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ACE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MARCH 7,-1946 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays iud Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska, by Tbe iourna! Puo lishlnt Company. ' - - LESTER A. WALKER. B. J. ALCOTT ROBERT B. STAUFFER ....Publisher General Manager ....Managing Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second clasi mail njatter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. - . " : - - SUBSCRIPTION 'RATEs $3 per year, cash In advance, bf mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car rier in the Ctty of Plattsnyuth. 15 cents per week, oi $7.00 per rear cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: $3 per year, $1.75 for six months. $1.00 for three months, cash In advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.C0 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Pity the Poor Solons After more than 16 years in Congress Robert (Pensions for Congress) Ram speck resigned because he no longer could afford to serve the people of the Fifth Georgia District. In an article in Collier's Magazine the retired congressman still advocates the pension plan that brought him, as "Bundles for Congressmen," an assort-; ment of crutches, old shoes, old pants and lurid insults three years ago. He thinks, however, that his original pro-. posal was over-modest, and would also raise, the active salary by oO per cent. Out of ' his $10,000 gross salary, mi nus income tax, a congressman must maintain two. homes; travel back arxdU. forth between district and capital; en--tertain visiting, constituents, run er rands for the folks at home, carry on a large correspondence by mail, tele phone and telegraph. He must be a set up for every worthy eKarity and many others, including the party campaign fund: Every two years he must run for re election in .'primary, election or both. Ramspeck says his biennial costs for this were between $25,00 and $5000. ' He is from a safely Democratic dis trict. The representative from a doubt ful area spends more. When he gets all through the ave rage congressman has nothing left toward a nest egg for old age. He is not even a member of the Social Se curity old-age system. He is lucky if he does not draw a little, every two years, on .whatever savings he had be fore election. What can a congressman do about this situation? He: can neglect his legitimate duties to get time to supplement his income with private enterprises. It is our good fortune that so few solons have permit ted selfish interests to compromise them'with easy money assistance; or have taken advantage of their inside positions to mix up in unethical ven tures., He can fortify his political position by becoming a handy man for consti tuents; ducking controversial issues so as not to make enemies; letting others do his thinking because he has no time to stiidy public issues and jio courage to fade them. He;can play the game straight and, like the late Senator Norris, retire eventually to an impoverished old age. Or, like Ramspeck, he can resign, take a position in private business at salary commensurate with his ability, end give his family a break. He "ought to have a fifth option: To remain in Congress, attend to his du ties intelligently nrd courageously, live on his salary with moderate com fort, and have some insurance for his and wife's old age. Q -?How many U. S. troops are to be staticried. on Okinawa? . A -33,000 -air and service forces, says General Eisenhower. Length of time is indefinite. v.. QWhat is rakija? A Yugoslavia's national drinkv It's plum. brandy. ' i Q How many nations have; posses sions in Africa? - - v V A-Six : Britain, Italy,. France,. Bel gium, Portugal and Spain: ;.; ".-'--, q What, calendar do the Russians . and Greeks use? A-The Julian, which places Jan. 1 on our Jan. 14. Other peoples use the Gregorian, or reformed Julia'n, calen dar. , Y-GO-R0UHD By D&EYV PEAKS ON ' .WASHINGTON If there were more men liko housing expediter Wilson. Wyatt around, President Truman would have easier sailing. The other day in, Chicago, Wyatt was guest speaker at a banquet of the National Associa tion of Home Builders, 3,200 strong, ail hos tile, all prepared tobca at the man "who. pro posed revolutionary Building Yefor'nisin 'order " to complete 3,UUU,U00 homes -in two years. As Wyatt arose, the atmosphere was charged with hospuuy. However, lie told storks, explain ed his ! pi ogram,. made. -no antagonistic state ments. - " 'if you gentlemen are against this program, . then you , uon't uuaerstahif , it," Wyatt said. "lt'T, rny lau'it tor. not making it clear." ; After i-i5: iuiOutei,fftaing won over a con- ' sicteiaoie part 01 me audience, he stopped. Ihen for -la rn.nut.es more lie answered1; questions. r. very inch. bt the way 43 lougntior nis pro , grain oi low-cost nousing for veterans. ' . ' . .Jjmauy, wnen he iiiusneci," every-Duilder in . the. nu&e uuimg-room rose to his leet and entered. ' . .Prior to Wyatt's speech, he National Asso ciation of. iiome isuuaers haa aaoptea a reso lution opposing premium payments 'ox $ou(J, OuOjUUU to spur Housing." vtyatt proposed these piemiunis to he p'aiU to manuiacturers of 'Duuuuig iijaieriuis wno mcreaseuv tteif normal prouueuon. i'ne more tney increaseu ' produc tion, in gitiiter ine incentive payment taey woum receive, uuttne ouumng lnuusuy, want ing, iiiyrvttiwu x-i'ices, nau voiea tmpiiuucauy ;t itaintt mi's pian. , Alice xua syvuch', hcweverV the directors of 1x12 tiouia uui.utrs rtvtrbcu ineniaeives anu tele grua'a' cwigress in auppoi b Oi- vjtti,is yiuil lor iiiCciiuvcAiJiatnis us a prenuuia to uiose wno piouucea most. r. ' , j, ftew cots t-'or Germany 'It goV piacticaiiy no puancity, but an ap pointment iar more - important man that of r.u ruu.ey as utiutr seiaeuuy oi u.e navy was made tne other aay wnen araj. uea. uorni iiiiiu- rilig uctaic aiai.cilib aucitlaiy OX State 111 cuaigu vi uceupieu areas, j i ; Upon tne Way iiiuuiing auw his job will tfc penu in part wnemer p nave war again wua ucuwaiiv una jaan. ine otiie i-exjai Lu;tnt had. planned to put these -enemy countries unuer ine Itirecktuil u a civ man iiuiiiiiatiator, tiat as tr.e resuit oi some im-eiectiug yawi-a witie iit;-miiig, an aiiiiy Oa.itt;v.r was aijuiueu lusitau , t , - iiie: i.ufeuermg gos uk ' iw" "Ovneraf iiseanower s rebuiu.tu vvasuuigtoii irum : Jnu ropu vvn.-n ce went to &eorewu-y oi itate uits ti.u uigtu uiat me ai.ij( : uc.,reiev eu vi gueilali Vjtiiiiaiiy do suuu aa pdaiOlC. ' i.nu aixuy vvj.i, ui cvuiov, tujuiiiutf main tain law aim oiucr, " r.iacuiivjvtr vOiu uyrnes. "uul jjuvciuiiig ut-cuy.ca Countries is llt tno joo 01 tne army." secteuuy uyrnes, however, demurred., ilar asitu itn uiiuoiiit.e piuuieais an over tne wonu, ne uiu not want tne leirmc heaaacne ; 01 ijovt-riiing utiniany ana daaii uaiUycU on tne otto .Lcycii Liiicm. uuoiteiJ. riiioiiji How ever, lie sustf tni uyyvMLutcuL oi vjciieiai L,ucius ciay as ciiaiiiaaii oi a government com mittee 10. aaise on uermany. Oeiitiai iiciiiuvsei-, uapomtca, imraca iateiy caoied aecrtiary. oi war r-atterson, men in Japan, ratterson cabled back that General Clay was too valuable where he was in Ger many, could not return to Washington. Patter ' son1 also expressed disappointment that Byrnes was not ready to relieve the army and take over the German problem in toto. Spanish-Nazi Cooperation x m ... Most amazing thing about the present pres sure on Spain is why the allies waited so long to bring it. The secret files of the State De partment reveal that on Jan. 28, 1944, British Ambassador Lord Templewood (formerly Sir Samuel Hoare) sent a hot note to Franco giv ing a detailed list of German ageats.and what they were doing to the allies. On March 9, 1944, Ambassador Carlton Hayes, a devout admirer of Franco, finally got around to forwarding the State Department a copy of the British protest. Here are the. Ger man agents listed by the British whose activ ities they demanded Franco stop: 1. The chief of the organization in Spain is Gustav Lenz, a captain in the German army., 2. An assistant to Lenz who is valued for his ' Spanish contacts in Madrid is Joaquim Canaris. 3. Another associate of Lenz is Eberhardt Kieckbusch. This man sends agents to the United Kingdom and the U. S. A. - 4. Herman Baltzer. Thia. German espionage . agent is belieyed to be in charge of the coast watching organization in which Spanish ob servers are employed. 5. Gustav Fock. Directs agents in Barcelona 'and North Africa. ;- ; G. Hans Von BucJi. ,Thid agent" supervises the transportation of German s.gents by air routes. .. . - I 7. Kert Von Rohrscheidt '. . . directs and op erates spies in Spain. 8. Karl Schwartz Von BerS. This agent haa . many contacts throughout Spain with., Lenz , sabotage organizations, and has been particu larly active in the Gibraltar area. iT' j 9. Doctor Weiss. This German agent visits Seville and Barcelona; he is known to spec- ialize in collecting information on allied air-" craft and armaments. He direct German agents outside of Spain. : -. . ... . -'-10. Karl - Heinrich Albrecht Grosspaetsch. Travels in 'Spain as a liaison officer between ' various sections of the German intelligence service, j - , - 11. Dembinsky A German agent who col- lects information from ports, in trfe south- of ' Spain. ki . v ; : 12 Fredrich Kreh is; a . techocal specialist t, and valued assistant on the Lenz staff. -- 13. Hermann. Von Wehckstern directs a,net - work, of agents who operate in Lisbon .? and Barcelona; he also obtains military informa : tibn from North Africa and has recently been awarded a decoration by the Germany govern ment for his important workvt '-., - ' r : 14. Hans. Gude is under Lens;, in charge of the marine section. ' -"' - Yet the State Department continued send ing oil and cotton to Franco. -(Copyright, 1946, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Trick Bear '''' 9 EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN " , IEX?w ED30N . .- . NEA Washington Correspondent TT7ASHINGTOX, D. C. (NEA ) At the height " of White House troubles over Ed Pauley's intended appointment and the resigna tion oi Secretary Ickes, Alabama Congressman Frank W. Boykin sent President Truman a new mctto. It was an elaborately lettered in- r?rt -tzv:x-w criplion m four-inch letters on a card measuring K '?rV, ! tbout eight inches wide by 13 inches long. The l iatin slogan reaa, .uiiegitimi won caroorunaeni." y The typewritten translation which Boykin sent 1 V, :tcrri inrliratd that thp nbrap mpan? "Flrin't i'TZ? i:i -let the so-and-so's get you down." Only "so-and- t " ro's" is not a literal translation of the Latin word.. tr Jf After ex-President Herbert Hoover came out of pi rs. , his White House conference with President Tru-' Vi'k -,? J man's special emergency food committee, he was r " 1 f v r . i i a r : tut a . . j iisKt-a ui a press comeieiice in ins inajiiower notei suite what he had told the President. "I make; it a practice never to tell what I say to a Presi dent," cracked Hoover Curing his own term in the White House, 'nothing made Hoover angrier than to have some caller repeat what he had told the President. . Ldson Primative People Not so "Simple" As W e May Think, Says Stef ansson The boys who have been in the! tropical islands of the Pacific or up in :the Arctic have' been sur-t piised to discover that primitive people have complex ideas and ustoms. Telling about the very complex Eskimo .language and the strange ideas of primitive people; about rarenthood, Vilhjalmur; Stefansson, noted explorer, tells what he has learned from his many years of living away from! "civilization." j "The more you know of the real; savage, the more sure you will bar that his life is not simple. The particular Stone Age people, the Eskimos, with whom I lived as a member of the family for many, years in the far North, differed little, and only in things that mat tered little, from the neighbors and friends I had had in Dakota and New York, in Britain and Italy. "Explorers who have lived with savages long enough to use their language instead of talking to them in a jargon like pidgin Chinese, are usually in agreement that on the avex-age they live near er to the Golden Rule than we do; that they are more kind, consid erate, generous, helpful than we. "It is. a common belief that 'primitive peoples have simple ( languages , yet it is a hundred years since William Dwight Whit ney of Yale, foremost of Ameri can grammarians, pointed out that some languages of uncivilized people are better tools of human intellect than, for instance, Rus sian", French, German or English. "I have found when copying down stories in Eskimo, and trans lating them into idiomatic English, that one page of typed Eskimo be omes more than two pages of typed English. You can . say as much in one hour of Esikmo speaking as you can in. two hours with English, and you. will: say it more precisely as well as-mo-re concisely. The chance for misun derstanding will be cut at least by half. "Take the inflection of nouns. In English we have only four pos sible forms 'man, man's men, men's two in the singular and two. in the plural. In Eskimo a single noun, like 'man or 'house,' can have more than a thousand forms, each different in meaning from any other, and the differ ence is so precise that no misun derstanding is Possible. ' ."And you were to study in succession Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Russian, each till-you could think in it and speak in it fluently and correctly, you would find those t four languages combined easier to learn than Eskimo alone "Primitive man 'throughout the world is commonly unaware " how children originate. When several mothers are together,; the conver sation will frequently run . along the line of how each got her ba bies. A mother will assert, fox in stance, that her first child was given to, her in a dream.. She dreamed . that a .raven, just 'like an ordinary bird except that: he could talk, fluttered to the ground hear her and said, You will have ason who is going to be a remark able caribou hunter.' She had no dream, she says, about her- second child; the way she got it was that sho lay down beside a brook to drink, and as she drank she felt a kind, of lump go down her throat with the water. That was her sec ond son. - Vlt follows that the child does not have a father in our sense of that word. The father of any child is the man .to whom the woman is married at the time the child is born. . " ' ' I ... j ' 'In the Eskimo "view,, a child is I born with a soul as foolish and j feeble as the child seems to be and J is. Clearly this soul is not com-1 petent to. look after the welfare of the child. So the mother, the first thing, summons the spirit of some man or woman from where it has j been waiting near the graveyard.! In some communities this is thej spirit of the last person who died ; j in others it is the soul of the last' near relative who died. J "The formula is, twice repeat-! ed: 'Soul of Mary (or John), come here. Be my child's atka,' meaning something like 'guardian angel. A boy child may receive; either a man's or woman's soul,! and the like with a girl baby. j 'It is from now on the guard-! ian soul that looks after the child, 7 - v. il. T-i ! V. T ft r. s Vt c 4- 4 n II- -. 1 ! - t and talk, protects - and helps in every way. This guardian has all the wisdom gained in a long life, and in addition, the higher wisdom that comes after death. Therefore the child is wiser than its parents, u'ii than anvnnp wtiii is nlder. for the memory of the earlier life, : the spirit world, fades gradually.! ''With this theory of bringing up children, you have the worst possible urchins at the stage of three to five years. Somewhere in here they usually begin to im prove rapidly. What mother, father and everybody does to bring this change about is to say tq little Mary: 'Look at Jane. She is, hardly , at all older than you, and see how quiet she is. Except for being small, she is already just Jike a grown, woman. She never asks for more than her share of; anything; she .always waits her turn. She helps her parents in stead of being a hindrance.'. That kind of talk, constantly repeated, gradually sinks in. By six on sev en, most children are speaking in low tones, helping others, watch ing out constantly for chances to be useful to family or community, sf. "Stone Age people do their best to observe all taboos. Our atti tude may be called positive, for we try to find out what to do, the how and the why. But Stone Age lives are lived in pursuit of nega tives; they want to find out what not, to do, how to avoid. "When t$ieir-;wise men spend their time trying to find out what not to do, it really means that they are in Bearch of new taboos. The white man's success in ' this line was among the reasons that converted iny Eskimo friends to Christianity.. They were filled with admiration for people, and for a way of life, that had discovered the forbidden nature of many things. , which to themselves had never been sus pect. .. - j "For instance the doctrine of sin w:as, of , necessity, as fascina ting I to them as: it 'was new. The like was true with rule of clean liness and hygiene. y That baths should be taken on Saturday, that hands should be . washed before meals, that hymns should be sung on Sunday, that work must not be done on Sunday discoveries like these,; made by the whites seemed to my Eskimoc clear evi dence of superior ability" : Fair Set Cheers For Woman's Success TROY, N. Y.'OJR) One of the nation's; prominent business worn en believes. that women are happy when one of their sex is success ful. ; Women are not jealous of each other's success, they are proud to see one of their sex getting ahead on an equil basis with men," con tends Muriel E. Reynolds, -one of the first two- women officers of the Standard. Oil Co. of New Jer sey.' ':' ' Speaking' to Russell1 Sage ' Col lege girls', Miss Reynolds, who is assistant secretary of the world wide corporation, said "Women around me were delighted when I was made an oitieer or . tne cor poration." They felt, she-addd, "it was;abtrat-time-that. a woman reached an executive position in the company." ' ' Miss Reynolds has only one rule for success concentration on the job. I think perhaps that is whr.t many women have not learned," she said. ''When ycu are on the job you have to stick to your job. You have to concentrate every bit of your, attention on it. Yoo' have to forget everything elsahut 'your, work. "Men do that," she told the girls "and we must too if we are to stand up with them." .nrilE late Col. Edmund W Starling, lon chief of the Secret Service .' detail at the White House, wrote a book about his experiences un der iour presidents. It was completed just before Starling died, and ' has now been published by Simon and Schuster under the title, "Star ling of the White House." Thomas Sugrue aided in the writing. ' : Starling's best iitories are about President Wilson's courtship of Widow Edith Belling Gait. They went to Hot Springs on their honey moon. . "The President and his bride had a good time, even, though) their visit was cu- short," writes Starling. "For ten days I diet not see him at all; he stayed in the bridal suite." . J T ATER on, they played golf end took auto rides about the country-' side. "During one of the rides.". Colonel Starling continues, "the President spotted a promontory which promised an excellent view.; He decided to wal:: up to it, taking Mrs. Wilson along. It was a stiff climb, but he was ready for anything during those high days. When' they returned to the automobile, the President's shoes were very muddy 'If you'll put your foot on the running board I'll clean it off, Robby, his chauffeur, said. The President accepted the offer: Mrs.. Wilscn looked down at her feet 'My shoes are not muddy,' she said, 'but I have a lace untied.' She looked at me expectantly. Im mediately I dropped to one knee. 'May I tie it for you? I asked. She rested her foe t on my trouser leg, raising the skirt of her hand somely tailored suit at the same time, to reveal a shapely anklev 'Thsr.l: you,'shi said, 'you tie a very neat bow.'' The President was) standing by the car, staring straight ahead, his nose pointing and hi jaws worfcingr-tQH-tJale: signs of anger. Quietly I went to the SecretJ Service car. -Ifcf-didn'pealt.to me for two weeks." J Congressman, '2ml y their value anyway, unless' econ ; omic freedom is reestablished. Citizens, shocked by recent ex posures in the Capitol,. have sound ed off t&eir dejection m, recent letters. ' Revelations of official corruption; and bungling should' not discourage you. Dishonesty and cheating in high office are not new evils.1 . . wjUTiis trials and tribulations of public office have always been- un pleasant. Today the sincere oifice holder is the target' of new wea pons, the smears, jibes, and snip ing broadcasts of hostile commen tators and-columnist. But an older, generation that sent its youth to' face physical death should not be lacking in the' moral stamina re quired to endure unfair attacks. America became great because, from the beginning, its ablest citi zens earnestly participated in pub lic affairs. In this critical reconversion.-, period, this kind of pa- triotisnt-is vital. .. ' z. - "Ye shall know, the truth and the truth, shall make you free." That injunction is as - true today as when it came" From the lips of the Master.-He was crucified be cause He exposed and condemned the. chiseling and abuses by the governmental officials of His time. We face the same problems. Howard Hughes Sets New Speed Record CULVER. CITY,! Cal., (U.R An ' east-west comercial speed record ' of 10 hours and 15 minutes .was held Tuesday by Howard , Hughes millionaire movie producer who flftw half a dozen movie stars here from New York in a TWA Constel lation plane. ;- . "r The nlane left LaGuardia. Field in New York at 4:48 a. m.' (EST) ' Monday and landed at- ;Hughes aircraft plant here ;at:.12.:03 PAnr., (PST) . The ' previous " record j "set ' by anotherVConstellation last FebJ 1, was 10 houn and 49 minutes. ' ; . "The truth that wilh k&ep .you free" is full disclosure and full popular understanding of the ac tions of those in power. When ugly be'hayior and betrayal By" those in high places is revealsd,- that fact should be faced without flinching. Those mistakes must be discovered ' and . exposed before their perpetrators can be driven from power. ' America, has no problems that cannot be-solved by honest and courageous leadership. The talents that are needed are intellectual, honesty, economic ability, and moral fibre. By their war efforts, the humble people of this nation have earned the blessings of com petent leadership. ?'J r- . Summer Session for High School Grads LINCOLN, (U.R) The Univer sity of Nebraska will offer high school graduates a special summer session course to enable them to obtain necessary university credits to. obtain a temporary teachers certificate, R. D. Moriz, summer session director, announced Mon- In addition to the regular nine week summer course, the univer sity"is addihe a'srjecial two week course to-enable high chool grad uates with no normal training to obtain 12 'university credit' hours, Moritz said. The course was es tablished to help, relieve the an ticipated teachers' shortage next fall. Channeling our. best men into government service is the difficul ty. From a financial standpoint, office-holding is not attractive. But service to the nation should Still, be the highest goal of patrio tic citizens. Dollars will lose Mayor Works Free SHARON VILLE, O. (U.R Mayor Frank A. Pence makes only $450 annually as the head of Sharonville but doesn't keep a cent. -.; Pence gives $300 of his salary to the village and the rest to Sharonville, churches just because ht wants .'.'to do scrnethmg for the community instead of taking from it." Use Journal Want AH : . . ..i ' - r va -i Men's Scrnethmg you haven't seen in a. long time. 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