MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1917-
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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TOSCKIPTIOX PRICBl UJM MB TBAM I ADTAKCD
What about the camouflage?
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Are we having a penny famine?
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Help win the war by saving food.
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Tkauksgiving two weeks from to
day. :o:
Some of the "4-minute" can hit it
pretty well.
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There is always plenty to be done
if you are not too lazy to do it.
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About the only exercises some peo
ple get is dodging their responsibili
ties. :c:-
If you haven't anything - to be
thankful for, you are certainly a
dead one.
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When "con" men apply their
swindling operations in Nebraska,
they evidently know right where to
get the money.
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Secretary of the United States
Treasury McAdoo is an engineer, his
greatest feat being the digging of
the tunnels under the Hudson river.
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The Germans are buying wool from
Sweden in a most friendly fashion,
evidently preparing to pull the wool
over Swedish eyes again in the near
future.
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One man has received an evelope
from a United States military camp
in France, directed in th'e handwrit
ing of his son, but containing only
a note from the censor, which read r
"Your son is well, but his letter is
too newsy. The Censor."
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It is announced that "war courses"
will be introduced by the University
of Nebraska as a means of giving
the boys and girls at home a chance
to work on the farm and keep up
their school work. The idea is a
good one.
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It is understood in Washington
that little attention will be paid to
China's protest against Japan's as
sertion of special interest in Chinese
territory. China, you know, is one
of the nations that has always de
ponded on a million men springing
to arms over night.
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The governor of Rhode Island has
gone to London and announces he
will fly from there to Paris to
"hearten" the American troops in
France. With the present tonnage
shortage we cannot but feel that a
governor's weight in canned grocer
ies would have ha dmore hearten
ing qualities for the boys.
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Feminine chatter overheard in a
hotel lobbyt "I don't know what
she means going with that fellow.
Nothing to him, absolutely. I could
not get interested in a poor stick
like him. They've got to show a
little weight before they attract me
got to dance well, -or something."
The poor stick referred to must be
an awful boob.
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Are you sure you have your
Russian revolution and counter rev
olution straight? Like everything
Russian it is a little involved. The
government of today, which was the
counter revolution yesterday, is now
the revolution, while what was the
revolution, which was the govern
ment of yesterday, is now the count
cr revolution. It i3 quite simple
once you understand It.
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Poverty is no disgrace, but awful
unhandy.
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A turkey in the coop is worth two
in the tree top.
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Hoover will get you if you don't
quit wasting so much.
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Cheaper bread is coming, they say,
and so is Christmas.
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Licking stamps isn't as pleasant
a pasttime as it used to be.
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Free speech often means that a
fellow must listen to a lot of tommy
rot. The Russians deserve credit for
providing us with an occasional sur
prise. -rot-
We can always see mistakes in
other people, but never none in our
own self.
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Good time to pick up all the old
clothes laying around loose, you
don't need.
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They do say that it is no trouble
to get whiskey in Omaha at 25 cents
a finger if you are able to get onto
the ropes.
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A man never finds out just what
he really is until he gets married
and then he has been told more often
than is comfortable.
By placing a Red Cross seal on
the package sent to a soldier boy this
year you help a home charity at the
same time that cheer is being dis
persed abroad.
Now it's the cigar man that has
raised in prices. Well so long as it
is luxuries that are boosted, there is
no real ground for kicking. We
shouldn't buy luxuries during war
times.
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A man in Jewell county, Kansas,
took an ax away from his wife to
show her how to cut a limb from a
tree and severed one of his big toes
The moral to this should be clear
enough to any man.
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Two questions are asked frequent
ly of the state board of agriculture,
"Is there a standing reward for a
cure for hog cholera?" and "What is
the prize for an ear of corn with an
odd number of grains?" The answers
are," respectively, "No" and "None."
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Gencral Crowder intends to put
a stop to the wholesale plan of ex
emption in Nebraska, and talks as
though he will send out investigat
ing committees to ascertain by what
modus operandi so many were ex
empted. And it is no more than
right that the boys who are serv
ing their country should know.
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UNABLE TO BELIEVE
A KAISERITE
When the signs of the times gave
promise that the faction leaders
were finding a way to harmonize the
Irish faction quarrel, which has ob
tained for more than two centuries,
then the Sinn Feinners break loose
and kick things over. A new plot
was uncovered recently by this
country's secret service and several
arrests made. As usual a kaiser spy
was at the'bottom of the plot and
financing the scheme. One lesson
we learn in th war is, when agita
tors make lots of noise, some one is
paying for the hot air, and plotters
are usually some one's hirelings. The
Germans have been caught in so
many plots' they are often suspic
ioned when perfectly innocent. How
ever, the danger from plotters is
lessening all the ' time.- Bridgeport
Herald.
A REAL WAR REFERENDUM.
The number of citizens of the
United States who subscribed to the
Second Liberty loan is larger than
the number who voted for Woodrow
i
( Wilson for president a year ago.
There, were eighteen and a half
million votes cast In the presidential
election of November. 1916. Ther
were nine and a third million sub
scribers to the Second Liberty loan.
Thus the loan subscribers are more
numerous than a majority of the
total number of voters in that elec
tion.
The population of the United
States is somewhere around 110,000,
000. Thus in every dozen persons
living in this country, including
men, women, children and pacifists,
there is one buyer of Liberty bonds
to represent the group.
These figures are suggestive. The
Scond Liberty loan may be consid
ered as a great popular referendum
on the war. Practically every buy
er of Liberty bonds supports the en
trance of the United States into the
war. There are, or course, many
others who for one reason or anoth
er were unable to buy bonds, but
who nevertheless loyally support the
government.
Could there possibly t be a more
striking and conclusive demonstra
tion of where America stands? Be
fore congress . acted some of our
visionary pacifists called loudly for
a war referendum. Minneapolis'
own pet congressman, Ernest Lun-
dcen, even undertook to conduct a
little private referendum of his own,
carefully arranging it so .that it
would shoot in the prearranged di
rection. But here is a nation-wide declara
tion by nine and a third million
American citizens that they and
theirs not only .are in favor of fight-
ng, but are ready to lend the gov
ernment nearly $5,000,000,000 with
which to fight war. Minneapolis
Journal:
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THE ALLIES' NEW CHANCE.
Premier Lloyd George's frank ad
missions that the Allies have been
making war at random and making
It' rather badly, considering the
superiority of their resources and
their oportunities, should have an
excellent effect in preparing the
way for the new order to come with
the inter-allied conference at Paris.
The premier's 'words permit us te
hope and expect that aut of that
conference will grow the central and
supreme military authority which
he declares is essential to the effec
tive direction of the war and its ul
timate success.
Probably we have all come to
recognize this. After three years of
war we must admit there has been
a good deal of shooting in the air by
the Allies. Nations unprepared for
war, unlearned in war and unaccus
tomed to acting together perhaps
unwilling to some extent have been
making a succession of heroic
scrambles each on its own account
for objectives that often bore small
relation to the attainment of the
common goal. If we consider the
military fact that Germany lost the
war in the first forty days it seems
incredible that in three years the
Allies have not been able to make
her take her defeat.
Germany had prepared for a short
and vigorous campaign of victory. It
failed. That moment should have
marked the beginning of a vigorous
allied offensive that should have end
ed the war on the ground what it
began. Instead it marked the be
ginning of new wars of Germany's
choosing, war in the East, war in the
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Balkans, war in Asia. Why was
Germany able to do this? Mr. Lloyd
George tells us. Because the Allies
failed to act together. Instead of
fighting the war comprehensively
they fought in on isolated and de
tached fronts, in each of which "the
different Allies had, or thought they
had, an individual interest. France
was saving Paris, England the Chan
nel ports, Russia trying to overrun
Galicia. Serbia and Rumania were
left to their fate. Greece was a
separate problem. Mesopotamia
was a separate problem, Gallipoli
another. One by one the Allies sep
arately, or in the loosest concert,
tried to solve them while Germany
recovered from the upset of her
plans in the west and prepared for
the new phase of the war, a phase
that should never have ome, that
would never have come had a central
general staff passed upou the Galli
poli campaign, timed the Russian
offensives, given the word to Ru
mnaia and recognized the import
ance of supporting the Italian of
fensive at the moment when, in con
junction with Russia, it might have
put Austria out of the war.
These opportunities were missed.
The central authority was wanting.
The war continued as a series of
detached operations on detached
fronts, while Germany attacked in
detail and put out of the fighting
Serbia, Rumania, Russia, perhaps
Italy. She was permitted to shift
armies at will, to gain a respite in
the west while she struck in the
east, to make drive after drive on
the Allies' weakest fronts while
they remained inactive on their
strongest. Thus Germany has tak
en advantage of what Mr. Lloyd
George called national "timidities
and susceptibilities." It was in de
ference to Rumania's susceptibilities
that she was permitted to go in
when she did and the way she did.
Greece was allowed to remain a
menace in. the rear of the Saloniki
army until the time passed when
that army might have struck. Na
tional susceptibilities when the En
tente was fighting for its life! Sus
ceptibilities did not count for much
in the German general staff's plans.
Theirs was a co-ordinated war from
the start in offense and defense, as
Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey could
amply testify.
If the Allies are to have still
another opportunity, if with the en
trance of America the war direc
tion is to be changed so tnat the en
tire theater of operations will be
under a single and supreme com
mand, we will have to ttiank not our
own deserts so much as German
failure. For Germany has failed in
this war, too. The revelation of
allied weakness shows that Ger
many would have won had she been
the superpower we thought she was.
But among other fallen idols is this
same superman. He too underesti
mated and miscalculated. He has
had to give the Entente chance after
chance' he didn't count on. He
wanted Paris and has had to take
Bucharest. He wanted hiswater
front on the English Channel and
has had to take it on the Dardanelles.
He wanted the rich ore lands of
France and has had to take the
frozen Russian marshes. He want
ed a three months' war and has had
to take one of three years. And
now the Allies are to have another
chance, a chance to see the war as
a whole and conduct it as a whole,
and they are to take it at the mo
ment America throws in her weight
of men and resources. Entente fail
ure has forced the change and Ger
man failure makes it possible.
Kansas City Star.
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WHO PAYS INC0IIE TAX?
For the fiscal year just ended the
eleven southern states paid les3 than
$7,000,000 income taxes. Ohio paid
more than $8, 000, 000 and Illinois
almost $12,000,000. These two,
therefore, turned in about three
times as much in income taxes as
the entire south, although they had
less than half the population of the
latter. Pennsylvania contributed
nearly $18,000,000 and New York
almost $82,000,000. Out of the
total of $1S0,108,340 paid in taxes
on individual incomes, six states con
tributed $134,000,000. The total
corporation tax was $179,382,S83,
with the distribution by states quite
similar to that of the income tax re
ceipts. New York being far in the
lead with a total of more' than
$46,000,000. About the only con
clusion that can be reached is that
the great industries are located
mainly in the northern states. These
give employment to millions from
all parts of the country. To the
making of the heads of these gigan
tic enterprises, the south has con
tributed its quota,. The suggestion
of sectional legislation falls flat. The
Texan who gets a new automobile
or the Georgian who buys a new steel
plow pays his share indirectly. If
the factories were located where
population, transportation and the
presence of the ravr materials did
not work together, there buyers
would pay even more. Leslie's.
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WHAT THE CONSUMER BUYS.
Few persons realize that when
they pay ten cents for a loaf of
bread at the nearest store, they buy
five cents' worth of bread and five
cents' worth of service.
The cost of the bread at the bak
ery is live cents or a fraction
more, according to authoritative fig
ure The cost and profit of deliver
ing the bread to the consumer is five
cents. '
The latter item is larger than it
should be. Xo one is getting rich
out of it, but there are too many
duplications of routes and selling
places, too much time of individuals
and equipment used in delivering
bread to the consumer.
The Food Administration proposes
to reduce the cost of bread to the
consumer by cutting down on distri
butive expenses. That is the prop
er way. By eliminating duplicate
routes of delivery wagons, both of
the bakers and retail dealers; by
requiring a standardized loaf, bbth
as to ingredients and weight; by
letting the public understand what
bread is worth and what it should
sell for, the cost of getting . bread
from the baker to the consumer can
be reduced, and labor and equip
ment saved for other purposes.
What is true of bread is true of
many other commodities. The great
waste of high prices in the cities is
in duplication of service, in the extra
expense .involved in handling small
quantities, and in a variety of other
defects in -the methods of getting
goods to the consumer. K. C. Star.
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DR. BLEICK.
of Omaha, 536 World Herald build
ing, will be at McEhvain's jewelr'
store every first Thursday in the
month. Eye glasses scientifically
fitted. Consult me about diseases of
the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Tor Sale.
A number of registered Diiroc-Jer-sey
male pigs. $30 per choice, if
taken soon. Philip Schafer, Nehaw
ka, Nebraska.
00 HAVE A LOOK!
Vallery and Cromwell leave
Plattsmouth every Saturday night
at 7:45 for Keith, Perkins and Cha3e
counties.
They have the good level black
soil that is raising all kinds of
small grain, cora arid alfalfa.
Nobody has any lower prices and
better soils. Ask 'those who have
been out. 17-swtf
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RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE.
From Friday's Pally.
Whereas, It has seemed the will
of the Supreme and Great Creator of
all things to remove from our midst
and from our earthly association
our highly esteemed and honored
brother I). F. Foster, and
"Whereas, In the (feath of Brother
Foster, Evergreen Camp No. 70,
Woodmen of the World recognizes
t ho loss of a most valued charter
numbers, who for years has been
one of the most faithful and truest
cf its members, therefore
Be It Resolved, By Evergreen
Camp No. 70, Woodmen of the
World, that in the dsath of Brother
Foster, we have parted with a true
and faithful member of our order
and a true steadfast friend.
2nd. That since it has been the
will of him who creates and controls
all things to remove Brother Foster
from this earthly life, we trust and
hope that what is our loss may be
the eternal gain of our deceased
Brother.
3d. That we extend to the be
reaved wife, daughter and sorrowing
friends our profound and deepest
sympathy in this hour of sadest af
fliction. 4th. That these resolutions be
spread at largo upon the records of
Evergreen Camp Xo. 70, Woodmen
of the World and a copy of the same
be delivered to the widow of our
deceased Brother and our charter be
draped in mourning for thirty days.
IL M. SOENNICI1SEN,
R. B. WINTDIIAM,
P. F. RIIIX,
. Committee.
Mrs. P. 0. Stuchell Tells How She
Cured Her Son of a Cold.
"When my son Ellis was sick with
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his cold," writes Mrs. P. O. Stuchell.
Homer City, Pa. This remedy has
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If you neslect kidney backache,
Urinary troubles often follow.
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Plattsmouth. citizens endorse them.
J. L. McKinney, Granite St.,
Plattsmouth, says: "Doan's Kidney
Pills that I got 'from the Crescent
Pharmacy are the best medicine I
ever used for disordered kidneys.
When I have had ' occasion to take
them, they have ne ver failed to give
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On February 22, 19"16, Mr. McKin
ney said: "I am reevdy to back up
what I have said before, regarding
my experience with Doan's Kidney
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equal to them for lame back. A few
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Price COc, at all dealers. Don't
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get Doan's Kidney Pills the same
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FOR SAXE.
The late Andy Dill homestead in
the city of Plattsmouth, good house
and three lots. For particulars, cajll
or write B. Dill, Murray, Neb.
For Sale
A fine Collie puppy, has worked
some on stock, and shows up fine.
$25, and cheap at that. Dr. Hall.
Murray, Neb.
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