PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913.
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Cbe plattsmoutb journal
PIBLISIIED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOITH, KKUIIASKA.
Entered at Poatofflce at riattsmouth, Neb., as second-clas-s mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PIUCEt flO PEll YEAR IV ADVANCE
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
There is no success without -I
i loyalty. The man who is dis
l loyal to his superior, to his pro- -l'
J- fession, or to his country, is dis- -
$ loyal to himself, and all that is
J- good in him. General Goethals. J
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Make it a safe and sane Christmas.
:o:
"Tom and Jerry" will be on the job
tomorrow.
:o:
Last call of Santa Claus: "Come
on, children."
:o:
The busiest thing in the world is
"idle curiosity."
:o:
Both the days and the skirts are
about as short as conditions will per
mit. :o:
It will be a merry Christina:; for the
men in the financial circles of New
York.
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The children (God bless their little
lives) are waiting to welcome Old
Santa.
:o:
The base ball war is over and the
Federal league will pass out of ex
istence. :o:
Help fill the stocking of the child
of the poor mother who is unable to
do it herself. v
-:o:
The town gossipers believe all they
hear and what they merely think they
accept as truth.
Keep prosperity in the middle of the
road and Plattsmouth and Nebraska
will shove along.
:o:
At this season no experienced burg
lar will touch the family breeches
unless he wants them to wear.
:o:
The Journal takes pleasure in wishing
its readers a "Very Merry Christmas,"
with the hope that they may live long
and prosper.
:o:
The fellow who buries the hatchet is
like the dog that buries a bone. He
goes around every once in a while to
see if it is still there.
Prosperity quickens business. There
is no question about that, and Nebras
ka stands in the front rank of the
rtates that keeps apace of the times
in everything.
:o:
A casual inventory of America's
coast defense reveals dependence for
safety upon sand bars, shoal watcrs-j
and the three-mile limit. Even peace
ful preparedness calls for something
more tangible.
:o:
In many places the fire risks in
school buildings are being investigat
ed, owing to recent disasters. It will
usually be considered prudent not to
spend any money though until after
there have been more fatalities.
:o:
American securities owned in Eng
land are to be mobilized by the gov
ernment. A rude shock to holders of
securities. Later-on, perhaps, a call
may issue for mobilizing gold fillings
in teeth. Governments at war need
the money.
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. Answering the call of his two physi
cians, King George obligingly comes
down off his perch on the empire
water wagon and, the toddy mixer to
the king is hastily recalled. And so
the outlook for spiked plum pudding
at the Buckingham palace is tolerably
fair. :.,
SOME CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS
With this issue the Journal extends
Christmas greetings and good cheer to
its readers everywhere. Ihe year
rounding to its close has ' been an
eventful one in many conspicuous re-
rpects. It has brought to Nebraska a
finer and more diffuse measure of
prosperity than ever before within the
memory of living mp.n. Better than
mere prosperity, which might come to
Nebraska at any time from bountiful
harvest at good prices, it has brought
diversification of products and energy
to the cultivation of field and farm,
from whence comes and must continue
to come the prodigal plenty with which
Nebraska annually amazes the world
If in turn we shall" learn from di
versification the lesson of how to live
at home, so that we can make our ccm
crop a surplus rather than a debt-pay
ing crop, there awaits in the near fut
ure a measure of prosperity that will
far exceed that which has heretofore
been the reward of the thrift and
energy of ar.y nation the world has
yet known, when the aggregate pro
duced has been divided by the number
of population producing it. Then
again, if we press the thought a bit
i'urther, confining oui selves still with
in the limits of rational calculation,
and develop an economic condition
that will enable us to use this one
surplus crop at home, ihus multiplying
its value by four, Nebraska at once
becomes so much greater than other
American states in productive wealth
that nations must be resorted to that
comparisons, other than obviously
odious, may be made.
This year, 1015, has been more
memorable and admirable than others,
in that it has brought people of the
state 4o a profounder study of educa
tion, road building, soil conservation,
market problems, rural credits and
constructive economy. The start
made in these directions may be ar
rested temporarily, but it cannot be
retarded permanently. Men and
women are thinking, thinking serious
ly and with courage. In consequence
the power of demagogue over the
masses seems to be lessening slowly
but surely, while thep ubile conscience
is clearing to a wider and better sense
of its duty to itself and the govern
ment. At any rate, the only route to
emancipation from the blighting con
sequences of following the leadership
of small and designing men, lies in the
habit, now being indulged by the pro
ducers of wealth, of doing their own
thinking,' organizing and co-operating,
rather than in pursuing the course of
leaving these things to professional
politicians and political office seekers
who exploit the masses unto selfish
purposes. In the abundance of our
prosperity and in the sunshine of the
glorious promise that lies about us
everywhere, we should not forget to
be grateful for benefactions, or ne
glect preparations for the coming day.
Useful and great economic reforms,
like charity, begin at home, and from
thence widen to larger and better re
sult. There are many things that
Plattsmouth can do to advance its
interests, the interests of its im
mediate territory and through that
territory the interest of the state. For
one thing, its citizenship can get clos
er together, and bend the common
energy to a better purpose. Its civic
organizations, of whatever nature,
can, and help mightily. They can all
ceac:e to complain and to. criticize
while getting together for the public
good, for whatever righteously bene
fits one man or woman in a commun
ity, in a sense and correspondingly
benefits every man and woman in that
community. If every civic organiza
tion in the land will resolve to un
selfishly contribute some rational aid
to the solution
of the ever-present
human problem of better and more
rational living, another year will not
pass without a visibly better and
stronger civilization in Nebraska. If
each trade organization and Chamber
of Commerce in the state will resolve
to lend a bit of conscientious study to
developing a closer and more intimate
relationship between the country and
the town than has heietofore existed
out of it will come a better country
life and a more prosperous town than
has heretofore existed, out of it wil
come a better country life and a more
prosperous town life. If every banker
in the state will resolve to lay aside
mere calculations affecting rates of
interest and exchange long enough .to
permit his vision to clear to the fact
that a solution of the market problem,
which will bring better and more
staple prices to the agricultural pro
duction of the state, we shall have a
commonwealth in which all are blessed
and a condition that represent the best
that a wise and frugal people can
create.
We are without war or rumors of
war in community, state and nation,
and yet we have problems beckoning
us from the threshold of the future
&s grave and as difficult of solution
pernaps as tnose ot war. ut course,
peace will come to the nations of
Europe now in conflict, as well as to
the republic to the south of us, and
when that peace does come, with it
wiil come problems more complex and
far-reaching than those which we have
hitherto been called upon to solve. Let
us be ready for them, and let us see to
it that our own state shall be ready to
takes it place with other common
wealths that shall be called upon to
ngnt it out witn tate ana destiny
under the immutable and pitiless law
of the survival of the fittest. In all
these things and to these ends the
Journal hopes and pledges itself to do
its best, having at all times an abid
ing faith in the worthiness of the com
munity in which it strives, as well as
n the posibilities of Nebraska when it
shall have put aside sloth and indif
ference and devoted its complement of
talents to the service of the Great
Master.
Now for the new resolution.
Any
of us are open to improvement.
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191G will soon be here, and it would
ot hurt any of us to turn over a new
eaf.
:o:
It may be possible to order a roast
beef dinner over the telephone, but a
trip down town is necessary for a
half yard of ribbon.
:o:
A great many of the high school
boys are determined to prepare them- j
selves thoroughly for college, even if
they berak a bone in making a tackle.
:o:
Someone has made the unimportant
discovery that every man, woman and
child in the United States eats an en
tire animal every year. On an aver
age this may be true, but a great
many people don't eat anywhere near
that amount, while others eat much
more. Personally we may get that
much meat in weight, but the animal
we got this year contained the least
loin steak of any cow brute we ever
heard of. She was nearly all round
steak and soup boneu.
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The writer thinks a whole lot of
Dr. P. L. Hall. We seriously doubt if
there is a more popular man in the
state than Dr. Hall. We are satisfied
he would make one of the ablest and
most popular chief executives the
state ever had, and while all these
things are true, it is a great risk for
Dr. Hall to attempt to make the race
in view of the great uncertainty of
an election, and then the loss of time
from his great business and the ex
pense incurred. We are satisfied Dr.
Hall would have no trouble in secur
ing the nomination and believe he
could easily be. elected. But there is
always a doubt in Nebraska, and par
ticularly on the democratic side of
the house, and we do not feel that as
good -a man as Dr. Hall should be
sacrificed on the altar of a great un
ceitainty. Dr. Hall is a good man, a
democrat that can be relied upon every
day in the week, his friends are legion,
and to sacrifice such an honest, up-
right man would be a shame.
Did you have a Mrry Christmas ?
:o;
i Will Tommy Allen be confirmed as
U. S. district attorney?
-:o: 1
And who will be United States dis
trict judge? We hope the right man.
:o:
All men love liberty; but few to the
extent of remaining a lifelong
bachelor.
:o :
It will keep the heads of families
busy raking up the cash to pay the
bills for a few weeks.
-:o :-
His name is now Captain Go-Ed
Here's your hat. Cap. Don't be in
a hurry about coming back.
:o :
The next day being Sunday gave
the boys a chance to rest up before
going to work, which was welcome.
:o:
The average man thinks so little of
money that he gets Mis mind off the
subject when some fellow steps on his
corn.
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THAT GARY DINNER.
The newspapers of the eastern
states that appear determined to
open the presidential campaign with
out waiting for the end of the holiday
season, continue to print columns of
comment and conjecture concerning
the famous Gary dinner to Colonel
Roosevelt. That the meeting, at
which Colonel, Roosevelt met repre
sentatives of practically all the big
busines and financial interests of the
country, and that was shrouded in
secrecy, was of political significance is
very generally conceded. But whether
it foreshadows the appearance of
Colonel Roosevelt himself as a presi
dential candidate, or was to further
his intense eagerness to "beat Wil
son" with some other candidate there
s wide difference of opinion.
The New Yorkt World reports, on
authority which it vouches for as
very reliable," that it was the
Colonel himself who suggested the
meeting; that it was his overtures to
'Judge Gary and his old friends in
he steel trust which resulted in the
presence about the banquet board of a
score or more of the nation's big
money men. It is the worlds in
formation, also, that Colonel Roose-
elt protested, at the meeting, that he
iimself is not a candidate, and that
his only present political purpose is
o bring about the. defeat of the Wil
son administration; that with this end
in view he seeks to marshal all the
forces antagonistic to the president."
According to this same course of
nformation, the Colonel let it be
known that, under certain circum
stances, he would accept Judge
Hughes as the republican candidate.
Also that he might be induced to look
with favor upon either of these two
tickets:
For President, Theodore Burton of
Ohio; for Vice President, Hiram John
son of California.
For President, Albert B. Cummins
of Iowa; for Vice President, Hiram
Johnson of California.
Even Root, it is stated, would be
acceptable to Colonel Roosevelt, pro
vided he were allowed to name Root's
running mate.
It is impossible to say whether this
represents accurate reporting or mere
reportorial conjecture. WTiat can be
said with certainty, however, is that
Colonel Roosevelt is extremely anxious
to "beat Wilson" because of the presi
dent's war policies, an 1 that he will go
to almost any length short of abject
surrender to bring about a reunion of
the republican party to that end. As
a practical politician Colonel Roosevelt
realizes how powerful "big business"
is in the national councils of the re
publican party. Therefore as a first
and necessary step toward an amalga
mation the Colonel sets forth to rally
big business to the support of his pro
gram, whatever it may be. He does
this with the more confidence because
for a fight against the policies of the
Wilson administration if it can be
made to appear that there is a reason
able chance for success.
The situation is one that is well
worth watching and that will be
watched very closely not only by the
democratic party but by the country
V
as a whole.-r-World-lIerald.
WHAT IS NANTIONAL DEFENSE?
WThile diversity of opinion is dis
closed in regard to what constitutes
national defense. So distinguished and
well-informed a man as the former
secretary of the interior,- Walter L
Fisher, is quoted as complaining be
cause the public does not know wheth
er the defense plans now under dis
cussion contemplate relention of in
sular possessions, the pan-American
canal and other outlying interests, or
are intended to apply merely to con
tinental United States. Yet he de
clared his favor for what he termed
preparation for effective defense.
In the minds of those who favor
national defense the term means the
defense of whatever is Uncle Sam's,
be it tangible or intangible. It means
the defense of whatever may be as
sailed.
Men discuss national defense and
the proposed preparation for it as if
it could mean simply the defense of
national territory, and profess to see
no menace in that direction. But it
means more.
it means the defense of the na
tional honor.
It means the defense of American
life in any and every portion of the
earth's surface.
It means the defense of this na
tion's right to sell and buy and ship
without let or hindrance, in order that
its people may get out of their in
dustry and the fertility of their soil
the sustenance to which they are by
right entitled.
As long as this republic assumes to
own Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines
or other outlying territory, it means
the defense of such territory from
foreign encroachment and the defense
of the rights of their people.
This country needs defense today.
The lives of Americans have been
ruthlessly taken in defiance of inter
national law and of the laws of hu
manity. The commerce of this coun
try is being lawlessly interfered with
and great losses have been and are
being inflicted upon American produc
ers. American ships are being
stopped upon the high seas, within
a few miles of our own coasts, and
men are being removed from them
without any shadow of right.
Adequate national defense would
mean the power to protect against
these outrages in such a way that they
would cease immediately upon the ut
terance of the protest or would never
even be attempted. Lincoln Star.
Our fear of foreign invasion is
greatly modified by the conviction that
within forty-eight hours of the
enemy's landing Yankee ingenuity
would have invented 3 dozen contrap
tions to demolish the foes.
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We would like to see some demo
crat in this congressional district who
will come to the front and say he
wants the nomination. Every now
and then we see the name of some
one mentioned, but none have yet come
to the front with a "I want it!" salute.
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Christmas comes but once a year,
and those who do the giving are glad
of it. But it is a great consolation to
Daddy and Mamma to sec the happy
faces of the little ones who realize
the coming of Santa Claus. But how
is it with those who failed to get such
tokens on Christmas morning?
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We desire to return our thanks to
our good friend, Charley Grimes, of
Fort Worth, Texas, for holiday edi
tions of Fort Worth's papers. They
are very great, and (in keeping with
the progressive spirit of that city.
Charley was our comrade so long, and
was never known to forget us when he
came across anything good, and we
certainly enjoyed these papers.
:o:
We desire to notify politicians in
time, and especially those booming
candidates, that nothing of that char
acter will find its way in these
columns unless the cash accompanies
the order. We make no distinction
whatever where the copy comes frcm
outsiders, who make a business of
booming candidates. This thing of
paying a manager to carry on his
campaign at big salaiy, and then ask
ing thenewspapers to do the booming
is played out in this print shop.
Children Cry
The Kind You Have Always
in use lor over ISO years,
Allow
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Hxperinients that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against HsnerimcnU
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless snhstitnto for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, lrops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other sarcotie
substance. Its ajrc is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverlshness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant xiso for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething1 Troubles and
liarrhea. It regulates the Stomach and ISowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The .Mother's Friend,
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
w a.
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
TH C C E NTAUR COM
Eft rr uw . ' v i v .j r7,rs
Don't let your footprints on the
sands of time show that your shoes
badly need half-soling. It is a sign
of slovenliness.
:o:
Nobody cares anything about O.
Garfield Jones, but everybody should
be interested in the recent maneuvers
of the ex-president in the Philippines.
:o :
The Ford peace party may attract
some attention in Europe if Henry
can suggest improvements in the
motor trucks that -Iraw supplies to
the soldiers in thet renches.
:o :
When you can't think of any other
reason for asking the customary an
nual advance in the price of anything,
it is always perfectly safe to charge
it up to the war.
:o:
It is not necessary to worry about
room that will be taken up by the chil
dren's new Christmas toys. They
don't require much space after they
are smashed up.
:o:
Money is plentiful in Nebraska.
Anyway, applications for charters for
the organization of new banks in
dicates a substantial gain over last
year at this particular time. Keep
prosperity in the middle of the road,
and let Nebraska shove along.
:o:
There should not happen at Wash
ington anything to disturb the happi
ness of President Wilson and his
bride at their elegant quarters at Hot
Springs. A honeymoon is something
that you can't enjoy always, while
some older heads than our own say
the honeymoon never wears out
with some people, perhaps.
Sales bilis done quickly at the
Journal.
To the South
The warm and beautiful "Southland," with its Gulf and Flordia sea
coast, its attractive cities and hotels, is a winter playground and outdoor
region. Railroad tours comprehend the whole South, going through-one
section and returning through another, including New Orleans, Mobile,
Jacksonville, Atlanta, Savannah, Washington, D. C. Jacksonville is the des
tination of the general circuit tours. Then there are lower rates applying
over the same route in bota directions to Southern and Texas Gulf destina
tions. The Burlington has three gateways to the South, Kansas City, St.
Louis or Chicago, with excellent service via each one. Inquire for the Burl
Ebflpn
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for Fletcher's
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Bought, and which has heen
Has borne the signature of
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' sonal SUDcrvision slnr-fi its iiifcincv.
no one to deceive voti in tliis. -
Signature of
PANY, NEW YORK CITV.
NOW IT'S NEW YEAR'S CARDS.
You all know that the Journal office
carried the finest line of Christmas
Cards ever shown in this city; we want
to tell you that our line of New Year's
Cards is just as nice, and the line as
complete. If you are buying Tew
Year's Cards we want you to see this
line. We know you will be pleased
with them.
For Sale.
H2-H. P. Chopie Gasoline Engine
for cash. Inquire of Ed Egenberger.
Bear This in Mind.
"I consider Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy by far the best medicine in
the market for colds and croup," says
Mrs. Albert Blosser, Lima, Ohio.
Many others are of the same opinion.
Obtainable everywhere.
For Sale.
Twenty-one head of steers, coming
two years old, most all Whiteface,
without horns. They are all good
quality and will sell at the market
price, if taken before December 12th.
R. R. Nickels, Murray, Neb.
Telephone 1814.
Have you seen our line of Rugs?
We will meet Omaha prices.
Streight & Streight.
GOL. Ur.1. DUNN,
AUCTIONEER
WEEPING WATER, NEBRASKA
18 to 20 years experience is
worth something to those who
have property for sale.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
I am always after the High
Dollar for Your Goods.
Win
ter Tourist Fares!
ington's new "Winter Tours" leafnet. Complete pre
sentation of tours to the Soath, West Indies, Cuba
and Canal Zone.
It. W. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent
L. W. WAKELY, GENERAL PASSENGER AGT.,
1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb.
