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Li I The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper - ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Bemi-vreekly, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-41 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK' H. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Helnrich, News Editor A 1 fassocmron, m iMMMtoii i ii u ii at ii nil IUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year to Jass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year dsewhee, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Entered at the Poatofftce at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second cl?.ss mail matter in ac cordance with the Act or Congress of March 3, 1879 Furse's Fresh Flashes I .Mim Streel by Ralph Stein THOUGHT FOR TODAY Freedom all solace to man gives; He lives at case, that freely lives. John Earbour EDITORIALS WE'LL GO ALONG, IF . . . WE THOUGHT the following article by our Rood friend Jack Lowe in his col umn, "The Lowe Down," in the Sidney, Nebr., Telegraph puts the question up to the powers that be very aptly and well worth reprinting here. We quote: ' "This is to let Mr. Truman know that I'm perfectly willing to go along with him on his suggestion that we all cut back on our living ex-, penses and try to restore some sanity to our eco nomic life. He's the wise Father and I am his child anything he says is O. K. with me but on one condition. If I'm going to do it, then he has to do it, too, and that means all of Uncle Sam's government. "I'd just as soon get back on a 1939 footing if Mr. Truman will promise to put Washington on the same rations. In 1939 I was paying $35 per month rent instead of $100 and my wife's shoes were costing four bucks instead of twenty. Hamburger was two pounds for a quarter and you . weren't bumping into a government employee every time you turned around. There's Nothing wrong with that picture, except that Mr. Tru man hasn't demonstrated that Washington is going to follow suit. "I can wear two dollar shirts, even though the last ones I bought cost $6.95. I'll go back to cheap blends instead of that bonded stuff. I can even talk my wife into cutting down on her cigarettes. We'll eat less steaks and drink less coffee and struggle along with fewer angel food cakes. We will, that is, provided Mr. Truman sees to it that Uncle Sam's government sets the pace. "The world has been going slowly crazy for fifty years and we've reached the climax now that American kids are being shot by a bunch of illiterate Koreans who don't know which way is up. Only a few weeks ago, North and South Korea were as vague to me as Upper and Lower Slobovia. I knew, of course, that some of our representatives in congress were arguing pre paredness out of one side of their mouths "and voting against Korean aid out of the other but I didn't think much about it because this is an election year and you learn to expect such things. Then, all at once, somebody crossed a 38th Parallel, whatever that is, and American mothers started getting grey hairs again. - "It isn't easy to give a light-hearted touch to such subjects but Americans have learned to take these things in stride because Washington doesn't trust us with any of the real facts of life until the government gets in the nine hole. We're treated like obedient children who are supposed to understand that what we don't know won't hurt us; then, with a loud bang, something goes wrong and we're told that we've got to get along without new cars and the other conveniences of life because some misguided character three thousand miles away doesn't seem to understand what the state department is trying to do. Little wonder, when the state department doesn't know either. - "Yes, Mr. Truman, I'm set to go all out with you. I'll work more hours every day and save my money so I can make you and the collector of Internal revenue happy. I'll ask my family to cut down on nylons and T-bones if you'll tell your boys to ease up on their extravagances. I'll trim my cost-of-living budget if you'll put out the word that government expenditures are to be cut to the bone. I'll buy more bonds if you'll demonstrate that they're going to be worth some thing to my grandchildren. I'm just as interested in peace as you are, but I like to have examples set for me. When my Dad wanted me to have money he used strategy by showing me that he was saving his, when my Mother wanted me to quit biting my finger nails she convinced me by letting hers grow to awesome lengths, when the neighbor kid said he could whip me he convinced me' by doing it.' Performance is . trie orilyj yard stick I know, Mr. Truman. V ! J , . ' " "I'm not concerned for myself. I'm old and broken down; I couldn't carry a soldier's pack around the block without calling for help. But I am a little worried about some nice young fel lows I know who aren't rkad at anyone and would There are at least 100 million American citizens who could make a lot of money if they had some money. It might be said nowadays "billions for defense but not enough for weapons and fighting men." A man with one eye can't see all that a man with two eyes can see, but he can see enough. When you see a good looking young woman just remember that she knows it better than you do. -fc A local bride tells us she didn't know what happiness was until she got married. People shouldn't brood over the past. In selecting hair shampoo, remember you use it in the eyes as well as on the hair. If a man steals, no matter what it is he will live to regret it. A good example is the local man who stole kisses from his wife before they were married. If some of you folks want to make some easy money then just watch what this writer does then do the opposite. -k A local fellow attributes his longevity to total abstinance from alcohol. His wife would have killed him if he touched a drop. A Plattsmouth man, separated from his wife, took along the washing machine. Danged if he was going to let her vamp some other man with his wedding present. like to stay at home and mind their own busi ness. You say we've been tricked into this silly war, Mr. Truman, and I'm willing to believe you. But my faith won't last long unless you show me that you and your boys are going to practice what you preach. "The bank is very stern with me, Mr. Tru man, when I overdraw my account. You've over drawn your account with me and with millions of my fellow taxpayers. When are you going to settle up and get out of the red?" DOWN MEMORY LANE I A YEARS AGO . . . 1 U All day program of music and speak ing climaxed with a dance dedicated the 'new community building at Weeping Wa ter, Nebraska . . . Miss Verna Leonard was appointed librarian to succeed Miss Olive Jones, resigned . . . Lumir A. Gerner, well known local instructor and member of the faculty for the past several years re signed to accept post in high school at Te cumseh . . . Mrs. George Hall, Noble Grand of the local Rebekah lodge, was presented with a pin from the Grand Sire of the IOOF for meritorious service performed . . . Dale Ganz of Alvo was en route to Stanton, Iowa, where he had been elected as music supervisor of the high school there. OA YEARS AGO Mrs. G. R. Holcomb and daughter, Florence, and Mrs. Don Seiver and daugh ters, Shirley and Donna Bea, were visiting at Marion, Iowa, with the parents of Mrs. Holcomb, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Lawson . . . Fort Crook location of the Citizen's Mili tary Training Camp expected an enroll ment of some 800 of Nebraska and Iowa boys for a 30-day training period . . . Con tinental Oil Company purchased lot on Chicago Avenue from George K. Petring . . . Work was started, clearing site for re building Masonic temple at Elmwood. (Copyright, 1949, By the Eell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: KOREAN CASUALTIES FAR EX CEED ARMY REPORTS; LOAN TO FRANCO MAY HAVE SERIOUS REPERCUSSIONS; TRUMAN UN HAPPY ABOUT AID TO SPAIN. WASHINGTON The American peo ple have always known how to take the bad news along with the good, but despite this the army is holding back the true cas ualty list in Korea. Actually the public has shown itself more alert to the menace of communism than most officials; but the army has been nervously shielding us from the grim truth namely, the battle casualties are 75 per cent higher than announced. This column has now seen the secret casualty list kept by the army surgeon general's office. An army spokesman in sisted that all casualties have been an nounced to the press, but admitted that the complete list had never been tabulated. Believing that the folks at home are en titled to know how many of their men are being lost or wounded in Koreaj this col umn r has now made a . careful tabulation. This shows that whereas the army ha.d. an nounced 96 killed in-action and 15 died of wounds up to August 1, the secret list of army dead for the same period is 660. Whereas the army reported only 587 wounded, the secret list shows 2,975. The i i " " I poN t Wiggle your whole finger tz TERRIBLY IMPORTANT WHEN HES- ' V- V V TEACHING- HIS KID HOW TO CATCH J m i - i i m . :- RHT TRV TO DECODE ONE TOP5 SIGNALS WHEW s PRVVINo army also claimed 815 missing in action, of whom 11 got back. However, the secret list shows 3,000 actually missing in action. The above figures are only army casualties and do not in clude 14 air force men killed. 33 missing and six wounded. The navy had also lost two men in action and the marines none, as of August 1. It's about time the army came clean with the Amer ican people and told the true story of American losses in Ko rea. Allied diplomats who watched the legislative blitzkrieg that rushed the $100,000,000 loan to Dictator Franco through the senate have expressed the pri vate opinion that this may be a worse setback than we have suf fered in Korea. 4 For Russia's main battle is still in the minds of men. ' The diplomats who express this fear are those who have had to worry about unloading U. S. arms in Antwerp. Marseilles and Amsterdam, and loading arms in Australia. They are also the diplomats who have to wor ry about the very real problem of whether American arms, once shipped to Europe, will ever be used in actual battle by Euro pean armies which have no love for fascist dictators and to whom Franco has become a hated sym bol. Much as the French govern ment has wanted American planes, and heartily as the French government supports the United States, the senators who voted $100,000,000 to Franco probably forgot the U. S. planes to France had to be unloaded in North Africa, because French longshoremen would not handle them. Thus all the war materiel we can manufacture and all the bases we might obtain in Spain through bribing Franco will mean nothing, warn friendly diplomats, if we can't get allied troops to fire our guns. BACKSTAGE WIRE-PULLING Meanwhile here is the back stage story of what happened in the senate which, on April 27, rejected Spanish aid by a vote of 42-35 and last week voted for Spanish aid. 65 to 15. The men who pulled wires be hind the scenes were Vice-Presi dent Barkley's son-in-law, Max Truitt, who is the paid lobbyist of the Spanish embassy; Charles Patrick Clark, another paid lob byist who works through Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine and Congressman Eugene Keogh of Brooklyn; and Sen. Pat McCar ran of Nevada who has spent a great deal of time visiting Spain as the guest of Dictator Franco. Extremely important also was the backstage wirepulling of Sec retary Johnson and military leaders. They decided to buck what they knew was state de partment policy against Franco, and they won. It had been agreed by Demo cratic leaders before the Spanish debate that Sen. Clinton Ander son of New Mexico would raise a point of order against McCar ran's loan to Franco, since it was tacked onto an appropriation bill and since the senate had already voted down authorization for Spanish aid. But Democratic Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois hurriedly in structed Anderson not to raise this point of order. After the loan was voted. An derson backed Lucas into the hall and demanded to know why Democratic leaders had taken it upon themselves to change American policy toward Spain without consulting others. Lu cas shrugged and explained that it had all happened so fast, he didn't have time to spread the word. Lucas admitted he hadn't con sulted the White House, but in sisted he was helpless to stop Spanish aid. Later. Lucas called the White House, and the presi dent, though not critical of Lu cas, was most unhappy about the Franco loan. However, he won't be able to veto it without vetoing the entire appropriations bill, which would throw the gov ernmental machinery into tur moil. ELOQUENT OPPONENT Most eloquent opponent of aid to Franco was Morse of Oregon: "I want to say that I hate, with all my soul and being, ev erything that is communistic. fc- ;. jli : - - 1 capitol! NEWS LAFF OF THE WEEK " "" - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' T ' I J XINCOLN Nebraska's bien nial primary election, after a typically quiet off-year cam paign, is history now and the Cornhusker state has turned its attention awav from nrMtt Looming large in the thinking of most Nebraskans is the Ko rean war and its effects here. For thousands of the state's young men, the most important developments of the wppIc nr those related to the draft. State selective service headquarters in the capitol announced Nebraska will furnish 435 men to the armed services next month and the same number in October. Lt. Col. Francis Drath. state draft manpower chief, said the quotas "leave little doubt" that 22-year-olds will be called for physical exams. Six Nebraskans who violated the law two years ago by failing to appear for physicals are pay ing for it now by being called to service without the usual 21 day waiting period. The six had been carried as "delinquents", since the 1948 draft. Drath ex plained there was no way to punish the men until now be cause there had been no induc tions. An interesting sidelight on the state draft picture was made by Drath during a talk before the Falls City Rotary club. "Don't look at your draft board as a bunch of guys trying to throw you into the army," he said. "The function of. a local board is to keep men out of the army." Men. who aren't qualified, that is. Three state agencies reflected the Korean war in reports this week. Chairman Marcus Poteet of the liquor commission said whis ky dealers are buying stocks now to assure themselves of a good supply for as long as possible, remembering the shortage dur ing World War II that led to widespread bootlegging. The commission's revenue last month from taxes and fees amounted to $405,761 against $277,914 the previous month and $234,430 in July. 1949. Clay Wright, chief of the mo tor fuels division, reported that gasoline tax collections leaped upward 14 per cent in July over the same month last year, and seven per cent over June. 1950. Wright said motorists, fearing gas rationing, probably are get ting their summer trips in earlier this year. And Donald P. Miller, state labor commissioner. ' surveyed Nebraska's manpower with an eye toward possible burgeoning of defense industries. With only 10.000 unemployed in the state. Miller said. "It is apparent that any sharp increase in defense production will have to be met by shifting some of the 515-odd thousand already employed, rather than a full reliance on the number now unemployed. The state highway depart ment will let contracts Aug. 24 on an estimated $1,125,000 worth of construction work, according to State Engineer Fred H. Klietsch. More than half of the total $700,000 will be in federal bu reau of reclamation funds to fi nance relocation of U. S. High way 34 between Trenton and Stratton. The project is neces sitated by construction of the Trenton dam. Of the remaining total, about $112,000 will be in state con struction funds; $290,000 in state maintenance funds, $80,000 in regular federal aid funds; $38,000 in federal aid secondary funds: $31,000 from counties and $1,000 for emergency relief. A lottery was held in the state house last week, within a stone's throw of the anti-gambling at torney general's office if you could throw a stone around a.' corner. i But it was all legal and proper: j the annual drawing for deer THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, sEmi-WEEKLY jOUrNAC AGE FOUR Monday, August 7, 1950 'I Need Cheering Up Wheel the Other Guy In Again argued Morse. "But likewise, I hate with an equal hatred every thing that is fascist ... so far as I have been able to find, the exercise of a freedom of choice at a truly free ballot box is as nonexistent in Spain as it is in Communist Russia. "I have not been able to bring myself in this wrestle with my conscience to vote in favor of what I think looks like a bribe to Franco for military bases and thereby give support to what I think is anything but freedom of choice in Spain." Morse shouted. "I cannot bring myself to think we strengthen freedom by bribing either fascism or communism. "I think." he added, "the first test to our making a loan to Spain is whether or not Franco Spain can meet the tests of the United Nations for membership. "If I thought that by this loan we would save the life of a single American boy, I would pay a bribe to Franco to save that life." continued the senator from Oregon. "However, I fear that this loan will be an. aid to Jying Russian propaganda about ; Us, Ifear that, this loan will raise doubts as to our devotion to the - principles of freedom, "v I " fear that 'this ' loan will ; not Stand the judgment, of history." Afterward. Morse came off the floor, shaking his head sadly. T feel like resigning from the senate," he brooded. "Most of the liberals have surrendered to their fears." 1 He Cured Progressive Alcoholism QEORGE TEMMEN, JR., New York City, says that six months ago he had to make a choice between progressive alcoholism um ucvvih, rcspeciaDie, secure ana wnony desirable career as a salesman. For two years past he had been caught in a vicious circle where economic Insecurity caused worry; escape from worry was sought in alcohol; and the use of al cohol interfered with his sales and aggravated the economic insecurity. Well, that was indeed a vicious circle. But let's see whether George Temmen extricated himself. He says he hasn't the slightest doubt that he was kept on the rolls of the company he Carnegie was working for because of his family. But he couldn't expect them to bear with him any longer. So when he was told they didn't need his services for any further period, he wasn't surprised, though it did come as a shock. He knew that it would be difficult to find another job anywhere near as good, once a prospective employer learned why the company had let him out. He swallowed his pride and pleaded for a trial contract for another six months. Reluctantly the man before him granted him another chance, but for only six months. Now it was up to him! He analyzed the causes behind in creased drinking. He had never been a problem drinker in the Alcoholics Anonymous sense, but he had been drinking more and more with each passing day. He decided to give it up for one day. When he took a drink the next day he felt guilty. Next, he decided to ask himself to have a drink and to tell himself "No thank you," as he put his mind definitely on something else. That made it a little easier, strange as it may seem. He now found that it came a little easier each time to turn himself down. In a matter of three weeks, he didn t want a drink. But he adhered strictly to putting his mind on something else, every time he was in the presence of liquor, or even when he saw a liquor ad vertisement. . . The. da7 he told me his story, his six months contract had just expired, and, hurrah for George Temmen, he had just signed a 10-year contract as sales manager for his company. hunting permits staged by the state game commission. Of a record 5,273 applications. 1,000 will get the license. An extra 100 names were drawn as alter nates. The Nebraska deer season Is from Dec. 4-17 In Dawes. Mor ril, Sioux. Scotts Bluff and Sheridan, north of the Niobrara. These were the first 25 names drawn: Phillip Weitzel. Lindsay; Low ell W. Barrett. Hastings; James H. Prokupek. Columbus; Clar ence P. Coplan. Hemingford; James E. Staudsnmaler, Harri son; Rurolph W. Nuss. Scotts bluff; William Banigan. Cody; Orville R. Liedtke. North Platte; Allen A. Avers. Elgar; Grant W. Haxlett, Loomis; Lloyd W. Crouse, Broadwater; Lloyd T. Riddle. Bridgeport; Merle J. Schwarten, Wakefield: William P. Roffers. Rushville; Harold D. Blakeman, Merna; Robert V. Clifford, Lincoln; Martin D. Schipporeit, Merna; Homer E. Emery, Ogallala; Kenneth R. Berns. Bladen; Phillip H. Peter sen, Rushville; John L. Cannell. Gering; George E. Kennedy. Sid ney; Douglas W. Reetz. Potter: Daniel W. Allen. Sidney; Susgji G. Darnell. Bellevue. Still on the subject of deer hunting permits, the game com mission did a little figuring on the distribution of the coveted licenses. Three counties, said the com mission, had no "winners" in the lottery. They are Wayne, with six appliants: Sherman with nine and Loup with seven. Jef ferson county, which had 22 license-seekers, got only one. as did Cedar with 27 applicants. Counties in the hunting area fared better. In Sioux. 38 of 190 applicants were successful; in Dawes it was 94 out of 518; Sheridan 74 out of 424; Scotts Bluff 83 out of 487 and Morrill 37 out of 208. Last year, the western Ne braskans were sharply critical of the fact. that many of the per mits went to Omaha and Lin coln hunters. (Note to Editors: The game commission reports it is mailing a complete list of the 1.100 names to newspapers. If you do not receive yours, you may com municate directly with the com mission. Capitol, Lincoln, or to the Nebraska Press Association which will obtain a copy for you.) Briefs in the week's capitol news: State Fair Board Secretary Ed win Schultz, acting on a com plaint from the state medical association, state pharmaceuti cal association and the state health department, pledged that this year's fair will have no "medicine men" selling cure-alls. Rollie L. Riggins. 44, a former . hospital inspector for the stated 'Continued on Page Seven) il5BS ill ft CHILD who cannot entertain "himself ii apt to be unhappy, and we might as well admit it, rather a chore for his mother to take care of throughout the long day. Yet how many times do you squelch an idea your child has for amusing himself because you think it is too much trouble to help him find the material to carry out his project? Creativeness grows only by being exercised and th child who finds himself balked every time he imagines something that would be fun to do, may de velop ir one of those bored, what- shall-I'do-now youngsters. Suppose five-year-old Susie takes a notion she wants to make dresa for her doll out of some pieces ot gingham from her own new play suit. You knew very well that sewing is beyead a five-year-old more over yen were probably taught that little glrU should begin sewing lessons by learning to make neat hems. But why sot let Suste whack away at a doll dress even it she does get scraps and threads on the rug? The fun she will have will do more to Interest her In sewing later on than any amount of ' - practice in sewing fine seams.; Then, suppose your 'little boy dc cides some dark, rainy day that he'd like to go camping in the liv ing room.'-You could insist that he pitch his tent in the basement in. stead, but where but la the living room fireplace, could he build a fire, and what is camping without a log fire? Out of childhood make believe grow many of the idfcas that lead to grown-up inventive ness. Moreover, a creative idea Is worth encouraging for the many other avenues of interest it opens up, one of which may lead to a Ufa work. The Interest yon show In your child's ideas must go be yond the smacking: of lips over delectable looking: mud pies. Children old enough to have a cherished Idea can sense In sincerity. Also, for the child's protection you mast really lis ten to his plans and oversee them a bit, for you never know when an idea will take a dan gerous turn. Usually, a way can be figured to keep things on a safe and sane basis so you rarely need to call off the pro ject altogether and discourage the young "idea man." One of the worst thinsrs nTt can do when 'an idea is brewing is to give the child too much help with it. Think back and you'ra likely to find that the play projects that died aborning were the ones where father literally took over. It is better just to give encourage ment and a little hem or a few suggestions when things strike a snag. , But you tgraatest contribution to 1 ' the development of - your ' child's ) creativeness Us to refrain fronv complaining about the trouble and mess involved. And abovp all. trv not to say, "Couldn't you wait until tomorrow when I'll have more time to get tha things sou want from the attic?" 'Tomorrow" has killed off more ideas and in later iJe more hobbies than any other word. -t t iv ; . . ? - . A A A a A A ' - t - A -- . A A A A A. A A A K A A A A A A A A A 1 A A A A A A, . A, . , . , ', a .- A ,