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d 1 s Ci J p d fAGE rwt THE JOURNAL, PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA The Plattsmouth Journal i Cji ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 409413 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County. Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. - Publisher General Manager LESTER A. WALKER XS. J. ALVU1X " M. F. MURRAY. managing jumwc Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second class mail matter m accordance with the Act d Congress o March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash Ui 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 tor six months. $1.00 tor three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, S5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, usn advance. ' " x Revolt of the Suckers Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, is the latest union leader to join the leadership of what might be called the Revolt of the Suckers. Recently CIO President Philip Murray rebuked the Communists for their infiltration tactics. Then Morris Munster resigned as head of the CIO furniture workers as a protest against Communist control of his un ion. Now Mr. Curran has lashed out against the same state of affairs in the NMU's higher echelons. Mr. Curran spoke in no uncertain terms. Among other things, he called the recent NMU elections ''one of the worst machine jobs I have seen." He charged the Communists with with holding from the membership informa tion on the state of their own union. He accused them of putting para sitic followers on the payroll and run ning the union into the red, of trying to make their blessing a prerequisite to holding union office, of discrediting anyone who opposed them, and of breaking their promise to allow the rank and file to control the union. This is substantially the story of Communist tactics in every union where they have managed to seize a strong hold. It is evident that the Communists in the labor movement think they're smart. They have absorbed the Rus sian revolutionary technique which em phasizes discipline, secrecy, tight or ganization and unremitting work. They obviously believe that the rank and file can be led or pushed, rallied by song and slogan, and made to swallow any preposterous story that suits the leaders' purpose, so long as it is told loudly and often enough. This may have worked well enough in Russia and some other coun tries. But here the Communists have made several bad mistakes, which are now catching up with them. They evidently thought that ener gy was a substitute for resourcefulness, and that discipline takes the place of v: adaptability. They overlooked the fact that the "dopes" and "suckers" might succeed in electing some of their own efficers who wouldn't forever come to heel. Most of all, perhaps, they forgot that they were up against a different . sort of rank and file. The rank-and-file American can be pushed just so . far and fooled just so many times. During the war, when the Com munists were lying low, the rank and file seemed to wise up. Today the same old line and tactics (and the Com munists seem to lack the imagination - to develop new ones) just aren't going : over, lhe Revolt of the Suckers - under way. is Q H ow old are sound pictures? A Twenty years. They were in troduced in August 1926. Q What are the "working lan guages" of the United Nations? A English and French. Q How do shoes affect one's ferry fee when crossing from Rio de Janeiro to Nictheroy, Brazil? A If you are fully shod, you pay twice as much as when barefooted a concession to laborers. Q What is the latest field in which radar has been tested? A Meteorology. Radar has been found useful in gauging speed, loca tion, extent, direction, and intensity of thunderstorms within a 100-mile radius. 16 MERBY- GO- ROUND Be Bfl&SW PEAftSOB WASHINGTC!N If all the history of that fabulous character Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky and his family were compiled in one volume, it would make a novel more unbelie vable than fiction. The only other unbelievable thing is that grown men in the War Department with the responsibility of millions of lives on their shoul ders should not have seen through the congress man from Kenteucky long ago. If they had read past reference to May in the Washington Merry-lio-Kound or kept the usual clipping morgue operated by any efficient newspaper, they would not today be so red-faced when called before the Mead committee. But they did not even bother to consult FBI files or the court records of the Justice De partment. Instead Secretary of War Patterson humbly went up to Congressman May's office when summoned. So did Patterson's aide, the present under secretary of war, Brig. Gen. Kenneth Royall. In Washington, Royall. In Washington, cabinet member or sub-cabinet members do not call on congressmen; it's lhe other way around. Reason why the War De partment chiefs groveled before May will be told later. Court Record Before Secretary Patterson entered lhe War Department, he was a very able judge on lhe 2nd circuit court of appeals. Had he bothered to do a little checking on the chairman of the military affairs committee with whom he had to do so much business, he would have found a revealing record in the 6th circuit court of ap peals. The record would have shown that May's brother-in-law and cousin were sent to jail lor relief frauds back in the old civil works admin stration days, and that May's political machine burned down the county courthouse in Iday's home town in order to destroy the relief re cords and prevent the conviction. Patterson also would hav discovered that 14 of Mai s friends and political supporters went to jail for relief frauds, and that May appeared as their attorney. A congressman is not supposed to take a case against the federal government, lie is paid by the federal government and is supposed to be the servant of the federal government. Therefore, it is a penitentiary offense to pro- . fit from handling a case against the federal government. Perhaps the ebullient Andrew Jackson May got around this on che technical ity that rre did not profit. Anyway, he appeared in court shamelessly and brazenly to defend one of the worst relief frauds in U. S. history. Furthermore, if the Mead committee would dig into the files of the Post Office Department pressure to have the case dropped. He used his they would find that May exerted ail sorts of influence as a congressman in exactly Lhe tame way he did on behalf of the Erie Basin war profiteers. Padded Relief Rolls What happened was that, back in 1934, Har ry Hopkins and his CWA staff found that In May's home town of Preston'ourg and the trar rounding county, 112 per cent of vhe people were on relief in other words, more people than were in the county. May's industrious machine, led by his henchmen, Jude Walt Stumbo, had even dug up hundreds of names of people later identified as buried in the cemetery. May's brother-in-law, J. D. Mayo, a grocer, was in on the racket. So was his cousin, Curtis W. May, who ran the Kreuger Baker and Gro cery company. Both went to jail. Mrs. Mayo, wife of May's brother-in-law, was in the county relief committee, while a niece also was em ployed there. This was how the racket operated. The county relief committee gave a relief certificate to an alledged needy person, who then took the certificate entitling him to ?40 worth of groceries. The grocer gave him per haps $5 in groceries and certified that he had received 40. Then the certificate was sent to CWA headquarters in Louisville at a net pro fit of $35, which was usually split between the grocer and the person on relief. The situation was so scandalous that the gov ernment discovered 22 sacks of mail sent to Louisville containng unhandled relief orders. In other words, they had merely been filled rut and certified by grocers including May's cousin and brother-in-law without even bother ing to put the certificates in the hands of al leged relief recipients. Since some of the alleged relief recipients w-ere in the cemetery, this would have been dif ficult. Others were mountain families who could not read and write and had to depend on the county relief committee to fill in the certificates. After the FBI got into the case, the local relief crowd burned down the county court house to destroy the evidence, not realizing that sufficient records remained in Louisville to convict them. In the end, the government had to resort to a mail fraud case, since the bogus relief certificates were sent through the mails. Twenty-seven May henchmen and relatives were indicted, with 1G finally going to jail, in cluding the head of May's machine, Judge Stumbo. Note Reason Secretary of War Patterson and Under Secretary Kenneth Royall were r;o obsequious to May was that he was scratching their backs while they were scratching his. Late in the war, Patterson, moved heaven and earth to pass a compulsory labor bill conscrip ting all labor. May introduced this for him and pushed it through the House. It was killed in the Senate. Royall also has favored more military con trol of the atom and May has carried the bail for him on this. He introduced the May bill giving major atom control to the military and more recently, has gleefully acquiesced in the sabotage of the Senate's civilian control bill by the House military affairs committee. (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, lac.) A Note From Minnesota s Tf S v k a 41 v V ' MONDAY, JULY 15, 1946 1,1 f?3 MMP i. 'J L Edson about broke even. xr FETEli KDSON ITrRnVorcN, D. C (2CEA) The Katicnra Cf.crn' Pc-rt'cal Action Committee V.ow plans to conduct "ScLcjI- of I'olitical Action" in other parts of the country, following the success of its first venture in Washington. First will be similar three-day crcrn-courses . r, in the Midwest and on the Pacific "Const. Define ' v-' 'j locations have not been agreed on, but Chicago and i.cs Angeles are likely possibilities.' That's about all the PAC brain-trustcrs fisrure they can handle before the November elections But after the elections are over, they would like to run these courses in many states and principal cities, as preparations in organization for the 1948 Presidential campaign. The big idea for these schools originad with Lew Frank, Jr., a young Detroit businessman who also serves as publicity consultant to PAC head quarters, j Financially, the Washington experiment just; Five SiimHrpH stur? r.. v;;;." " " "wk"".iiu""u "p;ece ie ?ouuu gross to PAC paid rent on the hotel : ballrooms where the classes were held and the expenses of the faculty JN addition, at the graduation dinner Dr. Frank Kin"dp il ex-' preacher who admits he's a radical, put on one of h: money-! loofto1 " WOUId , JIZJJT AleXEnder F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood o. Railway Tiammen. He gave this money out of the BRT treasury and threw in $100 more out of his own pocket treasury, The third-party talk was pretty thin. Dean C. B. Baldwin who is one S" f NCPAC StUCk his neck out rther than anyl '-If the Democratic Party continues on the road to reaction i ha followed m the last 18 months," said Baldwin, '-there I be a il rd ESS Truman or M, Robert Hanne But Baldwin was speaking only for himself. ', 'J)ON'T go dreaming about a third party that can't be organised -nru nW' hcuted Kingdon. -In 20 states we couldn't organize ofjne Democratic National Committee. He ducked it cnaunian d-iSn-T6 know what Franklin Roosevelt would do in io feey booed l3m.he t0 aRSWer QueftiSS. j too often to farm workers. Use Irlenty of salt tablets. When you sweat a lot, you loose too much j-alt it -houl.l be re-laced. When workir.g in the hot sun, wear a h:it and shiit. Keep the sun off your head and body to avoi i u:i struke. There are plenty of un avoidable hazards conneett.l with g. 1. Application blanks work so do not invite ti-oueie , HjUid oUt; or ,ie at the countv ex- f,aiil!' to ta,.e some of tne Siub thu lilluid ice or may be obtained simple precaution- you ai.s- j CASS COUNTY Extension Notes Cerfification Application Deadline Applications for the certii'ca tion of alfalfa, led clover, soy beans and sorghums are due at the Nebraska Crop Improvement as sociation oilice in Lincoln no ia ter than Au are available tension office or may be obtained by writing to the Nebraska Crop Improvement association, college of agriculture, Lincoln 1. Varieties of alfalfa eligible for certification are Grimm, Cossack, Ladak and llardistan. Ranger alf alfa, a lute developed variety, will be eligible for certification in Ia- the requirements and standards for this variety. Midland is the only variety of ( fighting cquhiment? C. Are ham red clover eligible for certifica-: nier and axe heads in good ci-n-tion. ; dition? 7. Dd you block machin- Sorghums eligible are forage ' c-ry and tin a off power before ad types; Atlas, Lcoti and Red Oran- ; jusfng or undogging it? M:tor ge Cana. Grain tyies incluut; vehicles and far:n machinery killed Early Kalo, Sooner Milo, Day Milo 8,000 faini re--ld.-uts last year. Club, Western Blackhull, Kafir, Be careful and be safe instead of Goes, Alliance, Midland and Mar-' sorry. tin and varieties of sudan are Fre- Reasons for Loss of Liquid mont and Norkan. i 1. Jars too full liquid lias to Varieties of soybeans eligible ; boil out during processing. When i high bo.ia.g. 6. ?oat is re aeheu. o. xoo i'tilure' u too i'aT:id in jar a a- bubbles 2101 1'tit'aM U IjCliJio i-'i OCtSsilig. I . Lh.-eaicd contami-r.-j ot kept euVi.rea with boning water in the boiimg water I at a, cuntair.cis tip pin.; in proces.-hv- ktttic. b In sufficient piecooking of food the food will swell and force the the food may ab- u. vvcr les to tne louowtng Ques tions? ; 1. Do you keep guards in place !on power shafts, belts and chains to prevent being cau'vht in them? .2. Do you keen childien awry 1 from macinnery?" 3. ' Is gasoline : stored outdoors, or is it in a spe cial isolated building using bright red containers? 4. Are ladders and i steps well built and kept in guod j. Ait-v(j j y'V-i tttitv -Lilt; Mcderateiy TI:n The r eaeh le of four to one at least quaus of canned fruit for 1-uund of sugar u.-ed will ue- 1 L i i .j "ed auain this vear bv tiu-iiiy hoi:;e canncrs interested ia puitaig up the most fruit on lim ited j.ugar supplies Figuring by the jai-, i itc ru:e provides an average of cup of sugai" to eaeh quart itu nas a niouerattly fur ther. Preijortions susr-cested art": jar tin Be S! CI inn j t : til" : j t , . i ior cei viiieaLioii are aiihh aim , it tioes ooii out, uo not open jar Dunfield. j to replace it, fact, that a jar is not Farm Safety Week July 21-27 j filled will not affect the keeping According to reports from the ' qualities 2. Too loose pack. o. National Safety Council, a high Pressure fluctuation allowing percentage of farm accidents are pressure in cooker to fluctuate or caused by carelessness. A machine .' sudden lowering of temperature at will not do its best work unless it end of processing period. Petcock is in proper repair, likewise, a hu-' should not be opened until indi man being cannot do his work well cator or pressure cooker fatme uir.e light-colored corn u-iiavoieu noiiiv. htreiched even suggested - cups iruit ju.ee or water to 1 cup sugar, or 2-t cup of sugar arid '.j cup e-L'i'ii sir tip, or to 1j cup sugar and !j cup sugar and twj honey Boil the ingredients together 5 minutes and skim off ar.y scuni. lh.-n the .-iron is ready h the fruit. Jr mas rench Farms iieiimd riebraskans LL-,(..uL.s, Ncbr. .rj r arm a.g ir.etr.oas m Necta.-;:a ate rar a-.ea-.i ui tno.-e m Lurope, accord ing to Dr. F. IV Ke:m, chairmn or tne agronomy depai tat jut of tite L ;uv crsity of NerasKa. Ke:m recently returnea to Lin coln arter speiiuihg several of trie agiicuiturai section of the Biar ritz An:eiiea:i University, one of lbs army university centers for v'vcrscas troops. r.cnca larmers, he said, are exiredie-iy thruty in the mar.agc iiteiii or thetr iii.ail tiactis, whien , ct-iuom aie iaier than -o acres, j ifi.i,!tive tools and little mac am-j ei, most of vvnien is the walking j type, are used. Oxen geueraay ! ptoViCe pulling power, and trac- utd are almost unknown. I l.;e i-ietien iarmers, Keim j noted, are somewhat discouraged j uy tiio high taxes levied by tneir ; govfeiiimeut. 1 r.ey estimate thai i one-inira oi eveiy bucKtt of muii j s pa.U ill taxes. j buir.e woik lias been done m j uve-iuc-ii ar.u crep ltr.provemcnv experimentation, he said, oat no serv.ee exists ior telling tne lurnr sci vice CAists tor tenmg tne larrn tia oi the nt'.v utveiopiiitrris. 1 Sen. Theodore G. Eilbo, com plete with loud tie and red sus penders, grins happily as he re laxes on the front porch of his 'dream home" at Poplarville, Miss., following a successful campaign for re-election. to combine wi r are mini Cass County Chorus regular rehearsal of the a.-s aiu a' cnorus Will ho nr ,1 Monday July 22, 1:J0 p. m., at the Agiicuitural auditorium in Weep nig Water. 4-ri alendar cf Events July -6 Demonstration day, ag riettitttle riiuif ori'.im W.-i-.i,i. unless he is physically fit. Avoid goes back to zero. 4. Jars in cooker s Water 10 a. m vi en el ai tors vi :e- pre-M.ii't -m ei rge ot entiu t-r-itig, iiarry A. W inne, predicts taut tut. gas-turbine aircraft en gines v.ni ioim tiie basis tor fu ture engaits of at least 10,000 horsepower greater than the conioineu strength of a B-110's ioar enmes. BY HAL CCCiirtAN acciaents. rami labor is not too too long leaving jar m cooker too plentiful, yet the job must be j long after the indicator or gauge j done. During the hot summer heat, j reaches zero. May be cause of loss j exhaustion and sunstroke come of liquid. Open petcock as soon1 ' 't-t,v- 3 , fit i " Vy x . . I 5 i Ki-! -V ,i H tr r fx v ?- i, si v : ' t ' a-h $ ? ' t ; ; r ; p . . v July ward. Aug. Seward Aug. Sept. Ibe jit. Final project Oct. 8. Clarence i Countv -t'-31 Club Camp, ti-t? Conservation camp, 21-2-) Cass county fair. l-C State fair. il-Oet. Z A k-Sa r-Ben. Eeports Due as soon as is sompleted. Deadline y -- ca.: t even uuy some ct the stew most of the butchers are in. On. with ike naiion-wlds road repairs so we'll have v.o ex cuse for finding ourselves in a it . A Colorado man dislocated his jaw 13 times by yawning. It should teach him to ignore those little items about what Congress In 1S70 GO per cent of all non agricultural working women in. the United States were domestic ser-j Jiota come double chins on some is doing. If exercise really rcjv.cvcs fat. Sc 'imadeke Agricult ; La Verne Siiafer Heme Era- ire gent on Agei.t i Scenic Show in jWest Virginia H? AhLLbTON, W. to have I Nrre (U.R)- WCj'KO it We?' Vir-ca;- v. 1 i rr t, Ik 41 1 ovei trmc in prov g:nia wth scenic odtiith-s to ti:ic- the inic!'4 of visitors. Ju.-t to mention a few of the pheoiiiona. there is a spring that sing.-;, another, that flows and ebbs, a mountain of ice (even during the stiii.mcr) and a river that ac- vants, according to the Encyclo pedia Britaiiniea. Less than one per cent held clerical positions, u.i pel tent cic n ill jniiiLiiiaii i,er 0 jUEt natural, professions and 17.G per cent were own fault she screamed.' factory v. orkers. of the women? A holdup man pointed a gun at an Indiana movie cashier and told It's his THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson tut dis aj V s 7s . y . - ' s - - . i i 4 eyes. Falling county gt: emptying aid tlien diiwn to before your When Latin-American Airways found it necessary to transfer families of some of its personnel to Guayaquil, Ecuador, there arose the problem of transporting 33 wives and children for the long distance from Newark, N. J. So they converted one of their airliners into a nursery with swings, playpens and toys to kcejj the youngsters happy. Expressions of the tots above . incubate it . , --- was mostly successful. .yprirsri.3 in I'tnoioton rs-ie..; or ''s:ng;r'' like an jug when it starts to it flows quietly, a mere hum. In flow, tuni.'i. June, July, .August ami part of September. Eld. and Flow Sptinj flews for IT. ?;;; mites and then ebbs for the sair.e time. Ice Mounta'n in Hampshire county is covered with a thin coat of shale, and even on the hottest days, the shale may L; scraped away to eocl the drinks for a sum mer day picnic. Lost lliver, in Hardy county, disappears into uudergroud chan nels of fractured 'limestone, and then sc-veial miles away, appears again as the Cacapon River. 3 -. 4 I WHY DCESMT THE . rS?-'' -i' '"J'" it necs TV- (oM'C r I I it i itiww.m . (,-,1 UIKwUi-ftK lNDM RESULTS FWITSCA'M ACVEAENT AND A 5 : ) SAXr., CAUSED BY A. f fc THE GRAVITATIONAL r ri it s?i TL.ttr I TTrr J . - f . 4 i , 7 vjv,. , f '-i y y?A I v ' f WHEM YCl' LCAD UP, YCU 1 i t LS it LOAD DOWUySsys JJt JAAvES WINDER. , V STANDS ERECT ON IT? HiND FEET TO SEE RARTHEC --HElvCE THE RESEMBLANCE to A pcxrrM. 7.,i; CCPR. 16 BV NEA SESVJCE. INC. . w. KLU. U. S. PAT. OF?. v-v i. '..4 X:J i NEXT: Airborne invasion of Hawaii. i 'Lt: r 1