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EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes SOMETHING WRONG WITH LAW We are not expert when it comes to tax matters, especially the devices in the income tax laws affecting corporations. Nevertheless it is interesting to read that a certified public accountant in the. State of New York, testifying in a crim inal case, said that the company concern ed had losses of $607,000 in 1945 but that it "amounted to a net gain of $47,000 be cause, by the carry-back feature of the tax law,'' the losses "wiped out "the con cern's liability on past profits and entitled it to a refund of taxes paid." This should be interesting to little peo ple trying to pay income taxes out of their salaries and earnings. When a $607, 000 loss, suffered by a company in one year, becomes a profit of $$47,000 through the operation of the provisions of the in come tax law, there must be something wrong with the statute. SAYS CIVILIANS VICTIMIZE SOLDIERS "A sordid and rotten picture of sub standard housing and rent-gouging" is re ported by a Senate sub-committee, which investigated conditions in the vicinity of Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky; Camp Rucker, Alabama, and Fort Leonard, Mis souri. The Senators state that many landlords around military installations are guilty of "cruel indignity, irresponsible greed and casual disdain for the self-respect of our men in uniform." They come to the con clusion that, in too many instances, serv icemen are being "shamelessly victimized at the hands of civilians whose property and lives the men in uniform are dedi cated to defend." The publicity given the conclusions of the Senators may cause some Americans to become indignant but the advice that it gives to the Department of Defense is more apt to produce results. The sub committee recommended that no further posts be re-activated unless responsible local officials guarantee an adequate num ber of livable units for the families of the soldiers. ; There is much talk of honor and re spect for the fighting men of this coun try, but, when it comes to profits, thev receive no discounts from those who have things to sell or something to rent. Nev ertheless, if the Department of Defense declines to re-activate posts in the future, unless there are responsible guarantees of fair prices, the city involved will lose con siderable business revenue. Consequently, the local citizens might get busv, not in be half of the servicemen, but in the interest of their own pocketbooks. CONGRESS WILL LISTEN , . t The people of the United States '-may wonder why a Congress which practically forced an elaborate system of economic controls upon the Administration last fall, when there was no readiness to use them, is now apparently bent on legislation which will seriously diminish the power of the Government to meet the present inflationary threat. The explanation, in the words of one observer, is that of last year. Congress was being flooded with demands from home that something be one to end the pre vailing wave of inflation. This fear was somewhat psychological, but, nevertheless, the special interests" found Congress in no mood to respond to their arguments Today, when the inflation threat is much more imminent than it was last tail, there is no demand from the public to exert pressure upon Congress, despite the frantic appeals of Administration carters for the passage of effective legis lation. The consequence is that, unless the peo ple make their wishes known, the mem bers of Congress will probably continue tneir complace acquiescence in the de mands of individuals and groups, who place their profits above the interest of the country, as a whole. LAFF OF THE WEEK THOUGHT FOR TODAY II cairn ykrs lotuj life to the just and in telligent, i Confucius The Plattsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper .. wwarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For outstanding Community Service in 1950" rAub,.i?i'e.d, ?eml-weekly. Mondays an-l Thursdays, at 103-413 Main Street. Plttsmoutli. Cass County, Nebr. 5?2vDTRnSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Meisinger Society - Bookkeeping: & Circulation I I J tieu. lassociarion Tyi&n&efiJ, A JLJLJK NATIONAL KSZOOATtON Entered at the I'ost Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, s second class mail matter in accordauo with the Act of Congress Marc 3. JS79. 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 lot two weeks- Most any diamond will cut glass, and some of them are even capable of making an impression on a woman's heart. Having come to the conclusion that the world is all wet, we've given up on the idea of trying to set it on fire. The Korean fiasco has proven to us beyond doubt that "to the victors of war belong the spoils." Now, if the super collosal super-markets will add a loan section where a man can borrow the wherewithall to buy the commodities, we'll call them a great suc cess. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says a good salesman knows when to stop talking and so does a bach elor. A local man hasn't changed much dur ing the' years, but he thinks he has. He keeps talking about what a fool he used to be. It's really tough on salesgirls this sum mer. The days when they used to insult customers is still fresh in their minds. A new member of the local saddle club ordered himself a saddle without a horn. He says where he's going to ride there isn't much traffic. Down Memory Lane 1A YEARS AGO 1U Miss Corrine Hallstrom, clerk of Cass County Selective Service Board re turned from a vacation . . . Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Cloidt and daughters Maxine and Frances returned from a week's outing at Sanda Beach, near Henning, Minn. . . . Cary A. Marshall, drurii major of the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps was first place winner in the drum major contest held at Hastings . . . Miss Barbara Gering and Mrs. J. M. Roberts returned from a motor trip that afforded them opportunity of visiting many attractive parks and especially the Indian reserva tions in which the Episcopal church mis sion work i.s conducted . . . Ninety-one attended the 27th reunion of the family of the late Charles and Elizabeth Spang ler August 10th at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Smith. OA YEARS AGO U The large box elder tree-that had stood for a great many years in the side walk parking at the rear of the Donat building, which in times past sheltered "Dolly" the faithful old horse that served the delivery wagon of Edward Donat was cut down, removing an old landmark . . . Manager G. G. Griffin announced the opening of the "Platz", formerly the Par mele theatre, with pictures and a vaude ville act . . . Rev. W. H. J. Petter of Oak Park, 111., was to fill the rectorship of St. Luke's Episcopal church in September . . . Mrs. Don Siever entertained for her sister Miss Beatrice Seybert of Chicago who was a vacation guest of her sister . . . The P. F. P. Pinochle club were guests of Miss Emma Johnson. (Copyright. 1949. Bv the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) RUSSIAN BEAR HAS SWAL LOWED TOO MUCH CAN'T AB SORB SATELLITE NATIONS ; WEST ERN PROPAGANDA NEEDED MORE THAN EVER TO ENCOUR AGE PEOPLES BEHIND IRON CUR TAIN. (Note to Editors: Drew Pearson is on another tour of Europe, studying conditions there in this period of world tension and crisis. This is the first of his cabled dis patches from Central Europe). Near the Iron Curtain, in Central Eu rope If there was ever a time when prop aganda was needed to encourage and stim ulate the people behind the Iron Curtain, now i.s it. Already the people of tfee satellite countries and even many in Russia proper are torn by doubt and dissension and dis trust. Their restlessness has been churn ing for some time but nov'it's near the boiling point. All clues I have been able to pick up from the, underground and from intelli gence reports convince me that the Russian bear has swallowed too much and will have to regurgitate. A bear that's suffering from acute indigestion is not usuallv bel ligerent and it may be that additional" prop aganda., barrages by balloons, the Voice of America and every other-device possi ble could help increase that sickness and tip the scales for peace. Furthermore, messages of friendship and encouragement to the people behind the Iron Curtain at this time can help pro duce another Tito in Poland, Czechoslo vakia or Hungary. That, of course, is what Stalin fears most. - - 1 flip Ei 'Good Morning, All Yoa Sleepy Heads! This Is Your Early Bird Again. It's Half Past Six . . . Time To Shake A Leg." There have been reports in previous years of trouble behind the Iron Curtain, but never as many as now. Two hundred Communist leaders in Bulgaria are reported under arrest; 22 Soviet generals and high Soviet officials have died mysteriously in the last seven months: four Czech generals have been ar rested or committed suicide in six months; nine of the high est officers in the Polish army were tried for treason; 12 Polish seamen on a minesweeper muti nied, locked up their officers, and deserted to Sweden; four young Poles fled to Sweden in a stolen bullet-riddled airplane; three Lithuanians locked up other crew members on a Rus sian trawler and escaped. WHY PEOPLE REBEL This throbbing unrest inside the Iron Curtain has been caused in part by Soviet war prepara tions which have been going on for some time. When a govern ment takes too much of the ne cessities of life food, fuel, con sumer goods away from its peo ple they rebel. When a Polish miner who hates Russia anyway is ordered to work harder to produce w:ar material for com munism, he gets restless. Like lise with; the Czech uranium miner- and the Hungarian farm er who never did like collective farming. " No nation in its right mind though dictators seldom are in their right minds makes war when the civilian population be hind the lines is certain to rise up against the government. That's why the unrest behind the Iron Curtain is so import ant. To illustrate the serious ness of this situation and the importance of intensifying our propaganda, here is a brief sum mary of the best underground reports I can get of what is happening behind the curtain: Czechoslovakia The Czechs have - now recovered from the stunned apathy which followed the initial seizure of their coun try by Moscow and are begin ning to get their courage back. A serious food shortage, blamed on the Russians, is partly re sponsible. On top of this the Voice of America, which pre dicted the arrest of Foreign Min ister Vladimir dementis and four other Czechs had its effect. Finally, radio free Europe has sent such devastating barrages of propganda into Czechoslo vakia that the Czech govern ment has demanded that radio free Europe be taken off the air. KREMLIN SUSPICIONS INCREASING Poland Resentment against Moscow is so serious that Vyacheslav Molotov. now the No. 2 man to Stalin and seldom seen in public, made a special trip to Warsaw to warn the Poles against following Tito. The im portance of this warning is shown by-the fact that Marshal Grigori Zhukov, hero of Berlin, and Marshal Konstantin Rokos sovsky, military ruler of Poland, appeared with Molotov on the same platform. Behind this warning was the fact that the railroad between Berlin and Moscow is sabotaged so fre quently ,that repair crews are kept busy night and day. Pro duction is dropping. The Cath olic church is leading a potrit underground and the Kremlin has become So suspicious of top Polish generals that nine of them have now been tried. BULGARIA "ULCER" TO COMINrORM ' Bulgaria A peasant revolt has held up delivery of wheat to Russia, and brought a battery of Soviet officials hurrying inAo Sofia. About 15,000 have been added to the 30,000 already in concentration camps, while trea son trials have shown that the Agrarian .(or peasant) party, once the strongest, in Bulgaria, no woperates a powerful under ground. Agrarian leaders have encouraged the peasants to withhold croos and join guer rilla units in the mountains so successfully that the official Cominform newspaper called Bulgaria on "ulcer" and criti cized Premier Chcrvenkov for allowing the unrest to spread Roumania Minister of Na- tional Defense Emil Bodnaras has been arrested and there have been mass evacuations of those suspected of disloyalty to Moscow. Hungary Deportation of thousands of Hungarian peas ants to concentration camps to face slavery and death have been recently denounced by U. S. Secretary of State Acheson. The leader of these mass arrests is Bela Szanto. Moscow-trained Hungarian especially sent to do the job. Szanto is a ruthless butcher who has already jailed 70,000 peasants because they have held back their grain or refused to collectivize their farms. East Germany Moscow's ef forts to build a Communist Ger man army have been partly frustrated by the desertion of officers of the ' people's police" to western Germany. Three sep arate undergrounds operate among the Russian and Red army personnel inside Germany. This is just part of the story of restfullness now stirring be hind the Iron Curtain and the opportunity awaiting American propaganda. 9l&kcuvAa (Mrs. F. O. Sand) Joan Kropp and A. T. Heins, Lincoln, were guests Sunday of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ern est Kropp. They called at the A. F. Sturm home Sunday after noon. Mrs. Elmer Ross was brides matron at the wedding of Miss Letha Brunkow of Murdock to Roger McWilliams of Lincoln at the Immanuel Lutheran church near Louisville Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ross also attend ed rehearsal at the church Sat urday evening and were guests later at the home of Miss Brun kow's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ross called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brown near Nebraska City Sunday afternoon. Vivian Poledna, Omaha, was a guest the past week of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schlichtemeier. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Leavitt and family, Lincoln, Mrs. Lucy Lyle, Elmwood and Mrs. Floy Buell, Murdock, called at the Elmer Ross home Saturday aft ernoon. Xcliawka Birthday Party Honors Two Friday Mrs. Dan Anderson and Mrs. Bud Chriswisser were honored guests at the Chriswisser home Friday evening. Mrs. Dick Ber ner planned the party for their birthdays, which occurred Fri day and Saturday respectively. Those present included the guests of honor, their husbands, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Engleke meier, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ber ner and Linnea, Mr. and Mrs. Eno Ahrens, Frank and Tom Wolfe. Nchawka Mr: and Mrs. Louie Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wolph, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Anderson were riinnpr truests Sunday at the A. C. Anderson home in Omaha. The dinner was for Mr. and Mrs. Ephram Anderson of Huron, S. D. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Pollard visited his mother, Mrs. Ruth B. Pollard, who recently broke her PLATTSMOUTH WALLPAPER STORE wrist at the Alton St.' John home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pollard and son, Frank, Jr., of Los An geles, Calif., were dinner guests Friday of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Pollard. Xeliawka Denverites Are Visitor Here Mrs. Francis Marks and son, Leonard, Denver, are spending several days this week at the F. O, Sand home. Mr. Marks made a business trip to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the Gates Rubber Co. of Denver. Nehawka ATTEND WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Thacker attended the wedding Sunday evening of Miss Martha Dicus of Fremont and Rex Hoffmeis ter of Imperial at the bride s home. XfllHWktt Beverly Bonner left Thursday for Hampton, Nebr., to attend the wedding of a classmate at Doane. Later she will go to Fairfield and with her room mate go to Franklin, Nebr., where they will teach this fall, to find an apartment. Dean Nutzman has returned (o his home from St. Mary's hospital at Nebraska City. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Puis, Louis ville, called at the Roy Briden- stine home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pitts and children, Ava, Mo., were guests the past week at the Neil Pierce home. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Hall, Oma ha, were week end guests at the George Pollard home. Arthur and Allen Hanson and Larry Pollard left Monday for the lakes in northern Minnesota to fish. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Tucker were dinner guests Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Pollard. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lemon were Sunday dinner guests at the Pollard home. Mr. and Mrs. John Tyson and Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Pollard and family attended the Tyson Ringler annual picnic at Lincoln Sunday noon. Recent visitors at the George Sheldon home were Mrs. Carl Macprang, Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Richard Schanot, Un ion. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Pollard attended services at the Bap tist church at Union Sunday. In the absence of their regular pastor, Rev. McMillan, a group of young people of the Nebraska City church conducted the serv ices. Mrs. Lyman Anderson assist ed Mrs. Dsn Anderson in enter taining at dinner Wednesday for Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fries of Los Angeles, Calif. Dan Anderson, Clinton, and Mr. and Mrs. Ly man Anderson were also present. : Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beatty and Presley attended the Nemon club picnic at Steinhart park at Ne braska City Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hanson and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hansen of Brainard enjoyed a picnic and later the stock car races at Au burn Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hicks and Twila, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nixon and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ran dall Switzer and family and Rosemary Redden enjoyed a pic nic and fishing at Louisville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nelson, Utica, were visitors of their son, Ralph Nelson and family Mon day and Tuesday. Mrs. Nelson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Erickson of Lincoln were their guests Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jameson and family left Sunday for a few days vacation in the Black Hills. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCon aha and sons left last week for their home in Ontario, Ore., aft er a month's visit at the R. B. Stone home and with other rel atives. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Block, Longmont, Colo., left Saturday for their home after visiting at the Sterling Ross home. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEIHt-WgEICLV. idUftnai. PAGE FOUR Monday, August 13, 1951 l ...... , Hew To Soothe the Brain XJERE IS THE VERY SIMPLE and commonsense method ap- plied by Dr. Hugo Gabriel, Pasadena, California, whea his brain is tired. Whenever he is upset about something, whenever he feels the need for clarifying his thoughts on any particular subject, he sets about performing some duty requiring physical exertion. Such, for instance, as clearing out his files, re-afranging closets and drawers, making them as neat as possible and keeping his mind on what he is doing. He says that he finds the external crder achieved is an invaluable help in establishing order and clearing his mind in connection with his problems. Then he takes a walk, gets out in the open and breathes the invigorating fresh air. After that, his mind cleared, he tackles his problems with far greater success than he once could have thought possible through such a simple process. Carserio His second principle of overcoming worry and fear over his affairs is to go mountain climbing. Once he considered a moun tain too formidable; even a steep, hilly city discouraged him. Then one day he met a woman in a street in San Francisco, that citv of steep hills. She appeared desperate as she stood and gazed upward, contemplating reaching the top by no other means than her own two feet. . , . Dr. Gahriel went to her and suggested that she practice taking just a few steps at a time, then stopping to breathe dceplv and rest for a moment or two. She agreed, and they arrived at the top together with no more acceleration of heartbeats than if they had walked on level ground. You see, it was only one step at a time that they had to take. "And," says Dr. Gabriel, "one step at a time enables anyone to climb the steepest mountain without any greater effort than walking on a level Toad." CjL Kansans Visit At Sturm Home Mr. and Mrs. Walt Ficke, Janis and Steve, Wichita, Kan., were guests Thursday at the Melvin Sturm home. Mrs. Ficke is Mrs. Sturm's sister. Mrs. Sturm's brother, H. W. Steinmeyer and Harry Smith of Columbus stop ped Tuesday for a short visit en route from Plattsmouth to Lin coln on business. ' Neliawka Mrs. May Halverstadt and daughter, Dorothy, Johnnie and Calvin Martin, Columbiana, O., arrived Sunday to visit at the Wildon Switzer home and with other relatives for a week. F. W. Beil, Plattsmouth. was a week end euest at thf Wildon Switzer home. Mr. and Mrs. John Barkhurst and Beverly attended the air show at Lincoln Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Frank Bennett and children, Nebraska City, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beatty. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stoll and children. Mrs. Sadie Schraripr and Gerald visited Paul Mur doch at Bryan Memorial hos pital in Lincoln Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Benny Schram made a trio to the Minnesota lakes to fish last week. Ike Todd. Murrav. called at the George Sheldon home Mon day morning. Mrs. Ken Gilbert. Los Anplps and her daughter. Mrs Ellis Gummery, Benkleman, Nebr., FURNACES Installed By Martinson Sheet Metal 620 1st Ave. Phone 257 called at the LeRoy Splitt home Sunday afternoon. A birthday dinner for Jean Stone of Omaha was given Sun day at the home of her parents. Guests included Dick Stone and family and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Stone. Mr. and Mrs. Louie Ruhga of Avoca accompanied Mrs. Roy Splitt to Wymore Wednesday. Mrs. Annie Harshman, who took treatments there, returned home with them. Mrs. Blaine Sloan and daugh ter, Deanne. and Julie Zech at tended the Ringling Brothers circus at Council Bluffs Thurs day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dickman called at the George Dickman home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Schreiner and son, Allen, Dun bar, and Mrs. Anna Dickman, Nebraska City, called Sunday. (Continued on Page 6) Make Sure YOU HAVE insurance on your home and its contents. But, is it up-to-date? If disaster strikes, will you have the protection you need? Better make sure NOW Stephen M. Davis .Second Floor Plattsmouth State Bank Bid. Phone 6111 I ASS Theatre Plattsmouth Last Time Mon., Aug. 13 Gary Cooper & Jane Greer "YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW" Comedy, Cartoon & News Tues. Only, Aug. 14 Bargain Day Adm. 12 & 20c Inc. Tax Glenn Ford & Viveca Lindfors "THE FLYING MISSILE" First films of our new Super Weapon - and. the stop-at-nothing guys behind it! Comedy and Novelty Night Shows 7:00 & 9:00 tn SO for Better interior uecoraung Contracting ! RENT a Floor Sander or Wallpaper Steamer PLATTSMOUTH PAINT STORE 337 Main Ph. 6173 2 H Wed. & Thurs., Aug. 15-16 Double Feature Faith Domergue & George Dolenz "VENDETTA" Howard Hughe's production of wild love and violent life! and Bill Williams & Barton MacLanc "ROOKIE FIREMAN" A four alarm action thriller! 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