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MOlfDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918. PAGE FOUR. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. tZbz plattsmouth 'Journal PIBU.1HKD IEMI-WEEKLT AT PLA1TSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, CtrS at Totofflce at Plattsmouth. Nb.. a scoad-clasa mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher VCUIFTIO!t PRICKi Spring is comin; :o:- Did you get a valentine? -:o:- It will take some coaxing. .o: Everybody that is anybody, belongs to the lied Cross. :o:- Prccedent is a convenient peg to liang incompetency on. :o: Headline: "All Women Kin in War." And they not only kin, but do. :o: Austria is again reminded that "while the light holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return". 1'rol-ably it is pretty hard for the young men to look wise in a country where shell-rimmed spectacles have not been introduced. :o: Anway the German militarists will never atain be abl.' to frighten the German people into giving them a g ;n by pointing to the "Slav poril. :o: Win n a man says lie had a hell of j a time, and a woman says she had a heavenly time, the hostess will un derstand that they both mean the same thing. :o: Senator Thompson of Kansas, who announces that he will rrn for re election, like Senator Norris. of this state doesn't seem to realize that the puhi5c doesn't care much for a joke after eervone know.-, it. So!:-e peopie are entirely too quick to take items in thtir column as per sonal to themselves, when nothing of the kind was ever thought of. When the editor wants to be person al he is not too cowardly to speak out in meeting." :o : When paper clothing conies into vogue, the great trouble will be in rainy weather. Perhaps one should 1-ein saving Jiis highbrow maga zines now to be made into suits lat er. Many of them are dry enough to be waterproof. Some of the preachers in the Ok lahoma oil and mining fields have in vested wisely, and have become mil lior.airs. And now probably ' are realising the ambitious they faster ed when they were novices;, and have fried chicken every day the year round. "We could not sign a peace," Trot.ky's, proclamation rays, "bring ing sadness and oppression to mil lions of workers and we cannot and will not continue a war begun bv the czar's capitalists," Especially they could not and would not con tinue the war. :o:- That recent letter of the Nebrask council i defense to the officers of t lie non-partisan league loses none of its force from the fact that the ra tional president ajiu Fecretary of the organization are named in warrants issii"i m .Minnesota to answer a charge of conspiracy to discourage enlistment in the army and navy. Minnesota is the state in which the national convention was held to ap- piuuu j;oio nun. it is a serious charge and the public will await the proof with considerable interest. Lincoln Star. How's This ? TT flTr Ore TTunilrprt Dollars TtAtrarrt for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. lT.tr. Patarrh T.Tftrl fi no HaAn taVpyl by catarrh sufferers lor the past thirty five year?, and ha3 bceom known as the rncst reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's Caarrh Medicine acta tb.ru the Blood on fie Mucous ewrfttcec. exne'.'.tn? the Pol. fn tron: the Blood and bcahng the dl3- crs-d portions. ..- .--t, l aro taken Tlntl'is Catarrh Mcdtclr.rs for a chort tir.:c you v.lll see a Teat improvement in jour general -... i-nn TTall's Citarrh Mfdi. elne at once ar.d fret r.d of catarrh, tend - y j VlIENCY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold' by aUlraKS?3ts. "5c. TE TEAK I IDfANCU George Washington's birthday next one week from Friday. -:o:- The poor censor is to be pitied. He never knows where lie is at. Suffragists are having a hard time to get through the U. S. Senate. -:o:- Easy to buy, convenient to handle, no red tape get a War" Savings Stamp today. One of Plattsmouth's young lady's beau has gone to war and now she calls the cozy corner in the front room at her home "No Man's Land." -:o:- One of the best ways to hammer the enemy is to hammer rivets in the ships the government is building to carry our armies to France and feed our allies. :o: We never have been able to make up our mind whether it does any good to call for "chief operator" after we've had trouble getting our tele phone number. :o: Don't kill your hens, the food manager says. it is a nnaoie oi- fense, and you have to pay in an amount more than all the chickens on vour farm are worth. About half the time only does "Old Sol" let his smiling countenance beam upon us. lie will perhaps nn.ke up for this next summer when we don't need his rays for comfort. :o: What the Milwaukee police de scribe as "a fake counterfeiting ma chine" has turned out to be a power ful wireless outfit in the hands of an enemy spy. it s a dangerous time for spies to lurk when the police be gin guessing wildly. So many Americans have learned what is said to be the correct pro nunciation of "liolsheviki" that no body will be surprised to hear of another revolution and a new gov ernment to be learned in Russia al most anv time now. :o: Replying to Senator Hitchcock's speech assailing the conduct of the war, Senator Williams of Mississippi turned to his Nebraska colleague and said: "What do you know about run ning this war? You know less than I do, and 1 know nothing." :o:- The military party in Germany ap parently wishes it distinctly under stood that the only reason it will listen to is the reason that accom panies a smashing military defeat for the Central Towers. It is the one business of the United States to help furnish this reason at the earliest possible date. The Columbus Telegram, Lieuten ant Governor Howard's paper, speaks our sentiments almost to a dot: "Senator Hitchcock is either wholly right or wholly wrong in the violent attack he has made upon President Wilson and his administration. He has made some very serious charges If those charges are true, then the truth might justify him in making them. If they are not true, then no punishment can be too severe to fit the crime of making them." A young school ma'am teaching in this vicinity received a package the other day from her mother con taining a union suit. The mother used a shipping tag of an Omaha hide and fur company on which to write her daughter's address. She forgot to erase the hide company's address and the package went to them first. Upon opening the pack age they discovered the mistake and the real destination. The package was remailed with this message on a card inside: "Don't-send us your un derwear. Send us your hides." GERMANY'S DEPLETED ARMIES. The statement reputed to have been made in the Bavarian Diet that the .German soldier dead now number 1,500,000 is probably correct. The imperial government ceased publish ing the casualty lists at the end of last June. They were then behind the facts to some extent, but at that time they had counted up 1,105,760 dead, with 592,000 missing and aboutH 3,000,000 wounded. It is thus with in conservative bounds, that the death-list has now reached 1,500,000 and as well that number of those permanently incapacitated is of an equal number, as is also reported from from Zurich to have been stat ed in the Bavarian legislature. Germany, since the war began, has never had more than 7,000,000 men to spare for the fighting-lines. This is a war of munition and other essential workers as well as a Avar of soldiers, and Germany's "classes" of recruits yearly emerging from youth in the number of 600,000 or so can not all or in most part have been available for the front; and there has been the further offset of aging veterans retired from the ranks to productive industry as the war goes on. . These figures of permanent losses tend to confirm the current esti mates of no more than 2,000,000 Germans on the western front after the Russian front has been combed of its best effectives, and this must be close to Germany's maximum possible power on the western front. It is already outnumbered by the allied forces, and this preponderance cf power is increasing right along. New York World. -rot- HOW TIRED IS AUSTRIA? In his address of Monday Presi dent Wilson tells the people of Aus tria that the peace terms proposed by their Count Czernin are generally in accord with those favored by the allies, and that a pursuance of their proposals may very easily lead to a peace with the allies. At the same time he tells the liberal el&ments n both Austria and Germany that the peace terms of the German prime minister, von Hertling, arc out of accord with the terms of the allies. destructive of democracy and utterly m possible. The address is a thinly veiled nvitation to the Austrian govern ment to enter into negotiations for a peace independent of Germany's cotrse if the junker party in Ger many continues to hold the reins in diplomatic negotiations. It also offers proof to the liberal elements in Ger many that the uniteu states seeKs no advantage for itself. That it wants nothing for this country and people that it is not willing every other country aud people shall have and enjoy. Just now, perhaps, it is too much to hope that this assurance from the president will stimulate the war- weary Austrians to a pursuance of the plain invitation. However, it is good material for the Austrians and liberal Germans to think over. Meantime the war activities of this country will go on without abate ment. They must go on. for democ racy must win this war sooner or later. It cannot give no until the future peace of the world shall have been secured. Germany's peace with Russia, if it has been really effected, simply make more imperative, while somewhat greater, the task to be per formed. Lincoln Star. :o:- REORGANIZING AFTER THE WAR Lord Northcliffc has called atten tion impressively to the fact that this will be a changed world after the war and that the day of huge for tunes is likely to be over. Much that has happened since ho was in Kansas City has added significance to what ho said. In England there has been a steady growth of the power of the labor party, accompanied by the formulating of a radical platform. In France and Italy similar move ments have been in progress. In i Russia the Bolshevist government lias gone the limit ill r;wliel nvnnri- 111PI1 1 n t ion with tl:n DPrmnniln rmimln. ! tions of society. In every country n - new challenge has arisen. In pre- vious wars the army has represented a small part of the population and industry has gone on as befrre. In this war the entire resources of the nations has been mobilized. Under the resulting stress the question has been put to the workers: "Is this country and its social order worth fighting for?" The question may sound cold blooded. But it has been constantly present. So powerfully has it affect ed the national morale that it has forced itself on the attention of ev ery government. Men who have profited conspicuously with the old regime have wondered whether it was not imperative to bring the war to a close before the foundations of social order weer overturned. Certainly with the coming of peace every country will be confronted with demands for social reorganiza tion that will secure for every human being a more nearly equal opportun ity to develop and share in the gains that civilization has accumulated. Even in America it is apparent that there is an element in the popula tion that has had such defective early training and consequently has been so handicapped in the struggle for existence that it is oat of harmony with the national aims and ideals. There are warped and dwarfed and blunted men who have to be dealt with for the present by repression. But their existence is an index of the defects of the social order. The United States as well as other nations will be called on to see to it that such derelicts do not develop. A whole set of social problems will have to be dealt with in this coun try. There will be programs of so cial and industrial insurance to con sider; scales of minimum wages, the protection of women in industry and the exclusion of children, the more efficient use of education, the im proving of the public health, the problem of decent housing, the safe guarding of society from the multi plying of the feeble minded, humane dealing with those naturally incom petent to sustain themselves in the struggle for existence, and a general revision of features of the indus trial system to obtain more efficient distribution and to do away with the tribute levied by special privilege. These are matters which will ab- sob the statesmanship of all nations in the adjustments tLat must come in the period of taking stock that peace will bring. K. C. Star. -:o:- MUST BE A WORLD SETTLEMENT. The German and Bolshevist nego tiators who have arranged things so satisfactorily to themselves may re gard the settlement they have af fected as final. The Russians quit fighting and go home and the Ger mans take what they want and keep it. But world democracy happens to be a party to this war and the settlements that will follow it. De mocracy went into the Avar to pre vent the A-ery thing they are at tempting to do. The question is not one between Russia and Germany and cannot be settled by them. It is between world democracy and Ger many. The nations lighting lor a peace of justice which shall insure stability to the new order they are determined to build on the ruins of the old cannot permit German mili tarism, with, or without the consent of Russian pacifists, to seize terri tory containing a population of per haps 20 million people as a spoil of war. It makes no difference that that territory is in Russia instead of in France or Belgium. It makes no difference that Russia is indifferent to the seizure. It would make no difference even if the people of the seized provinces thus handed over like chattels consented to it. In any case it is in direct, contravention of tho principles for which the Avar is being fought and must not be per mitted. Russia in arms was democracy's ally; Russia in anarchy and refus ing to defend her own lands and peo ple must be democracy's Avard, must bo protected against her enemies and 1 u-ilucf Wruolf Wn rail this a world o". I 1, Imnoiicn nP tho uuuiber of nations engaged, but the i , principles at stake in it are world wide, not merely national or racial The settlement when It comes must be a world settlement, not a series of agreements between separate bel ligerents containing the Hceda of a new war for time to ripen. K. C Star. :o:. THE COUNTRY WANTS RESULTS The fact that the president and the secretary of war now realize tho need of reform In the war or ganization of the country is the best possible answer to the diatribes hurl ed by Senator John. Sharp Williams, Representative Carter (j:ass and oth ers at the heads of those senators who have had the temerity to call attention to shortcomings which should bo guarded against. Now that there is agreement on essentials between the executive branch of the government and those in the legislatiA-e branch who have criticised, there ought to be an end to controversy, and, especially, to mud slinging. It is apparent that the Chamber lain bills Avill not be enacted into law in their present shape. It must be apparent also that the Overman bi!!, Avith its blanket transfer of power from congress to the presi dent, Avill not pass in the form in Avhich it Avas presented. Even the World, Avhich tries as hard as any Avell regulated organ could to folMw the administration wishes, shies at that. Assuming good faith all around, the situation resolves itself into one revealing all elements striving for the same end. All are desirous of seeing the Avar organization of the country changed in any way that ma- be necessary to assure the max imum amount of efficiency. That being the case there is no good reason why all should not get together. Neither pride of place nor concern for power should be permitted to stand in the Avay of their getting together. New York Herald. to: MAKING EVERY MAN BEAR HIS SHARE Idaho has accepted as good the plan adopted by one eastern state West Virginia, as it is remembered and the Idaho council of defense has appealed to the people of that state to see that the loafers and idlers, rich and poor, are embarked in some useful employment to help the nation in its crisis. This plea of the council of defense is based upon the Avise theory that Avhen the nation is at Avar, no man's time is his own; that be owes some thing to his neighbors and his coun try, and that the least he can do is to lend a hand in the production of the things his country needs. Men who keep at Avork are always the best citizens. There is aptness in the maxim that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. The hobo is never nasty nice about law observance. All of the hoboes are not bumming in box cars. There are some in every town, men Avhd eke out a living in ways which their neighbors cannot discern or guess. Some of the loudest opponents of labor regulations are men who labor chiefly with their mouths, notably the I. W. W. Put to Avork, they would be as restive as a fly in the milk pitcher. Someone has said that it is not what one gets out of life, huh Avhat he puts into it, that measures a man's usefulness. Man avh3 created if for anything, for service, and if that be logical, then it must follow that service must be mutual and uni versal or manhood is in some measure Avasted. War time is a good time to make application of a principle that no man is doing his duty to himself and to mankind who does not Avork al ways for human betterment, and no loafer is a benefit to mankind. Lincoln Star. :o: Chamberlain's Tablets. Those Tablets are intended es pecially for disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels. If 3-ou are troub led with heartburn, indigestion or constipation they Avill do you good. Journal Want-Adi Pay I Net Contents 15Pluid Drachnj f ALCOHOL. - a ! AVc claWcPfcpnraf iaiKrAs " .r-r, rrvT i auiiiiiiiiiixiv. . - I tir4thcSicCTacts-andBlsii fillips the I Thcrcl.yl'forr.olinDiUon I Chcc.-falr.cssar.dRssLCon ! ricittcr Opium. Morphine ! Hiiicr.'il.XoTXAncoTic Puir.ntM .StXV ALx Sriraa 4 1 SifcZ A J'rpp.rtBLAl r . harm Sail ) jHn!rymi brer ) ! Constipation aiidDiarraa. h and rewrishnesscna ! rac-SiirJlc Si4narlcf jj C&Vtf&i i 'less i! iBECSNXMHlCCMPAKir. Exaa Copy cf Wrapper. BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES. The Progress Avill be a free lance to the individual who dares to show any symptoms of kaiserism in this locality. We are getting mighty provoked and disgusted Avith their excuses at this sanctum. Are these individuals who are claiming loyalty to Uncle Sam truthful when they dis continue their home paper and break their neck to get their foreign language paper? No, not by any means. Hasten the day when they can get nothing to read but English papers. Polk Progress. COMING PUBLIC SALES. Dates of of Col. W. R. Young for the Month ot February. Tuesday, 19th F. Rambout, Wy oming. "Wednesday, 20th Airs. Joe Sans, MurraA Thursday, 21st J. R. Vallery, Mynard. . - Friday, 2 2d J. W. Marshall, Plattsmouth. Monday, 25th Charley Creamer, Plattsmouth. Tuesday 26th W. 11. Hell. Cedar Creek. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 27, 2S and 2S at Grant, Neb. FARMS FOR SALE acres, all in cultivation, 2 V2 miles south of Plattsmouth. Might take some trade. Will make good terms. 46' acres adjoining the city on the north. All under cultivation, no improvements. 10 V2 acres in the city limits, im proved. Good terms can be given on all of the aboA'e lands. CLYDE II. FULLER. Phone U40-W or No. 11. The New Government-Irrigated Farms in the Big Horn Basin, Near Deaver, Wyoming, are Going Very Radidly! Only a few good farms of the Heaver Unit are left. If you act quickly, you can get hold of one of these for a 1918 crop that will bring you the highest possible prices. Excellent Government water right with with all ready for you. Jt is merely up to you to take hold and get under way. The Big 1 Jont Ilasin is established: it is on its way towards a rich commonwealth, with a solid basis of oil. irrigation, alfalfa, live stock and sugar beet industries. Our advertising matter will show you that wc foretold all litis over ten years ayo. Gmernment-irrigatcd farms around Powell, nearby, are selling at over $200 an acre. Wkstkr.v Nkukaska and Eastkrn Colorado Lands: These are being sold out from large holdings alongside Burlington maia lines. This process is going on steadilv through the year. 'Yhov are excellent for dairying, wheat jkltapnj I (Me-! f mm w ia " ta MA lu mm u For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Alwavs or Over h Irf y Years I 1 m. w i mmm Tr.' CChTAUf) COMPANY. ttCVI YORK CITT TWIGE-TOLO TESTIMONY Plattsmouth People Are Doing All They Can for Fellow Sufferers. Plattsmouth testimon- has been published to prove the merit of Doan's Kidney Pills to others in Plattsmouth avIio suffer from bad backs and kidney ills. Lest any suf ferer doubt this evidence of merit, Ave produce confirmed proof statements from Plattsmouth people who again endorse Doan's Kidney Pills con firm their former testimony. Here's a Plattsmouth case: Jonathan Hatt, general storekeep er, 414 Main St., says: "I got Doan's Kidney Pills from Edward Rynott & Co.'s Drug Store and I consider them a most effective medicine for back ache and other kidney ailments. Doan's have proven their Aalue to me for sue htroubles." The above statement was given April 10, 1912 and on February 22, 1016, Mr. Hatt said: "Doan's Kidney Pills are surely all right and Avhat I said in my former endorsement holds good. When my kidneys cause me any trouble, Doan's soon put me right." Price 60c, at all dealers! Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Hatt has twice publicly recommended. Foster-Milburn Co.", Props., Buffalo, X. Y. V 4i" SOCIAL DANCE. at the PULS & GAXSEMER HALL February 20th Music by the Desdundes Col ored Orchestra of Omaha. Given By MURRAY DANCING CLUB You know the &ood time that will be in store for you, so do not fail to come. . - raising, live stock and general ft. AW ur r. larmmg ami are the best lands of iheir kind in the West, ecu re my services: they are free. S. 3. HOWARD, Immigration Agent, C. B. & Q. By., 1004 Farnain Street, Omaha, Nebraska.