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JL n I M X THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Thursday, March 17, 1949 Prize Winning Oration of Richard Means Below is given the first place winning oration of Richard Means that won for him the right to represent Plattsmouth in the district oratorical con test at Nebraska City: The Preamble We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common de fence, promote the general wel fare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and es tablish this Constitution for the United States of America. The Preamble means to every living person no matter of what race, color or creed. First we have the phrase, "We The People of the United States" It is important to no tice that this is a government of the people, not of the State. The People the highest author ity know that our system from SAE Steel Cap SCREWS and NUTS 1-4" up to 5-S" Swatek Hdwe. Left to Take Special Offer One Beautiful 5x7 Portrait for only OiV (Limit One to a Person Two to a Family) Proofs in 24 Hours. - Offer Expires Saturday, March 19 (Please present this ad for appointment) All Colvin-Heyn Certificates Honored Through March 31st. TOWNSEND STUDIOS (Formerly Colvin-Heyn) 106 North Sixth St. Dial 280 Plattsmouth 6 IF you feed good chicks a good feed you are sure of a good profit. WE ARE AUTHORIZED DEALERS FOR onkeys We are Authorized Dealers for Vitalized with Y-O (yeast-oil) RICH IN VITAMINS Everything You Need in Feed iarta Poultry Service "We Serve You Better" Phone 6205 Plattsmouth whom all our institutions spring and on whom they depend. We the people, is the institu tion of one great consolidated National government of the people, of ail the states, instead of a government by compact with the States for its agents. The Constitution is one of the greatest works ever struck off j by the pen of man. It is one ot j the greatest works because it was written by free peace lov- ing men who knew the true I meaning of Liberty. They were true honest men who were working to set an example for men all over the world, and they were not easily influenced by greed and power like too many men of today are. The second phrase "In order to form a more perfect Union, the fathers of the Constitution had a strong feeling about the Union and they wanted to keep it and make it strong. They felt that the States did not make i the Union, but that the Union ! made the states. Therefore, they i made the Union strong through ! the Constitution. No state may secede from the Union without ! violating the law of the land. ' In latter years this was to ' cause much controversy over ; state rights and slavery, which 1 finaly ended in a Civil War. ; Had it not been for the foresight : of the fathers of the Constitu tion, their work and the work of thousands of people to form a great and strong Union may have crumbled on that faith ful dav when the roar of can- Advantage of r a u,S& V- Feed S (SS JOE CERVED AS Judge on the bdv s club junior citizenship award committee last year -selecting the boh nc TUP MEAP. S (BROTHERS , POM & VlNCE ALL PLACED On WE eo'S CLUB TEAM V SAti FRANCISCO non belched forth its fire and destruction at Fort Sumptrr. Our great Union would have fallen into many small frag ments and each would be striv ing against the other. Had it not been for the Con stitution and the Leadership of Abraham Lincoln, our ship of state may have run aground in a sea of confusion. The feeling before the Civil War was that the citizen was not, under the theory of state s WP " rights, in contact with the Na- , ence to our courts whether you tional Government. He owed ; are guilty or not of the crime allegiance to his State, and the j you are accused of. Their theory State, in turn, dealt with the is that all persons are inno Nation. After the Civil War the , cent until proven guilty. Every fourteenth amendment set that person in America is guaranteed theory aside by declaring: "Ail to a speedy trial by jury, with persons born or naturalized in an impartial jury chosen from the United States, and subject ' the location where the said to the jurisdiction thereof, are j crime was committed. Our right citizens of the United States to justice is protected from the and of the states wherein they : dictators and slave drivers of reside." Every citizen now owes ! the world by the Constitution, an allegiance to the Nation as Which states in Article I. Sec- well as to the State. T'io ri'i7fn nf Ampricn Vinvp one of the greatest heritages of any people in the world. They have the Constitution, which is tne best plan eer made to in- sure freedom and to release the creative powers of men. They have a Union so great and strong as to be able to protect them from all the power grasp ing bureaucracies wmcn wouitt swallow them up nd enslave them. But most important of all they have a strong Govern ment made of the people, by the people, and for tne people. What makes my heart ache is to think that most Americans think little more about their Freedom, and Liberty than they would of a picture show at the nearby theatre. If we would stop and think a moment of what we have achieved in America under the Constitu tion, what people all over the world have been working, fight ing, and dying for ever since the beginning of time, we could not be in such as u pathetic State. It seems strange to me when you give a man freedom he becomes careless and slights his duties but then you take his freedom away from him, and shock will stimulate him to go through untold hardships, and sacrifices to gain it back again. Take for example the last World War the United States deliberately disarmed even when they knew that the other coun tries were preparing for war. They would have nothing to do with any plan whereby they would prepare for that war. Even though they could not hope from being forced into it. but they would no nothing. The next day after Pearl Harbor every red blooded American was ready to give his life for the Cause of Liberty. Now the war is over and we have settled down to fairly normal life once more. Most Americans are more than willing to give five cents out ot their last dime to a friendship train to help some needy European family. Yet we will let some smooth speaking rabble rouser step up to the rostrum and give us a flowery speech that has more than its share of degraded politics, in it. Then they will walk away and criticize but do nothing about it. We fail to realize that this is more dangerous to the pre servation of the people than hunger could ever be. Establish Justice, insure do mestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense. Justice is something that every person in the world should have (but very few do). The American citizens are among the few people that are given the right to Justice. We owe this heritage to the fathers of the Constitu tion. That right is brought forth in Article III. Seetinr t j of that Constitution which I states, "The Judicial Powers of i the United States, shall be vest ed in one supreme court nn.-i in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to I time ordain and establish." Had it not been possible for a just and liberal interpretation of the ' ..im 7 P "DiMaggio "K0WS THE GAME OF LIFE IS A LOT LIKE WE GAME OF GAAJ EACH SCOTlt BY PJLAW THE GAME FAIR AHD SQUARE "THE AMERICAN VWM Constitution by our judicial de partment, the Constitution ret up by the father's could never have been put into practical working order. For entrusted to the judicial department lay the interpreatation of the funcle menital instrument of the gov ernment. By many of the liber al interpretatations handed down by Chief Justice Marshall we were able to make the Con stitution an ever changing one. It does not make any differ- j tion 9. quote in part i vilege of the writ o me yii- f Habeas ; Corpus shall not be suspended, j unless wnen cases of rebellion ! cr invasion the pub.ic safety ! may require. a;..o r o on ui m tainder or ex post 5t facto laws shall b passed. Many loyal Americans feel that because these laws and rights are written down in the Constitution there is nothing j anyone can do about it. They fail to see that by neglecting their duties as true Americans they weaken the frame work of our mighty nation. They are the kind of people that cause nations to be enslaved by some power grasping maniac. Who sends his stooges boring into, our midst, like a termite bores into decayed wood. We should not sit back and let some dic tator become powerful from the sweat of honest less fortunate men. We should demand that all men receive honest judg ment. To provide for the common defense. This to me means not only build a strong defense to protect the ri'jhts of Americans. But rather to be strong so we can lend a helping hand to all the people of the world that are being trampled upon by dicta tors, and to allow people to talk, think and live as they please without fear of being sent to the salt mines of Siberia, or some concentration camp. Promote the General Welfare, and secure the blessings of Lib erty to ourselves and our Pos terity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States cf America. The fathers of the Constitution have done a marvelous job of securing the blessings of liberty for the American people. It is not the responsibility of the Govern ment or the nation to secure the Blessing of Liberty for us. They worked and gained our liberty for us so now it is our duty as loyal American citizens to keep that right. We can fulfill our duties as American Citizens by being Loyal, honest and trustworthy: By going to the poles and vot ing -intelligently and by obey ing the laws. As Abraham Lin- Sometimes NO MATTER how careful you are with Fire, it sometimes will break loose. Be sure to carry enough insurance to pay for any damage that can happen to your property anytime. Insure thru Stephen M. Davis Second Floor Plattsmouth State Bank BJdg. Phone 6111 Cliiircli W adding Joms Lives of Young People Tho First Presbyterian church, i 34th and Farnam streets, Omaha, was the settin? Saturday, March, 12th, at 4 o'clock, for the Wed- j ding of Miss Eva Louise Zikmund, i dauhler oi Mrs. oiu-su imhkiw f n.i,n in KHnn F Mrisin2or. son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Meisinger of Plattsmouth. 3utn. ,-cn. pastor ormed the Dr. Thomas R. Niv of thp rhnrrh. nerfo hofnre r,a f?fv frinrl nnH relatives. The bride chose as her attire a lieht rose suit with brown access- nri nrri rort.i?o of white rosfs. She'was given in marriage by her uncle. Mr. Martin Jasten. of , Omaha. Her only attendant was ; her sister, Mrs. Ray Melia of! Ord. Nebraska, who wore a suit j of pray and blue with black ac cessori?s. She were a corsage of j pink roses. Baskets of poach pink gladioli j with fern and candelabra were j on both sides of the altar. Rob-; ert L. Johnson of Lincoln, cn J army buddy of the groom sang' '"Always" and "Because" dies- ! er ft. jonnr.on oi .uiuien, ie-( braska played. j Best man for his brother was Lyle V. Meisinger of Plattsmouth. ; Leon Meisingf r of Louisville, j cousin of the groom, served as j ufher. The groom and his at- tendant wore dark blue business ! suits and boutennieres of white ; and pink roses respectively. j The bride's mother chose as 1 i I coin said, quote "Let every man remember that to violate the law is to t ample on the blood of bis father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's Liberty." V r,S. ' ' ' wK i ill nstil w- nsm&m L- i - ' rTrT1 11 rm"'m i .I.,,, . irr-T rr--n--, I her dress a bluish gray crepe and tr.e grccm s motr.er wore a pum print. Bolh motneis wore cor-sa:-?-?s of white gardenias. Following the ceremony a din ner was held in the fern room of the Blackstone hotel. Guests at the dinner included the newly- weds. Mrs. Louise Zikmund. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. .Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Josten of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Meisincrer, Lj-le and Ir?ne, Mr. and Mrs. Ver- n-i nisuwi, . ! trr Mpisir.wr. Dean. Jean and Betty, Mrs. John P. Meismger, j lAene mini, i ri and Mrs. Ray Meha, Pu. ani Janice. Mr. and Mrs. George Zi, - Eugene; Hula, Plattsmouth; Mr. ' mund. Dale and r-. J "S I . ! Neoraska. Mrs. llatie lino anai Minnie, and Mr. Robert L. John- son ot Lincoln; Leon .l-'ismger . ul - ! so1, r:, frir, ,Tr H a ire I AH 1 A Ui 1 - - -- Misinaer will be their apartment at avenue. Omaha. at home in 2G21 Capital 1 Darral Ashbau-ih departed f-rndiv for Washington, D. C, whf-r-? he was called on some matter.s of bur-iness and v.iU be ,,on? veral dav.s. "While there Mr. Ashbaurh is planning on looking in on congress and viewing the filibuster if still in progress. SeM It Thru Journal Want AfN. (? r gation. It Mutual n o - 1 "YOUR FRIENDLY FORD DEALER" j Scoring Record of the Blue Devils The basketball season o f 1943-49 has cfosed for the Plattsmouth Blue Devils and while the locals failed to attain their goal of the East Nebraska conference title, they have played some very brilliant ball in a number of the battles and even against some of the hard est teams in the class in the state. The scoring record of the season is 645 and t l5a:'! I.or In- bL 11 divided among the players as follows: Merle Dasher. 177, for the high score of the team; Bill yicCorinicK 1S2; Dan Rohan, j charles Janecek, 69; Carl r,nnrl x-iiH nn- stnnlev Cole. 12: j Jim Dcody. 10; Gary Ashbaugh. . KOUDCK. ; carpi, . The teams played this season included Omaha South. Lincoln Northeast, Papillion. Glenwood, j Pawnee City, Weeping Water, j Roys Town. Auburn, Wahoo, Ashland, Nebraska City, Tnlvern. Iowa. Holv Name. Col- i lge View. Elair. 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