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. EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes WW ss.s VOTE "FOR" THE AMENDMENTS Thi3 newspaper goes on record as fav oring the passage of all six proposed state amendments that will appear on your bal lot Tuesday. All should be passed even il 4- 4.lin4- .ill dotlPl'vo tills newspaper of revenue by decreasing from you can still buy a fifth for as little as four to three the number 01 times a pru- p - - TV. ;mIi'mio1 QTnonrJmonf must be w w JUSCU tuuciuiuuuiiai m"!-"'""'"" After listening to McCarthy Monday night we've stopped worrying about him and have started wondering about Wis Despite the high costs of most whiskey, published in newspapers of the state. Most any citizen will see the publica tion just as well if it appears three times as they will by printing it four issues and it will save the state some money. We do not encourage a let-down in the pub lication of legal notices. These publica tions are vital to our democratic way of life and a guarantee of honesty and in tegrity of good government every pub lic official handling tax funds should be held to a strict accounting through publi cation of receipts and disbursements, but we can see no good reason to publish pro posed amendments more than three tfmes. Most important of all proposed amend ments would permit the closing of loop holes in our present method of taxing mo tor vehicles. Under the present system, a new car can be registered on March 11, 1952. On January 1, 1953, he can secure a new license without payment of tax. If he leaves the state during 1953, -he can secure a new license in most states with out showing a Nebraska tax receipt a period of nearly 21 months driving on Nebraska highways without paying au tomobile tax along with all the rest of us. Cass County, according to records, has thousands of dollars in past due motor ve hicle tax money on the books for which distress warrants have been issued. They are impossible to collect the owners have departed the state and every governmental subdivision is the loser, schools, county, cities, state and others. Every tax dollar counts these days and these unpaid taxes mean that your mill levy must be higher to make up for it. Passage of this amend ment is a must. Two of the remaining four proposed amendments only clear up and make pres ent legislation more sensible. One, for in stance, equalizes the salaries of members of courts, boards and commissions. In recent years, the legislature has raised some salaries but their effective dates are such that some members of courts and commissions now draw more pay than others. The amendment would put the raises into effect for all at the time the salary increase is provided for any one member. Another proposal takes care of a dis crepancy that has arisen with the estab lishment of the unicameral legislature. The statute now provides that if a consti tutional convention were called, it shall consist of as many members as the House of Representatives. There no longer is a House of Representatives so the amend ment calls for a convention of not more than 100 people. Under strict enforce ment of the statute as it stands, such a convention could not include more than 43 persons, the number of present state leg islators and most everyone feels that this is not a representative number of people to govern a state as large as Nebraska. The proposal does not call a constitutional convention, although we would be for that, too. The other two amendments correct situation that we feel need correcting. One wnnM irpase the salaries of legisla tors frn rwr year to $1,250 per year. This is a legitimate hike because the cost of living has increased perceptibly sincethe present salary, which also in clude expense allowance, was set in 1935. The sixth proposed amendment would provide a 6-member board of education for the state to dictate policy and appoint a commissioner. Nebraska now elects a state superintendent and the present office THOUGHT FOR TODAY Important principles mav and must be flexible. - Abraham Lincoln The Plalismoufl Journal Official County and City Paper KSTABLISHKD IN" 1881 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association ' . "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (i;anke: Second in Cities Over 1000 Population) Published Semi-Wevkly, Mondays and Tliunsflays at 410 Main Street, Ptattsmouth. Cass County. JNebr. RONALD R. FURSE ............... Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertisine Mer SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor fassocAron Kntered at tlif; Post Office at Plattsrnouth, Nebraska, as seonl claws mail matter In accordance with the Act of Congress of March i. 1879. - SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and a'djoininj? counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere. Jn advance, by mail outside the city of Platts rnouth. By carrier in Plattsrnouth. 20 cents for two weeks. A local wife told her husband she was going out on strike. It was alright with him, he had a peach of a strike-breaker in mind. Talked to a movie star's little kid the other day. He said he didn't have any brothers or sisters, but he had three papas by his first mama and four mamas by his last papa. Some women can talk on any subject and others don't need any subject at all. Character is like the foundation of a house it's below the surface. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, has been a terrible disap pointment to her parents. She went to college for four years and all she got was an education. Love makes the world go around with such a worried expression. holder. Freeman Decker, approves the new plan. Thirty-nine other states have such a board. Dozens of the most in-i terested groups in Nebraska, including the Nebraska State Education Association, the P-TA, the Nebraska Association of Univer sity Women, have approved it. There you have all six. In order that all may find their way onto the statute books where they belong, we suggest a package approval on November 4. We believe if the voters explore the fine print, they will so mark their ballots on election day. Down Memory Lane 4 A YEARS AGO U Original members of the local writ ers club, Mrs. Alice Woster and Mrs. Lu cile Rosencrans, have been accepted into membership of the Nebraska Writers Guild. Other members of the local club are Lorene Heineman, Hazel McCord, Marv Kay Waterman, Pearl Staats, Helen Farley, Madge Garnett and Kay Howard ... Cass county 4-H champions in the dif ferent groups are Imogene Pollard of Ne hawka, canning; Kathleen Balfour of Un ion, clothing; Helen Grant of Nehawka, home economics; Edna Tyson of Nehawka, general achievement; Jim Wolph of Avo- ca, livestock; Lyman Rehmeier of Weep ing Water, swine; and Aileen Doeden of Nehawka, victory garden . . . The mar riage of Miss Catherine Ann Dovey, for merly of Plattsrnouth, to Dr. Loren Wil liam Curtis of Peoria, 111., has been an nounced . . . Karen Kay Starkjohn suf fered a broken collar bone in a fall at her home. A YEARS AGO XU Miss Grace Henrietta N o 1 1 i n g, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Nolting, ?nd Frederick H. Hietzhausen of Portland, Oregon, were married October 28 . . . Fire destroyed the John C. Brittain house on Lincoln avenue today just one day aft er the Clyde Brittain family moved out, and only hours before Mrs. J. C. Brittain planned to move in . . . Herbert Oehlerking hasbeen named winner of the Cass county corn shucking contest held on the Charles Frolich farm near Eagle. Finishing in the first four were Watson Jones, Mr. Barth and Ralph Krause. Oehlerking shucked nearly 1,803 pounds, or 25.7 bushels of corn . . . Mr. and Mrs. Norman Warthen are the parents of a son, Arthur Ronald : . " .' Federal officers have raided two homes here, obtaining a quantity of beer and whiskey. Free to Vote fprJFreedom any tax law, any taint of cor ruption. That, if I am right that the American people above all want peace, is the problem they must put uppermost in this campaign. Because of its importance. I will discuss it in another column shortly. r!E PLATTSWIOUTH "lEBRflSKA. SElHI-WrFIXLY PAGE FOUR Section B Thursday, O2tob3- 30, Capitol News &0 mSHINCTONi By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter ; wASHTMP.Tfiw rvt ?n - x Governor Adlai Stevenson is LINCOLN Th3 Nebraska politi- ' nally catching on in the key cal campaign headed for the wire thi3 week with both ma jor parties claiming victory in Democratic Chairman Wiliiam Heier of Minden said ho expected the Cornhusker j. ate would end up in the Demo column and that the party states, and nearly every poll or survey shows him gaining on General Dwieht D. Eisenhower at present. Yet the General has long enjoyed a tremendous lead, which was more than 60-30 in many states, and this is a con siderable handicap. The fact is, however, that the Stevenson bad job in Nicaragua and Mexi co, but he warmed my heart and that of millions when he negoti ated the treaty to outlaw war. And when he went to Paris to sign his treaty. I persuaded the New York Times to send me with him. En route home. Kellogg's aides cooked up a scheme to keep the treaty out of partisan politics. In this I played a small part. I sent a radiogram from .the SS Leviathan to the editor of the Times asking him to query me as to whether the .anti-war treaty would be claimed as a triumph for the Republican par ty or would be considered the bipartisan product of both par ties. The Times complied, I showed the query to Kellogg, and he growled that he certain ly was not going to let his newly signed treaty become a football of politics. HOOVER PROTESTS The statement was important; because Herbert Hoover, then warming , up for his election campaign against ,A1 Smith in the late summer of 1928. was looking around for political am munition. In fact, it was more import ant than even I realized, for two days after we landed Kel logg sent for me. ! At first he seemed sore. I "Just what did you say in I that story you radioed from the ; ship?" he asked. I had a copy in my pocket j and showed it to him. He read , it and grunted mnmpntnm ic Hictnrhincr tVtA 'iLb,e LeiLects,fJibe;- 1 Republicans and encouraging to the Democrats, who were be- to London where he did his best not only to limit dangerous riv alry of armament, but to per suade Europe to sign a consulta tive pact. This pact merely pledged that the United States would "con sult" with other nations in case war threatened. There was no other obligation. Nevertheless, a "scoop" which I cabled the Baltimore Sun that such a pact was to be signed, caused Presi dent Hoover to issue a special denial. Simultaneously, his secretary of state in London was holding a press conference stating that such a treaty would be signed. These two conflicting press conferences illustrate the basic foreign-policy cleavage within the Republican party a cleav age that still continues. It plagued and harassed Stim son all through the Hoover ad ministration. Stimson saw the true goal of the Japanese war lords in Manchuria in 1931, and did his best to stop what he natorial candidate. Walter R. Raecke. In addition. Meier i thought, the Democrats might be able to come up with a con- j pressman, although he didn't ! specify which one. State GOP Chairman David T. Martin of Kearney took an op posite view. He said he was less concerned with that state, which he regarded as a cinch, than with piling up a better percentage vote for Republi cans than in the neighboring states of Iowa and Kansas, with whom Nebraska has a contest. Governor Jousting for the governorship are two men remarkably alike in their training: both are lawyers, ! ably be elected, since he is con ginning to be discouraged the first of the month. Stevenson's campaign began perking up when he leached California, in the first third of the month. His stock has risen in Illinois, Michigan, California, and other key states, as well as in many less important states. It has risen in New York City, nite surprise C111U v-miiu in uuzmiK lie r.nvnmnr TT.I. ,U:. 1.11 2 ! UUVtlllUI iuiis., uut ims lazier ciaim is i hotly contested and is tradition- ! ally G. O. P. territory. The vital question facing Democrats is whether they can maintain the present swing, or trend, through November 4th. opments of the campaign i have been the signs of stn registered by the Generj several bouthern states ail signs of popularity Ste1 has shown in states like sylvania, Iowa, and the coast states of Washington gon and California. In Virginia and South lina Eisenhower sentimq very strong at present. wrme u nas oeen sons countered in Florida, thatj as well as Texas. Louisian Tennessee are possibles G. O. P. coiumn. Whi might not carry these So states, his strength in them is surprising and ver At this stage he is appc headed for victory in at some or them. That is d both former legislators and both former speakers of the legisla ture. The Republican is Robert B. Crosby of North Platte. He's 41 If they can, Stevenson will prob- sidered to have drawn even in the critical states of New York, California and Illinois and a furtker gain would probably put him over. However, the history and a World War II Navy vet-! of the campaign shows that one eran. A former lieutenant gov- candidate rides a swell for a ernor, he has termed the office I time and then the trend re- a political dead end and thinks i verses it ought to be abolished. He has campaigned pretty much on the idea of a shake-up in the organization of state gov ernment. The Democrat Is Walter R. Raecke. He's 57 and a World War I Army veteran. He ran for the same office two years ago and lost to Gov. Val Peter son by 45,000 votes. He has pegged his campaign on "on- the-job" government with an knew was to be the conquest of inirect slap at Gov. Peterson's cnina. He tried to stop it by using the peace machinery of the League of Nations and the nine-power pact. But Republican isolationists held up their hands in horror. So did Mr. Hoover privately. In deference to the White House, Stimson even had to recall the American consul general at Ge neva from acting as an "ob server" at the league sessions on Manchuria. Eventually Stimson gave up. "The secretary of commerce," j But when he retired from the The Washington Merry-Go-Round he explained, referring to Her bert Hoover. ""Raised heh with me at cabinet meeting. "However, he added, with a wink, "I'm glad you did it." What he had in mind, of course, was the fact that he needed Democratic support to obtain senate ratification of his treaty. That support was given. Democratic senators supported him 100 per cent: a few Re publicans opposed; the treaty was ratified. Kellogg died a few years later, a broken-hearted man broken hearted because he knew the great goal he set for mankind, peace, was about to smash on the rocks of Axis greed. ' But before he died. Tie came o Washington many times to help and encourage his success sor. another reat secretary of state, Henry L. Stimson. Both Kellogg and Stimson. of course, were Republicans, both believed in a bipartisan foreign nolicy both were men of princiole. r,nd I was lucky in knowing them both. STIMSON CARRIED ON Later I traveled with Stimson state department and passed the reins on to the Roosevelt administration, he came to Washington for various confer ences with FDH and Cordell Hull. His ambition was to pre serve a continuous bipartisan foreign policy. VANDENBERG'S DEATH It has been the policy the policy of Woodrow Wilson. Kel logg. Stimson, Roosevelt neith er Republican nor Democratic but bipartisan which has been followed since. That is. it was followed up until the death of the late Senator Vandenberg. Since then, and today, it has become the football of politics in a manner which can end in only one result: serious, perhaps 'rreoarable. harm to our cher !chpd rcal of peace. That is the great danger which Kelloifr. Stimson. Van denbcrT three groat Republi cans foresaw so clearly. That is the danger General Eisen hower obviously does not rea lize. That is the danger which can hurt the United States far more than any domestic policy; traveling. He is for an over hauling of the election lawrs and against a broadened tax base. Senator, Long Term Republican is the incumbent. Sen. Hugh Butler who is seek ing a third-year term. He is 74 and was formerly in the flour milling and grain business. He has voted pretty consistently against tax and appropriations increases but voted against a cut in funds for the Bureau of Reclamation. Democrat is Stanley D. Long, a Grand Island druggist. He is 65 and was a member of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents for 24 years. An un successful candidate for Con- Stevenson's first tide came immediately after he was nom inated and lasted some five weeks. By late August he had lost his momentum and General Dwight D. Eisenhower was still out front by a considerable margin. The latest rush by Stevenson developed at the be ginning of October and is now in force. If it lasts through No vember 4th, the Governor is to be hard to stop. On the other hand, if the Republicans regain the offensive and initiative in the campaign before November, as they are planning to do. the election might catch the Democratic ef fort in a lull. Certainly the Democrats have been going all out in recent weeks with Presi dent Truman, Stevenson, Vice President Barkley and Estes Ke fauver beating the bushes. It is this attack which has given them the momentum they now have. Because the Democrats were so far behind, this all-out attack was a must in early Oc tober. The Republicans h.ve not yet been desperate. If they find themselves in such a period of anxiety, it will be then that all Stevenson. while, comes up with surl strength in several -sectol Pennsylvania where Ike rrj ruled the favorite, Adla strong Philadelphia and burgh support so much some people give him a ing chance to carry the And in the Midwest, in ; like Iowa, and several Adlai has shown eye-oj strength, whether he them or not. He has pulled even in fornia, when a few weef it looked as if he had los state, and in Washingti seems to have turned the paign into a horse rac Oregon, one of the state publican Senators has ed him and he shows sur strength there. It is gettin confusing to those who take the nation's pulse, vision and better cover; the candidates are enablir pie to make up their quicker, or to keep up wi latest trend in a campaip changes rapidly, and is bj into millions of homes eva or two via television. POSTAL DEFICIT The postal deficit this year will be about $670,(1 according to Postmaster al Jesse M. Donaldson points out that only firsj will pay its way. with an d cd profit of $66,000,000. of around $255,000,000 in class mail. $173,000,000 ill class mail and $84,000,0 fourth class mail, are ex gress in 1946. he is urging a halt J the stops will have t0 be pulledp Vu ucnui swuiR t iua- in an all-out drive for victory, jor reorganization of federal Tne last week of the campaign VETEHAMS' COLUMN By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer i A (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: " U.S. FOREIGN POLICY BECOM ING POLITICAL FOOTBALL; KEL LOGG AND. STIMSON NURTURED BIPARTISAN QUALITY; PRESENT COURSE COULD THREATEN AMERICAN GOAL OF PEACE. . WASHINGTON The other day insSt. Paul, I was sitting in the Minnesota Club waHinjf for some friends when I noticed a portrait of Frank B. Kellogg on the wall. Sitting there under that portrait set me .thinking about Kellogg's . great am bition to -outlaw war, about the problems confronting General Eisenhower, and about-the desire uppermost in the militia of most Americans to avoid another war. It makes mc feel a bit old to look back on it, but I was a young newspaper re porter covering the state department when Kellogg was. secretary of .state under Cal vin Coolidge. I thought he did rather a Q. I have just returned to ac- tive duty and have surrendered my permanent NSLI policy for cash, so now I have the free indemnity protection of $10,000. My aunt was the beneficiary of my NSLI policy. Does she re main the beneficiary of my in demnity protection. A. No. You must make new desig nation of benefi ciaries. Under the law, they maybe persons only within the fol lowing categor ies: Wife, child or children, par ent : or , parents, brother or sister. Q. I have just Kicnara v c been given a dis ability compensation rating by the VA, but I feel the rating should have been higher, and I intend to appeal. Does the fact that I accept the compensation checks constitute an .admission tnai i am sattstied -with my against my entitle- ratlng? Will it hurt my chances of an appeal? A. No., Acceptance of the com pensation checks ha3 no bearing at all as to whether or not you are satisfied with the amount. VA will not consider that fact in. studying your appeal. Q. I am planning to take a i ii i i ;ii i r i i' i mi i i( i lifipi i.i it i, Kofah GI "Eiir." How" will it "be l the equivalent charged ment? A. One-fourth of, the elapsed time in taking the course will be charged against your entitle ment. Elapsed time is measured from the date you enroll to the date the school processes your last lesson. Q. I realize I'm entitled to only one change of course under the Korean GI Bill. But what if I want to change schools without changing courses? Is there any limit on the number of changes of this nature? A. The law imposes no restric tions on changing schools, so long as no course changes are involved. Before .making your move, however, you must apply to VA for approval. If every thing's in order, VA will issue a supplemental certificate auth orizing you to go ahead with GC training in your new school. Q. What's considered full time and part-time training in accredited undergraduate col- i'lege courses, under the Korean GI Bin?- A. Full-time training consists of at least 14 semester hours or the equivalent. Three-quarters time is between 10 and 14 se mester, hours or the equivalent; half-time between 7 and 10 se mester hours, and less than half time., under 7 semester nours or government: Petition Candidate is Dwight Dell, a Beatrice farmer. He is 39 and has been active in the Christian Rural Overseas Pro gram. Running on an anti-military platform, he favors imme diate reDeal of the draft and is against U1IT. Senator, Short Term might tell the story in that case. The most comforting fact for Republicans is the heavy margin of popularity Ike built up be fore Stevenson got into the race. Many people are still convinced that the Democrat can never catch and surpass this popu larity by November 4th, in spite Pipelines to ship coal mines to distant industria. are now being tested. Democrat is William Ritchie, pursued by Democrats every-)5-year-old Omaha lawyer. An wnere. But there is just enough unsuccessful candidate for gov prnor in 1932 and for senator in 1944. he is bitterly anti-Truman. He favors a return to the sold standard and thinks the 1 federal government has too many employees. I Republican is Dwight Gris-' wold, the former governor who's now a banker at Gering. A for- mer legislator, he was director of internal affairs for the Allied Military Government In Ger many and later chief of the Greek Foreign Aid Mission. He is for reducing taxes and try- i ing to settle the conflict withi Russia without war. Lieutenant Governor Republican is Lt. Gov. Char les Warner, 77. a farmer seeking third term. He served 13 terms i in the Legislature. Democrat is A. Clifford An-, derson, a 16-year-old Lincoln realtor now after his first pub lic office, although he has been a delegate to the last two Dem ocratic national conventions. Secretary of State Democrat is Harry Swanson, 02, an Omaha salesman who was secretary of state from 1933-41. He unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination as governor two years ago. Republican is Frank Marsh, 29, a Lincoln garage door con tractor who is the son of the late secretary of state who had the same name. He has no pre vious political experience. Attorney General Republican is the incumbent, Clarence S. Beck. 54. He was appointed to succeed James H. Anderson who resigned and won a term of his own in 1950. He has a good record of main taining the gambling crack down launched by Anderson late in 1949. Democrat is Michael Mc Laughlin. 46. a Lincoln attor ney. This is the seventh straight time he has bid for the office. He was a special assistant at torney general 20 years ago. (Continued on .rage 5i just enough doubt to cause concern and most Republicans don't want any part of over-confidence this time. This explains their real concern over Stevenson's recent gains, even though they arc convinced he is still trailing the General. Some of the surprising devel- HEARTH ACHEif 'Tour mother is starting out in the garage. 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