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EDITORIALS MEET ST. PATRICK (Editor's Note: St. Patrick's day too oftegr is observed without much thought being given the man whose work made March 17 signifi cant. To refresh readers' memories. Margery Van Pelt, a journalism major from Lincoln, has written "Meet St. Patrick.") Everybody knows that St. Patrick's Day is March 17. And everybody knows it's the day for the wearin' o' the green by all true Irishmen, Most everybody knows, too, that St. Patrick. is credited with chasing the snakes out of Ireland. But how many know when St. Patrick lived or what he accomplished during his lifetime? This apostle and patron saint of Ire land was born sometime between 373 and 389. His death has variously been placed from 461 to 493. St. Patrick's real name wasn't Patrick at all. His name was Sucat, and the Chris tian name, Patricius, was added later. But for the purpose of this article, he will be known as Patrick. When he was 16, Patrick was taken prisoner by some Irish pirates who made him a slave. After six 3ears, he escaped to France. There he claimed to have had a vision of himself returning to Ireland as an apostle of Christianity. Accordingly, he prepared for this for 14 years and then returned to become bishop of Ireland. As bishop, he ministered to Ireland's Christian communities and held them to gether against warring factions. In 441, he visited Pope Leo in Rome. The, Pope gave his approval to the work Patrick was doing in Ireland. He left two important documents. His "Confessions" is an autobiography, written late in his life. The other, "Letters to Corbticus." the British king of Strath elyde, urged Christian subjects to have nothing to do with the king until he re paired certain offenses against the Chris tians in Ireland. It is said that there "were no Chris tians in Ireland when Patrick began his work, and no pagans when he died." While this is not strictly true, he did found 360 churches, baptize 120,000 people with his own hand, and ordain a great many priests. Whatever is doubtful about his life, there can be no doubt that he was a great organizer and had considerable executive ability. The connection between the sham rock and St. Patrick's Day stems from an account entirely believable,. That account is that when some converts questioned the doctrine of the Trinity, St. Patrick ended the argument by holding up a shamrock as an example of "Three in One." Miracles comparable to the one af fecting snakes did not end when St. Pat rick died. At his death, some chroniclers say, there was no night for 12 days. So when March 17 comes and people are wearing green shamrocks, don't for get St. Patrick really did live. And he died on March 17. NOBODY RESPECTS THE EXPERTS We learned, through the public prints, that 400 economists have warned Congress that wage-price controls will "build a huge inflationary pressure" un less accompanied by stiff tax increases and more drastic credit curbs. This item is interesting mainly be cause there is slight prospect that Con gress, or anybody else, will pay any at tention to the 400 economists. For some reason, the American people and their politicians have no respect for expert op inion in the field of economics, preferring to believe that every voter is intelligent enough to pass judgment upon the intri cate problems that accompany modern in dustrialized states. There was a time, not many years ago. when nearly 2,000 economists warn ed the government that, as a creditor na tion, we should make plans to accept the goods and services of other nations. In no THOUGHT FOR TODAY Eternity bids thee to forget. B vron The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN' 1SS1 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street. HlUs mouth. Cass County, Nebr. FRANK H. SMITH V."n ReSSSJ Helen E. Hemnch & Donna L. Meisinger Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation Kntered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. s second class mall matter In accordance -with the Act of Congress of March 3. 187S. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere in advance, by mall outside the city ot Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. Time PnjOTSMaDOJTQO JJaDajraAL SECTION B CASS COUNTY'S . NEWSpaper Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for Over Seventy Years Furse's Fresh Flashes It is difficult to teach children more politness than their parents practice. Generosity costs most people a lot less than their extravagance. The man who never expects to be bossed by an innocent, weak woman, stays single. One ardent reformer says he would like to put a million dollar tax on every pint of whiskey. Our town soak tells us it only takes about that much to make him feel like he could meet such a trifling ob ligation. Most girls are trained with the view of catching a man instead of holding him, which is sometimes a more difficult per formance. x Read where a thief smashed a win dow in a jewelry stove the other day and stole a tray of diamonds. What we can't understand is why he didn't take the ace while he was about it. You can't make congress believe sil ence is golden. it -ic -jc College is a place where youth is taught that the earth is not made of green cheese and that the world is waiting for him. It is with an axe. On days like the fore part of the week the thought that the hereafter may be steam heated is less terrifving. ..' The original self-starter was a rumor- A son doesn't need to amount to much to make his mother proud of him. other way, the experts advised, could this country expect to receive payments for the enormous debts that other govern ments owed the United States. Notwithstanding the weight of ex pert opinion, the nation, by and large, paid no attention to the experts but dev eloped something of an isolationist policy in economics as well as in world politics. We are thoroughly convinced of the virtues of the democratic processes in con nection with the control of political insti tutions. Nevertheless, we are conscious of a dangerous tendency on the part of the American people to disregard the advice of experts, in the economic field and in others as well. Regardless of ones admiration for the "will of the people," it is perfectly obvious to any intelligent individual that the peo ple, as a whole, are not qualified to pass judgment upon certain phases of our econ omic life and that somehow the American people must learn to accept the judgment of honest and intelligent experts in some fields of human intelligence. DOWN MEMORY LANE OA YEARS AGO U Mayor John P. Sattler, City Atty. J. A. Capwell, E. A. Wurl, and C. C. Wes cott were in Nebraska City where they met with other community heads of Southeast Nebraska in a discussion of oc cupation tax ordinances . . . The Herald Apartments were undergoing a complete renovation including papering and paint ing done by Ralph and Russell Wever . . A heavy snow storm blocked roads over a wide area of the midwest, catching many residents away from home and pre venting their return for several days un til roads . were opened . . Harry Goble man purchased a farm near Union from Harry M. Franz . . . Plattsmouth post office building was ordered redecorated and Postmaster J. W. Holmes was proceed ing with the job ... A large force of Bur lington linemen were working near the city constructing a telephone line along the right of way to serve a gas company in Oklahoma. 1A YEARS AGO lv Wescott's were advertising suits at $18.50 and up . . . Carl D. Ganz, Alvo, president of the Nebraska State Bankers Assn., W. B. Hughs of Omaha, and H. A. Schneider, of Plattsmouth State, motored to Excelsior Springs to a banker's conven tion . . . Great Britain was in the midst of its greatest aerial attack of the war . . Hitler was predicting victory for a greater Germany . . . Several Plattsmouth Rotar ians were guests of the Omaha club, in cluding President and Mrs. George Jaeger, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Richey, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Knorr, and Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Ds Voe ... A banquet was held at Weeping Water observing the birth of the farm program eight years before and listened to a radio broadcast by President Roose velt, Vice-president Wallace and the Sec- retary of Agriculture . . . Rules govern ing the registration of men for the armed forces were released from Washington. All between ages of 21 and 36 were re quired to register. BEWARE THE TRAP THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, March 15, 1951 Sections PAGE ONE The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By Drew Pearson Staff DREW PEARSON STAFF SAYS: DIXIECRAT WEL COMED AT WHITE HOUSE; SEN. WHERRY DIGS AT TRUMAN LETTER WRIT ING; G. I. INJUSTICES AIRED IN LETTERS Washington. It's news when a Dixiecrat get invited to the White House, particularly a dy-ed-in-the-cotton Dixiecrat like Rep. Mendel Rivers of South Carolina, who figured promin ently in the revolt against Pres ident Truman in the 1948 elec tion. However, Truman rolled out the welcome mat for the silver- j maned South Carolinian the other day as though he were a! long-separated fraternity broth er. The story behind the unus ual meeting is that the presi dent wanted Rivers' support for the 18-year-old draft bill. However, after a brief refer ence to the legislation, the two antagonists spent the rest of their meeting assuring each other that, there were no "hard feelings" between them. ! "If you are a big enough man to invite me down here. I'm big) enough to accept the invitation. Mr. President." grinned Rivers. "In fact, it's a pleasure to ac cept." "Some people have been say ing that I don't like you and would never invite you down here. Mendel." responded Tru man. "Well, it isn't so. I've never closed the door to you. I want you to know that it will be open any time you want to see me." The President cleverly drop ped only the merest hint that he was concerned about the fate of the draft bill in the Armed Services Committee of which Rivers is a member. However, there were no commitments on I either side and the two men parted after a friendly hand-i shake. Dig At Truman A sly dig at President Tru man's letter writing was taken by Nebraska's rambunctious Ken Wherry during a heated argument with Senator Tom Connally. At the Atlantic Pact Aid hear ings. Senator Wherry demanded exact figures on allied troop commitments to defend western Europe. "Do you think we ought to call Mr. Stalin up every morn ing and tell him what we're do iner?" Connally asked scorn fully. "If you're going to commun icate with Stalin." Wherry whip ped back, "I suggest you send a letter. That's the Truman way." G. I. Gripes Here is another batch of let ters from servicemen, complain ing about iniustices in the Arm ed Forces. Periodically this col umn tries - to answer the most serious G.I. erripes. Names are withheld upon reauest. A orivate. Camp Carson, Colo. "We have received mass pun ishment, because some 'un known oerson' fired several shots behind the barracks. For this, our comnanv is restricted for an indefinite time- Men with their wives in the erust houses not more than ten min utes away, cannot evea call them. We think this is unfair, as we expect to be shipped ov erseas soon." Answer A Camp Carson spo kesman told this column over the phone that the incident "is purely a military matter and no concern to civilians." This is a dangerous attitude. As long as civilians rule this country, they have a right to know how their servicemen are treated and to correct any abuses. Meanwhile, under army regulations, a camp commander has the- power to restrict a full unit for the of fense of one member. In this case, the troublemakers were caught, the restriction was lift ed temporarily, then clamped down again for another offense. Mrs. C. H. Orum. Salem. Ore. "My husband has been in Korea over six months. Do you have any idea when he will be allowed to come home?" Answer The Marines are now sending combat veterans home on rotation. The Air Force has been sending some combat crews home and will adopt a formal rotation policy in May. Some Navy men also have re turned to Jaoan and the West Coast with their ships, but no formal program has been adop ted. The Army claims it is still too short of reDlacements to start a rotation program. Mean while, scarcelv a wppk goes bv that General MacArthur doesn't cable for more men. A comoral Somewhere in Korea "Mv wife savs she writes mp pvery day. but I have been ettinf nnlv abnut oiio letter a week. Wherp's the bottleneck?" Answer Under battle condi tions, the mail can't always get through to the front lines. How pver. you'll Drobably find a big backlog of letters waiting for you when the armv postal ser vice catches up with vour out fit. Washington Pipeline Unsun? bureaucrats: Acting Federal Conciliation boss James Greenwood and his crack aids. Clyde Mills and Pter Seitz. have bn settling 14 out of ev ery 15 labor disoutes in defensp olants. without a strike and frequently without publicity . . Tall, bespectacled Congressman Charles Brownson of Indiana, the man who beat Democrat Andy Jacobs in the last election, can well be proud of his GOP background. The 36-year-old Hoosier was born in Jackson, Mich., birthplace of the Repub lican party . . . President Tru man will ask Congress for much broader powers to control com modity speculation, a major fac tor behind inflated food prices. The jump in eeg prices last fall was influenced by fluctua ting egg futures, while trading in soybean futures has been 15 times the size of the crop . . . Futures speculation in cotton seed oil and lard also have been running wild . . . Hefty Con gressman Ed Herbert of Louis ana, who received one of Pres ident Truman's explosive letters, has the last laugh on polity:al foes who predicted his district would suffer as a result of his feud with Truman and get no defense contracts. The two big gest defense projects awarded Louisiana a tank engine and an aluminum plant are in He bert's district . . . Bill Jackson, the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, tipped off General Omar Bradley he was marrying Bradley's private secretary by formally requesting her "trans fer." . . . Only two comorations in the U. S. have greater assets than the Atomic Energy Com mission. They are American Telephone and Telegraph and Standard Oil of New Jersey . . A crack ranger outfit with one of the best combat records in the Korea war is an all-negro company attached to the 37th Infantry Reeiment . . . One re sult of the Senate investigation of the RFC will be the loan agency's decision to make all loans public. Ted Herz. the Sen ate committee's chief counsel, knows RFC from A-Z. because he auditPd. its reports for thp no -monkey- business General Accounting Office ... . Recom mended reading: Irwin Ross' namohlet. "The communists Friends or Foes of Civil Liber ties?" A concise presentation Vettcraes' CoMmut! By RICHARTy C. PEGK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer A was uflJ or T5 i 1 4 THE 82NTJ CONGRESS has used '. up three months of the peo ple's time and money and accom plished little, except to start sev eral more probes and inquiries which likely will amount to little, or about as little as most congres sional inquiries. f This far, there have been many committee hearings, but o important legislation of any nature. Most time has been spent in "the great debate" ver foreign policy in the sen ate, and the house has ma neuvered Itself into a position wherein it cannot move an any legislation without the consent f abont eight men on the pow erful roles committee. " As 1 Senator Tom 1 CoimaTly of Texas remarked, the. Kefauver committee is still iout hunting crapsbooters"; the Mohroney com mitteehas a juiey scandal in the making over the Butler election in Maryland, which brought about the defeat ol the 'veteran Millard Ty dings; another committee promises more glamour in'a renewal of the Hollywood investigation; the house un-American' activities committee ostentatiously has brought a truck load pof "records of the old Facihc Institute.which have been stored for,y"ea'rtoha New England farm and (which ha va been gone over morethan'onca by f the FBI, has them under lock'and key and prom ises'mbreyrevelations" a la Sen ator' McCarthy.! The senate sub-commitiee, Head ed by Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas,' is poking into everything from air force recruitment I to training at military bases, tin and synthetic rubber shortages, pow dered eggs, the army transporta tion system arw . Alaska and; its fortifications? f Then ' Senator "John Bricker of Ohio hascalled for an investigation of the waEc5out of the labor mem bers of t the I wage T stabilization board; t Senator jFulbright of Ar kansas hadthirjgs'pretty much his own way in aprobe of the Recon struction Finance - Corporation in charging 4toatJsome employees of executive ' department had used undue political1 influence in getting loansi for, folks back, home. - That ls,until the 'executive department tame up with the fact that RFC files " show between TOO and 900 - letters from congressmen and sen ators themselves,-including Sen- ; ators Fulbright and Douglas, mem-'" bers of the investigating commit- tee, doing the same' thing using ; their influence, whether undue or -' political or what, in obtaining loans for their constituents A back -home. - Now," there are some who "want the Fulbright committee to drop the RFC probe like a hot-potato.' " Anyway, the President has asked for a reorganization of the corpo- . ration, continuing it as a separate agency and setting up a loan pol- -icy board of five members, much like a bank directorate, all with a single administrator.' v In tne meantime oter In the bouse, in one day's session, the members adopted resolu tions providing for 9100,600 for a committee to study problems of small business; $210,000 for use ( the committee on ex penditures in the executive de partment; $75,000 for the select committee probing the nse of chemicals in food; $60,000 for the select committee probing alleged abases of the GI edu cation and training program and $50,000 for Investigations by the committee on interior and insular affairs ... a total of almost a half millioa dollars for more probes." During theweek, the President signed the first public law of the 82nd congress.' It provided an ex tension of two years 'after June 30 of the privilege' of, servicemen overseas to send gilts .valued ' at not more than $50 to the U.S. with-'; out import tax. f - - -,. fhe senate finally passed the house bul to establish a five-man board to renegotiate certain, class es tit defense contracts to soueeze out any( excessive profits. It now goes to a i conference committee,' for the senate eliminated some ex-! emptions from A the biU which the' house had passed, added some other permissive exemptions and! liberalized the mandatory li6t of agricultural commodities, mineral' products, etc., to include contracts' with transportation and Public util ity service contracts " of the menace of communism . . . also. "You and Democracy" by Dorothy Gordon, a good primer for children on what Democracy means. GOOD REASON Accompanied by a blonde, a hillbilly recently registered at a Plattsmouth hotel and signed his name with an "X." Then, as an afterthought, he carefully drew a circle around his mark. "Ain't nothin' so 'dad-burn' odd J. Howard Davis INSURANCE Soennichsen Building Phone 264 Plattsmouth about it," he told the puzzled desk clerk. "When I'm runnin' around with wild wimmin, I don't use my right name." Subscribe to The Journal When You Think of SHOES Think of Hosier's X-RAY FITTING Re-Openinar Compensation Claim Any war veteran with a service-connected disability who be lieves his condition is worse than at the time an award was made can apply for an increase in rating. This privilege is particularly beneficial to those veterans who were found to have disabilities incurred in serv ice or aggravated by service but not to a degree of 10 per cent or more. Many disability cases of veter ans have been adjudged "zero" per cent, indicat ing that while an ailment exists attributable t o Richard Peck service, it is notf sufficiently serious to warrant compensation payment. Other veterans who are rated more than 10 per cent disabled whose disabilities have grown worse are also entitled to re examination for rating purposes. However, the Veterans' Admin- istration will determine the de gree of disability and should they find that the service-connected disability has decreased in degree they have the right to lower your compensation. So be sure your condition is worse before you apply for an increase. Your doctor's statement must prove that your condition is more than 10 per cent worse than when last rated. Veterans who apply for in creases in rating will be required to submit medical evidence. If it is determined from such evi dence that there is some basis for inquiry an examination may be authorized. Lose Your Bridgework? Q. My house caught fire the other day and in my rush to get out I lost my bridgework which I obtained through VA because of a service-connected disorder. Will VA replace it? A. Yes, so long as you produce affidavits explaining the condi tions of ttie loss. The affidavits are necessary to show good faith and lack of carelessness on your part. 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