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W .... .V. ." .V.V.V.'.V.V. .V.VA VV.V.V.ViV.V.V.V.V..V.V.V.V EDITORIALS A"..".. ...... V.". "."."....".'."..-..".... V. ..'.'........'........" ' VVVVV.VVVVVVVV.VVVVVV.V. iNE UP ON KARL MARX Once there was a man named Karl Marx, a brooding man whose sleep was troubled, a man who looked darkly at the world about hm. He was a thoughtful man and, as he viewed the rise of mill and fac tory, he devised a theory. His theory was simple; Ownership of the mills, as with ownership of the land, was the key to the future. Ownership should, therefore, be vested not in the hands of the few, but with somethng he identified as The Peop le. A hundred years later, in the United States of America, something that Marx hadn't figured was going on. Ownership by the people? Yes indeed: by the thous ands, by the millions of people. Millions owned the homes they lived in, millions the land they tilled. Millions owned a share of the possession Marx valued high est,; the tools of production. Young people, old people, rich people, poor people. An up-and-coming couple ' in Manhattan. A quiet widow in Virginia, tending by her dooryard the roses she had planted so long ago. A giant steel puddler in Gary, proud of his strength and his skill. A , gentle nun in Nebraska, as trustee for a hundred orphaned juniors, owners them selves tomorrow. A lobsterman in Maine, a steamboat mate in Louisiana, an oil driller in Texas. People in droves, people in throngs, people in hordes, people in multitudes. The people. The people of the United States. Yes, the people own the tools of pro duction. By his own definition, Karl Marx' prophecy has been realized. How odd a quirk of fate that in Russia, where he is revered, his dream should have been shredded on the jagged shards of "state" bureaucracy. How odd to find that it is here, in the capitalism he reviled, that the promise of the tools has been fulfilled. The. UuPont Co. THE VACCINE MES? 1 The Public Health Service, perhaps understaffed and possibly even under fed, financially, cannat escape criticism forlits policy of letting individual labora tories check their own polio vaccine pro duct this year. Jn 1954 there were several checks made on vaccines before they were used. This year the laboratories were suppos ed "to do their own investigating. The facl that at least one manufacturer sent out faulty vaccine has resulted in, a tragic number of illnesses, which were prevent- able. AVe regret very much that this happen ed "and that it provokes criticism of "the ' Public Health Office and the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare. Nevertheless, in our form of government those who have the responsibility must accept the blame. The blame as we see it, should be finally determined by a real investiga tion into the causes of the mix-up. Con gress has not yet really delved into the release of faulty vaccine by forcing wit nesses to appear and by questioning everyone connected with the trouble to testify under oath. There is much undercover talk in Washington that this is the only method by which the whole business will be clear ed up. The rumors that certain highly placed government officials had a hand in getting the approval of the government for the manufacturer whose vaccine turn ed out to be faulty, in some cases, is also a question which should be investigated fully and completely. The American people are entitled to the answers and they have not yet been forthcoming. It is up to Congress to search out the answers and get the facts in be half of the people. This is one investiga tion which would not be a publicity-seek- THOUGHT FOR TODAY A good and faithful judge prefers zchat is right to what is expedient. Horace The Platlsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 Published SemPWcckly, Mondays "and Thursdays, al 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" Fir,t in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities Over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE. .'. Editor and Publisher VM; L. MURDOCK News Editor SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor VERN WATERMAN ...Advertising Entered at the Tost Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act 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 for two weeks. Furse's Fresh Flashes Citfil service is something you get in stores and restaurants between wars. it it & We would advise some of the 1955, graduates to look into the bicycle business as a vocation after reading the union set tlement with G. M. and Ford and with the price of automobiles crowding the $3000 mark. ' . Read where they've discovered a way to build a house in 'a week. Now we hope some guy will discover how to make.it hold together. . it ic ir Milton Berle bid goodbye on his last TV show. The sponsor dropped his con tract. May we express our appreciation and delight? it it it , It wonVbe long until our jack of all trades goes into our vacation expense. it it it One of the easiest ways of obtaining publicity is "to advertise. Girls go to the beaches to see and be seen men go to see and swim. T&r it ir Air mail, as far as most small com munities are concerned, amounts to noth ing but an added postage expense. If the Republicans want Eisenhower to run again in 1956, they had better get back on his bandwagon. . ing, vote-getting effort. As of now, there has been a strange reluctance on the part of congressional committees to get into the question from the bottom up. And the facts are still obscure. We hope something will be done, and soon, to bring to light the full story of the tragedy which has occurred, in an othei wise bright development. it "",,,," '" Down Memory Lane nr YEARS AGO J Miss Evelyn. May and Carl R. Keil were married at Beaver City. . .'John M. Meisinger was chosen grandknight of th Monsignor M. A. Shine council of the Rights of Columbus. .Fred A. Rothert of Harvard, Neb., a member of the Platts mouth high school faculty, was married to Miss Alice James at Lincoln. . .Paul Iverson was one of 30 Hastings College people attending a YMCA-YWCA con ference at Estes Park, Colo. . .A' number of his friends planted corn for him after Jess Hardnock, of near Alvo, became ill and was in a Lincoln hospital. . .Miss Verna Leonard, assistant librarian at the Plattsmouth Public Library, was set to attend the annual convention of the Amer ican Library Association at Denver. . .Miss Clara Weyrich,' one of the efficient teach ers at the Plattsmouth junior high school, was elected to the faculty of the high school. it it nf YEARS AGO Ow Verona Propst, Edward Lorenz, Margaret Weber, Marvin Tritsch, Inge burg Reichstadt, Anna Margaret McCar ty, Emily Lorenz, Mildred Murray, Mary Swatek, Florence and Margaret Nelson, Dorothy Gradoville, Helen Koubek, Luisa Albert, Jack Troop, Robert Bestor, Fran cis Weber, Robert Livingston, Ruth War ga, Theresa "Libershal, Helen Vallery, Selma Kraeger, Beatrice Jirousek, Gret chen Warner, Alice Lorenz, Kathleen Troop, Helen Clemen, Irma Pittman, Sara Baird, Catherine Flynn, Theresa Donat, Lorene Ault and Theodore Hadraba, all students of Mrs. Lillian Freeman on Mar ble Streetperformed at a piano recital. '. . Members of the family at the Rev. Walter Robb home gathered a large bucketful of hailstones which had just fallen an made ice cream with them. it it it - ; . erf Washington Merry-Go -Round By DREW PEASSOH (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: HU-" EY'S SON DESERTS FATHER'S POLICY OF BUCKING BIG UTIL-' ITIES; SENATOR LONG HOLD KEY TO HELL'S CANYON; LATIN" ' AMBASSADORS APPRECIATE CAPEHART HOSPITALITY. Washington Huey Long, the late kingfish of Louisina, would turn over in his grave if he knew how his son Russell Long is lining up with some of his father's old enemies today, in the U. S. Senate.::. The late Huey Long probably had. a more disruptive influence on U. S. internal government than any other man between the Civil War and Joe McCarthy. But des pite his faults, he battled the big utility companies and the power trust right down to the ground. Huey was 100 per cent with the consuming piblic and against the power lobby. His son, Russell, who until now has been a good Senator, has reversed his dad dy on this point. For some strange reason Sen. Russell Long has played footsie' with the Power Companies just as much as his A Lot More to Hatch . K I I II. I I I I III l .l i I ri & ' .i; f 'V. cv.ia;- --- - fathei fought 'em. Russell voted with the power lobby on the Dixon-Yates fight when prac tically every other Democratic senator lined up on the other side. . Hell's Canyon is the biggest undeveloped power site still re maining in the USA. In fact, it is the only remaining big -canyon dredged out by nature that-can effectively be harness ed to electric power without a tremendous expense of money. All the others have" been pre empted by man. ' Russell' Long happens to hold the key in this battle between public powTer and the big util ities, because RusselLsits on the vitally important Senate inter ior committee. - On that com mittee are eight Democrats and seven. Republicans. All the Republicans , plan to - vote against government operation of Hell's Canyon. All the Demo crats plan to vote for govern ment operation all, that is, ex cept Russell Long. - avj, Russell says he is going to vote for the utilities and his one vote can bottle the bill , up in committee. Russell's fellow Democrats have pleaded with him. .They ! have pointed out tliat his one, vote will carve the tombstone : of public power in the United, States. They . have pointed out , that if this huge damsite on tire Snake river feeding Oregon.' Idaho, and Washington . goe's..fg; private ' utilities, the public power fight will be lost all over the nation. Senator Magnuson of Wash ington, who's up for re-election next year with tough competii tion from 1 Governor Langlie, has almost got down on his knees to Russell Long. "I need this in my campaign " Senator Magnusson has plead ed. "You and I have weathered a lot of storms together. This is life and death in the north west. On it .will depend Senate elections in three states Oregon, Washington and Idaho. It's up to you." But Russell Long for some strange reason has remained unmoved. Friends can't un derstand why he has deserted the militant anti-utility policy of his late father. Latins In Indiana Roly-poly Senator Capehart, the Indiana Republican, doesn't know it yet, but about-20 Latin American ambassadors plan to give him a big party They want to express their appreciation of a party he gave them and also pay tribute to his great friendship for Latin America. What Capehart did was to take the Latin-American en voys out to Indianapolis in four special railroad cars and treat them to a gala visit at the In- See By The Papers .... By Bill Louisville's "industrial show place", the Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Company plant, the dream of Lester T. Sutherland, is a feature of the magazine "Nebraska on the March," issue for June. The 25-year-old plant employes an aver age of 200 people; it is one of the largest natural gas users in Nebraska. During gas shortage kiln heating is done with coal. In 1954, over '9,000 cars of ce ment were shipped from Louis ville and the. capacity has re cently, been increased, Louis T. Sunderland," Chairman of the executive committee of the com pany, headquarters -in Kansas City, Mo. .Light -.bills in Blair will go down 10 - - per cent beginning July 1 .on a prompt payment basis ' as the financing of the municipal light plant continued in a successful manner says the Pilot-Tribune. We had heard of pouring things out of a boot but he nev er thought it would keep him a float, says the editor of the Dawson county Herald. Seems he was setting out in the lake fishing when the boat beo-an tn sink and he had nothing to bail with except his boot. He stayed afloat until help came. - Sarpy county's first grand dianapolis speedway. It was not merely that Senator Capehart thought up the idea and paid for part of it himself; but that he was so personally solicitous of the Latin Americans touched them. ; In Washington's diplomatic corps, - it's the big European countries that usually get first attention from the White House and State Department. Latin Americans, at least since the' days of Sumner Welles, are treated more or less like country cousins who will be wdth us always. But Senator Capehart, who started his career as something of an isolationist, has made several trips to Latin America, has become a strong rooter for Pan American cooperation. So he arranged with the Pen- nyslvania Railroad to send the . Latin-American envoys to In- ! dianapolis in four private cars, had nine Chevrolet convertibles meet them in Indianapolis to take them around the speedway with flags flying.- He also tipped off dynamic Gov. George Craig of Indiana to give them a gala reception. Never had Hoosiers seen so many ambassadors all at one time. Seldom had the ambassa dors had such a good time. Am bassador Victor Andrade of Bo livia, who brought along his guitar, celebrated by singing "Back Home in Indiana," with Argentine, . Ambassador- Paz Crooning accompaniment. ; ' ' It was one of the most suc cessful moves to rebuild the good-neighbor policy in many months. Merry-Go-Round Paul Butler, the Democratic chairman, and Steve Mitchell, the ex-Democratic chairman, have been- rubbing each other the wrong way on some things. Mitchell thought Butler never should have w7ooedthe Texas Shivercrats. Ahyone who bolts the Democratic party, says Mitchell, should be left to stew m their own juice. . .Genial GOP chairman Len Small uses "Drew Pearson" as an excuse to get out of doing a lot of things he doesn't want to do. Asked by a caller to intervene in a certain matter, Len replied: "I've got to be very careful. Drew Pearson is watching this office very closely.". . . .The U. S. military, who have ties with the Argen tine military, say that President Peron's row with the Catholic Church may bring a military turnabout. Hitherto the army has supported Peron. . . .Card inal Spellman vhas announced he. will visit Argentina this aut umn. . . . .Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota was among the few senators who voted for attach ing the Davis-Bacon Act pre vailing wage standards to the new highway bill. Most Demo- Murdock jury since 1940 was scheduled to convene Wednesday after a petition was: signed by more than 200 county residents. No specific cause has been listed by courthouse observers figured the body would look into paving ir regularities in ' Bellevue and check over the county jail, says the Papillion Times. ' . , f i" .... George - Vasicek, Ord citizen on the way. to Cozad, encounter prt Vflllpv r.nuntv's all time iack- rabbitt jumping champion (now and ex'-champion). The raDDii, said George, took -a look at his approaching can and attempted to jump; clear over it and would have been successful had it not hit the radio . aerial, bent the aerial, killed the rabbit.- . President Dwight D. Eisenhow er nearly came to the Nemaha County Centennial celebration. The Nemaha County Herald displayed a telegram Ike sent to the committee saying he couldn't accept the invitation. Don't be afraid of taking wooden nickles when you visit Broken Bow. ' You can spend them there. The lumber coins were made legal tender by the 75th Anniversary corporation which will redeem them for five cents up to July 2. cratic senators ducked the issue, didn't even want a recorded vote. . . .When former Truman assistant Jonathan Daniels, ed itor of the Raleigh, N. C, News and Observer, bought the Ral eigh Times, he got a kidding letter from former - Truman assistant Jim Barnes warning him about foisting monopoly. Capitol News By Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN Even as the Legis lature this week was busy clos ing up shop, over the. horizon came a proolem that promises to haunt the state in coming years. The Loup River Public Power District announced it was going to assert its "senior rights" on water from the Loup River. This meant that about 500 farmers upriver would have to quit irri gating. . The District contended it needs the water for generating electricty. It holds rights that are senior thas is, of an earlier date than the farmers involv ed. It developed that the District would agree to allow the farm ers to use the water if they pay for it. Under the Nebraska constitu tion agriculture gets priority over the use of water for other purposes. But if the farmer has junior rights he must pay for the water. ' The affected irrigators im mediately began forming organ izations to stave off the threat to their farming plans. They came to Lincoln for a meeting with Gov. Victor Anderson and to buttonhole their legislators. John Evans, Broken Bow at torney representing one group, said there was no reason why other power plants with senior rights on Loup water couldn't demand : payment. For. instance the town of Spalding apparent ly is considering it. Evans said that the price ask ed by the Loup District, $1.25 an acre foot, could make a lot of irrigation "absolutely prohibi tive." The State Irrigation Depart ment had no other recourse un der the laws of the state. All it can do is follow the system of priorities which have been strict ly on a "first come, first served" basis. . There was- little doubt but what there would be some court suits out of the affair. Also, the Legislative .Council,- which will be ; studying the ground wrater situation, .probably will look in to this question. The"national masazme in an article forecasting the next 25 years of political " life in the United States listed 11 major areas of conflict. Water led the list. Nebraska has been considered blest because of its abundant water supply running out of the Sandhills areas. But the Loup River difficulty shows that "it can happen here." Watersheds Along this same line, one of the bills passed in the closing days of the session amends the watershed development law passed by the 1953 session. In practice it has been found that 1953 law was so restrictive that it was difficult to form dis tricts. The law was amended un der LB 384, allowing districts to be formed under petitions signed by five landowners in a majority of the precincts with in the proposed district. After petitions are signed, they must be approved, by the county commissioners and. a vote of the landowners held. Apnrov al is 55 per cent of the voters under LB 384,- as against a 60 per cent requirement before. Purpose of wateshed districts is to build structures and dams to keep water on the land, sav ing floods that spoil land and endanger towns. The term "watershed" refers to all the land drained by a given steam or group of streams. ' Studies This Legislature proved anv L thing but bashful about lining up studies for itself m the time between now and the next ses sion. These studies are made bv the Legislative Council, which is composed ot the same 43 sen ators in the regular Legislature Already scheduled are studies of schools, . highways, county nignway laws, tax laws, the Board of Control, and the State Game Commission. In. all about 16 studides are planned. While this is less than the 22 studies inaugurated by the last session, tney are on broader subjects this time. Most of . the studies bv Council committees result in suggestions for legislation. These have. had rather good success in past ses sions, saving time, wear and tear in the sessions themselves. Big Budget As the Legislature went into its final week, there was a good chance that the final total state budget might soar as high as $225 million. The increase over the $219 million figure when the bul was first advanced in the Legislature might come if cer tain truck revenue bills passed. These would provide more money, to spend on highways and thus hike the total budget. That might mean that the budget would be . $30 million higher than the previous record breaker of $194 million, passed by the 1953 Legislature. The 1955 session was well on its way to smashing some other records too. It promised to be the longest in state history, last ing past the previous latest ad journment date of June 13, set in 1953. It also appeared it THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ' spption B . . Thursday, June 16, 1955 KMITP. X VV V J w w - By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON. June 16 The world is being treated to a strange spectacle these days. President Eisenhower and Sec retary of Defense Charles Wil son are " beaming confidence about the status of U. S. arma ments and air power. Wilson told the world, a few days back that it was the U. S. aim to maintain a military cap ability superior to that of "any potential enemy." Added Wilson: "We can and are doing this." These are big words. When present-day leaders of Russia took over from Georgi Malenkov some months back, they bragged to the world that Russia had carried on hydrogen bomb tests that made U. S. ef forts in this field seem almost primitive. And Russian military leaders warned that the Red Air Force and Army were, by far, the most powerful on earth. Even back in the thirties, when Adolph and Benito were bragging about their millions and lying "about number a little bit too it was rare for the West and the dictators to swap boasts about their ability to swat the other to the ground. The dicta tors finally came around to that, but that was later. ' What is the stage of tJ. S. mil itary preparation, compared to Russia's? All recent history leads the careful observer to conclude that the Soviets have more than they have shown the world. That is the very nature of the Russians, even forgetting Communism. This has been the t r a d i t i o nal characteristic of Russia for centuries. This characteristic fooled Hit ler badly in 1941. He attacked Russia under the optimistic as sumption Germany's tank forces were 'almost equal to those of Russia. General Heinz Guderian the foremost Nazi tank leader of the war wrote in his book, published a few years after the war, that. Germany's tank strength on June 22nd, 1941 the day of the attack on Rus sia was 3,200. . , Guderian said he recalled, a visit of Russians, to German tank factories, in the spring of 1941, when Hitler had told his would be the longest session so far as legislative days was con cerned, cracking the 1953 rec. ord of 113 legislative days. Investigation The final days of the session were made tense by the investi gation by a special committee on alleged "improper practices" on the part of certain senators. The hearings by the commit tee were culminated by Sen. Sam Klaver of Omaha himself going on the stand and under oath denying any allegations that he had ever received any fees in connection with legisla tion. The testimony offered in five days of hearings fell into four main catogories. One group concerned a bill to tax coin vending machines drafted but never introduced by Sen. Klaver. Another concerned a bill to regulate trailer courts which was killed in the Government Committee of which Klaver is chairman. The third concerned letters on legislative stationery, solict- mg advertising for Klaver's newspaper, the Omaha Public Ledger. A conversation between Rt.nt.P Health Director E. A. Rogers and Klaver over Roger's job was a final category of testimony of- 1C1CU. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Comedienne HORIZONTAL 3 Incarnation of 1,6 Depicted comedienne 12 Fruit 14 Interstice 15 Male sheep 16 Goddess of Vishnu 4 Preposition , 5 Shield 6 Baton 7 Angers 8 French article 9 Kind peace 18 Rebel (coll.) 10 Ester of oleic 19 Strineri elrt a 20 Dispatches 11 Wea"hy men 21 Philippine J3 Before peasant 17 Chief priest 22 Yes (Sp.) OI a snnne -unsumpuon " --""""mum 27T;Tt:"4C Aduonai - - " 29 Correlative of neither 30 Symbol for neon 31 Palm lily 32 Membranous pouch 34 Solar disk 36 In a line 38 Railroad (ab.) 39 Pronoun . 40 Rodent 42 Perfume 47 Qualified 48 Compass point 49 Coalesce 50 Separate pillar 51 She is a radio and star 53 All 55 Occupant 5S Musteline mammal VERTICAL 1 Swamp 2 Arab ' t p rn u I' u I? o i i . wru 19 wt fh j-M if Pi-- rrt WnM Fl Lzrtgr: : officers to show the Russians everything. The Russians refused to believe the Panzer VI was Germany's heaviest tank. They were so insisten in asking to see the heavy tanks, it made home of the Nazis wonder if the Rus sians did not have a heavier tank. One month after Hitler at tacked, the T-34 (the name tank that out performed American tanks in Korea ten years later) appeared on the Russian front. Not only did Russia have a heav ier tank, but Russian tank pro duction was far in excess of Nazi tank production. Guderian says German tank production in 1941 was . about 1,000 of all types. Yet he recalled visiting one Russian tank fac tory in 1933, which was produc ing 22 tanks a day of the Chris-tie-Russki type. That was a rate of '8,CC0 a year from this one tank factory! Guderian also notes in his book . that Hitler told him at a general staff con ference on August 4th, 1941 that, if he had known Russian tank strength was as Guderian had reported before the attack, he would never had started the war against Russia. Fourteen years, to the month, after the attack on Russia, the United States is looking through the same rose-tinted glasses Hit ler looked through, according to many military experts, and un derestimating the achievements of the Russians. Wilson says, we. are maintaining superiority. But where? The Russians, it is admitted, far outnumber us in tanks And unless we have a superior tank for the first time in our his tory, the Russian tanks are bet ter. The Russians have far more supersonic jet fighters. They are known to have thousands of MIG-17's, which compare with our F-100's. We have one squad ron in operation t. The Russians, "in addition ;) this, have a 1000 mile-per-hour fighter in operation. Numbers U. S. goal is for similar models of them have been sighted. The of fighters to be operational in 1957. We do not have even a squadron of these. They are our F-lC4's. , .. In t, the intercontinental . jet. bomber field," we have recently been -shocked by the appearance of at least ten Type -37 bombers over Moscow. The U. S. has only a few of these giants the first squadron scheduled for activa tion this summer. So Russia could be ahead here too. No one knows perhaps but Wilson has ordered our production speeded up? Why wasn't this done be fore? Why weren't we building as last as possible all along? The whole world knows we are in an aviation race The picture adds up to one that is distrubing some Sena tors and Congressmen here on Capitol Hill. It isn't hard to see why. Only in the medium jet bomber field are we apparently safely ahead of Russia. MARINE CORPS MUSEUM Historic New Hall, built in 1791 in Carpenter's Court near Inde pendence Hall in Philadelphia will be restored as a memorial museum to. the Marine Corps, according to an announcement by the Interior Department. The memorial will commemorate the establishment of the Marine Corps in Philadelphia on Nov. 10, 1775, and will be part of In dependent National Historical Park. Here's the Answer N'.Oigl 33 Liken 34 Take Into custody 44 Transpose (ab.) 45 Era 35 Stupor o i tamper 47 Dismounted ZZZ' "Babyloni 42 Prayer endine nan grayer ending deity 43. Canvas shelter 54 Size of shot NOSM 3jp iillpavw ijq -v.