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r i h i i t i c c a , r tl d a d a U U s fti v: C B H 'J f at at "J ar in er d M; ths tn ra fic 19 tio aft wi Dc tel No Fa at r qu W 28, tei w in 1 In lin pa t th tht r, I ter th an Jo.' Kr tie J pr ke Ja W. eh) 1 sei Hi' Do ne? Ev 1 Mr Ot1 ' Ml M EU t 1 j da; 1 J a Ke . wo Pr trlj mc IUt 1 rtfl fAGE TWO The Plattsmouth Jouraaf ESTABLISHED 1831 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in ac rordancc'Vith the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. " THE JOURNAL, f LATTSMpUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1947 SUBSCRIPTION RATE:--$3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By' carrier in' Plattsmouth, 15 cents lor two weeks. Big; Step forward It is tpo early yet for over-optimism. There still is a chance for hob bles to be slipped onto a promising horse. But it is distinctly encouraging that the United Nations Economic and Social ' Council has set up a special commission to handle European recon struction on a unified, continent-wit! basis. There are at least three very plea sing things about this action, taken only nine months after the proposal first was made in London. First, because unified continent wide planning and execution are the only ways that the highly integrated continent can be put back on its feet and helped to repair the war's devas tation. Second, because. this is really the first' time that the vicious and' ever widening chasm between Soviet east ern Furope and the non-Soviet western nations has appeared likely to be bridged by any specific co-operative activity. t Third, because Russia, after opposing, the plan in its original form, has accepted a version tlfcit was mere ly weakened and not completely per verted. . From the viewpoint of cold logic, undoubtedly it would be more efficient if .the power systems of the continent could be unified, if restrictive economic barriers could be removed, if labor surpluses from one section or even from one country could be moved wherever labor shortages existed. But on second thought there are practical objections, human nature being what it is. There almost certainly would be outraged objections if a United Na tions ' Commission were to attempt, willy-nilly, to unify our power system and tie it up with those of Canada and . Mexico and the rest of this hemisphere. And the heavens would be blasted by our revolt if a British:Russian sion were to start ordering New York's unemployed clothing workers to South Chinese-Czech-Dutch-Chilean commis Carolina cotton mills. Over here on our side of the Big Fond we sometimes forget the cent uries of bitter wars that have devast ated almost every important country in Europe. We have seldom had other nations try to boss us around, so we have little conception of the intense nationalism that such conflict breeds. Maybe it is not enough, b u t surely it is something that the often disagreeing Soviet Union and the Anglo-American "bloc" have agreed to get together even on a limited plane, in this job of reconstruction. Maybe an entering wedge has been forged, which if it works, could open ho door to further cropctation. The birth struggles of United Nation co-operation have been tortur ing to watch. But here, in many ways, is the most promising thing that has yet come out of that fledgljng and often cantankerous body. . , .... MARSHALL'S PEACETIME OBJECTIVES MORIS DIFFICULT THAN WARTIME 'OF FENSIVES; SOLUTION LIES IN WINNING RUSSIA -FRIENDSHIP; SPLIT IN" POUT EURO CREATES PROBLEM. WASHINGTON As a military man. Gener al Marshall planned two great offensives. One was in 1918 when he charted for General Per shing the transfer of one million men from St. Miniel to the Mcusc-Argonnc front, ' pjus 40,0p0 tons of ammunjtion, 34 hospitals, OS.OOOhorscs; 164 miles of railway and 87 depots all in a week's time with no enemy aviator discovering it The other was in the last war when as Chief of Staff he planned the historic landing on Normandy-' These two offensives, great as they were, in some respects will not be as difficult" as the two great peacetime objectives which George Marshall as secretary of state will attempt to, v.in at the conference beginning in Mojccw to- day. Those two objectives are: l. A permanent peace treaty with the nation which has caused every major European war in the past century '-Germany. ' 2. The end of our present suspicious, chip-on-the-shoulder relations with Russia and the es- tablisnnient ofV permanent friendship with the nation which can be;''dur 'mos &ES' tn; emy. ' ' Both, ooviously, are Interdependent. And, i? Marshall can win real ifrtehdshlp; Wft the treaty with Germany VM'tys mtfcfc fesWf: To that end, the Secretary of. 'se' plans before he left fahtngtonHo canvass oUr main points of diference Witt ftussja and tf everything possible (o $$1 fefc is for friendship ana understanding. Split Inside Kremlin 'One of the 'big proems he will face is the definite evidence of&'epl inflldV '(be'politbitfo regarding the' United gtyetia Iated Question of who is the rcaooss l Q0A.. " Fourteen men ma'ie'ufc'tlW 'ppUurdknof; ganization which rieji the dstln'ies'' 'tte' far-" flung Soviet union as no bffie't" group In uie world. ' And the impression given" t,o te out side world, is that these 4' menNvorlc as""afc heaive, compact unit, that they to .not aye diierences ot opinion 'such' as' those 'inside the liritisn ana American capineis. aou w we u is difficult to find out what, a?tuaUy goes on in side the Kremlin, there 'fs 6reasteeW4nce that this harmony feya'yYhVV ta 'two more 'frieKdly ana 'c'aslef 'to U It ' i ,i r i . ; i - . -i T '1 opposite schools of thought exist regarding friendship with the' States. " b This was somewhatevent'eyen' as ar bacV as the Teheran conference,' wh'eil1 lhir ititt" self, though cohaideted Ja ' dic'taiof, 'sometimes told Roosevelt before giving an ahswe on a, certain point that he Woutd fiye "to cail'!bi marshals in Mosco' 'o g'et their' d .rt" '4l t was" also apparent to'ttnmte tfj-rnes' "both at nuns Hmui ne lin that the later was deal with than Molotbv This diagnosis is borne out y. some of t$ top diplomats of sa'fetljte 'countries en'aUdhs which border Russ(a,c'4rf Uner;'' &5yief C chce, and whose leaders" visit' foscpw" feque'h 1 to straighten 'out their affairs 1 o ftate: Txdrri one such diplomat, whose Information h4s been reliable in" the past, comes the ' following aum matloh of what transpire today inside the Kremlin. . '"' ' " " - " 3Iolotov Hates USA The group most host'ile to the United States and Great Britain, according to this source, is headed by heavy-handed Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. His chief messenger boy is Andrei GromyVoj now ervoy,. to the tlrdted Nations,, and the man who upset world hope of. agreement, pn, atomic Energy by flatly re jecting all p'rephaly' discussed; plana "(or con trol of the e,tom.' . r ":" ' '." ' '' The opposite faction insid the Kremlin whicji believe peace is possible" between capitalist America, socialist Britain and communist Rus sia is headed by Stalin 'himself.' Iowever, Sta lin isn't as potent as he' used t? 'be, la fr cuenUy absent from Moscow" for rests In the Crimea. . - Recently a foreign diplomat closely attuned to the Soviet sphere of influence protested to Stalin against the boorish tactics of Gromyko. Stalin agreed, but remarked: ''He's Molotov's boy, not mine.'.' " ' ' ' During the foreign ministers conference in New York,' 'Mplotbv,' having heard complaints about Gr6myko,' sounded out several satellite diplomats. "Have "you been having trouble with my friend Gromyko?"' he asked, Polish, Jugoslav and Czech envoys. ' ' '" - ; - ' When they admited they had, Molotov mere ly replied' that Gromyko spoke for him at all times. Then, just to emphasize the point, Molotov named Gromyko, deputy 'minister of foreign affairs. The Stalin school of thought inside the for eign office is represented by shrewd, genial Vice-Commissar Andrei yyshinsky, "who last year sent, one of his close friends Boris Stein, long cordial to the United' States, to the United Nations, 'with instructions to soften up Grom yko. Steirj however,' had no effect. "' Apparently following' Molotov's instructions, Gromyko 're mained as rude and uncompromising as ever. Lifting the Iron Curtain This split covers much more than Gromyko's work' at the tfnited Nations.' It range's over a whole variety 'of things, including the Soviet treatment of foreign newspapermen. ' The' sa 1 in-Vyshinsk'y faction believed in letting foreign newsmen into Russia! the removal of ccnsor: ship and the elimination of all but security travel' restrictions. - This group also favors closer cultural rela tions' wjtij the United States! Ticy "hay ' utilitarian, niotive in thts a preliminary step toward getting a large-scale .American-Soviet trade pact, "including a muitl million-dollar loan, to Russia. '" ' " r- The Molotov ' team, however, does not want to go this'faV. While it would like to have a V- S. loan, ' it . will not take any preliminary cultural steps toward getting it. Its members ' seem to believe that war between the two ' schools of thought is inevitable! " " ' When a satellite diplomat protested to Stalin against the hard-boiled Molotov school of diplo macy and asked why something wasn't done about it. Stalin, according to diplomatic sourc es, replied;"" ' ' - " ', ''. , "I believe in giving people enough rope, then Events will take care of themselvc's. Besides you forget " that I'm as yowig " as I used to be.". ' ' ' ' ' " ' Foreign diplomats who have talked to Stalin also remark on his increasing mellowness Recently' a delegation of Polish communists visited him to tell how, they had renamed a large steel mill in Poland the "Stalin" Works." According Jo diplomatic . sources, Stalin re plied,: ' - - " Tr,i wasn't very smart. Some day there 'll be a strike there and the headlines all over the world will read: " 'Workers strike against Stalin!' How. will that look?" '" These arc sontc of the divisions of opinion rf f xist hislde the Soviet, divisions which, if true, will make the work of Secretary farshall all the more difficult. ' In a later col umn this writer will giye some .of his own de ductions on what "is going on inside the Soviet regarding peace with the USA. Copyright, 1317, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. Cheer Up, Bretty Soon Vfe Can Coast Ed son M Ml m I 1 Edson's Washington Column TVMSHINCTON. D. C " inch-thick, five-pound Mrs. Ray Norris has organized a group' "of youths into a garden fclub and an Electrification club. They fta've fourteen members, and their next 'meeting ' will ' be held Saturday,'" at the ' Lloyd - Ranrey home, when Floyd Hite, of the Omaha PoWer and Light Compa- ZTTT f ny, ' will talk to them" about the things " which they should know about electricity.' ' " : ' . ' Mrs. Homer' Jameson expects to. leave Uie' latter' part'of this" week ' for Kansas City; to spea a weeTs'?Mrs. J. M. Ranney will go to at the home' of her son-ih-law,' ahoi Blatr' to' spend the week end at daughter, Mt. and Mrs'J.oe Wad-4 the home of her son-in-law and 9 BARBS BY HAL COCHJtAN . AN Ohio miisic ctore was broken T- into four times and musical instruments stolen. Police are looking for an ' underworld band. 1 . ' ' Scientists "call the African stork the ahoebill.' Husbands still think of the American' stork ; ai the doctor's bill. .' Vv ' , - It takes only one-fortieth ot a second tp wink the eye and hours to explain it to the wife. There were just as many care ; less drivers in the "old. days but ; not as" many ' aeddents. " Horses had some sense.' ' ' ' A New York pharmacist at ; tempted suicide by swallowing 'drug. It would be interesting to kno'jr wcre he orocurcd tnem. daughter," Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lin- rrr f f T inrrn in . n . . f n wwt agept, at Blair. .Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Cook are moving, (his week," 'onto the Les lie Wiles farm, seven miles north east of Weeping Water. Norris Hatcheries are busy, these days, as they hatched their first 1947 chickens, last week. . ' . ..... .t Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Day are enroute f.orrie from" ' Bradenton, Florida. Tbejr expect to ' ' visit friends in ' Jacksonv'ille, Mississ ippi, and they will also stop at Qiattanooga', Tennessee' to Visit the Franklin Reckfords, former Weeping Water friends, whose home is on Lookout Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Domingo and their two children, John and Mary, were dinner guests, Wed nesday evening, at the home of Mx. and Mrs. S. Ray Smith. The BY TETER EDSON -NEA Washington Correspondent . . C. (NEA) At the very end of the "three Federal Budget back in Appendix ix,' on pages 1406-8 there is a summary of 'government expenses year by year for 10 years, it starts wim ivm ana gives aciuai expeuav tnrougn la-Sb, ana esnmaies ior ! ant o. It the Republican Congress does whaj its leaders say it will do, the 1948 figures wont look anything like the President's numbers. But here is the best possible list of symptoms from which to make a diagnosis' of the causes -for the government's 10-, year headache of rising expense'. ' ' , This fever chart shows that total government expenses rose from $9 billion in 1937 to a peak of $100 billion, in 1945. Then they drop to $63 billion in 1946, $42 billion in 1947, $37 billion in '1948. The 63 per cent drop in the .last three years is notable. But the fact thnt federal expenditures in 1948 will by the President's estimates I: ) per cent above what they were in 1939 is also notable. And 1 i where an economy-minded Conress will have room to perform any operations deemed necessary, to cure the government's spendthrifts and end the headache, f LANCE over some of the departmental figures to see how this gov VF emment spending has grown beyond all sensible bounds. These are the 10-year growths, from 1937 to 1948, in round figures to the closest million or billion dollars: " National defense,' from $1 billion to $11 billion Veterans' benefits, from $500 million-to $7 billio... International finance, from $17 million to $2820 million. - Social Security payments' doubled, from $886 million to $1467 million. In this same 10-year period work relief WPA and sucli direct relief measures was cut from $3111 million to only $7 million.' That's all to' the good. ' But the trend towards more government social security aids is apparent. Iii his Economic Report, the President recommended that a larger share of this social security be paid for out of the" federal treasury, instead of by employer-employe con tributions. That would increase government expense. Aids' to housing jumped from $17 million to $225 million." Research and education wnt up from $44 million to $88 million. And present planning call for vast increases in this latter sum. Aids to agriculture jumped from a high $997 million to a higher $1603 million. .. . . , Development of non-agricultural resources is up from $218 million to $1099 million. Atomic energy development accounts for only 444 million of that jump. - - ' " ' " . . Aid to transportation highways, airways and merchant marine rose from $466 million to $1533 million. ' j AIDS to "free enterprise" business have climbed from $24 million to $112 million! Labor-regulation aid went up from $11" million to $118 million." ' ' ' . 4 ' General' government expenses are up from $338 million to $11-' million. .... .u ' Some items, like the present $5 billion interest payment on the $259 billion public debt, carinor be reduced. But others are strictly in the government luxury class. Once a program like labor training, support of farm prices, maternity benefits or the building of govern ment parks is begun, it's hard to stop'.' All these things may be nice, but are' they necessary? ' 1.. Those who say "Yes!" advance the argument that these expenditures over the past 10 ye;irs have so promoted the general prosperity that the country can now ;ifTord to live at this higher standard. Further economies are then said to be not only unnecessary, but impossible. That seems to be the m;iin argument of the President's three mes sages to the hew Congress. - This is the basic decision which Congress will have to make in rieeidfng whether there is to be more economy or an expanded economy. near Elmwood, Tuesday. The ocean holds 10,000,000,000 occasion was Mr. Smith's birth- of SId' according to the En- a-'y - o .... j cyclopedia Britannica. "but no com- inerciauy proiiiaoie way nas Deen found' to 'extract it. The Albert Kirchoffs moved on to the 'Mrs. Minnie "Stege farm, TALK IT OVER AT CASS DRUG COFFEE CLUB .9:30-10:00 Every Morning pM4tm, . . .,m.i,.ii,.w..-ii.,Wi ijLwbwn jf-.ii r 5. u-rt .-i5i-4j'-' In fact, it's dangeroui to hqv your child i sfwei Titfed Irt thy other way.' its soft TKe tender chi4 foot with it borieiand pnant tnojcfe cart ?ressd ihto 6lfn6ir Ony ty4 bt ihfte" he bhTlCteelifi ho fecmriol fell ThafiVhyW'W. nsr upon' lining, children? sKoe by -Ray. 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