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The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thurs days, at 408-413 Main Street, Flattsmouthi Cass County. Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH .... Editor (on leave) HARRY J. CANE Managing Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Rhoden Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation Mssocftron 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, 20 cents for two weeks. Entered at the Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second class mall matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. THOUGHT FOR TODAY The only man who makes money follozving the races is the one ztfw Joes so with a broom and shozrl. Elbert Hubbard .WW.JW.WAV EDITORIALS LET'S FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS The annual March of Dimes will soon be upon us, together with other efforts to raise money for the fight against in fantile paralysis- We don't know how you happen to feel but the picture of little children, bro ken and crippled for life, worries us. Any thing that the people of this country can do to prevent such tragedies, regardless of cost, is worth while. We hope that the people of Cass County, despite the many calls that come to them for financial help, will not over look the importance of their contributions to the war against this dread scourge of childhood. DID YOU MAKE RESOLUTIONS? There was a time, not many years ago, when the people of Cass County gave some thought to the resolutions that they would adopt for the New Year. Unfortun ately, in this modern age of hurry, worry and hustle the habit has become somewhat rare but, nevertheless, there is much to be gained by following the age-old custom of our ancestors. It always pays a man, or a woman, to take stock of themselves. Frankly, hon estly and privately look yourself over, make an inventory of your assets and lia bilities in connection with a world of other people. We know there are blase individuals who poke fun at all those who seek to improve themselves. There are likewise many people who worship money above all other accomplishments and therefore base their judgment of everything upon the basis of material wealth. Religion teaches us that life is more than material possessions and that men and women, who expect to live after death, must base their faith upon spiritual achie vements. It is virtually impossible to make much progress in this direction unless one is willing to establish, deliberately and in telligently, a set of values for existence. UNIFORMS ATTRACT ATTENTION There may be some delay in apprec iating the peril of the United States of America, as we face the year 1951, but the nation, and its people should not over look the possibility that the future of the country depends, once more, upon the courage and ability of our fighting men. During the late war there was a meas ure of respect and admiration for the men and women in uniform. When peace came, civilians, as a rule, turned to the making of money and forgot the contribution made by those who fought and those who died for their country. The other day we saw a man in uni form pass alone; the streets of Plattsmouth. Surprisinglw there was unexpected inter est in him. Men and women turned to look, and. some to talk, t the uniformed figure that, once again, begins to represent the hope of this country for the permanence of its way of life. EDUCATORS ENDORSE U.M.T. For many years, the majority of the educators in the United States have op posed universal military training on the grounds that it would "militarize the country" and detract from the influence of the public schools. Not long ago, however, a represent ative body of American educators announ ced support for universal military service, accepting the plan of James E. Conant, President of Harvard University, which calls for the conscription of every youth who reaches 'the age of eighteen. Furse's Fresh Flashes Middle age is that period in a man's life when he will give up anything to feel better except give up what's hurting him. A Communist is a guy who borrows your pot to cook your goose in. A Plattsmouth man says bars are something which if you go into many of, you are apt to come out singing a few of, maybe land behind some of. We repeatedly marvel at the ingen uity of people who wish to obtain credit. The invention of printing was a great boon to mankind but only to those who have sense enough to read. Our motto is never postpone until to morrow what can be postponed until the day after tomorrow. One argument for isolationism is that it will cost less monev and mean less taxes- A good friend tells us that a race track is a place where windows clean ' people. There is one place where a woman thinks she shines on the end of her nose. This publisher is not anxious for ev erybody to agree to what we think; in fact, it is to be hoped that many readers disagree with what we write. We can remember not too long ago when it was often times difficult to get change for a 10-dollar bill. "down memory lane OA YEARS AGO LAj District Court room was being re modeled making room for use of the mem bers of the jury serving on cases in this court, doing away with the use of the equity court room as a jury room . . Thir ty eight charter members joined the Mother's Club, a branch of the club of Father Flannigan's home; Miss Theresa Rauth was named president and Mrs. Richard Beverage, vice president; Mrs. Henry Starkjohn was elected secretary . . Glen Eager of Louisville established a bus line between Louisville and Omaha via this city . . . County Commissioners at their annual meeting prepared estimate of expense for the county for the year 1931 setting the total at $176,,700 . . . After weeks of fine weather the thermo meter hit the zero mark. J A YEARS AGO 1U Glen Fosnot, instructor of English in P.H.S- accepted a position at Lincoln in the department caring for the legisla tive journal . . . Miss Helen Warga was elected by Gamma Rho and Sigma Beta Mu clubs at the Y.W.C.A. as chairman for their tri state conference in Omaha . . . Senator Frank Sorrell of Syracuse sub mitted a bill in state legislature proposing that women be called for jury service in the districts with same qualifications and exemptions for women that were effective for male jurors . . Report of Fire Chief O. C. Sandin reflected the fine wqrk of the local firemen during the year 1940, reporting thirteen fires for the year with minor loss of onlv $199.73 . . . James Yelick, senior of P.H.S. received recogni tion of his brilliant football and basket ball playing with presentation of an en graved certificate by Frederick Ware Sports Editor of the World Herald and Gregg McBride, selector. tamr-flo-round (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: MCCAR THY IS UNWITTING DUPE FOR GERMAN COMMUNISTS; WISCON SIN SENATOR HELPS SPREAD ANTI-AMERICAN RESENTMENT IN GERMANY; NAZI SS MEN CON VICTED FOR MALMEDY MASS ACRE, REMAIN UNEXECUTED. Washington. There is no part of the world where the United States has bat tled harder to prevent communism than. in Germany, whose military-minded peo ple and vast iron and steel resources can turn war into victory or defeat for Atlan tic Pact nations. Yet the biggest propaganda boost for communism and against the U.S.A. ever given the German people came from the man who sets himself up as the great en emy of communism Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin. Supporting this grave statement is evidence locked in the secret files of the Senate Armed Services Committee, evi dence which a sub-committee went all the way to Germany to collect. It shows that McCarthy allowed him self to become the mouthpiece of a Ger man communist agent probablv without realizing it It shows that McCarthy char-! ged the U. S. Army with torturing ,Ger man prisoners in order to extract co'nfes mm (Proclamation WHEREAS the general welfare and health of our citizens depends upon the continuation and progress of research in Infantile Paralysis and continued assistance and aid to victims of this dreadful disease; and WHEREAS the local and national treasuries of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation are in a near state of depletion due to heavy withdraw als in aiding victims of and combating this disease, I DO HEREBY declare Saturday, January 20, 1951, "Infantile Paralysis Tag Day" and authorize the sale on the streets of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, "March of Dimes Tags" and the solicitation of contributions to this worthy fund drive. I THEREFORE urge every citizen of this com munity, both old and young, to make a contri bution to, or purchase a Tag designating them as a contributor to this worthy cause. GIVEN UNDER my hand and seal as Mavor of the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 15th day of January, 1951. CLEMENT T. WOSTER Mayor City of Plattsmouth WASIIMGTO. REPORT ' By Howard Buffett, 2nd Dist., Nebraska THE PLATTSMOUTH, Nebraska, stmi-wttKLV ouuKniau PAGE FOUR Monday, January 15, 1951 sions. And finally it shows that McCarthy's speeches, made on the floor of the U. S. Senate, were later broadcast all over Germany in order to promote communism and inflame the German people against the U.S.A. McCarthy's ill-advised propa ganda speeches were in defense of the 12 Nazi SS men who lined up 80 unarmed American war prisoners and shot them in the Malmedy massacre during the battle of the bulge. Nazis Go Unpunished Of various atrocities commit ted during the war. this was by all odds the worst. It was more cold-blooded than any commit ted by the Japanese. Later the SS men who murdered the 80 defenseless American prisoners were caught, tried, and 12 were found guilty. However, they have never been hanged and here is the reascm. After thev were condemned to death, a German agent named Rudolf Aschenauer sent faked up charges to Frederic Libby of the National Council for the Prevention of War. that U.S. Army prosecutors had tortured the Nazi SS men to obtain con fessions. Libby, not realizing he was being used, passed this on to McCarthy. He even passed it on in the same large brown envel opes he received from Munich, with Rudolf Aschenauer's name attached. A high American Intelligence officer later gave the Senate Armed Services Committee in formation linking Aschenauer with the communist agitators who are trying to stir up Ger man resentment against the U.S.A. Aschenauer. according to U. S. Intelligence, was secretly affiliated with a communist spy ring whose purpose was to keep the German people on Moscow's side. Its job was to plant this dy-j namite-laden propaganda on McCarthy and then cable his inflammatory speeches back to Germany. There they were headlined to the press. McCarthy Shouts "I have seen documentary evidence that the (German War Criminals were subject to beatings and physical violence in such forms as could only be devised by warped minds." Mc Carthy stormed. "Thev were subjected to sham trials, to mock hangings: and families were deprived of rations all of which the prosecution justified as being necessary to create the right psychological atmosphere in which to obtain confessions. "It is an unquestioned fact." McCarthy shouted, "that an in nocent man will scream just as loudly as a guilty man when be ing tortured, and. likewise, an innocent man will sien a con fession just as quickly as a guilty man when being tortur ed." Naturally this made headlines in Germany. Naturally these grave charges, coming from a U. S. Senator, were believed. And they turned thousands of Germans against the United States. Meanwhile, American taxpayers have been paving one billion dollars a year to feed the German people and keep them with us. REPUBLICANS INVESTIGATE McCarthy's charges were taken so seriously by Germans that to this day the army has not been able to execute the 12 convicted Nazi SS men. To hang them would cause extreme pub lic reaction, possibly riots. However, when the senate subcommittee appointed to in vestigate his charges began to uncover the truth, McCarthy lashed out at his own colleagues. The subcommittee was controlled by Republicans and chairman ned by conscientious Sen. Ray Baldwin of Connecticut. Despite this, McCarthy raged: "This subcommittee not only has no desire to obtain the truth but is conducting a deliberate at tempt to avoid the facts and effect a whitewash of the army officers involved." During the committee hear ings, McCarthy personally grilled U. S. army officers, even demanding that they submit to lie-detector tests. This they agreed to do. However, McCar thy was not willing to have the German war criminals submit to the same lie detectors. SENATE REBUFFS MCCARTHY And as his own GOP col leagues on the senate commit tee dug deeper into the facts and got closer to exposing Mc Carthy, the senator from Wis consin staged a Vishinsky act and walked out of the hearings. Nevertheless the senate com mittee rebuffed its own colleague with an official report which came close to pinning the Com munist label on McCarthy's sources. "Through competent testi mony submitted to the subcom mittee," the report read. "It ap peared that there are strong reasons to believe that groups within Germany are endeavor ing .. . to discredit the Amer ican occupation forces in gen eral. The subcommittee is con vinced that there is an organ ized effort being made to re vive the nationalistic spirit in Germany through every possible means. There is evidence that at least part of this effort is attempting to establish a close liaison with Communist Russia. "Due to the manner in which the allegations in this case were being handled (by McCarthy) it was also clear that no matter ohat the facts were in the case, in the minds of practically all "A Republican government se cures to its subjects . . . two most important rights the right of suffrage, and the right of dis cussing with freedom the con duct of rulers. Resign either of these, and no way of escape from oppression will be left you but civil commotion. "At the present time, it is particularly your duty to guard with jealousy the right of ex pressing with freedom your hon est convictions respecting the measures of your rulers. With out this, the right of election is not worth possessing. If pub lic abuses may not be exposed, their authors will never be driven from power . . . . . . if rulers succeed in si lencing every voice but that which approves them; if noth ing reaches the people but what would lend support to men in power farewell to liberty. The form of a free government may remain but the life, the soul, the substance is fled. "The cry has been that war is declared, and all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country can hardly be prop agated. "If this doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war, and they are screened at once from scrutiny. At the very time when they have armies at their command, when their patronage is most extended, and their power most formidable, not a word of warning, of censure, of alarm must be heard . . . "Admit this doctrine, let rul ers once know that by placing the country in a state of war, they place themselves beyond the only power they dread the power of free discussion and we may expect war beyond end." This was Rev. W. E. Chan ning's response to the demand for unity in 1812, 139 years ago. By the hard way, I have learned the danger of feverish cries for unity. In 1944, some of us tried to expose the peril of the policy of "Unconditional Surrender." Our voice in the wilderness was smeared and si lenced by the bipartisan "Unity" crowd. We should have rought back, and hard. For Unconditional Surrender is now generally ad mitted to have been the great est error of the war the blun der whose consequences imperil all Western civilization. Is not patriotic resistence to bad gov ernment more important in war than in peacetime? This recent event answers the question. The above column marks the resumption of the Washington Report which was issued weekly during my earlier service in congress. This column will give citi zens of the 2nd District of Ne braska a running report of the views of your representative in congress. In addition it will sup ply occasional significant items about the federal government items not necessarily covered by the regular news channels. At a time when the federal government is mOre and more dominating and regimenting the lives of the American people certainly it is desperately im portant that they obtain as much pertinent information as possible. HOWARD BUFFETT Germans, the j alle gatio ; were HeVrmann" to Dorman M. & Nai Real Estate Transfers Phyllis O. and Dwight Talcott to Richard C. and Violet M. Voogd. 12-1-50, S 49 of Sublot 6. L. 74, SWUSWU 18-12-14, S2.325. Virginia Aiiene Worry Is the Greatest Enemy pR. JOSE P. BADEL, Jersey City, N.J., says he will always be a better doctor because of a trying and disheartening ex perience he suffered some years ago when he was still a student He was makin? a piiltnr nt FVierthoiia Typhosa, to you and me, the microbe that pro duces Typhoid fever. He wasn't as careful of himself as he should have been and the result was that he contracted Typhoid himself. Things took a bad turn; he had a complication of meningitis, which is an inflamation of the membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord. He, by chance, overheard his physician say to one of the uiner pnysicians mat the case was very serious and would probably result in death. Carnefte Just then came the experimental stage with the sulfa drugs, so they experimented on him. He recovered from meningitis but he developed peripheral neuritis, lost 50 pounds, was practically skin and bones, and was so weak that he had to be taught to walk again. Worried? Of course. But the disheartening word came when the doctor told him he was not to resume his studies for at least two years! During those two years his classmates would pass him by. Naturally this worried him. But it had to be faced, and he faced it. He went to the country and he made up his mind that worry would not go with him. He . stayed a year before be went back to the doctor for a check-up. r ..... i , A Said the doctor, "You have recovered in a wonderful way: you are perfectly well, and you may now resume your studies." Says Dr. Badel, "I know now that I would not have re covered in just half the time the doctor allotted me if I had continued to worry. And this is a lesson that will stand me in good stead all my life, and make me a better doctor than I ever could have hoped to be." nV3.t NEB SKA h IAMIS C OLSON, Superintendent TATS BIITOBICAL SOCICTT of each other, for implements of i husbandry." I When Colonel Dodge had fin- ished, Yutan. (Ietant the prin I cipal chief arose. Lt. Kingsbury i described him as "a bold and i successful warrior . . . about fifty I years of age, tall, well made, : with a fine and intelligent cast of countenance." He replied i that they "would listen well" to j the advice from the great white father's representative, that I they "were making preparations ! to raise large quantities of corn: and that next year they mtend- condition of the Otoe Indians ! ed, t0 have a big field and raise in ooctnm V.-hra clra mnrp trinn vaiLic anu nuiatro. a century ago is found in the! At the conclusion of the con- e i . a. . journal of Colonel Henry J., ,V Penu, cuiiMung ui Dodge's expedition to the Rocky, blankets, knives, tobacco stroud Mountains in 1835. Colonel i m5 and lh?r llems t0 t!et n)e Dodge and the First United' red man's fancy, were distnb States Dragoons were sent on luted among the assembled Otoes. thi i firm hp march tn pxnU.re This greatly pleased the Indians, fnntrv anri tn rnnmipt a : and, according to Lt. Kingsbury. accepted as fact. This was cer tain to damage tne Aineuuau position in Germany . . . every thing done to weaken the pres tige of the United States and our occupation policies will play an important part in any emer gency." When McCarthy's wild charges were finally sifted down, the one billion dollars a year we spend in Germany was partly nulli fied, the Communist hand was strengthened, and the guilty SS men who shot 80 unarmed Americans in cold blood on a snowy day during the battle of the bulge still remained un punished. The Blue, or sulphur-bottomed whale, is the largest living ani mal. It attains a length of more than 100 feet and a weight of 150 tons. FAMOUS LAST WORDS . . . da Berdine Robertson. 12-29-50, Frc. EVfeNW 15-10-19, $6,000. Paul S. Stock fo George C. Maahs, 1-2-50, SW'i 36-11-12. $40,000. Anna M. Janda to Alan T. and Ruth McClanahan, 7-31-50, Ls. 5 & 6, B. 24. Ls. 3 & 4, B. 37, Y & H Add., $1.00. Elmer A. Taylor to Elmer A. 6 Margaret Taylor, 1-4-51, Ls. 15. 16, 17, 18, 19 NEttSEU 11-12-13, $1.00. NOT SELF-CONSCIOUS MILWAUKEE (UP) There's a young Milwaukee woman who likes to keep her dresses look ing neat. She got on a down town bus carrying a dress on a hanger. She hung the garment from the high hand rail, took a clothes brush from her purse, and brushed the dress during the trip downtown. A classified Ad in The Jour nal costs as little as 35c. series or talks witn tne maians. The Otoes, then living at their village near the present town of Yutan in Saunders County, were the first of the tribes with whom such talks were held. The Dragoons reached the Otoe vil lage on June 10th. after having been en route from Fort Leav enworth since May 31st. According to Lt. G. P. Kings bury, official journalist of the expedition, "The village was neat in its appearance. The lodges were built of wood, thatched with prairie grass, and covered with dirt. They were of a circular iorm. wun a puimt-u roof about ten or twelve feet high to the break of the roof, and about fifteen or twenty feet high in the center. They build their fires in the middle of the lodge, leaving an opening in the roof for the smoke to escape." They tried agriculture, but even though the soil of the Platte Valley was fertile, they had a rough time of it, by white standard at least. They planted their corn wherever they couid find a rich and fertile spot. They had no fences and were obliged to watch their horses to keep them from destroying the fields. Colonel Dodge, addressing an assembly of chiefs and warriors, reminded the Otoes that their great father in Washington was solocitous for their welfare and was anxious to have them ex change their 'warlike arms, in tended only for the destruction they "requested permission to give the colonel a war dance." SALES flM SERVICE rSIP SINGER SEWING MACHINES REPAIRS end RENTALS Singer Sewing Machine Center 4804 South 24th Omaha Phon- Ma. 7757 LOS ALAMOS CATCHES LP LOS ALAMOS, N. M. (UP Los Alamos, the isolated commu nity at Uncle Sam's atomic bomb project, is now served directly by air mail. An Albuquerque fly ing service makes two trips daily to Los Alamos, eliminating the old system of shipping air mail here from Santa Fe, 40 miles away, by truck. ALL'S NOT PEACHES ATLANTA, Ga. (UP U. S. Department cf Agriculture fig ures show that Georgia farmers have the fourth lowest per cap ita income of any farm group in the nation. Farmers' income per year in Georgia averages $306 slightly more than one third the national farm income per capita. SUCH PRICES NO MORE BETHANY. Mo. (UP) How'd you like to buy a fat hen for 26 cents, a hen turkey for 79 cents. a duck for 15 cents or a goose f-v r;n onrtcO Well vnn livoH Fill 3'ears too late. Those prices are from the farm ledger of the late Joseph A. Brenton. 5000 for PROMPT EFFICIENT ELECTRICAL WIRING At Prices You'll Be Glad to Pay Free Estimates HUDSON ELECTRIC Plattsmouth, Nebr. 1?50 Atna Caiualty k Surtty Co. "If he won't dip his lights I'll be darnecTif I'll dip mine." WILLIE IRVIN as the Owner and Operator of the Tavern formerly called-Clyde's. . :. ; ., -v l Your Patronage will be Deeply Appreciated Drop in any time for a friendly chat. BEER LIQUOR MIXED DRINKS LUNCHES WILLIE'S TAVERN 516 Main St. . Phone 207 A