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Everything seems lovely.
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And the goose hangs high.
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--AVhat does the New Year prom
is?? Many things If we reach out and
get them.
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Plattsmouth is a good town but
we all should unite to make it bet
ter. :o:-
The legislature will meet next
week, and the new governor will be
lnaugerated the following week.
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Hog Island seems to have been
properly named, even to iuclude the
odor that arises from it every time
an investigator stirs it up.
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Whatever else may be said about
them, these war time safety match
es are one of our most dependable
institutions. They never strike.
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The days are slowly growing long
er, except in the estimation of the
holidays are over, and vacation
dcys also, and he must continue go
ing to school pretty regularly now,
if the flu don't stop hini.
Has it escaped attention that few
of the gentlemen of the Congress,
although the recipients of their ac
customed perquisite of mileage
ni'oney. encumbered the railroads
by going home far the several days'
recess? .
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. The Allied governments are mak
ing no response to the Bolshevist
pleas for peace. They evidently are
waiting to hear more from the Bol
shevist - declaration of war, which
they merely heard rumors about,
but" no real confirmation.
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The new multiplex telephone de
vice "makes it possible at one and
the same time to .carry on five diff
erent conversations." What a boon
to the ladies who use the phone for
social purposes and who have hith
erto been hampered by rudepersons
who wished to transact business af
fairs. :o:
Dr. Billy -Sunday says he will
never buy anything made in Ger
many as long as he lives. Our idea
of a spirited half hour would be to
be present some time wh.en Doctor
Billy discovers that he has Just
bought something some enterpris
ing Hun has made and stamped
"Made in France."
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As seemed to befit his station as
commander in chief. Von Hinden
burg occupied the most luxurious
and most bomb-proof dugout in the
German Army, situated mere than
100 miles back of the firing line.
There was only one other dugout
within the lines more bomb-proof
'or'furthcr from the line of action.
That was the kaiser's.
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We are inclined to laud only
Cass County's troops in the
field. They did valorous work and
deserve all the praise we can ' give,
but we must not forget the boys in
the navy who made it possible for
the troops to do these things. Many
writers insist it was the "gobs"
who really won the war, yet, there
is glory enough for all. .' ,
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as tliey
cannot reach the seat of tho disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, ftreaUy In
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure It you must take an
Internal remedy Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine Is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
avstem. Hall's Catarrh IJedicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. Il is com
posed of some of t!ie best tomes known,
combined with some of the rt blood
purifiers. The perfect combination pi
the ingredients la Halls Catarrh Medi
cine is wat produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions. tSend tor
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& fcr conation
There is now a great prospect for
a genuine good wheat crop.
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Mr. Hoover in his best days was
never such an efficient food preaerv-
er as SO cent butter and., eggs are
now.
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Well, anyhow, the Kaiser did not
eat Neither his Christmas or New
Year dinner In Berlin.
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That new multiple telephone in
vention may be a marvel, but peo
ple who already suffer on a party
wire will be shy of it. x
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The late Kaiser's reported refus
al to quit Holland reminds its of
his previously reported refusal to
quit his throne.
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It wasn't necessary for that Bol
shevik scheme to abolish everything
to specify the lunatic asylums among
the condemned institutions.
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Unscrambling" the railroads bids
fair to take more tuay McAdoo's
five years. It's easier to get into
a mess than to get out of it.
This by about forty paragraphers,
each of whom claims he thought of
it first: "Henry Ford ought to get
out a rattling good newspaper."
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It was nice of King George to
tell us that we speak the tongue of
Shakespeare -and Milton, but has he
ever read any of our free verse?
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Keep on your agitating a pi in for
a memorial in Cass county for the
County's soldiers who gave their
lives in the great world war for the
cause of democracy.
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May all the readers of the Journal
enjoy the New Year and ere it's de
parture, or sooner for that matter,
be able to buy the necessaries of
life at reasonable prices.
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The American soldiers after see
ing the wanton-brutality of the Ger
man army, will not tolerate a com-
misserating attitude of the peace
envoys toward that country.
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The profiteer is to get it in the
neck this month. The fellow who
goes the rounds of the town invit
ing combination on prices is the fel
low the authorities should get af
ter first.
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This, from the Los Angeles Times,
reminds one again that the wars
aren't all over: "Florida is adver
tising her advantages as "a winter
resort. Florida Is the place, you
know, where they pick the oranges
and the tourists, both green."
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To the end of a man's days there
is mercy in the very renewing of
the year. Because of the old habits
of our human race the dullest of us
can see these, months ahead- with
some clear idea of the natural
changes their recurring day3 will
bring. And, if he will, in this
splendid frame of time any one of
us can set the purposes of his own
life. We do not all sow and tend
and reap in the fields, but none the
less we can make our. scheme of ac
tion through the. seasons. 'With
time, one is either master or slave,
and the new year gives us choice
acain. The sorrows and failures
are now gone behind us forever, and
ahead there is the eternal chance of
being and doing, of happiness and
service and victory In the work
that is at our hand. Enemies can
be made friends, grief can be turn
ed to joy, and deserts, whether geo
graphical or spiritual, can be made
to blossom like the rose. These
frost sharpened days ought to clear
our eyes to the horizons of life and
set our purpose in boldiug fast to
the things that we know are good
YES. GERMANY CAN PAY.
This talk about Germany lacking
the means to meet the bill for her
depredations in Belgium and France
should not go unchallenged. Ger
many cannot pay back the lives
stamped out, but she has a renter
ror every rarter. a slate for every
slate, a shutter for every shutter, a
window light for every window
light. Why should she not pay for
the damage to dwellings in these?
Much more important still, Ger
many owns several billions worth of
the best modern manufacturing ma
chinery. Every bit of it can be
moved with a little trouble and in
genuity. Machinery makes the na
tion, nowadays. ;' Germany has
taught us a strange lesson by rarry
ing off the equipment of the French
and Belgian factories. But for that
lesson we might ' have forgotten
what machinery is worth, ana how
well it stands removal and rein
stallation.
For the coin of repayment a beat
en enemy need stand in no lack if
we choose for that coin Germany's
mechanical equipment. In this
alone can she pay somewhere near
a fair price. In this alone can her
victims obtain a fairly early advan
tage from their indemnification.
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THE RED CREW IN BERLIN.
It looks as if Dr. Karl Liebknecht
was determined to demonstrate that
the late Imperial German Govern
ment was not always wrong in its
dealing with men and things. The
man who choses the blackest hour
of his country's misfortune to
create new discord, new ruin, new
misery, can hardly be regarded as
a very safe person to bo at large,
maniacally forcing nt3 . nightmare
follies-npon a dazed and-unbalanced
public.
Liebknecht is, after all, the typi
cal Trussian. Self-centred, self
willed, blind to all truth, imperv-
ious to all reason, incapable of logic
al thought or sober Judgment, he
runs amok against civilization just
as did the Kaiser and the junker
paranoiacs suspicion, aeiusions oi
greatness, impossible projects and
reckless methods class him like them
in the field of mental pathology. He
is not only the latest, but perhaps.
the greatest of his country's mis
fortunes.
il is also a new and terrible
phase of the criminality of those
who made the war that they- have
Kopened the way for him and his
like, in their own and other coun
tries, to assert themselves for a brief
disastrous period over the heritage
of ages of civilization.
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USlrfG THE PRESIDENT'S NAME.
It seems that every official, com
missioner or bureaucrat that is
urging revolutionary changes in our
attitude toward industries and utili
ties professes to have the backing
of. the president. The Federal
Trade Commission, in advising some
sweeping changes to correct evils it
claims to have discovered and whose
existence is specifically and vigor
ously denied by the companies
sought to be regulated, finds its
principal argument in the supposi
tion that Piesident Wilson favors it.
It asks for such an expansion of its
jurisdiction and power- as neither
congress nor the country dreamed of
at the time the commission was
created, and it seeks to silence all
opposition by assuring us that the
president also favors' that. Mr. Mc
Adoo, in recommending retention of
government control of the railways
for five years, for purposes of ex
perimentation, also invokes the
name of the president, although his
last public utterance on the railway
question was to the effect that if
congress did not soon adopt some
solution to the problem, which he
admitted he was unable to suggest,
he would turn the railways 4ack at
once. Mr. Burleson, In his efforts
to scramble the wire properties be
yond any possibility of their return
to the owucs, from whom they were'
sei7ed under the war power, ..also
claims to have the cordial approval
of the president.
Not all tisse claims, in the light
of the president's public utterances,
are worthy acceptation and belief.
It is improbable that Mr. Wilson has
had the spare time from the engross
ing international questions that
made him feel his personal visit to
Europe was an imperative duty, to
go into the solution of this maze of
domestic questions. It is suspected
that his name is being used for con
juring purposes without his full
knowledge of all the facts. But
even if he has approved all the
sweeping changes being promoted
in his absence, that would not re
lieve congress of the duty of con
sidering each proposal solely on its
merits. When the president, as
commander-in-chief of the army,
asked congress for .anything he
deemed necessary to successful
prosecution of the war, congress re
sponded promptly. But neither first
nor second hand assurances of his
wishes as to domestic policies should
outweigh Judgment based on , full
consideration of the facts. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
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GERMAN AND BOLSHEVIK.
The extraordinary situation in
Russia is best illustrated perhaps by
the fact that the Bolshevik troops
now follow the retiring Germans to
ward the border, pillaging as they
advance. Theoretically the Bolshe
vik and the German Socialist ought
to make good friends. Actually the
attitude of the two armies ''spells
anything bat friendliness. A year
or so ago the situation was the pre-
cise reverse. In the German em
pire the Bolshevik! professed to
see a deadly enemy, uut wnen it
came to action they gave up Rus
sian territory and signed a peace
treaty ready-made by the Germans.
The Bolshevik leaders of 1917
showed as plainly as actions can
show that they were working in-the
interests of the German imperial
and military authority. . The same
clique in Petrograd seek to-day to
gain domination over the German
radicals. They feel it necessary
cither to serve a German Emperor
or to control a German government
of men such as themselves.
Judging by this interpretation of
he Itusso-Gcrman relations, we
may lo6k for nu Uttempt at unifica
tion of the two former nations un-.
der one control. Germany will
hardly find any frjends outside of
Russia, while the Bolshcvikl of. Rus
sia need not expect any sympathy
save from Germany. The 'two na
tions are flung together.
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THE OLD YEAR.
Though we must keep our eyes to,
the front, and 'march steadily for
ward, the memories of all of us will
long be busy with the things that
lie behind us and properly so. For
the experience of the last year is a
very important and vital part of our
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Poultry Wanted!
A car load of live poultry to be de
livered at poultry car near Burling
ton Freight - Depot, Piattsmouth,
Nebr., on Friday, Jan. .JL 0th, one day
only for which we v.-ill pay in cash :
All Youn Roosters 20c
Hens --22c
Pullets J 22c
Tom Turkeys, 12 lbs. pver 23c
Hen Turkeys 8 lbs. oVer .24c
Ducks F. F. F 1 20c
Geese F. F. F. 19c
Old Roosters . ..: 15c
Cow Hides, per pound : 14c
Large Horse Hides, eachi -$6.00
Rabbits, (not dressed) per doz. $1.20
Wi!l be on hand rain or shine and
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take care of all Poultry offered for
sale. Don't tie poultry.
' Yours very truly,
77. Z. ZEENEY.
race inheritance We have just
emerged, as victors over a great
wrong, and over a system that
would, .had it triumpher, have made
a new era impossible within the
lifetime of the youngest of us. We
have a right to be proud of the rec
ord, and do well to dwell on it.
Others - will think of those whom
they have-lost in the great strug
gle, a sacrifice to the hideous mons
ter of war, and of graves in a far
distant land. It was a year of
tears and smiles, of grief and pride,
of the deepest sorrow and the most
turbulent Joy. xThose who have liv
ed through it cannot be wholly un
affected as to character. For four
years he 'world has been- going
through a crucifixion. , Will there
be a resurrection? It Is out of this
terrible yet glorious past that the
new era, when it comes, will be
born--perhaps it was born during
the pangs of war. No one can tell.
But all can see that this past, or at
least its consequences, must be
carried by us Into the future. The
stern discipline through which men
have gone must Rave its effect. It
has been a sad year, sadder than
we realized when we were passing
through it. But it lias proved to us
many things in regard to which
people have been somewhat in
doubt. We learned that men are
still brave, self sacrificing, capable
of devotion to a great cause, finely
patriotic, sympathetic and lovers of
decency and honor. Man lias not
l:--t his grip on the realities of life,
t'ti the fundamental verities. He
lias shown that he has not forgotten
the old teachings that the greatest
realities of all are ideals. Tlte im
mediate past of this generation is
a veritable shrine, and one that we
shall return to again and again, al
ways with proud and thankful
hearts. The year 1918 will long bc
lcoked back on as the testing time
of this Nation and of humanity.
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How pleasant it is to go back to
the little ways of peace. One can
idle an hour or two away with a
frivolous book and do it with a
clear conscience, without a substra
tum of thought running through the
mind that we should be actively up
and doing, engaged in one of tho in
numerable .ways of winning the
war. One can drift into a play
house ind watch a musical comedy's
ad
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ISCOUflT!
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For the.purpose of quickly reducing our Fur stock we are offering a dis.
count of 20 from all regular prices. -
The Annis Furs are noted (or quality and style. Take advantage of this op
portumty and buy good stylish furs now at a remarkable saving.
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Holiday Greetings
IN STORE FOR YOU
Carload of NewBuicks
and Other Cars!
YOUR 191
mild amblings and let the ear be
titillated with light tunes without
feeling that perhaps it is not just
the thing to do- in days pf darkness
and sorrow. The lights the brigiit
white, reassuring lights are there
again before the theater, telling us
that fuel economy is no longer im
perative, that evenings after a full
day's labor can again be spent Idly
and luxuriously. One can even in
vest an idle dollars in a box of
chocolates because one feels that
sugar saving. is no longer quite so
necessary. These, of course, are
daj-s of reaction. Soon we will re
turn to the sterner things. We will
worry about the League of Nations
and the freedom of the seas: we
will be precipitated into the prob
lems of reconstruction. But a little
lull has Insidiously placed itself be
tween the grave dayj ::iat are gone
and the busy days that are to come.
And this little lull, we rnid. is wel
come and a thing to be cherished.
"Carter Glass,' says a. Washing
ton despatch, "spent "four hours. to
day learning his new job from Sec
retary McAdoo." Mr. McAdoo should
have made it six .hours and taught
him how to run the railroads, too.
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The days are getting
longer.
somewhat
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It seems a shame to 6ink all those
German 'warships. Even if they
can't be used as warships, there
must be an awful lot of good metal
in them. And this should be sav.ed,
even if they have to be beaten Into
pruning hooks. The world's prune
crop' shows no signs of diminution
and pruning hooks will be badly
needed.
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