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. . . V - m- EDI TO RIALS "ANADA "CLOSEST ALLY" Bruce Hutchinson, Canadian editor of a Victoria daily .newspaper, recently told a Rotary International Convention gath ering in Seattle, Washington, that the his tory of United States-panadian relations had made Canada this' ecu ntry'a "closest ally. ' Hutchinson noted that the United States could not -'even begin'.' to fight a war without essential sirppltes from Can ada today. 'He said. Canadian cooperation with the United States was a 'foregone con clusion because the United States a great . power had refrained for so .many years from attempting-to use its weight to gain advantage over its northern neighbor.' ' ' He said Canada had always' provided the "supreme, test"1 for American' morals, and that this rich "country' had' been a glit tering temptation which few great powers could have resisted. By not submitting to the temptation of greed and conquest," the United States now has no "sullen and rest less" neighbor, bitterly awaiting a chance for revenge and freedom, but a free na tion and its closest ally. Hutchinson points out facts which we sometimes fail to appreciate. It is true that the United States is bordered by two great oceans, which partially protects 'it from would-be aggressors, but it is also true that the United States has thousands of miles of land frontiers. The northern frontiers the Canadian-U. S. border are not even fortified and apparently no American has seriously considered forti fying the border for many decades. The same situation is true regarding Mexico. Nowhere in, history has there been a better example of the desire for peace, good relations and a high order of civili zation than the example set by the United States regarding Canada. While not at tempting to claim all the credit, it is never theless true that the United States the greater power has demonstrated to the World t)iat great powers gain more, in the long run, -by retraining from attacking weaker neighbors than., from ' attacking them. "The history of " recurring wars in Europe is sufficient to prove this point by reverse reasoning. " QTEVENSON ON CONFORMITY Adlai E. Stevenson Yecently delivered the commencement address at Vassar Col lege before 269 members of the graduat ing class. . ' Mr. Stevenson pointed out that one of the corrupting influences of our modern, ora is "corruption of conformity." He-told Vaar's seniors that was one problem they faced in growing up nrthjs turbulent era, and that to conform is not always in an in dividual's best -interests. We have often'polnted out that the ad vent of moving pictures television, radio and. all other means of ;'mass' communica tion; has created a stronger and stronger trend toward conformity. Younger people tend to imitate movie idols, and if the movie idol can swig down two or three glasses of straight whiskey," an unfortunate number of youngsters will be induced to try the same stunt. Smoking, of course, was put over very largely through many of the new com munication media and a large-scale adver tising campaign. The danger in conform ity is that individualism wiil be. lost and that independent thought and action will go by the boards. Yet these are the very qualities which make any democrac great 'and which are necessary' if maximum progress is to be made. To all graduates of 1954, and to all young people and adults everywhere, wc humbly suggest that conforming to the THOUGH" FOR TODAY But krioisledije to their exes her. am pie 7(7c rich with the spoils of time, ne'er unroll Gray ''-Ti i. . - . - i - ii i m i - .. i The Plailsrnouih Journal Official County and City Paper KSTABl.ISREO IN 1M1 rib!fbed Semi-VTeekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street. PlMtsmoutS . Cass County. Nehr. 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 1S52 Secand in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities Over 2090 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor : - . VSSOCK.T0 rnterrd t thP rost Offio at. Plattsmouth. Nebraska. a second class mail matter In accordaace with tha KCt ot Congress of ilarch 3. 187. j SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 f 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. Furse's Fresh Flashes A Plattsmouth man. is thoroughly dis gusted with a certain brand of corn syrup. He says he's tafcen six cans of it and his eet are nd better nowHhah they were. 'We've never been able, to make . a "Who's Who." We've been too busy all our life trying to keep our name in the telephone directory. ' ', ' ! ' ' If you can 'remember8 when all mem bers of the family had. breakfast atj the same time -you are an old timer. '' "" - ' V ' " About all a tourist does is travel a thou sand miles to get a picture of himself standing by his car. ' ' A local woman says she wishes her hus band was a book worm her'ft is just the ordinary kind. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she'll get along alright in this world as long as she keeps her hair light and her past dark. The only reason a Plattsmouth man is building his house with that beautiful view is that his wife said the- scene left her speechless. This atomic race could end up in a dead heat. majority rule, or majority practice, is quite often not the advisable course. Even though an independent position, or inde pendent conduct, sometimes might lead to temporary unpopularity, in the long run such sincerity of purpose will pay large dividends. It is surprising how few peo ple are willing to buck the crowd, or fail to conform in our society, Down Memory Lane ir YEARS AGO The city, council has proposed con blruetion of eigh blocks of paving at scat tered points throughout the city to improve the hard surface road system . . . Tech. Sergeant James Schafer has been reported missing after his plane was downed over Europe . Ruth Pollard of Nehawka, Lu cille Hanseiv of Weeping Water, Dorothy Sand, Alice Wolph and -Evelyn Margaret Wolph of Nehawka, Robert Cole and Ralph Hild of Plattsmouth represented Cass County at the 4-H conservation camp at Seward - .'..'Steps in construction of refrig erator cars were viewed by members of the Plattsmouth Rotary Club led on tour of the ' plant by George Jaeger . . '. The King Korn Klub is considering purchase of the Alfa-Maize Mill as a Corn Palace for the King Korn Karnival. The building is located at 3rd street and First avenue . ... Judging of 4-H exhibits will open the Cass County Fair August 23 at Weeping Water. orj YEARS ACO The Burlington railroad has an nounced plans. to operate its new Zephyr between Lincoln and Kansas City via Plattsmouth. cutting travel time in half . ; . Charles Roebuck of Omaha has been awarded contract for $19,820 for con structingra water system at Nehawka . . . Temperatures of 117 degrees were record ed in Cass Count)-.. . . A service station op crated here by Robert Cappell was rob bed of $15 early in the evening. The lone bandit locked Mr. Cappell in the rest room while making his get away . . . Cass Coun ty commissioners have set a levy of 4 mills for the fiscal year. The" board asks for 1.70 mills for the general fund, while other requests are poor relief .43; bridge .69; mother's pension .15; and soldier's re lief .03 . . . The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kraeger of Mynard was injured when he ran into the path of a car . . . W. E. Casey and Rudolph Bergman of Manlev have been granted a license to sell liquor .' . . Name of the hotel has been changed from Hotel Riley to Hotel Plattsmouth. The Washington Merry -Go-Round (Copyright, 1954, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: FARM DEBATE WILL DECIDE WHO CONTROLS NEXT CON GRESS; GOP LEADERS TRY TO E X P L A I N IKE'S MINNESOTA PLOWING SPEECH; U. S. UNION CHIEF BECK VISITS ITALIAN TEAMSTERS. WASHINGTON The bitter farm de bate is now over as far as congress is con cerned, but it promises to ricochet back and forth across the farm belt for many months to come. Upon its out come may depenc who controls the' next congress of the United States. : Already Bill Thatcher's Farmers Union radio, 'program ' in Minnesota has been boopiing out the familiar quote of General Eisenjiower at the Kasson, Minn., plowing contest appearing to' -favor 100 per cent parity. price supports. - - Realizing the potential political dyna- The Backbone sits jf ' i ..... ; ..I, i " mite in the Kasson-speech, GOP Senator Aiken of Vermont care fully pointed out on the senate floor last week that Ike didn't promise 100 per cent of parity! "Before making that Kasson speech," said Aiken, chief de- ; fender of the Eisenhower farm bill, "President Eisenhower was very careful to word it so that it could not be mistaken as a promise to carry on rigid sup ports." - - "Will the gentleman yield?" interrupted Aiken's fellow Re publican," Case of South Dakota. I was wondering if the senator were going to speak with refer ence to the speech the president made at Brookings, S. D.?" "I did not intend to quote from that speech," replied Aiken. "It ' was an extemporaneous speech and was interpreted by those present to mean whatever they said it meant.' ; Actually ' Ike's Brookings, S. D., speech, Oct. 4, 1952, was mim eographed and handed .out to newsmen on the Eisenhower special train. It said: "The Republican party is pledged .to the sustaining of the 90 per cent parity price support and it is pledged even more than that to helping the farmer ob tain his full parity, 100 per cent parity, with the guarantee in the price 'supports of 90." Refuting the Democrats After ' finishing his 'skirmish with South Dakota's Case, Aiken quoted from pemocratic cam paign literature in 1952 to show that the 'Democrats knew all along that Ike didn't mean what he said when he promised to continue high rigid farm sup ports. But what Aiken didn't mention- was that both Eisenhower and Nixon denounced this same Democratic literature during the 52 campaign. They said the Democrats were wrong in claim ing that Ike hadn't meant what he said at Kasson. "Malicious," was what Nixon called the Democratic .hand book. "I was outraged to hear re cently," commented Eisenhower, "that an affiliate of the Demo cratic National Committee had published deliberate falsehoods. This folder was deliberately de signed to frighten farmers into believing that our new adminis tration would pull the rug out from under them." The debate of some midwest LAW and by Sheriff Tom The following letter was for warded to each law enforcement official by John Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI: "August is the month to be particularly on guard for vicious crimes against the person. 'Over the period the last ten years, po lice authorities in urban com munities have reported more of fenses of rape and aggravated assault committed during Aug ust than in any other month of the year. . August is also one of the high months for murder offenses. Crimes of passion rise and fall with the mercury in the ther mometer. They are lowest dur ing the winter months and start to rise during the spring, as cending continually in volume until a peak is reached in late summer when the temperatures are high. While the reasons for the trend may not be wholly un derstood, it does exist and that fact should be as much a danger signal to the public and law en forcement officers as an icy road in a traffic situation. A warning on crimes of vio lence against the person is par ticularly timely at this point be cause two of these offenses, rape and . aggravated assault, have shown the greatest increase over pre-war rates of any of the ma jor Crimes.5 Tli? number of rape offenses reported by police au thorities in 363 cities during 1953 was approximately 75 per cent greater than in 1940. Aggravated assaults reported by - the same authorities -for the same period were over one hundred per cent greater. These increases far out distanced -the increase -inbther major crimes. of the Nation Republicans, such as young and Case of the Dakotas and Hope or Kansas, indicates that they believe this was exactly what the Eisenhower administration did. Italian Teamsters 'Teamster Dave Beck, rotund, dynamic head of the world's biggest union, paid a visit to the Italian equivalent of the team sters union during a recent visit to Rome. ? He found independent labor unions, which were set back un der Mussolini, still in relative in fancy, with only 25,000 members m tne Federazione Italiana La voratori Trasporti Ausiliari Del Traffico, which is usually ab breviated to Filtat and which, translated, means teamsters. One reason for the weakness of the non-Communist teamsters is that Moscow is spending $50, 000,000 a year to organize Com munist unions in Italy in oppo sition to the middle-of-the-road unions. Another reason is that Filtat is so destitute that Gae tano Abate, its national secre tary, has to hitch-hike around the country when making busi ness trips. . - - ' As a sign of friendship and cooperation, therefore. Beck pre sented Abate with a Flat car. At the presentation ceremony, Beck made a speech in which he said: ;' ; "When you have as many Ital-i ians in Filtat as the 100,000 we boast in the teamsters then you will have a good union." It later turned out that two of the 100,000 Italians in the AFL teamsters union in the U. S. are brothers of Gaetano Abate and drive trucks in Los Angeles. U. S.-Made Watches ' President Eisenhower's action, raising the tariff on Swiss watches, has already zipped up American watchmaking Hamilton will come out .with a special wristwatch for left-handed people . . . Elgin has designed a watch that will literally "tell" you the time by means of a miniature Dick Track radio re ceiver that picks up radio time signals-. . . Elgin has also de signed a wrist-sized geiger counter, that will not only tell you the time, but warn you if there's too much radioactivity in the air. More Indo Headaches Ambassador Heath has warned the French they must ditch playboy Emperor Bao Dai to keep southern Indochina from falling into Communist hands. ORDER Solomon I believe these figures merit the attention of every man, woman and child of responsible age, for each of them must in evitably provide a measure of his own protection. Police offi cers will continue to do what they can, but the "thin blue line" of law enforcement is much too thin to blanket everyone with any semblance of close protec tion. The best safeguard of all is- better public recognition of crime trends and the dangers inherent in them." . Signed : J. Edgar Hoover, Director Disagreement over school pol I icy is probably the niain reason ! back of acts of vandalism at I two rural schools during the past month. One of the schools is still in service and the other is to be offered for sale soon. Per sons committing such acts don't seem to realize that in the end they must pay their share of the damage bill. . More reports of stolen live stock from Kansas: July 29, Elk County, 1 whiteface cow, weight about 1000 lbs.; Aug. 2, Rice County, 1 red steer or whiteface, weight about 650 . lbs.; Aug. 3, Decatur County" If brown Swiss, weight about 500 to 600 lbs.; Aug. 6, Rice County, 1 roan heif er, weight' about 300 lbs.; Aug. 6, . Decatur County, 2 yearling heifers, red whiteface, weight about' 600 lbs., 1 yearling steer, black or red whiteface, weight about 700 lbs. .. .. - Sheriff-Tom -Solomon, -Cass County, Nebraska His warning was based on the fact that 'the Communists have made tremendous headway in southern Indochina in " recent weeks . . There's grave danger natives in the south will vote for the Communists unless a new and vigorous -leader is found. Prediction: Bap Dai, who sat out the war on the French Riviera, hopping from one gam bling table to another, will he booted out office . . . Secre tary 'Dulles has1 volunteered to give a series of hard-hitting for eign policy speeches just before the election; He will be one of the Republican party's big guns and will emphasize the so-called diplomatic victories in Iran, Egypt, and Guatemala, in an effort to make the public forget about the' tremendous defeat in Indochina . . . Shortly before elections the state department will publish a white paper on Indochina, aimed at blaming this Communist victory on the .French. It will also blast the 'British for retusing to' "inter vene with air power at a critical moment in the Indochina battle . . . Thailand has been quietly bracing for a Communist upris ing. Premier Pibul Songgrarfi has put the country under vir tual martial law and made ?7t Meanwhile, the United States is rushing emergency arms ship ments to Thailand . . . TJnfor- tunately, the United States has indisputable evidence that Thai- land officials have been selling U. S. arms to the Communists. OUT of, OLD NEBRASKA Amasa Cobb ,who vas appoint ed Chief Justice . of . the State Supreme Court upon the death of Daniel Gantt in 1878, was born in Crawford County, Illi nois, September 27," 1823. He at- tended; the public schools in his home tiommunity, and then in 1842 he moved to Wisconsin Territory, where he engaged in lead mining. n During the Mexican War, young Cobb served as a private in the Army. After the war he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in Mineral Point? Wisconsin. Judge Cobb did not come West as a young lawyer. By the time he emigrated to Nebraska, he had already carved out an en viable career for himself in law and politics in Wisconsin. He served as District Attor ney, 1850,-1854. He was then elected to the State Senate, serving, in- 1855 and 1856. His career as a legislator was inter rupted by a tour of service as the Adjutant General of Wiscon sin. Then in 1860 he was elect- j France will hurriedly seek the; ed to the State Assembly, serv- opinions of other foreign mims-; ing as Speaker during 18ttl. -'I ' -' ; Mr. Cobb played an important L16 Fane approves of the role in the Civil War, entering EDfc . treaty, without crippling -the Union Army as Colonel of ! S?"01 StLl 1864 he became Colonel of the 43rd Wisconsin Infantry. On March 13, 1865, he was brevet ted Brigadier General for gal lant and distinguished services Kim anu QisunguiMiea services at the battles of Williamsburg, Gcldin's Farm. and-Antietam . In 1862, .while still in the Army, Colonel Cobb was elected to Congress. Actually, he re linquished his post as head of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry after his election, and volunteered to take over the 43rd Infantry while a member of Congress. He com bined his military and congres sional career until being mus tered out of the service, June 24, 1865. He continued in Congress un til 1871, when after the expira tion of his third term he left ' Congress and .Wisconsin and moved to Lincoln, where he en- ! gaged in law and the banking business. He quickly rose' to a position' of prominence in his new home, j He was Mayor of Lincoln in 1873, and in 1875 came within a few votes of securing the Re publican nomination for Judge of the Supreme Court votes in the convention, that is, can didates being chosen by conven tions rather than by primary elections at that time. In 1876 he served as one of the Repub lican presidential electors from Nebraska. Judge Cobb served on" the Su preme bench from 1878 to 1892. During that period he served as Chief Justice on two different occasions, 1884-1886, and 1890 1892. He died in Los Angeles, Cc'.; fornia, on July 5, 1905. MAKE JIPJUUJISY AU0W AMPl! CLEARANCE WHEN 'PASSING . . i i TcC-I : -L1 THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Jrr?n ; sectiorf B " - . Thursday, August 19, 1954 By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON The United stni.ps is now takine ac calcu lated gamble on peace iorafive or ten years just as General Ei senhower took many "'calculated risks" Quririg- World ' War Hi That is r.ot to sav 'the Defense Department Leasing, its Pro-!;pjCktip-from here on out, the Re gram on peace. " ' publican- party 'will' benefit tre- Biit 'it is to' say that con- mendrbuslv. - trary to tne urgmgs or. oyngmcm Rhee this country is "not yet ready tov admit war is inevitable, and that we will try tor a peace ful co'Fxistehce im the immediate future. The ; majority opinion is Washington is 'that war1 will nrobablv come: but the- official and-prevailing viewpoint is al- so - that there is a ' possibility it i- Can be avoided. v' i - v This possibility of avoiding an Thlheesideht wHr not say' China will 'never be admitted to the United Nations.' If China ev- ; er shows any independence from I rh Mnvnw linp 'if hf eives anv indication of Tito-Uke . actions; the United States might filiow a different policy in dealing with her. The question of admitting China to the U.N. is not sclely up to this country anyway. Red China could bo admitted to the world body despite the opposi tion .of the United States, and then the question would be what course this ' country would fol low. Probably we would not pull out of the world organization as some emotional-minded legisla tors have propsed. i China is, of course, the key to peace in the Far East. If the ?eel glhizaUon Vnrarea U. S. cn erect a NATO-type de of the world, and if China is in clined to respect it as Russia does NATO, the American peo ple may enjoy peace for five, ten or twenty years The decision not to push the i Nationalist Chinese m their plans to attack the . Chinese mainland, not to reopen. the.Ko rean War, and not to openly in tervene in Indo-china were bias ed on the hope that a " hot war might still be avoided. The next year will probably tell the tale in Asia.' France is finally set to grapple with the issue of a European I J Defense Community Treaty, and I a uerman army., rne unanmer - of Deputies begins a : momentus ; debate on this topic August 24th. I Meanwhile- Premier Mendes of" ters in Europe on a course of ac- m an independent arrangement, i This France might net lookj kindly upon. j After three years of delay and frustration, then, the issue will' ! bp met head on latp this month. I -p. v ; - i iiii r ldiii r. Li.r i iiuilc i.t a li u , , , . citi ui.e, aim m us L uiic auu iui all realize that the major threat of the current era is Commu nism, not a rearmed Germanj. If the Deputies cannot take the broad view, and get the feel of today's crisis, the role of France might decline into that of a second-rate power. The Administration was gmti- . fied this month when July un employment figures were an nounced. For the first time in rnsnv ipnpth there was no in crease and a convincing sisn the recession, is petering out, The latest report is important WEEKLY; CROSSWORD PUZZLE Aquatic Bird HORIZONTAL -1 Depicted ' aquatic bird 5 Most abbreviated 13 Ripped 14 Japanese statesman 15 Decay 16 It has a 3 Wile 4 Earth goddess 5 Daze 6 Retained 7 Spoken 8 Unusual - 9 Tungsten (ab.) 10 French coin 11 Reliquary 12 Showy , pouch 17 Vase pretense 18 All right (ab.) 16 Depart 19 Caresses , 19 Affection :t Exists 20 Notched 22Cr.e of 23 Sea nymph char.es 25 Instated 24 Domestic slave 32 Expunges 26 Paradise 27 Stagger '23 Highway (ab.) 29 Sun god ; 30 Half an em 31 Near 32 Great Lake 34 Set of players 37 Frees 38 Icelandic saga 39 Part of "be" 40 Daubed 46 Manuscript (ab.) 47 Sun 49 Equipped 50 Thus i 51 Alkaloids' 53 Air (comb form) 54 Remainder 55 It has webbed z ? IT" 7 c j --.-. . T"" """" "ZZ, t I T"Ty" i TT T IT . j' W IT" 3 Nr sT" Ti -5- 7 VERTICAL 1 Beat 2 It has a 1 bill n- from the pclitical standpoint, since November business condi tions may have a lot to do witn the November elections. If, as is hoped, the recession has touch ed DOttom, ana tne re is to ne a Trie remaining economic prob lem' concerns the farmer, and there is less optimism - in this held. Flexible price supports will go into operation next year, arid what effect they will have on prices Is a hotly disputed issue. T?his hot potato is still the great est potential booby trap in ' tne Administration's program,- and if farm prices do not soon perk up, something may give inside the GOP high command. Combining Corn Is Said to Be Just : Around Corner' Combining corn may be just around the corner for commer cial corn growers. Illinois and Nebraska agricul tural engineers have picked and shelled corn successfully with experimental combine models, and five manufacturers will have machines on test this year. The Illinois model has counter-rotating augers , that pull lodged and standing stalks back to the cutter bar. where they're cut off and pulled back onto the canvas, according to Cappers Farmer. The machine takes the entire plant through the cylin der. Th? Nebraska model snaps ears off and discards the stalks. . In 80-bushel corn last year, the Illinois combine-picker had losses totaling only half the av erage. George E. Pickard, Illinois farm machinery specialist, said he questions whether it's prac tical to put. the whole corn stalk thrGugh,tlie; combine, however. Cass County's Greatest Newspaper The Plattsmouth Journal 1 O. SOS4.0V The vacation of a lifetime Is on the ... ituig ior jou iJ Claim it . ehA r a . a when you come to those wondir fal retirement years! That is if yon start saving for it NOW! 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