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EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes GERMAN REARMAMENT DELAYED The United States proposal to rearm West Germany within the framework of a European Defense Community has hit another snag, after some years of snajr hitting. The Labor Party in Great Britain has decided to allow its members to criti cize the officially-endorsed government program permitting West German rearm ament. Heretofore the Labor Party had officially supported the plan. And a major British labor union has gone on rcco rd as opposed to the German program by an overwhelming vote. -While these developments in them selves do not mean that the official British Government po'.icy is changed, they do indicate that the issue is now becoming a hot one in England as well as in France. In the latter country the Foreign. Affairs Committee recently postponed again vot ing on the EDC treaty, which the United States has been pushing for yearns. - The French fail to relegate this tradi tional animosity to second place in the present tense world situation even though Communism has long since surpassed Ger man militarism as Europe's, and the world's, greatest danger to peace. Now the British are being divided by leftwing elements on the. same issue, and told that once West Germany is rearmed, the Ger mans will become the menace to peace, :i menace greater than that of the Reds. "The folly of this reasoning is to be found in the fact that the Germans hate the Russians more than any other western nation. The Reds still occupy a third of greater Germany, and were always Hitler's number-ono enemy, even when the Nazis were fighting both the Reds and the west ern allies. The case is the same With tho Japanese, who are traditional foes of the Russians. The only sensible policy for this coun try to follow is to rearm both of its former enemies and as quickly as possible so they will be able to play a part in the set tlement with Russia when and if it must come. And time could be running out. If France, and perhaps Britain, hesitate any longer on the EDC plan which would rearm West . Germany, the United States would be justified in taking independent action to rearm West Germany on its own respon NITED NATIONS FAILS U A sad commentarv on the effective ness of the United Nations as a world peace body is seen in the inaction and inability of the U. N. to do anything about the pres ent situation in Indochina. Although a war has been going on in this country for seven years, the .United' Nations has not yet been able to do anything to stop the fighting. Since the U. N. has been able to make no significant contribution to the settle ment of the war, at present the-world'.- hopes seem to rest on the outcome of nego tiations being carried on by several major countries of the world on their own, at Geneva. The first test the United Nations must pass the same test which that or ganization faced upon its -origination is the test whether it can enforce its edicts. If an international body has no police power to enforce its decisions, it is reduced to nothing more than a debating society when the final crisis of a major dispute between major nations arises. U. N. mem bers have not yet been able to creaV: a U. N. police force, and when the United Nations failed to back up its order to Arabs and Jews to end their fighting sev eral years ago, the world body lost prestige all oer the world. In the Korean War, the United Na tions was officially active, but it is well THOUGH! FOR TODY .III th'uujs jess the more I thoiujht I knew; hut now con I know I know, I know the less. Owen The1 Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper KSTAHL1S1IED IN 1881 i'ubli.shrd Semi-Wei kly, Mondays and Thursday, at 40 Minn .Street, i'la ttsinouth Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Bcn Plaques lor "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention' 1953 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 tin Cities Over 2000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor l w IAIICSW. uusuu. AttCGSa At -our age an easy chair is a chair it is easy for us to get out of. You're getting old if you can remember when there was no parking problem around the high school. JL The only way to keep a story out of The Journal is not to do it. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says boy friends are just like drug. to her she takes one dope after another. Weather has been just like a baby here of late. One minute it's dry and the next minute it's wet. it . Women's fashion is something' that goes in one year and out the other. A lot of gals coming out of beauty shops look like they ain't been waited on. The death rate around here is just about the same as anywhere else one to a person. A controversial figure is not sure how much of your came from a store. Getting Too Close for Comfort when you're girl's figure known that the United States actually took the lead in settling that affair. And had not the United States carried the balK and provided the great majority of troops needed, the United Nations would have been helpless to settle this dispute. ....-.i.v.- Down Memory Lane 20 Chinese war has dragged on, he has refused to go into various French cabinets which have no program. He new believes the only course is to wind up the war,- after salvaging as much as possible.- " Amprirans who know the new premier, and who conferred with him when he was last nere ia September, suggest that France may be in for new rejuvenation under his leadership. After all, France has come througn wun some surprising strength at! THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section C Thursday, June 24, 19j4 YEARS AGO Miss Josephine Haines of Elkton, Oregon, and Harold W. Blcodgood of Louisville were married at the Methodist church at Plattsmouth . . . W. R"Rex" Young has filed for the Republican nomi' nation for Cass county sheriff. He is a former deputy . . . Miss Sheilia Covert .and Fred N. Todd, both of Plattsmouth were married June 1G . . . Plattsmouth Red Sox pounded out 14 hits but dropped an 11-8 tilt to an Omaha team . . . Miss .Kathryn Finefride Heafey, daughter of Mrs. Anna R. Heafey, became the bride of Dr. John Stuart Egenberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Egenberger on June 16 . . . Lois Cole has 'graduated from Santa Barbara State Teachers College in Calif ornia .... The annual reunion of the Mary Wolff family was held at Cedar Creek . . . . Arthur Kief of Plattsmouth has been elected vice-president of the state aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The 1053 state convention will be held at Platts mouth.. . . .Powder lines and poles were knocked down in a high wind storm in the Nehawka-Uhion area .... Alice Speck of Omaha and Jesse Boetel of Plattsmouth were married at Glenwood, Iowa. YEARS AGO Miss Mary Jean Hatt, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Hatt, was united in marriage to Gilbert H. Fornoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fornoff of Plattsmouth . . . Eugene W. Burdic, local banker, will enter Naval officers training .... Mrs. Robert Buffington received severe cuts and bruises when thrown from a car following a crash near the John Hobscheidt corner . . . . Marine Howard Hirz was feted at a dinner here while on leave from the West Coast . . . .Richard O'Donnell has been promoted to corporal in the Army .... Lee Faris, Donald McQuin, Lewis Mougey, George! Stine, Howard Snodgrass, Herman Comer and Mrs. Delbert Lindsey have been elected trustees of the Methodist church .... The annual Cook family reunion was held at the Percy J. Wheeler home with 45 present . . . . Fred G. Dawson of Detroit has been visiting old friends at Platts mouth. -k himself has attended some of these meetings. The general discussion is to the effect that Ike himself does n't understand politics, is weary of the whole McCarthy fight, so the less he is bothered the bet ter. Therefore it has been sug gested that. Nixon should be the sole liaison with the White House, and that he will bother Ike just as little as possible. Furthermore, since Nixon, a Californian, Js something of a rival of Senator Kncwland of California, the Nixon conferees would like to make Senator Diniisen the Republican leader of the Senate at the next ses sion. This would be a sop to the McCarthyites. also would help remove a potent Californian who could challenge Nixon for the presidency in 1956. So far McCarthy has promised to go along with the boys and be prood. He wont jump . over the traces, he says. Of course, he has said this before. Incidentally the Nixon group has not yet sucked in Attorney General Brownell or his assis tant. William Rogers, the latter having been the last Republican to try to patch. up an agreement 10 with McCarthy, at Miami last Christmas. France is not out Those who have seen Mendes France operate in Washington advise that we not discount the new Premier of France. Judging from the heavy vote he got sup porting his new cabinet, others in France feel the same. Though Mendes-France has viewed with a certain amount of skepticism by U. S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon in his reports from Paris, the fact is that the new Premier has had experience in Washington as first executive director of the world bank. There. Americans who came in Contact with him, including the first U. S. head of the bank, Eu gene Meyer, found him most friendly to the United States and one of the highest type of ficials on the bank. He was any thing but a left winger. : It was Mendes-France's con tention in the early years im mediately after the war that if France had gone into Indo china promptly and vigorously, the whole matter could have been cleaned up. He so advised American friends at that time. Since then, and as the Indc- LAW and ORDER by Sheriff Tom Solomon The Washington Merry -Go-Round (Copyright, 1954, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) t In 1948 we began our first aid program. At that time we began gathering essential first aid equipment. We also initiated a first-aid training program. Our goal, was to train enough volun teers to provide an adequate pool of trained personnel from which to draw from in case of emergencies. Our drive for volunteer dona tions to support the purchase of needed equipment proved very successful. The first item pur chased was a panel truck which we rigged into a first aid rescue truck.- After being in service about a year it was proven that the panel was not too suitable a vehicle for such work so we traded it in for a station wagon at Plattsmouth. The difference between the two vehicles came to one-hundred and fifty dollars, which amount was donated by an ardent supporter of first-aid. The station wragon once equip ped proved very valuable and still is in use by the sheriff's office. It is housed at the County Jail garage and is subject to use around the clock. Our oolicy has been not to use this unit in direct competition" with the private ambulances in the county. Therefore we do not take the rescue truck but on ail calls, nor do we haul patients to the hospital when ambulances are available. The present pri- vate ambulance service in the county is very satisfactory. In a matter of minutes an ambulance can be had at almost any part of the county. In serious emergen cies or storms the rescue vehicle has been pressed into service. Carried in our cars are a com nletp line of first aid equipment, sufficient to handle most ail cases which we encounter. If additional equipment is needed at the scene it can rapidly be ob tained through the use of our two way radio units. At the scene of accidents in iured oersons or owners of ve hicles involved are asked to des- ignate which ambulance, doc tor, wrecker or hospital they de sire to be called or. taken to. If the person so needing such services has no certain prefer ence or is unconscious then we FntMnl at tif t'o.M Office at T'lattsniouth. Nebraska 8 second class mail matter In accordance with th Act of Congress of March 3. 1878.. 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 Platismouth, 20 cents for two weeks. DREW PEARSON SAYS: NIXON TRYING TO PATCH MCCARTHY RIFTS; NEW FRENCH PREMIER RATES HIGH., IN WASHINGTON; SEN. MCCARTHY HAS TAX PROBE POWERS WHICH DENIED TO SEN. WILLIAMS. WASHINGTON Vice-President Dick Nixon, who has busied himself backstage ' order what equipment and serv- nn behalf of Senator McCarthy in the rmst 'ices are needed at his expense is busy again. He is trying to patch up all breaches in Republican ranks and get pro McCarthy and anti-McCarthy Republicans back into one harmonious team. To that end, he has been holding high ly secret conferences which- at present make it look as if Dick himself might emerge as the chief leader of the GOP. Those attending the conferences have been Senators Dirksen of Illinois and Mundt of South Dakota, both good friends of McCarthy's; also Len Hall, the GOP National Chairman; Postmaster General Summcrfield, the only cabinet . 1.: 1 T " T 1 A i .-Lin 111 .uivaiuit uniici, rtuu rtt uiiiw j Offering suliicient rescue Senator Ferguson of Michigan. McCarthy service in the county of our size is a gigantic job. Most of our calls for first aid come about from, highway accidents. Then our rivers, and lakes take their Ltoll of victims. Recreation spots in Cass County attract from eight to ten thousand .'non county residents . during a sum mer weekend day. The main "at traction spots are the lakes and river north of Plattsmouth, the lak at South Bend and the State Lakes at Louisville. During the . past .weekend for example, hundreds of swimmers remained all night at sand pit lakes which were unlighted and unguarded, in the county. Not only do these non-residents bring about addi tional safety worries but a few of them deal us a fit by trespass hie: on farms located along the fifty-one miles of river frontage and by discarding beer cans, and debris along our roadways. Two years ago we added a res uscitator to our equipment. We obtained this unit after witness ing a similar one in use by the Louisville Volunteer Fire Dept. To purchase, this unit we raised $250 and then obtained an ad ditional $250 donation from the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in order to make the purchase. This year four persons, without question owe their lives to this unit. Last Thursday .night we used, this unit in aiding a man who had a severe heart attack, while listen ing to the heavyweight fights on the radio. One really doesn't appreciate the full value of first aid. equip ment and traived personnel un til he personally needs it for himself, a loved one,' or a friend. Since organizing our first-aid program 732 persons have re ceived some type of emergency first-aid assistance from this or ganization. The number who owe their lives to this assistance are many. On several occasions we have remained up all night giv ing oxygen to a person seriously ill. Last week the Plattsmouth VFW Post announced their de- ! sire to participate in a first-aid training course. When trained this civic minded group will bol ster the pool of available trained personnel in the county to a comfortbale number. Groups or In ordering such services we ro- t individuals interr sted in com- tate the calls so rji the business is properly distributed among the doctors, ambul.vices and wreckers, who in 'he past have answered such calls. Along with acquiring first-aid equipment we organized trained first-aiders into a group called the Rescue Squad. Since their organization we have had no 'serious emergencies which re- quired the squads full atten dance. These trained Red Cross First-aiders are constantly as sisting at scenes of accidents omV.,. wnicn they come upon or are pleting a first-aid course should contact Lucile Meisinger of Plattsmouth, who is in charge of the Red Cross First Aid program in Cass County., A refresher course is now be ing planned for persons who have: completed their first-aid course. The ' refresher - course will be held at the Court House and at Merrits Beach. Merrits just completed a modern air con d i t i on e d first-aid room which adjoins. their main build ing. The days of giving first-uid on the sand is 'apparently oyer at this beach. Tom Solomon. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. times, when she was considered j the Marne when the German Army was almost at-the doors oi Paris. " - Senator McCarthy's statement that he will investigate a Demo cratic Senator for wrongdoing has brought a sardonic chuckle from one of McCarthy's Repub lican colleagues, Senator Wil liams of Delaware. McCarthy's Tax Probes During all of this session of Congress, Williams has wanteet the right to probe certain in come tax irregularities, includ ing those of senators. But he has been stopped by the Repub lican hieh command. Williams was given this right by the Democrats when they controlled Congress, and as a result, the public witnessed the strange spectacle of a Republi can, Senator Williams, probing the tax irregularities of Demo crats and given complete Demo cratic carte blanche to do so. Williams did an outstanding job. But when his own Republicans took over Congress. Senator Millikin cf Colorado, GOP Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, refused to give Wil liams the same power. As a re sult Williams has been largely silent at this session. Obvious reason why Millikin hobbled Senator Williams' activ ities was because he was about to look into the tax affairs of several Republican senators, among them McCarthy and Bridges of New Hampshire. The latter figured in the big $7,000, 0C0 tax fix of Hyman Klein, the Baltimore liquor dealer and a friend of mystery man Henry Grunewald. But while Williams has been stymied, McCarthy has had ac cess to all sorts of privileged tax returns supposed to be under the care of his friend, Commis sioner T. Coleman Andrews. Washington Pipeline Some of the big magazines which supported Ike so .vigorous ly in 1952 are not at all happy about SummerfieicVs mail rate increase. Al Cole of the Reader's Digest, who handled the direct mail political campaign for Ike in 1952, complained to magazine publishers at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur recently the pot office is running a smear campaign against maga zine publishers. "We are being smeared," he said, '"by our own administration.". . . After ail the squabbling over raising postal rates, the House Rules Commit tee should send the Postal-Increase Bill .to the House Floor this week. This bill would boost the price of stamps from three to four cents for first-class mail and five to seven cents for Air mail . . . The Rules Committee is approving a twin bill, raising postal workers' wages. PREDICTION The House will approve the combination postal bills, but I also predict the Senate will, kill the increase in stamp prices. Hog Raisers' Urged to Check Breeding Stock Midwestern hog raisers today were urged to check their pur chases of breeding stock care fully this summer to avoid "buy-in-" an outbreak of a serious swine disease, atrophic rhinitis. The American Foundation for Animal Health said a serious feature of the disease is the fact that a "carrier" animal may net show any symptoms. Thus an apparently healthy animal , im ported to another farm may es tablish the disease in a new area. ' Atrophi rhinitis is an infec tion that affects the hog's snout. Symptoms may include sneezing, nosebleed, and con stant rubbing or disfiguration of the snout. A careful diagnosis may be needed to distinguish the disease from "bullnose." Since no effective treatment has been found for the condi tion, the only way to control losses is through prevents :n. Foundation officials said. In ol der to keep herds free of atro phic rhinitis, the Foundation advised farmers to check care fully into the history of the herd from which any. breeding stock is bought. "The wise hog raiser will de termine if there are any pigs sneezing or showing facial dis ative thriftiness of the herd, and tortion," officials said. "Tha rel the presence of other diseases also is important. If there is any doubt, consultation with a local veterinarian is advisable." The Foundation pointed out that elimination of the disease is difficult, once it gains a foot hcld. Infected litters should be isolated and sows and litters that do not show rhinitis ' symp toms should be raised on, clean ground. "If possible, all swine should be sold for slaughter -and the premises .cleaned and disinfected oefore buying new swine," of ficials said. By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter The WASHINGTON: June x x outlcok for the United States De coming involved in a war this year, or even next year, is defin itely improved. Events of the last six weeks have brought the country near open intervention in Indochina, but- the major crises have been passed without U, S. involvement. It is true that on several occa sions some members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and even the President, were actively consid ering a request to Congress for the use of United States service imen in Indochina. But the wis dom of certain key figures in Washington fortunately stayed this request. ! Probably the deciding factor 'in this close question was the .demonstration to the right peo jple just in time that the j French did not have the support of the people of Indochina them I selves. Therefore,vhad the United j States sent its boys into that iwar, they might have ended up 1 fighting the very people they sought to help. In short, they might have ended up fighting a war of old style European colonialism. The French came very near drawing U. S. boys into their battle. Bui another decisive reason the U S. stayed out, in the critical mom ent, was the conviction of many U. S. officers that French forces were not fighting against thej ias they might. The U. S. decision to stay out of that war probably means that the Communists wrill take over large ureas of the country. They have been doing that for seven years already. The conclusion seems to be that the U. S. will have to set up a barrier against Communism behind the Indochina line. An Asian alli ance is the best chance to halt the march of Communism in this area of the world and West ern diplomats are already at work" on this proposal. Contrary to what some harkers of doom would have Americans believe, the loss of a large part of Indochina does not alter the world balance of power. The Communists can use Indochina food, and minerals,, to advan tage. If they can use this newly won territory to launch new ag gressive drives against other countries, such as India. Burma, seasonal summer slump will hold back any economic recovery until the fall months, and that even if the recovery begins in early fall, the trend won't be fully apparent in November. Business forecasters by an impressive majority look for good business years through 1956. They say the recent eco nomic sag has ti ached bottom and that, were it not summer, things would already be heading upward briskly. Democrats in the House and Senate, however, are readying the old depression campaign theme for this year's electicn. They believe they have an ex cellent chance to win control of one house, and a very good chance to win. both of them. If they accomplish such a feat, it would put the President on a hot seat. He wov-;d have to deal with a legislative branch con aQuea by the qpposvig party. It must eeem like that is the cae, on frequent occasions, to lk even now. Applications For Big Game Permits Climb Applications for 1954 big game season permits are arriving from potential hunters all over the state. The closing date for re turning applications is midnight July 15. They may be obtained from the County Clerk offices, local Conservation Officers and from the Nebraska Game, Fores tation and Parks offices in the State House at Lincoln. After processing of the appli cations, a drawing will be held in Lincoln August 3, to determine who will receive the big game permits. There will be 4000 deer permits and 500 antelope permits issued to Nebraska hunters for the 1954 seascjn. The open season dates for antelope will be Sept. 11, 12 and 13. The season bag limit will be one antelope, either sex, for hunters with antelope permits. The daily season will open one half hour before sunrise and will Indonesia, and - Thailand, 'they Kclose one-half hour after sun- can make significant use of it. But if the Western allies rally and form a barrier to seal off further Communists conquest i, the loss of a major part of Indo china may have only minor con sequences. And the Reds will hesitate a long time before they attack an. alliance of democrats, including the United States. The key question in Republi can political circles these days concerns prosperity and the fall election, plus of course the controversial Communists - in -government issu. There is a feeling that if the country is enjoying good times a business pickup come November, it will mean G. O. P. victory at the polls. Most economic forecasters are becoming increasingly optimistic about the future, and thus there is some optimism among Repub licans. However, there is concern about the elections among those who think the pickup will not arrive in time to affect the vot ing trend this year. They say a set. For deer hunters, the bag lim it will be one deer, as authorized by area and regulations. Anter less deer will be hunted only the last dav. in areas I and II. 'IW mm WANT TO HELP A SICK VETFR AN GET WELL? 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