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TTo-ge Pqwsmmttih JjdDQjraAD. UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper t I 1 i The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 ri Published scml-weeklv, Mondavi and Thurs days, at 40-413 Alain Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor ftssoca ti on ' SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Kntpred at the Postoffloe at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second -lss mail matter in ac cordance, with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Genii c blood xeill (jentle manners breed. Edmund Spenser KOREAN BATTLE DEPENDS ON RESERVES IT HAS been difficult for Americans to keep up with the fighting in Korea or to understand, from press dispatches, the real nature of the struggle that goes on in that country. We know that, against heavy odds, American fighting men have staged a suc cessful delaying battle, giving space and often lives to gain time for reinforcements to arrive. Most of these came in through the port of Pusan, which has facilities to handle an army much larger than the American contingent in Korea. To hold Pusan and a reasonable area "4nf maneuver has been the objective of the defenders. While the fighting is not over, our leaders seem to think that we will be able to keep control of Pusan and adjacent area until sufficient forces is ac cumulated for a counter-offensive. When the United Nations force will be strong enough for a real offensive is any body's guess. Manpower is what is needed, together with an ever-increasing accumu lation of supplies and weapons. Most ob servers believe that it will be spring, at least, before a major counterattack can be launched. The fighting in Korea has demon strated the necessity for ground troops. Bombing and artillery fire have done much to slow down the enemy but the only way to handle the guerillas that infiltrate through the lines is by foot soldiers, shoot ing carbines and hurling grenades. The battle in Korea continues to rage, with the final outcome depending upon the reserves that can be thrown into the battle by both sides. Presumably, addi tional troops are on the way to Korea from the United States but it should not be overlooked that replacements and re inforcements are also flowing to the North Korean army. The continued reinforcement of the Communist army has been a discouraging development. For a while, it was pre sumed that the North Koreans had com mitted their full strength in the campaign. Intelligence officers now know that three additional divisions have been brought in to the line and see no evidence that the enemy's manpower is subsiding. NOT IN DANGER NEARLY every speaker, who advocates the importance of some special activity, inevitably ties the enterprise into the peace of the world and most of them suggest that unless what they advocate is promptly done, our civilization will be obliterated. This is, of course, utter nonsense. With out any intention of disparaging Mr. David Lubbock, of the Food and Agriculture Or ganization of the United Nations, we call attention to his recent statement that one quarter of the money spent on military de fense could raise the standard of living in under-developed countries considerably. He adds, in line with our observation, that the "success or failure to improve the sup ply and distribution of the essentials of liv ing . . . throughout the world means the survival or obliteration of our civilization and of us." This is a typical sample of the reason ing to which we refer. Certainly, in the past few hundred years, the failure of the Western nations to equally divide their substance with the lesser peoples of the earth has not tended to their obliteration or the destruction of their civilization. The truth of the matter is that the Western nations, in undertaking manv measures for the benefit of less fortunate NATIONAL tWTOHIAL FursVs Fresh Flashes In its simplest form, group medicine is where 35 kind relatives and friends pitch in with a cure apiece for vour cold. - The narrow roads where two cars could barely pass without touching each other are being replaced by splendid wide highways on which six or eight cars can collide at once. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, tells us she learned to sing those throaty, sensational songs at hit mother's knee and a couple of other joints. There still are people so busy falling for everything that they don't have time to stand for much. Our planning consists of putting off until tomorrow that which we have no in tention of doing todav. Any time you feel indispensable, take a walk through the local cemetery and read the headstones those boys were pretty hot stuff, too. Vacation is that certain something that by the time you finish paying for you need another. A local Miss tells us that learning to play golf wouldn't be so hard. All you have to do is smack the pill and then walk just like some auto rides she's been on. tf. -fc Up at our house it's temper when it's me and only nerves when it's her. peoples, are acting from the urgings of their religious consciences, which, in them selves, are a product of Western civiliza tion. To ascribe to this generous attempt to share some -of nature's blessings, a baser motive, such as the purchase of their own survival, is to under-estimate the goodness of the product of Western civilization. We are perfectly willing for the United States, in common with other highly de veloped nations, to make some contribu tion to the wellbeing and development of the under-developed areas and backward peoples of the globe. Nevertheless, we subscribe to no doctrine that intimates that our generosity is due to a fear that the lesser people will combine against the white race. If we believed that the only way to pre vent such an unfortunate occurrence is to be found through the purchase of the favor of lesser peoples, we would be against any present generosity and in favor of letting the .backward areas and their massed millions meet their own problems and fight their own battles. -fc -K - "down memory lane 1 A YEARS AGO . . . 1 U Mr. and Mrs. John P. Sattler, Jr., de parted on a motor trip to New York City, taking in the World's Fair and visiting other places of interest . . . Business men of Murdock staged a watermelon feed for all visitors . . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Top liff entertained at their country home hon oring Forest Leonard and family who were leaving to make their home at Boulder, Colorado . . . John F. Moore, who served nine years as cashier and assistant at the local Burlington station, retired after 32 years of active service with the railroad in many capacities of office work. The Moores left for New Jersey to visit a daughter . . . Cleda Marie Koukal and Warren F. Wheeler were married at St. John's Catholic church. Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sikora. OA YEARS AGO . . . LAJ W. T. Distell, superintendent of lo cal BREX returned from attending the American Legion convention at North Platte . . . Missouri Pacific passenger sta tion at Nebraska City was visited by rob bers who got away with $15 . . . August 30th was the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the CB&Q railroad bridge at this place ; C. E. Wescott's Sons store win dow displayed pictures showing bridge in process of construction and completion, and other interesting data in connection therewith. (Copyright, 1949. By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: TOO MUCH MILITARY EN CROACHMENT ON CIVILIAN GOV ERNMENT; TRUMAN BELIEVES GENERALS SHOULD WIN WARS, NOT DECLARE THEM; AIR COL LEGE AT MAXWELL FIELD PREACHES PREVENTIVE WAR. WASHINGTON Inside fact about the White House crackdowns on Secretary of the Navy Matthews and General MacAr thur ia that the administration had been waiting for a chance to .knock down the increasing eagerness of the mil itary to encroach on the civilian branches of government. A lot of things have been go ing on which the public doesn't know about, all pointing toward more and more military rule. One was the quiet attempt by Secretary of Defense Johnson to keep Guam under the mili tary when it was supposed to go under a civilian governor July 1. Another is the navy's attempt to hold on to the "trust islands" of the Pacific. Another has been General MacArthur's repeated attempts to dictate for eign policy. Another flagrant intervention of the military into foreign poj icy was when eleven generals secretly went ud to congress and urged a $100,000,000 loan to Dic tator Franco of Spain despite the fact that their commander-in-chief in the White House had ruled against such a loan. President Truman was icy cool with his secretary of de fense when he heard of this. Un smiling, he turned to Louey Johnson in cabinet meeting and snapped: "And I don't want any more trips by you or your gen erals to congress regarding a loan to Franco." GENERALS WANT WAR The two public crackdowns were aimed directly at MacAr thur, and indirectly at Johnson through his secretary of the navy. Actually. Secretary Mat thews is a sincere, idealistic, lovable person, the top lay Catholic in the United States, and neither the state depart ment nor the White House wanted to hit him personally. However, the statement by a cabinet officer in favor of a preventive war. it was decided, had to be disavowed publicly. For it played directly into the hands of European propagand ists, already partly successfrijn branding us as warmongers. Another reason for the crack down was that General Orvil Anderson, commander of the air Veterans' CoMeinni By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Direct Loans from the VA: The veterans' administration is now authorized to make di rect loans for financing the pur chase or construction of a dwell ing, or construction and im provement of a farm house. But this authorization applies only to areas in which it has been determined that private capital is not available to the veteran with the aid of the guaranteed loan provision of the GI bill. Cass county has not been de termined as one of the areas in which private capital is not available through normal GI loans, and therefore, di rect loan pro visions may not be availed of here. As a result, veter ans seeking GI loans Jn this area must first find a lending agency or in stitution which will make GI ft mcnard V. feck loans. Unless such an agency can be found, a GI loan is only something to read about. VA Letters to Claimants The last paragraph of letters i r$ J" I 8 MOSCOW, PLEASE TAKE war college, at Maxwell air base, Montgomery. Ala., has been staging a series of lectures in which a preventive war is urged openly. One of the distinguished speakers at the air war college has been Father Edmund Walsh of Georgetown University, a friend of Secretary Matthews, who voiced almost the same pre ventive war idea as Matthews. Another earlier speaker at the air college was Brig. Gen. S. D. Grubbs. former commander at Maxwell, who, in an address be fore a civilian group in Mont gomery during the Berlin block- I ade. urged an ultimatum to Bjs- lifted in 36 hours, we should de clare war. General Maxwell himself, speaking some time ago before the Kiwanis club at Montgom ery, indicated that he favored immediate war with Russia: and there has been concrete evidence that the general follows a de liberate program at the air col lege aimed to indoctrinate stu dents with the idea of an imme diate attack. All these matters have been reported tp the White House from time to time: and as a re sult President Truman is de termined that the original con cept of military duty laid down by the founding fathers shall be followed, namely that it is the military's job to win wars, not declare them. Note 1 If the United States followed the advice of the gen erals in favor of an early wvx, it would appear based on re sults in Korea that the military are a long way from being pre pared. Note 2 A group of farsighted senators, led by Brien McMa hon of Connecticut, have intro duced a resolution calling for a disarmament conference to show the world that we would reduce armament if Russia would do the same. While they have no great illusions that Russia would reduce, they feel it important to written by the VA to claimants usually reads as follows: "Fu ture communications relative to your claim should be addres?d to the Veterans Administration and should show the veteran's full name and the number XC " This paragraph appears in spite of the fact that all pre vious correspondence in connec tion with the claim has been channeled through the veterans organization which the claimant has designated as his attorney. Claimants are herewith advised that the above quoted paragraph is in nowise mandatory upon the claimant. If a claimant has designated an organization to prosecute his claim he should submit all correspondence and evidence throurh that organiza tion or the service officer who initiated the claim. Many claim ants misunderstood the nature of the evidence requested and acting alone will submit er roneous material which results in denial of a just claim. It is therefore wise to always con sultyour local service officer before making reply to a request of the Veterans Administration for further information. NOTE keep his peaceful goal before the world. CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES Lecture in London U. S. Am bassador Douglas has bawled out the British for talking rearma ment but doing nothing. Last week he told Foreign Minister Bevin in very plain English that the United States was shocked at failure to call parliament back into session. The ambas sador also told Bevin that Brit ain's current plan for rearma ment is completely inadequate: that whereas the United States is calling up thousands of men. Britain is merely marking time. Bevin's last conference Brit ish Foreign Minister Bevin has cabled Secretary Acheson ask ing a full review of Anglo-American policies for the Far East when Bevin comes to New York next month. This will be Bevin's last major conference as foreign minister of Great Britain. Among other things he will try to persuade the United States not to become embroiled with Chiang Kai-Shek and th Kuo mintang any further. The rea son: Communist China and the Krenlin are making tragic head way in calling this a war be tween the yellow races and the white race. Bevin fears we'll lose out all over Asia. Warning Nehru U. S. Ambas sador Loy Henderson has warned Prime Minister Nehru that he should call off his proposed trip to Communist China. Peace making efforts in Korea, our ambas.dor told the prime min ister, should be left to the Unit ed Nations. If Nehru feels he wants to contribute, Henderson said, he should fly to Lake Suc cess to head the Indian delega tion . . . Meanwhile the Krem lin is secretly currying favor with Nehru by offering large quantities of wheajt to India's starving millions. The state de partment, on the other hand, hasn't been able to get congress to permit us to ship agricultural surpluses to India. Loyalty begins at home Hard-hitting Tony Tauriello. the congressman from Buffalo. N. Y., has made a unique appeal to Louey Johnson to resign as sec retary of defense. Tauriello puts it on the ground of loyalty . . . "The chief executive is loyal to his friends, loyal to his cabinet officers, sometimes loyal to a fault." the congressman wrote Johnson direct. "You should re sign because you have lost vour usefulness to him and you have lost your usefulness to the American people. Remember that loyalty works both ways. And if you are loyal to Mr. Tru man in the true sense, you will act in his interest, not your own." Basing Point row again Senator Ed Johnson of Colorado and a sub-committee are trying to overrule a supreme court de cision and a presidential ve'i in a most unusual way. Both the court and the White House ruled emphatically against the Basing-Point system. But now. five senators, all violently pro Basin": Point, are giving a third degree interrogation to the fed eral trrie commission, which must enforce the Basing-Point decision Coaching the senators backstage is William Simon, a registered lobbyist for the Basing-Point business group. Too Much Heckling: ST. LOUIS (UP) Richard W. Malik charged in a cross-suit for divorce that his wife some times served him coffee in his lap. Malik said she also put salt in his coffee, heckled him, and hid his razor and spectacles. ! HE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA. SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL I Thursday, August 31, 1950 PAGE ONE f 1 MBS Boon rib ooocf llinNl r v ytna mm WITH THE EXCEPTION of two plans, Nos. 12 and 17, the Hoover commission for the re organization of the executive branch of the government has en dorsed all of the 21 reorganization plans sent to the congress by President Truman. These two include the con troversial No. 12 which would have abolished the office of general counsel in the national labor relations board as set up by the Taft-Hartley act and plan 17 which shifts from gen eral services administration to the housing- and home Finance Agency the administraton of aid to the state and local gov ernments in advance planning ' of public works. This latter plan was unopposed but was not specifically recommended in the commission's reports. Only one cabinet member or agency head in the administration opposed any of the President's plans. That one was Secretary of Treasury John Snyder who voiced his opposition to bringing the semi independent comptroller of the currency under treasury depart ment control. However, private and pressure groups have opposed 11 o the 21 plans and bills to veto these plans have been the subject of commit tee hearings and, as a mailer of fact, as this is written somewhat in advance of the deadline on May 24, one or two already appear on the skids by the action of one or both branches of the congress. Seven plans turned up sig nificant controversy. One, No. 4. would centralize authority in the agriculture department, mostly in the hands of the sec retary and an assistant sec retary. This was opposed by certain farm organizations and was disapproved May 9 by a senate committee. No. 5 proposed a shift in admin istration of the patent office and brought criticism from manufac turers and patent attorneys; No. 6 was passed on by 'a house com mittee and would , give, the secre tary of labor control of all the semi-independent department func tions. Some manufacturers and business men say it gives the sec retary of labor an "imbalance" of power. One Dog Exempt BOSTON (UP) -Teddy, a 12-year-old mongrel, lives in an apartment house where dogs are barred.,. In the lease signed by Teddy's owners. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Dougherty, a clause was inserted for his benefit. It states that all dogs are barred from the building "except Ted dy." Discovery Belated BOULDER. Colo. (UP) Mrs. Elsie Hohl has had her 31-year-old marriage annulled. District Judge George H. Bradfield signed a decree ending the second mar riage of Mrs. Hohl when she said she had just discovered that her first husband. Samuel Covey, was still alive. 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Senate and house also disa greed on the plan So. 12, with the senate committee voting for a veto and the house com mittee turning down a veto vote. This is the measure abolishing the office of general counsel in NLRB. ... , Postal employees are objecting to a shift in operation of some federal buildings from the postof fice department to the general services administration under plan. No. 18. These employees say they would be forced to change bosses and would stand a chance of los ing some of their seniority in their civil service classification. The plan to put the independent maritime commission. No. 21, into the commerce department is op-' posed by the shipbuilders and transportation groups which have virtually run that commission for many years. The senate and house are scheduled to put aside any pending legislation, since if they do not veto the plans by adverse vote they automatical ly go into effect on the dead line date. tfumn,,), mruaf Putting into effect these plans faces the' same kind of opposition any economy moves meet with in congress. Every one says the objectives, namely to cut costs and increase efficiency in govern ment, are worthwhile objectives, the difference being in whose o?c is gored. Only recently a senate committee by a 9 to 0 vote sought to scuttle the administrative plans of Postmaster General Donaldson, who, in a move to reduce costs, ordered a reduction in mail de livery service by eliminating one afternoon residence delivery. Highway Not Much Use i PAOLI. Ind. (U.P ) Motor ists who have occasion to travel Ind. 337 often say the state might as well close the road permanently; it's blockaded most of the time anyhow. The route ; has been closed to traffic since early January because of flood water. Back in 1945, it was closed for 91 days in a row for the same reason. Won't You Sit Down? MEMPHIS. Tenn. (UP) One I Memphis commuter believes in ; being prepared. He got on a I crowded bus. surveyed the filled seats and parked himself in a chair he carried aboard. j Eighty-eight per cent of the national income goes to persons receiving less than $5,000 a year, according to studies by Notre Dame University. 1 I1 4 I IS It 17 It I j 10 lit u TT li " I" """"" """"IT'lplT"'""""'!?"""""""""" LJ m r-T H L P 24 P 2J li p27 "m Z" LLI H w L m 4 47 5p 48 49 50 m SI 52 ii 54 jl W 57 I ' I I I ' I f I 1 I 43 Surrealist painter 44 Loyal 45 Pronoun 47 Large deer 49 High note 50 Man's nickname S3 You and me Answer to LAST WEEK'S Fuzilet IE 2. a p r a1 v i i i 3 ie l1L 2.? LLLIL 1L 2. -L ii'ihi Z ak Z JLL i 5 I,A-li i- P I i i " " L 0 I 5 A13 B 0 O Y "fl A R QB ' iHOl'PKB ' HH ' O L ALL 5j aTST R o i "oasis Ta 7 s tIrJaIst) day" to dds.