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Vj THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1945 PAGE TWO PLATTSMOUTH DAILY JOURNAL ESTABLISHED: DAILY, 1905; SEMI-WEEKLY, 18S1 Published week day venings at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Publishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER, PUBLISHER DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. United Press Leased Wire Service NEA Telephoto Newspictures and Features Daily Subscription Rates: Delivered by carrier in th. City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or S6.00 per year cash in advance; $5 per year by mail in the state of Nebraska, elsewhere S7 per year cash in advance. - nf-.i.i... i, o- ruh in anianr dv ma i in uie vi i.- . elsewhere, $3.00 per year. advance by mail in the state A Brand New Hara-Kiri Method Science and Manpower Shortage DR. EVAKTS A. GRAHAM, writing in the Saturday Even ing Post, has made a provocative contribution to the literature on our current manpower problems in an article titled, "Have the Armed Services Crippled Medical Education" Dr. Graham is professor of surgery at Washington Univer sity Medical School in St. Louis and past president of the Amer ican College of Surgeons. In the last war he was a major in charge of an evacuation hospital. In this one he served on a committee which surveyed the Army's medical needs. His article presents two chief indictments. One is that the armed forces have half the nation's doctors', though there was only one military death to every 32 civilian deaths from Dec ember, 1941, through October, 1944. The other is that the armed forces, by shortening the hos pital training of all young specialists today, are sending into the service a group of medical replacements who haven't even a smattering of surgical or other specialized knowledge. DR. GRAHAM credits surgery at least equally with plas ma, sulfa drugs, penicillin, and quick evacuation of wounded, EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN SON OF LORD HALIFAX Lt. Richard Wood, sen of Brit ish ambassador Lord Halifax, lost for the truly remarkable saving, of American lives in this- war. both his leg-s in North Africa. A Ger- He cites statements by Army Surgeon General Kirk to bolster man dive bomber attacked a motor- . . .i . xi j. ; ized British column, ana planted a that opinion. But he expresses the fear that, if the war con in- square J Umten ues long, three will be a dangerous deterioration in the quality ant WooJ Fortimatciy the bon.b was of military, and later of civilian, medicine and surgery. to go through a ward distributing ice cubes. Recently the men in ward 32, most of them in traction uplints which require absolute quiet, drank so much and became so noisy that an MP appeared to restore oder and was beaten up by the patients. Sev- CAPITAL CHAFF Interest in the Senate Commerce Committee's session with Henry Wallace was so great that even cap itol employees had difficulty getting in. Bob Fokes. secretary to Sena tor Claude Pepper, a member of the committee, showed up at the door 1 - i t . lY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent 7ASIIINGTON, D. C Only a welter of conflicting impressions and unanswered questions comes from sitting in on the two- c'r.y Wrl!r;ce-Jones hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee. I. j cr.e tail judge this sanely. It is an issue which will be decided only by prejudices and emotions. Partisan followers of the two men cannot even talk about it rationally. The Committee is supposed to be deciding merely whether it will divorce the Department cf Com merce from PkPC and the ether Federal Loan agen cies built up by Jesse Jones in the last 13 j'ears. Actually these Senators there were more than 30 of them present and they lapped up every word with far more attention than they ever show during debate on the floor of Congress are trying to judge the business ability of Henry Wallace. What is the x. - 4 combined business experience of the 30 Senators? Lii.au Chairman Bailey was for 14 years editor of the Biblical Recorder before he became a collector of internal revenue and lawyer in North Carolina. Burton was mayor of Cleveland. Welsh-born Robertson a Wyoming rancher, Vandenberg a (J:;.n:l iLrpids editor and publisher. Most were sm?ll town lawyers Grcrce in Vienna, Ga.; Pepper in Perry, Fla.; McClellan in Camden, Ark.; Brewster in Dexter, Me.; Bilbo in Poplarville, Miss.; Ellender in Houma. La. O'Daniel wrs a Texas flour salesman. What are the rights cf these to pass on who is a big enough business man? Answer: These are the duly elected representatives of the people and through them the people pass judgment on how things shall be done. TUT what about this letter of the President's to Jesse Jones, in which the President said that Wallace thinks he could do the greatest r. mount cf good in the Department of Commerce? Is this just getting even with Je?sc Jones in the belief that it was he, Jones, who inspired the Texcs : .volt against the fourth term? Or is this another kiss of death letter like the one Roosevelt wrote Democratic National Chair men Bob Hannegan at the Chicago convention, consigning Wallace to the political wolves? A strange character this Wallace. Is he being vindictive in wanting to take Junes' job away from him? Is this sweet revenge for their last bout, which Wallace lost? TT'ALLACE, in fact, again outlines the President's eight-point Bill of Economic Rights. The right to a job, to food, to a home, to pro duce, to buy and sell, to health, to old age security, to education. Yet Senator Bailey asks Wallace shrewd and pertinent questions. Hcav's he going to get all those things? Wallace's answers aren't sharply to the point. He missed here. This is the battle cf the century the'next century the next gener ation at any rate. The theme song for this two-day side-show might well have been. "Where do we go from here?" Into new fields with Wallace, or back over the conservative paths trod by Jones? OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams amputated This situation which Dr. Graham deplores is one of the they were immediately most serious aspects of our manpower problems, but it is not well above the knee. ; . e,v,;i ;, t;n nVr,,nt.c0 ; tVm nn-irt f rr ' Wood has been in unique, ouuiiai un v uB CAFxCMC " ' H7 , 7' I for some weeks, with his father and' ail IieiUS OI science are Beginning xo ieei uie pmua. mm uiuu" mother at the British 'a dud, but it crushed his legs, andtral patients were set back several 1 -with a mes;ia(re for his boss and iden- weeks in their recovery as a result of tified himself. The harassed guard leaving their cots to jump on the 'recognized him and let him through. Washington MP. 'rermrHnt ''T veroernzo vmi. vou At the Fore Glen convalescent -can go through. But you'll be inter- home, under Walter Reed adminis- ested to know that four secretaries itration, the situation is perhaps ,to Pepper have showed up already worse. Most of the G.I.'s here are i with messages for him and none has embassy. come out yet." One cf the private laughs at the White House is that Jes'se Jones is as Dr. Graham points out, other things can be postponed where (incidentally, his brother Peter wa treatment cf life-or-death illness cannot, a general dearth of , killed in action, and the third Hali- . I r r; i itr ) i- ' scientists may hamper our poswar recovery. jr v. wu, neir able to get out and visit washing- It takes- fourfive or six years of graduate work, perhaps to the itle cf I?altf'lf.a "!!mber jtn. classes in mathematics, lan to make a first-rate specialist in chemistry, physics or medi- of pf lamt"t' nowL ei??ns " act" guage and other j academic subjects cine. Many gifted students of these sciences will not survive the ll Tav j'T in of",?d .'olunfeer teacherthe only cabinet member who didn't I 1 ne otr.er uav an icv dav in hut n.- ottr-nint u Aa. . v.i , ., - , war TWp in thp ;prvifP whn Hn miv finrl At thp vnr' pnd that u- , i - -jpo tnrouprn tne lormamy or suDmit ar. inoe in me service v,no ao maj una aixne var s enu xnat .Washington you Woof was, men nsvcholocical test to nid thm i.,-., . completed his third term. New York's ex-lieutenant gover nor, Charles Poletti, has been doing an A-l job in Italy. But at first he got many a cold shoulder from Ital- their best years for study are gone, and that time and added being taken to the convalescent in choosing a post-war trade or pro- obligations' have made the resumption of study difficult or mi-pvlng of waiter rKeed hospital, justfeSsion. possible. 'outside of Washington not fori The Army Morale Service is per- treatment, but to talk to convalesc-jmitted to work at Forest Glen only ent veterans. He has artificial limbs. ;at the invitation of the Medical and ha mastered the dilficult busi-iGorps. Last summer a croup of nsv-iians before somphnrlv tinned .im off chclogists from the Morale Service This seems a minor tragedy of war, but it may become im-l portant. Age and mortality will continue to take their toll of' viviiciiii cLi-viiuto co cii-c g.l uiao kju. jlj. it xui lwu ui : of walking xnree j ears, we mignt una ine gooa neaitn ana tecnnical prog-j But his car stuck on an icy hill;preparcd an analysis of the hospit ress necessary to full employment blocked by a serious deficit leading to the hospital. Lieutenant als' needs and recommended a re of doctors, researchers, engineers, and SO on. Wood wanted to get to the hospital organization. ThLs group was ordered Perhaps-it might be wise if the Army and Navv would re-: eP his engagement with the A- overseas before its report was corn examine its students-in-uniform and its manpower' needs and TTierican oldiers- s" climbed 'Ut;P'e-fnd the report never has o-.Vp fnrtlior prl ,, n t ir, o 1 rlof V, r,,j-..i UI nls car, anu noooicu up me icy mil. of brilliant students so that they might become our first line of the hospital and gave his talk to the scientific reserves to change the forai of the proclama tions he issued as Military Commis sioner in Rome. Poletti began his proclamations with "Io, Carlo Plo etti...." for a score of years Italians were fed up reading proclamations which began. "Io, Benito Mussolini.." EASY TO SEE HE'S IK! TH' PARK. O' TH' AORJ- BEEW TO TOWN.' J INJ' HE GOT IMTOTH'PILE SAWING WOOD IN LOf FENCE POSTS 'STEAD CTrl TH' KITCHEN WHEN OF TH' FIREWOOD -AN" j THERE'S A PILE OF AS N030Dy .AW HIM FIREWOOD AS BIG J TAKIN 'EM IN, HE DON'T AS A HOUSE, ALL J WANT ANYBODY TO rk'- 1 Ctjr OUT HERE-' J I SEE HIM TAK'.NJ' 'EM f , j ? rr NT V OUT ijSy7 THE PLAVBCV X-' J?WIW Z"' In line with the increasing num ber of women in Congress, the Con gressional Secretaries Club has el ected its first woman president. She's Merle Whitford, secretary to Emily Taft Douglas of Illinois. Miss Whitford was secretary last term to Will Rogers, Jr., of California, and before that for six years to Lau rence Arnold of Illinois. One reason for th? supply diffi culty on the western front last month was the shipping space used for Christmas parcels. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell syn dicate, Inc.) . . t i 2 "J MERRY ' MARK : TOM TRADE BY DREW PEARSON active service with the army.) -British pro Hirohito af- Drew Pearson says: pose keeping Emperor ter war; Lord Halifax's son keeps his date: Bad morale in veteran's' i discredited monarchy." hospital. soldiers. VETERAN'S HOSPITAL Although the army boasts of hs Walter Reed General hospital in Washington v.s the finest in the j country, hundreds of servicemen j come out severely critical, except of , the actual surgery performed. j Head of Walter Reed is 64-year! old Major General Shellv U. Mari-i etta, General Pershing's close friend and personal physician. Gen eral Marietta is a renowned doctor, but not so strong as an administra tor, with the result that the hos pital morale is extremely low, espec- i ially anions enlisted men. I reply from Dr. Huh Shih, former! One failing i3 that the army's! Chinese ambassador to the U. S. A. , vaunted rehabilitation program has j HOUND REGISTERED Sir Paul's tender concern for the' (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now oniJaPane&e monarch brought a tart little appeared who suggested that Ilirohito be ex-.never been properly installed at j iled to London "along with the other' Walter Reed- The onlr serious at- j tejujjL ui renaumiaung voter? ns is: for men who are to remain in th i Other United Nations delegates service. Those scheduled to get dis-i also were vigorously opposed to the,cnares arc Practically ignored Washington Very in the papers) about it, but highly jTJntish policv of appealing the em-' ' une.resnjlt Jf that war attendants important policies regarding future narn M f a , u tv, are doing a thriving business sell , . , ,iperor. jlost s.ignificant of all was the xr i;n,, ,.,lTV. j-: x.;, , , relations with Japan were discussed I "Qour fiom five to fifteen dol- at the recent institute of Pacific ip;sltlon of the Brltlsh dominions lars a quart. Visitors have often ianaaa. Ausirana anu iew .eaiana noted that thf nnrl(.0nf.nnna,.in which split with the delegation nitchers alonp-si, v,r.it-,;tai r.,, from the British Islas itself. The tain liquid much stronger than coca 1 Canadians demanded a complete cola, while nurses have been known 1 house-cleaning in Japan and the do- ' 1 minion delegates from ''down under" agreed with them. relations at Hot Springs, Va. Most important of all was a proposal by the British to retain Emperor Ilir ohito and the Japanese ruling classes in the post-war setup of Japan. Sir Paul Butler, leading adviser to the British Foreign Office led the! appeal for Ilirohito. Behind closed doors at the swank Homestead Hotel, Butler made this blunt pronouncement: "Xo -alternative to a monarchial system, under the present emperor or some other member' of his family, is. likely " to provide the focus of stability which will be essential if the state is not to dissolve into ehaos in the impend ing crisis." . Note U.S. delegates at the Pac ific conference included Admiral Thomas Haft, foimer comaiider of the Asiatic fleet; John Carter Vin cent, Chief of vthe State Depart ment's Chinese- division; and Con greaswonari,V' Frances BolLon of Cleveland. At the end of the hush hush meeting, Mrs. Bolton remark ed: ' This is one conference Drew FRESH Cherry, Apple Boysenberry and Apricot pies also Pumpkin and Mince. CasrV Bakery and Luncheonette Phone 76 of PLATTSMOUTH and VICINITY You are well aware of the present difficulty in find ing suitable clothes for little boys. We sensed this situation some three years ago and systematically set about to prepare for this very emergency. We have contacted all the Boys Wear Markets in the U. S. and Today are able to show you a comprehensive line of togs for boys, 1 year old and up. 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