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ft" EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes CRITICISM FROM JUIN Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, com mander of the ground forces of the Cen tral European Sector of Supreme Head quarters, Allied Powers Europe, has se verely criticized the United States perfor mance in Korea and the U. S. attitude on French Africa and Indochina. Marshal Juin was reported to have said : "I said to the Americans 'if you do not understand our situation, France will leave the United Nations . . . ' " This re mark concerned the American attitude on Tunisia, one of France's North African protectorates. The attitude of the United States was that the French grant Tunisia more home rule and independence. Occasionally, the United States, not a colonial power, steps on the toes of the old-school Europeans, who too often think of colonies as existing mainly for the benefit of the mother country. In the case of Tunisia, the United States attitude was correct and the situa tion there is not a good one today, mainly because of French insistence on stern and forceful measures in ruling the inhabitants. It is just such an uncompromising position -which the Communists exploit so success fully over various areas of the world. Marshal Juin also criticized severely the American bombing of the Yalu River power plants and charged our command with putting the U. N. in a ridiculous po sition. In addition to that, Marshal Juin criticized the U. S. attitude on the war in French Indochina. Considering the fact that the United States is supplying the French in Indochina with millions of dollars worth of equip ment and that American troops were pri marily responsible for the freeing of Fran ce from the Germans in World War II, and considering the additional fact that: (1) The United States has done more to rehab ilitate France since the end of World War II than any other country, and (2) the United States has borne most of the sac rifices in manpower and most of the cost of the fighting in Korea considering all these facts, Marshal Juin's bitterness is unreasonable. It appears that the Marshal has been misled and is prejudiced against anything the United States does or will do. If the reports are accurate and quote the Mar shal correctly, the French Government would do well to remove him from com mand of the Central European sector of SHAPE. Such an attitude and blunt crit icism will do little to advance t,eam work and comradeship of the SHAPE team, which General Eisenhower worked so hard to build up. NEW IMMIGRATION LAW & POLITICS In 1921, Congress passed an immigra tion law which reduced the maximum number of immigrants each year to 150 thousand, fixed a national quota system based on a percentage of each foreign country's nationals in the United States as of 1920, and barred most Asian people from immigrating into this country. Now Congress has passed over Presi dent Truman's veto a new immigrant act. Sponsored by Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada and Rep. Francis E. Walters of Pennsylvania, the act would generally re tain the provisions of the 1924 act on max imum immigration and the quota system. In the new law there is no flat ban against immigration of Asian and Pacific people. There have been added certain measures to keep out subversives and other undesirables, and the Attorney General is granted special powers to deport immi grants for Communist or Communist-front affiliation. While the new immigration law is cer tainly the result of compromises, it is an improvement over the 1924 act despite President Truman's veto message in which he said that the act "would intensify the THOUGHT FOR TODAY Ai; duty is more urgent than that of giv ing thanks. St. Amljrr.se The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KSTABMSHED IX 1S!1 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (Hanked Second in Cities Over 1000 Population Published Ffini-weekly, Mondavs and Thursdays at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County. Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK II. SMITH News reporter 1 1 trruzyL r NATfONAl eoiroaiu ASSOCIATION JcWers One thing we can do better than any one else is read our own writing. If the guy who carried off The Jour nal's fire extinguishers during our moving job will report at this office we'll present him with a fireman's hat and a brass bell. A bachelor is a rolling stone that gathers no boss. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says the only things that are getting longer about women's clothing are the shoulder straps. Newspaper men must be careful to choose the right word. For instance, you ! can call a woman a kitten, but not a cat; a mouse, but not a rat; a chicken, but not a hen; a duck, not a goose; a vision, but not a sight. The best after-dinner speaker we ever heard was the fellow who said, "Waiter, bring me the check." A local woman thinks it's disgusting that comedians earn more than our sen ators. We don't think so they're funnier. A couple of old fellows here were dis cussing the ideal way to die. One said he j would prefer to go m a speeding car; the other selected an airplane crash. Person ally, we'd rather be shot by a jealous husband. repressive and inhumane aspects of our immigration procedures." Informed observers in Washington be lieve that while the President lost the fight on immigration policy, he has suc ceeded in presenting in his veto message the civil right policies which he expects the democratic convention to endorse and which will undoubtably become a funda mental issue in the coming election in No vember. it it it Dovn Memory Lane 4ft YEARS AGO SU -Mrs. Henry A. Tool of Murdock has retired as secretary-treasurer of Cass County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Mrs. Tool had served the unit for 19 years. Mrs. Ray Norris is county chair man . . . Miss Wilma E. Pickard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Alwin, was mar ried to George W. Perry . . . Lowell S. De voe, superintendent of Plattsmouth schools has filed for the office of state superinten dent of public instruction . . . Mrs. Lucille Horn Gaines, deputy register of deeds, has filed for the democratic nomination for the office of register of deeds . . . Another filing today was that of Albertns Camp bell, who has filed for the office of county surrveyor . . . Still another filing was that of E. C. Giles as a republican candidate for register of deeds. Li ifiCY,, W( ! j . i . f. , gylGebrge j Capitol News fUE PLATTSMOUTH, NEHRASKA, SE1WI-WLEKLY JOl PAGE FOUR Monday, July . "Poodle cut, please!" 20 YEARS AGO W. M. Barclay has been named a member of the park board. He succeeds W. C. Tippens. who was recently named councilman to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of W. A. Tulene ... A sur vey recently conducted by the city coun cil disclosed that the city limits of Platts mouth extend about 80 feet east of the Kurlington right-of-way. Basis for the line is the old channel of the Missouri river . . . Surprising Mr. and Mrs. John Sanders on their 4th wedding anniversary were Miss Lillian Koubek, Miss Dorothy Syoboda, Miss Dorothy Gradoville, Miss Helen Smctana, Mrs. Ida Waters, Miss Ann San ders, Mrs. L. W. Egenberger and Mr. and Mrs. Sanders . . . School taxation problems will be considered at a meeting of the Tax payers League. The Washington Merry-Go-Round Entered at the Tost Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, e.s second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Oonsres of March 3. 1S79. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 p?r 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. (Copyright 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: MACAR THUR GPTS HIS REVENGE TO- . NIGHT; ECLIPSED BY EISENHOW ER POLITICALLY. MAC ARTHUR COULD) VETO HIM FOR PRESI DENCY; MACARTHUR ONCE FIR ED EISENHOWER FROM PHILIP PINES. Chicago. Today marks a vivid con trast between the Republican Convention of 1948 and the Republican Convention of 1952, as far as Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur is concerned. At Philadelphia in 1948, MacArthur's headquarters were forlorn and deserted. Piles of literature lay on tables hopefully waiting for readers. No one came in to read. An occasional newsman wandered in to see how the draft-Mac campaign was progressing, but that was about all. In Tokyo, MacArthur had told Gen. Robert Fichelbergcr, his deputy, that he expected to be drafted by the Republicans, might need to make a sudden flight to Philadelphia, would need Eichelberger to stand by, ready to take over the job of Supreme Commander. Roy Howard, Colonel McCor mick, various newspaper bigwigs had visited Tokyo, told the Gen eral he was the indispensable man, the man to lead the na tion. And the General believed. But no draft dcv?loped, and a disappointed MacArthur. dis covering that to be a Dolitical hero you have to be fired by a ! President, tonight will stage his comeback. In a sense, also, it will be his revenge. That revenge will be aimed not so much at the Re publicans who spurned him at- Philadelphia four years ago, but 1 at the man who once trained under him and has now eclipsed him politically, perhaps milit arily. IHacArthur's Veto MacArthur has not forgotten that, while his headquarters was empty in 1948 and his expected draft for president failed to materialize, his old aide. Dwight Eisenhower, had to turn down a draft that same year. And tonight, in Chicago, Mac Arthur knows that while he mav not be able to serve as president himself, he may have the veto power over the presidency of another military man. Already he has done his best to exercise that veto. At Lans ing, Mich., on May 15, with his eyes obviously on the draft-Eisenhower boom, MacArthur said: "It would be a tragic devel opment indeed if this genera tion was forced to look to the rigidity of military dominance and discipline to redeem it from the tragic failure of a civilian administration." MacArthur has also phoned Governor Fine of Pennsylvania, one holder of the key to victory, urging him to throw Pennsyl vania's delegates against Eisen hower. So either MacArthur has for gotten the days of 1948 when another military man, himself, waited to be drafted, or else he figures that a military man might be all right for president if he were the "right type" of military man. Military Jealousy Americans have wondered why this bitter enmity between two of our top army leaders. The answer is not difficult. It goes back to the rise of a young man who once took orders from an older man, but emerged as the most important commander of the war. After the war. when Eisen hower was receiving a hero's welcome in New York. I first told the story of how MacArthur had fired Lt. Col. Dwight Eisen hower from the Philippines a bout a year before Pearl Harbor. The story brought an official denial from Tokyo, but it was true. The reasons wlv MacAr thur shipped Eisenhower home I do not know. Military friends say, Ike had become popular with the Filipinos, was crowd ing Mac for the limelight. But I do know that for many years prior to that the two men were reasonably close. Eisen hower, occupied a desk in the outer office of the general staff when MacArthur was Chief of Staff and wrote Mac's famous farewell message to the army, one of the most appealing docu ments ever issued by a Chief of Staff. Studying: Dramatics So when Eisenhower pulled the wisecrack. "I studied dram atics under Mac for nine years." many military friends say that, from the point of view of time and affinity, he was telling the truth. Unauestionably, Eisenhower's exit from the Philippines was the best break he ever got. Had he remained with MacArthur he would have been captured at Bataan. been just another mil itary prisoner. But. returning home, he was immediately sent to the Louisiana maneuvers where Gen. Walter Kreuger spotted him as one of the com ing young officers of the army, and where Gen. George Mar shall started promoting him up the ladder in the fastest time a Lieutenant Colonel ever gradu ated to the rank of four-star General. ' 1 And while ' MacArthur was suffering defeat at Manila and battling on Fetid Buna. Eisen hower scored the victorious landing of North Africa. And while MacArthur fought labor iously up 'the Pacific, his form er protege was pushing brilliant ly across to Sicily, Italy, then across the English Channel in the greatest invasion of recent history. Naturally, this was gall and wormwood to the man who had been Chief of Staff when Ike was a mere major, to the man who had fired Ike from the Philippines. So tonight. ' MacArthur will get an extra kick out of his keynote speech for several rea sons. One is that he is able t speak without giving up his uni form, his $19,600 army pay, his three aides and limousine despite army order 000-10 though Ike has already sacri ficed his pay. But primarily he will get a kick out of the strategic power that he will wield toward veto ing a military man for president in retaliation for the veto which Ike hurled in his direction in 1948 when he also declared that no military man should nurture the ambition to become President of the United States. WASHINGTON REFORT Howard Buffett Congressman, 2nd Nebrwla Diitrict The word "holiday" combines two words Holy Day. In America our great patriotic holi day is the 4th of July. In a very real sense this anniversary is a holy day for the Declaration of Independence is based on our belief in God. The rock on which our coun try was founded is set out in these lines: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are en dowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Our country was born in rev olution. Our patriotic ancestors were rebels and revolutionaries determined to overcome the existing government. The Dec laration itself says, ' That whenever any form of Government becomes destruc tive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government . . .'' Do we Americans still believe in these words? Today in some lands people fight to alter or abolish governments that they find oppressive. Is America keeping hands off or are we taking sides? Are we faithful to the prin ciple on which our nation was founded self - determination? Many Asiatics don't think so. They are trying to end control of their lands by Europeans. For centuries Europeans have ex ploited and dominated them. The peoples of Asia yearn for freedom just as Americans did in 1776. Sure, they are an un developed and often ignorant people. We, too. were called a low, ignorant rabble by the Brit ish when we fought for freedom. Noble oratory does not change the truth about intervention in Asia. The real question is: Do we keep faith with the Declara tion of Independence when we back Europe in Asiatic quarrels? Countians Have Hogs Af Omaha Three Cass county shippers were among the recent shippers to Omaha. All had hogs on the market. , , , . County shippers included W. LeRoy Cook, 13 hogs weighing 188 that sold at $20.85 and six hegs weighing 298 that brought $18.50; Fred Schick, 17 hogs, weighing 193, that sold at $20.2o; and Ed Guehlstorff, 14 hogs, weighing 216 that brought $20.25. Fat "rattle Monday at Omaha ! sold steady to 25-cents higher, i hogs were 25 to 75 cents lower and fat iambs were steady to 1 50 cents up. LINCOLN This was a quiet week at the Capitol. The long Fourth of July week end, coupled with the Republican Na tional Convention in Chicago, slowed the Statehouse pace to a walk. As a matter of fart, the GOP convention pos?d qui e a prob lem so far as the governorship of the state is concerned. Gov. Val Petersen is attend ing the Chicago conclave to cheer on his favorite for the presidential nomination. Ordi narily, hi", absence would mean '.hat Lt. Gov. Charles Warner would act as governor. But Waurr is a delegate to the convention. State Constitution pro vides that the speaker of the Legislature is next in line but ids Nebraska Legislature has no speaker since Ed Hoyt of Mc Cook resigned to accept a post with the State Agriculture De partment. The chairman of the Legisla tures Judiciary Committee would be next in the succession line, but since Sen. John P. Mc Knight of Auburn resigned sev eral months ago, that commit tee has no chairman. That's as far as the Consti tution goes in outlining the successors. Actually, nobody here was ex pecting any trouble. Water Nebraska is currently involved in a contest over water rights which may make dull reading but is of prime concern to irri gators in the rich North Platte Valley. Representatives of Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming met at Denver last week to seek a solu tion to the thorny problem which has been presented by the demands of Colorado that the 1945 U. S. Supreme Court decree which set up the present water allocation ttasis be re opened. Tentative agreement was reached on a proposal made by Nebraska that Colorado could irrigate 10,000 more acres than at present and could store 3,000 more acre feet a year. But Wyoming reportedly balk ed at the proposals concerning the yet-to-be-built Glendo proj ect. At week's end, nothing defi nite had been settled but offi cials here at Lincoln are frank ly worried the whole thing will erupt into a major legal action which won't end short of the Supreme Court. And if the whole matter is thrashed out again, they fear, Nebraska's po sition will be nowhere near so favorable as it is now. How Many? State Auditor Ray C. Johnson last week submitted to the Da kota County Board of Commis sioners a report that the coun ty's school fund was poorer by some $3,200 because the county judge had suspended, remitted or allowed to go unpaid that much in fines. The fines, ranging up to $200 were for several offenses, ranging- from sinmle intoxication to I petit larceny and drunken driv ing. In his own defense, the judge, Joseph E. Marsh said, "Enforce ment of many of our sentences would cause undue hardship on some of the defendants and their families and increase the cost of operating the county jail . . ." Deputy Attorney General Wil liam Gleeson took a pretty dim view of this, and said, "People who cannot afford to pay fines violate the law at their own peril and no judge has any busi ness violating the law in order to give such persons a 'break' from the confinement which the statute directs.'' Lawyers at the Capitol were wondering this week how many other county judges are sus pending fines. They'll have have their answers in Johnson's county audits. Bogged The Nebraska Editors High way Improvement Committee, composed of one editor and four other men, had little progress to report this week. After a much-publicized start following a meeting in Kear ney two weeks ago, the commit tee came up with little when it met in Grand Island the follow ing Sunday. About the best thing Chairman Cliff Sandahl could say is the meeting was "harmonious." Originally, the idea was for the editors to meet to see if they could produce evidence which would convince Gov. Pe terson he should call a special session of the Legislature to deal with the problem. Instead, the idea now is a sort oi ran munjon truce talk business and nobody has mentioned a special session lately. Sandahl concedes the thing got out of his control but he thinks it might have been a happy kind of misfortune, be cause maybe now the people who have been feudin" over roads will somehow kiss and make up and Nebraska will again have good highways. Fair Quite likely you aren't giving much thought to the.. 1952 .Ne braska State Fair, still almost two months away, but amiable Ed Schultz, the Fair Board sec retary and his staff are think ing about little else. "I never saw things start so early,"' Senultz said. He's al ready received requests for tickets and some entry blanks. Displav space, he said, is all but gone. Test Your Infellieoneb Score 10 points for each correct answer in the firrt ilx questi 1. The Hanging Gardens, one of the seven wonders of the at f world, were in: au Greece Egypt Babylon -Cartnag 2. The capital of Albania is: ' ;' Sofia Tirana Bucharest Durazzcr 3. The famous "Cross of Gold" political convention fpeech made by: " - Al Smith Eugene Debs -Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan - . 4. In baseball a "balk" can be committed only by a: pitcher catcher outfielder ' r-manafiW 5. The second president of the United States was: . : Thomas JefTerson --James Madison John Adams' James Monroe v 6. The state of Georgia is famous for its large forests of: maple pine oak ash . 7. Listed below are four states and opposite them, jumbled up, a d scription of the men for whom they were named. Match the. scoring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) Louisiana " British duke , (B) Georgia Famous Quaker '(C) New York' British kin (D) Pennsylvania' French king Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-8( superior; 90-100, very superior. 4 (Answers on Page 5) Legislative SIDELIGHTS . . by BERNIE CAMP (Legislative Sidelines Is made available to your local newspaper as a service of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation. Opin ions expressed are not neces sarily to!P nf this newspaper). Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation Votes on the Public Payroll A total of almost 49 million votes was cast in the Presiden tial election of 1948. A total of approximately 24 million Americans receive checks from the federal govern ment in either direct payments (18 million) or indirect pay ments through the states get ting federal aid (six million i. Some analysts of the political scene vie,v the attitude of those receiving government checks as having great importance on the outcome of a national election, since every second or third vot er is receiving such payments. Of course, by political party affiliation, a large number of these persons receiving gov ernment checks, particularly in the case of those who are gov ernment employees, is Demo cratic; or at least tending in that direction. That is not to say that there are not also among government employees many whose political interest tends to be Republican, but even among these there must be a strong temptation to support the party that has provided them with employment, and many thousands of these em ployees will call themselves in dependents. Two and one half million per sons are civilian employees of the government, many on Civil Service tenure which is suppos ed not to involve any require ment of political affiliation. Even so, there is a natural ten dency to feel grateful to the party which created the ma chinery to make possible their job. In addition to these directly employed by the federal gov ernment, government pay checks go to 3.7 million in the armed forces; 3.1 million who receive pension checks as veter ans or the widows and children of veterans. Another 4.5 mil lion individuals receive Social Security pensions; 400.C00 rail road retirement pensions: and 5 million old people and de pendent widows and children on state assistance rolls receive substantial government checks for following soil conservation practices approved by agencies of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. A final two million persons in state and local government employment receive at least a part of their pay check from federal funds through direct federal aid and grants-in-aid to state agencies. I The total of federal payments going to these 24 million full and part-payment federal check beneficiaries is $26 billion a year. As a result of the facts pre viously cited, leaders of both political parties find it import ant to keep these federal check receivers in a contented frame of mid. To encourage these folk to vote for the party in power in this case the Democrats increases in the size of checks 'I know it sounds corny every year to .say that the next fair will be bigger and better than ever.'; ho grinned, '"but that's the truth. Up to now. nobody can ar gue that point with hard-working Ed Schultz. Guests Next week, this reporter will be vacationing and during my absence, two good friends have graciously agreed to write guest columns. They are': Waiter R. Raerkp. Democrat.' and P.rh Crosby, Republican, the friendly ; rivals for governor in the fail : election. ! Mr. Crosby's piece will appear i here next week and Mr. Raecke's 1 the following week. Each of j terest to Nebraskans of both . F vL' 5rt"""tin ron,.ct parties. I Tt?4NAADMiMs is sought, particularly in ele tion years. Recently approv have been increases in arm forces payments, pension pa -ments; and indications are th Congress will reconsider its a tion in turning down a propo& to raise Social Security benefit Aso suggested have been t creases for those on the rai road retirement rolls and tha on the Assistance proram. The Soil Conservation- pa1 ments made to farmers una: programs of the United Stat: Department of Agriculture we-: not increased, but on the oth? hand they were not-decreas; despite the demands soc groups for economy in uis fie. Currently, no increase is con templated generally for civilk: employees of government age: cies and bureaus. On the other hand, the par on the outside in this case Republicans is very careful make no overtures or demart for cuts in the size of fedei. checks, for fear of antagonizri those receiving the checks. Ev: when those leading the pan on the outside do demand gov ernment economy they are ve careful to give no hint of exac ly where they would make ciri in government payrolls. The federal check has been a significant force in politics or.; during the last twenty yea:;. Prior to the advent of the Ne Deal in 1933, less than two mil lion persons were getting gov ernment checks. The - avmi forces totalled only 150,OOOJar4 the pay was low; and he ci vilian employees did not excefd 600,000 workers; with 13. mil lion veterans receiving soir.e benefits. There was no Social Security, no federal assistance program, no railroad retRremer.t, no farm soil conservation pay ments. i By 1940 some 13 million peofle were receiving federal checksSn one form or another. The armed forces had increased to one jnll lion; a million were on the ii vilian payroll; another five mil lion persons were received fed eral checks through the Wo&s Progress Administration. Na tional Youth Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps atd a variety of other relief agen cies. Some five million fanners were at that time receiving ricultural Adjustment Act beiv fit checks. ; f f While the work relief pro grams were dropped during the war years and not renistated, the number of persons receivir.? checks directly or indirectly from the federal treasury is to day greater than it ever Wis The federal payroll today is ac tually three times greater tbia it was in 1940. -- The 24 million on the fedeia.' payroll in one way or anothr today could hold the balaix which could determine who tie next President of the Unites States will be, whether he be a Republican or Democrat A Classified AH in Tha Tn. nal costs as little as 35c. . Walter H. Harold R Smith & Lcfcons Attorneys-at-Law Donat BIdg. Plattunoutli CONTINUE TO GET NOTICES OP THE PREMIUM, AMOUNT COS OMTUEJRP0ugE5.;.;ONLY RECEIPTS WILL 6E AUGUST. I. low - i vir -- v. VAur f RATION nr.-. fit