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PLATTSMOUTn S12MI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, MAY 17, 1915.
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for is thrice welcome.
Rogers.
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Wild rumors sends wheat upward.
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Fine prospects for crops of all
kinds.
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Getting considerably warmer. Get
tut your ily-swatter.
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Teddy Roosevelt to destroy Wil
son
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While some fruit is injured
by
irost, we will still have plenty.
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Everybody is busy in Tlattsmouth
but the fellow who don't want work.
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Three things are very costly in this
era: Living, loving and graduating.
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Don your hustling suit and get up
rnd do something to help Flattsmouth.'
:o:
It is probably true that no man
seems unreasonble if he argues with
you.
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Women find plenty of faults with
the men; most of them after mar
riage. :o:
Neither is the pugilist who goes on
the stage as great a yap as those who
pay to see him perform.
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Roosevelt had better get through
with Barnes before he tackles a man
like President Wilson.
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It is claimed there is plenty of
presidential timber, but much of it
looks more like lumber.
:o:
A congressman's life would be
blissful if more constituents wanted
garden seeds, and fewer were seeking
jobs.
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Soon the college girls will have
their diplomas, fitting them for all
kinds of careers, except being wives
and mothers.
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It is claimed that the Russians are
getting it in the neck in spite of the
difficulty of locating that spot among
their whiskers.
Arc we to have band concerts dur
ing the summer season? According
to an act of the last legislature, the
city can make a levy for this purpose.
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That Italy will enter the war is con
stantly being announced, but many
people doubt if they will do anything
more than invade the rural districts
with hand organ and monkey.
:o:
The people who question what be
comes of all the old automobiles will
find their question answered in part
by looking along the ditches near the
highway some Monday morning.
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After talking to his boy about the
necessity of daring to do right and
independence of conviction, many men
regretfully leave their straw hat3 at
home because it i3 a few days ahead
of the prescribed date.
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Fremont did itself proud in enter
taining the Elks' state meeting there
this week. But look what Fremont is
one of the best towns in the state
and made up of the very liveliest busi
ness men to be found anywhere.
Plattsmouth could just as well enter
tain such gatherings if the business
men would push and pull together
like the busiaess men of Fremont.
MERCHANT AND COMMUNITY
The small town merchant is a
necessity, and that which is neces
sary should be protected. The com
munity needs his wares as much as
he needs the community cash. But
not every email town merchant is
alive to his opportunities and his
obligations. Many of them fall by the
wayside because of their ignorance of
or indifference to the rights of the
public. Fifty years ago the town
merchant sat in his store and waited
for business to come to him. Today
the successful merchant is a hunter
he must go out gunning for custom
ers and his ammunition is his stock
in trade and his gun is the local
newspaper. Country people of today
are as intelligent and up-to-date as
their city cousins, and they gauge the
merchant by his own actions. If he
is a hustler if he keeps his store
clean, his goods neatly displayed, his
advertisements running regularly in
the local newspaper he attracts the
public eye, and the public follows its
eye. But a clean store, neatly dis
played goods and newspaper adver
tisements are not the only requisites
to a successful mercantile career.
The country merchant should not
bank too much on the fact that he is
a necessity. He should be progres
sive constantly bidding for trade
devising means of bettering the con
dition of the consumers, and acquaint
ing them of the fact. He should con
sider their welfare, as well as his
own. The merchant should have one
iron creed, and that creed should
never be broken: He should treat all
customers alike, never misrepresent
his goods, and keep his shelves well
stocked with truth. He should be
considerate of other business men in
the community, for their rights are
as great as his own. They do not own
the town, and neither does he. He
should join wholeheartedly in move
ments for building up and expanding
the business interests of the com
munity, for success is only found
on the topmost rounds of the ladder.
The merchant who has built up a
reputation as a public-spirited man,
as one who labors for the well being
of the whole community, never lacks
for customers at his store. They
migrate toward his door as naturally
as the birds fly south in winter.
Such merchants gain the confidence
of the people, for the people know
that the same intelligence and fair
mindedness which he exerts in behalf
of the community will be extended to
his customers in commercial life.
Most country towns have a few such
merchants in their midst and the com
munity is the better off for their pres
ence. You ' invariably find their ad
vertisements in the local papers, tell
ing of the merits of the wares they
have to sell, and giving the people
that information to which they are
clearly entitled. Such business men
are successful, because their methods
of business and their very attitudes
breathe success. They have many
customers, because the people admire
a hustler. Plattsmouth is located in
a splendid community, and it should
have a bright future ahead of it. But
it depends upon us alone. We have
some good business men in this town.
They are well supplied with brains,
and those brains are capable of ac
complishing great results. In
dividually they can do much, but col
lectively they can revolutionize trad
ing conditions of this community. The
money that is being daily sent away
for goods might just as well be spent
at our local stores and would be, if
the merchants arose to the oppor
tunities befon; them. It is the easiest
thing in the world to keep the money
at home, for ronsumers are not fools
Just keep the goods the people want,
and the quality they want. Sell these
goods at a fair margin of profit.
thereby competing in quality and
price with the outsider. Then ad
vertise persistently, keep the home
goods constantly in the mind of the
consumer awaken him to the fact
that it is as much to his interest as to
yours to keep his money in circulation
at home. When you convince the
consumer that you have the goods
that he wants, and that they can be
purchased here just as cheaply as
elsewhere, he will keep his money at
home by trading at home. The people
want a live community, and are will
ing to support live business men,
Who is in the live class? Speak up,
gentlemen speak up! Be true to
Plattsmouth and the community by
joining the Commercial club and help
make the old town ring with the shout
"Plattsmouth first, last and all the
time!" Show by your colors that you
are "true blue."
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About now is the customary time
to upset your stomach by taking some
medicine to tone up your liver.
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The asylums will become crowded
if everybody tries to reconcile the
views of all the international lawyers.
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Every now and then you will meet
a woman who gives you the impres
sion that if she smiled she would
crack her complexion.
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It is the people who pay with their
lives the cost of war, not the million
aire and the money sharks and flighty
numb-skulls like Teddy Roosevlet.
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We always claimed that Taft had
more good sound sense in a minute
than flighty Roosevelt had in a life
time. It is shown to be a fact more
every day.
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The winter wheat crop continues to
be above par in Cass county. If there
must be war and war prices for wheat
we will be prepared to gladly furnish
our share of the wheat.
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The women's clubs are agitating
against the habit of running charge
accounts, which they say increases the
cost of living. They seem to think
that the charge account is always
paid.
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It is a good idea for the old man to
swat the fly, but he might well learn
that it makes a difference whether he
does it on the window screen or on
the newly laundered damask table
cloth.
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President Wilson having urged the
newspapers to be more cautious about
printing unfounded rumors, it is be
lieved that the nepct time some of the
editors will ask the office boy if the
report is correct.
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Leadville's boast that it is 10,150
feet up and the highest incorporated
city in the world, does not impress us
as an extraordinary thing to brag
about, except that it would give her
the last word in the event of another
Noah's flood.
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When a duck lays an egg, she wad
dles back to the duck pond in indiffer
ent silence, but when "a hen lays an
egg her frantic cackle makes it known.
A hen advertises, and that, mv
friends, is why the whole world eats
hen eggs instead of duck eggs.
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The editor of the Norfolk News,
who recently returned from a visit in
New York, makes the statement that
"the one outstanding fact in the politi
cal situation is that Wilson's re-election
is out of the question." While to
some extent the "wish is father to the
thought," New York City is not a
very good place to form an opinion.
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The hot-headed Teddy Roosevelt is
not going to excite our level-headed
president by his outburst of indigna
tion. There is no dfcubt that Presi
dent Wilson will proceed properly
when he views the matter of the sink
ing of the Lusitania. His cool head
will weigh matters not in haste, but
with calmness, notwithstanding er
ratic outbursts from ToAAv T?roeovolt-.
or anyDoay eise.
THE CASE AGAINST GERMANY.
The first flush of indignation
against the Germans for having tor
pedoed the steamship Lusitania, hav
ing passed, the public will now settle
down to a calmer consideration of the
causes that led to whatt he foes of
the Fatherland have denounced as
dastardly and inhuman act. In order
to get a comprehensive idea of the
situation it is necessary to take into
account the German view. Germany
is fighting, as she believes, for her
very existence. Hemmed in on every
hand, surround by an "iron ring" of
foes and unable to import a pound of
food or materials of war, the kaiser
and his advisors have resorted to
these deadly methods as the last re
sort of a nation struggling for its life
against overwhelming cords. As Sen
ator Beveridge observes, it makes no
difference whether one agrees with
this view of the situation or not, this
is the German view, and therefore
every German in the empire or out of
it justifies the violence of these meth
ods and applauds whenever a British
ship is sunk. In the case of the
Lusitania, Germany gave public
notice to the world that all the ships
cf Britain and this ship in particular
would be attacked and destroyed if
they were able to do so precisely as
it was attacked and destroyed. More
over, the ship was laden with muni
tions of war destined to the foe to
whom Germany ascribes all her
troubles. Moreover, Germans de
clare, and there appears some basis
for the charge, that Great Britain, or
at any rate the officials of the Cunard
company, attempted to use the lives
of neutral Americans as a shield for
the protection of munitions of war.
This is the case which Germany pre
sents to the bar of public opinion
and asks to be adjudged thereon. Op
posed to this is the British contention,
which is based upon one premise, and
that is that German warships destroy
ed a thousand human lives, the lives
of men and women who were not in
terested in the war and who should
not have been made subject to its
cangers. this is likely to prove tne
more popular view, and this circum
stance may be fraught with danger to
the United States government in its
effort to deal with the situation. It is
not a time to criticize the president
and his advisors or to call attention
to their shortcomings in the past. The
public will do well, therefore, to keep
its temper and to remember that there
are two sides to this question, so
suddenly thrust upon the administra
tion for a solution. It is to be hoped
that the American people will take a
common-sense view of the situation.
Nothing is to be gained by hasty ac
tion and the best thing the average
man can do is to talk about something
else until all the facts in this most
unfortunate circumstances are known.
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Dealing with a great crisis calmly
and deliberately does not signify that
it is being treated lightly.
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Says the wayside philosopher:
There is a vast difference between
economy and stinginess." Stinginess
is more thorough.
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An eminent sage says more of the
time spent in eating should be devoted
to thinking; and, as Dr. Wiley insists
that an hour should be spent at each
meal, we realize how, as always, the
spiritual clashes with the material.
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Every time former President Roose
velt snorts some impatient criticism
of the president's persistent peace
policy, former President Taft calmly
commends the course of the president
and hints that it is a good time for
mouthy, excitable and turbulent gen
tlemen to keep their shirts on. Lin
coln Star.
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While diplomacy may seem as of
but little value to' most people right
now, nevertheless the fact remains
that diplomacy has heretofore ironed
out several quarrels which seemed to
presage our entrance into the war.
There is no doubt that President Wil
son will succeed in preserving peace.
He is backed by all the noted men of
both the republican and democratic
I parties of the Union.
Every day should be clean-up day
with some people.
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Perhaps it is just as well that con
tress is not in session.
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The less that man knows that he
knows the older he gets.
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But somebody must have killed tha
poor woman in Dr. Carmen's office.
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Dr. P. L. Hall for governor is the
proper suggestion. We are for him
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Mexico will have to hurry up if it
expects to keep a place on the front
rage.
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Every man is apt to overrate him
self except when the assessor comes
in to talk it over.
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A blessing in disguise usually does
not remove the disguise until about
ten years afterward.
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We are more in love than ever with
Woodrow Wilson, since reading his
Philadelphia speech.
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The men commonly celebrate clean
up day by tactfully keeping out of
the way so their wives can pick up
the rubbish without interference.
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"Blessed is the peacemaker." That
may sound like pretty old stuff, but
can you beat it? Not in the day
time.
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Thomas A. Edison insists that con
crete is fireproof, and the big fire in
his plant last December proves it. He
says an article to the contrary is mis
leading.
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The American voter is becoming a
thorn in the side of the professional
politician. He is beginning to insist
on advance information as to just ex
actly what the candidates will do, in
the event of his election. Which, to
the politician, is a sad state of affairs
BRYAN NOT CONSULTED.
President Wilson's failure to con
suit Secretary Bryan regarding tne
Lusitania disaster has aroused a
great deal of comment in Washing
ton.
Some 'of the secretary's friends fear
the country will interpret this strange
conduct as evidence of Mr. Wilson's
desire to show that he has no con
fidence in the premier of his cabinet.
Mr. Bryan himself professes to be
perfectly satisfied with the attitude of
his chief.
He admitted that he had not seen
the president nor communicated with
him. The state department, however,
has transmitted to the White house
every omciai ana unomciai cnspaicn
it has received bearing upon the
Lusitania and as to what measure the
president regards as necessary to
meet the grave question confronting
the government. Naturally this
situation has brought various sug
gestions offered in explanation of the
president's failure to consult Mr.
Bryan. .
Of these suggestions that which
gained the most currency is that the
president wishes to demonstrate to
the country that he is in supreme and
sole charge of the conduct of the
foreign relations of the government
and that he is not being influenced in
any way by what Mr. Bryan may
have to propose.
Those who argue along this line
contend that Mr. Bryan is unpopular
through the country on account of a
belief that he has no real foreign
policy and that the people have no
confidence that he would do the thing
most needed to uphold the national
dignity in a crisis such as now con
fronts the administration, and the
argument is capped with the predic
tion that if the country should become
involved in war Mr. Bryan would have
to quit the cabinet.
Nothing has come from the White
house to give credence to a suggestion
of this character. What President
Wilson thinls is a profound secret,
and judged f rom all that can be
learned, a secret that is shared by no
body. Washington Correspondent of
the Chicago Herald. '
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THE LUSITANIA ISSUE.
The ocean of passion is a more
dangerous one on which to embark
than a war-infested Atlantic. While
horror, grief, sympathy, anger and
regret rock the emotions of the na
tion over the fate of American men
and women aboard the torpedoed
Lusitania, cool heads must reign in
high places and dispassionate judg
ment decide issues intimately related
to war.
"It is a bad time to get rattled," as
Senator Stone says. "Let us maintain
our equilibrium ana not rocK tne
boat' until we find out what we are
about."
The loss of one American life may
involve the same principle or the same
violation of rights r.s the loss of 137
may involve our relations with a for
eign government to the same extent,
though unattended by the same em
barrassments of grief and public re
sentment. It is when feelings are out
raged rather than when international
law is outraged that the most acute
difficulties are presented. We cannot
decide the Lusitania case on horror,
grief or passion, but we must decide
it upon the inquiry of reason.
Senator Stone declares that it must
not.be forgotten that our lost fellow
countrymen went aboard a belligerent
ship with full knowledge of the risk
and after official warning by the Ger
man government. Says he:
"When on board a British ves
sel they were on British soil.
Were they in a position sub
stantially equivalent to being in
the walls of a fortified city? If
American citizens stay within a
city beseiged or threatened and
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the enemy attacks, what should
our government do if our citizens
should be injured?"
It is for the American government
to decide in the light of all the facts
whether the innocent bystanders, so
to speak, were in a position giving us
a right to complain, or were bystand
ers who crowded too close to the fray,
sensible of its dangers. Sympathize
how we may, it must be asked, were
they deliberately courting danger?
It has been a principal recognized
by this republic since Thomas Jeffer
son laid it down that a reckless citi
zen has no right to place himself
voluntarily and deliberately in a posi
tion of peril which shall involve his
government and imperil the peace of
the millions at home.
Without reference to issues of fact
or rights or principles of internation
al law, but from the standpoint of
broad humanity the world over, the
ruthless sinking of a great boat bear
ing citizens of peace on peaceful er
rands and many women and infants
must excite the profoundest sorrow
and resentment. It is an incident of
the wantonness of war that will be
borne long in the whole world's mem
ory. Yet every patriotic American
who is not passion-swayed beyond his
power to think and there is a class
of mollycoddles among the jingoes
that is carried off its feet in every
crux with other nations every think
ing patriot, we repeat, will indorse
the judicial attitude of the administra
tion in seeking first the full facts be
fore demanding justice. And the
highest love of country comports with
the hope of a peacful solution. St.
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