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THURSDAY, TJOVEMBER 22, 1917.
TLAlTSMOUTn SOU-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TAQE FOUR.
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Cbe plattsmouth journal
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KKtr4at Potofflct Plattsmouth. Neb..' as secoad-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
ICBtCRIPTIOn PRICEt tJS
The ice man still in evidence.
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Conserve and help win the war.
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How do you like the .meatless
days?
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Remember the soldier boys Christ
mas. :o:
Have you been thoroughly Hoovcr-
ized jet?
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Good old Indian Summer has
gone glimmering in the past.
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We hope the corn will turn out
better than it now appears. And
Ave believe it will.
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Wonder why Uncle Sam don't put
a revenue tax on" political aspira
tions? It would prove a go-getter.
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4Tig Bill" Thompson of Chicago
has a double-bill like .revising his
opinions relative to the loyalty of the
people of Chicago.
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Sdme cause for thanksgiving, too.
in the fact that we are privileged to
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be such an important factor in the
fij-ht for universal democracy.
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The ultimate consumer has be
come so sensitive that rvrry time lie
reads of a new food probe he feels
the gauge before the investigation
has started.
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When you hear a man grumbling
about the war tax, scratch deep
enough and you will find a German
sympathizer or an American whose.
patriotism is bounded by the rim of
a silver dime.
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Unless the caLinet crisis in the al
lied countries quiet down, Colonel
House may have to raise his voice
to gain their attention, while he ex
plains his errand. And perhaps, the
colonel hoped to go and come with
out raising his voice.
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la these days of food shortage
there should net be a single idle man
in the United States. L.abor is in
demand everywhere farmers need
men, industries need men and Uncle
Ram needs men. The non-producer
is worse than criminal.
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It is an outrage, if it is true, that
while our Hed Cross ladies are knit
ting sweaters that are sent to sold
iers in the east, our own dear boys
in Camps Cod, and- Funston, ai
without these cold weather necessi
ties. If this report is true, it is an
outrage.
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The Saline County Council of De
fense has started a campaign to
close schools secretly conducted by
German churches near the towns of
DeWitt. Crete and Western. If they
are teaching the doctrine of the
Kaiser it is certainly time that they
be squelched. '
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The United Slates is spending
money with dizzy rapidity. Some
idea of how fast may be had by the
fact that one billion and two hund
red million dollars were spent by us
during the month of October alone
This is far in excess of any other na
tion's expense account, but we have
to get somewhere soon, so we are
doing the best we can to catch up.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cared
vlth LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
car.not rcacn the seat or the disease.
Catarrh 12 a Iot-al disease, greatly in
fluenced by constitutional coniuuon.-, and
in order to euro it you ir.ust taka an
internal remsuy Hail's Catarrh Med;
cii'e ia taken internally and acts tliru
the blood -;ri tho mucous surfaces of the
svstem. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the bet physicians
in this country tor years, it 3 com-
TJosi.-tl ct tiomo cf tha besA tonlc3 Known
ct.Tr.bhisd with, come ot tbe best, blood
j-.urif.er-i. The perfect combination of
tho ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medi
cs n! is what produces such wonderful
rf-siilts in atp.rrhaJ conditions. Send for
fstiinonla!. frc.
p ,t. CHKNE"-' & CO., rrop3., Toledo, O.
Hall's family Iili3 iov conalipal.ta.
PER TEAK
AIJTANCIE
P'ine fall weather continues.
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Ambulances are now made to fly.
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Every time you buy a cigar you
buy a bullet.
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Better to be called 'a rough-neck
than a slacker.
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It may take two to make a quarrel,
but its possible for one to keep it go
ing.
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After mature consideration' we
have consented that we prefer a.
dumb barber to a dumb waiter.
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Vv'e can't help but believe that
some thieves have no higher ambi
tion than the top roost in a chicken
house.
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If all men followed their inclina
tions at all times the straight and
narrow road would never be over
crowded. :o:
Many a mother who didn't raise
her boy t. b. a. s. now wonders why
his promotions don't come cftener
ban every three weeks.
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The service flag in front of the
New York Hippodrome contains
eighty-seven siars. Gee are there
hat many chorus men in the army?
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A headline, "Sufi's defy husbands,"
implies that the husoanas aenea tne
suits hrst. What a wonuertuiiy
brave lot cf men the uffs are marry
ing these (lavs;
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With so many meatless, wheat-
less, sweetless, heat loss, treatless.
eatless and cheat less days, whatever
a poor fellow who is trying to
turn on honest penney to do?
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An Iowa insane asylum advertises
for pome back numbers of the Con
gressional Record. Save your money
Mr. Superintendent. We are read
ing some copies and will bring them
when we come.
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About one-half cf the submarines
operating since the war began have
been destroyed. We now begin to
understand the reluctance of Ger
man sailors to engage in that in
teresting occupation.
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We regard the Russian struggle'
with much the same troubled inter
est that we watch a grass widow's
designs on our favorite chum, hope
ful for the best, and glad that we
ere no more closely involved.
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Another thing which makes us feel
that Mr. Lloyd George will continue
to be Britain's man of the hour:
When confronted with his state
ments, he admitted them, instead of
saying the newspapers had misquot
ed him.
The small boy probably will sur
vive the demands of the sugar saver;
who urge abstinence from cran
berries on Turkey Day. He probably
will retain his composure also if it
is decided not to serve any sour
pickles on that da;.
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Perhaps the best war economy
that may be applied to your Christ
mas gift list is to give only to those
you honestly wish to gladden. Al
most anyone's gift list would be re
duced to a satisfactory war mini
mum if all the duty presents were
stricken off.
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Tammany's gallant majority for
woman suffrage suggests the chival
ry of the average man who absent
mindedly removes h!s hat when
women are in the elevator. Tarn
many wouldn't have done it if its
mind hadn't been on something
else.
FARMERS AND OTHERS.
Complaining that the railroads,
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thc elevators, the dockage workers
and others absorb too large a share from its solution we naj. console
of the price paid for wheat, a farmer ourselves that we have made pro
reader of the World-Herald speaks of ress. The American farmer of to
the "middlemen who like parasites I -s immensely better off than was
fatten but produce nothing."
It may be that these and other
middlemen are exacting too high a
charge for their services. Seme of
them at least, probably are, and tho
government is wrestling hard with
the problem of bringing them with
in reasonable bounds. As to the
railroads, however, the prices they
may charge for their services as
carriers are regulated by law, much
the same as the price of the far
mers wheat. The farmer is getting
approximately double the price for
his product that he got before the
war. But the railroads, with in
consequential exceptions, are getting
the same price for their services,
though they, like the farmer, must
buy on a rapidly rising market. If
the elevator companies are realizing
enormous profits the interesting
query arises, what has become of
the farmers' co-cperative elevators?
Why is not their competition hold
ing the old line concerns to a rea
sonable profit?
All this, however, is a diversion
from what we started out to say.
And that is thss: The middlemen
are not like "parasites who fatten
but produce nothing." The middle
man may be everything that is des
picable and wicked but he is not,
economically and strictly speaking,
a parasite. He may, like moct cf
the rest of us, be willing to charge
for his services all that the market
will stand. He may be greedy and
be getting rich too fast and stand
badly in need of reform and regula
tion. But he is not a parasite who
could be dispensed with without
.arm to societv.
Russia furnishes a first-class ob
oct lesson. Tho middleman there
has been pretty effectively put out
of .business. The result is great
f-tores of grain and other foodstuffs
remaining on the farms with no
way to market them, while in the
cities hundreds of thousands of peo
ple are hungry.
The only stage of society that
ould dispense with the middleman
the primitive stage, in which
each family produces for itself about
everything that it needs.
But in a complex and highly de
veloped civilization like ours the
middleman is indispensable. Where-
over there are a million, or even a
hundred thousand people gathered
together in a city there must be
agents and carriers and organizers
operating between them and the
country, or the cities will starve and
the bottom will fall out of the price
of farm products.
There is no farmer that can har
vest his own grain, convert it in
to wheat and the wheat into bread.
himself bring the bread to the city
and peddle it directly to the ulti
mate consumers, and make a profit
at it. There is no city that could
live for a week on such a founda
tion. The elevator is a necessity, the
railroad is a necessity, the miller is
a necessity, the baker, and so on,
though perhaps in a Fomevvhat less-
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er degree, is the Jobber and the re
tailer. So with beef and pork, so
with coal and iron ore, so with all
the multifarious products of our in
tricate industrial and commercial
system. Without the middleman
for whole structure Avould infallibly
fall to pieces. The world of today-
is like a great factory, with an in
finite division of labor, in which
each workman devotes himself to but
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one of the scores or hundreds of op
erations that are alike necessary to
produce the finished product. Some
undoubtedly, are paid for their ser
vices more than their fair share, and
others are. paid less. Aside from
winning this war the greatest prob
lem with which the world has to
deal is how to correct the3e inequali
ties, how to eradicate special privi
leges, and how to secure, through
cut society, an equitable division oif
the joint products of land, capital
and labor. It isn't a new problem.
It is the same old problem that has
tortured the r?ce through the cen-
turies, and though Ave are still far
the European peasant of the middle
ages. And the average modern
worlvingman lives in a clean, well
lighted, sanitary home, well-heated
and comfortably furnished. He en
joys as every-day comforts what
would have been undreamed-of lux
uries even a hundred years ago,
rends his children to school, and
his son may rise to the heights of
human achievement.
So far as the farmer is concerned
he is the victim, like most of the
rest .of us, cf certain injustices and
inequalities. But he is not really
suffering. In a generation his land
has doubled and trebled in value.
The prices of all bis products have
mounted rapidly, he is enabled to
bcrrow money cheaper than ever be
fore, and tlie hardships of twenty
years ago have become a fading
memory. hen war fell, with a
terrifying crash, upon our heads, and
t was necessary for the government
to move radically and in great
:acto, the farmer, because he raises
wheat, "the staff of life," was the
first to feel the hand of price regu
lation He msy feel as the World-
Ile-rald thought at the time, that the
prices of other commodities as yet
untouched should have been brought
within the scope of price control at
the same time with wheat. But
congress, in its wisdom, with scores
cf tremendous problems clamoring
for attention, thought otherwise, and
the World-Herald is willing to abide
by the judgment of the government
until it is changed. And fo. it
thinks, are the vast majority of far
mers. The value of our farms, of our
shops, of our newspapers, the happi-
iisss and security of our homes, the
wcrth-whileness of our verv liven.
are all and alike dependent 0:1 the
Miccesful prosecution of this great
war. It :s the crisis of all the ages
in which we are involved. We can
not afford to stop and quarrel with
each other. We cannot afford to
measure relative advantages and
disadvantages, to split hairs. There
is but one thing we can afford to
do, and that is to pile in, each and
every one of us, and work our hard
est, do out best, for the advance
ment of the common cause. After
our country is saved, after our prop
erties and liberties and opportuni
ties and rights are saved, then we
may resume, at the old stand, the old
business of fighting among ourselves
over how to improve them all and
how to bring justice and equity
nearer home. Even in the midst of
war we may properly differ and con
tend over questions of political pol
icy. But there is no class or inter
est that can afford to weaken the
government, the country, to cripple
its fighting power, because of griev
ances real or fancied, so long as
their own permanent stake in this
country looms larger than their
temporary wrongs. The farmers,
we are well convinced, would be the
last to do it, and this despite the
prediction that they will refuse to
raise the wheat that is needed be
cause of dissatisfaction over the
price. World-Herald.
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HIS OWN CHAMBERMAID
Senator Norris is going to run
again, because it is Senator Xorris
who makes the statement that he
will. Patriotic republicans, espec
ially patriotic editors, are wonder
ing how the former pro-German
representative- of the great loyal
state of Nebraska can be ditched at
the primaries, and some of them are
already casting about for suitable
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For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
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Signature of
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material for the job. The republican
newspapers of the state have, with
a -few exceptions, been highly loyal
to the country in which they do busi
ness, and Senator Norris has been
the sand-burr in their shoes ever
cinco his unpardonable attitude in
the United States senate last spring.
With Norris in the field he will need
the support of these papers. How
can he consistly expect to get it?
Norris made for himself a badly
tumbled bed, and many red blooded
American newspaper men are willing
that he should lie in it, but do not
want to occupy it with . Jiim.
Aurora Sun.
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VAE DEATHS, 7 PER CENT.
One of the tricks of pro-Germans
is to whisper it about that for a
soldier to be sent abroad is his death
warrant. Fighting men sometimes
unthinkingly aid the deception by
repeating inexact trench gossip that
this or that command is "shot to
pieces" with an incredible death
list.
Secretary Baker sets such stories
at rest in his letter to Senator Sauls
1 ury, stating that of the total num
ber of British soldiers in the ex
peditionary forces about 7 per cent
have been killed in action or died of
wounds up to June 1. "Improved tac
tics and the swiftly mounting Al
lied superiority in artillery" are still
reducing the percentage of losses.
British losses in the retreat from
Mons were heavy, though four-fifths
of them were in the "wounded" and
"missing" columns. Many French
regiments have fared as badly. The
fate of the Princess Patricia Canad
ians was a war tragedy that will
long be remembered, but it was an
unnecessary tragedy. We have come
to different conditions, when com
manders use artillery to save their
men and have it to use.
The American people, as Secre
tary Baker says, 'are not children to
be frightened out of the path of
duty." Yet no one need fear that
the path of duty is the sure path of
death: When at parting the boy
soldier says, "Don't worry. I'll get
back all right'," the chances are
unless the war lasts mere than three
years longer fourteen to one that
be will. New York World.
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H0V7 THE INCOI-IE
TAX AFFECTS YOU
The 630-a-week man or woman
must pay a war revenue tax of $11.20
if unmarried and not entitled to ex
emption. Thirty dollars a week Is 51.5C0 a
year, and the tax is 2 per cent cf
the amount over 1,000, that is, 2
per cent of ?560.
If married, men or women in this
class need not bother about the in
come tax. They probably have
troubles enough of their own to
keep them busy.
However, if a man is making $30
and his wife $25, the government
demands a tax. The combined in
come of the , family would then be
?2,SG0. Uncle Sam will exempt
$2,000 of this amount and tax hus
band and wife 011 ?SG0 at 2 per cent,
making $17.20 they will have to pay.
There is a $200 exemption for each
child and in case the family cited
above ban four children, only $C0of
the $8 60 would be taxable.
The war revenue tax is levied on
net income from all sources and in
teresi on any kind of indebtedness
may be deducted. Exemptions may
be filed at the time j-our income
schedule, is presented at the collec
tor's. If you own an equity in a
house, if you owe money on a note,
or if you own rented property on
which repairs have to be made, you
ma- claim exemption to the amount
charged against jour income.
For instance, if you pay interest on
a mortageg to the amount of $400,
and $150 in txes, your net income
will be $1,000 and no income tax
will be required.
Under a recent ruling any amount
j-ou give to charity, up to 15 per cent
of your income, is non-taxable. Sup
posing the rather unusual case that
ja $30-a-week man should give $560
WHF- irNivirniS At. CAH
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can make quick delivery
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sters and bedans.
Keep your eye on our two Ford Trucks hauling materials
to the new Ford building.
We solicit your orders,
T NL Pollock 5kuo Go.,
Authorized Sales and Service, 6th St, Plattsmouth, Neb.
Office Telephone No. 1. Shop Telephone No. 58.
to the Red Cross, $234 of this amount
would be tax-free, and he would pay
2 per cent of $326, or $6.52.
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SON STILL VERY SICK.
From Tuesday's Dally.
Wm. Stohlman was a passenger to
Omaha this afternoon where he goes
to see" what he can do to get a fur
lough for his son Walter Stohlman
who is at Norfolk, Va. Walter has
been sick in the hospital there for
some time and his father goes to
Omaha to see if he can get a fur
lough that he may come home and
see if the change and home treat
ment would be beneficial.
VISITING MRS. M0CKENHAUPT.
From Tuesday's Dally.
This morning Christian Mocken
haupt, and daughter Mrs. Fred
Liindeman, accompanied by Mrs.
Nicholas Halmas, mother of Mrs.
Christian Mockenhaupt, were pass
engers to Omaha, where they go to
visit with Mrs. Mockenhaupt, who is
in a hospital at that place, where
she underwent for an operation some
time since and where she is con
valescing. OYSTER SUPPER.
An oyster supper and program
will be given at the Taylor school
house, 3 V2 miles west, on the Louis
ville road, Saturday evening, Novem
ber 24th. Program at S o'clock.
Supper. 20c. Everybody invited.
! MARGARET ALBERT,
Teacher.
ll-17-2tdltwkly.
FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANS.
I am prepared to take applications
now for farm loans to be closed not
later than January 1st, at 5 per cent.
Inquire of Chas. C. Parmele, at The
Bank of Cass County.
FOR SALE.
The late Andy Dill homestead in
the citj- of Plattsmouth, good house
and three lots. For particulars, call
or write B. Dill, Murray, Neb.
For Sale SO acres S miles South
west of Plattsmouth on easy terms.
Price $130.00 per acre. T. H. Pol
lock, Plattsmouth, ll-16-3td2twkly
A want ad will bring what you want.
The Nehawka Chills
are now Rolling and Manufacturing the
"Letter Bill"
"Letter Roll" Flour needs no boosting,
For on the top shelf it now is roosting. '
The best cooks wherever you go
Use this famous flour, you know.
They just set their yeast and go to bed,
For they know on the morrow they will have good
Bread.
J. M.
.. D. ST. JOHN, Prop
JOE MALCOLM, Head Miller:
For Saie by Ail Dealers
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on Ford Touring Cars, Road
Man Troubled for Two Years.
Nq one should suffer backache,
rheumatic pains, stiff joints, swollen
sore muscles, when relief can easily
be had. James McCrery, Berrien
Center, Mich., says he was troubled
with kidney and bladder trouble for
two years. He used se-aeral kinds
of medicine without relief, but Foley
Kidney Pills cured him. Sold every
where. For Sale A number of white
Brahma Cockerels. Mrs. C. E. Heeb
ner, Nehawka.
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Car Load of Live Poultry
to be delivered at poultry car near
Burlington freight depot at Platts
mouth, Nebr., on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, Nov 27th and 28th for
which we will pay in cash.
Hens . 116c
Springs 16c
Old Cocks . 11c
Ducks, Full feathered 14c
Geese, Full Feathered 14c
Cow Hides 18c
Horse Hides $6.00 . each
We will be on hand rain or shine
to receive all poultry offered for sale.
VJ, E. KEEHEY
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Lawyer. '
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East of Riley Hotel.
Coates Block,
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