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EDITORIALS Furses klATIONAL BIBLE WEEK IN National Bible Week is beiner observed from October 18th to 24th this year. The purpose, of the observance is an effort to reawaken religious thinking in every pos sible way and is in line with a year- round campaign carried on by the Laymen's Na tional Committee, Inc., to encourage the reading and study of the Bible. Among other things, the Laymen's Na tional Committee, Inc. provides graces, of all faiths, in dining-rooms of restaurants and hotels, and in railroad dining cars, provides favorite prayers of well known people to the newspapers, sponsors spot announcements over the air throughout the year, and talks by outstanding men and women. National Bible Week is, however, per haps the most important of all the organ ization's activities. It is an effort from which millions of Americans can profit greatly. Though the Bible is the greatest book ever written, there are those who will not necessarily agree with everything in it, or agree with every translation. Never theless, comparing it with all other books compiled, it stands far and away above them all, and carries Christ's message in clearer form than any other book. The week of October 18-24 is a good time for you to review your sftidy of the Bible, and think about its message, and how much time you have spent studying, it recently. Many of us have not read the Bible through completely for a number of years, and the benefits to be gained from a thorough knowledge of the Bible and its lessons, are so great as to make this re-reading well worthwhile. In fact, life's problems today are little different from those of the times of the Bible, and a study of the Bible will do more to help you -meet these problems , and arrange your life satisfactorily than anything else we know of. f-HE COST OF KINGS An interesting item was reported from Stockholm, Sweden, recently. King Gus- tav Adolf reacted to criticism by the La bor newspaper in Stockholm by announc ing that, hereafter, he would use the pub lic entrances and exits at Stockholm's central railway station. Except on state occasions, the King wrote the newspaper, he and Queen Louise would use these pub lic entrances. The King's statement was necessitated by an attack by the Labor paper in Swe den, which claimed that each one of the King's arrivals and departures from Stock holm's central station cost the taxpayers $200,000. This money was used, the paper claimed, to build a temporary staircase to the royal entrance to the station. The old. staircase had been torn down to permit the construction of Stockholm's new sub way. The King, in replying to the news- paper, said it was not his fault and that he had never insisted on a special entrance. He also said that he and Queen Louise would be glad to. use the public entrances, and save the taxpayers the cost of build ing temporary staircases for his arrival. If the newspaper is correct, and it has been costing Swedish citizens $200,000 an ar rival and departure, we would say the cost ' of monarchy is high. Frankly, we do not get very heated up and underslung over red carpets, trim mings and trappings, and other signs of royalty. We realize many Europeans are accustomed to this, and eat it with a spoon, but in a democracy like the United States, there is little sentiment for such wasted effort and money, and we are more thank- THOUGHT FOR TODAY He had no crozm, but he was kind; he had no throne, but he was strong; Good deeds he did, and loving words he said, the whole day long. Turner The Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 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 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher DICK HOWE News Editor VERN WATERMAN .Advertising SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor uiiCK&i uuiojui Entered at the Tost Office at Plattsmouth, class mail matter in accordance with the March 3, 1S7D. 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. t About the only . time 'we ever sing in the bathtub is when there's a poor lock on the door. k Persons are probably more quiet as they grow older because they have more to be quiet about. ' Installment buying is one sure method of making the months seem shorter. This may be a man's world, but we'll wager its in his wife's name. Flipper Fanny, our -dainty little con tour twister, tells us she has never read the Kinsey Report, says she's waiting for the movie. ' Down 20 ttsrcgn retary of the Nebraska as second Act of Congress of Fresh Flashes . Please drive carefully the life you save may be mine. If you run after money, you're money mad ; if you don't try to get. it, you lack ambition; if you get it without working, you're a parasite; if you accumulate it after a lifetime of hard work, people will say you're a fool who never got anything out of life. A local husband says women's styles have certainly changed, but he'll never forget "Wasp Waists." He tells us that's when he got stung. ful we do not live in a monarchy every time we read about such things as $200,000 entrances and exits. Memory Lane YEARS AGO Winners in the Cass county young citizens contest were: boys, Duane Har mon of Weeping Water first; Dale Ganz of Alvo second and Carrol Nulzman of Avoca third. Girls, Thelma Ward of Weep ing Water first; Ruth Ann Ganz of Alvo second; and Wilma Keech of Weeping Water and June Gray of Avoca, tied for third ... A horseshoe team comprising Guy Bestor, Ed Thimgan, John Schoemann and John Boetel, played a tie game against John Parkening, August Siemoneit, Aug ust Keil, Adam Stoehr and Otto Petereit . . . Congressional candidates Henry C. Luckey, democrat, and Marcus L. Poteet, Republican, spoke in downtown Platts mouth. "A" I f YEARS AGO Tecumseh stopped the Plattsmouth football winning stead at 13, winning 18-6 . . . Mrs. Gene Roddy was elected chair man of the Legion Auxiliary, at a meeting in Nehawka . . . Early pheasant hunters were Grover Parriott Sr., J. W. Taylor, Victor Nord and Paul Ruffner. The Washington Merry -Go -Round (Copyright, 1954, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: JENiNER COMMITTEE PROBES MORGEN THAU DIARIES; LOOKS FOR LINKS BETWEEN ROOSEVELT AD MINISTRATION AND RUSSIANS VIA HARRY DEXTER WHITE; JENNER PROBERS DON'T RELISH CITICISM OF FULTON LEWIS. Washington They don't want any thing published about, it, but the Jenner Internal Security Committee has been con ducting a very hush-hush examination of Henry Morgenthau's famous diary. The idea is to make headlines before election day with something that will con nect members of the Roosevelt adminis tration with Harry Dexter White and any tinge of Russian espionage. To this end, Jonathan Mitchell, hus band of famed feminist Doris Stevens, has been up at Hyde Park, where the lengthy diary of the former Secretary of the Treas ury is kept. Though the Jenner Committee probably won't appreciate any probing into its probing," this column has obtained copies of some of Mitchell's reports, and so far h'e hasn't struck much pay. dirt. In one confidential report to the Jenner Committee, Mitchell states: "Last week I got through only 14 vol umes. I was held back by documents of British and French lend-lease. Since White was in charge of these negotiations, I hoped to find material of interest to the committee. But in fact, although I read -the documents with great care, I found very little." Diaries Are Secret Hitherto the Morgenthau diaries have been scrutinized by outsiders. They are probably the most carefully kept of any record of the -hectic and vitally important years of the Roosevelt administration. Morgenthau n,oted in great detail every thing he did during the years he was Sec Treasury and he held that post longer than any other man in history. The diary detail is even more voluminous than that of the Late Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. ' The diaries are locked in the Roosevelt library in Hyde Park and ari hot open to public examination. However, Morgenthau when questioned by the Jenner Committee. Opportunity Is Knocking Again -1, j - - ..- JrJfc v- V . - y I'-rh t V hftTj' Cr ESS C t " we 's ,c A 'fjsi it 0. Jh JTT r about Harry Dexter -White, who ,was accused by Attorney Gen eray Brownell of being a Russian spy, offered to let the Jennor Committee examine his diaries. Morgenthau said he knew of no evidence that White was a ziu eviueuce mm wniie was a spy during his association at thp Trpflsurv nnri Tip nffproH f ex amine any part of his records. cirv,ifQVvci o t... land s onice has been pushing i tne state Department to publish all diplomatic documents deal ing with the Yalta conference, in the hooe that some clue re garding the operations of Alger Hiss might be forthcoming. The State Department, though un- der a Republican administration, so far has refused to fix a pub- ' lication date prior to election, despite an urgent request bv Knowland's floor assistant, Bill Reed. Morgenthau Tushed Loan Scrutiny of the Morgenthau diaries to date has chiefly re vealed that the newspapers pub lished at that time namely that Henry Morgenthau was zealously anxious to keep Rus sia as a friendly Ally and pushed a $10,000,000,000 peacetime loan to Russia toward ' the closing days of the war in order to win Russian confidence. As already well- publicized Morgenthau favored stripping Germany of its industrial war potential and keeping it as an' agricultural state. ; i Jonathan Mitchell, who is studying the Morgenthau di- i aries, apparently considered it t his job to report also on the political view; ivs of Herman Kahn, Archivist for the Roosevelt h- brary. For he wrote the Jehner Committee: ; ; . "Kahn is an egg-head. Heield himself m very well until Mus kie's election (referring to the election of the new Democratic Governor of Maine). Next day. he sidled up to Jim and me and delivered himself of a sudden, sneering attack on Fulton Lewis, Jr." Note The "Jim" referred to above is Jim Cardiello a mem ber in probing the Morgenthau diary . Newspaper Pals Mitchell, when questioned by this writer about his research, was most loath to talk. Asked when his report would be pub lished, Mitchell ducked. "You and I were reporters together going back a long way," he said, doubtless referring to the fact that he had 'been a re porter on the old New York World. Mitchell also served as Washington correspondent for the New Republic for many years. "If I can help you out as one reporter to another I'll be glad to do so." "Then who is with you on the Morgenthau diaries?" Mitchell was asked. "Any statement ' on that will have to come out of Washing ton." "How long have you been with the Jenner Committee?" "No comment." "You realize that when any one is put on the Federal payroll it must be a matter of record." "Cant talk about it," said the old news reporter now gone Bureaucrat. "What is your salary?" "No Comment." "You realize that when the taxpayers pay a man's salary, that also must be a matter of public record," Mitchell was re minded. "Yes." "And you still don't want to j comment?" "No Comment." "You say you want to be help ful as one reporter to another, and yet you don't even wrant to answer purely factual questions which obviously must be a mat ter of public record?" Mr. Mitchell's, voice trailed off. "You'll have to" talk to the Jenner Committee," he said weakly. ( Tomorrow this, column will publish the full text of Mr. MitchelL's reports to the Jenner Committee on the Morgenthau diaries plus .side remarks on Archivist Kahn ana Fulton Lewis, Jr. LETTER BO The Journal 1icaomo,8m1Jftte ! from readers for this column any subject. Your nam must be signed to ail articles intended for publication, however, by request.," it can be omitted from the letter appearing: in print. (Contents do ?9l necessarily, express th opin- Ions of this newspaper.) Wabash, Nebraska October 14, 1954 Plattsmouth Journal TIpq r Kir" T , . .. t In regard to the item about . School District 70 in your Oc- ; tober 11 issue We are patrons of that dis trict and know that item is un true. We were at the annual school meeting and know the situation that is going on. We you would print such an untruth in your paper, we are very un happy about this item and that the public is being misinformed about the whole situation through your paper. This school situation is getting serious and is leading to a court case. Please print the truth in your paper about this situation in the very near future. If you are going to continue printing untruths in your paper you can cancel my name from your list. Please look into this matter at once. i Sincerely, H. F. Luctchens, Watash, Nebraska j Wabash, Nebraska j . October 13, 1954 The Plattsmouth Journal Dear Sirs: i I am much disturbed over the first part of the item "State School Head Ask Patrons Settle Rural School Issue" in your Journal issue of Monday, Oct. 13th, If the public hearing re ferred to in the article is the annual school meeting it is ' a bit twisted. I am a resident and xpayerTln..scho trict No 70 and I attended the annual school meeting. It was voted at th? ,meejng to reopen the school 26 votes for reopening tne scnooi ana lb votes against. After such a vote the school board felt it their duty to hire a teacher to teach District 70 as the majority had voted to do. Also our district had contract ed with Murdock only one ye?.r instead of several as the article reads. Yours truly, -Edna H. Luetchens Wabash, Nebr. TAX MEN AT SCHOOL Internal Revenue agents will spend the next three months in classrooms familiarizing them selves with the new income tax law, which has at least 1,000 changes. The new tax law will result in savings to some, and tightens the rule on others. .?OTTA (PUFF) AAKE TH! (Pt-'FF PUFF) TDUCHPCWW LTMEM PE6SY1L B SLAP 70 GO TO HERE COMES TrtNTi MAN VJHO S OllE AROUND SPILLS . TdP TANK ' rSl Capitol News By Melvin Paul N Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN Sparks, of ccr.tro very over the constitutional amendments to be submitted to the voters Nov. 2 conrn.ued to smolder this week. , Not much has been heard of the amendments since the spe cial session of the Legislature in April and May put live re- j lating to taxes cn the ballot. Earlier the Unicameral had vot ed to submit to the citizens three other amendments concerning state gov2rnment administra tion. On the .surface there appeared oe unanimity of agreement on uie amendments among the var ious groups of the state. But discord broke through at a session of the Nebraska Better Education Council when Don ? Kline of Lincoln, executive sec- j retary of the Nebraska State Education -Association, strongly ) criticized at least two. of the j amendments. The one that makes educators j the most unhappy, according to Kline, is the so called "replace ment tax" amendment.' Passed in the special session, this amendment would place in the constitution a provision that I if the Legislature ever passes a sales or income tax the revenues must first be used to replace the money mat State govern eets from the property tax tnai state government muA(. ,.ntinrr or, Those advocating the amend ment sav this will make sure that if such a tax is passed it won't become Just an additional tax. It will replace part of a present tax. Called A "Straitjacket" ' But Kline said it was unwise to place such a "strait jacket'" in h constitution. He said that whil. t. ntbpr fn t,Y .amm(. ments were for the purpose of easing rigid restrictions in the constitution, this was a move to place another barrier there Kline said this amendment "was engineered through the tion groups from going out and campaigning wholeheartedly for j. c t - ; lax reiurm. ouine peupie juau don't want tax reform." It seems- that the school peo ple are faced with the desper ately growing problem of in creased enrollments, the need to pay higher salaries because of the teacher shortage, and the necessity for more buildings. Yet the levies for all of this are peing pnea omo me .pu-jieity taxJ So educators are continually working for a different kind of j xax. If a sales or income tax were adopted and the first $14 or $15 million had to eo to state eov- ernment, it wouldn't leave them as much as they hoped for the schools. It s estimated a sales tax, for instance, will produce about $27 million a year. It is for this reason that, as Kline put it, educators "will work actively in our own circles to see that this darned thing doesn't pass." It won't be done on a full scale basis for fear of wrecking the tax reform amend ments which the educators want. School Land Board Change Kline also indicated that Ne braska school people don't like another amendment which calls for an appointive board to su pervise the state school lands. They say the present ex-officio board composed of elected state officials such as the governor is working out fine. Observers feel that the school people are fearful of what fu ture governors would do in ap pointing the board. School lands are a controversial subject, espe cially in western Nebraska, where there is much agitation to sell them outright. The Legislature in putting the amendment on the ballot said it had been foimd that state elect ed officials were too busy with their own jobs to do justice to such extra duties as these. Mental Health The Board of Control left the VJt K TKS rvTl LUVER.Y I'M GONNA TELL H!M IF I SEE HIM DOING IT THIS TIME. I'LL PUNCH HIM IN THE, W5E! fl m . mi PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR - Monday, October 18, 1951 Check the correct word: . 1. The first diesel locomotives went into service in the U. S. in (1925) (1935). 2. Duration of each of the four seasons (is) (is r.ot) equal. . 3. 'Each season (does) (does not) begin on the i same day each year. 4. Frost alone (does) (does not) cause leaves i to change color. 5. The ancient (Egyptians) (Norsemen) (both) I i worshiped cats. 6. AH true cats (do) (do not) have retractable v claws. . . . 7. Arithmomancy refers to (arithmetic) a h s. branch of (fortunetelling). 8. When you eat an artichoke, you (do) (do f not) eat the flower. 9. The Guernsey and Alderney (are) (aro not) the same breed of cow 10. There (was) (was not) a decline in unem ployment in a majority of the nation's major industrial centers during September. ' Count 10 points for each correct answer. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior, and 90-100, very superior. Decoded OCT 9 -qiog g ;ou saoa V question of spending more mon- ey on the "early cure of treating , mental method patients squarely up to the governor and the next Legislature. The board did this by includ ing in its budget request for the 1955-7 biennium substantially what the superintendents of the state mental hospitals had asked. In its $32.6 million budget the the state hospitals at Lincoln board includecr $15.7 million for Norfolk, and Hastings and the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute in Omaha. This is 36 per cent rth? nrpSnt t2S , via? wfn. r J ill mil. The budget will be reviewed ny uuv. KODwi .trasuy ana uy ?nhS?p?wmC to succeed him. The 1955 Legis- 1 t- i - i i l . . lature will do the actual appro- priating of whatever it is decided iwoiaus auumu "Early Cure" w . u xe oaiiuruiw, uwu ui the Hastings hospital, has been a leader in a movement to adopt "early cure" practices at the 1 . : i 1 TT i 1 .1 1 i z r ' noyua.15. ne cuuieuus ixittu ii i the state would spend more money on highly trained ioctors, nurses, and psychiatrists and gave proper salaries to wara aides it could cure patients fas ter. He contends that the best chance to curs a . mental pa tient is just as soon as possible after he has been struck by ill ness. If patients are cured early, he contends, the state gains in the long run in money terms also. Cured mental patients be come taxpayers instead of long term burdens to the taxpayers. The increased appropriations would provide for six more psy chiatrists at Hastings, for a total of 12; a psychologist, two psy chiatric social work supervisors and two occupational therapists. At Lincoln it would allow for six more phychiatrists, for a total of 10, four more physi cians, two recreational aides, 131 ward aides, 27 nurses, 10 occu pational therapists, four psy chologists. The Norfolk increase would be three psychiatrists, to a total of four, 31 ward aides, 18 physi cians, six therapists, six psychi atric social workers, and a psy chologist. Aviation Boost Promoting aviation in these parts was a tri-state airplane tour through Nebraska, Wyom ing and South Dakota. Gov. Robert Crosby flew his own light airplane. The Nebraska State Aeronautics Department had a HATES mjJitv! mv3 -www?vou 5PRA;U2D tom..7. -t- HEROl ) YOuTavJKLE f CM, TWAT' 7" AWD KE v t A 1 1 PIOsJT El'cNJ WAVE TO 60 TO THE rsT 6cT IN I ii- irntmtr inimiin 11 inn imt u ir'm "i J WELL, PnS', DID VOU . J I -Sr'K N0.')k SEE HIM 5PILL )i C - ' . r r 3--S v N . -ANY? rZ vl AO ri '"! j' ' y 1 M Intelligram 'u sooq S '1" si z 'S361 t hand in the plans for the tour, which opened with dedication of the new airport at McCoo!. Voter Silence The silence exhibited by Ne braska voters has' both the Re publican and Democratic party leaders worried. The Democrats feel it is a sign the voters are apathetic, which means they won't get out and vote for a change. .Republican State Chairman W. W. Spear of Fremont inter prets it as a sign that Nebras kans are satisfied with the' GOP's record in both Washing ton, D. C, and Lincoln. Some other party leaders I clXCil v aren't so sure. They fear tne t d particularly the farmers-are unhappy about the , ri.w,. cHmin. deeds of the Eisenhower admin istration. One county chairman said he wasn't so worried that Republi can farmers would vote Demo cratic. He feared they might . t h d t vote thus . letting some Democrats win. 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