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THE JOITRNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 194 The'Plattsmoutb Joiirnal . ESTABLISHED 1831 ut!fchcd semiwcekly, Mondays and Thursdays at 409,41 Ma Street. Plymouth. Cass County, Nebraska, fly The Journal Pub fishing Company. Monotonous Isn't It? LESTER A. WALKER.. Publisher B. J. ALCOTT : General manager , M F. MURRAY Managing Editor I Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second clasi mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 Pr year, cash in advance, by irtail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car r.er in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per year cash in advance: by mail in the Plattsmouth trade trz-i $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 jcr year. $3.00 (or six .Ttonths, 60 cents pa mcnUi. ush ta advance. I . Veiling Business in a soul-searching session not long ago, Kenneth I'atrick of the Gen eral tiectnc publicity staff addressed a group of advertising men on some f Miortcomings of their two L professions. Ho noted, among other things,. the mis- ' conception of the whole American bus intss structure which, particularly prevalent among students1 of all ages, and their teachers. And he made tnis profoundly true observation: "The word 'profit", has a ;sujister4 ' . connotation lor them. The word 'bu v inees' is suspect. 'Corporation' is def initely anti-social, and' 'dividend' is something that used to be wrung out. of the hides of the working" stills bat. -which will be definitely extra-icgai come the revolution." . 1 . v" , . All of which points up an 'anoma ly. 31oct Americans are conscious of the pleasant and unmatched iruits of living tnat the free enterprise system brings. Uut they , suspect the people -who operate the system. Tha .very term "free enterprise;, has conic to be somewhat scornful and opprobrious. .-. - - In many industries the fack of common purpose,' sympathy and under-. . standing between front office and plant is notorious. This has led to a similar lack between management and public. One result is a vague groping toward state socialism and more gov ernment control, though the groper. has no assurance that more. control would ' mean more efficiency, more justice, or more comfort. Big business has its share 6f hi-' gots and scoundrels'. But as a class of human beings big businessmen are certainly no more villainous than farm ers or labor leaders or -school teach ers. Then why their unhappy reputa tion's? . " Perhaps one reason is that all the millions spent by business on adver tising and publicity doesn't tell the most important story. Perhaps r there 3 too much attention given to out selling competitors, to cool, careful, ac curate financial statements and pie charts showing how, the' company's dollar is spent. So many Americans have the idea that profit is sin; that the men who ; run businesses, make profits and create . jobs are efficient but untrustworthy; 1 that our high living standard, high em- -ployment and high wages .have been-., wrung from greedy capitalists by the. people's champions fin 'bitter battle;, that government control of business" will bring-Utopia. .. , . - , The job for business, then, would,,; seem to be a broad, continuing, almost "." informal program of education and ex; planation. This might include a dec- . laration of humane beliefs and good accomplishments, backed by. more em- phasis on s'elf-regulation. Q What waS the amount, of the recent U. S. loan to France? A $1,200,000,000. Q What percentage. of QI's are being, refused their prewar jobs? A Only 1 in 1,000, says the De--partment of Justice. ' ' Q Who is Prime Minister of The Netherlands? v- A Louis J. M. Bcel. Q Where do the traveler's tree, rain tree, and beefwood tree, grow? A They are native to Madagas car. Traveler's tree is so named be cause it stores water fit for drinking in its trunk; rain tree, because insects which inhabits its leaves shower water on the ground be.lo'w; beefwood troe, because of beefVlike color of its wood. WASHINGTON There is reason to believe that at the end of the war, Soviet Russia looked lorwarcTto a virtual alliance wun me Unite.! States. The world's two greatest powers, the Russians icit, had no conilicting interests, coyid work together. Great Britain, . the Rus sians figured, did not count. She was )ut Of date, wiped up, finished. However, no two nations can run the world without reaping the ill will of the rest of the World and eventual catastrophe, &o,- fortu nately, the United States aid not become an any 01 Russia. ' ' ' . ', -. Uni'ortunately, however, we have veered so far in the. outer direction mat. loreigu diplo mats gcilai ally coibiU A- us not omy an ally of Great tiruam uu; owned uoay ana soul, Dy me I ' " chaiming genilemen in the iiritish ioreign of fice. This not only snarls-up 'oxir relations with Russia, but lessens our eliectiveness with other -members of the United Nations, For it is by 'piajing our cards - straight across the United , - Nations Ooard, with absolutely no big power al '' hances that we can maintain the world ieader- ship which is ours lor the asjfing. ' .Mfa.itic Chapter Flouted v At a-time wheat the .aiLes were pledged to the ' i;rpri4c;pies- of the Atlantic charter and world cooperation, Britain has gone back, to the out- moaed,4 trouule-bre'euing game of power poli- tiis., Aiid "she - has:. piayea her ' cards skilliully ; Si lha siie has 'uJt about euchred the USA into being the N'oientray ol Lite USSR. '. PaiesViw.-4s,u case in point. The organi.atioil which mandated Palestine to the British the .''Lckgui oi Nations is now nonexistent. The 'iiBiitish have aosolutciy liu.leal right m Pales tine otner ihan tne power oi aimed . lorcc. Ana ii they had any regard whatsoever Tor. Amer icttij irienuhip, j'Aii jtliey to; biicily need, long ';agd tiiey wouiJ'iiaxe lurned Palestine back to tie Uniu.-dii;iwi)r-3-jJliere itelojigs, ' -, Eritish Trickery Instead tliey have Used the most brazen trick cry to outsmart President Truman.' For instance the president recently received a report on how two secret cabiet wlucll he bad sent to Judge Joseph C. Hutciic's'iiii,! li.auman of the'- Anglo Ameiicau Palesiirie conmiision, were! ppened uuaaCud by tiie British consul in Geneva before bjirig d61nf-i cd to-if ttd2 HutchcorV; ' : " " ' Truman also has a report lrcm Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury BU Foley on how the . British tried to double-cross Herbert Gaston, 'former assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who has been in London working on the Palestine . question. Gaston cabled the Tteastuay Depart ment from London asking peiirrission to file a di-cnttrpm the Gi ady-llorrison plan to divide Palesiine into Arab-Jewish Jones. . ; f ,e &vA the Britiyh liave access jto all cables leav ing Londopj; ,3o?tliey : helt Inp-Gaston's meagc to Washington while they scurried round to , the American embassy, lodged a protest against Gaston's 'activities and persuaded Ambassador A civil . Hart iruan to, cable a critical report on Gaston to the State Department. Thus Harri man's protest arri ed beiore Gaston's cable and helped to nullify it. British Undsrcut USA ! : Ii an earlier-. Column, this writer propesed tiiat tiie United States adopt a definite, categoric policy -t"nt appeasing .Russia It was argued that no country takes the first step toward war if U knows it will have to suffer-u major re taliatory war. It was pointed out that Hitler never ' would have invaded Austria and the Ruha if he hadn't shrewdly banked on" Anglo French dissension and-appeasement. If we are to follow a non-appea:.ement policy toward Russia; if we are to. demand, that she work through the United Nations; if - we are to crack down on, the first bclligent move she makes outside the United Nations, .then Great Britain, judging by past pcrlormances, is our worst ally. - ' . ' In 1G32, Secretary of State Henry L. Stim-fcbn,-realizing that-Japtai had starred on major ' Asiatic conquest, did his' best to' enlist British vx cooperation jn stopping the warlords before theysot sta'rted.' -To tliis' tnd bethought he f. had a'British. promise, to deliver a etroaig note of protest toJaiJian. . ;But"U. S. Ambassador Cameron Forbes dis covered that after he delivered the American' - protest note,. the- British ambassador paid two , Cnlls.'-ut the Jap foreign office. One was td de-' liver the : formal' note of protest. The other was to tell ;the, Japanese foreign minister informally ' thai Great Britain had promised the United - States 'to deliver a note, but nevertheless the British understood and sympathized with the . j. Japanese position in Manchuria. Again, in I93G, when Hitler walked in the Ruhr, it was the British who hung back, told the French that if they -resisited Hitler, .they w-ould have to figt alone. . ' Again, during the Spanish war, it was the British foreign" office which secretly, played 'ball with Franco and sabotaged the loyalist - government; -despite the tact that the world .- knew Hitler, and, .Mussolini were staging a . .curtain-raiser to w.orld war.'"''., Again, prior to the Munich crisis over Czech Sudetenland. Lord Runciman spent weeks in Czechoslovakia passing out secret word that Hitler cb.uftt have 'the 'Sudetenland as : far as lie wa3 concerned. So by the time the Big Four met in Munich, the surrender oC the -Sudeten-land was a foregone conclusion agreed to in advance by British appeasers. j Historians already are recording the prob ability that, if we had checked the Spanish fascist, if we had, stopped Hitler, in the Ruhr, if we had prevented his carving up Czecho slovakia, or even .if we :had blocked any one of these moves, . thtv terrible tradegy of'Vorid war II would r.6t have tiapperied. . ; ,: And. if we are going tp prevent World war III, the 'gentlemen of the British foreign of fice, with.' their silk-glove policy of appease ment, may prdye ' our most dangerous, though charming-Allies. - (Copyright, 1946, by., the iell'-Snydicate, Inc.) WSkS I'M. PTOll iww f VM Ml AW fDSOM'S WASHIfmM COLUMN , ' BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent' By Alice M. Laverick Copyright, 1945, NEA SERVICE. INC. , TIIR STOIlVt I. Ortlla Hart, wan only 17 when I came to Innis fnil Ibnt eventful summer to help out Cousin Kllen. vtho warn the Kitzireraldn kouxrkreprr. Lovely C harlotte Itrent rayturrd my heart initiiedinlely but Autocratic old Houora l'llrceralil. vh ruled the hoiinrholil from a nick bed. fright ened me at firnt. I hnd Jut heard her tell her nurse how plain I r ' iv T MUST have looked a little dis heartened still, for when I passed Miss Charlotte in the lower hall, where she was arranging flowers in two 'tall vases, she turned and looked after me. "Wouldn't you like to see the house, Cecelia?" she asked. And immediately I was dazzled again by her oddly vibrant voice and the divine fact that she was speak ing to me, Cecelia Hart, as if I were someone of importance. I said I would love to, but secretly I thought I would prefer to simply gaze at her for the afternoon. The house was now a mere secondary attfaction. I managed finally to take my eyes away from her and meekly followed into the dining- room, with its gleaming mahogany and deep, soft rugs, where she showed me a bewildering amount of fam ily silver, fabulous linens and delicate china embossed with tiny green shamrocks. He movements were all quick and she used her hands a great deal as she talked. At the door of the Professor's study, which was off the dining room, she stopped. "We'll just peek in here," she said, "we won't go inside. If we disturbed any thing, we'd be drawn and quar tered." She laughed then, and it was the first time I heard that nervous little laugh of hers. It surprised me somehow, there was such a shrill note in it. - TTiE study was an ordinary room and dusty but to me it was the room of a great man and I should not have presumed to cross its threshold, even if he invited me to do so. I have said before that I had always stood in awe of Mark Fitzgerald. At this time, before I had even met him, this would have considerably understated my feelings. I was actually terrified at the thought of living in the same house with him. I knew that at the Academy they laughed at his touch of brogue, admired and respected the brilliance of his mind and feared his sarcasm. Also, I had seen his books at the Lynchestcr public library, serious - looking volumes which I had heard re ferred to as a distinctive collec tion of essays. He had, of course, been offered much higher teach ing positions, one at Trinity Col lege in Dublin, Ireland, his own Alma Mater. There were many who considered such an eminent man frightfully wasted here in this little Massachusetts town of Lynchester, teaching science at an obscure academy for boys. But, as I have pointed out, the Fitz geralds paid little or no heed to what others thought or expected, but did as they pleased. Nevertheless, Mark Fitzgerald was fo surprise me in many ways that summer. There was his in terest in the old-fashioned flower garden that he dug and weeded and cultivated with as much con centration as if it were the most important thing in the world. And the untiring patience with which he worked at tutoring two dull, over-grown boys who had to pass their exams in order to. play football in the fall. Father Gene, it seemed, was an ardent football ran and without these two crea tures the team would be crippled. There was also Mark's unex pected speech of gratitude to me. But I should not speak of these things here. They came later. "jVOW, standing in the study doorway, Miss Charlotte began to talk o Mark. With shining i eyes, she told me that he planned to take his sabbatical year when they were married and they would honeymoon in Europe. But everything depended on Aunt Honora, she added seriously. "Poor Aunt Honora. We're really very worried about her." She laid her hand on my arm. "She's a very sick woman, Ce celia," she said. "Please donJt mind if she seems well, a little cross. She suffers so much." And at the sight of tears in Miss Charlotte's blue eyes, I would have promised . to bear cheerfully any insults Mrs. Fitz gerald might heap upon me. "Come on," she said. "Ill show you Aunt llonora's portrait." And we went into the living room then, that room that was to my eyes so wondeiful, with its many windows and the French doors through which you caught glimpses of marble benches and square formal gardens. "Here it is," said Miss Char lotte. "Of course, she isn't really my aunt, you know. But I love her so much. How do. you like the picture?" I looked up at the large oil painting over the fireplace and continued to look in stupefied si lence. For the woman in the pic ture was handsome, aristocratic, even noble-looking. No resem blance at all had she to the poor, shrunken creature in the huge walnut bed upstairs. I shivered a little and I think it was then that I received my first faint realization of the change time makes in all of us. It was while I was still gazing at the portrait that Ellen came, flushed with indignation, to find out what -as keeping me. "It's all my fault. Ellen." Chnr- lotte said contritely. "I was show ing her the house. I'm sorry." Cousin Ellen cooled off some what at this, but she sniffed sev eral times while we were prepar ing dinner and told me that since I had wasted so much time, she could not now show me how to serve. So tonight she would do it herself, while I helped dish up in the kitchen. But, mind, in the future I was to serve all the meals. , (To Be Continued); J u pi W ' 5 'j Edson rVfASHINGTON, D. C. (NEA) The Treasury doesn't expect fo sell much of its surplus stock of silver, in spite of the fact that th ;ilver bloc of Western senators forced through a bill increasing the price from 71 to 91 cents a fine ounce. The reason is that foreign silver -nines can now supply the entire U. S. demand for silver to be used in jewelry, photography, and other justnesses. r Silver smelters : long held their output oft the narket, knowing that the Western senators were .rying to force through a price increase. When the silver bloc succeeded in its drive for a bill to mthorize the Treasury to sell surplus silver, plenty )f commercially-mined silver came to market. The inconsistency of the Senate in this action is .hat while it was approving price controls, it authorized a price increase on newly-mined silver far greater than was necessary. It was one of the nost inflationary acts of the last Congress, and one 3f the rawest price squeezes ever perpetrated. Another, beautiful inconsistency in the last Congress was on the :idelands-oil issue. The Senate refused to confirm the appointment if Edwin W. Pauley because of his activities in behalf of the tidelancis Dill, reserving coastal-oil rights to the states. Yet the Senate and the ilouse both passed the tidelands bill that Pauley was working for, md the bill was defeated only by a veto from the President, who hai lominated Pauley for Navy undersecretary. VfETERANS organization officials are worried about the generous appropriations which Congress dished cut to the vets before scir lome to campaign. They fear that -people will get the idea that Cc;i ?ress may have given the vets too much that taxpayers, even arr.og .he ex-servicemen themselves, will start complaining about the Vr illion-dollar appropriations for vets' affairs in the next fiscal year Army Air Forces brass is burned up at the way the Navy stole 'he ;how at Bikini. Army planes dropped the bombs on both teste, t'u eleases which were prepared by Air Forces public relations men' hai o be cleared by the Navy's Capt. Fitzhugh Lee. Many of the stories vhich the Air Forces planned to tell about their bombers somehow lever seemed to get issued. . - pASSA.GE of the Congressional Reorganization Act requiring lobby ists to register worries many non-profit trade associations &iikc V-.-J. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Ma'-u-acturers. . Being non-profit, these ' associations have not had to pay inc-re -axes. But if they register as lobbyists and disclose the sources of t'"e ncome they use for lobbying purposes, federal income-tax cclIeco"s lay get after them.' ' ' Hobby Grows Into Towns, Railroad COLUMBUS, O. (U.P.) When William O. Brill rroves trom his present horne, three! towns, a city. ; end a ' complete railroad system will move with him. They are iill part of, a -minia- 4ure.J layout built try J8rni-'1fl thej past 12 years on a scale of an ; eighth of an :nch to a foot. Brill, a painter with the Penn- ' sylvania. , Railroad for 33 years, j installed 'the - tiny-" community in ; his attic in his spare time, build- j ing everything by hand. j The collection, includes 6 0 0; feet of track," '105 locomotives,! freight and passenger cars, a j nine-foot -suspension bridge, bull- j boasts such items as automo- j dings and factories and even i biles and billboards. Brill val- i ues his handiwork at nearly $2.- I 000, J. Howard Davis , INSURANCE SET OF 3 i MIXING BOWLS 5 ill WW WIESNETH READY MIX CEMENT Any place, Any time, any Amount Phone 50 Louisville. Nebr. I'HUJ1 l"SS When You Buy BUY YOUR insurance with great care these days. Natur. ally you want not only depend able protection against speci fied hazards but also the se curity of knowing that both the agentyy aud the Company are noted for paying all honest claims. INSURE THROUGH Stephen M. Davis Plattsmouth State Bank BIdg. 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