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f i Th W La Jo Sp Pe CO M M: en Mi Ft vi an Ft at cu m dii rrn So Hi pit fh th gi s n H a g D m 0 P car H B trs: D 1 P y fl y 1 1! PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PliATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 194 "The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 .ubiished seml-weekly. Mondays Thursday! t 409-413 Mai" Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County. Nebraska, by Th Journal Pub liihinj Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher B. J. ALCOTT General Manager ROBERT B. STAUFFER.....-..Managing Editor Entered at tin Postofflce at Plattsmouth Nebraska, as second clas mail matter In accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. . SUBSCRIPTION RATE.-Htf per year, cash in advance, bj mall outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Delivered by c-r-rier in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: $3 per year. S1.75 for six months. $1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. $5.00. per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Food and Politics We don't know whether Alfred M. Landon's recent speech on President Truman's bread-for-Europe program was reported in European papers. If it was, a great many decent, unoffending hungry people of that continent must have been surprised and disheartened at the former presidential nominee's statements. Mr. Landon spoke of our sacrifices, and of our continuing to bear the burd ens of the whole earth. He held this government "passively responsible" for blundering policies which make our sacrifices necessary. He told his aud ience that "raiding our national pantry to soften the adverse effects of allied policy in Europe will not cure the sit uation." And, strangely enough, he found the root of the whole trouble . in the "iniquitous Morgenthau plan for "defeated Germany." Allied policies in Europe (which certainly aren't flawless) are the out come of an agreement reached at Pots dam by President Truman, Premier Sta lin and Prime Minister Attlee. They are not the Morgenthau plan. It will be recalled that Mr. Morgen thau favored, among other things, a drastic' curtailment of German industry. and a greater emphasis on agriculture.; .If his plan were in operation, it seems unlikely that a heavier emphasis on ..""agriculture would bring about starva- . 1 tion or, since Germany imported mucli food before the war, increased farming there would increase hunger through out Europe. But Mr. Landon contends that the Morgenthau plan is in operation, and implies that it is the reason behind our ''sacrifices" monumental deprivations which may force the world's best-fed people to eat wheat bread which' con tains a little more of the grain husk, ' and to'drink alcoholic beverages made from grains other than wheat. Apparently Mr. Landon is intent upon torturing a tragic inevitability into a domestic political issue. He seems to favor a protest against "blund ering allied policies" at the expense of hungry people. - The consensus of returned travelers from postwar Europe (a group that doea not include Mr. Landon) is that Europeans are not eating well or even -adequately. The predicted causes of food shortage are now actualities, and there itf a concentration of food in " black markets at prohibitive prices. c.Our greatest blunder has been our failure to face the facts earlier and to take really effective steps toward solv ing' the problem of a hungry Europe. There is just cause for criticism in our premature lifting of food controls, in ; our lack of planning, in the variousr ' '"nam'-stringings of UNRRA. But instead, Mr. Landon criticizes our belated at tempts to make amends. '- " Q What is the "trial of the coins" ceremony? --.-. A The annual pilgrimage of the Assay Commission to Philadelphia to test purity and weight of silver coins. Q Does freedom of the press exist ip Turkey? - . A One wonders. Recently four edi tors were jailed for criticizinb minist ers and national assembly members for the way they performed duties. Q What food supply normally im ported from Korea is Japan losing at present? . A 36,000,000 to 54,000,000 bushels of rice a year, the usual import. Korea can't export any rice to Japan at pres ent, so japan is looking to Siara. Cfte VJASilKTOM MERKV-fiO-ROUND I Br DREW PEAOSON WASHINGTON The man who heads the list as Harold Ickes' probable successor is Bart ley Crum of San Francisco, who, like Ickes, is a liberal republican. , . , Crum was chairman of the committee of inT dependent- republicans for Franklin Roosevelt during the 1911 campaign, which, together with Senator Ball of Minnesota,, pulled a, lot of . OOP ballots over to the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. , - . During this campaign, Crum became a close friend of Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan who later offered him several jobs as a reward for his services. One was as a mem ber of the Federal Communications Commis sion, another was as a federal power commis sioner. Crum however, turned them all down At one time iast summer when it looked as if ickes was on his way out, Hannegan also suggested Crum as secretary of the interior. L'rum's reply was: "You have too good a man in that job already." At present, crum is in the near east as a memuer oi the American-British committee on Palestine. A relative newcomer in politics, Crum first became prominent as an or.ginai memoer of tne vviiikie Drain trust, lie was one of Winkie's chief iar western strategists and campaign ad visers, but, like Willkie, for some time had leaned toward Roosevelt. It fact, Crum was conncient that, had Willkie lived, the former repuoiican candidate would have announced puonciy lor the late president. maily, dunng the lail of 1944,- Crum him self declared publicly for Roosevelt and helped organize the independnt republican commit te ior JrDR. ... ( . A Nt'it The far west long has wanted a west erner appointed as secretary of the interior. Lait of the Mohicans On the morning that Harold Ickes resigned as secretary oi tne interior, his mend tienry Uanace, as usual, walked lour miles to work. As he walked by the interior department, the secretary of commerce looked up ana said: s "Th Old Curmudgeon is really going this time. Once there were ten little inaians; how mere s only one." hereupon ne continued walking to work the last of the Mohicans. NO IE Henry Wallace was sworn into the original'' Roosevelt cabinet sis secretary of agriculture just a few minutes after ickes. As secretary oi interior, Ickes preceded him, thereiore had served in the cabinet longer tnan W allace up until yesterday. Congressional Husband ' -' Eelieve it or not, but Harry Luce, shy, pow erful publisher of Lite, 'lime and Fortune, is going to be initiated into the ladies 'section of the 78th Ciub, an organization made up of the wives of sophomore congressmen who serv-. ed their first term with the 78th congress. Luce happens to be the one man in America eligible lor memoersnip in tnis exclusive ladies organization due to the fact that ' his wife; Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut, came to Washington as a member of the 78th congress. No other man in the United States has this distinction. At first the ladies didn't think that Harry would want to join. However, since they, as the wives of sophomore congressmen, are mem bers, they didn't see why the husband of a sophomore congresswoman shouldn't also join the 78th Club. So Mrs. Joseph Farrington, attractive wife of the delegate from Hawaii and president of the club, wrote to Mr. Luce, suggesting that they would like to entertain him on any Wednes day. He replied in a charming hote, saying 'that he would 4be glad to come to Washington on April 10, because, he said, "that is a Wednes day and also it's the congresswoman's birth day." So on April 10, the 78th Club will cele brate Clare Luce's 43rd birthday and also initi ate her husband into the club. Four Months Too Late Only a few people know it, but President Truman could have saved himself and the nation about four months of economic head aches over wages and prices. Inside fact is that exactly the same plan he is now adopting, of putting both wages and prices under Chester Bowles, was urged on Truman last October. At that time, John Snyder asked a small group of brain-trusters to chart the future of the War Production Board, which "Cap" Krug, its then chairman was anxious to dismantle al together. ; ,The economic brain-trusters working under Bob Nathan recommended that the remains of WPB be joined with OPA under, a single head, Chester Bowles. They pointed out that production and prices were correlated prob lems and must be handled together. They even proposed that - Bob Hinckley, former under secretary of commerce and an A-l man, take over production problems under Bowles, while William Batt of WPB handle prices, also under Bowles. ' At that time, however, John Snyder wouldn't take Bowles. He wanted none of him. " Also industry didn't like the idea of being under a man - as forthright and uncompromising as Bowles. So Snyder turned the whole thing down. But today, after four months of inside bick ering which has seriously affected the econom ic life 'Of the nation, exactly the same plan is being adopted. Bowles i3 taking over both prices, wages, and production. Weeks of wrang ling and national indecision could have been saved is Harry Truman had not listened to his old friend from the Missouri National Guard,. John Snyder. (Copyright, 1046, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The most popular composers among service men in Europe during the war were George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Victor Herbert, according to a survey made by Pauline ..Man chester, instructor of piano at Northwestern University. A Farewell Gesture EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN Wu .4 Ji m Edson BY PETER EDSON Js'EA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C. (NEA) Backstage maneuvering in fiw v nghL1 c?nfii;m ex-Democratic National Committee Treasurer Edwin W. Pauley for the job of Undersecretary of the Na.vy has be highly amusing. ' wtca Before President Truman sent Pauley's name to the Senate, Demo num.- inemoers oi tne senate Naval Affairs Com mittee were carefully polled to make sure thej would vote to approve the nomination. That's whj is ' y , ov e couia De confirmed and H rvf H stuck t0 his euns in' fightinS for th j c ."lienor naroid L Ickej appeared before the Senate Naval Affairs' Com mittee to testify against Pauley, however Icket vent to the White House to clear his testimony wSSs the President. 7Swf ihvt leaves Truman n thk flght is hard for political dopesters to figure. Ttamli Trusrvsa nasziz&i? -.! h tni lot .- x piece against Pauley. Ickes'TslaP at Pauley evened an old political score alonhs JudS Welburn Mayock of California went U , C !r-n sPection- K was generally believed Mayock wat sent to Puerto Rico by the Democratic National Committee. thougS it was announced he went as a private citizen. Anyway, when Mayoc Srnnern Washington he let out a blast against Ickes and PuertJ S X iS nKr RX Tug,we11' an Icke man. Ickes paid that one bac With interest by his condemnation of Pauley's oil deals. gACK of most of the rumpus stirred up over veterans' affairs today a ,arr? membership drives being conducted by Legion. V F V AmVets, Military Order of World War and vOmEatouio k tne other to impress prospective members that it is doing the most for ex-soldiers and sailors. That's the reason for V. F. W.-led agitation ? su.l?stltute an bright cash bonus for the G I. Bill of Rights. If also the reason behind Legion Commander John Stelle's criticism General Omar Bradley, the Veterans' Administrator. xv yl?g , r.lch, dues Ptential of 12 million discharged servicemen, lohhilnf .nStaffS fu vet,erans organizations are playing polities and nrS tT g VerJlhe place- Idea of PuUi"g the Legion actively i politics was voiced by ex-Commander Edward N. Scheiberling last fall pHE Wagner-Ellender-Taft Housing bill is now known as the WET ., f'r YN?S(r.-the United Nations Educational, Scientific. K.hic " tUralvrgan,Zatl0n-ls said to be sire by Uneeda out of , . "'r , ' Durnea up over u. S. Military Government requirements that local officials and translators assigned to the U S I fying,ItoSt.mUSt PCak Japancse' the Suage the Koreans ar ' Almost 300 conventions Jwe're scheduled in advance for Chicago for the first nine months of 194G, t French Speed Rebuilding of Railroad System PARIS (U.R) Despite the tre mendous damage suffered by France's railroads during the war, reconstruction has been proceed ing at such a pace that officials in charge of the program are opti mistically pointing to 1946 as the year, which should see a near-return to prewar normalcy. Although admitting there still is a tremendous job ahead if recon struction is to be anywhere near complete by the end of 1946, offi cials here point with enthusiasm to what already has been accom plished. They point out that what has been done was accomplished des pite the fact France has been suffering from the most acute shortage of coal in its history, to say nothing of a shortage, of al most every kind of material vitally needed In the reconstruction of a war-devasted railway system. In September, 1944, the nar tion's railroad seemed almost. be yond hope of repair. There wasn"t a single phase of the system which had escaped damage. Locomotives, freight and passenger cars, tracks, stations, freight yards, bridges, re pair shops, sidings all had been seriously damaged by the war. Purchase U. S. Engines Out of a total of 17,000 locomo tives which France had in 1939, 11,800 remained following the Liberation. But actually only 2, 900 of these were usable. Today there are 12,800 engines in Fiance, 8,100 of which are in run ning order. Damaged locomotives are being repaired at the rate of lvu per month. To rebuild further their deplet ed stock of engines the French have placed orders in America and Canada for 1,340 engines, with de livery expected during 1946. Some of the engines, 1,200 of which will come from the U. S .and 140 from Canada, already have, arrived at Marseille. Before the war there were ap proximately 460,000 freight cars in France. Only 230,000 remained following Liberation. But today the French are repairing their damaged cars at the rate of 2.000 per month. In addition, delivery is expected this month on 1,500 cars ordered from the United States, while fu ture plans call for the eventual purchase from America of .some 36,750 cars if financial arrange ments can be worked out. Rail Yard. Repaired Besides these, 3,000 freight cars have been received from England, and delivery on an additional 7, 000 has already started to come through. But there, as with locomotives, the French aren't relying on im ports alone. Others placed with their own industry call for the pro duction of 11,220 cars as soon as possible and an additional order for 21,000 cars is planned pending the arrival of necessary materials from the United States and Can ada. Delivery of these, .however, is not expected for at least two years. About 40 of the big rail yards were destroyed up to 80 per cent or more during the war. Today these yards are approximately -75 tper ten. repaired. Some of them UniversitV Students Favor Hospital as Living Quarters are actually handling more cars j.today than they did in 1943. ! Throughout their repair of all ! installations, especially destroyed i stations, depots and repair shops, ithe Flench are carrying out an 'ambitious plan of modernization, t 'They are taking the point of view that, regrettable as the de struction is, it at least offers a chance to do some long-needed re construction' along modern lines. Stations are to be considerably erliaiged, while repair shops will 'be 'strategically located through - 6ut France and furnished with the latest equipment. j ''According to government offi cials, particularly notable progress has been made during the last six months in the development of freight and passenger traffic, des pite the coal shortage. -Freight imports from other European countries, while still short of the 1938 figure, today are far exceeding the 1943 level. Loaded cars crossing into France in January, 1944, totalled only 76,000 weekly. Today the number ia well over 225,000. ' Foreign Service Retored '.Passenger traffic also made im "portani strides. Many of the prin cipal express lines have long since been back in operation. Reaching speeds as high as 75 miles per hour, they connect Paris with such important French cities as Lille, Strasbourg Bordeaux, Le Havre, ( Lyon and Marseille. I Many of ahe prewar interna tional lines also have been re established. Trains connecting the French capital with Bale, Berne and Geneva already are operating. The 'Paris-Frankfurt line recently was extended to, Berlin, while the Paris-Rome line, via Milan, opened in December. And according to officials the Paris-Innsbruck line will be extended to the Austrian cities of Linz and Vienna and shortly on to Prague. Boat trains from Paris to Lon don, via Dieppe and Newhaven, have been in operation for nearly a year, while others to London, via Calais -and Dover, and via Dun- ,kerque and Dover, are scheduled ;to begin operation this spring. ) Service to Madrid and Lisbon will be resumed, according to offi cials, when "conditions in those countries" permit doing so. LINCOLN, (U.R) Overwhelming acceptance of the hospital site at Lincoln Aimy Air Field as a suit- able place to live while attending ! school was indicated Saturday in lirst returns of a University ot i Nebraska survey, i Seventy of the first 75 ques tionairres returned to the umvei sity said the hospita.l site would be acceptable if oenverted into family-type apartments. Lee Chatfield, assistant dean of student afiairs in charge of hous ing, urged, all married veterans now enrolled, or planninj to at tending the university, to call at or write the office of the dean of student at fairs at the University of Nebraska for the survey ques tionairre. He said the survey would have a bearing on the scope of reconversion work at the hos pital site. The possibility of converting part of the hospital site into apartments capaole of housing 3UO iamiiies is now being studied by a Lincoln Chamber of Com merce committee. The project wou.ld cost an estimated $250, 000. Over half the veterans answer ing the survey thus far- have one er more children, and in response to a question in the survey some said they could supply certain items of furniture should this equipment be unavailable immed iately. Fifteen said they had their own transportation but the re mainder said adequate bus facil ities would be a major factor in living at the hospital site. The apartments would he of onj and two bedroom capacity, renting1 for $35 to $40 monthly with utili ties furnished. University Beauty Queens Announced LINCOLN The University of Nebraska's 1946 beauty queens were announced at the annual student foundation tea dance late 'Thursday afternoon at the stu dent union ballroom. They are: Marcile Schmid, Se betha, Kansas, sophmorc; Barbara Blackburn, Grand Island, junior; Jean Bogan, Lincoln, sophmore; Betty Gompert, Mitchell, fresh man; Coleen Kohoa, Lincoln, junior; and Betty Jean Latta, Omaha junior. 'The winners were selected from an original group of 44 from which twelve semi-finalists were selected by violinist David Rubin off. The final six were selected from photos submitted to Harry Connover, head of the New York model agency. Read Journal Want Ads Use Journal Want Ads J. Edgar Hoover Voices Approval of Presbyterian Fund Approving the program of the Presbyterian Restoration fund, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation said today that Americans cannot stand by and permit our children to grow up in Christian America without ever attending religious services. In a letter to Frank M. Totton, vice president of the Chase Na tional Bank and chairman of the the National Laymen's committee of the restoration fund, Hoover said in part, "I am happy to learn that the Presbyterian Restoration fund will help combat juvenile de linquency in the United States. The continued greatness of our nation rests in large part on the shoulders of our youth. "I heartily approve of any cause which has Christian teachings and guidance to youth as its objective. The social, recreational, and re ligious activities which the Pres byterian Restoration fund will pro vide in war-created industrial com munities where there are no churches and Sunday schools should serve to eliminate the juve nile delinquency problem in areas where it has become most serious. "A child who comes in contact with religion, even if he but once a week, is far less apt to become a juvenile delinquent than one who never enters a church." bread to Receive itiucu ruuauiy ror rew mourns a ioou uie aveiage American is used to taKing ior granted, is go ing to btcome one oi tne most taiKea oi suojects in the nation in tne next lew monms. You li reau aDout it in newspa pers ana tne magazines, hear about it on life rauio, see it por trayed and written up on uin boarus and poeteis, and watcn movies and nevvsxeels m wmcn bread has the leading roi.e The lacts aoout oread will be put beiore the puohc in all possi ble ways in order to drum iy pop ular suppoit lor President Iru man's rood conservation program. I he importance oi conserving food, especially bread, will be driven home with sucn pnrases as, "democracy, freedom and the lu ture peace of the world will be imperiled if the people in Europe ana Asia are permitted to starve. ' Leading off a 'thrift" drive, the agriculture department has set forth a set of ''simple, every day ways" to conserve bread. According to the department, if each housewiie would save only a half a slice a day, the national saving would be 500,00 pounds oi bread daily. The department suggested these rules: Buy bread only when you need it. Keep it fresh by proper stor age. Avoid serving more slices at a meal than the family will eat. When bread gets dry, be resource ful dig up recipes for crumbs and crusts. Substitute oatmeal for toast ocasionally. Eat an extra po tato instead of another slice of bread. Consumers will be assured that they may expect no shortage of bread or flour at any time. But they will be reminded that Ameri cans are getting 3,360 calories daily while 100,000,000 Europeans are getting less than 1,500. In the forthcoming publicity TMS CURIOUS W0RLD ! drive, the new national bread will be called "creamy wnite'' or "olf white " in color, ine navor will be described as "siignuy nutty.' I he campaign will mouiuze citi zens organisations, grocers, the iood lnuusuy, advertisers and nousewives. iaKeis, miners and uisuners will oe asKed to auioe by new regulations. naKers will be asKed to insert in bread wrappers a note telling aoout tne new wneatsaving Hour. Yellow River Dike Repair Will boost China's hood Yield bWAJNuiiHi iwo m 1 1 1 i o n acres of China's richest land will yield food ior hundreds oi thous ands of families when the dam aged dikes along the Yellow river are repaired. Reclaiming of this land, which has been flooded sing 1938, will shortly be under taken by the Chinese Rehet and Rer.acilitation Administration in cooperation with UNRRA. The project will provide work for some 330,000 needy persons, largely recruited from among re fugees. UNRKA will supply neces sary machinery and the food ; which will comprise the greater portion of the workers' pay. UNRRA Ships Use Belt of 18 Ports WASHINGTON, D. C. WiU the volume of supplies now mov. ing from the United States and Canada both to Europe and the Far East, UNRRA ships are being loaded and are clearing from 18 North American ports. UNRRA soon will be using 250 merchant ships. East coast ports include Mon treal, Portland, Baltimore, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Nor folk, Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville. On the Gulf coast, UNRRA uses Galveston, Housim, Texas City and New Orleans. The Pacific coast list indues San Francisco, Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver. By William Ferguson W THIN AS A AfrjSJA TO TH,S LEGENDARY fc If MAA-jEA77AG Kwl WSiSi CARNIVORE OF THE M yt TREE. ,jSJ)yJ" botanical wocld 4 lfc-Sfc-TftO lAU A ARE SEVERAL. SMALL. cstro jj TO QUOTE . 23lD YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BRAINS ARE 79 PGfS CENT vvATee? - C0PR. 1946 BY NEA SERVICE. IUC. T. M REG. 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