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J i ! 1 ' i One Vote - Yours - Could Shape History Nov. 4th There's a lot of common sense in a letter which Miss Minnie , Oulhmann recently received Irom her brother. H. J. Guth mann. attorney at Santa Fe. New Mexico. He erased in the letter a 'one vote'' paradox which misht answer a few Cass county voters' remark that "my vote won't make any difference." With the election now less than a week away, the enclos ure takes on even greater mean ing. It might also help influ ence the city-wide "get out the vatt" campaign, currently beinp; watted. One voter never seems impor tant before the election. But on the day after November 5 someone, somewhere, maybe in Cass county or Plattsmouth will be saying: "If we'd only had one more vote." It has happened many times in our short history: One vote cast by this same J. Howard Davis LAWYER Soennichsen Building Phone 264 Plattsmouth L 4 'with one of Warps Top Look for This Dispenser at Your Local Dealer ywarp'a Top Quality Window Materials Political Advertisement) fe tr s ffPffl it ' vAv- ft Vi: I" "J i r ii a j-r! iiomKT1I.&x el 'fin ffil If r i itmh . ll I j00 """"N ... . BSfflf8t -ELECT A Candidate With Experience s i I Lr" m' Mm EXPERIENCED . . QUALIFIED . . DEPENDABLE Eleven Years County Clerk of Sarpy County. -jAr Two Terms in the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature. it Farm Owner and Taxpayer in District Over 30 Years. Your Support Is Appreciated Congressman, in 187G. made Rutherford B. Hayes president of the United States . . . One Vote cast by a miller in DeKaib County. Indiana, in the 1940 s elected a certain man to the state legislature . . . One Vote cast by this same legislator, sent Edward A. Han neean to the United States Sen ate ... One Vote cast by the same Edward Hannegan, admitted Texas to Statehood, for which U. S. and Mexico went to war . . . One Vote admitted Califor nia. Idaho, Washington and Ore eon to the Union . . . One Vote in the U. S. Senate denied this statehood to Alas ka . .... One Vote more in each Cali fornia precinct in 1916 would have defeated Woodrow Wilson and given victory to Charles Evans Hushes . . . One Vote more in each of Ohio's California's precincts would have tied the electoral ra-ce between Dewey and Tru man in 1943. One Vote in November could chance world history . . . "WILL IT BE YOURS?" Journal Want Ads Pay! II Winter-Proof Your Home HOW! Just Tack On One Of Warp's Transparent Window Mate rials. Keep Out Cold, Wind, Bain, Snow! - This porch was enclosed by the owner and his wife in just two hours for only $11.50 and is easily converted back to a screen porch in summer. You can do the same with as I one of Warp's Top Quality Make Low-Cost Storm Doors. Storm Windows & Porch Enclosures Quality Window Materials Alto Ideal for Poultry, Hog House and Barn Windows let in Sunshine Vitamin "0" GENUINE CRYSTAL. CLEAR A lex-O-Glass BGlassO-Net Plastiglass r-OGlass SCREEtlGlASS Are Not Soid By Mail Order Homes ( I'olitii-al Advertisement) Tom DOOLEY Non-Political Candidate for STATE SENATOR i amercs-Uve Mi Si A decade is a short time in the 100-year-old existence of a community, but the changes that are noticeable during the same period often escape the naked eye. But they don't escape the camera eye very easily as pic tures above will show. Using the eve to compare modern day Plattsmouth with the camera view of a decade and even two decades or more ago, note, the changes. Top picture above gives a pretty fair analysis as to the general description of the Plattsmouth business district for the period of about 1940. Compare it with the lower pic ture, taken prior to 1930. Note the changes, and also the. sim ilarity. Then let your eye tell you the difference as you glance up and down the present Platts mouth business district. Here are a few of the differences you should notice. Streets Plattsmouth Main street, widened by nearly 15 feet presents a very changed appearance for that shown in the above pictures. Then, too, the very drastic changes in automobiles will be one of the earliest changes you'll recog nize. Lights You'd have to eo to Mrritt Beach or up High School Hill to see the street lights vis ible in the above pictures, for they have been replaced with much higher, much brighter, and more modern electroliers. You'll find stop lights now in operation also. Buildings To really enjoy the changes that have taken place in the store fronts, and within the stores, on Main street, the eye witness would have to take each one individ ually, for each day more and more changes are being noted. Boulevard Clearly shown in both pictures, which represent a period of twenty years, is the grassed center boulevard, which was formerly a landmark of the IJ7 - .01- " -TUB - uusuiess uLstrict Deiween oin the nation, he could direct the and 7th streets. The boulevard I forces in Korea to seek a de was removed six years ago. cision there. He could launch High School Just visible ini the pictures is the present high school building, which will be marked by an addition in the very near future, signifying that the next decade will also have its marked in the develop ment of the community. It's sometimes necessary to look back, to see how far fore ward progress has been made. j GOOD BUSINESS AHEAD According to a banker, an in surance company economist and a government official, another very prosperous year is coming up. Predictions are for: business activity higher than in 1952; continued full employment; $13, 000,000,000 more available for consumers to spend; prices leveling off and maybe dropping slightly. DOG KILLS BOY Los Angeles Two - year - old Frederick Cage died three days later from injuries suffered when a German shepherd dog attacked him. Doctors took 174 stitches in his face and head in an attempt to save his life. A Classified Ad xn The Jour nal costs as little as 35c. Mote Legislative SIDELIGHTS.. by BERNTE CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation (Legislative Sidelines Is made available to your local newspaper as a service of the Nebraska 1 Farm Bureau Federation. Opin ions expressed are not neces sarily t"V5P of this newspaper). Most Powerful Individual The most powerful individual in the world todav is not Josef Stalin or any dictator or po tentate. In terms of the power he can bring to bear through his office, you, the voters of this week picked the most powerful indi vidual in the world he is the President of the United States who will make the administra tive decisions for the next four years, beginning on January 20, 1953. How powerful is the President of the United States? He can set the course of Am erican foreign policy through the State Department. At home, directly or through departments of his cabinet, he can touch the most intimate details of your life. His office dominates the money policies of the nation. He sets the broad policy tor the re lations of government with busi ness, labor, industry, and agri culture. He can through his agents set prices, wages and sal aries, affect the operation of the nation's transportation sys tem, communication, banking, and business. He can determine who is taxed most heavily and who gets the lightest tax load. The President of the United States can determine whether or not. the nation will have war or peace. As Commander and chief 0f the armed forces of the Air Force against targets in Manchuria; or draw on the atomic bomb stockpile to order strikes aeainst communist tar gets in Korea and China. He can order the Nationalist Chi nese admited to Korea or launch them in attack upon the main land of China. Or he could order American forces out" of Korea overnight, just as easily as President Truman ordered them in. He can recall all the Am erican forces overseas. True, Congress can reduce his powers, but in the Constitution and on the statute books as of this hour are all the powers enumerated above and many more. Not even Josef Stalin can bring to bear so concentrated a combination of armed might, industrial potential and nation al strength simply by "taking pen in hand." Fortunately, American presi dents are chosen by the people and get their power from the faith of the people in their wis dom to use judiciously the vast powers given the office. For, al though the President has these great powers, there is a force more powerful than those grant ed him by the Constitution of the United States and the Con- Chcomigesl pf f. II) I lib ' . -SiSS VVk-H If," gress. That force is public op inion and the willingness of the American people to support his decisions. In making decisions on the use of the powers he has auth ority to use, the President must judge carefully whether or not the majority of the people give support to his decisions. For al lhis power, the Presi dent of the United States can not abridge the power of the Congress; he cannot escape the fact that the people choose a President each four years; he cannot avoid the threat that too unpopular a decision might create a universal demand for his impeachment. For all his vast power there are checks and balances he cannot escape considering when he makes a decision on the use of his pow ers. The power of th ePresident, based originally in the Consti tution of the United States, made him Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy; author ity to require, in writing, opin ions from the heads of execu tive departments as to the dut ies of their offices; authority to FREE Cooling System Check for WINTER Protection ! Your Conoco Dealer will tighten hose, flush radiator, recommend anti-freeze. FREE Battery Check for Fast WINTER Starting I Your Conoco Dealer will check your battery to give you quick cold morning starts. 1932 CONTINENTAL Oil COMPANY WALL Phone 261 I grant reprieves and pardons for ' offenses against the U. S., ex cepting cases of impeachment; authority to, by and with the "onsent of two-thirds of the Senate, make treaties; authority with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassa dors, diplomatic representatives, indues of the Supreme Court, and public officials whose ap pointment is not otherwise pro vided in the Constitution; auth ority to call Congress into ses sion for special reasons, give to Congress information on the state of the Union and make re commendations, and adjourn Coneress in cases of disagree ment: authority to commission all officers of the United States. In addition, over the 163 v'ears since President George Washington took office, the power of the office has been aueurnented. year after year, by new laws creating new powers, and new court decisions extend ing th" limits of his powers un der old laws. Candidates have continually expressed a desire to limit the powers of the office, but successive President, wheth er Democratii or Republican, have found it necessary to ex pand the powers of the office to meet changing situations. Mr. Miriam Wright has pur chased the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. . uild. Mr. and Mrs. Guild will leave for California in the near future. A Classmed Ad In The Jour nal costs as little as 35c. Get ready Here's the 4-Way, ONE-STOP ser vice that gets your car ready for cold weather. Here's the winter-conditioning that helps your car keep its full power and pep, even when Arctic winds blow! Here's the headlight to taillight "winter-proofing" that assures- you quicker starts, faster pick ups on the coldest mornings. And it guards metal working parts against winter's wear! This is Conoco's new Eskimo Special winterizing service. WHETHER YOUR. 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