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EDITORIALS SECTION 13 CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper i MAKE PLATTSMOUTH PRETTIER ' Nature, bursting" in bloom, suggests the beauty that would belong to Platts mouth if advantage were taken of the native flowering species, planted for growth and development in various local ities where they would startle our inhab itants in, the early spring with their ex quisite pictures of exotic loveliness. Every community can enhance its own appearance and present its inhabitants with rare delights if a little time and thought be given to this idea. Really, folks, there is no excuse for an unattractive town or city in the springtime of the year. What shall we do about it, besides talking and thinking? Do we hear someone say, "Platts mouth is wonderful at this time of the year!" We do! Well, we will admit that Plattsmouth has made a good start and that it is ahead of other places that we i know, but, just the same, we have hardly scratched the surface and, besides, there are other places that are far ahead of our city. BEAUTIES IN SCANTIES We are getting fed up with the pic tures of beauties, half-clad and posed, as they prance around exhibition halls for a chance to be called some kind of a "beau ty queen." ? The beauty contest idea 'has been worked overtime, so far as feminine shape liness is concerned, and some of the con testants seem to be ready for anything so long as it is called a "contest" with a prize to be awarded for pulchritude. The obvious answer is that the public is girl-conscious and the answer may "Pe correct. Just the same, it is about time for some smart girls to figure out that there might be just a bit more allure in less exhibitionism. it HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO WAR? How close is war to the United States? No one can answer this question un less he is able to read the mind of Joseph Stalin, and the other leaders of Soviet Russia. It is admitted that the policies of the United States are hostile to the supremacy of Communism throughout the world and the acts of this country in fighting agres sion in Korea provide ample example for the Communists to declare war. The question then arises whether Sta lin and the other Communists will decide to wage open war upon the United States. The answer, according to most experts, is, "No." This does not mean that the Com munists are afraid-of the United States. It means that, at this stage of -the game, it is probably more profitable not to have a full-scale war with the United States. We should not overlook the fact that the United States at this time possesses an overwhelming supremacy in the atomic bomb. Granting that the Russians have been able to manufacture some of these destructive agents, the early start of the United States gives us a preponderance which, according to Mr. Winston Churc hill, prevents the Russians from attempt ing all-out war. it it it TIME COMES FOR US TO PAY The United States is slowlv getting away from the childish idea that it is a favored nation, without the dangers that beset other countries. There has been, in times past, a wide spread acceptance of the theory that the world is our apple and that all we have to consider is how to dispose of the fruit. The time is not far off when the people of this country will realize, as they have never done before, tjiat every nation pays for what it enjoys, whether it be peace, vast commerce or successful exis tence in the midst of rapacious, predatory powers. , THOUGHT FOR TODAY Ezrry man cannot be the best, but crery man can he Jiis best. Mirabeau The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IX isgi rfelrded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For outstanding Community Service in 1950" YK"?.?' Monda and Thursday, at 103-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County. Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE .... Edito ' nV--Vn News ReSSrte? Helen E. Heinnch & Donna L. Meisiner Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, s second class mall manor In accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1 K79. 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. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION vigorously. Furse's Fresh Flashes Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says marriage begins when you sink into his arms and ends with your arms in a sink. A boy is at the in-between age in life when he knows why a strapless eve ning gown is held up, but he doesn't know how. We recently reached the highest point of inflation recently. They awarded a guy back east over $31,000 as the Nobel peace prize. Actually, we don't think there is over two-bits worth of peace in the whole world. You can depend upon your neighbors sending your kids home at the hour you mention, if not a little before. We'll go on record right here in ask ing for a little peace and quiet 'in the world so we can catch up with our worry ing. , , Culture is the product of versatility and leisure, aided and abetted by some cash. , . y There may not be anything new under the sun, but the present generation is see ing it for the first time. A local woman is no longer consid ered an active member of her Sewing Club. She never says a word she just sits around and sews. All is forgiven by a Plattsmouth war bride after she heard he had been going around with a jeep overseas. She thought it was a female Jap. DOWN MEMORY LANE OA YEARS AGO U Friends here of the Frank Dunbar family received announcements of the graduation of their daughter Miss Jane at Seattle, Washington. The family moved from here to California then to Seattle where Jane completed her school work . . . Carlyne Thomas was honored at her home at a birthday party, to which high school friends were invited. Mrs. Thomas was assisted in serving by Mrs. John W. Gamble of Omaha, grandmother of Carlyne, and her sisters Miss Aimie Jane and Betty Ann . . . Many very attractive spots were to be found throughout the city streets carrying out the policy of planting flowers and shrubs in the small parks and parkways operated as a part of the citv park svstem. I A YEARS AGO 11 Dr. Leonard Fitch optometrist was opening offices in Plattsmouth . ; . The members of Plattsmouth Rotary and their ladies enjoyed a chicken dinner and boat trip down the Missouri aboard the Robert Hoover, with Capt. J. A. Kruger of the Kansas City Bridge Company in charge . . . The Norfolk Packing Co. were enga ged in their spinach pack . . . Robert Taylor, son of Dr. and Mrs. G. L. Taylor, former residents, graduated with cum laude honors class of 1941 State Teachers College at Kearney . . . R. Foster Patter son gave address at laying of corner stone at new Central School buildine; under auspices of Nebraska Grand Lodge AF & AM. (Copyricht. 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: TRUMAN HINTS OF CALIFORNIA TRIP; SEN. McCARRAN'S SECRETARY HAS SENATORIAL AMBITIONS; NEW WRINKLE UNCOVERED IN B. & O RFC SCANDAL. Washington. President Truman, talking to a friend from San Francisco the other day, hinted that he would soon be making a whistle-stop campaign through California. The friend had warn ed that Mr. Truman had better come out to California soon. "That's in the cards," the President -promptly replied. "That's in the cards." Then, as an afterthought, he asked why he was needed in California. "Your're in trouble out there, Mr. President," the friend replied, "as a re sult of MacArthur's visit." "Oh, that'll be all right," was Tru man's humorous comeback. "California's composed of crackpots from Kansas, Iowa and Missouri like me. Once I get out there and talk their language, they'll get back in line." Snubbed Senator Busy Sen. Ken Wherry of Nebraska is complaining bitterly about the way he has been snubbed by General MacArthur, the man for whom he has gone to bat so J Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for WANTED, jfX.W.Nt.V What irks Ken is that Sena tors Knowland of California, Bridges of New Hampshire and Taft of Ohio, all Republicans, are in frequent touch with Mac Arthur, while his spokesman. Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, telephoned questions to them to shoot at Gen. Omar Bradley and Gen. Joe Collins, when they were on the witness stand. In contrast. Senator Wherry was turned down when he tried to see MacArthur in New York, and hasn't yet been able to get him on the telephone. You can't blame him for feeling just a littleout in the cold ----- Lady Senator From Reno?? It is supposed to be an office secret, but the lady who runs Sen. Pat McCarran's office, at tractive Eva Adams, now has ambitions to become a senator from Nevada herself. Miss Ad ams has been badgering her boss. McCarran. to support her in the 1952 election against his Nevada colleague. GOP Sen. George "Molly" Malone. Miss Adams has secretly cov eted Malone's seat for some time, and even put herself through law school at nights until, last year, she passed both the District of Columbia and Nevada Bar examinations. She is the pert, competent, former dean of women at Nevada Uni versity, but for the past 10 years she has been McCarran's secretary. Those close to McCar ran's office also say she can twist the Senator around her finger. Net result of Miss Adams' political ambitions is that the silver-thatched Nevada Demo crat is very much on the spot. For he had already promised his support privately to Alan Bible, the ex-attornev eeneral. who also wants to run against Ma lone. If McCarran goes through with his support for Bible, it means that his senate office and the lady who runs it will be impossible to live with. Therefore, the harassed McCar ran is trying to placate his secretary by offering to make her a federal judge, even though VetteFains9 CoHmmii By RICHART C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer New V. A. Benefits for Korean Veterans Specific benefits made avail able to veterans of the present war in Korea by the recent act of Congress passed on May 11, 1951. are of considerable im portance. Persons who served on or aft er June 27. 1950, are now en titled to hospitalization, domi ciliary care, pros thetic appliances, disability com pensation and pension, and vo cational rehabili tation training for those dis abled. Full war time disability c o m- are payable for Richard Peck service - c o n nected disability whether the veteran served in Korea or in any part of the world including the United States. Pensions for permanent and total disability incurred by reasons not trace able to military service are also payable. Before the law was passed, pensions wtre limited A STRONG WEIGHT LIFTER she was admitted to the bar only a short time ago. Biggest RFC Loan The more you dig into the RFC scandal regarding the huge 587,000,000 loan to the Balti more and Ohio railroad, the more you wonder why Repub lican Senators side-stepped a showdown at a time when they controlled Congress ' in 1947. Had they finished their RFC probe instead of mysteriously suspending; it in mid-air. sub sequent RFC troubles might have been avoided. Chief difference between 1947 and 1951 is that today White House cronies and a S9.000 mink coat are involved, while a pow erful railroad friendlv to cer tain Senators and $37,000,000 was involved in 1947. At any rate, here is a new and interesting wrinkle regard ing the B. & O. case. After RFC Administrator Jesse Jones had put his men inside the B. & O.. one of them, Russell Snodgrass, who became financial vice-president, pro ceeded to get the McLaughlin Bankruptcy Act revised Appar ently he foresaw as early as 1942 that the $87,000,000 loan to the RFC would not be repaid as scheduled in 1945. Therefore, he proceeded to pull wires to secure the renewal of the Mc Laughlin Act by which the rail road could go into receivership without the Jesse Jones boys giving up control. To that end. Snodgrass ap peared before the Senate Bank ing and Currency Committee and urged re-enactment of the McLaughlin Act. But the inter esting thing was that Snodgrass testified as an RFC official, even though he had already ac cepted a lush salary offer from the B. & O.. the railroad which would profit most. Furthermore. Snodgrass did not tell the Senate Committee that he had accepted a job with the B. & O. when he testified. In brief, he used his govern ment position to further legis lation in the interest of his private employer. The McLaughlin Act was then only to those with war service. Dependent parents are en titled to death compensation at war time rates if the veteran dies because of a disease or in jury incurred in the line of duty. War time rates are also pay able to widows and children. There is also provision for pay ment of death pensions to eligi ble dependents of certain vet erans who die of nonservice connected ailments. The new law also makes avail able the $150.00 burial allowance for a veteran who dies after dis charge. This allowance was not previously available to veterans of the present conflict. The provision for granting vo cational rehabilitation training to Korean veterans differs from that available to veterans of other wars under Public Law 16. To be eligible for this benefit veterans must have incurred disability which result from armed conflict or extra-hazardous conditions. The mere re ceipt of war time compensation without either of the above con ditions being made, is . not enough. Over Seventy Years A VAW TH13IVjT31iI IBTXX. ' VA jy renevv-ed. and the B. & O.. three years later, was thrown into a fictitious bankruptcy under cir cumstances described in a pre vious column namely, a letter drafted by Snodgrass. later sent to him bv the RFC. These are some of the facts which Senator Fulbright's sub committee on the RFC could well investigate. Panning: John Steelman Dr. John Steelman. back slapping administrative assist ant to President Truman, has been pulling frantic wires on Capitol Hill to prevent the Sen ate Labor Committee, from mak ing public a report on the rail road strike criticizing him. Steelman has been pleading and cajoling that the report be rewritten or suppressed. Chairman of the Senate La bor Committee, Jim Murray of Montana, is a great friend of the White House, and ordinar ily would not level criticism at one of Truman's aides. In this case, however. Steelman is char ged with being responsible for the off-again. on-again White House policy which confused the nation last year and helped precipitate the railroad strike. This column has obtained a copy of the Senate report which Dr. Steelman wants suppressed, and it's asv to se why he doesn't like it. Here are some purple passages: "Dr. Steelman allowed him self to become involved in the dispute in a manner which com promised his effectiveness and which threatens to embarrass the WTiite House. It is an un written rule in the profession that mediators will not . . . be come arbitrators in the same dispute. In the opinion of the senate committee, he (Steel man) made himself a vulner able traget." The above referred to the fact that Steelman wrote him self into the railroad agreement as arbiter in case of future mis understandings between-- the railroads and the brotherhoods. The senators also panned Steelman for having "grossly distorted and misrepresented" the railway unions. The senate committee also suggests that Steelman was un truthful when he advised the President that the brotherhoods had promised not to strike. "The committee finds," says the re port, "that no such promise had been given." All in all. for a man who likes to get along with folks, as big John does, the report puts him in rather a bad light with a large segment of society. WASHINGTON REPORT r Howard Suffer Congressman, 2nd Nebraska District In my judgment, the greatest danger to America is not Rus sia. Instead, it is the interna tionalists, or more accurately, the interventionists. These are the people who favor the for eign policy that conscripts American men and resources for foreign lands. - Since 1940, this group has dictated our foreign policy. Each of their many plans, from Lend Lease on, has failed. Always they have another scheme for us to try to police and supply THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL !-Thursday, May 31. 1951 Section B PAGE ONE . 1 3"fffashingtoa AS THE JOINT Chipfs of Staff continued their rebuttsl of the testimony of General Douglas Mac Arthur, deposed far east com mander, disagreeing with some of the general's views and assailir.g his methods of bringing them to public attention, the political edge was gradually wearing away on in terest in the "reat debate" as members of the congress obtained an overall global picture of this nation's foreign policy, as com pared to the Asian picture painted by MacArthur. Attendance was gradually de creasing at the joint senate committee hearings although general overall interest does not appear to be in any dan ger of fading away. In the meantime several congres sional committees have taken up the question of the nation's purse strings, the appropriations, the budget and just what steps shall be taken to slash away at govern mental expenditure. Chief among the subjects at hand is the annual fight made on the growing federal grants-in-aid to the states. Not only would heavy slashes made in these grants in aid curb some im portant services which the people over a long period have come to expect, but any heavy slashes info long established federal grants would work a hardship on state budgets and bring about local tax increases, or abolishment of the services in question. During the 1950 fiscal year, the government disbursed to the states a total of $2,152,337,143 in 41 grant-in-aid programs according to the sub-committee of the senate com mittee on expenditures in the ex ecutive departments. This was a $296,000,000 increase over the same programs in 1949, and for 1952 the budget estimate for grants in aid amounts to $3,176,512,124. Congress has served notice how ever that it is in a mood to cut into some of the budget estimates and such warnings have come from tbe joint committe on the economic report, the house and senate ap propriations committees and the joint committee on reduction o non-essential expenditures. Usually these grants are made n a match ing basis between the federal gov ernment and the states. The largest the world. ! . Why are these people more j dangerous to America's future i than Russia? For at least two j reasons. First, the military part ; of their policy conscripts our j youth for slaughter in foreign j wars. These youth are our seed ! corn. With that seed corn de- j pleted, America becomes a hoi- j low shell . . . both biologically i and militarily. Right? j Second, their handout policies make continuous inflation cer tain. Steadily, your economic independence is being taken away from you. If their plans continue, our economic system will be completely socialized, like Russia's. Who wins then? Yes, either the sacrifice of our young men, or unending in Crossword Puzzle HORIZONTAL li 1 Highway .penoa or tana tpU.: n btt -s forward ri M Kacrw state 16 Instructor' IS Blowgun 4 SO Let It stand. in muaic 11 Indefinite article XX Printer's measure S 24 A line of flanle (pi.)' oxy X To prohibit 30 Sediment 3S Period of fasting 35 A small drop 3T Sharp to the taste 39 Cravat 40 Fastens se curely 42 Gelf score pl.t 44 Hebrew letter 45 Officer of ship 47 Strokes lightly 49 f owi of to be' 51 Warbled 53 Engine 66 To persevere in 99 Feminine name 60 French for summer 61 Brutally 63 To soaic 64 Strains 6o Affirmative of contempt 10 Exteat of land 11 Lake 13 Dodecanese islands 17 A bidding 19 To ridicule 22 Recedes 23 Man 25 Strike with open hand 2T But 23 To wander 3'. 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Xext ' comes the federal airport pro- ) gram in which the federal gov- -ernment provides for construe- " tion of airports in the. national system. The program is Bear ing completion, but cost $32, 782.000 in 1950 and an estimated $16,075,000 in 1951. . Agricultural extension work is ninth largest, a long time estab lished program with $31,025,000 in 1950 and an estimated $31,547,000 ia 1951. flation, will destroy America. Except as his agents must con nive to have these policies con tinued. Stalin need never move a hand. Nor will 'the good in tentions of interventionists change the outcome one bit. The interventionists have long dominated both political par ties. That has operated to con ceal these perils. Also, it has de nied the people a chance to halt these policies. Yet I do not say that war with Russia is out it could come any time. But our danger within is much greater. If you agree with this analysis, then the most important public interest in your life should be politics. 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