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The Plattsrnouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-413 .Main Street. Plattemouth, Cass County. Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Y Editor BERNARD A. WOOD . . . .Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor ssocaron A SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsrnouth. By carrier in Platts rnouth, 20 cents for two weeks. Entered at the Postofflce at Plattsrnouth, Nebraska as second clsss mall matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. THOUGHT FOR TODAY rraycr is conversation zsitli God. Clement of Alexandria ""' EDITORIALS '""""".""" TAX COLLECTIONS INCREASE Tax collections by the Federal Gov ernment during the third quarter of 1950 were about one-quarter billion dollars higher than in the same period of 1949. Individual income taxes were 229, 561,815 higher than in the corresponding period of last year, but corporation income tax payments fell 589,190,009. Increases in other tax receipts made possible the net increase in the total collected. With prices tending to advance and taxes certain to be heavier than before, the average American family must have a larger income if standards of living are not to be reduced. This fact should be borne in mind by employers even though one recognizes that they face difficulties in connection with establishing higher prices for their own products. DOES U.N. CONTROL U.S. LAWS? . An interesting question has come up between the United Nations and the Uni ted States since the passage of the Inter nal Security Law, designed to make it im possible for subversive individuals to en ter the United States. The United Nations, being an inter national organization, asserts the opinion that it is fully authorized to invite rep resentatives of non-governmental organ izations to have a consultative relation ship with its economic and social councils and that such individuals are entitled to receive visas that will enable them to reach the headquarters of the organiza tion, attend meetings of the General Assembly and to consult with the Secre tariat. The opinion of the United Nations of ficials is that, despite the Internal Secur ity Law, Congress has authorized an ex ecutive agreement which provides for the admission of such individuals and that, since it has the same binding effect as a treaty, it cannot be defeated by internal legislation in the United States. The' reasoning of the officials of the international organization is hard to set aside. Certainly, if the United States wish es to be the domicile of the headquarters of the United Nations, it must be prepared to admit visitors from all parts of the world who happen to have business with the United Nations. Obviously, the inter national body cannot function if access to its headquarters can be denied by a single nation, even if the nation happens to be the United States. Another grave question arises, how ever, in the contention that the United States Congress is powerless to pass legis lation which in any way abridges the rights of the United Nations as interpre ted and upheld by officials of that organ ization. While the present issue is not of supreme importance, it is conceivable that the matter might present itself in a more serious form. Already, several Federal district courts have implied that state legislation is invalid because it contravenes the pur poses and principles of the United Na tions, which had the approval -of the Uni ted States. This line of reasoning can go far afield and thoughtful Americans' will watch the trend with some apprehension. -K -K THE THIEVES MARKET IN KOREA In the city of Seoul, the capital of Korea, United States Army supplies are sold openly each day in the thieves' mar ket, according to a dispatch in the New York Times, from Charles Grutzner, who .reports that there is not much that.the j Army can do about it. The Army is unable to seize stacks of G. I. field jackets, trousers, soap and other Army goods, because it is unable to prove that the merchandise came from a warehouse or dock. The problem is dif ficult because' much U. S. Army equip ment was given to the South Korean Armv in 1948 and 1949. Some .of. this has fallen Furse's Fresh Flashes William O. Douglas, Justice Supreme Court, says, "We need to show the people of the earth the warm and generous heart of America."" We hope they see how it's bleeding. If all the Americans who have been' seeing Communists under the bed would volunteer for service in Korea, the army wouldn't need the draft. A new definition for Alcatraz: The pen with a lifetime guarantee. Finding a needle in a haystack wouldn't be a pleasant achievement for a horse. The fellow who is up and doing is seldom down and out. The best way to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm. If Mars is inhabited they are the only people in the world that haven't asked Uncle Sam for a loan. This is still a free country a man can do as his wife pleases. -K To stay young, associate with young people, states a noted medical professor. And, to get old in a hurry, try keeping up with them. The perfect man is the wife's first husband. -H -It A good secretary is a stenographer who knows how to lie for the boss. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, never shrinks from kissing. If she did, she wouldn't be anything but skin and bones. into the hands of the North Koreans, who also raided warehouses when they entered South Korean cities. In other places, South Korean officials let the populace hejp it self to the stores and warehouses before the invaders arrived. The description of the thieves' mar ket is somewhat interesting. Hundreds of long tables are placed so closely that the aisles permit only one person to walk comfortably but the customers are four deep in the walks, trying on garments and arguing about prices. Ninety per cent of the tables are loaded with army supplies, including post exchange items, such as cameras, cigarettes and lotions. The ask ing prices are "robbery in themselves.' At dusk, the tables are cleared and the wares are stored in adjoining buildings or carried off by the dealers. Then the gates are locked so that no one can steal the empty tables. Mr. Grutzner says that the thieves market in Seoul is only one-tenth the size of the one in Pusan, where the theft of army supplies was rampant, especially in the dark days of the war in mid-September. The Korean police cooperate and ar rest native dealers whenever the Army can prove specific lots of goods as stolen. The Provost Marshal is having a hard time to devise a plan to clamp down on the sales of the stolen supplies. - DOWN MEMORY LANE FAMOUS LAST WORDS . . A YEARS AGO ... 1U Mrs. Lillian Freeman was named second vice president and Mrs. L. W. Egenberger treasurer of the state feder ation of Garden clubs at their meeting in Lincoln . . Dr. J. P. Anderson, noted scientist of Juneau, Alaska was a guest of his sister, Mrs. George Everett at Union . . . Mr. and Mrs. Jean Spangler returned to Glendale, California, following a visit with Mrs. E. H. Spangler and Richard and at the C. L. Jean home ... A commercial club organized by the advanced short hand class of P.H.S. elected the following officers for the remainder of the school term: Blossom Burcham, president; Alvin Chovanec, vice president; Maxine Cole, secretarv and Gertrude Sheldon, treasurer. -it -k -K OA YEARS AGO ... J The P.F.F. pinochle club was enter tained at the home of Mrs. Ray Herring . . . The Plattsrnouth Athletic football team staged a game at the local field with the Tenth Street .Athletics of Omaha; pro ceeds were to go to the Associated Char ities of the city to be used in the organ ization's work at Christmas time . . . Dale Rhodes, farmer living west of the city, with the Wehrbein boys and Johnnie Kaf fenberger, rounded up a large coyote on the Wehrbein farm . . . The Junior Class of P.II.S. presented the play "Seventeen" by Booth Tarkington under the direction of Miss Marv Jane Tidball. nebM.ska 1950 A.na Casualty & Surety Co. "The road looks clear, let's pass him." mm SAY. PAL, IP YOURE RKEMNG1 A VA BENEFIT BY CHECK AND YOU RE-ENTER THE ACMEO FOGCENOTiPY V A IM MEPiAHELY SO YOU WON'T GET AN OVERPAYMENT THAT YOU U. WAVE "ID REPAY LATER (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.J TREW PEARSON SAYS : TOTAL OF 10 TROOPSHIPS HAULING G.I.'S AND DEPENDENTS DO NOT CON FORM TO U. S. COAST GUARD'S SAFETY STAND ARDS; FARM BUREAU BOSS SNUBBED BY WHITE HOUSE. Washington. This column recently revealed that seven troopships, now carrying Amer ican troops across the Atlantic and Pacific, are eauipped with unsafe lifeboat gear. Further investigation has now uncovered that, in addition to this, the fire - detecting. extinguishing and alarm systems are also be low the minimum safety stan dards set by the U. S. Coast Guard. It should be noted that U. S. Coast Guard standards are hign. and many foreign luxury liners do not conform to them. Never theless, ships carrying U. S. troops, should. Furthermore, the steel bulk heads on these troopships are unlined. uninsulated and uncov ered, hence a fire hazard in case of overheating; the venti lation system doesn't shut off automatically in case of fire but would continue to fan the flames; and the electrical equip ment in the hospital and bat tery rooms is subject to explo sion. This column has also learned that, in addition to the seven troopships previously named, three others are in the same condition. Meanwhile, it re mains a fact that illegal, Russian-type mines are drifting in Far Eastern waters as an added threat to navigation. The seven troopships named! earlier that do not comply with Coast Guard Safety Standards are the Generals W. M. Black. Le Roy Eltings. W. G. Hann, Stuart Heintzelman. W. C. Langlitt. M. B. Stewart and S. D. Sturgis. each with a capa city of 4,000 troops. In addition, three larger troopships are in the same con dition: The Generals John Pope. William Weigel and M. C. Meigs. (Each of these is capable of carrying 6,000 troops.) All 10 ships are now hauling GJ.'s to. Korea and Germany, and bring ing dependents back to this country. Navv Promises Chances Following this column's inves tigation, the Navv has prom ised to bring the 10 troopships uo to standard as soon as practical. Already a plan has been tentatively approved to pmiin the lifeboat gear with auxiliary, diesel generators to swing the davits into position for lnweriner lifeboats. With the present equipment, it takes the ship's power from the engine room to swing davits out in safe time. However, this cen tral power in the engine room frequently fails in cae of a bad hit by a mine or submarine. A Navy spokesman, interview ed on these deficiencies, claims thpv nrp not as serious as thev sound. He pointed out that as i long as the ships are crammea with troops, the G. I.'s can de tect a fire and SDread the al arm without an approved Coast Guard detection and alarm sys tem. He also stated that Coast Guard standards are unusually high, so that even foreign lux ury liners cannot pass tneir in " are reported spection. . . . . . . u,", singer n fiet of revolutionary Note-Most U. S tourists aon t submarines. Displacing realize it. but when they sail fvEVoo tonTthe tinv subs will on these foreign luxury liners Jly0 SVv 0ur-man Rus they are taking greater chances ; fanp;csa Russian shipyards than on American commercial j Vpled fooling Up to turn passen-er vessels h b the thousands . . . ..TInJdVun : Secretarv for Air Finletter. just isolationist, but wanted to "re examine" our foreign policy. Acheson was speakin off the cuff to the National Council of Negro Women and said: "I read in the papers there is a species of homo sapiens which has re cently become extinct. That is the isolationist. We are told it's very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist and it hurts their feelings. But a new species, the re-examinist, has come on the horizon. I was very much puzzled when I heard about this new species. "It's possible that a re-examinist might be a farmer who goes out every morning and pulls ud his crops to see how they are doing. Or it might be this re-examinist conies down to breakfast in the morning and looks at his wife and says. 'Do I really love that woman? How did I ever turn up here with her?' When we re-examine, does it mean we are like the sound navigator who on a long flight or voyage checks his course by the sun and stars every day? Or -does it mean the navigator say. How did I ever get started on this trip? "If to re-examine means go ing before Congress and ex plaining every single item of every policy and every program, we all belong to that school, and we all re-examine our progress. We all find out our failure, look at what new actions we should take, and justify what we have been doing." Senator Taft. who usually has a keen sense of humor, in this case has hit the ceiling. He just doesn't see anything funny about it. Though the rest oi Washington is laughing, it may not laugh in the long run: for this new feud between the Stale Department and GOP Senate leaders mav further delay get ting back on a stable bipartisan foreign policy. Headlines and Headaches Most cabinet officers would n't dare try it, but Secretary of Defense Marshall appointed Anna Rosenberg as assistant secretary without even check ing with the President. Truman would fire any other cabineteer who did this but not Marshall by IANES C OLSON, Superintendent TATS HISTOklCAL SOCIITT Nebraska Wesleyan University, which inaugurated Dr. Carl C. Bracy' as its 11th chancellor last month, opened its doors in the fall of 1883 t,o provide instruc tion for the youth of Nebraska under the auspices of the Metho dist Church. Methodist efforts to establish colleges in Nebraska date back to territorial days, but these ef forts were unsuccessful. In the middle Eighties, with weak little Methodist Schools struggling for existence in York and Central City, the Methodist Conferences in Nebraska determined to unite their strength in support of one university. A commission named to locate the institution chose a site near Lincoln. The commissioners probably were influenced in their choice of location by Le Grand Bald win's offer to donate 40 acres of land for the campus and 250 acres to be divided into building lots. WTork was begun on a build ing and the town of University Place was laid out around the' campus. C. F. Creighton became the first chancellor. When instruction was begun in the fall of 1888, the building was far from completion. The upper floors could be reached only by means of ladders. The 50 stu dents who reported for instruc tion met wherever room was available, and classes were con ducted amid the din of construc tion. Even so by the end of the year, enrollment had increased to 96. There were only six houses in University Place at that time, and the students lived in the main building. Tableware, cots, mattresses and other necessities were furnished by the ladies of St. Paul Methodist church in Lincoln. There is a story to the effect that the students slept crosswise on the mats to conserve space. Though Wesleyan. like other pioneer denominational colleges in Nebraska, suffered severely from financial reverses, it was built on the firm foundation of a large church population, with ef forts to support a church college in the state concentrated on one institution. The original building was con structed at a cost of $75,000. For almost two decades it stood bleak and lonely on the empty prairie. In 1905, the C. C. White Memorial Building was erected. University Place grew into a thriving com munity and finally became a part of the city of Lincoln. Today, 10 buildings stand on Wesleyan's 44-acre campus. Re cent expansion has been rapid, and still additional buildings are projected for the very near future. fHE PLftTTimOiiTH, nEefUsiU, fci-W:KLY JOURNai PAGE FOUR Monday, November 27. 1950 P JA Dcn't Fight the Unconfrolkble tJ7HEN J. B. Ogle, Owings Mills, Maryland, was serving under Admiral Ted Chandler he was ruffled every time he stood before the Admiral's desk and those occasions were frequent. The thing that annoyed him was a beautifully inscribed and col ored phrase on the wall over the Admiral's desk. When he reported to the admiral these words glared at him: "I care not a damn what the weath er be, did you bring in the ship?" "You'd care about the weather if you had to be in it," rose to his tongue. But you don't say things like that to your ad miral. The only relief he got was in talk ing it oyer with a fellow officer who agreed with him and said the sentence irritated him, too. One day it became the painful duty of his Carnegie fellow officer and himself to report to the admiral, that what was left of their convoy was safely anchored in the harbor. J. B. Ogle was so worked up that nothing mattered, and he blurted out "What is left of those fine sltiips is just so much junk, but they are still afloat and I want to tell you that sentence over your head didn't help in any way." To his surprise, the admiral didn't get angry. Instead, he smiled and replied in calm, even tones: "Ogle. I've known for a long time that that statement bothered you and I expected you to blow up about it before this. It has annoyed you because you have worried about it, and you haven't taken the trouble to think about it. I do not care about the weather, and if you face the facts, you don't, either. You or I can do nothing about it, but we can do something about the ship. You can take all the necessary precaution to weather the storm, you can make preparations for facing the enemy the rest re mains with God. You'll find, Ogle, it will be like that all through life. Don't torment yourself about things you can t control but use your ability on what you can control and then have faith." Later the admiral was mortally wounded in the Lingayan Gulf and Mr. Ogle's former fellow officer was with him. The officer sent Mr. Ogle a simple card on which he had written: Joe, he cared not a damn about the enemy, but he brought in the landing force successfully." the route to be a good one, the venture of that November was hazardous by any standard. The season was too far gone to en able the party to be sure of feed for their horses. Winter on the plains was anything but a plea sant prospect for an unprotected caravan. j Needless to say. the trip was a difficult one. The weather turned I cold early, with a heavy snow. By j the time the caravan reached the j Pawnee villages at the Loup fork, j rations had been cut and some j of the men were complaining bit- j terly. Nevertheless, with unusual ! determination Ashley kept on. By ! December 12th. he was at the : forks of the Platte. j On the advice of a Pawnee who had accompanied them (but who : turned back at this point), Ash- i ley's men took the South Fork of the Platte. Late in March they . crossed the continental divide at what would later be known as Bridger Pass. William H. Ashley not only opened the way to a new chapter in the fur trade he pioneered a path that within a few short years would develop into one of the great emigrant roads of all time. Carl Ofe. student at the Uni versity of Nebraska, was here for the Thanksgiving vacation with his mother Mrs. Iola Ofe, and the many old school friends and associates. harri-wnrkin? boss of the Amer ican Farm Bureau Federation, is feathered ud like a barn yard rooster over his latest snub by the White House. When Kline requested an ap pointment with President Tru man, the President agreed, but only on the condition that Kline's bitter enemv. Secretary of Agriculture Charts Brannan. accompany him to the White House. When Kline got this message, he exploded: Truman and tne vvnue kjvm Itti t ---- inspection tour oi Alaska, was shocked at the tar papQr shacks which house mil itary families. He will ask for $26,000,000 for Eilson Air Base and $15,000,000 lor Ladd Air Base to improve living condi tions . . . The FB.I. has such a load of loyalty investigations that agents have been threat ened with transfers unless they work overtime. J. Edgar Hoover, who works long hours himself, has warned that the G-men will have to work overtime with out pav . . . U.S. Ambassador Bruce reports from Paris that Of primary significance in the development of the Platte River road as America's great high way to the West was William H. Ashley's pioneering trip through the Platte Valley in the late au tumn of 1824. Robert Stuart and his companions had come down the Platte on their return from Astoria in the spring of 1813, but Ashley was the first to test the Platte Valley section of what la ter became the Oregon Trail from east to west. Ashley was a highly important figure in the early western fur trade. In partnership with An drew Henry, he dispatched trad ing expeditions to the upper Mis souri in 1822 and 1823. Despite increasing hostility of the An kara Indians they established a post near the mouth of the Yel lowstone. After a pitched battle with the Arikaras, in which United States troops had to be called from Fort Atkinson, Ashley de cided to change his method of operation. He would substitute the annual rendevous at a con venient place in the the moun tains for the fixed trading post, and would try to develop a shorter overland route for the dangerous and roundabout Mis souri route. It was to facilitate his changed method of operation that Ashley made his precedent-setting trip through the Platte Valley in 1824. He brought a supply of goods and a crew up the Missouri to Fort Atkinson by boat in October. Despite the lateness of the sea son, he unloaded his goods and prepared to start overland to the mountains. On November 3rd, with 25 men, 50 pack horses, a team ana wagon, he left Fort At kinson for the mountains. Even though Ashley's associate Fitzpatrick. had come down the Platte Valley to the Missouri in the summer and had reported Real Estate LOANS ! 5 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment. Plattsrnouth Loan & Building Ass'n. GOOD LUCK GOOD LUCK may not always be with you. Don't take a chance by driving your car without adequate Automobile Insurance or your bank account may suffer a serious dent. In sure and be sure NOW! Stephen M. Davis Second Floor Plattsrnouth State Bank BHg. Phone 6111 House will freeze over before Ii rharps De Gaulle is making a eo over there with that guy Brannan." The President did some rx ninriinor himself when he learn ed about the farm leader's an- srrnnu rnmehark in French uol- itics because of tremendous French unrest over defeats in Indo-China. Many prcmlnen ed about the farm leader s an- j politicians are turning to De grv response and is reported to j Gaulle as tne man who can lead have told aides: . ; x i France to victory both in Indo- "T didn't want to see the S.O.B. anvway." Taft Doesn't Smde A kidding remark by Secretarv of State Dean Acheson taken out of context has pitched him into a head-lone- collision with Sen. Robert Taft raid the Mc Carthvites again. A few days after Senator Taft tnlH ronMar? Ho wa not ap China and Europe: Walter H. Harold R. Smith & Lebens Attorney-at-Law Oonat Bldg. Plattsrnouth $1,000 or Less LOANS MADE ANYWHERE Write or Come in LOAN PLAN U2 No. 5th St. Ph. 3213 DON J. AKUNDIiX, Manager Plattsrnouth ., - I ; IT WAS HOT in the kitchen when' you baked that extra batch of cookies for Bobby to take on his gang's hike, but the hug he gave you and his, "Gee, Mom, real cookies, not store stuff! ' was ap preciation enough to make you forget the work and the heat. But how about the dress you sat up until 2:00 a.m. to finish so Ectty could wear it to her class picnic? Then the next morning when you were tired and in a somewhat self-pitying frame of mind, Betty's meager, "That's neat. Mom, but isn't it a little short? I thought you measured it longer," almost had you in tears. . Was this sacrifice of your night's rest unselfishness, or was it a do-or-die determination to get a job off your chest, or was it. per haps, an overweening desire to win your daughter's approval? Perhaps it was a litUe of all three but let's see hew you can tell which predominated? Did the time go so fast you scarcely noticed the lateness? Was every stitch a joy accom panied by a picture of Betty in the crisn, new frock? Then genuine unselfishness prompted you making your child's pleasure your own. Did you get a real sense of satisfaction out of completing the dress? You'd " set that date for finishing it and you made .the. tirat limit! One more ' job ? checked -off is sometimes worth the loss of sleep that is, if you don't waste time regretting it the next day. Then determination was probably your motive power. But did you. just possibly, re- j rent every minute of those mid- night hours? Did you grudgingly finish the dress for your daughter and then further resent her seem ing lack of appreciation? II so. you may be one of those parents so unsure of your worth, so doubt ful about your ability to be a tood parent just as you are that you overdo the sacrifice business. Thi3 is harmful, both to yourself and to the child for whom you deny yourself. It isn't actually the sacri fice that does the harm it's the begruding and the resentmeni that are poisons in your mir.d. This thing of trying o buy approval by virtuous acts you hold over the heads of oth?rs has always been the fake martyrdom everyone dislikes. Yet the person who practice it can never understand why he isn't appreciated! Of course, parents, if they are as loving- and conscientious as good par ents always are. sacrifice a great deal over the years for their children. But they do ii gladly in the normal sense of assuming their responsibilities They don't do it in the grovel ing sense of winning love thereby. This neurotic impulse to exten sive self-sacrifice isn't apt to at tack the healthy individual. Even so, it's a good idea, whenever you get to feeling very much unap preciated to check your motives. If you see any signs of martyrdom try little honest self-indulgence for A change let the family eat store cookies for a week and read that novel you've been wanting to, or buy the material for the extra blouse .you need and put it first on your sewing list. Above all, if you do put others wants above your own, don't do it J grudgingly.