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Same Act-New Front EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes Capitol News PAGE FOUR Section B Tliur:di October 23, 1052 (Editor's Note: Nebraskans get first chance to read something likely to be reprinted later by some newspapers in other states. The writer, from Sutton, is Janet Nuss, a University of Ne braska junior majoring in journalism. Miss Nuss is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. V. Nuss, friends of ours of long standing.) THE "HOME TOWN" The "home town" is America. The home town is as much a part of Am erican life As the hot dog and cherry sodas, The World Series and Joe Louis. The home town is the heartbeat of our nation. 1 Through it and from it surges The lifeblood nourishing our democracy. The home town is the backbone of our nation. Be it metropolis or small community, within it Is firmly rested our heritage of democracy. It is Main Street, the corner drugstore, A friendly hello, the man down the block Watering the lawn, fireflies in the dusk. It is the boy next door, the homey aroma of Pipe smoke from across the way, A Saturday afternoon football gome. It i pMMn shouting as they play, A dog chasing a cat, the crispness Of autumn, and the first snowflakes. It is singing in the choir on Sunday morning And buying groceries at Smitty's, The Friday night movie and buttered popcorn. It is many things to many people. The soldier lying in a foxhole somewhere Across the ocean dreams of his home, and his town. The home town is the place closest to man's heart, The place to which man hopes to return, and where He would choose his final resting place. The heme town is the place where dreams are conceived, Nurtured and brought to maturity. It is the place where some dreams die. Sometimes we think we are just as young as we used to be but we're not going to try and prove it. It's a lot easier to write a book than try to balance them. If your spring fever is stili with you at this late date, you can diagnose it as pure laziness. If you've been listening to radio or watching TV lately, you should be con vinced that our two-party system is sound. Many a wife has helped her husband to the top of the ladder, only to decide the picture would look better on the other wall. Unhappy is the person who knows it all and has no one to tell it to. ir tSt Our 1953 graduates may not have any new worlds to conquer, but there's plenty of repair work to be done on this one. About the quickest way we know to disperse a crowd is to pass the hat. t 1 .L il. 1.. Ik! 1 ... t iUnl iAooui me omy unng we kiiuw ui uwi i However, according to ti'.e would be worse than a bachelor is being Eisenhower committee that bachelor's son. tfr LINCOLN A six - member committee of the Legislative Council, research agency of lu; Nebraska Legislature, I rub- i mitted a series of rercmrnevda- tions to the 1C32 S3;-:icn con- I cerning th? .-.-inlstrali-:-n of ! ; t ij-xjx j. ill vji x vn acre or ocratic organizations had dis intpgrated in the last 20 years, and had to be built up again the state''; 1,630,CC3 schcel lands. Th committee!, headed by i your? Sen. Robert D. McNutt of T in::cln proposed the junking of th? present Board of Education r1 Sup.n-'r, s:.d Funds and replac ing V v;tr an agency created by the Legislature. The board, rr-.v larged with administer in ; the state's educational en- ments, is made up of the governor, state treasurer, at torney general, secretary of state and state superintendent. To create a new agency how ever would require a constitu tional amendment, so the com mittee proposed that in the meantime, the board employ a manager or director of school lands to be paid a salary com parable to other department heads. A 1950 Legislative Coun cil committee made a similar proposal but nothing was done about it by the last Legislature. The McNutt Committee also called for an end to the pres ent system which permits the beard to consider mailed bids r Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON. Oct. 23 It i.uw evident aiter some -, his campaign, most reporters os Truman's whistle-stopping for ays are helping Adlai Stevenson in the western, eastern, and igned to his campaign special were sympathetic to him. Now they are against him, for Stev- i er.son. Keporters with Steven- midwestern areas. Despite his sr."n a're for -the Govern many enemies.. Mr. Truman is liliing these needs in the Dem ocratic campaign effort: 1. He is playing the role of hatchet man in cutting General Eisen hower, which would not be a proper role for Stevenson to follow. 2. He is generating en thusiasm among public power proponents and workers, and some farmers, by his blunt talk, which Stevenson has not used. 3. He is drumming up enthus iasm among minority groups the Democrats have won in the or too. The general feeling among re porters traveling with Ike is that he has not followed the line cn which he won ncmina ticn at Chicago, moved too far toward the right wing of the : Republican party. Ike knows their teeiing. He thinks he j knows the sentiment of the ; vcter right now, though senses ! victory in the more conservative i approach. Some cf the cautiousness past, especially the Negroes, who i t 1 pruspect wr.icn like. Mr. Tmman Rinr-P hP ! has been evidenced m recent not campaigning' in the South I mntns is dissipating and mo.s he is lfwinfr m.tiP. hpnsutsp hi business trends new ma;.;at Down Memory Lane rfft YEARS AGO !U Miss Doris Marie Morton, daughter of Mr. and Mr?. Stanley E. Morton, and T.t Jocpiih 1? TTpnrlriv vprp married at the Methodist church at Ocean Grovo. lgjJUUJgj ew Jersey . . . Mr. and Mrs. liaiiey campaign was going. Minniear are the parents ot a daughter, called on Smith. Ii:e wi'l now go to see Mac if Gerald L. K. will droo hi 3 political party. Note Though MacArthur's name is not on the ballot in I Caiifcrnia, it's local to write it in, and a lot of MacArthur ad mirers p-.n to do so. Frank Steve Mitchell Vovne Stpvp Mitrhpll new chairman of the Democratic "is now 62 years old. Only a few improvements on the land for NntioMii cnmmittpp. took rinwn i other men have eeen oiaer wnen unpopularity in this section is already firmly established. First reports that the President's at tacks on General Ike were stir ring as mucn resentment as after a public auction has been Two exceptions he noted were concluded but before the board i support may have been accu- Massachusetts and Rhode has granted imai approval. irate. But the President is stir Tsland. Another suggestion was that J ring up enthusiasm on the other P.esardme Senator Nixon, tne board be given autnonty to ; issues wmcn cutweign tne even Mitchell made this comment: "I require its permission before a think by election day he will be lessee could install improve- the lowest man cn any political ments on school land. "It has totem pole you ever saw." been alleged," the committee ' Eisenhower." he continued, said, "that some lessees place discouraging his hair meeting at an at the off-the-record Hotel Statler The "rome town" is America. BOOING THE CANDIDATES In recent days, teen-agers have been reported booing, the Presidential candi dates, President Truman and other lead ing figures in the current political cam paign. Whether these demonstrations have been spontaneous, or organized in advance, matters little. - - ' '' - In our country, we have traditionally allowed candidates to be heard in an at mosphere of fair play and politeness. While this record is not perfect, of course, and while many jeers and booes have punctuated the political meetings of the past, they have fortunately been the ex ception and not the rule. The new twist this year is that teen agers are apparently committing the of fense regularly. The fact that these young people are not mature enough in their judgment to understand both sides of many issues is pretty well established. The. nat ural tendency of youth is either high en thusiasm or unqualified condemnation. And so it has been always. Another char acteristic of American youth has been respect for elders. In the present-campaign, this respect is not being observed by some of the na tion's te-en-agers. One may disagree with everything a candidate says, but we must b careful not to tarnish this principle which is one of real democracy and one which is always abused or disregarded in totalitarian countries. THOUGHT FOR TODAY .( is iks curse of the zcorld, and no hoc.' -.-del- wUii f without becominj bropai tionaldy bnttificd. Xathanicl Hawthorne The Plaflsrnsuih Journal Official County and City Paper I -ST Bl.l-U!K! IN 181 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (I:nnk Scfntr! in Cities ovr 1000 Populn tion i Public' -i Sf-nil-Wo kiv, Mondavs and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, IMattsmouth. CafS County, Nehr. Pamela Anne ... A local defense council has been organized here. Officers are W. A. Robertson, chairman; E. H. Wescott, secretary; and Don Seiver, treasurer . . . Jack Highfield is stationed at El Paso, Texas . . . Plattsrnouth defeated Sacred Heart of Omaha 13 to 6. White and Rice scored for Plattsrnouth . . . Dr. O. Sandin has been named chief of the Plattsrnouth Volunteer Fire Department ... A former Murdck crirl. Marv Katherine McIIugh, now Mrs. O. R. Piatt, of North Platte, has received her pilots license and is a mem ber of the Civil Air Patrol. 2 A YEARS AGO U Mrs. H. L. Thomas has been elected president of. the American Legion auxil iary. Other officers are Mrs. John II. Pal acek, vice president; Mrs. Fay McClintock, secretary; Mrs. Roy Stewart, treasurer; Mrs. Edward Steppat, chaplain; Mrs. J. B. Farnham, historian; and Mrs. Frank Rice, sergeant at arms . . . Exhibiting an imals at the Ak-Sar-Ben 4-H show were Arnold Stohlman, Clarence Stohlman, Ells worth Stohlman and Orland Stohlman of Louisville; Vincent Rehmeier, Frances Rehmeier, Milford Smith and Dwain Reed of Weeping Water; Vernon Rikli of Mur dDck and Robert Wolfe of Union . . . Plattsrnouth defeated Malvern 20-0, with Ronne and Arn scoring for the Blue Devils. The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertising Mgr. SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor iQssoanrion 0 HcmBBL j.;nt,. ,,., ;,t Hi'- l'o;- ffi-' at I'lattMnoutli. NvlTutka. as tcniiiil luss liiHil iiMttrr in accordance vi itli II. c Act tf I'tMia'Csa t'f Man ii U. 1S79. 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 rnouth. By carrier In Plattsrnouth. 20 cents lor two weeks. A DREW PEARSON SAYS: EISEN . HOWER ADVISERS SEEK TO AP PEASE GERALD L. K. SMITH; DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN AD MITS RACE ISN'T WON; TEXAS BUSINESSMEN THREATEN TEX AS SENATOR. WpsMngto1"!. .An Eisenhower commit- -,j. j -i., Jnf p-pc-t jnr gtep to X Smith. i . c e o eanizer and chief spark "'ug of the Christian "Nationalist party and has nominated General MacArthur for President and State Sen. Jack Tenny of California for Vice President. His chief financial angel is Judge George W. Arm strong of Texas, whose donation to Jef ferson College in Mississippi was rebuffed amid nation-wide publicity. A few days ago,a committee speaking for General Eisenhower called on Smith and urged him to take the Christian Na tionalist partv out of the presidential race. Smith has built up quite a following in Southern California, also some following in Tpvsr nnrl Viic nnrv i -rm the bnUnf nr l: l -ir? r i i i . v in vv aningxon, missouri ana eisewnere. i in states where the Uemocratic-Kepub-lican race may be close, the Christian Nationalists could hold the balance of power. Therefore, Smith was urged to withdraw the party's name from the bal lot. As an inducement. Smith was told that if he would withdraw General Eisen hower would take the initiative in calling personally on General MacArthur. The significance of this gesture is that no less than ex-President Herbert Hoover himself has been trying to get Eisenhower and MacArthur together, but so far has been unable to persuade Ike to go to see He admitted, among other things, that Stevenson's cam paign trips had received luke warm crowds until St. Louis, at which time the committee spent $12,000 to get things organized, just as the Eisenhower people have been doine for some time. He also admitted that his and Wilson Wyatt's statement of a bandwagon rush to Stevenson in part was wishful thinking. In stead, he said, the election was neither won nor lost. Discussing political develop ments in different parts of the country, the refreshingly frank Mitchell said: That Sen. Lyndon Johnson nhoned him to complain that businessmen were threaten ing to get even with him when he ran in 1954 if he helped Stefenson in '52. That Governor Lausche of Ohio, the allpsred Democrat, must realize that Stevenson's chances had picked up. be cause he now occasionally mentioned Stevenson's name. Before. Lausche's contribution to Stevenson had been minus nothing. That the Democrats hadn't emphasized the real issues on ' tidelands oil; They should have made northern and in land states realize that they would lose by the Eisenhower man giving tidelands oil to three states only. The Democratic chairman was critical of Senators Smathers and Holland of Florida, who. he said, were carefully ducking. He said Rtpvpnsnn facpd a huzz- saw in the bisr cities of Texas. The Civil Service Commission He told how he had Governor I has announced examinations for Stevenson telephone Jesse Jones. I engineer, engineer trainee and the ex-RFC director, following I "imtopngraver. which Jesse had nrinted a fair- Further information and aD ly warm editorial in his Hous- Miration forms may be obtained ton Chronicle. Most Democratic from Fenrv A. Hudson at the consressmen in Texas are vaca- ' Plattsrnouth post office. tioninEr, Mitchell admitted, but . . 'he warned that this would bo! A new lahoraory fr study- remembered when the time came rnql f nemuis rna cukk to oass out the natronaeje. nrocesses has been opened in The worst problem he faced frburgh. as Democratic chairman. Mit- chell said, was that local Dem- Journal Want Ads Pay' elected president, nrcl don't for get that Harrison d'Pi one month after ho tcol: e'fije." Education and Ike The student newspaper at Columbia University mav have come out officially aioinst their president-on-leave. but the fac ulty is mixed. Some are ardent ly for Eisenhower, some ardent ly opposed. A leader of the latter group is the Dean of Journalism. Carl Piiiit7Pr PH7P iiu-.irrt? nnri has -lln signer, heloed to train thousands of McNutt's group reported there newsmen. Writing to Stevenson is no 'practical alternative" to headquarters recently. Dean selling the leases at auction and Ackerman enclosed a check. j that 6 per cent appears not to be ' an unreasonably high rental figure." Twelve-year leases, the committee said, should be given a longer trial before changing the lease term. the purpose of other bidders." The committee voted against selling the school lands and re .i.c contention of the Ne braska School Lands Lessees Association that the counties in which the lands are located should administer them with the income retained in those coun ties. An attempt by the as sociation to place such a pro posal on next month's ballot failed because of insufficient pe- t e record sales and continued as long as there is heavy rearma ment and fighting in Korea. Business has picked up rapid ly in the last 'JO days. For ex ample: Unemployment has hit a post war low. Business activity is at a post-war high. Civilian em- jreak he is cettinf in his ner- ! ployrnent is. a record high, sonal assaults on Ike. : though it may eventually drop As Mr. Truman continues his late in 53- Critical plant ex efforts there are evidences that I Pension is only a trurd eom Adlai Stevenson is getting ready : pleted and completions wi re- to take off the gloves. Most of : qui-t 11'-'v -er&om.. m the polls show that he is now 'Education," he wrote, "has a vital stake in this camnaign. The election of General Eisen hower will set an examole for every student from the kinder garten to the graduate level that cramming is a laudable substi tute for serious study. The Re publican candidate has substi tuted final hour briefing for knowledge. That is why he mak es so many contradictory state ments on political issues. One day he is briefed bv Lodge and Dewey: the n2vt. dy by Taft and CromwelV Then bv Mc Carthy and Who will brief him in th White House? Who will teach him how? For the next four v.rs? "Mrs. Ackerman suggests that you have some sone writer do a campaign song to the tune of 'Who is Kissing her now? Who is teaching her now?' But with more aopropriate words, name ly: "Who is briefini him now? who is teachine him how?' xams Announced Rv Cvil Service B RICHARD C. PECK Cass Countv Veterans' Service Officer Q. I'm planning to convert my NSLI term policy endow ment insurance. If I'm still living at the end of the endow ment period, how will I receive any money? A. You will have a choice. You may either get the insur--, o-, n-opfjs m a iump sum, or you may ask VA to pay them to you in equal -icnthly install ments ranging in "number from 36 to 240. If you die before all the installments have been paid to you, the re mainder will go to your benefici ary, if you iave TV Mac. Eisenhower is willing to get together with his former commander, but he isn't willing to go to the Waldorf Tower where MacArthur lives. And MacArthur in tun won't go to see him. Richard Peck named one. Q. I am receiving a VA pen sion for a total and permanent nonservice-connected disability. I have a house which I in herited, and want to sell it. Must I include all the proceeds of the sale as income, in figur ing whether I come under the income ceiling for pension pur poses? A. Since you inherited the 'loase. the entire proceeds from its sals would be considered as income for pension purposes. If yon receive a lump sum pay ment, it will be applied for the calendar year in wrhich you got it. If you get paid in install- luring a calendar year must be inp;a?gSltre inrnmo Mr tv1Qt mr. Peterson noted that if Going Up The University of Nebraska laid its request for a 1953-55 ao prcpriation before Gov. Val Pe terson last week. It asked for state tax funds totaling $16, 355,003, a 31 per cent increase over the $12 500 000 granted by the 1951 Legislature. Peterson said he didn't want to 'pass judgment" on the re quest until he'd had an oppor tunity to discuss it at length with University officials, but he told Capitol newsmen: 'Tt had been my hope that all state institutions in the coming biennium would be able to operate within the sum ap propriated for the 1951-53 bien nium." Flicking through his budget messages to the last sev eral legislatures, he noted that he University's aDpropriation had risen steadily from $4,833, 000 in 1945 to this biennium 5 V2 500 nro oh- o.-. ies. of course, have risen as well. Chancellor R. G. Gustavson had explained that more than half the increase was due to in flation and that the lion's share cf the boost if it's granted would go to bolster the program it the College of Medicine and University Hospital in Omaha, where, he said, there is a risk of losing the American Medical Association's accreditation bles sing. Peterson observed, "I appreci ate that as inflation continues, tkes rore of today's chearj '-n? tn do the job. And I nni certain that the Medical Schcel ne?ds to be strengthened and improved." Gustavson said the budget renresents "an honest and con scientious effort to solve the problems of rising costs and stronger support'' for several University programs, principally gaining slowly on Ike, who had a considerable lead. Maybe that was to be expected. Maybe it was not. Whatever the case, Stevenson is tuning his major attack for the climax, which will be the next two weeks, and he is being urged to lay it on bluntly. As for the Republican High Command, it is still pleased with Ike's reception everywhere. The General is drawing larger crowds than Adlai. He is greeted enthusiastically at practically every stop. The Democrats say this is partly due to the ad vance planning and hoopla pur posely arranged by Ike s ad vance guard. But one expects them to say that. The polls still show Ike considerably out front, though losing some of his ccmes reached a record in Aug ust, are rising. Dry goods sales are rising fast. The price level is more stationary than had been expected, and reflects a safer business future than a new inflationary spiral would indicate. The question naturally re mains whether and when a re cession or depression will ar rive. The outlook is now for a milder recession than seme had feared, and it might not begin for a year or more, might not hurt anyene too much. That is a brighter prospect than trends indicated just two or three months ago. STRICTLY FRESH once-commanding lead. As the J. August be hes? can unhappy school children be far behind?: With the long Labor Day week end coming up, auto wrecking concerns can look forward to a dooming business unless drivers learn that roads weren't built for the business of zooming. A Quebec truck driver wasn't sure whether the puddle under his truck was water or gasoline, so he trend of slow Democratic gains continues, seme of Ike's advis ers are urging him to make the rest of his campaign a digni fied one. They would handle it more on the Dewey theme of 1948. They think mud-slinging against the General, if he does not stoop to it in return, would hurt the Democrats more than it would help them. And they think this strategy might check the trend of Democratic gains registered recently. In any event, they expect the General to win. Ike has not made public any deci sion on this tactical question yet. He was raked over the coals by sizable sections of the press (at least those traveling with him) for his remarks on the use cf South Korean troops in the lit his cigaret lighter to get a mm KTfT- 11 ii-iiri ini nr - Korean war. Many reporters felt that Ike put out the im pression that he would take Americans out of the front lines in Korea and replace them with South Koreans, in an appeal for votes. Of course, that is impos sible at present, since the South Koreans cannot handle both the North Koreans and China single-handedly. This plav highlights the strange situation Planet to "send some pictures of which has developed between your people, buildings and flying; Ike and his traveling reporter- saucers." If the trend continues; entourage. the North Pole post ofHce will got When the General first began out of business. closer look. A $500 fire followed.! That's the kind of drip that causes trouble. Weeping Iranian Premier Mo hammed Mossadegh had better learn that water in oil will gum up any machinery even political. An Indiana boy sent a postcard to Mars asking authorities on that; WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Playwright Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL 3 Sport icular year. Q. I was forced to interrupt my training under the World War II GI Bill to go back into r.ftive service. I expect to be discharged soon, and I want to continue my GI studies. Is here any time limit for resum ing? A. You must pick up your training within a reasonable period following your dis charge. The "reasonable pe riod" is determined for each veteran on an individual basis the University has to. have a 31 per cent increase the other three of Nebraska's Big Four spanding agencies Assistance, Highways and Beard of Control "can find equally strong reasons for in creases." No The Nebraska Railway Com mission last week thumbed down the aoplication of North western Bel! 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Com missioners Richard Larsen and Harold Palmer signed the order. Commissioner Joseph Brown was campaigning with the Republi can caravan when the case was before the Commission and did not participate in the order. The ruling said that "neither ( the public nor the applicant nor and so on. Q. I know of a World War II veteran who has become in competent. Can his GI insur ance premiums be paid by another person? A. Yes. The premiums may be paid by any. person on his behalf. If the veteran's prem ium return envelope isn t used care should be taken to identify ' the Commission has hart suffi. the payment properly, including cient time to judge the impact the insured veteran's full name, of a February increase" which address, date of birth, service the company won. ssrirl number and insurance ( Larsen said that the Febru number. 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