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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Section B Thursday, August 23, 1951 FAREWELL TO SUMMER EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes i 1 T HE SCANDAL AT WEST POINT The Cadet Corps of the U. S. Military Academy was stunned and the nation, as a whole, amazed at the dismissal of ninety cadets for violating the honor code and cheating during examinations. ; There is, naturally, a sincere regret over the fate which has befallen these young men. That there may be others egually involved, who have not been ap prehended, does not exonerate the cadets Vho are admittedly guilty. Cadet offi cials, untouched by the investigation, generally had little sympathy for the guilty men, asserting that the honor code must be maintained, as it has for more than a century. In a statement announcing that action against the cadets had been taken with the deepest regret and that it was "stern and uncompromising," Major General Frederick A. Iriving, Superintendent of the Academy, said there could be "no compromise solution that would preserve the vital honor system of West Point which is the very heart of the Academy." The General makes the point that "from the day a cadet enters West Point, the ideals which are exemplified in the honor code are impressed on him in all of his activities. The ethics of honor are above and apart from regulations .... (They) are the foundation of the integri ty demanded of an officer" who must maintain "the highest standards, not only of courage but of integrity" if he is to "re tain the faith of parents, whose suns the officers of the Army must lead in battle." REDUCES 401 POUNDS For some years, Dolly Dimples was described as "the most beautiful fat girl in show business." She weighed 555 pounds and had a song and dance routine. A newspaper dispatch from Fort Thomas, Kentucky, says that the lady re cently celebrated her fiftieth birthday, weighing only 154 pounds. She suffered a heart attack about a year ago and began a rigorous diet, which peeled off 401 pounds. There may be some ladies, and men, too, -in Cass county, who would like to know how Dolly took off the pounds. She says, "It's simple. All anyone has to do is to diet properly and have will power and stick strictly to the diet. No one has to stay fat." A treaty of peace is worth exactly the value that one attaches to the character of those who sign it. HAS TO TAX SOMEBODY Every time the hard-pressed ' Con gressmen attemut to find some source of revenue to enable the govern menttomeet its tremendous expenses, there are " loud objections and pessimistic prophecies of what will happen if the tax is voted. The National Association of Manu facturers and the U. S. Chamber of Com merce are among the first to yell disaster when any tax threatens to touch the pock etbooks of manufacturers or business men. The same story is heard about almost anv tax that touches any object. It is asserted by paid representatives of the associations that the result will be utter ruin and that the producer will be priced out of the market. This is the natural reaction of nearlv everybody but what the critics seem to overlook is that the government has to have money and to get money there must be taxation. It would be nice for the manufacturers and business men if all the taxation could be borne by the consumer but, before the government gets what it needs for defense and other operations there will n 4 i a ' auumuiiai taxation ior every body. We know of. some people who can speak several languages, but we're still trying to learn when to keep our mouth shut while speaking only one. A Plattsmouth man, who has been experiencing a little domestic trouble, says the next time he's going home to mother he could stand a home-cooked meal. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says a wolf is a guy who knows all the ankles, and one with whom you should eat, drink, and be wary. A nice thing about being a policeman is that the customer is always wrong. With beef steak the price it is, the lowly hot dog has now become top dog. So far, no historian has gone into the record to discover where the first bath ing beauty contest was celebrated. The first mistake we ever made go ing into public business was going into it. . Better show decent respect to birds. Remember the dove brings peace and the stork brings exemptions. jntBRfiSKR J lassociBTion I NATIONAL IDITORIIL ASSOCIATION KM THOUGHT FOR TODAY All philosophies, if you ride them home, arc nun sense. Samuel IUiItcr The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1R81 Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For "Outstanding Community Service In 1950" Published scmNweekly, Monnava and Thursdays, at I05-413 Main Street. Plans mouth. Cass County, Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor PRANK H. SMITH News Reporter Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Meisinster Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation Entered at the I'ost Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, s second clans mall matter In accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. . SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere. In advance, bv mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 20 cents tor two weeks. . - Down Memory Lane OA YEARS AGO fcill The Westport, large steel river launch was given induction into the waters of the Missouri River, to be used in work of mak ing the river navigable. It was built in St. Louis, especially designed for this type of work. The McMaken Transfer had the contract for delivery from the railroad to the river exemplifying their slogan "We Move Anything" . . . The Journal began publication of the History of Plattsmouth from the early days taken from the thesis prepared by R. Foster Patterson, principal of local high school . . . Two very large tarantulas, in shipments of fruit from the tropics, were captured at the Black & White grocery by Ernest Zitka an em ployee who battled with the "spiders". 1A YEARS AGO 1U E. H. Wescott, advancement director, presided with Clyde Sturgi, district execu tive and Walter Rose, Auburn, district chairman assisting in conferring of awards at court of honor B.S.A., held in Platts mouth. Three local boys received their Eagle awards William Robertson Jr., Cary Marshall and Raymond Evers, all of Troop No. 364 .. . Wilbur Eaton Jr., de parted for St. Paul, Minn., where he was to enter the St. Thomas Academy, military school for students of high school age. (Copyriffht. 1949. Bv the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: RUSSIA'S PROPAGANDA IS CLEVERLY PLANNED ; U. S. SENATORS QUIB BLE OVER PROPAGANDA FUNDS; HUNGRY EAST GERMANS LINE UP FOR SOUP AND NOODLES IN WEST BERLIN. (Ed. Note Drew Pearson, in Europe for the launching of Friendship Balloons behind the Iron Curtain, has also picked up some important reactions regarding the vital problem of war and peace.) En Route Through Europe. Europe today is a study in contrasts contrasts between East and West, contrasts between this continent and the U.S.A. Here are some scenes which, though I have left them, remain vividly etched on my mind. Scene I East Berlin: As you walk behind the Iron Curtain through the bomb riddled city of East Berlin you are struck with the way Moscow has played up the thing that appeals most to men's hearts. Flags are everywhere. And between every German, Chinese. Czech, Korean, Hungarian flag is the blue and white flag of peace. Atop every pillar also squats the dove of peace a plump, dumpy dove, a little too smug and self-satisfied to sit surveying the stark remnants of what was once ueriin but nevertheless a constant reminder that the Soviet Union supposed ly craves peace. And at the base of every pillar are featured the international words for peace "Paz - Mir - Paix - Beke - Peace." Over and over again are repeated these words, the words every soldier loves, the words every nationality can read and un derstand peace. In telling contrast are featured the words of President Truman, Secretary Jiarsnall, Dean Acheson, warning of the danger of war, warning that we must pre pare tor war It was international propaganda at its most effective, most deceptive best. And despite the State Department's valiant though limited counterpropanganda, hun dreds of thousands of the 2,000,000 young sters who attended the Berlin youth rally must have gone home with the impression that the U.S.A. was the big bad orgre of the world today, with the UJS.S.E. their asiaagtos U T 1JM I tiiuliiiAnV11. I a i 1 mm p O ffgj V Jm& only hope for peace. Milton Berle. It's a recognition Scene II The U. S. Senate, I that can come only from listen- Washington. D.C.: Senator Mc-' ing. Kellar of Tennessee, aged 88. i These vnnnestrs are the fu- Chairman Of the Senate Appro-, Hire o-pneratinn of Germany priations Committee, is listening I the kids who will reallv decide sleepily to State Department ; whether communism stavs or testimony regarding its budget, ones- whn win fio-ht or frater- George Perkins.-aged 56. son of nize with American bovs in the a J. F. Morgan partner, cniei of. European Affairs, and not exactly the communist-type Mc Carthy claims runs the State Department, is testifying re garding the need for more funds to run the U. 8. Embassy in communist Poland. The Senators want to know war that Senator McCarran says is inevitable. Yet Senator McCarran. an old man of 75. who won't have to fight; and Senator McKellar. now 88. say the State Depart ment's radio program is wasted 1 money, poured out on empty ether. t t if will rcf mnro novt vaor i nh'p 'r; h 'Soviet Russia today spends the battle against communism 1'"T'UT " V f,m Z" hnmp more intense icn ' ganda. It even has 1.200 jam ming stations to drown out the has become . more intense, also that the embassy lost money last year through the deprecia tion of the Polish Zloty. "Young man," glowered Sen ator McKellar of Tennessee, "will you tell me under what article of the U. S. Constitution or by what law of Congress you have the right, to go out and tamper, with another :-; nation's currency?" It is this same Senator Mc Kellar. using his deep insight into international affairs, who influences how much money the State Department can have to combat communism. Scene III Also the U. S. Sen ate: Senator McCarran of Nev ada, aged 75. is listening to Assistant Secretary of State Barrett testify regarding the Voice of America and the im portance of selling the United States to the rest of the world. McCarran keeps wider awake than his colleague from Tennes see. He even admits that Bar rett .puts up a plausible argu ment. Finally, however, he con. cludes: "I would hate to answer for the spending of all this money to prevent war. when I feel sure war is inevitable." Scene IV Back to Berlin: The studio of radio station RIAS op erated by the State Department in the western sector: A group of East German youngsters have crowded into the RIAS studio. Supposedly communists, and attending the communist youth rally, they want to see the radio station they have been listening to across the Iron Curtain in East Germany. ijerore tne microphone come various RIAS radio performers First a sineer. She gets a ter rific round of applause. Then comes a political commentator who every night takes gibes at soviet operations in East Ger many. He too is gleefully recog nized by the youthful audience. iney know their RIAS radio performers as an American aud ience knows its Jack Benny or voice 01 America tne voice which the old men of the Senate say is waste of money. It ap pears so important to the Krem lin, however, that the Kremlin spends more than the cost of the voice in order to drown it out. .This year the State Depart ment asked for a little more money to carry on the war of ideas, but the old men of the Senate Appropriations Commit tee voted a cut. Here is their secret vote to hamstring their country in the battle of ideas: McCarran. McKellar. McClellan of Arkansas. Bridges of New Hampshire. Ferguson of Michi gan. Wherry of Nebraska, and Hickenloooer of Iowa. Scene V A West German youth center in West Berlin: Inside is a line of East German youngsters waiting for soup and noodles. The communist food system has broken down in. the East Zone and they have come over to West Berlin. They know where to come because the State Department published a pocket size guidebook in advance tell ing the communist kids where to find the West Berlin youth centers. Around the walls of the youth center sit another group of East German youngsters, bent over, tteir noses buried in magazines and pamphlets. As our party came in they did not look up. Dressed as westerners, we usu ally attracted attention. But thev did not look up. They were reading, believe it or not. anti-communist litera ture cartoons depicting Stalin for what he really is. a war monger; an illustrated story of Korea; Pamphlets telling the genuine peace aims of the Uni ted States. It was State Department liter ature, carefully printed in Ger man, illustrated by German cartoonists, telling the true facts about the United States. Ob viously it was a story which these East German youngsters VETERANS' COLUMN By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer World War II Veteran Pensions- Many veterans are under the impression that a pension is payable to all veterans of World war II, upon attainment of a certain age regardless of disa bility. This is not the fact. If a veteran Is under 55 years of age, he must' have a disability a a. fr amuunnne- to ouy or more; or or more disabili ties, there must be one disability rateable at '40 or more, and suf ficient additional disability to bring the combined rating to .70 or more. The per centage require ment is reduced on attainment of the age of 55 "to a 60 ratw for one or more disabilities, with no percentage requirement for any one disability. The requirement at age 60, is 50 rating for one or more disabilities. At age 65, there is no percentage requirement other than one disability rateable at 10 or more. permanent total disability is usually conceded when it is rea sonably sure that the disability will r e m a i n unimproved throughout the veterans' life. . Pension will not be paid to a person without dependents whose annual income exceeds $1000.00," nor to a married per son or a person" with depend ents whose annual income ex-, ceeds $2500.00. All income, ex cept government benefits, is counted, but the income of the veteran's wife or members of his family is not considered. aivo Mrs. Alfa Quellhorst Mrs. May Burns and daugh ter of Tucson, Ariz., visited her uncle and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Edwards the past week. Alvo Mr. and Mrs. Rapp of Weep ing Water have moved into the Boyles house, Mr. and Mrs. Sheets, former occupants, hav ing returned to Kansas City. Mr. Rapp will help Chas. Ganz on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hardnock called on Mrs. Carl Sutton Sun day afternoon at her home. She underwent surgery several weeks ago and is still convalescing. AiVO Royal Neighbors Lodge Entertained Mrs. Lenard Leming enter tained the Royal Neighbor Lodge at her home last Friday after noon. There were 10 members and two visitors present. Alvo Several Are Guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Borne meier and family of Murdock. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Nickel and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ron ald Quellhorst, Harold and Jane of Paola, Kans., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mart Nickel and Mrs. O. D. Quellhorst Sunday. Jane Quellhorst had spent the week here but returned with her parents Sunday evening. Alvo Allen Edwards of Denver, Colo., returned to his hene Tuesday after about a months visit with relatives here. Alvo Drakes Have Sunday Guests Rev. and Mrs. Drake had as their guests Sunday Mr. Drake's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Drake of Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Erickson of Grand Is land, Mr. and Mrs. Freal Fletch er and three childrden of North Platte and Mr. and Mrs. C. Mil ler of Lincoln. Mrs. Fletcher is a sister of Mr. Drake. Alvo Club Members Attend Camp The Squealing Porkers 4-H Club and their leader, Ralph Nickel, attended camp at the Harriott Harding camp at Louis ville the 13th, 14th and 15th. Alvo Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Leming were called to Beatrice Tuesday by the serious illness of Mrs. Leming's aunt, Mrs. Nellie Mar tin. Her condition still remains critical Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Bryant of Omaha have moved into the Kellogg apartment house. Mr. and Mrs. Walden and family moved to Stella Thurs day. Mr. Walden will teach in the Stella high school. Mrs Walter Vincent and chil dren visited Mrs. Vincent's mother, Mrs. Daigh and other relatives in Albion last week. had never heard before, and it must have been a fascinating story, for they drank it in like a dime novel. I visited half a dozen youth centers in West Berlin. In each it was the same way commun ist kids pouring over our liter ature, hungry to know the truth, stuffing the booklets into their blouses when they left, many of them tearing the covers off so their communist bosses would not find and penalize them for having this literature the same i literature which Senators Mc- j Kellar, McCarran. Ferguson, et aL now say we should curtail. PRESIDENT TRUMAN believes that flood control in the mid west depends upon llie choice of congressmen. He has called for the election of more "forward-looking liberal-minded members of congress." The President is highly critical of "shortsighted people who can't Seo beyond their purely local in terests." He is referring in this quotation to this summer's disas tercus Missouri-Kansas floods. He criticizes congressional re fusal to authorize flood control dams on the Kansas river and its tributaries. Truman's views were expressed in a letter to C.I.O. President Philip Murray who asked him to create an emergency commissio;? to draw up a river control program for the Missouri valley. There may be a new price turn upward. If so, there will be two reasons: government defense spending at a-jcut $50 billion a year and cutback of civilian production. Mere money in the economy and less goods act together to create a spiral. All this is in face of Truman's description of the l ill to amend and cxtcad the de fense production act of l : -the bill that's supposed ti con strain inflation as "the wcrst I ever had to sign." .Neither Senator John Eutkr of. Maryland nor Senator McCarthy, his supporter, have reason to be iuo nappy over a document issued by a senate subcommittee on the election tactics by which Butler de feated Senator Millard Tydings. Evidence is clear that a smear campaign was conducted against Tydings and the Maryland voters were told that the Tydings. commit tee report on the state department loyalty cases howed a sympathy with Communism. The truth is, Tydings refused to convict accused persons on insuTticient evidence and was punished for his fair-mindedness with a "despicable back street type of campaign" by But ler. The two Harrys Truman and Byrd are the outstanding leaders of tbj dissident factions ic. the Democratic party. Byrd is the voice of the rebel southerners, and especially bitter to Truman is Byrd's continual harping upon al leged fees received by Democratic Chairman William Boyle after suc cessfully petitioning for certain clients loans from the R.F.C. Byrd is demanding a thorough investiga tion of Boyle's activities and his ouster from the party leadership if he is found guilty of any political icfluence on the R.F.C. to obtain the loans. Byrd, as if assuming Boyle's guilt, declares, "The time has come when this moral deteriora tion at Washington must stop and those guilty of such acts must be exposed and punished. Satirizing the southern hospital ity to northern G.O.P. overtures, the Detroit ICews recently carried a cartoon, showing a composite Dixiecrat-Republican exclaiming to a psychiatrist, "I'm all mixed up. Doc! When I am not hating Tru man, I hale myself." Some Republican legislators are blaming the defection from honor of the 90 West 'Point cribben upon Truman's administration. Besides Truman's $10-billion de mand for new revenue, foreign aid authorization and regular appro priations, congress still has on the agenda: Formal termination of the war with Germany; statutory banning of c::ports of military items to Rus sia and satellites and cessation of cid to countries making such ex ports; authorization of transfer of 24 destroyer escorts to France, Denmark, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil and Great Britain, which the house has authorized $5.8 billion dollar program of construction of military bases and facilities; legislation to control interstate criminal activi ties. There's a report that in 1948 Sen ator Kefauver condemned all sen ate and house subcommittees. He declared he favored abolishing all such committees to keep (he vaude ville actors out of congress and save the taxpayers money. He de clared that these committees had to do something sensational and ernh headlines. Kitty Clover 4-H Club Achievement Meeting Is Held The Kitty Clover 4-H club held their achievement meeting at the home of their leader. Miss Leila Nickel Saturday evening, August 18. A report was given by Lavon Howe and Joyce Rob ertson on their activities at Camp Harriett Harding, Louis ville. They also gave a demon stration on pattern alterations and with Nancy Printz modeled the clothing they had made during the summer. Their leader was presented a gift in appre ciation of her work with them. Guests of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Morris Robertson and j family, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Howe and ion;i!y and Carol I Printz. Leili and Mrs. Nickel I served a delicious lunch. Alvo ALVO WINS Alvo won over Eagle at base ball Sunday, y-6, on the Eagle field. Alvo Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dreamer, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dreamer and sons attended the rodeo at Sidney on Wednesday. Frank Daugnerty has moved into the Emmet Friend property recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Junior Kenny. Jake Daugnerty and family have moved to his fathers, Frank Daugherty's farm. Miss Irene Thomson of Friend. Nebr., visited the past week with her cousin, Charlene Bradley. The Martin Zoz family re turned last w&ek from their trip to western Nebraska and. Colo rado. Alvo BIRTH A baby daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Timblin Friday, August 17, 1931. She weighed 6 lbs., 5 oz. Alvo Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Fifer and family are visiting relatives here and at Eagle. Their home is at Seattle, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Watson Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Orval Gerbel- j mg ot LimwooQ were bunday i evening callers at the Sam Hardnock home. Mrs. Frank Taylor underwent surgery Monday morning at Bryan Memorial hospital in Lin coln. The Misses Ncra Jean and Barbara Ann McDonald of Avo ca have visited their aunt, Mrs. Wm. Meyers and family the past two weeks. A Classified Ad In The Journ nal costs as little as 35c. 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