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tNl ISM i mntt (wrt- wSSS Paper el County and City It tjttt tt.M Rates Afl UtfKt In 8.00 Pcrttantb 1 thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high Odd hath wrought toward 4:2. EDITORIAL HIDDEN TAXES New International Dictionary defines the word royalty as, among other things: "A percentage, as on output, paid to the owners of an article, especially a machine, by one who hires the life of it." To this may be added, on the hlksis of James C. Petrillo's accomplishments and John L. Lewis's demand, a further definition: "A percentage, as on output, paid to the officers of a labor Union by one who employs members of that union, as a supplement to or in place of dues paid by those members to the union." Mr. Petrillo's arrangement with all American manufacturers of phonograph records for royalty to the American Federation of ifusicians is legal and unchal- Thus there seems to be no mason why Mr.

Lewis, by threat- a disastrous wartime strike, not make a similar arrange- for his United Mine Work- jjjjjiMr. Lewis is asking a royalty of cents on each ton of coal mined, he paid to the UMW treasury 'modern medical and surgical hospitalization, i r- If. 14,1043 paid to both of are legitimate. Dili would be a royalty payment to unfon for no discernible Service or benefit. Operators now negotiating with Mr.

Lewis estimate that his royalty demand, with the wage increases ashed in the Lewis-pro-' posed contract, would add from 28 to 65 cents to the price of a ton of coal. This increase would have to be passed along tor the consumer. Now everybody is a consumer of coal, or of products which use coal in the manufacturing process. And somewhere along the line everybody would feel the result of that price rise in his pocketbook. This is not only inflationary.

It also is in effect taxation of the public by a labor union for the benefit of a small segment of our wage-earning population. If Mr. Petrillo and Mr. Lewir can do Mr. Petrillo demonstrated that he seems to be no reason why more and more unions cannot tax employers and thence consumers, creating an expensive system of hidden, private taxes without being obliged to account to the public for their expenditure.

Death Watch on the Rhine saw Rv? In Amtrtco Nothing New in Lewis' Demand for Royalty? It's Familiar Union Practice ly Weitbrook Ptqltr XV Contrary to the tenor of many shrill cries of alarm, thefp is nothing new or unconventional in the demand of John L. Lewis for royalty of trn cents ton or JtOO.000,000 a year, payable, not to the individual coal miners but to the treasury of their totnlitari an union. Neith er was tho idea original with Jimmy Petrlllo. when, recently, In rowdy contempt for the war labor board and President Roosevelt, insisted on a sales tax on recorded music rehabilitation, ajnd as la "partial payment for the establisment and maintenance of his (the miner's) status." dime-a-ton royalty on all the mined in would have ht $58,000,000 into the UMW Even at peacetime pro- dtietion rates, Mr. Lewis's union be assured an annual in- nte of $45,000,000 or more.

This to take care of medical and hospital service and all the rest, good bit of routine operat- expense, without taking much bite out of the miner's weekly check. royalty would not be like paid a manufacturer, or quick'getaway. "fS" Remember -Way Bade Wbi -1920- Dorothy Gnam, of the Carroll high school, was given the decision as winner in the dramatic class of the sub-district declamatory test at Glidden Friday night. Miss Gnam's offering was "Hagar." -1920- The Rev. F.

G. Codd of Omro, has been called as pastor for the First Baptist church to succeed the Rev. E. E. Clayton, who will soon leave for new fields.

The Rev. Mr. Codd will arrive here to make his home about the first of April. -1920- Henry Millenacker arrived week from his home at Windhorst, Alberta, Canada, where he spent the winter. He has returned this time to make his home permanently in Carroll.

-1920- W. E. Parsons had the misfortune to break his arm Monday while cranking a car. War Today. Secret Weapons-And Peace School Election at Auburn Quiet Affair Auburn (THNS) School election proved to be a very quiet affair, with the following being elected: Director for three V.

Dreeszen, 18 votes; Henry Ortner, 17 votes. Director for two Harvey Taylor, 18 votes. Treasurer, two M. Bean, 18 votes. SEVEN DRAW DEATH Brussels, Belgium (JP) Seven have been sentenced to death within 24 hours as courts martial in Belgium stepped up the junishment of traitors and colla- jorators.

One hundred miles of sensiblr. driving won't use as much rubber your automobile tires as one In Washington By Peter EcUon Washington, O. explanation for tho night club order, given by one of the top war agency heads, is that if can't get drunk enough by midnight he hasn't any business staying up any later. That should settle the argument on the night club front, but in complaining about some of the recent orders affecting the race track front, the New Bedford, textile mill front, the blackout-on-the-theater-marquee front, and the proposed work-or-else legislation in general, most people an completely overlooking some of the fundamental facts of life in wartime. First is the fact that the labor force of United States is actually shrinking and has beer: smaller for the past year.

Total employment in January- last month tor which Bureau of Census figures are available BY DeWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst Paradoxical though it seems, it's Hitler-the-aggressor who has provided us with one of the most important clues to the peace which the impending world security conference i San Francisco will try to establish. If we've learned anything worth while from this throw-back the Hun (with OEWITT MACKENZli his blitzkriegs, flying bombs and other savage innovations)" "it 'is 'that peace will depend heavily on eternal vigilance against "secret weapons." These won't necessarily be things we have no knowledge of, but development by one nation of ideas which are possessed by all countries. What we've got to watch out for is a "secret weapon" which may permit even a weak aggressor to achieve a lightning knock-out. I'm Indebted for this thought to Howard Blakeslee, Associated Press science editor, and It's presented here because I believe he ig right. Some of the basic ideas will be military, but most of them will be non-military knowledge which can be developed for purposes of war.

The airplane is a fair example. Essentially a machine of peace it is constantly being readapted to make fearsome wea- poriH. The radio is another. Then there is the flying-bomb irid the more recent rocket-bomb which the have used so effectively against England. Britain, America and other major countries knew all about the basic of these weapons.

The point is that nobody took the trou- unsuspecting nation. ble to develop them fully for war purposes except the Germans. No longer being able to bomb their enemies, the' Hit- lerites turned to bombs which would do their own flying. Necessity is mighty prolific as the mother of invention, and it's important to remember this in our peace plans. How are the peace-minded nations to safeguard themselves against attack with "secret weapons," which may be powerful enough to win a war with one quick, terrific blow? There are two countries against which we must and Japan.

They are the dangerous aggressors. But, you say, since we are going to knoek out Germany and Japan, how can they do further harm? It's precisely because we are going to render these aggressors impotent militarily that we must provide against the development of secret weapons. This is especially true of the Germans, who rank high in science and "are traditionally diligent in the development of ideas. Because they will have no military machine with which to wage further war, they're likely to turn their minds to the development of a secret weapon or weapons to obtain revenge. In fact if a safe bet they will.

In order to guard against this, as I see it, the world security organization 1 must detective methods if all discoveries and developments, of whatever nature, in Germany and Japan are known at once to the United Nations. This applies not only to military but to ordinary developments, be they biological, chemical, or what will you. The discovery of a new gas or a quick method of spreading a plague might mean death to some on the Home Front- Shocking Juvenile Delinquency lower than total employment in the U. S. has been at any February, J842, three months after Pearl Harbor.

Jt million leas workers than were employed at the peak ir from which date employment has been steadily declining reading the news from both Pacific and European blindsd by the news on the front page and never get to the home front news where it tells about the oatti CUrlQUJ souls start looking for reasons why the num Declined in the past year and a half, they going on. of people employed in munitions industries has aisr i.SOO.000 workers, according to Bureau of Labor statis are still rated by the War Manpower Com- needed for munitions industries by July 1 requirements figure it should be noted that up- Laugh that one off. From the wartime total unemployment today is estimated the unemployed could be shifted to takr are now goinjr togging, every- aay aXUl need 900,000 for ian't fully appreciated about to of the Army as to keep the another growing for farm tills man- ir every day, an4 may con- BY JAMES MABI.OW Washington, D. C. Wili there be a crime wave after the war? Attorney General Biddle thinks so.

He told the house appropriations committee so. But there's a crime spurt among juveniles The increase in crime among under-18 buys and giriw lias been so great FBI Boss J. Edgar Hoover considers it "shocking." year there wan a 67 per incroasa over 1948 in tin! number of brought into federal court. Several reasons are given by federal officials: Broken homea, by mothers, less home influence. Prostitution Leads Hoover says "offenses involving morality and common decency reflected the most pronounced increases." Prostitution among girls urdtr 18 led all their other offdnses by a tremendously margin.

And here are some other increased offenses among boys and girls under 18: DiaorderJy conduct, drunkenness. drunken driving, robbery, auto theft. of the boy atuwrdlng to Jtunen V- Ben- uutt, director of the federal sytttem cume from bjvktu by di- or IttHiftuNe or fattier off to wipe job. But a number of boy offenders came from "some of the best homes" and for this Bennett placed, scorching blame on over-indulgent mothers. In such homes, he says, there is a lack of discipline and the child has been "over-protected by one member of the family or another." He adds: "It to me that pur experience under the selective Mel-vice haw shown that the mother that her child in almost more of a ace to her children than Is (lie negligent It bard to chooHe between the two.

There ought to be neither." Bennett thinks "some of the measures we have been taking to keep youth under control" need reexamination and reconsideration. "If," he says, "we can arouse right-thinking individuals to study this problem and do some of the things we all know will help, then perhaps projgresa can be made." Home-Training Hoover considers home training the most important element of all in preventing crime by young people. He says: "You can not replace home traluuif with ttcbuul trainliif or training, In ottwr vyordfij lutme Influence is cated that I would prefer to refer to juvenile delinquency as adult delinquency because the responsibility rests upon adults, and these youngsters, as you see through this country, are not getting proper home training and discipline in the first instance. "Our schools and churches can not fully take the place of proper home training." which he rxpects to ylelil nbout $4,000,000 a year, not to musicians, but to his treasury. The precedent exists far back in union practice, notably in the, needle trades whose rulers are staunch new dealers, and in certain loral butchers' unions which sell tags to be affixed to chickens killed under union conditions.

The basin principle of the case, the right of unions to collect sales taxes on commodities payable, in the long run, by the consumer, long been established, probably without the knowledge of the people whether this tax accrues to the individual who does the work, Is shared by all members of a union or flows Into a fund Iniwessiblf to them, is a secondary mutter, loaded however, Us own fascinating portents. These rights, or assumptions. no more than, say, 25,000, a possibility that surely haw not rinded men so Mid farsighted as I'efrlllo and Mm rniinsol, Fftdwa.V, honored both, and devoted followers of Mr. Roosevelt. Or, under his constitution and with the Advice and council, he could expel all the members and cut up the money with Partway and any others toward whom he might feel generous.

Ills ponatltution permits htm to do this nnd no la vi him. At any rate. Petrillo'a mere "intention" to use the money for unemployment benefits or cultural works in the sweet bye and bye is m.t legal nnd binding. It is just a momentary Idea, subject to change at his own discretion, under the and curious structure of his union. So Is the "intention" of John L.

Lewis to use his sales tax of $60,000,000 a yeaf for "modern medical and surgical service, hos- pitulizatlon, insurance, rehabilitation and economic protection." Lewis is strong and willful and a consummate politician as Franklin P. Roosevelt has learned in the touchy fingering of many bruises suffered in contests with one man who delights to draw him into tights and has licked him every time save 1940 when Lewis supported Wendell Willkie. He can do as he wijls with the money of the United Mine Workers. In 1936 he gave enormously to Roosevelt's campaign and In the informative years of the C. I.

O. the miners paid the expenses of organizing others. For a time until the fact was exposed by newspaper initiative, Lewis had among his govern- existed in a small way and in i i body, in which is supreme desultory and imperceptible prac- a convicted burglar Woman's Club at Lohrville Holds Its Election of Officers Lohrville (THNS) The Woman's club was entertained Friday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Paul Calhoun. At the regular business meeting officers for the ensuing year were elected: Mrs.

O. A. Runquist, president; Mrs. I. McDonald, vice-president; Mrs.

Dave secretary; arTd Mrs. William Meyers, treasurer. The lesson was given by Mrs. James Scollon, who used as her theme, "The Union of South Mrs. ilbert Gower discussed the "Dumbarton Oaks The remainder of the afternoon was spent in a social way.

Mrs. Sadie Rossow entertained at dinner Sunday the following: Mrs. Carl Christensen, Betty Lou hristensen of Des Moines; Lieutenant and Mrs. Lloyd Christensen and Lieutenant Christensen of Lubbock, Tex. Mrs.

Harlan Larson and Lana of Goldfield; Mrs. Robert Bauman and children of Lake City; Mrs. Vern Hammitt and Carmen and Gle'n Rossow. Mr. and Mrs.

8. A. Morris moved Monday into the Earwood iroperty in the south part of town. Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Morris will move onto the Morris farm in short time. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rauch en-! tertained at dinner Sunday, Miss- Bernadette Rauch and Mary Duncan of Jefferson; Amos Bohnenkamp and John Heider of Carrol). lice before the new deal.

Since the new deal began, however, they have been confirmed by recognition. In Public Interest Lewis' demand is in the public interest because it presents in sr.ockii.g enormity the power of private organizations, subject to no income taxes and exempt even from the obligation to file reports of their income, to tax all the people, each in its own interest. Now the people have no excuse to remain unaware and if they r.on- linue to submit, they haw only themselves to blame. Possibly Ihey want it that way. Petrillo expects to reap $4,000,000 a year to start, but hopes, by extending his sales tax to movie admissions, to run it up to a year, fjlf his intention to hold the money until the fund reaches and then begin unem- loyment payments to musicians thrown out of work by the mechanization and repetition of music.

Assuming that this would take 15 years, many of the distressed mu- siofans will be dead before their unemployment benefits are released and granting Petrillo's argument that most of them will be thrown out of jobs very soon, It follows that most of them will take up other work and drop, out of Jimmy's union, Thus, by tho the time the $100,000,000 is ready for distribution, the membership might be down to with and an ex- otherwise interesting tensive police record. He is recognized, hated and feared in the C. I. O. as the most resourceful and ingenious opponent of all, the more dangerous to them because he knows them of old, from the days of their happy association, and knows their mea- sflres.

Industrial employers have yearned for a John L. Lewis of their own to fight as well for their side. A Weakness It is a weakness of ours that we always try to label some startling act or attitude as an "ism," whether fascism, communism or feudalism. Although Lewis is the total boss of the mine workers' union, his conduct and his alliances are so variable that no cliche re- applicable for long, unless it be "opportunism," which is a rather loose fit, too. Even working miners who have tried to fight him have felt his blows and bowed to superior power and whether or not you believe it was a true case of cause and effect, a telegram from Lewis to Herrin, 111., was followed by a message of members of a rival union as frightful as some of the liquidations of Hitler and Stalin.

We all know that unions are private organizations but even lawyers do not agree what constitute a union. We do know, however, that they have the power now, if not the right, to collect sales taxes on every article of commerce that we use. Already, clothing chickens, and now coal are on the list and there are hidden snlca taxes collected from employers in the "contributions" to union welfare and vacation funds nnd "educational" projects, enforced by contract and paid, In tho by the consumers. But thorn Is no for Indignation against He 'Ift only exorcising A privilege nf confirmed by the RnnnpvHt government and doggedly defended by Roosevelt henchmen In the senate. So if Ix-wis collrctft, say, $200,000,000 In the next, four years and spends It nil in the next election that is, after all, not his doing, but Rons-even's.

He could do this on the precedent of Roosevelt's own PAC, as an "educational" project for the attainment of his stated purpose to "provide for the economic protection" of the miners. loe Schelle Injured When Team Runs Away Breda Joe Schelle, re, siding west of Breda, suffered severe injuries to his head Friday when the team he was driving became frightened and ran away, throwing him against the barn. Several stitches were required One of his hands was also injured. Mr. and Mrs.

Irvln Heires and children of Storm Lake visited Tuesday at the Will Heires home. Mrs. Tony Pick entertained a group of girls at her home Sunday afternoon honoring her daughter, Mary, on her 10th birthday. Games were played and lunch was served. The table decorations were carried out in a St.

Patrick scheme. Grace Polking and Felicitnn Knobbe assisted the hostess in serving. Guests were: Patricia Forke, Yvonne Neppi, Jolene Nieland, Coleen Reislng, Lois Thelen, Donita Tiefenthaler. Bonnie Heisterkamp, Verma Jean Poen, Bernice Heiman, Patty Fee, Norma Jean Koster. Ruth Fitzsenry, Eunice Snyder, Rosalia Wegman, lone Derner.

Donna Schwabe, Ruth Feldman, Lois Stork, Janet Fee, Ruth and Rita Knobbe, Madonna Koster, Ruth Pick. Marilyn Polking. Elaine Snyder, Donna Meister, Jean Schelle. B. N.

Bruning, who has been ill at his home for several weeks was taken to the St. Anthony hospital for treatment. Mrs. Al Mohrhauser and children of Danbury were week-end visitors at the Henry Knobbe home. Mr.

and Mrs. F. J. Bohnenkamp visited at that Mrs. Minnie Steele home in Carroll Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Neumayer and Mrs.

Myron Bohnenkamp were visitors at Oniaha Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs." Elmer Bruning of Galva visited Sunday at the B. N. Bruning home.

Mr. and Mrs. Art Tiefenthaler and children of Carnarvon were guests at the J. J. Smid home Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Schettler and Bernard Schwarzkopf of Omaha visited relativtf here Sunday. I Mr. and Mrs.

visited here Sa Kate Ocken h'gme. Eugene Koenig, ig of Halbur lay at the Mrs. and M. Quinlin and sons visited Sunday at the Leo Koenig home at Carl Jujich ofr-Des Moines spent the week-end with relatives here. Lidderdafa Hews "I have on many occasions William Rohrbeck of Auburn ipent Sunday afternoon in the iome of his daughter, Mrs.

Grace Schleisman, and with his brother, Henry Rohrbeck. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bowes of Milwaukee, spent a few days in the Henry Fleshner home. Mr.

and Mrs. Otto H. Burow and sons and Mrs. Earl King and sons spent Sunday afternoon in the lomes of Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph King and Mr- and Mrs. Harry Moine at Albert City. Mr. and Mrs. Lubbert DeVries and son of Lake City spent Monday in the Wendell Gregg home.

Mrs. William Stafford of Storm spent the week-end at the Herbert Thielen home. Mark Mattern of Des Moines was a guest in the Robert Gobeli home Saturday. Robert Lux of Carroll spent the week-end at the George Schaffer home. Mrs.

Paul O'Mara, son, Bob, and daughter, Mary Catherine, of hear Lake City, were dinner guests in the Robert Gobeli home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Rhyne and Mr. and Mrs.

Earl L.UX and daughters of Carroll and Mrs. William C. Lux spent Sunday evening in the Carl Kroeger home. 'REMEMBER ki NO KRVICC. INC.

XXXIII KON8TANCJA TOZEP ELSNER wrote: heart BED ifuwboMt, Red Cross donations hpve exceeded in Humboidt C9unty, which had quota of $8,000. of the hjiij returned, to her at qh.io, after a visit in Mrs. Josephine puffy'a Frederic's heart and mine bleed for the trouble at home. It has upset us more than we can say. Frederic longs to go back, if he could but stand the strain of the The door opened.

"Professor!" It was the voice of Monsieur Joljet, his Jozef Eisner did not look up from his writing. He djd not want to be annoyed. "If you don't m.ind,, Monsieur Jollet was not alone. In the dporway was a woman when Jozef Eisner raised his eyes and saw that it was Mile. Kon- stancja Gladkowska his pen dropped from his hand.

brought you. this lady," Monsieur Jollet said; "and I brought you this letter, too," he said, handing Jozef Eisner an en- velopjj. "Yej, thank you. Thank you. But you, my Jozef Eisner said staring at Gladkowska.

"You, my Monsieur Jollet closed the door. me look at you! In When did you leave home? Did you run away?" The, result of the long trip from Poland was apparent in the appearance of her clothes and in thp strained look on her face. She was an older woman by rnany years than when Jozef Eisner had last seen her. Yet there was still a shining beauty in her features and in her figure also. But it was a hard beauty.

flHE her head. She said np, didn't run "way. She wos Jn Paris because, she hud been She had gone tu ana they had told her where tp find him. She had asked for Frederic. There was a harshness in ner tone when uhc euid hU name.

They would tell her nothing. They said everybody wanted Frederic and they were not permitted to say anything about his whereabouts. Then Jozef Elsne: added: "Naturally. He is very famous, "I knew I wouldn't find him with you." knew that. Eh?" "Your letters may have fooled Madame and Monsieur Chopin They have not fooled me.

Not one letter from Frederic!" been very busy. You have no idea!" Jozef Eisner paced the room. He openec the envelope he had been holding in his hand. He glanced at it. He waved it aside.

"Where is Frederic?" good question. He's at in very good hands, too. Madame Sand is a very gracious 'Does he know what is happening at home! Does he ever think of it!" of it! Tch, thinks of nothing else!" Jozef Eisner tried hard to be convincing. "I was sent to Paris on the bare the bare he hasn't entirely forgotten." Then in a quiet voice Mile. Gladkowska told Jozef Eisner what had been happening in Poland.

She said that hundreds of patriots had been jailed and that hundreds had been ome clubbed to death, some hanged, others with But resistance dead. "There are only a. few leaders left," she said. ''Thoje, who are not dead are imprifioqedV' Yet there was still hope, it was still possible to bribe the ailers. They willingly take money.

She said: "If anytlilng in the a small still alive in Jozef Eisner threw out his hands. "Don't you suppose if he v'ouldr-!" He tried not Jo bluster. "Money! Do you think he has it? Enough to live, that's all) The of his music very not enough. "Let me money is made: that's true. But concerts are out of the questidll tyhat would you have him Concertsl No, Mademoiselle, ffiey are not to be thought iil for Mile, Gladkowska was unimpressed.

"I would have htm beg, if need be. steal. Just as we do. Wfe have no shame- no pride. Let him use hie reputation for the cause of Poland.

Let him go to his great people of beg them for the money that they can give. Yes, on his hands and shame or She spoke the truth and Jozei Eisner knew it. "iQO you ever see him?" Jozef Eisner fumbled with the letter in His eves now fastened on it. He looked at the again, then once more. And riow, with a look of triumph, he.

handed the letter to Mile. Gla see him? An As Mile, letter, Jozef Eisner see him stantly! Do Eh? Tonight beeo there wrote you t. Tonight and I am ask urally." a. "Do I ever ling question!" 'PWfika read the unimpressed, to talk. "I Yes, con- doubt it salon of the have as I didn't believe ic will play attend.

letter is not from Frederic." "It is fronv Elite Liszt." Mile, rladkqwska cowsJlfrans Liszt! Frederic's "And you are going tonight, Jozef EUner paused in his walk about the room. Was he going? Who would, keep (him away?" "When you We him, Professor, ill you give him this?" Mile. took from her small package tied with triing. is important, Professor. Aery important." (To.