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The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED tS Mil Published semi-weekly. Mondays an Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsraoutn. 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 tattacianan ' U 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 Postofftce at Plattsmouth, Nebraska aa second clrss mall matter In ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1S7D. THOUGHT FOR TODAY The most stringent protection of free speech leould not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. Justice O. V. Holmes Editorials WARFARE COSTS MONEY It might help some of the readers of The Journal to understand the tremen dous cost of warfare if we call attention to some of the figures used by President Truman in his annual address on the State of the Union. Mr. Truman pointed out that "we used to think that the B-17 was a huge plane" and the block-buster it carried, a huge load. The President pointed out, however, that the B-36 can carry five of these block-busters and carry them five times as far. He stated that the B-36 is much more complicated to build and more expensive. The figures given by the President, as a comparison in prepardness costs, were $275,000 for a B-17 and 3,500,000 for a B-36. Officials point out that while the B 36, the huge, long-range bomber, will be produced in increasing numbers, the Air Force is developing an all-jet bomber, which may replace it as the prime, long range atom bomb carrying plane. One can take it for granted that the all-jet bomber will cost more monev. GET IN THE FIGHT ON POLIO The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is making its appeal this year for $50,000,000 which will be used to fight what its President, Basil O'Connor, calls "public enemy No. 1 on the list of epidem ic diseases which threaten the health of our home." If polio happens to strike Cass Coun tyin 1951 we will be .glad that such an organization exists and that millions of Americans contribute annually to keep its work going. This is not the best reason for supporting the March of Dimes campaign but it is practical enough to suggest re- ' suits. More praiseworthy is the desire to have a part in the great effort to help the victims of polio, many of whom are young sters. To give a little, in common with other persons, is to play a big part and to have the satisfaction, whenever one hears of the ravages of this disease, of knowing that the fight has our support. RATIONING CAN BE FAIR TO ALL A "big try at controlling meat prices is predicted by Alan Valentine, director of the Economic Stabilization Agency, who intimates an over-all freeze of wages and prices by March 1st- He suggests that meat controls might have to' be accom plished by rationing and perhaps Govern ment subsidies. Immediately upon news of Mr. Val entine's declaration, Mr. Lorern Banert, president of the American Livestock As sociation, expressed his disagreement, saying that the contemplated program would drive meat into the black markets again, increase the over-all price and re sult in lessened production. Without questioning the sincerity of Mr. Banert, we suggest that his response is about what one would expect under the circumstances. Moreover, whether he is right or wrong in his conclusions is a mat ter of opinion, without any one being abb to say whether the views expressed are correct or not. While on the subject of rationing, we think it timely to point out that the Gov ernment, in our opinion, made a great mis take in connection with its rationing pro gram during World War II. No attempt was made to extend the influence of ra tioning' controls into meals served by res taurants, hotels, cafeterias, etc. The re sult was that a person, with money enough, could disregard rationing by mat ing away from home. Furse's Fresh Flashes What this country needs is more "lemme" and less "gimme." Even if a man doesn't eat shrimp, there is no excuse for getting sore at' those who know no better. Progress would be much faster in working together instead of working each other. Candy and flowers make some wives happy others suspicious. Why is it that the guys who brag that they can take it or leave it alone, are always taking it? One pretty girl can make more fe male enemies in an hour than 10 homely girls can make in a week. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says a gal needs but two lines to snare her man one to listen to and one to look at. i A correspondent in a divorce suit is the guy who wishes that half the things he's accused of could be true. One of the boys in the shop here says his greatest worry is the amount taken out of his take-home pay after he's taken it home. The final test of personality is being able to search for your wife's lost glove under the feet of other movie patrons and not get slapped. Be a gentleman. Tip your hat to ev erything not chewing tobacco it might be a ladv. DOWN MEMORY LANE LAFF OF THE WEEK I A YEARS AGO 1U John Benton Livingston, midshipman at Annapolis, Maryland, was among the honored group who witnessed the inaug ural ceremonies at Washington. John was a member of the third battalion which participated in the parade . . . The Junior Chamber of Commerce voted to sponsor a boy from Plattsmouth for the Boys State for 1941 at Lincoln, the youth to be a junior in the high school his selection to be made by a committee for the Jaycees composed of Charles Walden, Cecil Hen nings and Vernon Waterman . . . The us ual flash of lights, roll of the balls and sometimes the musical sound of slugs dropping was missing from many places in the city due to a visitation from the local law enforcement officers. OA YEARS AGO mU Mrs- Bert Coleman was elected pres ident of the Philathea Class; Mrs. Carl Groff, vice president . . . Burlington head saw -.business on the upgrade quoting from General Manager Flynn "If our business is any criterion it would seem that conditions in this territory are im proving on Lines West of the Missouri. During the first 15 days of January, 1930, we loaded 8,913 cars of grain in Nebraska compared with 11,164 cars during the same fifteen days in Januarv 1931" . . . Miss Pearl Dugay of Omaha was assisting at the Journal in reporting the testimony in a murder case in district court. F5T nilLaiiilJ7raV J THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, sEmi-WEEKLY JOURNAL, FACE FOUR Monday, January 22, 1951 isms 'I Think He Does Pretty Well Considering He Isn't A Pure-Bred Pointer!" thermore, the stenographic no tes made of the more extended conversations between Truman. MacArthur, General Bradley and the other military men are still so secret that each copy is numbered. Touchy Formosa However. I believe it is impor tant that the American people know what took place at Wake Island; so herewith I shall re port some of the conversations recorded in these notes. Only one clue was given in the extended conversations as to what Truman and MacArthur talked about in their private meeting. This was when some one asked the President about Formosa, and he cut further discussion short with the curt reply: "General MacArthur and I have discussed Formosa already and we are in complete agree ment on the subject." This appears to confirm re ports that one of the chief rea sons for the President's long trip was to put the quietus on MacArthur's unauthorized con versations with Chiang Kai Shek and curtail any more trips to Formosa to converse with the American pilots in Europe shooting up railroad bridges that were needed later for re nabilitation. "I have had the same trouble." MacArthur replied. The steno graphic notes show laughter at this point. Only other laughter came when John Muccio. U. S. Am bassador to Korea, proposed us ing sound trucks for propang anda purposes to sell democracy to the Korean people. This prompted the President to ob serve : "I believe in sound trucks. I won two elections with them." Highlight of the Wake Island meeting was the brilliant ex position of one man. MacArthur completely dominated the con versation, and virtually no ef fort was made to challenge his opinions or to warn him that the Chinese might very well in tervene. Perhaps also this was the most tragic part of the confer ence. Another Phone Strike Labor unrest in the telephone industry is so serious that an other strike may shut down the nation's telephones at any time Generalissimo and Madame' This is the warning of a Senate (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: AMERI CAN PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW WHAT TRANSPIRED AT WAKE ISLAND; STENOGRAPHIC NOTES REVEAL COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN MILITARY VICTORY; MAC ARTHUR ADVISED AGAINST OC CUPYING KOREA. (Ed. Note This is another of Drew Pearson's columns giving hitherto unre vealed information regarding our Korean defeat and the events leading to it.) .Washington. A lot of books have been written about the historic World War II decisions made at Teheran and Yalta, but nothing either official or semi- olticial has come out about the Wake Island conference last fall which preceded one ot our most disastrous defeats in his tory. Because that defeat has cost many American lives and the worst oronortion- ate casualties of any recent war, and be cause it has given an equally serious set back to the United Nations goal to nra vent aggression, it is only proper that the Pudiic Know something ot what transpir ed at Wake Island. u n : j a . r ii -rw . . ic x resmenr, or me united Ntntprf flew halfway round the world to confer wun general MacArthur, yet aside from a few conversational pleasantries reported dv accompanying newsmen, nothing has oeen puonsneci regarding what happened on this mid-Pacific island. The direct talks between MacArthur ana 1'resident Truman took place with no one else present, no stenographic nots taken. It is next to impossible, therefore, to report accurately what'happened. Fur- Chiang. These had stirred pol itical dissension at home. The trend of discussion in the rest of the conference was that a military victory was already in the bag. Almost more time was given to a discussion of Korean rehabilitation, therefore, than to military strategy. When it came to the latter. General MacArthur dominated the con versation. "The North -Koreans." he ex plained, "have about 15.000 guerrillas left in the south, but the winter will take care of most of them. The others are a beaten force. They are only fighting to save face. It goes against the grain to have to destroy them." Home By Christmas MacArthur assured Truman that he could "finish the job in North Korea" in a short time. According to the stenographic notes he said: "I hope to be able to have the 8th Armv back in Japan by Christmas. I may be able to send a convoy into Pyongyang immediately." At this point. President Tru man asked: "What about Chin ese intervention?" MacArthur's reply was: "They could have intervened earlier when it would have been de cisive, but that time has passed. We are no longer fearful of their intervention. Although there are several hundred thousand along the Yalu river, it is not likely that they could cause us much trouble." He also inferred that he could 1 take care" of the Chinese, even it they decided to cross the Yalu river. i At the same time that Mac- Arthur described his plans for completing the conquest Of Kor ea, he also argued against keen ing American troops in Korea. uoviously this raised the question of Avhv march arms'? the frozen North Korean wastes to the Yalu river if the clan was to march right back again m time to return the 8th' Army to Japan by Christmas. How ever, no one at the Wake Island conference seemed to challenge MacArthur regarding this risky move. Leave Quickly MacArthur's advice on the future of Korea was: "We should turn Korea over to the Koreans as quickly as we can and get out as quickly as we can." 'Korea is a poor country." he said, "and we cannot afford to impose an occupation on them . . . Military occupations are al ways failures. I want to with draw ail our troops as soon as possible." ' At one point Gen. Omar Bradley asked whether Mac Arthur could make any troops available for Europe in the next few months. MacArthur replied: "Yes. I think a division can be made available early in 1951." uradley also remarked that he Labor subcommittee that has spent the past six months in vestigating telephone labor con ditions. In a blistering report, not yet made public, the subcommittee charges that "bad labor-management relations exist in the Bell Telephone System. These relations appear to be getting worse. Strikes and threats of strikes are becoming more fre quent. "The Bell System." says the Senate Labor Subcommittee, "is an integrated, national network of communications vital to the health, wealth and security of this nation. It is the obligation and responsibility of both man agement and labor to recognize under law one another's legiti mate rights . . . and above all. to recognize that neither party has any rieht to engage in acts or practices which jeopardize Local residents will have to open their jets wide ll tney equal the effort farmers have put behind the March of Dimes Drive. The generosity of rural folks is exemplified by three large cribs of corn on Platts mouth's Main Street, all donated by farmers of the territory. At this writing, between 500 and 600 bushels of corn has been cribbed. Three persons are deserving of recognition for their services. Henry Nolting not only delivered a truck load of corn out of his own crib, but joined forces with Sterling Sand Wednesday to add another 250 bushels to the stock pile. Using Mr. Sand's truck, the pair visited farmers of their community picking up ear corn. Within a few hours they were back with their truck overflowing. And while on the subject cf corn, we'd like to put in a plug for Cliff Shafer, ho, we ve no ticed, has been on the handle end of a scoop at nearly every unloading job. When polio strikes close to home one never forgets the March of Dimes Drive. Eddie Wehrbein told us an in teresting story the other eve ning that revealed to us for the first time origination of the phrase "In the Limelight." WTien in Omaha he met an old gen tleman of 89 years who had spent his lifetime in the manu facture of oxygen. Knowing that oxygen was not used extensive ly 70 years ago, Eddie asked how he got into the business. The old gentleman revealed that years ago arc or flood lamps for stage work was not known. In order to get stage lighting effects he developed a mechanical contraption using manufactured gas. Placed in this flame was a piece of lime stone. Upon this stone was played a small stream of oxy gen giving forth a brilliant light. That accounted for being in "The Limeilght." An interesting experience of the old man disclosed that in the early 90's a noted actress, who died only recently, played an Omaha theatre. Brilliant arc lamps were being used and, as the actress was getting along in years, the new type lamps revealed too much of the gal's age and she refused to go on the stage. A hurried call, and our friend brought forth his mechanical gadget and put her in the "limelight." It was a happy day for the actress, and. until her death, she frequently corresponded with the gentleman who did for her what mudpacks failed to do. Plattsmouth is not the only Nebraska city to feel increased utility rates. At Lincoln both Consumers and the "Muny" plant are scraping the bottom of the barrel and have notified users that electric rates will be higher soon. It is interesting to note that Neb City is talking about installing additional gen erating facilities, claiming they can manufacture electricity at about half the cost they can buy it for. The city council out at Hast ings pulled a quickie that seems to have backfired, thanks to action by the Tribune. The city council, without public hearing, power of the Board of Public Works which operates the water and liehts departments, was IlMuffiCroiiBKIIE w It Pays To Discover Your Faults JJERE IS A YOUNG WOMAN who could take it when a friend A told her of a fault. More than that, she benefited by it. She is Mrs. Roberta Renner, Cincinnati, O. i She came from a large family, five boys and five girls. It was a hospitable family, and with so many boys and girls, each having individual friends, the house was filled with company most of the time. Carnegie That was al1 very well for the boys, and for the girls too lit' i2 to bear the brunt of company. But Roberta w..s of the dishwashing age! And friends were mado just as welcome at meal-time as at any other hour. When Roberta saw friends arriving just before luncheon or dinner, resentment would swell within her. The dishes piled up high enough when only their family was present. And to have to wash dishes not only for her friends, but for the friends of all those brothers and sisters, was enough to wear down anyone's energy. She began to dislike people. Friends to her were just people to wash dishes for. Naturally, her resentment began to show itself in even her greetings. She dropped her old friendly manner, and at best took on only a casual attitude. The hordes of people hordes to her who came there were not welcome so far as she was concerned and she wouldn't pretend that they were. So she shunned them whenever she could. Then one day a friend who was really a friend told her that no one liked her. That was a blow! She didn't like people, but she had not thought of people not liking her. There was a difference! Her friend's remarks stuck in her mind. She was troubled; she clidnt want to be disliked. She decided to see what she could do to change the situation. She made friendly remarks, and she smiled. Although some seemed a little surprised at her sudden change in her approach, they also seemed pleased. By and by, she was taking a real interest in the joys and sorrows of these erstwhile enemies." m Then came the time when she was faced with a long period of inactivity, when she might have been very lonely except for the friendly attentions of her friends and neighbors. Yes, Roberta Renner says she is grateful to the friend who told her of her fault, who informed her of a bitter truth. We are not at war in Korea, says President Truman. So 'Lai bloody business did not su,ro:y a legal basis for calling up those reserves. And not until Decem ber did the President declare a national emergency. How. then, could the government legally grab these lads for active serv ice last August? isted by which they could be shipped overseas for active duty? A.s it turned out, many of them were literally signing their own death warrant when they joined the reserves. Answering their parents' question is not a pleasant business. There seem to be several an swers the government might in a limited emergency declared have had uite a story to te" its by Roosevelt September 8, 1939. r;r "T HITCHHIKING SNAKE If it had lived, a snake found recently in Broken Bow would (Z) umciany we are still in a state of unlimited national emergency proclaimed May 27. 1941. (31 Officially we are still at war (with Germany and Ja pan). Apparently the Marine re serves were forced into active duty under one of these techni cal conditions. But were these young men told they were walk ing into such legal booby traps when they enlisted? Do you sup pose they were plainly told then that the conditions already ex- Vv w"v.ii '"'--striDDed. The Tribune lumped me pudiic neaun. weaun. in with both feet, pointing out or interest The report warns both man agement and labor to "use the utmost restraint ... in the ex ercise of their respective econ omic powers." Of management, the report declares: "The Bell System, the wealthiest and largest employer in this nation, must recognize that it has an obligation under the law tq allow its employees to select labor organizations of their own choosing ... it is not imDortant that the unions grow to become the kind of labor or ganizations that Bell System management would like them to be. It is important that those unions are independent of the svstem and its influence." Of labor, the reDort adds: "The unions must realize the tremendous power they can wield for good or evil. As they grow in strength and power, they must assume correspond ingly greater resoonsibilities to the emoloyees they represent, and to the nation they serve." that the board was created to keep utilities out of politics. Here in Plattsmouth we are fortunate in having a Board of Public Works with an outstand ing record in handling affairs of the city owned water system. Fred Rea and C. A. Johnson, with the aid of E. H. Bernhardt, and now John Cloidt. are doing a remarkable job of improving! nnri kepDing our water system in tip-top condition and paying off a heavy indebtedness. We are also fortunate in hav ing a City Council that is more than happy to retain the status quo. R. R. F. BENDIX Self Service LAUNDRY 118 N. 6th Phone 5232 Employees of a local grocery store found a red yellow7 and black-striped snake among some bananas Deuevea shipped from South America. The "hitchhiker" is thought to have been a coral snake or one of some other poisonous species. FOR Dependable Insurance Income Tax Service SEE J. Howard Davis Phone 264 Soennichsen Bldg. mum MHT WASHINGTON REPORT By Howard Buffett, 2nd Dist.. Nebraska hoped MacArthur-wouldn't, ultn B. Byrle -and Dclorcs -tonan- the same trouble he had' wit.hrholtz, 1-8-51, Ls Real Estate Transfers Harry and Anna Brockhoff to HQrrv nnd Anna Brockhoff, 1- 6-51, NWtt 9-10-11, $1.00. Elmer E. Ross and Wanda Buell to Elmer E. Ross and Wan da Buell. 1-9-51. Und. 'z Int. N'iNW'i NE'i and N. 100 A. 34- Elmer E. Ross and Wanda Buell to Clarence M. and Do lores Ross, 1-9-51, same as above, $1County of Sarpy, Thomas S. Solomon, 1-9-51, Frc. NW 35-13-13, $1.00. , Marie A. Kopp et al to John Cecbal. 10-11-50, Ls 1 2, 18 1 to 22 B 13, Dukes Add to Platts mouth, $1.00. . John N. Ritter to Virgil: V. Woolhiser, 1-10-51. L. 471 and 472, Louisville, $3,875. Hillard and Vlasta Alice Land to Mary Agnes Potts, 1-11-51. Ls. 42 43 and N'2 44, Smith's add to' Plattsmouth. $1.00. oflo Joseph ana flnauiiiu siuuui 1' to 3, "Don- Last August a company of Omaha Marine Reservists were called to active service. Then they were quickly shipped to the Korean battle front. These were boys who had generally signed up long before the Ko rean war started. Now their fathers and mothers are asking me questions. . - They ask, "Was not this call to combat service a violation of the government's contract with these lads?" A careful reading of the contract makes their doubts ' understandable. The basic sentence in the contract reads as. follows: "I understand that as a mem ber of the Marine Corps Reserve I am subject to call to active duty without my consent only in time of war or national emer gency existing during my term of enlistment . . . that I may be discharged in time of peace up on my own request." lan's 250. Add to Plattsmouth, $8,- THE CHILD v.-ho habitually counts himself out is a pitiable soul and very apt to grow up into that kind of make-believe martyr whom everyone dislikes. The problem is to make the child see what he is doing to himself, and it isn't an easy one. The situation of this sort most familiar to us all is that of the child, jealous of a bril liant or attractive brother or sister, who refuses to compete. "I'm not as smart as Billy, so what's the use of trying," he tells himself. Or he pretends he isn't interested, adopting an air of indifference which says, "I could be as smart as Billy If I tried but it's chick en (the current word for sis sy) to get good grades in school." Parents should make every effort to understand the fear of failure back of such retreats. All the loving encouragement both father and mother can give the child is re quired to restore the balance be tween his low estimate of himself and his exaggerated idea of his rival's endowments. Also, every effort should be made to develop the fearful child's own talents so that some area can be found where he is actually superior. Being sup ported by his parents' faith in him is only part of the child's need a few triumphs of his own are es sential, too. But along with the help you. can give the child in building up his own -sense ?f worth, it seems to hM-e must be cmwacrdu.e do his best. Don't feel so sorry for the troubled child that you let him get away with the "I-won't-try" approach to life. Naturally you Won't force him to 'compete in fields where he has no talents. Admitting that his brother can paint a better picture than he can is part of a healthy acceptance of one's limitations, but that shouldn't excuse the child from trying equal ly as hard to excel in another field music or sports or scholar ship or frying hamburgers. The hardest aspect of this problem is the "nobody likes me" feeling which plagues these insecure children. Unfor tunately we are apt to take oar acquaintances at their own self-evaluation, and to grow up imagining that one is not liked is very apt to bring about .the very exclusion from the re gard of others that the child dreads. Unhappily, the damage to the child's self-esteem wai probably done when he was a baby but that doesn't mean it can't be repaired. Although praise, and plenty of it, will be needed, flattery is a trick the child wiU sec through. Praise his genuinely good qualities net the ones jou wish he Bad and above all mention hi be havior when it3 is praiseworthy. But aain, be firm in showing the child that he owes something to the family as a whole agree able behavior, cooperation in daily tasks. You do him no favor by letting him gst away with the sulks at home. Even the most lav ishlv endowed chtld has to prac- SSimeii in yo demands that hs tice friendliness in order to earn it.