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v V v it-,;-:, 1 "r-r" r v v y r 5-; EDITORIALS SIZE ALONE NOT WISE GOAL Cities and towns, all over the United States, compete in a feverish race for size and the goal of evesy community, it seems, is to persuade industry to settle within its gates.- Civic organizations give most of their thought to the concoction of "dope," which they hope will persuade somebody to come in and build up their municipality for them. Much effort along this line is inevi tably wasted. It may be a startling idea, but we wonder if the people of any sizeable city ever have tried giving their time and at tention to the development of the best place in the world for a family to live in? There are, in Plattsmouth, enough people to get together and make it attractive to the homebuilder and family-maker. Pro perly coordinated, local effort can make Plattsmouth ideal in appointments for the proper education and development of children, which, we submit, ought to be an asset. Frankly, we realize that no one will take up this idea and that the "people" will continue to pursue dreams of a greater Plattsmouth with its sky black from the smoke of industry and the streets packed with the families of workers. Thus, they reason, will prosperity and plenty arrive for all. INFLATION CAN HURT EVERYBODY The people of the United States are beginning to wonder whether the expendi tures necessitated by the defense program will result in inflationary prices and thus carry us to another pinnacle from which we will inevitably descend into another depression. . It may be said at the beginning that the first requisite for another depression is a period of inflation. Consequently, res ponsible economic experts, in and out of the government, are agreed that steps phould be taken to prevent advancing prices which will culminate in a wild orgy of buying. With the increased tempo of defense spending, the people of the United States will have more money to spend. It is also certain that, as industrial plants turn from normal production into the production of defense materials, the shortage of goods may become pronounced. Given more money and fewer goods, it is certain that prices will go up as pros pective buyers bid against each other for decreasing supplies. This will be the case in any free economy. Consequently, the Government is almost compelled to take f steps to limit the buying power of the public. As we understand it, and we admit that we do not know too much about it, . this can be done in several ways. One is to set a price upon goods and commodities. 't Another is to provide heavy taxation in order to drain off excess purchasing pow er. This end can also be accomplished if the people of the country invest in Gov- - ernment bonds for defense financing. We hope the people of the United States will be smart enough to encourage thf? Government to take whatever steps are -necessary to prevent a repetition of the inflationary orgv which developed in the United States after the first World War. The remedy may seem to be harsh now but it will be easy if it enables the nation to avoid a disastrous depression af ter the defense effort is unnecessary r FORECASTS USUALLY RIGHT Official weather forecasts, believe it or not, are right most of the time. A survey, made some years ago, re veals that the weather reports are correct eighty-five to ninety times out of a hun dred and that the ratio is improving with the development of improved methods. It is human nature for people to re call the day which was rainy, although the weather forecast was for "fair" wea ther, and to forget the numerous occasions when the forecaster called the turn cor rectlv. THOUGHT FOR TODAY A 'woman absait is a zcoman dead. Ambrose Bierce The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KSTABLISHED IX 18S1 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 403-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County, Xebr. 5?2yR- FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor SMITH News Reporter BERNARD A. WOOD Advertisine Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Meisineer 4 Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation TME PLAinrSfWKIDaJTDD JflDOJCSIMO. SECTION B CASS COUNTY'S NEWS pa per Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for Over Seventy Years Furse's Fresh Flashes I LIKE TO FEEL IMPORTANT, DO YOU? We wonder if there are grounds for the present price of coffee? Perhaps some of the Korean veterans can answer Can a Chinaman understand another Chinaman? - When a man starts going to the devil because of matrimonial problems at home he usually hunts up a devil with blond hair, a shapely figure and seductive lips. A lot of bars don't serve women you have to bring vour own. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, has a lot of imitators. Fanny says you can get her beautiful school-girl complexion at any drug store, but you can't buy her giggle or her wiggle. People who generally go nuts over some new religion are those who never have tried anv of the old. While Congress is investigating, we hope they will look into all those "V's" in television. Sometimes we wish the facilities were better for kicking our ownselves. it Ar ic The cost of living has gone up ever since people quit eating each other. We see where coffins took another advance in price and with taxes what they are a man can't afford to either live or die. Lady Godiva with a crew haircut would have looked more modest than the wav some gals dress todav. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday. March 8, 1951 Section B PAGE ONE DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 SJ&SfJB 1 " BATTLE ' 3-3-l a, 5 -ZT against rr" JJ fa. "X poooaouooc YEARS AGO The Rhythm Band of Wintersteen Hill school, Margaret Bauer, teacher, per formed at the Presbyterian Federation meeting . . . News of the death of Gutzon Borglum, noted sculptor of the famous "Rushmore Faces" was regretfully receiv ed by E. J. Weyrich local druggist and photographic enthusiast. Mr- Weyrich me the sculptor on a vacation trip to the Black Hills and Rushmore. He was invited by Mr. Borglum to ride to the top of the work in progress in a trolley car which was used to carry workmen and material which Mr. Weyrich expressed as "be ing quite a thrill." and afforded an ex cellent view . . . Mrs. Clement Woster was named president of Chapter F P.E.O OA YEARS AGO sdU Father Jerry Hancik, pastor of Holy Rosary church here, planned a trip to the Old World following the Easter obser vances . . . George E. DeWolf, who since serving as Superintendent of the local public schools served in like capacity at Creston, la-, accepted a call to the schools of Downer's Grove, 111. . . . Cass County spelling contest held at the court house resulted in Lois Troop of Nehawka and Margaret Young of Avoca sharing honors in both oral and written tests . . Ne hawka ladies organized Legion Auxiliary Unit, becoming the third unit in the coun ty with Plattsmouth and Louisville already organized. Cfe ESSE (Copyright, 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IMPOV- . ERISHED ALBANIANS FIGURE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE TRYING N E W EXPERIMENTS SERIES OF WARS MADE THEM EASY MARK FOR COMMUNISM; YUGOSLAVS BITTERLY DENOUN CE RUSSIA. (Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is on a flying tour of Europe and the Middle East, surveying the world situation.) Pec, Yugoslavia. For most of one day I have driven along what is sometimes called "The Little Iron Curtain" the bor der where Yugoslavia and Albania meet, for Yugoslavia enjoys the unenviable dis tinction of being squeezed between two sections of the Iron Curtain with Bulgaria and Hungary on one side and Albania on the other. How tiny, primitive Albania chiefly a Modhammedan country happened to fall for Russian Communism has always been a mystery to me. I lived on the Al banian border 'for two years after the first world war, once crossed 'it on horse back, and its people at that time were rugged individualists who hated all gov ernments, ""including their own. with the SUBSCRIPTION rate: $3.50 per year in Cas passion of Pennsylvania's hiffhtariff Joe and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year ewhere. Grundy. Perhaps the explanation is that In 9,lMTlPft hv mall nutslrtn th lrv f Platts. i. . Aioama is a nation of extreme tovertv trying new experiments plus the tact ihat any nation torn by a never-ending series of wars is an easy mark lor communism. At any rate, the border be tween Russianized Albania and anti-Russian Yugoslavia now is studded with armed guards, and strangers are not permitted within 20 kilometers (about 12V2 miles). I managed to remember enough of the local language to talk my way past the first guard in the restricted zone and there after managed to talk my way past guards who stopped oui jeep every half hour until we had passed through the old Turkish Albanian city of Priz erend. the border town of Jak ovitza. and Deceny Monastery one of the oldest in Serbia, but it now bristles with armament. The Iron Curtain here is not of barbed wire as it is around most satellite countries but consists of a steep mountain range, its base studded with troops. Denounce Double-Crossing Russians My purpose in visiting this isolated, desolate part of the Balkans was partly sentimental partly to see whether the Uni ted States is getting credit for its good program, partly to gauge Yugoslav sentiment to ward Russia and the United States in an area far from the official blarney handed out by the diplomats in Belgrade. Regarding the food program, the United States has given the Yugoslav government $60,000,000 worth of flour with the under standing that they sell it through their regular ration system but making it clear that the flour comes from us. Its distribution was organized un der Richard Allen of Carmel. Calif., a former Hoover food man who has also arranged for American inspectors to travel through the country. I traveled part of the time with one of these inspectors efficient George Trett as he interviewed local officials and local farmers and it appears the United States is eettin' credit. Regarding Yugoslav feeling toward Russia, it seems similar to that of the bride who has been jilted at the church and then watched her fiance marry another woman. Yugoslav pap ers are filled with bitter denun ciation of Russia, reminding the people that anyone who deals with Russia always gets double crossed and even playing up the Russian double-cross history back to 1700 as if it were hot first-page news todav. Later. I heard Marshal Pi jade, considered the father; of Yugo slav communism, address 50,000 people, in one of tha bitterest attacks I have ever heard again st Russia. Pi jade was jailed for 14 years by King Alexander, at which time he taught Marxism to other Yugoslav leaders but now Moscow calls him "The Hideous Hunchback of Bel grade." When I heard him he quoted Thomas Dewey. Walter Lippmann and Ernest Bevin as proof that Russia is a brutal nation and that the United Stares and England are vigor ously supportine Yugoslavia. Lesson For U. S. Thirty years ago I had charge of 100 Bulgar prisoners in a diminutive Serbian village cal led Dobro Do, which means Good Valley But the valley wasn't good, because it had been burned out by the Bul garian army and my job was to rebuild the homes of Serbian widows, using Bulgarian prison ers for labor. We also had a transport company of 100 mules and 100 conscripted Albanian mule drivers who every night sat around camnfires the Al banians, the Bulgar prisoners and their Serbian guards dis cussing war and what caused war. That was in 1919 and they re called that in 1912 Serbia and Greece had fought Turkey, then in 1913 Bulgaria had fought ! Serbia and Greece, and in 1914 the world war started. Thus for six long years the Balkans were plunged in war war which neither the Serbian guards nor their Bulgarian prisoners nor the Albanian conscripts wanted. Their hope, they said, was 60 NEB SKA h JAMES C OLSON, Suptrinttndtnt TATS HIITOBICAL SOCIKTY VetteFanns' CoMmniini By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Kntered at the Post Office at Flattsmouth. Nebraska. s second class mail matter in accordance with the Art of Congress of March 3. 1879. in advance, by mail outside th city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. where the people have nothing to lose by Widows Pension Income 1 Limitations Widows of veterans who have established rights to pension benefits, but who were disquali fied from receiving payments in 1950 because their income from otter sources exceeded the statutory limitations, should re apply for payments for the year 1951 if they anticipate that their income will be below the limita tion. Draft Classifications There have been numerous in quiries made as to the meaning of the various draft classifica tions now in ef fect. By way of general informa tion, the follow ing is a list of current classifi cations: Class I-A means available for mil itary service. Class I-A-O means conscien ce to us , objector Kicnard Peek available I o r non-combatant military service. Class I-C means member of VWnL'P.'H.1' ''"l- w -!:----:' the armed forces, coast and goe- detic survey, or U. S. public nealth service, and certain reg istrants separated therefrom. Class I-D means member of reserve component or student taking military training. Class II-A means deferred be cause of civilian occupation ex cept agriculture. ' Class II-C means deferred be cause of agricultural occupation. Class III-A means registrant with dependents whose induc tion would result in hardship and privation of dependents. Class IV-A means registrant who has completed service or sole surviving son. Class IV-B means official de ferred by law. Class IV-C means aliens. Class IV-D means minister of religion or divinity student. Class IV-E means conscien tious objector opposed ,to both combatant and noncombatant training service. ? Class IV-r means physically, mentally or morally unfit. Class V-A means over age of liability for service. -, - Among the many historical markers in the storied Scotts i Bluff region of western Nebras ka is a small masonry monu ment on the site of one of the elusive fur trading posts in the West Fort John. For the un initiated, the marker is almost as hard to find as was the ori ginal site itself for the historian. You can see it by taking High way 29 south out of Gering to the foot of Wild Cat Hills, turn ing west and following the road leading to Wild Cat Ranch. The monument, erected in 1938 by the American Pioneer Trails Association and the DAR. is just west of the road after you cross the cattle gate. T. L. Green of Scottsbluff. a member of the State Historical Society s executive board and a leading authority on the his tory of the region, did much of the basic research reauired to bring the old fort to light. His reports, published some time ago in "Nebraska History", are fas cinating examples of historical detective work. Fort John was a child of Fort Laramie, the West's most im portant fur trading and military center. The latter, established in 1834. on the Laramie River, not far from its junction with the North Platte, was sold to the government for use as a military post in 1849. After the American Fur Com pany had disposed of Fort Lar amie, Major Andrew Drips, one of its principal agents though not the one who negotiated the sale spent the winter of 1849 50 in Robidoux Pass. -down the Platte. In 1850 he moved un in t Helvas Canyon and built a new post, which he named "Fort John." the official name of the fort on the Laramie while the fur company had it. The new site was well chosen. As Mr. Green points out. Rob idoux Pass was thronged each year by thousands of emigrants, and "this continuous encamp ment of great numbers of emi grants within the pass, with trHE WEEK may be one of the"itop policy-making echelon of the most eventful in recent years, for some mighty angry labor lead ers, who know the facts of life. j and some equally resentful farm ! leaders are up in arms over the 1 way the nation's top business lead ers are running the defense mobil ization and the fight against infla tion. " Labor leaders were mad before they called on President Truman to dtacuss their griev ances with him that some of " the more hot-headed were even advocating a general strike. They don't believe that a dent has been made in stopping the cost of living op-swing; they have continually asked for rep resentation on policy making controls committees and have been rebuffed. The represen tatives of these 40,000,000 work ing folk are mad clear through. And, peculiarly enough, it was not especially over the 10 percent wage boost granted by the "Wage Stabilization board. While they were not satisfied with the 10 per cent hike in that they declare it does not reflect their living costs, they might be inclined to accept the board order, other tmngs be ing equal. But Charles E. Wilson, the top defense mobilizer. accord ing to labor chieftains, has given the bit to business leaders and they are running the controls pic ture without labor having a say-so in the running. 'imfgiUtym They want a top man in Wil son's office. They just gained a top man in Eric Johnston's of fice in the person of George Harrison, from the railway mail clerks union. They want a man in Defense Production Administrator Harrison's of fice too, and they want the control of manpower placed back in the Department of La bor, from whence Wilson took it away, and placed it In charge of a committee headed by Dr. Fleming, the Ohio col lege professor.' And now the farmers are be com ing alarmed. They have no repre sentation on any board or commis sion. At a meeting here, they voiced their disgust and their de termination to have a say-so in the controls agencies. And the louts who" know best here say that Mr. Wilson has blundered, perhaps not fatally, but badly, in not con-t sidering these two great masses, farmers and workers, in naming the top officials to have charge of the nation's economy. Labor, however, has some of lis own membership to blame for the pickle they are in- The un-called-for" wildcat switchmen's railway strike came along about the time some of the choice posts wero be ing handed out, and labor leaders here couldn't or didn't do anything to halt the strike.' In Chicago, the switchmen were fined $25,000 and they" got another $75,000 fine here in Washington when they pleaded guilty to contempt of court for flaunting a federal court injunc tion. gOiKj ' Whether labor's policy to withdraw the labor members from the Wage Stabilization Board means a break with President Truman remains to be seen. Likely, the differences win be patched up, for labor has no place else to turn, de spite the offers of the hand of fellowship made by Senator Taft and other GOP leaders. Farmers say they are in favor of labor getting its wage hike, but well they might, for parity con tinues to be sacrosanct, although it works like an escalator clause in a labor contract, tied to the cost of living. For when prices go up. so does parity and vice versa, bo if farm prices are tied to the par ity figure they can't hurt too much, although some are so far beyond partity now it is pitiful. particularly cotton and beef. But the law can be changed, and Uus is what the farmers are fearful might happen. During the past war, farm prices were fixed at 110 percent of parity and farm lead ers say today they will be happy if they can be assured they will get 100 percent of parity. And it is true that many crops are still below the parity formula. Congress is marking time more or less, lots of committee hearings but little actual happenings on the floor. their numerous draft stock con suming all pasturage, must have mace a more retired but still accessible location greatly to be desired." Though the profits from the establishment do not seem to have been all the American Fur Company might have desired, it was the most important trading post in western Nebraska in the 1850s. Father DeSmet. the fam ed Jesuit missionary, visited it. and bantized the half-breed children living in the vicinity. Prince Paul of Wurtemburg. a widely-known European travel er, spent several days at the post. We do not know just Vhen Fort John was abandoned. It j probably passed out of existence j as the bulk of overland emigra-; tion shifted from Robideaux to Mitchell Pass, thus leaving the : Helvas Canyon site completely out of the mainstream of wes tern traffic. LONG DISTANCE WANT AD Proof that it pays to adver tise has been produced by the Nemaha County Herald. One man ran an "oats for sale" ad in that newspaper. Two days later a farmer called to buy them he lived in Jansen, 100 miles away. A Classified Ad in The Journ nal costs as little as 35c. J. Howard Davis LAWYER Soennichsen Building Phone 264 Plattsmouth Woodrow Wilson he was going to proclaim a new world in which there would be eternal' peace. WelL. the years have come and gone since then. Woodrow Wilson tried and failed, and Dobro Do since then once again was ravished this time by the Germans, later by the Italians and then liberated by the Russians who. at times, acted more like conquerors than lib erators. This is the history of a typical Balkan village and when you look round at the poverty which always follows in the wake of war you understand why there is communism in the Balkans, for people who are poor, who are bled white, who have nothing to lose, turn in their despera tion to desperate remedies. This also may be a lesson for the United States for. if .we get involved in war. its aftermath may find us nearer the com munism which we are f iehtins: so hard, to avoid. Puzzle Crossword HORIZONTAL. .1 To dip and moisten 4 American Indian 8 That man 11 A tree yielding cauefco 12 Paoile-!ike Implement 13 Russian -mountain range IS Burlesqu mus'cii! composition 1? 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