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JU I , EDITORIALS AV.VAV.V.VAV.3 NOTHING TO WIN IN ASIA The wilful and intentional enlarge ment of the fighting in the Far East to in clude a general war with China would in evitably mean the death of additional thousands of American fighting men. This can be asserted without calcu lating the cost if Soviet Russia, in accord with her treaty with China, comes into the fray. The United States would be in volved in a gigantic struggle against mil lions of Chinese. They could be beaten, of course, but at what cost in human and material resources? We can imagine nothing better for the democratic nations of the world than that Russia and China should get into a great war. Neither can we imagine any thing that would please the Moscow Com munists more than a terrific and prolonged struggle between China and the Western powers. The Russians would sit on the sideline, prepared to move aggressively in Europe at the best opportunity. The civilization of the earth, as it ex ists today, is the culture of the western de mocracies. It cannot be successfully defen ded in Asia, Africa or India but where it flourishes, and that means western Europe and North America. Nowhere else in the world, despite the glib talk and political hyprocrisy, does individual freedom have a chance to express human personality. Let us suppose that we go all-out against the Chinese, that we fight a long war and win it. What have we acquired? The answer is nothing. In the meantime, we will have given the Russians ample time to strengthen their own military forces for the decisive day in Europe. We will be that much weaker when the great hour of fate approaches free peoples and the only guardians of personal liberty as we enjoy it. WOMAN GIVES MEN A HINT The only woman alderman in North western Ontario, Canada, now serving her third term, is enthusiastic about the pos sibility of political office for women, say ing that all a married woman needs is a tolerant husband and some money for campaign expenses, boundless energy and a liking for long hours. The lady suggests that "women think of little things that men cannot compre hend" and they are "less materialistic and more humanitarian." She adds that they think in terms of "flesh and blood" when it comes to matters like welfare and schools." Addressing herself directly tohtt? bands throughout the country, the lady, Mrs. Eunice Lever Wisehart, advises that "if you want a lot of free time, nominate the wife for civic office." She adds that the wife will be "too tired to ask questions when she comes home after a busy day." GIVES EYE TO FRIEND A twenty-four-old American seaman, who was blind for more than a year, can see again because a twenty-seven-year-old English aviator, permitted doctors to take the cornea of a damaged eye and give it to the American. Phillip Pron, the American, was a bedside patient of the Englishman when doctors told him that one of his eyes, dam aged in an accident, would eventually go blind. As the cornea was in perfect con dition, he suggested to doctors that they give it to his new friend so that both would be able to see out of one eye. The operation was performed and, a week later, the bandage was temporarily removed. Young Pron could see "prettv good." The other man thought it "just wonderful" and expressed his pleasure over the successful operation. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to ylKi'f For other's good, and melt at other's zcoe. Pope The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN' 1881 - Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For "Outstanding Community Service in 1950" Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 109-413 Main Street. Flstts mouth. Cass County, Nebr. RONALD R. FITRSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Meisinger Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation Entered at the Post Office at FUttsmouthNebraska, ts second class mall matter in accordance with the Act of Congress or March 3. 1879. ' 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. Furse's Fresh Flashes DiSalle, price administrator, says there is a general leveling off of prices. We can point out now that DiSalle doesn't pay the grocery bill at his house. The other day an assassin bumped off a high ranking government official in Europe. Unfortunately it was the wrong one. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says the draft is taking so many of her potential boy friends that right now she would be willing to play postoffice with second class males. Theory is nothing more than a hunch with a college education. We would like to meet the guy res ponsible for naming pullman cars, flowers and pills. What has become of the old-fashioned man who thought he should pay his bills on the first of every month? Some people complain that the Uni ted Nations has failed to keep peace in the world. But, as yet, it hasn't started any wars. If warm growing weather doesn't show up soon, farmers in this area will have to lather their hay in order to mow it. Americans are folks who elect legis lators to pass laws so they can pass them up. That 13-year-old Tennessee girl who passed for 19 will probably do the same thing when she s 35. ' DOWN MEMORY LANE "I A YEARS. AGO III Miss Marion Olson resigned as sec retary to County Supt. of Schools Lora Lloyd Kieck to accept a civil service ap pointment at Washington, D. C. . . . Fou- chek & Garnett were appointed new city attorney firm at city council session be ginning their years work . . . Charles Stastka, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Stastka of Nebraska City entered service in U. S. Coast Guard and following basic training at Port Townsend was sent to post at Juneau, Alaska . . . 122nd Anni versary of founding of the I.O.O.F was marked by joint program of the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs at their hall here . . . Townsend club No. 1 held a meeting at District Court room here. ' OA YEARS AGO fciU Announcement was made of engage ment of Miss Lillian Calvert to A. A. Lush bough of Harrison . . . Plattsmouth Ro- tarians joined members of neighboring clubs on a visit to Glenwood where they had dinner at the Armory building . . Among list of graduates from the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing were Miss Florence Yelick of P. H; S. Class of 1927 and Isabel Marshall of Class of 1928 . . . Garland McCJeary placed first in dual track meet held here ..... State farm values were reported at about those of 1910 level, with present average of $50 an acre which statisticians pointed out . should attract investors . . . Miss Kathleen Troop and George F. Swatek ranked among the honor students at Nebraska U. t3BKV-eO-Bfl!!KS (Copyright. 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: HOOVER BOOSTS GOV. WARREN OF CAL IFORNIA AS NEXT PRESIDENT OF U.S.A.; MACARTHUR BLOCKED GEN. RIDGWAY'S PROMOTION; SUN POWER COULD TRANSFORM ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Washington. Republican leaders in the Senate have not been too happy about Gerteral MacArthur's talks with Herbert Hoover. It began when they were not able to get MacArthur on the telephone in Tokyo, and later learned that the Gen oral had several phone conversations with Hoover. Later, in Washington, their ap proaches to MacArthur about politics were politely ignored. The suspicion has prevailed, there fore, that MacArthur and the ex-president have been discussing politics at the Wal dorf Tower in New York. Such, however, has not been the case noover did approach MacArthur as to whether he was interested in politics, but got an unqualified negative. Hoover then gave . MacArthur his own ideas about the Republican candidate for the presidency in 1952 and went all out, lor Governor Earl Warren .'of Cali fornia. Hoover : unhesitatingly ! described Warren as the best qualified man; on the enure uur political norizon. iNot given much to enthisuasm. Hoover almost waxed enthusiastic about Governor Warren. Note Warren, who ran for vice pre ident on the Dewey ticket in 1948. has been almost as popular with Democrats as LAFF OF THE WEEK ft? -f3fn IP CAPITOL ! NEWS i i - BIPnB A elf A fiEiil.uiFk'l V ii.-: : II! Pine vmm Monday April 30, 1951 LINCOLN Comparatively speaking, it was a quiet week in the legislature. With most of the "sideshows," like special in vestigations and personality clashes, shoved again into the background, the 43 men who write the laws for Nebraska set tled down to workmanlike ses sions which pointed to adjourn ment sometime between May 15 and May 25. To speed the flow of bills through the mill, both morning and afternoon sessions were to get underway this week, which will have the effect of doubling ' PM8 of Mind, Most Valuable Possession 1UTISS MARY MOKARZEL, Washington, D. C, says that through a piece of ill luck she gained what to her has become the most important thing in her life, which is a true sense of values. As she was walking along one of our many poorly lighted streets one niht, someone grabbed her nandbag. In it were some possessions to which she had become greatly attached: a beautiful diamond rin?, hsr eyeglasses, a fountain pen, a silver pillbox with an amethyst inset, a Napoleonic coin, a good compact, some valuable papers, her wallet containing thirty-five dollars and the the daily output. This was msde j .beautiful brown calf bag itself. Of course, this possible with the completion of i worried her, worried her to the point that she "A Car With A Good Heater? Man.. You ARE In Luck I've Got Just What You're Looking For!" with Republicans in California. He has also had considerable California labor support and, unlike Taft, would probably get some labor backing in a nation al election. MacArthur and Ridgway Though General MacArthur is now quoting three-star Lt. Gen. Matt Kidgway to back his case. the inside lact is that Mac- Arthur quietly tried to knife Ridgway's promotion to be a full tour-star General. As a result of MacArthur's subtle opposition, the new sup reme commander is no higher in military rank than six of his subordinate admirals and gen erals in the far east. However. the Joint Chiefs of Staff are now rushing a fourth star and the rank of full general lor Ridgway. Several weeks ago. the Joint Chiefs recommended Ridgway for promotion from lieutenant general to full general, and. as a matter of routine, cabled MacArthur for his approval. But instead of adding an en dorsement. MacArthur simpiy ignored the Ridgway cable. Two weeks later, the Joim Chiefs cabled MacArthur again. reminding him that he was holding up Ridgway's promo tion. However. MacArthur, let the matter stew another two weeks. Then, instead of agree-in0- to -an unqualified promotion MacArthur recommended that Lt. Gen. George Stratemeyer. Air Force Commander, and Vice Arim. Turner Joy. Naval Com mander, also be oromoted to the same rank, along with Ridgway. J This temporarily . prevented anyone irom Deing uiumuwu, hecause the Joint Chiefs were not ready to award fourth stars to Stratemever and Joy. it also kPDt Ridewav. whose success in Korea has aroused jealousy in the MacArthur camp, irom De- coming at that time the sec ond ranking commander in the far east. Note Besides stratemever and Joy. here are the otner officers in the far east who now have the same rank as Supreme Commander Ridgway Lieuten ant Generals James van ieei. Frank Milburn. John Coulter. Edward Almond and Vice Adm. Harold Martin. Harnessing The Sun An aDDrooriation for names- sing tne suns neat m New Mexico and Southern Cal ifornia is now being debated in a house appropriations subcom mittee. The project, pioneered by the Smithsonian Institute, would use giant mirrors in our south west deserts to catch the sun's rays ana convert them into oower. If successful, it would transform the now sparsely pop ulated southwest into one of the great industrial areas of the nation. Dr. Charles G. Abbot, a pion eer in solar radiation at the Smithsonian laboratory, has two devices which he says will pro duce nearly 1.000,000 horsepower per square mile. He has also mapped out a 150,000-square-mile area in the southwest, which has cloudless skies 70 'to 90 per cent of the time, and which is the ideal location for the huge mirrors and convert ers. To finance some of the initial experimentation, the Smithson ian Institution is asking Con gress for $102,751. but word has leaked out that even this small amount will be cut back because of the economy drive. "If only one-tenth of our desert area were devoted to power production." Dr. Abbot claims, "more than 20 times as much power could be produced from solar energy as is used for all heating, lighting, transporta tion and manufacturing in the U.S." Note The question of - sun power is now in the hands of a house subcommittee, headed by able congressman Albert Thom as of Houston. Texas. Soviet-Chinese Conference The present Chinese attack in Korea was preceded by a series of top-secret Red Russian-Red Chinese conferences in Mukden, at which the Chinese demand ed a long list of arms from Mos cow. The meetings were attended by Chinese dictator Mao Tse Tung, Soviet armed forces min ister Vasilevsky. and his depu-j lease on life public hearings on the 550-cdd bills that have been introduced. And more important, perhaps, there's a feeling of harmony in the high-ceilinged senate cham ber. Even the weekly problem of what time to convene after the week end recess, was solved by compromise. Senators who live close enough to go home for the week end prefer to start at 10 a. m. Monday, so they can spend Sunday night at home. But far western representatives, who are forced to remain in the capitol, want to get started at 9. With classic simplicity, the two factions agreed to launch this week's work at 9:30 a. m. Monday. The liquor probe was one "sideshow" which was folding its tent and about to steal si lently away when it got a new ties. Mao. according to reports reaching Washington, demand ed Russian planes, heavy artil lery, tanks and troops to re place previous heavy losses. In the end. however, he had to ac cept the following: 1. The Soviet would provide 10 trained and equipped divisions from the satellite state of Mpn- golia. plus Japanese troops cap Another hearing was sched uled for this week when a mo tion to end the inquiry ended in a tie vote of 3 to 3 with the seventh member not voting. The count on the motion to hold this week's meeting was 6 to 1. At last week's scrsion, the committee heard from a liquor commission eniorcement agent who stoutly denied charges tured "in 1946, plus a limited against him; a wholesaler who number of Russian technicians 2. The Soviet would turn over 100 jet planes and train 1,000 jet pilots. In addition. Russia's armaments boss. Ustinov, and his artillery counterpart, Vcr cnovbl, agreed to deliver heavy tanks and guns, but would not Dut down a specific figure. The talks began in February and have been held off and on throu?h early April. The plan back of this drive was tipped off by one of the participants. Gen eral Chen of the first field army, who is also mayor of Shanghai. He told the Shanghai people's council that the Chinese would force the U.N. to its knees mil itarily, then bargain for peace. realized she was losing more than the contents of the bag her peace of mind, her sense of values. But there was one thing the thief didn't get: her rosary beads which were in her coat pocket. And they became a symbol for her philosophy. ,V?' - "ir 5r X Carnegie For after her loss, she had borrowed a dollar from her landlady; she had bought a good fountain pen for fifty cents, used a little brown manila envelope as a substitute for the silver pillbox, and replaced her bag and wallet. After all, were her pos sessions of such importance that they out-weighed her calm? She decided that they were not. And right then and there she began to realize that most of the things we worry about are not nearly as important as the mental attitude created by worry, and which can become chronic. Now when she loses something, or when she realizes she can't have something she wants, she just clings to her faith that she will have all she needs and that she will be happy with what she has. And this is far, far more important to her than the loss of any and all material things she has suffered. LETTER BOX The Journal welcomes letters from readers for this column on anv ub1ert. Vmir numo rv,,- k.. S sigmea to all articles intended for i publication, however, bv reoueft. ! it can be omitted from the letteiT appearing in print. (Contents do not necessarily express the opin ions of this nswsDaper.) Population In Cass County Is Below 1940 Cass county population de creased by 631 during the ten year period from 1940 to 1950, the half-century report from the census bureau disclosed last week. The 1950 population for Cass county is listed at 15.361. A decade ago it read 16,992. Available figures therefore in dicate that the loss was in the rural areas and in the smaller towns. Plattsmouth. during the same ten year period, showed an increase of more than 600 residents. Villages and rural areas in the county, on the basis of available figures, must have lost in the neighborhood of 1,200 inhabitants. O:oe county shows a 2,000 de cline for the same period, while other adjacent counties report slight increases. The state pop ulation is listed at 9,876 above 1940. denied there are "tieups" which make a retailer take undesirable brands in order to get popular ones: and the editor of the Om aha World-Herald who defended nublication of secret testimony before the committee as "enter prising journalism." The agent is James Potach of Omaha who was accused of tak ing bribes by a "Mr. X." in a statement read to the committee a couple of weeks ago by Frank Morrison of McCook, counsel for the anonymous "Mr. X." Potach issued a Hat denial and his attorney pointed out that Morrison should have given the man's name if he were going to make public a statement accus ing Potach by name. The agent had asked the committee for a chance to face his accuser. The wholesaler is Charles Hammond of Omaha who was quizzed by Sen. H. K. Wellen- siek of Grand Island about the activities of the liquor lobby. Asked if liquor were given away in the lobby's suite, Hammond said, "Not that I know of." Everyone in the legislature, down to the most naive, bobby- Try this for comfort: Tbe midsouth is having a touch of Korean fighting weath er. For citizens who would like to have a more, realistic under- standing of what the troops are cApciiciituig m tt.orea we oiler this suggestion. Go out in your back yard and dig a hole two feet long, three feet wide and six feet deep. You won't need the firing step which is 18 inch es above the floor because you won't be shooting at anyone or getting shot at. t When the hole is finished equip yourself with one blanket. a can of beans or hash, or an r equivalent and get down m the hole. Stay there all night. Don't build a fire or use a light of any kind. (Attracts the enemy). If it rains or sleets or snows just stay in your foxhole because that is what you have dug. When you suspect that dawn is near take your can of beans or hash or whatever comparable edible you have, open with your pocket knife or anything equivalent to a bayonet. When you have it soxed caee. knows that Rex Ol- pPen ?at it cold. After you enn thP liminr inhhvist. nours 5 have done that, providing, of " ,i rrmrse that, vnn Realty Transfers J. Howard Davis, Ex., to Jo seph F. Hon & Johanne M., 4-5-51, L. 171 & N 1' L. 172, Louis ville, $5000.00. Dwight L. Clements, Ref., to Harold W. Landon, 12-26-50, NW14NE14 18-12-9, $5500.00. JoseDh T. Votava & Anna Louise to I. W. Eberhart & M. E. Isaacson Tr., 4-16-51, L. 1 NE4 21-12-11, L. 20. 26-23-33-35-36-3, 4, 5, 30-34 NWV4NW1-; 22 (2-3 Int.), $1.00. Wellington Dennis & Virginia to Arley Hill & Iras, 4-9-51, L. 6 & 7, B. 3. Ferguson's Add. to Elmwood, $2300.00. YAWN SNAPS JAW KUTZTOWN, Pa. Glenn Sli vinski, 21, student at the local State Teachers College, was tired and so he yawned. He heard a snap and couldn't close his mouth. Hurrying to the col lege dispensary, he was taken to a hospital where an X-ray re vealed a dislocated jaw. 50-YEAR RECORD LYNCHBURG, Va. C. Snead Sharp, of College Hill Baptist church, holds the record of hav- j ing completed a half century of Sunday school attendance wun out missing once. While he has occasionally been out of town, he always managed to ' attend Sunday school where he was visiting. free drinks for senators and their guests in his seventh-floor suite at the Cornhusker hotel. The World-Herald editor, Walter E. Christensen, appar ently was called by the commit tee to explain an editorial criti cizing the committee's announc ed intention to call it quits. The editorial, as had news stories, pointed out how little investi gating the investigators had done. Christensen said, "I don't think there has been any great criticism." He described the ed itorial as "an expression of re gret that all of the matters that have come before you have not been sifted as far as you could." Reporters on the statehousa beat blame the committee itself for the fact that testimony sometimes appeared in the World-Herald, and the Lincoln papers, before it was "released." The first several hearings held by the probers were behind lock ed doors so reporters simply got to the witness before they testi fied and obtained interviews. That was what Christensen called "enterprising journalism." A decision was awaited this week in the case of Blaine Young, the liquor commission er who was told by the governor to resign or show cause why he should not be removed from of-' opinion had found that Young broke the law by selling insur ance to liquor licensees. Young tried to show that cause at a public hearing last week. The burden cf his case was put this way by his counsel, Francis Gaines: "The attorney general's opin ion is a strained construction of the statute. Does it mean that when ever a man goes on the liquor commission that he has to shut himself off from all types of connections?" When Peterson asked Gaines whether he thought the gover nor was bound by an attorney general's opinion, in the absence of a '.court ruling, -the Omaha lawyer replied emphatically that he did not; that the opinion was merely "advice" which the gov ernor could take or not. course, that you are still alive, or can crawl or haven't all the varieties of pneumonia, leave your foxhole and resume your normal life. And quit "griDing" forever after! Submitted ty Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kellison High School Smokestacks (Ed. note: The following was submitted to a high school class and considered important enough for publication). It seems as if almost all of the boys in high school have started smoking lately. I think that the two main reasons that they have started are that the other fellows are doing it, and it is very easy to get the cigarettes. Almost any store in town will sell cigarettes to a boy regard less of his age. I think that the police force should make the stores refrain from selling cig arettes to a boy or girl unless he or she can show that he is eighteen. In some stores, pipes, cigars, and cigarettes have come up missing despite all the efforts of the owners. With all this smoking it is a perfect set up for a marijuana or opium peddlar to move in. If a high school kid once gets started smoking dope, it will be awtully hard to stop. All this points to the rising amounts of smoking being done. I think that we had better crack down on these smokestacks and the merchants who sell them the tobacco before it is too late. High School Sophomore Ship 21 Steers To Omaha Monday Cass county shippers at the Omaha market Mondav includ ed Jake Tritsch and Oliver Meisinger with21 steers weigh ing 1124 at $37. Top steers sold to $38.50 at Omaha Monday. Other market tops were hoes 25 to 50 cents higher to $21.75. and sheep to $36.50. It's your town. It's your home. It's your responsibility. Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up. INVESTIGATE ZONING Make your home the home! Zoning restrictions often Dre- beautiful. By doing so you are vent additions to a house; hence! cooperating wun tne uiean up, local zoning laws should be Paint Up, Fix Up campaign. Be-, checked before buying a home. gin making your improvements : today. Journal Want Ads Pay! T INKING GOOD DRIVING with " good citizenship in high school crivmg courses has already de veloped a generation of young drivers who are impressed from the start with the fact than an auto mobile is not a toy. Moreover, their knowledge of what a car will do and how to keep it going at top form is far beyond that which their parents possessed when they first secured their driver's licenses, But although this early trainine has made instinctive much of their adepteess at handling a car. how our young people live up to their highest driving standards is great ly influenced by their parents teachings. This is because good driving depends on the driver's emo tional balance as well as his knowledge and skill. This fact Is borne out by statistics, for young motorists still have three times as many accidents as middle-aged ones. Now emo tional control is not something yon can get out of a book or from the temporary instruction of a professional driver. It is something yon learn from the cradle up and for which par ents are largely responsible. f; Being a careful pedestrian from nursery school days; learning to handle safely every type of ; wheel toy from kiddie car to the first proud entry in a soap box derby; early lessons in good sportsmanship and in making decisions all these and hundreds of other influ ences go to make up one's driv ing background. Tiieo, almost before you realize that your child is able to cross streets alone, he is the proud pos sessor of his first driver's license. Now your attitude is of paramount importance. Suppose we illustrate this with a few wrong ones. For instance, fathers are frequently en vious of a boy's smooth perform ance at the wheel and without real izing the source of their irritation constantly criticize small faults of driving, acts which may not be faults at all but merely different methods from those our generation learned. Nothing will waken an an tagonism to parental supervision like being unjustly criticized. We still have nervous mothers who will not acknowledge a young person's competence no matter how good his record for safe driv ing. Do you wonder that on the rare occasions when he has the car out alone he is tempted to g beyond the limits of safety in or der to taste freedom at the wheel? On the other hand, as parer.ts you should take no one's word. certainly not mine, for the cro- ficiency of these clever young drivers. Before putting tha parental stamp on your child's school driv ing diploma you should make your self thoroughly familiar with his driving judgment, t and his com mand, or lack of :it,-'of thii-powerJ ful machine you ar about to turn over to him. Unfortunately, there are some human beings who lacl-c the periect coordination of mind. eye and muscle which driving de mands. If your bov or girl is or.a of these, it is your responsibility to discover this deficiency and give him or her the proper trainir.g to correct it inr