PLATTSMOUTH 8 E5II-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1917.
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R. A. BATES, Publisher
UBSCIUFTIOX PKICEl 1.3
Hear Hon. 11. i. Metcalfe.
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At the Pa nr. el e theater.
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Thursday night, May 17.
pay you.
It will
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Thc farmer needs your boy durinj.
vacation.
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.Aiul do
think for.
you more good than you
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A hoc at the rear, or a rifle at the
front, which?
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Five thousand Chicagoans to join
Teddy's army.
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Twenty-five dollars per ton for hay
is going some.
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All weeds should he kept
under
strict surveillance.
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Hear R. L. Metcalfe at the Taimcle
theater tomorrow night.
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Russian problems seem to he ret
ting settled Petrogradually.
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Show your colors tomorrow by
floating Old Glory in front of your
stores.
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You can't get away with Yankee in
genuity, and there is no use talking
about it.
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The nights are a little cool yet. "Old
Sol" should get a move on himself, and
tiled his lays in a more heated man
ner. :o:
If the .-kills keep on receding and
the shoctops keep on progressing, we
greatly fear the belt makers will have
to go out of business.
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The trnvc i nnu nt is after the makers
of hiuh prices, and while it is at it,
we hope he will rive the paper trust
a few punches in the short ribs.
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Mot of our people have planted a
garden, and by the way, they are put
ting in all their spare time in working
it, too. Every little bit helps, you
know.
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In civil war times flour was P1Q a
barrel and pork $KJ per hundred. Rut
that was fifty years ago, when it took
two dollars in government money to
buy one in gold.
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No matter what opinion you had
before this nation entered the war, it
is row your duty to do your part to
ward helping her fight it effectively.
No privation that helps can be
spared.
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Sun lay is a hard day for most folks
We do not work quite as hard as we
do the rest of the week and we keep
lirht on eating just the same, so that
when Monday morning comes we arc
duller than a meat axe. And we fin.
fault with everything.
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No punishment is too severe for the
natural born American, and his par
ents, before him born in this country,
who makes a practice of condemning
the government for its action on the
war question, and also President Wil
son. It is but little less than down
right treason.
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As Lincoln said: "U is for us the
living to be. here dedicated to the
treat task remaining before us." Then
again, we should ''highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died in
vain." Let us all help to consecrate
the great day made as memorial by
the lives and blood of our forefathers.
Not only should the day be observed
by public meetings but every school
in the country should prepare special
programs for May 30th that will teach
the younp the glory of our nation and
that will make the elders more sol
emly proud of our great land.
PER
VEAK 131 ADTANCB
MOTHER: THE HEROINE.
The bugle calls. The cry "To arms'
Resounds throughout the land.
Our hearts quiver with dread alarms,
As on war's brink we stand.
And mothers, nil, grow sad and drear,
When draws the parting near,
As all their sons, their blood and life,
Go forth into the strife.
The bugle sounds. The sharp com
mand Sends forth to death; the youth.
And leaves the out-stretched arm and
hand
Bereft of all, in truth,
That is held dear. His mother grieves
And wavers, as he leaves,
But 'tis for just a moment. Joy
Fills her heart to give her boy.
The bugle stops. Her boy is gone,
Rut her heart now serene,
Rejoices at her duty done.
Sick at heart she has been,
Now glad; for when the nations call
Mothers willingly give all.
No other half so brave and grand,
As mothers of the land.
FULTON MOORE.
Wanted Young America soldiers.
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Enlist before the draft gets you.
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Conquer we must, for in God we
trust.
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Potatoes are on the decline in price.
Good!
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Germany is again to announce new
terms of peace, so reports say.
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The dandelion crop is always good
or bad whichever way you may take
it.
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The first battle of the revolution
was fought near Charleston, S. C, on
August 27, 1782.
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A change in the police force may
have been a wise proposition, and may
not. Rut as to the taking off of the
regular night police we don't think
it was.
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If we can't have a Fourth of July
celebration, let us at least have a flag
pole raising on the great natal day.
Genuine patriotism is subject to dem
onstration. :o:
Parents should caution their chil
dren against pilfering flowers from
the lawns of their nearby neighbors.
If this practice isn't put a stop to,
parents are going to get their children
into serious trouble.
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The plan of the government to take
charge of the production and distribu
tion of food stuffs, may prove bene
ficial to the common people, who have
a hard time to make both ends meet.
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The newspaper reporter cannot al
ways vouch for the truth of what he
prints. Sometimes he must tell the
-story as he hears it and leave the
reader to form his own judgment. So
you cannot blame him if he does get
a little off sometimes.
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Every patriotic citizen who can pos
sibly do so, should come out and hear
Jlon. R. R. Metcalfe at the Parmele
theater tomorrow night. It will be
worth coming many miles to hear him.
He will open your eyes as to the state
of affairs that is brewing, and no mis
take. -:o:-
"You are taking a great deal, so
far as actual dollars and cents are
concerned," said Mr. Reavis, "but in
the proportionate sacrifice that the
men who pay it will make, you aro
taking a great deal more from tht
married man with $2,000 who has a
family to support than you are from
the $10,000,000 man. The man with
the income of $10,000,000 is paying
that income out of the funds that he
can use only In the way of investment.
The relative sacrifice cannot be com
pared." This is seid by our congressman.
WHAT PUT NEBRASKA DRY.
Under the above caption the Kear
ney Times gives utterance to editoria
truths as accurate as the scriptures of
Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Every
man who is at all observant and who
has "mixed" with the people of Ne
braska for a long period of years
knows who the "reserves" were who
rushed to the firing line and saved the
day for the prohibition army last fall.
The city of Aurora furnishes abundant
proof of what occurred in communities
all over the state. In this city scores
of men who had been accustomed to
drink moderately, and some of them
at times rather immoderately, voted
to drive the liquor traffic out of the
state because from actual not theo
retical experience they had grown
weary of the assertive insolence of the
system and its hangers-on. For the
prohibition "generals" of the state to
take unto themselves all the credit is
like purloining any other whole loaf
when but half of it belongs to them.
The Times says:
"One of the speakers at the big
mass meeting Tuesday night seemed
inclined to give the credit for a "dry"
Nebraska to those "old soldiers" of
prohibition who have fought for years
that this might be obtained. Another
took the stand that the condition came
as the inevitable result of the awaken
ing of the public conscience. The
latter was far more near the truth of
the matter than the former. If only
the men and women had worked, who
had never known through personal
experience and their study of material
facts, the insidious effects of liquor,
the state would still be "wet." Theie
political fights during the years were
usually met with defeat and they only
won when the men who had learned
by their own personal contact with the
stuff turned the trick.
"With all seriousness, it was the
drinkers of Nebraska that put Ne
braska dry. As has been said by one
of the most notable writers of the
times: "We must advance. It will
come through scientific thought or
suffering." This has been shown in the
liquor fight. The men who have suf
fered are the ones who furnished the
balance of power. And this is said
with no idea of discounting the ef
forts of the professional prohibition
ist." -:o:-
THE UNITED STATES OF GREAT
BRITAIN?
Naturally the proceedings of the Im
perial Conference, now about to ad
journ in London, have been secret in
the main, but official publication is
made of two agreements which hava
great historical importance. The end
of the war is to witness a confedera.
tion of all the self-governing states
of the empire and the recognition o'
their right to an adequate voice in de
termining British foreign policy. Even
India is to share in this.
Thus Great Britain prepares for the
final step which, except for its heredi
tary sovereign and aristocracy, will
make its governmental system like our
own. From the loss of the American
colonies and the system which the
United States established for the gov
ernment of territories or dependencies
the Tories themselves learned a great
lesson. Local self-government has
been widely extended. There has been
no taxation without representation.
In sharp contrast with our system,
however, each self-governing domin
ion has been under no military ob
ligation to the empire and has been
free to establish it own economic pol
icy. Federation, with an Imperial Coun
cil at London by which foreign rela.
tions will be pased upon, may easily
introduce to the world in time the
United States of Great Britain. New
York World.
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HOW CAN I SERVE MY COUNTRY?
"What can I do in case of war?"
Well, what would you do?
Examine yourself. You will prob
ably find that the best thing that you
can do is to practice deep breathing
and bending exercises until you can
touch the floor with the tips of your
fingers without bending your knees.
See if you can run around the block
four times without having an attack
of heart failure. Have a competent
person look at your feet. The chances
are ten to one that you have mis
treated them shamefully and would
be unable to walk five miles with a
forty-pound pack on your back. Do
not blame congress for unprepa red
ness or the administration for being
"slow to act'' if you have a thirty
eight-inch chest and a forty-two-inch
waist line. One way to bring about
a condition of national preparedness
is to prepare yourself for the simp
lest elemental duties of a citizen and
soldier. Cigarets before breakfast,
an ingrowing toenail, and a conse
quen tinability to run 100 yards are
just as reprehensible as a lack of pa
triotism. The World's Work.
A PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT.
Copperheadism in congress is hid
ing behind reputed fears that the
things we are asked to do toward the
winning of the war are so undemo
cratic as to imperil American ideals.
It is a subterfuge. The only dan
ger there is that this government
will ever go wrong by stifling demo
cratic ideals lies in the possibility
that foreign autocracy may in time
destroy democracy here as elsewhere.
Today the people are sovereign in
this country. It is folly to imagine
or suggest that the people will ever
allow themselves to be betrayed. If
they relinquish anything that seems
democratic, it will be merely a tem
porary experient for the accomplish
ment of an imperative purpose.
When the emergency is passed they
will restore any item of democracy
that stress of circumstances may
have led them to relinquish.
Congressmen who are professing
such intense devotion to democratic
ideals that they refuse to do the
things that must be done if we win
the war ought to be jolted by their
constituents.
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NO EXCUSE FOR PANIC.
What condition is imaginable upon
which to question the accuracy of the
statement of Herbert C. Hoover that
There is absolutely no occasion for
food panic in this country."
America will raise enough food to
feed all its people, and have much
o spare. Foreign needs, notably
those of our allies, may make prices
high for what consumers here have
to buy, but consumers are being
taught to exercise precaution toward
having to buy as little as possible.
In order to avoid buying each
should produce as much food for
himself and family as possible. That
will increase the surplus that we
mav be able to send to our allies in
Europe.
Consumers have been responsible
for the recent high prices. They fe
verishly hoarded supplies. Those
who bought flour and sugar in large
quantities simply laid in supplies
that spoil upon them, and the waste
simply helps to keep prices up.
Nobody is going to starve in Amer-
ica. It is a land ot plenty, ana ine
people are too intelligent to starve in
the midst of plenty. But for human
ity's sake, produce all you can your
self. Do not exercise hysterical and ex
cessive economies. It will cripple busi
ness, paralyze industry and destroy
prosperity, all national essentials in
time of war even more than in time
of peace. Lincoln Star.
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NOT A WAR FOR PROFITS.
Nor can any particular class in
America profit by our participation
in the war. The rich will be taxed
as never before; the "war industries"
will be squeezed like a lemon of their
excess profits. With the passing of
neutrality dissappeared this coun
try's golden opportunity to acquire
wealth; and while were it neutral it is
trua that the opportunity was so
completely grasped that the world
said we fattened on the blood spilt
by other nations. But one cannot fat
ten on both neutrality and war. In
going to war this country threw
away the greatest opportunity in
modern times to work the gold mine
of neutral isolation, and Mr. Asquith j
must have had the fact in mind when 1
he said to the British house of com-'
;mons that our entrance into the war
as a belligerent was "one of the most '
disinterested acts in history'
United States is to profit materially
bv coiny to war with Germany, the
demonstration will be welcomed. Our
material interests were so glaringly
on the side of pace that in the last
year of our neutrality we hud to dis-
claim sordid reasons for opposing
war if we adhered to a pacifist posi-
tion. The Republican knows this be-
cause it upheld the policy of neutral-j
if ir ce lnnir ie it pmiiil nrvnnv't i; m'.nn.
tain that neutrality did not involve
national shame and degradation.
What the war mav profit America in
spiritual and moral values, time may
be left to show: but it has been clear
from the outset that it can yield to
us no dividends in material things.
Springfield Republican.
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TIIE BUILDING OF THE ARMY
Undcr the heading "The Real Be
ginning" the New York Times prints
the following editorial, which gives an
excellent idea of the work that must
be done, in the next few months, to
raise and equip an American army
under the policy of .selective conscrip
tion:
"The hard fight has been nearly won
and only the final legislative forma.1
ities and the president's signature L
the army bill are required to make
selective conscription the military law
of the United States. This, however,
will only be a small part of the pic
digious task, in which all the zeal and
energy of the war department and the
governors and people of the states will
be needed. If the volunteer recruiting
does not go on more rapidly within
the week, diafted men will fill the
vacancies in the regular army and the
national guard must be raised to au
thorized strength by conscription.
That must be attended to first. Then
the formation of the first increment
of the great reserve army must begin.
Apart from the transportation of
these 500,000 men to the various mili
tary posts, their formation into divis
ions, brigades, regiments and com
panies, and their traininer, in which
the services of. 150,000 seasoned offi
cers, non-commissioned officer.-, and
privates will be required, this enor
mous task will provide night and day
operations for thousands of mills and
factories, ammunition plants, and
armories. Contractors, horse dealers,
leather manufacturers, laboratories,
motor car makers, foundries, will be
involved in the great labor.
"For the men must be uniformed,
armed, equipped. The cavalry must
be mounted. The airmen must have
their machines. There must be more
gunpowder and cartridges, more field
guns, rules, maenme guns, sauces
and bridles and ppurs, tents, and blan
kets than soldiers of this country have
ever had before. A continuous supply
of wholesome and nutritious food must
be supplied for an army of a million,
to be made 2,000,000 presently, and
perhaps 3.000.000 within little more
than a year. With the passage of the
conscription act the world learns that
the United States has entered this
war in earnest, to fight on its own
account, to help to bring the war to a
victorious conclusion for humanity and
democracy. With the beginning of the
operation of the law, millions of the
inhabitants of this country, who until
now have looked upon the war as
something apart from their daily lives,
will have a realizing sense of what
modern warfare means. The war is
here now. j
"Happily, the war department has
already made all its preliminary plans.
The machinery is ready. By August
2,000,000 men will have been selected
for military service. The medical ex
aminers are ready, the transportation
arrangements have been perfected
most of the problems relating to sup
plies have been solved by the Council
of National Defense. Before the end
of a month the wheels will be moving.
The prosecution of this cnnrriou j
work, which will cost the country to
much, will have its direct effect on
every inhabitant. The wasteful must
stop their waste. The people must
pay for the war, but it will cost them
less than a German victory would cost,
for that would be the death of democ-
racy, the downfall of civilization.
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Sound, Conservative anrJ Progressive
THE BANK OF THE PEOPLE
THE BANK BY THE PEOPLE
THE BANK FOR THE PEOPLE
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-OFFICERS:-
WM. SCHNEIDER, President
W. H. LOHKES, Vice-President T. J. SMANAKAN, Vice-President
J. F. FOREMAN, Cashier
UNITED STATES
ROHIBITION BILL
Washington, D. ('., May Ke-ver.-.ing
its ac,i"M of S-.'.tur.lay, the
senate today struck l':-'.m the admin
istration o-pionage bill the Cummins
amendment prohibiting the use- of
ceieals and gr:an in the manafacUue
of !iq'jor during the period of the war.
The vote was 47 to ."7.
The effort of Senator Overman to
reinsert the press censorship provision
in the bill was defeated by a vote of
IS to .'i 1.
The entiie bill tbr-a was pa- -en by
a vote of 77 to o. The measure wa:
st nt to conference imrnediatelv.
There is only one principal differ
.. tween the two houses, that
being the censorship section. It is
possible that if the Louse again gels
a change to vote on the censorship it
wiil eliminate the section. '
The elimination of the Cummins
j'.Tv.'ndrncnt from the hill was a com
plete surprise. Ihe amendment vv;r
put in the bill by a vote of ?.S to -2
or. Saturday, an I although it was ex
pected the liquor clement would!
make a lucd light today, it was not ex
j ette.l that so many senator.-', who di i
not vote on Saturday would vote ia-J
day against the proposal.
Neither was it thought that two
sc.atois, John on of California and
King of Utah, who voted for prohlhi-
lion on Saturday, would change their
votes and vote r.gaini-t it today. j plattsmouth has led to the Omaha or-
The vote on tha Cummins amend- j .-miration taking steps to form a
merit sounded the death knell of at-jun,rx-h in this city to permit the
tempts to conserve grain by prohibit- ! y ivat-heart jd women of this com
ing as a war measure, it use in the3nan;ty a full part in the work,
manufacture cf liquor. Although at- Among those identified with the
tempts may be made later to revive I movement throughout the nation are
the subject, it is realized
that the
senate h:ts put itself on record
against national prohibition. jv.ill
Senator .King of Utah moved tojiaet
strike out the Cummin-; amendment.
lie was support: d by Senator Under -
wood and Husting. Senator Under
wood said it was neither a real con
sol vation nor prohibition move, would
destroy immense quantities of whisky
in bond for beverage purposes.
Senator Cummins said he was not
alarmed over tempoiary loss of em -
ployment by those in breweries and
distilleries which would have to close
if the amendment is retained.
"We ought to close this nefarious
is li
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vilh present conditions at the various factories exist
ing and the scarcity of freight cars in which to trans
fer cuter., if is a coid fact that a great many buyers will
be disappointed st the inskility cf agents to secure cars
with which to fill orders already sold. We anticipated
this condition early and bought a isupply of cars of both
"Studebaker" and "Maxwell" sutos and can make im
mediate delivery to yo-j. Think this matter over care
fully and call on us or write and we will be pleased to
give you a demonstration of either make.
Thsre is a raise in price cf both makes which we
can avoid if you will act quickly. Subject to stock on
hand
Studebakcr G-50, f. o. b. Detroit $1,250.00
Maxwell 4-40, f . o. b. Detroit 940.00
Maxwell 4-30, f. o. b. Detroit 635.C0
Cedar Creek
cunty
the farmer in feed ing
ytoek for market
a nil
kV mm
it r j
a &.
t r.Lvi-p; is---, at least during the war,"
said the Iowa senator.
Sei :.- -r Kcl d.claie.l th. t'uni
r.i ajTU-idriunt would destroy prop.
e:ty v.o-t'i Sl,000,o0, throw 1,!MJO,00')
nun ou. of employment, frighten cap
it::!, c.vA di-Unb bu.-iness, all without
adequate time for proper considera
tion. LADIES INTERESTED IN
AIDING
HE BED GROSS
WORK TO MEET FRIDAY
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tL-inoath who are
inter; .- U-! ill the woi k o
lied Cii.-ss work will meat
r .,;.!;,,,, it,..
Fiidav a.f-
te: v.ooi at. 2 o clock sharp
auditorium of the public
tt the
ibiary
buildircr. v. hen a branch of the
tional Surgical Dressing- ConiiiiitU--
-f Amu ica will be fr
ladies of this- city to
s.ed by the
-i-t in the
cause of the v.oaaded on the Ihivo
pean battlefields. .Mrs. (.). C. lledick
and .Mis. Charles T. Kountz. of Oma
ha, . he pjs:e;it to a.-si.-l in the
work and -give an outline of the work
as proposed and which is an import
ant part in the program of the ex
tension of (lie lied Cross work. This
committee is earing for home as well
as foreign war relief and their mis
sion is recognized as ore of the great
est, of impoi tance to mitigste the suf-
i'ering of both the soldiers
!(1 non
and at
combatants in
the war zone
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ie. Tiie great interest
shown in
ladies of
h
op-'sition bv the
j numbered the leaders of the women
oi
meri-;a and. their part in the war
be most important as the ton
progresses. Let every lady in
. I'lattsmouth
I
iltcnd the meeting.
OUR GISAXni'ATHKUS
I drenched horses for colic. That was
j the old way, which was uncertain and
unsafe. Farirs' Colic Remedy does
j away with drenching is applied on
i the horse's tongue with a dropper
which comes packed in each bottle.
Cet it today. W gua.antee it.
II. M. Soennichsen.
Tills & Oanscmer.
Nebraska
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