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il PAGE TWO The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-wetkly. MorxUys and Thursdays, at 409413 Main Street. PUttsmouth. Cass Count, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub fishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher B. J. ALCOTT General Manager ROBERT B. STAUFFER.-j Managing Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by tar ner in the City of Plattsmouth. IS cents per week, or S7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: S3 per year. S1.75 for six months, $1.00 for three months, cash in advance. B mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, S5.00 per year, 53.00 for six months. 60 cents per month, cash in advance. THE GENOCIDES Tin' forthcoming trial oi thy top Nazi war criminals, is like the offenses of which they stand accused, unpreceden ted in history. It is logicaj, then, that the legal talent which prepared the United Nations' indictment against these infamous 21 should have found need of a new word to define, briefly and with legal precision, the appalling crimes for which the Nazi leaders are responsible. The word is genocide, and credit for its coinage goes to an American pro fessor, Raphael Lemkin of Duke Uni versity. It is formed from the Greek "genos" which means race of tribe, and the Latin "cidere," to kill. Its first appearance is in the third count of the indictment, which states the-defendants "conducted deliberate and systemacti genocide, viz., the ex termination of racial and national groups, against the civilian populations of certain occupied territories. Perhaps, genocide may not seem to carry a force appropriate to the mon strous crimes which it describes. To American and English ears, homicide, f raticide, regicide and similar Latin derivatives sound calm and imperson al when set beside. the strong Anglo Saxon of murder and slaughter. Murder and slaughter are strong words because of association as well as sound. They are the common, sudden instinctive terms for the act of taking life. Homicide is a word that belongs to the police, the lawyers and the jud ges'. So it may be that genocide is the right word for the situation, after all. The revolting deeds of the Nazi mass murderers have brought all the lead ers except Hitler and Hermann before the bar of justice. The crimes are com mitted, and the criminals have been apprehended through history's greatest military operation. The time for right eous vengeance has arrived. Uy ordinary standards the justice to be meted out is highly unusual. There will be spokesmen for the accused, but there can be no presumption of any in nocence. The record of their intentions is too clear; the mute testimony of their millions of victims is too dam ning. !So no one doubts that the United Nations court will find the Nazi war criminals guilty formally, as the world has already found them guilty in ac tuality. When the trial is over, history may remember them as genocides the men guilty of plotting not only the crime of war, which the world so long con doned, but also the mass murder and extermination of a whole race of hu man beings. Q What 'makes an automobile (perfectly adjusted) keep a straight course on a level without being steer ed ? A (."amber and toe-in; the camber is the very slight inward slant of the front wheels from top to bottom; toe-in is the inward slant in a forward direction Q What is the plural of opus? A Opera. O, What does the name of the Chin ese city Tientsin mean? A Heaven's Ford. Tientsin lies at the confluence of the Pai anil Yuu Ki el's. q What was the total number of U. S. casualties in the war? A. i,v iv, ioj ; -Uo.oui oi tnem Killed. MERRY-(aO-ROUt WASHINGTON Harry Truman would he surprised to know that the best support ho. is is get liny for the full employment bill in the house executive expenditures committee, is from ;i republican. He is red?haired Charles Lafol lette of Kvansvillc, Ind. No relation to the late senator, young Charley follows his principles ami has been battling away for the bill, de spite fierce opposition from the ranking de mocrats. Last week President Truman called the committee, chairman. Carter Manasco of Ala bama, and William Whittington of Mississippi to the White House and begged them to get TTthiud the bill. IJut here is what happened: When they-went back to the committee, both argued against the bill just as before. The morning after his White House, visit Manasco even read to the committee several sections from the Soviet constiliulion. Sarcastically, lie. remarked: "if we pass the full" employment bill, we. might as well pass this, too.'" Observers on Capitol Hill say the full em ployment bill, as Truman outlined it, doesn't have a chance of getting out of the. house com mittee. The only democrat who speaks up vig orously for it is Alexander Hesa. a freshman congressman from Illinois and a former law school professor in Chicago. Auto Strike Eases While no public announcements have been made, secretary of labor Schwellenbai h has made encouraging reports to the White. House regarding threatened strikes in the auto in dust i v. Due important factor in behind-the-scenes negotiations is the intense competition be tween the three big motor producers Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler. As long as the three do not stick together in a last-ditch fight against the united auto workers, the chances for settlement are reasonably good. Kor none of the "big three" wants to see his plant shut down by a costly strike while his couipt t itors are producing. So secretary Sch welleiibaeh has been tpiiet iv ami shrewdly playing the three, big manu facturers against each other in hope of set tling the wage dispute. That is the current strategy. Already Henry Jord II has told Sch wellcnbaeh that he wants to cooperate with the union, and to a lesser extent Chrysler cor poration also has shown a conciliatory spirit. l;i.t;gest nut Sch weUenbach has to crack is (letieral .Motors, which so far has resisted all efforts to submit its wage battle to a nego tiation of the union's :jO-per-cent wage-increase demand. ihiweM r. if S( It welleiibaeh is able to iut Ford and Chrysler to agrve to a compromise settlement thus heading off a strike in the two plants General .Motors is not likely to risk a strike while, its two big competitors are producing cars. The auto union leaders, on the other hand, may find themselves losing government good will unless they also play ball with govern ment negotiators by agreeeing to compromise their ol-per cent wage-increase demand. Kveti more serious, they may also find the three auto manufacturers presenting a solid front against them. White House Parley President Truman held a significant se cret meeting with top advisers last week on adminsitrat ion wage price policy. Those pres ent included war mobilizer John Snyder, sec retary of commerce Wallace. CPA's Chester Howies, secretary of the. treasury Vinson, sec retary of agriculture Anderson, and pipe-smoking new economic stabilizer Col let t, whose cap taliickname is "Snufffy Smith." Scent a ry of the navy Forrest al was also pre sent. The meeting split wide open on the question of a policy of wage increases for labor. Vinson. Wallace and P.owles all maintained thai American industry had sufficient profits to give wage increases without increasing prices to consumers. Snyder and Anderson lean ed toward giving industry price raises and greater profits. In this deadlock. Truman called upon the secretary of the navy for his advice. Forrestal. of course, was formely head of the wall street firm of Dillon, Read. He advised Truman to favor price increases, and arguer that indus try was entitled to more profits. In the. iid. however, I he Vinsou-Wallace-llowlcs group, favoring wage increases without, price increases, won out. Sam Ray burn Protects Dome An ingenious scheme to exploit the capitol dome in a publicity stunt for the new Ford car was spiked the other day by Speaker Sam nay burn. Michigan congressmen wanted to ar range for a pieturo of the post -war model Ford, surrounded by Michigan solons, on the. capi tol plaza directly in front of the dome. GOP representative George Dondero first asked Kay burn for permission to have, the pic ture taken, but was turned down cold. "I wouldn't permit a war bond sign on the plaza," explained the speaker, "and I am not going to allow the il;oe to be used to advertise auto mobiles." Still determined. Doudcro got democratic repiesentaiive Lesinski of Michigan to make a second appeal. Hut Hayburn stuck to his guns. "I do not intend to lei the L'nifcd Status capitol be used as a merchandise ;howplacc as long as I am speaker," he told Lesinski. you Know International Harvester would be coining up here trying to show off its reapers. "Then we'd have furniture companies do ing the same thing and pretty soon everybody "Why. if I granted this request, the first thing wnuld he fixing to sell their wares on the cap itol steps." niSu sn.v u.tuqA'i:! luqi pio,i3i: ;sujso-j Hut bondcro didn't lay down his arms. lie finally arranged to have the. picture taken in a less pretentious spot, between the old and in w house office buildings. (Copyright, l'U3, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) i Mineral products coming from Wyoming1 in small amounts include feldspar, mica, gyp sum, manganese, bermiculite, tantalum, gold and silver. Hand shovels used in industrial plants where inflammable or explosive materials, are used are made aluminum because of the me tal;' non-sparking characteristic. THE JOURNAL. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASX Looks Like Pop Will Need i I ' I vouiu uesuoy my eeiuuvjss e BARBS How could BY HAL COCHRAN ! here." j ! . 4 - ! Most of the great avenues of pub ! lie information radio, news paper, and movie are used for 1 such purposes in many parts of Uhc natiO. Many jly tricks have, been developed for discrediting i i patriots whose sole loyalty is to America. So deadly ar waysj of i characiti-assasina'it i that many vn mignc levea. much truth e ffusc to sj.. ak out Others, more "EXPECTATION is most of the ! joy of living except for peo j pie who always expect the worst ; A Chicago tattoo artist rc i porfed the theft of 1500 tattoo- ing needles. If not in the same ' business, the present on-ner : likely is stuck with them. The frost is on the pumpkin and let hope its price won't be ! so high it'll be ashamed to show : it face on Hallowe'en, i . ' j The House postwar planning committee Yecom mends that the . i American backbone be stiffened Icmuagegu; nave ed from radio , Tied into th La situation today S-a bitter behind-the-scenes str uggle in America. On one siue are the communistic ''liberals" who worship the Russian brand of dictatorship. They are rejoic ing over Russian expansion which moves toward control of most oi .Europe and Aia. In their eyes, this communistic march toward world empire it "what we have Leen lighting for." in acaung wiin turopean pow ers. Quit babying Europe or we'll be the ones taken for a buggy ride. . i Numerous people have discov- ?red that when you lean too heav 1 Iy on luck it gives way. Washington Report by HOWARD BUFFETT Congreuman, 2nd Nebraska District T On the other side are Angio Ameriean imperialists. They are willing, if necessary, to support the British empire with all the lives and savings of the American people. They would have you be lieve that such a fantastic ven ture to rule the world is our Christian duty. They would pic ture such one-world imperiali-sni as a holy crusade. These are push ing the drive for military conscri ption. ! Both of these groups con trol publicity outlets which read? "Completely disillusioned'' was i the way Congressman summed up : his world travels in a report to : his colleagues. What had he found in the vast lands of other con , tinents boastfully described by our do-gooders as "liberated areas?" lie reported Hhal cvory- where the people were in bond ; age, moral debauchery was ram : patit, and godless communism ! was spreading. Impressed by his report, collea gues urged him to go on the radio and detail his findings to the Am erican people. With a gesture of futility he replied in about these word", 'I don't dare! I would tmmci;ately be the target of mud slinging and smear attacks that" gass mm WALGREEN AGENCY Prescription Drug Store - :-- Annual Fall SALE Thursday Friday Saturday V - - Stock up on needed household items. j CASS DRUG for VlTAMwl ' Phones So. a Lot of Convincing the eyes or ears of millions oi pe pie. With extreme cunning, each is trying, by propaganda, to edge America "over the brink'' toward their end. Either result would de stroy any chance of righteous ness justice and. opportunity surviving- in this century.. . tiiat eomo about? What about the humble people whose sons have done the fight ing and the dying? My maill in dicates they would desperately oppose the bloody pathway of either scheme. They believe that restoring liberty to millions of conscript soldiers and giving them and their loved ones genuine opp crtunity for happiness and achie vement should be our holy cru sade. Will those in power give the people a chance, to be heard? l.'nless the people can decide such i.-sues as military conscription at the ballot box, government by the people becomes a hollow mockery. oan eluiviiat- networks. . ! At theMovias Here's the blessed movie event you've been waiting for, film fans! It's "Son of Lassie," the new MGM hit playing Sunday and Monday at "the Casts Theatre, in which Lassie's son, Laddie, proves a worthy son of a wonderful mother. Kveryone loved "Lassie Come Home'' and everyone will rave about "Son of Lassie," filmed in breath-taking technicollor amid America's most rugged splendors. Donald Crisp and Nigel Bruce repeat the role.- they cr-eated in the previous success. Peter Law ford plays Joe grown up and pret- Plattsmouth Properties FOR SALE Miss Dora's Frickc home on North 6th St., cheap at $10,000, can sell for $5,000 if taken soon. Good" modem, 8 room house oh paved street. Gas for heating and cooking", completely refinished inside and out. New bath room on 2nd floor, lavatory and toilet on 1st floor, all ga3 heated, tile garage and work shop. Price $3,250. Good 6 room house and 3 lots, city water and lights, one block from pavement, very cheap at $2,200. 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THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 1915 EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent YV'ASHINGTON, D. C One paragraph in President Truman's universal training message to Congress has the military plan ners pretty well puzzled. It is the paragraph which says that after the first few months of training, selected trainees who are not physi cally qualified for military service could be trained in certain skills so that if war came they could take their places in shipyards, muni? tions factories and similar industrial plants. At first glance this idea may look like getting one foot in the door for national service in case there should be another war. The late President Roosevelt's War Secretaries Stimson and Patterson, Con- gressman Jim Wadsworth of New York and others, advocated com pulsory work or fight bills all through the manpower crisis of the past few years. They didn't get to first bsse with their proposals then nn -the chances of getting any kind of compulsory service legislation through Congress are no better today. So there apparently is no intent to advocate forced labor in time of the next national emergency, even though everyone may have to be trained for a bigger part in it. XUPLING the President's reference to "training in certain skills' 4 with several other vague passages in the message and its intent becomes a bit plainer. In the following paragraph the President refers to selecting outstanding trainees and sending them to college with government financial aid. And earlier in the message he speaks of improving the trainees educational status, raising the physical standards of the nation's manpower, lowering its illiteracy rate and developing the ideals of citizenship. Add all these points together and they seem to provide a sop to the educators who have not been able to agree on how the universal military training program should be conducted. Some educators op pose the idea altogether. Others admit its necessity but want the year's training spread over four summer vacations. All such ideas may be noble of purpose, but the Army and Navy planners responsible only for the country's defense may well ask if jsuch supplementary activities arc any part of their business. ACTUALLY, the President's message caught the staff planners a little off base. The message had not been expected until Jan uary. Consequently the postwar planning committees in the War and Navy Departments were not fully prepared with their blueprints on how universal training will work. Such plans as they had drawn up were made obsolete by the President's message. Full speed ahead has now been ordered, however, and by the time the House Military Affairs Committee is ready to begin hearings on Congressman Andrew J. May's bill to provide for universal train ing early in November, answers to most of the embarrassing ques tions should be available. What universal military training is going to cost, no one todov has even the faintest idea, but it will be plenty. Pay for a million trainees alone at $500 a year, would be 500 million dollars. jty June Lockhart, in her most im portant role to date, is the Duke's granddaughter, Priscilla, played in "Lassie" as a chilld by Elizabeth I Taylor. ; "Son of Lassie" tells of Laddie ! a foolish little pup who grows up ! to follow his daring young master j , into many dangers and passes the true test of courage when courage means life itself. It takes us from Yorkshire, Lassie's home, to an air mission over occupied Norway, where Laddie and Joe are forced to parachute into danger and dog and minster spend perilous days battling the enemy both physically ;' and in duels1 of wits. j j "Son of Lassie" is a fast-mov- , .'ing picture that will keep your: eyes riveted on the screen from start to finish. All the human actors turn in fine, sympathetic ; roles. In addition to those alrea ! dy mentioned, little Billy Severn, J Leon Ames (the father of "Meet Me in St. Louis"), NiLj Asthcr, making a grand comeback, and j Kobert Lewis give fine perform ances. J Both dogs are, of course, won- . derful. Laddie, as a pup, is the cutest little tyke you ever laid eyes upon, and Lassie, both as , herself and Laddie grown up, is ATTORNEYS AT LAW f INSURANCE and BONDS WE HAVE THEM w s Mackimaws Full Lined Handsome Plaids BOYS SIZES 4 to 18 'g '5 "J 125 MENS SIZES 30 to 51 '10" 15"" WAR FRIENDS FOR WINTER s s i I V the clever, beautiful animal lie was in ' Lassie Come Home. " You're bound to enjoy and enjoy immensely "Son of Las sie." See it by all means. Fouchek & Garnett C0LVIN-HEYN ' STUDIO FrV PORTRAITS Plattsmouth Hotel Fridays and Saturday Hours 1:15 to 8:30 P.M.