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r ! PAGE s THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1917, PLA1TSMOUT1I SEMI-WEEKLY JOU1LNAI be plattstnoutb lourtial PUBIISHKD SKMI-WKKKIT AT Catered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth. R. A. BATES, Publisher UBSCRIPTIOIf TRICKi tt Whore can we find Two wives who sit And do not gossip Just a bit? A rain must come in a very few days. -:o:- The corn crop is in very great dan cer. -:o:- Thc father of rumors a censor ship. :o: Civil service is always attacked from without. -:o: How about the home guard propo sition. Governor? :o: Any time you bet on a sure thing be prepared to lose. -:o:- Tiil' difference between a jo1 and a position is about three dollars a day. The war has already lasted long enough to wear out most of the ama teur prophets. :c:- Ile is thrice armed who has a sack"cf flour, a bit of meat and a back yard garden. :o:- These ate glorious times, when an ambitious girl can aim to be either a movie star or a Red Cross heroine. :o: The rights are beautiful, with gen erally a fine breeze blowing, which is some consolation to those who have passed through the hot day. :o: TJie fight waged in congress by the profit managers who want to get rich out of the war, is a disgrace to America, the mother of democracy. A Michigan girl dislodged a f in from hor threat by singing rag-time. This is the only practical use for ragtime music that has ever been dis covered. -:o:- Wc are glad that the senate has voted to exclude iron ore and hemp from the food bill, as we cannot help believing that both arc highly indi gestible. :o:- Dr. Alexander Graham IJcll says the best thinking is done after mid night. We always thought that wa the hour when people done most of their forgetting. -:o:- The dispatches sayv that 00,000 re publicans are just outside of Pckin. Mr. Hughes ha? been wondering since last November where those republi cans had gone. -:o: A postcard bearing the following message has arrived from Nevada: "This is a great place for a change. and a rest. The grafters get the change and the hotels get the rest :o:- Unless you are trying to make Plattsmouth a better town, you arc not a very patriotic citizen. There arc many ways in which you can help without spending a ,cent, and you know how to do this without us tell ing you. :o: "We will never bring disgrace tt this our city by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suf fering comrades in the ranks., We wili fight for the ideals and sacred thing; of the city, both alone and witl many; we will revere and obey th.5 city's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at naught; we will strive unceasingly to quicken the public', .sense, of civic duty. Thus in all these ways we will transmit this city not only not less but greater, better an more .beautiful than it was transmit. ted to us." Oath of the Young Mer, PLATTSMOl'TH, N1C11IIASKA. Neb.. a second-class mail matter. Pf.H YF.AR IX ADVANCE TAKING GOOD ADVICE, Internment of the minister of the Lutheran church at Kiverdale for rabid pro-kaiserism wiil surprise no body around the headquarters of the council cf defense. It may be that the council had been advised of the activities of this particular minister before, but reports have ;-ome to the council of the similar activities and utterances of other ministers of that church. For instance, it was recently reported to the council headquarters that one certain minister in a nearby town had prayed fervently a couple of weeks ago, before his congrega tion, that the crops in America may burn up, so that they may not bo utilized for feeding the allies. It has not been the policy cf the council to make these reports public, because it was feared that some of them might be mistaken rumors or exaggerations of what was really said or done. I'ut the council has sought to investigate each such report and to have friends of the offender first counsel him to convince him cf the error of his way.;. On the other hand fine reports have een received of the militant loyally of ether ministers of the same church, and there is at least one clergyman of that denomination who sought to become a chaplain in the rational guard. Those apologists for disloyalty who have simulated indignation be cause of the recent statement of the Nebraska council of drfvn.se are ul timately going To find themselves" em barrassed by developments such as that involving the Kiverdale clergy man, for i hey have not taken pains to learn what the members of the coun cil for defense know with respect to disloyalties that have been vociferous. It is encouraging to observe that the appeal of the council to the con gregations of disloyal clergymen to curb the activities of their "conspicu ous representatives" was deemed good by at least a portion of the Kiverdale clergyman's congregation. so that when he proposed to pray for the kaiser, and his zealous fol lowers began to "Hock der Kaiser," an immediate protest broke up the meeting. It need noj be surprising if other clergymen should later be interned. Sergeant Breckinridge, who comes oC German ancestry, told his Lincoln ac quaintances how thoroughly the Ger man people have, through kaiser proclamations, been imbued with the idea that it is a religious war that Germany is waging. In one of them the kaiser declared that the Germans, Austrians, Bulgarians and Turks were God's chosen people, with a mission to impose German kultur upon the rest of the world, and that he who was killed in battle for the father land would lie welcomed to heaven, not by St. Peter, but that Frederick the Great would be there to take him by the hand. That is why there are some in this country disposed to pray for the kaiser, and why the advice of the council of defense was emi nently good. Lincoln Star. :o: One ought to have more respect for the office of the president of the country even in peace times when political license is quite free, not to utter even a thought of harm for the president personally. And in war lime i. is obviously intolerable It is absolutely incongruous with an acceptable citizenship. Grand Island Independent. :o: Life in China is just one blamed government after another. :o: Stirring up bitterness is the sole employment of some fellows. They are spotted, however. HOOT AND RUSSIA. j Premier Kerens ky of Russia is ! grappling in earnest with his job. It is his to determine whether a "blood and iron" policy can weld together the vast empire which Teuton in trigue isfast tearing asunder. Kerensky:; biggest power is the confidence of the Russian thinkers, lie won respect by unselfishly devot ing himself to altruistic ends. Diplo mats decried his first venture when he sanctioned the absolution of the death penalty and later when he im provised those "soldiers' committees" on the firing line. Military men pre dicted that such policies would tend to disrupt discipline and that predic tion was proved true. The discipline not only was disrupted but the army voluntarily retired, yielding to invad ing Germans much valuable ground and large stores of war supplies. Such losses arc big, but they have a com pensation if! that they evolved Ker ensky, the dictator, from Kerensky, the altruist. The Russian peasant soldier, or moujik, has long been inured to dis cipline and hardships. The Roman offs gave no heed to the grievances of their subjects. It sufficed the czar and his courtiers to know that all was well with the imperial household. Let the peasant gravel through life as best he could. Keien.-ky's leniency changed all this. The Russian moujik soon be gan to realize that his grievances could get an audience and he had many of them to tell. German plot ters ruagniiied these grievances. The result was that the peasant soldier who fought unthinkingly for the czar, when fighting would net him nothing but death, ceased fighting for the re public, when fighting would net him liberty and everything else worth liv ing for. The psychology oT the whoie affair is so patent, that it could not have en-aped Kerensky and his advisors. They mutt have employed the sol diers committees and the abolition of the death penalty merely to prove that they meant well by tin- baby re pubJic. They were sops to public opinion. They have outlived their usefulness now and steamer meas ures, which the moujik can more ful ly comprehend and which the nation's leaders must sanction, have been adopted. When a peasant soldier sees a whoie army corps blown to bits be cause it mutinied it is a visual object lesson to him. The moujik is men tally a child and learnr, as a child through the primary senses and through the primary emotions. Thus his first lesson in obedience must needs have been a bloody one. If Kerensky ever forfeited one iota of his power over Russia he mav re gain it by the announcement of his new policy of blood ami iron. He is now on the right path and we be lieve that Elihu Root and Major Gen eral Hugh L. Scott have been instru mental in putting him there. World Ilerald. :o:- There are two courses open to the citizen. One is to pursue a course such as will invite no suspicion of disloyalty. The other is to talk and act as the kaiser would have him act and then kick if somebody gets sus picious. If there is any question which is the best counse? :o : Only one more month of vacation, and then the school teachers will go back and woi k all winter to get money for another vacation. None enjoy the comforts of this life like the schoolma'um in the good old sum mer time. But then, what would we do without them?" :o:- If favoritism Is the policy in pro motion. in the army, of which we know of some instances right here in Nebraska, it should be stopped and stopped pretty 'quick. Promotions should come through competency and not favoritism. -:o:- Between guesses that the war is almost over and that it may last for another twelve years, various expect ations ought to find some safe placq to rest and get a vindication. GENERAL CROWDER. Wc have hitherto refrained from generalizing about the official acts of Brigadier General Enoch II. Crowder. United States army, provost marshal general, in the management of the selective draft, because we were curi ous as to how far he would go and how he would get out of the difficul ties that surrounded him. He has now reached a point in his progress at which it is not inopportune to speak frankly at his official conduct. In brief, this has been marked by uncommon capacity, resourcefulness and enterprise. To General Crowder fell the task of improvising machin ery for registration of the young men of the United States for military service, in the application to the na tion of a law imposing a new meth od of performing ofd duties, and of devising a knave-proof and fool proof lottery which affected the hab its and occupations of 10,000,000 in dividuals directly and of live time that number indirectly. He had to guide Uncle Sam's hand as it was put into practically every home in the land. General Crowder accom plished this expeditiouily and with out inflicting unnecessary confusion on the country. Registration and lot tery were conducted in a manner that left no doubt of their impartially and fairness; and General Crowder was so completely prepared against un- forscen emergencies that at the last ' moment he was ready to revise his j ys'n .o.n:eo in satisf.u t-u y farh- ion, any new condition that might arise. It may be said that General Crow der had a well disposed population to deal with and competent aides to assist him. This is true. But the most willing population and the most competent aides, lacking efficient di rection or handicapped by an incap able .superintendent, would have made a s;id botch f the enterprise; and if the draft had been botched, Gen eral Crowder would have borne the blame for its failure. As it was car ried out with success, he deserves the credit. We esteem it a privilege to salute General Crowder as a thoroughly equipped provost marshal general; gifted with good sense and executive ability of the first order. If all our military men measure up to the stan dard he has consistently maintained, our troubles and sacrifices in the war will be reduced to a minimum. New York Sun. :i:- DON'T TEACH YOUR BOY TO FEAR. There's Alfred. He was raised like most American boys by his mother. Once when he was wee small he essayed to climb a tree. Mother caught him "in the act and sternly forbade him ever again to engage in so hazardous an undertaking. "You'll fall and get hurt," she said. And later Alfred sneaked off and went swimmin'. Somehow mother pierced through the thin veil of secre cy behind which Alfred sought to conceal bis bit of daring. She said: "Don't do it again, Al fred. You'll get drowned." There came a vacation when Al fred's friends got up a" camping party. Alfred was counted on as one of the tampers, but that was before mother learned the boys planned lo lake a rifle along. "I forbid your going," said she to Alfred. "You'll get shot." Well, Alfred grew up, whole-limbed and unscarrcd. And into his man hood there came a great crisis, in volving a rik of injury proportionate lo his inability to ward that injury off. And jn the face of this great crisis, which was an even greater op portunity, all Alfred, the man, could think of was his mother':, words to Alfred, the child; "Don't do it, son, you'll get hurt." :o: We cannot honor our country with too deep a reverence; we cannot love her with an affection too pure an- fervent; we cannot serve her with an energy of purposefor a faithfulness of zeal too steadfast and ardent. Grimke. THE TALK OF PEACE. Ail the world is sick of war. There is not a country involved but would welcome peace tomorrow, and not one but is hoping that peace may come before civilization is bankrupt and wrecked. - ' The unthinking reader, scanning Monday morning's papers, might con clude that it is only Germany and ustria-Hungary that are anxious for peace, and bidding for peace, while England and the United States, judg ing from the utterances of Sir Ed ward Carson and Secretary Lansing, are averse to peace and determined, at whatever cost, upon continuing the war until Germany is beaten to her knees. But in reading the peace interviews of Chancellor Mic-haelis anil of the Austro-Hunga: ian foreign minister. Count Czerin, as veil as the state ments of Lansing and Carson, it is advisable to keep in mind the war map as it exists at this time. tie: many and its allies are asking for "peace by agreement and under standing" which would be a peace bused upon conditions at the time the peace conference met. Those condi tions are distinctly and everywhere favorable to the C.-ntra! Powers. To the south, the vazi and the west they hold by arms large territories they have wrested from their enemies.' Thanks to the revolution, the Rus sian menace has been 't-i!oved. France is bled white. The submarine dagger is at England's tbioat. All that has been lo: t is the Gorman colonic.-, and these would constitute the one bit ef "trading stock' in the hands .f the allies when it came to reaching an "agreement and understanding" at the conference table. It is hardly possajicY however long the war rhould continue, that Germany should gain mope than she has gaiac-.i already. And as a matter of fact she ha-; gained all that : -he : et out to gain all that (e:n;n :ra:;.'h:n h aspi;d ti, ::rvd planned fr, iimc- ti;c pilot l:.-.nia :ck was drt-pped over board. l?el:riv!rn mi;rl-.t bi restored, ;v,r!h:n Vrarf evacuated, a s ealhd "ini!"iiiii!ci:t" Se.-bi;:;i jrv ernment mi;rht L-e conceded, and sti!' this would be true. "Jlittelcuropo" would .h-ve bc.'ti eicatcd, just the fame, and frnm the Xrth h'c-a and the llaltic to the Persian jri.lf tier man influence would be supreme. But England's savrl piedominr.nc-e would have been destroyed, Russia a? : soui ee of danger i (iermany would have been removed, and Franc", with its manhood mowed down ar.i its pride humiliated, would be fi negligi ble enemy. So that it is plain to see that (Ger many and Austria have- a very spe cial reason for striving for an eaily peace, and that it is the same reason that make-, the entente governments, and the government at Washington, view these proposals with deep-seat-ed "suspicion. Nevertheless, in the countries ar rayed against Germany, there is a growing sentiment favorable to the statement, definitely, of war aims. Lloyd George sail at Glasgow, the other day, that with peace possible "it would be criminal if we sacrifice more precious life and treasure and prolong the wretchedness anil anx iety and suffering." And he asked the context shows not defiantly but prayerfully, "Where is the common ground for pi-ace?" Senator Dorah, one of the ablest and must brilliant of American states men, dcelaicd in the senate the other day, that America is in this war not to give England the Germ-in colonies, not to give Fiance Alsace-Lorraine, but to defend its own rights and safety and for no other reason. While he strongly opposed any suggestion of peace on the present aspect of the war map, ho felt it incumbent on the free democracies of the world to express them selves on the Russian and indemnities. And particularly he urged that our government makc'S it pla tins wa country, and not with any purroso having to do with European policies. Similar calls for the defining of NTct Contents 15FUiidDrachrna I jlllLj - r J i r .C6imOL-il TEI? CENT. AVceiablc f rcporahon lorAs - SC?ivJ ; similr.lir.U'.cFeodbykcSttia- iS-tl.. 1 .. .. -. c.trWrrsaT ! ThcrchTlVomoUnDiUca r.sr.lrOpiun.Morphincnor ! Mineral. Not Nacotic Ar if.' S' ft! '' h':TV '" h'n!rrf:rrn furnr . .' - r t- . :L Mnful Remedy frf Wtipaiion and Diarrhoea, and Finxrishncss and I LOSSOF&LEEP ! facsimile Srecf rECENTAVnCOK?.V. : -5 r. I E::act Copy of Wrapper. wxir aims ;.n:l tlv- enunciation of peaee term.i. have come !iot only f.vm the Htar.-t pajier., but from papers like the Chii-ao Trihunc and !vv- York Tribune. And b'er. Lor Lewis of Illinois, the democratic "whip," spoke eloquently along that line in the senate the other day. The New York Evening Post, dis- ..... l. . if . l " said that the ei:e about wh'eh there is the largest hope, is a world-arrangement to make another such war f :-. ver impossible. And it added: "There is an epigrammatic sayie.g going the rounds, -.vhi.h :uns: 'If K;!a"ul d-K.- not win this war, sh'; has lost it. Uut if Germany does not o:-e the war. she ha.; won it.' liut all depends on how the war ends. If it i's.-ues in a League of Nations to en able civiiiation to come out from un der the terror of armed aggression: to compel disarmrm'nt ail round, and to make even the smallest nation safe on its own soil then neither England nor Germany will have won or lost, but the whole world will have won." This is coming close to the truth. And itis little more than an elabora tion of President Wilson's statement that we fight to make the world safe for democracy, and insure the liber ties of small as well as largw nations. If it is possible to reach such a common ground without having to use the full strength of democratic militarism to crush autocratic mili arism, then the rooner it can be donr the better. And if the United States, as well as England and France, were to publicly and frankly avow war Bartiing's Best Brand $12.00 per bushel . Hi ft H 7 C ? ii it h j n Ja M f- Z. K? I ALFALFA SEED Lower grades at $8.50 to $10.50 per bushel SEED WHEAT, Common Yellow Berry variety, grown in Ofoc County, unlimited quantity. Ask for prices. Wo arc buyers of Timothy, Red Clover, Cane, Millet, Pop Corn, Winter Rye and other field seeds. Send Samples. Edward Bartnns: Seed Go,. 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He is feeling prelty sore and siff over the experience, but it is hoped that he will soon be netter. VISITING FRIENDS. from Wei le-silay Mr. L. Sinder of Helena, Ark., came in yesterday morning from his home theie, and will visit in this city for some time at the home of his sister, Mrs. Levi Golding. Mr. Sinder has not scon his sister for a long time, having lived in the south all his life. He some time since retired from ac tive business life, and thwught he would visit with his friends and rela tives whom he had not seen for so long. lie will make a visit for some days in Plattsmouth and become acq uainted with the northern country. Patriotic streamers and designs for decorative purposes at the Journal of fice. Call and make your selections be fore the best cf the line is taken. 1871 BRAND $11.00 per bushel Va for Over r of Athens. .;.. J;iSC-ii",r ' cm, wail mm mnfmrmrw