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SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper OJIISWAIL UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE 4 SiWUTM J Give the Neighbor's Kid a Break, Son til .mR The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED IN 1881 '!!, Bcml-wfkiy, Mondays anrl Tluir lln's at 4 'S - 4 1 :: M;,in Sirff L. 1 '!; 1 1 smoi, t li, u.-s N.uiii. NVIir nkii. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH i Editor HAROLD TUCKER. ..Advertising Manager O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, Si Thursday. April 7. 1P4D :iV5l-VVEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE ONE Furse's Fresh Flashes Hi i!!IIU , II: ill'! U m fPffTfi fmir(ffff,l IK .'it. till' I 'kit I gten I - lit r! pssocmrion f 1 1 rufzir 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. Kntfrcd at the Pnstff f ife 8t I'la ttsmout h. N-lraska :- --cii,1 class mail matter (n c '"I'luwc v.ith the Act of Congress of March EDITORIALS A TIMELY SUGGESTION It i most "jrratifyin to this writer to re ceive so many words of praise and words of encouragement for our small effort in siirrestintf that we here in Plattsmouth clean up and beautify our city. At this, the sprine time of the year, Flattsmouth citizens should be most anx ious that our city be a place of natural beautv. ami from the suggestions eominjr into this newspaper office, it seems that many of our people are jrettinjr the inspir ation alonjr the line of cleanliness and beautification. Miss Barbara Gerinp stopped in to the office the other day and made a most worthwhile suggestion. Miss Geringr thinks that one day could be set aside in Platts mouth to be known as "Garden Day." On this day each home owner would be en couraged to make a general clean up of the premises and gardens in an effort to make them more attractive. Another suggestion that has been made i that each individual of the city be a "policeman." Each time an adult or child sees someone throwinpr candy wrappers, scran paper, or other refuse into the street, he should have authority to call attention to the fa ft and tell them it's against the rules. (Here, we might add the city could make its contribution by providing: refuse containers at intersection corners as was suggested ver a year ago.) A slogan for this enterprise could be "Help make Plattsmouth the cleanest town in the ?tate." This little effort on the part of every one would accomnlish wonders for Platts mouth. It could be done with little outlay of cash if each of us assumed the responsi bility to aid in the cause. Just a matter of desire to have our town clean and attrac tive would tret the job done. School stu "dents could be a big help in this campaign as well as others known as "Grown-ups." The least we could do is make an honest effort. What we need here is a "Carrie Nation" chasing dirt and rubbish. -k "MOST GIGANTIC AND GENEROUS" Characterizing the United States as an "internationally outstanding example of brotherhood toward the other nations of the world." Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, pointed to the generous aid extend ed to nations suffering from the war. The Cniied States, as Mr. Connally ob serves, contributed 72 per cent of the monev expended by the U. N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, to re lieve hunger and miserv. principally in the countries of Europe. This contribution ran into the billions of dollars. Since the war we have given to China approximately S2.000.000.000 for relief. The nation has made jpnerous loans, to many other countries and in the Mar shall plan offers the world the "most gi gantic and generous act of its kind in all history." With these facts in mind the people of 1he United States can well afford to be lieve that they have practiced, not only the vague principles of human brother hood, but the great principles of the re ligion which they claim to accept. The "United States has given the world, not words, but deeds. In the light of the record it is almost disgusting to hear spokesmen for various peoples, in certain areas, complaining about the attitude of the people of the United" States or about the manner in which this country has divided the wealth that it has generously poured out to other peoples. M M Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford B. Hayes were the only presidents who did not belong to a church. Lady came to church here the other Sunday carrying one of those old-fashioned ear trumpets. The usher approached her and whispered, "Remember, one toot and out you go." - M A fellow in our town expects to get rich in the next few years. He's invented a windmill affair that winds spaghetti. M Scientists report having discovered an odorless limburger. That doesn't make scents. y - For a little more than $2 you can ac quire an instrument that indicates which way the wind is blowing and at what speed. We wonder how many congress men have made this a must item on their shopping lists? M When a woman driver puts out her hand you can be sure of one thing the window is open. A striptease artist is one of those gals that believes everyone in the audience is from Missouri. -k M A local man runs for the undertaker every time his wife gets sick. He says he cant a fford to deal with middlemen. - -k We just heard about the Indian out in New Mexico who was signaling s'yeet love messages to his Indian Sweetie Pie a few miles awav. Right in the middle of it. an atom bomb went off covering the sky with smoke for miles. "Gosh." cried the Indian enviously, "I wish I'd said that." - -k doWnIemorYlane TWENTY YEARS AGO Rev. Frank G. Smith, Omaha Congre gational minister, was selected for Com mencement speaker for Class of '20 . . . Union Bridge & Construction company started arranging for building of main pier on the new wagon and auto bridge over the Missouri river . . . Program given by Daughters of the American Revolution marked naturalization ceremonies at court house . . . Upon the occasion of the open ing of the tenth national flower show at Buffalo. New York, a greeting from that city in the form of handsome bonouets were presented to Mayor John P. Sattler and R. A. Bates, publisher -of the Journal, bear incr greetings of Mayor Frank A. Schwab of Buffalo. These bouquets came from the Plattsmouth greenhouse and were the ar tistry of Henry Jasper, local florist. - TEN YEARS AGO The high waters of the Missouri river attracted much attentiin along the river at the Burlington station where a good view of the water could be had: the farms along the liver south of the eitv were covered as river continued to rise hicher than in 1928 . . . La Vera Rice-and Joe Highfield became members of the Bov Scouts at investiture services held at High School . . . Mrs. Clay ton Cross and Miss Florence Beighley en tertained at the former's home in the Her old apartments . . . Theodore Hadraba, former resident, who had been U. S. com mercial attache at Prague. Czechoslovakia for several vears phoned his father. Joseph Hadraba. local druggist the first com munication received from him since the re cent Hitler grab, stating he had been trans ferred to Brussels, Belgium . . . Citv elec tion resulted in naming Puis. Painter, Finnefrock as city council members: Dr. Hudson. R. W. Knorr and Edward G. Ofe to the school board. kSRKV-GO-eC!lHB (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: AMERICA WAS ONCE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PEACE: EARLY PACTS WERE IDEALISTIC. NOT PRAC TICAL: NORTH ATLANTIC PACT COULD TAKE US OVER THE HUMP TO PERMANENT PEACE. WASHINGTON. Memories of many other peace pacts came back as I sat watch ing the foreign ministers sign the North Atlantic Pact. Vivid memories, youthful memories, poignant memories, filled with hope for peace . . . the Kellogg Pact, the Washington Arms Treaty, the London Naval conference. As a young newspaper man I attended them all, and with all of them hoped as did the world that with each signing a new era of peace was usher ed in. Those were days when I was naive and optimistic. Perhaps America was the same way at least regarding peace conferences. W e were sure that the end of World War I every newspaper in the country heralded the Washington Arms conference first great disarmament conference as the be ginning of a new era of peace. THE FIRST ARMS CONFERENCE Charles Evans Hughes, bewhiskered, dignified, full of vigor and ideals, presided. Warren G. Harding in all his handsomeness opened ihe conference on Armistice Day. 1921. Lord Balfour, the perfect English gentleman, charmed the crowds. Aristide Briar.d. then in his prime, spoke so eloquently in French that the crowds, under standing not a single word, cheered him to the echo. Just out of college, I persuaded Dick Slocum. now manager of the Philadelphia Bulletin, then editor of the Swarthmore Col lege Student Weekly, to make me his official correspondent to cover the arms conference. Full of youthful ideals I went to Washington. I didn't know what it was all about; but I have watched what happened since watched what happened to the conferences treaties signed with such ac claim, with such hope, such pray er for future peace. The treaty to scrap battleships was faithfully carried out bv us and by the rest of the world, be cause the rest of the world had almost no battleships to scrap. But the rest of the world promptly began building cruis ers. The nine-power pact guaran teeing the sovereigntv of China was trampled into the dust of Manchuria by the Japs on Sept. 18. 1931 and has been lauehed at by the Russians since. Henry L. Stimson strove valiantly to save it, but Europe didn't. And the four-power part pro hibiting naval bases on the isl ands of the Pacific was stealthi ly violated by the Japanese so that, came Pearl Harbor, we found Truk. Tarawa. Iwo Jima. Okinawa to be bastions of mili tary strength. So vanished the first peace dreams of the American peonle. Then came the Kellogg pact. PR. BENES DREAMS It was hot in the Salle de L'Horloee on the Aucust d?v in 1028 wVipn the world outlawed war. The sun spread its slant ing rays over the Seine, pene trated the deen, curtained win dows of the Ouai D'Orsav and danced alon the crystal can delabra of Louis XVI. Icnn sHll remember how it even cast sha dows around the cadaverous eve brows and Tat drooling mus tache of Aristide Briand makT h'm annear more th sapp v'1! ain than Europe's foremost v nnnnt of nace nnd co-author of the pact tn outlaw war. The sunlieht piitnod on tbD pi-eat cold pn held in th hn of Gnstave Strsemann. fiTi minister of Gcrmanv. Eleven years later, his rnvnT-v was to nhmee the world into the tOoor jp.st war in hinrv. hut r" tvo Ansust dai in 1028 he scratchd his nam" on tb omt narch rnorit rvipHo-ing Germany to re nounce war. Afros th avio pot yn-r Rppoc; of rj'pfh.iclnvil-q pr"c is dean now. a broken Ar before h ri'ri Vo v- TlOiori rovanH fir- r." TTi1'-'-''- armv. thpn srnt'07od n-nripr th" Tron rnrtam' bv tp tvot n tb Pd armv. Tnt a1! tht v. did not kn"w -hrn h -nr the Tart Oi'tta'in'T Wr on Vio :"".shinv afternoon at the Qua5 D'Orsay. the London signed April I On around the table went th parchment. It received the sig nature oi Count Uchicia. whost imperturbable lace gave no hint that fear years later he. as for eign minister of Japan, would be - snapping his fingers at the treaty he had signed. So the pen scratched on, af fixing to the pact signatures of diplomats who may have had tongue in cheek, but which car- ! ried on the hopes, the dreams of ' ail the people. j KING GEORGE III j ALMOST SMILED i ,, Then there was Naval conference 22, 1330. in the pleasant drawing room where Queen Anne once took tea and which was supposed to limit the weapons that the Washington conference omitted cruisers. I remember so well the three King Georges looking down from their portraits at the ' American delegation. And it al most seemed that the radiance of the morning plus the opti mism for peace induced George III to forget the scowl he usually had for rebellious Americans. Not only the portrait of George III, but everyone else was in a happy mood, and IvI. Briand sug- i posted to Senator Joe Robinson that now was the time for him to make his long-promised speech about the naval sacri fices cf the sovereign state of Arkansas. Eight years before. Charles Evans Hughes, winding un the Washington Arms conference, had said: "This treaty absolute ly ends naval competition for all time." At London on that balmy April morning. Ramsay MacDcnald. prime minister of England, was more cautious. "This is just the end of the chapter." he said. "We are merely turning over a nnw leaf in naval negotiations." ; But not even the cautious MacDonald realized that nine years later Eurone would be con vulsed in the throes of war again, AVJLT NORTH ATLANTIC PACT TIRING PEACE? So, skeptic that I have come to be. I sat at t,he sisnine of the North Atlantic Pact wonderin what was in store for the world, wondering- what lay ahead, whether this might be a steo to ward the millenium or just an other miles one along the stumblinc Dafh of mans follv. i NEBRASKA h JAMES C. OLSON, SupcrMenJtr.t TATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Although the name "Nebras ka" itself is adapted from an Otoe word descriptive of the Platte River, and Omaha, the state's metropolis. " is named in commemoration of an Indian tribe, the Indian influence in Ne braska's place names is not as marked as one ordinarily would think it to be. This is particularly true with regard to the names of coun ties and towns. Of Nebraska's 93 counties, only five are named after Indian tribes: Cheyenne, Dakota. Otoe. Pawnee and Sioux. Three others Loup, Red Willow, and Nemaha are named for streams whose names, in turn, have aboriginal derivations. Nebraska's towns show a simi larly small proportion of Indian names. A few chieftains are recognized in such names as Red Cloud. Yutan. Osceola and Te cumseh. Omaha has been men tioned as commemorative of a tribe. Among other towns simi larly named are Arapahoe, Kio- I do not know the answer. But I do know that we have learned. We still have our ideals but they are more practical ideals. This North Atlantic Pact is a long, long way from the Wishington Disarmament conference of 27 years ago. For. instead of dis arming the world, we have siened an armed truce. Regretfully we are building up the armament of our new allies. So. as one who sat through those other conferences, and cheered the moves for peace, the signing of the North Atlantic Pact is depressing but necessary. Certainly if Russia does aiot i make war within the next six months in retaliation for the pact, then we may be over the hump and gradually work our way toward a precarious, always expensive, but oh, so precious, peace. pvURING this past week in Wash in g ton the spotlight of publicity has been turned on the question of public health. So diverse is the opin ion on the question that not only conpress, but the medical profession itself has been split -wide open. In dications now are that the congress may take some action for instance, to provide for more hospitalization, medical centers and other essentials of the proposed measures but there is little chance cf a meeting of the minds in this session on the Liphly controversial subject of compulsory medical insurance. Publication, only recently, of a plan approved and sponsored by the American Medical association, which has, until this year, denied there was need for such a plan at all, has stimulated discussion and brought to a focus the state of the nation's health and the question cf what to do about it. Is this question a matter for private solving? Should it be done with state and local funds, if at all? Should it be done with fed eral funds, plus the private compul sion of an insurance plan? There are already three im portant measures in the Con press. Senate Bill No. 5, signed by five senators; the Cellar bill in the House UIK 345) and the Dingell bill in the house (IIR "83). The latter bill is almost identical with the Senate hill. Both are administration bills. The AM A bill is scheduled for introduction soon. The principal difference in the AMA measure and the administra tion bills is that the administration bills provide for finance of hospitals and training of new medical person nel with government grants and of compulsory health insurance with a three per cent payroll tax split one and one-half per cent from the em ploye and one and one-half per cent from the employer. The AMA bill contemplates fi nancing the measures with local and state funds almost exclusively and a voluntary private health insurance plan, similar but less costly than the Blue Cross or other similar plans. The fact that the federal gov ernment already is spending something like two billion dol lars annually for health services, including the veterans' adminis tration costs, is speeding up the plans to adopt a program which the proponents say will bring about better health conditions and eliminate much of the pres- wa. Ogallala, Pawnee City and Ponca. As is true of the counties, cer tain Nebraska towns are named after streams which in turn bear Indian names. In this group are such towns are Niobrara, Wahoo and Weeping Water. If Nebraskans were not prone to give Indian names to their towns and counties, they retain ed similar names for several of their rivers, and if you look on a map of the state you will observe that a number of the important streams carry names adapted from the aboriginal. Among these, the Missouri stands out particularly. Opinions vary regarding the origin of the word as applied to the river, al- ent spending. Whether this is true remains to be seen. The fact is. however, that congress is vitally concerned about the state of the nation's health. Sur veys show that on any given day there are approximately seven million Americans absent from their work due to illness or some other disability, a tremendous drain on earning power and pro duction. The Social Security ad ministration says the cost to the nation as a result of this absen teeism due to illness is about 'ZZ billion dollars annually. - ' The president's committee on na tional Employ - the - Handi.-apped ' week, which Ls October 2-8, is con ducting a national essay contest among secondary school children, offering $2,000 in prizes and closinp April 30 of tliis year. Any student in the 11th or 12th grade in puttie or private school is eligible. Sources of information concerning the con test are state offices of employment service and vocational rehabilitation and local offices of the civil service commission and the veterans' ad ministration. Judges of the contest are Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Secre tary of Labor Maurice Tobin and the United States commissioner of ed ucation. . " Testimony before the House postofTice committee on the pro posed postal rate increases said they were "punitive" and would cause deficits. Trincinal wit nesses the past wrek included many magazine publishers, in cluding Walter I). Fuller cf the C'urtiss Publishing company and A. K. Winger of the Crowell Collier company. They claimed the proposed ii.crca.se of second class rates would cost their com panies more than twice the amount of their profits in the first year and more later on. According to old-timers here, there is even.' indication on Capitol hill that despite the excellence of the work and recommendations of the Hoover commission, it will not be adopted by congress. Instead, there is every likelihood . that con-' gress will give the president author ity to make his own suggestions for betterment of the government agencies. The president, however, is known to favor many of the propos als and suggestions of the Hoover commission. though probably it was named after the Indian tribe bearing the same designation. The French, who were among the earliest map-makers of this region, left their imprint firmly on the names of our streams. Loup is a French translation of the Pawnee word "skidi", signi fying wolf. Platte, mentioned earlier, is similarly derived. One French designation which didn't stick was L'eau qui Court, "running water." We have ap plied Niobrara, an approxima tion of the designation by sev eral Indian tribes, to the stream. The original name given the county embracing the mouth of the river also was L'eau qui Court, but a more prosaic gener ation changed it to Knox. ft F f brain budget 1. W ithout consulting your calendar, indicate whether Easter day will be (a) April 6, ib) April 17 or (c) April 10. 2. The man who was appointed director of the federal bureau of mines over the protests of John L. Lewis is (a) Dr. James Boyd, (b) Dr. Frank P. Graham, (c) David Lilienthal. 3. Army day is (a) April 6, (b) April 7, (c) April 23. 4. The author of the multi-million dollar veterans' pension bm is (al Speaker Sam Rayburn, (b) Senator Robert A. Taft, (e) Repre sentative John E. Rankin, 5. Last year's Kentucky Derby winner was (a) Citation, (b) Olympia, (c) Coaltown. ANSWEES 1. fb) April 17. 2. a) Dr. Jcnnsi Boyd. 3. (a) April 6. 4. (c) RopresentatiT John E. Bankln. 5. (a) Citation. 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