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W3 4 The Plattsmouth Journal ESETABLISHED IN 18S1 PuMistio semi-wee klv. Mondavi anil Tli'irs finys. at 409-41:! Main tre-t. l'la ttsmouth, (iss Count y. N.-Urnska, RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor HAROLD TUCKER. . .Advertising Manager O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor Helen Mrasek, News and Circulation 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 mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. . Kntererl at the TVtof floe t P'nf tsmMith, Nebraska as seonil ola mail matter In nr ''"''"e with the Act of Consrress of March 3. 1879. EDITORIALS SAYS WORRIES HAVE TOO MANY OPINIONS Haying too many opinions about things can give you a headache, raise your blood m-essure a n d keep you awake nights. That's the conclusion drawn by Leonard M. Leonard in the January Journal of Liv ing. Ninety per cent of the things that bother us are usually difficulties that we develop in our minds and are not borne out by facts, electa res Mr. Leonard. Most of us tend to take simple happenings and complicate them with our opinions and that's when worry and trouble start. Should the boss forget to sav good morn ing, we beein to worry about it and before we know it, we're convinced we're about, to be fired. The actual fact may be that the boss had a dig deal on and just didn't notice us. Even on more serious occasions, we often disturb ourselves needlessly. Go ing to the hospital' for an operation is a fact. When we add our opinions such as advance fears of complications, pain and probable outcome we are putting our selves in a turmoil without actually hav nig a basis for our opinions. There are no realities which are not colored by our opinions, Mr. Leonard points out. Things are made good or bad, better or worse, by what we think of them. Envy, for example, is an opinion that someone else is better off than we are, or has what we deserve. But unless we have the facts, we are wasting perfectly good emotions. It's possible to envy the wife -of a "perfect" husband who is secretly unfaithful, or a great success who is slowly going mad. Everyone's life is a private affair. The sheerest nonsense is an envious opinion about the comparative happiness of others. It is in our power to be less disturbed by the ordinary happenings of life, says the Journal of Living article. To make life easier and help smooth out the rough spots, stick to facts instead of forming so many opinions about them. LABOR AND FREE ENTERPRISE The U. S. News recently published an interesting interview with Philip Murray, head of the CIO, in which he affirmed his opposition to socialism and said, in addi tion, that labor is a believer in the Ameri can free enterprise system. That is a worthy attitude, and Mr. Mur ray is to be congratulated for holding it. However, there are some segments of American labor whose actions are hardly designed to keep free enterprise alive, and healthy, and fully capable of meeting the needs of the public. After socialism, the worst enemy free enterprise has is monop oly. Monopoly in industry has been effec tively controlled by the anti-trust laws and other measures. But monopoly in labor has made enormous strides in recent years. Labor in the coal mines is one of the prime examples of this trend. A union with hundreds of thousands of members is dominated by a single man. That man, through the institution of industry-wide bargaining and other monopolistic tech niques, can, at his whim, shut down an enterprise upon which thousands of in dustries and millions of individual con sumers depend. He can make the most unreasonable demands on the operators, on a "take it or leave it" basis. No industrial leader has or would be allowed to have this kind of power. But a labor leader, with-a labor monopoly in a vital field, still has it. A labor monopolj or an industrial mon opoly is equally dangerous to the welfare of the country and equally dangerous to the perpetuation of free enterprise. Ulti mately, the country and Congress will learn that the only solution is to make labor subject to the same kind of anti trust laws that govern business. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Fred P. Busch, was named to presidency of Business Mens Ad Club with C. C. Wes cott, vice president and W. H. Puis treas urer. . . The farm home of Emmett Rice, southeast of Murray was robbed while f owners were absent. . . . Basketball quin ' tet of P.H.S. 1939 was composed of Robert Haves, Ronald Rebal, Warren Reed, Don ,ald Wall and John Tidball, marking an association of playing together from their tSeventh grade days for these five boys. .". . . Rt. Rev. Msgr. Geo. Agius, was hon ored on his birthday anniversary with pro- Purse's Fresh Flashes For us there's about twenty years left vet between tired and retired. People never miss money they don't see or handle.' That's why husbands and small taxpayers are so unconcerned. Just because he was nice yesterday, women and dogs expect a man to be nice evervdav. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, tells us that she intends to just throw her self away but. she added, "I expect to take prettv careful aim." M There's no such thing as an idle rumor they're alwavs busv. A local little girl tells us that her mother ! is her nearest relative and her father is the closest. -k You can't get a divorce from your hus band because he has flat feet, unless, of course, his feet visit the wrong flat. After ordering a roast beef sandwich at a local restifurant the other daw the waitress inquired whether he would eat it there or take it with him. He replied that he hoped to do both. M Saw a lost ad the other day that read "Will the gentleman who picked up the fur coat on Route 75 last night please re turn the blonde that was in it. No ques tions asked." THE $64 QUESTION il.i U " ... ft TA ; I WP r. ro.! I . m '..V;,, Ah' ?r s-. MEE? y ;&$z$rz r j ....... .. f ii ft.'n : i r---t jar : - ' . W --JID -S2S r 4.-".. ... . -sr 'i. it i THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Monday, January 17, 1949 PAGE THREE mm dedicated to him by the children of St. John's parochisl school and their in structors the Ursaline sisters. . . . Dr. A. V. Hunter D.D.. former pastor he-e. visit ed the citv in the interests of Weslevan University, serving in the capacity of field secretary. . . . January 12 marked the 51st anniversary of the Blizzard of 1888 which resulted in several deaths and losses to stock and property through the Da kotas, Nebraska and parts of Iowa. TWENTY YEARS AGO Miss Ruth Lindsay, supervisor of music in the public schools returned from a visit at Lodi, Wisconsin, her home. . . . Col. M. , A. Bates, veteran editor and commander1 of the Grand Army post of this citv, was named a member of t h e Cass County Soldier's Relief commission, to fill the two year-term of the late Thomas Wiles. . . . Co. Agent L. R. Snipes arranged a corn and hog day feature program for Febru ary 5th. . . . Adam Meisinger of Cedar Creek was given a surprise party on Janu ary 12th on the anniversary of his GOth birthday. 4c -K -K eft w A$sm- SO- ROUtlB (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: REAL ESTATE LOBBY CON COCTS NEW PROPAGANDA SCHEME; SEN. DOWNEY LOBBIES AMONG NEW CALIFORNIA COI LEAGUES: WHITE HOUSE BOYS ENCOURAGE LATIN - AMERICAN DICTATORS. WASHINGTON. The Real Estate Lobby has concocted a new unique wrinkle in propaganda letters to editors. Charles Stewart, press chief for the National As sociation of Real Estate Boards, conceived this idea for free publicity and sent it out in a confidential letter to local real estate boards. The letter urged: " 'Letters to the Editor' columns of news papers offer an opportunity to get before the public with facts that are important to public issues affecting real estate. . . . This is being overlooked as a public rela tions medium. ... "In every city where rent control pre vails, there are persons put to unreason able hardship by it. Some owners of small rental properties . . . are required to ac cept depression level rent on properties in which the tenant rents out a room or two for more than the entire maximum rent enforced by the Housing Expeditor. . . . "Unfortunately persons aggrieved in this manner are known to board members. Why not contact them and ask them to ' give the facts about their individual situ ations in their own words to editors of local newspapers?" FRENCH FRIENDSHIP In Strasbourg, France, is a small factory which makes stained-glass windows for churches. It is run by Tristan Ruhlmann, a 24-year-old Frenchman who spent most of the war fighting in the resistance move ment. After the war he started his stained-glass-window factory and, a few weeks ago, heard over the radio the story of how Frenchmen were contributing gifts to the Merci Train to thank the American people for the Friendship Train. Wrhereupon M. Ruhlmann, feeling that he had something uniquely French to offer, designed and manufactured a special stained-glass window for the American people. In the center of the window is a father showing a map of the United States to his son, while around the borders of the window are the coats-or-arms of the Alsatian Cities contributing to the Thank-You Train. -HOW TO WIN FRIENDS and Aufhor of INFLUENCE PEOPLE" i D. Carnegie Because so many French Churches had their windows de stroyed, M. Ruhlmann's factory has more orders than it can fill, but he took time to make this window for the American people. Note So many precious his torical gifts have been put a board the Merci Train that the Smithsonian Institution, custo dian of the Government's His torical Treasures, has been ask ed to help in the care and distri bution of gifts. SENATOR DOWNEY PERSEVERES Busy-as- a- bird- dog Senator Sheridan Downey, sometimes called "The Pacific Gas and Electrci" Senator from Californ ia, has been quite acuve recently re his own worries over re-election. However, he took time out the other day to do some lobby ing which won't help his elec tion changes. Downey, a likable and conviv ial Senator, n3ver has bothered too much about his own Cali fornia colleagues in the Rous? of Representatives. Scarcely ha:l two new Californians settled in their congressional offices, how ever, but they had calls from good old Sheridan about repeal ing the 160-acre limitation on water rights in central Cali fornia. Downey followed this up by taking the two new congress men Cecil White of Fresno and Clinton McKinnon of San Diego out to lunch. He made no bones about arguing that they should vote to remove the 160 acre restriction, placed on re clamation projects to help the small farmers. Congressman White happens to own 6,000 acres of California farmland. However, he told the Senior Senator from his state that he was barking up the wrong tree. Congressman Mc Kinnon feels likewise. Sheridan is a persevering gen tlemen, however. Last year he published a mysterious and ex pensively bound book called "They Would Rule the Valley" and sent it out as lobbying lit erature. The book carried no identification as to its publisher or as to who paid for its publi cation. Downey, the author, is not wealthy, and could not well afford to finance a book with nc sales value. But he never did explain who paid for this ex pensive piece of propaganda literature. MERRY-GO-ROUND It wasn't Truman's fault that the republicans weren't consult ed re the appointment of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State. The White House tried to call Senator Vandenberg of Michi gan but couldn't locate him. He was in New York at the beside of his sick wife. . . . Congress man Arthur Klein, New York Demcorat, has drafted a resolu tion asking an investigation of reports that Robert Stripling, shrewd prober for the Un-American Activities Committee, re moved confidential material from committee files to write his memoirs. Having plucked the Chambers films out of a pumr kin, Klein figures it would be just as easy for Stripling to pluck papers out of committee files. ENCOURAGING THE DICTATORS Latin-American diplomats are still talkins: about the way the Mayor of New Orleans, charm ing young De Lesseps Morrison, called at the White House sev eral weeks ago and came out to inform the press that President Truman expressed a "very friendly attitude" toward Presi dent Peron of Argentina. Sales Promotion of Waterless Cookware Success A record-breaking sales pro motion of Household Institute waterless aluminum cookware which has been in progress the past 27 weeks at the Platts mouth Hinky-Dinky store will end. Saturday (Jan. 8, it was announced today by Manager Richard W. Black. J. M. Newman, president of the company which operates food stores in Nebraska and western Iowa, said in Omaha today that the promotion has been "One of the most success ful campaigns ever conducted in the territory." By actual count, 55,680 uten sils or approximately 15 rail road carloads were purchased for the sale. There were 15 items in the line, and the two most popular pieces were the one and one-half and the three quart sauce pans, which alone accounted for 27.016 of the lales. Although the promotion ends Saturday, arrangements will be made to obtain utensils for customers who want to j finish out sets they have start- ! ed. ! The aluminumware has been offered on a card plan, which provided that for each $5 spent in a Hinky-Dinky store a cus tomer was entitled to buy a piece of cookware at a reduced price. The prices ranged from $1.39 for a frying pan to $8.95 for a four-quart pressure cook er. It was the first time that heavy waterless aluminum cookware of this quality had ever been offered on a plan of this kind in the area, and Mr. Newman said his company, is "Extremely gratified at the fine This statement sizzled down the press cables to Latin Ameri ca and was front-paged in every newspaper below the Rio Grande. Naturally, it was Manna from Heaven to the very same mili tary dictatorships President Tru man wants to discourage. What the newspapers didn't mention, however, was the fact that Mayor Morrison had been awarded the Argentine order of Liberator by President Peron; .that Mrs. Morrison had been 'given an extravagant ruby and diamond ring by Senora Peron; and that their trip had ben care fully arranged by the Argentine dictator as part of his scheme to win over the Truman admini stration. Lurking in the background of this little plot was another gentleman from New Orleans, Andrew Jackson Higgins, the boatbuilder whom Senator Tru man once championed. Higgins also took a free trip to Argentina and came back to urge closer re lations with the dictator. On top of this, Peron cleverly awarded the order of Liberator to Truman's bibulous, backslap ping military aide, Gen. Harry Vaughan, for his "constant and efficient efforts in favor of close and friendly relations." All of which leads to the con clusion that either brother Peron is a very wise guy or that the boys around the White House are awfully dumb. Net result in any event has been a lot of en couragement for Latin dictators. Note Actually, President Tru man did not encourage the May or of New Orleans regarding friendship with Dictator Peron. I He was quite cagey. response" on the part of con sumers. "In our consistent advertising of the line in The Plattsmouth Journal we said saving amount ed to 40 per cent," Mr. Newman said. "But many of our custom- I ers told us we were conserva j tive in our claim and that sav i ings were easily 50 per cent or ! even more." j By the time the promotion I ends Saturday, it is estimated that $140,000 worth of utensils will have been distributed. Without the card plan, these utensils would have sold for at least $196,000, so the savings to consumers have totaled a mini mum of $56,000, Mr. Newman pointed out. He said the company plans to offer this same plan again about the middle of the year unless something unforseen happens to make heavy alum inum cookware unavailable. ABOVE THE r ittu ami UN-AMERICAN NO one believes that Harry Tru man is Joe Stalin's confidential agent in the U. S. A, because he talks about red herrings, nor does any one think Atty. Gen. Tom Clark is the Western representative of the Rus sian secret police just because he hasn't sent Wm. J. Poster to jail yet These busy men already have 2? hours work to do in every 24 and maybe they haven't given as much attention to the growing threat of Communism in this country as it deserves. It now seems probable however that public sentiment wil compel them to give more of their already scarce time to what Amer leans are at last beginning to con sider a very real danger, namely Communist infiltration on a huge scale in our schools, and in ouj whole national fabric. It is difficult for the ordinary citizen to comprehend why the President, and others in high office, are seemingly so opposed to the continuance of the House un-American activities commit tee. About the most outstanding reason thus far given the public is that members of this commit tee are "headline hunters." This nation is facing the most sinister and the most treacherous enemy that even history has ever known. This enemy has already suborned, and made traitors of, many perfectly good American citi zens. The U. A. C. has brought these facts to the public's notice, and has done much to awaken the people to the realization that there exists a cancerous growth which must be de stroyed if we wish to preserve our present system. The very fact that left wing groups all over the country are clamoring for the abolition of this committee; the very fact that Rep resentative Emanuel Cellar of New York is reportedly moving to blank et its "destructive tactics" should be sufficient to arouse the suspicions of a dead man! Already letters are reported to be pouring in to U. A. C. members, sup porting their work. But if we are in terested enough in our future to write, we had much better write our own representatives in Congress, and the President, and tell them what we want done. They are our arbiters while they are in office; and they alone can continue or discontinue tha TJ. A. C. THE MUD OR THE STARS? "NE day I dropped in at the University of Chicago end asked Chancellor Robert Maynard Ilutchins how he kept from . worrying. IIq replied, 'I have always tried to follow a bit of advice given mc by the late Julius Roscnwald, president of Scars, Roebuck and company: "When you have a lemon handed you, make a lemonade." Here is the story of a woman who did just that. During the war Mrs. Thelma Thompson of New York City, was living in New Mexico in order to be near her husband who was sta tioned near the Mojavc Desert. She hated, loathed the place; she had never been so mis erable. Her husband was out on maneuvers in the desert and she was left all alone in a tinv shack. The heat 123 degrees was unbear able. There was not a soul to talk to but Mexicans and Indians and they couldn't speak English. The wind blew incessantly and there was sand, sand everywhere, even in the-Jood. She was so wretched that she wrote her parents she wanted to come home. She said she would rather be in jail than where she was. Her father replied to her letter with just two lines: "Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars." Those two lines changed her entire life. She was ashamed of how sorry she had been for herself and she made up her mind that she would look for the stars. So she made friends of the natives and their reactions amazed her. She showed an interest in their pottery and weaving and they gave her wonderful pieces, favorite pieces that they refused to sell to tourists. She studied the fascinating flora around her, watched sunsets, hunted for seashells that had been left there millions of years before when the sands of the desert had been an ocean floor What changed all this for her? Well, the desert and her surroundings hadn't changed. But her attitude had, and her life had become filled with exciting adventure. She was so excited that she wrote a book about it, called the "Bright Ramparts." She had looked out of her self-created Hades and found the stars. One of the most remarkable things in this world the power you have over your own mind I SUN SETS CAR AFIRE MINERAL WELLS, Tex. (U.W Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cochran were returning home from a trip when they smelled smoke. It was the carpet flooring in the back seat of their car, set afire by sun rays shinning through a large water bottle on the floor. RUN OVER TWICE FORT WORTH, Tex. U.R First it was a car, then it was j a truck that hit E. A. Swift, 67. i The car knocked him into the path of the truck, which ran over his hands. He suffered only minor cuts on his hands and face. CHICKENS GO FOR RIDE FITCHBURG, Mass. (U.R When Omer Brisson, Jr., of Leomister arrived here for a bowling match, he discovered two of his father's chickens perched cn the rear of his auto mobile. The jounces along five miles of highway had failed to dislodge the birds from their perch. PLENTY OF CHEESE MT. ANGEL, Ore. 0J.R) This town of less than 2,000 has more 'cheese per -capita than any ! other in the nation, the cham- ber of commerce bragged. In the I town's storage plant was 540,- CC0 pounds of cheese, which is manufactured at the rate of 6,000 pounds a day in Mt. Angel. North Carolina is said to be the only state which is technic ally out of debt. Nebraska's birth rate drop ped from 15.872 during the first half of 1948 to 14,650 for the comparable period the year before. .Successful f-circntlioocl f BY m MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine The sand hills region in Ne braska is devoted chiefly to cat tle raising. ONE thing that parents are apt to neglect in preparing their chil dren for adult life is to make them understand that one's character con tinues to be molded long after one has reached maturity. Yet, when many of us were chil dren, we were distinctly given the notion that character was a sub stance grafted upon yourself by not asking for a second piece of pie (this was before the young had carrots and spinach to reckon with, so that virtues in eating were usually nega tive ones); by never telling a lie, no matter how much you might want to get out of something you had done, and by giving cast-off play things to the hired man's family, re sisting the impulse to demand them back again when these children, more mothered by necessity than yourself, would succeed in making some in genius contraption out of the parts of broken toys. Then when you reached the magnificent age of 18, you be lieved that this garment of char acter would be completed and, clad in it, you would become a grownup and sit back and live comfortably on the moral profits of this carefully, though often resentfully, hoarded attribute. And no one of the unprepared-for realities of living provided more dis appointments to many of us than the discovery that this business of character building is a life-long task, from which there isn't a single vaca tion, not even one free week-end! It seems to me (and for once we are hazarding a purely personal con jecture) that if children and young people knew from the beginning that you can't complete a human mind or character in the same number of years It takes to finish one's formal education, or grow to manhood er womanhood, they would be more willing to accept the limitations of . those years of spade work, otherwise known as experience of living. Of course we aren't talking about self-confident youth. Since young I persons of that type aren't afraid of tackling any problem they don't need the reassuring knowledge that . plenty of outstanding men and worn- en feel young and insecure and lack- ing in balance until long past thirty. -But serious-minded, over-conscientious youngsters could certainly use . this reassurance to good advantage.: So begin early to present character! growth to them, not as an awesome ; entity they must achieve early orj never, but as a gentle, daily dhi- dend, you might call it, from the; fount of universal knowledge. You gain it by doing your best, ?. no matter how unspectacular -that best may be. And the surest ; way to achieve a rich character, which will not deteriorate into " querulous or unlovely old age, i3 1 to be willing to work at it ail the -days of your life. But while we've been stressing the ', fact that character development ' ought never to end, we do not mean, to imply that it can be postponed. On the contrary, it begins in the cradle. So see that a baby's smiles and pieasant ways get him as much attention as his kicks and screams. From his earliest efforts to be friend ly, see that he meets friendliness in ; return. When he first begins to have reasons for doing things listen to" them, though you may have to point . out errors in many of them. In other words, build character step by step and don't give up if the effort be tween steps seems greater for one child than for another.