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i i EDITORIALS MORE DANGEROUS THAN COMMUNISM "Hunger, poverty, disease and ig norance constitute a far more lasting threat than the aggression of Soviet imperialism." This is that statement of Mr. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Chairman of the Inter national Development Advisory Board, who feels that the hit-or-miss attack on the global scourges of hunger and disease must be replaced by an organized ap proach, functioning on a permanent basis. Mr. Rockefeller believes that it is to the interest of the United States to help bolster the world economy '"because only in a growing global economy can the Uni ted States itself expand economically." Moreover, he feels that this country is better prepared that ever before "to face the responsibility of world leadership." These remarks were made in connec tion with a discussion of ways and means to further the Point Four Program of as sistance to needy peoples throughout the world. While the objective is commenda ble and, within reasonable limits, should have the enthusiastic support of the people of this country, one should not expect the performance of miracles in the improve ment of living conditions for those who be long to undeveloped races and live in un developed regions. ' ' The fantastic idea that is being band ied, around by some religious enthusiasts that it is our duty, as a nation and as a people, to spend our funds to give a fuller life to unfortunate peoples is , extremely dangerous as it implies a moral obligation for us to share what we have on a per capita basis. In good reason there are grounds to believe that a reasonable ex penditure of funds for the immediate as sistance of other people and areas will be come a good investment for American cap italism. We should not overlook the impor tance of making our financial contribution in a manner that will encourage the' unde veloped peoples to do most of the job for themselves. Otherwise, the money will be squandered for a temporary benefit which may not equal the sacrifice of our own re sources. INDIA STUDYING BIRTH CONTROL 1 Admitting that the government of India is studying birth control and other methods of curbing the rapidly-growing population, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru points out while his country is over populated by American standards, it is not by European standards. The population of India averages about 300 persons to the square mile. This' is six times the average of the United States. It does not come up to the 750 per square mile for Belgium, the 530 in Great Britain and the almost 400 in Italy. Apparently, one must conclude that over-population is not the cause of the poverty and suffering of the people of India. Is it too old-fashioned to suggest that the trouble may be with the people themselves? HOW FARMERS ARE "OVERPAID" "Rather than being over-paid, farm ers are earning less for their labor, less for their investment, and less for their management ability, than any other seg ments of our economy." These are the words of Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture, who takes the position that it would be unfair to freeze farm prices below the parity lev el or to take the parity provision from the Defense Production Act. The Secretary, submitting figures to the House Agricultural Committee, show ed that the farmer last year got an aver age of sixty-nine cents an hour for his la bor, five per cent on his interest and no thing for management. He pointed out that sixty-nine cents was less than the minimum wage for most types of non-farm labor, that the five percent interest on THOUGHT FOR TODAY .hid tin- :eeak soul, within itself unbless'.l Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. Goldsmith The Plattsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISH KD IX 1881 Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For outstanding Community Service in 1950" rV???! ",-w'lr. Mondays and Thursdays, at 108-413 Mam Street. Plymouth. Cass County. Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE EditOT FRANK H Smith NeV4 Reporter Helen E. Hemrich & Donna L. Meisini?er Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation inCBRASKfl fassocmTion f NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmogth. Nebraska, a second class mall matter In accordance with the Act of Congress of 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. TTme PnAUTSdDanruD JJtwimo. Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for Over Seventy Years SECTION B CASS COUNTY'S NEWS pa per Purse's Fresh Flashes One thin? nice about being a man of few words is that you don't have to take so many of them back. Worry is like riding a merry-go-round. It gives you something to do but doesn't get vou anvwhere. A local doctor thought he had some good news for one of his lady patients until he discovered she was a Miss instead of a Missus. By the time we worked ourself into a position where we could afford to take a trip somewhere, we're too tired to take it. Some people are of the opinion that the best things in life are free until they get a bill around the first of the month. Unless you have a tough hide, it's best not to struggle for attention in the upper social brackets. We'ye always called a spade a spade until the other night when we stumbled over one in the dark. WTe doubt if there was ever a man who became healthy, wealthy and wise at the same time. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she's in no hurry to get married. She's found, in the course of her travels, that people who marry for true love have a wonderful habit of never do ing it again. investment was less than one-third the rate received by corporations on capital investments; and the zero for manage ment compared with the salaries received by business firm managers who represent one of the highest paid groups in the country. Further supporting his statement, Mr. Brannan presented figures to the Com mittee showing that the pay of farm work ers declined annually from ninety-four cents an hour in 1047 to sixty-nine cents last year. In the same time the pay of manufacturing workers rose from one dollar and twenty-four cents to one dollar and forty-six with comparable increases for construction and retail trade workers. DOWN MEMORY LANE 1A YEARS AGO Mrs. F. I. Rea was re-elected grand regent of Lady of Loretto Court No. 709, Catholic Daughters of America . . . Nine teen boys received merit badges in Life. Star. 1st and 2nd class Boy Scouts at. the court of honor of the Arbor Lodge district at Nehawka, with E. C. Stimbert, superin tendent of the Nehawka Schools presiding. E. H. Wescott, scout executive made the awards. Plattsmouth scouts Hubert Bab bitt, Raymond Larson Jr., Richard Soen nichsen, Frank Cummins and Leslie Niel Jr. . . . One hundred questionnaires were mailed out from the Cass County local draft board in accordance with instruc tions from state headquarters, classifica tion to follow soon . . . Naomi Day began work with Plattsmouth State Bank as clerk succeeding Thornton Baker who moved to California. OA YEARS AGO J The summer shooting practice on the U. S. rifle range north of the city had be gun with troops from Ft. Crook participa ting . . . W. F." Nolte spoke on th Farm Problem" at the Chamber of Commerce meeting: . -. Tribe of Yessir, Omaha boos ter group, visited Plattsmouth and were guests of local Chamber of Commerce . . . The Home Dairy of this city owned and operated by Phil Hoffman was supplying the U. S. rifle range 300 quarts of pas teurized milk daily . . . The Fetzger Shoe Co., had an attractive display of golf shoes in their store window with a realis tic two hole golf course, complete as to water hazards and greens the work of Clem Woster, as an advertising medium for membership in the Country Golf Club. (Copyright. 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: PRESI DENT TRUMAN OFFERS TO SHARE HIS MAIL; INDIAN AM BASSADOR PANNIKKAR SEES NO CHANCE OF PEACE WITH CHINA; HEDDA HOPPER GETS NEW OR LEANS PUBLISHER INTO TROU BLE. Washington. Harry's letters hand some Senator Burnet Rhett Maybank of South Carolina was attending a White House conference the other day on price control!, inflation and defense mobilisa tion. Some of the price-control measures IN DEFENSE OF YOUR COUNTRY THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday. May 10, 1951 Section B PAGE ONEj BUY U.S. BEFEMSE BONDS , i:fj n iSr lip lb w4 mm TTfisTTTric dooooo o a SWashiaftea 1 were not too popular with his constituents and Senator May bank remarked: "Mr. President. I am getting an awful lot of letters express ing views on this. Would you like to look them over?" Mr. Truman replied that he too. had received hundreds of letters and countered bv ask ing Maybank if he would like to have him. Truman, send his letters to Maybank.- ' "Send me any letters you want to. Mr. 'President.'' reolied the Senator from South Caro lina. "But for God's sake, don't write-me anv!"- No Peace The Indian Ambas sador to China. Sardar Pannik kar. has cabled Prime Minister Nehru of India an important message advising that there is no chance of peace with the Chinese. His cable is significant be cause it was Ambassador Pan nikkar who first warned the United States and the U.N. that Chinese troops were going to intervene in Korea. This warn ing was made in earlv Septem ber, and although MacArthur now says he got no warning from anyone. Pannikkar's warn ing was not only sent him by the State Department but was published in this column on Sept. 17. What is important to remem ber now. however, is that dur ing December and January Am basador Pannikkar favored con ciliation toward the Chinese, felt there was a chance for a military truce. Now he has reversed himself, advises that China has no in tention whatever of negotiating peace and the United Nations might just as well get toueh. Lively Publisher Cnovreaders of the New Orleans Times-Pic-avune are in for troub. Thev mav have to censor Hedda Hoo r's Hollywood column in the fufire. The Times-Picayune, now fac ing a Justice Department anti trust suit, has claimed that pub lisher Leonard Nicholson is too ill to testify. Justice Depart ment lawyers countered that Mr. Nicholson was well enough to attend the American Newspaper Publishers convention at the Waldorf in New York, but Judge Earl Christianberry. former Sec retary of Huey Long, ruled that Nicholson would only have to answer written questions, not appear in court personally. Next day. the Times-Picayune carried., a stocy recounting the court argument and. pointing out that its publisher was too ill to testify. But on an inside column of the same paper. Hed da Hoooer indicated that Pub lisher Nicholson was ouite a gay blade. She told how he attend ed a party in the New York dressing room of Gertrude; Law rence, starring in "The King and I", along with Kent Cooper. Mrs. Robert McCormick. and John Home of the Rocky Mount. N. C. Telegram. Justice Department attorneys fee! that if the Times-Picayune publisher was able to attend a theatrical partv. he is well enough to appear in court. But thev ai-p wondering what pub lisher Nicholson is saying to" his cooyrpaders who failed to cen sor Hedda Hopper's column. War Criminal The U. S. Im migration office at Los Angeles has been boldinf closed hear ings regarding one of the most notorious war- criminals who so ; far has escaped punishment. He is Andre Artukovitch. minister of interior and in charge of the police for Hitler's punnet gov ernment at the time the nazis occupied Yugoslavia. For some strange reason, so far unexplained. Artukovitch managed to enter the United Sates. and has been living near Los Angeles, where he is work ing with his brother. John M. Artukovitch. a contractor. Whv he has been allowed to stay here remains a mystery. For some years, the Yugoslav government has been trvine to find him. since, under him. one By RICHARTV C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Insurance Renewals As present term N. S. L. I. pol icies are expiring, the Veterans Administration sends letters to policy holders advising them of the time of expiration and the premium rate for "renewal. These letter notices are usually sent out in the third month before ex piration date and a final notice is sent 30 days prior to expira tion. Veterans should remember that there is no 31 day grace period on the notices for renewals. The Rirhari pk policy noiaer must either renew the term in surance at the prescribed rate or he must convert the present policy before the date of expira tion shown on the letter from the V. A. The conversion is meant to change the present term policy of insurance to any one of the six other types of in- cnraA Tv-i1i1ftc 'Vi5Vi o ro avail- able under N. S. L. I. In either event, if the pres ent policy is renewed or the j present policy is converted a I premium payment for at "least one month must be submitted with the application. It is safer to send two monthly premiums and thus to allow sufficient time for clenrg of the rper work recmired when new policies frp issued. Allotment to Deoendent Parents A great deal of misunder standing appears to Jbe current on the eligibility of parents to receive dependency allotments from servicemen. The present law under which dependency al lotments are made nrovides for the following qualifications for eligibility for a dependent par ents allotment. "(1) The member of the uni form service claiming such de pendency (must, have) provided over one-half of the sunport of such father or mother for such period of time as the Secretary concern may prescribe: Or 2 in the case of claiming depen dency arising by reason of changed circumstances after the entrance of such member into the active service suhseouent to the effective date of this ac count, such father or mother (must have become) in fact de pendent upon such member for over one-half of his or her support." million Serbs and Jews were killed. MacArthur and Central Intel ligence Here are the facts a bout the president's charge that MacArthur would not let Cen tral Intelligence operate in the Korean-Japanese theatre a charge that MacArthur describ ed as "Tommyrot." Actually Central Intelligence did have two agents in Japan, but MacArthur's intelligence chief. Maj. Gen. Charles Will oughbv. now relieved, would not let them operate except under his control. Thus their move ments were restricted and they could not collect their own in formation. All they could ; was evaluate information collected by Gen. Willoughby's agents. MacArthur upheld Willoughby on this. Later, when Gen. Bedell Smith took over Central Intelligence, he asked Gen. MacArthur to give Central Intelligence free rein, offered to appoint a man who would be entirely accept able to MacArthur. This was re fused. Later Smith flew to Tokyo to persuade MacArthur person ally, and it was after this in January that Central Intelli gence finally was given free rein. This was after the disas trous November-December Kor ean retreat in which MacArth ur's Intelligence appeared to have been so wrong. Struggle For Oil The British government has accused the United States of double-crossing it in Iran bv trying to take over the British Government owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Com pany now that it is being nat ionalized. As a result. British Foreign Minister Morrison, furious, told U. S. Ambassador Walter Gifford in London that the United Sta tes seems to be playing both sides of the street. On one hand it urges the British to accept Iran's decision to nationalize oil. On the other hand, it passes word to American Oil Compan ies to try to operate the wells I and freeze out the British. Ambassador Gifford (He used to be head of American Tele phone and Telegraph) replied that the U. S. Government had nothing to do with any secret negotiations by American oil companies; on the contrary, tried to discourage any such underhanded trick. MacArthur's Airplane Mac Airplane, the Bataan. was re turned to the Air Force three days after the Air Force had diplomatically suggested that it would like to have the plane re turned to Tokyo where it is supposed to be based for the use of the new Tokyo commander. Lieut. Gen. Matt Ridgway. The Air Force made the sug gestion to Col. Anthony Story, the Air Force pilot who has been attached to MacArthur. and who has been flying him back and forth between Washington. New York. Tennessee and other points. The plane costs $225 an hour to operate. HTHE NATION has been on an erotional jag over the Mac Arthur affair. The country, how ever, is in a position of crisis to day where the head instead of the heart should prevail. Everyone without exception has sympathy with General MacArthur over the fact that he was ousted from his high command in the Japanese and far eastern theatre, ard there is no question but that this sym pathy for the "underdog" has ruled the reaction to his ouster. His speech before a joint session of the congress was a triumphant defense of his posi tion his disagreement with the President and the joint chiefs of staff, as well as the United Nations, ever prosecu tiom of the war in Korea, and the hearings before the foreign affairs committee and the armed service committees in congress within the next II days will likely give the American people a clearer In sight into the facts which determine this nation's foreign policy in Asia. Is General MacArthvr ponrrfical in his military decisions? Is he subject to error in his c-praise-ment of the temper of th2 Asir.n peoples? Did he make a mi! tary blunder when he advised the President the Red Chinese would not enter the Korean war? In fact, is General MacArthur infallible as his worshipers claim, when it comes to matter both military and political in the Asian sphere? These are the questions which will be answered m this tip-coming probe into our foreign policy. But, according to observers here, the real question which is now before the people is: would you be willing to make the deci sion which might bring Russia into the war on the side cf Red China and thus start 'World War III with aU that means, including the fact that it likely would mean that the United States would go it alone with an all-out war oa both ocean fronts? ' General MacArthur declaims that it is the rankest defeatism to think that we cannot conduct a global war on both fronts. So if you follow the MacArthur line of reasoning, that is the Question you must decide. If you follow the line of reasco-s ing advocated by President Tro- man, we should attempt to con clude an honorable victory by hold ing the war to Korean borders in an attempt to avoid an all-out third, world war. We may not be success- ful, but that is the position wI should take first. y No one who looks at the facts disagrees with the President's au- thtwity, or rij:ht to fire MacArthur.! or the fact that he did not merit relief of his command for refusing to carry out, or refusal to adhere to the orders and policy of his gov ernment. This in spite of the fact that the General now says he has -not the faintest idea on why be was dismissed. These are the la sues, according to the observers, which the American people must decide on the cold, sober facts, not on emotional impulses. In the meantime the great de bate on foreign policy continues in the congress with temper flaring and near fistcuffs between Sen ators Capehart of Indiana, Hum phrey of Minnesota and Lehman of New York, with Senator Taft of Ohio seeking the role of the peace maker. And in the midst of this de bate, the one great statesman of his time, the author of the bi-partisan, or as he called it the "on-partisan"' foreign . policy. Senator Artbur Vsa denburg of Michigan died. la his place, Governor Menaen.. Williams of Michigan has named Blair Moody, Washing- ; ton newspaper man for the Detroit News. Moody is labeled a Democrat and a liberal, aad his appointment was not re- ; ceived with enthusiasm by Sen ator Homer Fergnson, Michi gan's senior senator. As s ma- . ter of fart, political observers : declare the GOP leadership hm Washington wUl sorely mi the leavening influence and ths 'wise counsel of the late Ses- a tor from Michigan. . According to a tabulation of Congressional Quarterly, s non political congressional reporting organization, lobbyists in Washing ton spent a record $10,303,204 dur ing 1950 in attempting to influence legislation in ttx confre&s. Theo. R. Suitter & Leona E., . to Cleo R. Dotson & Bessie I., ! 4-25-51, L. 6. B. 42, Y & H Add. ! Platts.. $5500.00. j J. Melvin Sturm et al to Geo. ! R. Switzer & Leora, 4-7-51. S' 2'3 L. 4 to 6, B. 7, Nehawka,: $2700.00. Wm. E. Baylv & Erma F., to! Wayne Green & Alyce, 4-20-51,1 W 55' of E 100' L. 54, Sec. 13-j 12- 13. $200.00. Same to Charles Green & Lillie, 4-20-51, E 50of L 54, Sec' 13- 12-13, $175.00. i Phyllis O. Talcott &; Dwight ; to Albert F. Hilfiker & Wilma; H., 4-27-51. S 49" of Sublot 4! of 74 SW'iSW'4 18-12-14, $1.00.! Civil Service Positions Open The United States Civil Serv ice Commission today announc ed examinations to fill geogra pher positions paying $3,825 to $10,000 a year, and physical sci ence aid and engineering aid positions paying $2,650 to $3,825 a year. The positions are lo cated in Washington, D. C, and vicinity. Further information and ap plication forms may be secured from the commission's local sec retary, Henry A. Hughson. lo cated at Plattsmouth. Nebr. In 1949 more than 134 mil-! More automobiles are regis lion major crimes were commit-j tered in California than in any ted in the U. S. I other state. Realty Transfers Dorothy Everett to Norman H. McGale & Mayola, 4-16-51, L. 1 to 4, B. 169. Platts., $1.00. Guy L. Clements & Marie to Clayton Doebele. 4-17-50, W 59' S1' L. 2. B. 21, Elmwood. $1.00. Am. Ex. Bk. to Clayton Doe bele. 4-17-50. same, $1.00. Anna M. Kalina et al to Anna L. McCarty, 3-14-51. L. 9 to 16. B. 4, Stadelman's Add. Platts., $1.00. Victor S. Woolhiser & Mabel to Dwane M. Garrison & Julia, 4-24-51, I. 22, Louis., $250.00.. 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