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The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 e-j Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-411 Main Street, Plattsmouthi Cass County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD . . . .Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor i USSOCIBTIOn SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city ol Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Entered at the Postcffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second cls.ss mail matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. THOUGHT FOR TODAY But Zi'hcrc life Is more terrible than death, it is then truest valour to dare to live. Sir Thos. Browne EDITORIALS BLAMES THE "ELECTION JITTERS" SO FAR, the congress has not taken steps to provide an excess profits tax, as rec ommended by the president, who admits that the levy is "very controversial." President Truman assumes that even tually there will be an excess profits tax, but in a press conference, makes the point that the legislators will have time to work it out after the elections are over and when they haven't got the election jitters. The "election jitters" is one of the seri ous ailments that affects democratic coun tries. Legislators, passing upon proposed laws, just before they go to the polls, are very careful not to get themselves out on a limb. They tend to postpone controver sial issues until after the voting is over. While, upon rare occasions, we find a congressman who is willing to take his stand on the basis of what he believes is for the public good, there is nothing to be gained by criticizing the cautious policy of legislators who have a yen to stay in office. The criticism, if anv. should he annliprl to the people who vote in the elections. If they are not intelligent enough to support those who serve the interests of their coun try rather than those of partisan groups, they cannot justly criticize the solons who believe that preservation is the first law of political, as well as other forms of life. Carelessly read headlines as responsi ble for as many mistakes as carelessly written articles. THE AMERICAN WAY ONE of the glittering generalities that bobs up in almost every public effort of orators is the "American way." If a stranger in our midst wanted to know what "the American way" meant, he would have a hard time figuring it out. The answer to the search would de pend upon whether he read Democratic or Republican oratory. In the interest of clearer thinking,' might not our speakers be more exact in their language? Could they say just what they think "the American way" means? If one is interested in studying the topic and delves into the records of the formation of the United States of Ameri ca, he will discover that there was con siderable difference of opinion and that the "wise old patriots" of our early life expressed robust opinions about those who disagreed with them. This seems to be about the nearest that one can approach to a definition of "the American way." It continues to abide with us. H 4C SOURCE OF FAMILY TROUBLE COME of the psychiatrists are hard-head- iJ ed, stubborn boys. They will tackle any problem and give you an answer without wasting words in shading the question until it loses force fulness. Now, what do you thintf is the greatest source of family trouble? This is a ques tion that has wrecked romance, blasted family life and disintegrated the home. In fact, it is such a dangerous query that a cagey individual, male or female, will pass it up almost without reading it. Not so, however with keen psychia trists.. Recently, one of them, right off the bat, and apparently without a thought of his home-life, said : "The struggle be tween husband and wife oyer who is,'-going to be the boss," is the answer to the query. To add fuel to the fire, the man insists that "efficiency in family life is best served by the dominance of one person." This will not cause much trouble in itself. . Every member of the family will readily agree. The havoc begins when somebody tries to gain the dominance. . Furse's Fresh Flashes It may be wishful thinking, but some of the experts insist that this time the hoarders will be piling up the wrong com modities. -K We wish the city street department fellows would cut the grass at Fifth and Main before some smart alec makes some thing of it. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says her new boy friend wants to give her the sun, moon and stars, but she hasn't been able to get him to come down to earth and talk about jewelry. - It may take a little longer to liberate Korea from the Communists, but it didn't take very long to liberate Henry Wallace. Hoarders of a month ago look rather silly now, but they always did look dis gusting. Nothing is funnier than the man who happened to guess right once then gets the idea he's an expert. Unfortunately, some of the June brides are now beginning to wonder what per suaded them. A man should never have anything to do with a woman that is smarter than he is. - It's strange that a local man doesn't seem to be as well dressed as he did when he was married 15 years ago he's wear ing the same suit. DOWN MEMORyTaNE Maim Street by Ralph Stein A YEARS AGO . . . XU John Benton Livingston of this city, named as an alternate by the late Con gressman George H. Heinke, was notified that he had been selected as representa tive from the first Nebraska district to the U. S. naval academy at Annapolis, Md. . . . Seventy-one of the descendants of John and Anna Everett gathered at the George Everett farm southeast of Union for the annual reunion . . . County board set levy for the year 1940 at 4.46 mills on the basis of a valuation of $32,671,16,5 as reported by County Assessor W. H. Puis . . . Cecil Comstock accepted position in Dalton school system. OA YEARS AGO . . . Jmt U The contract for the removal of some 4,200 feet of dirt preparatory to grading of athletic field was let to Wm. Kief & Son . . Mail service was crippled by re moval of north bound Missouri Pacific train, leaving city without night mail serv ice . . . Firm of Bestor & Swatek here ob served their fifteenth anniversary in busi ness on August 25. ffus FAiJyLrrs watts to oer VWl JUST Trig RI?HT UGHT FOR "REAPING (, III ..AND HER IS THE LIGHT " Trovhrt Saftlr Strric (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SATS: THE BEST VACATIONS ARE SPENT AT HOME; COWS DON'T KICK LIKE POLITICIANS THOUGH THEY DO HAVE TWO DEADLINES A DAY; FILLING THE SILO WAS MORE RESTFUL THAN SEA BREEZES. WASHINGTON. Every year about vacation time there is a big argument in the Pearson family not about Sena tor Taft but about what to do during our vacation. . The little woman naturally wants to get away from home. For some strange reason she seems to feel she would get away from three meals a day, moths in the piano and musical crickets under the radiator. And with her boy just coming of draft age, she wanted to get off to the Maine woods or the mountains where we could forget about Korea, and the woes of the world. On the whole I didn't blame her. But being almost as disagreeable in my home as I am to congressmen, I confess that I put up an argument. "If we go to some beach resort," said I, "the folks in the hotel lobby will be whispering 'there's that fellow that Presi dent Truman called a so-and-so.' Or nice old ladies will be wanting autographs, and every amateur politician in the place will be claiming he can make predictions bet ter than I can, and will want to stay up all night to prove it. "In brief," I concluded, "it'll be just like Washington." "But that's your public," replied Mrs. P., "and you know perfectly well down deep in your heart that you wouldn't be happy without your public. If the little girls and the old ladies in hotel lobbies didn't come up and ask for your autograph you'd think you were slipping." "Now look," I protested, "we have a nice farm in Maryland with the Potomac river fhving right past our front door. Why should we leave it? Let's forget about gallivanting about the country and take life easy at home." VACATION COWS Mrs. r. let out something akin to a snort at this. "You have a deadline every day with a column seven days a week," she said. ' "Yet now on your vacation you want to take on two deadlines a day cows!" "I realize they have to be milked twice a day." I admitted, referring to my prize bovine friends. "But at least they don't ask for your autograph. "Besides cows don't talk noli- I tics," I continued. "And thev don't complain except when you take their calf away. They don't even worry over what you say about them, the way Sena tor Byrd of Virginia does. And they don't make long-winded speeches like Congressman Jac obs of Indiana." Maybe I shouldn't have argued so much. I felt guilty about it afterward. Because in the end we settled for two deadlines a day. Usually when it comes to such things as Senator Taft. Mrs. P. Wins the argument. But this time she suddenly yielded. "It's your vacation." she said, "and I guess you're entitled to do what you want. So if you want cows, we'll vacation with the cows." So we did. and on the whole I think Mrs. P. enioyed it. FILLING THE SILO Of course, she didn't enjoy it when the bull pot loose and act ed just as bellicose as Senator McCarthy, though his name happens to be Harry Truman. You see, I name the bulls for my various "admirers." one of whom is Senator McKellar. It was with considerable regret this summer that we finally sent Senator McKellar to Baltimore and the sausage factory. I had come to be quite fond of the old senator; but like his name sake from Tennessee, he had be come quite ornery, and we had to ship him off. I admit that Mrs. P. prob ably didn't get any vacation thrill over my filling the silo. In the old days when labor was so scarce we had to use German prisoners, she used to help out by driving a truck. But this summer, thanks to a new Hol land forage crop harvester, we got the silo filled in no time, and she didn't have to help. A few years ago. we used to spend a week of backbreaking toil, cutting down corn, stoop ing over to pick up the bundles, loading it on trucks and feedine it into an ensilage cutter. But this year thanks to the forage crop harvester, the crop was au tomatically picked uo in the field, chewed into fine bits spewed into trucks and then blown up into the silo. Instead of twenty men for a week, we used six men for four days. That's what labor-saving ma chinery has done to the farm. However. Mrs. P. did have quite a time with her dog, which finally brought forth two pups, compared with my cat which naa mree Kittens. Ana iarm life was not entirely dull. We took in a swell movie, "The Law less;" sued Fred Howser. the at torney general of California for $500,000 (he having sued me for $300,000) : and entertained King Peter of Yugoslavia, a very dem ocratic little uy who was just as courteous in meeting our cook as in meeting a senator. Oh, yes, I forgot to say that in order, not to be too hard hearted. I took Mrs. P. up to Long Island where we took in the trotting races at George Morton Levy's beautiful Roose velt raceway, visited my old boss. Herbert Bayard Swope. and mv old student. Ernest Cuneo, went sailing on the sound and re laxed generally. CANOE TRIP But I think the best part of the vacation was the Sunday when I took Mrs. P. on a canoe trip up the old Chesapeake ana Ohio canal, dug 120 years ago, long before the railroads, to con nect Washington with the Ohio river and the Mississippi. Start ing from in front of our house, we paddled up to Seneca, where the canal barges once tranship ped their cargoes, then returned down the bosom of the Potomac a most turbulent bosom at that point with so many rap ids that we spent half the time in the water rather than in the canoe. I confess that the war news from Korea hung like a cloud over much of our vacation. But out on that historic river where you could see no sign of human habitation, you could almost for get that two parts of the prld were tearing at each other's throats; forget what a mess man has made of modern civilization. Almost, but not quite. Gone from the Potomac were the sharpened poles which once once pointed down toward the river on the Maryland side to keep the Johnny Rebs from crossing from Virginia. But still present on the river bank were the stone embattlements re minding us of a war just as bloody as that in Korea, where brothers and cousins of the north and south battle against each other a grim reminder that wars seem to continue as long as man is man. Well, that was our vacation, which I think Mrs. P. enjoyed reasonably well especially the canoe trio that cost only fifty cents. And I came back, still the incurable optimist, hoping that some day wars can be stopped and that the debacle in Korea may be one faltering step toward stopping them. Realty Transfers Ray O. Harold and Emma M. to J. A. Chappell and Inez A. 8-5-50 L. 1 to 16 B. 3 Ls. 1 to 26 B. 4 Richie Place, Platts- $5000. Geo. A. Bickert and Evelyn, Genevieve Brabham and Robt. to Lester Donlan and Ellen E. 7-20-50 Und. 2-3 int. NWU 23-10-9 $17600.00. Ellen E. Donlan and Lester to Lester Donlan and Ellen E- 8-14-50 Und. 1-3 Int. NWU 23-10-9 $1.00. Jas. A. Chappell and Estelle to Waldemar W. Long and Marjorie E. 8-14-50 EM; L. 13 NWUNEU 24-12-13 Stadelmans Add Platts. $2250.00. Wm. Peters and Sophia to John N. Cole and Edith C. 8-9-50 SEU 17 & W',2 1U 20-10-12 $28,000.00. Fed. Ld. Bk. to Fed Frm- Mtge. Corp. 8-4-50 Oil Gas & Mineral rights to S Ms NWU & SWU Lillie 5-11-9 al to Nellie O. Fletcher to Pahl 8-9-50 S'.iNWU $14,000.00. Velma W. Propp et Velma V. Propp & Carl 8-15-50 A r - A A. TTI11 A J ' iis. i 10 iu a. i neasaui run nuu to Platts- $1.00. Carl Propp & Velma V. to Helen Sand & Sterling 8-15-50 L. 2 B. 4 $1.00. Carl Propp & Velma V. to Wanda Bruns & Harvey 8-15-50 L3 B. 4 P. Hill $1.00. Roy B. Sharp & Alma L. to Claude A- Ruse & Nettie C. 7-22-50 El2 & 4" off E side of W1, L. 4 B. 33 Platts. $1.00. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL "Loe Kinnamon, old resident and well known boat builder, was taken to St. Joseph's hos pital in Omaha Saturday. Mr. Kinnamon will be given a thor ough check up .as he has not been in the best of health. Legislative Sidelines by BERNIE , CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation Election Echoes The turn-out of voters at the August 8 primary ' election was on the whole a rather disap pointing display of the interest of the average Nebraskan in state government. A total of approximately 216, 000 ballots were cast. About 800,000 Nebraskans are eligible to vote. This means that ap proximately 25 per cent of the state's eligible voters took the trouble to indicate their prefer ences in the primary election. It must be kept in mind, of course, that primary elections do not attract the interest of voters as much as do general elections. Apparently, many voters feel that the primary is not important enough to take the time to go to the polling place. There are probably many rea sons the vote on August 8 was not as heavy as it might have been. One. the weather was good and farmers were behind in their harvest and other summer work, so did not feel they could take the time to vote. This would ex plain the light rural vote. Two. voters have been pre-occupied with the Korean war news and did not have the desire to take too much interest in local af fairs. Newspaper and radio em phasis during the weeks just prior to the election was on war news rather than news of the election, so readers were not par ticularly stirred to the impor tance of the election. This same factor, depending upon the prog ress of the war. will have an in fluence on the general election November 7. too. Three, the campaigns of most of the can didates were rather lethargic and much quieter than is usual. No vital issues are involved in a primary election. A primary is rather an election which pro vides the rank-and-file members of the political parties an op portunity to express their pref erence for the candidates to rep-1 resent their parties in the gen-l eral election. Primary election balloting is conducted on a basis of political party affiliation, ex cept in the cases of candidates for non-political offices. The primary cannot be con sidered a fair indication of senti ment on the issues of the gaso line tax and license fee increas es, because the primary is an election involving personalities rather than issues. No powerful effort was made by either the supporters or opponents of the highway revenue measures to make these laws an issue of the primary. What publicity was given the road issue was pro vided by candidates; and gener ally the statements of candidates on the issue were not specific. The highway revenue measures are an issue in the November 7 election and it can be expected that both sides will make de termined efforts to inform the voters on them before that time. The average voter going to the polls August 8 probably was not cognizant of the highway issue as having an important bearing upon the primary, despite the wishful figuring of some political prophets. Too many factors are involved to use any primary election as a barometer of political sentiment on issues, unless they are more apparent than they were in the August 8 election. Offer Co-op Training Course For the first time, the Univer sity of Nebraska will this fall offer a course training young folk for positions as co-operative managers, department heads, and sales and service represent atives. Basic technical instruc- tion will be provided in a two- year course. Students will study on the. college of agriculture campus, enrolled in regular classes; and upon completion of the course will be eligible to re ceive the degree. Associate in Ap plied Science. Students will apply to enter the course as do other students of the University. Those taking the course must be graduates of accredited high schools and stand in the upper three-fourths of their graduating class in high school. The course was set up in the university curriculum at the re quest of Nebraska farm co-operatives. The Nebraska Co-operative Council worked with the University in developing the course: and will assist in placing students in summer employment between training years. The council will also assist in plac ing graduates in jobs with co operatives. Information on the course can be secured by writing to Dean W. V. Lambert, College of Agricul ture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, fctmi-wttKLY journal PAGE FOUR Monday, August 28, 1950 -- -- - . . nn..)f niiiiril.tJt.TAllTfrff.tl Wl Let Others "Save Face" JM. KELLAN, Surrey, England, is a junior captain employed by a . world-wide air-charter company. He is also a member of the local couneJI of the association which is the nilotV; trade union in England ' For two and a half years the company had paid an overseas allowance of around a hundred dollars (But in British currency, of course). They knew that mere was much dissatisfaction about this payment and they wanted to remove that dissatisfaction at as little cost to the com pany as possible. So their first move was to send a letter asking for expressions of opin ion among the crew members. This was fol lowed by another letter stating that the majority had agreed to a decided reduction, and also a change in duty. Then came a third letter stating that this amount was limited to certain of the crew. The company ob viously was determined to settle matters in Carnegie its own way. And now dissension was rife. Everyone felt that a dirty trick had been played by the company; tempers were soaring. Captain Kellan felt that he should do something about it. What he would have preferred doing was to write and tell the company officials tMat they had offered apples but had given crab-apples. He knew he would have much on his side, and he knew that the company wasn't feeling too comfortable as those officials wondered ho it their moves would be taken. But Captain Kellan thought it over. To write as he felt would irritate the officers. He knew that every man had a nobler side, so he decided to appeal to the nobler motives of those who had made these moves, and to writ,'" such a wav that would enable them to "save their faces." So he wrote a friendly personal letter to the man aging director, taking the attitude that he wanted to help all concerned, and not just the crew members. The letter is too long to quote here, but, in effect he said that the men were telling each other that "a fast one has been pulled on us." He added that he felt the company would lose a lot of good will if they carried out their intentions. Then he suggested that an unintentional mistake had been made that would cause great harm for the company. What happened? Well, just what Captain Kellan hoped for He was thanked and he was told the mistake would be rectified Had he written as he had at first wanted to write, he says ha knows he would have been the sufferer when his name came up for promotion. Death of Allen Renner in Omaha The death of Allen M. Ren- ner, 75. for many years a res ident of Plattsmouth, occurred Saturday at an Omaha hospital following an illness of some dur ation. Mr. Renner was making his home at 5321 South Thirtieth j street. i A member of a large family, i Mr. Renner and his brothers ; and sisters, made their home here for many years and were j active in the community life. Allen was largely engaged in railroad work while a resident I here. ! Surviving are; sons, Allen L., ! Charles J., Donald, Orval R , j uaie u., daughters, Mrs. Steve A. Bexel. Mrs. Jesse York, Miss Helen; sisters. Mrs. Albert Stokes Mrs. Robert Richter, Mrs. Silas Green; brother, Nels Renner; sixtr?n grandchildren, two great grandchlidren. The funeral services were held this afternoon (Monday) at 2 o'clock from the chapel of Brew er-Korisko at Omaha. The body was brought to Plattsmouth where services were held this afternoon at Oakhill cemetery. Walter H. Harold R. Smith & Lebens Attorneys-at-Law Donat BIdg. - Plattsmouth YOUR BEST BET! WHEN YOU are driv ing an uninsured car, you are exposing your savings, vour nronertv and your family to what J l. i may De a crippling n nancial loss. Insurance; is your best protection against financial loss. See this agency tday. Stephen M. Davis Second Floor Plattsmouth State Bank BIdg:. Phone 6111 I MCG SSPHl Cpl. and Mrs. Jack Biegger, with Miss Dorothy Cappell. de parted Saturday for Des Moines where they were guests at the home of Cpl. Biegger's parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Biegger. They also attended the Iowa State fair in progress this week. A classified Ad in The Jour nal costs as little as 35c. . f EDWIN T. McHUGH ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in Corn Growers State Bank Alurdock Nebraska Real Estate LOANS ! 5 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment. Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. TT HAS COME to be a family joke, told with indulgent laughter and half-pride. Father set out to buy the baby a gift, wandered from toy store to art museum, and returned home with a print he had long ad mired. But now, some 10 yars later, the picture he bought hangs in his daughter's room and is one of her favorite possessions. A few years ag this little girl seemed more interested in music than in art. Before she could operate the phonograph herself she would beg her moth er to play classical recordings. Experts note that it is typical of children that their interests change as they grow Yet at one time or another children enjoy all the arts quite with out pressure from parents. In deed, most attempts at forc ing art appreciation seem to produce an attitude exactly op posite to that desired. No, help ing children enjoy the arts is more like gardening. You can't open the seed and pry out the potential flower. But you can provide fertile soil and a fav orable climate for seed germ ination and growth. Undoubtedly your home has pic tures upon its waUs.- But how and why were these pictures hung? Be cause with color, emotional appeal. cleanness of line, detail, they truly inspire? Or was that;garish;,la.nd; scipe hung"? in deference o' 'Aunt Ella1 who presented it one week end? pr because something was needed, as a temporary cover for that cracked spot in the wall and you never got around to making a good substitution? Even the best pictures can hang so long in one spot that no one notices them anymore.- Changing the pictures on your walls now and then gives a iilt to the. whole family. Children , especially will notice it. They will, that is, if the pictures are hung low enough for them to see. In a child's own room at least, pictures should be hung at a child's eye level. At first thought it seems th-tt in most homes there are no examples of sculpture. Yet pleasingly shaped toys, well made, carefully finished, are really three dimensional art forms. Choose your youngster's playthings with some thought to their structural plcasingncsv. Perhaps as a child you spent happy hours playing with a collection of rocks - rough, smooth, angular, rounded. Now that radios, phonographs and most recently television sets have become common household equipment most children have am ple opportunities to hear music. Good books those designed espe cially for 'children, and other grown-up books should be in th home, and placed where a child can browse without having to wait for an adult to get them for him. But don't expect children to say much about liking art. How ade quately can you describe your feel ings about seeing a magnificent sunset -or hearing a Chopin Noc turne? And your youngster has been using words for but a fraction of the time you have. Some chil-drc.n- &ijjrue(.becpme interested j intellectually.? They want 'to! know ; ' who painted the picture, how, where? But when you read a poem to a child he may feel all warm in side, or lifted with exhilaration. In all probability he will remain si lent. Yet his admiration is just as genuine as that of the child who enthuses vocally. And the experi ence is immensely valuable to both children in terms of esthetic devel opment. A