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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI -WEEKLY JC'jnrJAL BAGS FOUR . Monday, Janvjiry 31. 1955 Tickler By George Furse's Fresh Flashes J- - w kA ALES: THE WEAKER SEX Recent tabulations show that as far as health is concerned, the male specie is evi dently the weaker sex. Not -only do wo men have a life span which averages six years longer, but they stay in better health during their lifetime than do" their mala counterparts. A recent hospital survey showed that male patients in hospitals outnumbered women patients by over 77,000, as of 1953. The total hospital occupancy figures show ed 642,156 men and 564,436 women in the country's hospitals. Of course, some df the men in these hospitals might be there as the result of war injuries and permanent ailments incurred in serving their country in times of combat, but the fact that wo men must bear children and, therefore, occupy hospital beds for this purpose should offset this. -And figures on voluntary health insur ance show that more females have this insurance service than do males. Thus, the females are not less thoroughly covered by hospital insurance than are men, general ly the workers in the family, which some would have thought. , Dr. Frank G. Dickinson, director of the Bureau of Economic Research, of the Am erican Medical Asociation, says that the higher hospital incidence of males implies that they are the "sicklier and more hos pitalized sex." Another consideration which some might think would offset the hospital oc cupancy figures is the fact that more males are born than females, and therefore it might be assumed that there are more males in the United States than females. However, the opposite is true. FemaleS make up about 50.3 per cent of the popula tion, while occupying only .about 46.8 per cent of the hospital beds. Another indication that males are quite susceptible to health deficiencies is the fact that the survey found that there were 11,400 more boys among patients under fifteen years of age in hospitals. Thus it seems that the head of the family the man who wears the pants the Tarzan of 1955, is not ali he is crack ed up to be. With a life expectancy of 65.9 years as compared with his wife's expect ancy of 71.8 years, the male is definitley the most fragile article in the average Am- erican family. "HT" yr POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS' CO MODERN , , The announcement recently by the two .major political parties that they would ,hold their conventions in late August and September of next year is of historic sig nificance. ; For many years now the parties have been staging their conventions in the sum mer. This has been necessary for years -because the candidates nominated need much time in which to campaign before ;tho November elections. The time was nec essary because the candidates had to tra ,vel to every corner of the country and make many political talks and appear 'ances, sometimes before small groups. Now that much of the political cam--paign is conducted on television, not so '.much time is neededs. The candidates can make a few television appearances these 'days and reach as many people as they reached in a week a few years ago. And whereas "the presidential candidates have ' had radio at their disposal for some thirty years, in presidential campaigns, the Am erican voter wants to "see" the man he votes on to be President. With the Democrats opening their con tention August 27th, and the Republicans expected to open theirs in September of x "next year, one can see that the time for presidential campaigning is considerably reduced. Whereas the conventions began THOUGH! fOR TODAY Men judge the affairs cf other men better 'than their ozvn. Terence Official County and City Paper '" ESTABLISHED IN 1SS1 - Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street., Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques foi "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" Fir,fc in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities Over 2,000 Population) . L 1 - . RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher VWM. L. MURDOCH News Editor r SOPHIA M. WOLEYER Society Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising vizm i&icaiu Entered at the Tost Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second . class mall matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. - "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. , . . : 1 S M ECll The M err ti'iXiSTi We don't kick too much on the high prices of meat, but we're getting tired of Uncle Sam taking all the gravy. They say great poets are born and, in our estimation, most -of -them are also dead. To you folks who have all your Christ anas bills paid, better get ready for Valen tine's Day, Income taxes and Easter. One of the great troubles of the world today is that when there is a piano to be moved too many guys are always ready to reach for the stool. i? it Flipper Fanny, our, dainty little con tour twister, lets every boy she goes with kiss her. Says she learned her lesson a long time ago she once slapped a guy who was chewing tobacco. ic We're going to hire us a . good book keeper he's the only fellow we know that can make a deficit look like a surplus. iV ife" (jirls should remember that it is one thing to be wed and another to be fed.' ' This is the time of year when a num ber of college students drop out of school. The football coach didn't renew their con tract. it if Baseball fans are beginning to stir, coming out o their hibernation. in July, 1952, they will be starting next year more than a month later. This is a reflection of the shorter, mod ern campaigns, in part produced by tele vision, which will feature presidential el ections in the future. We are highly in favor of shorter campaigns, and later con ventions. In that way the voter will not have to make up his mind ten different times before he votes he. can just make it up eight times and the presidential can didates will not wear holes in their shoes. Anyone who covered the 1952 conven tion in Chicago will be glad to know he does not face the prospect of another heat wave like that one, at convention time. From all angles then, the shorter Cam paigns are desirable. ,,,,,, v.v.,,,., Down Memory Lane YEARS AGO Feeline- ran hierh in Plattsmouth after several attempts were unsuccessful in killing a crippled dog ... J. U. Flacker of near Glenwood, la., turned up with a freak ear of corn, half red, half yellow . . . F. W. Elliott resigned andL. L. McCarty took over operation of the Collins Oil sta tion in Plattsmouth . . . Men armed with shotguns searched for a lioness reported on the outskirts of Plattsmouth, but found nothing . . . Miss Ruth Roman was hostess at a shower given in honor of Miss Edith Johnson, who was to be one of the brides of the late winter season. She was to leave for Long Beach Calif., where she was to be married to Gus Swanson, formerly of Plattsmouth . . . County Judge A. H. Dux bury was engaged in hearing a damage suit which the Capitol Insurance company of 'Lincoln brought against Lester Scatter good for $347 to recover money paid on a policy to Lloyd Wolcott of Weeping Water after a collision of cars belonging to the two men. -ic ir 2r YEARS AGO W George E. Nickles, state represent ative from Cass county, left Nebraska for Washington, D. C, with other legislators where they were to discuss Nebraska's re lief problem with Federal Administrator Harry Hopkins. NERA had notified Ne braska it must provide at least four mil lion a year to match federal relief funds or federal aid would stop . . . Mr. and Mrs. Jess Fiddler lost their home by fire in sub-zero weather at South Bend . . . Presi dent Franklin Roosevelt turned 53 . . . Plattsmouth high school's basketball team had a fast battle vith Nebraska City and von 28 to 27 'after losing to them a week earlier . . . Devils had 28-22 lead at the end of three quarters and won though scoring no points in the fourth period as Cotner was high with 12 points and the referee Davis grew angry when the crowd demonstrated against him. Washington y -Go-Round (Copyright, 1954, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc DREW PEARSON SAYS : RADFORD NOW HOLDS KEY TO FAR EAST WAR OR PEACE; SENATORS WORRY OVER IKE'S CONFIDENCE IN ADMIRAL; . RADFORD FAMOUS FOR FLOUT- -ING CIVILIAN AUTHORITY. Washington. What has chiefly wor ried Senators about the President's resolu tion for the defense of Formosa is that, despite Eisenhower's earnest retention to reserve for himself the final military de cision, nevertheless all military efforts leading up to that decision will be in the hands of a preventive war admiral who ' i 'The referee had a hunch so he came has repeatedly flouted civilian authority in the past. Inasmuch as Admiral Arthur Radford has thumbed his nose at civilian authority during much of his career, the Senators wonder whether he will not do it again. Senate misgivmga came to a head when testimony before the Senate Armed Services and for eign relations committee re vealed that what the President's resolution calls for is the right cf the U. S. Military to bomb the Chinese mainland if the Red Chinese concentrate troops alongside Quemoy or opposite any island near the China coast. In other wTords, the U. S. mili tary will not wait to go into ac tion until after the Communists start off on the high seas for an invasion of Formosa 300 miles away. Instead the U. S. military can start bombing when the Chinese bring up troops on their own soil opposite any is land now held by the National ists. This was brought out clearly during the Senate interrogation of Secretary of State John Fos-, ter Dulles when he was asked: i ' "Would these strikes against the mainland constitute an act of war?" "They would," replied Dulles, "But this is no time for legal ism." - The : Senators ako pressed Dulles to find out - what kind of troop Concentration would bp necessary on the Chinese main land to ; cause the United States to take the initiative in a bomb ing strike. But the Secretary of State passed the buck.. "Youll have to ask- the mili tary," he replied, in effect. All this led to only one con clusion. It would be up to Ad miral Radford and the military to deride the question of future peace or war. This is why Former Vice Presi dent Barkley shot his pointed question at Secretary Dulles: "Isn't this just a predated dec laration of war?" Undercuts Civilians While the President's state ment reserving authority to himself satisfied many Senators, others couldn't help recalling the career of Admiral Radford, the man who has badgered the White House harder than any other individual to get action around Formosa. They recall that he was in the forefront of some of the most flagrant at tempts to undermine civilian authority that have occurred in Washington in years. It was Radford who, in the fall of 1949, helped to organize the propaganda campaign against the Air Force, thereby spurning the authority of civil ian Secretary of the Navy Fran cis Matthews. This propaganda campaign which ended in a Con gressional investigation, set up a secret publicity bureau called "Operation 23," consisting of 12 officers and 17, enlisted men, commanded by. a full-fledged naval captain, Capt. Arleigh Burke, with Comdr. Thomas Da vis second in command. This underground unit took orders chiefly from Admiral Radford. . Its objective was to smear the B-36 and flood news papers with anti-army, anti-air force propaganda, simultaneous with the circulation of a secret memorandum which claimed that Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington znd Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had ordered the B-36 because of per sonal or monetary gain. Cedric Worth, ii civilian naval employee, who later admitted responsibility for the secret memo, was a part of Operation 23. Another member, Lieut. Sam Ingram, a naval reservist, was summoned for two week's active duty and when he reported got a call from Admiral Radford to drop in for a personal visit. The visit lasted two hours, and Lieu tenant Ingram remained on per manent duty for a year, turning out cartoons and charts against the Air Force. His salary for that year cf sniping at another branch of the armed services was paid by the taxpayer. Radford Wooed Ike .This campaign . of military sniping, got under way at a meeting of 60 top naval officers in Monterey,- California, on Sep- i tember 21. Officially the meet- ; j ing was a routine review of : ; naval problems, but Underset- I I retary of the Navy Dan Kimball ! I sensing that something was i j wrong, tcok the bull by the : I horns. "If you thing you' resetting a.i this would be a grudge bout, prepared: fair deal," Kimball stated, "then let's speak up." But no one spoke up. Vice Admiral Gerald Bogan was present; also Admiral Rad ford. But they looked down their noses. Later, and without telling the undersecretary of the navy, Admiral Bogan wrote his fam ous letter complaining about naval morale, to .which Admiral Radford added a postscript that touched off a powder keg in Washington. In other words, Admiral Rad ford at that time completely ig nored civilian authority. Finally, the House armed ser vices committee called Radford to testify. His attack on the air force" was so full of gripes and without constructive remedies that Congressman Paul Kilday of Texas remarked: "Admiral, I'm disappointed that you didn't come here with an. affirmative statement of what the Navy can do, instead of with a criticism of what the Air Force is not doing." It was at this same congress ional hearing that Gen. Omar Bradley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid his respects to Radford and what he called "Fancy Dan" Admirals. Radford was transferred- to the Pacific to keep him from causing trouble in, Washington. But after EisenhGwer was elect ed and enroute to Korea before his inauguration, the restless Radford flew to Iwo Jima, timed his, visit for the exact moment when Eisenhower's plane was to refuel, took the President-elect on a 50-minute leg-stretcher, and during that walk sold Ike on the idea of supplying Chiang Kai-Shek with U. S. naval ves sels, then turning him loose against the mainland of China. It was Radford's idea that Chiang Kai-Shek could harass the Communists, eventually re take part of China. Eisenhower was so impressed with Radford that he made him chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been following his policy ever since. But many Senators are wor ried that Radford's dynamic personality and persuasive in fluence, plus the "predated dec claration of war" contained in the President's resolution, could plunge the United States into war. Regardless of the President's desire to make final decisions himself, its the military events leading up to international crisis that can make a war, and they don't like to see too much auth ority in the hands of an ambi tious preventive war admiral who has repeatedly shown his scorn for civilian control. YOUNG CIGAR SMOKER, BOSTON, Mass. John J. Connelly, Juvenile Court judge, recently saw a little boy sitting in a doorway, puffing on a cigar. He. casually asked. "Son, why aren't you in school?" 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A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior, and 90-100, very superior. , Decoded .ludy- Legislative SIDELIGHTS . . by BERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation Those Huge Cu-sps What are the biggest business es in the United States? Enemies of the cooperative movement might feel' that co ops are the biggest business of the nation. The "bogey" they create in word and cartoon would indicate that is their im pression. . However, the truth is that all of the farm co-ops in the Unit-, ed States combined into a single organization would have less as sets than any one of the three largest industrial corporations of the nation. The combination-of co-ops would include all coop erative operations in which farmers are interested mar keting, purchasing, telephone, irrigation, fire, electric and credit. .Each one of the three largest industrial operations with which the total assets of co-ops are to be compared have assets of $3 billion or more, mostly consid erably more. The total assets of agricultur al cooperatives are estimated to be just short of $2.9 billion. Standard Oil of New Jersey your education. Severance pay from the armed forces. Sick and Accident Insurance bene fits, unless reimbursing for medical expenses deducted in prior years. Social Security payments. Subsistance allow ances. Supper money from your employer. Terminal leave pay. Tuition, subsistence, and on-the-job training received by veterans from Uncle Sam. Unemployment benefits. Uni form allowances. Veterans bene fits under G. I. Bill, Disability Pay, etc. Wedding 'presents. Widow's pension U. S. Government. Workman's Compensation bene fits. If you had any of these kinds of income in 1954, you are not required to mention them on your return or to payany in come tax on them. Intelligram saoa 01 "Jsjtj- -6 :sen 9 -JsnjAf f, lists assets of $5.4 billion. Gen eral Motors assets total $4.4 bil lion. U. S. Steel has assets that top all farm co-op assets by at least $300 million when it lists $3.2 billion. Breaking down the segments of the cooperative business world, the United States Depart ment of Agriculture estimates their shares of-the total as fol lows: Cooperative marketing associ ations that includes grain ele vators, vegetable and fruit as sociations, livestock sales associ ations, all instruments organ ized and designed to find a mar ket for farm products through cooperative effort with assets of $1.1 billion. Purchasing associations in cluding petroleum products, grocerias, farm machinery, heme appliances, instruments designed to fsave farm families money through .cooperative purchasing With assets of $555 million. " Mutual - telephone operations over the nation have a value of about $23 million. ' Mutual irrigation operations are valued at about $291 million. Farm fire insurance mutual companies are credited with as sets of $180 million. Rural electrical cooperatives add another $187 million to the value of total co-op assets. The production credit system owned by farmer patrons has as sets of $179 million. The federal land bank system owned by its patrons is valued at $384 million. From that "balance sheet" does it appear that farm coop eratives are likely to become a real threat to the business world in the foreseeable future? Subscribe to The Journal NOW! HE REFUSES TO HIRE ANYBODY THATS STUPID ENOUGH TO WORK FOR VHAT HELL PAY.' 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