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MONDAY, MAY 7, 191. PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Cbe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMMVEEKLT AT PLATTSMO UTK, NEBRASKA. Catered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Neb., as secoad-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher UBSCKIPTIOjr PRICEl WIJM The "drv" law is in force. :o:- Extravaprance is more costly than living. . :o: If you have an iron will, he sure you don't let it pet rusty. :o: One man "roots" while the other ttan.Is around and "squeals." :o: Cobwebs are useful in advei Using a s-tore that does not advertise. -:o: The la?t few days, however, has I t-en 'wet" enough for anybody. If it isn't one thing it is another, to Iisgu.-t the people and now it is wet wtather. :o: It i not the airship so much as i' is hv heir.-hip that keeps a great many p.'ople worrying. :o: People who lay aside their flannels t'K. .-on are apt to be compelled to wear a woolen overcoat. :o: "April t-howers bring forth May flowers," i an old quotation, and May first brings forth June thirst. -:o: The on!y thing that prevents some tvurccn following all the latest fash-ivn.- in dress is their vaccination scar :o: Mexico is about the only nation t,'. earth where a thief has a better chance of being a success than an honest man. In oider to become a great finan cial success depends chiefly upon p! i k. but you must first find the vie tim to be plucked. :o: The farmers haven't been able to get :n much work the past week, and it lvts become a worrying proposition. The planting will be late. :o: When a man is driven into bank- lujtcy hjs failure is generally at tributed to women and booze, but not when h. goes into the chicken bus! -:o:- Women are admonished to treat a'le-bodied men with great considera tion, because with war and appendi citis combined, good men are becom ing mighty scarce. :o: Mothers' day, one week from next Sunday. This is the day of all days in which we pay tribute to our dear mothers, whether dead or living. The dearest friend we ever possessed. :o: Tom and Jerry will not figure in holiday celebrations to any great ex tent in NYhiaska in the future. They are pretty good fellows, but they, too, have gone glimmering with the past. In the language of Tom Moore: "Faro thee well, and if forever; again I say then fare thee well!" :o:- The jw-ople of this country are not fcoing to starve, so long as there is plenty in this land, even if it is housed up by robbing speculators. When it mrncs to the starving point the people become reckless, ami there is not a big cnouch army to keep them from getting it, even if the food does come from those who have it housed up for higher prices. :o: Some people will blame an officer for duing his duty. This is entirely wrong. An oilicer is sworn to see that the laws of the land are enforced, am if he fails to do this, when he knows the laws have not been preserved, he can be removed. It is not always a pleasant duty for the officer, and while in many instances he regrets to have to do things he does not care to do. jet must do, no reasonable person is going to get boisterous when the offi cer does his duty, no matter who ''get tit." PER YEAR Cf ADTANCB WAKE UI AMERICANS! It is real war grim, deadly, terri ble that is upon us. It is imperilling not only Europe but America. It is not only threatening our ideals and the institutions we cherish as they exist abroad it is challenging their right to live here on American soil. It is here, at our door. Its hot breath is on our cheek. Secretary Lane, as spokesman for the government, told the plain, hard, unpalatable truth to the American people at Washington yesterday. Speaking to the governors of many states he announced that the subma rine destruction is not only threaten ing the existence of England and France but is alarming the United States. He said: ''We do not know when on the other side we shall fight it on this side of the Atlantic.'' He said: 'We do not know when this war will end. Personally I be lieve it will last several years. Ger many has put up the greatest fight of history." If there are American citizens who till believe that this is not our war, that we have no stake in it, that we can afford to be indifferent to the out come, they cannot too soon undeceive themselves. The democratic cause in Europe is in imminent and frightful danger. But for the assistance of the United States t will almost certainly be lost. And it is only by organizing for a mighty effort, as a united and determined people hesitating at no sacrifice, that we can depend upon our own power to stem the rising tide of autocracy. If we leave England and France to go down to defeat before we can save them it will be our turn next and the war, as Secretary Lane warns us, will be transferred to this side of the At- antic. With England and France beaten, not for another month would Russia and Italy be able to stand up and continue the fight. And with the original enemies of the Central Pow ers crushed and helpless, except for Japan, who can say what ! other in vaders than Germany we might be called upon the resist! The American people for many months have been lulled with false as surances and false hopes. They have been made to believe that Germany's cause was hopeless, that the triumph of the allies was certain. The tre mendous danger of the siibmarine campaign has been hidden and mini mized. The drive on the west front has been pictured as a sweeping tri umph, pushing the German hosts in confusion before it. Russia, after the revolution, has been advertised as r, mightier power than before. Now aJi last the truth is dawning upon us. We see the submarine making a mockery of British sea power. We see the al lied drive slowing down and stopping after tremendous efforts and enormous losses, with the Hindenburg line in tact. Wc see in Russia revolution confronted by revolution, weakness everywhere, disorganization and dis- intagration threatened. The allies are not winning the war. They are losing it We are losing it. The entente powers have not the strength and resources remaining to organize for a fresh and greater ef fort. The reserve power that alonq can change defeat to victory is here in the United States. The future of this war our own future included rests here, with us. To stop now to question whether the war is a "popular" one or not is madness. It is to sit stubbornly in a burning building and debate the mil- lenium. This war, Mr. American Cit izer, our part in it, should be just as "popular" with you as the fireman who dashes through and into the 'flames to save your wife and child from certain and awful death. It is vp to you to help that fireman, even though it be the certain loss of your own life! The government at Wash ington is the fireman. Surely Secre a tary Lane is not unreasonable in warning you against discontent in urging that you do not criticise, at tack and weaken it in this supreme hour of our national life! Back of it you should put every ounce of your strength, every fibre of your body, every impulse of your life. This is no time for doubting and questioning. It is no time for looking backward, or for division. But neither is it a time for hysteria. It is a time to play a man's part in a world in flames. The way to do that is to be reasonable as well as devoted, tc steady patriotism with poise, to give ourselves with cool heads and steady nerves each to that work he can do best to add to the might and unity of the republic. World-Herald. :o: INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP. Current events are disclosing what it means for a state to cultivate the friendship and confidence of other powers and other peoples. It is not alone its own power and resources that the United States gov ernment is able to throw into the scales against Prussain plutocracy, but its participation in the war of democracy and against absolutism is enlisting the enthusiastic co.opera- tion of milions living in other lands under other governments. Events are beginning to prove trat the biggest work accomplished by the administration of Wood row Wilson has been the winning of the confi dence of the world in the good inten tions of the American government. He has taught formerly suspicious peoples that' this government enter tains no ambitions for conquest, for expansion of territory or for the ex ploitation of any country or people. That is why Cuba has come for ward with its offer to join us in the war. That is why Brazil, Argentina and other powerful Latin republics have either followed or are preparing to follow our example. And far-away China has chosen to cast her lot with us. JNot even the allies had been able to lure China into a relinquishment of neutrality. Every device known to diplomacy and intrigue had been tried to win support from China, but as soon as the United States took a stand and as soon-as Russian autoc racy had received its deatn blow, China broke off diplomatic relations with the author of the campaign of f rightfulness and is threatening to follow this country into the war. In diplomatic circles it is no secret that it is the open and candid course this government has pursued toward all other governments and peoples that has won their co-operation at a critical period in the world's history. Lincoln Star. :o: Our merchants will have to carry larger stocks of goods than ever be fore, and sell as cheap as the same can be bought in Omaha. They can do it, and there is no use to stand back on prices. The way to do is to have bargain days, the same as other cities, and offer prices and goods that are bound to draw trade for many miles. The people are going to buy where they can get what they want at the right prices. There is no use denying this fact. :o: The Railway Age Gazette sees the end of the holdup game in the decis ion of a jury at Belleville, 111., deny ing damages to a fellow whose auto mobile collided with a railroad train It is time that juries refused to giv? damages to automobile drivers who travel neither on track or schedule. for collisions with trains that musi keep to bath. Lincoln Star. :o: The boys seem to be answering the call for enlistments mighty well all over the country. There is no dis count on the patriotism of Young America, when their ountry is in dan ger. :o: TEN BOYS AND GIRLS WANTED To sell American Flag Pins. See Mr. Olson at the Olson Photo Co. of fice- .:.J8.1ftin YOUNG AMERICA. Young Amerca, it's up to you! You do not have to shoulder a rifle and march to the front to prove your loyalty to your country and your flag. You do not have to join the navy to prove that you are proud of the land of your birth. - "They also serve who only stand and wait," said Tennyson. That is all right when it is all right. But right now you have a glorious opportunity to prove your loyalty and your devotion, and that, too, without severing home ties, without baring your breast to the shot of the enemy, without undergoing the horrors of trench warfare. The service you can render is just as brave, just as neces sary, as fighting at the front. As a matter of fact, you can do your coun try more good right here at home than you could possibly do at the front, either as a soldier or a sailor. And you do not have to be a certain age, nor do you have to meet certain phy sical requirements, to be fit for needed service. There may not be quite so much glory in the service you can render as there is in charging a trench or sinking an enemy ship, but there is just as much satisfaction and just as much reward due you if you do the duty that lies to you right here. Young America, get into the fields and the gardens! Grab a hoe and pro duce for the country while your elder brothers are fighting for your country. Let not one square foot of fertile soil escape your charge. Shoot on sight the first weed that threatens to rob the fertility of your native soil and prevent the production of foodstuffs that your brothers in the field must have, and which must be supplied to' those who are left behind. Charge every enemy of procrastination and idleness and put them to rout. Get your range finders trained on every skulking enemy of thriftlessness and turn loose the big guns of energy and toil thereon. Wars are not fought today as they were fought a half-century ago. They are won by organization, by prepara tion and by specialization. The pro ducer is just as necessary as the fighter. Food is as necessary Nas smokeless powder and lyddite bombs. Young America, if you will do your patriotic duty in this emergency, never fear that you will not receive credit equal to that of the older boys who have gone to the front. If by your exertions the country is able to abundantly supply its armies in the field, its allies at the front and its own people left t home, without stinting anyone or permitting the pangs of hunger, your work is just as glorious and just as much entitled to honorable mention as the bravest deed of the bravest soldier. One boy with hoe, if he is as pa triotic as the boy with the rifle, can serve his country to the fullest meas ure of devotion. Young America, 'don't be a "slack er!" Do your bit, wherever the oppor tunity lies. Every mouthful you eat in idleness is a drain upon the re sources of the country. Every ounce of foodstuff you contrbute to the gen eral store is an added strength to the republic. Not all of us can go to the front. But every one of us who have to stay at home can do our bit. We can economize in foodstuffs for our own use. We can prevent waste. We can till a bit of soil, no matter how small the plot may be, and thus help to increase the country's stores and add to the strength of the armies in the field. The schoolboys and the schoolgirls of America can help immeasurably to win this war for the preservation of democracy, for the preservavation of free public schools, free speech, free press and equal opportuntfy. A grave responsibility is yours, Young Amer ica, in this great crisis. Ifyou are the sons of your fathers, if the blood of revolutionary sires hasn't faded and become thin in your veins, you will not shirk one iota of that respon sibility, but will meet it manfully. And we have every confidence in you, Young America! Your kind never failed us before. We know you will not fail now. A hoe in the fields and a rifle at the front .that's the combination that will win this war for humanity. Bill Maupin's York Democrat. -:o: A NEW WORLD FOOD CRISIS. Mr. Lloyd George's Guildhall ap peal for food economy and increased production was as applicable to the United? States as to Britain. For France also his are weight words. Italy is no more fortunate. According to Arthur Richmond I Marsh, who today acquaints World readers with the gravity of the crisis, we face world famine.. Even if the war were now to end, there would not be enough to eat, reckoned with their old wasteful standards, in the lands that have been centers of civilization. In America we meet the conse quences of the drift away from the farm, suddenly heightened by the war, the sinking of food ships, de rangement of the fertilizer supply, the withdrawal of millions of men from production. We had natural resources to feed the neutral and en. tcnte world, but labor lacked. On top of all came weather conditions which have left our winter wheat prospects below the ten-year average. What can be tlone in a case so grave? First, realize it. Plant corn, potatoes, beans the latter, Dr. Marsh reminds, us, an invaluable hearty food. Plant late, after the gathering of early crops. Till city and suburban and village gardens everywhere, under the direction of garden committees. But to lessen the shock of a condi tion "the like of which has not been seen on the North American conti nent since its earliest colonization by the white race," the first, the obvious, the inescapable duty to our allies and ourselves is to stop wasting food. New York World. :o: TWO SIDES TO SHIP LOSSES. A Washington dispatch says tha'. Germany's loss of ships is greater than that of England and approxi mates 2,259,000 tons, so that Germany will emerge from the war with a net loss of over 50 per cent of her mer chant shipping. Should Argentine, and other South American countries who have not as yet severed relation? decide to seize German vessels, the loss would be increased by 7J,000 ions. German ships lost by mines or torpedoes total 152 vessels, a tonnage of 452,000; detained or captured by the enemy, 27, with tonnage of 807, 000; in the United States or neutral harbors, (521, with tonnage of 2,341, 000, in other words, 7.1 per cent have been destroyed; 14.1 per cent are held by the enemy; 43 per cent are in the ports of the United States and neu tral countries, and 35.8 per cent arc still at home. It will be seen that there are two sides to this shipping business. The loss of shipping has not all been on the side of the allies as some men vecm to think. The loss, however, has, been so great that ocean transporta tion will be crippled for some years to come. When General Goethels gets his thousand wooden ships on the sea, some of which he expects to be sail ing from our ports in about six months, that will add 3,000,000 tons to our shipping, and it will take the U-boats some time to sink them. Meantime a great many more can be built. Recent reports from Japan arfc to the effect that an enormous number of ships are in course of construction there. IIorlt-Herald. Get Rid of Your Rheumatism. Now is the time to get rid of your rheumatism. You will find Chamber lain's Liniment a great help. The re lief which it affords is alone worth many times its cost. American flags, from 5c up, at the Journal office. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Hall's Catarrto Medicine has been taken by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty five years, and lias become known as the most reliable remedy for Catarrh. 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