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V .. .. EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes TREAT ALL ALIKE We read an editorial the other day m t a daily newspaper that reminded us of the' discrimination that has been shown here in Plattsmouth and numerous other towns and villages located on transcontinental highways. Young fellows with jallopies having an urge to attract attention place gadgets on tail-pipes and mufflers of their cars giving them an "umph" on the get-away and an airplane-like roar on the highway. Several of these kids have been brought into court in violation of city anti-hoise ordinances, have been warned, some fined and ordered to remove (he disturbing factor before fur ther driving. However, a lot lot of us have been scared out of our wits on numerous occa sions by the terrific noise created by'giant diesel-powered truck tractors roaring down our avenues. Most Plattsmouth resi dents can vouch for the fact that most of these drivers delight in giving their motors full power along about 2:00 a. m. sending many peacefully slumbering persons into fits of fright or scurrying for shelter fear ful of an atom bomb attack. We are firm believers in fairness to all. If anti-noise laws are applicable to one driver, they are equally meant for the other. If some young fellow breezing along with his muffler open is disturbing the peace and tranquility of our city, by just, what right does the truck driver create a bigger disturbance and get away with it? Let's get on the ball and post some " warning signs to these drivers. If that doesn't do the trick, then crack down with a few arrests. It is surprising how fast the news is passed along the "grapevine" in trucking circles. Most deals made at parties the night before turn out to be two different agree ments. Sfc rOR CICARETTE SMOKERS It was found that there was a definite statistical relationship between death rates and the amount of cigarette smoking. It was found that the lung cancer death rata was at least five times, possibly even six teen times, as high among heavy smokers as among those who never had smoked regularly! The death rate for cigar smokers was slightly higher than for non-smokers, but the rate for pipe-smokers was not appreci ably different from that for non-smokers. This is stunning news of great signifi cance to the civilized world, and it cannot be ignored or contradicted by medical authorities anywhere. The American Can cer Society certainly has no axe to grind. It has been conducting this study for years and will continue it for another two and a half years. It was originally begun as a five-year comprehensive study to finally resolve the controversial question whether cigarette smoking is harmful to the body. In our opinion, the American Cancer Society's report removes the last vestige of doubt as to the harm being caused by cig arette smoking, and although filtered cig arettes and other devices may reduce the damage to an unknown extent, we believe the Society's report will have a tremen dous impact on the smoking habits in this country. Until a sure-fire cure is found for lung cancer, at least, many Americans will think twice before becoming chain smokers, or heavy smokers, and many others will probably curtail their smoking or switch to pipes or cigars. The way to wealth lies in saving some of what you earn, each week. Kid in here the ojther day was looking for a job where he could start at the top. We suggested he try painting flag poles. Sometimes we wish we had never been educated. About all it does is assist you in worrying about things all over the world. Now that we've learned about all the tricks of the newspaper business, think we'll start in learning the newspaper busi ness. Just read where mistletoe is bad for trees. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says it may be bad for trees but it's fun for twos. A local father has been most critical of his son's choice of girl friends, but the kid tells him it's the best he can do with the car they've got. Colleges don't teach some of the things their graduates know. Mothers tell their small sons about the boy who cries wolf. They tell their daugh ters about the wolf who cries "Boy!" A Plattsmouth new father tells us that Lincoln was wrong all men are not born free. He just paid the obstetrician's fee. ir Those who have one or two real friends have more than the average. Why is it wives always think some one else's husband is sweeter than theirs? Down Memory Lane X'i,i..,.,", or,r,wiri r,'r,i,Tr,r!y?.,i rrr.i yr YEARS ACO J p T. Johnson, five years superin tendent of the Murdock public schools is a candidate for county superintendent . . . A pitch fork was run through the right foot of John Wolph while he was working in the harvest' fields on his father's farm at Avoca . . . Wheat is averaging about 12 bushels an acre in the southern portion of Cass county . . . Earl Bennett has opened a mercantile business at Alvo . . . Miss Amana Hiatt of Plattsmouth will combine study with pleasure on a two-month travel tour of America . . . The Murray Farmers Elevator, a stock company for many years, has been sold to Ray E. Fredericks for a reported $2,000 . . . Miss Florence Lancas ter and R. A. Noell were married at Rock port, Mo. They will reside at Murray . , . A pound of coffee is selling at from 25 to 31 cents in stores here . . . The farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rosenow of Mur dock was destroyed bv fire. I r YEARS ACO 'V The marriage of Mary Floreen Schaf er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schafer of Nehawka, and Glen J. Heeter of Circleville, Ohio, was solemnized July 9 . . . Thomas E. Dunbar has been ap pointed judge of the district court here . . Mrs. Ray Norris of Weeping Water has been named county chairman for a United War Fund campaign in Cass County . . . Dr. Paul T. Heineman is the new com mander of the American Legion post at Plattsmouth. Frank A. Rebal is senior vice j rubber empire-of the Malays and commander; and Edgar Glaze is junior i Indonesia. .Somewhat the same I cr L &y e .- wm J i h f lii Mi hi in ii in .were backing the late Sen. Rob ert Taft for president while the moderate were working for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. This feud has smoldered ever since. Even before Sen. Butler died thfi nrn-ELsenhower elements I wgxe beginning to work for Gov. Crosby in his Senate race. Although Sen. Butler did not do so openly,- there was reason to believe that more ana more it a was backing Curtis. Hruska had crenerallv sided jwith Butler but the pro-Eisen-hower faction has always hoped that he would work harder for the administration once the miTht.v shadow of Butler was re- moved. Significantly, the Crosby and pro-Eisenhower forces aiaea Hruska bis struggle for the State Central Committee s noni- i ination. ' ' I THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL I PAGE FOUR Monday, July 12, 1954 "Wei! it look? like my ad in the Journal to trade my frogs for a snake Is getting results." usually precedes Communism, then now is the time to mend our fences in Erazil. Further more, it isn't healthy to have a country which has gone down the line for us in crisis after crisis suddenly become bitterly sore. Here is the situation: No Brazilian Price Supports Brazilians have long known the U. S. A. as a country with high farm price supports, where the farmer is guaranteed a reasonable price despite a slump. Brazil up until a few months ago did not have such supports. Its coffee prices went up and down, with the coffee grower sometimes using his coffee to pave roads because it was such a glut on the market. Last winter there was a frost in the great coffee - growing state of Parana. Coffee bushes were killed, some farmers went bankrupt, luckier farmers made a killing. Coffee growers in oth er countries were especially lucky because the price of coffee zoomed. American house wives had to pay more, but Brazil, which suffered the frosc, got all the blame. U. S. newspaper editorials con demning Brazil naturally - are read in Brazil. Speeches by Con gressmen criticizing Brazil have been published widely there. And they all add up to just one thing resentment against .the United States -by a country which has been our best friend. Today there's a development which may make things worse. Some' U. S. coffee importers are boycotting Brazilian coffee for African coffee. Brazilian sales have dropped alarmingly. This will mean only one thing: De pression. And depression is the surest breeder of Communism. If the latter ever gets started in the biggest country of Latin America, the U. S. A. will realiy be out of luck. Here is some breakfast coffee information you may not knov about: For about 75 years a hot trade war has raged between colonial Asia-Africa and Latin America . . .This dates back to 1876 when an Englishman smuggled the seeds of 17 rubber trees out of Brazil to Asia. Thus began the 'in those days, submarines were i sinking U. S. cargoes with trag- ic regularity, and tne airniu across Brazil to Africa was vital. We couldn't have got along with out it U. S. bases on foreign soil were new and at first re sented. But Brazil was the first to set a friendly precedent One Brazilian division tena ciously fought its way up the Italian peninsula during World War II the same Brazilian leaders who cooperated during the war President Vargas and Oswaldo Aranha are back in power today. They are our best friends, but are getting kicked in the pants politically because of the row over coffee and Africa. vice commander . . . The marriage of Geo. Earl Miller to Constance Elizabeth Wade of England has been learned here . . .Sgt. James Schafer of Nehawka has been i advantage of slave labor in Asia awarded the Air Medal for flights over 1 Africa, big .European exploiters Europe . . . John H. Jacobs has graduated i XfTiS? iXf now "re- thing happened with quinine, chocolate, coffee, tobacco. All were developed in Latin Ameri ca, except tobacco; but, taking THOUGH! FOR TODAY Harsh zeonls. thoiujh pertinent, uncouth appear; none please the fancy who offend the car. Garth from air cadet training and received his wings. The Plaiismouih Journal Official County and City, Paper t ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street. Plattsmouth Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953. Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities Over 2000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor The Washington Merry -Go-Round UlXUl IWICStfi Fstered at the Poet Office at Plattumouth. Nebraska second class mall matter In accordance with th vet of Congress of March 3. 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 lor two weeks. (Copyright, 1954, By. the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: BRAZIL IAN RESENTMENT AGAINST "YANQUI" MAY LEAD TO WORSE DISEASE COMMUNISM; BRAZIL WAS WRONGLY BLAMED FOR ZOOM IN COFFEE PRICES; IMPOR TERS ADD INSULT TO INJURY BY BUYING AFRICAN COFFEE. . WASHINGTON One thing to be learned from our headaches in Guatemala is that the seeds of Communism are sel dom planted in a hurry. They take time to sprout and are almost always nourished bv a wave of Anti-Americanism. In Guatemala, the Red seeds actually began sprouting back in the days of Pres ident Jorge Ubico's harsh dictatorship, and the tragedy is that his nephew and secre tary,. Col. Carlos Castillo Armas, is ,iow one of the new would-be dictators, cur rently rowing with the other colonels for supreme power. An entirely different, though danger ous, situation is brewing in a country which long has been, the bestfriendof the U. S. A. Brazil. And; now is the time for us to do something about it not later, as in Guatemala. Brazil is not threatened with Commu nism or revolt. But it's been swept by a wave of Anti-Americanism volted, which is one reason for Communist success in Asia, one reason why Indo-China is fall ing so rapidly. The social revo lution came earlier in Latin Am erica. Wages, though still not i high, were much higher than I the African-Coolie slave labor ! of the European colonies. So Af rica and Asia flourished in the race to grow tropical products except for coffee. In Latin Am erica, and especially Brazil, cof fee remained king Today we might as well kiss off Southeast Asia as any steady supplier of the nuinine. tin, rubber we ! fought to get back from the Japanese alter Fean naroor... Arab restlessness in North Africa will soon put that area in the same uncertain boat. Also it's a long way from these areas in case of war, a.nd the atomic sub marine is going to make war time shipping almost impossible So it will pay us not to for get our good neighbors in Latin America, even if frost sometimes increases their prices. They are close at hand and dependable unless we let depression and Conimunism get a foothold. Things you may not have known about a good neighbor: In three wars Brazil has come to the aid of the U. S. A. When we fought Spain over Cuba, Brazil was the only Latin country com in" to our side. She had just taken delivery on two new cruis ers in London, and though they had not even been in Brazilian waters, they were ordered put at the disposal of the U. Navy. 1 - Six days after- Wond War I was declared, Brazil came in too, immediately almalgatec her entire fleet with the U. S. fleet World War II could not utt hpon vvnn in uic au 2ensept u3 a "of "time had not Brazil , thanks largely n "x i-PV bases .on the to one thing coffee. irHump" the part of Brau And if it's true that Anti-Americanism that sticks out nearest Africa Capitol News By Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association "" "" " " " " ""? "" " " LINCOLN The coming Aug ust 10 primary election loomed even more important this week as a "make or break"' affair for a number of Republican (candi dates. With the death of Sen. Hugh Butler (R.-Nebr.) eliminating the greatest political power in the state, , the coming primary election has all the makings of a struggle by others seeking his ' "crown.' , Because of the many turns of political fate this year, most of the major contenders are run ning for one office or another. The appointments to the U. S. Senate made by Gov. Robert Crosby after the deaths of Sen. Dwight Griswold in April and Sen. Butler this month appeared at least temporarily to have put Crosby in a top position in the state party. But he will have to survive the August primary in which he is running for the six year term in the Senate if he is to keep his place on top of the heap. Congressman Carl Curtis cf Minden, running against Crosby for the' Seriate, is another con tender. And ah Omaha politician, whom some considered to be Butler's "Heir-apparent" even before the 76-year-old senator died, must be counted in. He is Congressman Roman Hruska, who was nominated by the Re publican State Central Commit tee to run in November for the unexpired four year term of Sen. Butler. Since he is not in the same race as Curtis and Crosby, he could be the other "pole of power"' in Nebraska Republican ism if elected. Also being tested in the Aug ust primary will be the relative strength of the conservatives of the party and the pro-Eisenhower element. This struggle brok3 out in its strongest form before the 1952 Republican national convention. The conservatives Furious 50 Hours But perhaps it would be easier ,to explain the new alignments by tellmg chronologically tne events of 50 hours which were unprecedented in Nebraska po litical history. It started the morninsr of July j 1 when the word was flashed I from Washington, D. C, that sen.- Butler was dying of a stroke. That day happened to be the deadline for candidates wishing to file for the primary election. Politicians waited anxiously for news from Washington. It was expected that if Mr. Butler died before the 5 p. m. deadline for filings that several would be made. But when the senior senator died at 9:30 p. m. it wasn't Ions until someone was knocking at the door of Secretary of State Frank Marsh, seeking to file for former Congressman Howard Buffett of Omaha. Buffett, an ultra-conservative at one time had been considered more or less the "crown prince" of Butler. But some observers believe that Hruska had roved into that spot in recent months. When word of the altempted filing got around, the pro-Eisenhower forces got busy. With less than an hour until midnight they were almost desperate. Fi nally John Quinn, Lincoln pub lic relations man, volunteered to file. He roused county officials from bed, paid his. filing fee, and shoved the filing under the dcor of Marsh's office at the State house. The next day Quinn explained he did it only to counter what he called a "death virgil" filing by Buffett.- As if events weren't moving fast enough, Atty. Gen. C. S. Beck told Republican and Dem ocratic party officials they had better move by Saturday noon to fill the vacancies on the bal lot. This wp,s necessary because both Beck and Marsh main tained that the Buffett and Quinn filings were too lateand that the only way to fill the va cancies was by action by the State Central Committees of both parties. The long distance wires were humming as State Republican Chairman William Spear of Fre mont and State Democratic Chairman William Meier of Min den summoned the committees to emergency meetings at Lin coln. Meanwhile Buffett wras work ing hard to get the nomination. Against him was lined up-Cbas. Reed, Omaha attorney and a pro-Eisenhower man. But Friday night word came from Hruska that he was interested. Another matter was still up in the air Gov. Crosby's appoint ment to fill the vacant seat un til, the November election. This w?as the second such momentous decision Crosby had faced in three months. After Sen. Gris wold's death he appointed Eva Bowring of Merriman to serve until November. So the Republicans gathered, less than 50 hours after the first word of Butler's illness had ar rived. Gov. Crosby, known for his surprises, pulled another out of the hat. He announced that he was appointing Sam Reynolds of Omaha, coal company execu tive, to the vacant seat. He said Reynolds would not run for the unexpired term. That left that matter entirely up to the Central Committee. Five men were nominated but Hruska won on the second bsl- 2) V 7- A Check the correct word: 1. The Air Force Academy vill bo located at' (Colorado Springs) (Dnver), Colo. 2. ' Jump-off point for Guatemalan invasion was (Honduras) (El Salvador). ZT (Jscobo Arbenz Guzman) (Cel. Carlos Cas tillo Armas) heads the anti-Red forces. 4. " His recent visit was Sir Winston Churchill's (7th) (8th) to litis country since 1941. 5. Boa constrictors (are) (are not) poisonous snakes. 6. A person's normal temperature is (lower) (higher) than a dog's. 7. A (squid) (squib) is a marine animal. 8. Oregon is the (Beaver) (Groundhog) state. 9. Repeal of ' Prohibition occurred in (1930) (1933). 10. (John Landy) (Roger Bannister) now holds the title of world's fastest runner. Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points for eaoh correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior, and 90-100, very superior. T Decoded Inlelligram puel uqof-ot '61 6 'J3ABaa 8 penbs I 'Usavoi 9 "joo jy S m8 -seuuv ;seinpuoH z 'sSurads opEJopo I lot, 33 votes to the 15 of his nearest opponent, Buffett. There was reason to believe that at al most the last minute Crosby had thrown' his strength behind Hruska. Over on the Democratic side it took their Central Com mittee just four minutes to choose James Green, Omaha at torney, to run against Hruska. , Buffett immediately filed a mandamus action against Secre tary of State Marsh to force him to accept his late hour filing. But over the weekend Buffett's pd visors apparently sensed the deep shock resentment that has I arisen over his filing so quickly J after the late senator had died. On Tuesday he announced he ! would not contest the mattei. rnivr ocenrpd that, " Rnf ff.l L would not be on the ballot, with drew his name, leaving the field to Hruska. Hruska is one of the fastest comers in state politics. He cm his political eye teeth as a mem ber of the Douglas County Board where he stacked up an enviable record. He has compiled a good record in his-first term in the TJ. S. House of Represen tatives. . ; It was still too early to ten i the final effects on the political 'scene of Butler's passing. But Crosby and Hruska appeared to be the men to watcn u mcy win their respective elections this year. Toll Road Talk l .it Gov. Crosby was to meet with Govs. William Stratton of Illi nois and William Beardslee of Iowa to work out plans for a possible turnpike from Chicago past Des Moines and Omaha ln td Nebraska. State Engineer L. N. Ress said this could help elim inate such occurrences as at tne Ohio and Indiana border wnere the Ohio turnpike virtually endp& in a cornfield, dumping traffic on an unprepared Indi ana highway system . A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents Dr. Cordon B. Wasson VETERINARIAN 216 Washington Ave. Phone 279 HEAL ESTATE LOANS 2 5 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment Plattsmouth Loan 8c Building Ass'n. 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