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EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes SWIVEL-CHAIR GENERALS A remark which has as much truth as humor in it is the one that the best gen erals today are apparently writing for the newspapers. These words, from a some what cynical editor, contain enough of the truth to merit the reader's careful con sideration. It seems that today every writer is posing as a military, expert, who can set tle the issues in Korea in the space, of a few thousand words. More often than not the writer can trace all the mistakes of the Deforce Department and State Depart ment and show where the crucial errors were mrule, and how they could have been easilv pre ented. The thing the reader must remember is that, in a "lit tic war, as in a large war mistakes are mcle and the team must nevertheless pull together toward final victory. It accomp-ishes little to go into the past and explain what actions the writer would have followed. It is more im portant for the writer to point out how the present problems in military and econ omic spheres can be settled in the best in terest of the country at large. It is good to know the mistakes of the past, as a guide for further action, but only confusion results from continued and lengthy description of failure and despair. The thing to keep in mind is that despite mistakes and setbacks, U. S. foreign policy has contained Communism in Europe and has, by the use of military force, checked Communist military force in a democratic country in the Far East. The cost has been high, in both human life and in dollars, in each of these undertakings. Xo doubt the policies followed by this government could have been bettor conceived and executed, but the major result is that Communism has been checked in at least these two sit uations, and we might remember this fact in our critical analyses. k WHITE HOUSE WHITE AGAIN The White House, in Washington again looks as it is supposed to look with a new coat of white paint and the scaffolding taken down after three years of remodeling. It is reported that Presi dent Truman finally became disgusted with the repeated delays and ordered work to be completed speedily. Taxpayers will be interested to know that the three-year remodeling job cost $5,500,000 and has required the services of an army of workmen ever since late 1048. The Executive mansion is said to be redone inside and out. In this connection, it is interesting 'to speculate whether the President respon sible for the remodeling Mr. Truman will be permitted to enjoy the modern conveniences of the new White House for any considerable period of time. Present estimates call for the Truman family's re moval from Blair House, across the street, to the White House in April. If this sched ule is met, the President will have only about nine months of assured occupancy since his present term expires in Jan uary, 1950. If the President runs and is elected again, he will, of course, be the resident in the. White House for another four years. In his current term, however, he lived in the White House only a few weeks after the 1948 election and will live in it only about nine months between April, and January, 1953. Whatever else he has done, Mr. Truman has provided a modern com fortable home for the next President of the United States, even if it is not himself NAVY JET HELICOPTER The United States Navy has develop ed a new helicopter which is jet propelled. When we think of jet power we usuallv think of a strong forward pushing motion, and until this Navy development that is exactly what jet power was, a forward pushing motion. The jet helicopter is expected to be used for observation, operating from sub- THOUGIIT FOR TODAY 'aith affirms rehat the senses do not affirm, but not the contrary of :ehat thex per ceive. It is above, and not contrary to. IM.nise Pascal The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KSTAUUSIIKU IN lsS! Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For "Outstanding Community Service in 1950" I'uUishei! sfiiii-wci-klv. Mnla.VH mid Thursdays, at 40y-li:s Main Street. I'iatt.-miUli, Cass County. Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE . Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter association I NATIONAL ASSOCUJWHf l-;utT- ;t the l'wt Offieo at I'lattsniouth. Nebraska, as second i lass mail matter in accurdauce .with the iUt of Congress of March 2. U73. 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.' LAFF OF THE WEEK ' , Hitting the bull's eye is seldom ac complished by shooting the bull. Perhaps the reason they don't have wedding showers for men is because a man has plenty of stormy weather ahead after his bride begins to reign. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she didn't slap her new j boy iriend when he lirst kissed her be cause she was saving her energy for his next move. A local man, getting his first look at. the leaning tower of Pisa thinks it was the work of that contractor who built his house. A bachelor is a fellow who is crazy to get married and knows it. How's your capabilities for adjustment to change? Have you. been able to write it "1952" everv time? Your length of life does not depend s- much on what star you were, born under as the color of the light when you start across the street. If everybody became interested in the truth, maybe we could locate it. There are two sides to every public question and the wise man tries to un derstand both. Those political candidates are all talk ing about "The Road Ahead." What we're afraid of is they are the kind of people who fold up a road map the wrong way. marines. The jet windmillis known as ex periment K-225 and is powered by 175 horsepower gas turbine. The velocity of exhaust gases is used to turn the shaft of the rotor blades, a different application of jet power. Down Memory Lane OA YEARS AGO The list of candidates for the repub lican nomination for county sheriff climb ed to six today when Elmer T. Thackery of Louisville filed. Thackery formerly worked at the Burlington shops here . . . Paul Grassman former Plattsmouth young man, was married to Miss Patia Smith at Omaha . . . The interior of the Reliable 5 cent to $1 store is being re modeled . . . The music department of St. John's parochial school presented a pro gram at the library auditorium . . . George W. Olson of Plattsmouth filed as a can didate for the democratic nomination for governor . . . Plattsmouth defeated Omaha North 15 to 10 . . . Martin L. Lohnes has filed as a candidate for the democratic nomination for county commissioner from the first district . . . Willard Clapp of Elmwood has filed as a republican can didate for sixth district representative to the state legislature. ir I A YEARS AGO 1U Virginia Pollard of Nehawka was one of four Nebraska 4-H club members named to represent Nebraska at a nation al gathering. In 4-H work for 8 vears she has completed 20 projects . . . E. A. Wurl, grocer and dry goods store oper ator, is retiring after 47 years of active business in Plattsmouth . . . Weeping Water edged Plattsmouth 34 to 33. Yelick and Shaper paced Plattsmouth with 12 and 10 points. Mayfield had 11 for Weep ing Water . . . Mr. and M gan i are the parents of a daughter born at ! einuuist nospital ... The Cass and fearpy county annual feeders tour is sched- t u Vl6- The SterHng Ingwerson, John F. V ehrbein, W. H. Wehrbein, Jake Tntsch and Oliver Meisinger farms will be visited. A J A Corsets A J AX COftSETS ENCOMPASS THB . GLOBE. I - J I J i And just when I had the sale cinched the zipper stuck!" The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Copyright 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: "YANK EES OF THE NORTH" CAN RE PROUD OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN PUERTO RICO AS CITIZENS THERE VOTE ON NEW CONSTITU TION WHICH MAY SET PATTERN FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE ; GOV. MUNOZ MARIN TRUE CHAMPION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES. San Juan. Today, in Puerto Rico, be ginning just before noon, the streets will be quite empty. For, promptly at 1 o'clock, little groups of Puerto Ricans will be lock ed up, 1 GO to a scho-olhouse or office build ing, to vote on one of the most important documents in the western hemisphere the new Puerto Rican Constitution. The voters will be locked in the build ings and sehoolhouses in order to prevent their, repeating at the polls. Thev sit quietly waiting their turn to vote while a great calm settles down over the island. This calm is so intense that you can almost hear thousands of ballots in this American plebiscite ori self-determination of peoples, This unique balloting is tak ing olace in the oldest part of America, yet is one of the new est experiments in self-government. It was just a few miles from here that Christopher Colum bus first poked the nose of his Santa Maria into the mysteries of the new world. The turret tower of the governor's palace at San Juan from which this new constitution will be administer ed was built only 40 years after Columbus' arrival here. And. as Columbus pioneered a new world, so Puerto Rico and the United States may be pion eering a new governmental sys tem which may set a pattern for the western hemisphere. Friendly to U.S. In actual fact the so-called "damn yankees of the north" can be proud of what's happen ing in Puerto Rico. Here is an island which for four long cen turies was under the rule of Saain. yet in exactly 50 years it has become vigorous, self-respecting, completely democratic, loyal, and friendly to the U.S.A. In contrast, the mother country, Spain, is still under a dictator ship, has suffered a recent bloody revolution that permits no freedom of the press, free dom of speech or religion. The contrast is interesting in other respects. The dictator of Spain. Francisco Franco, has recently paid a powerful lobby in Washington to push a $100. 000,000 outright gift to Spain through Congress. The man who governs Puerto Rico, on the other hand. Luis Munoz Marin, first Puerto Rican governor to be elected by the people, is able to get few gifts from Congress. Yet Gov ernor Munoz Marin, educated at Georgetown University and living much of his life in the U.S., is such a vigorous champ ion of civil liberties that he even gives the Puerto Rican educational oaper-printing con tract to the low-bidding San Juan newspaper which is his severest critic. Unique Document It is Governor Munoz Marin who largely pioneered the new Puerto Rican Constitution being voted on today. This is a uniaue document, for it provides neith er statehood or independence for Puerto Rico but makes it "The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico." The exact language is a "Free Associated State." What this means is that Puerto Rico will remain associated with and part of the United States, free to govern itself on local nrnh. lems but subject to the tariffs J ' me unuea ocates and other U.S. laws which Congress spec ifies should apply to the island. However, Puerto Rico will fix its own taxes, thus preserving the right held dear to our founding fathers of no taxation without representation but it will receive the protection of the American armed forces, which will use Puerto Rico as a base, and in most other res pects the island will continue to be a part of the United States This compromise of a com monwealth or free associated state was worked out by Demo cratic Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney of Wyoming, Republican Sen Guy Cordon of Oregon and other congressmen in coopera tion with Puerto Rican leaders for two reasons: !7T?uerto Ricans did not have sufficient wealth to become a state; they could not afford to pay regular taxes as do Hawaii and Alaska. And. 2The island could not afford to lose the mt1 ?f its economic tics with the United States which would be severed if it obtained com plete independence. Thus a course was adopted midway between that of the Philippines which sought and obta ned independence and Alaska and Hawaii which seek homdlete full-fIcded state- If the constitution being vo ted on today is adopted bv the people, as seems likely, it then Koes to the U.S. Congress for approval and, if approved by Congress, Puerto Rico becomes a commonwealth associated with the United States of Amer- Hemispheric Ties . Though continential Anieri- Capitol News LINCOLN The Nebraska pri mary election race moved into the final stretch this week with the April 1 balloting less than a month away. These were the highlight developments of the past several days: Republicans met here for their annual Founders Day program marking the 85th anniversary of Nebraska's statehood. It was a typical GOP pow-wow, except that it was more highly-seasoned this year with some ding dong battles for the party's nomination to the offices of U. S. senator, governor, lieutenant eovernor. attnrnev penpral nnri f railway commissioner. Democrats heaved a sigh of relief with the announcement by Walter Raecke that he would ac cept his party's nomination for governor although he wouldn't lift a finger to get it. Earle Burnett of Lincoln got out of the race. The Gov. Val Peterson-Sen. Hugh Butler scrap for the long term senatorial nomination heated up. In a radio broad cast, the governor charged But ler with a do-nothing policy to ward cleaning up corruption in the national government. Speak ing for Senator Butler at a Gage county Republican pancake feed, Lloyd Chapman. Lincoln attorney, said the senator's vot ing record speaks for itself: that he feels his job is to stay in Washington "and get the job done." Robert B. Crosby and Victor E. Anderson pushed their cam paigns for the gubernatorial nomination but so far have been unable to develop any major is sues on which they differ. Jokers . . . A showdown fight in the school land lease battle is shap ing up with distribution by the Nebraska School Land Lessees Association of petitions to place nn the 1952 perioral election bal lot a constitutional amendment changing the divvy of school land revenues. Briefly, the amendment would keep more of the revenue in the counties where the school lands are located. Persons here opposed to the amendments, principally edu cation groups, have challenged the suggestion. One attorney, who asked that his name not be used, said he, doubted the le gality of the proposal. . He said it is filled with ' jokers." Hardest-hit, under the scheme, would be populous eastern coun ties whose school lands have cans, engrossed in Korea, dom estic corruption, and president ial politics, have paid little at tention to the new look in Puer to Rico, it has aroused great in terest in Latin America. For various countries of the Caribbean Cuba, Panama, Cen tral America, Venezuela are tied to the United States both by commerce and friendship. These ties are so close that their economy is almost completely dependent upon the U.S. and the U.S.. in turn, is dependent upon their raw materials. Therefore if some loose asso ciation of commonwealth na tions could be worked out for the Caribbean area whereby these nations would retain their independence yet be "free asso ciated states" with the United States, it might have great ad vanaees both for them and for the U.S. Some friendly Latin Ameri cans sec the day when the Pan ama Canal could be just as thorny a political problem be tween the United States and Panama as the Suez is today between Britain and Egypt. But, if an association of free states including Panama was linked with the United States in a league of friendly Pan American nations, this problem would be solved before it ever got started. That is Avhy the Puerto Rican balloting toaay is being watch ed throughout the western hem isphere. It's also why the bal loting may- set a new milestone in American relations. been sold, the protestants ar gued. Roads . . . A poll of 50 chambers of com merce across the state was un derway his week to determine whether they want to under take the promotion of a high way program for Nebraska. State Engineer Harold Aitken said here that he favors such a project and pointed to the job done in Illinois where the state chamber of commerce sur veyed that state's road prob lem and came up with ten sug gestions for consideration by the Illinois Legislature, including the reorganization of the high way department under a high way commission. Both Republican candidates for governor have indicated they favor a commission here. The 1951 Legislature killed a bill es tablishing a five-member com mission, but aiding in its scut tling were disgruntled members who were miffed at the failure of the bill to re-enact the pen-ny-a-gallon gas tax increase. Pat . . . The State Board of Control is patting itself on the back for the iob its dene on improving conditions in Nebraska menta1 institutions. Mrs. Mary Prince, chairman of the board, told r Lincoln audience last week end that the state's hospitals am in the best condition in a quar ter of a century. The special 1.1 mill building levy has enabled the board to carry on a construction and maintenance program which would have been impossible oth erwise, she said. She also cred ited a program "of unification and co-ordination of efforts" for improving conditions generally. Completion of a building pro gram at the Beatrice hospital completely wiped out the wait ing list there, Mrs. Prince said and the opening next year of a 450-bed treatment center at Norfolk should satisfy the needs there. Boost ... For the fourth time since the end of World War II. Nebraska's truckers are asking the Railway Commission for a rate increase. The Nebraska Motor Carriers Association has requested an emergency boost of 15 per cent. The Commission set March 12 as date for the hearing. At the same time the truckers are seek ing a permanent 26 per cent hike. This will be heard March 24. In the past six years the car riers have had increases of 20, 10 and 15 per cent and a commis sion spokesman said rates are now 153 per cent higher than before the war. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JCURfSAi. PAGE TWO Monday, March 3, 1952 HMttlCwilKElIE Life's Partner Means All to Man THIS STORY ILLUSTRATES what your life partner can me to you. Thurston R. Decatur, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., was so worried once that he almost broke up one of the happiest homes in bis town his own. At cxactly 9:30 P-m- on Christmas Eve he received notice that due t a financial recession of American Airlines, Inc., his aw vices woum not be required after another 30 days. This came as a complete surprise and imme diately he became obsessed with worry. He fully realized that the company had so specialized him that he wasn't fit for any other type of work except in commercial airlines. He had given this company six good years of his life and had nothing to show for it. Due to the housing shortage, he had willingly commuted, for two years, 126 miles each day, thereby sacri ficing 6 hours of each day to them, rather than his family, just because he believed in his future with such a fine company. He hated his home life aim an uie iesponsiDiimes mat went with it. y Shortly his wife became genuinely concerned over his healt'i artd his mental attitude. One night she said, "Let's analyze each problem and see what could possibly happen to you and us." Then as each one was dramatically presented, she laughed loud and heartedly until he couldn't help but laugh with her. This went on for a couple of hours until they had covered some problems that weren't even problems. In laughing he began to realize the faith his wife had in him and she knew that he couldn't fail her by just worrying and giving up. So he set to work solving each problem until there wasn't one left worth worrying about. Her bit of psychology had taught him the uselessness of worry and made him realize for the first time in their marriage that she was more than a wife, more than a partner and more than a companion, she was a very vital part of him. "Cm Carnegie jgVSKA NEB about thirty yards to the corn crib and I had to make three trips. I did not have any dif ficulty in finding it and getting back to the house as the chick enhouse and windmill guided me. but I had a serious time of it, iust the same. 'I went to the windmill for water but it was frozen so I had to melt snow for water. "In those days women nursed their babies so I had to find something to feed the little one in my care. After a long search I found a little bit of whiskey in the cupboard and I mixed a drink for him with sugar and water and w-hiskey so we got along all right, though the chil dren got hungry, of course. I found it hard to have to walk the floor with the baby far into the night. When he finally went to sleep his eyes were open and I did not know what to think of that. "The parents were frantic and as soon as the wind began to die down they came home, arriving about five in the morn ing. "The house was frame, with three rooms. We did not really suffer with the cold. The wind was penetrating but the walls and windows were sheltered by the deep drifts of snow." NEW SOURCE OF INFORMATION Mrs. Katherine Sehi?ffer of Hartington recently received a letter telling her that her son. Pfc. Edwin Schieffer, was well and happy. That's not unusual, you say? But the letter came from a well-known man who ate Christmas dinner in Korea with her son Francis Cardinal Spellman, Catholic archbishop of New York. h IAMES C OLSON, SuptrintenJent TATS ISTOBICAtfOCIITV One of the most serious" ca tastrophes in Nebraska's history was the great blizzard of Jan uary 12, 1888. The book, "In All Its Fury,'' published by the Bliz zard Club under the editorship of W. H. O Gara of Lincoln, for many years president of the club, contains many reminis cences of the experiences of Ne braskans and others during the great blizzard. Typical is that of Mrs. Mar garet Davey of Greeley who ap parently was serving as a baby sitter when the storm hit. In later years she wrote: "I was twelve years old at the time, and living with a married sister, but at the time of the blizzard I was visiting my moth er who lived five miles south of Greeley. "That morning her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Cleary, wanted to go to town to do some trading and they asked if I would stay with their children while they were gone. There were three children, one of them a baby about seven months old. They expected to be gone only three or four hours. "There was a little boy out herding the cattle and just be fore noon he came in and said the cows were acting wild. So I told him we would put them in the yard and leave them un til after dinner. Just as we got j mem in me Diizzara Durst upun i usi I investigated and found I no fuel. There was only atevt i half a basket of cobs. There wa ' no milk, no water, not a thing to feed the baby. "We had a little old-fashioned cook stove to keep us warm, and I went to the corn crib and brought in corn to burn. It was SPOKANE, Wash. - Elger Arndt. 35. went to the Eagles Club to celebrate removal of a cast from his back and neck. A friend, congratulated him with a hearty'slap on the back. Arndt went back to the hospital, his back again broken. APPROPRIATE The Papillion Times recently headed a news item conccrnis the end of rabbit hunting sea son in Nebraska that was: "All Clear for Bunnies.'' 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