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f age rwt THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, JULY 8, 1946 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, X 409-413 Mala Street Plattsmouth. Cass County. Nebraska, by he Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER E. J. ALCOTT ri. s. MURRAY Publisher .General Manager Editor .Managing Entered at the Postsffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with th Act of Congress of March 3, 1379. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash In advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. riATiv JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by ear ner in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per i year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: j Jj per year, lor six monins. ji.uu iui umr imuhui. in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. 55.00 per year. $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Bad bargain The right of veto, says Trvgve Lie, is "the price . . . which the United Nations paid for big power collabora tion. In return, the nations of the world expected and demanded one thing from the Big Five : they re quired that the big powers wouI"d seek and find agreement among them selves." Well, the nations of the world didn't get their money's worth. They didn't get collaboration or agreement among the great powers. They were even cheated out of an unofficial guar antee that the veto would not be used "willfully to obstruct" the Security Council's operations, and that it would be employed only in a crisis where ap proval of the Council's majority wishes might lead to war. Instead, they have seen the Rus sian Security Council representative, Air. Gromyko, veto the potentially powerfiii, peace-protecting Council in to a state of virtual impotence. The climax came, of course, when Mr. Gromyko used the veto three times in the stormy council session which ended in disagreement and an inde finite recess. Mr. Gromyko, ostensi bly protesting majority proposals for action in the Spanish question, actual ly did more. He vetoed once more the idea of majority rule. He vetoed away any semblance of authority in the al most po:7p' jts Kciei'1! Assembly. He even insitV' oAtm;1-$ifjt.it to veto the qiTesuon of whether matters before the council are subject to veto. What next? Guillermo Eelt, Cu ba's representative in the UX Assem bly, has .-.aid that he will try to call a conference of all UX members in an' effort to eliminate the veto power. It seems unlikely that Mr. Celt will get very far with his idea. At least one might guess, from Russian pol icy in the pat year, that the USSR might walk out of the United Nations rather than give up this right. But suppose this highly desirable miracle should take place. Would it solve everything? The chances do not seem very hopeful. We need only look at the recurrent and largely un productive meetings of the Big Four foreign ministers to see that serious disagreements would not be eliminated. Mr. Molotov can be just as adamant without a veto as can Mr. Gromyko with that weapon in his pocket. For whatever the rules, it seems that big-power agreement is the only hope, however it may be achieved. In the meantime, we might end this editorial on a note of "cautious optimism," according to the current custom in discussing international re lations. Mr. Gromyko, be it noted, has leased for a year the palatial Long Is land house and elegantly manicured grounds of the late, Republican, anti Russian Ogden Mills. Q Where are British headquar ters in Germany? A At Minden, Luebeck, Her ford, and Detnold. But plans are afoot to centralize HQ at Hamburg. Q Who was the highest paid woman in the nation for the 1914 calendar year and fiscal year ending in .1945. A Actress C a r m e n Miranda, 201,458. Q What city is known as the City of Spindles? A Lowell, Mass., for its cotton CiW WtSIBKIW, ygRRY- 0- ROUND Br D&KW PEARSOS WASHINGTON Veterans who go to col lege will be living in houseboats if a plan by Gen. Erskine, chief of the Labor Department's retaining and reemployment administration, is adopted. In order to alleviate housing problems for war vet students at colleges and universities, General Erskine has persuaded the maritime commission to provide surplus river boats for colleges in waterfront cities. The boats will be loaned to the schools at no cost, except for upkeep, and will be used as floating dormin tories for the vet students. The vets will be charged a small sum. for lodging and will be furnished two meals a day by the government at low cost. Two such vessels with stateroom accommo dations for 400 veterans each, soon will be brought to Washington, D. C, to house over flow students in this area. Ncte General Erskine is being bombarded with reports that with increased living costs brought on by congressional scuttling of OPA, many war vets college students cannot make ends meet. In many cases, veterans have been compelled to restrict themselves to two meals a day. Why Truman Has Trouble At a recent White House cabinet luncheon. Judge Fred Vinson proposed the appointment of Gael Sullivan, hard-hitting assistant post master general, as the new director of the budget. Attorney General Tom Clark immediately added his enthusiastic endorsement. Bob Ilan negan aho gave his support, though he sail he would hate to lose his assistant. The presidential lunchcrs then looked at the new secretary of the Treasury, John Snyder. He is the cabinet executive who would have to work closely with the new director of the bud get and his OK would bo essential. Snyder, however, said nothing. It was ob vious he did not approve of Sullivan. This illustrates one of the little-understood factors which operate inside the administra tion. It is doubtful that even the president him self fully understands it. His friends don't tell him. Truman has been constantly bemoaning the fact that he cannot enlist good men for government service; but he does not seem to realize thai many good men refuse to serve because of the Missouri gang. They know that their work would be con stantly vetoed. Missouri Can; Has Last Word CW such case occurred the other day when Truman invited J. II. Parten, wealthy Texas oil man and ex-member of the Texas university board of regents, to become chairman of the full employment committee. Later Truman announced Parten would not accept because he was making too much money. That, how ever, was not what Parten told either the pres ident or speaker Sam Rayburn who had urged his appointment. Parten told the president that lie thought the job of full employment chairman and di rector of the budget should be rolled into one. If the committee to bring full employment is to promote government spending, then it tuts across the bureau of the budget, and the two jobs must go hand in hand. Knowing the close friendship between Tru man and John Snyder, Parten did not acid (what he told others) that he could not work with John Snyder. So, since Snyder and the director of the budget must cooperate, the Texas oil man politely declined on the ground that he had to undergo an operation. -Many other well-qualified men have declin ed presidential appointments for exactly the same reason. They don't like the Missouri" gang veto any more than members of the United -Nations hke Ambassador Gromvko's veto They know that somV of the old, old friends who sit very close to Mr. Truman have a lot more influence with him then members of the cabinet. Roosevelt Children Row For years, the voters of Seattle have been watching a red-hot family conte.-t between the two most political-minded of FDR's chil dren. Jimmy, now political director of the inde pendent citizens committee, has thrown all his weight behind fighting Representative Hugh Delacy, while sister Anna Roosevelt Boettiger is trying to help Howard Costigan retire De lacy in the Washington state primaries Tues day. The family warfare started last month when Jimmy, ill and unable to appear in person, sent a warm endorsement of Delacy to a Seat tle meeting of the independent citizens com mittee. Jimmy also supported Senator Hugh Mitchell and Congressmen John Coffee, Henry Jackson and Charley Savage, all of Washing ton and all democrats. However, Howard Costigan, a former poli tical ally of Delacy's, jumped into the race at the last minute and wrote Jhnmv protesting the Delacy endorsement. Jimmy asked for a letter from Delacv uuiunintr nis no ifwai ni,; wi,,. Til i. J got the let- a sweeping endorse- spmning. ter, and then sent Cosigan ment of Delacy. Meanwhile, sister Anna, who has lived in Seattle for some years, viewed her brother' brother's intrusion from California with jaun diced eye. Doubtless she felt somewhat like Senator George' of Georgia when her father invaded the Senator's home state and proposed that George be defeated. Anyway, Sister Anna wrote brother Jimmy a letter attacking Delacy and praising his op ponent Costigan. She also wrote Costigan giv ing him her unqualified support. Finally she authorizzed publication of both letters. Mean while, Delacy, unable to get equal publicity in the Seatlle papers, has made recordings of Jimmy's endorsement, and is playing them over Seattle radio stations. So tomorrow, the people of Seattle will have to choose between the two opposing candidates of the Roosevelt family: In one corner, Howard Costigan, wearing the colors of sistej- Anna, and in the other corner Hugh Delacy, present holder of the title, wearing the colors of broth er Jimmy. It should be a good bout. Well, Well, Mt. Ararat at Last! i . -L ' - t . . .'5 EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY FETEK EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent x TH-ASHINGTON, E C.( NEA) Those who remain of the New Deal politicians and the Progressive Republicans are now worried because the people seem to be tco prosperous. The line is that when voters are well off financially, they tend to go conservative. Put it the other way around. Voters are not interested in progressive movements or liberal reforms when they have money in their pockets and food in their bellies. The great reform move ments always seem to follow depressions, when things have gone wrong. If these are political truths, the amount of money in the nay envelope becomes an important factor in the November elections. They're four months away. That's not very long, but a lot of things can happen in the meantime. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures just released put the average earnings of the nearly 12 million lactory workers in the U. S. for May at $1.07 per hour for a 40-hour week. It sounds like a lot of money In terms of weekly earnings, the U. S. average for factory workers for May is given as $-12.67. Com pare that with the average weekly earnings of $35.25 in 1939 Com pare it with the $25.02 average weekly earnings in 1923, or with, the it Edson wtii It. -'i. I rf?;;;,5:Wii.; Vr-1 " e- xr -fU-i irX . , w ; TifJ 21? ' r A iul,UUtU, U1C ponancc ot tr.osc figures bee ' ' r-r, 1 - ," t! J" ' TZT0 ":'', conswerauon along with what ' rr-'A - V - - - V .JfSJ- ' '- ?.nce lcvcls bween now and election. ' J " VrPX'i " "''e -St 01 Jiving are ""avoidable. These increases ,; - :-- a tt&sagzr- i pACTORY earnings have practically doubled in the 25 years since the end of World War I. The all-time peak in weekly earnings was the January, 1945, average of $47.40. Radicalism can't flourish on earnings like that. But prosperity can't be measured just by the dollars you have to jingle in your pocket, purse, or piggy-bank. It's what thev'll buv that counts. So take a good look in terms of the purchasing powei of today's dollar, as compared with that in past years, and see where you conic out. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the goods and services tnat $42. C7 will buy today could have been boucht for $23 86 in 13 ?Lr-t Jt t1he,U'er wa around. It takes $50.35 today to buy what ti2.6i would have bought in 1939. 'pHE point of this is that the purchasing power of the dollar was high in 1939 higher than in any recent vcar save 1932 for thoe poDle vvno had money to spend. If a family of four people spent S40 on food in 1939. today that family would have to spend $60 on lood. J or every $12 spent cn clothing in 1939, $18.50 would have to ernes apparent may happen rp increases are political UNDER THE DOME From the Fathfinder PRICES r. re ahiad. iUgaruless of eontrols. govern- !: j. i -Li-It:; and : ; rt it ies ci g'x;,Is make upward charges :'- ! i::d (,f l-.-deral rein control U strongly possible ' s: ..') .-, i'.o-.is"--; i isn't he produced quh-kly. LTIi F ill Ef-TDUT.' ts ("oriur ra w materials. Fome nian- -. f- li!i.tr their markots will now be unlimited for several v::l iiy to huil.l r.ji inventories. :-:"T ()'' PRI-.'E CHAXGKS will be watched Insely in ::! i (-..iiomi.-Loa n5 to France' and Britain may have tr va!"- hut higher prices would put those countries in r-vaiue dollar would make Detective Tells Why Men Leave nome- "The other ones pick womeai k ill Se v.';. r Li r-e:.Iintr posit i-tn here. And a low --! ! for them to repay the loans. ' ! BESLi JNATiOX OF DL'AN ACI1E.-OX as under secretary oft ir. tii a rds 68 soon as the international situation clears a s.tMc sa-ry: II-' ean't r.f ford to work at his salary. AX. JT; IF.il STAT i-L T ) E i A ! IT M E X T KEICXATIOX is ex-cted. j 'i I'.'-aiiou. in i J.ari.- of intor-Anieric an affairs, will either f cv .h..e j ' :-. lie ,,m't hold hi present job under the ! "i w"en they land," Lamb added r- v., . ,.- ,.,,,t;n. I Bamb makes a business of get I'BESiOKXT' ACTiuX on price eontro! was based somewhat! iviec frora Pari.-. During lon-dis'ance foreign policy talks: rotary Byrnes he also got ad .ice bused on Byrnes' experience j OitlTLS.M CHARGES will he made against army for its ' :t . .lieic-5. 'rit!e : c!ai;n not one of more than l.UUU reg-. (b-r.i.-.i disability pay running up to , per; r . . . , . . i ; . .... . n.v. but tlu't per cent ot some ..j.'JV'j rciniiiK ie -. - t . . ... 1 7 ;!'.;" nave u. mi inrne-'i uouu. FKBE.'tAB (ilOB IXS.' UAXl'E. designed to protect . -t ios-. s d'.i to wealir. floods, pests, etc., will be ended in ' ther 16 on the theory that they T-uui" unless more farnu :? participate, thus cuttius down cost, wouldn't be able , to support their .. ra:t -tat. i wives and children while in jail. i.;BTS OF SOME I'KTROLKrM (IJlOl i'H to lorm a peace- . jn all his years as a detective, lie Lvin if the p. trolcum administraiicn fur war have run into : iias only sent about lot) husbands Ju-tkv. Depavtnient has warned against possible anti-trust ( to jail. Lamb believes that too many ot its best menus on ine -children too quickly, working wives and a leek of mutual in terests contribute to breakups in W i s1 Ei'I.l .S l)iUi')SAt At;uu.u. now uai.n- j mairiases. relieving the man of a lot of strain he ought to assume; himself. That's a man's job to provide for his wife and kids. That's what he got married for. "A woman's workin all day, she meets with the world. She has bosses and irritations. Is she a XLEW ORK. (U.P.) Detective eronri nt-rsnn to r rnno bonio to Miter George Lamb has the answer to; her husband's been out meeting ' wb.y men leave home. the world, ton? It's women. j "We live In an age of people- In the 3(- years he has headed wanting more than they need to the Abandonment .Bureau, Queens live. We don't need much more district attorney's .office, Ia.mb than bread and shelter to be hap figures he has brought back l.fioo py. Rut .qple's got the Rolls husbands, and in more than half Royce idea with' the Ford nocktt- ot tnese cases ihey left their wives and children "on account of get ting some infatuation for a worn an. : book. "A woman in my experience is taking on too much responsibility. And remember this: A man thinks more of a woman he works for than the ine he doesn't." Although the total population of S. increased 26" mi'Iicn bt i i i : farmers I ting his mon back. On a recent trip to the west coast with 28 the U- warrants for abandonment, be tween 1020 and 1940, faim popu came back with a record of 2S ar- lation declined by one million d 'ar rests. Xine of these he brought ing the same period, Census fig or sent back to New York and two ures show." It suffered a""further already have gone to Sing Sing. decline of 3 million during the Prison. ' war. Job Better Than Jail i He made settlements with the BARBS- 1 .! J : I. crtrncm:: by ojr.e . thiu while it has shown ability to deteat some ot its en i, been ..ftVctive in aiding the candidates it supports. ... -I. .... 1 1 .. .i Ti.PI.Frf )i!Si'()SAL At;Kt).l, now nai.uieo bv State BY HAL COCHRAN "rVO Illinois golfers were in jured in an auto crash They diould improve their driving. you're one of the morie jar.s uiio leant lots of cEioTj. just takv a seat next to the aisle Mary Stuart, above, comes from. Tulsa, Okla., which is a lot roarer to Hollywood than New York is, but she found that the longest way 'round is the short est cut to a film career. She went to New York, worked as a model days and a photogra pher at night. While on the latter job, producer Joe Paster nak saw her. Result a screen contract. ' !1K 01 lr. II KC EL it will go to anybody who will take it. State wants no he ex- "Tnn fbiinn injinv tcbT5 We're told there will be no iia i ueu. , , r ,; m-XV-K SErfrflOXrf frayed legislators' tern- The responsibility is too great,' hinS suit shortage tms yc,i 1,1 '' .1....V.1- ..... j 1 . TiiHrfinr from thosn we e &CC11. ri. tr.b -rs have K-eii sniping at each other wit mnc iej,aiujso tlie man walks away trom c airerdy is courti sy. i but the woman has to stick with " Ail AM)' NAVY DEFAllT.MEXTrf may have to rehire thou-j it sink or swini- wftcjj fh? mQQn CQmcs ovcr of t!u ir fornv r civilian employes it congress nndu.v uku.vs, - omen working liasn t Iielpeu the mountain there's often a - il h ive nav lor enlittted men. Records of every serviceman j tne matter ar.y. Women's place, revenue man in close pursuit. DilTEil will follow Chester Bowles cut. ot tne a post WltU a national lauiu City Dvellers Safer ; In Lightning Storms PIT T S 15 U 11 C II (U.R? The i chances of being hit by lightning in a summer storm are about .'!!;.", . 000 to one, according to a noted '. student of lightning phenomena. Dr. G. D. McCann, lightning 'research expert for Westiughouse i Electric Corp. for the past decade, I ha been trapping thunderbolts Iwith special instruments that : count their frequency, photograph . them and measure their intensity, j Mot lightning casualties occur in small towns ami rural com I miiiiities." Dr. 3IcCann said. "The 1 city dweller is relatively safe, chief ; 1y because he seldom has far to go to reach shelicr. and too, the I shelter is bigger and safer." Tall building- afford almo-t 'complete protection because their 'steel skeltons serve as electrical i conductors. Dr. McCann pointed ! out. The ordinary city dwelling I provides a good haven, tco. Dr. McCann is studying light ning so that Westiughouse engi neers may develop improved cir cuit breakers, arresters and other protective devices to make electric power systems lightning proof. The wo rl'j '.-large -t ceramic clav pits are located at Mayfield, Ky. nave P- h;ive to lie (H'A'S I'Al'b ic-MiiR-nt. He's expected to lake . I.-TTI"!' f- A 1? S, I Atif. Will .i.i....! .,,,,.,1, .le civ shortages, soir.e maneis aie i "-" Tlore than lo.ooo cars are on oiuei. still high, accoruuig to lreasuij 1 billion moalhi.;-, about 3 per cent F remain acute for months. re .. -:,Ki. rf material -. .vtbs ii. htnd on deli vci U. IXMYiliVAE IX('OMi:S a - i-; now about 1 .t-Hi.. .v.-.. eiow :a.-:t yar. , . IV IS ("HAXtii.Mi .-il-.l lilii'n oi iniu Hone is to cut down amount ot Ainciican black market. .ron HOSPITALS, particularly in poorer states, Senate has already approved a bill allotting Ait liru-i:.-:;u countries .tiai's reaching the FEDERAL AID ii tie to p:.ss c ongi ( :75 million. .BREAD SHORTAGE 111 ease, by October. troops m some ss. V 1 1 i .e Mu.:l acute in n ?xi two mouth; Real Estate msfei's Tra! Clara Ivl. Sv.au Yv'esley Copenhaver avu! 2-';-io-i:i. Kivin Dob be; .-Lei n to G. E. Dodrill, ' Vs NVU, 7-10-'.'. 11. F. Jacobs and Vzh'A 10 G. d other.-, tc lr. SEU and Mildred SYYU d and II- D "-drill, sam e a.- M. W. McCermick and Mabel, S1 block :j, South Rock Eluff. Coideha "Viies to E. E- Loren stn and lUaiie, lots 1 and two. block bt', Weeping Water. Frank H. Stander to Liliie P. Stander, XWU. 16-11-11- Elk Enghmd to Alfred J. Conn and Genevieve, lot 5, block G3, Plattsmouth. a woman is bringing up a family she ought to stay home. Man's Job to Provide Four fire trucks in a Tennessee town raced to a blaze in the house of a fireman Maybe he took "Whgi a woman's workin she's soir.e of Ins vvorK nomc THIS CURIOUS WORLD Wi,liam eron ib err vor. and 'Icy tc Frozen Alfalfa OK If Properly Cured .Clarence Schmadeko. Cass coun ty aeent. has had several in.tuiries concerning the feeding value of the first cutting of alfalfa which was frozen early in May. Schmad eke says that if the alfalfa was cut before a loss of leaves re sulted, it would have a high pro tein content, even though the alf alfa was badly hit by the frost tery and .-lane, IhXW l, laja'nu mere snouiu oe no aanger in ami T.2Q A. XE1.;. feeding the well-cured frozen alf- " Winifred Slagle and others toialfa. G. E. D-'diil!, -a;ri0 a- above. Dora Iticster and oiheir to Mat hilda Jochim, W. 100 Ft. lots 7: S, 0, block 7- Arthur Johanas ami Hilda to M . Williamson and Lucille, E'j L- BJi: ;;.; Plattsmouth. Kachael Lr.rah Sisson to F. L lingers and Helen, WViSEU, 1S-10-14. Mary Slattery to Edward Slat- HAVE LIVED THE "c? EAT . r- T5 -.) A0UNTAlhlS ).-V - -.- 'A TIBET. " COf'K. 1MO fc NEA ScBViCE INC aLL'cJ-S' b. 0 FCUK." '"W TEMPE RATURE CAN BE ESTIMATED BY COiMADKG THE NUANBEROF TIAES A CRICKET CHIRRS' PER MINUTE.. 7-3 lA BALL PLAYER CAM STOKE OUT 1 WITHOUT TTPI kflM." Cb v.- AZS. GORDON HILL., NEXT: Could we live without birds?