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I THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1945 PACE TWO The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Publ.shcd serm-weeldy. Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County. Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher B. J. ALCOTT General Manager ROBERT B. STAUFFER Managing Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1C7V. ' SU2SCR1PT10N RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by mdil outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car ner in the City of PiaUsmojth. 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per year lash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: Si per year 51.75 for six months, S1.00 for three months, cash in aarue. By mail outs.de the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 pu :ar. $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in ad vain. RECONVERTED THINKING The dominant coiitrre:'.sional reaction to President Truman's plea tor univer sal military training indicates that Cap itol Hill has quickly reconverted to its peacetime ways of thinking about this subject. The majoiity of legislators who con sented to comment on the proposal was1 against it. And their reasons were, for the most part, the same ones that were used to defeat similar proposals in troduced in Congress in the period be tween the two World Wars. They didn't seefii inclined to argue the urgent reasons behind Mr. Trumans request. Xo one disputed his statement "never again can we count on the iux i:ry of time in which to arm oursel ves." Xo one took issue with him when he said, "tin" surest guaranty that no ration will dare again to attack us is' to remain strong in the only kind of strength an aggressor understands military power." In fact, the recent war seemed to have slipped many congressional minds. Xone of the plan's opponents apparent ly, recalled that we almost lost the war while, of necessity, we indulged in the C".-tly "ltiTtny of time" to train and eq uip an army and navy. Instead, they fell iack on a familiar line of reasoning which one might have thought would have been shaken, if not destroyed, by the war. These are typical samples of that reasoning: one member said that one year of peacetime training wouiti ''mil itarize America." Another referred to th proposal as "compulsory military conscription . . . contrary to our tradi tion and political philosophy." A third called the President's plan " a direct invitation to the other countries of the world to arm to the teeth." And so on. The President, General .Marshall and other military leaders have taken pains to point out that compulsory military training is not compulsory military ser vice. Young men who received that training would not be inducted into the armed forces. Peacetime conscrip tion is truly "contrary to our tradition and political philosophy." Put peace time enscription isn't being proposed. Kvery congressman knows that the I "tiited States has escaped defeat twice within 2o years only because strong allies held out and allowed us to build lift our weak defenses after we were al rajdy involved in war. Every member also knows, if he watches the public opinion polls, that the majority of citi zens favors universal training. Yet most of them, perhaps because of pressure from constituents who op pose the plan, seem ready to return the nation's defenses to tlve level of April, 11)17, and December, 1941. ( How far into the ocean does the l". S. claim continental jurisdiction? A To the dege of the continental shelf, the point where the ocean floor drops sharply. The Atlantic shelf runs 1 to 2o0 miles out; the Pacific, about 2o miles. Q Who are President Truman's military and naval aides? A Prig-Gen. Harry H. Vaughn and Com. James K. Vardaman, Jr. ( How many soldiers does Russia plan to have demobilized by the end of J !)!"? A Around seven million, from an army variously estimated at 12 to 10 million. Q What is ramie; what is arlac ? A P.oth are new textiles: ramie is glass fiber, and arlac is made from milk milk curds'. cue vraKsm Mr BSJtW FKAJK&OJf vYASt!i.('.TO. At an appropriate twin, dur ing Prime- Minister Clement Altlee's visit, a secret agreement between the 1'niicd Slates and England may be diplomat haiiy called to bis attention. Th is is an agreement initialed by Winston Churchill and Franklin f). Hoosevelt at (Juebtc on Sept. l. i!' 14. regarding the part it inning of Germany. At that time just a little over a year ago tin American ainiies had broken Ih.ough the Herman line of defense in Normandy, had sw ept past Paris, and General Marshall ' had i t turned from the Kuropeau theater with an optimistic report that the war could be over in few weeks. Tlivreloiv. iioosevelt ami Churchill, meeting in Quebec, discussed the question of occupying western Germany. The lied army at that time, was stalled, and it looked as if the American army, plus Field Marshal Mentgomei y's much smaller Uritish army, would have the job of taking over most of Germany. At Quebec, therefore, Konseveit leaned to ward the idea that tile I'nited Stales occupy the Uuhr and much of industrialized western Germany. This brought immediate opposition from Churchill. Actually, the late president did not trust the -British to dismantle German industry 'in this vital iron-and-steel area, without' which Germany cannot make war. He recalled that after tlie last war the Uritish had opposed x France and her policy toward German indus try in the Kuhr. And had it not been for Uri tish loans to Germany, plus the support of the iiiit ish foreign office. Germany might not have staged its comeback. Hoosevelt Challenged Churchill Hoosevelt. who could he both friendly an J blunt with Chun hill, told him frankly of his tears legaidiug British policy in wet-tern Gei many. Whereupon, to satisfy the late president, Churchill dictated the following memorandum of agreement regarding the policy to be fol lowed in distinantling German industry: "Quebec "At a conference between the president and the prime minister upon the lit t measures l, prevent renewed rearmament by Germany, it was felt that an essential leature was the fu ture disposition of the Kuhr and the Saar. "The ease with which the metallurgical, chemical and electrical industries in Germany ( an lie converted from peace to war has al ready been impressed upon us by bitter experi t nee. It must be remembered that the Gir-i-iaiis have devastated a large inn ion of the industries of ltussia and of other neighbor ing allies, and itt is only in accordance with justice that thee injured countries should be ealilled to remove the machinery they require , in order to repair the losses they have suf fer d. Tie- iiidustrbs referred to in the Ui.hr and in the Saar would ihtiefore be lutessariiy put out of ac tion ami dosed down. It was felt that the two (iisliitts should be put under some body under the world organizaion vviii.h would supervise the dismantling of these in-di.-lties and make sure that tiny were not .tailed up again by some subterfuge. "'('bis 'ogramme for eliminating the war making industries in the Uuhr and in the isaar is !o"l:i!ig forward to converting Germany into a country principally agricultural and pastor al in its character. "Tiie Prime Minister and the President were in agreement on this programme. I Initialled ) "O.K. F. I). 11. "W. S. C" British Buck in Berlin Wince t hen. however, tile behavior of Sir Percy Mills. I'.ritish member of tin- allied e onouiie directorate in Herlin, has been just tile opposite of the Church il 1-lloosc velt agree ment. When it toiiirs to dismantling German industry, the Uritish have constantly hung back, sometimes with the tacit approval of American generals, some of them recruited from wall Street. This has aroused the bitter opposition ol the Russian delegate. However, as far as President Truman is con cerned, the basic policy laid down by i'resi tieiit Hoosevelt will lie followed. Regardless of the policies of certain F. S. generals abroad. Truman definitely believes in the dismantling ol Germany industry. Accordingly, the secret Quebec agreement may be discreetly recalled to Prime MiniMcr At tie if its seems necessary to convince him on this point. XoK The late president told friends liut' alter the war he planned to publish the sec ret Quebec agreement in order to make absol-. utely clear P.rit ish-Auu riea n policy regarding the future of Germany. Navy Loves MacArthur In the lobby of the .Mayflower Hotel last week was an interesting navy exhibit of the photographs of all "war leaders." It was an official exhibit, with two marines standing guard night and day. The photographs included not merely the leading American admirals, and most Aiiier ban generals, but also stub lesser war lead ers as ex-secretary of labor Frances Perkins: Chairman Sid Hloom of the house foreign af fairs committee..; the late Marvin Mclntyre. secretary to President Roosevelt; Kliner Davis, head of OWI; and Amir Faisal, Prince of the Hejaz. Most of the photographs, however, were military men. and they included almost ev ery conceivable war leader - French General Juin; also General Catroux, French comman der in Syria; General Roinulo of the Philip pine army; Colonel Hurban of Czechoslovakia : I Sir James Gamell. chief of staff of the Uri tish army in the Mediterranean; General Claire Chennault, who has now retired; Ad miral P.yrd, the arctic explorer; and a long row' "of Mexican anil South American generals. liut among all the rows of allied war lead ers officially exhibited by the F. S. navy, there was no picture of the American commander in the Pacific, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The omission was so marked that it could not have been accidental. Many people remark ed on it. Many rubbed their eyes and went back over the rows of pliotos thinking they had jnissed .MacArthur. liut he was not there. Inescapable conclusion was that the navy did hot consider MacArthur a war leadir. Xote Many navy men still smart over the fact that after the F. S. fleet fought island by island to the shores of Japan. MacArthur was appointed supreme commander in Tokyo. They .-. claim; :.Uut; : bud. . Roost wit- 3i ed. :he -.vvoiJbi have appointed Admiral Nimitz. . - (Copyright, U'4o, by the Bell Synduate, Inc.) LOOKS LIKE A GOOD CHANCE TO WfiT-HlS WHISTLE ' I - - ft ' II I.iImhi EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN IIY rCTLR LDSON N'EA Washington C'orrcspoii'Vl ',''APTT7;:CTON, D. C The olriic tn.inb lias been a deadly :' subjiet right from tb- fiVst and is growing inure and more iciious, Lul il lias had its sAv.ve f.t gaglines und cute sioi ies. For instance. t.ere was the pi oiioiniccniei.t of Dr. I,. Silard, one of tlie hundreds ol scientists who worked on the projt-ct: 'I'm nn optimist," he declared. "1 bclice the future is uncertain." It was matched by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimcr of University of California, who was in charge ot the actual bomb consti uctiun and te:ting at Lvi Alamos, New Mexico. "I'm an optimist," he said, "1 believe civilization has one chance in ten." After work-on the Clinton Fnginccr Works at Oak llidge, Tenn., had been going on lor a couole of years but before the bomb was dropped the thvu-Undevsecietary of War, Judge? Robert P. Patterson, beear. to get a HiXlc worried He called in his construction adviser, ."VI. J. Madigan, ami told him to go down there and inspect. He came oaek shaking his hcud. "I don't know what they're doing down there," he told hib boss, "but if this thing doesn't work you aient going to have to wof y about any other mistake that may have been made, because this one will be the biggest mistake that was ever ir.av.h.." 'PO Will II. Davis, former War Labor Foard Chairman and Kcoiiomic Stabilization Director is civd.icd ;:n atomic bomb allegory. II goes something like this: The Archangel Michael, who had been in charge at the creation of the earth, had done a pretty g.a.d job. He had taken care of all the big tilings and had seen to it thai tluy would work all right without too much worry to man himself. Dut a lot of the little things, the Archangel Michael didn't take too much trouble to work out in detail, belieing it would be just as well for man to figure those things out for himself. The result was that man .sometimes got himself in trouble. There were lights. The Archangel Michael would always pass this over. "It's a good earth," lie would say, "and man's fundamentally all right. Give him a little time and he'll get over it." ryi I AT Went on for war after war, but still man didul seem to learn. Finally there was a war so big that nearly everybody was in on it and it. looked as though man really was going to destroy himself. This tirce even the Archangel Michael was worned. "I'll fix that," he said after thinking it over a while. "In tlie past man has always been getting himself in trouble over the little tilings. Let's give him something big to work on. Let's give him a little, tiny bit of the Creation itself. Let's let him lind the power that lies in the atom, and play with that for a while. It will be mini's last chance. He'll eithcx lick it, or it will lick him." , ' .. - j.- CEime DavU Mta; Distributed bj NEA SEBVICt, INC. MOTHER'S HEALTH FAILS XXVIII T OFTEN1 took mother with me X while rehearsing for the revue at the my tableau Palace I knew she loved this. The Won der Bar presentation, a spectacle which I originated, did rather well, and I received an offer from Henri Hallais and the famous car toonist, Pip, to produce and dance two more tableaux for a revue' they were presenting at the The atre de l'Avenue early in May. I accepted this offer, and there ensued a stormy scene with Henri Varna when I gave him my no tice: he resented my leaving the Palace for another house, but it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. Mother spent a week or so in Spain, then went to England and wrote she was sharing a house at Marlow on the Thames about an hour and a half by train from London with the Australian singer, Nellie Melba. I gathered from the tone of her letters that she was feeling perfectly well and intended singing again in opera, for she spoke of studying two or three times a week in London. One night, just as I was going on at the Theatre dc l'Avenue. Marie handed me a telegram. It said: "Mother has suffered 1 a stroke. Please come at once" signed, .by. a Dr. Maclean, and there was the address of a nursing home . in Marlow. ; 1 : ' ' - ; I read it twice before the full horror of that short message be came clear to me. Then I auto matically went on and did the best I could with my dance. It was impossible to let the performers clown because of a personal sor row. When I came off, Hallais was standing in the wings waiting for me, Marie having already told him the terrible news. He thanked me for dancing under the circum stances and very kindly told me to go pack a bag, and he would telephone the Imperial Airlines for a seat on the first plane to England. T DID not arrive at the Marlow nursing home until afternoon, and I learned that Dr. Maclean had been called the previous eve ning by mother's hysterical maid and found Her condition desperate. He had judged it best to send for an ambulance to remove mother to a sonitarivnri, but on the way she suffered a further brain, hemor rhage, and his hopes for her re covery were very slight. My brother had arrived several hours before me and was bitterly re sentful that mother should have been moved from her own room without our consent, for he was certain the effort of the trip had produced the second hemorrhage. For 10 ghastly days we fought to save her life. The day fol lowing my arrival, I went to Lon don and arranged for the best specialist I could find, Sir Fred erick Treves, to drive down to Marlow immediately for a con sultation. His opinfon was that mother might live but would re main an . invalid, partially para lyzed, for an indefinite length of time and that there was nothing science could do to effect a com plete recovery. When I met father at the boat trin a week later, he looked so koW and frail, my heart ached for htm. It was not difficult to see that my mother's illness was the crowning blow to a long series of sorrows he had suffered all his married life and that the thought of losing her had completely un nerved him. lie would not accept the opinion of either the doctor or the specialist, nor could he be lieve that such a brilliant, beauti ful woman would be tied to a bed m ncipiess inertia, to arag out her remaining days in a way that would have revolted and horri-. fied her. During the third week of her illness, she improved enough to speak a few words, recognized my father, and even smiled at the flowers he brought her every day. JjWTIIER'S finances were in no condition to stand the terrific expenses involved in a long ill ness, so I did what I could to help by making a quick trip -to Paris to break my lease, if possi ble, and send Marie and the ani mals to Violelte, whose sympathy and kindness, like that of many such friends, were beyond ex pression. I was trying to do some packing when I received a -long-dfstance call from father! I could hear the anguish in his voice vi brate over the wire as he told mc that Dr. Maclean had noticed a change in mother that morning and thought. I should come back at once. Violette drove me to Le Bourget where I caught the after noon plane. When I arrived in Marlow at 6 o'clock that evening my mother was dead. The doctor cautioned me to get father back to the hotel as soon as possible, for there was a possibility of his having a com plete nervous collapse. All sort of sad details had to be attended to, so I begged him to stay with Bunnie at the hotel and let mc do everything. I could not stand ttio look of utter misery in his tired gray eyes, and the thought of sav ing him a moment's sorrow that could be avoided strengthened me to spend the night in vigil beside my mother's body. As the nurs ing home was a Protestant one, father had encountered all sorts of . obstacles in obtaining their per mission for a priest or nun to re main with mother as he wished. Perhaps the only consolation to the whole tragedy was that she died in a coma, without fear or pain or ever realizing what hap pened. Her beautiful face wa.; peaceful as it rested in the pil lows of flowers father had ar ranged. We buried her in the old Marlow cemetery, whose dead sleep beside the River Thames. (To Be Continued) Army and Navy W rangle Over Proposed Unity WASinXCTU.Y. Xov. lt lU.R) Congressional efforts to pronioie greater coordination between the army and navy led the services . Sai unlay into t heir bitterest brawl . si net ppre-earl Harbor days. The dh;?n!e reached cabinet le vels when Secretary of the Navvy James V. Kornsial protested to Secretary of War Kobert J. Pat terson about remarks made ly Lt. Hell. James H. Doolittle i the army air fi ices to the senate military affairs committee. Doolittle Talks ! Doolittle. commander of the Mh air force, berated navy meii who oppose establishment of a single department of national defense, (lest ribing as "hyprocrisy" the contention "that you can have ef fective unity of command in the field in wartime without having unity of control in peacetime." The hero of the first air raid on Ta kyo a c;t rriei-bornc strike said battleships weiV -obsolete and ainral'i carriers had reached their peak and vv'lji "going, into obsolescence." lie- said "our II-J ! boys ;i''e probably resting uneasily in their graves" as the result of statements by Adlils. Chester W. Ximitz and Marc A. .Mitscher that siapower and carrier planes for ced Japan's surrender. Forrestal Answers Korrestal .described Doolittlc's testimony as "injurious acrimony" and asked Patterson to "join wit i i nie in seeking' to Keep tlie discus sion of the (army-imvy merger proposal now before congress free from personalities which may , leave lasting sears." The amy fa ; vors the lie.'Vgt r. th" navy oppos- . es. "If we allow all honest differ ence .)ver principle to degenerate into an exchange of personalit ies." Forrestal wrote. "We shall ' do irreparable barm to Ihe e;id which we all seek in tlie name of . national security, the comradship of all branches of the armed services." Doolittlc's charge of "hypo crisy" could have referred to Kor restal himself who on Oct. 1PJ told the commiltee thai he believed in unity of command in I lie field but opposed the suggested liul'-, ger proposals. ' Nothing Settled Korrestal said he fell he should challenge charges of "'hyprocisy or of part isaiishin to the point of callousness." Doolittlt, who is soon to retire outlined the air forces wish for a standing air army of C)."1" planes. AMafking 'the future val ue of sea power he said aircraft carriers would not be needed after land-baser! planes developed suffi cient range. lb" conceded, however, the ad vantages of bases close to ellemy larnetw. He said four per cent of ("the air damage to Japan was in flicted by carrier-based plains while per cent was caused by land plain's based mostly in the Marianas, won after some of the ! bloodiest land and sea fighting j in the Pacific I If you are looking for a "l!lue Clip"' invement, Victory Loan Bonds yield 2.'.i percent. If you are j skeptical ask your financial advis ' er about the soundness of Series i"E" Victory Loan bonds. THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguses Learn to Make Glass Products existence, which was produced light in the school shop. The young" glass workers- began their, instruction with the Phoeni cians' discovery of glass centurie.'- tllld it devehonnent In l:lte l i .1.: ii... i. ,. , .. , . i .-uoiis wiin iins siuiiy goes oiuck- the nations leading glass centers,' . , ... ., , ' ... I board drill on the types of glass this western New York city has! nri,i their ,i(.c .1 COIIXIXG, X. V. UR.'. One .developed its own source of man power for the hug-e Corning Glasj Works all for five cents a day per future worker. Three years ago, instruction in glass manufacturing was startvili for boys at the Corning Free Ada demy, and since then about 70 pet cent of the- students taking the; course have joined the company! in producing glass, first for win ana now tor peacetime usage. Under the program, a school glas shop was set tin, colorfully decorated with student-made mur als, depicting industrial scenes, and a huge floor map of the Uni ted' States, showing sources of glass materials and ' their trans portation routes to Corning. Built Glass Furnace Actual glass-vvorkit'g equipment in the shop includes nine nietal shealhed tables, ea h supp!ivT 'with glass lamp, glass furnace and -kl -tbe modern tools. ii tiu- Hjiius Practical training in the funda mentals of rotation, manipulation file-cutting, flaring'., bending, and scaling is designed to develop co ordination between - hand and brain .and .the. extreme manual dex terity needed for glass-making. Supply Chemistry Classes . The students turn out appara tus for the chemistry classes and. at the same time, become famiii-u with many of tfye types of' labora- j tory apparatus 'w hich are supplied by Corning Glass Works to 10 pei cent of the laboratories in the country. ' Class furnace . instruction be gins in the win'er, and the .stud ents soon leant the intense heat of furnace and red molten .glass. They, must - "gather"- and blow,.'" understand, the timing- necessary between gatherer and blower and the 'various idiosyncrasies of Ji'las at different te-n.tSeratyie,- They" Kstablishment of the glass sch ool was inspired hy an instructor Uory I,. Mcintosh, who believes "if the schools will co-operate with industry,, industry will help the schools.". ' The glass works has given Me-. Intosh not only material help but also expert inti uctors, w ho teach the young glass" t ujdens the- f inei ; points of glass manipulation. Aiuf partly lK'(jiU.tf t" ihis'iisf stance. ; cost -of operating the glass shop is'kept at five cents per day p-ci , pupil. BARBS try. glas; Also .'jit nand furnace, one Is S. of a ; also must learn th use Jii s.ufe ortaore f things as blowpmes. glass scissois few ;ovv pipes and art boards for shaping. BY HAL COCHRAN" . i 4TANY a birthday has a party, j "7 but a lot of parties have ! topped having birthdays. B-natural is the real key to your true self.- . . : - , j At lenst rationing has led to a j ot of youths stepping into their a triers' shoes. . Most wives agree that a. man nrouttd the house every dau is. - riselc.v. 'Every home should be 7dthout -one. ' . ' ' . : . The kids won't-beat around-the '. tush about what they want for "hanksgiving. They'll talk tur-. :ey! j WAS UCT KNCWM BY THAT NAME !M BIBLICAL TVAi-5. "BAHRt LUT," WHICH MEANT "LAKE OF LO.V EECAJ-E. CF fT SAW CONTENT, WHICH IS FvUK TI.Vci irii inku. n S E A WATER , TH E LAKE 15 ALMOST DEVOID CF LFE.-;, K I iisssssgj cbrTi '"irnv M.AbrHviceTiN;, T. M. BEG. U. S. f'AT. orr. M ' . I VO ALL LieHTNlNC- STROKES- 47i Of THE INSIDE OF AN IS rOtfy AND 52z " IS THE li-IS AXSXVEH: ; No. Some strokes are Iron cloud to cloud. vtvn nw fr have u tavded to tte lt 21 hWt f ir