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PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, MAY 31, mS. Cbe plattsmoutb journal Publlthfd 8ml-Wkly at Platttmouth, N b r. Entered at the Postoffice at ruttsmoutb, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher iubaorlptlon Prloet $t.SO Per Year In Advanoe 4- TH0UGI1T FOR TODAY 4 s Put away all sarcasm from J your speech. Never complain. J Do not prophesy evil. Have a J good word for everyone or else -J J. keep silent. Henry Ward 4 Beecher. 4- ..--. .-..tCT. :o :- To err is human, but to forgive is a new brand of diplomacy. :o: What to do with the boys during vacation is the question now. :o: Some married men talk too blamed much about personal liberty. ' :o: No, there are no gossips in this town just a few tongues galloping through life. :o: However, don't organize merely for the purpose of providing the organiz er an easy living. ' :o: It is going to be a hard job for the reactionaries to control the republican party next year. Conceit may help in running a bluff, but both amount to about the same thing when called. :o: Some men in this town are so lazy they never work only in fly time, and then because they have to. :o: Senator Hitchock took the oppor tunity to meet many of his friends while in thi3 city Wednesday evening. And they are legion. :o: The asylums are crowded, and oc casionally one hears a curbstone ora tor who compels the conclusion that they should be enlarged. :o: It is exceedingly comforting to peo ple who are anxious for war to know that substitutes can always be hired for a very moderate cash sum. :o: Many of the railroads are placing orders for new freight cars, evidently feeling that the Wandering Willies r.eed more comfortable quarters. :o : A large increase in the number of women who are learning to drive automobiles is noted, but no more seem to be learning to run sewing machines. FIGHT FOR PARTY CONTROL. "The progressive leadership in the republican party has been stirred recently by the organization here in Washington of what is known as the National Republican Publicity as sociation, founded ostensibly to pro mote republican thought throughout the country, but, which, the progres sives of the party charge, was merely organized to shield big business con tributors from the publicity that at taches to campaign donations through ;iny of the . regularly constituted party organizations. In other words, say the republican progressives, this new publicity organization is mere ly a machine designed to take charge of the repdblican tparty and to nomi nate and elect the candidate of big business by a campaign predicated on the old political theory that money :o: Some of the spring gowns to be seen in Plattsmouth have "apron panels," but it can safely be said that it is not to protect the clothes while working in the kitchen. :o: As Mr. Roosevelt is reported to have been paying out $12,000 a week for expenses in the Barnes' libel suit, it would seem as if he were now in a good position to write a fine article on the subject of "The High Cost of Living!" :o: Wisconsin has a new law under which it is illegal to ship poultry in a crate which is not at least thirteen inches high and unless the top is covered with wire or screen mesh not more than one inch in diameter. The purpose of the law was to do away with the possibility of injury to live fowls while in transit. :o: Some of our exchanges are conduct ing interesting "public forums," in which the editors ask themselves many interesting questions. ' There was a time, perhaps, when tITte reader could be thus fooled, but that day is past. If an editor has anything to say let him say it boIdly,but not un der the pretense of answering an ar ticle signed "A Reader." Progressive republican newspapers, such as the Des Moines Register and Leader and the Sioux City Tribune, have given a thorough airing to the Vlas and that 'what the people don't organized movement of the con-1 know won't hurt.' " fprvativp olpmpnt nf the nartv tn ran. The meeting held in Umaha was ture the organization and nominate I dominated and controlled by repub the candidates and write the platform lican leaders like John Lee Webster in 1916. The recent Nebraska meet- Victor Rosewater, A. W. Jefferis and ir.g held in Omaha, it appears, was others whose standpat proclivities are nart of that movement, which is to be notorious. Already a protest has ' . i pushed persistently but quietly and Sone UP in this state similar to that in a manner to create as little an- which these republican newspapers t o crrT cm a tscc Tin fi describe elsewhere. It is rumored idea of the scheme is to sedtire the that earlv stePs are to be taken to progressives to contribute to their Uoiet the Progressive suspicion, own funeral hv associating them - possible, by inducing well known pro w - ------- -:o: if selves with a so-called republican re vival campaign, but which is in fact a campaign for standard supremacy The headquarters of this movement z re at Washington, and its name is the National Republican Publicity as sociation. A recent dispatch from that city to the Des Moines Register and Leader says: "An explosion in the republican camp is about due because of the ac tivities of an organization with head quarters here known as the National Republican Publicity association. The fact that such an association was being formed was aired some time ago. Much gressive republicans to lend tneir name to the organization, the con trol of which, however, will not be al lowed to pass out of the hands of the very shrewd and experienced politi cians who are back of it. World- Herald. :o: A declaration of war seems to be the current conception of a Roman holiday. :o: Many motorists have made the dis covery that if they drive right along in the middle of the road at a high mystery was existent rate of speed everyone else will get when it was organized, but later it out in the bushes has become more and more plain that it is an organization backed by big business and standpat elements in the " some newspapers are distribut republican party and that it is work-I ing unusual'' quantities of hot air at pro- reac- ing in the effort to bring about in 1916 the nomination not of a gressive republican but of a tionary. Many progressive republican lead ers are aroused over it and say that unless the National Republican Pub licity association is blown out of the water or compelled to change its ways, and unless the movement of the reactionaries to capture the party is stopped, there will be a split in the 1916 convention cf the republican party wnicn wm be even more this juncture, it must be recalled that someone has to make up for congress not being in session. :o: If arbitration can put a stop to the inhuman sub-sea warfare it will have accomplished something of value to the world. Like the Zepperlins and the Taubes and the use of poisonous gasses, warfare conducted along such lines is on the same level as was prac serious for the party than the one of ticed in the da's of barbarism and 1912, The president of the association is former Senator Jonathan Bourne, a former progressive, who, the Regis ter and Leader says, has gone over bag and baggage to the reactionaries. Senator Gallinger' of New Hampshire is vice president. To quote further from the Register and Leader dis patch : "Back of the movement and active in the work of raising funds have been Representative Martin B. Mad den of Chicago, former Senator Mur ray Crane of Massachusetts and form er Senator "Jim" Ilemenway of In diana. Huge contributions are said to have been gathered. Progressive republicans are talking about an in vestigation to determine where the money comes from. Senator Borah has so far refused to announce him self for president in order that he might be free to denounce the scheme, which he regards as a plan to put across a "big business" candidate. Senator Cummins is not identified with the association, despite the fact his name was brought into the early organization of it, and it is expected he will make it plain when he gets back from Hawaii that he has noth ing to do with it." The essential portions of this story are corroborated by a Washington dispatch to the Sioux City Tribune, from which these excerpts are quoted: "A breach equal to that which culminated in the terrible upheaval in the Chicago convention in June, 1912, lesulting in the destruction of all chances of party success in the cam paign of that year, again endangers the republican party. "An explosion is due to occur any day, and when it comes the dividing line will be as clearly marked as that which separated the friends of Taft t.nd Roosevelt in the prcconvention campaign of 1912. As viewed at this stage, however, the next campaign will not split on the personal issue, but instead will divide on the question of methods and purposes. In brief, it looks like a campaign of big busi ness and old-fashioned republican standpatism against progressive thought and a square deal for all. hould be relegated to the junk pile. :o: A man who had heard of several crooked deals pulled off recently in this city, came to the writer a few days ago, and wanted to know if there were any honest men in Plattsmouth. Yes, there are, and plenty of them. The trouble with our troubled friend is that he does not hear of the good done in this city by men who are above reproach. The good men of Plattsmouth do not .Vlvertise their ueeds, but the people take the trouble to advertise the deeds of bad men, and probably it is well this is done, even though it sometimes leads people to believe that Plattsmouth has few good men and many bad ones. Humanity is the same the world over very community has its good and bad citizens. Plattsmouth is no exception. :o: The best time to buy ison the quiet market, whether you are buying land or goods or labor. It may be many years before there comes again a period so favorable as the spring, summer and fall of 1915 to the mak ing of improvements, public or private, necessary now or presently io. become necessary. Probably a house can be built this season 20 per cent cheaper than next season. Or a swamp drained. Or a road im proved. Or a water-supply system established or extended. Or sewers constructed. Or any other work ac complished for betterment of public property, business property, city residence property or farm property. Wherever money is available and bank vaults are full of money why not take that profit of 20 per cent? Why not do it now? Not merely as a philanthropic plan to help the neighbors needing work, but as a proposition cf cold-blooded business. Why not now? There are also occasions when en- ARE VETERANS FORGOTTEN? durance is mistaken for hospitality. I It has long been remarked that the O : I exercises of the national Memorial June is nearing; the month of sweet Day, May 30, do not attract anything June brides and scared June bride-like the interest that used to be grooms. I manitested in them. lwenty years o : t ago prominent citizens all through Liberty bell will be at Omaha and the northern states used to attend Lincoln Friday, July 9. Omaha se- these functions in large numbers. cures everything on tap. I ihere was able oratory and the en- I thusiasm of a big crowd. It is a mat- Energy and perseverence light the ters of keen rret to the remnant I - A t A, A 1 path of life with electric rays. But OI veterans leic toctay, mat it is so I J AV ll. 1 A 1 1 1 1 laziness sticks to the tallow dip. aimcuis to get nan as good a turn-out today. Various expedients have been tried to make these observances more popular. They have been held Sun days and in the evenings, instead of on the holiday. Such changes may draw a crowd for once. But thv American people are eager for a holi day. They flock to the ball grounds and the automobile road. The elo quence of patriotic speakers resounds in more or less empty halls. All of which leaves in the mind of the civil war veteran the feeling that he is merely a forgotten relic' of a day that has gone by. While he has been try ing to keep alive the memories of the heroisms of the war, the world cur rent seems to have slipped by and left him stranded in a forgotten past. Of course it would be better if the American people would give a more respectful attention to serious observ ances. Still one must take them as they are. They may leave the veterans alone with their memories at the burial ground. But that the old soldiers are not forgotten is suggest ed by the fact that this country has always maintained a pension system of a generosity that has been unheard of in other lands. You can get out a hundred people to agitate for some future benefit, where you could not get ten to celebrate an event of his tory. This is our American tempera ment. It is irrevelent to the past. Children Cry for Fletcher's v mi I rv s a i v s I iiii , .,J rv m a Billy Sunday may undertake Chi cago, but New York, apparently, is to be left until there's nothing else to do. :o: As a girl grows older the month seems less important, so all the brides are not of the well known June variety. It's a confounding problem; if they admit that Harry Thaw is sane, they admit the mistake they made in not sending him the way the law provides for all murderers. Tho Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been m uso jot over years, lias borne tho signature of ana has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no ono tnr1rflvA von in tfiio. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good " are but Hxpcrimeitts that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare porie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It Is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor oilier Jfarcotio substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Fev :ri.shness. For more than thirty years it lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation. Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething- Troubles and inarrluea. assimilate The Children GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS fBears the Signature of It regulates tno Htomacb and Iiowcl. s tho Food, giving healthy and natural sleen s Panacea The Mother's Friend. :o:- DONT BE A GROUCH. He was a very practical philosopher who said, "Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you can go to thunder, for all we care." And this same philosopher tells us that most of our troubles are only imagin ary, not real; that we have sufficient courage to fight and to overcome our real troubles, while our imaginary troubles give us endless worry and anxiety; that most of our troubles are those that never come, but are just a little way ahead and we are expecting to bump into them at every turn of the road; that it is imaginary troubles that breed the blues and that paint lrowns and scowls where there ought to be smiles and sunshine. And he then contrasts the man who frowns and scowls, with the man who always wears a smile. One counts the clouds and sorrows and the gloomy things; the other counts the stars and bless ings and the bright things. One eats the worst apple in the sack and keeps the best ones, and thus always has the worst until the last apple is gone. The other eats the best one first, and so on until the sack is empty. The apples are the same, but one is al ways eating the worst, while the other is always eating the best. And this nhilosopher then reminds us that misery loves company, and that the man who wears frowns and scowls is always looking for others of his kind. The Kind Yoa Have Always Bought Use For Over oO Years In IC CFNTAUH CO 931,500 words of the Barnes-Roose velt trial bound in plush and with tooled leather and gilt edges will make a very handsome book for Teddy to place on his parlor table. -:o:- Germany swears by everything holy that she will never sue for peace, and the allies swear a little harder and But it is a part of the restless energy I louder that they will never take the of our land, always forging ahead, I initiative in favor of suspension of giving perhaps too little thought to I hostilities and that the kaiser must the deeds and struggles of the past. :o: Wheat prices have taken an 8-cent tumble at Chicago. :o: crook his knee. And there you are. -:o: At the present stage of the Europ ean war it is probably a good thing congress is not in session. There are Possibly Dante isn't read a great always a good many hot-headed fel lows in congress that the uniform coolness of President Wilson might not be able to cool off. Dance on Jane 5th. The T. J. Sokol society will give a social dance at their hall on West Pearl street on Saturday evening, June 5th, to which the public is in vited to be present, and a good time assurred to all. When you are looking for the very best articles in the line of fanry box stationery, -call at the Journal office, where yoa will find an excellent variety to select from. deal because most people get hell I enough without resorting to it in book form. :o: It is the private opinion of a pes- imistic crusader that there isn t much chance of exterminating whisk ers and dandelions. :o: :o:- It has been several years since Sen ator Hitchcock visited Plattsmouth, and we are delighted to know that his visit was a most pleasant one. Those who heard him at the commencement exercises Wednesday night had the It is often noticed that the men find iie is looking lor tne joy-killer and j the demands of their business very satisfaction of listening to one of the the world-hater that he may mingle exacting at the time the carpet beat- brainiest men that ever sat as a mem- his tears with theirs and scold the ing season comes on. ber of the United States senate. He Almighty for bringing him into such :0: is a gentleman of whom any state a rakish old world as this. And when Now that the girls are playing base should feel proud. He possesses the a company of these discontented souls ball so much this season, the notion couraire Qf his convictions and will i i ' ' ' get together they look at their that women are unfit for the higher awavs he found defending that which education seems completely demolished. troubles all in a bunch, and the road in front of them seems entirely block ed. They can see no way around, and they have not the courage to cut their way through. The man who wears a :o:- he thinks is right. We are proud of Senator Hitchcock. He is a Nebras kan born and bred, and we are pleased to know that his oration Wednesday night gave. unanimous satisfaction. Want Column WANTED Good 5-passenger auto for good 7-room house and 3 lots, near Burlington shops; rented for v $10.00 per month. T. H. POLLOCK, Tels. No. 1 and 215. 40, 20, 11, 8, 5 and 3 acres, all im proved, for sale at attractive prices. T. H. POLLOCK, Office in Telephone Bldg. 400-ACRE splendid farm, near Platts mouth, $125.00 per acre. Big bar gain. For particulars see T. H. POLLOCK, Office in Telephone Bldg. FOR BARGAINS in Plattsmouth residence property see T. H. POLLOCK, Real Estate, Insurance and Loans. Paints and Oils, Gering & Co. 31. Tritsch, refracting optician, at Gering & Co.'s Wednesday and Sat urday evenings. Examination free. Where are you going this summer? Don't know, but it seems as if it smile looks at his troubles as he would would be discretion to go where the ook at a distant range of mountains. I steam heat can be turned on at a While at a distance the mountain moment's notice. ange would seem impassable, he :o: would know that there are hills and Harvest hands by the thousand are valleys between the . mountains and wanted in Oklahoma, where they will that he would find a trail leading over be passed on to Kansas, then to Ne- to the other side. By exercising pati- braska and on to South and North ence and picking his way step by step, Dakota; two months' work. Better he could find a way across. The man harvest handling than panhandling, who wears a smile has faith in him- :o: self and in his God, and he is willing Farmers in the corn belt whistle to wait until he reaches the mountain merrily these days, as they follow ange before he attempts to climb it. their plows up and down their fields. And this philosopher counsels us to 1 Prosperity is in the air. It rises keep before us the fact that it is the from the freshly turned soil. It stones in our paths, the problems and bristles in the leafy branches of the I g oyer mountain shoulders along finely built goverement trails that perplexities that threaten us that trees. And it isn t p0y cnoiogicai yjj t0 the beholder from viewpoints one or two miles high, such a make us strong. The battle with dif- prosperity, either. It's the good, old scenjc an(j bizarre prospectives, embracing canyons and mountain sides Acuities is a gymnasium in which genuine Nebraska sort. ine Kina Qf multicplored walls, broad expanses of weird topogTaphy in Countless brain and muscle and patience are de- that can be measured out by the jiues that word-painting or any kind of painting seems cheap and futile. veloped. It is the storms that bushel and sold lor hard douars. r.e- j3 indeed a perfsctly delightful vacation region with modern hotels trengthen the sinews of the oak. It ports from various sections of the Ljj fascinating chalets, trout streams, horseback trails, a fifty mile gov- I - .... I '.- ...... .. M . s the hard blows of the mallet and 1 state show that crop conditions are ernment automobile road tnat taKes you rignt lto tne very Dcart oi mis V.. slntxr MitMr.c f flip r-bispl that excellent. The wheat is growing, the land of silent enchantment. V Words Don't Describe Glacier National Park! If your tour the Pacific Coast this summer, this is your chance to visit Glacier National Park, on the Great Northern Railway, and if you are planning a vacation in the Rocky Mountains you will never know their magnificence until you have spent two or three days io Glacier; this region is the indescrible climax of the grandeur of the Rockies. Here you penetrate into localities of mountain lakes and forests; you see actual sources of cascades and waterfalls from melting glaciers; you zig- hring out the angel face from the oats are doing nne ana me corn i block of granite. The man who has being planted. With famine in China patience and courage and faith in and Asia and war and pestilence in himself, will find a way across the Europe, America will nave to De tne v.;rrV.o onA of mmintflin mnorp I prnnrv of the world this season. The that the world, the flesh or the devil indications are that it will rise to the ran throw across his way. occasion. Tours one to five days. Everything moderate in price and everybody attentira Uv jour comfort and en tertainment. Send for printed matter, beautifully illustrated, study it and decide if you can plan a finer vacation trip. R. W CL EMENT, Ticket Aent. L. W. WAKELtR, General Passenger Agent, 1004 Far a am Street, OMAHA, Neb. w