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V y tm , - I'M ' 1 ir.w.r.w.w.;.w.vr.w H6 PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA, SEM!-V'EFX Y " 'AGE FOUR Monday, October 20, 1 EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes Capitol News STUDENTS AND MILITARY SERVICE With the report of the Carnegie Cor poration, the Cornell Social Science Re search Center has conducted a study to determine the effects of the Korean war and the draft on the attitudes and study programs of American college students. Prof. Edward A. Suchman, Jr., who analyzed the students' answers, reports that students react to their military obli gations about the same way that the aver age adult reacts to income tax obligations: "He meets his obligation, but he doesn't necessarily like it." It was found, generally that although the students are not worried over being called into the military service, they cer tainly are not enthusiastic about it. They feel that the present deferment policy is just and fair, and they do not view the draft as a serious disruption of their lives. Altogether there were about 5,000 stu dents questioned attending Cornell, Dart mouth, Fisk, Harvard, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, Wayne, Wesleyan, Yale and the University of California at Los Angeles. Ninety per cent of the student ques tioned said that if they were inducted into the armed forces before completing their course of study. They would return to school after completing their military ser vice. Most of the students agreed that the deferment policy had increased the im portance of high marks. The study concludes that the present selective service policy as it affects stu dents may be considered effective and successful, because the student has a clear-cut idea of what is in store for him, as compared to the confusion and doubt that existed on the campuses only about a year ago when the student was "kept in the dark." EW ATOMIC CANNON II The Army has released details of a new massive atomic gun, which weighs 85 tons and shoots a projectile for at least 20 miles. The gun was designed to lay down an atomic barrage in support of ground troops and has been in the building process since 1944. The weapon is a 200-millimeter gun, transported by front and rear tractors, can be used on almost any terrain and can be set up for firing in about fifteen min utes. The gun recalls the German Big Ber thas and the German gun nicknamed Anzio Annie. The Big Berthas were used in World War I and Anzio Annie was used by the Germans in resisting the Anzio landing during World War II. However, the advantages of the Amer ican gun are many. In the first place, it is highly manueverable, whereas the Ger man guns were railroad guns, capable of firing on only one direction. The Ameri can gun is also supposed to be highly ac curate, four or five times more accurate than previous guns of its size. Behind the unveiling of the new Army gun lies the struggle between the Army and the Air Force for authority to deliver the atomic bomb. The Air Force has long believed it has the primary role in deliv ering atomic weapons, although the Army believes it must be assigned the role of delivering small tactical atomic weapons, especially some of which are admittedly now in production. The Army contends that the huge field gun will deliver atomic missiles in a battlefield area with greater accuracy than will aircraft-dropped bombs. The Army also says it can deliver tactical atomic bombs with this gun, at any time, night or day, in any weather. The Air Force be lieves that the delivery of atomic weapons is a role assigned to the Air Force since it is prepared to use guided missiles, pilot less planes and other new methods of de livering them. The Air Force also stresses the fact that it can deliver bombs five THOUGHT FOR TODAY The principle is more than half of the - ZiluAc quest'mn. Aristotle The American taxpayer is about the best fitted human inhabiting the universe today. No matter how tough the conditions, he manages somehow to survive. The man who lives within his income never gets as much credit as the man who doesn't. Great Britain has built a machine to test highway bridges. Here in Nebraska we use overloaded trucks. Psychologists declare that bow-legged girls are usually courageous. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says they have to be in this age of bath ing suits. Scientists announce that the human brain contains alcohol. That may account for the way those fellows in Washington arrive at their staggering figures. It is stated that Gen. MacArthur's salary with that business machines manu facturer is $100,000 a year. If that con stitutes "fading away", we wish somebody would fade us right quick. The average man is proof that the av erage woman can take a joke. To avoid that run-down feeling, cross streets carefully. miles, or fifty miles, behind the lines, as the occasion may warrant. This dispute is in the best tradition of the armed services and cannot be settled on any arbitrary basis in the near future. If and when the next war comes it would be well for both the Army and Air Force to have the capability of delivering atomic weapons. There is no reason, whic h we can see. why one service only should be assigned the role of delivering atomic bombs. Down Memory Lane IA YEARS AGO IU Lillian Livingston was elected presi dent of the Credit Women's Breakfast club. Other officers elected were Mrs. Don Siever, vice president; Miss Anna Hassler, secretary; and Glenva Stockton, treas urer . . . Rev. L. W. Eratt, pastor of the Methodist church, has been commissioned a lieutenant in the army and assigned to the chaplain corps . . . Mrs. Ivan Balfour of Union has been elected president of the Cass Countv W.C.T.U. Other officers are Miss Minnie Kunz of Elmwood, sec- Myrtle Robertson of , . Recent enlistees in the armed forces include Orville A. Koop of Louisville, Paul F. Sands of Louisville, John G. Oberle of Eagle, Willard J. Wil son, Jr., and Horace F. Keil of Platts mouth. ' s M YEARS AGO A. H. Duxbury of Plattsmouth has been elected president of the Cass County Association of Christian Education. Other new officers are Mrs. Fred H. Gorder of Weeping Water, vice president; and Mrs. Fred Marquardt of Avoca, secretary-treasurer . . . Martha Peterson of Plattsmouth has been elected district guard for the Woman's Relief Corps . . . John A. Liber shal, James Rebal, A. J. Snyder, A. R. Johnson, C. L. Pittman, democrats; and Frank Claus, L. R. Sprecher, Oscar Wil son, John E. Schutz and Edward Gabel man, republicans, have been nominated for precinct assessors in Plattsmouth . . . Albert Olson has been elected commander of Plattsmouth Legion post. Also named to offices were Jim Farnham, Joe Capwell, Elmer A. Webb, Eugene Vroman. A. H. Duxbury. Dr. G. L. Taylor, Kathryn Lugsch, Frank Smith and Fred Herbster. A retary; and Mrs Eagle, treasurer The Plailsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper F.S-TABLISITKD IX 1881 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 fi:ankei Soon In Cities Over 1000 Population) P'jblihhed Smi-We.-k'.y, Mondays and ThursdavK. at 410 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County. Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertising Mgr. SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor r fassoa firon, Knter.'j th" Post Offi- at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as i-fn'J class mail matter in accordance with the Att f '-'onirrons of March 3, 1S79. -- SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mall outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) drew pearson says: senator who attacks government gets away with amazing financial transactions; sen. McCarthy received $24,000 in cash in six years; mccarthy also received $75,000 in un identified bank deposits in three years. Washington. It is an axiom of mil itary strategy that the best defense is to attack. But in political strategy it looks as if the best defense against income tax investigation is to charge that the govern ment is full of communists. If you repeat that charge often enough and shout it loud enough, you can get away with all sort3 of things as far as your per sonal taxes are concerned or at least that seems to be the experience of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. This may be because government officials know that they raise the cry of "martyr" and "revenge" if they prosecute a critic who has attacked them. It is a safe statement that the average newspaperman who kept financial records ? r i jr-r - in - b -1 r ' f,f gfi" ' Y NIA SHVICt. lMC T M. Eta V tT Off -c,,iSSfil) Note the twin bathtubs one for Junior!" the way McCarthy does, and juggled his finances the way he does, would have landed in the jus sometime ago. However, it is a known though never offic ially admitted fact that Sena tors and members of the Feu?? of Representatives never have their tax returns too carefully scrutinized. This is the unwrit ten rule of the Bureau of In ternal Rcvmue. The fact that McCarthy merits investigation and scrutiny, how ever, is indicated by the amaz ing fact that during the past six end a half years the senator from Wisconsin deposited $24, 135.44 in cash to his bank ac counts. McCarthy's Cash The average citizen does not deal in large amounts of cash. Cash is the medium of the un derworld, where pay-offs and protection money must be con cealed. However, here is the record of the cash deposited by a member of the distinguished United States Senate, the most important deliberative bedv in the world: 1946 S2.640 1947 $2,773 1948 $1,773 1949 $5,346 1950 $4,063 1951 $1,709 1952 up until June 30 $6,185 Even more amazing is the amount of money received by the senator from Wisconsin from unidentified sources. De posils turned up in the senator's accounts with no record by the bank or brokerage firm as to where they came from. For this and other reasons. McCarthy was able to parlay $70,490 of income during eleven years (1935 through 1945 up to stocks that cost him $180,000. McCarthy did this long before he began his communist cam paign. But since he took up the communist issue he has contin ued to gamble on the stock and commodity market. And though the public generally has the impression of a man dedicated to the cause of ridding the world of communism, the senator's bank accounts indicate that he is chiefly out to make some thing for McCarthy. Public office seems to agree with McCarthy financially. For after he got into public office he really began to make money. In 1935 he earned only $777.81. And during the entire period from 1935 to 1942 he averaged only $4,163.32 a year in salary. Just one year later, in 1943. he reported income of $40,560.92 from the sale of stocks that he had bought. Just how he was able to acquire such valuable stocks when his income had av eraged only $4,163.32 for seven years is difficult to say espec ially since McCarthy was in the Marine Corps during part of this time. McCarthy also had a strange habit of deducting from his income-tax returns disproportion ate contributions to charities, cne of them to a catholic charity in far-away Burma which ac tually did not exist. Finally tax officials In Wisconsin reminded him that this didn't look auite kosher, and in 1950 he stopped. Unidentified Mony However, the unique thing about McCarthy's income was the money which came from anonymous or unidentified people. In three years a total of $75,000 of unidentified funds were deposited in the Riggs Eank alone. Another case involved the Appleton State Bank in Wis consin. In 1946 it was dunning McCarthy for funds in order to cover a loan, when suddenly from a completely unidentified source a total of $33,045.72 was dencsited to McCarthy's account. One of McCarthy's financial schemes was a joint banking account with his office assistant Ray Kiermas. Mr. Kiormas has had an average annual income of about $0,500. Yet from .sources best known to himself. Kiormas has made large deposits not only to his own account but has also deposited funds to the Sen ator's account. It is possible that the Sen ator has banked through his office assistant In order to rov- (er the source of certain people wno nave pain mm. Ho bus also annarentlv used his brother William P. McCarthy. On August 26. 194ft, fr in stance, a commodity credit ac count was onened wllh Dan F. Rice and Company. Chteatio Ufin tra,ders- J tlw nam.- of William P. McCarthy. Thoueh In his brother's nnmMh $10, 000 used to open the account actually cam-; from Rav Kiermas to the extent of $6,223.72. while thr balance was supplied by a draft on the Appleton State Bank which suddenly seems to have lost its records and cannot now identify the source of this money. Three years later. March 8, 1951, the account with D. F. Rice was closed out, a check for $7, 159 going to William P. McCar thy. This check was cashed, and the cash was deposited ten davs later back with the same D. F. Rice Co. This time, however, the trad ing account was in the name of Julia Connelly, the maiden name of William McCarthy's wife. In 1951. the cas when the commodity account v ts closed out and then re-established un der Julia Connelly's name, it so happened that the Senator from Wisconsin was beginning to come under the scrutiny of his fellow Senators for extracurric ular conduct. This is just one chapter in the operation of a senator who has set himself up in judgment over his fellowmen. 'X' C-. . .. .. ..irhflP "M fkr WASHINGTON REPORT I Howard Buffelt iCongrmmAa, 2nd Nebrulc DirtMt "And Nero fiddled while Rome burned." Now let's look at 1952. On October 24. the United Nations will hold a mod ern version of fiddling while Rome burns. In 23 cities around the world, a "Gale United Na tions Day Ball" will be held for UN drawing-room comman dos, whose only smell of powder is from milady's powder puff. Before me is a fancy invi tation to this high-brow shin dig sent to me in a dainty en velope wrapped with a blue rib bon and fastened with a wax United Nations seal. The tick ets are $15 dollars each formal dress is required a buffet sup per will be served. The invitation says, in part, "The first UN Day Ball will in augurate what will one day be a worldwire tradition in observ ing this holiday of peace sending gifts and greetings to peoples in other UN countries. ". . . Your participation will aid in establishing an interna tional custom which will help promote understanding and friendship among the peoples of the world." How do you suppose American boys on "Old Baldy" will feel about the rev elry at 23 UN Balls? My mind goes back to 1945. when the United Nations was formed. Then, too. big talk was the order of the day. At least one writer called that confer ence the most important since the Last Supper. A picture of the original UN conference .showed two men on the rostrum. One was Molotov, now deputy prime minister of Russia. The other, presiding and representing America was Alger Hiss. At the Washington United Nations Ball will be many of Hiss's associates. They will dance, drink champagne and mouth wordy toasts to the UN while 90 of those who fight and die in the faraway hell-holes of Korea arc Ameri can boys. Forester Advises Watering Trees And Shrubs For Winter Water your trees, shrubs and lawn thoroughly now in order to prepare thorn for winter. That's the advice of Extension Forester Earl G. Maxwell of the University of Nebraska. All or tho plants will survive the winter better, he says, if the ground Ls moist to begin with. ;ami;i.i:iis The Internal Revenue Bureau chates that gamblers arc hid ing their real activities and evading the Federal tax on ! tlu'tr business by "taking over loefU chapters of tax-exempt ! non-profit organizations. LINCOLN Nebraskans will ; ballot next month on six pro posed changes In their Con:ti- i tution. The issues were placed before the voters by the 1951 Legislature. Bibs tc place five other changes on the ballot were rejected. The following is a factual summary of the proposed amendments. It is intended to aigu? neither for nor against tns proposals and is based large ly on mit'i'iil supplied by Dr. Roger Shumate, research direc tor cf the Nebraska Legislative ! Covncil. 'taHzation of Salaries of Courts, Boards, Commissions This proposal simply would i change the time when salary increases or decreases pro vided by the Legislature become effective. Under the present law, when the Legislature changes the sal aries of, for example, the judges of the Supreme Court, the judges are barred from receiv ing it during their current term of office. Since most boards, commissions, etc., are made up of members whose terms are staggered, this often means that some members receive more than others. If the proposal is adopted, it will mean that whenever a sal ary increase is voted, all the members of a court or board will receive it whether they are beginning new terms or not. Motor Vehicle Taxation This is the only one of the six proposals about which any serious controversy has arisen. Some educators have questioned whether it would curtail income to school districts. The attor ney general's office has said that whether it does or not is entirely up to the Legislature. Briefly, the amendment would allow the Legislature to "pro vide for a different method of taxing motor vehicles." Motor vehicles are now classed as tangible property and are taxed at the owner s home. Said the Legislative Council: "When the public hearing was held on this proposed amend ment, no one appeared in oppo sition to it. The bill was sup ported by the chairman of the County Commissioner's Associ ation, who stated that his or ganization was unanimous in its support. Representatives of the Omaha City Council and of the Omaha School District also spoke in its favor. The Nebras ka Motor Carriers Association also appeared in its behalf and it passed the Legislature with out a dissenting vote. "The fact should be empha iized that, while the amend ment envisages some sort of motor vehicle tax system to take the place of the present prop erty tax on these vehicles, the proceeds from whatever new tax may be levied will continue to be allocated to each county and taxing district in the same pro portion as under the present tax law. Salaries of Legislators This is a proposal to raise the salary of members of the legis lature from $872.09 a year to $1, 250. Present legislative salaries were set in 1935 and have not been changed since. Said the Council: "Most leg islators do not expect to be highly paid for their seivices, but many cannot afford to serve at present because the salary scarcely covers the ac tual and necessary expenses." State Board of Education This proposal would hand the ! "supervision and administra tion of the school system of the state" to a six-member board, elected by the people from six districts, as regents of the Uni versity of Nebraska are now elected. They would serve for oix-year terms without pay, ex cept for their expenses. The board would name, and j fix the salary of. the Commis sioner of Education who would serve as the executive officer of the board. Freeman B. Decker, the pres ent state superintendent, testi fied in favor of a state board before the last legislature. He j said the plan was educationally i sound. Numerous other organi j zations sent representatives to . the Legislature's hearing to cn ! dorse the proposal. I There was some opposition to I the plan. The Legislative Coun cil says, "Mr. G. E. Colterman of tho Rural School Board Associ ation of Pierce County stated that he thought the amend ment would lead, to centraliza tion in the educational system and that his organization was in favor of keeping the super intendent on an elective basis at present." Constitutional Convention Membership This proposal does not pro vide for the calling of a consti tutional convention. The Leg islature killed a bill which would have provided that. In stead, it proposed that when and if a convention is called, it shall be made up of more than 43 members, as the present Con stitution provides. The amend ment would set the number at no more than 100. with the exact number to be prescribed by the Legislature. Publication of Proposed Constitutional Amendments Tlw? CcuncH'a report says: "The present provision of the Test Your Intelligence) Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first ' 4uestions. 1. Which of the following games was originally, sometimes still played oa a green? Tennis Tiddly winks Bowling ' Ping-P 2. Which of the following is the thigh bone? Digit Cranium Femur ' Fibula 3. Two states bordering on Canada have territory on peninsi reachable only by crossing Canadian territory. One of then named below. Can you find it? Maine Minnesota Michigan Montan 4. Which of the following men led the "Rough Riders" in Cuba dui the Spanish-American War? Stonewall Jackson John J. Pershing T Garci Theodore Roosevelt 5. Pick out the following word which does not match the other th Mold Fungus Mildew Trichinosis 6. Which of the following writers became famous for books wi were not written in his native tongue? Joseph Conrad Honore de Balzac William Faulkner Sinclair Lewis 7. Match the following leaders with their respective countries. - S yourself 10 points for each correct choice. (A) Peron France (B) Tito Argentina (C) Schuman Germany (D) Adenauer Yugoslavia Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 7( superior; 90-100, very superior. (Answers on Page 5) Legislative SIDELIGHTS.. by BERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska- Farm Bureau Federation (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 thosp nf this newspaper).! Vote on Candidates and Issues Several of the legislators who are sponsoring the six Amend ments to the Nebraska Consti tution have recently expressed fears that Nebraskans will not take sufficient interest in reg istering an opinion on the Amendments to give a clear-cut decision on them. Thirty-five per cent of the total ballots cast in the elec tion must be favorable to such amendments to the State Con stitution before they become a part of the Constitution. State Legislators sponsoring these amendments fear that insuffi cient numbers of voters will be interested enough to register an opinion because they have noted relatively little discussion of them among the electorate. Citizenship in a representative democracy involves a primary responsibility on the individual to take an interest in the choice of people who will represent his interests in government. Gen erally, far more citizens appre ciate this responsibility than accept responsibility for expres sing themselves on referendum issues such as the six Constitu tional amendments on the No- vember 1952 special ballot. Too often citizens fill out the po litical ballot and disregard the special ballots. Those who fail to fill the spe cial ballot disregard the fact that the opportunity given them to express a direct opinion on issues of their government is unique to the American system of representative democracy. In few other democratic govern ments of the world are the citi zens given such an opportunity to directly express themselves on issues. This column has, during the past several weeks, discussed the six amendments trying to present them as impartially as it is humanly possible to do. The primary interest of this column has been to encourage voters to analyze and discuss the six proposed changes in the State Constitution so that they will be able to cast an intelligent vote on November 4. The six amendments on which voters are asked to express themselves are: 1. To provide for equalization of the salaries of members of courts, boards and commissions which are a part of the state government. Listed on the bal lot as 300. 2. To authorize the grar of authority to the Legisk for the taxing of motor hides. Listed on the balk 302. 3. To provide for an inci in the salary of State Leg tors to $1,250 annually ($ for the two year period ol lice). Listed on the ballc 304. 4. To provide for the se up of a State Board of Ed tion to replace the present ' Superintendent of Public struction; and to give the board authority to appoii State Commissioner of Ed tion. Listed on the ballc 306. 5. To authorize the Lef ture to determine the nu of members to compose a constitutional convention set up the machinery cf n sentaiion and election of gates. Such a constitut convention would be limit 100 t members. Listed on ballot as 303. 6. To provide that the r of call of a state constitut convention be published each week for three consec weeks. (At present the Cc tution calls for four weel publication). Listed on th lot as 310. j The state legislators hi an interest in these amendij are Senators Earl J. Lee, mont, chairman of a comn the group has set up; Rii Marvel, Hastings; Karl 1 Omaha; Glen Cramer, A and ex-Senator John P. Knight, Auburn. These lators are giving their own to encourage Nebraska vqt' take a stand on the si when they vote November Nebraska citizens ow themselves a responsibilit taking an interest in th proposed Constituitonal ar ments, an interest sufficie know and understand these amendments mea: themselves and their state, have a responsibility to time November 4 to vote c sues as well as candidates. Expressing an opinion a voting booth on men an sues is the one way Nebra and Americans as a whol make democracy live! RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE - DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. Constitution requires proposed amendments to be published once each week for four weeks immediately preceding the elec tion at which they are to be voted on, and in at least one newspaper in each county. The only purpose of the proposal now under discussion is to re duce this requirement to three weeks and thus reduce the cost to the state of publishing pro posed amendments." Sen. Glenn Cramer ol Albion, who introduced - the bill, said that had it been in effect m 1950, it would have saved the state several thousand dollars in publishing costs. . HAW,, ,vvAaAJttty boo ttAGEDORN. Invent WORLD FAMOUS L STOCK AND POULT REMEDY, received letter Davenport. Iowa sayin "Your medicine is wond stopped dying of mv at once. I lost over 100 ; hogs before I found out you had. I spent over $2 mpHirinp that didn't h This medicine only $5 qt gallon. Gallon will treal niff.s. Sold bv FARMERS I k SEED. Plattsmouth. AOR-F The Amazing Lace-Like Fern That Thrives on Air Alone Bui Knorr's 5c-$1 Store 1