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- 1 ' -J ! Mb r Cbe plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEEEASKA Knterd at PostofTIre. riatlsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR III ADVANCE There are nearly 12,000,000 tele phones in this country. :o: If a man lives up to his wife's ex pectations he is always busy. :o: Courtship is a bow Knot that mat rimony pulls into a hard knot. :o: Following the reasoning, of the eld Irishman, if we had some cher ries we should have cherry pie if we had come su?ar. :o: Small boys realize the high cost f living, too. when the find it takes twice as many combined beggings and threats to get a new ball bat as it used to. Even his tears, be finds, aren't worth more than 50 cents on the dollar nowadays. JOHN DEERE Farm Machinery! We carry a full and complete line of the reliable John Deere farm machinery, and are ready to fill your order for anything in 'our line. Plows and corn farming implements of all kind, as well as haying and harvest ing machinery. Also threshers, necessities. WARE ROOMS ON SOUTH SIXTH STREET D. B. PLATTSMOUTH t V v f V V Y V V Y Y Y V f y y y y y- y y y y y y y y y y t Y Y Y Y Y Y r t Y Y ? ? Y ? T Y r Y Y NO wasted grain from bad weather. NO waste from rushing the job through. NO big crews just you and a few of your neighbors. NO two or three weeks time spent help ing everybody, in the neighborhood thresh. Speedy Simple Economical 100 Of Your Grain Threshed! Here is an ideal separator for use with your tractor. It is light, easy run ning, simple to operate and does perfect work. Its I2-bar cylinder, 23 inches in diameter, set with heavy spikes makes it sturdy enough for the toughest work. The cylinder is exceptionally heavy and its weight assures steady motion and ease of operation. The INDIVIDUAL is identically the same as the , famous Wood Bros. "Humming Bird" thresher which is known by every farmer, except that it is smaller in dimensions and lower in price. Just what you want, isn't it? Price Wood Bros, thresher, delivered at Plattsmouth. ..$1,225 Fordson Tractor, equipped with governor and belt pulley 998 Oliver 2-bottom plow, 2 bbls. oil, 100 ft. 4-ply belt . 296 $2,519 Call and let us take your order for the above outfit complete, or if you have a tractor, give us your order for the thresher. There will be a big wheat crop this season and not enough threshers to supply the demand, so order now. T. H. Pollock Auto Co., Some men are like phonographs overy day roll off exactly the same records. :o: : Reduced to simple terms, the race this year i3 between two printers to see who shall preside at the "pi" counter. :o: Jud Tuukins says one beauty about votes for woineu is that the system brings politics into the home and gives the folks something to talk about besides their relations. :o: After examining the platforms of both parties we have discovered that a serious mistake was made. Xeither contains a watermelon plank. What we want is watermelons without the aid or consent of any other nation. NEBRASKA WOOD BROS. THRESHER V8 "-J-VJV? mum i imp H iarttfftmtmmwwii There is simply no 'excuse for the exhorbitant price of sugar. :o: - The gross annual income ot mov ing picture theaters In this country is about $770,000,000. Our idea of an unspeakable cad is the fellow who kisses a girl and then complains of paint on her lips. -:o. Voting for a platform without considering the candidate is a hope ful fallacy like putting new air into old tires. :o: As a warning to carpenters, plas terers, electricians and garage me chanics, there vare a lot of counter feit $5,000 bills In' circulation. :o: Still it has to be admitted that a national platform always seems much important when the conven tion is adopting it than after the election. :o: ' Tie railroad problem does not stand by itself. It is a part of the entire industrial Droblem of the country and is tied up with it in pverv detail. Hence it cannot be solved by itself. . :o If some of the girls who practice PhoDin and other-sounding music would devote that time to some sil eut task like making Jam it would at least be more conducive to harmony in the neighbor's lirtnei :o: ; Wouldn't it be heart-breaking if the American sugar speculators should co ahead and pay the Cuban planters the 24 cents a pound they a&k and then all the American con sumers should temporarily but firmly lose their taste for sweet things? :o: Don't be too sure that the third bartv canddiate has no chance. Sup pose he made a race on a platform that promised at least one circus a year to every rural community and guaranteed the coinage of red meat ami rfnn at the rate of six for a dollar without waiting for the c& sent of any other nation. What chance would the two old parties have against an organization with real live issues like these? x I I x X I Y x x x X X X X X X x X X x X X X t X X X X X y t y y y y f f y y t T i - X A BUSINESS PRESIDENT If the people of the United States want a business man for president' a ' first-clas3 business man; they have found their ideal in James .M. Cox. The Ohio executive is all business to his finger tips, and it is as a" business governor that he has won great renown in the Buckeye state. Cox has an unerring instinct for co-operation in the highest- mean ing of the world. He is a conspicu ous dodger, but also an intelligent lis tener. He's the kind of man needed In the present reconstruction period. The demand for a business man in the presidency is based on the public belief that successful business executives take hold of a puzzling situation and shake a result out of it. Experience teaches them to seek and find the short cut to evidence and common sense to the vital ob jective. The man of action and accomp lishment who is sought for the high office is one who has been trained by exacting and multiple tasks that Dress upon him daily. Governor Cox, as publisher and owner of two large daily newspapers and director of other extensive business enter prises, is a man who has had prac tical business training. His pub lic as well as private record is one of accomplishment. It is not lim ited to any class or party. Throughout his three terms as governor he has taken orders from no interest but has been faithful to businss of his state the whole peo pie. " He has been friendly to labor and at the same time fair to em olovers. Both have confidence in him and are enthusiastic supporters Just as in social questions he has ac cepted no master except the public, so on other issues. He has never catered to or accepted dictation from the Anti-Saloon League or the wet- interest but has enforced the law as it existed. Strict enforcement of a law not desired, he always has con tended, is the juickest way to get it repealed. :o: NEBRASKA AND THE PILGRIM FATHERS What does Nebraska owe to the Pilgrim Fathers, that we should in terest ourselves in the Ter-Centen ary celebration? A little reflection on this question will open such a vista of history, with the culminating effects of events on human progress as must delight the contemplative mind Three hundred years ago Nebraska was unknown to the white man. It is believed that Coronado penetrated as far as the Blue in the vicinity of where Beatrice now stands; It is pos sible that one of his scouts made his way to the Platte somewhere near Ashland, but this gave no know ledge to the European world of the potential empire that here awaited civilizing influence and industry. Matters were then shaping in Eu rope that would open this region. No more interesting page of his tory is unfolded than that on which is written the record of the Stuarts in England. With the passing of the Tudors came the fruition of a hope that h-ad feebly flickered under the eighth Henry, and had fairly burst into likht when Elizabeth aid ed the Dutch to throw off the heavy yoke of Spain. Human liberty, free dom of speech and freedom of con science was struggling for expres sion. England was the refuge fin ally, although the Hussites, the Lutherans, the Huguenots and the Dutch protestants were making a glorious stand for the right to wor ship God as they saw fit. When James moved down from Scotland to follow Elizabeth on the English throne, he found uch a wave of lib eralism sweeping over the land as he was never able to turn back. Nor could his son or his grandsons. The Cromwellian interlude is of tremen dous Interest as an episode, but sig nificant only of the growing Influ ence of that element which not only insisted on men's right to think and believe as they would, but to act for themselves in public and private matters. The Parliament Elizabeth ignored sprang up again under Charles, and in time beheaded him. Self-government was made a fact ac complished in England, but that land was not big enough to hold the movement. , Jamestown was an expression of the Cavalier's devotion'to the (tfown; Plymouth Rock and Salem symbolize the aspiration of Individuals to the greater liberty. Whatever the re lations of that first devoted band to the home land, and they have been well described as but sturdy English men come to a ; new country, but without breaking off ' the ties that held them to the old, they brought !w,tn them a thought that took deep root in the soil of America. Moral Jf character, already of strong fiber, precede seli-bovernnient. The infra-' ences that controlled at Massachu setts Bay. also had effect along the York, the James and the Roanoke, around Chesapeake and Delaware bays, up the Hudson and along the Mohawk. It was inevitable that the successors to the Stuarts should" find a new breed of men in the American colonies. Trace for yourselves the events that followed the settlements in Vir ginia and Massachusetts; note how the Cavalier and Puritan came clos er and closer together in habits fo thought and of life; see them unite in the supreme effort to throw off the bondage of England's king, and then examine their devoted endeav ors at making secure the liberty they had won. That should an swer any question as to whether Ne braska has an interest in the Ter centenary. Much might be written in detail of the debt directly owed by this state to the pioneers of New England, as they moved west through Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, bringing habits, customs and laws to the territory and state. but this may be left for another time. No state in the new west has better right to take part in the cc?l ebration than Nebraska. Omaha Bee. :o: HIS HUMBLE RELATIVES With an apparent effort at subt lety, republican papers are carrying a story to the effect that Governor Cox, democratic candidate for the presidency, has an old brother keep ing a little candy store in Dayton, O. The article implies that the old man is very much of a home-spun product and of small mental caliber. Just what the story has to do with Governor Cox's candidacy is not readily apparent. However, upon closer investigation the reason .for the interview becomes plain. The smart writer was making a very cumbersome effort to imply that be cause Governor Cox has an humble relative that he is therefore not fit ted to become the president of 103, 000,000 people. It would be interesting to know just how many of those 105,000,000 people are In every way just about a humble as the governor's brother. Perhaps an overwhelming majority. It Is only given to a few people to stand out from the masses and by sheer force of Intellect, vision and personality to leave their stamp up on their generation. The rank and y V t t y t y t T T y f r t T $50,000 Power Farming Machinery! Oliver Plows Roderick Lean Disc Culti-Packers Amsco Drills Silage Cutters Hay Balers In on the Power farming will bring greatest profits only when you have all the spec ial built implements for your Fordson on your. farm. Make your plans now to spend at least one day at this great educational event and see for -yourself what the Fordson will do for you in solving your own farm problems. FORDSON Power Farming Demonstration JULY 28, 29 and 30, 1920 Agricultural College Farm, Lincoln, Neb. z X X . . x y X Phone No. 1 x X Y Y f H A tractor that will fit your farm the Fordson YOU can make your farm produce more at Ies3 cost and with less effort on your part by using the Fordson tractor. Not only will it help you prepare your land and cultivate the crops, but it furnishes power for many other farm jobs. ,tfnJjr2n3M i The Fordson tractor is the result of long study of farming conditions and it has proved a success. Burns Icerosene easy to operate and care for practically trouble-proof. There's an Oliver No. 7 Plow for your Fordson Just as the Fordson tractor gives ideal power, the Oliver plow means ideal plowing. It is scientifically designed for tractor service and is backed by a half century of experience in making plows. It buries all trash and weeds at the bottom of the furrow maintains an even depth of furrow and is controlled from the tractor seat. c Come in and let us show you this remarkable fann team. T. H. Pollock Auto Co., Phone No. 1 -:- -:- -:- Plattsmouth file of men and women fill a very ob scure niche in this comnlex old, world, but after all they are fulfill ing a destiny marked out for them by some divine plan and even the republican party could scarcely pre sume to question its working. It shoubl be consoling to Governor Cox after reading this article, if he needs consolation, to ruminate on the fact that such presidents as Jack son. Grant, Lincoln, Garfield and Taylor sprang from simple stock and what is more they, themselves, re mained simple folks when they arose to the highest ofTrce in the land. No doubt they all had a very large col Worth: ot Harrows Feed Grinders Wood Bros. Threshers Manure Spreaders Pulverizers Ditchers and Other Machinery. Actual Operation 100 - acre Demonstration Field Pollock Auto Co.,' ; , 1 lection of humble relatives. Most people do. rWorld-llerald. :o:- F0R SALE SO acres of good Cass county land one mile south of Eight Mile Grove cemetery. Six lots, west Main street. 6-room house; electric lights and good well and cistern. Some fruit trees. Also 2V2 acres with good 4-room house and barn; good well. One-half mile south of B. & M. shops. See Geo. M. Hild or Frank' Vallery, Plattsmouth, Nebr. lw-tf fordson y f y y T v f y y r y t f t y t y y each day, y ? '? y Plattsmouth, Neb. t y y T y y y ? y y y y y y y A 1 3 j 'I 'I t . I' 'i r. &1 . t ir I V. expanded in tho mnkiner of the life t 'I " ' ' -- ""J PHONE NO. I PLATTSMOUTH .u. . A 4i:rt 86nSe f ; which must XKWWW 1 , v III