The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-12
Anyone in Need
OF Good Milk
Wagon DriUer?

VI Sooo MIR he went back
Wagon Driver? to Latvia, to
be president
of the country and sit on a hot seat
for Is years thereafter. It was err
roneously reported that he had fled,
as the Russians moved in, but the
news today is that he is still around,
and has broadcast q message to his
people to be nice to the invaders.
Nobody knows the trouble he's seen.
Considering that steady job he had,
it looks like score for the isola-
tionists.
In Lincoln, In 1909, he was
Karl Ullman, not Ulmanis, for
mer dirt farmer and country ed
itor In Latvia. The dean Of the
state college Of agriculture got
him the milk route, 80 he could
work his way through college.
He was graduated In the allot-
ted time. He was steady and
dependable, and might have
been mistaken for a Nebraska
farmer.
One day, he discarded his bib
overalls, appeared in a store suit
and was seen no more in those
parts. Everybody liked him and
they were especially shocked by the
TACT that he owed about 81 900,
which he had borrowed to start a
cheese factory in Texas. Six years
passed when A. L. Hacker, one of
his creditors, had letter from him,
enclosing full payment of his debt.
He explained that he had a nice
job as president Of Latvia and was
glad to be able to pay what he
owed. Other bank drafts followed.
The 81, 900 was paid in full.
AS president and foreign min
lister of Latvia, he lived in an
ancient, turreted castle and
ruled In medieval throne
room. On the wall behind his
desk, the medieval heraldic en-
blem Of Latvia was crossed with
the green pennant Of the Ne
braska State College of AgricuI-
ture. But he wasn't having a
wonderful time.
The country was under czarist
Russia when young Mr.. Ullman ran
his newspaper. An indiscreet edi-
torial brought about his departure
for Lincoln by devious routes. To
stave off Nazi aggression, he made
himself dictator in 1884.
HE possibility of South and Cen
trail American countries picking
up empire salvage before the U. S.
A. works out its hemisphere de-
Gen. Ubico Out Tense Tense plans
To Beat Hitler to been but
British Honduras Zig htly re-
garded. How
ever, here's little Guatemala reach
ing out for British Honduras, and
Sir Samuel Hoare's mahogany for.
ests and mills therein, according to
news reports.
Gen. Jorge Ubico, dictator of
Guatemala for the last nine
years, brings forward in the files
the tale Of British pirate who
snatched British Honduras from
his country 60 years ago. Los
ers weepers, finders keepers"
Whether that applies to the
wreckage Of empires seems not
to have been covered in interna
tiOnaI law.
General Ubico is the only livins
ruler who looks like Napoleon. He
often is called the " Little Napo
leon of the Tropics" He was elect
ed for his first one-year term a.
president. He survived two revolu
tons during this term, and then Sc
aside the constitutional limitation
against more than one term-anC
has had eight repeats, so far.
The general received a tech
meal and military education in
the United States and Europe,
and rose to political power
through various provincial and
national offices. He entered the
national assembly in 1918. He
concentrates on rOad-building.
sanitation, agriculture and vOca-
tiOnal training for young people.
He has been strongly pro-U,
y. A., and reports from Wash
ingtOn are that our state depart
ment probably wouldn't mako
much of a fuss over his grabbing
British HOnduras-as long as
Hitler doesn't get It.
Brilliantly educated, hard-boilec
and diligent, he has worked out il
his small laboratory his own idea o
an authoritarian state. Monopol,
is the central idea. He grants ex
elusive concessions. in basic good!
and industries. To restrain grab
bing and grating, he establishes
probity department in his cabinet
Anyone working for the government
or doing important business with il
has to file a complete inventory O
/ bie nun, and HE fornil,,,g v,oceosss-