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3 PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1945 PLATTSMOUTH DAILY JOURNAL ESTABLISHED: DAILY, 105; SEMI-WEEKLY. 1831 Published week day evenings 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 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 the City of Plattsmouth, 15 cents per week, or $6.00 per year cash in advance; $5 per year by mail in the state of Nebraska, elsewhere $7 per year cash in advance. Semi-Weekly: S2 per year cash in advance by mail in the state of Nebraska; elsewhere, $3.00 per year. NO GAS l! Patriotism Revived It seems rash and impertinent to attempt any commenta tion on what is probably the war's most eloquent and inspiring story. And yet we cannot refrain from calling attention to the reaction of two of the American prisoners to their dramatic rescue fom the Cabanatuan camp on Luzon. One of them shouted "God bless Ameica!" The other, before he gave way to his emtins, said, "It cut right through me the flag." We should imagine that few Americans read those words, in the stories of the rescue, without a feeling of pride and an honest lump in their throats. And we should also imagine that with that feeling, perhaps1, the emotion of patriotism regained much of its former prestige. In the sophisticated America of the last 30 or 40 years, cne just didn't spontaneously invoke God's blessing upon America Rather, one was inclined to magnify America's faults and to dismiss her virtues simply as so many manfestations of ma terialistic prosperity. And one left all expression of feeling at Center. the sight of the flag to Francis Scott Key and the Fourth of I At any rate, July orators. e EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent ; ; WASHINGTON, D. C The 79th Congress will probably have before it this year no domestic issue of greater importance than its own reform. The House has approved a proposal by Congressman A. S. (Mike) Momcney of Oklahoma, calling for a joint committee of six Senators and six Representatives to study Congressional reorganization. Senate confirmation is expected and the new joint committee is expected to organize a staiT and make its first report by April 1. Every one of the more than 500 Congressmen has a few ideas on how Congress could be "stream lined" but that is only the beginning. Books have L? sM ueen written aoout it ana magazine articles oy tne fT " I A score. Private organizations like American Political U A Science Association and National Planning Asso ciation have made independent studies. 1 U -r Catholic leaders of the Left and ; to . work the American move inside Germany throuth That at least was the reaction of most of our intellectual' the ffice of Strategic serviec was leaders particularly in the Twenties. And there was some oprped fhort . its track,, while ... ... the Russians continued to builJ up c.uuft iui it. .uduy ui ineir leuow vmencans were con vinced of America's perfection, and defended that complacent conviction fiercely. But the reaction defeated its purpose. Such phrases as their powerful German committee. Psychological Wcrfare Stymied Meanwhile, however, the U. S. Armv ha-I set un its psychological these soldiers used would have been laughed off a stage, ! warfare division which was to ppread sneered at m book?, picked to pieces in conversation. In many circles patriotism was actually something to be ashamed of. But the war has shown us all that civilization itself has largely been preserved by our once-derided materialism. It has shown us that we could have spiritual as well as material growth in time of emergency. And we have now come back to the day when a boy can cry "God bless America!" and another can weep on seeing the flag, after a painful ordeal of learn ing, day after hungry weary day, what the absence of that flag can mean. And we can all share their emotion and be moved by it. Some may fear that many soldiers, feeling as these lads on Luzon felt, will come home with a desire to find and keep America as they left it, and thus encourage reactionism or strife. But patriotism can be revised as well as revived. It need not degenerate into chauvinism and foreign bias as long as our national hfe is governed by decency and unity. We have een for all our imperfections, too many instances of those virtues during the war to doubt that. virtues In the meantime, it is good to welcome back a little old fashioned, unabashed patriotism after all these cynical years ii it .1 ri i rrj or ma n vi 1 OTL.F4f i Vi v30 ROUND REGISTERED BY DREW PEARSON thrnr r,ff e ,l. .. t r i i juiil "J. me .Hitlerites Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on They have also contacted many Ger active service with the army.) man generals and won ovor thou.- Drew Pearson Says: U. S. at-! 1 f Pri30nePS Without fin a tempts to organize anti-Httler Ger mans blocked by State Department; Army also cool to psychological More than two years c?o. Gtn. jj William Donovan's office of strategic up their mistakes by propaganda in-ile Germany, though on a more modified scale.. However, its work aho has ben stymied in many years through the failure of old-line armv men to understand the value of psychological warfare. For instance, plans were drawn up for the psychological warfare division to establish a Ge:man languauge newspaper as soon as we took Aachen. Aachen was to be a guinea-pig, providing experience for PWD in overseeing production of newspapers for the German popula tion. When the city was taken, PWD immediately sent three men from Paris to survey the facilities in Aachen for presses, equipment, newsprint and skilled personnel. Thus far nothing had heen ac complished in fact, the divisional commander at Aachen has not yet! permitted the PWD team inside the! city, mere were several weeks prior to the German break-through of De cember durin? which the newspaper could have been started, but nothing was accomplished, and there has been no progress since. Result is that our forces will break into Ger many and take over scores of Gor man newspapers with no part of the army yet having had any experience in directing a German newspaper. Meanwhile the Russians have ouut un an organization ready to set up a complete new German gov ernment with its own propaganda system all operating under the di rection of Moscow. CONGRESSMAN EXPLODES representative Dewey Short of Missouri gave the brass hats some of the plainest talk heard on the floor of congress for a long time. tT 1 1 , accused mem oi irvin to rover demanding BARBS ARMY life is in itself an educa tion. If you don't know beans, you scon will. An Illinois couple had a 200 pound wedding cake in the shape of a ship. It teas sunk during the wedding reception. If gas holds out in seme states while coal is short, we can't im cgine a nicer place to be than home on the range. ; At last j.'!o cares if a cigaret liglitcr doesn't ivork? Police seized $1J,00C from own ers of an Illinois garr.blir.g spot. Customers likely laughed up their sleeves if they had a shirt left. Nebraskans Back Up Wa? Effort In Month - - "Til , T"..T-i-.TT .... Cdaon suuu';j1Ij range all the way from removing the snuff box which by Senate rule must be filled daily with fresh sneezes, to removing many of the Congressmen themselves, making the Congress a smaller body, paying the members mere money, giving them pensions to boot, and providing them with more help at higher pay so they can do more work and keep a better check on the rest of the government. The problem is going to be one of getting any kind of agreement on what if any changes should be made, boiling down all the proposed reforms into a program acceptable to practical politicians jealous of their historical prerogatives. That being the case, many of the suggested alterations simply aren't going to get any place at all. Many of the things which seem the silliest like the Senate snuffbox and the right to filibuster are a part of now-traditional rules which will be changed only over some solons' dead bodies. Proof of that is the fact that although several hundred and resolutions to change the structure of Congress have been introduced by Congressmen in the last 50 years there were 50 reform bills offered in the 78th Congress the last reorgani zation was in 1921. THIS whole business of Congressional reform in its broader aspects is hinged on what you want your Congress to do. That's why you find suggestions for giving Congressmen less to do alongside sugges tions that Congress should do more. Part of the agitation in the latter direction comes from Congressmen and others who feel that the executive branch of the government has usurped many of the legis lative functions and that Congress should regain lost powers. Counter to this is the sounder belief that reforms of Congress should be aimed at taking it further out of the executive business and keeping it what the Founding Fathers intended to be a law-making end a policy-making group, leaving administration and execution of its orders to others. OUT CUR WAY By J. R. Williams Rcpcrt of J. R. 8,900 Inoustrial the Month Kinder Shows PlacEments in warfcre; congressmen irked at army's ! serviccs started to do the sam thing, j passage of the work-or-f ight bill. mistakes. iney actually organized an embrvo , , should "Generals and admirals Washington The inside story of how certain U. S. agencies were blocked in their effort to build up an anti-Hitler committee of Germans to help defeat the nazis can now be told. It is especially significant in view of the committee of 10,000 Germans which the Russians have organized in.die Kussia, and whose broadcasts to the German people from Russia speeded the amazing ad vance of the red avmy across Poland. The German committee inside Rus sia is headed by Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, former com mander, at Stalingrad and by his deputy commander, Gen. Wilhelm von Seydlitz. Their broadcasts have told the Germans and especially the German generals that the Russians did not seek to destroy their fac tories or their country, but only to jlhey actually organized an embryo! i committer" nf nni ; i r ; f : VdM ' : " """-"rtay m their place," sto.mel the Bruonip,, r;. i , leading republican congressman from rsru.ning cabinet, who also was a m;,; Tl , ,. , stronir Ch wi, T.....:i Ml-ssouu- They have an applied is now teaching t. Ho " ''a V , sc,ence to Pecute this war. They of the Germa"n commit -7 we "the miIi Catholic Moderates or Leftists all tf gerh aM mk' strong anti-Hitlerite. I ea in Washing- , jton come up to your office and try However, a few weeks after the to tell you how to win this war. committee was started, the State What right have the military to tell Department heard about it and business, labor and industry men suddenly called a hslt. OSS officials who are qualified by life-long cx always suspected the hnnd of Hugh perience what to do? Industry and Wilson, ex-ambassador to Germany, labor are both opposed to this bill." in this. Wilson, then a member of the (Short referred to the work-or-OSS, hiri leaned tdward Rightist' fight bill.) ! German, groups, when he was ambas1 (j"What is it for?" continued the eador to Berlin and ) had little, use gentleman from Missouri, "to cover for groups of the Let't: His colleague UP mistakes and miscalculations? in the OSS, however, believed that f CTni:and JHng on the home front? The only trouble between a the way to build a counter-political civilian and ft general .g ;that the attack against Hitler was with strong army is never wrong? Was. it ever wrong? I served and you served in it. Was it ever wrong? Never. They! . ". are lnianioie, impeccable ana unri.-t-like on this earth. I will not say where they will go afterward." Here Short spoke of the optimistic calculations of an early end of the war issued by U. S. military leaders as long ago as 1943. lie also accused the army of responsibility for present-day production difficulties be cause ''They canceled contracts; they terminated contract; thev clos ed one factory after another all over this country and threw thousands of people out of employ ment." His colleagues who were support ing the May bill both republicans and democrats did not escape the wrath of the fiery Missourian. ''We have men over here on the republican side who worship stars and love gold braid," Short admit ted. "Of course, politics were played last fall," he continued, "but I will not even go into that because I do not want to prejudice nor weaken my case with some fellows over here who are tottering mugwumps. You know, a mugwump is one who has his mug on the wrong side of tho fence and hir, wump on the other. You care more for your little seat in this house than you do for the welfare of this country and the safety of our boys." (Copyright, 1945, by The Cell Syndicate, Inc.) LINCOLN, Neb... Feb. 8. 'UP The fine spirit of Nebraskans in backing up the war effort was prais ed today by J. R. Kinder, state War Manpower Comnn.-sion director, mi reporting a total of 8,000 industrial placements last month, the largest number since March, 1943. Kinder said the figure represent ed an increase of 41 per cent over December, 1944, placement totals, and 75.8 per cent over that of Jar.u- The director pointed out only 7,7 per cent of the placements went to less-essential industries, and that 72.5 per cent of the workers found jobs in ton priority plants. He urged workers to keep up top production even after victory in Europe, and to prevent another "costly letdown in production" such as followed D-da2' in June, 1944. I TH!! IT'S V S-S-ST.' 'M'.UDS Vh, ShE ER 1 AM INSULT FOR 'TH' BOVS I ( OF A iAL I MCBCO I THEM T l iTLiwC 1 TCi . ir Nl ir-r ... -ru' i-. . -, . . I r ;x THEM TO &IVE ' SUCH AM UGL-Y OLD HOS.SE WMEM THEY r!AV SO MANY PRETT CSE-S OM THE CANICH.' TELL Ti-iM 3 OME CP TH EEST BuSh OST iM TH' , ElE Can DESERT SEE BUT A . FOWDERiM' I SMAu. SHC" HE2. MOSrE.' I T.Oj OF HiM at ON.E TiME f i"VET5f A V v")ST HA1 VAUTy.' A. I-l,)i;t A IM TH' COUUTY.' . .Vt:.'?'r .r . THE LANJD SUSMARiwES c- ...... .r..,. THE BLUE BIRDS The Blue Bird.s of the campfire group met Wednesdaty aftemoon at the library for a very interesting time and discussion of their work There were seventeen of the mem bers of the group in attendance. The ' members of the group played games' and enjoyed folk dancing as a part- of the afternoon. Janert Reedcr, Scribe Men's Shseplined Coats, Fur Collar 312.95 15.95 Buy Now and You Have It Next Winter Otherwise ? Good Clothes Since 1879 A Florida wahoo has been timed swimming in excess of 40 miles per hour. Good Scouts i r CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our deep ap preciation for the acts of kindness, messages of sympathy by words, cards, floral and spiritual gifts re ceived from our friends and neigh bors during our recent bereavement in the loss of our beloved husband and father. Our thanks also go to those who called on him and remem bered him with cards during his ill ness. These did much to make his last days happy ones. 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