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THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 1943 PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA' The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 rushed Smi-wkly. Mondays and Thursdays at 409 41J Mala Sued. Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub liihlnq Company. LESTER A. WALKER B. JALCOTT ROBERT B. STAUFFER... Publisher .....General Manager Managing Editor Knteicd at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. i. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by wail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by ear ner m the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or S7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: S3 per year. 51.75 for six months, $1.09 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. 5 3.00 per year. S3.00 for six months. 60 cents per month, cash in advance. PAST POLICY AND PRESENT PROBLEMS Two of the fundamentals of foreign policy that President Truman included in this Navy Day speech have a partic ular bearing on some of the worst of the world's present problems. They are the second and fourth planks of that J2-plank platform, and read as follows: "We believe in the eventual return of sovereign rights and self-government to all people who have been de prived of them by. force.'' "We believe that all peoples who are prepared for self-government should be permitted to choose their own form of government by their own freely expressed choice, without inter ference from any foreign source. That is true in Europe, in Asia, in Afrcia, as well as in the Western Hemisphere." These beliefs', it should be remem bered, were not whipped up at a mom ent's choice to meet a current crisis. They are elaborations of ideas expres sed in the Atlantic Charter, as were most of Mr. Truman's' other foreign policy statements. So it cannot be thought that Mr. Tru man meant them as a specific warning to Russia or anyone, else. When the late President Roosevelt ami former Prime .Minister Churchill spoke of restoring sovereign rights, they obviously were referring to peoples under Axis dentin-, ation. Rut the reference still applies, to the Russian-dominated Baltic and Bal kan state, to Austria and to British-dominated Greece. In the second quoted parpraph. Mr. Truman took pains to specify that our belief in freely chosen self-government extends to all the world's continents. In doing so he surely was mindful of the Indians, the Algerians and the Tunis ians, and of the Annamites and Javan ese who are now fighting for their inde pendence. But who is to judge when peoples are "prepared" for self-government? What standards of judgment are to be used? How, in general, is this country going to put all its expressed beliefs on foreign policy into practice and when? Thus far there has been an inclina tion to temporize as well as to com promise. This government has blown hot and cold toward the Peron reg ime in Argentine. It has permitted the British and Dutch to use American lend-lease weapons in their colonial wars. Xo one can deny that the whole pro blem of practical foreign relations- is a delicate and difficult one. And no one can say that compromising and temporizing can always be avoided. But perhaps it will make the task a tri fle easier to restate and reaffirm this country's historical position as clearly and forceful as President Truman has done. Q Where did the reserved seat cus tom originate? . A Probably in ancient Rome, phitheater seats were numbered. clay "tickets'' bearing seat numbers have been found. , A ni si nd across Q How are diamonds cut grain? A With saws. It takes a diamond cutter nearly three days to cut across the grain of a IK carat stone, and he wears; out six to eight saws in the pro cess. ith the grain, diamonds split. are Q How many mines were idle dur ing the recent-coal miners' strike? A 1029; 203,811 miners were out. 9r BBJKW PKAJKSON Idle Ships Fretful Troops , Congratulations to Secretary of the Navy Forrest :il for finally getting around to asccr-. mining how many troops can be returned on . battleships.' He waited a long time (until after Navy Day), but now several battleships are being measured to see how many troops they can carry . . . I?y sealing battleships' crews from about 2. liou to Too, they can carry about l. Ooii returning G. I.'s . . . Use of battleships ought not io be necessary, however, if the na tion's tremendous surplus of shipping were ut ilized. . This now approaches scandal . . . while Sea bees, sailors and marines, soldiers wait on isl and hell-holes or in European ports, "f victory ships have been removed from military service and switched to commercial trade. These were the fastest ships built during the war, all at government expense. However, peacel imo com merce now comes before peacetime repatria tion of men who fought for their country ... Tragic waste of shipping today approches a Pearl Harbor scandal. While enlisted men eat their hearts out in Kurope and the Pacific, waiting to come home. !S vessels have been laid up in Suisun l!ay, Calif., since the end of the war . . . In addition, a total of 22 ships are now in the port of San Francisco. Accord ing to a careful survey by the maritime unions, T." doeked prior to Sept. ;iu and r5 docked the.-, first two weeks of October . . . They are not moving. All are in good condition. Smothering Small Business - 1 looks like small business, which both Roosevelt and Truman talked so much about protecting, is going to get the small end of the deal . . . During the war. big business got most of the prime contracts. More than 50 per cent of all war orders went to just six companies . ; . Now, by a sleight-of-hand operations, smaller war plants, chief protector of little business, is being gutted . . . Funny part of it is that, the gutting of smaller war plants is probably unconstitutional, since what is created by con gress can't be transferred without a new act of congress . . . Despite this, the main func tions of smaller war plants are being trans ferred to the RFC namely loans to small busi ness while the left-over dregs are going to Henry Wallace's commerce department. This is taking place just after congress got through voting smaller war plants the money to hire ;0" extra men to sell surpus war goods to vet erans . . . Senator Taft has said he was ag ainst passing Truman's reorganization bill be cause smaller war plants might be' transfer red even be fort- the reorganization bill is pas sed . . . .Maury Maverick, fighting head of smaller war plants, has given up in disgu.-t and is leaving for China the Siberia of exciled American statesman. (Donald Nelson went there before being ousted from WTIl; Wallace also went there before being eased out of the vice-presidency ) . . . Prediction: Treastny watchdog Lindsay Warren will not okay ex penditure of funds for the gutted smaller war plants. He will rule that when congress ap propriates money for one thing, it has to be spent as congress decrees, not some other way. Pennsylvania Lawyers After beating about the bush for some time. President Truman has finally decided that senators are not to appoint all his new jud ges. Senator Jo Cutty of Pennsylvania, a stal wart democrat, long has objected to the ap pointment of another democratic stalwart. Jim McCranery of Philadelphia, to be new I. S. circuit court of appeals judge. C.uffey admits he had nothing against Mc(!ranery. but want ed another man to fill the job. However. Tru man has decided to appoint McGraiiery any way ... A former congressman, McGraiiery is one of the outstanding men in the justice, de partment, will make an A-l judge . ; . Taking McC ra nery's place as No. 2 man in the justice department will be congressman .Mike MonB ! ruiiey of Oklahoma, an able citizen. Sonic re publicans are balking at Monroney's going to i the justice department, because he isn't a law yer. Hut the job of assistant to the Attorney I deparineiit will be congressman Mike- Mnn- j roney will do a fine job. i Jeeps for Vets '. Orchids to Congressman Kddie Herbert oi j Louisiana for Kunding on surplus war pro perty officials the importance of selling war goods to discharged veterans. The veteran- j are having a tough job buying government ! surpluses, despite the fact that millions of dol- j lars in jeeps, trucks, tires, ect., are lying idle j in government warehouses ... A west coast ; auto dealer recently bought loo cars from the j government at a flat price of $250 each, is now selling them tor around $1,000 each. Mean whif:, veterans can't buy surplus govern ment automobiles . . . Pest congressional plug ger for the apital of the Tinted Nations to be, in the I nited States is Congressman Karl Mundt of South Dakota. He claims and right ly that if you put the vvorld capital in the old world, it will mean the dead hand of old world politics clutching the, United Nations . . . .Mundt charges that the Pritsh, Dutch and French delegates are trying to upset the ear lier vote of the Tinted Nations committe, to es tablish the I'nited Nations capital in the CSA. Capital Chaff The island of Okinawa is rapidly getting the reputation of being the hell-hole of the armed forces. Men are living in mouldy tents. Fresh meat and vegetables are few and far be tween. A supply of dynamite recently went, off right in the middle of a tent area, killing six nun. Meanwhile, ships have been stand ing off Okinawa waiting for orders from Wash ington . . . Elder statesman Josephus Daniels, who built up the navy to what, it was in the enough army without conscription . . . Pres ident Truman and peacetime conscription. Daniel says in brief: liemove the caste sys tem from the army and promote the men who deserve promotion; then you will get a big enough army without conscription . . . Pres,, ident Truman has decided that the officer of strategic service ("Oh-so-seret") belongs in the war department during peace, rather than in the state, department. (Copyrigh, 1915, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) THREE'S A CROWD i , ?'?''. ' -''::-!-,fiw'' ':" - - -.' M 1 ' iV.-3l s - - - :. JX' - J Ug? IMiH)i.lll Edson o EDSONS WASHINGTON COLUMN NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C The main stuff to be controlled in nr. inff future uses for atomic energy, says IMaj.-Gen. Leslie V. Groves, who was in charge of the atomic bomb project' for the Army, is the enriched material the concentrate made from radioactive ores! no accurate data have been given on this con centration. One unofficial figure is that it takes 1300 tons of ore to make 50 pounds of uranium salts, from which Uranium-235 is obtained. An other figure commonly cited is that if and when U-235 in concentrates up to 10 per cent can be sold for less than $25,000 a pound, it can begin to compete with high-grade fuels. That gives a vague idea. The real secret that has to be guarded today is the know-how of this production of concentrates on a commercial scale. It is now generally admitted that the theory is no longer a secret. That is shared by many scientists. The real secret is in the job engineering and manufacturing translating laboratory exDerL, ments in microscopic chemistry and physics into mass production handbne of thousands of tons of raw material. jO budget ever has been prepared on what it would take to operate the two government reduction plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Pasco, Wash. A guess is that it will cost $30,000,000 a year. And when Congress gets through creating the commission that will con trol atomic energy, Congress also faces the prospect of making an annual appropriation of about that amount to keep the works going. , Some of the top military people who have been closest to the atomic bomb project feel that the concentrates should be kept for military uses, for a time at least. Just to enforce the peace, as it were. Many scientists and scientific groups that have spoken out ori the subject consider this an extremely narrow point of view. The trouble .is that few private business research organizations and no university scientific laboratories can afford to go into further atomi" energy research without government backing. TTIRST the government would have to give r loan some 6r thfe enriched material to the research eroup, to experiment with. Then the government would have to subsidize the research through outrisht crants of money for pure research, or on contract to conduct investigations along certain specified lines. The next ouestion is: who owns the discoveries and results of this research? Should the Atomic Energy Commission to be created by Coneress be able to lock up these findings, or to license their ue collecting royalties to get back some of its original two-billion-dollar investment and 30 million annual budget? There will be objections to any such restrictions. Scientists will .believe more proere?s can be made if there is freedom of research 1 On the other hand, the private research organizations have a natural j relfish interest in wnntine to retain nnd ra:h in r j.- i i covenes. may be made m their institutions. MY l'OKTKAI i Esme DiV- nuii-llnted tn NEA SEBVICF- NC a .I.rlJ pEPITA in XXV and I rushed over to ie .vv:nuc iuaJaKoii. inc doctor nnd his two nsristants were sitting" outside the "cliniquc" in the courtyard, afraid to enter. In side, through the glass door, I could see Eotafogo peacefully sleeping on the top cf his cage with a considerable bulge in his body wbich I concluded was. the Angora -cat of Madame do Noa illes. A group of excited women with small animals they had brought for treatment were gathered out side the entrance to the stables, .ill discussing with volubility and gestures the horrible situation: nothing would induce them to ?nter while the snake was there. !'Quoi faire. Madame?" wailed Dr. Regnier. "C'cst la ruine pouv moi!" meaning that the behavior of Eotafogo was ruining his busi ness. Vc found, after managing to get the man to pull himself together, that there was a small laboratory at the end of his apartment where we could easily put Eotafogo for the moment. He would probably sleep anyhow while digesting the cat, and in the meantime I would manage in some way to get an other plncc for him. I got Eota fogo into the small room easily enough, for he was drugged wit'i sleep and the Angora cat. and we locked him up. Then Dr. Kegnier. who was shuddering at the pros pect of breaking tho eews to his client, about the los-s ff her pet (who had been in thf ttmily way. poor thing'), revived .J iiacicntly to tell mo I would, of ennrsc. not only have to pay jor ho death of the cat and her unboni kittens, but also would have to arrive at. some compensation for the loss of liis clients, since no one would enter ms place while Eotafogo was there. I could see a fine bill for expenses looming and de parted to send a wire to Violette Murat, begging her to reply if she could recommend me to some of the directors of the Jardin d'A? climatation, so I could get them to nccept my snake. In tlic mean time newspaper reporters had gone in a body to Dr. Regnier's and photographed the sleeping Eotafogo from all angles. Then they interviewed the aristocratic and decrepit owner of the Angora cat, sitting" in her apartment ur rounded by. collections of ribbons she had won in cat shows. They took pictures of my garden, the laburnum tree, and the balcony. The evening papers were plas tered with my photograph and carried columns with the story, while the. telephone rang inces santly. Violette came t:p to Faris at once and introduced me to the directors of the zoo. officials - of the Eoarc) of Health, and oven the great Chiappc, chief of police in Paris resulting in tho arrival of -a car from the zoo fc.r Eotafogo the next day. where lie was al lotted a magnificent, air-copdi-tioned. germ-proof (age, with scientific menus prepared espe cially for him, and large brass tablet over the cage with n.y name o'.v it. HE opening ni; ryur. ihl of the inmps-Elysces was.- for a grand gala, and "the boxes were crowded with celebrities. Rolf do Mare had adopted the charming fashion, originally used by'Dia ghilev in the old Chatelet Theater, of placing all the beautiful women in the front-row boxes of the balcony. Morgan hact worked for a week on the staircase to enlarge it, and The steps now reached from the top of the stage almost to the footlights. Rainbow colors glowed through the crystal steps on my white ostrich-feather costume. Nina brought Kies van Dongen, the painter a la mode, to jny dressing room that night. He had, of course, heard and read all about the Eotafogo incident and like everybody else wanted to meet me. He was with his beautiful gray-haired wife, Jasme, and they invited me io one of their famous receptions a day or so later. The parties given by the van Dongens were brilliant highlights of the Paris season. His house on the Rue Juliette-Lambert had an enormous ballroom and n dining room with walls made of black marble on which van Dongen had painted figures of green centaurs. The table and furniture were of the same black stone, and the off ect was astonishing. The first time I went there, the fete was in honor of the Aga Khan, and many of the favorite artists in Paris entertained. Walls of the ballroom were hung with portraits of celebrated artists and society women, so when van Dongen asked me to sit for him. it was a great compliment which I was naturally very flattered to accept. He nearly always painted by artificial light and used one of the oddest implements to apply his color an ordinary feather duster with a long bamboo handle, used by maids to dust cornices and pic ture frames. While lie painted, he often wore a long grr.y (v.vt -coat and a basket, like a : fr;.-. hat, over his eyes. I enjoyed sit -ting for him, although it was pry tiring because he used p-r-.veuuL reflectors to light the color of vhc? costume he had chosen tv paint me in, The portrait was ' shown the Paris Salon the following year, and n.tics raved about it: This was all magnificent publicity for me, since van Dongen was then at the zenith of his fame, and I have always been deeply BARBS Tuberculosis Assn. To Start Radio Show Beginning Sunday morning, November 11 at 11:30, the Neb t raska Tuberculosis Association will present a dramatic radio pro gram, '"The Constant Invader," .over radio station WOW. The . time for ' this" -thirteen-week pro .grain has been donated bv station WOW. - ; Dr. A. J. Cronin, author of the best sellers "The Citadel,'1 "The Keys of. .the. Kingdom" and the retent Book-of-the-Month " Club ! choice, "The Green Years," is the I narrator of the programs which ; were -written, produced -and dir i ected by Hu Chain, well-know a jiadio producer.- Musical direction I of the entire series was by Hen j Ludlow. I The new progriyn, which will was lead by the president, Mrs. j bc. htjmJ eaeh Sunday at 11:0 Joehens. Talks were made by Mrs. ! for the next l.'l weeks, is based Eklon Mendenhali. Mrs. Alma Hay i "e stories of the many ways and Mrs. Joehens. Miss Marian I in which Americans have joined un the nation wide tight against ! tuberculosis. BY HAL COCHRAN rY"E hope our butcher doesn't " hear about the $6.50 a pound paid for a lamb at a Kansas City stock show. As regards the housing situa tion, bc it erer so humble there's no place. Wonder how many fathers ic membcr when only the teen-age sons wore their shirts. A bear was killed by an auto in the Adirondacks. It probably ":as mistaken for a pedestrian.' San Francisco's trolley line: have started classes in courtesy for motormen and conductors. It wouldn't hurt any if some of the riders were invited to attend. De Mare cave me an cxauisite sot of lights and a cyclorama of i grateful to him. silver lame that was simDlv lovJv. i Tn R Cnniirmi Mrs. Henry Maseman A and Otoe Q'What do the letters FAO signify? AThe Unit.Nati6n new .Food, and Agriculture Organization. daughter wus born to Mr. Mrs. Lyndal McMullen of She "was the former Alice Ehnshoff. ' ' Norton Johnson returned home from the hospital Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Fred C! ruber mov ed to the farm owned by Mrs. Martha Kuge, recently vacatot" by the Paul Linbardts. Mr. and Mrs. John) Stiibbenditk visited here Friday. Leanna, Stubbendick was in Avoca Saturday circulating pos ters for her ' school program at District lt on Nov. 20. Jean Pittfnan and Eob McCann visited relatives over the week end. . Ljawrence Johnson, recently discharged, is home for a visit with Australia. his brothers and sister. He en-j Rav Nortis wood on Sunday. She was the former Donna Vee Parish. After spending the day in . Omaha on Monday, they returned to, Lincoln where both' are employed.. Monte Lum returned from Kansas on Monday. Mrs. Philip Maseman, Nicholas, Mrs. Robert Nutter, and Jerry veiled at the Pierce home in Nebraska City. Orville Dotity, recently disch arged, is staying with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Will Vette. He served with, the first army in a tank corps. Mrs. Dena Huge . entertained tin.' auxiliary of , the cemetery as sociation Friday with fourteen members and visitors present. Mr. and -Mrs. II. II. Marquardt received word that their son, Sgt. John Marquardt, was married at Brisbane, 'Australia, in a church wedding to Miss Nancy McKclvic on November 1. He-is soon to be discharged,, arid plans to.'. live in ImwDod . Dale Fleishinann is now home with his discharge from the army. The engagement of Miss Lucille j Stevens and Haymond O. IJrak hage was announced recently. Mr. and Mrs. Cape of Portland, Oregon " arrived" Saturday even ing to visit, at the home of Mr. Cape's sister, Mrs. John Kunz. and Bis daughter, Flsie. Mrs. Cape .jsuffefetl a ' stroke the day following her-aH-ival. The United Council of Church Women held a progiam in the Methodist church Friday after noon to observe World Comm unity Day. The subject of the discussion was ''The Price of En- j ships during Peace.'' Worship service i jan, .uis. v nesier irons anu .uiss Helen Kinjr saner solos accompan ied by Mrs. (iuy Clements, Mrs. j Ralph Creamer and Mrs. Dale j Fleishmann. Refreshments were i served in the basement following j a social hour. ! Kalph Parish is out of school this week with thickenpox. . j Miss Donna Vee Parish and ! Yaden L. Yette. formerly of Avo- j ca. were married Sunday after- j noon at 2 o'clock at- the Christian church parsonage. After a short wedding trip the couple will make their homo" in Lincoln. ' Glenn Fiatiman has returned j to California whore he will have I more tieatment for the wound ' suffered while- serving in the Pac ific Theatre of War. Mrs. Mary Buskhk, formerly of Elmwood, died at the home of her daughter . near Weeping Water on Nov. 1. Funeral services were held on Tuesday at Clements Mor tuary and burial was made in the : Wabash cemetery. Don Parish came from St, Jo seph, Missouri, to attend the wed ding of his daughter, Donna. Other visitors at their home were Mr. and Mrs. Morton Parish and Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Parish of Lincoln. An interesting missionary ser vice was held at the Evangelical : church Sunday , evening, sponsor- cu iy the w omens society, spea kers were two students from the University of Nebraska, one a Japanese-American and the other a native of the British West In-j dies. They talked on race relation- j md brotherhood. Mrs. Belle j BOYS listed in the army before Pearl Harbor and was stationed in Eng land with the Air Corps. Mr. and Mrs. , Yaden Yette were ""en'te'rtainT'd" at" " his ' parents" "home following their marriage in Elm- has been ' taking tieatment; at the clinic- in Lincoln. Mi. and M r, Henry Smith were in Lincoln' Friday. Roy liugefiflade a business" tup: tV Omaha on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Huge and Larry, Mrs. Dana Uuge and Fran ces were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Emshoff on Sunday. ' Eva Mae Lingle was a dinner g"uest tf Mrs. Minnie Neunuister and Bertha cm Sunday. ' 'MPs'. ' "Elmer , Ilenuipgs ' spent Tuesday in Louisville at the home! Green and Mrs. Joe Kunz furnish ed special music. i Ramona McQuin met with a j very painful accident last Mon i.fti.inoon. She was climbing I over a barbed wire fence i fell, cuttine- her le ten r and so badly that .more- stitches- had to. be of her mother. I taken by Dr. Tyson. Corduroy Jumper ANTS AGES 2 to 10 Years. These are Genuine H0CKMEYER CORDS And Come In BLUE WINE and BROWN 0. P. A. Price $2.91 '