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The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper r.STABLISITED IX 1SS1 iit.llstiri Kriii-wf-llv, Mondays ant Thur thiys, t 4ft!i-4i:: Main Street, liattsmouth, t.:si I'niirily. Net'rnpka. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH '. Editor BERNARD A. WOOD . . . .Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor triBRf)SKf i) neM. Mssocaron r, i w n Furse's Fresh Flashes 6UBSCRIPTION 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 mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Fnt-r-l Pt tl-e Potof f k nt T'lattmouth, Ni-tiriiMkn :t simth1 mall matter tn no- luiiUnc w 1 1 ti l Lit Act of Contfrvtm of Maroh A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Tlu- Iwst public measures are sdJo-- ni 'Ptni from previous :cisdom. but forced by tiic occasion. P.enjamin Franklin v.v.v.'.w. .-... EDITORIALS COU1.D STRONGER STATES SOLVE PROBLEM? Without attempting to solve the pres vnt political problems facing- the people of this country as they contemplate the in creasing cost of government or to decide vhere government spending should stop, v e call attention to the dangerous practice of deficit spending in times of relatively great prosperity. Tf the United States government can not reduce its national debt, in the midst of a prosperous era, one wonders whether the debt will ever be reduced. It may e, of course, that the growing wealth of Tno nation will enable it, in future years, to carry the burden of the present nation al debt without too much strain. Neverthe less, if the cost of government continues to go up and governmental expenditures a:e, tinanced by deficit-spending, no one can predict the end. It is quite apparent, however, that if such a course is pursued by the United States, the kind of government we will have will be quite different from what we have hitherto known. The government will take over more and more of the re sponsibility that was formerly attached to individuals. Those with wealth of any kind will bo taxed more and more to provide equality of everything for those who have not, for various reasons, earned such equal ity. While we are not wise enough to say when such a thing would occur, it is ob-' vious that, at some point, the government would dominate a completely regimented society. Discussing this general problem recent ly, James A. Farley, former postmaster general, urged a decrease of federal grants to the states, asserting that if this trend is not discontinued, the states will gradually give up all of their responsibilities and the federal government will absorb them. This process has been going on for many years and, in the end, the result will be the one 3Ir. Farley predicts unless some intelligent effort is made to strengthen the financial position of the states and other local governing-units. m TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC With almost all of the four hundred thousand members of the union who mine soft coal on strike and with the nation. stockpile depleted by the three-day work week, the president reluctantly invoked powers of the Taft-Hartley Act, which he has repeatedly said should be repealed. There are a number of members of congress who agree with the president that the obnoxious law should be repealed, but who, unlike the chief executive, have insisted that the new law should contain adequate powers for the president to use if a strike imperils the national health and safety. Mr. Lewis, the doughty leader of the miners, is an old antagonist of the presi dent. He has, knowingly or not, given great strength to the insistence that any new labor law shall contain adequate clauses to protect the health and safety of the public. .- "I4IVORCEES ANONYMOUS" From Chicago comes the story of a young attorney, whose practice included many divorce cases and who, after trying to reconcile a couple in his office, happened to run into a former client. She won her divorce but he asked her to go in and con vince the other couple that a divorce would be a mistake. The woman succeeded and, as a result, there was formed a group of women, under the name, "Divorcees Anonymous' to do what they can to prevent young couples from breaking up their marriages. The attorney, Samuel M. Starr, savs that the organization has thirty-five active members, has been set up as a non-profit corporation and will issue charters for Our optician tells us that glasses have an 'amazing effect on vision. We have found that true especially after they have been filled and emptied several times. -K . You cannot be just a little dishonest anymore than you can be just a little bit dead. MM A savage is a person who has no debts, deficits, or H-bombs. The telephone company tells us they need one million new poles every year. Might be a good idea for farmers to raise telephone poles. M M Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says it isn't will power a girl needs nowadays. It's won't power. Most people seem to be able to stand adversity. That's more than we can say for prosperity. M M A Chicago man who beat his wife every day for a week has promised the judge that he will not do it again. That's good. It doesn't hurt any man to make these little sacrifices once in a while. Americans are forgetting how to walk, a noted writer states in a magazine article. We've found, however, that walkers have learned how to jump, and that helps some. M M If you expect home-town trade, it might be a good idea for YOU to trade at home. branches in other cities. The members work for nothing except the satisfaction they experience from saving a marriage that apparently is about to go en the rocks, -fc DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Will Minford of Murray sold 32 head of 1,188-lb. steers at the Omaha market at 10.40 ... A family gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Meisinger. Louis ville, was held honoring Mr. and Mrs. Leo Meisinger. who were departing for Los An geles, California, to make their home . . . February 24th Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Petersen celebrated their silver wedding anniversary at their home . . . February 25th Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schafer of Nehawka observed their 25th wedding anniversary . . . Ste phen DeVoe, Marie Lentz, Renee Brown, Albin Chovanec and Allan White placed first in the local declamatory contest at P. H. S. 20 YEARS AGO G. W. Bell Co. of Omaha opened up new line of sand pits north of this city along the Platte river . . . Announcement made of the availability of natural gas for Plattsmouth in near future large main to supply Des Moines and other Iowa cities to cross river at this point . . . Post office at Eagle was broken into and robbed . . . Greenwood high school basket ball team was winner of Cass county tourney held at Eagle. M M M Laff of tiie Week mm (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IMPORTANT THAT U. S. NOT BE PUT ON SPOT BY MOSCOW AS WARMONGER AND POTENTIAL AGGRESSOR; AMERICANS WOR RIED OVER ACHESON STATE MENT ON RUSSIA; BROADCASTS ON "WHAT'S AHEAD" BY STATE SECRETARY SUGGESTED. (Editor's Note: Drew. Pearson's col umn today takes the form of a letter to Secretary of State Dean Acheson on the all-important question cf peace in the atomic-hydrogen race with Russia.) Honorable Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Dear Dean: I have been thinking of you a great deal lately thinking of the very unfair criticism heaped upon you and thinking also of the carefree days when you and I used to ride together and talk rather ban teringly of the "career boys" and their mismanagement of world affairs. Now you are in a position where you can influence those affairs more than any other man in the western world, at a time when the world needs leadership more than ever before, and at a time when it sometimes seems the best things in life are about to come crashing down around our ears, while most of us stand petrified, pow erless to act. I have been thinking what I would do if I were in your place. Frankly, I don't know. I am a reporter and you are secre tary of state. I have never been celebrated for my modesty or my reluctance to tell other people how they should run the gov ernment. But I do not know what I should do were I in your shoes. If you do call a conference to discuss an atomic-hydrogen agreement, it is a fore gone conclusion that it would fail. The Kremlin being what it is, you cannot win. And if you call such a conference, it will be interpreted as a sign of weakness, a DEPOSlTSj (WITH0AWALS) 2 firsts capit6l 1 NEWS , Monday. March 27, 1950 PAGE THREE "JUST A SECOND, DEARI LET ME GET IT IN BEFORE YOU TAKE IT OUT." diplomatic surrender. DOOR-PUSHING RUSSIA I remember that, about four years ago, when you were still under-secretary of state, you told a friend that Russia was like a thief going down the street trying every door latch to see which one it could open. Most people wouldn't have be lieved you at that time. They were so anxious to get along with Russia. But you were right. Rus sia is going down the highways and byways of the world push ing at every door. If she can't get into Berlin thanks to the Berlin blockade she pushes into China. And after that she tries the latch keys of Burma, Indo china and the Philippines. So I can understand and heart--ily agree with your recent state ment that the only thing in ths world Russia understands today is force. However, if you and the na tion whose foreign affairs you guide do not take seme step to ward a discussion of the world's mad drift toward wr.r, we ve likely to be branded as war mongers and potential aggres sors. And in thi day cf psy chological cold warfare, when the twisted mc-jthinp.: of Mos cow can do such damage, it is important that we do no: put ourselves on this spot. AMERICANS COM L'l"ED I remember that, when I first cams to Washington a3 u very green newspaperman, you were extremely kind to me. I have never forgotten that. And al though I have sometim?3 been vigorous in my criticism of staie department affairs, if there is anything I can do for you in the difficult job you now hold I should like to do it. And perhaps the only thing I can do as a newspaper reporter is report to you how the Amer ican people feel today. I think it is important that you, as sec retary of state knov how they feel, and I believe I am a good enough reporter to report cn it. They are confused, frustrated and torn with dread. When they think that their children might have to go out and fight again they go almost numb. They would fight ferociously if this country were attacked, or if they saw any way that could stabilize the world for a long time to come. But they will not participate in a distant overseas war except in a limping spirit of performing a dreary duty. This is not pleasant to con template, but I am afraid it is true. The American people sim ply do not want to. fight anoth er war if they think it will lead to more wars. LEADERSHIP WANTED That is why they are worried over your statement that the only thing Russia understands is force. Accurate though you unquestionably are, the Ameri can people want to see something further ahead than the clash of force. They want to see the goals we are aiming for. They want to see leadership. The American people, though confused, disappointed and frus trated, are the most intelligent in the world. Frequently they are ahead of their government, ahead - of - their newspapers, ahead of those who profess to lead them. They are way ahead, in my opinion, of the day when the state department helped insert the "veto" in the Dumbarton Oaks agreement, thereby bog ging down the United Nations for years to come. And they are far ahead of the assistant sec retary, Jack Hickerson, who talked so disaparagingly before a congressional committee on the possibility of world government. Today we are in a new world of atomic weapons and jet-propelled speed planes, and the American people realize that we cannot still apply horse-and-buggy politics. If our weapons are atomic, then our politics must be atomic also. All this, I say, the American people generally understand. But they do not always under stand silence on the part of their leaders. They do not un derstand and abrupt press hand out on the momentous question of making the hydrogen bomb with no appeal to the rest of the world for regulation and cooper ation. And they do not understand wise cracks or cuss words in con nection with foreign policy. Even if the facts are not pleas ant they want a solemn diagno sis of what they face. They can, if absolutely neces sary, bear more sacrifices, but they do not want to be kept in the dark. They want to know. Therefore if you could give them a series of broadcasts out lining what is ahead, it not only would be universally welcomed but might prove a turning point in the moulding of our foreign affairs. You will be surprised, I know, to get a letter from a hardbitten, thick-skinned so-and-so like me, and perhaps I shouldn't be writ ing you, but I lay awake nights thinking of the dread prospect cf my children going to war again and I know that several million other Americans are doing the same. So please forgive this outpour ing and call on me if I can help you at any time. Sincerely. Drew Pearson Blue Devils 7 'fl !! Su!d L ILL illA Friday, 50-49 (Continuel from Fage 1) three field goals and Matzke with one fielder. The score was 36 to 34 as the quarter ended. In the final quarter of the game the teams continued their furious battle that was any body's game until the final whistle. In the quarter John sen again led his" team with three field goals and three free throws. Renter and Macasa each a field goal and Stubbs a free toss. For the Blue Devils Dasher was a whirlwind with five field goals. Rohan and Mc Cormick a field goal apiece and Janecek a free throw. In this frenzied ending the Blue Devils slipped ahead 49 to 48, when with seconds to go Macasa slip ped in a bucket for Lincoln and won by 'a margin of 50 to 49. The box score of the game was as follows: Flattsmouth fg ft pf tp! Rohaft. f 1 0 0 2 '.Dasher, f 9 3 2 21 j McCormick. f. .... 3 4 3 10; i Janecek, c 2 1 3 5 iOfe. g 3 1 4 7 (Ashbaugh, g 2 0 3 4 20 9 15 49 Lincoln Teachers fg ft pf tp j Renter, f 2 0 1 4 Dittenber, f 0 0 1 0 Matzke ,f 6 1 4 13 Johnson, c 11 5 3 27 Maoasa, g 2 1 4 5 Stubbs, g 0 1 1 1 21 8 14 50 MURDOCH WINS GAME The Murdock high school bas ketball team on Friday evening at their home ' court, were the winners over the Alvo team by the score of 54 to 26. The high point man for the winners was McDonald wuth 14 whila Kinney led the Alvo scor ing with 13 points. HAS APPENDECTOMY Beverly Ann Trotter, grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo sqt m Redlack, of this city, is a patient at the St. Catherine's in-f-i .vii a i Omaha where she was operated on for appendi citis on Saturday. A classified ao in me Journal osts as little as 35c. LINCOLN The Nebraska woods are full of people who want to be legislators. More than seven times as many candidates have filed with the secretary of state as on a comparable date in 1948. With 19 weeks left until the June deadline for filing, 36 men had sent notifications to Secret ary of State Frank Marsh of their candidacy for the jobs which pay only $872 a year. In the last week in October 1947. 19 weeks before the March 4 deadline on filings for the April primary in 1948, only five persons were listed as candi dates for the legislature. Incumbenrs have almost matched those who seek to take places. Sixteen have said they want to return, while 18 new comers have entered the race, along with two men who were beaten last time out. At this writing, no filings had been received from 17 of the state's 43 legislative districts. Contests are shaping up in eight districts where two or more candidates are in the run ning. Four senators have said they are through: William Metzger, of Cedar Creek, 3rd; Cliff Ogden, Omaha. 10th; Louis Holmes. Grand Is land, 30th. and Willard Vilson, Holdrege, 36th. Filings by late last week in cluded Vindicates incumbent): 4th district, R. W. Brennan, Omaha. 5th. Norris P. Crafts, John J. McMahon, Harry A. Foster, Omaha. 8th, John J. Larkin, Jr.. Oma ha. 9th, Edmund R. Caldwell, Paul Manhart, Omaha. ICth. William Mounten, Oma ha; W. Stuart Campbell, Wat erloo. 12th, W. H. Hasenbrcok, West Point; L. Paul Johnson. Oak land. . 13th, Hal Bridenbaugh, South Sioux City. 15th, Charles Wilson, Norfolk. 16th, L. M. Shultz, Rogers. 17th, O. H. Person, WTahoo. 18th, II. P. Heiliger, Lincoln. 23rd, Art Brown, Friend. 24th, H. K. Diers, Gresham; Evan Miller, Benedict. 25th, Lester Anderson, Aur ora. 23th ,Ed F. Lusktnski, Colum bus. 27th, Glenn Cramer, Albion. 28th, Frank Nelson, O'Neill; Fred J. Jungmn, Atkinson; Norris W. Coats, Stuart. 29th, Hugh Carson. Ord. 21st. W. Halsey Bohlke, Hast ings. 32nd, C. R. Lindgren, Camp bell. 33rd, Holly Hodge, Orleans; Ed Hoyt. McCook. 34th, W. J. Williams, Raven na. 36th, Herbert J. Duis, Goth enburg; Max W. Junkin, Smith field . 38th. Harry Pizer, North Platte. 41st, William Hern, Chadron. 42nd, Otto Prohs, Gering. The hospital division of tho state health department had some good news for Nebraskans this week. Said Verne Pang born, director of the division. Almost every section of Nebras ka except the Sandhills area soon will have hospital facili ties. A dozen communities have spent or are spending $4'i mil lion dollars for new hospitals which will accomodate 259 pa tients. Plans for an additional $1,672,000 investment for eight other hospitals with 173 beds are now being developed. Pangborn's report covered the period from October, 1946, when the federal government first agreed .to put up a third of the cost of building or equip ping hospitals. In the Sandhills the Alli ance - Broken Bow - Valentine Ogallala area, the population is too thin to support a hospital. Pangborn said. About 90 percent of the fed eral money available to Ne braska has already been allocat ed. The state hospital advisory committee will meet early in March to consider applications for the remaining funds. Gov, Val Peterson and a lot of other Nebraskans were won dering this week why the state was not asked to send a repre sentative to the crime confer ence called by U. S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath.. "To my knowledge." said the governor, "none of the midwest states were invited, although they have shown successful leadership in dealing with gambling." Statehousers especially could not understand why Attorney General James H. Anderson, whose whirlwind crackdown on gambling last fall brought him and this state national fame, IMtsCAKlIlSlE GmrnKtammmmmSB. v i .i Man Likes Sound of His Name rHARLES E. PARKER, Ferguson, Missouri, has written me cf a most every individual in the world. Yes, you too, no doubt hiw this trait. Mr. Parker deals in real estate and is connected witb the Yorktown Realty company in Ferguson. There was a tract of land in his town that he felt could be made productive. But the owner wasn't interested in selling. It was Mr. Parker's idea to get control of this land and further a promotion for dividing it into panels and putting buildings on it. This would not only be financially profitable, but it would help in the housing shortage. , v So he called on the owner, a George Row land. Although he pictured the plan, and Mr. Rowland s profit, in glowing terms, he made no impression on him or apparently he did not. Carnefie Before he left, and as a last bit of persuasion, he said he would like to see such a subdivision called Rowland Court. as a lasting memorial to the man who had helped to further the promotion. , mu-J Two days later, Mr. Parker met a man who asked about Mr. Rowland's land and made a good offer for it. This prospective purchaser himself had talked with Mr. Rowland and made zu progress. Because he never turned down an opportunity, raher than because he had any feeling that he would be suc cessful, he again called on Mr. Rowland and told him of the offer. Again he seemed to have made no progress. He turned to go, but suddenly Mr. Rowland checked him. "If he sold the property would it be written into the contract that the subdivision would be called Row land's Court?" 4 So the battle was over. Merely because a man loves the sound of his own name. Yes, many a friendship has been founded oa the simple and easy act of calling a man by his name. Remember that when you meet a stranger. Remember that, too, when you meet your friends of long standing. was not asked to attend. "It would seem to me the fed eral officials would like some information from people who have whipped the problem on the local level" the governor said. State Labor Commissioner Donald P. Miller has reported that unemployment continued to rise in Nebraska last month to the highest level since 1915. Miller said that on Feb. 1. 16,497 jobseekers registered in state employment offices. This was 2,000 more than on the same date a year ago. The state may be nsarin; the seasonal employment peak, the commissioner believes. There was no evidence ' cf additional layoffs in January, other than in the construction fcu:in?ss. which is directly affected by the weather. The newspapers of Nebraska won a victory in their battle to lower rates charged by bus lines for hauling newspapers. The state railway commission set the rates at a penny a pound, with a $3 monthly minimum. Under the schedule effective last Nov. 1, newspapers were charged 25 cents a bundle, un der a one-ton minimum. This, the papers protested, was exhor bitant and more often than net, made the cost of transporta tion greater than the profit. Attorneys for the Lincoln Star and Journal and the Oma ha World-Herald suggested the $3 minimum. R F. Kennedy, of the Columbus Telegram said this would put a load on small newspapers, but that he would notrop tn it if till ntVier-: r?iH SHORT SHOTS in the Week's ' STATEHOUSS NEWS The chairman of the Nebras ka Petroleum Industries Com mittee said his group will con tinue to battle the governor's highway program. He answere-d an editorial question of the Lincoin Journal as to whether the resignation cf Jchn Ainlay as executive secretary of the committee, would mean a let down in the scrap. Gov. Val Peterson has invited representatives cf the Nebrarka Molor Carriers association to meet with him to discuss spring road conditions. committee rtudying organic- hold a public hearing at the rnnitnl. Fphrnarv 25. Use Journal TTant Ads. RILING MARRIAGES are as symptomatic of the tensions of our times as plagues in the middle ages were symptomatic of ignor ance of the origin of disease, as well as of lack of sanitation. Tack ling the problem of wholesale con tagion led in a few hundred years to the germ theory of disease and to the science of immunization, long with the enactment of sani tary laws. At long last we are turning: scientific inquiry to the appall ing divorce rate, as the Pas teurs and the Dr. Ehrlichs of the past century concentrated on finding the causes of dis ease, refusing to believe that plagues were the scourges of God. Already many of the root causes of failure in marriage are being brought to light. That Is, each divorce is no longer looked upon, as It was In our grandmother's day, as a shock ing moral failure on the part of two people alone. Each case can now be examined in the light of thousands like it in an attempt to find the "carrier germ" for the various types of broken marriage. Slowly this body of knowledge, contributed to by ministers, doc tors, psychologists and others working in the field of Jiuman wel fare, is being made available to un happy wives and husbands, as well J as to young people considering marriage. Books are being written as guides, courses on marriage are given in colleges and a few high schools, magazines know that ser vice to their readers must include Insights into marital problems as well as child care, cookery, dress making, home decorating and oth er time honored subjects. As an example of the trend, a quarter of a century ago it was thought that all mothers and fath ers needed to make them success ful parents was more and better understanding of their children. Now we know that understanding themselves is equally as important. One new source of help is the marriage counselor who diagnoses and treats marital problems. As a profession, marriage counseling re quires years of training 7 or 8 years of college In addition to clini cal experience. Since It is often the" counselor's job to refer his client to another specialist if he sees that the case requires the help of a psy chiatrist, doctor, lawyer, etc. he must have a working knowledge of. these professions. The American Association of Marriage Counselors has through the work of a commit tee of its members set op stan dards of certification for mar riage counselors. Because no one knows better than the daly qualified how much harm can be done by quacks, the associa tion has provided this safe guard against the bungling af "do - gooders," as well aa against venal incompetence. Not only your own happiness, but the security and happiness cf your children, depends on making a go of your marriage. You wouldn't try to fight disease without profes sional help. If you feel your mar riage toppling, why not seek equal ly sound advice on how to steady it?