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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1917,
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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.
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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.
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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
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f.vm the Htar.-t pajier., but from
papers like the Chii-ao Trihunc and
!vv- York Tribune. And b'er.
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"whip," spoke eloquently along that
line in the senate the other day.
The New York Evening Post, dis-
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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
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aims and peace terms that would con
vinee the German people that Ger
many is not fighting in self-defense, a
long step toward that end might be
taken. World-IieraU.
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INJURED WHILE GRADING.
from Wo JiH-siiay's lmilv.
While driving a dump wr.gon, in
I ;nt
making, of the excavation for
the J. II. Mc.Maken garage which is
building, yesterday William 'liautner
had the misfoi tune to gel hi luad
hurt on the trap where they were
loading dirt to be hauled away. I'isi
as lu- was engaged at something
which occupied his attention, in:
horses moved, with the result 'I-it
his head was brought into violent
contact with the timbers of the load
ing device, striking the back portion
of his head, and producing a s.ticin
on the muscles of his neck and chest.
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.
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