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EDITORIALS WANTS BIG WAR IN ASIA Commenting on the argument that the United States should turn its full force toward fighting Communism in China, Robert Sherwood, author and playwright, now in Europe, says that nothing would please -the Soviet Union more than to see this country involved in an "interminable war in East Asia." Mr. Sherwood says that once the United States becomes fully involved in an Asiatic conflict, the Russians would feel free to move into Western Europe. If the Russians acquire control of Western Eu rope and its manpower, they would ac quire "the greatest concentrations of in dustrial strength factories, ship yards, foundries, mines that exist anywhere on earth outside our own country." In addition, says Mr. Sherwood, con trol of vast resources of raw material would be acquired and there would be danger that the Russians would neutralize the bases from which allied air power can most efficiently attack Russian military and industrial circles. This would be ser ious because the threat of air attack is to day probably "the greatest of all deter rents to Russian expansion." $185 NOW EQUALS $100 The shrinkage of the American dollar is illustrated by the N. Y. Journal of Com merce which says that total cost-of-living necessities now amount to. $185 a month as compared with $100 in 1939. ' This 83 increase took place in three stages- which reveal interesting figures. Before and during World War II between 1939 and 1945, there was an increase of $30. Immediately after the end of the war, when price controls were removed by Congress, prices went up S41 additional before reaching a level. Another $14 in crease came after the beginning of the Korean war. The figures seem to indicate that price control was effective. Despite crit icisms and the demand of business leaders for their removal, as a step toward letting competition lower prices, the abolition of controls was followed by an immediate surge upward. MORE WAR FOR LESS MONEY Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, who demands a more aggressive attitude to ward Communist China in order to wind up the Korean war. also calls for a re duction of $20,000,000,000 in the mobili zation budget. The Ohio Senator complains about "stalemate war" in Korea but apparently is willing to gamble on a bigger stalemate war in the event that Russia takes aggres sive action in Europe. Mr. Taft is entitled to his views, both as to widening the scope of the Korean conflict and reduced military expenditures by this country. Nevertheless, the two pro posals do not seem to be logical. It's like sending out incendiaries to start fires in a " municipality while, at the same time, cutting down the size of the fire depart ment. DRAFT CALLS ARE LOW . The call for men by the armed ser vices is much less than earlier indicated. The April and May draft calls were prac tically cut in half and the June call is for only 20,000. This is a temporary condition which will probably continue for several months, according to Major General Louis P. Her shey, who points out that the time will be given to the training of men already in the service. Later In the year it is expected that additional men will be required to build up the armed forces to what the military experts consider a safe level. This is vitally important to the security of the country and should not be interrupted. THOUGHT FOR TODAY othuuj is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal ;io-u does ahcays last. Cow lev The Plattsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper nsTABLisunn in mi Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For Outstanding Community Service in 1950" rAUbV?e fe-wekly. Mondays apd Thursdays, at 109-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth. Ca.s County, Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE E$t FRAttK H SMITH News Reporter Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Meisiner . Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation intBRfiSKPI "D i (assocmrion m v m Saa ) m NATIONAL i r wrruscL r assooatku Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for Over Seventy Years SECTION B CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper Furse's Fresh Flashes A woman in a neighboring county gained twenty pounds while she was in jail. We'll bet she behaves herself after this. Read where treasury agents have broken up a big counterfeiting ring in Ne braska. Considering the present value of a buck, the homemade imitation can only be classified as art for art's sake. At last we've found an old-fashioned girl she's at home with her first husband. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says the woods are full of people who don't have to smoke or drink to have a good time. One reason most of us can't find our way out of a difficulty is that we're look ing for an easv wav out. Bystanders are those who can do the job better. ic ic We never worry much about people who go i around telling lies about us we'll begin to worry when they start tell ing the truth. One reason the pioneers came out to this country by covered wagon is that they probably didn't want to wait around thir tv years for a train. Dancing is the art of pulling your feet away faster than your partner can step on them. Note to women: If you want to con ceal anything from a man, leave it around in plain sight. Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, s 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 eitv of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. DOWN MEMORY LANE 1 A YEARS AGO 1U Dr. H. G. McClusky presided over the Baccalaureate service at Presbvterian church for Class of 1941 with Rev. J. E. Taenzler delivering the message to the graduates . . . Rev. S. G. Schick pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church gave the commencement address at Yutan, Nebr. . . . Ray Wiysel. local Studebaker dealer and James McMillian departed for South Bend, Indiana to visit the factory there . . . City Hostess plan got off to a flying start with eleven calls made during the initial week extending city's friendly welcome to as many new families Mrs. Thomas Thomsen of the local Credit Bureau assisted the newly appointed hostess Mrs. E. C. Giles in mak ing the calls and putting plan into opera tion . . . Miss Jane Oakes resigned from local faculty second grade effective at close of school to be married. OA YEARS AGO LSj With returns of 1930 census being issued from Washington. D. C. some in teresting facts were disclosed. Platts mouth's population was listed at 3.793 1,924 males and 1.869 females; 3.395 na tive and 398 foreign born. Cass County's population was given as 17,684 with 1,230 foreign born . . . Ten minutes after he took to the air for a series of thrilling maneuvers before a large crowd at the air races in Omaha, "Speed" Holman, nation ally known pilot and dare-devil sky-rider was instantly killed. Many Plattsmouth people witnessed the accident. tGS3T"CGSS3 (Copyright, 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: AMER ' ICAN B-29S SUFFERED HEAVY LOSS NEAR MANCHURIA; DEAN ACHESON ADVISED TO CHANGE HIS NAME; RUSSIA OUT-SMARTS OUR PROPAGANDA IN. INDIA. Washington. The American public has shown its ability to take the bad news along' with the good and therefore has a right to know about our worst disaster of the Korean war. So far the facts have not been released at the Pentagon, Last month, however, 40 B-29 super fortresses, escorted by jet fighters, bomb ed the international bridge connecting Sin weju, North Korea, with Antung, Man churia. The B-29s were hugging so close to the Manchurian border that one side was exposed and approximately 100 Rus sian MIG-15 jet fighters hit them from the exposed Manchurian side, breaking up the formation. Two B-29s were shot down, a third was listed as missing but was seen crash ing into the sea. Seven of the big super fortresses had to crash-land in South Kor ea, while one more was badly damaged but made it back to the home base. Despite this disastrous toll, the bridge wasn't even hit, and the mission was a complete failure. On the other hand, most APPROVING SPECTATOR THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, May 17, 1951 Section B PAGE ONE 1 ?-HA.PlM of our bombing missions have been far more successful and the Air Force on the whole has done an amazing job. When our planes eet close to the Manchur ian border and Russian planes, however. th hazards increase. Dean "Mac Acheson" President Truman gave a small dinner party recently for Israel's visiting: prime minister. David Ben Gurion, and during the evening commented on the prime minister's unusual name. Ben Gurion explained to Mr. Truman that he had taken an old Jewish name, and that many Jews had changed their names after settling in Israel. At the table was elder-statesman Congressman Charles Eat on of New Jersey, who. though a Republican, has been svm pathic to Secretary of State Acheson during the General MacArthur discussion. Turning to Acheson. Eaton remarked: "Perhans. Mr. Secretary, you should change vour name to something beginning with 'Mac " Friendship Grain For India The Russians are plaving the same kind of trick in India that they did in France a trick which helped inspire the Friend ship train in the United States. In India todav. the Kremlin has suddenly announced that it is sending 50.000 tons of wheat to the Indian people: and as a result of this carefully timed move. Russia has monopolized the headlines and won thous ands of new friends. Actually. Pussia is falling the what. not pivin- it. In contrast, the TTni tpd States has ben selling whest to India at the rate of 100.000 bushels per month for some time. In a somewhat similar situa tion in France in 1947. Russia landed one shipload of wheat in Marseilles during the height of the French drought, and. thanks to a parade through the citv. ot reams of publicity and left the general impression that she was feeding the French people. Actually, France had to pay for the Russian wheat in dol lars, however. This incident helped give this writer the idea of having the American people collect food by means of the Friendship Train for the then hungry people of western Europe, and showing motion pictures of the food col lections and of the train in the theatres of Europe so Europeans could see that the food really came from the friendly Ameri can people. Somewhat the same people- i to-people movement is xiow tak- i . i in? piace in renara to luoa iur India.- Thousands of college students and others have raised wheat which they are shipping through the Indian embassy in Washington. Meanwhile Sena tor Humphrey of Minnesota has worked out an arrangement with the American Red Cross wherbv anvone can send cash to '"Friendship Grain", care of the Red Cross. Washington, DC. and it will be used for the purchase of food from govern ment surpluses and shipped to India. In other words, while Con gress dillydallies, the American NEB RmSKA h IAMII C OLf ON, SuptrinUndtM TAT I BltTOaiCAL IOCIITV Charles W. Bryan, who served three terms as governor (1923 25, 1931-351, though overshad owed by the commanding figure of his brother, William J., stands as one of Nebraska's most color ful political figures and an im portant personage in his own right. He was born at Salem. 111.. Feb. 10, 1867. After attending Illinois College and the Univer sity of Chicago, he went to farming and the raising of pure bred livestock. In 1891, he came out to Lincoln, where his older brother already had made enough of a name for himself to get elected to congress. In Lincoln, he became manager and itn ... Id' if a ' J tT I I I I I I 111 II I w m neonle. as usual, are wav ahead '. salesman for a manufacturing of their legislators. j The MacArthur Controversy So manv thousands of words of testimony have been nublish- ed regarding the MacArthur dis pute, that it is difficult, to keen the record straight. However, here nre a few important far";, not pll of them published, which should be weighed in arriving at conclusions: General MacArthur mention ed four prints in the now-famous Jan. 12 memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Actually, there were 16 points in this memo, and it was pprhaps nat ural that he should mention only the points which best sup ported his case. Of the 12 other points, many were technical, but several sig nificant. One point that hasn't been published was proposal by Washington to use anti-communist Chinese guerrillas on the and brokerage business. When his older brother cata pulted to national prominence. Charles W. became his" political secretary and business agent, a post he retained until the death of William Jennings Bryan in 1925. An important feature of this relationship was Charles W. Bryan's service as publisher and associate editor of The Com moner, the nationally-known publication through which Wil liam Jennings Bryan expressed his views on questions of the day. Politics was the oread of life to the Bryan brothers, and it wasn't lone before Charles W. decided to try for public office. He was elected to the Lincoln city commission in 1915 and chosen as mayor by his fellow commissioners. He was elected to the commission again in 1921. His first try for the governor- Vctteipains9 Coflemrae By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Gratuitous Indemnity Insurance Some information is now avail able on the new form of insur ance provided by congress for servicemen in service on and after June 27. 1950. While the law became effective on April 25, 1951, any action to be taken under the law must await issu ance of regula tions by the Ad ministrator o f Veterans Affairs. Briefly, the act provides for free indemnity to sur vivors of all per sons who die in the Armed Forces on or after June 27, 1950. The amount of the ind e m n i t y is $10,000.00 and is without cost to the serviceman. This protection covers the period of active serv ice and also' the periods follow ing call and order to active service or final induction and 120 days after separation from active service. Beneficiaries are limited to members of the serv iceman's Immediate family and the indemnity is payable only in monthly installments over a ten Richard Peck year period. The maximum in demnity payable under the law to be $92.90 monthly for 10 years. An indemnity is exempt - from claims of creditors and is also exempt from taxation. Under the law the total lia bility of the government is lim ited to $10,000 in any one case. Thus, if a man in service had $5,000 of National Service Life Insurance in force at the time of his death which was on or after June 27, 1950, the benefi ciary would receive $5,000 pay ment on the National Service Life Insurance and $5,000 grat uious indeminity. The law makes no provision for refund of prem iums paid on the National Serv ice Life Insurance. Within 120 days after dis charge a serviceman may apply for a National Service Life In surance 5-year term policy up to a maximum of $10,000 which he may keep in force by pay ment of premiums in the usual manner. This insurance, unlike NSLI will not pay dividends and there is no provision for con version to a permanent plan of insurance. The premium rate, however, Is considerably lower. Chinese mainland and the "sil ver bullet" policy. The latter refers to the time-honored cus torn of buying off Chinese gen erals with silver. Another important unpublish ed point was the Joint Chiefs of Staff advice to stabilize the Korean line if possible, and if not. to evacuate Korea altoget her. Evacuation, however, was vigorously opposed by MacArth ur. his chief objection being that it would appear to be a military defeat. It is understandable that he didn't want to finish his career with a military defeat. but it is also interesting that he and Secretary of State Acheson heartily concurred in opposing any withdrawal from Korea. Their reasons, however. wrere different. Acheson felt that if it was finally necessary to with draw, the withdrawal should be acknowledged as a military de feat. We should tell the world that we had done the best we could to block aggression, he argued, but were outnumbered. There was nothing dishonor able, he felt, in military defeat as long as we had done our best. General MacArthur. on the other hand, believed that if we had to withdraw from Korea it should be labeled as a political decision by the U.N., rather than one forced by military neces sity. Fortunately. . Chief of Staff Collins flew to Korea shortly thereafter and decided that the U.N. could hold. rN THE :.IIDST of the foreign pol icy debate and the furor over the MacArthur testimony before the senate armed services committee, President Truman has tossed a request for tax increases, tighter controls and a stationary parity on farm products into the congres sional hopper. That the administration is divided on the parity issue is seen from the fact that Secre tary f Agriculture Charles F. Brannan had testified before the houe agricultural commit tee in defense of the present parity program. The Presi dent's parity program followed that of his chief mobilization ffieer, Charles E. Wilson, who wants to freeze parity as of January 15 for a year at a time, instead of letting the par ity figure fluctuate as it now does according to the cost of living for the farmer. In his message asking for a two- year extension of the defense pro duction act which expires June 30 this year, the President wants tighter credit controls and higher taxes to drain off excess purchas ing power. "The world situation cu!d ex plode at any time and v.e must make every day count," the Presi dent said. Ft held out as an alter native to the freezing of the parity program other devices "including limited food subsidies to prevent necessary farm price increases irom being reilected. in rises in the cost of living.' Amazingly enough, Secretary Brannan who has heretofore not been in the good graces of the Farm Bureau, the National Grange or other farm organiza tions has won their highest com mendations for his defense of the parity program, and in the case he made for the farmers before the congressional committees. As to subsidies, this plan long has been opposed 'by" farm organ iztions, but m. report of the de fense production administration just this week indicates that indus trial firms, some 600 of them, have been granted tax amortizations on certificates on plant and facilities expansions totalling $4,100,000,000 which will amount to little more than a subsidy Irom the govern ment for a large part of that huge sum. Included in the President s message were these recommenda tions other than the parity freeze: (1) Authorize the government to build and operate defense plants where necessary to produce . essential materials and equip ment; (2) permit use of differen tial subsidies to fret essential pn duction from high-cost sources without increasing price ceilings; . (3) provide controls over credit on existing nousing, ana regula tions for speculative trading on commodity exchanges; (4) strengthen the laws to permit a tough and aggressive enforcement of price controls; (5) enforce ef fective control over both residen tial and commercial rents. His anti-inflation program included, beside a tax increase, increased personal savings through purchase of government bonds; reduction of borrowing and credit buying for non-defense purposes; fair ceil ings on prices and rents and sia bilization of wages and salaries at fair levels. Although technically the bill is not dead, the senate bas voted against dispersal of some 45. 004 government em ployees to nearby Maryland and Virginia and elsewhere in the country to insure continu ity of vital governmental acti vities in event of atomic at tack on Washington. The vote was relatively close, 45 to 39. The vote, came, however, on a motion by Senator Dirksen. of Illinois to recommit the bill for further study, so it was not killed outright. Such a disper sal program has been under study in the capital since last August and the cost has been estimated up to $139,000.00 and would include construction ) of four permanent buildings. I . Despite his declaration that he would refuse to continue as . member of the crime probe com mittee, after the - senate voted to continue the life of its special crime investigation committee unanimously, Senator Estes Ke fauver bas agreed to remain a member of the committee, al though chairmanship will be taken over by Senator Herbert R. O' Connor of Maryland. ship came in 1916 when he un-!date for the governorship. He successfully sought the Demo- died March 4, 1945. cratic nomination for that post. He was passed over again by the SLICES IT UP uemocrauc primary in iyi, put in 1922 was nominated and elected. During the campaign, ! he vigorously attacked the "civil I administrative code, but, fac-1 ing a hostile legislature, was un able to do anything about it as governor. Mr. Bryan was renominated in 1924, but withdrew to accept the Democratic nomination for the vice presidency. He returned! to the Nebraska political front '...rwn - 1Aft iiti? pfvt to become the Democratic nom-j l V I . V. V. . inee for governor in 1926. He chiuauu a oanait iorcea .was defeated in the general jy" aimu, j, tu give up an election nf that vpar. as hp was cioines as MEMPHIS. Tenn. Martin Wenzler, who works at the Methodist hospital pharmacy reports a new style of downing an ice cream cone. Wenzler said a customer ordered an ice cream cone, but instead of lapping the ice cream the usual way, "he ate it with a pocket knife as thought he was eating an apple." in iy28, out m iyau ne won election, and in 1932 was re elected. Following his retirement from the governorship, he was elected mayor of Lincoln, serving one term. In 1938 he ran unsuccess fully as an independent candi- well as wallet. Zaffini ran naked through the city streets for more than 20 minutes before he found refuge in a banker's home. Lung tuberculosis was called "rising of the Iignts" in Eng land in 1648. 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