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TTtHlE tPLATITSIMCIDaJTrtH JJaDQJB&NAD- SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper UNITED PRF.RS AND NWNS SERVICE The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED IN 1881 I'll t.!istiPi fml-wcpklv, Mmulavd and Thurs days, sit Main Street. 1'lattsmoutli, t'as County. NW.raska. 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, Nev.'S and Circulation ntBRfiSKR L Tie. assocmrion V. I NATIONAl n1 l. f) EDITORIAL If LVmtS&l V ASSOCIATION t el SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year m Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Rlatts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Kntr-d at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. . iiraska as seconii i Iajs mail matter In sc ((iriiain'c vwitt the Act of Congress of March :!. 179. EDITORIALS to IS Furse's Fresh Flashes Peo,pIe who object at the prices of vegetables should trv growing their own. - It tak-s less energy and less brains step on the jras than to use the brakes. Rhubarb, according to an occulist. pood for the eyes. They might try cross ing it with grapefruit. - A golddigger is the hardest known fe male. It takes a diamond to make an im pression on her. - Much of tbe lost faith in Heaven might be traced to the impression that marriages are made there. - - - Any day now a knock at the door may herald the arrival of the aggressive auto mobile salesman. Television is making such rapid prog ress that the people in it can't lie about it fast enough to keep up with the truth. With respect to the world at large, the American taxpayer is fast becoming his brother's keeper-upper. -k -c -k Trading in Plattsmouth is smart provid- j mg prices are reasonable. Buyers should give local merchants a chance and efficient merchants ask for nothing more. YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED During the next years, Plattsmouth will be faced with several huge problems that will take all the ingenuity and ability of its best citizens to master. That's why all of us have a stake in the caucuses to be held next week to select candidates to serve on our city council and school boards. Two most important improvements, or repairs, you mierrit call them, that face our governing bodies is the resurfacing and repairing of Washington and Chicago ave nues, the two most important thorough fares through the city. Second is the re lighting, widening and reconditioning of Main street, a must if future huge expendi tures and perhaps burdening debt is to be avoided. Plattsmouth citizens should search carefullv and analyze thoroughly the abili ty and business acumen of any individual nronosed to these most important posts. Is the person in a position to devote the proper time to the task? Is he a person of good judgment? Has he a personal record of sound business sense? Has he the best interests of Plattsmouth at heart? Has he so conducted his personal habits and af fairs that he commands the respect and confidence of the citizens of this commu nity? These are questions you must answer when selecting the men you wish to serve your interests during the next few years. By selecting men of high moral character, sound business judgment and steeped with a driving inspiration to make Plattsmouth a better, larrer and more attractive place in which to live, you will be safeguarding your own interests and investments . . . and your tax dollars will show results, -k -k -k THREAT OF INFLATION The current slump in consumer prices, accordine to John D. Clark, a member of the President's Council of Economic Ad visers, is largely traceable to the fact that the Government collects forty-eight per cent of all the money people and corpor ations pay in income taxes in the one hundred days from December 15th through March loth. Consequently, Mr. Clark does not be lieve that there is reason to believe that the buying ,market is declining perma nently. He points out that "disposable income, after taxes," is at the highest point of history and, therefore, he does not be lieve that the money "is not going to be spent." Calling attention to the threat of infla tion, which, he says, will continue as long as high personal incomes continue without greatly increased production, Mr. Clark said that during 1948 there was "no mark ed increase in production" but that buying power kept risine. This he calls the "index of inflation." The increase in personal income, he insists, was not due to produc tion of more goods and services, but to higher wages. There seems to be reason behind the ideas advanced by Mr. Clark, who also points out that a "recessionary movement can proceed very rapidly and very de structively." This also happens to be cor rect. The business cf the nation depends upon buviner psychology, which depends upon individual confidence in the future. Let the confidence disappear, and it could happen in a short period of time, and the buving would almost immediately be cur tailed. Business would slump and a de pression would be on. "down memory lane" TEN YEARS AGO Plattsmouth Woman's Club solicited funds to carry on aid for Milk Shoe fund for youngsters of Plattsmouth. . . Mur dock won the Cass County basketball championship for the second straight vear by defeating Eagle in the finals at Elm wood. . . . Clyde A It house of Eagle was named one of four dflesrates from Nebras ka to the national 4-H club meet in Wash ington. . . . Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Palmer departed on a motor trip to the south with Miami as their final destination. . . . Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Moore announced the en gagement of their daughter Joan to Her bert Minor, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Minor. TWENTY YEARS AGO Thirty-first anniversary of the organi zation of Presbyterian Auxiliary, honoring workers with many years of service, was observed in Fellowship room of the church. Mrs. T. H. Pollock, a charter member, was present. . . . Group of young people used frozen Missouri as natural bridge erossincr to attend a dance at Glenwcnd. Those in the group were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Wells, Paul Vandervoort and George Thacker. "Home Talent Lyceum" was sponsored by the people of Alvo for a four week period. Miss Mari? Kaufmann. gave the first of these programs with showing of pictures of Belirium. Switzerland, and other places she had visited in continental Europe. eft mkma THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, February 24, 1949 PAGE ONE U iifltl W liilF THOMAS JEFFERSON SPEAKING "I PLACE ECONOMY among: the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dan gers to be feared. To preserve oir- independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profu sion and servitude. "If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. 'The same prudence which in private life would for bid our paying our money for unexplained projects, for bids it in the disposition of public funds. We are endeav oring to reduce the government t- the practice of rigid economy, to avoid burdening the people and arming the Magistrate with a patronage of money which might be used to corrupt the principles of our Government." (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IRISH MINISTER MINCES NO WORDS WHY IRELAND WON'T JOIN NORTH ATLANTIC PACT; DIPLOMATIC DISPATCHES RE VEAL SPLIT IN POLITBURO: LIE COMMENT ON PACT IRKS STATE DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON. All the diplomats in Dublin can't persuade pugnacious, little s Halden of Arizona and two to Ireland to ioin the North Atlantic pact if i Elections Chairman Francis it means signing up as an ally of Great Britain. This has been made clear in simple, blistering Irish. Writing to members of the Senate For eign Relations committee, Irish Minister i ties were holdin? elections so Span Viinjtn PvnlflinpH hlnnK- V.;c . Senate investigators speeded ud government cou want as long as it isn't officially classified as secret. Poor Trigvie Lie The State department is considering asking for the recall of Trigvie Lie as Secretary-General of the United i Nations because Lie criticized the North Atlantic pact as un dermining the United Nations. The State department claims the pact will strengthen, not hurt the United Nations, and it's sore as blazes at Trigvie Lie. whose criticism, it claims, follows Mos cow's propaganda line. Michigander helps Michigan der Senator Vandenberg has taken a sudden interest in the Senate's investigation of the alleged Michigan vote fraud put his junior colleague. Senator Ferguson, back into office. Van denberg has written three let ters, one to Rules Chairman Carl Meyer of Pennsylvania, asking that the impounded Michigan ballot boxes be released so as to be used in local primary elections held earlier this week. It turned out, however, that only 15 ccun- explained bluntly that ' his , Snate investieators speeded ud " their examination of ballots in ouldn t enter any military Lv, tru i those counties. Vandenberg also I wroie anomer leuer. requesting iiin-c uivuiunj; .(uiiit luuudi.v acuuii wiin : wrot.e another letter uie siaie wmcn was responsiDie ior tne ; a complete report of the elec partition of Ireland (and) which continues j tions subcommittee's findings on to occuply a portion of the country with its Ferguson. con- In red-pepper language, Nunan tinued: "No Irish government could possi bly expect to find the necessary support for a policy involving military alliance with a power that continues to lend sanction, tacit or active, to evils of the very kind which it is the objective of the proposed North Atlantic pact to oppose and pre vent." CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES Division in Moscow Uncensored diplo matic dispatches now report at least two distinct cleavages inside the Soviet polit buro. The 14 Soviet leaders are split over "war or peace." A number of the younger men around Stalin and Molotov think war will come this summer because the United States is headed for a depression. But an other faction is eager for U. S. appease ment because American public opinion has become so strongly anti-Russian. Soviet nosiness The Russian news agency, Tass, has been asking frequent questions around the Army and Navy de partments. The latest so-called news story, which Tass has been snooping after, is the Air Force's specficiations for high octane gasoline. Believe it or not, but Uncle Sam's big-hearted policy is to give Bolstering China The inside reason why ex-Mayor Roerr Lanham of San Francisco sud denly rushed to Washington from China is that Laoham, now out following the Constitutional processes. This means it will-still be up to Congress to declare war. How ever, the State department will assure the world that solemn treaty, ratified by Congress, can be taken as a strong warning that Congress will act. Although the exact wording hasn't been decided, the pact will state essentially that aggression against any of the signatory na tions will be considered as ag gression against them all. Some senators, led by Massa chusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, wanted the pact even mere iron clad. On the other hand the question was raised whether a statement by the President wouldn't do just as well, warn ing that aggression against the western Democracies would be considered an unfriendly act to ward this country. The idea would be to lay down a Monroe doctrine for Europe. Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright asked whether civil war. incited by the communists, would be considered as aggres sion since our own country was born by revolution. Florida's Senator Claude Pep per, on the other hand, express ed worry over setting a precedent ox regional alliances. He wanted to know whether other alliances in the Far East and Mediterran ean might follow and tear the heart out of the United Nations. QUIBBLES WASTE TIME These and other questions were left partly in the air. So much Cass County Extension Notes Mrs. Wendell Hart Elected To County Council Mrs. Wendell Hart, Weeping Water, was elected as Secretary of the Cass County Council of i Home Extension clubs, Tuesday, I February 15th at the winter meeting of the Council. Mrs. I Hart will serve the unexpired term of Mrs. Henry Rugha, who j resigned. j Beth Mendenhall Places : Second in District Contest Beth Mendenhall, of Elm ! wood, representing Cass county ; in the District 4-H public speak ing contest at Lincoln, was j placed in the Red Award group. I Farm & Home Boaster Day -pHERE JS LITTLE question !mt that President Truman and his administration stalwarts are playing some politics and that the President is in an enviable position on the en actment of a new labor law to take the place of the Taft-Hartley law. Senator Taft of Ohio, the GOP Sen ate leader, of course, is f;ghtins: for his political life in seeking i) to prevent repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and, failing in that, (2) to re enact some provisions of the Taft Hartley act into the new labor law. President Truman, however, hav ing promised labor repeal of the act both in his speeches and in the Democratic national platform, is sit ting back and letting the Republi cans take the blame for opposition to repeal. It is certain thai the Dem ocratic consrrrativrs in the Sen ate and House will throw some safeguards to curb labor into the new labor law in addition to those asked by the President, but the President will not get the blame for this from labor. At this writing it appears that the House may re-enact the labor bill which is almost the old Wagner la bor law with the President's amend ments added as is, but that the Senate will stiffen it somewhat to protect the public interest. In the meantime, the President contends that he has the power in herently, as President, to prot-ect the national welfare, which is the public interest, without the help of any spe cific provision of the labor or any other law. In his stand, he is following in the footsteps of Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt who held to the same view, namely, that under the general welfare clause of the Constitution he is charged and, therefore, has the power to pro tect that welfare in any case un less specifically prohibited by the Constitution, and in spite of any law or ruling by Congress. Senator Taft in challenging the President's stand is following in the footsteps of his father. President William Howard Taft, who denied the president had that power. - The American Legion, the nation's .'argest veterans' organization, with posts strung from coast to coast and from Gulf to the Great Lakes, has announced its legislative program for the 81st Congress to Include: 1 Tncrca.sed pevfonrol cf if rir forces and naval air r.rir, rehear -h and development end Ions term pro curement program lo provide Tor C, 200 aircraft annually; 2 Aircraft warning and control systems for U. S. and Alaska and more Alaskan airfields; 3 Construction of research facili ties for aeronautical science and re lated activities, stockpiling of indus trial materials and the retention by the nation of all atomic energy .se crets. 4 Adequate proving grounds for experimental and personnel training with long-range guided missiles; 5 Development of new prototype cargo and transport aircraft prim arily for commercial use but suitable for military use in event of emer gency ; 6 "Realistic" steps toward an ade quate program for military, naval and commercial lighLer-than-air air ships: 7 More attention to the National Guard and Reserve with assistant secretaries named for the reserve components in army, navy and air force; 8 Terms the Merchant Marine the "fourth basic arm" and urges a more funds for subsidies to in crease shipping; b) halt, all foreign sales cf American war-built sliip; c halt Intrrrtatc Commerce Com mission from permitting other means of transportation to use dis criminatory and non-compensatory rates; d) permitting ship lines to participate in overseas air opera tions; e maintaining of shipbuild ing facilities by means of a Icng range building program; f) provid ing adequate federally aided ship ping program for U. S. territories. Chairman John Wood of Georgia, a member of the house un-American activities committee, may revoke the committee's expulsion of television, radio, recordings, news reels end photographers from the committee hearings. Radio columnists have pro tested the committee's rulings on the theory that these avenues of news are as legitimate as newspapers and the ruling would be like admitting news reporters but declaring they could not use pencils to make notes. The representatives cf these news media declare the ruling of the com mittee was cn attack on freedom of the press, eithough fronically few newspapers have editorially epposed the expulsion cf their competition from the committee hearin; March 18th Two highlights of the Annual Farm and Home Boaster Day sponsored by the Cass County Extension Service will be a free pancake feed at noon and a re port by Mr. E. T. Johnson, Fre mont farmer who made the trip to Europe, sponsored by radio station WOW last fall. A complete program for men and women is planned for the day. 1 Zoo Overcrowded j MEMPHIS. Tenn. (UP' A soar i ing birth rate has forced the j Memphis zoo to offer for sale j one baby hippo, four lion cubs, four young Sika deer and six baby red foxes. Other new addi tions are two baby aoudads, a pair of Russian brown bear cubs and a buffalo calf. the Russians whatever mforlnation they i country cannot go to war with- Marshall Plan administrator for , of the time was exhausted over China, believes he can make the technical points, such as wheth- Nationalist government hold out. Laoham wants to set up the Chi nese Nationalists on Formosa, which the communists could not invade and which would be sup plied with Marshall Plan aid. Formosa mieht later become a permanent Amercian base. Gen eral MacArthur is 100 per cent for T,onbam'? nlan. SECRET DISCUSSION ON PACT In a secret huddle with Pev. of State Acheson the Senate For eign Relations committee the other dav explored everv comma and semicolon in the North At lantic nact. This is the impor tant ailianee that could plunee the United States into war if one of the European Democracies should be atta'Ved by Russia. ! Although the senators were pledeed to strict secrerv. hre are the hiehlisjhts of that im portant meetine: Acheson prom ised to write into the pact a clear and expressed provision that this I er the word "any" should be con : sidered singular or plural, that . Senator Fulbright finally plead ' ed that they get on to the main ; issue. There was only one mild flare up when Senator Brien Mc Mahon of Connecticut warned that the issue would be raised asain on the Senate floor that this country cannot pledge to fight, since it is up to Congress to declare war. This has already been brought up by Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Van denberg. Too much reiteration, warned McMahon, might create distrust in Europe. "What reiteration?" snapped ; Vandenberg, t o u g h 1 y. "Oh," shrugged McMahon, "I mean . what the President has been i saying." Has Trout Stream in Home GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. 0J.R Fred A. Filkins has realized a 20-year ambition to have a trout stream running through his home. Filkins built his new house so that a two-foot stream runs through the recreation room and solarium. Firemen Act in Reverse BRIDGEWATER. Mass. (UP) To speed up a housing project, firemen burned down a Bridge water home. The abandoned structure stood in the way of a ! road being built into the new ! Rowayne park development. I A flashlight that shows either i green or red has been developed ! for traffic policemen. fS brain budneti . . . Tk Vfir- 1. Queen Wilhelmina's daugmer, juuana, lands. Her title is (a) Hogtnt, (b) Queen of The Netherlands, (c) Princess of Orange. 2. The laic Dab Kuth held the major learue record for the most home runs. Also (a) the most runs scored, (b) the most strike-outs, (c) the most Lits. 3. No 11 Downing st., London, is the address of the official resi dence of (a) the pilir.; minster, (b) the secretary of state for foreign affairs, (c) the chancellor of the exchequer. 4. The highest per capita income in the United States Is that of (a) New York, (b) California, (c) Nevada. 5. An ecliss of the moon is caused (a) by the shadow of the moon on the sun, (b) by the earth coming between the sun and the moon, (c) by the moon coming between the sun and the earth. ANSWERS i. (b) Qiiccn cf Th Nhe'land. .2. (bt The mo ttrikeoun tl.JiOI. 3. (b) Th ternary of Mt for foreign affair door at No. 10). a. . v kj I . iinmliii, to (rim of Mm U. S. dapartmc Nevada had a par c.t.e. incoaaa of I1.M2 in 1947. Tha la P waa in tha atata of MiipP J659. 5. (b) By tha earth comma, batwaaa tha uu and tha aoooa. 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