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ED IT O Rl v.v.v.v.-'. RUSSIA AND FARM SURPLUSES The question whether to sell Rus ffiu some of the huge quantities of farm .surpluses piled up in the United States 'in recent years has again arisan. It has pop ped into the limelight recently because of drought in Russia and the resistance of farmers there, and the failure of Russian, agriculture to produce the food needed. This is odd, since Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe, mainlv those along the Danube, have traditionally had an excess of grain. One can remember that Russia was supposed to furnish Germany with much food and grain in the now famous non-aggression pact and Russia traditionally has been thought of as a huge grain producer. Communism, however, is not produc ing the grain needed and, therefore, thert might be a good market for U.S. surplus supplies in Russia. Those who object to U. S. sales to Russia point out that this would alleviate the shortage in Russia an 1 partly make good a condition brought on by the failure of Communism itself. Those who are in favor of the sale of U.S. surplus goods to Russia believe that Russia is able to buy food elsewhere anv how and that it would be well for this country to strengthen its own economy by parting with these huge surpluses. Also, they believe that if Russia becomes de pendent upon the. United States, or for eign countries elsewhere, for much of its foodstuffs, then any future emergency or war will subject Russia to a blockade something on the order of that used against Germany in two world wars. . ; One cannot accuse the United States of trading in strategic materials if this country agrees to sell some of its food sur pluses to the Russians. If this strengthens the United States economy, lowers the bur den on the U.S. taxpayer, and' makes for higher prices for the farmers, then the United States is strengthened more than Russia. Moreover, if the Russians can buv food elsewhere anyhow, there is no need for the United States to withhold its food just because we oppose the form of gov ernment in Russia. THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN Autumn begins this year at 2:42 P.M.- on the 23rd of this month. Autumn is a middle season, coming after Summer and before Winter, and featuring moder ate average temperatures. Astronomically, Autumn begins with the autumnal equinox and ends with thy Winter solstice, which comes just 'before Christmas, in December. The sun -enters Libra at the autumnal equinox and enters Capricorn in December, when Winter be gins. Astronomically, then, Autumn in cludes most of December. In popular speech and habits, manv people refer to Autumn as including the months of September, October and No vember. Under this custom, December is a Winter month and September is an Au tumn month. However, from the astronom ical viewpoint,' September is a Summer month and this year only seven days of September are astronomical Autumn days. The full moon of October 1st, com ing about seven days after the autumnal equinox, is the Harvest Moon this vear September usually contains the Harvest Moon, but in a case such as this vear's the Harvest Moon falls in October. It is a common notion that the Har vest Moon is different from all other full moons during the year, and this is not technically incorrect. At the autumnal equinox, the earth's satellite rises for sev eral nights in succession close to the same hour. Although this phenomenon is less THOUGHT FOR TODAY He Zi-Jio talks too much commits a sin. The Talmud The Plaifrmoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IX 1 SSI ruhlMicd Semi Weekly, Malays anl Thurs.lavS at 110 Main Street. Plattsmouth, Ca County, " Ncbr. 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 (fn Cities over 2.000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher WM. L. MURDOCK -News Editor SOPHIA M. WOLEVER -Society Editor MARGARET DINGMAN Bookkeeper VERN WATERMAN- Advertising V PHONE Z4I IVV ocum CSfHila taaat "i t y Entered at the Post Olice at Piatt! mouth, class mail March 3. 1S79. : ,( uvwiuuillt? Willi TtlO 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. A L S Purse's 30 YEARS John ALoU HAS Nebraska as second jXt-t . . f I ' r 1 ngre oi fin TOClt111lC3 its pages and - v. i v-tic0mflfo cana chorus SISM Fresh Flashes It's a long time since we've missed an opportunity to lose money. r A columnist says the battle between the sexes will never be won. It's probably because there is so much fraternization with the enemy. What this countrv needs is less needs. If all the wire coat hangers cluttering up closets were straightened out and laid end-to-end it would be a good idea. One advantage of being bald is that when you expect company all you have to do is" straighten your tie. You, can usually tell how long a va cation a man has had by the amount of siintan on his left forearm. Every man needs a wife for there's a lot of things that go wrong that you can t blame on the government. ir There be a lot of old soldiers hero who'll learn they do not "just fade away" when, they try to get into their old uniform for the KKK parades. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says stockings that run are on their last legs. plainly observed in tis country, it is verv noticeable in countries further north. So', tales about the Harvest Moon allowing farmers to gather their crops several nights during this time of year, after sun down, are not incorrect. ir A Down Memory Lane Oy YEARS AGO Ben Schreiner of Greenwood was faced by three members of the Green wood council, H. G. Wilken, G. E. Buck nell and E. L. McDonald at a hearing of the state liquor commission at Lincoln when the council voted to restrict beer licenses to two and liquor licenses to one, shutting out Shreiner who had just bought a lunch room and filling station on the highway between Omaha and Lin coln . . . Harlan Hennings, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Herman Hennings had a fractured jaw after a colt kicked him through a fence while he was doing th& chores . . . Miss Jane Boedecker expected to leave for Fulton, Mo., where she would attend William Woods Junior College . Rachel Robertson was elected president of the high school glee club ; Grace Wiles, vice - president . . . County Assessor W. H. i uis reported Cass county property valua tion at $33,756,411 and countv commis sioners set the county mill levv at 3.95 mills. AGO Brady, former Plattsm ont.h resident, was killed at Watson, Mo., when struck by a Burlingrton train ... A Rock Bluffs man drew a 3500 fine and 60 clays in the county jail for selling alcoholic liquor . . . Methodist Ladies Aid Societv applied $10 to the Legion building fund m Plattsmouth . . . Truant Officer Tom Svoboda was hard put to it to find th--home of six - year - old Harriet Frv who got lost on the way home from school . . . John Keil of Cedar Creek, gunning for crows- landed a nearly grown coyote in stead ... A man in the southwest part of Plattsmouth was fined $5 for letting a blind horse starve. rlie Washington Merry- Go-Round Ir DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1955, by -the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WASHINGTON MERRY GO ROUND DREW PEARSON SAYS: FRENCH MIGHT LEARN NORTH AFRICAN LESSON FROM WHAT U.S. DID IN CUBA ; CUBA HAS TRUBLES BUT IT ! I SELF - GOVERNMENT- PRESIDENT BATISTA WORKS UN TIL 4 A. M. BUT RETAINS HIS SENSE OF HUMOR. Havana This is a city of old Span ish fortresses with dungeons as deep a-5 Cuban politics; of electric signs against the skyline touting Canada Dry and Cad illacs; of palatial penthouses and outdoor cafes with little tables on the sidewalks where orchestras have given way to tele vision; where the opera house features a child-welfare center; and where the growhng sea dashes over the. wall of tha Malaccan as the political opposition growls at any president in power. It's a city where an American embas sy of modernistic glass juts out like a champaigne bottle against the earthy iu"- U1 ".":iu xiaana wnere one ot thP mnt i modern newspapers in the world, El Mun - oo-ii-i- i i aoum Lauiets pasted OlltO perfumed ink in it nQ ori ! tV.. j B tl CUj wnere you can see ; The Papillion Times reports Johnny Meyers, senate - headlined pub- that Deputy Sheriff Mke Cris lic - relations man for Howard Hurhes, i?r !aved $200 in bonds from jret kissed on thp harwn ' hoon . t.;..,.-' flre In a safe abandonpd nnr -irl and pp Rnh iV - - wiitAovji, uiie: Liuic run iNew jnampsnire na- uonai committeeman, dancing with a blonde amonz the earn ing tables. It's a city where Ernest Hemingway challenges Ted Scott of the Havana Post to a duel , because Mrs. Heming way didn't like Scott's negative appetite for lion steaks. ! It's a city of limousines ' and pushcarts, of klaxons and pedd ler's bells; a city that is re nowned for sin. yet whose sin pales beside the juvenile jungles of Harlem; a city where sugar is king; where, when sugar falls or America cuts the quota, unemployment, unrest and the threat of communism stalk the streets of Havana; but when through the stately nalms, the fantastic trimmed laurel hedg es, the hibiscus that line 1 the streets of Havana. It's a city where Radio-Commentator - Political - Leader Eddie Chibas shoots himself in front of the michrophone in pro test against the graft of the previous administration; it's a city both modern and medieval, whose main passion is politics all ruled by an ex-army sergeant who once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator and is now ac cused by his enemies of being a dictator himself. That is Havana. 'V" Morocco vs. Cuba came down here partly to get, awayi from the incessant drumbeat of American politics. I got into the more romantic bongo drum-beat of Cuban poli tics. I came, down also to make some comparisons between what the French are doing in Moroc co with what we did in Cuba. Whereas the French have hung onto wealthy, turbulent North Africa until it's afire un der their own feet, we hauled down the Stars and Stripes in wealthy, turbulent Cuba in 1902, three years after the Spanish war. And we watched the lone star of the Cuban Republic go up in its place. Later, in 1933. we scrapped the Piatt Amend ment which gave us the right to intervene for the purpose of keeping peace and order in the neighbors, sometimes bloody, lone-star republic. Were we wise? Should the French long ago have followed our example not only in North Africa but in Indo-china? Should the Dutch have followed our lead in Indonesia? Should the British now follow our lead in Hong Kong? Were we wise in granting independence to the Phillippines? Would the whole Communistic scourge in the Far East have been avoided if the French, British and Dutch long ago had done for their colon ies what we dd with Cuba and the Phillippinei. I Most Americans would say j yes. A Turbulent neighbor Some however, ooint out that. after Cuba's "Butcher Presi dent Machado was thrown out of office with the blessings of the Roosevelt Administration, Cuba' had nine different presi dents in quick succession. They point out that graft has been rampant; that the recent Prio Administration announced' it was burning several million pes os to be replaced bv new rur- rency out that these bills later iuFnt;d .UP in the pockets of cer tain Prio personalities. They also point out that one minister of education, the late Jose Manuel Aleman, under Pre- See By The By Bill It said on his ticket it was ior the whole swimming season instance, "Mr. Sullivan was finPri! $10 and costs for swimming in j the Ord Swimming pool when ! rcinuuuaii jonn aoooi came up- on. him taking a plunge after S !hours - . f1?1 safe nearly burned down onage in Sarpy countv. a h?l$?e two m"es south of 48th ! and Harrison streets. When he ' found it wasn't good in some j bncgf t reported b urning, he that, they feS ifwtstS S cases, the Ord Qui rPnnrt, grabbed the bonds before thev st.Pn tn hvnnoci., ul,.; PiIir ; i j i j l iiifi -til rim ptt i n n -- L7n ita i uiii lii uii Li ir .M.ri r m i i h j- i r p i ,. x- Holiday Birds ft liffl III sident Grau, carted so many r suitcases of cash off to Florida that he owned the Miami Snorts raiace plus several hotels and even had the nerve when asked by U. S. Customs what was in his ; baggage to tell them the truth "cash." Finally ;they. point out that the sergeant who kicked out Machado is now back in the presidential palace without, ben efit' of .ejections. : i Almost every step i you take in Havana you bump into a pol itician or a would-be politi cian. Each of them can tell vou as in the U. s. A.-' what's wrong with the country which. (after all, "is one prerogatvie of of them tell you Fulgencia Ba tista, the,-. ex-army sergeant, is a dictator;; the other half swear by him as a savior. :-, To find 'out the nature of this remarkable man who has gov erned Cuba directly . or indi: rectly for more than a decade I went to see him- ; The palace in which he lives I had once visited in the middle of the Machado administration. It was then lined' with machine guns: Searchlights glared down: irom the ramparts at night. This time a couple of guards lounged round a Coco-Cola. vend ing machine inside a rear door. Not even an armed sentry paced outside .,.. Inside, in the president's ( of fice,' T found the man some Cu bans call a dictator, to be a gen ial," mild-mannered eentlemnn of about 50 with a. command of j the Fnuikh lono ! mv Snanish tn shump whiah Doorlv- conceited T iiiun tjwiiy tuiiucajeu a sense ; of humor that frequently con founds his cabinet: "My minister to the president is getting old," he told me, with a kidding glance at the minis ter. -"We used to work here un til 3 or 4 in the morning. But I let him off at midnight and even so he's sleepy." Batista "himself had worked until 4 a.m. and was up, again at about 9. . , . For.a couple cl hours I ques tioned. President Batista about the problems of a country which is our, third nearest and most important' . neighbor, ' and I'll report s further on th visit to morrow. V $8,100 LEFT ON COUNTER . LANCASTER, Pa. A brief case which held $8,100 in nego tiable securities, matured sav- ! ings bonds: and signed travelers cnecKs,- lay on a snack-bar coun ter for about an hour before a waitress picked it up and gave it to her employers, who notified police. The owner, Frank C Querry, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was contacted and returned the next day to pick up the brief case. KILLED IN CEMENT MIXER SAN LEANDRO, Calif. While visiting the Best Concrete Com pany, Robert Tesche, 15, climbed inside a cement mixer and was killed when the machine start ed up accidentally. A revolving blade killed him at once. IlED-FACED NEWSBOY HOUSTON, Texas A news paper delivery boy for the Press received three complaints in a row from one of his customers. He had failed to deliver the pap er for three straight days to George, Carmack, the editor of the paper. Papers Murdock were destroyed. He said some ! mflamable liquid had been j L;0ure ver the 600 Pound strong i , c UUA ailu cvctu unuge ! Pan,:s were well scorched. The ! iuie nau Deen removed irom a home in Omaha. She didn't get this on the kids. Mrs. John T. Jensen, sixth grade teacher at Blair Central school, couldn't come the first day. She had the -mumps, re- ports the Pilot-Tribune! Capitol News Bj Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN ' Reprecussions were still echoing this week from the abrupt firing by the State Board of Control of its employee, George Morris, super intendent of the State Reform atory for Men. The dismissal came as a cli max to weeks of critical state ments by Morris duly print ed in the press blasting the Board, Gov. Victor Anderson, and the administration of the State Penitentiary. The Board gave as its only reason that it considered firincr Morris to be "in the best in terests of the Nebraska State Reformatory." But it took no searchlight to figure out that the Board had become fed up with Morris's in subordinate statements. Earlier the Board had been advised to wait until controversy had died down before firing the superin tendent. But Morris made a speech be fore the Lincoln Junior Cham ber of Commerce in which he blamed Gov. Anderson for "setting the stage" for the Autr- ' . u xAVl1 iiUl a me olulg ren- 16 arson riot at the State Pen- "enuary Dy nis act in taKinc i charge during the March 23 hostage" rebellion. . Morris al- so said that the Board of Con- trol members "are nice people but they don't know much about institutional operation." That did it. The Board, which had often been criticized for failing to take decisive action lowered the boom quickly this time. Reporters who visited Morris right after the action said he seemed stunned. He frankly said ne was ' surprised. Appointed in his place was M. L. Wimberlv. who ron-miteri a good record during the 28 years he worked up the ladder of command at the State Boy Training School at Kearnev. Wimberly took immediate charge including squelching: a "nrotest" nui me nrst nigni oi nis com mand. Repercussions . . ; . ; Early, indications were that the whole Morris, affair might eventually become injected in to politics. There was bound to be an effort to include his dis missal in those things the forth coming Lancaster County Dis trict Court grand jury would be probing. It might well be brought in to pontics, particularly by those unfriendly to the Republican administration of Gov. Anders son. There' was strong evidence that in ;the two davs' when, the Board of Control met behind closed doors to decide the fate of Morris its members decided fSr themselves ; o thl, 1yt inemseives. un this occa- , "iey ma not e aav?ce 01 the 8'0vern rr! nffio But since Morris blasted di rectly at the governor on sev eral occasions, this same ammu nition was bound to be used lat er. . However, the immediate -reaction was that Morris was in a much weaker position thaii he had been two weeks earlier. When he first spotlighted some of the weaknesses of the Peni tentiary administration and ac tivities by the'Board'of Control he was generally hailed by the public for his forthrightness. Later, the repeated attacks may have palled on many Ne braskans. A man with a reputation for running a good institution. Supt. Morris was never loathe to talk about it. He complained of beiner "hamstrung" hv thP Board of Control and aimed sharp-tounged barbs at State Penal Director B. B. Alhprt hired by the Board to super vise all the state penal insti tutions. Typical of Morris's all-encom- I passing statements was his re- 1 lease to the press after his dis- ! missal in which he said that I during nis superintendence', "... we have built up the best educational system of any sim ilar institution in the country." But regradless of these traits, there was little doubt but that the state was losing a good pub lic servant. Morris had stacked up a good record of rehabilitat ing men by running a full pro gram of work. Inspections by Legislature committees, investi gating committees, and penal experts had been uniformly favorable. It was because of all the con tradictions involved that it seemed likely the Morris affair would boil for a long time. Relocation A firm hand was taken in an other dispute as Gov. Anderson ordered the State Highway De partment to relocate State Highway 35 between Wayne and Wakefield. This matter has been hanging fire for years as a group of Wakefield citizens fought in the Legislature and through the courts to keep one 10-mile stretch of highway from uemg relocated. A nurnorteri together. 'Anoth rp i 7 have been that they feared the new location would send more uuMiiess io nearby Wayne Gov. Anderson had cons tu noia me matter up while akefield citizens sought a rul ing from the State Supreme clir4 on the constitutionality of 187, a highway recodifi cation bill which specifies th new road location for Highway But the Supreme Court re fused to hear the case and it had to be refiled in Lancaster i i. , , . . 77 ..v.in-vi THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B Thursday, September 15, 1955 By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 The J huge German (West German)' delegation in Moscow is provid ing Russians in the capital with more excitement than any other diplomatic event in years. The Russians hold a high re gard for Germans, especially for free Germans. Not a few Reds remember the Russian surren der to Germany in 1917 and the invasion, twenty-four years later, by Hitler's armies. Tha last invasion almost whinned Russia, again, and had Hitler not been fighting England, sup pressing France and carrying on operations or occupations in the Balkans and North Africa, prob ably would have. Thus the Russians have reason to fear or respect German capabilities. The German Gov ernment represented by Chan County District Court. Ander son said he hadn't bargained for ' tne months and years the case might nw take. So he got a J egai, opinion from the attorney general that it wouldn't make much difference whether or not the law were unconstitution al. If it is unconstitutional, the governor will still have the say so on relocation. To reassure the citizens of Wakefield that their town won't be by-passed the governor ordered the State Highway. Department to com plete the next stretch of high i way to the east of . Wakefield, over to Emerson: Blind School There were some indication: ; that a fisht miht rnmp no-ain in the 1957 Legislature over t whether the SrntP shnni fr. the Blind should be moved awav from Nebraska City. Parents of blind children be ing schooled there appear to be determined that the institution be moved to some more central ly located place. They feel they were not given a complete chance to prove their point to the 1955 Legislature which kill ed three bills aimed at moving the school. . . Meanwhile, leaders in Nebras ka City have been playing into the hands of the "relocation" bloc by insisting that the 'pre-' ieni to year oia Duiidmg not be torn down. For this reason the State Board of Control has taking its time about building anything new . at- the institu tion. - - -- The issue was one of the most touchy in the recent Legislative session. A continuance next ses sion could bring the same bit terness on both sides into the open again. Taxes Up Most Nebraskans could e-pt spt. for lighter pocketbooks after taxpaying time this November A compilation by ' the Nebras ka Citizens Council, a tax re search group, shows that the average tax bill will go up 10.4 per cent. County expenses on the av erage will jump the most, about 26 per cent. The state levies account for about a 16.8 per cent increase, the Council's es timate showed. School expens es are up on the average 10.5 per cent. City, government units have done the best job of holding down climbing expens es, for an average of 4 per cent- The Council warned. "In some areas of the state taxes are reaching the point of being confiscatory." 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"" 1 ' ' ' 1 L sr " " "I I , j .'". it 53 as; fcr- ccllor Konrad Adenauer is back ed by 50,000,000 Germans, more than the total population of France, Italy or England. The East German "stooge" regime of Russia's claims the allegiance of about 18,000,000 Germans. So the real Germany is repre sented in Moscow this week foi the first time in years. West Germany does not maintain re lations with Russia and is not recognized by some of the other Communist nations. The large delegation which is now conducting negotiations in Moscow, and which arrived in part in a special train, com plete with power station, sleep ers, automobiles and conference rooms, is a western-orientated government. It is recognized by the western powers, is a member of NATO and is a party to the Paris agreements, opening the way for the rearmament of Germany. Russia opposes this rearmament program bitterly and hopes to establish diplomatic relations with West Germany, prevent re armament and bring about a neutral foreign policy in West Germany. That is ,the reason for the warm, reception and words of recent months. But Russia faces the same problem in pacifying or win ning over West German v thnt the western powers faced in thp thirties. The Russians have stolen much German territory, in the rearrangements made after World War I, the Russians have placed millions of Germans under the domination of other governments. David Lloyd Geore-p wampri the Allies during the historic days of treaty-making, in 1919, that placing a Polsi? corridor through Germany, neutralizing jjauzig, and putting millions of Germans in the newlv-created Czechoslovakia, that this meant eventual war in the future. But Lloyd George's wisdom did not win out. And the Allies m bad faith, failed to live up to thsir nromise to npfrntitp rm his understanding and when reed and petty policies resulted in the Versailles boundaries, a new' war was certain. On this injustice Hitler later fed. Now. the Russians face th - same problem. The Germans not cniy .want C-ermany reunited but they bitterly resent and will not accept the Russian eastern boundaries which place millions of Germans in Poland. The Kremlin may not be willing to make concessions to satisfy West Germany, and a majority of those in East Germany. If Russia does not make such concessions, eventually there will be trouble on Germany's eastern boundaries. The echo of Lloyd George's voice is almost auoible in this respect. And Russia does not seem to be in position to give back to Ger many what has been taken, since that would involve taking much from Communfst stooge govern ments. The conference will probably produce results, concerned with recognition, and other issues, possibly including rearmament, but the real issue, the straight ening out of the boundary in justices of 1945, cannot be set tled, it would seem. And there in lies the seed of evil days in the distant future. Here's the Answer od of beauty 45 Biblical r.a:r.j 34 Card game 43 Troubl 26 City in Punjab 51 New 37 Negative ions. (comb, form) 42 Tatters 53 Notary public (ab.) 55 Tellurium (symbol) 43 Any 44 It is a duck HSU a n vhLgte t x f si .2jx I . I, , i TH a i