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YME EPn UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S XEWSpaper it : -1 i ( i r i I 1 The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper (- ESTABLISHED IN 1881 j Published fmi-ekv, Mondays and Thurs days, at 40S-41J Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County. Nebraska. RONALD B. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD ... .Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News 4 ssoctarton SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year Lsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city ol Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Entered at the Poptofflce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska fcs second lss mall matter in ac cordance, -with the Act of Congress of ilaroh 3. 1S79. THOUGHT FOR TODAY 77 is easier to bear what's amiss than g? about to reform it. Thomas Fuller -it "IedTtorials ::v:v::::::::::.:::.x DESERVE PRICE SUPPORTS IT WOULD be a mistake for farmers to lull themselves to sleep with the idea that "parity" prices for agriculture prod ucts have been accepted by the nation as a whole. There are those who would vary the present formula with flexible parity supports and others who would, if they pet the chance, abolish price supports un der the guise of preserving the individual's freedom. Most critics of the farm benefit pro gram fail to understand that these pay ments offset the loss sustained by farmers under the tariff policy of the United States. For generations, the agricultural producers of the nation have had to buy their manufactured products in a market protected by the high tariff, but, in re gard to most of the things that the farm ers sell, they had to take what they could get for their products in a market which, because of surplus production, had its prices fixed by the world market. There is an additional justification for farm price supports. If the farmers of the nation have no surplus money to spend, there is a serious unbalance in the eco nomic machine of the nation. Farm pop ulation is a great market for manufactured goods. If the farmer has no spendable income, he is not in the market. Trade in the United States has been a circular movement, with manufactured products moving from industrial areas to the farms and agricultural produce mov ing from the farms to the industrial areas. This is the great exchange that is the back bone of American prosperitv. WILL GERMANY DEFEND EUROPE? FACING the -overwhelming number of Russian divisions in Europe, the west ern nations have been tentatively consid ering the possibility of using German sol diers in the common defense of the West. Under the pressure of the Communist threat the former enemies of Germany, despite fear of reviving German military power, are beginning to believe that the use of German soldiers is less dangerous than the possibility of Russian invasion. The Germans, however, suggest that a I genuine federation of Europe should come first and the use of the German soldiers afterwards. Prof. Carlo Schmidt, speak ing as a member of the German delega tion to the Council of Europe, points out that in a strong state the army is servant but in a weak state the army is master. Germany, he said, is not a strong state. Recognizing that some of Germany's neighbors are concerned about German military power, if it revives, Herr Schmidt sought to prevent this psychological dis turbance to European unity by insisting that a genuine European federation, in setting up a real European army, could use Germany without danger to other nations, -fc -fc WHY YOU CAN'T BELIEVE ALL bright boy raises to remark that J "you can't believe all that you see in the newspapers" and no newspaper refutes the statement. The truth of the matter is that most of the news in the newspapers is based on what some member of the vast public says and the fact that people sometimes twist ; the truth and fool newspaper men explain the remark. Another common remark that one hears is "I see where The Journal says . . ." and the speaker will go on to narrate some news article that has been printed, never stopping to think that a vast majority of item that appear in print are merely Editor A Furse's Fresh Flashes Live long enough and you'll hear everything if you're not careful. Love is one game that is never called on account of darkness. -fc -fc -fc About the only rod the modern boy knows anything about is the "hot rod." -fc -fc -fc It is mighty hard to believe that con versation is a lost art when you are trying to get your number on a party line, -fc -fc A Plattsmouth man says he's just like a lamp wick he was trimmed many times before he got the right flame. -n Here's a new approach. A young air corpsman meeting a pretty girl here on the street 'the other day tells her, "I'm a stranger here can vou direct me to vour house?" -fc -fc Sleeping at the wheel is another way of keeping the motorist from growing old. -fc The head of one of our state asylums introduced himself to a patient telling him he was the superintendent. "It won't take long to knock that out of you," stated the patient, "I thought I was Napoleon when I came here." -c -fc Figures don't lie, but girdles condense the truth. -fc -fc -fc A local man never has to worry about counting sheep at night to get to sleep. He's tired enough from counting calves during the day. - -fc - Some folks aren't satisfied with the milk of human kindness . . . what they want is the cream. -fc -fc -fc reports of what others say or claim, which the newspaper presents to its readers, leav ing them to pass judgment upon what they read. "down memorTlane I A YEARS AGO . . . XU With a gross attendance of more than 60 Legionnaires, Auxiliary members and Junior Drum Corps members, Platts mouth was well represented at the depart ment convention of . the two organizations held at Norfolk. The local post, for the second consecutive year, won the Dr. Arlo Dunn trophy, awarded for Scout work in state, while the Junior Drum Corps placed third . . . Kenneth Armstrong departed for Newark, N J., to join the Newark Rears, professional football team, for training. His brother. Bill, accompanied him for a visit . . . Sister Mary Celestine returned from attending summer school at Creigh ton University and a visit at Maple Mount, Ky., and was preparing to resume her du ties as principal of St. John's school here . . . Leland Flora began activities as head of music department of P. H. S. -fc -fc -fc OA YEARS AGO . . . U Joe Krejci, well known baseball player, played in the Council Bluffs tour nament with the Hamburg, la., team . . . Taplett Sweet shop suffered smoke dam age caused by fire in motor of their Frigi daire plant . . . Marcia L. Parker of Lin coln and J. Howard Davis of this city were married at First Methodist church in Lin coln on Aug. 21 . . . Miss Frances Field-, a former music supervisor of P. H. S. was elected to a like position in her home city, Nebraska Citv. -fc -fc -fc (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TOM McNAMARA SAYS: U. N. MISSION WILL END AUG UST 31; DIPLOMATS WARN O? RUSSIAN PLAN TO ANNEX PO LAND; SMALL BUSINESS STILL CETS RUNAROUND. (Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, his column will be writ ten bv members of nis staff). WASHINGTON Look for Jacob Mal ik, Soviet delegate to the United Nations security council, to be recalled to Moscow right after his term as president of the council expires on August 31. Insiders say that Malik's mission to the U. N. ended with our smashing vic tories in the Changyong area last week, which wrecked the "timetable" the Rus sians have been using in Korea and at Lake Success. This secret timetable, we have learned, called for Communist capture of the whole of Korea by August 15. Later, the dead line for 'driving all U. N. forces from Ko rea was changed to September 1. Meantime, Malik's mission at Lake Success was to press for a Soviet-dictated peace treaty for Korea when the final blow was struck. As part of the bargain, SPsN V . -m"f Russia also would demand rec ognition of Communist China by the U. N. and the ousting of Chiang's representatives. However, now that the tide of battle has turned and we are in Korea to stay. Malik's use fulness at Lake Success has ended. He will undoubtedly be recalled to Moscow and the in side betting is that he won't return. WASHINGTON PIPELINE It costs the taxpayers about $75,000 a day to keep congress in business . . . despite all you read about Communist spying in the United States, inside fact is that our intelligence on Russia far surpasses what they know about us. The Pentagon, for in stance, knows the exact loca tion of every war plant even the small ones behind the iron curtain. We even know the number of freight cars Russia has on hand and under con struction ... A little-known government official, Nat Keith., director of the government's slum-clearance program, is do ing an A-l job cleaning out big city tenement areas the most vulnerable death traps in a bomb attack . . . Rep. Manny Celler's monopoly committee will begin probing patent con spiracies by certain big wai contractors . . . Capitol report ers have decided that the term "pork barrel" doesn't do jus tice to the big. one-package an propriation of S27.000.000.000 for domestic spending. Report ers call it the -siio" bill . . . waiters, in the house restaurant where congressmen eat still are paid the pitiful wage of $27 a week. Also, though most of these faithful employees of con gress have families, they are not covered by social security. What's more, they are not en titled to sick leave like otjier government emplovees. PLAIN PRESIDENT When Rep. Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin introduced a col league, former Federal Judge Vctteramis' Cotamuran By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Compensation and Active Service Pay It is very important that vet erans being paid compensation or pension by the VA definitely understand that such benefits cannot be paid concurrently with active service pay. Several cases have recently been noted in which veterans entered on active duty or re-enlisted in the armed forces but neglected to notify the VA regional office so that compensation or pension payments could be stopped. Over-payments resulted, and oftor riicwwonr ry the VA. it was necessary to recover the over-payments from the vet- i eran. Veterans ! drawing com- 1 pensation o r pension are jftz. urged to noti W f the VA im- I srV ; mediately in I fi the event of i I.Ait I I call to active iwinuru c JfecK duty or re-enlistment. Their payments will then be stopped and the hard ship of having to pay back a large over-payment will thus be avoided. LONG, HARD ROAD AHEAD i Stephen McMahon of Wauwa ! tosa, to President Truman the ; other day, McMahon reported i that he had now shaken hands with every U. S. chief executive since McKinley. "I should be used to it," he i added, " but I'm always awpd on occasions like this." "Well, now you are convinced that I am just like any other ordinary man." grinned Tru man. "'A president has no right to think himself better than the millions of people who elect him any one of whom might be in his place." ANNEXING POLAND Three Polish diplomats who recently quit the Polish embassy in Washington and begged asy lum in the United States have warned the state department that Russia plans to annex Po land formally within a year. This will be done, the Poles re vealed, by staging mass demon strations and holding a mock plebiscite . . . Pentagon generals beiieve the mass B-29 raid on North Korean troops was a tac tical blunder. The raid stunned the North Koreans, but the Americans failed to follow ur with a swift infantry attack . . . The Communist Daily Worker has ordered its reDorters to "race angle" all their stories on the Korean war. However, the Negro magazine. "Ebony," will declare in a forthcoming issue: "Today's conflict is no more a 'war of color' than was the last one when the Communists fought with us. not against us. It is a battle between two po litical concents in which color is not involved." . . . The Com munists beat the propaganda drums about segregation, but live under a rigid caste system themselves. Inside the Soviet controlled embassies in Wash ington, non-Communists aren't allowed to eat at the same table with Communists. In fact, Rus sian employers aren't even per mitted to speak to satellite em ployees, except for a few trusted diplomats on the toD level . . . Korean War Disability and Death Compensation Claims Disability compensation and death compensation claims aris ing out of the Korean war will be adjudicated by the VA under the provisions of Public Law 359. approved December 19, 1941. Under Public Law 359. provi sion is made for the payment of disability compensation and death compensation at war time rates if the disability or death resulted from an injury received in line of duty: 1 as a direct result of armed conflict, or 2 while engaged in extra hazard ous service, including such serv ice under conditions simulating war. Disability compensation for injury or disease incurred in line of duty in the Korean war will be paid at the same rate as service connected compensation to veterans of WWI and WWII. Monthly death compensation to next of kin will be at the fol lowing rates: Widow, but no child, $75; widow, with one child, $105 with $25 for each additional child; dependent mother or fa ther, $60 for both or $35 for each. 1 fG&i NEB ES V y J A M E S C. C L S O N, Superintendent STATS MMTOaiCAL tOCIITT You can't visit the campus of Doane College at Crete without ; coming to the conclusion that Thomas Doane and hLs associates ! knew what they were doing when ; they selected that precise spot, back in 1870, for the Congre gational college they hoped to build in Nebraska. Standing on the hills overlooking the valley of the Blue, Doane College is , part of prairie scenery at its ; best. Doane College, the oldest of Nebraska's church colleges, has had a long and distinguished his . tory. Incorporated in 1872, it . took over Crete Academy, found I ed by the Congregational church ! the year before. Actually, the i history of Congregational edu ; cation in Nebraska goes back considerably beyond 1871 at least old Fontenelle University, founded in 1858. Compared with earlier at tempts at college building in Nebraska, Doane started on a relatively firm financial footing. It had the resources of Crete Academy including it's building. Ever since the Russian school teacher, Oksana Kasenkina. Soviet consulate in New York city, all Russian children over 10 years old have been shipped back to Russia for schooling. LIVE CONGRESSMAN Story behind house whip Per cy Priest's blast at Secretaries Dean Acheson and Louis John son which drew a hot counter blast from the president is that Priest was under terrific pressure from veterans' groups to tee off on the cabinet mem bers. On his return to Washington, following renomination in the Tennessee primary, colleagues asked the former Nashville Ten nesseean reporter why he had stuck his neck out for a White House rebuke. "It's very simple." grinned Priest. "I'd just rather be a live congressman than a dead whip." Note Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Majority Leader Jin McCormack have assured Priest that he will continue to be a "live" whip. No. 3 job in house Democratic ranks. SMALL-BUSINESS RUNAROUND Wrhile the defense department is paying lip service to small business, little companies still get the runaround when ex tracts are ladled out. For example, here is what happened to one little outfit. J. H. PhipDs Lumber Co. of Fay etteville. Ark., which wanted to make truck bows for the army: Phipps tried to submit a bid through the Detroit arsenal, but couldn't even get the specifica tions needed for estimating the cost. The Detroit arsenal ex plained that Chrysler Corpora tion had all the blueprints con taining the specifications. When Phipps asked to see them, Chrysler Corporation refused. In other words, though the army theoretically invited com petitive bids, it was impossible for any company to bid on the truck bows except by grace of the Chrysler Corporation. THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEIWI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, August 24. 1950 PAGE ONE MORE THAN A MONTH late the senate has finally passed the omnibus appropriations bUl for fiscal H51 which started July 1, 1950, carrying a total of some $33,000,000,000. The final figure was made indefinite by adoption of an amendment to require a 10 per cent cut in aU but postal, military and foreign economic aid funds. It is possible the 10 per cent cut will lop off approximately a bil lion dollars. However, none of the senate aetiivn was certain to be in the bill which is to be sent to the President, since the honse sev eral weeks apo passed a bill carrying $28,893.6.()4.66S. but not including: foreign aid. The two bills now go to conference. la the meantime, the Fresident has asked for $10.5 billio in 1951 supplemental military ap propriations and for another $4 billion for military aid abroad. According to Sen. Scott Luca-s of Illinois, Democratic majority lead er, the omnibus measure approach to the appropriations proved a flop and it is the thought of congress to go back to the old method of passing separate bills for approp riations for each department of the government. m The senate finally beat devn all attempts by opponents to slash ECA appropriations, one atte mpt by Senator Kem of Missouri, two by Sea. Kenneth Wherry of Nebras ka, and actually they increase ECA funds when Sen, Carl Hayden of Arizona get through an amend ment to provide $2,745,000 to aid Arab refugees from Palestine, bringing the total in the bill for that activity to $27,450,000. In ad dition, the senate went further and approved a $100,000,000 loan for Spain by the export-import bank and upped the ECA funds by an other $38,000,000. "in the meantime, the house and senate were highlighted by a rag ing fight on what economic con trols to give to President Truman in the Korean war. effort. Both branches of congress passed and reversed themselves, the house twice, on measures for this pur pose and finally wound up just where they started. In the mean time, the President informed con and in addition possessed 600 acres of land 50 town lots in Crete, and cash subscriptions totalling about 530,000. Doane opened its preparatory department in the fall of 1372 with Rtv. David Brainerd Perry, who had been active as a mis sionary on the Nebraska fron tier, as president. During that first year he was also the only teacher, and there were only 13 students. At the end of the year, five of the students were sufficiently well prepared to en ter the freshman class of the college, and an additional in structor was employed. The middle Seventies Doane's formative period were years of deep depression in Nebraska. The triple menaces of drouth, grasshoppers and low farm prices made life itself almost impossoble in the new state. 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The administration was defi nitely opposed to the measure of fered by Congressman Clinton D, McKinnon of California providing" for these controls, but putting them on an automatic basis after a 5 per cent jump ia the cost of living beyond a certain date. It was pointed out that there was nothing to prevent those who have' power to up prices to peg them at a fraction short of the 5 per cent and holding them there indefinite ly, thus effectively halting tho President from instituting con trols. The house accepted this bill once, then reversed itself and de feated it. fcijrfr" The atomic energy commis sion has announced that the E. I. Ib Pont d Nemours cor poration of Delaware has been selected to build and operate plants for the production of the hydrogen bomb. Along the same one Sen. Brien Mc Mahon of Connecticnt, chair man of the joint atomic energy commission, held a closed bearing with defense Secretary Louis Johnson and Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and announced "there is no question in my mind but what our atomic stockpile is the chief deterrent to expanded Soviet aggres sion." He indicated he meant both atomic and - hydrogen bombs. Earlier the AEC had submitted a report to congress in which it said that plutonium and uranium-235, the explo sives of the atomic bomb, were produced at the highest rate in history in the first half at 1950. - Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan has asked .imething lik $8.5 billion dollars for a 30-year, soil conservation and improvement program for the entire Missouri river valley. A special agricultural committee has been named to study the program. Secretary Brannan told the committee that his program would tie-ia with flood control, navigation. young college can easily be im agined. Despite adverse circumstances, however. Doane College not only kept alive but it continued to grow. There was a steady in crease in .both faculty and stu dents, so that by the late Sev enties the old academy building was outgrown and the college felt an acute need for more space. To meet this need, the trustees set about raising funds for the , erection of a new building, to be i called Merrill Hall, in honor of i Rev. O. W. Merrill, a devoted i friend of the young college. The 1 campaign was so successful that : by the spring of 1879 the trustees were able to begin the structure. : The building was dedicated at ; commencement in the spring of 1880. Journal Want Ads Pay! t X J j4 17" 6 7 8 9 10 11 p. A'M 18 19 p 20 Zl p ZZ 27 2p 2 W 29 30 ii M n mil w, 33 j t r -TT- 40 4t g42 M 3 W. 45 WM -M 46 lH 1.1 51 52 53 54 " 55 56 ' ' ' ' 'ill ' ' ' ' 40 Formerly 47 Arabian (archaic) garment 41 Period of Urns 49 To say 43 Continent further 44 Footless 50 Assistance animal 52 Sacred 45 Part of the Hindu word eye 53 Toward Answer to LAST WEEK'S Puzzles IlIL. 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