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The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 i Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth; Cass County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor ' BERNARD A. WOOD . . . .Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor !assocmron A m m HXTIOHAL ASSOOATWBI JUBSCRIPTION 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. Entered at the Postcfflce at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second cl?.ss mail matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Ko form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime; He dares con front the time; And speaks the truth, and give the zcorld no rest. Coles IS PRESS FREEDOM ABUSED? THERE is a lot of bunk peddled around the country about the freedom of the press and behind the slogan, certain news paper men practice all kinds of reprehen sible writing. ' Is freedom of the press a license for a reporter, for example, to write up public officials, insinuating graft and corruption and then, when called upon to substanti ate the charges, fall back on the excuse that the sources of his information are con fidential? Does the freedom of the press permit a columnist to peddle all types of rumors, regardless of their origin, and then, when called to account, say his information was based upon a confidential talk with an of ficial. Responsible newspapers understand that behind such a screen, a clever writer can make almost any charge without ever being called upon to account for his allega tions. There is some sentiment, even among writers themselves, for a plan to eliminate irresponsible journalists whose only ex cuse for writing is that they are willing to say anything, upon any and no authority, because they can fall back upon a "perse cution" complaint if they are called to book. M The old man who walked five or six miles to school, many years ago, has grand children who need an automobile to travel a few blocks. M M M SILLY TALK ABOUT BEER REPRESENTATIVE John Dingell, of Michigan, wants a daily beer ration for ' every fighting man at the taxpayers' ex pense. Mr. Dingell declares that "water in Korea is deadlier than bullets" and warns that "to force our American troops to drink dangerously polluted water is an equivalent of attack from the rear by in filtration." We hardly think that the Michigan congressman made these remarks seriously. Regardless of the condition of water in Korea, the army is supposed to be well equipped to provide its fighting men with nuncontaminated water and there is no rea son for fighting men, except in unusual Tf ircumstances, to drink "dangerously pol luted water." When this occurs, the circumstances are such that it would not be possible for the military to supply the men with Mr. Dingell's beer ration. If conditions on the highways get much worse, it might be a good idea to put trucks on high wheels and let automobiles pass under them. FLYING THE WOUNDED HOME THE army reports that the men wounded in Korea, who are being returned to this country for hospitalization, "are com ing back in better shape than in World War II." The air force reports that in August 1,378 patients were flown from Japan and Korea to this country. These included battle casualties as well as other injured and ill persons. C-97's that are being used for transport carry fifty patients and at tendant nurses and, because -of greater flying range, take a shorter route across the Pacific. On the average, the big planes take 37 hours to reach the west coast. : The airplane has become a niighty: weapon of warfare but in this instance, at least, it serves the cause of humanity. It would be impossible to imagine the re action of soldiers a generation ago to the suggestion that, in the future, men wounded in battle would be carried through the air for thousands of miles for hospitalization. Furse's Fresh Flashes If these cows ever find out what hu mans are charging for beef and milk you'll never get them to live in a barn again. - We must be reaching that period called "middle age." It takes us only half as long to get tired and twice as long to rest up. -It A friend of ours up the street told us that if this country got mixed up in "World War III" it would be a heap big scrap. To which we might add that if it does this country would end up being one big scrap heap. -k -fc A woman considers herself to be of marriageable age from the time she reach es 16 until she dies. A wise monkey is a monkey who doesn't monkey with another monkey's monkey. Maybe when the Democrats and Re publicans begin their campaign oratory the Russians will be convinced the coun try is divided after all. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says she's the gal who put the "if in fit. Who remembers the age when it was a matter of speculation whether women reallv had legs? Nothing increases the admiration of children for their parents like a large estate for division among the heirs. It may sound foolish but we rise to sug gest that a nation which spends $30 billion dollars on plans for warfare can afford to spend large sums on plans for human living. Idownmemory lane 1 A YEARS AGO . . . IU A group of P. H. S. students formed a nine piece orchestra composed of Edwin Hibery Donald Martin, Sanford Short, trumpets; Dick Livingston, Bill Robertson, saxophones; Ruth Westover pianist; Jer ry White, trombone; Theodore Smalley, guitar, and Gary Marshall, drums . . . Mr. and Mrs. Fred Worth departed for Bing hamton, N. Y., where they planned to make their home. Mr. Worth was oper ator at the Cass theatre . . . Miss Darlene Hennings succeeded Mrs. Harley Minnear as stenographer for the Thomas Walling Co., and Miss Gloria Johnson succeeded Miss Hennings in the office of A. L. Tidd . . . Cass Sylvester, Alex and Bob Rhoden returned from a trip to South Dakota where they purchased several head of horses for the Messrs. Rhoden. -K -fc OA YEARS AGO ... ) Capt. Floyd C. Harding was located at San Juan, Porto Rico, and assigned to the 65th infantry. Mrs. Harding was the former Edith Dovey of this city . . . Rev. C. O. Troy of Potter was named to fill pulpit at First Methodist church here, suc ceeding Rev. Harold E. Sortor, who went to Potter, Nebr. . . . Mrs. B. C. Cohn of this city accompanied her brother-in-law, H. G. Cohn to Omaha by plane to greet the French flyers, Coste and Bellonte, ar riving at the Omaha airport. Mr. H. G. Cohn had been here conducting air ex cursions for the local residents. -- iCopyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: KOREAN MATA HARI LIVED WITH AMERICAN COLONEL; KO REAN WOMAN EXECUTED FOR GIVING MILITARY SECRETS TO COMMUNISTS; HER COMMUNIST HUSBAND ESCAPED IN AMERI CAN ARMY JEEP. WASHINGTON There has been a lot of congressional debate as to who was to blame for our being caught napping in Korea. But no congressman has touched upon the most amazing story of Korean espionage the manner in which a Ko rean Mata Hari lived with an American army colonel and gave the Communists intimate details on American army strength. The lady in question, now executed as a spy, was Kim boo Im, a vivacious, Amer ican-educated Korean girl who was mar ried to one of Korea's top Communists Lee Kantr Kook. At the same time she was married to Lee she was the mistress of a top Ameri can colonel. John E. Baird. who as nrnv ost marshal, was in charge of keeping law and order anions: American troops in Ko rea. He was also top adviser to the new Korean army. Colonel Baird occupied one of the mos elcjrant houses in Seoul, and for a time Madame Kim lived with him. According to the Korean press, she even bore him a child. It was wrell known to Koreans that Kim Soo Im was intimate with the colonel. They were seen together publicly'. And it was LAFF OF THE WEEK I - f "Hairbrushes?" also known by many Koreans that she was married to one of the top Communists, Lee Kang Kook, who had been hiding from the military government and for whom the authorities had thrown out a dragnet. However, because of American prestige, Koreans did nothing about the situation. After all, Americans were Korea's bene factors, the trainers of Korean troops, in effect the rulers of the country. Colonel Baird himself was senior adviser to the Korean army. So it was embarrassing to make any protest. COUNTERESPIONAGE? When the above facts, plus a great many others, were dis closed officially at the time of Kim Soo Im's trial, Colonel Baird gave the official explanation that he was using the lady as his interpreter and to get infor mation from her. If so, he was not very success ful. For subsequent develop ments have shown that the Communists knew all about our military operations, while we knew little about them. Furthermore, when Kim Soo Im was tried, last May, the Ko reans amassed such overwhelm ing evidence against her that she confessed all. Colonel Baird, who had been in intimate day- to-day contact with her. was made to look extremely foolish for not having known the same 'acts. Tt w.i? even reported that Madame Kim had hidden her Communist husband in the home of the American army colonel for a few days when the search for him was getting hot. fhe colonel s house was a big one, so this was not difficult to do without Baird's knowing it. For more than a year, Lee Kang Kook managed to foil the South Korean police and Amer ican military. Eventually, he es caped into North Korea in an American army jeep by cour tesy of Colonel Baird s mistress. COMMUNIST HUSBAND ESCAPES Colonel Baird had given his lady love a new Chrysler. How ever, she did not use this car to take her husband across the 38th parallel. Instead, she finagled a jeep from the army motor pool and had it driven by a trusted Communist driver, Choi Yong Tai. Lee was disguised as a doc tor, and Kim went along to tell the border guards that her mother was desperately ill in North Korea and the doctor was on his way to see her. Thus the No. 2 Communist of Korea es caped thanks to the U. S. army. On one occasion, when Kim wanted to get an army jeep for a 'trip up near the 38th parallel, Harry Frelinghuysen, son of the GOP ex-senator from New Jer sey, then an army lieutenant, re fused. However, he was over ruled by a colonel. Madame Kim got the jeep. OTHER MATA MARIS? ? The case of Kim Soo Im and Colonel Baird probably could have taken place in various parts of the world especially in Ja pan and Germany, where Amer ican troops are stationed far from home and families. And what the army is worried about right now is that other Commu nist spies might be planted on American officers. Colonel Baird, 60 years old, born in Ireland, was a police man in Rhode Island and a re serve officer when he joined the army as a major in 1941. He was stationed in Korea, for four years, three of them as provost marshal, one of them as "senior adviser to the Korean national police." Kim Soo Im, orphaned at an early age, was raised by an American missionary family and educated in an American school. She spoke English perfectly; ac quired the vivaciousness of an American girl. When American troops enter ed Korea she served as hostess at the Banta Hotel in Seoul, which was Generel Hodges' headquarters. This was the U. S. army's nerve center and it gave her access to all sorts of -gossip and tidbits which she re layed to her Communist hus band. During her trial it developed that Kim had given the Com munists the complete plans for the withdrawal of U. S. troops from Korea. It was also re vealed that she had a large amount of Japanese yen and was spending it in Seoul, per haps for bribery, perhaps to cre ate inflation. Colonel Baird left Korea on June 3, at about the time his mistress was executed. He is now on leave from the army. MEDICAL LOBBY One congressman who can al ways get in to see the president, even in these busy days, is forth right Andy Biemiller of Wiscon sin. Truman is genuinely fond of the Wisconsin liberal, who has been a tower of strength in fair deal battles. The fact that this has won him the bitter opposition of the big lobbies, including the Amer ican Medical association, is a matter of nride to Biemiller. "I'm glad they're fighting me," he told Truman tne otner aay. "It keeps me on my toes. When the A. M. A. and those other pressure groups let ur on me it s a sign I m slipping in my responsibilities to the people I represent. I've been fighting the lobbies since 1937 and they're out to get me again this year." "Well, Andy, I can go you one better," grinned the president. "I've been fighting "the same lobbies since 1920, when I was n rnunt.v iudsre in Missouri. In those days it was practically im possible to get into a nospuai in my section unless you could lay $2nn on the line. "I finally was able to get a big hospital built in tne county, where people in need were as surer! nrnner medical care, but I had to fight the doctors' lobby to do it. I intend to carry on that fight, with your help, An dy, until our health insurance program and tne Din to aid medical schools become law." Realty Transfers rpy Vrmne- and Pearl to Har old Radtke and Laura 7-7-50 Sublot 1 of 13 Sublot l oi 14 NW'i 35-11-13 $100. lunivin E. Wiles and Hyacinth to Milton Oberhauser and Frieda 8-28-50 S'a NW'.i VZ-VZ-IZ $13000.00- Paul M. KuDkc et al to Emma Rennwanz 9-11-50 Ls. 5, 6, 7, 8. 9 B 21 1st add to Muraock $iuuu. Fay Ellen Otte to Wm. Otte ne 1 i 4-10-11 $1.00. Wm. Otte to Fay Ellen Otte 9-1-50 Ls. 3, 4. 5, 7, 8. 9. 1U, Vi. 14, 14, 15, 16, 17. NE V Hi E',i WVVU i;-i9-in $1.00. Irene Craig & Eddie J. to Irene Craig & Eddie J- 9-13-50 SE'i NE Vi 27-11-9 $1.00. CAPITOL NEWS CIVIL SERVICE JOBS Another call for employees at the new Veterans Administra tion Hospital in Omaha was put out today by the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at Lin- CThe Board announced it would accept applications for x-Ray Technician. Cook, Fireman, Laundry Worker, and Laborer. From 65 to 70 persons will be employed in these positions. Sal aries paid will be from $2120 to $2875 per annum. The above announcements are in addition to those recently publicized by the Commission. September 8th the Commission announced examinations cover ing ward service, diebctic and custodial positions, which will cover approximately 200 of the 600 people to be employed in the new hospital. Full information on these an nouncements, how, where and when to file, is available at the Commission's office in the Omaha and Council Bluffs post offices and in all first and sec ond class post offices within a thirty-five mile radius of Omaha. CECIL KARR ACCOUNTING Income Tax Service Bookkeeping Systems Installed Ph. 6287 Donat Building LINCOLN No body seems to have asked the kids what they thought about it, but four state agencies polled their forces last week to get 20 youngsters living on the Kearney air base into classroms several days after their city cousins had heeded the opening school bell. Tne trouble started wnen tne Kearney public schools denied the children admission unless tuition was not paid in advance. The airport is not taxed for school purposes. This week, the kids were in school at the Kearney State College training school. The solution is only temporary and will not exceed 30 days. During the interim, state Superinten dent of Public Instruction Otto G. Ruff is continuing to tug at the problem. Presient J. Hyde Sweet of the state normal board acted on Gov. Val Peterson's plea to ac cept the children at the college. Herbert L. Cushing, president of Kearney, said no tuition would be charged for 30 days- In addition to the governor's office, the normal board and the state education department, the justice department got into the act when Peterson ordered Assistant Attorney General Wil liam Gleeson to Kearney to in vestigate the legal aspects of the tangle. Governor Peterson, meanwhile, asked the civil aeronautics ad ministration why it couldn't al low income from the air b.e to be allocated for tuition. He didn't like the reply, which said tuition is "not regarded as a proper item of expense in the operation of the Kearney air port." The Kansas City office of the CAA also said "the entire net revenue now being derived from the airport is required for maintenance and operation of the airport." The governor saw red. He blasted back a reply denouncing "such bureaucratic ineptitude" and suggested an investigation. Peterson said "I am reliably informed that the airport man ager is paid $12 000 a year plus housing" and a part-time law yer is paid $10,000 a year. "These salaries are out of line with Nebraska practices," the gov ernor said. "The attitude taken in your telegram denying children the education to which they are en titled while paying such out rageous salaries is scandalous," Peterson wired the CAA. At Kearney it was reported the salaries of Airport Manager Phil Campbell and Attorney John Jensen had been reduced to $9,000 and $7,500 respectively. Also on the school front, the Big Three of Nebraska education have endorsed a $12 million state-aid-to-education plan. The figure is a third of the cost of the total state education pro gram. The groups The State School Board Association, the Nebraska State Education Association and the Parent-Teachers Association met here and agreed that $4 million should be used to equal ize school district costs Archer Burnham, executive secretary of the N. S. E. A., said, "There are some schools that have 100 times as much wealth per child as others." The thi-ee organizations will present their program to the 1951 legislature. Veterinarians in Nebraska this week were pooh-poohing the fears expressed by Rep. Karl Stefan of a sabotage plot to kill off the nation's hog popu lation through biological war fare. The Norfolk congressman told a delegation of farmers who said they were losing between 30 and 50 percent of their hogs after vaccination for cholera, that he would seek an FBI in vestigation. Even before the farmers called on Stefan, the situation had been at least partially explained. The Lincoln Journal's Farm Edi tor Stanley A. Matzke, in his monthly farm tabloid appearing a week earlier, printed an in terview with Dr. J- E. Peterman, veterinarian in charge of the Lincoln office of the federal bureau of animal husbandry. Peterman told Matzke that an unknown form of virus had ap peared in some virus vaccines against which the usual dosage of serum was ineffective. Pet erman said that research had shown boosting the dosage 50 percent had prevented losses. Dr. E. P. Anderson, state vet erinarian. 'prescribed the same treatment. Dr. B. T- Simms, Washington chief of the BAI, said, "This agency has found no evidence to support fears of biological warfare" in hog serum . A Lancaster county farmer said simply, "Hogwash." THE PLATTSMOUTH, NESraSKa, Stmi-WEEKLY JuUKfiiAt PAGE FOUR Monday, September 25, 1950 Short Shorts in the week's statehouse news: The legislative council will hold a meeting open to the pub- THE TIME SHOP In' Schreiner Drug John Bissing , All Watch Repair ing Electronically Tested We Also Do Engraving Guaranteed Workmanship vf V- Carnegie Trust the Mercy of the Court JEO X SQUILLANTE, Mount Vernon, N. Y., says that he Has learned if you are facing a fight, or even a dilemma, you win come out better nine times out of 10 if you throw yourself on the mercv of the r.thor u tempt to fight him, He illustrates it with the following story: One cold night in December he was caught in a sleet storm about 20 miles from his home, when his car broke down on the highway. To make matters worse, his wife and their little 15-month-old son were with him. Finally he aban doned the car and got home. In a few days he was served with a summons to appear in night court to explain why he had left his car on the highway over night. When he arrived in the courtroom, there were only three people, the judge, the state trooper and himself. It was the procedure in that court for the judge to leave the courtroom while the defendant told his story to the arresting officer. He started on the story, noting the cold, apparently im-' movable expression on the officer's face. However, as he said he knew he was guilty so he couldn't plead any other way, that offi Lreiafed a h.ttle' When the iud8e re-entered, the officer pro-! ceeded to appoint himself as Mr. Squillante's attorney. He told; the judge the story far more sympathetically and effectively than Mr. bquillante could have done. The judge asked, "What is your plea?" Guilty," came the reply. ,i,arS0l dn'' do hat " said e judge. "Do you tnovr what Nolo Contendere means?" 'oes it niean, 'I don't wish to fight?' n That s "ght," said the judge. "In other words, yon place yourself at the mercy of the court." "I plead Nolo Contendere." J'-CaSC dismissed " said the judge, who was human and under TTf1 asre a"y oncers when the case warrants it, but tough if an offender seems to have no respect for the law. lie November 15-17 to decide what action to take on reports by its various committees. The state highway department is asking the federal govern ment to designate the remaining four miles of highway 29 south of Kimball as federal-aid sec ondary road, making it eligible for U. S. aid. The state treasury balance nt the end of Ausrust tntalpH $47,552,584. State Treasurer Ed ward Gillette said the taalanpp is "holding up well. " Walter R. Raecke- democratic candidate for governor, named Robert R. Moodie of West Point, a former state bar association president, as his campaign man ager. With all necessary help, a one row cutter may handle 10 tons per hour. A two-row cutter prob ably would handle 16 to 20 tons per hour. Then the question of the costs of having the silage job done by custom operators in the case of corn comes up. The engineers say if a field cutter with opera tor were hired and other equip ment and labor were furnished by the farmer, a reasonable charge would appear to be around $6 per acre. However, if all equipment and labor had to be hired, this charge might be as high as $12 to $15 per acre. SILAGE QUESTIONS LINCOLN Here are some more answers to questions be ing asKed by Nebraska farmers regarding the making of silage. One question has to do with the number of tons of silage or sorghum which can be cut in an hour with a single-row cut ter and with a two-row field cutter. Agricultural engineers at the University of Nebraska say the amount cut, of course, will de pend upon the equipment and crew available to do the job. ENJOY SWIMMING Marilyn and Maybelle Warga and Billie Becker were at Omaha Tuesday evening where they en joyed swimming at the indoor community center pool. A classified Ad in The Jour nal costs as little as 33c. Mike Tritsch, O. D. Optometrist and Watch Repair 2nd Floor Ruse Bldg. Automobile Insurance Covering State Law - S4.50 Semi-Annual Renewal Rate Farm Car Harley M. Burdick 346 Ave. A Tel. 3123 Plattsmouth II :-. ' . "' ' f-;rr!J ' "I i ,T ONCE HEARD a psychologist say that the best gift parents could give a child was the ability to take himself for granted. That is, to have a true sense of personal worth without a sense of superiority about it. Perhaps this is what Jesus meant when He said: "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Certainly we know that He did not mean cringing humble ness by the word "meek, but rather a calm acceptance of one self as worth the gifts of life. Why then do not all human beings gain this happy state? One reason is that it takes so many years to learn from expe rience what really constitutes a sense of personal worth. We begin by over-rating achieve ment as a means to securing it, only to discover that one can have success and acclaim and still lack an inner sense of be ing worthwhile as a human be ing. Nor is it dependent on good works (though the gift of taking oneself for granted li usually accompanied by a generous spirit), for some cover up their very sense of inadequacy by counting their meritorious deeds. , Instead, personal worth; is com pounded of all the things you can count on yourself for. A few chil dren seem to be born with a natural goodness which gives them this sense from birth. But most chil dren find it hard to live up to what is expected of them, and later even harder to live up to what they ex pect of themselves. Thus they need constant help in cxperiencins small daily victories over the temptation to shirk, to grab, to blame others'; for their failures, and a thousand' and one other human weaknesses. These daily victories are forgotten but little by little they add up to the conquest of an undesirable trait. Then some fine day it sudden ly pops into your head you no long er need be afraid that you'U ever cheat or take pleasure in hurting someone's feelings, or whatever the fault was that you've been battling with. I was reminded of this need for constant parental guidance in form ing a child's standards of conduct by a conversation on a recent train trip with a girl who was bit terly disappointed because her va cation in New York had suddenly been cut short. She had taken the next train home and remarked that she hadn't even cancelled an ap pointment to have her hair done. "Oh. well," she said, "that won't matter. I'll never see - that girl again." It wasn't so much this par ticular discourtesy which made ma feel sorry for her, but the excuse she gave herself. For it showed she hadn't been taught that the omissions or misdeeds you aren't apt to be caught at are the very ones about which you must be the most strict with yourself if you are ever to merit your own self esteem.' All th;s, of course, is part of character education. But what we are specifically trying to point out is, that it isn't what the world thinks about your chi!d but what he ccir.es to think about himself that will form the basis for his happi ness or lack of it. It is your job to help him get not only a true picture of himself but as favorable a one as possible.