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pa(;i: two THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH. NEBR.ASKA The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 12S1 Published semi-wtekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Suttt, PlatHmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, b The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher R .T ALCOTT General Manager ROBERT E. STAUFFER ... Managing Editor Enteted at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class tri:. matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1ZT). SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside tr.e Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by ear ner in the City of Plattsmouth, 15 cents per week, or S7.00 per year cash in advance; ty mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: Ji per year. S1.75 for six months, S1.00 for three months, cash in a1ance. By mad outside the Plattsmouth trade area, 55.00 per year, S3.0Q for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Jurisdictional Czar? Labor Secretary Schwellenbach has siij,',rested to labor unions that they mitfht find a solution of jurisdictional disputes, once and for all, by hiring a 'Tzar" such as the motion picture in dustry and professional baseball now have. :If there is a possibility that an inter union czar could accomplish what his .'.. movie and baseball counterparts have then the plan is an excellent one. But it seems to us that the gutftfestion should co mo from within organized labor rather than from a friend of labor in government. When Judjre Kenesaw M. Landis - was appointed Hih Commissioner of ISaseball in 1020, and Will Hays was . :.sked to head the Motion Picture Pro . 1 1 livers and Distributors Association ; two years later, both the sport and the ; entertainment industry were in the ; public doghouse. The P.lack Sox scandal of J!li) had shocked and saddened the sports-following public. And when Mr. Hays took over, both the movie colony's pri vate lives and the studios' products wnv in such a mess of bad morals and - bad taste as to create a real wave of popular inditfnition. Loth industries if they may be called such quickly saw the litfht. They realized that their livelihoods and very existence, both dependent on public favor, were threatened. Their, first concern seems to have been to rtapture public confidence before working out elaborate machinery for ending their troubles and preventing their recurrence. So each selected a well-known fig ure of unquestioned integrity from outside its own organization. ( Base ball first sought the services of form er President Taft before enira.uMnjr Tude Landis.) Each then drew up a rijrid set of rules and jjave its czars authoritarian power to enforce them. These far-sirhted moves by baseball and Hollywood achieved their pur ' pose admirably. Organized labor mijht ponder this story as it applies to jurisdictional strife. As President Truman told union representatives at the Labor-M anajre- ment Conference, nothing is so de structive of public confidence as these disputes. The American people have m; little understanding of them, and less sympathy with them at a time when - the whole industrial situation gives cause for legitimate worry. , P.ut government appointment of an inter-labor czar holds little promise, bear no fruit until the striving unions realize that all labor is losing through jurisdictional strife and strikes, until there is a spontaneous desire for a Hays or Landis for labor from within th unions, together with a genuine wish to make and abide by their own - rules for peaceful settlement. Q What is the total time peace has prevailed on a world-wide basis? A The aggregate for all recorded history is onlv about i00 vears. Q What is the composition of a cloud? A Water particles so fine that an Z 1800 cubic foot cloud could fill a I' water glass onlv one-seventh full. Q How is the shark-repelling chemical developed to enable 'dunk ed" flyers to escape sharks to be used ill peacetime? - A Mackerel seiners can use it to keep sharks from a net full of fish. Sharks not only attack the catch, but damage nets which cost several thous ;nd dollars- eft VWJ THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 10-13 A Little Curiosity Also Can Be a Dangerous .Thing W FSAB&ON WASH IXUTOX Here is one important tip off showing 1 lie administrat ion knew war was (lining in the Pacific hut expected it in the Philippines . . . Adm. William Cllassiord. roiu mundinc; I'-. S. gunboats in the Yangtze patrol, carefully shepherded his fleet out of Shanghai across tempest nous seas to -Manila. They were flat Iiottojued lioats. dangerous in rough, deep sea weather, hut. knowing the Japs were alxiu; In strike, he made the emergency trip just he fore Pearl llarhor . . . At that time everyone expected the Japs to strike the Philippines, the Dutch Hast Indies or Singapore . . . One thing Pearl llarhor congressmen don't want to investigate is why. in view of these expecta tions. Ceiieial M acArt li ur got caught with all his planes on the ground, losing :!ou fighters and all his flying fortresses ... If GOP con gressmen do investigate which they prob ahiy won t they'll find that the air force of tie r in command of those planes urged .Mac Arthur to let him fake them off Clark Field -where the Japs later smashed them. John L. Lewis Orates Meet le-l'iowed John I.. Lewis delivered a speech in the secret sessions of the hlbor manageineiit conference last week which has both labor and industry delegates buzzing. Though Lewis is the most feared and hated of all labor leaders, his speech brought cheers from industry members, frowns from certain labor leaders What the mine union boss demanded at the eiosed-door meeting was wage increases, hut and it was a very big but - he also demanded pi ice increases for industry, his cuts right underneath the whole position of President Truman and many labor leaders, namely that wage increases plus price increases are mean ingless, would only mean that lalior paid more for everything. President Truman and advisers have main tained that, while, this might hring temporal y benefits for organized union labor, it would hurt teachers, white-collar workers and. later, organized labor. Truman also maintains that industry hah made enough profits from the war to afford wage increases and still mak motuy. (specially with taxes greatly reduced. The fact that John L. Lewis opposed this indicated to insiders a three-way plan; III He wants to undercut GlO's Phil Murray, who favors the government's position of wage in creases without price increases: (2i He is bidding to take Al'l. leadership away from Mill Green; I H" isn't averse to wrecking the entire hihor-nianageuient conference. John L. a Is. i has been handing out state ments needling the steel and auto workers, telling' them that they are asking for piddling wage increases. The Lewis statements are cal culated to stiffen auto and steel workers' backs, make them dissatisfied with CIO leader ship. Also, tiny are likely to help precipitate a strike, and Lewis knows from his own sad experience in the recent coal strike that strik(S right now can he most unpopular with the public. Naval War Tug A terrific backstage battle is raging between the admirals over who will replace Admiral King- as Chief of Naval Operations. The om hat adn. irals want Adm. Chester Niiuitz. They s.iw niur operate in the Pacific Admiral King himself is pushing Adm. Kaymond Spruaiice. also all A-l man. Secretary Forrest al is sup porting Adm. 1L S. Fdwards. now Deputy Chief of Naval Opt ra.-ions and a leading promoter of navv imperialism , . . The first trial of the Kansas Kingfish-s h.-jnns ,(,(la' wlu'!l tlle llo:,d of the Kansas State Police faces a jury if Judge Ilelvering don't postpone it . . . Last v.tek Gen. Lucius Clay. No. - boss of Genua ny. announced publi-ly that V. S. authorities in Xazilaud have asked for an additional :!Uimi. i.ini worth ol food for the German people. Vet. on October l''-. in a secret meeting of Ameri can generals. Getoral Clay stated privately i b.M the 1'. S. zone has a special reserve of :;imi.iiimi tons of food which it did not want to use until American public opinion favored feeding the Germans . . . Jesse Jones, the man whom Franklin Koosevelt kicked out of the cabinet, is now the man who really runs his ,.bl job of federal loan administrator -backstage. President Truman has closed his t- eo it . hut .lotus's position in Washington today is just about as powerful as ever. He operates from room -L'.o in the Statler Hotel and his phone is so busy that not even his wife can reach him ... If yon want to buy a. jeep, a li uck. a factory, an oil refinery or some old tires, it's Jesse Jones's old outfit which handles it . Little Business Break Hard-wording Attorney General Tom Clark has written a confidential memo to the White House advising that the smaller war plants corporation cannot he gobbled up by the com merce department and Jessie Jones's old KFC without an act of Congress . . . This is a break for little business . . . The smaller war plants corporal ion has been doing a real job for the smaller businessman, also had won prestige on eapitol lull . . . John Synder, the small town banker, now war reconverler, wanted to trans fer it by executive order without congressional okay. In fact, the executive order was already drawn up when this columnist broke the story, following which the problem was referred to the attorney general. Assistant Secretary of Labor Carl .Moran is another of the A-l public servants deserting the administration, lie is going back to Maine, rroin whence he came, despite White House entreaties that he stay . . John Gibson of Detroit, a CIO man. will take his place. This will balance the two assist ant secretaries of labor between the CIO and A FL. Roosevelt College P.ehlnd Mrs. Kooscvelt's deun a lion of Roose velt College in Chicago today is a tin i que story. Formerly: Chicago's V.MCA College, a low-cost instil ut ion in the Loop, wasupervised by hading banks. Suddenly they awoke to the fa t that - per cent of the student body was negro, asked President. James Sprawling to put a quota on further Negro students. He refused, then handed in his resignation . . . Simultaneously, i2 per cent of the faculty le signed plus !7 per cent of the students. The banker.-, found themselves without a college . . . Marshall Field. The Julius llosenwald foundation, plus Chicago citizens then raised 1 million to foijiid ;i new- Nju -eoi college in I he Loop. The old YMCA College is' no min e and Roosevelt College begins today ... It's tlie first time that both students and faculty walked out simultaneously. , i v! lEmr Vins .M.Ui DUUtbBK kj M. SERVICE, INC. I FALL IX LOVE XXXi A TvIONG me friends that were so kind to me was George Frame Drown. When 1 was able to We lk again, home in Sauger I gratefully accepts hi.; kind invitation U convalesce, at- his countr. ties, Ne lork. - Whil tolkm over the visit, he SMggestcd . bring my rigging with nic4 als ?L, and try to practice a littlef agaii with view to ;buildifi2An my morale; -The doc tors - had been dubious ' abifutl whether or not I could ever work again, on account of the back-' in jury, but that very doubt fnade 'me more determined to have t try at it anyway. Other aerial artists who visited me were dead set against my ever attempting to ure Bill in mv work again and ollered to find a more responsible person j a younger one who could be depended on to hang my appa ratus safely. They brought a young man to see me one evening, when I was still far from well enough to talk intelligently or pay very much at tention to his personality, but I did notice that in neither appear ance nor manner of speaking was he the usual type of rough-and-ready rigger from the circus, lie was working with the Ringling show, somewhere near NewYvk. and when he left, I forgo; all ibout my promise to let him know when I needed someone for my act, nor did I remember it when setting out in the car with old Dill and my dog for George Crown's place in the country. 3 pRADUALLY I became strong enough to swing again and ?oon realized I would be able to prove to the doctors that they lad been overcautious. Before leaving for New- York, George, who had watched me practice every day, said very seri Dusly that I should get another rigger. His imitations of Bill swinging me, and the fact that he was so jittery that on audience was bound to no ce it, convinced me he not only wr - a drawbick to the act but als could mm ancther disaster befor Jong. Upon ny rctuin U town 1 reluctant! let the ola ma;: go feeling sorry about it but resizing George was right. I was still in no condition to take any dates as yet but was contemplating employing someone to practic with a few hours every day, when' I received a letter signed Robert F. Matz, Jr. This was the young man from Ring ling's whom my friends had rec ommended. He asked me to re ply if I was ready to use him, and suggested leaving his present oc cupation immediately and coming to icw lorlc. I hesitated en gaging a full-time assistant when I was not able o work, but be fore I had time t answer his let ter, the young gentleman in ques tion arrived t my hotel, announc ing his readiness tc begin work at once. The more I trlked to him, the more I realized tha r rigger with his build ana TU)iearance was too rare an asset to my act for me to let go. He was tall and very fair, in his term thirties, with Nordic blue eyes and a jmile that nad sunshine in ?t. When I discov ered -he had an unusual love for all wiimals, which gave us much in common, I started practicing with him, hiding my aches and pains as best I could. From New York I transferred my rigging to a lot in Long Is land, where there was plenty of room and height, and all through the beautiful summer days, as we drove to and from New York, I found.out he especially liked dogs, and that I liked him. To make a long story short, I accepted a date at Playland, Rye Beach, without the sliehtest idea as in how T EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN Edson i rati; eusu. NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. D. C Temporary head of the new Federiti" if Atomic Scientists is Dr Lyle B. Borst. a 32-year-old Ph. D. frorr, he University of Chicago. During the wai be worked on the atomir Domb project at the Clinton Engineer Works, Oi k Ridge, Tcnn liorst is a pleasant but undistinguished lookinc young man. He is slender, almost fiat chested, of medium height, wears gold rimmed spectacles and combs his black haii straight back over his high forehead. "My name is anonymous you never heard rt me," he told a small group of congressmen gath ered in the House caucus room to hear what scien tists thought of the administration's May-Johnson bill for the future control of atomic energy. The long and short of it is that they don't like this idea of having the military forces dictate what shall be done. They don't like the idea even a little bit, I "na xney say so in no uncertain terms. I Young Dr. Borst was backed in this position bv three older and ; Tiore experienced scientists: Berlin-born Dr. Leo Szilard. one of the j pioneers in atomic energy development who worked on the project at I botn Columbia and Chicago Universities; Dr. Harold C. Urey Nobel pme winner of Chicago; Dr. J. C. Stearns, dean of the science faculty ! at Washington University, St. Louis. ; i'yOU never heard of any of these people," says Dr. uorst. "The work could not have been done without the older men, but we ' Il been the backbone, the working men on this project " Their average age is under 30. Their job was not always interest ing, Dr. Borst explains. They could not see where they were goin ' , They went to these atomic projects directly from the graduate schools.'' . They are interested in knowing where they go from here. After all, i they are the atomic scientists of the future. As to their objectives. Dr. Borst puts it simply:" "We" want to hve ; at peace with the world and with our consciences." Having produced his instrument of destruction, it worries them. They want to hvc their futures in a world where there is free discussion, where they can talk about atomic energy on street cars, without the use of code words and without having to get permission from the military when, ever ten or more of them get together. COME of the leaders among these young scienUstioonreh-'wo',cs . to. the military authorities last winter. Their idea was that plans should be made then for' the control of atomic energy after the war was over. They were told jiot to concern themselves, that the sub ject was m good hands. So the young scientists went back to their job ' When first drafts of the May-Johnson bill for the control of atomic energy were made public early in October, the reaction amonc the young scientists was spontaneous. At the four atomic research cen-1 j lu Atamos, N. Mex.; Oak Ridge, Tcnn.; University of Chicago,' and the Manhattan Engineer district of Columbia, Yale and Princeton local organizations were formed to work for a better national under- xiariiimp tu me issues involved. h a wouia get tie strengt l io won; but feeling t.iat I had to get start ed for pret'Cng financial reasons. While struggling through my act and sufTeri-ig the tortures of hell, our romance grew, and through that. I somehow got the necessary will to keep going though severa." time-; I nearly fell from weak ness. fXN my way out from Europe some months before I had dis-" embarked in Montevideo, where, through the services of Or. Fhz .simon, T btamed my liberty fron: Captain Strudwick. This was something had ' hesitated tc do, for eligious reasons, tut fa ther wanted i to be frre, and after mother's death, wc had de cided upon- - ' is" course: Now, fter iinishin. a wonder ful mad ortnight at Rye Play land,' Boobie and T drove down tc Baltimore und, with my dog a5 best man, were married. We spent the rest of the summer in a cot tage n Long Island, where Bob bie prepared "lis own trapeze act and x endeavored to get my health back and practice with him. Wc played -the usual tour of vaude ville houses all over the states, and my act, . which now included fome double tricks with him, be gan to get good press notices: ' The following summer of 193S brought better, salaries and rep utation than ever. We were playing the Erie Fair when the declaration Of war came over the air one quiet Sunday afternoon while we were in our hotel. As : we listened, a chill crept over, hie, and an icy hand seemed to be crushing my heart. . When we arrived at the fair ground that afternoon, a strange thing happened. I was in my dressing tent, waiting for my act to go on, when suddenly instead of the familiar music of the "Beer Barrel Polka," which the band played for ne of the acts, I heard the stirring strains of the "Mar seillaise." My hands grew cold while listening, and I questioned a passing performer about the reason for it. He answered that nobody could understand why th band played it, unless by mistake, having got the score mixrd in their music in some unusualwuy.' (Tt R Cnnrliirirdl' Women Refuse to Ride "Black Maria" DENVER (U.R This is the first j ear that Denver has evei had women r.'rvin on juries. A jurors thev are fine, except they' re just too stylish! The to I ioi me prooiem ot transportation the downtown part of town lunch. In the old days when the jurors were all male, the bailiff would just line up his men when luneii time rolled around and niaivh them to a cafe. The men jm-ors-hale and hearty, they were liked the noonday walk. It .yave them a chance to stretch their Icjs, aul well, take in the scenery. Then along came women jury members. Some of them aren't tin hale and hearty athletic type sistine they're equal to a man anc' have rcsorte.i to the .-ain- about women beiiifr the "weaker sex". Al so pointing out that h.ih hc-!s aren't too comfortable for walk inji-. the jiaN have refused to walk. The (ii-trii-t judges tried having a fleet of taxis on hand to take but that i the ladies to distant c.-if,. notioie an tenters around: the shortage of cabs ea foiled idea. Along jurors 1 the T, came the day when Un it for lunch and found uk M,,ria" onlv in Den ver they're ami white ambulance - waiting for look like them. It j served its purpose. : but the ladies moaned that no respectable wo- niau would be seen either enterin,' or laving a "Cop-cab." It was htim jiliating experience, the lady juror .claimed, and besides, what would j their friends think'.' i Xow the court is waiting for' tin j time when a stylish station waeon in tact, tor once they ve quit in- can be purchased. TV r" 1 C that applicants: living in Washing- More Civil Service nn x c m. vicinity ,nay a1)Jy Jobs Are Available t they are 16. There is no maxi- . The rni.ed States Civil Servic lilit' 1' f i Engineering Driiltsnian will he ae Conunission has announced newj m)U1 Jaimary s ,,,$. examinations lor positions in j Civil Engineering Aid positions Washington. 1). t. as Engineering t paying $2,100 and 2. ..20 a year! rr:-iltsinan. Civil Engineering Aid. j are open to applicants with two! seniat ives who had succeeded in postponing' OPA action on the automobile dealers discount ---h.nl heaid him challenge the conten tion that his proposed program would he ruinous to their business. I'nder the OPA's suggested dealeis discount sciieilule the dealers "will make far more money next .and three years respectively of, year appropriate experience? or eiil training. techui- and Stationary Foreman. These examinations have been opend to the general public because a sufficient number of cligibiew can- j : not be oi'taincd from among vet-jRejectS Demand lOF ' erans entitled to have examina- j Higher AlltO PHceS tions reopened. AH qualified per-j WASHINGTON. tU.fi Price Ad I sons are invited to apply. . minisl nllor Chester Bowles Tues Positions such as Engineering: (ay l(.jot.u,(I ,emalu1s of the Na- Dral'tsnian pay from 1.7o4 to Atomobile Healers Associ- ; $2,180 a year. To qualify as Engi-' a,jon for a more generous profit ' neering Draftsman, appli-j margin in the price of new cars. ants must Have had six months j ,le defended the OPA's price of drafting experience or eonipar-! lan i)S i,jghly advantageous to training' above the high Ut I war, than they made Howies said. before the BARBS BY HAL COCHRAN abb school level.' Additionakexperience r-.nu-vvles told , the. House AN advance tip: Do your Christ- mas mailing early and avoid the crush. The fur coats now being thou'ti came from skinning dumb animals and u?e don't mean father! i Two reiehbors . in . an Illinois small i .own were arrested for throwing or training -is require -'for posi-- , liusiness coimfiittfw tint!, the N'ADA tions at the higher salaries. The i had engaged "the greatest stugie positions are in the - following jdcssuic grour- operaiion sice branches of drafting: aeronauti-J op. was established. rl. architei! ural. civil, electrical,! He dechired that, a favored price hi lii-m-.iplih , mechanical'.- --sbifi.j cciif'ilihTs-iTtTrn'frirrrl' (-grcful con stat isr itial. st ruct ural? -oiiugrt.iut'f-;ii.ieKiti'W"; ait bvlvVhaH price con and general. Applicants must bej n-ol by lobby pressure. An estiina', at least' Ills years of age excepted more than L't'O N A DA repre- coal. Will one' or both of them please move next door to us! We suspect some prices have taken the, Did . oaxh ".We , tn'll never take another drop." . . .. ... Ope objection to a child being born wjtha ; silver sp.opn in its mouth is that it's often hard get ting it. tn stir for itself, later on. h '1 ':' Kill Cut, Finished and Tailored For That Well Groomed Look Men of distinction buy their suits here and with good reason. For our suits have about them that 'know how' air so important for the well groomed look. Our stocks are broken but you can still find here the hard-to-get worsteds. i