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i! 4 1 'I I EDITORIALS ANSWERS TWO QUESTIONS Mr. William O'Dwyer, now Ambassa dor to Mexico, and formerly Mayor of New Work City, recently testified before the Senate Crime committee at a specta cular, televisioned - hearing in that met ropolis. Mr. O'Dwyer was questioned con cerning, some of his appointments but maintained that he did not know the facts about their connection with some promi nent gamblers and big-shot operators. When asked, in respect to one appoint ment, whether he could not have found someone who was not related to a reput ed gangster, Mr. O'Dwyer replied: "There are things that you have to do politically if you want to get cooperation." This is a revealing attitude but it re flects the widely current philosophy of some of our leading politicians. By "co operation" they have in mind the back ing of various elements and factions that mean votes at election time. Mr. O'Dwyer gave expression to an other common philosophy of the day when he was asked if he could explain the in fluence of Frank Costello, admittedly a tycoon of the gambling business. Senator Tobey, of New Hampshire, talking about, Costello said: "It's a funny thing what magnetism the man has. You look him over here and he looks like minus zero. What, in your opinion, is his attraction for these peo ple?" The former mayor knew the answer. He replied: "Well, whether he's a busi nessman or a banker or a gangster, his pocketbook is always attractive to people." These replies by one of the highest officials of the republic reveal the callous attitude of the professional politician, ready to get "cooperation" to retain office, and the unfortunate attitude of many Americans who are ready to accept any body and anything if there is money tied to the package. Until the two attitudes fail to reflect the current philosophy of office-holders and people, there will not be much chance for better government and there is no use to expect it. I AUGH AT PERON'S CLAIM Li The announcement of a revolutionary process for the release of vast amounts of atomic energy, made in Argentina as a marvelous accomplishment of native scien tists, is branded as "fantastic" by compe tent scientists throughout the world. Without going into the details, the scientists say that, except through the use of uranium, it is absolutely impossible to produce on the earth the temperature caused by an explosion of an atomic bomb. This runs into millions of degrees and ev en the explosion of a bomb produces a high temperature for a fraction of a mil lionth of a second. To accomplish the same results by chemical processes, such as burning fuel or in an electric furnace, would melt every known material on the earth. There is not much use for anybody to be worried about the Argentine claim that the heat energy of the sun has been dup licated. The solar process involves a tem perature of 20,000,000 degrees centigrade and the radiation into space every second of a quantity of heat equivalent to that of fifteen quadrillion tons of coal. - DEFENDS GOOD POLITICIANS n While the revelations and disclosures of the Kefauver Crime Investigating Com mittee have been sensational, one must al ways remember that the exceptional rep resents the news. Senator Estes Kefauver, who leads the committee, recently stated that, in his tra vels about the country, in the committee's work, he was convinced that the majority of political leaders, Democratic and Rep ublican, were not involved in crooked deals or in league with the underworld. THOUGHT FOR TODAY A brother's suffering claims a brother's pitv. Addison The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1S81 Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque IJ5r "Outstanding Community Service in 1950" Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth. 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. Meisineer Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, s second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress ot March 3. 3 879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance; by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. i???:v:::::SS?:3 Furse's Foreign Wars. make. cussed with which Truman iuacartnur Part of his "DM tPLAWSIdDOJ Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for Fresh Flashes Read where thev. have organized an "Eight Ball Club" at Chadron designed to eliminate cussing among its members. A newspaper man could never belong if he expected to get a paper out. About all we can say about one local man we know is that he isn't always as mean as he is most of the time. Our local pastor tells us that people have become so keved up and nervous that it is almost impossible to put people ! to sleep with a sermon. He says he hasn't ; seen anyone sleeping in church for sev eral years and that's bad. Not all the men caught stealing home are plaving baseball. We can remember when we could afford to read restaurant menus from left to right and order what we wanted. A recent survey of the Bureau of La bor , Statistics reveals that women spend more money on clothes than men. Wo wonder how much of the taxpayers' money was spent to find out what every married man alreadv knows? Success is the ability to get along with some people and ahead of some others. It is unfortunate that so many people seek something for nothing. But, it's even more unfortunate that so many of them are getting it. Judging from the number of men who leave it there IS someplace like home. DOWN MEMORY LANE OA YEARS AGO U Miss Marjorie Am, graduate of P.H.S. Class of 1930, a freshmen at Peru was elected president of the Y.W.C.A. at the college . . . Rev. Father Marcelles Agius wavs assigned to Holy Rosary parish as pastor ... A force of men were engaged in moving the two large evergreens at the former Kaffenberger home as part of the landscaping project on the south east corner of the Masonic Home grounds . . . Eighteen local merchants united in a one day of special offerings included were Kraut 8c per can, pork chops 15c per pound; Coffee 37c per pound; Weiners 17 Vsc Per pound. Clothing items included athletic underwear 35c, dress hose for men 11c per pair; tennis shoes 79c. A YEARS AGO 1U Corbin Davis, captain of the 1940-41 basketball team of the Plattsmouth High School was designated by the members of the alumni association to receive the trophy for his service and contribution to the team in the years he has served . . . John Tidball, Doane sophomore, was a returning letterman on the tennis squad . . . The tennis team of the P.H.S. were at Tarkio, Mo., enjoying a match with rep- i resentatives of several high schools. The , team comprised, Lars Larson, Donald Martin, Corbin Davis and Ralph Hilt . . . Postmaster Milo Price reported stamp sales at the local office showing a fine gain in the first ten days of April over that of 1940. (Copyright, 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: CABINET SEETHES OVER MAC ARTHUR STATEMENTS ; TOKYO-WASHINGTON FEUD REACHES BOILING POINT; RED-TRAINED JAPANESE TROOPS MASS IN MANCHURIA. Washington. At two cabinet meet ings in the past three weeks. General MacArthur's unauthorized policy state ments have come in for important, even heated discussion. Most heated debate was not last week but immediately after MacArthur's pre Easter statement of March 24, in which he proposed a peace meeting with Chinese military commanders. At this cabinet meeting the president remarked that he was sorry he hadn't fired MacArthur last summer following his out-of-line statement to the Veterans of What aroused the presid ents heat just before Easter was that MacArthur's peace statement was one which Truman himself was planning to What happened was that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had cabled MacArthur, for his perusal and personal reaction, a copy of an Easter appeal for peace which the btate Department had alreadv dis the British and French and planned to issue nubliclv, But, without a word to Washington, made the statement himself text was almost verbatim with ft 1 WAR WS7!? I UM TROOPS PROBE 'KlATon J iate 7T HI ao van "v- sr:-o:'. b-w B,G- four' 1 1 "r'"''" ill C S",""rrlf!i' """ Br' w "--. fw that sent him by the Joint Chiefs, though his threat to bomb Chinese bases was entire ly his own. 3Iac Arthur's Political Record Naturally Washington boiled. Next day. Secretary of Defense Marshall sent MacArthur a per sonal cable ordering him to clear all future policy state ments with him. That cable was dated March 25. and Mac Arthur's letter to ex-speaker Joe Martin was dated March 2d. so technically at least Macf Arthur is in the clear. In the e,yes of the Defense De-nartment;- however, he is . not. For on Dec. 5. 1950. confidential orders were sent to all military commanders to clear all policy statements with the Defense De partment in Washington. Fur thermore. MacArthur has had a history of jumping the traces, some of which is well-known, some not. but all of which has made relations between him and his Commander-in-Chief more strained than at any time in recent American history. Here is the rerd: Jumn No. 1 In December. 1949. MacArthur W off steam to a erouo of Renubli-an Senators visiting him in Tokyo about i sending U.S. arms and troons to Fnrmri.-a. This teed off the running debate between the ad ministration and t China bloc in Oongrp over Chinese intr 'entinn which continued for months. Jump No. 2 In the spring of 1950. MacArthur took an unau thorized trip to Formosa, got a lot of ouhMcitv kissing Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's hand, and ooenlv discussed the idea of building up Formosa as a base. This was in complete contra diction of the government's nol icv. and he obviously knew it. Jumn No. 3 After we got into the Korean war. MacArthmr sent his famous letter to the By RICHART C. PEGK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Death Compensation for Parents There has been some confu sion as to the eligibility of par ents for benefits from the V. A. due to death of a veteran. Only dependent parents are eligible to receive compensation benefits, and those benefits are available ony if the death of the veteran was due to service. An award of death compensa tion will be ef fective the day following the date of the vet- , a y a c Jt x erans aeain, x the claim is filed iNiw within one year Y rf st from tne date oi J i I death; otherwise, Richard Peck the award will be effective as of the date of fil ing an application for the .bene fit. Dependency will be determined to exist if the parent or par ents of the veteran do not have sufficient income to provide rea sonable maintenance for them selves and members of their family under minor age. "Mem bers of the family" is consid ered to mean those persons whom the parents are under legal obligation to support and will include adult members if their dependency results from! mental or physical incapacity- In determining dependency the following items of income LOOK WHO'S HERE!" Veterans of Foreign Wars re garding the use of Formosa as a base. He was reprimanded by Truman. Wake Island It was around this time that Averell Harri man. special representative of the president, went to Tokyo to soothe the general's fur. At this time Harriman got MacArthur's solemn promise to make no more policy statements without clear ing them with Washington. Truman is Charmed Following this. Truman made his special pilgrimage to confer with MacArthur on Wake Island. When he first arrived he was a little non-plused by the way the general strolled nonchalantly down to the runway a little late to meet him: and by the fact that MacArthur failed to salute his Commander-in-Chief. He was also disappointed that MacArthur's accompanying par ty consisted chiefly of his per sonal doctor, his valet and Am bassador Muccio. whereas Tru man had brought the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a group of experts prepared to discuss important Far Eastern problems. It was because' MacArthur brought no experts to discuss anything that the conference was so abbreviated. However, during their brief tim together. MacArthur char med Tmman completely and the president came away sing in0' his praises. Jumn No. 4 Came during MacArthur's November drive in to North Korea. This was onlv a partial iump-over-thf-traps. because Truman had given him thp gropp light to dah no to the Manchnrian border. However, on more tVipn thrp occasions the State Department relayed warn ings that the Chinese were a bout to attack one from the French, one from India and several from the British. - of the parents will be consid ered: net income from proper ly owned or business operated; earnings by the parents or oth er members of the family under legal age; contribution made by any adult members of the family, and any Social Security benefits. The following items of income will not be consid ered: Benefits from U. S. G. L. insurance, any pensions or com pensation received under laws administered by the V. A. There will also be taken into consid eration the corpus, if any of the parents' estate. The fact that the veteran made regular contribution to his parents is not conclusive evi dence that dependency existed, but will be considered with all other evidence. It is not neces sary to show that the parents were dependent upon the vet eran at the time of his death. t is sufficient to show that de pendency exists at the time of the application. Re-marriage of a dependent parent does not necessarily bar entitlement to benefit, but it will be considered as prima facie evidence that de pendency no longer exists. The fact that a widow andbr children may be receiving death compensation does not preclude dependent parents from also re ceiving compensation without taking anything away from the widow and or children. qUflDQJTOAQ. Over Seventy Years NEBRASKA h f AMES C OLSON, Suptrintendent TATS IITOSICAL IOCIS.TV One of the most pronounced dif ficulties faced by pioneers on the plains was the absence of wood for building material and for fuel. The substitute for wood in building was the tough prairie sod ("Nebraska marble," the pioneers used to call it). The substitute for wood as fuel was anything that might burn buffalo and cow chips, sunflow ers, weeds, hay, and corn. The most generally used of all these substitutes particularly after the buffalo had disappear ed and the range cattle industry had moved west was hay. I j discussed its use and the hay ! burning stove in an earlier col umn. Of other wood substitutes, corn was perhaps the most widely used. Indeed, Tme of the reasons behind the development of corn production in certain areas was to provide fuel, and the cob basket became a standard item of kitchen equipment las in many places it remains today). On another occasion, when the State Department urgently proposed a public statement as suring the Chinese that the big dams supplving water power to all Manchuria would not be bombed, MacArthur sent back 1 ... 1 a 1 . . 4t-TA a curt tnree-wora leiegram. not concur.." It was against this back ground of almost weekly fric tion between Washington and Tokyo that the cabinet seethed last week and this week over MacArthur's more recent trace jumning. Rayburn's Ghost Troops had in mind when he tola con gress that "non-Chinese" troops were in Manchuria, was. not Russian troops, but four 'divis ions of Russian-trained Japan ese troops . . . There has long been a small contingent of Rus sian troops in Manchuria used for purposes of turning Russian equipment over to the Chinese. But there have never been any Russian combat troops in Man churia, and are not now . . Much more dangerous is the well-substantiated report that 15 divisions of the Red Armv are massed around the edge of Siberia, including 3,000 to 4.000 planes plus four airborne divis ions. This is the chief reason why the Joint Chiefs of Staff have hesitated about bombing Chinese bases: They figure that if China is directly attacked, her mutual assurance pact witii Russia wj:1 be invoked and ttv; might of the Red Army will be J thrown into battle possibly in airborne landing operations against Japan . Significant! f. Secretary of State Acheson r.as come nearer siding with the MacArthur thesis of retaliation against China than the mora cautious Chiefs of Staff. Ache son has always favored a naval blockade of Chinese ports, at cne time even advocated bomb ing these ports as a lesson to China for thumbing its nose at the United Nations . . . Prime Minister Attlee, when in Wash ington, had a hard time com batting Acheson's arguments on such a policy. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEIWI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, April 12, 1951 THE KEFAUVER crime investi gating commission has received such widespread publicity and. because of the television, has so impressed the American public so much that there is every likelihood the probing committee which has exposed a nation-wide crime syndi cate may be continued by this con gress. Both the nation's top law ei frcement officials, Attorney General Howard MrGrath and J. Edgar Hoover, chief of tbe FBI, have urged that the prb be continued. However both of these enforcement officials op pose tbe setting up of any over all national crime commission, sncb as is proposed by Senator Kefanver, on tbe grounds that such a commission wonld tend to lessen local responsibility for criminal law enforcement and would lead to the creation of a national police force which is foreign to this nation's Dem ocratic ideals. McGrath pointed to the fact that he offered a bUl in the 81st con gress which would prohibit the transmission of race results and other news for illegal purposes, but the congress failed to act on the measure. He again urged the pass age of such a bUl with safeguards for the constitutional freedom of the press in transmitting legitimate news. The attorney general also asked for another law which would give the attorney general authority to grant immunity from prosecu tion of witnesses whose testimony is essential in a grand jury inves tigation or triaL'' The attorney general insisted, however, that law enforcement is a matter for state action, and Hoover also stressed this fact, add ing that federal law enforcement agencies could give assistance without usurping the jurisdiction of the local police. He urged that the congressional committee urge gov ernors to convene annually a group in each state asa board of inquiry into law enforcement within each state. McGrath said he viewed with skepticism a proposal of the com mittee to use the anti-trust laws to deal with wire services which dis tribute racing news. Senator Ke fauver has said that if the com The stalks also were used as fuel, and in times of extra low prices, the farmer simply fed nis stoves corn on tne cod. i Another substitute for wood i as fuel was the sunflower. Even in the eastern counties there was ! interest in this form of fuel, and the Nebraska Herald, pub lished at Nemaha City, on Jan uary 12, 1860, carried a letter from a man suggesting the sun flower as a substitute for wood. He advocated planting crops of sunflowers for just this pur pose, pointing out that it was possible to grow enough sun flowers on an acre to provide fuel enough to cook for an or dinary family for a year, and that two acres would, produce enough sunflower stalks to furnish any family with all of Crossword Puzzle HORIZONTAL 1 Brteht saying 4 Harsh to lb taste Buddhist pillar 12 A wing 13 The giver 24 To be indebtetf IS One after another 17 Debated U Egyptian god dess of moth erhood Greek letter s S3 To twist about f tortaeo "C Bsrotgrf4 ' 37 Sua god 88 Distributed BT portions 41 Poisonous snake 42 Lath 43 Sour (Eng.) 44 Fat about kidneys in beef 45 News agency 47 A yawn. 48 His real nam is DzugashviU S3 Eoropeaa sea bream 87 TJnctuoM speech D8 Bearlike ani mal of Australia 88 Sister 1 Confederate general 2 Port in Massachusetts 83 A sheep tick YKRTICAX S Bog S Palm leal S A color 4 Summer rfay 8 Mirthfully Printer's measure 8 Narrow edge along a bank 8 Man's v nlcknatns) 9 18 Reverence 11 To spread tot arymg 18 To exDlre IS Pertaining te mm upper throat 28 Drunkard 23 Halts 23 Lawful .1 34 .Prefix: net 28 Capable of t being eves come 38 By 38 Poeam 88 Te snake v .- ' suitable 32 To observe ES. 33 A color 35 Exterior 38 Eu god x 48 Te CaA twfctai T7b pQ O POO OOP JjMJ m Toiii i m am - SECTION r, CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper . Section B faue UNt, i mittee is continued beyond its life to March 31. he wiU not continu as a member since he must give his time to other matters. So great has been the interest engendered by television of the Ke fauver committee sessions that Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, a com mittee member, has introduced a resolution urging the senate to con sider television of its sessions and other important committee work, The tremendous sum of $10,000, 000 was spent in the election of the 82nd congress, according to ex penditure reports filed by candi dates for the senate and bouse scats. According to a survey made by Congressional Quarterly, a non political congressional news report ing agency, 75 organizations have reported spending $8,118,666 on 1950 federal elections; the 808 candi dates for house seats spent $1,861, 689 and 75 senatorial candidates spent $917,475. According to the agency, this sum is considerably below that actually spent, since candidates do not have to report what committees and friends spend unless they personally authorize it. Fourteen Republican groups re ported spending a total of $3,176, 205; 12 Democratic groups reported $2,971,213; 31 labor groups spent $1,618,623 and 18 other organiza tions spent $302,625. In the senate, Republican candidates spent $560,- 935 while Democrats spent $439,903. The most cosily race was the Dirksen-Lucas race in Illinois, won by Senator Dirksen. The combined spending was $184,- S49 with Lucas reporting $102,741 and Dirksen reporting $82,108. The most costly house race was in California's first district, where Hubert V. Scud der, Republican, spent $19,951 to defeat Ito;rr Kent. Dem ocrat, who spent $16,068. In six senate races "a total of more than $50,000 each was report ed spent. For instance Senator John M. Butler, Republican, spent $90,603 in defeating Senator Jllillard Tydings in Maryland, who spent $21,823. The corrupt practices act limits expenditures in senatorial races to $10,000 or 3 cents a vote for all votes cast in the last senatorial election, but in any case not more than $25,000. its fuel requirements for a year, "if provided with a tight house." Where wood was available it was used with great care. Brownville, in territorial days, had an ordinance which pro vided that it was unlawful to sell wood in the city without first having it weighed or meas ured by the city marshall and obtaining a certificate of weight or measurement. For this serv ice the marshall was entitled to a fee of 10 cents a load. Those failing to comply were subject to a fine not to exceed $3.00. Hydrogen was discovered in 1766 by British scientist Henry Cavendish. 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