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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, 8EMUWEEKLV !ft - PAGE FOUR , ' vr!l"KL - . Monday, April o 1B51 Furse's Fresh Flashes Laff of the Week IT " f CAPIT01 NEWS V ; ' ' ' i . i EDITORIALS ARGUMENT BY EPITHET There is a general habit in the United States, whenever people cannot, answer the arguments of an individual, to put an end to the discussion by applying " some epithet to the individual. Despite the fact that we claim we want peace in the world and that we are anxious to avoid war with Russia, or any body else, any intelligent action by a statesman of this country, or our allies, seeking to find a source of agreement with the Communists, is immediately labeled "appeasement" and the individual is de nounced as an "appeaser." This is a foolish habit because the ap plication of an epithet does not destroy the logic advanced by an individual in support of a proposed course of action. In the ef fort to avoid war and to develop good re lations with other peoples, regardless of their political and economic theories, it is necessary for the free countries to make concessions on minor matters. This process of adjustment should not be misunder stood or considered appeasement. The world has too much to suffer from another global war to permit such a catastrophe to occur if it can be avoided by any reasonable means. The people of the United States, including fathers, moth ers,' wives and others, should understand the terrific toll of life that another war may take of our young men. They should be interested in preventing the slaughter and destruction and, consequently, should intelligently support the statesmen who seek the means of escaping the dire pena lties of such a conflict. THE TRUTH FROM A JUDGE Judge Samuel S. Liebowitz, of New York, testified before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee, that gamblers paid between $20,000,000 and $25,000, 000 a year to New York policemen for protection. We have no way of knowing whether the judge's estimate is correct, or not, but he also told the Senators that the graft, or the toleration of graft, ran from the pol icemen on the beat right on up. He insis ted that "it couldn't exist" without "chan nels to the top" knowing about it. Nearly everybody can agree with the latter statement of the judge. The en forcement of criminal laws is an all-out procedure, so far as public officials are concerned, and whenever laws are viola ted with immunity, over prolonged per iods, the public can safely assume that there is some tie-up between those in au thority and those guilty of repeatedly violating the law. i a V Experience in life will soon teach you that when someone is ve.ry nice, there is something you can do in return for the favor. i ENTIRELY TOO MUCH DEBATE The great Senatorial debate on the issue of sending American ground troops to Europe, which began on January 8th, came to an end last week, but one cannot overlook the fact that it took nearly three months for the Senate to dispose of the question. This seems to indicate the inadvisa bility of any requirement that the Presi dent should seek "congressional approval" before sending any oth,er additional troops to the Continent. The delay illustrates the inevitable slowness of democracy in the face of danger and argues strongly for leaving the President, whoever he may happen to be, to exercise the powers gran ted him under the Constitution as "Commander-in-Chief." One wTay to shorten arguments in Congress is- to demand that the speaker stand on one leg during his talk. We've never seen anything on tele vision yet as good as we've heard on the grapevine. They say there's a possibility that po litical candidates will appear on color TV by next election time. This shouldn't crimp their style as we know not one of them who isn't past the blushing stage. A tax expert is fellow who can out figure the government. We hope DeSaille doesn't aim any more "major blows" at inflation that last one damn near blew the lid off the one we've got now. The explanation of big graft is the number of people who are willing to ac cept little graft. Despite the favors that government has extended to farmers and the working man, we have yet to hear of any corpor ation president resigning his job to get on the gravy train. The man who is always arguing with his wife didn't question her judgment when she promised to marry him. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she doesn't care much for rice unless it is thrown at her. There was a time when a man could be down to his last dollar and still know where his next three meals were coming from. DOWN MEMORY LANE r 1 nv. I LOOK, POP! NO HANDS." ; THOUGHT FOR TODAY The bravely dumb who did their deed, 'And scorned to blot it with a name; - Men of plain, heroic breed, JVho loved Heaven's silence more than fame. Lowell The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaqus For "Outstanding Community Service in 1950" Published semi-weekly. Mondays ami Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street. PI? Ua mouth. Cass County, Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE . Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Meisinger Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation issocAron, I'ntered at the Poet Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska. . ..r-ond claus mall matter in accordance with the Art of "congress o March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere, fn advance, -by mail outside the city of Platts mouth By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. 1 A YEARS AGO IU Coach B. A. Hoffman attended the banquet in Omaha given by the Iowa Nebraska coaches and officials association at the Hill Hotel . . . Local school board extended an invitation to the grand lodge of the A.F. & A.M. of Nebraska to - be present and conduct the ceremonies in May, of the corner stone laying for the new grade school building . . . Arley Griffin, former resident, who for the past 15 years has been a member of the U. S. Naval forces visited relatives here. He was with the destroyer section of the Atlantic fleet on the east coast. OA YEARS AGO A dust storm, driven by a stiff breeze, swept over the entire east and southeast section of the state, visiting the city short ly before 7 o'clock causing the air to be filled with clouds of dirt, which, driven by a stiff breeze, penetrated the homes and business houses causing much dis comfort. The mercury soared to 88 in the afternoon prior to the storm . . . Miss Helen Struble, local junior high teacher, was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor ary scholastic organization at Nebraska State . . . Electric sub-station in the south portion of the city was enlarged with ad ditional facilities for handling electric lines . . . Mrs. Frank Mullen, regent of Catholic Daughters, Plattsmouth court, at tended the state convention of this order, at York, as delegate.' Mrs. Wm. Wolcott alternate accompanied her. tSBETMSO-ESat (Copyright. 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: ALLIED TROOPS PLAN DEMONSTRATION OF SOLIDARITY; GOP LEADERS DODGE CORRUPT PRACTICES CHARGE; U. S. CRUISERS MAR LATIN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP. Washington. At General Eisenhow er's headquarters in Paris last month plans were being made to land the 4th infantry division at Cherbourg or Havre in a sort of peacetime Normandy beach head operation and march it up the Champs Elysees as a symbol of American Allied solidarity. At that time the division was scheduled to arrive about the first week in April. The Senate debate delayed these plans, of course, but this may have been a It is a mistake for the Uni ted States to send too many troops to Europe in a hurry, for the Europeans have the impres sion anyway that we are push ing them into war. It would al so be a mistake for France and England not to match our 4th division immediately, because many Americans have the im pression that we are shoulder ing the whole arms burden. Therefore, when the 4th div ision hits Normandy sometime in late April or early May. it should be the occasion pf a great and simultaneous show of mut ual confidence with new French and British divisions joining in a gigantic Allied par ade up the Champs Elysees. CAMPAIGN VIOLATIONS There is a good reason why Republican leaders are sudden ly demanding that the senate probe of the Maryland senator ial campaign be terminated forthwith. Reason is that the sluggish justice department is beginning to prick up its ears about possible violation of the corrupt practices act. . This was an act put on the statute books in order to keep huge amounts of money from being dumped into congression al and presidential campaigns. The law was written for the ex cellent reason that when a can didate or political party receives too much dough from any one source whether big corporation, executive or labor union that senator tends to be owned by his financial backer. He votes in the senate not for the people who voted for him, but for those who contrib uted to him. In recent years both demo crats and Republicans have been thumbing their noses at this law. But with the recent cleanups of Democratic Sena tors Fulbright, Kefauver et al, which have hit the Democrats, there is increasing sentiment for enforcing the corrupt prac tices act which may also hit some Republicans. In Maryland for instance, Charles Tuttle of Rustless Steel gave $8,000 to the GOP-Butler campaign against Senator Tyd ings. This was in violation of the law, because $5,000 is the top limit of any single contri bution. But after the $8,000 item was filed and Butler's headquarters realized that this violated the law, they hurried ly claimed that part of the $8, 000 was "just a loan." Then, on February 27, long after the November election. Jon Jonkel, Chicago-loaned manager for Butler's campaign, suddenly discovered that he had forgot to file around $27,000 in contributions. It is significant that Jonkel's memory was jogged five ! months after the elections by the fact that a Democratic in vestigator for the Monroney committee had discovered $27, 300 worth of expenditures which the Republicans failed to report. This was on February 17. On February 18 a meeting was held in the hotel apartment of Sen ator Brewster, chairman of the GOP senate campaign commit tee, attended by Senator Butler, his attorney, and an attorney for the Chicago Tribune's Wash ington Times-Herald. The lat ter newspaper was master minding the anti-Tydings cam paign. It was just after this that Butler's campaign manager (al so supplied him by the Chicago Tribune group) suddenly re membered $27,000 of contribu tions that had slipped his mind back in November. Hurriedly 4m NEB 6L& SKA A M. 11 blessing in disguise. For plans were also under discussion to have the British land '.he filed them their 11th armored division in France on j That is why Senators Wherry the same day that the first American if Nebraska and Welker of Ida troops arrived ; and to have a French div-thhe S&n&t. ision prepared simultaneously- to meet; But they too seem to have bad them. memories. For during the 80th 'This show of solidarity is one of the GOPrcontrolled Swffn'nrSJ! . - , , ... j i t- senate held an election probe most important things needed in Europe m Maryland which lasted two today. There has been too much arguing I years. That time, however, they over who would supply what; over how were investigating Senator O many troops this country would furnish , S fEPl nrrr.if.nt- 4-Un4- A I ... .. . " -B " dtujinu mat tuumrj. What Europe and the United States need most is confidence confidence in each other and confidence in themselves. The arrival of three divisions Fren ch, British and American in France for of private grousing over Amer entrainment to Germany at exactly the lean stupidity in sending two nmo imo ix-rn,iri o-io o m.oatD- -fnHnrr American cruisers to Argentina same time, would give a greater leelmg:just at a time when Dictator of confidence than any other single ges-(pCron was consistently and vig ture. ' ... orously kicking Uncle Sam on h UMEf C OLSON, SuptrintaUn STATS BIlTOatCAt SOCISTV Among the interesting historic sites in Nebraska is that of the old Pawnee mission, located on Plum Creek where it emoties into the Loup River, and not far from the present town of Fuller- ton. The mission was estaonsnea in 1841 and abandoned in 1846 as a result of raids by the Dakotas During those few years, the missionaries stationed mere ex perimented with the agricultural Dossibilities of the region and made some small progress in the j religious and . intellectual in struction of the Indians with whom they were associated. On the whole, though, they seem to have had a discouraging experience. Some of their letters are pub lished in Volume 14 of the Col lections of the Kansas. State His torical Society, and from them we are able to glean a picture of life at this isolated NebrasKa mission. , Principal figures at the mis sion were John Dunbar and Samuel Allis, Presbyterians, who had come to the Nebraska coun try in 1834 and who had spent much time wandering with the Pawnees, accompanying them on their hunts and living as one of them. After this wandering life, they Were much gratified at the opportunity of establish ing a permanent mission. - Such gratification made its abandon ment all the more difficult to bear. The missionaries arrived at their new home, May : 17, 1841. Writing on July 31, Dunbar stated: "The crop now appears promising. Our gardens are do ing well, when the lateness of the season at which they were planted and that the land had not before been cultivated are taken into account. This is a fine corn country, arid I know not why wheat may not be cul tivated to advantage . : . the soil is very mellow and may be easily plowed with one yoke of oxen or dug up with the hoe and when properly tended produce an excellent crop of corn, pump kin, melons, etc. just the thing for Indians." Allis, writing in September, was nf the same opinion: "The country here is quite healthy, the soil productive.. Our corn, and most of our garden vege tables look well and promise a good crop." The appearance or warlike Dakotas in June, 1846, abruptly terminated the life -of the mis sion. As Dunbar wrote from Bellevue, whither the missionar ies had gone, "The persons in the employ of Government unani mously decided . to leave the country as soon as might be after this second visit of the Sioux. This decision was com municated to the Mission and we soon came to the same conclu sion." - A SELL BULL Jack M. and Lois Troop, Brown Swiss , breeders from Plattsmouth, recently sold the bull, Norseman's George, to Ar thur Thiessen of Paoillion. ac cording to a report from Fred, S. Idtse, secretary oi me uruww Swiss Cattle Breeders' Associa tion from Beloit,' Wisconsin. Subscribe to The Journal Republican though for only three months, not two years. CRUISERS WIN ENEMIES Latin-American diplomats are too polite to talk about it pub licly, but there has been a lot the shins. - ; . . While the state department also sold two cruisers each to two old friends. Chile and Bra zil, unfortunately the two cruis ers which Argentina got not only completely nullified the effect of the gestures . to Brazil and Chile but made them sore as blazes. - ; In fact, public opinion in both BrazU and Chile today is prob ably more critical of the U. S, A. than at any other time, partly because of these cruisers, . "If the United States rewards its critics, as it did Argentina," say a lot of Brazilians, ""then perhaps we should be critics too. Apparently the state depart ment believes in- kicking ' its friends and helping its enemies." LINCOLN The legislature plunged into a revamped work schedule this week determined to drive for adjournment be fore June 1. but warned by one of its leaders that the members were "not getting anywhere and if you want to be here until the middle of June, you're certain ly working toward it." The warning came from im patient little Sen. Arthur Car mody of Trenton who is pushing for an early adjournment. The Juggling of the work was ordered by Lt. Gov. Charles Warner, who with Legislative Clerk Hugo Srb. picked out 19 bills dealing with revenue and taxation and moved them to the top of the list to be considered this week. Simultaneously. Sen. Harry Pizer of North Platte, chairman of the committee on arrangement and order, sum moned his group to discuss priority for other bills. Whether it was the prospect of one of the longest sessions in the 14-year history of the unicameral, or whether they hadn't completely recovered from last week's unscheduled overnight stay in Gering and Scottsbluff. the lawmakers were snapping at each other like so many tired terriers. Committee members badgered witnesses unmercifully during the latter part of the week and there were several cases of fric tion on the floor. This reporter thought at first it might have been simply his imagination until he discussed with several of the men who are most sen sitive to the legislative mood, the lobbyists. "Only one thing to do when they're like this. Son." an old hand cautioned, "just head for cover." The liquor probe of the legis lature took a back seat during the week to developments out side the legislature. Gov. Val Peterson told reporters "it ap pears that (Liquor Commission er Blaine) Young has violated the law" by having "part of the insurance business" of 33 Oma ha liquor licensees. The governor had asked Young to furnish him with the list after Sen. Hugh Carson of Ord had. charged Young was using his position to sell insur ance to tavern owners and af ter a former Omaha licensee had told the liquor probers that commission agents had "given him a hard time" after he had not followed their "advice" to buv'his insurance from Young. Peterson withheld immediate action on Young pending a reply from the attorney general as to whether he had furnished grounds for removal from office. In his letter to the governor. Young protested that "I have never tried harder in my life to do a good iob." At week's end. Carson, who thus far has asked most of the questions in" the liquor inquiry. asked another: "Did Mr. Young supply all the names of his insurance clients in the liquor business? His list doesn't agree with mine." A Sales Tax for Nebraska? That was the question for four hours before the legisla ture's revenue committee last week as tireless Sen. Dwight Burney, perennial sponsor of a sales tax measure, and his co introducers Sens. Chris Metzger of Cedar Creek and Carl Lind gren of Campbell extolled the virtues of a two per cent tax on everything but rents, some farm supplies and articles already covered by a sales tax. like gas oline and cigarettes. The opposition was formida ble. It was led, by Robert Arm strong, paid secretary of the Omaha Taxpayers Association and included a solid labor front, Farm organizations were divid ed. The Grange, represented by B. V. Holmes of Milburn and Dr. H. C. Filley of Lincoln favored the. bill, as did Charles Mar shall of Elmwood. president of the Farm Bureau Federation. Appearing against the proposal was Chris Milius of Omaha, head of the Farmers Union. . Observers gave the bill little chance of getting out of com mittee. . Chairman of the group is Sen. Charles Tvrdik of Oma ha, who has debated the sales tax issue Dublicly with Burney. In the 1949 session, for the first time, the sales tax bill was vo ted out to the fleor but was killed there. ParimutueL , race betting in Nebraska will continue, the gov ernment committee decided as it voted 8 tQ O to kill Senator Carson's proposal calling for a vote on outlawing the practice. Carson, a member of the com mittee, did not vote against kil ling his bill. ... When Chairman Karl Vogel asked the 100-odd persons in the hearing room to indicate which side of the issue they were on. nearly, all signified their oppos ition while ho one appeared in support. Durine the hearing, however. Dr. Frank Court, pas tor" of t. Paul Methodist church in Lincoln.- entered and asked to speak for the bill. "Wherever you find gambling." he told the committee, "you find a force that will tear down character." Al Raun of Walthill.reores ented the'Nebraska Fair Man agers Association in protestine; the bill. He oointed out that' more than 80 percent " of " Ne- Carnegie Tenant of the Mind flflORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO, C. T. Danielson Min nea?llS' 1Minn" got the same bad news that came to " sands of people one dark day in November, though at the Sme no one knew how really bad the news was going to prove tk be This was when the stock market crashed P 6 lo -uumegreai depression started that lasted until H": w wv.6uuuiig ui. unu war l. One day his telephone rang. His brok er on the wire; needed additional margin for operating. Everything Mr. Danielsi owned in cash and securities had already been deposited at the beginning of the break; he could do no more. The end had come. His account had to go "at the mar ket." It was four days before he learned Ins fate. Yes, his entire hard-earned thirty thousand dollars had hpnn u m.j only that, but he owed the brokers eight hundred dollars more which he couldn't pay. Dead broke and with a wife and two young children! l co"rse.ts nights became sleepless; of course his days were beset with nervous fears, made worse by the knowledge that everyone around him also .was suffering. Every man he ?iVJcJ eae' wond5ing which road to take to that land called Security. By and by his hands were trembling, also his voice; his heart action became turbulent. He went to the doctor: toxic goitre was developing. This last meant an operation. Fortunately for him, the doctor who attended him was a man wise in the ways of humans. Before going to the operating r0?in,lK1S wo"df r.ful man sat down beside C. T. Danielson and said, My good friend, I want to tell you something. Right in here (he placed his hand on Mr. Danielson's fevered brow) is room for only one tenant. The choice as to the type of that tenant is yours, definitely yours. No two types can claim joint priority leases on the occupation of your mental premises. Only one tenant has that right and privilege. If Old Man Worry takes possession, the walls of your mind will be plastered with Fear Gloom, Despair and Certain Failure. And you -will be wrecked But if you take Courage for your tenant, you will have a helpful Comrade. Now take your choice." - . . Well! C. T. Danielson made his choice, right then arid there, and he says he is even thankful that it was necessary for him to have that operation for he might not have learned the lesson that has meant so much to him for 20 years and which will be valuable to him to the end of his days. braska's fairs "would be in ec onomic difficulty" without the funds from racing. James P. Lee of Omaha, a member of the board of govern ors of Ak-Sar-Ben wb,ich runs the state's biggest race meet ing, emphasized the lack of de mand, for repeal of the law and pointed out that his organiza tion this year budgeted $106,000 for "charitable, educational and agricultural purposes." Others appearing in opposi tion were Warren Albert of Col umbus: Percy Ressequie of Mad ison, State Fair Secretary Ed Schultz. E. F. Pettis of Ak-Sar-Ben. John Binning of the Lan caster County Taxpayers Lea gue: Murray Chanipine. Omaha businessman and Jake Sulem berger of the Alliance fair board. Legislative observers predict that Senator Carson's L.B. 320. which levies, a 5 percent tax on the handle at parimutuel tracks will not encounter the same op position. Footnotes: In the midst of discussion over getting down to work to shorten the session. Sen. Bill Hern of Chadron. de layed the legislature for 18 min utes last Friday while he posed for a picture with 13 clubwomen from his district. He asked Lt. Gov. Charley Warner to let him nreside while the ladies were in the chamber and posed for the photo on the rostrum while his colleagues grumbled . . . Sen. Ken Diers of Gresham said he took two airplane - rides last week: "My first and last."'.. He declined to accompany the other legislators on the flight home from Scottsbluff and grabbed a train . . . Look for a senator to demand that Gov. Peterson make available to all legislators the controversial Petrow report on the state health department . . . There are more than a couple legislators who have their eye on the governor's chair. Spring Trapping For Catfish Is Started The Nebraska Game Commis sion's spring trapping program for catfish in the Missouri river is expected to get underway by the 15th of this month. Cats" trapped in the-Missouri river will be stocked above the dams in the Niobrara, Elkhorn, Cedar. Republican. North Blue, West Blue, Little Blue and Loup rivers and Beaver creek. The catfish are released above the dams to give the larger cats a chance to spawn. Many dams prevent the natural migration of catfish upstream for spawn ing purposes in the spring of the year. A Classified Ad in The Journ nal costs as little as 35c mm tlHY DO CHILDREN tell lies? " There are almost as many answers to this question as there are children. Since we've already discussed . many phases of this ; problem, today we shall devote our space to a trua story which we tnink sheds liaht on one fre 'quent prompting to untruthfulness on the part of children. Janie 'Martin, seven years old, was brand ; ed at school as a liar and a thief. This came about when the teacher told the class that she had lost a ring and asked if any of them had seen it, whereupon Janie's hand went up to assure the teacher that she had found the missing ring. But when asked to produce it, Janie hedged. "I took it home," she said, but promised to bring it the next day. When she failed again to produce the ring, Janie continued to temporize. "I gave it to my mother,", she said. Now the teacher happened to know JatuVs mother, so she ac companied -'the child home that evening to reclaim her ring. But Mrs. Martin knew nothing about the ring or about her child's claim of having found it After long ques tioning Janie's mother finally joined the teacher and, other cen sorious adults in deciding that her daughter was hiding the ring in the ".hope of being able to keep it, and -was trying to lie her way out of the tangle. But a few days later a boy found the ring in the gravel of the play yard and the teacher reluctantly cleared Janie's name I before the class. Yet the doubt re- j mained had Jania dropped the j ring in the school yard when shei saw her'game was up? ' " 1 Now let's jump a lot of years t one of those chance encounters oa a train. In the meantime Janie and her classmates had all crown u and scattered. But on a train ono of these old classmates met a woman who had become a dos friend of the grownup Janie in the town where she now livea. Dur. ing their chat. Janie's new friend remarked, "Janie told the most amusing story one day at' a lunch eon about something that happened to her whea she was a child." Here, at last, was Janie's own version of the old story about the teacher's ring. Janie. who had grown Into a spirited and attrac tive woman, said that as a child she had found life very dun. She was shy and nondescriDt laakin and no one paid any attention to her. Each day when the teacher asked the children to relat anv interesting adventures they had had, Janie had nothing to con tribute. She thoueht there must h something wrong ' with her and her family that nothing excitihg ever nappened to them. The dav the teacher announced the loss of her ring Janie had been feeling partic ularly out of things. All of a Sudden she saw her onDortunitv -to? ffsrtfre' in a thrilling event-rand that's when Janie s hand went up to say" she had found the ring. She confessed that though the -had-become a bit frightened over being expected to come across .with the.rina. on the whole this was the only memorable experience of her early childhood and she had enjoyed being the cen ter of even reproving aitantion. . The story points its own moral. don't you agree? " " ' I . . A A A AJtAAA A A ,' S A . . A A A .A, . Ai A A . ., A .a. ,N A A A A A A X. - A A .V -V ,N