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i EDITORIAL SOLILOQUY The publisher of The Journal is an ordinary man, whose business requires him to attempt to keep up with what is happening in Cass county and the world at large. There is no secret system by which any editor acquires the gift of prophecy and whatever opinions are voiced upon this page represent the considered reflections of an individual who has time to take ad vantage of the many sources of informa tion that are available in this era of the printed word. It is not always possible for an editor and his readers to agree exactly upon matters discussed. Sensible readers should not expect to agree with the reflections of any one person. Those who are more in terested in their own mistakes than they are in the truth, are the only people to dislike a discussion which does not coin cide with their own impressions. This article is not written because any body has expressed disagreement with our editorial opinions. In fact, we are ex tremely grateful for .many expressions from readers, who are nice enough to say they enioy our editorials and agree with them. The point we are making, and it fits these people, as well as others, is that the day might come when they will not agree with what we write but, on that day, we will be doing just what we are doing now, writing as intelligently and as honestly as possible. THE REAL WAR VICTIMS The people of South Korea, accord ing to newspaper reports from Seoul, are looking for a "black winter" and United States officers, who have the job of look ing after the welfare of the civilians in the war-stricken area, reluctantly admit that "many will die" before the winter ends. The South Koreans have suffered sev erely from the fighting which has taken place in their homeland. Many of them have subsisted on a minimum diet for months and are without adequate cloth ing for the severe winter weather. While civilians in the Northern Communist areas are said to be suffering even more, this is little consolation f or the South Koreans. Newspaper reporters also report that the average Korean looks to the future with disillusionment and despair. They seem to be losing some of their loyalty to the South Korean regime. While they want peace, they are terrified at the prospect that U. N. troops will evacuate their land and that they will eventually be conquer ed by the Communists. RELIGION HAS NOT FAILED The challenge to religion and the role of the church are no different today from what they were in the past. While there are various creeds, philosophies and faiths, they seek essentially to bring about a communion between man and a Supreme Being. Differences in the manner of oper ating the various churches do not involve the substance of religious beliefs. There is no reason to believe the pessi mistic conclusions of some individuals, who assert that men and women are go ing to the dogs faster than ever. Neither is there any basis for the opinion that millions and millions of people have turn ed "against God." If either of these con clusions is true, the inevitable deduction is that religion and the church have fail ed in their purpose. We are not prepared to accept this. LAUGHTER IS A BLESSING Laughter is a blessing provided you know when to laugh! It is all right to laugh at yourself, and nighlv beneficial to do so. It is even per missible to laugh with your friends but never make the mistake of laughing at your friends. Not every person is psychic enough to understand that your merriment is an ex pression of friendly sympathy and t good THOUGHT FOR TODAY Philanthropies and charities have a cer tain air of quackery. A '. Emerson The Plattsmouth Journal Official Counly and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1SS1 Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For "Outstaacling Community Service in 1950" 'ubllshfil semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays. at ;03-41i Main Street. Plans mouth. Cass County. Nebr RONALD R. FURS2 Publisher FIARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reportex "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Furse's Fresh Flashes One company we know is now satis fied that our want ads get results. Recent ly they advertised for a night watchman and that same evening their safe was robbed. The Bible tells us man is made of dust and returns to dust when he dies. We just looked under our desk and, believe it or not, there's somebody under there that is either coming or going. A local kid thinks his Pop is a blood thirsty guy. The old man was down in the basement with a neighbor the other night and the kid heard him say, "OK, Joe, let's kill another one." Drinking is a subject that floors a lot of people. Powder that goes off with a bang is often times less dangerous than powder that goes off with a puff. Every day, it seems, we are getting to be more and more like a wheelbarrow useful onlv when pushed and easily upset. The Bulgarian Agriculture minister is said to be purged and under arrest. They're probably getting ready to plow him under. Any wife can make a man of her hus band if he will only listen to what she savs. Advertising works two ways it helps this newspaper meet its expenses and i ; helps the business man meet his expenses. I Di Sails sent his righthand man, scheduled to investigate north-' ! Ed Phelps, to have it out with i ern California tax matters in M.y.Ms. fHE PLATTSMOUTH, MZBHASIJA, CZrSf-VVE!-XLY :3rjrN", PAGK FOUR Section Ti Thuisdoy. Ucv- I r: Z'i. . it raMfps somgton Wilson. "Ycu guys always think of price increases as an incentive to production," argued Phelps. "Wp give you the price increase fellowship. They hear the raucous laugh ter but they seldom read your mind. The person who can laugh at his. or her, mistakes will rise to become master and we still don't set the pro of individual life. One. who takes misfor- I duction. Then you think of tune with a smile, exhibits greater cour age than those who grumble and com plain and is on the road to overcoming evil. January. McCarran's Counterprobe In preparation for this, the ggg WASHINGTON 83 .?J 'ft-::- 5E"sl & ft L4V by Congreisman, 2nd Nebraska District House committee's west coast investigator, Charles Tobin, shewed up in Reno, which may have been why Senator Mc- othcr reasons for the croduc- i Carran sat bolt upright in bed ticn. But you never think of the 1 and started to do his own in other reasons until you force us ' vestigating. ; to eive the price increases." McCarran is chairman of the i . . .. "I don't eive a damn what it : Judiciary Committee, which has a?i f,-ILrJ?' does to stabilization." snanoed i nothing to do with taxes. Fur- n " T J5' V 11waesmns" Wilrcn. "We need the meats." thermore, his committee is not lcn ttePrt reaoasionovis. Shortly after this argument i supposed to overlap the work of i the cost-of-living index shot up another committee. Despite1 n August 1i'J' . senator nrain. automatically Riving 1- this, McCarran sent his trusted! l?eelcr reported a visit irom 000.000 CIO auto workers a wage investigator, J. C. Sourwine. to a British propaganda asent increase, which in turn sharp- start a counterprcbe. i George Paish. Faish gloated, ened the determination of CIO Sourwine first slipped into , "Senator, the American People steelworkers and other unions' San Francisco and proceeded to : have never denied a request that to get a wage boost too. I cross-examine Charles O'Gara, I made of them ... I am respon- Sen. ."McCarran Gets Better the assistant U. S. attorney who'sible for getting the U. S. into pioneered the first tax-fraud the last war (world w ar i Sen. Pat McCarran is suppos ed to be a very sick man. He was not too sick, however, to dis patch a strange two-page tele- prooe. bourwmes line or ques tioning was not at all friendly. It was not that of a man who Down Memory Lane 2 A YEARS AGO V The marriage of Miss Mary Eleanor Aldrich, daughter of Mrs. Bess Streeter Aldrich of Elmwood, and Milton Beech ner, son of Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Beech ner was solemnized November 27 ... A complete survev of the unemployed here I gram- to Chairman Cecil King wants to see tax frauds clean is planned by the Associated Charities which opens its drive today . . . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Foster Patterson are the par ents of a son named Samuel Charles . . . Plattsmouth high school was one of ten schools to win scholarship athletic awards. Named for their scholastic and athletic ability were James Begley, Henry Donat, George Stoll, William Wetenkamp, Robert Hartford, Francis Yelick, Francis Warren and Jack Troop . the first balloon tires to be used low pressure. of the House Committee inves tigating tax frauds, and to send his own personal investi gator to barge into the tax sit uation. Since a Senate Finance Sub- i committee, under able Senator Williams of Delaware, is already probing tax frauds: and since a House Committee is also prob ing taxes and doing a good iob of it. Senator McCarran's sud den interest from a hospital Carl Ofe is proud of , bed in Reno has aroused inter- under 1A YEARS AGO Elmer A. Webb, employee of the Plattsmouth J ournal for the past 24 years, has been named clerk in the offices of the veterans hospital at Lincoln . . . William E. Evers, cadet at West Point, and John Benton Livingston and Allan White, mid shipmen at Annapolis, will meet after the Army-Navy game today . . . Roy Wil son, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Wilson of Murray, is now located at the naval air base at Corpus Christi, Texas . . . The Missouri Pacific crack streamliner will in the future be on a flag stop here . . . Charles Warga of Plattsmouth placed second in the county corn growing con test . . . Miss Anna Knieke has been selec ted as chairman of the Birthdav ball. 8U" wiMxmv estmg speculation. Perhaps. suggest some, the Senator's own shirttail is showing. Those who make this sug gestion recall that it's a matter of official record that one of McCarran's henchmen. Deputy Tax Collector Pat Mooney in Reno, sold $5,000 in worthless Nevada mining stock to Gert rude Jenkins, the San Fran cisco abortionist, when she was nruler investigation for a $57, 000 tax fraud. Moonev, who got his tax-collecting job through Senator McCarran, also sold S2.4C0 of worthless mining stock to "Bones"' Remmer, big-time gam bler of northern California when Remmer faced a $910,000 income-tax deficiency. ed up. Incidentally, it was another McCarran man, U. S. Judge Ed ward Murphv, who dismissed the grand jury which was orob ing tax frauds under O'Gara. Murphy's father and McCarran were eld prospecting pals and McCarran blocked the apnoint- ment of other judges until the i Justice Department finally ap nointed Murphv to the bench. Investigalinff The Investigators After butting into the San Francisco tax situation. McCar ran's investigator Sourwine slipped down to Los Angeles to investigate Congressman King himself. Sourwine's line of in ouiry in Los Aneeles indicated that he was hunting for evi dence that King mav have ex erted political pressure on the U. S. attornpv's office in behalf nf a friend. Thomas A. Gregory. Gregory is involved in a tav investigation and a 530,000.000 lawsuit over the Long Bach Federal Savings and Loan Asso ciation. However. McCarran didn't mention the Los Aneles phase of his investigation in the un nrecednted telegram he later pent to Congressman King. Thoueh this teles-ram has nev- Thp intprAsHntr little rrmttor ! er PePll mnne OUOUC. TOIS COl- were probed bv the Kefauver ur"n tos .obtained a cony Crime Committee, but then Explaining his committees dropped after Senate colleagues sudden interest in the San hastened to cut off funds for a Francisco case. McCarran wir further crime probe. Now. how-, d. ..j am confident that fur ever, a House committee has , , . ., , . t rudely taken up whre the Ke-! ther and detailed investigation fauver committee left off and is 1 of these matters would be pro- i 7 A assocanon NATIONAL eoiTOftlAl ASSOCIATION Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, s secon.l 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 city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents loi Copyright. 1949. Bv the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: PRICE BOSS DI SALLE CLASHES WITH MOBILIZER WILSON; SEN. .MC CARRAN MEDDLES IN TAX PROBE FROM HIS BED. SENDS WIRE TO CONGRESSMAN KING WITH HIDDEN WARNING. Washington. Though price boss Mike Di. Salle is a genial, fun-loving man, his relations with mobilization boss Charlie Wilson have just about reached the boil ing point. The clash is over stimulating production by increasing prices which, in turn, boosts the tost of living. Wilson has adopted this policy over Di Salle's bitter objections. As an incen tive to step up production, Wibon has in creased the price of machine tools, lead and zinc, and is considering a price boost to relieve the sulphur shortage. But the result has beeji an increase in prices all down the line. The price boost for lead and zinc, for instance, caused a VETERANS' COLO By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Korean Vocational Training Veterans The Veterans administration has announced that it will re view all previously disapproved applications for vocational re habilitation training from dis abled Korean vsterans to de termine wither they might now is eligible for training under corresponding increase in all lead and zinc products, such as automobile batter- i connected disabilities resulting ics. Di Salle has argued that this brings from combat or extra-hazardous cracks in the economy .without actually ervice outide o1' combat. The , 4l i 4- i i,i t new lav; has removed th:s3 two solvmsr the production bottleneck. limitations. During the fight over lead and zinc, Under the new law, a veteran is eligible for the vocational re habilitation training if: (1) He received a compensable service-corm-cted disability any time after June 27, 1950, (2) He has a discharge other than dishon orable conditions, and (3t He needs the training to overcome the handicap of his disability. The disability may have oc- Public Law 170. curred anywhere in the world A veteran whose and not necessarily m combat request had been or under extra-hazardous con turned d o w n ditions. does not need to' This rehabilitation training file a new appli- for those disabled after fighting cation. The re- in Korea is essentially the rame view will be auto- program which has been in ef matic and those feet since 1943 for those disabled found to be eligi- ! in World War II. Most of the ble under t, h e policies and procedures set up new law will be under the WW II program are notified. carried over into the program Before Public Law 170 was for Korean veterans. The ter- effective, vocational training for mination dates oi tne two pro- orp rmiereni. i:uwevci. torcir! nilKt. h-Pin TP- TJ-OR THE FIRST TIME since the lobby-reporting act was passed in 1946, lobby spending in congress dropped during the first six months of this year to the tune of approximately a million dollars, according to a survey by Congressional Quarterly, a non partisan congressional reporting service. The survey reveals that for the first six months lobbyists listed with the clerk of the house of representatives $4,288, 300, January through June as compared to $5,272,739 in the same period in 1950. The sur vey indicated, however, that some organizations are usinj a different technique in report ing, some are reporting late and that some of the late re ports have not been made public. According to the survey, biggest spender in the period named was the American Farm Bureau Fed eration with $412,812, with the sec ond biggest the American Medi cal Association with $288,234 for legislative activity. Farm Bureau said its listed outlay was a total for all purposes and that lobbying accounted for a small percentage of that amount. Five other groups reported total expenditures in ex cess of $100,000 including the Na tional Association of Electric Com panies, $221,470; Committee for Constitutional Government $183, 691 (first quarter only) ; National 'Association for Advancement of Colored People, $134,794; Associa tion of American Railroads, $127, 642, and the Trucking Industry for National Defense Committee, $115, 443 (second quarter only). American Farm Bureau Federa tion reported receiving $600,373.16, spending $415,812.96, and said that in the opinion of its officers only a small percentage of the listed in come and disbursements could be charged to lobbying activities. Ac cording to the report, incoma is used to pay salaries of all person nel of offices in Chicago and Wash ington as well as rent and other expenses. AFBF collections com prise income from state organiza tions for membership dues (at 75 cents per individual farm family) totalling $580,134. This would give the Farm Bureau a paid up mem bership of 773,512. Eight ittrm Bureau Federation offi cers submitted individual reports Ii t- ing their legislative interests as tali as their balf-ycar salaries uiih a com bined total of $36,725, as joll-m (; President Allan B. Kline, $!0.C;J ), Roger W. Fleming, secretary-irux. urer, $6,300; John C. Lynn, assoc'-jte director of the Washington office j:.l Guynn Garuett, acting director of the department of international jf fairs, each $4,250; Joe Belts, v. .o ciate director of information and Hugh F. Hall, assistant legiAa live director $3,575. In the meantime, Hcrschel I). Newsom, master of the National Grange told the 85th annual ses sion of grange delegates from 27 states, that farmers should wuik toward a three-point program in the next congress to (1) ir.u-o ef fectively serve the interests of tiie entire nation; (2) eliminate th- .e economic protcctives which ur. :.'. y raise the cost of production; ;.n (3) improve marketing pratticf s to obtain the maximum of effici ency in quality and distribution of farm products. Newsom warned that the nation faced a c-ntir.-.iii-.g decline of the buying power tf the dollar "unless we have the cour age to meet - inflation huno.-:!y through private and governm n'al economy, taxes and voluntary sav ings." Newsom said one reason why farmers have had poor pu';;ic rel i tions is that consumers lock only at the dollars and cents price tag and conclude that farmers are reaping high profits at their ex pense. "It is net gencraljy known," he said, "thKt consumers nw can buy the same quantity ant! types cf food as they did in 1933 to lSGD for on!y 10ci of their 1351 income, compared with 20 actually spent for faai in those years." The U. S. department of agricul ture conducted an annual outlook conference last week as to farm production with the result that there is expected to be continued high production goals; somewhat higher production costs eating up a gain in gross income. Important factor is continued expansion of the defense mobilization program with the government spending about $5,500,000,000 per month. disabled Korean veterans was i grams ar 1 limited to those with service- j WW II ve I am over here now . . . and I km going to get this country in to this war-' (World War ID. ( Congressional Record, Page 10379, 1940 . British propaganda in Amer ica is cunning. Such activities have always paid them hand some dividends. The loan scheme has the able assistance of our own governmental propa ganda experts. Senators and per function of Senate Judiciary Committee. "However." he added. "I know my committee frowns on over lapping and duplication of ef fort. . . I am confident that members of the judiciary com mittee would agrep that inves tigations undertaken with pro per jurisdiction by one commit tee should be brought to a con clusion by that eroun unless there is evidence indicating un satisf action (sic) or incomolete handling of such matter." It is strange this argument didn't occur to McCarran be fore he began his own. inde pendent investigation since both the King committee and Senate Finance Committee were already looking into the San Francisco tax troubles. How ever, to avoid duplication. Mc Carran wired King '-tat "I am instructing counsel Senate Ju diciary Committee to turn over to your committee immediately all investigative reports dealing with above-mentioned subject matter." McCarran concluded by re Questins that King keen him "advised of progress respecting these matters as I must report ! fully to Senate Judiciary Com mittee when Congress recon venes." i King may easily have read a hidden warning between the lines, however, that his San Francisco probe had better not embarrass McCarran. For re ports quicklv filtered back to King that McCarran's man was snooping around Long Beach, and McCarran must have knewn these renorts would ret back to Kinp- from his own congressional district. Furthermore, it was unprece dented for McCarran to tele era Dh Congressman Kinz, in ?ead of Sraor Williams of Delaware. Williams has also been investigating the San Francisco tax scandals for the Senate Finance Committee, but he has not sent art on-the-soot investigator to San Francisco, as did Congressman King. Also, under Senate rules, a Senate committee is not likely : to embarrass a fellow senator. McCarran, however, couldn't be so sure about a house commit tee. I Finally, it is interesting that of all the' tax scandals in th3 nation, the only scandals Mc Carran chose to do'jhle check were those rn his own donrstpn, McCarran did not send his in vestigators to St. T,ouis Votv York City cr Boston only to San Francisco and. as a sid prcbo, to Los Angeles. - Its beginniu" to look as if Congressmen are wcosd by so cial attention.-. Their wives are taken in by the glamor cf rec ognition from British aristo cracy and titled royalty. Getting Us Into the War, by Porter Sargeant, details the smooth British propaganda as we were led into World War II. Until you have studied these tactics, or watched them oper ate close up, you cannot imagine their sinister power. 1946 Paul Reveres and Patrick Henrys. No just God will save us from such stupidity and trickery. As patriotic Senator Johnson warned the Senate last week: "The titanic program of lavish lending which this loan launch es is, in my opinion, the b:gin ning of the end of a great and good experiment in real democracy." But do not blame the British Tf f,-rsr. rj.iti t oo,, ! too much. Their rulers believe and other handouts new. don't ever complain about inflation. The British Loan, like Lend Lease. UNRRA. Bretton Woods, etc., is almost pure inflation. Each creates purchasing dollars here for which the matching goods have been sent abroad. The financial swindle of this Century is the hoodwinking cf the American psople cn infla tion. Our internationalists have promoted the inflation which is shrinking your salary, pension, or annuity checks. in their colonial imperialism. If its cost in blood and treasure i3 saddhd on ycu, don't blame the English. Blame your own officials. American officials are responsible for the handouts that feed the inflation now hurting the humble people cf America. George Washington's "Farewell" advice about the "insidious wilrs of foreign in fluence" is being entirely ig nored. (This Report re-issucd by re quest ) . If the fight to stop this Brit ish raid is lost, prepare yourself for ruinous inflation or the J reading news. Nazi alternative, ruthless regi mentation. America needs som3 Radio newscasting has made the public more interested in Journal Want Ads P-A-Y-! habilitation training in time to complete it by Juiy zo, iaou. Ko rean veterans will have nine years from the end of the cur- nmnrircncv vc Hf h flntp Will ... . . . , iui. n-i.fc,v..w , ... bumeune suouia now start m be rl-termined at a later time. I woh,,-, y,a nvaatnri. 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