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EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes Keep Him Guessing H OV TO WRITE EDITORIALS Going to Rotary Tuesday, after sitting at the typewriter half the morning trying to think of some issue we could come up with to assist in enlightening the world, we discovered the easiest way possible to fill an editorial column. We then en joyed the noon hour to the fullest. Many times, when we wanted to ab sent ourselves from this job twice-a-week, we scoured the city directory and met up with -only firm and emphatic "No's." But Tuesday we discovered our man none other than Lumberman Lester Boise Dal ton (that Boise is not to be used publicly; he inform.-- us it belonged to a one-time popular governor of Iowa) who has shown no mean talent in editing the Ro tary Wheel during the past month, so we lift his copy "I am still toying with Democracy as the theme for this isue of the Wheel. Not for any political value, but just as it is known to us in everyday living. "If you lead The Journal (who among us would dare say we didn't) you will re call the editorial which should have had a heading "Mr. Peterson Goes to Wash ington." or "The Adventures of Val in Big Time." If you were not stubbornly re sistant vou were swerved over and would rave willingly and cheerfully helped ship him to India. "The same week an outstate paper for merly owned and edited by Furse, came out with an editorial by its new editor who. in no uncertain terms, informed you that Mr. Peterson was not the Boy Wonder that some folks thought he was, and un less you were previously firmly grounded in your own convictions, you would have ben glad to assist in working for his re call. "Your reactions to these two editorials is what is known as the "power of the printed page." Both were exercising the "Freedom of the Press." He continues: "Sneak Previews of Future Flashes" "A certain little contour twister claims t" have an hour-glass figure, but can she help it if the sand is a bit lumpy. Conversation is exercise of the mind, but f ossip is merely exercising the tongue. Next to being young and pretty, the test bet is to be old and rich. A pessimist is a person who is seasick during the whole voyage through life. The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. A husband is a man who, if given enough rope, will find himself tied up at the office. Kvervthing on the farm is mechanized but Mother. Inflation is good times gone bad. March 15 . . . All that I have today I owe to Uncle Sam." There's more : "How To Be An Editor" The scoffers said it couldn't be done, And the odds were so great who wouldn't : But I tackled this job That couldn't be done. And whnt. do vou know ... IT COULDN'T! See how easy it is to fill a column like this. The only thing vou have to be care ful of is not to get the guy so mad that he'll quit advertising. PLENTY BITE IN DOG DRIVE Members of the City Council and Po lice Denartment have been nipped at plenty during the past few davs in their drive to solve the dog problem brought on with examination of a stray dog by State Health Department officials and found to have rabies. By orders of the health department, THOUGHT FOR TODAY Thrift is care ami scruple in the spcndiiuj of one's means. 1 1 is not a virtue, and it requires neither skill nor talent. Kmmanuel Kant The Plafismouth Journal Official County and City Paper K S T A B I.I SHKD IN 1881 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (RankerV Second In Cities Over 1000 Population) PuWishPd ml -Weekly. Mondays and Thursdays. 8t 410 Main Street. Plattsmotith. Cass County, Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. -SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertisine Mer. SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editoi lassociiTion B Entered at the Post Offire at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. u.h second class mall matter In accordance with the Act of Congress of March S. 1879. 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 mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. Pretty soon the young things will be dazzling us with new, airy spring clothes and our fancy will get around to the basic facts of life. Many people won't consider anything unless it is written or stated by someone with a much publicized name they are the sheep. Many persons, especially farmers and cattle men, are wondering right now if 1952 was really the "time for a change." It's the henpecked husband who crows loudest when he gets away from home. Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the ar teries. In late years when March 15 rolls around we suddenly realize that we were brought up on the wrong side of the tax. ' Politics can be kept out of anything that human beings can be kept out of. A joint account is a device that allows your wife to .beat you to the draw. In divorce it's the high cost of leaving that hurts most. both local and state, it was necessary to act nearly without warning to protect not only citizens of this community, but valu able pets as well rabies wait for no one, man or beast. No one was in a position to know how many animals had been exposed to this case of rabies. An absolute quarantine without notice was necessary for the pro tection of everyone. No doubt a number of pet owners were disturbed by the swift action taken, but a lot more criticism would have been directed at city officials if several rabies cases had broken out through negligence of police to round up all dogs immediately. Prompt attention to this health menace no doubt prevented serious spread of the dreaded disease. Many of us must get over our perse cution complex and come to realize that city officials have a duty to perform and an obligation to protect the well being of nearly 6000 Plattsmouth citizens. ! Down Memory Lqne I A YEARS AGO IU A Cass County Information Service Corps has been organized. Mrs. Howard Pool of Murdock is county chairman and Mrs. Nelson Berger of Nehawka is co chairman . . . Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wiysel are the parents of a daughter born February 24 . . . Mr. and Mrs. Emil Schmidt are the parents of a daughter born February 19 . . . Milo Price, L. S. Devoe. E. H. Wes cott, A. H. Duxbury and S. S. Davis have been named Victory speakers at Platts mouth ... A public library has been opened at Greenwood. It is in charge of Mrs. Williams at the Christian church par lors . . . Cass county's Red Cross quota has been set at $7,80l). Plattsmouth's quota is $2,200. M YEARS AGO Miss Frances Benak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Benak, was united in mar riage on February 21 at Omaha to Ladislav Nimerichter of Omaha . . . Alice Hirz and Fdna Mae Peterson will compete for coun ty spelling honors. They won the written and oral contests respectively ... A new fire truck has been added to the equip ment of the Louisville Fire Department. The truck is being purchased by members of the volunteer department . . . Charles Warga has been elected president of the Eastern Cass County Bee Owners Associa tion, organized here recently. John J. Stones of Murray is vice president, and C. A. Troop is secretary-treasurer . . . Miss Ella Jacks of Plattsmouth and Arthur D. Schlntman of Whiting, Iowa, were mar ried February 22. The Washington Merry -Go-Round (Copyright, 1952. By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: FAMED "ROCK" MAY- BE CLOSED IN PRISON ECONOMY WAVE; ATLANTA PEN NOW CON SIDERED WORST TROUBLE SPOT; TIDELANDS BATTLE RECALLS RUM-RUNNER DAYS. WASHINGTON Grim, gray Alca traz, arising'from the middle of San Fran cisco Bay, the nation's toughest prison, may be closed as part of the Republican econo my wave. The tip-off was given behind closed doors of the senate judiciary committee by James Bennett, director of federal prisons. whi said the recommendation is supposed to be contained in President Eisenhower's forthcoming budget message. "I haven't seen the budget message, but the boys in the budget bureau said they were going to do it," Bennett told senators, adding that "I have recommended that Alcatraz be replaced." "There are a great many ob jections to Alcatraz from an ad ministrative and operating standpoint," he explained. "It is located, way off on the west coast on a dreary rock island, and is extremely expensive to op erate. We have to have water taken in there. In addition, the personnel do not like it. We al most have to order men to go there, and it is an administra tive monstrosity." Bennett also reported on the other 31 prisons in the federal system. He made no comment about the recent outbreak of prison riots, though he indicated that the Atlanta penitentiary is the worst trouble spot. "Our principal problem at At lanta," he pointed out, "is that we have about 500 more than we can handle, and there are rela tively few single cells, and that makes for trouble, not having any space for men where they can live by themselves." Terre Haute Worst Prison However, Sen. "Wild Bill" Langer of North Dakota, chair man of the judiciary committee, who has quietly been inspecting federal orisons, described the Terre Haute, Indiana, pen as wiic w w i o w utic nave. "I think I saw more dirt and filth there than I have ever seen," Langer declared, though, he added, "I may have gotten that impression because, each time I investigated, the warden wasn't there." Bennett also revealed that the old bread-and-water diet for in corrigibles has been replaced by an unpalatable "sninach diet." This came out in answer to a auestion by Idaho's GOP Sen. Herman Welker, who asked: "Do you have anything like 'Siberia,' like they have in some state in stitutions?" "Nn Rpnntnr if hp cpts snli- I tary, he gets, as the boys call it, the spinach diet, remied the prison chief. "It is a full 3.500 calorie diet, but no meat. It is )not palatable, and if they have had it once, they would prefer bread and water. They would really rather have bread and wa ter than the soinach diet." The Rock's History If Alcatraz's forbidding gates are slammed shut for good, it will be the end of a dramatic, 19-year historv. Known bitterlv among convicts as "The Rock," Alcatraz was taken over by the federal penitentiary system from the army in 1934 as a place where the most desperate escape risks could be sent. "It is there that we have our most vicious and difficult pris oners," reported Bennett. "We have sent to Alcatraz, for in stance, the man who commits murder in prison, and unfor I tunately we do have such cases I occasionally. And we have the 1 man who repeatedly attempts to : escape, who organizes strong ; arm groups in the penitentiary, ! and who steals the other man's i food and his commissary, and 1 then the ones we simply don't have the tacihties to handle in any other institution." Though the island-bound Al catraz is too expensive to oper ate, Bennett added that "I sin cerely believe. Senators, that we of prisoner in the federal sys tem." The most fashionable prison, which Senator Langer described as the "gentlemen's prison," is located at Lewisburg. "It has too many open dormi tories." Bennett explained. "They are for thoroughly and com pletely reliable prisoners who are well adjusted . . . The open dor mitories cost only about $3,000 per man, even though they are very imposing looking. The architecture is one of the finest examples of Italian renaissance in the country. It is made of false stone block, which has been practical." The old conventional cells, he added, cost from $12,000 to $15, 000 per man. The present popu lation of the nation's federal prisons, he reported, is 17.945 inmates 470 more than last year. The rate of increase, he said, is usually about 500 a vear. Bennett wound up his closed door testimony by inviting the senators to inspect his prisons. However, Missouri's Democratic Sen. Tom Hennings protested: "I have s great revulsion at Da rading through some institution and having them say, 'Well, there goes another group of those stuffed shirts.' " Tidelands Lobby Wants 250 Miles It's a long time in the span of years between the rum-runners of prohibition days and tidelands oil. But, in the legal opinions of Eisenhower admin istration lawyers, the two are going to be connected. For the oil companies, and es pecially Ike's Texas friends, nnt satisfied with the Holland bill for tidelands oil. now want to extend the drilling limit 250 miles out to sea. This is because there is no im portant oil off the coast of Texas unless you go about 12 to 14 miles out, and the Holland bill gives Texas only 10 V miles. The bill also gives Louisiana only three miles, as it does the other states, and there is no important oil within three miles of the Louisiana coast. The only state the Holland VETERANS' COLUMN By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Dental Treatment for Korean Veterans Many veterans of the Korean War are losing out on a pre sumptive dental rating because thev are not securine a dental (examination within one year following discharge. These vet erans sre thus missing a benefit which through the years could become very val uable to them. Current regula tions provide that any dental de fects found with in one year of the veteran's dis charge will be ? presumed to be f 1 1 service connppf.prt Richard Peck and treatment of the teeth so found defective will be given at the expense of the Veterans Administration so long as necessary. This could mean; for the life of the veter an. An examination may be ob tained by filing the proper ap plication blank which is avail able at this office, or by goin- directly to a VA dental clinic! A veteran whose year is about to expire could protect himself by having an immediate exami nation made by his dentist who could then prepare an affidavit showing each tooth found to be Li defective within the year. Im mediate application could then be made to which would be at tached the affidavit of the dentist. Post -Korean Insurance Korean veterans must remem ber that action must be taken within 120 days after date of discharge in order to retain gov ernment insurance. Many such veterans now being discharged took out National Service Life Insurance when entering service and then later secured waiver of the premiums. These veter ans may reinstate their insur ance policies within 120 days after discharge by simDly re mitting a monthly premium. In such cases the remittance should re accompanied by a request that the insurance be reinstated as of the 120th day after date of discharge and thus take full ad vantage of the 3 months of free insurance. If this remittance and reauest is made immediately after discharge, the veteran will bo better assured that his rec ords wil be placed in proper order before the 120th day ex pires. (Since I will be out of the of fice for two weeks, there will be no veterans column for March 5 and 12). bill really benefits is California wnich has cil right close to shore. All this is the reason behind the latest lobbying drive to ex tend drilling limits not three miles, but 250 miles, and give each state sovereignty over un derground deposits that distance out to. sea. Just a quarter of a century ao, however, a small rum-runner called the "I'm alone," racing miiM off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico was shot up h fpriprnl nrohibition agents. And the I'm alone, which became a famous international sncment, mav stand in the path of Texas and Louisiana today. If Russia Claimed 253 Miles.' Pnr thoneh the I'm alone was suspected of being owned by the Sam Maceo-r ranKie vusei.u rino- nf rum-runners, it was ac tually under Canadian registry. And Canada, feeling that an im portant question of law was in volved, sued the United States. Other governments also had pro tested against the Hoover edict that the sea 12 miles offshore belonged to the U. S. A. Interna tional' law, hitherto, had put the limit at three miles. So a special international tri bunal, on which ex-Justice Wil lis Van Devanter represented the United States, was appointed to arbitrate the I'm alone case, and in the end found against the United States. Even Justice Van Devanter ruled that the United States could not claim any rights over a vessel 25 miles out at Po wUh tve oil fcovs and the tidelands lobbyists now pressur ing Eisenhower to extend drill ing limits 250 miles, the state department has raised a red flag. It not only cites internation al lav, but raises the question of what would happen if Russia automatically and arbitrarily ex tended her boundaries 250 miles out to sea. Among other things, Russia could then claim sov ereignty over waters in which the U. "S. navy is supplying our troops in Korea. fHC PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, "LvTS PAGE SIX Secti6n B Thursday,JaryJ253 51 By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, Febr. 26 nebMska toff JaTgjffiM itsJJS?"fcpJ h IAMCS C OLSON, SuptrmUndenl TftTC tMTOllCtl OeiST Fimor .T Ttnrkptt. who served .Nebraska in the United States Senate from 190o to 1911. was born on a farm near Glenwood, I9wa. December 1, 1867. Although he was the youngest man in the Senate when he took his seat at the age of 37. Mr. Burkett was already a veteran in poli tics. He was elected to the state legislature in 1896. at the age of 29. and two years later, in 1898, was sent to Congress as a representative of the First District. He was thrice re-elected, resigning in 1905 to accept a place in the Senate, conferred by the legislature. The young Senator had gradu ate frnm Tnhnr Colleee in Iowa in 1890, and had immediately come to Nebraska as principal nf thp hih school at Leieh. He soon forsook teaching for the law. He graduated irom ine University of Nebcaska law school in 1893, was admitted to the bar. and began practicing in Lincoln. In his acceptance speech be fore the legislature. Senator Burkett pledged himself to "work shoulder to shoulder with President Theodore Roose velt in the advancement of his nnlirips Rrw-ispvplt. at one time declared that Senator Burkett was one of the men he defend ed upon in putting through his legislative policies. Senator Burkett apparently j was- very close "to President J Roosevelt at the time winiam ; Hnu'arri Tn f t. was splprteri as his (Roosevelt's) successor. Mr. Burkett was the principal speak er at a ainner meeting in xios ton where Mr. Taft's candidacy was formally launched. In Congress, Mr. Burkett was an ardent enthusiast of the rural free delivery of mail. He also wrote the original draft of the postal savings bank law. He created a considerable stir when he introduced and pushed a resolution in the Senate estab lishing the national Mothers Day. Though he had been elected in 1905 virtually without oppo sition. Senator Burkett found the going very tough when he came uo for re-election. Gilbert M. Hitchcock. Democrat, ran well ahead of him in the preferential primary of 1910 and the lecisla tnrp nf 1911 controlled bv Dem ocrats as a result of the rather ciTPohlp 'npmnrratic sweeD of the year before, quickly carried out the wishes expressed in the preferenttial balloting. Thus at the age of 42, Mr. Burkett retired from the Senate. He was put in nomination for the vice presidency at the Re publican National Convention in 1912, but was not selected. That same 3'ear he declined the Re publication for the governor ship. The remaining years- of h's life were spent in the practice of law in Lincoln, and though he did not seek political office again he was much in demand as a speaker. He died May 23, 1935. Though many Americans do not realize it, the blockade of Chi i ese ports is already beginning. The first steps are fpeble ones, but the Communists know what they signify for the future. The initial blockade activity now carried on solely by the Chinese Nationalists consists of small boat actions designed, to disrupt trade. There are many complications and limitations to the present Nationalist blockade. For one thing, what are they to do about British ships or those of any ether major sea power nation trading with the Communists? If they sink a British ship, they might bring down the wrath of the British navy on their heads, for Britain recognizes Commu nist China. Therefore, the Nationalist ef fort must necessarily be limited. However, it is to grow stronger and stronger, and the United States is to furnish many of the naval weapons which will give the Nationalists the means with which to conduct an errec tive blockade carrier-versus land-based stra tegic bombing fight after all. Harry Truman was drawn into iho tnrmnii swirling around this issue. He first decidec! that su- . 1 .HUln per-carners were too vumc rauic to justify their cost, and the cost of launching attacks from them, then allowed one or two to be started. Because cf the effort to econ omize in the Defense Depart ment, the question of super-carriers and their justification may be raised aeain. Those arguing in favor of letting land-based bombers do strategic bombing say attacks by naval craft from carriers cost over five times as much. In addition, the British navy has issued a report agreeing with the Air Force that this mission should be left to the air. The U. S. naval argument disputes the claims, and concedes there has been rivalry with the British navy, and disagreements. The navy is now going ahead with super-carrier construction, plan- : nrHsh i ? others for tl future. trade, and other trade, the Na- e"utV.7 Vn J. tionalists can still greatly ham- faced with this q..'ort.on, as eJ o c r.tViorc enrn n hiiUJ Tfl PPT. InP per tne now oi commerce loc"'"- " J and from China ports. Ana tne nauonaubis migriL i- tWQ costl instailations al- evemuauy cn luuc. t side D side how to cut ?v!nlHle risof ! clown the cost of our huge over- seas bases program, make tnem. services to use the same bases and facilities instead of build - the British. To counter this U. S.-sponsored blockade, the Russians are turning over p.? val vessels to the Chinese, including a number of destroyers and sub marines. The U. S. is consid ering moves to build up the Chi- ,. -.i 1 X nese Nationalist navai uniis, secure, and many others. Despite his heavy electoral col lege defeat, Aalai Stevenson is still popular with the people. When he came to Washington which is new in a rather shabby recently a crowd turned out to state, with no warships larger than a destroyer. The threat of interception will be enough to slow down and make costlv normal sea traffic between China and other na greet him, as is often the case with the former Illinois Gover nor. But the fact that Steven son is highly popular is not surprising. Although swamped in electoral vofmn.iirf new vote totals. Stevenson got 45 gains formidable strength. It j PpPar votes for every oo Pres m.ay be some time until" that is j went Eisenhower received And achieved, but it seems to be in the books. Meanwhile the U. S. might still make a bid for a U. N. blockade in the U. N. Stevenson's 27,000,000 popular votes was larger than Roose velt's in several of FDR's races. Journal Want Ads Pay! Some farm -state Senators and Congressmen are frankly alarm ed over Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson's price supnort statements thus far. They charge him with not under standing the concept of parity orice suDpcrt and of threatening to run dangerous risks with the welare of the nation's farmers already caught in a pinch by lowering receipts. Some Southern Senators have spoken out bluntly about a Ben- J sen statement which lines the I Secretary up with the view that ' price supports for farm products should be disaster measures only. Of course, these Senators are Democrats, who might be in clined to criticize, but there is much anxiety in farm circles about the future of price supports. , President Dwight Eisenhower ; has indicated his desire to con tinue present price supports about as they are through next year. This would certainly give the new administration time to watch the support system, from the inside, and pinpoint weak nesses in the system. Meanwhile, many farm-state legislators will vigorously oppose any effort to put price supports on a disaster basis. Y VETERANS.' 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