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TTOOE- PnAT"irIM(D)QJTDl JlaDQJD&B-M. r. SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE I t 4 i i H 'I 4 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Pulilistif ( pcmi-wefkly, Mondays anil Thurs days, at 4"!-413 M:iin Street, I'kittsmouth, ('ass 'oiinty. 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 HUSKS assoct)Ton , HATIONAl EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 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 F.latts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Knf-rl at the PosU-fftoe at Plattsmouth. Nebraska its second class mail matter In lie roidnrxe with th Act f Congress of March EDITORIALS A LESSON FROM KATHY Little Kathy Fiscus is dead. Kathy died because of carelessness on the part of some grown person or persons. Years ago someone thought it useless to cover an abandoned well casing. It was a grave error as only little Kathy's father and mother know. We here in Plattsmouth and Cass county can learn a lesson from the heart breaking catastrophe in San Marino. How many abandoned wells, cisterns and cess pools lie in this community uncovered, un protected ready to claim the life of some ilear little one? Perhaps now, before it's too late, every one of us should examine carefully our own properties and those adjacent thereto. Search cut the old wells, cisterns and cess pools dug years ago. See that they are properly guarded filled if at all possible. A sunken spot in-the yard may be only the forerunner of tragedy examine it closely. Let's protect all the little Kathy's in our community. God forbid that it could possiblv be repeated here. M M M ARGUMENT IS FAMILIAR The suffragettes are busy in Egypt or ganizing an active Woman's Rights Party. They seem to have stirred up some excite ment among the political leaders of the government. One of these ieaders says that the Egyptian nation does not desire a new feminist party and points out that the "Egyptian woman has a place in society that must not be neglected for another." He adds: "She must occupy herself with the home and the preparation of a new generation." The arguments of the Egyptian politi cian seem to be along the same lines that were heard in the United States when the question of votes for women was a live issue. There are references to the "mission of the woman" and the "law of nature." Since the two sexes do not have the same nature, dispositions and functions, there must be a difference between their "rights and duties." Most Americans will smile at the argu ments raised by the Egyptian politicians but if they will look back into the history of their own country, they will find that the same arguments were used in this country. M M M TWELVE YEARS IN COURT It is interesting to note that the Gov ernment's twelve-year-old anti-trust suit against the Aluminum Company of Ameri ca has about entered what the lawyers think is its "final phase." Readers will find it difficult to under stand why the complaint, filed in 1937, has been pending in the courts so long. It should be noted, of course, that after a two-year trial which ended in 1940, a Federal judge dismissed the complaint. Five years later, a Court of Appeals re versed the judge's decision in part. Whil every American interested in freedom desires to see the rights of individ uals protected, it is obviously a farce when the government of the United States, or any other litigant for that matter, cannot get a final adjudication within the space of twelve years. M DOWN MEMORY LANE TWENTY YEARS AGO Miss Mildred Crom was named May Queen by Willard sorority -of Wesleyan University; Helen Wescott was named crown bearer for May Day fete . . . Platts mouth Woman's Club received recognition in receiving second place for community work at convention at Sterling Nebr. . . .. Senior Class selected "The Lion and The Furse's Fresh Flashes A lot of fellows I know have lost their shirts because they have put too much on the cuff. MM. Wouldn't it be great to go back to the good old days when all the government gave away was seeds? We understand a husband is one those persons that is spousebroken. The most observant person we ever heard of was the guy who observed that Lady Godiva had a horse with her. Speaking of people we know, a fisher man friend of ours becomes quite fable minded this time of year. - The modern girl's ambiion is just what her mother's was to make some man a good husband. - We have had group medicine the kind where 35 kind relatives and friends step in with a cure for your cold. Now, it seems, we're headed for socialized medi cine the kind where the government steps in to help. If we could pick our job, we would take that of a piper. According to all the stor ies we have heard everybody has got to pay him eventually. Most women have a craving to go on the stage or get into the movies but most men are content to remain bad actors around home. M M M Is the Cat Ready to Turn and Fight? SBSBSSi THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, April 14. 1949 PAGE ONE Mouse" as their class play; members of cast included Laura Skalak, Janet Snyder, Homer Spangler. Hilda Johnson, Irma May field, Robert Fitch. Joe Knoflicek, Vivian Livingston, Chris Uulin, Leonard Stoehr, Wm. Mrasek. Leona Hudson, Margaret Iverson, Bob Hadraba, Katherine McClus ky, Joe Hartford, and Hamilton Meisinger. M M TEN YEARS AGO Mrs. Philip Thierolf returned from a six months visit on the Pacific coast, where she spent the winter with her daughter, Miss Elsa at Long Peach . . . Deputy Sher iff and Mrs. Doody became owners of former L. O. Minor home between Seventh and Eighth on Main . . . Rotary Club named as officers for year R. W. Knorr, president, George Jaeger, vice president, John E. Frady, secretary, J. Howard Davis, treasurer and Dr. R. P. Westover and Frank A. Cloidt as directors. (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS : FOUR YEARS AFTER FDR DIED ALL HIS CABINET MEMBERS ARE GONE; TRUMAN BAWLED OUT STALIN DURING FIRST FEW MIN UTES OF POTSDAM CONFERENCE; MAYBE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT HAD ROOSEVELT LIVED WASHINGTON It seems a long time since that day in April when Franklin Roosevelt passed away. It's only four years, but it seems like ages ages in which we've sort of lost something . . . The hopes for peace which he cherished for mankind ... It was a lovely spring day in April four years ago. The Weeping Willow trees along the Potomac drooped a little lower, and the shad came nosing up the muddy waters that FDR loved and so long lived beside a little earlier. It was just the kind of spring he would have loved. Then suddenly through the loveliness came that flag-draped caisson bringing the dead warrior home . . . People stood and watched watched and wept and prayed. They had never met him, many had never seen him, but he belonged to them ... So the dead warrior passed down Constitution avenue, which when he came into office 12 years before had been lined with vacant lots and ramshackled remnants of the bonus army . . . He had passed down that avenue on a March day 12 years before when the world seemed falling apart. A ragged homeless army of 20,000 war vet erans had even stormed the Capitol and the three drawbridges across the Potomac for the first time in history were raised to keep them out. Now it was April, 12 years later. The world was on the verge of ending the greatest war in history. America had weathered the storms, but the captain of the ship would not see his vessel dock . . . He had made mistakes, plenty of them. He had his faults all great men do. He was untrue to his friends when his friends be came liabilities to the public trust . . . But the people overlooked his faults because they knew he was working for them . . . And they knew it would be hard for them to get another such friend. HENRY WALLACE'S CALM So as the caisson passed, the people watched and wept and prayed . . . and the cabinet wept . . . Henry L. Stimson, nearly of Vr S V r if I i I V V lii I HI .I. III I TNISJCffijI pooo&ooooq tm mtm m est at It ami eighty, a member of two Repub lican cabinets, a candidate for governor of New York when FDR was a young and carefree senator in Albany, wept . . . Stimson, who had opposed Roosevelt, but who loved Roose velt and served in his cabinet, wept and was unashamed . . . Icks' face was worn and drawn . . . Only Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Commerce, was calm. Watching Harry Truman take the oath of office as Presi dent of the United States Harry Truman, the man who de feated him at Chicago and in whose shoes he otherwise might have been. Wallace quietly ob served: "Roosevelt was agreat man. But perhaps what the country needs now is a man of the people. "That man' and he nodded at Truman "That man may have the Lincolnesque greatness the country needs." . . . There was no bitterness. With the switch of a few votes, Henry Wallace would have stood in the place where Harry Tru man stood. But he was not bitter. NEW ERA OF THE COMMON MAN So after 12 long years the champion of the common man went to his final resting place and his successor, the common man, boarded the funeral train . . . He was humble and the world applauded, silently cheer ing, fervently hoping that Henry Wallace was right that a newr Lincoln had come to America . . . One by one, the new presi went called the members of the Roosevelt cabinet into his car as the funeral train steamed to ward Poughkeepsie. One bv one, he imolored them, to stay on . . . Also slipping into the president ial car went an ex-bootlegger from Kans City, John Mara pon. Cockilv he whisnered to Col. Harry Vaughan, the new president's new military aide . . . The world did not then know that these two were to apnoint iudges, demote generals, influ ent" affairs in Gi-eece. The wor'd did not know that even on that funral train a new era had been ushered in. .The Roosevelt cabinet mem bers are gone now. Not one who traveled on that train remains . . . Jimmv Byrnes ( the Secre tary of State, who traveled not only on the train but to Pots dam to decide the teace of the worll. has also departed. He saw the new president firsthand as he sat down with the world's greatest leaders at the confer ence which was to man out the peace of th world . . . Churchill. Truman. Stalin the Bie Three . . . Transportation was difficult, many important diplomats were left 'behind. Not so Harrv Vaughan and his ex-bootleer friend. John Maragon. Tbey were also present at tat, his toric meptino' of the world's most powerful leaders and basted of selling black-market wrist watches. ST LIN GETS SCOLDED That meetins was important not only for what the public knew but for what the public didn't know . . . The humble little president now was humble no more ... It was his first meeting with Stalin, with whom he hoped to write a lasting peace, and with whom at that time the U. S. A. enjoyed reasonably hap py relations. No important dif ferences had then developed . . But the once-humble president proceeded to give Stalin a tongue-lashing. Addressing a man he had never met and from whose army he wanted help in defeating the Japanese, the new president talked like a Dutch uncle about the schedule he ex pected to be followed at Pots dam . . . Churchill raised his eye brows, looked at Jimmy Byrnes. Neither could interrupt or re prove the President of the United States . . . Stalin has de served many another bawling out on other matters since, but not during the first few minutes of a conference at which he had not even had time to disagree. After the first day's session, the little president drove off. With him in the limousine were Jimmy Byrnes and Harry Vaughan . . . "That was great chief!" exploded the military aide. "You certainly jid pour it on him! It was great! Do it again;" . . . The new president beamed. His new Secretary of State had planned to issue a note of caution about antagoniz ing the chief of a country before negotiations even started. Now it was obvious that the new president was pleased with his performance. Adulation. not criticism, was the cue for the day and for mariv other davs dur ing the four years thereafter. The Potsdam conference ended pretty much in failure. High sounding announcements were issued to cover up the failure, but the public as always found out in the end . . . Joe Stalin has deserved plenty of bawling out since then, but diplomats have wondered whether, if Tru man hadn't bawled him out at the very start, he'd have been more cooperative. Maybe not . . . Maybe if Truman hadn't bawled out Foreign Minister Molotov the minute after he arrived for the U. N. conference, we'd also have got along better with the Russians at San Francisco. May be not . . . Maybe if Roosevelt had lived we wouldn't have been : in the mess we ar with the Rus j sians. Maybe not. Anyway it seems a long, long I time since that quiet day in April I when the body of a great warrior ; was borne down Constitution avenue, past the new buildings he 1 built, past the Washington he loved, past the people who I watched and wept and prayed. Connie Osburn Journal Correspondent j Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Grady ; and Mr. and Mrs. Buzzy Gake j meier spent Saturday at the i Mr. Rosencrans home in South i Bend. j Mr. and Mrs. Emil Meisinger, Margaret and Virginia Cameron I and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Leesley and children attended church ; services at Springfield Sunday der of the day with Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Stevens. Hazel Tubbs of Lincoln spent Thursday evening at the E. L. McDonald home. The Jolly Joker Club met with Mrs. Clara Fulmer Friday afternoon. Sunday visitors at the John Mick home were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hughes and Maxine and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hughes of Lincoln. Mrs. Stella Burkes is seriously ill at the St. Elizabeth hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reighard are the parents of a baby boy born Thursday, April 7 at the Bryan Memorial hospital. Mrs. Reighard was formerly Mary Alice Thimgan. Mrs. Emil Meisinger, Virginia and Margaret Cameron and Mrs. Robert Leesley were Lin coln shoppers Friday. ' Mrs. Rose McDonald was a Lincoln shopper Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rosen crans and Jackie spent Sunday ' at the eBrnard Grady home. K? .' . . V 1. The Russian diplomat now heading Russia's delegation to the U. N. General Assembly in New York is (a) Andrei Y. Yishinskj (b) Andrei A. Gromyko, (c) A. A. Andreyev. 2. The Hoover commissions in recommending that Indians be converted into full citizenship estimates that the number of Indians in this country is around (a) 400,000, (b) 800,000, (c) 1,000,000. 3. The German university Hamlet attended before he returned to Denmark for his father's funeral and his mother's subsequent re-marriage was (a) Heidelberg, (b) Wittenberg, (c) Freiburg. 4. The war which so far has cost the United States the most in terms of the amount paid out in pensions and compensations was (a) World War II, (b) World War I, (c) the Civil war. 5. Rank these cities in order, of population: (a) St. Louis, (b) Chicago, (c) Los Angeles. ANSWERS 1. (b) Andrei A. Gromyko. 2. ) 400,000. 3 (b) Wittenberg. 4. () Tbc Civil War, which baa already coat the government over eight bnnon dollar in veterans' benefits. 3. (b) Chicago, 3.400.OOO; (c) Lot Angel, l.SOO.OOO; (a) St. Louia, ltf.OOO. TTITH CONGRESS passing the buck of rent control back to the local communities, high point of in terest insofar as the rural communi ties of the nation is concerned is the expected stand of Secretary of Agri culture Charles P. Braiman on the Administration's long-range farm program. As this is written, the contending forces which include the three large farm organizations holding oppos ing views on this legislation, parti cularly with respect to farm price supports are at a standstill. These views range from 100 per cent of parity, down to 90 per cent and to the sliding scale of supjxrts as now provided by the Hope-Aiken farm law. It is expected that Secretary Brannan's recommendation to the House and Senate agriculture com mittees will take the form of a com promise. According to observers here in Washington, the push for the rigid farm price supports at a high level is losing some of its steam, and Senator Aiken has been beating the grass roots in an attempt to whip up support to retain the provisions of the present law, which go into ef fect January 1, 1950. The most telling argument of the proponents for a lower parity price support and the sliding scale is the high cost of the support price and there is indication even now that by the end of this year the Commodity Credit corporation will have ex hausted its four and one-half bil lion dollar loan kitty. As a matter of fact, about two billion dollars of these funds are already tied up even before the 1949 crops start rolling from the fields. CCC has about 750 mil lions tied up in cotton loans; some 600 million in wheat loans; more than 200 million in corn, all on 1948 crops. The potato price support has already cost the government something like 170 millions of dollars. Nevertheless, Congress even under the Aiken law cannot afford to let CCC go broke, so will have to fork over more funds and these funds come from the taxpayer. The farm organizations are lined up to fight against the 75 cent min imum wage bill, and observers here say they are fighting a losmg battle. The farmers are not directly affected by the bill, since it is agreed that farm labor will not b included in the measure in its finality. However, the farm er who hires labor Mould be in- directly affected, since if rural businessmen are included in the bill such as farmers, agricultural processors, ginners, the increased : competition for the 75-cent jobs would force farmers to pay more for their workers. In about half the states, particu-! larly throughout the south, the av erage hourly rate fanners pay woik ers is less than the proposed 75-ctnt minimum. There is also considerable specu lation in Washington this week over whether the secretary of agriculture will be likely to proclaim a national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year beginning in 1950. If he decides to take this action, he must also proclaim a national acre age allotment for wheat. According to information acre age of Spring wheat is expected to be about 20,300.000 acres or al most four per cent larger than the total planted in 1S48. Combined with the winter wheat acreage estimated last December, the total 1949 planted acreage of wheat is estimated at 81.670.000 acres, or about five per cent more than was planted for the harvest last year. According to some who are close to the White House the president has changed his tactics in his deal ing with congress and is prepared to go all the way in an effort to get along with the legislators on Capitol Hill. An example is his cooperative statement in approval of the wa tered down rent control bill. The bill is far from the meas ure asked by the president, but he gave it high praise. These ob servers say that as a matter of fact the president was furiously angry. These same observers say that if his program doesn't come through congress, that trip around the coun try to take his cate to the people is still a possibility. Senator William E. Jenner, Re publican, of Indiana, brought nation-wide publicity in a three-hour speech in' the senate wherein he de nounced the Marshall Plan, urged its appropriations be withdrawn, de clared he would refuse to adhere to any bi-partisan foreign policy and ' declared that this nation's role in helping the less fortunate peoples . and countries of the earth had made ' us -hated around the world." Mr. and Mrs. John McKeon and Mary Margaret spent Sat urday evening at the E. L. Mc Donald home. Mrs. Minerva Maher enter tained the Pla-Mor Club at her home Thursday afternoon. Mamie Dowd was taken to Lincoln General Hospital last week. Mrs. O. M. Hoenshell and daughter called on Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hoenshell Tuesday. Mrs. Robert Leesley and Mrs. Emil Meisinger spent Tuesday at Springfield. Mrs. Leesley i spent the day with her mother, Mrs. Post, who had just called on Mrs. W. H. Stevens. The Dorcas Society will have a bake sale Saturday, April 16, ( at the grocery stores. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Bucking ham and sons were Sunday eve ning dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Osburn and family. Mr. C. C. Robinson of Ashland called in the afternoon. The L. C. C C. Club met with Mrs. Myrtle Coleman Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wright called on Mr. and Mrs. John Meyers Saturday. Mrs. Jane Hoenshell spent a couple of days in Ashland last week. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Green and sons spent Saturday even ing with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lees ley and family. Men outnumber women stud ents at the University of Min nesota by more than three to one. 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