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. -vr-.V-r' f if PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA Monday, October 7th, 1946 The Piaitsmoutk Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 FubKshed stmi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Ma ttreet. Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Put tshing Company. .ESTER A. WALKER. B. J. ALCOTT. Publisher -General Hanagflff Enured at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Kcbraska. as" second class ruii matter in accordance with the Act of Ccngress of March i. 1879. . - ' . SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES-'Delivered fcy ca r'er inhe City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, cr $7 .03 f.r jear cash In advance; by mail In the PJaiijmc'jfij treia $3 per year. $1.75 for six months. $1.00 for V.r:2 ir.cr.-"ss. c-J In advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. 5-.w per year, $3.00 for six. months, tu cenis per mun-..;. advance. eg WASHINGTON Franklin I). : . . recently was comparing his father wit1 !':. man who succeeded him in the White Hnuv, His general conclusion was that Hrry T- . man certainty is not lacking jn c-.-i'-m,;--, '"Father never stuck hi """'' -' - way Truman does."-said v.Ming Fr -)-' never wrote a letter to eonsnv rl'! -."-r.'.-j that they pass the FEPC. He was all for t ? FEPC and the anti-poll tax bill, but ho -left other people get out in front and carry the ball." - ' It was hard for friends to say whether young Franklin was paying tribute to Tru man's courage or his father's sagacity. One fact that many people don't realize is that Truman's position regarding racial injus tice is strong partly because he has two con scientious southerners at the head of his justice department. The Attorney General, Tom Clark, as from Texas, while the head of the criminal division ""Lamar Caudle, is from North Carolina. ' Both have been vigorous in attempting to prevent racial injustice. When the race riots broke in Columbia, Tenn., for instance. Caud le, unable to get airplane transportation, drove all night in his car to reach the sceno of trouble. Again when Isaac Woodward, a negro vet eran, was permanently blinded after an al tercation with a South Carolina policeman. Caudle as chief of the justice department's criminal division brought a criminal action against the policeman. Such a step by the federal government is almost unprecedented, and the fact that it was taken by a North Carolinan, with the support oi an Attorney General from Texas, is significant. NOTE Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia and other southerners argue that the race problem can best be handled by southerners themselves. Army Reneges on Furloughs When the army puts on its next enlistment drive it is going to have a hard time with certain G. I. 's who recall the promises made the last time they enlisted. One of those pro mises was that those who enlisted for a year would get thirty days extra furlough in ad dition to their regular thirty-day furlough. It was on that basis that they enlisted for one year and one month. Nov, however, they find that the extra furlough is not going to be forthcoming. It's out the wmdow. War department circular 51 cancels the re enlistment furlough prmiscd to G. I.'s, and there is nothing the men who took the army at its word can do about it. The war department explains that it was forced to rancel this furlough under the arm ed forces leave act passed by congress last summer. In other words, the army says, that after :t promised the extra thirty days' leave, congress took it away. This was done when congress voted to put enlisted men-o:i the same proportinatc basis as officers re garding terminal leave, at which time it also voted that enlistment furlough leave counts against terminal leave. How much the army did to guide congress on this legislation is not known. Usually the army can bo quite potent on Capitol Hill. At any rate, a good many thousand enlisted men who signed up for a year are now sore as blazes and will think twice before signng no again. Prima Donna Baruch Elder statesman Bernie Earuch's fued with Henry Wallace isn't the only one he has been waging lately. He was careful to call a press ronference and make suie that his Wallace row hit the headlines. But he hasn't wanted publicity regarding the backstage feud he has carried on with Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson over the same subject the atomic bomb. The spectacle of the rampant Mr. Baruch stridently defending his prestige as an elder statesman has made some people around the stte department wonder; is Bernie an elder statesman or a prima donna? Bernie, who personally is one of the most-loved people arund Washington, simply can't bear to have his authority challenged. To differ with Ber nie is a personal affront, as even his great and good friend Jimmy Byrnes discovered. At one time Bernie was seen rowing with Jimmic. The Acheson dispute began when the state department made the mistake of releasing the Acheson-Lilinethal report on atomic en ergy shortly before Baruch was appointed to be U. S. atomic delegate to the United Nations. Had the Achesons report been held up and handed to Baruch privately, he could have issued it himself and doubtless it would be official U. S. policy today. ' - . ...Baruch, however, called in his Wall Street experts, John Hancock of Leham , Brothers and investment banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, . "who worked out a separate atomic energy policy. For more than a week 'afterward, Ba ruch and his. advisers met secretly with Aeh ,eson. at Blair House, across from the state 1; department, trying to reconcile their , cojnfikM,!' ting view- points. They are;.ti lb nofry tjyfLr&J ftl 1 won't play ball unless he gets t his way. NOTE Achesoh's position on atomic energy control is much nearer Wallace's." No Money for Finland Finlandhas been' known to Americans as the little country which always paid" its debts. Now, however,- the U. S. is 'getting the refu tation among Finns as a country which"" breaks Its financial "promises. What' happened is that one year ago Fin land sent ; -i trade delegation here to arrange for a $70,000,000 loan from the export-import bank. The lean was promised, and on the basis of this promise, the Finns made pur chases amounting to S35.000.000 in the United States, with partial- commitments- for the remaining $35,000,000. Part of the deal was that Finland was zo secure coal from, this country which in turn would help increase .her newsprint produc-, tion. Many American newspapers made ar rangements to guy this extra newsprint. However, something has now , cau.-ed the state department to reverse itself. The ex-' port-import tsmnk loan to Finland has been held up. Actual, the-ugh unannounced reason for the reversal is the feat that Finland is now in the Soviet sphere of influence and it is feared that any financial help would indirectly aid Russia. However, there is considerable' dif ference of opinion regarding this. Some gov ernment officials maintain that the Fnnish people are overwhelmingly pro-American and that a loan would more than offset what in direct aid might go to Russia. So far, however, the Finns are still waiting. MERRY GO ROUND The New York Times and other papers pan ned Walter Winch ell for allegedly causing tho stock market crash when he quoted General De Gaulle as believing there would be war between the United States and Russia. How ever, the same papers did not give Wincheil a line of credit when DeGaulle in his speeh last week confirmed Wincheil up to the hilt. De Gaulle warned the French people of a clash between an "ambitions grouping o f Slavs" and a "young America overflowing with resources."' ..Time magazine last week ent further ; than, any other newspaper or newsmagazine by calling the President oi the United States a liar.. While a lot of us don't agree with the President, and a let o us may consider him inept or even clumsy, ncverthless he's our president, and we only de grade the position of our country when we call the head of the nation a liar. (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate Jric.) Clash cf Atomic Opinions " In his ' speech before the Unit'e.d Xations Atomic Energy Commiio-Ji in June, Bernard Baruch said: We of this nation - . . are prepared to make our full contribution 'toward effective control of- atomic energy. "When an adequate system for control of atomic ennrgy, including the renunciation of the bomb as a weapon, has been agreed upon and put into ef fective action and condign punish ments' set up for violations of the rules of control which are to be stig matized as international crimes, we propose that: 44 (1)" Manufacture of atomic bQinbs. shall vstop, "(2) Existing bombs .shall be dis posed of pursuant to the terms of the treaty, and "(3) The' (International Atomic Development) Authority shall be in possession of full information as to the know-how for the production of, atomic energy." This seems to state clearly that this country would participate in the Baruch -plan for atomic energy control. Yet it must be ambiguous. For the recent conference of progressives in Chicago has seen in it a requirement "that other nations accept binding agreement not to conduct research in to the military uses' of atomic- energy and to disclose their uranium and thori um resources while the United States retains its technical knowledge and engineering freedom, until the inter national system is working to our sat isfaction." Such an interpretation of the Bar uch plan seems less" a criticism of the plan itself than a doubt of our govern ment's good intentions of living up to its agreements. The basic difference between the thinking represented by the Chicago progressives and by those favoring the Baruch plan is whether we shall de stroy our stock of atomic bombs before or after an international control sys tem is set up and details of our atomic bom-k manufacture are made known. The first group feels tl'at to de-v lay the destruction of the bombs would be to give a green light to all-out in ternational production for atomic war. But since this country would agree, with other countriesto renounce atom ic explosives as a weapon before the ; bombs were destroyed, the only cause for -alarm would be a belief that the United States government's word , was worthless. , To release the; details--of- atomic bomb manufacture before a control system were firmly established would seem to be more of an invitation to an armament-- tace. than theBatirch. plali. . Not tha Least of Its; Accomplishments . s it ' f I S ' .1- . ' .AiXTr "-. yS-x mm MmlK '&i- J ft d h i 25, -JJTVi- v.ifN'nt'- )"" .-;2.-t'-' --;:. ' -'ai-zl" jf&ifci mm$ column u ri i. tj i.i, BY PETER EDSON- - ,' - NEAVashingtoit Correspondent Vt"ASHINGTCT, D. C-r (NEA The best guess on the number o) atomic bembs the U. S. misht be able, io produce is contained :r. the new, United Nations' scientific report on control cf ntomic energy It is a deduction based cn three previously known facts which the experts put together for the first time. The critical massif rare Uranium-235 necessary to set up a chain reaction had been revealed in the Smyth report as "mere than two and less than 10C kilograms." That's approximately four to 22C pounds, to make one bomb. It was also known thai normal U-238 contained one part in 140, or scven tenths of one per cent, U-235. And the Engineering and Mining Journal had estimated world uranium ore production at about 1000 tons a year. Putting these three facts together, the UN expert; calculated that "the number of. bombs which ecu!;. , i i , i i , t r- -, , n , . oe proaucea wouia ua ueiweeii iu ana oouu oci - rf Ldson year."- That's a wide margin, but it's the bos' TO timwooa s TYient. in Ch Inn thaf bp Vlc rt Tinc coriro rlccimnr k.B ' 1 1- - 1 1 ; , ! " i ar . TTceivea nis oiscnarge, and expecis , ments to land in San Francsco about refresh- .Mrs. Grace Pi, boa October 15. Mrs. John Wood was taken ill while at services in the Christian Sunday ? guests at the i aii?. Bueil hpme were Mr. and Mrs. Ither MVS. Carrie Gorthey of Treii- r" XT 7"'j- C ; U..n v- .i.rvpv n, ATr nd fi-.. ! a ' Vv hitman of adason, Kan Mi, and Mrs. .Wittenmore at-! church Sunday, tended tl.e big ball .game at Wes- , ,Mrs. ivan Armstrong took leyan Stadium Saturday night. jher granddaughter to her home in estimate so far. s The real reason U. S. coal mines are still . in government har.d. have not been returned to the private oa-ners, is that Northern :,nr Southern operators can't agree on a formula for taking back !hc;'r properties. Meetings of the operators are far stormier than scssrons between the miners' union and the operators. rFHE inauguration of Jesus T. Pinero as the "first native-bom . - crnor of Puerto Rico will probably down in history with feast of Belshazzar as one of the biggest parties ever thrown. About half the people on the island (pop. 2,000,000), came (o San Juan for the inaugural day parade. The affair was supposed to be a great triumph for democracy and the common people of Puerto Rico, in that a native son was made governor. But 5000 invitations went out to politicos for the reception c-.t La Fortaleza, the governor's pnlacc, that night, aria after thai, iim afTair broke up into smaller parties. These parties are just now be ginning to taper off, weeks after the inauguration. - ; TJAROLD E. STASSEN'S 12-point Program for '"Progress; ' printed recently in Collier's magazine, was something less than a b. success. It was a vasTlmprovement over the official GOP statement of party principles drawn up by a congressional committee. But in drafting what was obviously intended to be a good middle-of-the-road pvo gram, Stassen ended up by straddling every fence in the country and actually made some' elements sore. ' The weekly newspaper "Labor," 'whi eh circulates principally among the more conservative railway brotherhoods, called Stassen's labor plank "one of the most menacing threats yet made against the Amer ican labor movement." All Stassen called for was strict accountability of union funds, prohibition of the use cf union funds for. political purposes, a -labor court to settle jurisdictional disputes, and a ban o; jurisdictional strikes. Earl Mans- Weck end guests at the home oi Mi, and Mrs. Ervfrctt Brockmaa thirty of them and three men work Fred. Buell. I I Mrs, Jay Stanton - fell Monday evening;-and sprained her aukij, ! . atuanus uic uuum s -'1' fH ond -scrubbed, and-enioved a Mr. and Mrs.; Ralph Krauseie-: rflvf.rfVi rV,,h hmoU ws. er. Rev. and Mrs. Ha ist -moved in to the Evangelical parsonage tar- : f.y this week. David Cook and Boyd Clements nd Grand Island Wednesday. She v:: itod at the Willis James home re turning on Friday. . ; . Mrs. Theodore Farmer of Chi cago and Mrs; Robert Mann and Monday was ' cfiurclv ' ' cleaning1 1 two daughters of Platstmouth were day for the Methodist ladies. Over J Monday dinner guests of Mrs. Iv- sas, and theitidiiUincr- Patricia.- t '..t?. A.UJ turned this week from a two w-ock trip to Louisianna where they vis- j itt'd their son, Arlin in camp thtiei Mrs. Lyle is in Missouri ne-jr Kansas City, wht-re she went to , ,T X3r , , T ';came down from University IVTr r.nci TVTrs. Knbr r. .I:mvs J I enjoyed 'evening dinner at the came down from Schuyler to vi,-jCook hcme one evcning 1 a s t it home folk?. They report havu J u,etk Ltn-t alwayi tQ find spent Wo. pleasant, week ends, si !tating piaccsir rtU&jCu it rvgu. the home of sRev. and Mrs. Bl...lr,r tirnes the;e dav . the Methodist pastor there, who j Morfoay V5ning?: frQ9 of tbrn preached 'here several years iS j mittee members me att the Metho John McKay received a -letter Jdist parsonage for consultation a frpm his grandson James McKay bout the new year plans and work, who was with the Navy Depart-'Mrs. Lind assisted by Ramoaa an Armstrong.' , . . J . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clary' and children of Omaha spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Willis. Mr. and Mrs. Ed" Ernest 'of Emiwcod and Mr. and Mrs.' Floyd Bundy and boys were Sunday ternoon : guests of Mr. and ' Mrs. . E. Sowards. Mrs. August Klemme and Mrs. John Beck of Weeping Water spent f'riday with Mrs. Orie Sowards. uMr, and Mrs. John Beck and Mr. and Mrs. Orie Sowards spent Sunday evening in Omaha. Willajean Mansfield arrived from Los Angeles, . Calif., Thurs day mornng for a visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. field. Mr. and Mrs. George Mansfield of Hartley, Iowa spent the week end with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mansfield home. . Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Bockelmann spent Thursday evening at the arl Mansfield home. "Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mansfield, Willajane and Sammy attended the Gilmore-Keiser wedding at Ash land Sunday afternoon at the Christian church. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Moore and boys spent Sunday afternoon at the Fred . Rueter home in, Alvo, Mr. and . Mrs. L. J. Roeber, Dar lene and Mary Lou Burger and gone an appendectomy operation at the St. Joseph hospital last week. (OH 71 it O ycanmore y PERCY MARKS (T by Percy Marks: Distributed by NEA Service. Inc. Author cf "The Plastic Age" "A Tree Grcwn Straight" Etc. Till; STOItY: C.nylr. lnus liter of n collcr iirilKNor, ban jut lic r:it( fiiR.Tfictl to linndxomF Itruet Hartlclt. fiinioni athlete and ncion tt lvealtli. isitina: bin home and,, I.-i rents fur the firt time, xhe i' frls'htened Jy the uplctidor in. which they lire. Mir 1 further, dism:i j-rd ttlirn Mr. R.irtlett ti.1 plnint that for mill annniineementn yiil linve to he Kent nut, nnd the Tiewp:iperj notified, yhe liroiiiUeti tiayU- the hrlp of her kecrctary, Siiss Jluliitnd. - XII TART and Gaylc left Sycamore a little after 4 o'clock. It was Bart's plan to drive her back to New Haven, but Gaylc was insist ent that he put her on a train in New Ycrk. Finally he agreed on condition that she have dinner with him before she took the train and it was almost midnight by the time she got home. Rose was asleep when she en tered the apartment, and when she r.woke the next morning, Rose had already gone. . Gaylc was glad. There wnsmuch she wanted to tell Rose, but now she wanted to be alone. There was a . letter, a very long letter, that had to be written at once tr her mother, and she felt that she must be entirely by herself when she wrote it. An hour before she had left Sycamore, Miss Holland had given her the announcements to the newspapers. "It seemed sim plest to me," the little woman had said, "just to type them out. The envelopes are addressed. All your mother will have to do is mail them. I think I'd better order the formal announcements too. It is late, but they will do them almost overnight for Mrs. Bartlett. I'll address . those for Mr. Bruce's friends before I send them on to your mother. Then you'll have nothing but your own to attend to." -: "You'll send : the bill too?", Gayle. had asked, grateful but ready to be ojfended. "Oh yc?. Don't you think Uiat 13 me ecsi vimi best. You're very of it. Thanks very "Much the kind to think much." Well, Miss Holland had made everything just as simple as pos sible; that was sure. Social secre taries obviously had their uses. All the same, there was a lot to be explained. Just the thought of publicity would, Gayle knew, appall her parents. Outside of the local newspaper, the Kent name had never appeared in print ex cept in learned journals. Suppose reporters came around. Gayle shivered. "They'll just hate it . . ." CHE had a long hot bath and lin- J gered over her breakfast. She washed the dishes, made her bed nnd Rose's, and then went to the living room prepared to write the letter; but she noticed that the drawing of Bart was still on the easel, and she paused to lock at it. What a brilliant job ii was just brilliant! Rose had certainly been at the top of her form, at her very best, and her best was wonderf ul. Just the same ... Just the same . . . Well, just the fame, Gaylc wasn't Euro she liked that picture. There was something about it that made her uncom fortable. It was a perfect likeness of Bart but what in the world was it that upset her? It wasn't as if Rose had made him look' mean or sour or anything like that She couldn't have given him a pleas hnter expression, and that little smile just breaking at his lips was fc.w fully, characteristic. . She'd caught every bit of his little boy charm. " There! Now she knew! The face locked so immature; that's -what rs-he- didn't like. It didn't look like ii man at all; it looked like a kid obaut fourteen years old. And tjiere was something else, toc vps. therfi wn?: . . . n kind of arro- g;uic'e in the tilt of the hcid; .rnd , i-r: lance too around the lips. - "She's made him look like a spoiled brat," Gaylo thought in dignantly. T ATE in the afternoon Rose re turned. "Hi," she said, drop ping into a chair. "Giving up art for Paradise?" "Not by a long shot," Gayle replied. "I just felt like taking a day off." Rose lit a cigaret, inhaled, and then blew long streamers of smoke out of her nostrils. "Well, how did hfto?" "I'll tell you all about it at sup per," Gayle said, "but rigit now I've got a bone to pick with you. I've been waiting all day long to pick it, too." She pointed toward the drawing on the easel, and her lips grew tight in indignation. "I looked, at that a longtime this morning, anr1. I saw wha.t you did. That was a dirty trick." Rose crushed her cigaret in an ash tray, ground it down, and then asked, "Dirty trick? What are you talking about? That's one heck of a good job." "It's a libel, and you know it is. You meant it to be." ' "What's libelous about it?' "You've made him look like a little boy. You've made him look pet-petulant and stuck up. You know you have." She looked around for her purse, found it, then snapped back the zipper with trembling fingers and fumbled among the clutter of small articles until she found Bart's check. "Here," she said, holding out the check to Rose. "Look what he sent you. He would have made it five times as much if I'd let him. I hope his generosity makes you ashamed. It ought to, anyway." - . - Rose accepted the check,, resd the amount, and dropped it on the table beside her. Her pale eye brows lifted in amusement. "Gen erosity? Oh come off, Gaj-le. There's no generosity in writing a figure on a. piece of green paper. He didn't earn, the money. He won't have to give up anything because he's speht it And I'll tell you something else: that's one hock of a good picture. It's worth, unybody's hundred bucks." w . " : XTo Be Coatinuedii afternoon visitor at the Wesley Miller home. Mrs. J. A. Claussen of Chicago has been visiting her sister Mrs. Wesley Miller. Lorraine Bricker of Norfolk was dt the Harry Brcker home for the week-' end. .-. - ' ' Mr. and Mrs. John Remmenga. called on Mrs. Gretrued Boiler in Ashland Sunday., . . ; : . ; ; , Mrs. Ashley Boiler and baby re turned from the hospital, Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hookhma of Neleigh called on their niece Mrs. Ashley Boiler ft the Bryai' Memorial hospital Sunday. Mr. and Mrs'. "George Bornman, Mrs. Herman Gakemeier and Eu- r, ': , T T , T 1 O - v'iuuj W"1HLI feU'-ClO of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Reober. Mrs. Leonard Roeber and Larry visited Mrs. George Vogler, Wed nesday afternoon. Miss Ernestine Gilmore of Om aha and Miss Eugenia Samuelson ;of iremont spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harry E'armer. . Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nelson and family spent Sunday afternoon at the Harold Richards home. Joan Richards .spent Sundav night with Mary Alice and Mai jorie Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. William Ziegen bein of Crete spent Sunday at the Harold Richards home. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Sandy of Greenwood visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold Richards Sunday evening. Mrs. Raymond Nelson and Mis. Harold Richards accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Orville Sandy to Wahoo Wednesday evening where they at tended an Eastern Star meeting. Mr. and Ml::. L. J. Vahadt cal led on Mr. xmd Mrs. Milton Bach man Thursday evening. Delbert Leaslcy was a Sunday Journal Want Ad For Results o BARBS BY HAL COCHRAN JJOME garden flowers now are in full bloom and the nice part ! about it is that you can have your PICK. ' Being short of cash makes it , hard to impress some people with your wisdom. Some of the men who got mar ried only last June are already carrying umbrellas. Books are the important things in college, says an edu cator. Yep bank boo'cs and date books! A youngster gets to do a lot more things by telling his parents about them afterwards instead of asking permission in the first place. THIS CURIOUS WORLD CONTRARY TO LEGEND, A3E THE OUMBESr Or ALL. BIRDS KOVVEVEC, THE SAME MAY BE SA1DCF ANWME WHO DSS780YS OWLS, SINCE THESE PREDATORY BIRDS -FEED ALMOST . EXCLUSVELY OM . . SAALL. RODENT PESTS. By William Ferguson A SrJPENir.GAN BE IN S1TTIM AKO STILL EE OinSTAXDlUG'Seys U'ILL! A,'F. WILDERN, Zteife-'f, &4's. '. ... I- - I VVSS fc ' 4 I .VM T. M. Sti U. S. PAT ncr AN VVAL ON THE CAZ3f r. SD? OF A SURFACE FlUV - OF WATER.. ' NECT: -Where "ftffltbwng'tftc nest" is no figure ef speeciu? ; ft