON. When General Lucius Clay testified before a closed-door ses'sion of the house foreign affairs committee regarding Berlin, he was asked a question about the reconstruction of Germany Before Clay could reply, Ambassador Robert Murphy, state department representative in Germany, interrupted to answer for him. Unfortunately, Murphy said, it was impossible to get private capital interested in Germany. Though the banks are full of money, everyone in Europe fears that when the United States moves out of "Western Germany the Russians will move in, Murphy said. That would mean the confisca tion of all private property. Ambassador Murphy gave this' as one of the chief reasons why the United States could not leave P.orlin new. "If we pull out of Berlin," Murphy told the congressmen, "People will say 'that is exactly what will happen in Western Germany later;' It would undermine all confidence in us." When a German sets up a business' enterprise in the American zone of Germany even today. Murrjhy told the congressmen, a Russian agent is certain to come around and discreetly warn that 'f he continues his operation he will be put down' in the Soviet Black Book. And when American troops move out and Russia moves' in, he is told that he will be liquidated. Genrial Clay concurred With Murphy that this psychological factor was one of the biggest rea sons why the United States had to stay in Berlin. To withdraw would mean the end of whatever confidence the U.S.A. had built up in Western Germany. HOW TO PENETRATE fRON CURTAIN General public reaction to the idea of going over the head of the Kremlin by floating weather balloons from France and Germany over Russia with messages and gifts to the Russian people has been favorable. Government reaction has been reasonable favorable though slow. Both government and private meterological ex perts' agree that the wind currents make the floating of such balloons entirely feasible. In brake on the Kremlin to prevent! letter is being written simply to it from declaring war overnight say that I approve most heartily there will always be danger of ; of 'the line you are taking-. Far war. That brake must be the Russian people. Anyway here is a cross section of mail showing how the Ameri can people feci about it. BALLOONS TO RUSSIA Arthur B. Borden, Borden Mills, Inc., New York Thanks for your open letter to Secretary for Air Symington re informa tion to Russian people. Having from thinking you are "a terrible bore on the subject," I for one thrill with enthusiasm when you come out with these admirably constructive ideas. . . . Roy B. Mus"kegon, Mich. To me this is a wonderful idea and one that our government should get be hind. I am just an average citi zen, neither a pacifist nor a warmonger, perfectly willing to fight if it is necessary, but hop- The Journal weli nmcs letters from nsxleis for this column on nnv ul.iect. Your n;im must be siirn'(l to all articles ii'teiulei for milil i a t ion. Iinwcvfi'. liv reiiuost. it :n ie omittil from the leltf-r a Jif-;i ! i nsr in print. Contents ilo not no-'f ss.i t il v cxiu pss the opin ions of this nvn'siiauer.) z 1 General Le Mav both in India I in and for peaCC and Guam believe his' boys could really do the job you suggest. The Borden Mills, Inc., of 90 Worth Street Would Ban Unlocked Cars NEW YORK (U.R) Instances of New York City, ! teen-age children stealing unlock- would like to make a cloth con- ecj automobiles increased to a tribution . . . Mrs. Herman H. j point where Justice I. Montefiore Hardison, Bat Cave, N. C at Levy iof the Bronx children's last here is a powerful suggestion , rotI1.t nSkPH thp ritv council to of how we may perhaps prevent j Dass an 01-dinance making it a , irgs Bonds Division not only dur . l r- i - . . i i i ing tne war years, Dut m tne three peace-time years that have TREASURY DEPARTMENT U. S. Savings Bonds' Division July 26, 1948 Mr. R. R. Furse Plattsmouth Journal Plattsmouth. Nebraska Dear Mr. Furse: During the past seven years, since the Savings Bond Program was first started in Nebraska, it has been my pleas'ant duty as Deputy Director to work closely with your newspaper and with other members of the newspaper fraternity in Nebraska. On August 1, I am resigning my position with the Treasury Department's U. S. S a v i ngs Bonds Division to accept a posi tion in civil life as Field Director of Te Deum International, with headquarters' in Springfield, HI. I would be remiss if I did not thank you personally and your entire staff for the very excellent publicity in your news and advertising columns which you extended to the Treasury's Sav WASHINGTON COLUMN Third Parties Usually Collapse As Others Adopt Their Planks BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent vVASHINGTON (NEA) What comes out of the Third Party con " vention at Philadelphia will be worth watching. Not that there . fs any danger of a "Stop Henry Wallace" or a "Stop Glen Taylor" movement developing. The ticket of the agriculturist and the guitar player or is it a banjo? is sure to win. ... , . . The things worth, listening to will be the voices of protest what the delegates and the witnesses before the third party's platform committee will be crying about. r Third parties aren't anything novel, although Henry Wallaces movement is treated like something brand new. There have been half a dozen third parties since the Civil War. Their histories have been remarkably the same. All were born out of protest over existing conditions. All were started by theorists or reformers. They made their compfaints heard. Then the things they wete shouting for were absorbed-or adapted by one or the other of the major parties. Then the third parties died. The Greenback party of the 1870's was built around bankrupt Jfarmers who wanted monetary relief. The party reached its peak in , 1880, when its platform called for women's suffrage and federal income taxes. Both were adopted in Woodrow Wilson's time. The Populist Party of the 1890's advocated, among other things, the establishment of government crop loans. They were realized by the AAA and the CCC of the New Deal. ; DOMESTIC policies that the Wallace party spellbinders have been complaining about thus far in their campaign include civil rights, high prices, housing, the Taft-Hartley act. It is noteworthy that both Democratic and Republican platforms, 'adopted recently at Philadelphia, include civil rights planks, with the' GOP being much more specific. The Democratic platform also called lor repeal of the Taft-Hartley act, increased minimum wage standard and social security, better housing legislation and the return of controls, over inflation. ' To the extent that the coming Special session of Congress takes action on all these issues, it will be adopting or adapting Wallace party, objectives. The effect will be to cut down the third party vote. ' The Third Party platform planks on foreign policy are apt to be a queer confusion. Wallace's rallying cry is "Peace." But his appeal is to the pacifists who are opposing universal military training, the Jews who don't like Truman's record" on Palestine, and the Com- 'munists who don't like the present bi-partisan policy on Soviet Russia. T AST May, CIO President Phil Murray charged that the U. S. Com--Ll munist Party was directly responsible for starting the Third Party movement. This charge has never been denied. It has been substanti ated by statements in the New York Daily Worker, which is sup porting the Wallace candidacy. And, according to short wave broad casts in English to the U. S. from Moscow, the Third Party is sweeping the country in protest against the two older parties. ; Actually, political leaders are now far less afraid of the Third Party movement than they were several months ago. At that time, there was some prospect that the Wallace movement was supported by 10- cn nnn nnn 1:nfr: vnnrfrl in fn in tho noils this vear. But new estimates put his following at about 5 per cent, or 2,500,000 'votes. That's still enough to swing the election. '; - But, as of July 1, the Third Party had been certified on the ballot in only eight states. It has been barred in three and is awaiting certification in six more. Wallace and Taylor may not be on the ballot in half the states, although at the Third Party convention in Philadelphia, all or tne iv states win ce enuuea w ien up iu delegates and one alternate for each of the 531 U. S. electoral votes. That's to fill up the hall and make it look like a big show. another war showing our:tr:,ff: ,.:iat;n fnf Q mrtnrict tn strength, but, with that strength ! leave an unoCcupied car with the getting- to the Russian people with mess'ages containing facts about our country, and letting them know of our latent friend-; ship . . . Emerson Rupert, con-1 sultant, Bradenton, Fla. I agree heartily with your ideas on reaching the Russian people . directly. Your current suggestion can be followed up with a dy namic program to sell peace, democracy and freedom to all men. We've got to exert every possible effort to avoid war . . . Edward Nielsen, Cozad. Neb. Your letter to Stuart Symington is bes't suggestion for peace I have yet heard. I am sure if the Russian people understood us, they would not fight us. If I can help you in any way, I will! . . . H. A. Smith,. 226 S. W. 5th Ave.. Miami, Fla. A good big crowd i of us have just finished reading your piece in Tuesday night's "Miami Herald" and it's a cork er. If our fellows have got rnmirik rr . . r ' U : 11 i"uuf;u SUlo, nicy win piuiuu , supply those "free" gifts from tuose swell firms that offered them, load those planes and do exactly as you described . . -Robert B. Flanders, North Attle- boro, Mass. very rarely do I feel as much moved as' I was by j your recent column in the form, of an open letter to Secretary j Symington. You might just pos- j s'ibly be interested in the fact that I read it in Joe Martin's, own newspaper The North At tleboro Chronicle. It is most heartwarming to have it publi-' cized that the so-called "war- j monger Industrialists" are will ing to be so generous' for the cause of peace. Keep pounding on that theme. .-. . Arnold J. ' Nelson, Washington, D. C. I ignition key in the dashboard. In bidding you farewell, may I express the hope that you will continue to support the U. S. Savings Bonds program in the fine way which you have during the past seven years. I also hope; that the fine relationships which , have existed between your news-; paper and our office will con tinue in the years that lie ah-jad. Sincorelv vours. STEVE SPITZNAGLE Deputy Director for Nebraska Use Journal Want Ads followed. I DO TOO DRINK ROBERTS Certainly they drink ROBERTS. Their mothers insist on the very best when these children drink milk. 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