PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919.
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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Entered at Postofflce, PlatUmouth. Neb., aa aecand-claaa mall matter
R. A. BATES, Publisher
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We're all firm believers in tbe
feasibility of Trans-Atlantic air
flights now, aren't we?
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Doctor Robin is health director
in New Orleans, so they don't all
come north in the spring.
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There is a good deal of similarity
between salad and women's clothes.
The less there is, the more it costs.
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McClure's prints "The Inside
Story of Why Germany Quit." Our
understanding of the inside story is
that she was licked.
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At least half a dozen times in
each game, circumstances arise
which make the fans wonder what
a baseball umpire thinks about.
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Cigarette smoking is a harmful
and pernicious habit, especially
when the smoker wears a long-visor-ed
cap and uses one of those 10-inch
cigarette holders.
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Of course, it Is only a suggestion,
but maybe if the movie theater?
would put the admissions back to
ten or fifteen cents. their safes
wouldn't be blown so often.
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A stranger in the old homo town
cannot conceal it. His shoes are
shined.
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Live and be blest, 'tis sweet to
feel Fate's book is closed and un-
tfer seal.
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THE TEACHER AND OLD AGE.
"Ah, Mr. Gloom!" chortled the
innocent bypasser. "Mowing your
lawn?" "No!" snarled the human
hyena. "I am celebrating my birth
day with a bestial debauch.'
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When you think of how a man
keeps Putting off his first appear
ance in his new loud spring suit,
you are almost ready to conclude
that courage is not a masculine trait
at all.
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How can one say that the affairs
of Europe are of no concern to us.
when a quiet little dispatch from j
Paris about women going without
stockings stirs up the American
paragraphers and makes them buzz
for a week?
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We note by the telegraph that on
the Rainbow Division's arrival at
Centerville, la., last Saturday, the
bow "appeared in the south." This
phenomenon, we understand, was
especially arranged by Secretary
Raker, who had the sun set in the
north that evening.
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It looks as if the farmerette will
come into her own again this sum
mer. The idea of using girls on
the farm last season was something
of a venture, but the plan proved
such a huge success that both farm
ers and farmerettes are anxious to
carry It out again this year. Little
effort has been made to recruit the
girls this season, owing to the de
sire to give returned soldiers first
choice of farm Jobs, but this sort
of work is evidently not appealing
to the service men as little response
is beinir received from them. If
gTeater interest is not shown by the
soldiers it will be up to the farm
erettes to get back on the Job again,
which the young women are said to
be anxiou3 to do.
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Nip Harper says that when he
takes his double-barrel shotgun to
eo hunting, Towser refuses to be
stampeded by trees hanging full of
squirrels and would hunt nothing
hut nil A II. When he takes up his
rifle, then the sagacious animal will
not cast even a side-long glance at
a quail, but gives his whole atten
tion to squirrels. 'When Nip takes
up his club neither squirrels nor
quail can secure an attention from
Towser. He has eyes for rabbits
only. And the other day when Nip
took his pole and fishing tackle, to
go fishing, awhile Towser cave a
demonstration heretofore unknown
in bis curriculum. He went to
work Industriously digging up the
ground In search of fishing worms
We have in this country reliable
statistics on about every subject ex
cept the number of pianos the aver
age jazz orchestra pianist ruins in
a working year. v
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"Beauty is only skin deep and it
can't be smeared on," says a To
ledo man. You'd think from that
that beauty can't be worn or wash
ed off, either, but it can.
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A London theater is installing a
new drop curtain consisting of
mirror. The average audience will
be able to get a laugh from that
curtain, even after the gloomiest of
vaudeville acts.
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"Indian music lacks pitch," an
observer finds. However. except
for melody, rhythm, harn.:ny, con
tinuity and a few other things it
also lacks, Indian music is very
fine noise.
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Washington society is lionizing
Raron Goto, tbe Japanese statesman.
In a manner California would not
think of doing. Perhaps the peace
of the western world might be pro
longed by making California and
the District of Columbia exchange
places.
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A member of the German peace
delegation in Paris says some of the
other members are going mad from
humiliation and mental stress. From
their early expressions of rage and
chagrin, it was feared they might
bite themselves; and now it seems
they have gone and done it.
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The headline writers seem to be
pretty generally agreed that the
long distance airplane shall be re
ferred to as "she," same as the
ocean liner. After all, it is per
fectly natural to attr.ch the femin
ine gender to a fligl.ty contrivance
which has such a supremely confi
dent way of going through air pockets.
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It is said that German manufac
turers will use any means to sell
their wares, no matter how degrad
ing or humiliating to themselves.
So don't be surprised if a new
made-in-Germany safety razor ap
pears on the foreign market in the
future, advertising itself as "the
razor which did more than all oth
ers to lose us the war."
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Out of consideration for the pres
ent styles In skirts, many street car
companies are lowering their car
steps. It has not yet occurred to
them to lower fares out of consid
eration for present prices, not only
in skirts, but in all lines of wear
ing apparel. For this reason, the
public will be permitted a smile if,
just after the car steps are all low
ered, skirts suddenly change back
to the other extreme.
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In stern refutation of the popu
lar belief that . newspapers are
heartless concerns who live for gos
sip and thrive on it, . the Sikeston
(Mo.) Standard comes to bat with
the following defense at the head
of its editorial column: "This is
a cold-bloded hint but it is the opin
ion of the entire city. The stories
being circulated to injure the char
acter of a certain little ' woman
would not be believed on oath by
the better class of people and the
people who are putting out these
cowardly insinuations are not do
ing their business or themselves
any good.'
One phase of the low wage situa
tion for teachers is frequently over
looked by the outsider. It is the
lack of promise ' which the years
hold for the great majority of the
profession. But the teacher cannot
overlook this unpromising future;
he is too much a person of vision for
that.
It is an accepted principle of long
standing that hope of better things
is the mainspring of life. This hope
the average teacher cannot have. He
may start well, perhaps at a better
wage than he could command in
another line of work, and he may
plod along with a fair degree of
comfort ami satisfaction for a few
years.
Then the age of 30 approaches,
the responsibilities of life begin to
Increase with marriage and. if the
teacher dares, with children. Then
of necessity there conies a little deep
thinking as to the situation twenty-
five, thirty or forty years hence.
Very likely the maximum ralary
has already been reached. And the
teacher has hardly enough to make
ends meet.
Several alternatives are faced. He
may "hold his own" to the ago of
60, which will be doing well and
better than falls to the common lot.
whose salary is likely to decrease
constantly after the age of 43 or To.
He make take one chance out of a
hundred or more to rise to a high
er position of responsibility and ex
ceed moderately a living wage.
He must consider a course much
less promising than either of these:
that his health may fail, that he
may lose out with tne manage
ment or pupils of school aner
school, regardless of ability, or that
the cost of living may continue to
advance while his salary remains
stationary.
There is one other possibility.
The teacher, now in a position to
do his best work, may cast about for
another field of activity . tht prom
ises more, where the wages may con
tinually increase with ability and
experience and where, regardless of
a turn of affairs around the critical
age of 60, a competence sufheient !
for remaining years will have been
secured.
What will the able and sensible
teacher do .at this critical moment?
The answer is obvious and has been
given thousands of times in recent
months, when many of the bet
teachers of the country have eith
er left the profession or planned to
do so if wage conditions do not ma
terially improve.
It is folly to talk of devotion to
duty, to the high service of teach
ing with all its compensations, when
the thoughtful teacher knows full
well that to continue as condition.;
are will be to imperil his own
chance of decently maintaining life,
the welfare of his wife and the fu
ture education and well-being of
his children.
What ought to be done Is what
must be done if education is to con
tinue a vital force in the nation.
Provision must be made to hold the
able teacher in tho schools. There
must be the lure of something bet
ter ahead, the feeling that progress
is being made and that poverty will
not embitter the final years of the
teacher and his family.
The provision is simple. The city
schools of Washington, D. C, and
just a few others of the countryj
have made it. Tho plan provides
that every teacher shall begin with
a salary of not less than $1,000 per
school year, and for every addition
al year of successful teaching there
will be another $100 of salary. This
makes it possible for the teacher
who begins at the age of 23, which
is above tho average, to be securing
a minimum of $3,500 per year at
the age of 50 and $5,000 per year
at 65, by. which time most of the
ablest teachers or forced to retire.
Education has recommended a wage
scale similar to this, and much
better for beginning teachers, who
would receive a salary of $2,000 a
year. The responsibility for facing
tho situation now rests not upon
school boards or officials, but upon
the people who are most vitally con
cerned. K. C. Star.
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HER SOUL GOES MARCHING ON.
But it would be very easy for
those who retire at 65 or at 60 to
have accumulated a sum sufficient
not only for the remaining years of
life, but to have provided adequate
ly for a fair-sized family in the
meantime.
' The United States Department o
Of all' the tragic incidents of the
great war, none exceeded those that
surrounded the unspeakably brutal
murder of Edith Cavell in Brussels.
Every feature of her arrest, her
summary trial "and conviction and
her execution represented Prussian
brutality at its worst. Certain
phase?, such as the cynical and in
excusable official lying to the rep
resentatives of the United States
ministry in Belgium, went beyond
anything known in centuries for
cold-blooded indifference to the
most primitive instincts of human
ity and common justice. There was
jeering and leering all down the
line, from the governor general's
palace to the soldiery which fired
t ho final shots. But, as in so many
other cases, German fright f nines:;
overreached itself to such a degree
that the stain on Germany for thio
judicial murder will be in efTaceable.
They killed Edith Cavell gayly, they
were deaf to Brand Whitlock's ap
peals lor mercy, me Ka;?-r approv
ed the execution and German pub
licists rejoiced at the fact that they
had "made an example" of this
pestiferous Kngli-rh woman. But
they reckoned without their lost,
the conscience of the world. They
killed Edith Cavell. but her soul
goes inarching on! And. a.s her
body reaches England and is given
due honor in stately ministers and
finds its last resting place under
the nave of her beautiful home ca
thedral at Norwich, the world, hon
oring her memory with the British
will repeat as a liturgy the damn
ing indictment uf the frightfufnes"
that failed. It failed jut because
they who invented it thought when
they tortured the bru'.y that they
could dominate the soul of the
world. Never was a more, colossal
blunder made nor a greater crime
committed. For the soul of Edith
Cavell will go marching on for all
time, an inspiration to all brave
peoples and a reproach to Prursian-I:-m
that can never be wiped out.
Philadelphia Ledger.
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If wo could rely on phrases to
make things go, what a delightful
world it would be! We could all
sit around in comfortable attitude:
and be statesmen, financiers, in
ventors anything we chose. One
neat utterance and most anybody
can think up one in the course of
a long summer day and the most
4-crplexing of world problems is
solved, another and tho national
debt is paid off, a third and our for
tune is made with a non-breakable
shce string.
Rut it is not that kind of a world.
Unluckily for the ready speakers
and ready writers, things must have
a foundation of some sort or they
j;imply won't stand up. It is un
fortunate, for ready spiakcrs and
ready writers are in the majority
and could make the merely con
structive talents of the plodding
work-a-day minority look mighty
piddling if phrases could build a
wall as good as bricks.
The war saw a good many phras
es turned out, and a good many peo
ple acepted them and passed them
on for sound currency. Somo of
them were. But others did an im
mense amount of harm. None was
more specious or traveled farther
than that one about the self-determination
of peoples. It sounded
good that few persons 'took the
troublo to inquire what it meant.
There was something about it that
had an axiomatic cadence, some
thing solidly respectable and satis
fying commonplace like a dictum
from Toor Richard's Almanac. XVo
had a vague idea that we had known
it all our lives; that it was in the
Declaration of-' Indenendence or i
Magna Charta or somewhere
took it and ran, lots of us.
When we came to examine and
apply it wo found what a spurious
and hollow thing it was. We saw
the danger and dynamite in it. We
saw it fail in places where, if it had
been genuine, it should have work
ed, and we saw it plant seeds of
discontent and rebellion in places
where it could not prcperl'y or wiic-
Iv have been applied at all. It
stirred up trouble in Egypt.. In
India, in Ireland, where self-deier-mination,
if applied, could only
mean chaos and wars cf religion;
and races, and in China, where it
mirrht have been justified as to
Shantung, it was withheld.
It ought to be a lesson to us not
to be caught with base metal. When
customers shove such shiny coin
across our counters we ought to
ring it down before we ring it up.
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Harry Hawker and Lieutenant
Commander Grieve have been given
up for lost, but their exploit will
live forever.
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Tn tl.. Cmnity Court of Oass county,
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of lop-a. ae..nU that sn-d ; ; c; en.
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Uty for Petitioner.
From Thursday's Daily.
Mrs. J. L.. Sprecher has received
a medal from the government which
was cast from a portion of captured
German cannon, which is recogni
tion for the efficient wWk done in
the floating of the Victory loan.
Mrs. Sprecher is having her name
engraved thereon, and will keep the
same as a souvenior.
Lo.st: A black and white, tan
hound, short tail. Answers to name
"Whip". Call or notify It. C. Cook,
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I.KGAL XOTKK
To .Teptha II. Gilbert, non-resident
defendant :
You are herebv notified that on the
".0th day of January, 1019, Ida Gilbert
filed h petition asainst you In the Dis
trict Court of Cass county. Nebraska,
the object and praver of which is to
obtain a divorce from you on the
around of failure to provide any sup
port for the plaintiff or her children,
although amplv able to do so, and for
an order that the plaintiff be friven
the care and custody of the minor
children, tho ifue of said marrlace.
You are required to answer said pe
tition on or before the 23rd day of
.Tune, l'J19.
IDA GILHKP.T.
ml2-4w) Plaintiff.
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