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0 JjflDllJmAlL UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S XEWSpaper &0E SdDUTIH r The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper EPTAr.LIflll'D IX U81 I'utilishfrt fetni-wefklv, Mnmlayw 8 nil Tluirst days, ;it )(!-4 1:: Minn Stivet, l'lattsmouth, ita.xs ("mint v. Nlir.'iska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor r lASSCClPTIOn HUIONAL tOITORIAl ASSOUAItOm SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $-1.00 per year elsewhce, in advance, by mail outside the city or Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. fntcrnl at tbe T'iist -f fl- sit I'lattsmunth, Nf its sficni) ln mail m;ittr in :'- curii'ii't with lie Ait of L'fiirt-fS of .Vlar.h :i. 179. j A THOUGHT FOR TODAY '.'it prop's irr a ):;a::y-lui'ird hrasf. Alev.ander Pope ""ll T Ol I A L S Z GOOD NEWS FOR PLATTSMOUTH Persons interested in the building and growth of Plattsmouth will be interested in the following information taken from the Masonic News, published at Lincoln. Peter L. Bauer, Columbus, president of .he Nebraska Masonic Home here, states h;;t 1950 will be an eventful year for Masonry in Nebraska and particularly so for the residents of the Masonic Home at l'lattsmouth. Building of the new addi tions and improvements will get underway here this year. Last fall, Mr. Bauer stated, consider able dirt removal was completed, plus the building of a concrete driveway through the grounds. New concrete "walks and :t series of steps were completed between the old building and the infirmary. New steam lines were installed and other pro diminary details of construction completed. In his article. Mr. Bauer reported that plans for the addition to the home were complete and would be submitted to con tractors for bids very shortly. Work is expected to be underway this spring and when completed all residents of the Home Vill be housed in one fireproof building. Plattsmouth residents of all creeds are proud of the Neraska home and are happy to learn that Nebraska Masons will -soon reach their goal in enlarging and modern izing this groat institution. "WE MUST SOLVE OUR OWN PROBLEMS" Here is a refreshing voice from the Middle East, where diplomats of the United States have recently ended a four day conference. The communique issued after the meeting was uninformative. making general remarks about plans to fos ter stability, prosperity and peace. ! Nevertheless, from Abdul Rahman Az zam Pasha, secretary-general of the Arab League, comes a viewpoint that is refresh ing in' the midst of a clamor for dollars from the United States. Asked whether a Marshall Plan" would be useful for the Middle East, the Arab leader replied: "The United States cannot continue carrying the burden for the whole world. We have our own resources, minerals, ag riculture, and raw materials. We should produce to help ourselves and others. "We do not need a Marshall Plan or a Point Four. We do not require money but rather technicians and organizational help. We have no desire for any form of charity. We must solve our own prob lems ourselves. We are not paupers. We were here 5,0.00 years before the United States existed." Azzam Pasha, in our opinion, spoke a mouthful. It is high time that the same idea circulates in other areas. 1950 A POLITICAL YEAR The year 1950 is what is known as a i)litical year. With congressional elec tions in sight and other elections coming on, men in public office and those want ing to be in office, measure all things from the political angle. Newspaper editors are not much differ ent. Many newspapers will follow the lead of politicians and watch for a chance to have political effect. Discussions that were relatively aca demic a short time ago will be tinged with new significance. Even the public is on guard for political propaganda, in theory, but soaking it up, in practice, without knowing that the dose is being given. In a word, public discussions will suf fer from the political fever that afflicts the nation. There is no help for it. The disease is one of the consequences of de mocracy. All that we can hope for is that Furse's Fresh Flashes Fellow out in the state just wrote in to send hi ml he paper and if it was anv good he would send us a check for it. We re-1 quested that he send us the check and if it was any good we'd send him the paper.. 4c Read an account here this week about a girl being overcome with gas while tak ing a bath. We don't know whether the leporter left town or not, but he added this to an account of the near tragedy. "Miss owts her life to the watchful ness of the elevator boy and janitor." 4t These dust storms we're having send chills up our s tine. We can remember back in the thirties when crops were really short. There was so little coin one year we recall eating I I acres of roastin' ears at one sitting. -K -4r One fellow we know up the street must be in just the first stages of quilting ciga rettes. He's quit buying them. - V About the only thing you can do for gray hair is respect it. -a. -it We might all be successful if we fol lowed the advice we give the other fellow. Some women have their ears pierced men have their s bored. This idea of reduction of taxes on luxu ries and making up the loss by new taxes is like having your dentist remove an ach ing tooth and breaking your jaw in two places in the process. the ravages of the epidemic will not ser iously affect the well-being of the state or dry up the fountain of tiuth. doWIiIEmorYlane TEN YEARS AGO Miss Helen Porter, supervisor of the Cass County Assistance Office, visited her parents at Alma. Nebr. . . . The old story about politics, "that where there is smoke there must be fire," was borne out when two of the candidates for city offices, both, firemen, succeeded with the help of Louie Lohncs in extinguishing" a blaze in the rear of the Home Dairy building. They were Vince Kelley, candidate for city clerK on the Democratic ticket and Clem Win ter, Republican nominee for treasure". The trio succeeded in putting out the fire with out calling the fire department . . . Supt. E. M. B.)ren tendered his resignation as head of the schools at Eagle, effective April 1st, to become associated with the Harry Reed sporting goods firm at Lincoln. 20 YEARS AGO The officers and employees of the Plattsmouth district, lowa-Nebrarka Light & Power Co., with a number of invited guests, were tendered a banquet at the American Legion community building to hear a talk on "Safety First" by Edward Kennedy of Lincoln . . . W. F. Evers va-. given pleasing recognition, being selected as the grand representative of the State of Mississippi at R. A. M. meeting . . . Rob ert Livingston placed first in extempor aneous, Herschel Dew first in humorous and Margaret Shellenbarger second in or atory and dramatic divisions in the sub district meet declamatory contest held at Auburn . . . Tie dramatic club of P. H. S., under direction of Miss Martha Gorder. were preparing to present a minstrel show . . . Board of education and residents of the Manley school district decided to erect new school building to replace present one. Plans were made for a two-room school, enabling teaching of 9th and 10th grades. - i-mm- so- mum (Copyright, 1&49, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: NEW SECRET WEAPONS WILL REPLACE SOME TYPES OF AIR PLANES; SECRETARY JOHNSON'S FACTS ABOUT AIR STRENGTH ARE MISLEADING; THOUGH 700 B-SC's ARE RECOMMENDED, WE HAVE ONLY 160. WASHINGTON. The U. S. defense picture is so complicated that it's difficult even for congressmen who sit on army navy appropriations committees to under stand whether the United States is in dan ger of slicing its defenses too thin. How ever, here are some facts which senators may want to study in connection with Gen eral. Eisenhower's views on national de fense. 1. SecreUiry Louis Johnson has done a good job of cutting civilian personnel, po litical shipyards, old Indian forts, and other military "fat." Congressmen squawk loudest when local shipyards and mili tary posts are curtailed, but Johnson has had the courage to cut anyway. 2. New weapons, which cannot be de scribed here, may make a lot of present UNHARMONIOUS DUET HE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEW I -WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday. March 30. 1950 PAGE ON'E why! Piece You'f Supposed to Plav II . r A' I 1 m " ts,-, - V-w ' 7 - v.- A , z ' ---" S J I weapons obsolete. It's a waste of mtney. therefore, to accumu- 1 late an arsenal of conventional weapons whi h may b? out of . date in a year or so. j 3. Regarding the air forcr, j censidered the nation's main j striking arm. Secretary Johnson i has not given the public a triu- i picture of the facts. The renli fact is that the air force is far; behind the standard set for it by j congress. j DECEPTIVE FIGURES j It should be recalled, of course. that it was President Truman, j not Secretary Johnson, who flouted the congressional vote! that the air force should be 70- "roups strong. Johnson wanted 54 groups, but Truman cut to 48. But perhaps because of super loyalty to his chief. Johnson has not been frank with ihe nation regarding the real status of our air strength. Here is a case in point. One of Johnson's most impor tant statements on U. S. an strength was given to the press on Feb. 24 for release Johnson explained to newsmen at 7 p. m.. Feb. 25. in order to give his fri'-ncl. Arthur Krock. time to break the story in the New York Times. In this statement, the secre tary of defense claimed that air force personnel had now sur passed the figure of 401.000 men set for it in the Finletter report the study made by Tom Fin letter and other experts as to what our air strength should be. When you scrutinize Johnson's statement carefully, however, you arrive at somewhat cliff r ent facts. While it is true that air lorce personnel now totals 415.000 men. the Finletter fig ure of 401.000 men provided that ground services repairs, upkeep of airfields, hangars, etc. be done by the army. Now the air force must furnish its own ground services, hence it needs more manpower. TOO FEW U-3fis ; Johnson also told newsmen ! that the B-29 bomb groups had ; been doubled, thus giving the i impression that the air force ! now has as many planes with ! 43 groups as it would have with 70 of the smaller groups. In ; other words. B-29 groups ued : to have 30 planes. Now. John- son said, they have CO. But the secretary of defense ; didn't give the whole story. Hw j didn't explain, for instance, th:it 15 of the extra planes with each : group of sixty are tankers. They j fly along for refueling purposes, j have no combat value. Further j more each group has been au ! thorized 20 tankers, though thw have only 15. Moreover, the B 2Ds are fast becoming obsolete and are supposed to be replaced with B-50's. However, only one j of the nine groups has actually j been replaced with B-50's so far. I In addition to the B-29's, the Finletter report recommended i 700 ' very heavy" bombers. This ; referred to the prospective B- 36, which at that time had not j been tried and tested. I "Only by using the very best equipment and the latest tech niques will so small a force be able to carry effective war to the fcnemy," said the Finletter report, referring to the "very heavy" bombers. CAPITOL ! , NEWS Yet today the air force has i only two groups of B-35's or slightly more than 60. One hun- j dred and sixty more have bn " ordered. This, however, is a ' long way Irom the 700 "verv j heavy" bombers recommended 'j in the Finletter report. (; PUBLIC NEEDS FACTS U Johnson also claims that un-j LINCOLN Politics. Rcpubli cier his economy program the can variety, grabbed the head air force will have 8.800 planes: lines hero last week, with 1.252 more new planes in The Grand Oid Party in Ne the fiscal year 1D50. and anoth- : braska held its annual Found er 1.383 new planes in the fol- ers Day celebration, heard Ken lowing year. But what the sec- . Wherry call Secretary of State retary of defense didn't explain Acheson a ""bad security risk" vjas that these figures include ; who "must go", and learned trainers, transports, and ail that Gov. Val Peterson will run other types. ' for a third term. Actually the air force today Peterson told the party faith has only 3.400 first-line planes, ful he would wage a "vigorous This is the hard, inescapable , campaign, if need be from fact. Under the 70-grcup air street corner to street corner force, on the other hand, as in this state. I assure you that recommended bv the Finletter we will win. and that ihis vic- report, it should have G.E39 first -fine planes. These are the facts regarding the nation's air strength. It may tory will assist our party to get ready for the great comeback in 1952 " The announcement of his be that Secretary Johnson is candidacy climaxed Peterson's right, and that in view of the address in which he claimed for rapid development of jets, rock- ( Nebraska the most economical, ets and other secret weapons. ' cleanest government in the we should not spend too much ; United States, mency on planes which scon The party can make an issue may become obsolete. That is a in Nebraska of its "record for matter for the experts to judge. ; frugal government." said the Until thev make up their . governor. minds, however, the country is ! "Wo need not apologize to entitled to know exactly what ' anyone for our actions, he as- pose us will have to turn to otner issues." Despite "50-cent President Truman is consider- j dollars," Peterson said, his ad ing a major foreign-policy j ministration has kept state speech to back up Secretary government costs to the lowest Acheson . . . Oklahoma's Bible- t pc.r capita tax basis of any quoting Sen. Bob Kerr acted as j state. if he had been s'apped when a j -in 1949. Nebraskans paid friend innocently suggested a j 35.92 in state taxes, against the quote from Ecclesiastes for a ' national average of S57.43. for speech. Bob's reputation as a , a saving of $21.51 to every per Eible quoter is beginning to get (son in the -state." He said the the defense picture is. MEKKY-GO-ROUXI) under his skin . . . Congratula tions to Mayor Allen Street of Oklahoma City and the Okla homa City, symphony orchestra for commemorating our long and much-prized friendship with Canada by saluting that friend pattern set by the repuoucan state administrations are the envy of America which "the federal government as well as many of the 48 states could af ford to follow." The big, bald governor ticked ship this week . . . Nils Bohr, off improvement made since famed Danish atomic scientist, he took office just over three made a special trip to Washing- years ago. ton to urge the administration ( The rehabilitation and recon to get behind the iron curtain st ruction p'-ogrnm carried on Congressman Foster Furcolo ol since he became governor has Massachusetts, a liberal who put Nebraska highways in then practices what he preaches, re- best condition in their history, cently appointed Ronald B. Lee, he said, and he bitterly attack a 19-year-old Negro of Spring- i ed critics of his road program field, to West Point, though Fur- : as selfish interests, colo has less than 2 per cent of . Negroes in his district. Only ; Senator Wherry, meanwhile, two Negroes have been gradu-!said these things: ated from West Point. i "Secretary of State Dean brain hdgtg 1. Gandhi's chief doctrine was that of (a) Suprrman, (b) non violence, r) reincarnation, (d) Christian Science. 2. The energy released by the theoretical hydrogen bomb will be created by (a) fission, (b) fusion. 3. The "Swedish Nightingale" was (a) Ingrid Bergman, (b) Florence Nightingale. (c Jenny I.ind. id) Mae West. 4. The capital of Idaho is (a) Boise, (b Dover, (c) Spring field. id Montgomery. 5. The I'nited Nations world capital Is (a) San Francisco, (b) Geneva, Switzerland, (c) New York City, tdi Paris, France. ANSWERS 1. fb Nan-violent. Z. lb) t ion. ft. (c Jenny Llnd. 4. (a) BUa. .() New Tark CI IT. A l?JSf asHngion LAST WEEK was a ou.-y one in Washington, both in and out of congress, wtth every nvne weight ed with pi lilies and with the con gressional elections this fall ns oh- , jectives of the leiiderhip of both j parties. j There Is little question but j that tlie tharecs by Sen. Joseph It. McCarthy f Wis- ; consin of Communist infiltra tion in the state department were made for political effect. Hie truth of the matter is that the (barges Mill not be borne tut by the investigation prom ised by the senate committer. The chances are that whatever truth there may he in the charges is hLcly to be soft pedaled. Republican are charging that the refusal of tt.c Pn-sldcnt to turn over all the files of the state de partment to tne committee is pri ma facie evidence thcie is some thing to fcicie. This it not the case, however, according to thuse who know the tacts. The Knaltr re view set-up 111 the government is two-way strret. Not only are the lojahy investigations set up to oust the Com ir.un.sts ai.d th.sc vh are considered a bad ri.. but they are also designtd to pro tect the innocent nr.; 1 ft s of the government. The F. B. I. hnf!'s have proved to date t:... I - than one-tenth of 1 irr - ( those thousands of em h w - J-' who have been screemd h.i-- a taint of disloyalty a;4i;it them. McCarthy's charges tf four, 57 or 200 Communists in the department were first made in political speeches by the Wisconsin solcn. I house and senate to give back to the cotton and peanut farmers the acreage which was cut down by ihe agricultural act cf lUVJ. The feud between the American Farm Bureau Federation and Agricul tural Secretary Charles Brani.art again came into the open with charges by both sides of political bias in the consideration of the farm program and price supports. Even Sen. George I). Aiken of Vermont, who has up to this point leen more or less bi partisan in his farm support program and who has said that anything which could be done under the Brannan farm plan could Ic done under his act, the farm act of 1!)4K, has come into the open in a strictly parti san speech, charging; the de partment of agriculture with '"the most elaborate propa ganda system we have eter seen," intended to educate the public to believe "the farmer should now become a ward of the government." In the meantime the displaced person bill was deb. ted !,r,d fili bustered when attempt was made to liberalize the act of 1948. Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada took the lead in opposing liberalization, and he v as supported by such isola tionist midvvestcrners as Sierittois .Trr.r.cr and Cnpchart of Indiana . d a sftrrern bloc led by Sen. iastla-id of O-ie of the most important mea ts now up for consKu-rat:. n is I Of the first water importance was the settlement o." the coal strike, with John L. Lewis coming out on top again, just when some thought the wily mine union leader was "over a barrel." And again politics crops out. Senator Taft is asking for an investigation of the court proceedings against the mine un ion because the government did not prove its case of contempt against the mine -union. Senator Taft thinks, apparently, the gov ernment did nf.t do its best to prove the charges. Then there was action by both : "-rassed ir.es u:e to lib the s.cial tecur.ty pro '.c bill, as new cos.stitutt d. iri it some 11 million more ! persons, dt-tr.c tlc teacral employees and SCjf I : ii kei ; others tr-tw t:.c social security pro gram. For the l-tll are most busi ness and tri-.c:-- groups, unions, social se. vi f organizations and church giotips. Also back ing the lueasL-te with some reservations are the National Chamber of Commerce, the American Farm i;ttieau Fed eration and il.c National Grange. l"hese points are to l e weighed by the senate in committee hear ings, although floor a'-M- n is ut expected before eaily May. Acheson is the most powerful man in the government today. The voice is the voice of Presi dent Truman, but the hind Li the hand of Dean Acheson. "Apparently he has become so powerful as the idol of left wing, appease-Russia agitators that the president is fearful, should he fire Mr. Acheson ho will lose the support of this radical socialistic pressure group in the coming elections and in 1952. '"While Acheson and the Al ger Hiss crowd have been call ing the signals in the state de partment, 14 men in the Mos cow Politburo have captured control of one-fifth of the globe's land surface. 13,000.000 square miles and one-third of all mankind. 8C0.0C0.0u0 human beings. 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