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AGE TWO THE JOURyAL. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, t 409-413 Ma Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County. Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER-. B. J. ALCOTT M. P. MURRAY. : Publisher General Manager Managing Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, caiit m advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by car 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. $1.75 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. Mr. Visninsky's Uerimticn Andrei Vishinsky, lamous Russian prosecutor and deputy minister of for eign affairs, threw a shaft of light through what might be called the iron curtain of Kussian thought when, in a speech before a group of French jurists', he defined the iiussian govern ment as a "democratic dictatorship." ''Dictatorship of the proletariat" is an old, familiar Marxist-Leninist figure of speech a little obscure to the uninitiated, perhaps, but generally taken to mean "dictatorship by the proletariat." However, Mr. Vishin sky's definition was somewhat differ ent. A dictatorship, he explained, can be democratic "when it acts in the in terests of the people." Well, that de pends upon what definition of demo cracy 'one picks. American diction aries offer a choice. One definition is: "Government in which the supreme power is retained by the people and exercised either dir ectly, or indirectly through a system of representation." Another is: "Be lief in or practice of social equality; absence of snobbery." By the first definition, no dicta torship could be democratic. By the,, second, a dictatorship might qualify, though this definition in English ap plies to social rather than government al democracy. But perhaps the Russians have evolved an entirely different interpre tation. At any rate, let us go along with Mr. Vishinsky's definition of de mocracy, admit that a dictatorship is democratic when it acts in the interests of the people. It might be more precise, how ever, to say that a dictatorship can on ly be democratic when it acts in the interests of the people, and that when it doesn't it becomes fascism or naz ism. Therefore, by Russian admission, there is no virtue in the institution of dictatorship, but only in the men at the head of it. Obviously, the heads of the Rus sian dictatorship (as we may call it now, without any fear of giving of fense) consider themselves virtuous. Obviously, they believe that they can indoctrinate and choose so carefully that, even though dictators are mortal, their successors will be men of sim ilar virtue. But can the Russians guarantee the validity of wisdom and virtue in a dictatorship where only the leaders and not the people are permitted to pass judgment on these qualities? Anyway, we're grateful to Mr. Vishinsky for his definition of the Russian form of government, even though it doubtless leaves most of us more incapable than ever of admiring it. : Q What is army's new RD di vision? A Research and development, a department with general staff sta tus for exploration of military-scientific, problems. What portion of our electric pow er is dependent on coal? A About half, 110,000,000,000 of the 222,000,000,000 kilowatt hours produced in 1945. Q Did Italy gain or lose popu lation during the recent war years? A Gained, from 44,600,000 in 1D3D to an estimated 45,800,000 now. QWhat was the first coin minted A The silver dollar, Oct. 15, 1791. S3 A By DKW PEARSON WASHINGTON The last time Herbert Hoover went to the Argentine as president elect in 192S he put his foot in his mouth at almost every step he made, beginning' by kick ing the representative of the powerful news paper La Nacion off his battleship. Tcday it looks as if the Argentines were go ing to help him repeat. Already they have de vised a neat plan to challenge us to restore rationing during Herbert Hoover's trip. In the first place, the Argentines regard Hoover's trip as primarily a "propaganda" move. Argentine government officials say that not another grain of wheat or another ounce of fats for European famine relief can be squeezed out of their country. Therefore, they argue, the former president's tour must be in terpreted as " a gesture, intended to impress South Ameiicans with the humanitarianism of the USA." So, President Peron is planning to go the United States one better. He will inform Hoo ver that Argentina is prepared to institute food rationing, and urge that the United States do likewise. This suggestion will be given full publicity, with the idea of bringing Argentina out on top no matter what happens. If the U. S. government agrees to return to rationing, Peron will get credit (he figures) for having proposed the move. If not, Argen tina will go ahead anyway and "show the Yan quis up." This scheme has been carefully mapped out and Peron is prepared to put rationing into effect no later than August 1. He was seriousiy considering the step in any case, for domestic conservation purposes. Now, he will simply make a vuture out of Ins necessity and time the publicity for Herbert Hoover's trip. RR Labor Fumes Truman's able labor adviser, John Steclman, may have forgotten, but he had a signiticent talk with icK brothemjod leaders some time ago, indicating that the union leaders were, irked at Truman quite a wnile back. Thise who called at the White House were: Davy Kobeitson, head of the firemen; Limer Miiiimau of the mamienanee-of-way men; and Lewis M. Wickiem, vice-pi evident of the hcct metal workers, a brotherhood a.iiiliate. Long time friends oi Iruma:., they ciesired an inter view witJi the pi'esiuent but couiun't get it. So they took it oat on Joint steeima.i as foiiows: "Leok, John, we le behind Harry Truman 100 per cent. We like him more than we liked President Roosevelt. Roosevelt was witn us and we could depend on- him; but Hairy Truman is more our kind of man. 'Weil, John, you've got to admit thatthings aren't going right these days certainly, they'ie not rigfit liom the labor standpoint. Harry should sit down and cnat with us he aiways Used to listen to us. "'if he continues to 6 hut us out, we're going to have to turn elsewhere. You know, we usual ly support democrats only occasionally have we supported an outstandingly iiiciiuiy repub lican. ''But today we don't hear from the policy makers in the democratic party. At the same time, however, the republicans are constantly calling us for advice and conferences. They reaiiy try to make us feel we're wanted and that's sometning no one here does. "'We've got seiious problems and unless we can get an ear we may have to go over to the republican side of the street." Steeiman threw up his hands in horror. "Don't ever think of doing that" he said 'It's unfortunate the president hasn't been able to see you but you know he lias been terribly busy with international affairs and hasn't had time to see half the people he'd like to see likely. You just sit tight and I'll arrange an ap pointment just as soon as possible." Truman's Old Friends Brotherhood men say this incident has been f oi gotten and the boys bear no grudges. Nev ertheless, the incident symbolizes the growing coolness toward the democratic party on the part of some labor groups. Most people don't know it, but the railroad men had a great deal to do with reelecting Harry Truman as senator when some politicoes considered him on the ropes in 11)40. Even some of Harry's best friends, including John Snyder, feared he was a dead duck. But the railroad brotherhoods came to this rescue, col lected SI each from their membership and fin ally raised a campaign kitty of $10,01)0 It was partly their energy which finally sent Harry Truman back to the Senate and, later on to the presidency. Inside the Round House Real power behind the RR strike is the son of an Iowa preacher, A. P. Whitney. The other strike leader, Alvanley Johnston of the loco motive engineers, is described by RR men as merely the ''whistle following the calliope" . . . He is content to follow, though never quite sure where Whitney will lead him . .. John ston was born and educated in Canada, did most of his railroading on the Great Northern . . .Both Whitney and Johnston are roundly hated by the three other brotherhood leaders . . . The RR brotherhoods have proposed 44 rules with pay. These rules are in addition to the demanded 20-cent pay increase . . . Here are some of the rules: Extra night pay of 10 cents an hour for working between G:30 p. m. and G:30 a. m. ... Time and a half for Sun days and holidays . . . Stop-over pay for trav elling employes after 12 hours . . . Changes in overtime pay rules for yard service employes . . . Brotherhood are by no means together on what they want. They broke apart at Chicago mediation councils early this year when Whit ney's trainmen and Johnston's engineers re fused arbitration. The switchmen, firemen and conductors on the other hand, agreed to have their wage dispute (not the rules dispute) go before an arbitration board . . . The 16-cents-an-hour increase awarded by the board wasn't received with joy, however, by any of them. X Besides the five "operating" brotherhoods which run the trains, there are 15 non-operating brotherhoods who don't run trains and who also demand pay increases of 14 cents above the 1G cents already awarded. A strike vote shows they mean business . . . Some Wash ington observers are wondering of the upshot of all this won't mean government ownership of the rails. Pushed between airplanes and motor trucks, the RR's can't increase their costs too much and stay in business. (Copyright, 1946, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bird of Prey THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1946 w .-- - TV' T.s V? iDSOM'S WASHINGTON COLUMN . -rX 1- v V. iri. i" i. - , v.; 4 ' - X. 1 .v v . ' V j-.-.rV iilt'tt-;, rfe.t! 1 : ' ,r V srl . TrrASIIINGTCN, D. C. (NEA) downs on record was recently BY PETER EDSON NEA Vi'ailnnsicn CcrrespcnJcnt One -r- J'Ar. 'i J " 'A' v iVsr r'A? - " ' ,V i the neatest Kttle s:-.r-. ecentlv nut over hv TTritr-d v.-. i t..i:,. and Rehabilitation director Fioreilo LaGuardia. His victiirs ve P distillers. What he got was the promise of a million bitshc-ls of prJn '"- wiiijr um uibuiiers Ji:;e xo reier to it is 50 million pounds, because they keep thoir records in pounds and the bigger number sounds like a lot more. The whole idea was set in motion a couple of weeks ago when Dr. Armand Htmir.cr. prc-ident of the United Distillers of Daliimore, ir.c:e a" rift of a million pounds of wheat fiour to President Truman for relief. Dr. Hammer, as a young physician 'just out of Columbia after the last war, had been a re lief worker in Russia in 1921, so he knew famine conditions first hand. This million pounds of wheat fiour he donated to world relief had been allocated to his firm hv ivio Department of Agriculture, he said, for conversion into what he called "sugar syrup." But, since he thought bread for Europe and Asia was more important than soothing sugar syrup, he donated the big flour gift to tiie Little Flower for relief. Incidentally, of course, there was a government order on the books forbidding the use of wheat or wheat flour in the making of "distilled spirits. v x Edson &V WW TTHEN LaGuardia heard about Dr. Hammer's great syrupy contri butian to alleviate human suffering, the UNRRA director won c.eiea n mere wasn't more of tne same where this came from. No sooner thought of than dene. Calling a meeting of the distillprs in j; Washington, he got 25 of them together in a hotel room at 2 o'clock J one afternoon, bore down hard, told them he wanted a gift of a mil-i . j lion bushels of grain. ij Now it happens that the distilled spirits industry has been over' ; - one of its own barrels ever since the grain shortage developed, but ; hard. Up in Congress, Jerry Voorhis of California and others have been calling for an end to all distilling until the food crisis is over. ! In spite of the fact that the government has cut the distillers down to ! three days' operations a month, people still have the idea that the distillers are using up a lot of grain. Actually, the distillers can use ; no wheat at all and only low-grade soft corn and other grains. JUT at the time there were charges floating around that the dis-' I tillers had six million bushels of grain in storage and would use anotner eignt million bushels in the next two months. The distillers were on the spot. Here was this guy LaGuardia demanding grain. They met him with a proposition that they give him the dollars with; which to buy grain. LaGuardia made faces. He had all the dollars ! he needed. What he wanted was grain. The distillers finally had to meet his terms. They agreed to donate i the 50 million pounds. ; So the whole thing ends up as iust a ereat bi2 beautiful s?ift from j the distilled spirits institute to show what nice people they are. K'.rs. Henry Maseman 1 !,... ! t'2 moisture in the soil in the failichant. In downtown PhiladplnTiii they w,ll VIsit another sister, economic life, I hold that the had more to do with next year's one . day, ht listed & iMrs. Charles Warrick, and f ami-. -little rescaicne-s are a consul- grass crop than rainfall during the the beat of African drums coir ice ly. eralle factor in development of growing season. i from a very American building - j Mrs. . n. uuiuiton, iw uus Haiti-lean scientific research, been receiving treatment at Bry- he said. an .uemoriai nosiitai m Lincoln, Loueges and ;ne training schools for research ers and the home of research even thou zh much has been trans- is much better and hopes to be able to return home the latter part of this week. Mr. and Mrs. George Wink ler, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fleisca-' man and Duane, Mr. and Mrs. Haivey Gerhard and Shirley ail of Eagle, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Crandell of Palmyra and Mr. and planted to industry and endowed research institutes. The latter still look to schools for their train ed investigators as search directors.' Permitting small college sci- duiing the grazing season. During 1942-43, however, the November soil moisture was high. Despite below-average rains dur ir,sr tho erowinf season-, hp snirl. , . 7 ' wen as re- forac-e duiing the grazing season ran about 759 pounds to the acre Mrs. Lawrence Krecklow ar.J ence instructors to engage in re- son, Keith of Mauley enoyed din ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Fleischman last Sunday. Cpl. Haimon Raliffson. who has been stationed at Oak Ridare, Tenn., stopped for a short visit with his parents the first of this search, he said, gives them a 'perpetual youthful enthusiasm," and increases the interest of stu dents in scientific matters. Ihe bulk of public funds for research mr.-t go to large centers ibor 194.1( was below average anu laooratones, ne said, but week. He was en route ot Califor- ltlle financial aid should trickle nia and epects to be sent from uown l tne utile researchers scattered try." widely over the coun- At ilia Movies Soil Moisture Is Indicator of Next Year's Grass Crop WASHINGTON 0J.R) Agricul- i Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Ruge I and Larry spent Monday after i noon with 'Irs. Dena Ruge. ! Mrs. Ernest Emshoff and Mr. 1 and Mrs. Paul Linhardt werp Lin I coin shoppers Monday, j Mr. and Mrs. Will Emshoff jand family of Nebraska City spent Friday with Mrs. Sophie ' Emshoff. j . Mrs. Caroline Marquardt re i turned from Lincoln where they went for a medical encek-up. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zaiscr were Omaha visitors Tuesday. I Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rohlfs j of Lincoln were visiting relatives ! Vio-o S-'fitnrrlav pvpniner. Mrs. Philip Maseman and Nich-' there to the south Pacific in the olas went to Nebraska City to near future. j visit her parents Tuesday. ) I Sunday dinner guests at the I , home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Maseman were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Holm of Syracuse, Mrs. Robert Nutter and Jerry and Mrs. Bud S. Coefield of Murray, Spen ser Fox, Stuart Backman and Robert Glen of Bertrand. Mrs. Dick Bollman, who has been ill several days, is feeling better. The George McFadden family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Lacey Monday evening. Miss Virginia McCorkindale of Bellevue, visited friends here Sunday. She is assisting at the postoffice at Bellevue this sum mer. Her father, the postmaster there, has been ill. . Mrs. Bessie Paap of Lincoln ing experiences of a sensitive, in- snent several davs last week with tpllio-pnt man dnrir.f his five i.n ;n 10m v,o,i iniicatoi that his studies ' - - - , --ft UI,U11 ill -i W 11UU JilUlVUkkU 1 T . . T TVT..-U T . . , , , , it . . . xicr &1.-.LC1, ju.n ji" ma uist. uavs aoanaon to an msatiaoie t Doris and Clara Jane Ruge hunger for liquor. The devotion and Marlene Hennings are spend- 0f his sweetheart, the patient un ing several days in Lincoln. j derstanding of his brother, can Elaine Rippe spent several days ; not keen him from going off the with her grandmother, Mrs. Kirk- t deep end into an abyss never yet off, of Weeping Water last week. interpreted on the screen. It is Mr?. Martha Ruge, Mrs. Calvin not until he sinks to the depths Carsten and Mrs. Henry Smith : of degradtion that he finds him were Lincoln shoppers Monday. jself. By then, according- to re Ted Nutzman came for Janice, ' ports you will have lived through who has spent two weeks with her a picture so exciting, you will j In 1940, he said, soil moisture J Investigation showed the drum- was low in the fall followed mers to be Chief Tevi. a Dohom- universrues are jy a scanty spring rainfall. Thejiam native, and his family. The result was a serious lacic of rorage ;two musicians exchanged notes on far above average. In 1915, rainfall durin g the growing season was far above average yet the grass crop dipped to a below-average 471 pounds to an acre. Barnes said the answer was that soil moisture in Novem- USC Receives 220 Primitive Native Musical Instruments their profession and parted firmly convinced the fantastic coinci dence would never be repeated. But the chief appeared again, this time beating the drums of a circus parade in Jackson, Mich., some six years later. Gale and his wife happened to be spectators. Outside the chief's dressing rcom, Gale hummed the first few bars of the chant he had first heard in Philadelphia. Chief Tevi promptly bounced from the room wearing a broad smile or recognition for his old friend. BARBS One of the most talked-aheut books, Charles Jackson's ''The Lost Weekend," will probably be one of the most talked-about mo tion pictures, if advance notice? are any indication. For those who have seen Paramount's pic turization of the best-seller, co starring Ray Milland and Jane Wynian. and due Siinday at the Cass Theater, declare it to be one of the most unusual and dar ing films ever made. The story concerns the shock- ONTARIO, Calif., (U.R) Forty years of searching for primative native musical instruments and of ; research into American Indian j tribal music lay behind the recent r-ifr. of 220 onaint instruments to ' ture Department soil experts are;the University of Southern Cali- J looking forward to the day when ; fornia. ' Western cattlemen can dig a hole j , ' , , ,. , .-,,! ! .u . j Albert Gale, a retired Ontario i m the ground in the autumn and . . " , a ' , ,, ,. i f tii 'musician, traveled the entire con-.' f oi cast accurately how many cat-: "'"-'Y" i m -n tinent to make transcriptions of tie or sheep their range will sup- . , , . . s- ii Indian music and to collect tne port the following season. i?"1'1"" , , , .. . - t- r e .i t instruments used by the first Oscar K. Barnes, of the Lara- "l-Li . L,M-5 u- -i i.- mencans. Included m the unique mie Wyo., soil conversation re- --i""-'1 x'"- u. ' , i ! i. i i ,u . collection were lvorv, shell ana search division, has reported that uu"uu". , - . T,-o . , tni cTiiirinipns froin Java. India, a six-veai-stuay ot son moisture -"v; 1 , . . f i j j- , . frica and the remote islands ot on the western ranges disclosed a -I1KJ 1K-'1 definite relationship between fall , the south Pacific i i .i ; Gale forme-rlv director of music soil moisture and the ensuing i u.u uiumi.! , , , . nt Wash neton university, found Z:;a .-new and unusual friend through ; they've been. cii..- Afr;PQn trihal J 1. BY HAL COCHRANT YrHEN your feet are kept on the ground your nose isn't likely to be in the air. A style expert says a man takes a dnnk tchen depressed and a woman buys a hat. Then the man takes another drink! A Chicago baking company has announced it will make bread from popcorn. Can we expect it to pass itself around the table? The California man who rebbed a delicatessen but took nothing but cheese raises the old question is he man or mouse? All that some people realize on icme investments is what fools grandparents. Miss Dorothea Keil Mrs never forget it. Ray Milland plays Don Bir-i nam, the story's bedevilled hero.i and Jane Wyman is seen as Ilel- j en, his sweetheart. For both Mill-! and and Miss Wyman their roles! in "The Lost Weekend" repre-, sent a debut into the dramatic! filed of acting, as each has here-! Otto Ketelhut is in the tofore specialized in romantic; Lincoln General hospital where i comedy and other light mediums, she underwent an operation lastj Others in the Charles Brackett week. She, was able to sit up the Hilly Wilder film are Phillip first part of this week. ilerry, Howard da Suva, Doris Miss Bernicq Phillips of Oma ha is visiting her brothers, Wal ter arid Robert Philips, and their families. David Cantley, who was sta tioned at Richmond, Wash., re cently received his discharge from the army. Measles are prevalent among the children of the community, Dowling, Frank Faylen. Support Urged for 'Little Researchers' CHAMPAIGN, 111. (U.F.) In creased recognition of the contri- j hut ions of small collecrc scientists I is being urged by Prof. Carl G. Seme them have been quite ill. Hartman, University of Illinois zoologist Ilartnian urged that one per cent of federal funds appropriat- with tlreni Miss Lila Gerhard visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwegman, the first of thisd under the proposed National week. Research foundation be given to Mrs. Carrie Trimble and her1 small college science depart eister, Mrs. Lydia Buge, ofmcnts. Compton, Calif., left Wednesday "Just as the 'little business of this week for Osceola where ian' is a powerful factor in our s viva' Do You Really Yattt to Give Him a Super-fine OUR COURTLKY TOILETRIES ARE ALL THAT AND MORE. LOTIONS, COLOGNE, DEODORANTS, PRE-SIIAVE AND AFTER SHAVE LOTIONS, HANI) AND BATH EARS. BEAUTIFULLY BOXED. ALL DISTINCTLY MANNISH SCENTS. Prices $1 to $5 plus tan VE GIVE GREEN STAMPS Since 1879 4 in