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: s WCI th mui occJ Jjr. Alb fioj Mrt 5r Hoi Vt. ant me tmmm ac mr; ha 51a: Ha er. -.1 ilb' AfcC I!? fai Ter tat a 3 ;p - 4 PAGE TWO THE-JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1381 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, it 409413 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 nail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1379. : . SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by tnail outsice the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car per in the Cty of Plattsmouth, 35 cents per week, or $7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: J3 per year, S1.75 for six months, $1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail ojtside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 tents per mcith, cash in advance. Q Has the U. S. Navy always had a full Admiral? A Xo. The first was created in 18G6 Q What is the function of the city .of Sochi? A It is the Russian resort for work ers, on the Clack Sea. Stalin spent his recent vacation there Q What is the world non-stop long - distance flight record? "A 7158 miles, from Ismelia. Egypt r to; Port Darwin. Australia. The flight was made in 10o8 by two British. Q How did soda pop originate. A -A Philadelphia doctor introduc "ed carbonated water as a niedirino, "and later fruit juist was added as a "flavoring. MONDAY. NOV. 19. 1945 The New World Philosophy There is some dispute about the ex act wording of that short burst of in vective between John L. Lewis and Phil ip -Murray at the Labor-Management Conference. One version, has the UMW president saying "Nuts," and the head of the LTD coming back with "Nuts to you." Put we prefer the following version: Mr. Lewis: Nuts to you. Mv. Murray: Nuts to you too, sir. We like the second version for its slightly more scholarly expression, typical of these courtly adversaries-. We like it because Mr. Lewis isn't one to let one word do the worl' of three, and Mr. Murray isn't of a dispositin co let Mr. Lewis get ahead of him In anything, even polite vituperation. (After all, he did address him as sir.) We like it most of all because it ?uns up quite aptly .some of the principal troubles of this troubled world. The nuts-to-you state of mind tells it all. It marks the attitude of conten tious factions of labor, of these factions toward industry, and of industry to ward them. It can be seen in the Army Navy wrangle over a unified command. It probably could serve as a brief his tory of the late London .conference of foreign minsters, with .Air. Molotov reading Mr. Lewis' lines, and Messrs. Byrnes and Levin taking Mr. Murray's reply. The war inhibited the nuts-to-you. state of mint! something fierce. Heads of of state and men of p"ver realized that it was a rather dangerous attf tude when security and riirviva'. were at sle.-ik. Put now that victory v. on. the old jealousies and animosities and suspended quarrels an;. like Jure in the popular song of the same name, bustin' out all over. Red-hot nationalism and power politics- are working overtime. The Army ; and the Navy view each other with ; baleful and suspicious glare. Labor and management have retrieved their ball bats from the wartime parking place behind the door, and are belab- - oring the daylights out of one another. Nuts-to-you seems to be a world phil osophy. the order of the immediate ' postwar day. It doesn't seem to worry : the heads of state and men of power that security isn't secure and survival isn't certain. Put what of the world brotherhood of John Does and Joe Doakes the millions of gobs and buck privates who fought the war and are coming home, and the millions of ci vilians who stayed behind and worked? Well, they can't do too much about it. Put at least all of them can shout. And when they all shout together they can set up quite a holler. So maybe it's time they raised their combined voices and yelled something like this to the heads of state and men of power "Nuts to you. sirs. Nuts to all of your empty words and haggling. Get on with " the job!" WASHINGTON' A special committee of Congress otiglu to be appointed just to watcli tlie House. Judiciary committee. More legisla tion designed to rolt the taxpayer and harm the public interest is reported out of that committee than almost any other in Congress. Here is the latest. House Hill 2788, just reported out of the Judiciary committee, would limit to a period of one year the time, in which the federal gov ernment could prosecute various criminal acts. In other words, if a violator of the law could get away with it anu remain undetected for one year alter the transgression, the statute of limitations would have run, and he could not he prosecuted. For instance, the proposed law provides that if anyone defrauds the government in dispos ing of surplus property, he can't he prosecut ed after one year. It is already evident that surplus property is going to lie one of the biggest sources, of scandal in recent history, ami it would be impossible for even J. Edgar Hoover to track down all irregularities in one year. The judiciary committee also proposes that if the director of a national bank violates the law anil can get away with it for one year, her can't be prosecuted after that. The same is true of copyright infringement, violation of civil rights statutes, fraud in registration of public lands, and violation of the wage-hour act. The latter case is partic ularly interesting. An employer could wilfully violate the wage-hour law knowing that if he gets caught, all he will have to do is pay a fine for that one year. Yet he might have been violating the law for three, four or five years. Such a provision, according to labor de partment officials, would be an open violation to employers to thumb their noses at the wage hour act. Yet the House Judiciary committee, solenuily recommended passagof the bill. It is now up to the full House and the Senate. Truman's Haberdashery Past President Truman didn't say anything about it. but he seemed a bit miffed at being ribbed so unmercifully at the National Press Club dinner over his past, career as a haberdashery salesman, it must be admitted that some of the professional comics rubbed it in pretty hard. Eddie Cantor was one of them. Ifs nice having a haberdashery in Kansas City." the radio comic, told his audience of cabinet members, supreme court- justices, and newsmen "Hut why bring it to Washington? This afternoon 1 dropped in to see the presi dent, and as oon as 1 stepped into the White House, there was a statue of George Was'n- of long underwear Matt Connelly, -and said. 'The in the bargain "Somtimes I Wish I'd Never Discovered It!" iugton dressed in a pair market! down to 1.!S. "The president's secretary, walked up to me very fancy- president will see you now basement.' So I went down to the basement. No sooner did 1 take off my coat than the president was measuring me for another one. I said. 'Mr. president, 1 don't want a coat, 1 just want the honor of meeting you.' Then I made the mis take of sticking out my hand. Hefore I could pull it back, he'd sold me a pair of gloves. I in not complaining. Some of the things 1 bought I can use. I say some of the things, what l-m gonna do with three dozen supreniu court justice's robes, I don't know. Incidentally, we have five supreme court justices with us tonight; and I wonder if they realize how lucky they are to be suprcmt court justices. With those long black robes, the re the only ones who can sneak into work hiding a copy of 'Forever Amber." Mail Bag Rill Lt.iser, Sports Editor. San Francisco Chronicle--! note your criticism of my story about the propriety of using a plane to fly two race horses from Los Angeles to San .Mateo. Hut 1 don't agree with you. Regardless of whether the plane was surplus, you can't expect morale among Gl's to be good when they see this sort of thing happen, and when they in tuin have to stand up as I saw them the other day four long hours between St. I.ouis and Kansas City, or when they travel in day coaches all the way from San Diego to Wilmington. N. C. . . . Lieut. Comdr. Neil A. Fox, commander. Naval Aviation Machinst Males' school. Norman, Okla. Congratulations on your recent reorganization which spe ui) discharges of high-point men . . . Maj. C.-n. I. I). White. Fort Riley, Kans. Thanks for the information thai the German horses shipped from Hremerhaveii on the S. S. Step hen Austin were not for Fort Riley. 1 now find j hat they were for the army's remount station, Front Royal, Va. My point still stands how ever, that the ship could better have brought soldiers home from Europe . . . Stun Habn, Los Angeles -Andrew J. Higgins, the big boat builder. has now composed his tax difficulties with the treasury. Like some other people, he reached the income-tax deadline with a lot of capital advanced on war production, but arranged to pay up in installments. It was in come tax. not social security . . . Secretary of War Patterson I appreciate your letter de fending Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry and his job of demobilization. This was typical of your fine and constant loyalty to the men around you. However, I regret that I cannot agree that General Henry did a good job of demo bilization. For years General Henry was famil iarly known in the regular army as its great est mechanic, an absolute authority on gaso line engines and automotive mechanics. Many pay tribute to his work in setting up the gun nery mid mechanical school at Fort Knox, Ky., at the beginning of the present emergency, especially his development of mechanism for firing front moving turrets. He was always much mote at home in overalls with a monkey wrench in his band, and in my opinion it was a mistake for the late Gen. "Pa" Watson to persuade his chief, the late President Roose velt, to have him put in charge of army per sonnel the greatest personnel show the world has even seen. I am convinced that the snarled demobilization program is one of the results. White House Chaff - Seen and heard around the White House Gen. Harry Vaughan. the president's military aide standing in front of the executive office, hatless. an odd-looking silver cream pitcher in his hands, feeding the squirrels . . . Ambas-.-'1';: .' . k.i rid'.: up tlu "W'ite ti;.n :t M h. dashing maroon Jinioiuduc. Pinned; t the inside of the door is a radio' schedule by which Joe never misses his- favorite-. rorams j I . A I -Sir w ! mm I-. - -;kx sr. r j-c) : 3 u ! . . o EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Washing-ton Correspondent W7ASHINGTQN, D. C Some day in this postwar world the poll " ticians and statesmen are going to wake up and discover that any speech lasting longer than 10 minutes is a waste of everybody's time, including the speaker's,- unless he has something to say. The newspapers long ago, discovered the charm of brevity and all but the dullest now limit their stories to 500 or 1000 words, unless they have something to report like the downfall o Germany or the dropping of the first atomic bomb. The radio has also discovered brevity. Only Bob Hop. and a few of his stripe can hold an audience for half an hour, and even they hav( to be interspersed with music. But the Doliticians still drool on, borinc every- vmb I I body to death. And the amazing thing about this LA 'f' I I is that with all the interesting things there ore Edson to talk about in lms worm the politician sun pre fers to deal in banalities. With this gentle introduction, it should now be safe to report that the world's champion thrower of cliches has just been discovered in Washington in the person of the Prime Minister uf the United Kingdom, Clement R. Attlee. t 1 '"PHIS comment can be made without being rude to a viriting digni tary. Maybe the P. M. was just being smart. Why waste1 ,a good speech on that bunch? But just get a load of how Mr. A. can coin corn: "Great honor you have done me. Churchill (applause). Resplendent services rendered the cause of freedom. Friendly connections your great country Roosevelt (applause). Truman (no applause). "Impressive ceremony of Armistice Day. Shoulder the great re sponsibilities of high office. Spare others the ordeal we havo endured. Eisenhower (loud applause). MacArthur and Nimitz (drowned out in the applause for Ike) "Brotherhood of man without distinction of race or creed. Raise the standard of life Ample room in the world. Good neighborli ness. Science. Facing the future with courage. Era of increasing co-operation. Closer friendship between our great democracies. Milton and Shakespeare. Lincoln and Jefferson. Bring home to all the people civilization cm survive" (deafening applause). it was nice to have a look at the new Prime Minister and see that he had a frir.g, more hair than Sam Rayburn But here was the official spokesman for the British Empire with a golden opportunity to sell a bill of goods that needs soiling. Tiungs that Congress ought to know and the American people ought to understand Anyone reading or listening to Attlee's speech got only a rasntu reference to the atomic bomb. Only generalities about Britain's labor government. Not a line about Palestine. Not a bit of .;-. .laui tion of what British troops are doing in Java Nothing dis cussions on the British loan Only a line about India. Noih:r. abou: relations with Russia Nothine. in fact, worth hearing. Theology School Receives $5,000 Gift Boston University School of Theology (Methodist) recently received a gift of $5,000 to esta blish a permanent fund for scho larships "for study and develop ment of better racial understand ing." The gift was made by Jos eph F. Ford. Eoston manufactur er. The scholarships are to be named the "Oxnam-Licbman Sch olarships," in honor of Bishop1 G. Bromley Oxman, episcopal head of the New -York Area of the Methodist church and formerly a professor at the school and a bishop in Boston, and Rabbi Josh ua Loth Liebman of Temple Is- ' rael, Boston. Both the Bishop and the Rabbi had worked to gether for a number of years on i inter-faith bodies in Boston. War Lingo Unfurled In Student's Tests The BIRMINGHAM, Ala. 0J.R) war may be over, but the Major Sports Take to Air for Transportation WASHINGTON, The All-Amer-ican star of most any sports event you can name is soon goin to be the aii plane. Straws already be ginning to blow in the wind indi cate that this medium of transpor tation is going to have a profound effect on the athlete world per haps more far-reaching- than the introduction of the lively baseball. the forward pass, or the cannon-j ball serve. i Eleven of the 1G major league baseball teams have signed up to do their traveling next year on the! regular scheduled airlines. Ama : teur and pro-football elevens are .using the aerial route for travel ,as well as touchdowns. Within the , last few weeks, race horses have been flown between tracks, so ! comfortably that they were re- New Senator? I i . ' IP! IS .I ... ! ! . f " 1 Imwwd MRS. GRACE PLYBON. Ccrrespom'ent . ! poi leu tu one iiii.iiii.iicu iii, -"" llM 1 f ,,,,f,11.. -toff ITr,r.'-r.,- an,t hnsV.! lliieers in the minds of BtrminL'- . ' ietball managers are arranging-, 0f bam schoolchildren. I . , . , , i to ue Conservative Charles C. Gossett, above, Democratic governor of Idaho, may resign to clear the way for his appointment to the U. S. Senate vacancy caused by the death of Sen. John Thomas, Republican. with airline traffic men the skvwavs regularlv. li (nitMi t Liive inuin i in na tion to visualize the effects of' Inquiring: whether a child was; ready to,, begin an examination,! one teacher received a hearty' Koger. as a reply. widespread air travel in the realm Asked in a written examination, of spoi.tfi- The winner of Enjr for the definition of a satyr, an-;Iand.s Derbv at Eps01., Downs ca;1 other pupil wrote and correctly,! n:eet our Kentucky Derbv iavov- luo A godU. .) . Still another clever pupil used Gen. George S. Patton as a mod ern counterpart of Beowulf, who fought and brajjegd and still won his battles. Peggy Cummins, ' the 19-year-old blond screen actress pictured above, is carrying the script of "Forever Amber" around Holly , wood Ihese days but she won't ' say.' she's been assigned the part. -Claims she's just a "candidate" Me th-, ?! t AnHr. li&s i rrXrrirai!is Rt itoli atticS 1 beugbt-(e Hollywood by 20iis- with the management air carriers, whether military or civilian. But concrete plans are being made for the days soon to come when all the planes ne cessary will be available. And even now considerable use of the air plane for snorts transportation' has been made in cases when craft are available and could not for. j ite in a matter of days. South A-'various reasons fit into the home j merican nags can perform at nia-jw-av bound military trek. i jleah or other tracks. Pacific Coast j Travel by air has been authori-. ! cities can be brought into the blgized for Navy athletic teams and 'baseball leagues. Thousands oftle Army Air Forces football lea-! .fans who never had opportunity 1 gae teams have been traveling by to see their favorite boxers, ten-) a;r. a special Conestoga cargo ; nis players or golfers in person j plane was chartered to carry the I will benefit by stepped-up airline : Philadelphia Eagles pro football ; schedules made possible by the j eleven with a ton of their equip-, elimination of wasted traveling; ment to Buffalo and return. ' time. j On the collegiate side the Uni-f It took the grim business of war jversity of Detriot football team; to boost the airplane up to the; was scheduled to fly to Memphis; point where it became attractive j for their clash with Mississippi' to athletic coaches and players, j State. Gene Tunney set the fans and! . scribes agog in the dim days wayj There is no speculation connect back when he flew to his cham-ied with the purchase of Victory pionship bout at Philadelphia. But) Loan Bonds. You loan your mon generally spoils mentors were ajey to your own Government at a bit leery about having their char-j rr00d rate of interest, with repay-; Iges take to the air. the sky time-jn!ent of principal guaranteed.; j tables didn't connect enough cit-jwhat could be more secure? ies, delays could prove disastrous j with packed stadiums waiting for j an airborne team tnat mignt oe held back by headwinds or line storms. And trainers weren't quite sure how high altitudes might af fect their men's digestions. i But the remarkable advances of j air transport during the war have changed all that. If hundreds of thousands of wounded sold.iers could be flown home comfortably across the Atlantic and. the Paci- fic, any qualms about the health of flying athletes disappeared. If transport routes can be operated clear, around the world on clock work schedule fears " of delaysj vanished. I t Even before the shooting stop-j ped, far. sighted sports moguls Harold Strable visited his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Stra ble and his grandfather, James Christenson, on Sunday He was returning from- St. Louis where he had received his army dis charge. He TnlLgo oa to Califor nia for the winter. Mrs. Lou Herman had a bir thday in November. The neighbors remembered her with a patty and a cake with the correct number of candles. Mr. ' and Mrs. Ed Weyers are the parents of a baby girl horn Tuesday, Nov. 13th. The former Cora Raker, now Mrs. Enos Hughes of Omaha, vis ited at the home of Mrs. Bailey from Thursday until Sunday. Roy Taul Williams is working at the Hall Grocery taking the place of Miss Idella Buell. It is reported that Ted Hall, the origi nal proprietor, will soon b2 com ing home from his Pacific theatre. George Lenz has purchased the Stewart farm south of Elmwood. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Moore of Omaha and their son, James and his wife, visited at the home of Mrs. Moore's father, L. F. Lang horst, this week. James is soon to leave for Okinawa where he has a position of directing air plane traffic. The members of the Masonic order attended the funeral of Mr. Oberle at Eagle on Wednesday afternoon and conducted the ser vices at the cemetery, the deceas ed having been a member her-!. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Clements at tended the State Bankers con vention at Omaha in company with Mr. and Mrs. Orvillo Julian of that city. A deal has been made whereby a family ftom Columbus, Nebr. purchased the cafe from Mr. Pierce and they will soon take charge. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Greene and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Keckler of Weeping Water, went to Lincoln on Friday evening where a birth day dinner in honor of Mr. Greene was served by his daughter, Doris Greene Lamb ajul Mr. Lamb. A school of instruction was held at the Masonic hall or Wed nesday afternoon and evening and the Eastern Star ladies served a 6:30 dinner in the basemen. Maude Creamer entertained a group of friends at he.- liome Wednesday evening to cchbrale the birthdays of Mrs. Ralph Crea mer and Mrs. Ruth ; Monning. The W.C.T.U. met at the home of Mrs. Wiegert on Thursday af ternoon, with Mrs. Lind ii charge of devotions and Mrs. Wad.- as lesson leader. Mrs. Cha'!e- Mar shall was a guest. The Rebekah Lodge members entertained a delegation from Louisville at their Tuesday even ing meeting. A large crowd enjoyed llio performance of the '.Mystery Man" at the Comnuui ty building on Tuesday night. The show was sponsored by the Goo.-b pr xluci dealers. The sleight of hand tricks were well given. Mrs. Charles Marshal', was host ess on Wednesday afternoon to the Eastern Star Kensington. Mr. and Mrs. Homy Dehning are in Rest Haven Home in Weep ing Water for the winter. VICTORY BOKDS PAY $4 FOR EVERY $3 YOU INVEST A Barbs wpi-m piaking , plans for post-war; air tranportat ion. Bringing the 1 noys - backhomef rom- versseas is..rop6 being killed. Old Jack still the major "concern of anyone JTrost had to have his little nip! BY HAL COCHRAN rpHE most " popular r brotherly ties are the ones he lets you wear. 'Fuel Administrator Ickcs says there should be enough coal to go around this wilder, if we'll take the grades we can get. Maybe wc better warm up to that idea! e Noi ;e is a racket made by the whote family while you are talk ing on. the phone. A dentist says teeth vc the cause of our worst ills. Mean ing, without them we wouldn't have a toothathe?" V.'c had plenty of reports of OUR STORE WILL BE CLOSED ,'v ALL DAY THANKSGIVING DO YOUR THANKSGIVING SHOPPING EARLY UWc-tt 4