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Advertise now.
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Geueral Byng
away.
is stiii binging
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It doesn't pay to hammer somcono
all the time.
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The keenest hearing is that of the
vaudeville artist, who frequently an
swers the encore before it starts.
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Will the gentleman who advised
us to substitute cornmeal for wheat
flour please stand up so we can aim
a brick at him.
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While the statement of the Allies'
war aims was postponed. It is under
stood that there is no secrecy that
the chief war aim is to lick Germany.
The Sultan and his "Christian
Dog" brother Wilhem, don't seem to
be congratulating and decorating
each other over what's hopping
'round Jerusalem these days.
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Gradually the horrors are being
segregated from the army and sad
dled onto those who stay at home.
The army chaps are free now to
dance to real music no jazz
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However displeased the German
prima donna's may be at the actions
of America and the American pub
lic, we have heard none willing to
go back home to sing- at Berlin
prices.
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For the benefit of the uninitiated
-vno still keep ice in the winter, it is
suggested that wife's knitting needles
are excellent implements with which
to clean out the drain pipe under
the refrigerator.
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Six states will vote on prohibition
next year California, Nevada,
Minnesota, Wyoming, Missouri and
Florida. We are betting on two
states which will go wet. , Califor
nia and Missouri, if they let St.
Louis vote.
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Some newspapers are born pat
riotic and some has patriotism thrust
upon them, and thus pretend to be
patriotic when they arc not the same
as some people around this old town
carrying water on both shoulders.
But they are spotted.
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Mr. Hoover directed that no tur
keys be killed for Thanksgiving this
year. We really hadn't expected to
kill any, recalling how many stor
age turkeys the housewives refused
to buy last year, and knowing the
same turkeys would be waiting this
year.
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The first thing the Germans did
to the Russian envoys when they
. reached the front with their little
white flag was to blindfold them
That is about as much show as we
imagined the Russians would have
in any peace negotiations with Ger
many.
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To lose a button is becoming j
"domestic tragedy in Germany, ac
cording to the Hamburger Echo
which reports that sewing thread is
so scarce and expensive that nobody
can get clothes mended, and urges
that a maximum price be set on
thread at once.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with 1DCAIi APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease,
rot.rrh 4 n.-local disease, greatly In
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
In order to cure n i
internal remedy IIall'3 Catarrh Medi
cine 13 taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
Haifa Catarrh Medicine was
Drescrtbcd by one of the best physicians
J ttiia muntry for years. It is com
posed of some of the best .tomes 'known.
r i.: i ..r-vi cnniit of the best blood
"'lI," 1 rfecl combination of
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results in catarrhal conditions. Send for
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uLva vSnay WU tor constipation.
Publisher
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Of ADYAVCB
Snow all around but none here.
Everybody should love Old Glory.
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Santa Clans is popular with the
little ones just now.
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The kaiser will And lead instead
of gold at, the end of the Rainbow
Division.
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With a separate peace with" out
siders, what a lovely fight those Rus
sians would take at home!
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Every dog should have his day,
but that doesn't make it necessary
for you to bark into the telephone.
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The man who is conceited in old
age has evidently not been very ob
serving while on the journey of
life.
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"Hunter mistakes trapper for a
deer" says a familiar headline. And
as usual, proceeded to make his own
shot, which never misses.
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The Atchison Globe takes consid
erable pride in the fact that very
ittle of the current peace talk orig
inates iu the English language.
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.Do you know anyone else whose
name carries such a crescendo and
winds up with such a crash as Gen
ii Sir Julian Hedworth George
Lyng.
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A Chicago man wishes to. eliminate
all men waiters, sending them into
he army. Most people, however.
wish victory to come by a quicker
lelivery.
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It is suggested that if the gov
rnment wishes to escape further
blame, it will guarantee rain along
with that $2 price for wheat next
year.
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Trust Nebraska to come to the
front with the unusual and the
best. It has the only governor to
date who has resigned in order to don
the uniform of his country.
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Santa Claus will hover over the
American ex-peditionarv , carun
Christmas eve in great force, and
woe veto any German airman who
gets into his path that night.
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Thus far German submarine devil-
iry ha3 cost Norway 660 ships and
13 sailors. Being a kind neutral
neighbor to folk like German auto
crats sure has its drawbacks.
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Assuming that the Cleveland, O.,
man who was sued last week for
$300,000 heart balm really has
? 300,000, one is inclined to believe
the forlorn young woman in the case
when she says she hated to lose him.
When a lady shoots her husband,
considerable investigation is made
into her sanity at the time of the
shooting, when, if her allegations
are true, the investigation should be
made into her sanity at the time she
married him.
fcome profused merchants really
do not know what advertising means
Yet there are times when the ad
vertising merchant gets what you
might say, all the business, and he is
unable to see the reason therefore.
Let him try advertising, and he will
perhaps solve the question.
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wnerever a veneered patriot is
found too discreet to. openly oppose
Uncle Sam and laud the kaiser he
is heard discrediting those, who are
seeking to help Uncle Sam and bam-
bast the kaiser. Or he is found
apologizing for the disloyal and de
precatlng summary measures for the
punishment of treason. Yet the mass
of the American people have heard
of the ostrich and Its way. of hiding.
TKE NATUItE OF
TRUE PATRIOTISM
In the first place English should
be the universal language among all
peoples of this nation. Only Eng
lish should be allowed to be taught
in our public schools. Other lang
uages should be left to bo taught in
the colleges and universities, and
should be elective. It is a pernic
ious law which allows a small group
of people to thrust upon the com
munity the teaching of a language
not our own in the public schools.
This tends to unpatriotic and un
democratic sentiments.
Second. The publication of news
papers in foreign languages in the
United States should be prohibited.
The only possible exception should
be made where the English transla
tion is published at the same time
and in an adjoining column. These
publications do not advance the prin
ciples of democracy, because of the
fact that the language which they
use comes from a nation which is con
trolled by the autocracy. Unpat
riotic and undemocratic sentiments
can be freely expressed and be only
known to those who can read other
than the English language. Nelson
Ierald.
to:
OPPOSED TO OSCULATION.
The traitor-citizens Who are
caught with the "goods on" are of
ten made to eat their vile words.
They also are compelled to kiss the
American flag. This practice does
not: appeal to me, for I think it is
an insult to our flag to permit such
low individuals to touch the glor
ious banner of this great nation.
Schuyler Messenger.
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CONGRESS AGAIN.
We know why Congress is back
and what is is going to do. Never-
theelss we -welcome it and hope it
will make itself comfortable for the
winter. Ferhaps it is rather noble
of us, and maybe we. deserve a. lot
of praise for it and maybe we won't
get it, but no matter, we welcome
Congress just the same and urge it
to go right ahead.
It's going to take a lot of money
o carry on the war we know, and
we know it has got to come out of
our pockets. Still we welcome Con
gress. We were for the war and we
are for going through with it. Con
gress spoke no more than our senti
ments and made them none too
strong when it puts us in. We didn't
stop to count the cost then and we
are not going to stop to count it
now; and when we say Congress is
welcome we don't mean to be Just
polite, and we don't mean that we
anticipate great pleasure from listen-
ng to its speeches for we don't
but we mean it is welcome to call
on us for every cent that is needed
to end the war victoriously.
It will hear no complaint from us
on that score. But while we are
putting our hands in our pockets to
dig up the silver bullets, we hope
Congress will do what it can to keep
other hands out. Congress has been
it
away and perhaps hasn't noticed, but
since fall set in the price of coal has
taken quite a jump. We don't know
whose fault it is the coal dealers
tell one story one day and another
the next, as if they couldn't quite
make up their minds which. was the
better but we know we are not pay
ing the present prices to help win
the war. As soon as Congress zet3
caught up with its work we hope it
will look into this matter, and Into
the general subject of prices; and
not on our account alone, but to
make easier the Nation's task of
licking kaiserism out of its boots
or it much be plain to Congress
that every dollar taken from us un
justly by price riggers makes It
harder for us to buy Liberty' bonds
and give to the Red Cross and meet
CASTO'RIA
For Infants and Children .
In Uso For Over 30 Yeans
Always bear a
the
fiignaxuiaof V
PLATTHlIOUTn SEMl-tTEE5LY JOURfJAL.
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Togct quickrelief take Dr. Kings
New Discovery. Used 50 years. Checks
the cold. Stops the cough. Try it.
Dr. Hs
WlBI-Qaf.fWi
for Coughs s Colds
The Evils f Constipation
Leaving waste material in the body
poisons the system and blood and
makes you liable to sick headaches,
biliousness, nervousness and muddy
skin. Try Dr. King's New Life Pills.
Prompt relief. 25c. At alf druggists.
the many other calls that come to
us on account of the war and which
we would like to meet. -
That's all. Congress is welcome
and we hope it will stay as long as
necessary. It will have to lay on
quite a lot of new taxes, but we
guess we can carry them. Of course,
they will be laid on equitably Con
gress doesn't need to be told we ex
pect that. And whatever taxes are
laid on we hope Congress will do it
and not leave it to Mr. Kitchin.
K. C. Star
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PATRIOTISM'S PAY.
"None" is the only answer that
the members of the local draft
board of an Iowa county have given
to the government query as to what
charge is to be made for the service
of the members in the execution of
the selective draft law.
The report sent n -ay the county
board at Marengo was the first com
plete report that the adjutant gen
eral's department has received. The
expense account covered the months
of July, August, September, October,
and November.
Charges might have been made by
the members of Marengo for the fol
lowing: Chairman, clerk, physician,
office rent, examining surgeon, fur
niture, typewriter rent, supplies and
printing, traveling, incidentals and
postage. After each of the items the
board wrote the word "none." The
sum total of the column was "none."
It is known to the adjutant gen
eral's department that many items
of expense were incurred bv the
members of the board of Marengo.
The department points to the first re
port as one of the samples of vol
unteer work of which it wishes to
receive much.
R. J. Gilchrist is chairman of the
Iowa county board,. Merus Williams
is clerk, and Dr. A. E. Gibson (re
signed) is physician. Dcs Moines
Register.
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Do your shopping early.
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A little snow now and then.
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The great Russian question
where are Mr. and Mrs. Kerensky?
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We have felt right along that if
Austria wasn't a little more careful
of the company it kept it would get
into trouble.
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With Hoover, conservation be
gins at home. He has even had his
son's appendix cut out, along with
the sugar, etc.
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Have the students of early cam
ouflage cited the escape of Ulysses
irom the Cyclops cave by hiding in
tae wool of the great ram?
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Chicken thieves are getting ac
tive. It would be. a good idea for
those who have chickens to get their
shot gun in' active operation, also.
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Iu Petrograd a citizen goes to bed
a traitor and rises a patriot; lunch
es as a revolutionist and dines as a
rebel; and never for a moment knows
what democracy, is.
GO HAVE A LOOK!
Vallery and Cromwell leave
Plattsmoutu every Saturday night
at 7:45 for Keith, Perkins and Chase
counties.
They have the good level black
soil that is raising all -kinds of
small grain, corn and alfalfa.
Nobody has any lower prices and
better soils. Ask those who have
been out. 17-swtf
STRAIGHT FROM .
THE SHOULDER!
The message delivered by Presi
dent Wilson to the reconvened con
gress strikes straight from the
shoulder at the vital points of the
war situation. Without mincing his
language he shows that the reasons
forcing us to take up arms to repel
the unprovoked aggressions of the
kaiser are even stronger now for
unrelenting prosecution of the war
and that the talk of peace by com
promise before we have gotten, fair
ly into swing is prompted either by
cowardly fear or traitorous disloy
alty. At no time has a president
talked more plainly and more out
spokenly about enemies within the
nation conspiring to sacrifice the
principles of democracy to tempor
ary advantage.
The best evidence thai the presi
dent is in earnest and determined to
back words with deeds, is his urgent
demand upon congress for immedi
ate declaration that a state of war
exists also with Austria-Hungary.
The anomaly of fighting the kaiser
while pretending to be in friendly
peace with his chief partner acting
in complete unison with hiu$, not
only in pushing the U-boat infamy
but also in military movements
against us and our allies, is indeed
intolerable. The president offers a
partial excuse for the Austrians that
they are but tools and vassals of the
German war lords and place .Turkey
and Bulgaria in the same category,
yet asksthat action against the last
two be deferred for reasons which
to us seem inconclusive. Unless
there are undisclosed objects to be
subserved, we do not see why we
should continue on terms of peace
with any of the countries self-linked
with Germany in its greedy scheme
of world dominion.
To the people of the countries
whose governments are waging war
upon us,the president's re-statement
of our aims and purposes should be
reassuring and would be if they
were permitted to comprehend with
out distortion and misrepresentation.
That understanding can, however,
only come later when we pmve to
them that justice and right and not
plunder and booty is what alone
will satisfy us. It must also hearten
our own allies and strengthen them
in their weak places. For patriotic
Americans, there is nothing to do
but gird for a battle to the finish.
Omaha Bee.
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NO HALF-HEARTED PATRIOTS.
The election returns from many of
the large cities indicates that true
patriots may be compelled to forcret
for the time party ties and vote for
men for public trust who are 100 per
cent American. No man who is half
neartcd in the support of his coun
try in this crisis should be sent to
congress or the senate, and the peo
ple should go behind their campaign
utterances to determine their loyal
ty. Fairbury News
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P.efore a woman can vote in Great
Britain under the new suffrage fran-
elilse, she must be 30 years old and
i ok it. Which isn't so. bad she
desn't have to admit it except to
the registrar, who usually is a
strange, mere man.
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Reading the other day that tight
shoes made a woman look cross, we
know now what's the matter with
a certain otherwise good looking
girl of this old town.
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Whale meat in San Francisco mar
kets has risen to 22;2 cents the
pound. Somebody cornered whales?
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CEMETERY.
We arc now prepared to make your
monument, markers and lot corners
right at home. Cass County Monu
ment Co., W. T. Wassell, manager.
Hotel Riley block, Plattsmouth, Neb.
W. A. ROBERTSON,
Lawyer.
. East of Riley Hotel.
Coates Block,
Second Floor
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Polarine is produced under pressure at a zero
temperature. That's why it flows freely,
feeds steadily and won't "stiffen up" in the
crankcase of your car not even in the cold
est weather. So winter starting is easy with
a Polarine lubricated motor.
Polarine lubricates thoroughly. It forms
a perfect seal between piston and cylinder
wall. That's why compression and power
are increased.
This winter get the driving satisfaction that
Polarine gives you. Fill your crankcase
wherever you see the sign you'll find it on
numerous Service Stations and good garages
everywhere.
the Ideal
For most miles per pallon, most comfort per mile
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"Letter Roll" Flour needs no boosting
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The best cooks wherever vou po
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They just set their yeast and go to bed,
For they know on the morrow they will have good
Bread.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, "1917.
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