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UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSparer TTME (PLOTTTSIMlflDQJTIH JflDOraAQ. The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper K?TABLI?IirD IX 1SS1 Published smi-wetklv, Mnndavs anil Thur- L days, at 40H-413 Main Street, I'lattsmouth, RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD . . . .Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor jjissocaron j 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 Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Fntpred at the Votnf f l-e at plattsmouth. Nt.raka a st-oonJ t Ias mail m:ittT in -urlHne with the Act of Congress fjl lar.h S. 1S79. .. A THOUGHT IxJtt TODAY Cod grouts liberty only to those zeho lore it, and ore alzcays ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster PLATTSMOUTH IS CLEANING UP It was a most welcome sight Monday to see city trucks loaded to the hilt with refuse headed for the city dump. It was all a part of Plattsmouth's all-out Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up campaign that got underway Sunday. Not only seeing these loaded trucks, but a drive around town early in the week lent encouragement to a dream of having the cleanest, spic and span city in eastern Nebraska. Nearly everywhere you looked you could see men, women, and the kids busy with rake, shovel and broom. Mon day's rain held up the drive, but Tuesday saw homemakers at it again. If readers of The Journal want an ex ample of what some paint, a hammer and a little effort will do, take a drive up First Street on Wintersteen Hill or down Lin coln Avenue. The change in appear ance of many of these homes is miracu lous. Rubbish has been cleared out. Lawns have been planted, shrubs, flowers aind trees strategically located are making fine attractive homes of places that not too long ago were a blight on any city. These people are entitled to a lot of credit we hope more join in the drive. On the average, Plattsmouth is clean ing up. More and more of our people are taking pride in their town and the appear ance of their homes. But. in spite of what many of us do. there still remain a few eyesores along the avenues and streets.that will require a "get tough" attitude on the part of city authorities before any action will be taken. If that's what is needed to jar some lot owners loose, then it's time to shoot the works. Plattsmouth is one of the most beautiful cities in the midwest. It is becoming more attractive and pleasant as each season passes. Let's not allow anyone to use our lots or parks for dumping trash, be it or ganic or human. 4t -k PROSPERITY DEPENDS UPON MANY FACTORS "Genuine prosperity must be based on productivity," declares a brother editoj who reasons that anything else provides an artificial state that must sooner or later collapse. It would appear, if this statement is correct, that the greater the production, the greater the prosperity and, presuma bly, the producer or manufacturer should share in the prosperity resulting from great production. The theory did not work for the farm ers of the United States. It came about twice during a period of war-financed yields. In ordinary times farmers discov ered that the more they produced the less the unit price and that, very often, a small er crop returned a larger net income. It may not be fair to use agriculture as a case in point in discussing this broad generalization. After all, the farmers of the nation sell most of their crops on a base that rests upon disposal of the sur plus in foreign countries and the price has been sustained in recent times by gov ernment support policies. Moreover when the farmer buys, he has to pay the price that is kept up by the tariff which gives to manufacturers an artificial market. Let's discuss a manufacturing com pany. There is not one in the United States today that conducts its operations upon the theory that the more units manu factured the greater the prosperity. There are times when the demand makes it pos sible to sell all that can be produced but at the first slackening of orders the man iacturing concerns curtail production. If there was any reason to believa that Furse's Fresh Flashes We haven't much sympathy with the fellow who is eager to be generous with our money. Sad part of it is, the average taxpayer fails to realize that all this heavy spending requires he pick up the check. We don't know where our money goes these days. It costs us nearly twice as much to live bevond our means as it used to. K -K People of the Far East are being told about America through a deluge of comic books. Little wonder our state department is on the pan. -It We agree with Art Sweet. We also trust the county employees planted a few trees while off dutv Arbor da v. Don't lie, cheat, or swear. Be an hon est man and then you'll be sure there is one less ?) !:-? in the world. . The upsetting thing about American politics is that it's always election year or if it isn't, next year is. Nothing is any more interesting or ir ritating than a brilliant young college graduate equipped with hot and cold run ning ideologies and drawing his conclu sions on the basis of limitless inexperience. - - The greatest surplus facing the Ameri can people is a surplus of government. " Russia's foreign policy seems to be an iron hand equipped with a boarding house reach. LOST IN THE WOODS wm S&BmB PfSP till 84BSia farm Mmfm jtjgjgL PROBLEMS iggjB mm ISSmt wmi rIl L rj I.-, the sole key to prosperity is to be found in ratio t6 productivity, it would be fool ish for manufacturers to cut their output. All they would have to do, when lack of prosperity threatened, would be to in crease production and reap the harvest to follow. COURTESY TO SAVE LIVES A traffic expert in a large city ex presses the opinion that most fatal traffic mishaps would not have "occurred "if the drivers involved had not been heedless of the rights of others." Consequently Michael J. Ahearn. traffic chief of Chicago, points out that every fatality involves not only a violation of traffic laws, but "an act of discourtesy lis well." The observation of this expert empha sizes the necessity for constant vigilance in the enforcement of all traffic regula tions. The habit of beating the lights or taking a chance at a corner may not pro duce an accident every time, but it pro duces a carelessness of mind which, in the end, will undoubtedly provide a traffic accident. It has long been our observation that individuals, once they get behind an auto mobile steering wheel, forget their man ners. Everybody who drives a motor ve hicle has witnessed numerous exhibitions of bad manners by motorists trying to get ahead of somebody else. At other times, it is apparent that drivers do not prefer to await their turn, but take chances in try ing to get somewhere quicker than prevail ing traffic permits. DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO Local I. O. O. F. and Rebekahs ob served their 11th anniversary with address at banquet given by Rev. H.. E. Sortor, noble grand of the local lodge . . . George F. Swatek, freshman at the University of Nebraska, attained one of the high scholas tic standings given at convocation on April 30th ... J. Herman Rauth of near Manley brought in six coyote scalps to the county clerk's office the third collection of scalps received here in two days ... A check in the office of County Register of Deeds Jessie M. Robertson, showed 99 farm sales from April 1, 1929, to April 1, 1930, with a total consideration involved of $998,140.29 . . . W. T. Distell was busy organizing the boys of the county into an American Legion junior baseball team, with opening game scheduled for May 10. (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: FLORIDA STAGES DUPLICATE OF TRUMAN-DEWEY CAMPAIGN; SENATOR PEPPER, STAUNCH NEW DEALER, FIGHTS FOR POLITICAL LIFE; REPUBLICANS TRY TO OUST TRUMAN-ROOSEVELT SENATOR. WASHINGTON. Today's column is going to make my name mud with a lot of my good friends, the newspaper pub lishers of Florida. For one of the most interesting senatorial campaigns in the na tion is going- on in their state, with 90 per cent of the newspapers batting hard for one candidate. And when you ; see all the boys ganging up on i one side, I can't resist the good j old American custom of seeing I what's to be said on the other j side. j The Florida election battle is , not only a lollipaloosa, but it has I all the earmarks of another j Dewey-Truman campaign. I On one side, and fighting for ! his life is gnarled, weather-beaten Sen. Claude Pepper with 14 years in the senate at stake, with his chief financial support from labor, and waging an effective, tireless, whistle-stop campaign almost identical to Truman's. Like Truman's, it is aimed at offsetting the solid wall of bad publicity given him by the press. On the other side is popular, handsome Congressman George Smathers, with four years in congress, whose chief financial support has come from big money Republicans who spend their winters in Florida and register as nominal Democrats. No mean campaigner himself, Samthers has made a lot of political hay. The Dewey-Truman compari son is so striking that it caused the staid New York Times to comment: "The senatorial challenger is a young and handsome man with a rich, well-trained voice. and a reporter might almost im agine he was back on the" 'vic tory special' listening to a rear platform speech by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. ECHOES OF DEWEY TRAIN "The content cf- the speeches is almost identical. Communism is the main issue . . . and like Gov. Dewey, Representative Smathers is seeking election without outlining in any detail the programs and policies 'he would follow if elected. "Another echo of the Dewey train," continues the Times, "is that reporters trav-Jing w;th Mr. Smathers compiain because he uses the same speech every day and they are finduii; it hari after five weeks to find a 'new lead for the next day's papers." But since few Floridans read the New York Times, most Flor ida newspaper readers get the impression that Claude Pepper is not only Stalin's closest bud dy but that he is already a gone gosling. Just to add to his bad press. the Saturday Evening Post, long a force in Republican politics, deftly scheduled a feature story on Pepper's opponent just ten days before the Florida primary. Probably most of those who read it did not realize that the Saturday Evening Post averages $50,000 worth of advertising from the Du Ponts and affiliated com panies every issue and that one branch of the Du Pont family is heavily supporting Smathers. STRAIGHT GOP-DEMO FIGHT Real fact about the Pepper Smathers fight, however, is that it's a straight, down-the-line Republican - Democratic battle. When you get away from all the dust-throwing, the issues are clear and clean-cut as between the Truman liberals and the Re publican conservatives. This is probably a healthy thing, be cause ordinarily an election in Florida doesn't mean much be yond a choice of personalities. Long ago young Smathers be gan conferring with Ex-Speaker Joe Martin, leading Republican in the house of representatives. Long ago, he quietly began ac cumulating GOP money and GOP support. And as that support accumu lated, Smathers began swinging over to the Republican side cf the congressional aisle. When he first came to congress, Smathers was hailed as the liberal Sir Galihad of the south. Bu! grad ually he began voting the opposite.-. While casting his vote asainst slum clearance, he simultane ously promoted the real estate lobby's idea of increasing the amount they could borrow from Uncle Sam up to $750,000. Thus Smathers voted to deny the poor man low-cost housing, but give the big real estate operator the right to use three-quarters of a million dollars of the taxpayers' money, 90 per cent guaranteed by Uncle Sam. Smathers also voted against social security for traveling salesmen and others, against the minimum wage, and, perhaps most important of all, for the bottling of bills in the rules com mittee instead of open debate on the floor of the house. On various occasions Smathers- even voted to override Tru man's veto on important party policies. Pepper, on the other hand, has voted consistently for fair deal projects. Most interesting issue in the Florida battle, however, is Smathers' charge that Pepper is a pal of Joe Stalin's. He says to quote the Saturday Evening Post that "by the summer of 1945" he. Smathers, was con vinced someone should run against Pepper; that "he couldn't get out of his craw that Pepper had become so involved with Henry Wallace." The real fact, however, is that well after the summer of 1945 on Jan. 16, 1946, to be exact Smathers wrote a letter to Pep per's secretary referring to "our good friend Henry Wallace. It was also after the summer of 1945, when he now says he decided Pepper must be defeat ed, that Smathers actually was writing Pepper a stream of let ters asking his aid in getting him out of the marines, in get ting him a job as assistant U. S. attorney, and later in helping him run for congress. In other words, Smathers was largely built up by the unsus pecting senator whom he is now trying to defeat. To read the Saturday Evenin Post's glowing account of George Smathers one would think that the justice department was clamoring to hire him and that the Florida public couldn't wail for him to get out of the marines and run for congress. But the letters which the young marine corps officer wrote to '"Dear Claude" tell different story. They show how Smathers want ed to get out of the marines while the Japanese war was still on. and even asked Pepper to hold up a naval improvement at Key West so his opponent, Con gressman Canncn, would not get credit for it. Despite this, Smathers now tells Florida voters how, in the fall of 1945 the exact time he was pleading with Pepper for help he got disgusted with Pepper's stand on Russia and decided he should be defeated. It was in the summer of 1945. just after Truman conferred with Stalin at Potsdam that Pepper also conferred with Stalin, later writing an inter view widely published in the metropolitan press. Pepper probably regrets that interview more than anything else in his political life. But at that time many people were vis iting Moscow and it was not con sidered a crime to urge U. S. A. U. S. S. R. cooperation. The payoff is that on April 22, 1946, six months after Pep per's much-touted interview, George Smathers himself said: "We have got to work with Rus sia and all the na'tions of the world if we are going to work out a satisfactory peace." THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE ONE Jfashingion PRESIDENT TRUMAN won his first complete major victory in the second "session of the 81st congress when the senate, by a vote of 49 to 25, passed the Kilgore liberalized displaced persons act which was substituted for the measure backed by Sen. Pat Mc Carian of Nevada. Ii: signing, under protest, the bill which would give tempor ary relief to acreage restric tions for cotton and peanut growers and which attempts to remedy the potato situation in 1951, President Truman sent a special agricultural message to the congress, which gave rise to rumors that this congress may still try to do something about a long-range agricultur al program. Said the President: 'What is needed is for the congress to ap proach this problem with a view to correcting the fundamental shortcomings in the present farm program rather than patching it up with makeshift legislation. "In spite of the shortcomings of the present joint resolution, I have decided that the urgent need for the relief which it will give to cot ton producers, and the promise that it holds out for m!;i::j some improvement in the r-"'':'n pro gram outweigh the defects of the measure. "I again urge the co-";-"s to authorize a system vt pro duction payments for potatoes and other perishable commodi ties so that unavoidable sur pluses can be sold to consum ers and used instead of taken off the market and largely wasted .... "We face no small task in pro viding a system of agricultural legislation which will sere the needs of farmers for a fair income and will, at the same time, serve the needs of consumers for ample supplies of foods, fibers and other crops at reasonable prices, avd the needs of the whole nation fr a growing, expanding economy and a healthy world trade. "I urge the congress to proceed to consider fundamental improve ments in our agricultural legisla tion to make it more efficient, less costly and more conducive to abun dant production of farm crops. yielding a fair rettrm to farmers- and selling at prices consumers can afford." What the message spells out is enactment of U Brannan agricultural program. Senate debate on the dis placed persons measure was one of the most bitterly fought in the session. It was taken up early in March and saw a continuous wrangle over more than 80 amendments proposed to the McC'arran bill, many of them by Senator McCarran himself, in an effort to save hi own bill. During the hours of debate party lines were repeat edly shattered and the margin of victory with few exceptions was narrow. So confused were the senators that shortly after dinner one evening Senator Taft of Ohio discovered the senate had amended a section of the bill which did not exist, as it had been knocked out al ready. So the senate bad tm back up and start over. The bill as finally passed differs slight ly from an already-passed house bill. It provides for admission of 344, 000 displaced persons through j July 1, 1951; permits entry of 20.- 0000 war orphans from all Euro ! pean countries on a non-quota ! basis; includes in the total number 4 000 Chinese refugees, 18.000 1 Polish army veterans now in Eng ! lar.d. 10.000 Greek refugees, 5.000 ; former residents of Venezia-Guila ! nnd 57.744 Germans: denies visa to any person who has supported, or cb es support any political or system directed toward of free competitive en- eeo:r.n,:c terpiL c tie E. Guthmann. 10-10-47. Und. 215 Int. NW4 3-12-12. Ls. 16, 17. 18, 19, 3. Murdock. Platts. Realty Corp. to Ron ald R. Furse. 2-27-50. L. 8 Hill crest Subdivision of Hayes Add. to Plattsmouth, $1150.00. Henry Kuhman to Florrie Yates & John & James Dillon, 5-12-48, Ls. 14. 15 B. 4. Murray, $700.00. Charles C. Wescott to Alice Louise Wescott, 4-17-50. L. 1 & 2, B. 37, $1.00. Ronald R. Furse to Roy W. Knorr, Jr.. 4-17-50. L. 8 Hill- rest subdiv., $1.00. Mabel Joy Rothrock and Fred to Vincent G. Phillips and Mary, 4-14-50. Ls. 14 - 19, B. 24. Elm wood. $2500.00. Marie M. Westover and Ray- Thus far. President Truman has sent (50 proposals to the congress for cnaclmcr.t. At this writing. 24 have received no attention, either in committee or on the floor; 31 have received si n e kind of action, either hearings, placed on calen dars or some floor action; five have been virtually killed, namely $300-million aid to education, post master appointment from ranks of postal workers, a mine aid bill, aid bill for prefabricated housing and the cooperative loan feature of the middle-income housing pro gram. . . mond to Paul Davis. 4-10-50, E NW't, 13-10-13. $15400.00. Murdock Coop. Cr. Ass'n. to Corn Growers St Bank. 1-9-50, Ls. 13 & 14, B. 12, Murdock, $2800 00. Willard W. Wilken and Ger aldine E. to Henry J. Amgwert and Esther, 6-10-59, L .9 to 12, B. 4, 1st Add. to Murdock. $550.00. Martin Blum & Florence and Myrtle Zaar to Henry Amgwert and Esther, 1-10-50, Frc. S'-r NW'4, 22-12-10. $6000.00. Claude Carter to Mary May Troop and George T., 4-11-50, E2 L. 10, B. 30 Platts. $1.00. Loverta Cox and Earl H. to G. W. Weik and Joyce. 1-21-50. All B. 12, Nehawka. $2325.00. Subscribe for The Journal. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Charles Henry Greer, et al. to Emmeline Tood and Walter F. Wolbrecht. 3-10-50, L. 288 & N2 L. 289. Greenwood, $2900.00. Lillie Martin Foster and Henry W. to Christian E. Metz ger and Belle. 10-7-46. SW'i NEU & E'2 SW'i & L. 6. 7, 12. 26, 30, 23-11-13, $5000.00. Phyllis O. Talcott and Dvight M. to Henry J. Thiele and Edith S.. 3-10-50. sublots 1 & 2 L. 73 SWU SW'i, 18-12-14. $666.00. Lewis Amelang to Lewis Ame- lang and Mary, 4-15-50, L. 490, Louisville, $1.00. Henry A. Guthmann to Net- brain befr 1. The word "predilection" means (a) guess, (b) exception, (e) preference, (d) prophecy. 2. President Jackson once said, "The chief justice has made his decision, now let him enforce it." That chief justice waa (a) John Marshall, (b) John Jay, (c) John Rntledge, (d) Roger B. Taney. 3. The food known in Britain as sultanas is known in the U. S. as (a) nuts, (b) raisins, (c) candy, (d) prunes. 4. While traveling submerged, a submarine is powered by (a) batteries, (b) gasoline, (c) fuel oil, (d) steam. 5. What American general refuses to write his memoirs be cause they cannot be both accurate and pleasant (a) Omar Bradley, (b) Douglas MacArthur, (c) George MarshalL ANSWERS 1. e) Frfriie. . Jhn Marshall, whi had rale that Cfcerakea lull wra at aabjaet t alata law, bat fedarat. .() Raiaiaa . 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