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SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper UNITED PRESS AND NWXS SERVICE to II s n ft The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Puhlislii smi-veekl-. Mondays anil Thurs dav. at 4i-413 Main Street. 1'lattmouth, fawn CiMinty. Nebraska. 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 neBRASKff association f I f UZ47lAtyl r NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in F.latts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. EntcrKi at th Fostof flee at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second class mail matter In ac cordance with tNr Act of Congrtss of March 3. 17. EDITORIALS CONGRATULATIONS ! The Plattsmouth Journal this week joins with dozens of local business men and women, plus numerous wholesalers, in extending congratulations to Mr. H. M. Soennichsen on his 60th anniversary in the retail business in Plattsmouth. Sixty years is a life's span for many individuals. But. to spend 60-years behind the counter dealing out merchandise and jrood will to your fellow man, is a record few can look forward to. Add to this a record of achievement and success through prosperity and distress, and still number your close -friends by the hundreds points to a fact that few of us will ever equal the record. From a very small beginning, Mr. Soennichsen, through a firm policy of honesty and fair dealing, has succeeded in building a business institution second to none in Eastern Nebraska. And, even to day, following 60 years of untiring effort his influence continues to be a directing force throughout the entire organization. Each day, good weather and bad, "H. M." is nearly always the first to arrive and start preparations for another day's business. There are hundreds of families, both here in Cass County and scattered over the Nation, deeply indebted to this man whose business sense is hard as steel, but whose heart is one of gold. In trying times it was H. M. Soennichsen who saw to it that many a child was fed and many a family clothed when the head of the household was un able to provide. Our most sincere "Best Wishes" to you and hearty congratulations from all of us for many more years of good health and good living among vour family and friends. . M THINKERS TO RULE THE MASSES Walter P. Pipkin, noted author of "Life Begins At Forty," believes that the United States in another hundred years will be a collection of a "stupendous number of stu pid people, ruled by a small clique of clever people, with high I. Q.'s." The gentleman may have something in his conclusion. It is apparent in the mania for organization and the mass pressure of groups, led by the nose by professional agitators and well-paid organizers. The individual who thinks for himself is becoming something of a rarity. As a people, we are a nation of "joiners," and when the leaders of an organization speak, the rank and file supinely accept the views declared. This is not only true in the matter of politics, but in the matter of religion, so ciologv, economics and philosophy. Rare indeed is the individual who thinks for himself, speaks his mind and lives his life on the basis of principles that satisfy his intelligence and his conscience. The na tion needs more of these individuals but, unless the schools, homes and churches do a better job, there is not much prospect gives to discerning individuals. PRAISES POWER OF PRAYER A woman, condemned to die for a "sex lure" murder, has been acquitted in a second trial,, following a reversal of the former conviction, and now alleges that the reason she has won comes from the "power of prayer." The woman was accused of luring an other man, while her husband shot and killed him. In the first trial, both were convicted and the man now serves a life sentence. The woman boasts that she "prayed every night" and that she knows that "the Lord answers prayer." There may be room to doubt the accur acy of her conclusion, especially in her case. If her acquittal is the result of an swered prayer, it is hard to understand how anybody is convicted of crime in this country. Furse's Fresh Flashes Newspapers are a great deal like wom en. They both have forms, back numbers are not in demand, they always have the last word, they are well worth looking over, they have a great deal of influence, you can't believe all they say, and there's small demand for the bold-faced type Too, every man should have one of his own and not borrow his neighbor's. A man who talks in his sleep may ruin his wife's nerves unless he talks distinct ly. A lot of spring cleaning will be prompt ed by seeing the hand writing on the wall. Who remembers when wives used to applv irons to shirt fronts instead of golf links? M M M Living costs are certainly affecting men's styles pockets are being worn much flatter this vear. - A medical man advises to do as much walking as possible if you want to live long. Our advice is be sure to stay on the same side of the street. People who break their word soon learn that it never again is as good as new. Cheer up, you sinners. After you're all through shoveling coal and snow this win ter, you can get out this spring and dig a garden. ' c Well, anyway we had the laugh on California until about January 2. A Quick Hatching Is Our Fervent Hope DOWN MEMORY LANE TWENTY YEARS AGO Lads and Dads mixer held as crowning feature of Boy Scout week; Clair Shallen barger was made Eagle Scout. . . . Univer sity Alumni had reunion observing Charter Day. with banquet and program arranged bv Cass County Alumni. W. G. Kieck was elected president, Mrs. John Foreman, Al vo, vice president and Mrs. Nelson Berger. Nehawka, secretary-treasurer. . . . Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Westover entertained at a Val entine bridge party at their home on High School Hill. . . . Attorney C. A. Rawls addressed the Rotarians at Nebraska City, sneaking on the life of Abraham Lincoln. TEN YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Cross returned from a motor trip and sojourn in the south land. . . . Miss Ruth Janda and Mr. Allan McClanahan were united in marriage in a pretty church wedding at Holy Rosary church February 16. . . . Scouting was theme of Rotary at their meeting; E. H. Wescott, Scout Executive leader, presented Cary Marshall and Thomas Solorvon who explained phases of scout work. . . . Mem bers of Plattsmouth Volunteer Fire De partment were hosts at a "Dutch lunch" to Mayor and City Council in dedication of new club rooms. The lunch was in charge of Sam Arn, president of the department. Herb Schutz, Robert Wurl, Carl Keil and Bob Jacobs. (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: LEGISLATIVE PROCESSES COOL ATLANTIC PACT; CONGRESSMEN STIFFEN LANGE'S DETERMINA TION; TRUMAN PATS POLL DIS SECTER ; STATE DEPARTMENT HINT PUSHED FRANCO LOAN. WASHINGTON. It was kept, very hush-hush, but Norwegian Foreign Minis ter Halvard Lange had a very significant secret luncheon with a croun of fnntrrps- sional leaders in House Speaker Sam Ray burn's office just before he returned to Oslo. At the luncheon, the Norwegian diplo mat shrewdly let his hair down to tell American Congressional leaders his na tion's troubles resulting from its willing ness to join the dynamite-laden Atlantic defense pact. Norway has been under terrific pressure from the Russians not to join the western powers in a mutual defense agreement. Lange told the Congressmen who met with him that Norway was not worried about whether or not to throw in its lot with the west. Rather Lange saJ, the thing that concerned the Norwegians, as well as the Danes, was what would happen in the event Russia began massing troops near the Norwegian border during the pe riod while Congress debated and before American aid became effective. Lange showed a brilliant knowledge of the Amer ican legislative process. He estimated it might be five months before American aid reached Norway In quantity. It was this lag, the foreign min- . . 1 I I I I I THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday. February 10, 1949 PAGE ONE i jssMMi ashington Sl poooiuoooa 'I ijjf ister said, that was causing the Norwegians so much concern. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader John Mc- , Cormack of Massachusetts both expressed the conviction that America would back Norway to the hilt. But both also warned him that the American legisla tive processes would have to be followed before the aid could be sent. They assured him, how ever, that if the Russians began threatening .Norway, Congress-, would only act more swiftly. Upshot of the luncheon, which was also attended by Appropria tions committee chairman Clar ence Cannon of Missouri, Foreign Relations committee chairman Sol Bloom of New York, Senator Magnuson and Congressman Mitchell, both of Washington, was that Lange's determination to stick with the west was stiff ened. Note: The luncheon for the Norwegian foreign minister was arranged by his old friend. Con gressman Henry M. Jackson of Washington. TRUMAN ASKS AUTOGRAPH President Truman is still get ting a kick out of the mistake the pollsters, predicters and the ; newspapers made in the last election. He particularly enjoyed the recent book by Morris Ernst : "The People Know Best" which dissects the mistakes of the press in the late campaign, j "If you hadn't written this book. I'd have written it myself," ' Truman told Ernst, when the ' latter called at the White House ; the other day. "It just had to be I done." ! Truman indicated he had read j every word of the book and thor- j oughly enjoyed the way the press i and the predicters were taken apart. ; "Herbert Hoover," remarked Truman, "told me he had hand ed out autographs all his life but never asked for one. But I'm one president who is going to ask for an autograph. I want yours." Truman handed a copy of Ernst's book back to him while Ernst inscribed it. i HINT GOT FRANCO LOAN Here is the inside story on why ; Franco Spain- after so "many years in the State department's : doghouse has now been able to get a $25,000,000 loan from the Chase National bank. The man behind this loan is Paul Culbertson, American charge d'affaires in Madrid. He succeeded in convincing the State departmsnt that it is abso lutely essential to give Franco some kind of economic help or else he will refuse to cooperate in the allied plans for defending western Europe. Culbertson sent j scores of teleerams warning that j Franco was heading for serious trouble unless he got dollars somewhere to buy American ma- j chinery and equiDment needed j to keep his factories running. lj The problem stumped the State department for a while, be cause it could not risk giving , Spain an American government j loan without arousing a loud protest from many Americans lu wav . 2 Ji K VJr iifi 3 ACHESOXS MEET DIPLOMATS . . . Dean Acheson, the new sec retary of state, is shown with his lady as they arrived at Blair House to meet the Washington diplo matic corps for the first time since his appointment as the No. 1 cabi net member. The occasion was the president's annual reception for foreign diplomats. . who consider Franco very much a dictator. Finally it was decided to pass the word quietly to the Chase National bank that it was all right to give Franco a loan. Chase National jumped at the chance, because it's a good busi ness deal that may lead to more loans of this kind. The State department, mean while, is sitting back to watch how Franco spends this first loan so it can decide whether to open up the U. S. export-import bank to him for further help. Needless to say, Paul Culbertson is now aces high with dictator Franco for making all this possible. AUSTRIAN TREATY KAPUT Sam Reyber, the American representative at the discussions for an Austrian peace treaty, wants to come back home. Rey ber has reported to the State department that, with the con ference only three days old, it's already quite clear the Russians have no intention whatsoever of coming to any agreement on Austria. Therefore, Reyber has suggest ed that rather than waste time further, he let an understudy take over his position at the conference while he comes back to Washington to do some real work. The State department, however, is still convinced that the Austrian negotiations by the Big Four deputies to the foreign ministers now going on in Lon don will result in enough con cessions by the Russians to war rant a Big Four meeting in New York in April. Actually, the State department . is convinced the Russians want to pit Molotov against Acheson to try out our new Secretary of State for size, weight, height and reaclv BUSINESS BIGGIES IN WASHINGTON President Truman has been holding some highly important off-the-record meetings with business leaders because of his ! . . . - i concern about a possible depres sion. The second meeting took place at Blair House secretly last Thursday and those present in cluded Ward Canaday, head of the Willys-Overland, the motor car company; Frank Baer, vice president of the Bank of Ameri ca; Joe Love, president of Bur lington Mills, and Vice President Alben Barkley. Henry Ford II was invited but was prevented from coming by bad flying weather. Grave con cern was expressed over Federal Reserve board limitations on in stallment buying which, it was said, were threatening increased unemployment. The industrialists told the President and Barkley that the one element blocking continued production is the Federal Reserve board's limit on installment buy ing. Canaday of Willys and Baer of thp Rank of America pointed out that drastic cutbacks in auto j production would mean a real) softening ot tne enure sieei market, including the shutdown of some marginal mills. Truman and Barkley seemed imnressed by what they heard, promised to take the regulation up with Fed eral Reserve board chairman Thomas B. McCabe. npHE REPORT of the commission headed by fo r m e r president Herbert Hoover cn reor-;r.r.Lsation of the executive branch of the federal government likely will be filed piece meal vith tl i roi-.jress between now and March 1 ! uhc?n the commission will officially die. "Several bihion" dollars would be saved if report of the commission is carried out and more effective and efficient go em inent would result, according to the report. President Tnim.m is in full accord with the rcpoit of the com mission. In the meantime, of tremen dous iirjortanre as the congress got down to the committee stape in legislation was a report made by Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug: before the senate commit tee on interior and insular af fairs headed by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming:. Secret a ry Krug's report was re- oemg cone with our natural re sourcesr and what is not being done but should be done to conserve the raw materials and energy required by the nation to produce the stag gering amounts of poods and services necessary for our standard of living. For instance, we consumed two billion barrels of oil, six hundred million tons of coal, 96 million tons of iron and steel and 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power last year. But what happened in addition to this tremendous output? Fit every two tons of conl mined, one was left in the ground and lost; more energy was wasted through f.arinff of natural gas in the fields than is produced by the entire series of TVA dams; weight of the average automobile increased in the lace of declining iron ore and oil reserves: public range land was over-grazed at the cost of less meat r.nd wool to morrow; v:c wa.'tc more undeveloped electric power thm v. e produce, and burn in the rir a filth of the natural gas we produce. What we reed do is look for more mineral ores in ihf f0 per cent of cur area v. Inch is not even CPoS'cally mapped; we need to atlj 17 r.ili:o:i acres to farm land by irrit'tion and in crease yields on 9 million more acres by supplemental water which can best be dene by bain wide development in the Colum bia, Missouri, Colorado and other river vjlleys. Half the" public rang-e in the west needs more grass and other vegetation; 220,- 000,000 acres need re-seeding; we are using up sa'.v timber at twice the rate of growth; we will netd 80 million kilowatts of addi tional power by 1970 of which 30 million kw should be hydro-elec-trically provided by the federal government; we must extract oil from shale and coal: we must maintain the principle of the fajnily-sized farm. Said Secretary Krur: "The basic and traditional principles which as sure the use, development and con servation of our natural resources for the benefit of the people as a whole, were seriously attacked during the 80th congress by tho.se who would like to be able to exploit our re sources for private gr.in. This attack came dangerously (Use to success, particularly insofar as it was directed at the public power progrr.m and the concept of the family-sized lann." Testimony before the hou?e and senate committees on labor and pub lic welfare in hen rings on the in crease of the minimum wage in the wages and hours act. is enlightening. More testimony insofar as the larger cities and towns arc concerned is that the raise from 40 to 75 cents an hour minimum will cans no hardship since that wage is already being paid. Not so, however, in many small busi ness concerns in small towns and rural areas, mostly in the South. Some testimony was brought out that average Wiige of unskilled labor in many sections of the South is about 50 cents an hour and that a boost to 75 cents will put some small businesses out of business. Probably never so adequately . . . without question never so succinctly or with such polish and finesse has a question been handled by our state department as Secretary cf State Dean Acheson handled the Joe Stalin press peace propaganda. Sec retary Acheson punctured the phony propaganda with such finality that there could be no question in any one's mind, least of all Mr. Stalin's, about where this country stands with regard to Russia and Russia's broken promises. President Truman was bombarded with questions in his press conference following the Acheson statement. The President wisely refrained from further com ment other than to say Mr. Acheson had covered the question adequately and had said all there was to Say on the subject. Nebraska High in Reducing Traffic Fatality Drivers in Nebraska have chalked up another record in safety, E. P. Tinker, Jr., execu tive director of the Nebraska State Safety council, reposed today. In a report from the National Safety Council, the Cornhusker state placed second in the nation in traffic fatality reduction. The state was topped only by Rhode Island who experienced a 41 per cent reduction. Nebraska. meanwhile, lowered its rate by 18 per cent. In close pursuit came Kentucky and Massachusetts, tied for third place with a 16 per cent reduction. Rhode Island reported 52 fa talities in 1948 as compared to 83 for 1G47. Nebraska reported 269 against 331 for 1947. "Nebraska drivers are to be congratulated upon this com mendable record. It is gratifying that our state should come from last place in fatality increase in 1947 to second place in reduc tions in 1948. This proves that continued watchfulness on the part of the walking and driving public can pay dividends in hu man life," Tinker concluded. Use Journal Want Ads. iim fcL 1. Napoleon died at (a) Waterloo, (b) St Helena island, (c) Elba island. 2. The Panama canal is (a) 25!i mUes long, (b) 5P,4 mHes long, (c) 150 2 miles long. 3. Johnny Sain pitches for the (a) Boston Braves, (b) Brooklyn Dodgers, (c) New York Yankees. 4. David E. Lilienthal is (a) the new nnderseeretary of state, (b) United Nations mediator between Israel and the Arab nations, (c) chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. 5. An orthocpist (a) specializes in correcting faulty positions of the teeth, (b) specializes in the straightening of club feet, (c) is an authority on pronounciation, ANSWERS 1. fb St. Helna inland. 2. (b) 0'- tnil ions. 3. .() Boston Brave. . . 4. (Cl Chairman of th Atomic Energy COmmiMioc v 3. (C) I aa authoury on pronouaciatioa. 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