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( THE JOURNAL. FLATTSM'OUTIl, NEBRASKA MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1S46 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABUSHfeD 1881 j - r mt wteklv Mondays and Thursdays, at 4C9-413 Main ;SS!"pu521"JS u C County. Ncbr.sRa.iy The Journal Pub fishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER.... Publisher B J ALCOTT General Manager M. F. MURRAY Managing Editor entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second I clast liil matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. ' . SUBSCRIPTION RATE:-S3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES -Delivered I by car ,,cr in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per ,e r cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth td $3 per year. $1.75 for six months. $1.00 for three months, cash i advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade are J5.00 "er year. $3.00 for six months. 60 cents pa montA. cash -advance. The Animal Kingdom Let us not be too skeptical or scornful when we read of Ben, the talk ing dog of Royston, England, or of the Gazelle Boy of Trans-Jordan. For it may be that evolution is creeping up oh us, and that Ben and the Gazelle Boy have been sent to warn us to re double our efforts to curb high-powered human ingenuity before it's too late. In case you missed the stories on these two phenomenal characters, Ben is a terrier who was visited by Reporter Kobert Jlusel. When Mr. Musel be gan munching on a chocolate bar, Ben said: "I want one." The Gazelle Boy, reportedly captured by hunters, is taid to be a teen-age lad who was reared by a herd of gazelles, can run 50 miles an hour, lives on a diet of grass, and acts and cries like a gazelle. (It should bo added that Mr. Mu sel is not only a veteran and veracious reporter but also, we are assured, a strict teetotaler). You may caJJ, these stories fan tastic. But tto was once 11 time when humans couldn't say "1 want one," and when they most certainly were a lot faster than they are today. In the course of time homo sa piens slowed down to a walk and learned to talk a great deal. He be came progressively accomplished. He learned to live in houses. He "trained his neighbors of field and forest to do lvJ. a lot of his work. lie devised increas- ingly refined and devastating ways' to kill his fellow man. - Eventually he came up with the ultimate weapon, potentially capable of wiping himself off the face of the earth. And just at that time there appeared a dog that could talk and a human that could outrun almost any thing on two or four legs. One theory has it that man gained mastery of the earth through his pos session of a thumb. So maybe nature is fiving to pass the power of speech along to a creature who has no thumb for making atomic bombs, and to give him the chance to grow up to be the boss of a more peaceful world. The Gazelle Boy? Well, perhaps evolutionary intuition figures that the final atomic blowup might leave a few humans as well as a few dogs on earth. The humans would have to yield the floor to the talking dogs, but at least they'd be able to outrun their canine overlords. We heartily advise the statesmen charged with solving the problems of atomic energy control to ponder this speculation and then do something about it. Otherwise, that old phrase about the world going to the dogs may come to sound ominously prophetic. Q If the armed forces were merged under a single command, what would happen to Secretary of War and Secretary of Navy positions? A They w ould probably be merged under a single head, Secretary for Common Defense. Q Who is Chairman of the Sen ate Military Affairs Committee? A Elbert D. Thomas of Utah. WASHINGTON To evaluate the factors behind the present massing of Soviet airborne divisions along the Black sea and the danger ous jockeying of llussian-Dritish forces in the .,o.-,r st. its necessary to scrutinize certain captured documents which have come into the hands of the Amencan ai'my in Germany. The U. S. army has now got hold of the minutes of extremely important conversations between Hitler's Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Stalin's Foreign Minister Molotiv in which me Russians debated entering the war on the side of Germany it the price was high cnougn. 'I he Germans are most methodical record keepers, and the complete history of ihese diplomatic conversations was laumully recorded. They show that in 1940, about six months beiore Hitler douole-crossed Stann by invad ing Russia, Moiotov came to Uorlui and dis cussed witn ItiDoentrop tnc terms Germany was wining to pay to secure Russia's entrance into the war to crush England. Signincant lact is thai tne Russian price was aimost identical witn tne goals iwoacow has set lor itself today: a spnere bi miiucnce in .Bulgaria; also in Romania; control of the iMruaneiies; domination m Iran, Iraq and the Gun 01 i'ersia; a Dase in Sauui Arabia; and of course tnc Lauic states ana one-nun oi Poiana wnicn, in iy-tu, already nad been given Russia. The Dardanelles and the near east were the easiest prooiems luoiotov and KiDoenU'op nad 10 soive. iiiuer was quite winnig u give tnu area to i-iUasiu, out not u injuria ana itoiaama. Germany wantea to expand m tne iauiKans litrseii. That was wnere the negotiations, founuered. inner by mat time consiuered the Allies viuuauy acicau.d, ana miany iuoiotov went nome wnnout Siaiuufi up as a iNuzi ally. Wnac Husaia wants Today Importance ol tnese captured documents is tiie iaet tliat Russians amoiuons nave no cnanged. Despite Uie lact that we have estab lisnea a United canons to taieguara tne world Ivioscow remains Uie tame in negotiating wth the allies luuuy uo iu l-J-io wiitu nv&otiaunti vwtii me'vvoiius bioouicsi ciutiu'oui iiitier. uig question wmcn .'auicow s lurmcv umto face is: win tne l;usiau riok war to get con trol 01 the near euai.' ciuany uiui is tne qucativn DCaiiid ail me uouuiu m I'aiestme. Tnat la aiso tue question benind mouiuzaiioii oi me Untisii navy ni tne near east ana the siciiuirig truce oacK J-uraan envisions to the Gulf oi Persia, it is tne question winch could plunge Europe into anoaier war. 'iu aiiSi'.xr me quconuu it is nccessaiy to know someming 01 v.nat goes on inside the boviet Union, 'mere- appear to be t.vo scnoois of inuuimt in .'nOwCOv. one lor war and one Q What was' history's most dis astrous earthquake? A Chinese historians record one that occurred in 1556 which took an estimated 830,000 lives. Q What was t h e estimated weight of the water column thrown up by the underwater atom bomb test? A 10,000,000 tons. q What city is the world's pep per center? . . A Singapore. Dove-of -Peace Hunting Expedition NQNOlYOU DON'T Seea To uUDERSfoHDf The big idea i to back: alive m L EDSON WASWKSTOXCOLUMf BY PETER EDbUN NEA Washington Correspondent 'UTAiriNGTON D C (NEA) For the next three months th. W toofng waTl of the Congressional candidate will be heard through CUThe1re1!sn;t much you can do about it, but if you want to be i inere isn i mucn you a nmnber c: miEhty embarrassing questions which can be put V your quiz-kid candidate. They will determine hov good a congressman he will be, and whether yci want to vote for him or for the other fellow Most of these questions relate to unfinished busl ness which the President is sure to mention in hi State of the Union message to Congress rex j3l "do you, Mr. Candidate, favor abolition of ren Wr! o Xxf ntrv should find itself facing sti m . i-J i,,wD, nric fnr everything next winter, would yc Edson support tighter price-controls and extension of tho: 'CStr?re1ridnJiv SSdng the budget at the earliest possitf : Tdo you favor keeping taxes at present levels to reduce tl national debt? r Are you for or against the Wagner-Murray -Dingell Bill, vhiti 0 would establish national health insurance, paid for largetv deductions from workers earnings? ,-: 6 As vou know. Mr. Candidate, this country needs more houin not only for veterans but for everybody Would you vote for a lorn range program which would have the government aid m buildu low-cost housing? , .T, 7 Mr Candidate, do you favor merger of the War and . Departments into a single Department of National Defense? 8 How do you feel about extending the draft law, if that shou be necessary to provide sufficient armed forces for fulfilling U. commitments overseas? 9 Would you be in favor of drafting into the armed services n. one who took part in a strike against an industry seized by the U government? -I A "Will vou support the United Nations organization through thic J-" and thin or do you believe in less international co-operatior 11 Do vou favor international control of atomic energy? Or you believe that the U S should retain complete control of t! secret of atomic energy for as long as it can0 12 Would vou favor a billion-dollar loan to, and other co-operas with. Soviet Russia? Just what are your views on the Russian situatK airyway? ... , , If these questions don t Kive your canaiaaie a oaa njn-nuui, nuun. will. Incidentally, what are your own answers to this quiz? OJahJx Mrs. Thomas Murtey uguiii.il. il.e iOi iner gioup ii iitc.uv.-u ujr ..iui slii JJenya, a (jeofail who id a ciose iiiena of tautis and io lunner cniei oi tne IKVL) t. secret police), 'fnid group Delievt-a that now ia Uie time to striKo at 1'urKey and Tries.e even" if it means war witn tne c'iined ijtatea 'unci' lireat lirman. Tnis group ueneves Uiat witii the Lf. S. army utniuoinzca and tnc Amer ican people Mfk of war, tne United bialed wouid not come to liritain's support a lar away as tiie near east. The lied army thereiore should move immediately regardless of the consequences. Tne other group of Russian leaders is op posed to any slowdown now. They beliee Russia should wail a year or two even more if necessary until they have developed the atomic bomb.. They figure this can be done fairly soon because of the German scientists they have put to work on all sorts of new wea pons including the mysterious radio-controlled rockets now zooming over Sweden. Inside Moscow "Vhich side will win out is anybody's guesj. However, certain underground rumblings in side the Soviet indicate that the path of war will not be any easy one. One factor the Soviet war group will have to overcome is apathy on the part of the red army. Russian troops are tired of war, some what disillusioned over the benefits of com munism and many would resent being called once more into battle. Russian soldiers arriving in Vienna were amazed at the apartment houses ior workers erected by the previous socialist government of of Austria. They were equally amazed at the comparative luxury of western civilization, even in battered Germany. Probably this is one reason ior the intense anti-capitalist pro paganda compaign carried on by the Moscow press and radio against Great Britain and the United States. That campaign has tried to con vince Russia's 190,000,000 citizens that they are surrounded by a ring of envious capital istic enemies and that their only chance of sur vival is complete reliance on the Kremhn. Un fortunately this campaign, by tearing down the once sincere wartime friendship for Rus sia which existed in this country, has helped make such a situation partly true. Restless Red Generals "Another factor the Soviet war-urgers may have to worry about is some of the red gener als. Stalin, who has had a lot of experience with red generals, is reported to have been un easy about certin of them. Certain heroes pre viously touted as saviors of the Soviet have mysteriously disappeared from the scene. The great Timoshenko, hero of the early defense against Hitler, is heard of any more, Mar shal Konev, the man who conquered Austria, lias dropped out of the picture. Marshal Zuk hov, the hero of Berlin, has been transferred, though some say to the more important com mand of Odessa, jumping-off place of any campaign against Turkey. Finally, the Soviet economy is anything but prepared for war. Russian industrial produc tion, partly gutted by the nazi invasion, is only a driplet compared with the needs of the red army in wartime. This may be one reason for the frantic production of Russian arms in Czechoslovakia, Toland and Soviet-occupied Germany. The big question to be established in a future column is whether Russia's former al lies shall call her hand and risk war, or shall they appease, stall for time, and gamble on the future. . - - (Copyright, 1946, by the Eell Syndicate, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Green of Elmwood and their son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. Andrew Jansen, and daughter, Rae Lynn, of Madison, Wis., visr ited at the Ralph Keekler home Thursday evening. Mrs. Wiles visited friends in Piattsmouth Saturday and re mained for the Wiles picnic which was held Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Sloan and daughter, Juda, returned home Monday after a week's visit at the mill-j Leavenworth, Kans. Earl Wiles, jr., has been enjoy ing a two-week vacation, one week of which was spent visiting relatives at Ashland at the Mel vin Wiles home and at Platts mouth with his mother, Mrs. P.ari Wilfs. Mrs. Wiles and UNDER THE DOME NEW PRICE CONTROL HOARD plans decent burial for Ol'A with members loosening up controls as much as possible, as fast as possible. ROOM AND RUST TALK is general, but business, government and labJr officials think it's exaggerated. Prices arc rising fast, but they look for a pause, then some decline and readjustment in late iy47, early 194S. TRUMAN'S ADVISORS plan further cuts in government spend ing but hatever's done won't balance the 19 47 budget. FRM ECONOMISTS say the agricultural outlook is better than at anytime in history with lH46's farm cash income to total billion. It II lie somewnai less ior uui uyi ROUTINE USE OF AIR MAIL by the nation generally is ex pected by postal officials when air mail postage rates are reduced to -Zc cents Oct. 1. INDUSTRY WILL RE KEPT ALERT for future war production. Government's idea is experimental war contracts to manufacturers, trial runs, other schemes designed as'Mracticing for war production, all to check what plants could do in time of war. Next time I. fe. will be ready. . . SELECTIVE SERVICE will ask Congress for laws requiring r is j-, tn rt-iristor. rpnort chance of address, etc., an maic'3 Hum " - . --. - u:.mo :i in wartime. Idea is to have finger on manpower ute war threatens. , , . RECALL OF FORMER OES CHIEF COLLET back to Washing- ton by Truman was surprise even 10 uonei. iu0iut-.o pointmest as aide to OWMR Boss John Steelman means adminis tration is readying a new fight on inflation with Collet one of the top planners of strategy. , I S WILL RETURN ITALY'S LUXURY LINERS now used as hospital and troop ships when it's assured no other nation will claim them as reparations. For same reason; proposed $100 mil lion U. S. loan to Italy has been temporarily shelved 11U T n-L-tmiv'M u'avi.' PAYMENT in cash DEM A.N U 1-Ult c i. iw"'"" . ... . .. i fnno-ruco rcnnvp.np.s. Talk is many win be icue f" ; nf hm which talleor payment an(, Mrs. Brad Day of Bradenton ators now iaoi m&i r , t-v i urs viFitiuer at the Eugene Day casn. , , , ..,::,,, ...ith . r-io pr iMKI.rvXCE IN FIUMAKlkS nas ueeii i'6"6"s """'Home. ... m , .lv envs n S I A divorce suit is the latest development in the 'noch Arden" caV of Mr. and Mrs. James ti. caies, oi cjaanu, vaiix, . t .-4. p,idc TPnnrted killed on UKinawa. jliucc iau"" his wife, Mrs. Laurie Helen Cales. 25, married again. In Septe . i ,a c.r- innchnri iva5 alive. Her second husba ber. 13-iJ, Siic: icaintu ., , T , not an annulment and the Cales were reunited. Now she is see J: n,r;rr v,!t -thf Okinawa experience so c.ang ins a QlVUitc, aiico'"o - ... , A1 , , t-..u v,o no lonser are compatible. Above, t Cales are pictured at T their 1943 reunion, with their son, Cra has been the guest of Mr. audi i.i. arrnmnaniwl:Mrs. E. L. Michelscn, sr., for the j him. This week they are at home. I past week. j Mr. and Mrs. Lee Day of Bra- Mrs. Sterling Amick and Dela- dtnton Fla., are the guests of.no were umaua visnois, euues- sen- 'X.Ir. and Mrs. Carl Day while Mr. ;day. Man Strips Wife y As Crowds Watch ATHOL, Mass. x (U.P.)- in -i.t i-i'v-rL- iv t'pivi a ks nas neeu iieeiisuc - i.riiL.u ' . , result White House-CIO alliance is cnuiing. it.- feel CIO support of Administration's legislative program was moie damaging than helpful ,.-,. c Wallace. POLITICALLY HOT Attt uviv.o ' .irk ' Senators Pepper and Murray have been told by Senate Leader Bark l,y to "take it easy." go underground unil.ftei he No member elections. Party leaders teei tneir ',: I1111-1 . ... I... ttxa Homocratic sunt. into hands of republicans out sb - 10 OPA ESTIMATES RAILROAD KAlbb win u . .... . ...,jiti ho ti npr pnt aireauy granitu. ner cent, wnicn is in auumwn v - - nt iri If they are, steel companies will ask for another boost to. offset in creased freight costs, will prooao.y bbi h. MIDWEST CONGRESSMEN are sieameu uV y-i ,,. of tractors for UN It II A snipmeui co x.. f linois charges that 14.500 new tractors badly needed In L. b. faim ers have been shipped to countries dominated p . . RETURN OF COAL MINES to owners st.U being Mo c ked b UMW Chief John L. Lewis. Lewis refuses to sign with operators he signed with the government, ills. . otto is contract, no work." Reason is he's got new demands up nis "'""'RISING COSTS have also hit operation of labor unions La bor leaders, among other reasons, have quit bea ing the d strikes because it takes too much money to maintain boup luttuet for striking members. . ... .. ,,in,,ths of this U. S. OIL EXPORTS to Russia during Inst f monM ot t ... . . . ... , i oiuiit tv sent binerian ioi ia year totaled about tw.vvv u..u. - ..rfi(.i:,ls. remem- Bincc April is said to have increased sua. . . :iy bering scrap iron sent Japan in 1940, are watch. ng closely. (jJaba&h Theresa Colbert Mrs. J. H. Smith and Roberta were among those attending a de monstration of a pressure cooker at the home of Mrs. Earl Messel hiser last Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Richards were supper guests of Mrs. Vernn Richards in Lincoln Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs.' Frank Colbert ajid Theresa were callers at the Clar ence Pool home at Weeping Wat er Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Munford joined relatives for a picnic sup Saturdav evening at Pioneer park in Lincoln. The occasion was I - . m it j I a celebration of three Dirxnaays of those attending; '-Mrs. Keith Munford, -Mrs. Lettle Munford j T, TUunford. Others pres ana oouiinj ,,... j cnt were Mr. and Mrs nay and family and Mr. ana Munford and family- Mr and Mrs. Paul lviuinn -Tommy and Mrs. William Murfm attended a Weishcit family reun ion Sunday at the home of Jess Holka at Elmwood. Gaylc Towle, with two compan ions, left Sunday on a Yellowstone park to Mrs. Wilbur Long and daugh ter, Sarah Jane, of Alva, Okla., I are visiting iirs. xong iia" j Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Hinds. Miss ! Ruth Hinds, who has been visit-1 i :ne at the Long home at Alva . tl'is summer, returned nome wuu , them. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lohnes and two sons, of Flandrati, S. D., are visiting at the home of Mrs. Lohnes' parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Baldwin. Rev. and Mrs. John C. Pryor and daughter, Mary Ann, return ed home Tuesday after enjoying a two-week vacation in Minne sota. David Olive received his dis charge from the navy last week at St Louis and returned home Saturday. He had recently been located at Corpus Christi, Tex. David and his brother, George, who was discharged from the ,.roi vmrc asro. were in army m.tc-i -.-. i i,,,in last week completing ar rangements to attend the Uni-ver-sitv of Nebraska this fall. Mr and Mrs. Ed Boedeker and Mr and Mrs. John Jochim return ed home Wednesday from a week s automobile trip which took them to Hot Springs and Rapid City, the Wind Cave, Mount Rushmore . rv.iiri.To thp National park at Halsey and the lumber mills at Rapid City, S. D. The Womans Association of the Congregational church met in the basement of the church Wednes- Tr, flip uisen uicsm- South street h . X- . - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gibson : left Monday morning for Ains-1 - n ent a j. worth to visit Mrs. Gibson s sis- - f ter, Mrs. George Gregory. They i 77. l were accomnanied by two other; sisters, Mrs. Thessie Kelly and! Miss Amana Hiatt, both of Lin coln. They returned home Thurs day evening. j sci -out To Unlearn Secret Of Social Science CHICAGO (UP) Social pnt-p teachers must knock guesses, misconceptions and haif truths from students' minds be fore tney can teach n single thing, according to S. I. Hiyakawa, as sociate English prcfesscr at Il linois Institute of Technology. "Students are in much the same position as a primitive witch-doctor would be if he were to enroll in a medical school he would have so much to un learn before he could begin learnir.g," he snitf. "The teaching of the social sci ences has been complicated by the fact that everyone is a 'social scientist' of sorts, with his own theories about justice, social ob ligation, human nature, the rea sons for crime and poverty as he has picked them up from par ents, newspaper editorials, po litical oratory and comic i.trii-2, he said. clothins. The couple was taken to c and fined S30 for disturbing peace. Police said the wo was wearing only one stoe when they reached the scene day ,1 -w ... t mpc Mr. and Mrs. J. onuui ,ing anu ii.. , z ' R ivlt . u ,-icitnrs , W-.jllirk. Mrs. J. M. Kan- rlt.rtn were Uliiciua uitu' " Tuesday. , . Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Stanley shop pediin Lincoln; Wednesday. Vi ney and Mrs. Swain isieise.i hostesses. Mrs. Charles Spolm was the .devotional leader - and Mks Esther Tef ft had charge of nmmni. which ciompleited LUC I' " Fair Officials Face Problem DES MOINES, la., U.R State fair officials, who usually don't 1,0 nv trouble Renting their , j 1. .j. OAA l-.i,wVl 1.15 Of will produce as mucn i""- -butter fat as 16.36 tons of sorg hum Bilage. Wyoming Cattle brands ofte-i r.ra used as decorations in linen, chinawaie, and stationery. dinner halls manned, are faced with a real -problem. : Several ladies aid" societies which customarily operate ; the halls to make money, for church -1 i iifiziM nfir tr tin Dr. and Mrs. J, o. T.. vie Iprt at tue UOUie 8U 11110 jv. On the NEW Semi-Solid PIG En sion, your pigs may also . . . re. 2C0 lbs. in 5H months, avcrag or more pigs marketed per lit gain each 100 lbs. on 5 bushels com or less, gain each pound or little as Sc worth of feed! T! are the records of herd after h of regular farm pigs. It means EXTRA CASH for . . same work. lou I LtU THREE grain, supplement PIG Emulsion. See us today your supply of 1 mmmfmrn mmmmmm ' .. ... 1, .l..to' . T hrnthfrin-law Reason, tutu i or JJirs. i'et'i"b ,,ff during tne war sister. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph were paid of anu -oiovvj , . Keekler. on their way to xorlOiK, to attend a medical convention. Mrs Eu S. Shields of Omaha years anu iuc.v ccc taking on the big task of feed ing fair visitors. PLATTSM0U CREAMER! Home ' of Casco But