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0 UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KST.ni.isin:D in usi Furse's Fresh Flashes GROPING IN THE FOG Thursday, February 16. 1950 PAGE ONE lifashin r a gien r aaeamenmanmaBBnens6nTena- Pu?l i:e s-mi-M-ef-kl Moirliivs !ml Tliurx ilavs, ;it in,.i--H3 Vslin Stn-t-t. I'lattstnouth. :i s' t'l.n lit v. Nl rnIia. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor lBRASKf) ' lassocmrion NATIONAL CDfTORIAl Assocunom 6UBSCRIFTION 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 Platts .iouth, 15 cents for two weeks. KnffVf-d Bt tte 'o-t''f t !" nt I'lattsmnuth, NVh'ka s i in."il m:itt-r in I'unhi'u-e wild li.e Ait of Ciiii'-ss uf Marh A T 1 1 0 IT; 1 1 T I'O R TO DA V J'lie ijood are better made by i!!, as oJaurs cruslieJ are s:eeeter still. Holers PRAISE THAT IS DESERVED On another page of The Journal a let ter is beinjr published extending a word of thanks and appreciation to the newspaper and the merchants of Plattsmouth for their support of a page advertisement once each month devoted to the churches of this community. While many of our readers have taken this page for granted, we do not believe anything this newspaper has carried in its columns of this type in years past has been responsible fr so much favorable com ment or received the praise as has the church page. Hundreds of readers of this newspaper have telephoned and personally extended their words of appreciation for its timeliness. Although the advertisements are pre pared by the staff of The Journal, only through the generosity and thoughtfulness of the sponsoring merchants whose busi ness cards surround the monthly feature is publication possible. Each contributes a small sum each month in order that this church message can be brought before the public. If you are one of the many appreciative of this special feature, a word of thanks' to the sponsoring merchants is in order. Personally we think it very timely when, at the present time, about half our citizen ery is traveling on the road to hell at the speed of a fire wagon. I LET'S ORGANIZE FUND DRIVES Many drives for funds for many worthy enterprises have been conducted in Platts mouth during the past few months. We do not complain of the enterprises or of their worthiness. This factor is not ques tioned. Boy and Girl Scouts, polio, tubercu losis, Salvation Army, heart disease, and dozens of others, plus several individual cases, all very worthy, but all the reason for a drive for funds. With each indi vidual project, there comes another drive. Those of us who can are glad to give to the support of these causes. The one's who can't wish that they could. We take this opportunity to compli ment the leaders of each and every drive and all the persons who work for these fine causes and every individual who makes a donation. The public spiritedness dis played in these drives marks distinct no bility of character. However, it might be suggested that measures could be taken to curtail the con tinuous drain on the pocketbooks of the community. If the assault were made all at once, in a big, concerted effort, it would probably be better. A single, community chest type drive, carried out on a large scale would serve the combined purposes of all of the fund drives. GARDENING OFFERS REWARDS About this time of the year it is well to urge all readers of The Journal to con sider the possible pleasure to be obtained from flowers, fruits and vegetables. It is also worth noting that, sometimes, such ac tivity can develop a monetary profit. We are not much concerned, in this article, with the economic gains cf gar dening. There are other values that come to the individual who seeks to develop something of beauty and perfection in ac cordance with the laws of nature. There are countless homes in Cass coun ty on lots that need the charm that can come only from well-appointed surround ings. It may take some years to develon an attractive lawn or garden but the task will bring satisfaction, however long de layed. Besides, what you do with vour Even if money grew on trees, some people would figure out a way to get others to climb the trees and bring it down for them. -k -k -k The time is fast approaching wlen Uncle Sam will have and hold us from th-t day forward, for better or worse, for rich er or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. -K The reason a woman's intuition is s i often right with respect to a man is that it leads her to expect the worst. -fc -fc -w About the only untaxed transaction now is that of a person laying up a treasure in heaven. k After being frightened silly by infla tion for the past four years, we now have a lot of people who are afraid it will not continue. -k -k -k No one is particularly interested in what you are doing if you are behaving vourself. Don't cry over spilled milk or into weak beer. About this time of year we are not in terested in how much income tax Jack Benny or Barney Baruch has vo pay. k -k It is reported that about 30 million Bibles were sold last year. What we can't understand is why so many people buy and so few read it. A newspaper headline states tlwt every winter many Indians get lost and perish in our western blizzards. Those .people will never become accustomed to our country. 5oqoBoooo .f i X lot will add to the natural beauty of Platts mouth. When it comes to vegetable gardening, one must admit that the process involves work. At the same time, many business men would be physically benefitted by some exercise. We know, from hearing them boast, that the amateur gardeners take as much delight in their prize speci mens as fishermen who talk so much about the "one that got away." "down memorylane TEN YEARS AGO Rev. Paul Dick, popular and able pas tor of the Mynard U. B. church, accepted call to Custer county church at Merna, Xebr. . . . Miss Dorothea Helen Fulton and Grant Roberts were married Feb. 11th at Mynard U. B. church . . . Mr. and Mrs. Ben Turner, son. Roy, and grandson, Larry, de parted for Auburn where they were to op erate the "Wimp cafe" there . . . T. H. Pol lock was named as plant manager of the Plattsmouth Water Corporation at annual meeting . . . 20 YEARS AGO Mrs. Bess Gearhart Morrison delighted a large audience at the Presbyterian church when she reviewed "The Copper head," a story of the Civil war period . . . Myron Wiles purchased the farm of James Schwab, 400 acres, known as the George Snyder farm . . . The dramatic club of P. H. S., under direction of Miss Mary Jane Tid ball, presented a number of scenes fron Shakespeare's "Macbeth," with Warren Farmer cast as Banquo, Ira Mumm as Mac beth and the witches were Janet Vallery, Helen Virginia Price and Eleanor Swatek ; with Vestetta Robertson portraying Hecate . . . Supt. R. E. Bailey presided over the Dads and Lads banquet at the Methodist church, an observance of Scout Week; L. D. Hiatt led the singing for the group. The Cardinal orchestra, comprising Wini fred Ra"iney, Don Rainey, Don Cotner, Ed Egenberger, Bob HalJ, James Constock and Sam Am gave the musical setting. -fc l&mN- CiO- ftGUMB (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN DOL LARS MAY MAKE PARTY TOO FAT; BEN SONNENBERG AP POINTS CLIENTS TO RUN DEMO CRATIC DINNERS; SOVIET JUS TICE IS WORSE THAN HITLER'S. WASHINGTON. The big Democratic dinner in Washington tonight contrasts sharply with the Republican box supper ten days ago. It will be the biggest ban quet in the history of the world even big ger than the banquet once given to Julius Caesar. If the Democrats are smart, how ever, the contrasts will be a red flag of warning. The Democratic dinner costs $100 per plate not a bad idea to raise political money. But what's happening is that the fat-cats who once backed up the Republi cans now flock to the Democrats, for a . - - k FA If" I nVPifiM 1 1 ush. i m mm t i very simple reason: the Demo- i crats have power. I In other words. included among th? guests tonight will be a few who have income-tax cases to fix, who want to get a government contract, who seek to influence White House policy or are angling for an airline franchise. Two tables seating ten guests each cost $2,000 ond sometimes the investment is worth it. It used to be that the bi-jr-money boys flocked to the Re publicans, but except for the very faithful a lot are now switching to the Democrats. This" doesn't mean th?t they are real ly for Truman. They just think it pays. But the danger to the Demo crats is that when any party gets indebted to too many fat-cars, it starts riding for a fall. Like wise when the Republicans real ly draw support from the SI box supper class, it will start riding to victory. Only trouble with the recent GOP box suurer was that it was superficial. The boys didn't really relish it. j DEMOCRATIC FAT-CAT i Illustration of. how Democrat -j ic dinners may be mixed with big business was the contribu tion of popular Bill Pawley, ex ambassador to Brazil, to the De cember 2 New York dinner. At that dinner, Pawley took four tables. Cost: $4,000. Pawley, a great friend of Bob Hannegan, made a big killing after the war when he bought surplus planes from the British in China, turned round and sold them to the Chinese. Sinc Pawley made the deal outside the U. S. A., it was tax-free , so he raked in a handsome prof 5 it. j More recently. Pawley has been j pulling wires to help the Na j tionalist Chinese to whom he Isold these planes. A good Dem j ocrat, high in party councils, his , . r . i i . 11.. it- . 1 expensive iuui tiiuifs ui uie wai dorf dinner may have had no business motive. And it should be noted in fairness that if Paw- J ley tried to use political influ ence with Truman and Acheson re China, it didn't work. MIRACLE-MAN SONNENBERG When Charles Luckman. the deposed czar of Lever Brothers' soap empire, raps the gavel at the big Democratic dinner to night, it will be a triumph for a roly-poly little man with a high buttoned coat sitting in the audi ence. He is public relations expert Ben Sonnenberg, who has achieved a public relations mir acle by having two of his pro teges chairman the two big Dem ocratic dinners. In fact, it's got so that when the Democrats hold a dinner they figure cn "menus by Oscar" and "chair men by Sonnenberg." The last New York dinner, which netted the Democrats more than, $250,000, was presid- ! ed over by earthy Tom Morgan. the North Carolina boy who roso j to be head of Sperry Gyroscope ana wno, nice Luckman, is a client of Sonnenberg's. To understand how the amaz ing Mr. Sonnenberg was able to perform this miracle cf putting his clients in front cf the speak ers' stand twice in a row, you have to understand the gentle man himself. And even his wife says that is difficult. Coming to this country from Poland as a bey. Ben never has forgotten his humble beginnings, reminds his friends that his grandfather was a rabbi and his father a pushcart peddler. Ben represents some of the biggest corporations in the coun tryTexas Oil, J. S. Bache of Wall Street, Remington-Rand. Philin Morris and Lever Broth ers. But he has a heart of gold and never is too busy to help out the nonpaying little fellow. , Though he takes good care of his clients, lie is brutally frank in talking about himself, and once explained his high stiff col lar and tight-fitting coat this way: "I chose my clothes be cause I knew that wherever I went, people would say. 'who in God's name is that?' "I don't care what they say about me." aridj Rormpnlw". "just so they remember me." It isn't the clothes that make the man, however. It's the fact that he delivers. NEW DEMOCRATIC SENATOR A quarrel over the gravy train is about all that's holding up the adding of a new senator to the Democratic party. Lusty "Wild Bill" Langer, one of the few, old-time bull moos ers left in politics, is planning to pull up stakes and leave the Re publican party. The only hitch is that Dave Kelly, the North Dakota Democratic national committeeman, does not want to split the Democratic patronage with Senator Lander. Hitherto he has had the distribution of all Democratic jobs in North Da kota. f Langer, the senator with tlv long stride, bull voice and habit of chewing cellophane-wrapped cigars, proudly lists his bolts to Robert La Fcllette and Hiram Johnson when they ran for pres ident. Today the senator is virtually independent of the GOP. because the nonpartisan league which NEB T3I ini c. 1 SKA by lAMES C OLSON, Superintendent STATX HtlTOIlCAL 10CIETT David Butler, first governor of the state of Nebraska, had one of the stormiest political careers in the history of the common wealth, and has been one of the most debated figures ever to hold Nebraska's highest public office. In the first place, he was elected in 1866 by a margin of only 145 votes over J. Sterling Morton, his Democratic op ponent, and as frequently was the case in early Nebraska elec tions the results were contested. Morton's adherents never admit ted that the election was an outright victory, and there is some question even to this day relative to certain procedures particularly the disqualifying of the vote cast in Rock Bluffs pre cinct, Cass county, strong Mor ton territory. Once in office, Governor But ler was faced with the problem of transition from territorial to state government. Among the many vexing questions was the location of the state capitol and the principal state institutions. gram. But Beck was given the TRAVESTY ON JUSTICE Tomorrow a trial opens in Hungary, the trial of an Ameri can who has had no chance to consult counsel- see his friends or have any contact with the outside world. During the trial of those ac cused of the reichstag fire, Adolf Hitler permitted defense counsel and foreign observers to be present. But the high-handed operations of officials in satellite countries are far worse CTION in the United States sen ate confirms a prediction made in this column last Novem ber that the navy still has a "chip on its shoulder" over the ouster of Adm. Louis DenXeld as chief of naval operations. This column said of the ouster, "That should be the last of it. But apparently the navy is still aggrieved and there promises to be more fire works when congress convenes in Janoary." Well, the fireworks have started with Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) questioning the truthful- j ness of Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews, bringing about a reopening of the Denfeld case and a delay in the confirmation at this writing) cf Denfeld's succes sor, Adm. Forrest P. Sherman. Re publicans, who the week before dropped all demands for an in vestigation of the Denfeld case, now insist that Secretary Matthews be called for a "full explanation." Question hinges upon wheth er or not Denfeld was issued a new two-year commission, or if he was, whether or not he was ever sworn in, or even if he was sworn in, has the Frrl dent the power to fire i.inj any way? The M-year-o'.d fipht eve ,.:'. eral taxes on oleomar; ended. Federal taxes have tr repealed, a bitter defeat for t',-.- dairying and creamery intercut.-. Only differences in the senate passed bill and the house bill were minor, requiring that oleo be sold in triangular patties and that no tices be posted in restaurants using yellow oleo. Of course, there is no law wrhich would prohibit res taurants serving butter in triangu lar patties. But the bill repeals the 10-ccnt federal tax on a pound of yellow oleo and a fourth-cent on white oleo, $600 a year license fee for wholesalers of yellow and $200 a year fee for while margarine, ' $43 a year for retailers of yellow and $6 for retailers of white oleo. The senate progressively defeated a dozen amendments to the measure which included tacking on of all the civil rights measures as t'iouosei by the Trurr.an administration. De bate on the measure was bitwr and ran the gamut ot politics in volving the farm vote. Examples: Said Sen. KarlMundt iR-.S.D.), "We are confronted with just sun e plain, practical Petidergast poli tics which believes it can get some votes now by inducing some city people to go along with them, be cause they are going to give them a little cheaper spread, und they probably are not going to kse many votes among the farmers, because primarily they are dealing with a group of people who hae had the good judgment to vote Republican anyway.' Senator Mundt was immedi ately challenged by a dozen senators asking him to give a resume of the farm vote at the last election which generally went Democratic. Said Sn. J. William Fulbright D., Ark.), author of the bill. "I do not believe that repeal will in jure the dairy industry, much less destroy it. There is not even ;roof that repeal will do any gre.t amount of damage to butter." Defeat of a southern Democrat-Republican coalition, both in the house rules committee and on the floor of the houx. was a definite victory for Presi dent Truman, but it may have reverberations throughout this ?rrsion of the congress. Had ti e rebels won, it would have f"vcn Congressman Eurene Cox D Ga.l, an avowed foe Li i::e lnman aun.inisiiM'.ion f.-.'r C?al program, complete c on rol oT all house lejrisTUt.oa by rcvrr.-vn action of the first session vhich sheared from the rules committee its absolute power t.- control all legislation by the simple process of pigeon holing it. Republicans, l.cr.ced by former speaker, Joe Mar. .:. and minority icadsr, Charles H.-.iio -k. joined in the coalition, althou. a :' ey sought to side-step respons.a.Ii'.y by mov ing for an adjourr.n..i n jruer .o prevent an expected vte on the FEPC measure. The mow ior ad journment was killed. Nov they must vote FEPC o.th.r up or down. The legislature directed the gov- ; 000 of the school fund given the ernor to head a three-man com- state by the federal government. ; The state senate convicted him ion that charge (although ac : quitting him on the other ten'. ! and the supreme court ordered j first being that he had appro priated to his own use some $16.- mission to choose a capital city, which in addition to the state house was to contain the state university and the state insane asylum. Under Butler's leadership the commission chose the site that him removed from office. was to develop into the present city of Lincoln. Once the site had been selected, the governor sparked a campaign to sell town lots, organize the functions of state government, and develop me new capital city. i Before long, however, he was J in serious trouble with the legis- I lature, and in 1871, just at the j beginning of his third term, I eleven articles of impeachment j were preferred against him, the ; brushoff. 1 The Lieutenant Governor. William H. James, who had been serving as governor, since the charges first were preferred, filled out the remainder of the term. In 1877 the legislature relented of its action and adopted a reso lution expunging the impeach ment proceedings from the rec ord. In 1882, after ten years re tirement from active political life, Butler was elected to the (Continued on Page Two) than anything perpetrated by controls North Dakota politics j Hitler, as witness the arrest of is solidly pro-Langer. Robert Vogeler, manager of In- Another factor which makes ' tcrnational Telephone and Tele Langer lean toward the Demo- graph, imprisoned "in Hungary crats is the revolt against Re- 1 for three long months, publican farm policies now When Vogeler s trial date was spreading across the Dakotas. ("set, the premier of Hungary an When the GOP policy statement nounced in advance that Vogeler was issued with such fanfare in I would be given a stiff sentence. Washington, a South Dakota dirt I Morris Ernst, the fighting New farmer, Axel Beck, pleaded with j York attorney, asked the Hun National Chairman Guy Gabriel- t garian embassy for a visa to son to let real-for-sure farmers j visit his client; but at this writ draft a postive agricultural pro- i ing was given a brushoff. ldal brain bumet (c) 1. Nigeria is in fa) western Africa, (b) central Asia, northern South America, (d) southern Europe. 2. The Rorschach ink-blot test is a test of (a) ink quality, (b) paper absorption, (c) mental capabilities, (d) eyesight. 3. The Capets were (a) a group of equestrian performers, (b) a ruling house of France, (c) a comedy team, (d) a secret society connected with the Inquisition. 4. Gretna Green is famous as a (a) golf course, (b) spring salad, (c) haven of elopers, (d) domain of Robin Hood. 5. Henry Hudson's ship was known as the (a) Half Moon, (b) Full Moon, (c) Quarter Moon, (d) Three-Quarter Moon. 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