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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, JULY t, 1 0 1 ..
XZbc plattsmouth journal
Published 6tml-W(kly at Piatt mouth. N b r.
Entered at the Postofflce at Platwmouth, Nebiaska, as secoud-clasa mall matter.
To a boy all boys are "kids' and
all men "guys."
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J- THOUGHT FOR TODAY
J.
J There are so many worthless
V men in the world that a man
J who behaves himself half of the
time is tolerably sure to become v
I distinguished. E. W. Howe.
OUR PITIFUL WEAKNESS.
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A wig is the only effective hair re
storer. . :o:
Have you made up your mind
where you will celebrate?
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Hnertu is anxious to get back into
Mexico to raise more h 1.
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Now buckle down to it, everybody,
for harvest days are upon us.
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Sometimes we think the mu.h ladle
.should be our national emblem.
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No man is as good as he ought to
be and few are as bad as they seem.
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The number of questions you cjin't
answer will surprise even your
egotistical self.
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Neither are many people fooled by
the tactful party who resigned after
lie has been fired.
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Don"t talk hard times. Haven't
3 on new potatoes and peas? What
more could you s'.sk for?
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Jess Willard wants $:0,0U0 to
right, but you could get up a debate
with almost any college president
for $500.
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Its not merely a long way to
Tipperary, but it's a luig way until
the hurdy-gurdy men stop playing
Tipinrrary.
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Harvest hands will be at a premium
after next week. There will be
plenty of work for those who can earn
the money.
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There are some people who seem
to feci that the United States must
declare war against a few powers in
order to keep up with the 1015
fashions.
On the other hand, Russia has so
much room to roll back on!
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Charity covers a multitude of sins,
though most' of them too thinly.
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Define the "war zone." It's the
first three pages in most any news
paper.
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There are eighteen Waterloos in
No one who knows anthing about I United States; one is enough for
war will contend that the "embattled Europe
farmers" or other plain clothes I :o
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patriots amount to much as a fight- -secretary Lansing, just, inuuctc.1
ng force against . season "troops. It into office' hardly be hazed by the
was a handful of regulars which other secretaries
covered the retreat of the defeated! :o:
Union army at Bull Run, and they r'ut there is a cessation of sub-
:v, ..f c.,.-.DQ,i,i ; .,: marine torpedoing, whatever the
Washington had not the confederates, arguments may be
for the most part, been about as :o:
. . . . ... I Trrin5rrn-;s?rn of wnnllipr fnrirnst'S
green as the leuerais. An interior "
force of British once took the capital tireless will not help much. Rc-
of this country after a militia de-1 liability is the essential thing.
fene so weak it was a joke. Regulars
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did most of the business in whipping e.jw... ci.c, v....
c., ,:., ,. ,l j : be overdone. Some men can see a
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given the colonel and his Rough Rid- UOUK"nut "nvn 1S a nww
ers. I he power ot military training
js greater than the layman who
wots not ot war would imagine
ller.ee there is no denying that this
nation of a hundred million people,
and a mobile fighting force of fifty
i
thousand would be picking for the It sometimes seems as if what all
foreign power which might head in I of us would rather do is to leave our
this direction. True, our isolation, automobile prints on the sands of
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despite modern methods of naviga-1 time
tion and transportation, is still a I :n
powerful defense. Backed by an The new pope has such bad luck
adequate navy, such as Britain has, it with interviewers that he will likely
might give us a sense of security, and restrict his utterances to official com-
time to prepare after the trouble munications hereafter.
reaiiy siarieu. uut we naven t an :o:
auequatc navy; a third or lourtn- The Indiananolis clerk who started
rater, it is at best, and it is very good out to see the world on $20 6f em
lunar mere is oi it. nut our coast is bezzled money did not realize what
long and our possessions sratteral L whnnntr i.lnit i
TIRED OF WAR.
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Hesitate in scolding about other
people, and somebody else will save
l- t t iv n mill Ia mi vi it n rm
j lilt: UlOagl UCttUlC J'C-1 1U1 1IUU1V.C
of it.
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some men in in is old town are
complaining bitterly because their
wives are at the club reading papers
on femininism when they should be at
home spoiling the bread.
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President Wilson comes nearer be
ing a man who would "rather be
riyht than be president" than any
man that has occupied the executive
chair in very many years. He is the
president of the United States and
his will is the law of the land.
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Every American ought to be thank
ful that 3,000 miles of deep water
.separate us from warring Europe.
The prospect is for an abundant har
vest, with the assurance of plenty for
cur suffering people across the water.
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The republiacns are still in posses
sion of the best offices in the gift of
the national administration in Ne
braska. It shows that these positions
are held up simply because Mr.
Bryan can't agree with Mr. Hitchcock.
The democrats of Nebraska are get
ting tired of such monkey business.
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Take time to read the constitution
cf the United States on the Fourth.
Don't go away by yourself, cither, to
do it. Read in the presence of the
whole family, and then learn the
things it stands for. It is not going
to hurt anyone to refd it, and may
impress upon you the importance of
conforming to the principles there
inculcated. - . '
half acioss 1he world. The navy
couldn't protect it all, and, com
paratively speaking, we have no
army.
We aren't among those who fool
ihemse'ives with the- notion that
preparedness means permanent peace,
but it does men protection which is
important if a storm should gather.
This is the richest country of the
world, with the possible exception of
the British empire, and the most
populous of the western countries,
except Russia, and its military weak
ness is inexcusable, except on the
ground that there is to be no more
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Some fellow away down east w:i?:ts
to start a subscription to have The
Hague peace palace removed to Mr.
tiryan's farm near Lincoln.
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Mr. Bryan is coming to Nebraska,
so the papers state. Nothing strange
about thai. Guess a fellow can go
home when he has no other place
to go.
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And still it rains without any great
effort.
Horace (Jreely was born on a rocky
New Hampshire farm. He says that,
In his boyhood, the work was one for
war for us. And being too proud or oxen, and that, as he did not want to
too ritrht to fijrht wouldn't save us be an ox, he learned another trade.
from devastation, if some militaristic At that time he couU fin(, nowhere an
OOV.'Pr Should SPP n rhrinpo to ctrilrn I
vr. r t ' agricultural paper. But he never
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available, even if they have to be
manufactured for the occasion. All Koil IIe oftcn wrote about farming
of which should give the pacificists J and encouraged others to take up the
cause and food for solemn thought, subject. How delighted he would have
War is bad medicine, and we wish been to have had the opportunity now
mere would h no more, but war lust i i
wur jj.i QpCn t() yOUnpr men in Nebraska and
now happens to be the principal oc-
cunation of fho mainrltv f h other western states, and improved
powers. It is hoping for a good deal them
to oeneve mac mey win call a per- :o:-
manent halt when the present dif
ficulty is ended.
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Having become a member of the
bricklayers' union, President Wilson
can now decline to lay cornerstones
in return for n dinner.
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Col. Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal and
a veteran of the civil war on the con
federate side, uses a lot of editorial
space lambasting the Germans for
their militarism and the use of aero
planes and submarines in war. He is
also the big democrat who opposed
They say Mexican money is the the nomination of Woodrow Wilson,
cheapest thing in that country. If "the schoolmaster," but has changed
it's any worse than the darned coun- his mind. Speaking of the great
try itself it is worse than cheap. necessity of doing away with the
:o: vicious innovations of the present
An exchange prints a political European war he believes it is up to
editorial entitled, '-Grave Danger in the United States to revise the war
Declation." Many people find that Coe. "The time is at hand," he says,
out when they fail to read the "when not without hope we may at
stenographer's copy before mailing. tempt this. The American chief
:o: magistrate seems one chosen of
The automobile races in Omaha heaven to achieve it. Elsewise how
next Monday are controlled entirely came such a man to be drawn from
by outsi le parties, and the thousands the seclusion of learning, religion and
of dollars they reap from the state philisophies and elected president of
of Nebraska is taken out of the state, the United States? Since the
:o: crucifixion of Christ the world has
An authority on vital matters faced no such moral crisis. As God
states that one-quarter of all the per- raised up Washington to create the
sons born die before they are 6, and icpublican and Lincoln to save the
ne-half before they are 1G, and only union, may He not have raised up
f ne in one hundred lives to the age j Woodrow Wilson to rescue our Chris
cf 65. If you are more than SO you ! tianitv.and our civilization from the
ihould thank your stars that you are
t till on earth.
jaws of death wideopen and ready to
swallow them?"
It is unofficially but semi-officially
announced that the Berlin newspaper
publishing the socialist appeal for
peace, overtures was shut down by
the government because the govern
ment feared the hostile nations would
misinterpret the appeal as indicating
that the German people are tired of
war.
Tired of war!
There is a world of commentary in
the reasonable supposition that the
German government assigned the real
reason for its action. It may well be
that it was really afraid that Ger
many's enemies would construe this
appeal as a sign of weakness, and
that it believed that by punishing the
newspaper it could remove that de
lusion from their minds.
"Look out upon the world, my son,"
said Oxenstierna, the Swedish chan
cellor, "and see with what little wis
dom its nations are governed."
In the language of the day, "isn't
it the truth!"
As if any government could make
anybody believe, could make even it
self believe, that there is any people
engaged in this awful struggle and
not heartily tired of it!
Nations are made up of fiesh-and-blood
human beings; men and women
and children, with veins that bleed,
i-nd hearts that ache; with affections
for family and home and kindred
that are rooted in the depths of their
souls. There are sons and mothers.
There are husbands and wives. There
are brothers and sisters. There are
sweethearts. Is there a son on the
firing line who isn't "tired of war"
when he thinks of the anxious, tor
mented mother that bore him and
reared him, waiting back home with
an anguished heart for the bulletin
that shall tell of his death? Is there
a husband, anywhere in all the many
enormous armies, who isn't "tired of
war" because of his love for the wife
whom his imagination holds ever be
fore him; because of his love for the
little children that in his mind's eye,
he sees clustered about her knee as
together they wait and wait and
wait ? And those mothers and
wives and sisters and sweethearts and
'ittle children "back home" they
comprise a lot more than half of all
the people. What government can
hope to make them believe, or make
p.nyone anywhere believe, they are
not "tired of war!"
"Tird!" Of course they are tired;
tired all of them, in Germany the
same as in France, and in France the
samea s in Austria, and in Austria
he same as in Russia; the same as
in the British Isles and in all of the
far-flung possessions of the British
empire; the same as in Belgium and
Servia, where entire peoples are al
ready in the death throes. They are
all tired, desperately tired, and if
there is a heart in any one of them
that isn't praying for the war to end
it is a most unnatural heart, scarcely
human.
That doesn't mean they are not
prepared to pay, if it must be paid,
whe last full measure of devotion to
the lands in which their cradles stood
When the German socialists, proudly
proclaiming that their country is the
military victor, urge that the govern
ment propose peace, it doesn't mean
that they love their country any the
less, or that their confidence in its
might and in the justice of its cause
is any the less invincible. It means
simply that they realize the useless
ness and folly and fruitlessness of
continuing the war until all those en
gaged in it are dead. It is because
they love their country that they wish
it to become a glorious messenger of
peace. Paraphrasing the words of
President Wilson, they believe it is
so right that it can afford to ask that
the harvest of death and tears be end
ed. And as they believe so do the
people of the other countries believe
they are patriots, but they are tired
of war. The world is tired of it. God
in His heaven is wearied of it. Not
even the proud and imperious German
government, though it had the assist
ance of all the other warring govern
ments combined, could alter the fact
or hide it. As long as hearts are
tender and love is true there will be
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weariness of war and prayers for
peace, even on the part of those wh
deem their cause most holy. World
Herald.
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Are you looking for better times
You will be pretty apt to find them
with your sleeves rolled up,
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Weed-cutters should be able to se
cure a job in most any part of the
city. It has been ready to harves
for several days.
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Having . yelled "Don't rock th
boat," the pacificists have settled
down to the bottom of it, snugly
thinking the Lusitapia will soon be
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1'iattsmoutn is holding its own
manfully this summer. That's the
secret of the citizens pulling together
for that which is best for the town.
Keep up the good work!
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Don't fail to be in Plattsmouth
Saturday. Two balloon ascensions
one in the iorenoon and one in
me atternoon. lhe band con
cert will occur in the afternoon.
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Whan a fellow democrat, or one
who thinks he is a democrat, an J
thinks that Hon. G. M. Hitchcock
will not be in the race for United
States senator next year, has an
other and bigger think coming.
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Mr. Bryan did not make his intend
ed speech in Chicago. A committee
met him at the train and told him the
meeting had been called off because
they did not want to hear the kind of
speech he was to deliver, as it would
do no good.
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Sajs the Lincoln Star: Omahi
jitney owners propose to fight the
ordinance enacted to put them out of
business, and under the law ever
man is entitled to a show for his
wliite alley. One of the acknowledg
ed principles of law is that nobody
need submit to a prohibitive tax.
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It is ea.-y to follow the crowd, but
t is harder to get to the front.
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It's hard to tell by the hat this year
whether the wearer is a man or
woman.
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over the location of the new library
According to law the library board
has the authority to select the site
and what's the use of trying to take
the matter out of their hands? Y
should not get in a wrangle over the
location. There is no possible chunc
of losing the building entirely.
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There is not a citizen in these
United States that will dare dispute
that Mr. Bryan is one of the greatest
men that ever trod American soil
That is not why so many people have
fallen out with him. The great trouble
with Mr. Bryan is that he wants to
rule the roost or will fly the coop. The
people will stand for no dictatorship.
Three different attempts for street
fairs to get in here have failed. No
place to set upon is the cause. Vell,
the poor people of Plattsmouth don't
nppd anv amusement, anyway, and
those who principally oppose horn
amusements have the money to go
away from home to secure suen
amusement as thtr desire at the
watering places and other points of
interest.
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Andrew Carmical is the managing
editor of a newspaper in Okmulgee,
Okla. He was alone in his office the
other morning when a man entered
the door quietly, closed, then locked
it. "Are you the editor?" Car
mical was asked. "No, but I rep
resent him," the newspaper man re
plied. "Then I'm going to make you
eat last night's issue of your paper,'
the visitor said. "All right, but be
fore you do you'd better lock the door
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pgain. it nas come ojeu,
mical replied. The man turned, but
the door still was locked. When he
faced Carmical again he looked into
the muzzle of a revolver. The news
paper was not eaten, but the stranger i
was arrested. In jail he sai4 that an j
rticle in the paper, which stated that j
men who beat their wives should in
turn be beaten by a jury of twelve
men, had been a direct slap at him. j
Most town farmers are agri-
cultiui-ts. Which means they itie
helva farmers.
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The man who can make a living out
f politics is either mighty good or
mighty rotten.
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When you are determined to make
p your mir.d be sure you are goii g
to use good material.
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If Adam was the guy who dis
covered oratory ),o wonder he was
turned out of the park.
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A taste for watermelon is a purely
elementary, uncultivated one it may
be, we should say, purely eiimentary.
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The little bey is preparing for a
::afe and sane Fourth by saving up
money to buy firecrackers and other
explosives. '
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l!y proclamation Governor More
head has designated Sunday, July IS,
as "Purity Sunday,"' in compliance
with a re;uest of the world's purity
federation. To purify vice is lhj idea
of the movement, and from all re
ports they would not have to go any
farther than the state house to spread
a little purification of the genuine
stamp.'
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Plattsmouth needs a show lot worse
than any city of its size in the state,
and we ought to make an effort to
provide some lots not so far out from
the business section of the city. The
router of one of the largest .-hows on
the load was here a few days ago, and
left in disgust because he could find
no suitable grounds. Such amuse
ments visit all the towns and the great
er majority of the people of Platts-
President Wilson has started the i mouth would appreciate a visit from
new presidential practice of calling on
people he wishes to sec which
adequately proves that he does.
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It is about time for the govern
ment to rif-e in its wrath and issue an
other statement to Mexico threaten
ing to issue more statements later.
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You can take your choice of three
days to celebrate this year Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. Some people no
doubt will be greedy enough to cele
brate all three of them.
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The weed-cutters are csilainly all
busy, as we have been on the lookout
for one for three days. There must be
large acreage of weeds in this town
to cut. Tea one ct tnem to come our
way, please.
Nebraska City is right in it for
amusement, iney are enjojing uu:
Brundage Carnival company this
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wee;:, wincn mey say is grauu, aiiu
then on top of this comes the Hagen-
back-Wallace show. . While Platts
mouth gets what the boy shot at.
a first-class circus at least once each
season.
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At East St. Louis the other day the
principal of the high school conceived
a brilliant plan. He arranged for a
debate on the sibject: "Kcsolved,
That Germany was Justified in Sink
ing the Lusitania." He even went
further and asked a young Russian
student, Abe Kadmaa, to fake t he af
firmative side of the debate. Abe
proved to be a better American than
is his tutor. lie refused to participate
on the ground that it would violate
President Wil.-on's neutrality procla
mation. The hoy was expelled from
the school, but was upheld by the
president of the hoard of educaticn
and reinstated. The principal, who
ever he may be, should be overlooked
when the teachers are re-e!ctd. It
seem too absurd to be true that a
person in the guise of an educator
should choose such a subjet at this
time, much less seek to arouse un
neutral racial hatred in the heart of
a son of a naturalized American citizen.
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