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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1923)
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1023. Fin rzm -4i plattsmoutb lourral PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, ' HEBBASXA Katcrs at Postofflc. Plattamouth. Nab., aa aocoad-cUaa mail matUr R. A. BATES, Publisher 8TTBSCEIPTI0H PBICE $2.00 PEE YEAB IS ADYAHCK OIT WANTING A "DRINK THE DAY OP ATONEMENT On the tenth day of thl9 Beventh moon there shall be a day of atone ment. It shall be an holy convoca Hon unto you. And ye shall do no work In that day. Leviticus xxili, 27 and 28. What thla country needs Is a law against men wearing coats. :o: Nature cares for animals. You never see a goldfish fanning:. :o: Wearing old clothes is all right if you know you don't have to. :o: Nothing Is harder pn a woman's eompexion than her enemies. ; :o: Keep your temper. An Alabama man broke his arm hitting a fly. ;o: - Entirely too many people are go ing to the movies to talk about some thing. :o: The first time a man slaps a neighbor's child is always the last time. If you must cuss the boss be sure he isn't around. v -:o: Only five more shopping months until Christmas. :o: Next to home the worst place on earth is to be is away. -:o:- There are not enough people with out flivvers to elect Ford. -:o: Men with light heads don't shine like those with lantern jaws. Of course there are exceptions, but wives usually have more relatives than husbands. :o: -:o:- Too much sunshine makes a des ert, but not enough makes arctic re gions. :o: It takes a marriage license to get married and an auto license to get a date on. ro: Summer resort engagements are dangerous, marriage. They are liable to end in About seven times out of ten a man with his hands in his pockets is about broke. - :o: ' Nice thing about the hot weather is nothing worse can come along to take its place. :o: Things will get better when you hear some fellow mortgaging his au to buy a house. :o: Don't get mad at the grocery man. He has only dun unto you as others dun unto him. :o: A June husband tells us he has been married a month and hasn't washed a dish yet. -:o: Among the evils of leaving hubby at home is returning to find the sink a sink of iniquity. :o: Every now and then you Jiear a man standing around lying about how truthful he is. :o:- A Cleveland ball are a foot long, so makes him mad. . player's his son hands never I i too Don't worry about the best much. When fall comes we will all see better days. :o: In Seattle a crazy man thought he was Harding, but of course he was only mistaken. :o: The honeymoon Is over when he thinks she is skinny Instead of slen der and willowy. :o: Many a wife wonders if hubby has gone fishing for speckled beauties or freckled beauties. :o: Nice thing about King Tut clothes going out is that they can save them for fancy dress ball. -:o:- Ptckles, says the the pickle asso ciation, make people beautiful. But being pickled doesn't. :o: , Never let the flies eat with you. In spite of their good breeding they have no table manners. :o: Calamity howlers are more trou blesome than dogs because dogs of ten get tired of howling. -:o:- Statistlcs would show that every rich uncle in the world has some baby named after him. -:o:- Summer is passing. It is estimated that electric fans have blown out nine million matches already. :o: Knickers may expose a multitude of shins, but they will not bag at the knees and that's 99 points In their favor. -:o:- When you evolve a pant that won't fray at the bottom you've got a garment that will last until the platform wears out. :o: Judging by the number of con gressmen who are this summer study ing conditions in Europe it ought to be a simple thing for them to clear the situation up when they get to gether next winter. - -;o: A nurse in Philadelphia who had fed a nine months old baby pins cam phor balls, match heads, cigarette stubs and buttons was arrested Just in time. She was Just""about to give the child some combination salad ' :o: It is funny, but nevertheless true, that many of those who own autos living in this city, prefer racing up and down Main street of an evening. In preference to going out where they would have more pleasure in the cool breezes. Pleasure is what the automobile is for-not simply to show yourself on Main street. A good thing about canteloupes is that ycfu can eat a number of them without spoiling your regular break fast. :o: - It wouldn't be a bad idea ' to sprinkle Main street occasionally. The dust becomes unbearable at times.' 4 - v. to: It would be lovely to visit alt the vacation spots as the playground of the nation, but there isn't that much money. :o: In Europe they fight In the sum mer because the heat makes them that way and in the winter they fight to keep warm. :o: If it is true that America spends more on chewing gum than on the church it shows how Mr. Wrigley beats the dickens. :o: Just before a man's wife tnlks him to death he hopes wsih orts p sdonM to death he hopes his worst enemy is her next husband. :o: Sometimes when you see a bride on the train gazing abstracterly at her wedding ring she Is wondering where her trunk is. :o: Personally we try to be nice In our manners, but when we eat corn off the cob we are going to keep our elbows on the table. :o: President Harding and wife are coming home. She is a sick woman, and should not of attempted such a trip, in our opinion. :o; We wiil have no Chautauqua this year. It Is because our citizens have failed to take any interest in such entertainment. Shame! :o: President Harding is in wireless communication with Washington, and probably lame ducks even sleep with the headpieces on. :o: A very large crowd of people were in the city Saturday evening and it was very hard to find parking room on Main street or Sixth street. Rain needed in this section. We hope we will be enjoying the cooling atmosphere that a refreshing rain brings ere this item is in type. :o: Tho average life of a $5 bill Is said to be ten months. It's always -our luck to egt It on its last legs, when it's ready to expire in the hand. :o: As we understand her opponents, the conditions of British civilizations are being determined by Mrs. Astor's bill to prohibit the sale, of liquor to children. - :o: ; They are now booming golf by moonlight, and it the moon refuses to light, so much, the worse for the moon. The celestial system will have to be revised; that's. all there is to that. One of the most respected of the unofficial prohibition leaders. Wayne B. Wheeler, Is quoted as saying that a man. who even, wants a drink Is morally a criminal. We hope that ne did not say it. for It la an extremely false and foolish, assertion. The man who would like a drink but does not buy one because he will not break the law. is not a moral criminal, but a good citizen and a patriot, with much more to his credit as one who stands for respect for law than the man to whom not taking a drink In volves no personal sacrifice. The self righteous attitude of those who do not yield to a tempta tion because the temptation does not exist for them is rather trying. The real man is the one who. being tempted to do something he knows is wrong, restrains the Impulse and does not do it. Trial fire, or in this instance by fire water. Is the real test of manhood. It Is no credit at all to a man who never wanted a drink and does not want one now that he doesn't take it. Wanting a drink' may be an evidence of weakness, but re sisting the desire is evidence of mor al strength. AIRPLANES AND BIRDS ' "Man again-turns to birds In his conquest of the air," says a headline over a recent New York newspaper article on, the effort to invent; a workable helicopter. The truth is that man does not do anything of the kind, and In the very nature of the case cannot. The particular reference, In the headline in question, was to the fact that the bird (that Is, most birds can all) can "take off" without the ne cessity of running some distance over the ground, and can likewise "land" without the need of running after its feet have struck the earth. But though man 13 trying to do what the bird does, he does not and cannot turn to the bird to learn how to do It. The bird's ability lies whol ly in that mysterious thing called "life, which permeates Its entire frame, and causes it to do instinct ively just the thing that needs to be done at each emergency of flight and to do It at the very instant when It is needed. The airplane's motor is not the plane Itself; the birds motor is the bird Itself. The 'airplane's pilot Is not the airplane Itself; the bird's pilot is the bird itself. What the bird does with itself, spontaneously, lnstlnct- vely and immediately, the man must do with his plane, through his han dling of different pieces of mechan ism attached to it, after he has an emergency and has gone through a definite mental process with regard to it. Even if that mental process oc cupies but a fraction, of a second, it Is still a fraction of second longer than Is required for the Instinctive reaction of the bird. Between the flight of the bird and the flight of the airplane there Is fixed a great gulf, over which no man made me chanism can pass. :o: THE FALSE ALARM One of the leading railroad offi clals of the country demonstrates that the cost of making a complete government survey of the valuation of the railway system of the country has exceeded $85,000,000. Of this, the government has paid $23,000, 000, while the roads have contribut ed $62,000,000. Senator La Follette was responsible for the valuation act and he solemnly assured congress at the time of its adoption that all the railways were over capitalized and were paying dividends on water ed stock.. He promised that an official revaluation would pay many times its expense in making possible a re duction of freight rates on the strength of the showing made. Now It turns out that the people have paid $85,000,000 to find out that the lines are not over valued; that they are, in fact, worth much more than their capitalization" and that they cannot be replaced for anything like their bonding charges. Most of Senator La Follette'a political 'capi tal comes from his capacity, for hat ing corporations. It doth now appear that he is not only unjust, but griev iously in error. On top of that it further appears that Americans have paid $85,000,000 in money merely to prove that he was wrong. This is en tirely unnecessary. It should be tak en for granted. That the senator Is wrong Is further emphasized that he now refuses to accept the findings of his own commissioners. He is not even a good sport. It is hardly worth $S5, 000,000 to disclose this frailty. That had also been suspected. to: FARMS FOB SALE Tveo goad lanns tour miles south of Plattamouth, well Improved. 160 acres at $225 per acre; 135 acres with two sets of Improvements at $200 per acre. Also one modern house and eight other residences tn. Plattamouth for sale. Cass county land for sale 207 acres at $125 ao acre; 200 at $100 per acre. Also fine farm of Albert Schafer. F. G EQENBEUQDH. Real Estate and Insarsne, PARKER'S WONDERFUL DISCOVERY GIVEN IN DRINKING WATER Rids poultry of mites and lice like magic. A real tonic. If you want win ter layers, now is the" time to clean up your flocks. Sold and guaranteed by Weyrich & Hadraba, Plattsmouth. Nebr. J12-4T Ed Schulhof, Piano Timer, phone 3S9-J. Tele' Many Ills come from impure blood. Can't have pure blood with faulty digestion, lazy liver and sluggish bowels. Burdock Blood Bitters is rec ommended for strengthening stom ach, bowels and liver and purifying the blood. FOR SALE Good milk cow. also heifer six months old. Call phone 652. Anhomicement The Studebaker Corporation of America is pleased to announce to its customers, friends, and the public generally, its complete line of new 1924 Model tilde bakes Cb,ts Avoiding the superlatives frequently used in automobile advertisements, the Corporation desires to faithfully state the facts concerning these cars and thet reasons" why the public should buy them.' THE CARS In design, quality of materials, standard of workmanship, durability, refinements, performance, freedom from repairs, and price, the Studebaker. 1924 Model Cars are distinctly. the greatest intrinsic values the Corporation has cer offered. Every improvement the scfety and practicability of which have been verified by engineering tests is embodied in these new cars. The Big-Six THE BIG-SIX LINE comprises four models, mounted on the standard 126-inch chassis with 60 H. P. 3$ x 5 inch motor: -passenger Touring Car- $1750 5 -passenger Coupe - $2550 5-passenger Speedster - $1835 7-passenger Sedan - $2750 all pricttf. o. b. factory Refinements and a few minor mechanical changes have been made in the Big-Six. which has established an enviable record for five years. Our large production accounts for its low price. It is a car of the highest grade, comparable to the best, The Special-Six THE SPECIAL-SIX LINE comprises four models mounted on the'standard 1 1 9-inch chassis with 50 H.P. 3 inch motor: 2 - passenger Roadster - $1325 5-passenger Coupe - $1975 5-passenger Touring Car - $1350 5-passenger Sedan - $2050 all prtcmaf.a.b. factory Radiator, hood. cowl, and body changes have been made in the Special-Six, with minor mechanical changes and refine ments in the chassis. The Special-Six has for five successive years added luster to the name STUDEBAKER. It is one of the most satisfactory and finest cars on the market. It is as good in every respect as the Big-Six. except that it is smaller, and costs less to produce, and therefore sells for less. The Light-Six THE LIGHT-SIX LINE comprises four models, mounted on the standard 1 12-inch chassis with 40 H.P. 3jix4 inch motor: 3- passenger Roadster - $975 2-pass.Coupe-Roadster-$l225 5-passenger Touring Car- $995 5-passenger Sedan - $1550 all price f.a.b. factory v No body or mechanical changes except refinements have been made in the Light-Six. Over 130,000 Light-Sixes have been produced in "the new, modem $30,000,000 Studebaker plant at South, Bend. Indiana, under most economical and almost ideal manufacturing conditions. In our judgment, it stands out as the greatest value and the closest approach to mechanical perfection in moderate priced cars yet produced. THE REASONS WHY With $90,000,000 of actual net assets and $45,000,000 invested in plants, Studebaker has ample physical facilities to manufac ture most economically. Studebaker's organization of manufacturing executives, en gineers, metallurgists, chemists, inspectors, and skilled mechanics is second to hone in the industry. The design of Studebaker cars and the workmanship upon them conform to the highest principles of engineering standards and mechanical practice known to the industry. Best of Materials Used Studebaker cars contain the finest nown grades of iron, : steel, aluminum, tires, electrical equipment, glass, bearings, etc. No better materials for automobile manufacture exist. Sheet aluminum has but one-third the tensile strength of sheet steel, and consequently, Studebaker uses sheet steel for its bodies. By the manufacture of drop . forgings, castings, stampings and the machining, assembling and finishing of motors, axles', frames, transmissions, bodies, tops, etc., and the consequent elimination of middlemen's profits, coupled with lower over- . head factory costs per car arising from quantity production and low commercial expenses, Studebaker's costs ere kept c' an economically low point possible of attainment only by manufac turers with vast physical and financial resources. Bodies Unexcelled The bodies of Studebaker cars are not excelled in quality of materials and craftsmanship, by any cars on the market. The Coupe and Sedan closed bodies are magnificent examples of the coach builder's art. V Merit Wins The sales of Studebaker cars for the past six years have shown each and every year a progressive increase. 81,880 cars were sold in the first six months of 1923 as against 60,053 for the same period last year. Only products of merit can make such growth. The Studebaker Corporation of America ' . " . A. R. Erskine, President 0. : Fo liS airage. T H I S I S S T U D Y E A R J