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PLATTSMOUTH BEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1916.,
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
You will find is you look back
upon your life that the moments
that stand out, the moments you
have really lived, are the mo
ments when you have done
things in a spirit of love. Hen
ry Drummond.
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It's all over but the shouting.
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Ain't you glad the primaries are
over ?
-IOC-
Have you selected your Easter hat
yet?
:o:
Everybody now looking forward to
Easter.
:o:
Come on, Miss Spring. We extend
greetngs.
:o :
By the way, Mr. Pacificist, did you
over notice anyone "picking on a por
cupine"? :o:-
Now. let's all pull together for
Flatts mouth.
:o:
Reform is too often just a toy of
the rich and the idle.
The death of Villa is partially con
firmed by reports from Mexico.
:o:
An English scientist says he has
counted 58,000,000 stars. Wonder
what hit him?
:o:
If a married man has observed Lent
p'operly, he should be financially able
to live over Easter.
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Even if Villa is already dead, will
that end the trouble in that country?
"We are from Misouri."
:o:
The true course of a love brainstorm
apparently begins at the heart and
ends at the pocketbook.
:o:
You might as well have big feet.
As long as white shoes are the style,
they'll look big, anyhow.
:o:
Every man that shoves a plane,
uses a saw or hatchet, can find plenty
to do in this town of Plattsmouth.
:o:
The clothing advertisements would
be more interesting if the long, lanky,
spindle-shanked young men in them
would braid their legs.
:o:
There is a good deal of the sweet
ness of human nature in a man who
can always turn aside from his money
mill long enough to chuck the baby
under the chin.
:o:
And the indications are there will
be no great difficulty in drafting Ted
dy Roosevelt if it should come to that.
But Vic Rosewater don't intend it
shall come to that.
:o :
"A third important Russian advance
has been recorded near Zari Szczyky,"
which one may well suspect is a barb
ed wire entanglement that just na
turally stopped 'em.
-or
A Connecticut high school has in
stalled wash tubs and will give girls
a special course in scrubbing. Why
teach them something they will so
quickly strive to forget?
:o:
Nearly six months till the next hard
tus.de, and that is the one that counts.
And some who have been nominated
had just as well figure that defeat is
Ftaring them in the face, because they
can't all be elected.
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The telegraph seems to have inter
mittent fever. That portion in Mex
ico, at least. Yesterday it had Villa
resurrected from the grave, but to
day they don't know so much about it.
lie may bo running up through the
mountains like a scared wolf.
to:
Governor Johnson of California has
issued a proclamation excluding from
interstate business in California about
f,500 corporations, including the Ford
Automobile company, for failure to
pay the state franchise lax of last
year. The tax in the case of the Ford
company amounted to $24,000, pay
ment on which was refused. The com
pany's interstate business was report-,
ed at seven million dollars.
1EU veau in advance
Next Saturday is Arbor day. Plant
a tree.
:o:
The battle of the ballots has been
fought. Were you ii it?
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The general sentiment: The hot
test primary ever hald in Nebraska.
:o:
Long enjoyment of low taxes never
reconcile-s any community to a raise.
:o:
If a man is the architect of his own
fortunes, he is in need of a square and
plumb sometimes.
:o:
Ocean liners are only beginning to
know the respect they are capable of
inspiring as fighters.
:o:
We have often wondered why, if the
advice others hand us is good, they
don't use it themselves.
:o: :
During an epidemic of spring fever
there is consolation in the fact that
it kills nothing but time.
If you don't think you live in a good
town, you should move out. Nebraska
has no room for grouches.
:o:
Our experience with Carranz
rhould lessen the presidential ardo.
for pan-American alliances.
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The chemists have succeeded in du
plicating almost everything except a
ham sandwich and a glass of milk.
Villa had a firm faith in the doc
trine that the devil cares for his own.
Villa ought to know by this time.
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Preparedness is also having some
rmall change in your pocket when the
church contribution plate is passed.
:o :
Talk about making mountains out of
a molehill. Nobody can do it like an
active real estate dealer, who is a
good liar. '
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Oklahoma takes pride in the fact
that it pays more federal income tax
than sny state west of the Mississippi
river except Missouri and California.
It is not right to refuse to marry a
leap year girl because :;he cannot cook.
Maybe she has money to pay your
board. But she would be a fool to
do it.
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The population cf El Paso, Texas,
is 61,1002. The figure probably is not
exaggerated, either, because it was de
termined before the town was overrun
with war correspondents.
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A physician and alienist warns us
not to eat steak more than once a day.
Sometimes it's hard to tell where the
funny column ends and where the
medical column begins.
:o:-
Very few peopie stop to think when
they are eating cherries that they are
enjoying something that has met and
conquered Jack Frost, the jaybird, the
small boy, the railroads and a squad
of middlemen, to say nothing of, the
fat delivary boy.
:o:
In order to get the best smoke out
cf a cigar, Uncle Joe Cannon lights
l he wrong end. Uncle Joe used to be
speaker of the house, but he lit politics
on the wrong end and it is only re
cently that he has been permitted
again to art in the audience.
:o:
While the Germans gain very slow
ly at Verdun, so slowly that it would
take six months at the present rate
to get into the town, the big point in
their favor is that they are gaining.
It has been said of Great Britain that
she wins wars, not battles, but a na
tion which presses a battle for fifty
days is also entitled to credit for te
nacity and may be as hard to beat in
a war as in a battle.
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Well, the result of the primaries to
day have a tendency to harmonize the
democratic party? The speakers and
candidates who have resorted to abus
ing one another are responsible, to n
great extent, for the split in the party
and it is a hard proposition to believe
that the defeated will be in condition
to rally to the support of the success
ful candidates. 'This will be the re
sult of holding a primary campaign '
instead of convention, and the member
of the house or senate who will have
the courage to introduce a bill abol
ishing the primary system will be a
hero.
GETTYSBURG AND VERDUN
Several American observers of the
great war see an analogy between its
progress and that of our own Civi
war, and predict that Verdun will be
the Gettysburg of this stuggle, bas
ing this, of course, upon the presump
tion that Germany will meet with fail
ure at Verdun and thereafter will have
to fight upon the defensive, as the
Confederacy did for two Jnears after
Gettysburg.
The Civil war went on for four
years, and although known now that it
was doomed to defeat from the first
because the odds against it were too
great, yet very few people saw that
condition then. Ten months before
the end of the Civil war a nationa
convention declared that the war pros
ecuted by the north was "a failure.'
In the presidential campaign of 1864
Lincoln was so discouraged about the
outcome that he made a memorandum
of what he expected to do to save the
Union in case of his expected defeat.
The end came suddenly and com
pletely and it is no exaggeration to
say that the country did not expect it
then.
Gettysburg was the supreme effort
of the Confederacy and its failure
doomed - the south to defeat. But the
battle of Gettysburg lasted only three
days while the battle of Verdun al
ready ha3 pone on six weeks. Until
the present war Gettysburg was rated
as one of the greatest battles in his
tory and one 6f the bloodiest, but only
5.G62 were killed there and the total
killed, wounded and missing on both
sides was 43,449. According to re
ports there are more casualties than
that in one attack at Verdun.'
The truth is that this war cannot be
compared witn any otner tnat ever
preceded it and Vardun cannot be
compared with any battle that ever
occurred before. Germany may yet
lose the present struggle at Verdun
but win tha war, or she may win there
and yet lose in the ultimate outcome,
There is no analogy between this and
any other war, but it is interesting to
make comparisons.
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CROP PROSPECTS.
The farmers' movement of the lat
ter part of the last century was one
of the most important in all history,
for it" taught the governing powers
and the great financial interests that
the prosperity and power of any na
tion depend much more on agricul
ture than ort any other thing. That
is shown in the very great interest
manifested of late years in financial
circles in the condition of the crops
at all seasons of the year. The suc
cess of banking and commerce depends
upon the crops and the great finan
ciers show intense Interest in their
condition. The Farmers' Alliance
started out with the proposition that,
if their condition were not improved,
poverty would be the lot of the whole
nation. At that time it was thought
that the building of railroads and the
success of the banking interest was
what made a nation great, that if the
railroads could take all the traffic
would bear and the banks get high
rates cf interest, it mattered little
wnat became of the farmer. A differ
ent idea now prevails in the world.
The great financial journals give col
umns to reports on the conditions of
the crops. Formerly such news was
mostly confined to the farmers' week
lies. The Wall street papers do not con
fine their reports to the crops of this
country. They keep an eye on the
whole world. They say that India is
now harvesting a good wheat crop.
An outside estimate of its exportable
surplus is 50,000,000 bushels. Argen
tina and Australia finished harvesting
in January .and their combined surplus
is placed at 220,000,000 bushels. Win
ter has been severe for autumn sown
grain in Russia. Prospects in Rou
mania are more favorable. In France
and Italy unseasonable weather has
counted against the crops. Conflicting
reports come out of Germany and
Austrian-Hungary, but it seems certain
that acreage is reduced materially and
weather conditions have beert unfavor
able. The "import requirements' of the
European countries is not only of in
terest In Wall street, but tb every
Ahierican farmer, for on that depends
to a large extent the price he will get
for his wheat. The prospect at pres
ent is that he will get a pretty gdod
price. World-Herald.
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A man can be a democrat without
the appelatioh of "fcryah democrat"
or "ilitchcock democrat." The demo
cratic party is almost as bid as the na
tion fend it started fcs a party of prin
cipals wedged.td the upholding. of the
Declaration of Independence and the1
constitution, which solidify the protec
tion of the union. Today turmoii and :
strlf t have almost split the democratic !
party wide open in Nebraska, wherein
strife for office predominates and'
principals ate scattered to the four
winds of heaven. And the masses of
the party ate not responsible for this
condition, either.
It looks good for Keith Neville.
Therte seenis to be some show for
us getting a carnival in a few weeks
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President Wilson says the only
basis upon which America will fight
is the cause of humanity.
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lhis was an easy race, compared
"1 onl tnat wm enacteu on me
sixth day of next November.
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ine clean up week seems to nave
befen a partial success, anyhow, . and
may prove more so a year hence.
:o:
The New York. New Haven and
Hartford railroad seems to be trou
bled with autumn leaves on the track.
:o:
Several more new residences have
been contracted for in the past few
days. No stopping improvements in
this wide-awake town.
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There is at least the consolation
that the United States troops will
hnvp lonmPfl nf ATpvo oven if f Vipv
do have to vacate the God-forsaken
rnnntfv
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wuue me iaie primaries nave
the
caused considerable
excitement and
abuse, it is hoped the candidates, both
nominated and defeated, will tone
down their wrath.
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Carranza wants the United States
troops withdrawn from Mexico when
it is showrt beyond a doubt that Villa
is dead. If the United States acceded
to the wishes of Carranza, how long
will it be Until another and stronger
revolutionary party springs up? It is
reported that one is being organized in
southern Mexlcb right now by Felix
Diaz, a stronger man than Carranza
ever was or ever will be.
Farmers as a whole do hot pay as
much attention to the advice of town
men as their advisers feel that the ag
riculturists should do. There is some
thing about the isolation of the farm
and the monotony of tilling the soil,
that tends to ossify the mind and make
the average farmer sd stupid that he
actually believes that a man who
farms knows more about farming than
a man who has never farmed except
in the conservatory of his head.
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MISSION OF M'AbOO.
Secretary McAdoo has gone to South
America on a mission of stupendous!
importance to the United States. It is
a mission that is in pursuance of the
magnificent work of Woodrow Wilson
in cementing in closer relations theiYou cannot make the people do
twenty-three republics of the Ameri-
can hemisphere. It also bears a close
elation to the president's plan for a
great American merchant marine.
It is the purpose of Secretary Mc
Adoo to stimualte commercial inter
course between this country and its
neighbors in this' hemisphere. Here
tofore the comTnerce of these conti
nents has been carried under Euro-
pean flags in greater part. War has
turned these foreign vessels into other
vessels to replace them.
How is this to be done? That is
the question to the solution of which
President Wilson and his secretary of
the treasury have addressed them
selves. They have a plan. It contem
plates the creation of a federal mer
chant marine of 500,000 tons capacity
and putting it at the service of pan-
America.
It is not to be done by ship sub
sidies, but by the building and owner
ship of a fleet of modern cargo-carrying
ships to be operated by corpora
tions in tim of peace In the business
of commerce and in time of war,
should such a time ever come, as aux
iliaries of the navy.
It has been -said by distinguished
tatesmen of both parties that private
capital cannot be depended Upon to
cmniv fV,rt i.,v ua
supply the'tonnaee reauired for the
fWelnttttiatif nf fhn .iU taAa
ican countries. It is urged that the
McAdoo plan will capture the South
American trade for all time to come,
One of the prime purposes of Great I
Britain ana oiner naval powers in
maintaining large merchant marines
has been their use as naval auxiliaries.
t has been the satisfaction of rival
powers that the United States has
neglected this phase, of national devel
opment.
Having put the Latin-Americas into
a mood for trading with us by assured
mg them that this country has no sin-
istnr tnrritnrinl nr MhPr Hio-ne nnnn
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hem, the next Crowning achievement
of the Wilson administration may we:i
be the restoration of the merchant ma
ine that will bring all the American
amily of free republics into a closer
elationship that will tend tremen
dously toward universal peace.
Other cabinet members of former
administrations have gone to the
Latin-Americas on friendly missions, I
. but never until Wilson's overtures won I
Latin-American confidence did any I
such mission give the remotest prom-1
Jise'of success. Lincoln Star.
"BLOCKHEAD" ECONOMICS.
The ecorjemists have been trying to
beat some sense into the heads of the
British war office, but they have had
a very hard time of it. Of late they
have not been choice in their words
of condemnation and have told the
war office that it has tried to estab
lish n 'hlnfVhprd blnrlmilp" nTninf
r-rninnv nml tlpv i,,vp tjlii.P(1 in lW
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. plam termg abou. the management
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government was about to commandeer
a very janje mrt Gf the British mer-
I nhnnt
economists objected. They said that
the government should take every
vessel that was capable of carrying a
cargo over the sea instead of a part
of them, but the war office would have
none of their advice.
The London Economist now charges
the war office with having increased
the price of nearly all of the nece
paries of life and with having created
I fortunes almost unbelievable for a few
ship owners by their "blockhead block-
ado" policy. Ihe Economist says tnat
I the policy has not only raised the
P ice of imported goods, but of domes.
tic goods in tne same proportion, n
J points out that freights from Bombay
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to the United Kingdom are now 594
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per cent higher than in 1914, from the
River Plate 1,011 per cent higher, and
from Atlantic ports 736 per cent
higher for cotton and 803 per cent for
grain. Of course these excessive rates
have been added to the prices of the
goods and every trader in England
who had such goods on hand, whether
they were produced at home or abroad
has raised prices to an equal extent.
What the economy it advised was
that the government take over every
ship, use what was necessary for the
war, the others for commercial pur
poses and charge reasonable rates,
but the "blockheads" in the war office
would not accept such advice. The
consequence is that prices have risen,
both in the United States and in Eng
land, and the ship owners are coining
fortunes greater than those of the am-
munition manufacturers. World-
Herald.
Break with Germany imminent.
Are you satisfied with the election?
rut-
Now push, and push hard, for
Plattsmouth.
Thcie will be a lull in politics now
for a few weeks perhaps.
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The people know a good official
when they have tried him.
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something they don't want to do.
An American at El Taso expresses
the belief that Villa is certainly dead.
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After a brief breathing spell, the
candidates will be up and at it again.
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Some voung chaps can do more
narm tnan Sooa lor lllGir lavorue can
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The most dignified liar in the world
is the fellow who writes political sta-
tistics during the campaign.
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The farmers are very busy these
day, and this right good downpour is
what will help them out amazingly.
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In a primary election there is no
telling who ingoing to be nominated
There were many surprises in the re
mit Tuesday.
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It will take something more than a
"card" and some in memoriam poetry
in the paper to convince General Fun
ston that Villa is dead.
t :o:
Senator Hitchcock carrying Omaha
by such a lare majty shows wha
the people of the metropolis think of
their illustrious and favored son
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If Villa ever turns up alive, both
he and Carranza will have to pay the
penalty. It will be to the interest of
both of them for Villa to remain dead.
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The fly-swatting season has not
gotten in good yet. The pests seem
late in getting here this spring. May
be they are afraid the frost will nip
them.
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The youngsters are looking forward
to the reception of the pretty colored
CggS. Uh, how our mma levers
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lo our vounS ooynooa auy
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were Jusl UKe ulu r"s. . ; .
day, and how we enjoyed the Easter
eggs.
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A bill to retire superannuated pos
tal employes has been favorably re-
ported by a house committee. A bill
of this nature will retire about half
the number now in the employ of the
postal service, some of whom should
have been retired several years ago i
fortune, a great many are sadly m
need of a square and plumb. I
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TOO MANY ALARMISTS.
Fortunately the public has learned
to discount the reports issuing from
Washington dealing with the siiua-
tion between Germany and the Amer -
ican government.
Hence there is every reason to be-
lieve that the likelihood of serious in-
terruption of international relations
is always overdrawn, it is nrmiy
impressed into the American mind
that Presidont Wibcn is not going to
train any point to create a hostility
between this country and any other.
American confidence on that point is
more determined th?.n American con -
fidence in the rumors and guesses of
the Washington correspondents
However, the state department re
alizes that it is to be held to a strict
accountability for what it may do, and
that anything that looks like an un-
wai ranted concession to any foreign
power will at ence ar6use much hos
tile criticism. Republican leadeis are
itching for some administration act
that would afford them some justifica
tion for declaring that the flag has
been lowered.
Thus far the conduct of the presi
dent and the state department has
afforded them small ' opportunity to
complain, and they have had to con
tent themselves with listening to
criticism from thase who are ag-
grieved because the president ha;
clung to every American right under
international law with grim persist-
ence. But this has been done without
braggadocio, however the correspend-
ents may have fulminated in their de
sire to be sensational.
It has been apparent that these re
ports from Washington are olten
couched in terms calculated to em
barrass the administration by pre
senting situations as more grave than
they really were.
Regardless cf the correspondents,
the public has confidence that the
president will not interrupt the friend
ly relations between it and any for
eign power upon any slender pretext.
nor will it strain a point in order to
jQ so. The course-of the president
throughout his service has shown that
nc wjn spare r.o effort to maintain the
friendship and invite the confidence of
all foreign powers. While standing I
firmly for the maintenance of every
neutral light, the president is known
to be an exponent of peace. But with
honor. Lincoln Star.
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us a shorter ballot, by all
Give
means.
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Like the sknuk, the scandalmonger
can for a time poison the atmosphere,
but the odor soon passes away.
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villaee clerl: of tht villa of Avona.
; County of Cass ami State of Nebras-
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j required number of resident freehold
ers of the said village, setting forth
that the applicant is a man of respect-
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klent of tho State of Nebraska, and
praying tlrat a license may be issued
to the said Ben M. Mohr for the sale
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i for the municipal vcar cndlnc Mav 2.
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(5), in block thirteen (13), in said vil
lage of Avoca, Nebraska.
BEN M. MOHR, Applicant.
April IS, lDUI.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LIQUOR LICENSE.
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Weideman, of the Village of Green
wood, Cass county, Nebraska, filed a
petition in the office of the village
clerk on April -8, 191G, as required
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ka and the ordinances of the Village
of Greenwood, to sell malt, sp-nluoi3
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