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,1 ! UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE (DHUCSIMIL FICTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper 1 f The Plattsmouth Official County and City Paper t ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published smi-weklv. Mondavs and Thurs- ?.ays at 40-f Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County. Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE . TRAVK H. SMITH .. BERNARD A. WOOD Helen E. Heinrich, News xattocmnon A F" SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year Lsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the eity of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Rnterd at the Potofflce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second la. mail matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. THOUGHT FOR TODAY And what tln-y dare to dream of, dare fo do. Lowell EDITORIALS OU CAN VOTE TUESDAY NEXT Tuesday, August 8, citizens over 21 years of age may exercise their con stitutional privilege of voting for the men of their choice to serve them in county, state and national officers during the next two to four years. The man of your choice may not be the winning candidate, but at least you can reconcile yourself with the knowledge that you are a citizen of one of the few nations that enjoys the right of free speech, free worship and free enter prise. This newspaper refrains from taking sides in most local elective offices for, with but few exceptions, anyone of the candi dates would probably do as good a job as one could expect and even if he didn't we doubt the position he seeks to attain could do us too much harm before we would have an opportunity to boot him out. We do think, however, that too many of our people go to the polls and cast their ballot without thought as to the kind of man they are voting for, his ability to han dle the office efficiently, his qualifications as to character and sound judgement. Electing a man or woman to office is about like buying a mule at an auction you never know what he can or will do until you get him hitched up. But we passed a cardinal rule a good number of years ago as pertains to voting. If we don't know anything about the can didate for the office, who, why, or what they are and haven't taken the interest to find out, we just do not vote for that par ticular office. If he turns out to be a stink er, our conscious is clear. When you go to the polls Tuesday, for get what this or that candidate can or will do for you as an individual. Weigh his chances as being the man best fitted to do the best job for all of us as a whole. If you want sound, economical government vote your ballot through a sound, unprej udiced mind. "GREATEST SAFEGUARD" THE INTUITION of women and not the analytical ability of men is the greatest safeguard the country possesses for re sisting propaganda, according to William S. Rosecrans, vice-president of the Cham ber of Commerce of the United States, who jdds that the intuition of women "is gen erallv sound." This declaration ought to get Mr. Rose crans the woman-vote of the United States but since he is not running for office, the women will know, no doubt, intuitively, what he has in mind. We are quite willing to believe that intuition is a valuable attribute of human personality but, somehow, we like to have the resulting decision carefully analyzed in the light of all the reason that the race possesses. CONTROLS TO CHECK WAR-PROFITEERS V npHE possibility of something like a global 1 war has alerted American industry which is ready to mobilize its resources for the production of necessary items of war fare. Throughout the United States, business men are on the alert for possible profits out of a war emergency. They foresee a tremendous demand for goods and,, al ready, some lines are feeling the impetus of increased buying as the public seeks to avoid the possibility of disappointment later on. Labor leaders are also urging the mo bilization of workers for the production of whatever the nation may need in its defen- Journal Publisher Editor . . .Advertising Mgr. Editor Furse's Fresh Flashes The first Adam-splifting gave Eve a force which man in all the .iLe has never gotten under control. A local married lady says her husband is the most exercising man in tovwi he was out last week seven nights running. Beware of women who stroke your hair, thev are generally after vour scalp. - We have a fellow in our town who soon will observe his 90th birthday. He's seen a lot of changes in his time and he's been agin' everv one of them. Our local Dumb Dora thinks an arma ture is a guy who fights for nuthin'. When generosity begins at home, out siders have to look out for themselves. It takes as much planning to arrive late at a partv as it does to arrive on time. Moderate drinking could be a fairly innocent pastime if it weren't for automo biles and women. If a man's socks are of ample size, why should they need mending? Mending any male clothing, except shoes and the linings of coats, is a waste of energv. A substantial income impresses every body, even vour enemies. sive efforts. Millions of workers, trained in the production of the second World War, will provide an ample supply of trained labor, ready to turn out the implements of warfare. Industry and labor, of course, will be paid for their extra efforts. Others who have something to sell will acquire unex pected profits. The only people in the nation who will not look to possible war with the anticipation of extra profits are the men and women who join the armed forces of the nation. This article may not please those who expect to make monetary profit out of war, or the threat of war, but it should be good reading to the parents of the boys and girls who will go into service and risk their lives for their country. DOWN MEMORY LANE I A YEARS AGO . . . 1U Edwin Kalina, a student at Univer sity of Nebraska where he was active in R. O. T. C. reported to Ft. Crook to take up his duties as second lieutenant in the army . . . Paul Iverson departed for New York from which port he is sailing to South America where he was to serve as chaplain and instructor in the Presbyterian school for boys in Bogota, Columbia . . . Mem bers of Rotary with their ladies had the pleasure -of a trip on the Missouri river, courtesy of D. R. Thornton, captain . . . Miss Patricia Libershal entertained at a farewell party at her home honoring "Chuck" Sheehan, a guest of the Frank Godwins who were visiting here from Fern ley, Nevada. OA YEARS AGO . . . t3 A new heat record was established with 110 degrees registered . . . City taxes were cut 17 cents on each SI 00 valuation effected by strick economies in all depart ments . . . Elizabeth Hatt departed for Seattle, Washington, where she planned to attend commercial college . . . Max Ren ner of Munich, Bavaria, a cousin of the Misses Gerings and Mrs. Henry Herold, was a guest here . . . Roy Olson, who had been located with the American Refriger ator Express Co., at Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D. C. accepted work as store keeper of the BREX in this city, succeed ing H. S. Dalton, resigned. fc2BEV-aO"C83it$ (Copyright, 1S49, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: MacARTHUR BANS NEWSPAP ER CRITICISM OF "COMMAND DE CISIONS AND CONDUCT OF TROOPS:" CENSORSHIP ALWAYS MADE IT DIFFICULT TO REPORT JAPANESE OCCUPATION FACTS; OKLAHOMA ELECTION BRINGS DOMESTIC RECONCILIATION. WASHINGTON It is important that the American public know the rules of news censorship laid down by General MacArthur for covering the Korean war. Theoretically, there is no censorship, since newsmen are not required to show their dispatches to army officers. How ever, General MacArthur has issued a defi nite directive to newsmen which is highly important and which, as reported by the Columbia Broadcasting System, states that "criticism of command decisions or the conduct of allied soldiers on the battlefield will not be tolerated." Also significant is the fact that this new directive was is sued cue day after Homer Bi part ol the New York Herald Tribune cabled a dispatch ana lyzing the conduct of U. d. troops, reporting that they were untrained, and that top officers had to remain with them when under fire to keep them from breaking. Bigart reported that this was the reason why there were such heavy casualties among officers. The fact is that MacArthur had the largest segment of the U. S. army under him in Japan, and failure to train troops is. of course, a direct reflection on him and his chief commander. Lieut. Gen. Walton Walker. ARMY ONCE WELCOMED CRITICISM The new MacArthur directive barring newspaper criticism is in direct contradiction to the censorship rules laid down for newspapers in this country dur ing World War II. At that time both the army and navy agreed that criticism was healthy, im portant, in fact, necessary. It is also in violation of Woodrow Wilson's famous statement in World WTar I: "We do not need less criticism, but more. It is hoped that criticism will be con structive, but better unfair criti cism than autocratic repression." Perhaps if there had been more newspaper scrutiny and criticism of the entire defense setup, including tanks and our easy training schedule for Amer ican troops in Japan, things might now be better in Korea. Criticism of the U. S. military in Japan, however, has always been difficult. MacArthur just did not tolerate it. While he had no censorship rules as such, he made life difficult for the newsman who tried to report the full story of the Japanese occu pation. For instance, here is a secret Vefteraes' Cotanmni By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer INSURANCE PART IV There are always exceptions to every rule, but for the average man with dependents, here are several excellent "rules of thumb" in regard to life insur ance which can be followed: 1. Always buy life insurance in terms of carefully calculated and essential results, rather than in terms of face amount. Have a definite plan. 2. Never buy a more expensive form of policy than Ordinary Life until your protection needs are adequately covered. Remem ber, Ordinary Life has cash and loan values, paid-up insurance values, and extended term pro tection similar to the other per manent plans and the premium rate is much lower. 3. A "Family-Income" type policy m a pri- ;vate insurance company is often an excel lent means of : supplement i n g S10.000 NSLI Or dinary Life in order to provide additional pro tection for your wife and chil- " r 4. In general, Richard C. Peck it is better to use any accum- 1 1 r jfk II l i i wdren i I CRITICAL TEST cable sent by MacArthur to Washington in 1946 in which he proposed barring certain news papers. While few would disa gree with MacAithur about bar ring the Daily Worker, it is hard to understand his reasons for barring such staid newspapers as the New York Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor. Nevertheless his cable read: "Cincafpac. Tokyo While con tinuing my doubts as to the ad visability of the contemplated trip, in view of the insistence of the war department I will withdraw my objection.; I would ilke. to have an opporf unity to pass upon those contemplated for selection before their invi tation is accomplished. I be lieve the list should not include actual writers but should be lim ited to publishers and editors and should not include those connected with papers of known hostility to the occupation. Such papers are the Christian Science Monitor. Herald Tribune. Chi cago Sun. San Francisco Chron icle. PM, Daily Worker and others of this stamp whose ar ticles and editorials have not only been slanted but have ap proached downright quackery and dishonesty. (.Signed) Mac Arthur." This policy of ousting inde pendent newsmen continued right up to the Korean crisis'. As late as June 12. London Times Correspondent Frank Hawley was ordered out of Japan merely because he reported what was a well-established fact namely, that a MacArthur-jnspired ban on Japanese demonstrations was unconstitutional. OKLAHOMA'S AFTERMATHS The people of Oklahoma have now shown what they think of speculating senators bv defeat ing Sen. "Cotton Elmer" Thomas in the Democratic primaries. They also came within a hair's breadth of kicking out Congress man Victor Wickersham for his ulated savings to pay future N SLI premiums in advance, dis counted at ZTc rather than to pay a sizeable sum into a re serve, which is required to con vert retroactivity. The principal advantages of this method are: a At any time, particularly in event of emergency, the in sured may withdraw unearned premiums upon request, rather than borrow on his policy re serve. (bi All unearned premiums are refunded if the policy is later surrendered for its cash value, or in the event of settlement of death claim. c Advance premiums may be used for exchange of one permanent plan for another permanent plan having a higher reserve value. d Advance premiums will serve as a cushion against lapse if the iusured finds it difficult to maintain the policy during hard times. Care For Veterans Of the 110,675 patients in Vet eran's Administration hospitals in February of this year (1950 1, only 36,726 were service-connected cases. The remaining 73 949, or 68.5 per cent of the total number, were non -service connected cases. salary finaalinss. and doubtless will finish the job in the Novem ber elections. Meanwhile Senator Thomas and his broker. Dyke Cullum, are convinced that their telephones are tapped. After the last Mer-ry-Go-Round story was pub lished telling of Cullum's soya bean oil purchases and his ; friendship for the senator's sec retary. Joycette Jones, there were immediate frantic phone calls. Senator Thomas phoned Dyke Cullum; Joycette Jones also phoned Cullum: and Mrs. Cullum hit the ceiling. On top of learn ing that her husband had been going around with Miss Jones, a beautiful Indian princess, she also did not like the fact that Dyke had received a post card from a lady in New York whic.i read: "Will see you at the Wal dorf on the 15th. (Signed EE." Mr. Cullum had a hard time explaining this one. At first he had no explanation. But after considerable brooding he finally remarked to Mrs. Cullum: "I know that dirty Drew Pearson sent me that post card just to cause trouble in my home." Whereupon Mrs. Cullum. a wise and patient lady, remarked : "Dyke. dear, it isn't you that Drew Pearson is after, it's the senator. He's not interested in you. He just believes that peo ple who are elected to high pub lic office should not be using that office for their own personal gain." Dyke thought a minute about this, then told Mrs. Cullum: "All right, if Senator Thomas is de feated, I won't have another thing to do with him." Since then Thomas has been defeated. Meanwhile. Mr. Cul lum has promised to buy Mrs. Cullum a new fall outfit, so per haps all's well that ends well. MERRY-GO-ROlND Senator Ken Wherry, Nebras ka Republican, is pulling strings to have Washington Police Lieu tenant Roy Blick promoted to Inspector. This promotion will be Blick's reward for opening secret police files on sex unfor tunates for Wherry's examina tion . . . Gossip-mongers are sDreading the word that Bill Boyle, chairman of the Demo cratic national committee, is so ill he won't be able to direct the Democratic campaign this fall. The fact is that Boyle is rapid ly recovering from a slight in fection and is due back at his desk within two weeks. Rule on Recall of Naval Reservists The navy recruitinsr station at Fort Omaha received the fol lowing concerning recall of re servists and fleet reservists to active duty: Presidential author itv was granted to effect invol untary recall of naval reservists to active dutv. to meet aDproved increased personnel ceilings. Of ficers who are to be recalled will receive their orders from the bureau of naval personnel to renort to active duty. Retired officers and retired en listed personnel will not be in voluntarily recalled at this time No deferments will be granted except in cases involving key billets in industrial activities vital to national defense. WAVES shall not be involun tarily recalled at this time but those in reserve status may ap ply for a minimum of one year active duty. Members of the organized na val reserve are considered eligi ble for recall to active duty un- THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEIWI-WEEKLY JOURNAL J Thiiccfloi' Alienist 1Qrfl i 1 ' i x THisrEpBi I p if m EVKnYTi-IING thr.t has ha? ;tred : tions were concerned, we promised iti V.';.: hi: ivcouly has ! that once the South Korean republic Lccn ten : : ca or s'.t ppcti-up.. by ( was established under a national the war in Korea. M -1 ir.ifleant ; plebescite for fi-lf-government. w v.is th- ."-helviii.T of the t; x bill by j would withdraw our army of occu the i-'en; le hh v. oiid have nation at a given time. We kept our iuhod excise ta:? i. i 1 1 : n dr h'ars urd X ri.dw'se:' e:;t by the affairs com:v;t: e of tra '.ion's fi.il request : doHar ?.'r: aid p"o l:u:. rcv'.l-t: Coin: ..bout a i:r nious ;e forei n f adminis S1.2 billion mi for r.a-i.-'ii. Hut in the faf-e cf I'resi.Ient TiT-.maa's reoiicsf fur an ajipro pMaiirm .f I'SD million for a new '(;;r.;p;.i.'.:a of trii.h" agjiiM C imiriariism thi hrtut the worH, the finale 1 v a to 53 ro.'I-caU vi,trd els v a a fund boost for the oiee of America pro-i taiii. Except for the vote or. FEPC. the backbone of the President's civil rignts program was defeated by a southern-Derr.ocrat-Republicun co- alition, it appeared that the Demo - crr ts w ere drawing nearer together on party unity than the Republi - cans on the basis of test votes. These votes sho wed the Democrats were standing together on an av erage of 82 per cent ef the time while the GOP minority showed only 72 per cent party r.-uiarily. While there was some r cism of the adminNtrU -n . J the President from sourer- whence criticism would cm-e in any eventuality, araun; the responsible leaders on hr-:h sides of the political fence there is almost unanimity in suppoit of the President and his stand on the Korean question. Unfor tunately, this does not include the two principal leaders of the GOP in the senate. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who heads the GOP policy c ommit tee, and Senator Kenneth Wher ry, the senate GOP floor lead er. Kad this country defaulted on its given word as did Russia in Korea, ihen probably the 'Soviet puppet North Korean government would never have dared to invade the ! southern Korean Repuolic beyond the 3Sth parallel. But this nation has a repuation for keeping its A ord w ith other nations and, inso- far as Korea and the United Na- der specific enlisted quotas bv ratings which will be in phased increments. Where ratinss needed are not available in the organized reserves, the com mandants will recall volunteer reserves as necessary. Com mandants of naval districts will recall selected reserve officers and volunteer retired officers in the omrips nf rnmm.mrier and . - . . . . for augmenting the staffs of navy recruiting stations and other 'staffs involved in proc essing or other phases of this program. No information was available concerning how much notice would be given reserv ists when recalled to active duty. Florida fisheries are using an insulated and aereated stain less steel tank truck to move fish to fresh water lakes with almost no mortality. 1 2 3 U j I 7 I J 75 75 20 il yy jxu 1 ' 15 30 p 31 32 33 34 it F 40 H 41 42 H "44 W 46 47 4 49 50 $1 si" " 5i 54 Is IT j Crossword Puzzle HORIZONTAL 1 Group of eight C Toward the stern 9 Observed 12 To ward off 1.1 Sheep's cry 14 Constellation 15 Lance 16 Mussed up t lfi Motto 20 Ceremony 21 To devour 2 Youth 24 Cut in small cubes 25 Gentle , -27 Planet . "St 29 Part of a shirt 31 Hatred 35 Snunous 37 Portico 38 Crowlike bird 3 41 Boom in a harem 43 VpDcr limb 44 Mojiem noble 45 Feud I ter. .on 47 Tray , 49 Upper atmosphere 52 Cioth measure 53 To basten 54 Babylonian Underworld 55 Law: 56 Conclusion 57 Pulls -suddenly V IS Mountain I ridge 11 Progressed witn difficulty 17 Instruments used to de compose light 19 Chairman's maliet 21 Printer's measure (pi.) 22 To be 111 24 To importune 26 Postpones . 28 Requires 30 Moving truck 32 Resident of Europe 33 Hieh, craggy hill 34 Sweet potato -36 Flew, upward 3 Thm fish 39 Soap plant 40 Small glass vessels 42 To examine 45 Seam of a mineral VERTICAL 1 Mother ot Ceres S Head covering S Framework supporting railroad 4 Epochal 5 Alpine province To scrape 7 Sylvan deity a Woolen cap S Pertaining to the Sa?ian Franks PAGE ONE m m ; pro ie. leavir. 3 '. th Koreans i..n dollars j approxirr ately worth of w ar erjuii-t, aims and ammunition. -1 From a military standpoint this country cannot throw into the Kor ean front the men and materials necessary to hold in chec k the teem ing millions in Japan. The alterna tive is to rush these men and arms from Pearl Harbor and from con tinental United States which is 7.000 rni'es away. In the meantime we are fighting only delaying ac tions in Korea until we build up an invasion force, and that takes time. ... 1 Neither can this ration, aceord- jing to proposals advocated by some i senators, such as Homer Capehart. j Republican of Indiana, recruit a ! Japanse army, rnr use the divisions j offered bv Uie Chinese Nationalist ! government. To do so would be ' open invitations for a Russian and Chinese Red invasion of Japan. '.. . ... In the meantime, although President Truman has declared there is nt necessity for insti tuting rationing, some sections of the country are starting a ljoaidins drive and are buying: ep fond stuffs, tires, batteries ar d cither commodities expect ed to be in short supply. As a r.'.at'.er of fact, there is no indi cation that these supplies will be in short supply and the only factor that will make them short is this same practice of hoard'iig:. ,, , As one official in the Pentagon remarked, "Purpose I went out and bought up a set of extra tires. One thing is cer.a n. if rationing and priorities are necessary, then gasoline will be ainung the first. Then where would I go on my new tires?" As this is written President TrtK man was expected to go before the j American people and tell them exactly the position this country j holds in the Korean situation and what is to be expected Loin the i home front. Absent At The Wrong Time Less than half of the 435 mem bers of the U. S. House of Rep resentatives were present to vote on the large majority of motions connected with the 1951 General Appropriation Bill when it was before the House this Spring. Sometimes as few as one-seventh of the members voted. One amendment to increase a pork barrel item carried by a vote of 32 to 29. A motion to cut the RFC appropriation lost 69 to 65. Of 35 motions to cut appropriations, only 10 carried. A majority of the remaining 25 lost out by less than 20 votes. The first officially recognized woman pilot in the world was Baronne Raymonde de la Roche. She received her certificate in 1910. Journal Want Ads Pay! 46 Vetch of 50 Large deer 51 Gepus ox wine India 48 Definite article Answer te LAST WEEK'S Puzzles gton BlOlO I S I 0 A F I R A3" R J1V..I.0 LEI A ILC P A TIE R "ST V I . it kTE A R j E MI T 3.2L JL2. 32 IE K A3 I LE l E E U H3"" I.. 21 2 drop a r je a i ir a a r "cTTI l s or k ai l 3t a plrl Lk. l 3G K 1 3 jj E " T E TP L A T T L h J til A K H D t A. R EL0 ts erT r a o d d 1. i Vl 7 s 1 j i t , ' i t M f 4 , t t r A f - - r f r f - ' t r r 1 - r f f. f - - . A. A . , SWe"SBB i v