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7 u 4 m ....... ........... .VVVMVtVAVViViVVAVW EDITORIALS LET THEM SPEAK THEIR MINDS Let's have a word in praise of pros pective graduates, even now working their minds upon problems to be solved at the annual commencement. While the race of human beings pokes fun at the youngsters, isn't there some thing to praise in the eagerness with which they attack the evils of the day and the hopefulness with which they plead their special causes? Youth may be criticized for lack of years, but if cynical experience could solve half the problems that it thinks it can, where would impetuous youth find any thing to correct? . So, to all young people of Cass county, let these greetings appear. Let them pro ceed with their study of "problems" and make known their "cures". Who knows what statesmen have been developed from school-day orators and what the world owes to the keen study of commencement day speakers? COMMUNITY COOPERATION The Journal urges all citizens of Plattsmouth to adopt an intelligent plan of community cooperation. This does not involve the careless boosting that ignores facts or the degenerating pessimism that depreciates everything. It merely requires that the citizens of Plattsmouth should realize that the combined efforts of all neighbors and friends will definitely im prove our town. .? One of the necessities is a sound busi ness structure upon which to rest other ornaments. The trade-at-home policy, as often outlined in this newspaper, is a cardinal principle of community loyalty. It applies to sellers as well as to buyers and involves the use of money for improv ing Plattsmouth by spending . it within municipal limits. ' ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS "The sooner we stop this disparaging of America, the better it will be," declares British Defense Minister Emanual . Shin well, who takes official notice of the ac rimonious criticisms directed against the government of his country because of its alliance with the United States. It is a strange commentary on human nature that in the United States there are those who do their best to stir up ill-feeling between the English-speaking nations. The same can be said of a certain contin gent of the British population. For some reason, the malcontents appear to believe that the welfare of the world will be ser ved by developing hostility between the leading exponents of individual freedom now extant in the world. CARRY MORALS WITH THEM "A gangster or racketeer in a legit imate business does not suddenly become respectable," declares the report of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee. It is pointed out that gangsters enter ing legitimate business carry their under world morals with them. Since monopoly is the secret of big money in criminal ven tures, the gangsters naturally try for monopoly in business. They have no hes itation about the practices necessary to force competitors to the wall. , It might be well to point out that the general tendency to recognize an individ ual of wealth, which is a custom of Amer icans generally, overlooks the question as to how the individual made the money he flourishes. The get-rich-quick philosophy, regardless of methods, is attractive only so long as society in general exhibits a tendency to worship the possession of large sums of cash. THOUGHT FOR TODAY A sudden thought strikes me, let us swear an eternal friendship. Frere The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Peptr ESTABLISHED IX IttX Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For "Outstanding Community Service in 1950" Published 8m!-we-kly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 109-413 Main Street. nsnamouth, Casa County. Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE ;. Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter Helen E. Helnrich St Donna L. Melslnger Society - Bookkeeping: St Circulation I MM i (associPTion Entered at the Tost Office- at Platumogth. Nebraska, as aeoond class mall matter in areordaac with tt Act or Cong-res of Maroh 3. J 87 9. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining coon lies, H0O per year elsewhere. In advance, by maU outside the felt of flatts roeuth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. TTME PlLATnrSIKIDQJTDD JJflDQJTOAQ. SECTION B CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for Over Seventy Years Furse's Fresh Flashes They say brown eyes are an indica tion of a weak will. We don't know about that, but would say that black eyes pro bably indicate a weak defense. A newspaper article urges us to be kind to insects. We never miss an oppor tunity to pat a fly on the back. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says you can't please every body, as people differ. Some object to a fan dancer, others to the fan. Saw a sign in a local tavern recently that read: "The management reserves the right to refuse service to any woman it thinks proper." ' Only two classes of guys have a chance to keep out of the army now college bovs with 4-A's and other bovs with 4-F's. Soldiers in Korea are holding the line while the politicians in this country are handing us theirs. t A bureaucrat is one who doesn't know which way the wind is blowing until he throws his hat into the ring. - System is a great thing in any busi ness if you can find someone to operate it while you take it easy. The dollar may not go far as it used to, but what it lacks in distance, it makes up in speed. We suggest they erect a giant sign over Communist Red China reading: "Washington Slept Here.1 DOWN MEMORY LANE I A YEARS AGO 1U Miss Violet Dodge of Omaha pres ented the DAR History Award given in memory of her mother, Mrs. Jennie Dodge, at the commencement of the class of 1941 to Joe Noble . . . Jean Knorr of this city was presented in the Junior recital of the School of Fine Arts, University of Ne braska, in Lincoln . . . John Gayer was named treasurer of the Men's Pep Club the Corn Cobs at state university . . . Dedication of historic cabin erected by William and Rebeeca Youjig, early settlers in the territory south of Plattsmouth, took place on May 25. Under direction of Al bert Young, grandson of the original builders, a group of NY A boys completed work on this pioneer building, a monu ment to the pioneers of the middle west to be used as a Roy Scout shelter camp site . . . Eugene Ault, Dale Jackson and Jack Highfield were in St. Louis to attend the games of Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals . . . Joe Case- was selected as a flying cadet assig ned to report at the Rankin Aeronautic school at Tulare, Calif. if OA YEARS AGO aU Anton Bajeck, well known xylophone artist appeared on radio - station KFAB ... The Plattsmouth Public Library gain ed national recognition of its service in report of past year showing 58,297 books had been issued or 13Y per capita, es timated on 4,000 population. (Copyright. 1949. By the BeTJ Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON! SAYS: OIL LOB BY WINS FIRST ROUND IN REVER SING SUPREME COURT ON TIDE LANDS OIL: HENRY WALLACE'S OLD GARDEN IS NEGLECTED: ' UNREST GROWS IN COMMUNIST CHINA. Washington. One result of the Mac Arthur controversy is a field day for the lobbyists. With the country absorbed with the MacArthur dispute, the lobbyists are able to put across all sorts of fancy deals without the public realizing it. One of the latest is a move to reverse the supreme court in regard to tidelands oil. In 1936, when President Roosevelt tried to reverse the supreme court by an act of congress, it made headlines for weeks. But without benefit of headlines, the big oil lobbyists are now trying to re verse the supreme court ruling that the submerged oil lands off the coast of the United States belong to all the 48 states, not merely to California, Texas and Louis iana. Last, week the lobbyists quietly won out in their initial move. They finagled the Senate Interior Committee into voting 7 to 4 to return tidelands oil to these three states. The vote was over the objection of Cbairnran Senator Jo O'Mahoney of Wrominy, wha tripd to blel$ the oil lobby with a compromise bill, and who spent WIDENED MEMORIAL DAY HORIZONS (3") THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, May 24, 1951 Section C PAGE ONE a'SWashiBSlaB-. 5 a a ood o o c two hours privately trying to persuade Senator Russell Lone of Louisiana, spokesman for the lobby, to compromise. But Long wouldn't budge. Closed-Door Vote In the showdown voting be hind closed doors. GOP Senator Hugh Butler from the inland state of Nebraska, with no wa ter boundary other than the Missouri River, showed up with the proxies of two other GOP Senators Ecton from the laud locked state of Montana, and Watkins from the desert state of Utah. Joined by Senator Cordon of Oregon, this made four Repub lican votes for the oil compan ies. Chairman O'Mahoney had counted on the vote of the Sen ate majority leader McFarland of Arizona, since the maioritv leader is supposed to vote with the administration on all ma jor policies. However. McFar land ows a debt to nrsuasive potent Bob Kerr of Oklahoma, the m?n who reallv made him matoritv leader, and McFarland ioined two other Democrats Long of Louisiana and Smath ers of Florida in overruling the suoreme court. O'Mahonev was able to muster only three votes besides his own Ander son of New Mexico. Murrav of Montana and Lehman of New York, all Democrats. After the tidelands vote. Mc Farland roR- to leave, slr'sh Iv offered, his nrnxv to O'Mah Opv on som minor votes. "Ttv, too late now" snort H O'Mahonev. "i rould have used it a wb'1 nro." Wetback Wallace For manv vears the Minister of Switzerland, nomilar Charles Brn?emann. had the b""fit of a veeetable garden cultivated Hr one of the capital's most famous pardoners a vire pres ident of the United States. Brueemarm's brother-in-law haoDen5 to he Henry Walla0: and while Wallace was vie resident he couldn't, resist the ure to get his hands into tb soil. So 'very sorin? he was a regular 5:30 a.m. visitor at the Swiss Legation grounds. The other day the Swiss Min ister met an old friend at the State Department who asked about the vegetable garden. "Ah." replied the Minister with a twinkle. "We don't en joy any of that cheap labor any more." Chinese Unrest It's always difficult to know exactly what is happening in such a vast country as China, but intelligence reports, plus news from missionaries, all in dicate growing dissatisfaction with the communist regime. Though v General MacArthur testified that. the Chinese Reds were consolidating their hold on China. Allied Intelligence is pretty much the opposite. Here are some straws in the Chinese wind: 1. Anti-communist . guerrilla bands are operating in south China. In many sections, the communists control only the cities, oorts and rail centers. 2. The famine this year has been worse than usual. Several million have died, and the com munists get the blame. 3. Mao is torn between his rival. Li Li-San. who is virtually Russian regent of Manchuria. and Chinese moderates on the other hand who claim Mao ta kes too many orders from Mos cow. 4. Chinese armies long have been considered the personal Tooertv of their commanders, and these commanders don't like to see tbir troops decim ate bv casualties. When this writer was in China sor"" vears ao. there was no cntrai government, but region al rnip bv the commanders of certain armies. That is why the .avv casualties in Korea are likely to hurt. The Chinese arp accustomed to seeing death all around them. But a military commander Is jealous of his -ower and doesn't like to see his personal army dwindle. Merrr-Go-Ronnd Harassed Paul Hoffman, for mer head of the Marshall Plan. Is leavine for Eurooe June 2 but not on a business trip. He's been invited to give commence ment addresses at 73 schools and colleges, and he just had to get out of the country . . . Some of mobilizer Charles E. Wilson's cracks against the President have been getting back to the White House . . . Francis Matthews, the quiet, hard-working Secretary of the Navy, can have the post of Am bassador to Ireland, if he wants it . . . The President has al ready outlined his first speech for the proDosed "whistle stop" campaign. It will be aimed at the power and real-estate lob bies;, but manv. observers .doubt he can repeat this effectively again. Behind the Iron Curtain Red armyRussia has nearly completed modernizing its arm ed forces in East Germany. Nearly all propellor - driven fighters have been replaced bv jets, and modern antiaircraft euns have been rushed into Germany. reDlacing outmoded guns. Meanwhile, Russia has al so expanded its total eround strength' from 175 divisions to 225 divisions.' (Eisenhower does n't have 17 divisions to defend Western Europe yet.) j Stettin. East Germany The most serious anti-Russian dem onstrations since th war have broken out in east Poland. An pry Poles stoned, beat and man handled Russian troons. after a Pussian major shot and killed six Poles in the center of Stet tin for refusing to step aside while he walked by. Farm Collectivization Ana Pauker. head of the Cominform. has notified Russian satellites to slow down on collectivizing farms. The peasants are seeing very anti-Soviet even in Rus sia. Albanian communism The Russians have now rushed more than 100 fighter planes to Al bania to helo Premier Hoxa's government in battling anti- communist partisans. Pitched battles involving units of sev eral hundred men have broken out in the last three weeks. It looks as if Albanian commun ism is on the way out. AGAINST the dramatic backdrop of the pontifical testimony of General Douglas MacArthur before a joint senate committee relative to this nation's foreign policy, which the general generally de plores, a committee of the top business men of the nation, the Committee for Economic Develop ment, has issued a statement on national policy which appears to be almost wholly at variance with that of the erstwhile Korean area commander. The theme of General Mac Artbnr's testimony is that this nation's major effort to stop the Russian Communists should be made in Asia, by starting an aggressive war there, and that our enemy is not necessarily Russia but Communism. And as brought out by Senator Fnl bright, Communism is an idea r a belief which cannot be defeated by force of arms, bat Russian Commonist imperial Ism and its threat to engulf the free world is the enemy against which we are now fight ing in Korea and mobilizing for come what may. The Committee for Economic De velopment in its national policy statement recognizes the nation's commitments to place major em phasis on the European phase of this global-struggle and ssys: "Considering that some Amer ican reverse in Korea caused peo ple in other countries to doubt the ability of the United States to halt the spread of ComrniHiism. it re quires little imagination to fore see the strength of the wave of the future psychology which would sweep the world in the event of the Soviet conquest of western Europe. The Russians would then be in an excellent position to use tactics of psychological warfare and in ternal subversion in a drive to neu tralize or dominate many of the countries remaining outside the Soviet orbit and thus largely to iso late the United States strategi cally, diplomatically, ideologically and economically. ... - -- m . "The many millions ef Americans who have supported the European policy of the United States govern ment since the war have done so. not out of self-Merest alone; tney have recognized that the fall of western Europe would impoverish civilization. The loss of western Europe would be the loss of the fountainhead of a great part of political traditions, our philosophy, art and music. Cherished ances tral ties would be severed. Spirit ual and political bonds which grow out f our common atti tudes toward religion, towards th rights and responsibilites of the individuals, and toward the role ot the state would be broken ... "We are thus committed by cul tural affinity and by treaty obliga tion, as well as by self-interest, to share in the strengthening of the defenses of western Europe against the Soviet threat to European se curity." V r 4 Says flie CED: "Given the flexibility of Soviet tactics. It is clearly the task of the west ern powers to rganize a com prehensive and balanced secu rity program which leaves no breach wide enough to invite a Soviet thrust. In view of the present military weakness of the western alliance first prior ity most now obviously be given t rearmament. The rearma ment effort most be on a scale sufficient to create within two or three years a military force able, in the event of open war, to check an onslaught by U Red army until the - full war ' potential of the United States and the allied free nations could be mobilized and brought to bear on the aggressor ..." And the CED lays great stress on the fact that rearmament and security are not synonymous. "The contest between the Soviet Union and the west is ultimately a contest of strength, not of arms alone;1 strength embraces rot only armed might, but in addition all those less measurable elements such as greater productivity, efficiency, equity in the distribution of in come, political and economic sta bility, and social cohesiveness and spirit which are the real sinews of nationarpower . . it is imper ative that the Marshall plan be preserved 'and sustained in the re armament period upon which we By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans Service Officer Hospitalization of Female Female veterans are eligible ! Pitaliztlon and the condition w juui i3 iu iiittiic it uiauv li able to attempt transportation immediately to a V. A. hospital. However, no conditions connect ed with child birth or pregnancy can be considered as emergency in this respect and thus treated at government expense. College Scholarship for Descendant of WW I Veterans The University of Nebraska has announced that it will be able to grant about twenty-five scholarships from the LaVerne Noyes fund to eligible descend- service- j ants of veterans of WW I. These scnoiarsmps amount to so&.oo per semester toward tuition and are awarded to incoming fresh men as well as upper class stu dents. Applicants must be blood descendants of WW I veterans. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of need, scholarship and character. Applications should be made to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, not later than June for hospitalization on the same basis as male veterans. The fa cilities for hospitalization are limited, however. The Lincoln hospital now has four beds avaiinhu and the Omaha hos- pital lists seven A .? beds as being fjT ,rw-c3 available for fe male pauenis. Female veter ans are also en titled to out-patient treatment. If such a veteran has a 7 J X Y LX connected disa- l vy (J bility she may re V J j ceive treatment Richard Peck in her own com munity from a local physician for the service-connected con dition whether " the same be emergent or not. She would al so be entitled to treatment in her own community for a non service - connected disability when emergent conditions exist that are of uch a nature that would require immediate hos-15. " i" i r i-infi rSirfi rtf- -irif- MRS. 6 RACE PLVION. Csrratpsadmt Noble Buell of Mitchell, S. D., visited his parents Saturday and a part of Sunday. He was in the state to be in attendance at the rabies-conference in Omaha. Charles Marshall was the speaker at the Methodist church on Sunday morning. His sub ject was - Durable Pleasures. ' Howard Pool had charge of the opening service and devotionals. Opal Clements was soloist, and Mrs. John Johnston, organist. Kim wood Sister Of Mrs. Lucy Lyle Dies Mrs. Lucy Lyle attended the funeral service of her sister, Mrs. Leavitt, in Lincoln on Sat urday afternoon. That city had been her home for a number of years but she passed away in Oklahoma at the home of a daughter. On Sunday Mrs. Lyle had as guests her niece Mrs. Gertrude Lantz. her friend. Ver na Nelson of Lincoln and Mrs. Mima Davis of Odessa, Mq., who is. making a more extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Lyle. ' :' Elm-wood Baccalaureate Services Held Baccalaureate services were held at the Methodist church on Sunday evening, with Rev. E. F. Haist preaching the ser mon on the subject, "Facing the Future. Assisting m the serv ice were Rev. Elby Boosinger and Rev. J. A. Adams. Mrs. Dwight Clements played the procession al and the recessional music. A girls'- sextette sang "The Green Cathedral," Clayton Lin- der played the baritone solo, "The Holy City." and Eleanor Brunkow sang 'T Heard a For est Praying." Joyceola Eiden miller accompanied these num bers on the piano. Elm wood On Saturday the ladies of St. i Mary's church held a food and j lunch sale at the Bornemeier I Transfer office, and in the eve ; ning the members of the Ladies ' Council serv ed dinner at the Christian church parlors. ! Miss Ethel Mook spent the week end at her home in Lincoln ! and had a visit with California relatives there. The local members of the county Historical Society met at : the home of Mary Craig Lin- hardt on Monday afternoon to plan for the June meeting which i is to be held in the Community building here. Mrs. Henry Knaupe, Rodney and Roberta of Weeping Water were in South Bend on Sunday, ! then came here for evening dm !ner with her mother, sister and aunt, Mrs. Fitch, and , Ahlene and Anna McFall. - Journal Want Ads Pay! 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