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THURSDAY, APRIL 1fl. 191'
PLATT8R10UTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOUHNAL.
Cbe plattsmouth journal
Published 8oml-Wkly at Plattsmouth, Nebr.
Entered at the Poetofflce at Plattsmoutb. Nebraska, as second-class mall matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
Subscription Prloe; S1.50 Per Year In Advonoe
Why can't men buy new Easter
hal9 as well as the women folk?
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The greatest carnival ever in
Plattsmouth coming next month.
:o:
The funniest thing on earth is
politicians worrying about the
farmer,
:o:
To err is human and to blame
it on the other fellow is still more
so.
:o:
A lot of printed matter is use
lessly copyrighted; it isn't worth
stealing.
:o:
Throw away your hammers,
buy a horn and begin to boost for
Plattsmouth.
:o:
There are several new resi
dences contemplated for the en
suing season.
:o:
Zapata probably wants to show
Villa that he has no monoply on
the blackmailing.
:o:
The deal has been closed for
an ice plant, and the same will
?oon be ready for business.
Good I
:o:-
Huerta may let the residents of
Mexico City know of Villa's suc
cess in time for them to pack
their grips.
: :o:
Lawyers are not bought, but
retained. We appear in an ef
fort to clear up a situation that
has long been cloudy.
:o:
Executive-se-ssions of the Unit
ed States senate, except in con
sideration of foreign relations,
are very much of a myth, anyhow.
:o:
A good politician has to saw
wood and say nothing, and that
is why the women will make a
failure at politics. They can't
do cither.
:o:
The Nebraska supreme court
has just decided, finally and for
all, that dealing in options is
nothing more nor less than
gambling.
:o:
Mexican bankers have been
aked to contribute nine million
dollars a month to the Huerta
cause, and refusal is apt to be
unhealthy.
:o:
If a few suffragists want a
Jlible without a man in it why not
lot them have it? They could not
spII many copies to their fellow
suffragists.
:o:
It is three years since Platts
mouth had a Fourth of July cele
bration. Are we going to try to
have one this year? Time to
think about it.
:o :
The city council will not buy
the old jail for a calaboose at
the present, and we believe they
can do better by fixing up a por
tion of the city hall building for
that purpose.
:o:
Senator Gore is against
stealing Senator Gore is against
equal suffrage, and considering
the recent damage suit he passed
though you can't blame him
very much.
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There are two hundred and
fifty thousand words in the Eng
lish language, and most of them
were used a few night ago by a
lady who discovered after com
ing out of one of the moving
picture shows that her new hat
was adorned with a tag on which
was written, "reduced to $2.08."
BIRTH OF THE G. A. R.
Forty-eight years ago this
week the first G. A. R. post was
established, in Decatur, Illinois.
Major Benjamin F. Stephenson,
surgeon of the Fourteenth Il
linois regiment, and three army
friends had drawn up the con
stitution months before. The
secret ritual was printed by vet
erans in the office of the Decatur
Tribune, all of whom were mem
bers of the order. Its purpose
was the "establishment and de
fense of the late soldiery of the
United Stales, morally, socially,
and politically, with a view to in
culcate a proper appreciation of
their services and claims by the
merican people."
The first national encampment
was held in Indianapolis in 1806.
Gen. S. A. Hurlbut became the
first commander-in-chief. To
day there are more than 5,000 G.
A. R. posts. The order reached a
membership of 400,189 in 1890.
Today it has been reduced by
death to less than 170,000. The
death rate is becoming higher
each year, for the veterans of the
Civil war now have an average
age of 69 years. The G. A. R. has
held a national encampment
every year, except in 1867, and
has gathered in nearly every im
portant city in the country. It
was the originator of May 30 as
Memorial day, beginning in 1868.
Some of the nation's most dis
tinguished soldiers have been
c'onunanders-in-chief Generals
Burnside, Logan, Hurlbut, Hart
ranft, Alger, Devens, Wagner and
Robinson of the regular army.
:o:
Chicago gave "Balh-IIouse"
John a fine vote of confidence and
vindication.
:o:
A leader in politics sometimes
loses his leadership on the fact
that he can make more noise than
the rest of the party.
:o:
Charley Poole is out for the
democratic nomination for sec
retary of state. Some people
never tire of running for office.
:o:
(Jet yourself in shape to
observe "clean-up" days Friday
and Saturday. You can do your
share before those dales, if you
want to.
to:
The base ball fans are get
ting enthusiastic. They are now
claiming that Plattsmoulh will
have the best team they ever had,
and one that "will do to bet on.,"
:o:
The plattsmouth Commercial
club will soon be ready to under
take any task. It has the courage
and faith to remove mountains.
All it needs is a little more en
thusiasm.
:o:
The Ilenlon (III.) woman who
protests that her husband has
deserted her forty-one times
overlooks the fact that hex must
have loved-her or he would not
have come back so often.
:o:
Now Congressman Richard
Pearson llobson will have noth
ing.lo do but to whip Japan. He
failed by a long shot to whip
Oscar Underwood for the United
States senatorship in Alabama.
:o:
Chicago has the largest regis
tered voting list of any city in the
United States, if not in the woiid.
This is due to the fact that Chi
cago has equal suffrage, where
the other great cities of the world
have not. However, Chicago has
considerable time to develop even
before equal suffrage produces a
millenium there.
Least we forget get that fly
swatter ready. They will be here
pretty soon by the millions.
:o:
Why give Missouri two banks
and leave two such important
states as Iowa and Nebraska
without anv? Nothing fair in
that deal.
:o:
Never was there a more beauti
ful Easter Sunday. And beauti
ful Easter hats on the beautiful
young ladies made the day that
much more beautiful.
:o:
A Chicago physician says that
to be healthy the mouth should
be kept closed while asleep. Many
a man who talks in his sleei
found this out long ago.
:o:
If the organized committee had
waited until it heard from the
state banks it might have found
that there would be capital
enough in the northwest for a
regional bank.
:o:
Ex-Speaker Uncle Joe Cannon
has gone to Bermuda, so he says,
to see if it is like heaven." It
is probably as near to heaven as
the venerable and beloved old
sinner will ever come.
:o:
The people get tired of sup
porting some men for office all
the time. Give some of the other
boys a chance to eat at the pie
counter. Remember there are
others just as deserving as you
are.
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Secretary Houston, one of the
commission to locale regional
banks, had an eye to business
when he insisted on Missouri, his
lome state, having two banks
ut of the twelve.
:o:-
Some people, about election
time, forget that this is a free
country, and that a person has
the right to vote as he pleases.
because a man is a democrat and
las been on friendly terms with
a republican personally is no
eason why the democrat should
vote for the republican when the
opponent of a republican on the
lemocratic ticket is equally as
good a man.
:o :
! would seem that Bill Price
of Lincoln is always in line to
un for office. A few fellows
around Lincoln make a tool out
of Bill and get him out in the
unning just to defeat some good
man who could be elected if he
secures the nomination. This is
Lincoln politics with some fel
ows who think they are the whole
cheese. After the election, how
ever, they find they have made
asses of themselves.
:o:
The democratic committee of
Lancaster county met in Lincoln
Thursday, and in the resolution
adopted commending President
Wilson and Governor Marehead
or their excellent administra
tions, forgot that there existed
such a personage as our "emin-
nt" congressman. After the
resolution was read, A. V. John
son, who had been recommended
"or postmaster at Lincoln, polite
y seggested that the name of the
'eminent" gentleman who holds
down a seat in congress, be in
cluded in the resolution. Under
such circumstances it was al
most compulsory.
:o :
Lincoln has not got her full
share of candidates for congress
yet, although there seems to be a
number of prospectives, but they
have not filed, and it would be
just as well that they don't. If
either were to get the nomina
tion they couldn't be elected.
Every election there an; fellows
who come forward as candidates
for some office and pester the life
out of the voters for their sup
port. It doesn't inat'.er what
office, but they caught the itch
several years ago and arc still
itching. Such fellows couldn't
touch an office with a forty-foot
pole, and why do they persist in
running?
PRODUCE AND MARKETS.
Following close on the heels of
the announcement of one of the
leading express companies that it
will co-operate with farmers and
produce raisers toward the im
provement of market conditions,
the postmaster general makes
public preliminary plans for
establishing direct connections
between producer and consumer
by use of the parcel post. The
plans will be tried from ten of the
principal cities. They embrace
gathering from producers infor
mation as to articles they will
sell at retail and furnishing the
same to prospective consumers
The plans are tentative and it is
conceded that there are many dif
ficulties that must be met before
a scientific system can be put in
to satisfactory operation.
Ik is gratifying that both
private and public agencies are to
be directed to the solution of one
of the greatest problems of cur
rent life. The fact that fruit and
vegetables in abundance have
gone to waste every season for
lack of facilities of exchange has
long been known. National con
ferences on market conditions
have been held. But their work
has been generally restricted to
descriptions of conditions, with
out tangible plans for relief.
Fruit growers have told of ship
ping choicest fruit to the cities
and of later being called upon to
send money to pay express
charges. Stories of fruit fed to
swine and of vegetables rotting in
gardens while inhabitants of
cities paid fabulous prices for
produce are common. Attempts
o fix the responsibility for such
conditions have been not alto
gether successful. But the ex
istence of such deplorable con-
litions has not been a matter of
lispule.
The postoflice department's
lope is to abolish the middle man
entirely. This may be possible in
landling some articles, but not
all. Cold storage is a necessity.
with the varying seasons. There
must be some way to dispose of
unusual crops of perishable
produce. Nor is it possible for
all produce to be handled by in-
lividual consumers in cities of a
articular section. The variety of
soil and climatic conditions of as
arge a country as this makes
necessary the shipment of some
articles thousands of miles. The
refrigerator cars and similar de
vices have been of great benefit
o both the producer and con
sumer. But the operation of the
present system has not been
satisfactory to either producer or
consumer. me responsimoiy
for this condition has been shift-.
ed from the shoulders of one to
another in a confusing manner.
But there is no reason why a
more efficient and economic
method cannot be devised and the
almost simultaneous announce
ment of the postoflice department
and the express company of t licit
purposes brings encouragement.
:o:
Abor day Wednesday, April 22.
Plant trees.
:o:
If we can't have the carnival,
why not arrange for a Fourth of
July celebration?
:o:
While all nations may have
joined in an Easter prayer for
peace, they no doubt kept their
powder dry.
:o:
Spring, which usually wears so
few clothes on the magazine
covers, is apt to feel in. style this
joyous season.
:o:
Villa, who has been confiscat
ing Spaniards' estates in Mexico,
may figure on Spain's inability to
raise much of an international
disturbance.
:o:
General Villa hammered away
at Torreon eight weeks before it
fell. The newspapers have ham
mered away at Villa for eigtit
months and he hasn't fallen yet.
We have got to make up our
minds to furnish entertainiuent
for our farmer friends, or they
are going where they will be
entertained. Just as weli make
up your minds to that. fact. .
:o:
Oh, well, even if the oatmeal
trust is dissolved we still have
with us the smiling colored gen
tleman who goes around on the
back cover of the magazines with
his thumb in the breakfast
food bowl.
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Plattsmouth is 'one of the best
towns of its inches in American,
and in order to keep it to thai
notch we must be ready for a big
push and big pull again this sea
son. We can make things hum if
we have the will power.
:o:
The congressional expense ac
count shows that it cost only
200 a year to bathe 43:3 rep
resentatives, but it cost $', 000 to
bathe ninety-six senators. The
senators, evidently, do not always
wait until Saturday night.
:o:
The city council has knocked
the carnival "in the head," not
withstanding all the business
men in town but. seven signed a
petition giving their consent for
Main street. This is another
instance where the people do not
rule.
:o:
The charge that women would
vote as their husbands do did not
come out that way in the elec
tion in Illinois last week, as a
general rule. There was quite a
difference in the wav that the two
sexes marked their ballots on
election day.
:o:
"Is R. L. Metcalfe coming lnune
to run for governor?" is a ques
tion asked very frequently. Just
as if we had no available men for
the place. But we do not think
all comers should clear the track
specially for Mr. Metcalfe. And
they are not going to, either.
:o!
Advice must be a good thing
ince so many folks keep such a
fine stock of it on hand to be
tenevolent with; but it is so
blamed hard to run across any
one who isn't trying to give it
away that one is tempted to wish
that the weevil would get into it.
:o:
George W. Berge has many
supporters for governor in Cass
county. He has always had when
he was a candidate. There is not
a man in the state who possesses
more warm personal friends, and
neither is there a more com
petent gentleman for the position
of governor.
:o:
Isn't the g. o. p. in the hardest
ind of luck? It was depending
on a democratic naru times
panic" to restore Hie parly to
power. But me leuerai reserve
anks and the currency law
makes panics practically impos-
ible. They are simply "up a
stump," that's all.
:o:
A new road drag has been in
vented. It is atl ached to the axle
tf a wagon, and drags the track
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on one suie oi me roan as ine
vehicle is moved. It does the
anie work on the oilier side when
the driver is making the home
ward trip. It is said to operate
satisfactorily after a rain.
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The Nebraska City Daily Press
contained the following in refer
ence to Senator Bartling: "By
filing for senator instead of hav
ing a lot of misguided people
make a monkey out of him, Henry
Bartling is believed to have done
a wise thing in spite of the fact
that he will have a fight on his
hands. The talk about him filing
for the governorship, while very
complimentary, was accepted
seriously by him. There is no
governorship glory this year un
less the long deferred get-to
gether proposition looms more
promising than it does right
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BADLY MISTAKEN.
In a very nicely written article
on the political situation, the
editor of the Nebraska City J'ress
says :
"On the other hand, Colonel
Iiles also objects to the candid-
aey of Joe Burr, n democrat, for
the float representative's job. It
is said, however, that the Colonel
wants this job himself and that
he will sooner or later, seek the
nomination on the democratic
ticket himself, having served one
term in the legislature and also
having been a candidate for the
upper house two years ago, at the
primary, but defeated."
Now, we desire to inform the
editor of the Press than Colonel
Hates has never thought of be
coming a candidate again for
lluat representative, although we
have been asked by numerous
friends of Oloe county to do so.
He feels very grateful to his
democratic friends for the mani
ficent 'support they gave him in
Otoe county, and will never for
get them as long as he lives, lie
never spoke a word in regard to
lloat representative until solicit
ed by some 'of his Otoe county
friends to become a candidate.
Uut under existing circumstances
we cannot make the race, liut we
do think that the candidate
should come from Cass county
this year. Col. Bates was nom
inal ed unanimously by the demo
crats in the primary, but was de
feated in the general election by
31 votes.
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John Mattes, jr., of Nebraska
City, has tiled for senator on the
democratic ticket. Of course
Cass county may have something
to say in the selection of these
partnership candidates, especial
ly when she casts a few more
votes than Otoe county.
:o: .
According' to government re
ports the condition of (he wheat
crop in this country on April 1
was D5.G per cent of a normal, or
11.5 per cent better than the
average oT the last h-n years. A
yield of 551,000,000 bushels is
conservatively est imated.
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Itilry Sunday recently recited
the story of David nnd (Jolialh as
follows: "Davit! asked who that
big slilf was. 1J, soaked him be
tween the lamps, he plucked out
his sword and chopped off his
block, and the rest of the gang
beat it." Sunday talks like this
to audiences of supposedly intel
ligent people, and he makes more
money than President Wilson.
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The fashion news from Paris
say gowns are made more de
collete than ever, but it is pleas
ant to learn that clothing has not
been entirely abandoned.
:o:
Don't forget to "clean up" Fri
day and Saturday. If you are too
full of business hire a man in
your place, lie will perhaps do it
better than you can.
:o:
(lovernor Morehead's firends in
the First congressional district
are increasing daily, and they are
of that brand that means suc
cess in the outcome. They are
stayers. They know the ability
of the governor and feel that he
will be in the forefront with men
in congress. Not a nonentity.
:o:
No man on earth could pos
sibly have made more friends
than Judge liegley has during the
short time he has been on the
district court bench. He is
praised by everyone for his
dignified manner and gentleman
ly qualities. He is undoubtedly
one of the most just judges that
ever sat on the bench in this
county, and has proved one of
great ability. He certainly has
won the confidence and respect of
the people of Cass county.
:o:
The manner in which candi
dates are coming to the front as
county candidates, and oilier can
didates, for state and district
offices, demonstrates the beauties
of the state-wide primaries. Any
one can become a candidate by
tiling his intention of running, no
matter whether he has any par
ticular backing or not. And near
ly every time some fellow gets the
nomination whom the voters do
not want, and the party defeated
at the general election in con
sequence. Therefore we are op
posed to the primary system of
selecting candidates,
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C. I j. Graves, the Union at
torney and editor of the Ledger,
has decided tb become a candid
ate for county judge Charley has
practiced law a number of years,
and has proved very successful
in many cases, and especially in
his work in the probate court.
Charley is a republican, but that
does not make any material dif
ference hen able and willing to
doc his' duty without prejudice,
and Mr. Graves is just the man
that can perform that caper. He
is already posted as to the duties
of the county judge's office, and
is friends think he is an ideal
man for the place.
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