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PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1943 Read It and Weep! THE PLATTSMOUTH JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Publishing Company. LESTER A- WALKER, PUBLISHER DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MTNAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE; trade area. $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in the City of Platts mouth, 15 cents per week, or $6.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: $3 per year, $1.75 for six months, $1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per months, cash in advance. DEATH Help For Holland To most Americans the Dutch have always seemed a quaint people with their windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, storks, wide starched caps and wider breeches. We've chuckl ed at them and their queer clacking language, but we have also admired them'for their industry and neatness, their apple cheeked health, and their resourceful battle against the en croaching sea. Perhaps the average American's picture of the Nether lands has been a little distorted. The Dutch have known bitterness and unrest and bleak poverty. Yet in the main our impression of a healthy, happy people has probably been accurate. At least it was until May 10, 1940. On that day, nearly. five years ago, commenced what is doubtless the most tragic chapter of Dutch history. The Ger mans invaded the Low Countries to "protect" them from the Allies. Four days later, after the Dutch armies had capitulat ed, the Luftwaffe flew over the great city of Rotterdam un opposed, and bombed it to rubble. From then on the night of terror grew blacker- The Nazis, early convinced that their brutality was not forgotten or forgiven by their Dutch neighbors, resorted to cruelty. The stout-hearted Dutch fought back as best they could with ! sabotage, passive resistance, disobedience and ridicule. ft- American position was corrected.' But Stettinius either wasn't enough or didn t have courage enough to put across his views with the president in the first place. If so, it might have saved a lot of headaches. That is why some of FDR's most genuine well-wishers are hoping that he will see the importance of bring ing stronger men into the state de partment and do it soon. General Simon Bolivar Buckncr ceeded to answer the committee's (questions. F. D. R.-His Own Secretary of State Just after the new millionaire team of state department executives , was appointed last December Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned her husband, I then at Warm Springs, expressing Last fall release seemed imminent. Allied armies drove i her strong disapproval. She felt that up from Belgium to free the southern Netherlands provinces, i they did not represent her husband's Then the Germans held. And for the greater part of the I philosophy on foreign affairs. F. D. country still in Nazi hands, the worst was only beginning. fTTl' brief!j ut Vs: thcy ' b dont behave, 111 fire em. The Germans opened dikes and dams and poured the j The pi.esident also reminded Mrs. uhi uhiit vx ct iiun-i j -1 iu iiicmi. dtcu iiia ivii-nt u j inooseven. iruti ne was ruiimiiK iui- j v. R, rivi:i the toil of generations. The important source of food thus lostjeign affairs himself. toward unconditional surrender. Lt. cannot be reclaimed, it is thought, for at least ten years.1, There is no ion but that the!Gen gimon Bolivar Buckner today Starvation thus was added to indignity and fear. , president is anxious above all ehej., dojng a jQb in leadinjf our Now at last the day of liberation is at hand-not only for!0XV Tenth ay in in S , , , . , , , iu r -j ,voodrow VV i.son, and has .asidrive to force unconditional surren- the Dutch but also for the English, as the Germans are driven his most cherished goal the winning: , . ! Jl T T 1 1 1 11.1 1 1 T.il 1 1 1 4 1 it fi ll T.. A. 1 irom ine v-Domu installations on tne .Aetnerianas coast. Ana , 01 me peace aucr me war. cul iu- there is nothing in all the present tide of Allied victory that ! da'- with many othcr Ploblems t0 , . , ..... i watch, the president cannot devote brings greater cause for solemn rejoicing. jaU hi; thyePto forei?n affalrg In Relief organizations apparently are prepared to move in ( addition, his periods of rest and re quickly once the Nazis are driven out. And there is urgent laxation necessarily have become need for haste. The little country whose markets once abound- longer, so that he is not in Washing- ed in golden butter and cheese, rich cream and other enticing !ton as much as formerly food is now without even sufficient bread for most of its people SonMakes Visit To Clarincta, Iowa Prison Camps Japanese and German Beth Cn:-ed fcr at the Iowa Camp and Treat ed Well Each day's delay in bringing food to them will mean the death of hundreds more. It is, in part, for such people as the Dutch that the Presi dent has asked us to tighten our belts. As we think of them we might reflect on the meagerness of the sacrifice we are ask ed to make. cflieDAILYMSi MERRY. Wk'ftOUND TBADE ' MAftrl'V Tt- ltj REGISTERED Say:- Drew Pearson lauds Hoover as commerce secre Wallace, ant point of foreign trade. Hoover (had his own experts stationed abroad tary; FDR really runs U. S. foreign j to report on foreign trade. But Harry affairs himself; Buckner views changed surrender. family WASHINGTON Believe it or not, but Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace has been carefully studying the work of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and has paid private tribute to him. One of Hoover's closest advisers, when he was secretary of commerce was Dr. Julius Klein, director of the bureau of foreign and domestic com merce, later assistant secretary of commerce. Twice, Wallace has called Klein in to ask his advice on the reorgani zation of the new commerce de partment. Wallace also dropped a signifi cant remark to business callers the other day about Hoover,. He said that Herbert Hoover unquestionably was the best organizer and had the greatest vision of any secretary of commerce in recent history. It is predicted by some of those around Wallace that he will go back to a lot of Hoover's ideas about Tunning the commerce department. This probably will mean a clash with the state department on the hut-crt- Hopkins let this be taken over by the state department. Many businessmen have urged that it be transferred back. Ex-Senator Gillettee Testifies One of the most tiresome things about congressional hearings are the monotonous statements made by witnesses. Pages long, thcy are us ually less illuminating than ten hot questions. 1 Chairman Guy Gillette, of the Sur plus Property Board, for 12 years Since the November elections, actually the president has spent not much more than two months in the White House. He went to Warm Springs shortly after elections, then to Hyde Tark for Christmas, then to Yalta two days after his inaugur ation, then immediately after his re turn he went to Hyde Park, and now is away at an undisclosed place again. During one important part of his time, the trip to Yalta, the president was giving his time exclusively to foreign affairs. And also he keeps in touch with things by courier and cable. However, it is impossible for him to watch everything, and the snubbed invitation to General De Gaulle, is a case in point. State department career diplo mats, by inference blame the presi dent for this serious blunder in our vitally important relations with France. They infer that they were merely carrying out orders from F. D. R. to invite De Gaulle to come to Algiers French territory which was like De Gaulle inviting Roose velt to be De Gaulle's guest in Puerto Rico. SECRECY AT YALTA But a strong state department would have saved the president from this error. Sumner Welles, as under-secretary, never hesitated to stand up for what he thought was the right policy. If he saw the presi dent getting off on a tangent he battled it out. He had known FDR a senator, knows this, but when called to testify before the senate; since he served as page at the Roose Small Business committee, he found jvelt wedding and he wasn't afraid to say what he thought. Unfortunately, Ed Stettinius and himself with a very long statement on his hands. Senator Wherry, of Nebraska, who was acting as chairman of the hear ing, asked Gillette if he had a pre pared statement. ''I have a prepared statement," replied Gillette, ''but I believe it might be well to leave it with you without reading it unless you insist on it. I haven't read all of it myself." 'You think you'll agree with it?" asked Wherry joshingly. , "Yes, I do," replied Gillette I'.athms a broad tmile, then pro- the new state department aids have no experience in standing up to the president and probably are afraid to. They were hired on the basis that if they didn't behave they'd be fired and they owe everything to him. It is generally known for instance, that Stettinius did not approve of the three-vote deal at Yalta, and that he also favored open publicity on this and other things. In the end, when the clean light of publicity was focused on the three-vote deal, the General Buckner is the son of Lieut. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner of the confederate states of Ameri ca, who was the first to be forced to yield to the "unconditional sur render" demands of U. S. Grant. In February, 1862, General Buckner sent a note to grant suggesting an armistice for the purpose of discuss ing the terms upon which he would surrender Fort Donelson, Tennessee, then under siege. Buckner and Grant had been classmates at West Point, and Buckner once loaned Grant money to get home on vacation but despite this, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accept ed." Furious, Buckner replied to his former classmate: "Sir: The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an unexpected change of com manders, the overwhelming force un der your command, compels me, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and un chivalrous terms which you propose." The uncondiitonal surrender was consumated. After the Civil War, General Buckner continued to serve in the United States army. Today his son hopes to be among the first to im pose unconditional surrender on the enemy in the Pacific. (Copyright, . 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) "Prisoner of War Camp Near C!ar- Times have changed and so has j jn3a, la., April 9. (U.Ff , "There," said the colonel, "is the completion of the axis." He pointed to a group cf approxi mately 50 Japanese prisoners of war digging ditches inside the barbed wire of this southwest Iowa prison camp. A smaller group of German prisoners of war supervised the ditch diggers. "The two groups don't like er.ch other," mused the colonel. The American officer, Lt. Cel. George W. Ball, 53, Martin's Ferry, O., is in charge of the camp. He doesn't like Japs. In the tough little colonel's salty vocabulary the Japs are "monkeys,", or just plain "yellow bellies." Ball served in the last war, and entered service again on the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1941. ''We adhere to the Geneva con vention regarding treatment of pris oners of war insofar as the Japanese standard of living applies," Colonel Ball said. ''We're humane, but we don't coddle them. We arc firm and just. We treat the prisoners so that the Japanese government will have no cause to mistreat our men who are prisoners in Japan." Approximately 500 Japanese pris oners are located at the camp which originally housed only German pris oners. Most of the Germans have been transferred to make room for the Japs. The remaining Germans, approximately 200, have special skills which are not found among the Japs, such as bakers, electricians, and car penters. A group of newspaper men went through the camp and i nspected every part of it. We saw no evidence of mistreatment, and no evidence of coddling. But when American offi cers and guards spoke through Nisei interpreters the prisoners reacted with alacrity. The colonel has a rule of "No work, no eat." The Japs work. The barracks were clean and warm even though a sharp wind whistled across the plain. The pris oners, good physical specimen, were dressed adequately in TOW- denims a few in army olive drab. They ap peared to be well-fed. Old Resident Is 87 Years Sunday Sunday was the eighty-seventh birthday of John Hiber, one of the old residents of the community, al though one would scarcely believe Mr. Hiber had attained this ripe old age as he is able to keep up his usual activities. He states that ho has been a resident of Plattsmouth for the past sixty-seven years, coming here as a youth and was engaged in the Bur lington shops in this city until his retirement. EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent VVfASIIINGTON, D. C Average citizens probably know -u, about the workings of the approximately 800 Industry Advk,-v Committees and Labor-Management Advisory Committees funnio'i , in Washington today, but they're here nevertheless and going "nobnr v Itnnws fnr euro -inct .itVv & "uuy . , , T- , V & , cU-11 01 Cll'zens hav ng highly specialized knowledge of one kind or another and asking them to tell their government how things should be done goes back to 1G63 when the National Academy of Sciences was given a feder d charter in which it was stipulated they should Hive acviee whenever needed. The four-dollar, polysyllabic, political science name for this sort of thing is "functional groun representation." It was rather slow to catch on but from a number of quarters it is advocated there should be more functional group representation to correct what's wrong with your invrmmnnt Labor organizations keep needling for more cf it and so do the business and farm pressure groups. Edscn "C1 UEOPEAN countries have experimented with this type of thin" in various ways. France, Czechoslovakia and even Germany under the Weimar Republic had such a set-up. In Italy it was highly devel oped under the corporative state. Growth of the idea from 18G3 on has been slow but steady. Up to War One only 60 such advisory groups had been created. Bernard Baruch is the real daddy of the modern Industry Advisory Committee. He created some 400 of them when he was Chairman of the War Industries Board in 1917 and '18. In the year 1933 a Business Advisory Council of businessmen was organized for the Department of Commerce. It is still functioning It was responsible for the creation of the Committee for Economic Development, admittedly the best of the postwar planning agencies. Just after he was named Secretary of Commerce, Henry Wallace put the Council to work on the problems of small business. JTOREIGN ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION has a Trade Relations Staff which has done much to keep America's exporters and im porters alive during the war years. The Petroleum Industry War Council took in the whole oil produc tion, refining and marketing industries in a tight little organization under Petroleum Administrator for War Harold Ickcs. Such aii organization would not be permitted for a minute in peace times under the anti-trust laws, but here it is as a war-time phenomenon, functional group representation in government developed to its possibly highest degree. That raises the big controversial question on this whole issue. Are government advisory groups democratic? Do they bring government closer to the people and vice-versa? Or do they merely give vested interests legal standing by inviting their lobbyists right into the council chambers of government? GUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams 5H-H-H.' I WOKE 'EM REST, D!D VOU SAY? OUT PLAYlM' WITH 'EM THEY'LL BE AWAKEMED SO EE CAREFUL AM' J RIGHT MOW BEFORE ) LEAVE 'EM REST TILL A V THEY'RE CRIPPLED Sffift I: i I VOL)' RE READ" TO GO ) T FOR LIFE.' rrf't ft ) V HOME. THEY NEED V ! H !!i ! -r WHY MOTHERS "GET GRAY. - r."..Eau"s.PTorr. , "Many of them were in bad shape j when they arrived," Ball said. "We; had to fish out shrapnel from a lot1 cf them. None has died since reach-1 ing the camp."' j Few of the Japs speak English,' athlough several understand it. the Colonel said. Shortly after the pris oners arrived he asked a question j i through an interpreter. The prisoner answered in English and said he formerly lived in Los Angeles. "So you went back to Japan and got mixed up in this mess," the colonel said. "I got in the wrong army," the prisoner replied according to Col onel Ball. None of the prisoners wished to communicate with their relatives in Japan- They explained they were con sidered dead by their own people. 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