MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1924.
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AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL
God, willing more abundantly to
show unto the heirs of promise the
immutability of His counsel, con
firmed it by oath; that by two im
mutable things in which it was im
possible for God to lie, we might
have a strong consolation, who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the
hope set before us; which hope we
have for an anchor of the sou!, both
sure and steadfast. Hebrews 6:17.
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Talk isn't
cheap
when congress
does the talking.
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. None being government officials,
five Dallas (Tex.) oil men have been
sent to the penitentiary.
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Everybody talks Andy Snyder for
sheriff. Andy is the man of the
hour, and none more popular.
. :o:
Hi Johnson says he is still in tliOj
race, anu iu a man - ,
lose he is as much as he ever was. j
o:o
says a man is
The law
until he is proved guilty, but hat
has the law to do witn mosi inais
ihcse daysl
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If the truth couM be discovered it
might be found that polygamy
invented by men who were trying to;
get a wife that would do rn- cook-; Bandits held up a Xew York ris
ing. Itaurant, escaping before the cook
:o: 'could hit them with a biscuit.
Nothing bothers a woi.ian at a! -
card party more than to know there , Tjie beauty of being a farmer and
is an interesting conversation going 2 noWf.paper man io that few of us
on at one of the other tables whrh are eyor bothered by the income tax.
she can't quite catch. j :o:
-"o: i One of the best known nnnular
The old fashioned girl who wore
storkir.es over her high-top shoes in
winter is cow eeen on the streets
with feet encased in peekaboo slip
pers when the weather is bad.
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Why is the eighteenth amendment
sacred, and all the others, with the
rest of the constitution, subject to
suspension by judges, state's attor
neys and local authorities in gen
eral ?
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Government investigations carried
on in Xew Jersey sho wa mosquito
does not sting because he Is hungry.
We may soon learn a lightning bug
doesn't carry his light behind him to
see where he has been.
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Secret service agents who prevent
ed counterfeits of a 1,000 bill be
ing circulated cannot be too highly
commended. It would be an awful
w . !
1
H. C. Mencken of the so-called !
Chicago school of writers, says he
has run out of ideas. Having read
some of Mencken's effusions, we are
thoroughly convinced that he never
had any ideas worth while writing
about.
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The Boston Tea Party was held in
1773. but the Teapot Dome Party
was not held until 1324. In the Bos
ton Tea Party men disguised as In
dians worked. In the Teapot Dome
Party men were disguised as govern
ment official and oil operators. The
work they did was to work the gov
ernment. These two historical events
differ in that one was for independ
ence and one was for something else.
o:o--
A shortage of young doctor?, to
serve as interns at hospitals, is be
coming acute. This didn't strike us
a3 startling until we read that there
are 6,830 hospitals in the country
with 750,000 beds. Including peo-
pie who stage their illness at home, j
at least half a million Americans
must be laid up all the time with
various maladies. Probably three
fourths cf thi3 illness is due to in
correct living lack of exercise and
fresh air, and improper diet.
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A young New York woman, de
scribed by the police as a "girl with
the financial wizardry of a Ponzi or
a Lindsay." is charged with defraud
ing a society patron cf ?".-j00. We
thought women were infringing a
little too far on the exclusive rights
of man when they began to wear
their hair short, but, when they take
up this financial wizardry business
it becomes insufferable. The right
to practice the profession of financial
wizardry belongs to cabinet officers
who sell oil leasee and governors who
sell pardons. Women ought to keep
out of it.
PES YEAR EN ADVAKCE
V i
LINES TO REMEMBER
There was a man who fan
cied that,
By driving good and fast.
He'd get his car across the
tracks
Before the train came
past;
He'd miss the engine by an
inch,
And make the train hand
sore.
There was a man who fan
cied that
There isn't any more.
Puppet.
I
A long tongue is the sign of a
short hand
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The fellow with the big head nev
er lets swell enough alone.
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when our hatred is too keen it
. ug beneath those we hate.
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! Unv what thou hnst no need of
ere lonj? thou ghaU gen thy npc
essaries.
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T.nnk on vniir wnr",t enemies with
thought that thcv may Qre day
lhr,ome vonr best friend,e
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jsong writers is an ex-pickpocket, but
we will contend a pickpocket can re-
form.
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A Chinese general baptized 1,100
soldiers to celebrate his wedding.
The soldiers hope he never gets di
vorced. o:o
It used to be we had only book
agents. Now we have collectors who
follow them up and take in the pay
ments. :o:
The owner of a motor car, no mat
ter what the make, can never truth
fully say he doesn't know what trou
ble is.
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It is proper to long for all the hap
piness within reach, but to long for
happiness beyond you i to harm
yourself and others.
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Like justice, the head or the ae-
partment of justice appears to be
blind since Mr' ugherty seems un
able to see his finish.
o:o-
Taxation without representation
was said to be tyranny. Now what
little taxpayer can tell us what tax
ation without reduction i3?
o: o
With the least taint of Teapot
Dome. upon life's retorrl will be suf
ficient to knock out any man for
public- office. Anyhow for president.
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Sinclair ami Doheny are agreed
that the senate committee is conduct
ing a "political" investigation. Hon
est men, then, have nothing to fear.
Come down from your high perch,
Mr. Daugherty, you are not so much,
even if you are from Ohio. We were
born in the Buckeye state, but won't
stand any monkey business like the
Teapot Dome.
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They want a gumles week along
with rougeless week. We claim gum
has its place even if this place isn't
under the chair or table. Put a big
wad of gum in a girl's mouth and
she won't talk quite so much. Ju
we do need a "no gum the works
week-.
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The candidate nominated for pres-
ideni by the democrats must be a
good, clean man without a single
faint of corruption about his skirts.
We have them. Senator Ralston of
Indiana, and Governor Ritchie, of
Maryland. Either one don't make
any difference to s.
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What is the matter with Ex-Governor
Cox? Can any one tell us. He
proved himself clean, able and cour
ageous. He made the race for presi
dent four years years ago, under such
circumstances that there was no
show for any democrat. Why not
give him another trial?
A contemporary remarks that i Now that Bishop William Mont
young men in search for wives dolgomery Brown, of Ohio, has formal-
not look for them among the girls
who are always gadding about the
streets, and that gadding girls are
not worth catching, anyway.
Do young men hunt for wives any
where? Is it not that young men
fall in love with and marry girls
ijwhom they meet in ordinary social
life and without and prior idea or
! seeking them out? It may be that
widowers hunt for wives, the going
being a little more difficult for them
and the opportunities fewer, but the
young man doesn't hunt. He meets
destiny, often quite unexpectedly.
On the streets and at the theatres
one may see any number of young
women who would and sometimes do
make good wives. Girls have to use
the streets and enjoy going to shows
just as other people do. But any
girl can use the streets too much
and become altogether too infatuated
with interests outside her home.
Young men who appear to have
nothing to do but stand around and
ogle the good looking girla are, of
course, poor material to make hus
bands of. Many of them owe for the
underwear they have on and are pay
ing for their overcoats on the install
ment plan. The gadding girl is ouy
of a class who have a lot of energy
in their heels and not so much in
.their heads, but that is no sign that
they are not worthy and staunch in
character. The finest sort of girl,
therefore the one who will be the
best kind of a wife, is one who has
some spirit and some relish for
amusement and some eagerness for
the things of youth, but who does
not neglect cultural reading and so
cial development and refined home
life. Ask any man what kind of a
girl he likes the very best of all, and
he will tell you, if sincere, that ho
likes one who hates vulgarity .md de
clines sociaticn with those of ci
ther, sex who are coarse in their lan
guage ani manners.
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THE DAUGKERTY DILEMMA
Ad ministration senators are re
ported to be negotiating with demo
cratic senators for an agreement un
der which Attorney General Daugh
erty would retire from the cabinet
without an investigation of his of
fcial conduct. The attorney general
himself should decline to ta,ke advan
tage of any such an understanding,
and regardless of his willingness, the
democrats should reject any over
tures of that kind.
More serious charges were neve
made against a cabinet officer than
those which Senator Wheeler made
against Mr. Daugherty on the flooi
of the senate last week. The attor
uey general is accused of using, or
permitting his friends to use, his
high office for the sale of immunity
to persons indicted for crimes
against the United States. He is ac
cused of willfully failing to prose
cute men charged with defrauding
the government. Because of Mr.
Daugherty's attitude, Senator Wheel
er declared, the department of jus
tice has fallen in disrepute and can
not be trusted with the enforcement
of the laws.
If these charges are true mere re
tirement to private life is too mild a
punishment for the attorney general.
If they are true, the facts should be
disclosed and the cuiltv brought to
bar. If they are untrue, Mr. Daugh
erty's vindication should be as public
and sweeping as the indictment
which has been read against him, so
that an innocent official may be
cleared and the country reassured.
When the resolution calling for
removal of Mr. Denby was being de
bated in the senate recently, it vas
vehemently described by Senator
Lodge as an attempt to "lynch" the
secretary of the navy.
Senator Pepper joined in the de
nunciation of what he regarded as
the injustice of dismissing Mr. Den
by without a hearing. Now we find
Senators Lodge and-Pepper urging
President Coolidge, "for the welfare
of the party," to dismiss Mr. Daugh
erty.
We hope that President Coolidge
will be as firm in defending the in
tegrity of the executive function
against the friendly solicitations of
republican senators in the case of
the attorney general as he was in de
fending it against the less amiable
representation of democratic and in
SUrcent senators in tha tna nf Mio
; secretary of the navy. The -"orst of-
f
fense ch-vrged against Mr. Denby was
woeful weakness and utter incompe
tence. Ilizh crimes and misdemean
or3 are imputed to Mr. Daugherty.
Such concrete and specific accusa-
Lticns call for a hearing and a verdict
for acquittal or punishment. . Mere
retirement wo.uld leave the attorney
general under a cloud, and it would
not satisfy the country.
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Lou Langhorst for state treasurer
will, hit the democratic voters just
about right.
.ly been charged with "extreme her-
esy" by three other bishops ostens-
ibly voiced in the name of "religious
freedom," "freedom of belief," "free
dom of speech," "revolt against ec-
clesiastical tyranny" and the like.
For weeks and weeks the eastern
part of the United States, in partic
ular, went through all that in con
nection with the bombast of the
much advertised and advertising
rercy Stickney Grant. There will
be more of that now, because the
man charged with heresy is a bishop.
All those outbursts are and will
be based upon a wholly false prem
ise. Mr. Brown, of Ohio, is fully
within his rights as a man and a
citizen of the United States in believ
ing and preaching and writing any
sort of religion he pleases provided
he does not attempt to retain the of
fice either of bishop or priest of the
Protestant Episcopal church. If he
were to resign, unfrock himself, join
another church if there is any which
holds as he believes, form a new
church, or be a whole church in him
self, the Protestant Episcopal church
would have no more to do with his
preachments than it has to do with
the internal administration of any
mosque in Turkey.
But so long as Bishop Brown, of
Ohio, holds himself as a priest of the
church into which he was ordained,
and writes and preaches so-called
doctrines which are denials of that
church's tenets, he openly, shame
fully and scandalously violates sol
emn pledges which he took upon
himself in the name of God. If he
remains in that church either as
bishop or priest am! continues to
teach, or attempt to tc:ich, doctrines
directly eontrarj to the church's
teachings which he vowed to con-
se-ve and rpread abroad with all
diligence! h will betray a trust re
posed in him, a thing no decent lay
i.mn would do.
Why, he is even false to what
might be called the condition of his
employment. Whatever salary he
receives is paid him as a priestly ex
ecutive of a certain church, a Chris
tian church, and when he denies the
doctrines of that church, he from
a strictly, if unpleasantly, commer
cial viewpoint does not ever do
what he is paid to do; to the con
trary, he does his best to undo what
he is paid to do. No decent layman
would do that.
There will be a lot of talk about
"courage" and "independence," and
it will all be what Henry Ford said
history was bunk. If he were cour
ageous or independent, he would get
out of the church which he is at
tempting to discredit. The policy of
"boring from within." adopted by
some of the Reds in American labor
unions, requires certain other men
tal qualities.
When a man continues to disre
gard solemn obligations deliberately
sought and undertaken by him, it js
called by churchmen "heresy." By
laymen it is called "dishonesty."
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A stadium seating 115,000 will be
built for the Wills-Firpo bout. Why
not keep it as a place to spank peo
ple who laugh at their neighbors'
colds? This would draw a capacity
crowd.
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Purge the attorney general's office
cf the cuss and all his helpers. That's
the way to do the business. Clean
them out.
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William A. Selleck
For
Ocngress First District
REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES APRIL 8
Former State Senator.
Member Constitutional Convention
1919-1920.
Past President Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce.
Past Pres. Lincoln Y. M. C. A.
Past Pres. Lincoln Community Chest.
Pres. Lincoln State National Bank.
AManof unusual ability and sound jcdgraecl
Last week a lion killed a man in
the Roman Coliseum, or Flavian am-
phitheatre, and people have shud-
dered with horror at the news, thru
out the civilized world. The man's
fate was of course wholly unintend
ed, and was merely an accdent of un-
due carelessness in the making of a
motion picture film. Preparations
are being made, we are told in the
cablegrams from Rojne, for the crim
inal prosecution of those who were
responsible for such fatal careless
ness. And still we are sometimes told
that the world is getting no better,
as the ages role on. The day has
been when well towards 100,000 peo
ple crowded into that amphitheater
for the express purpose of seeing
combats of men with wild beasts, in
which the men were often the vic
tims. If a man were slain by a lion
and dragged out in those days, the
prevailing attitude was rather that
of impatient haste for the next fight
than of pity for the fallen. With
the emperor and senate themselves
sanctioning and watching the games,
in especially reserved seats, no such
idea as the prosecution of those who
were responsible for the deaths that
occurred ever entered anybody's
head.
individ-
Meero ex-
it is true that there were
uals who did not like it. C
pressed his disgust for such bloody
spectacles more than a century be
fore the Flavian amphitheater was
built. But it was not until the spir
it of Christianity had been working
for some generations iu Rome that
the sand in various Roman amphi
theaters ceased to be reddened with
frequent baths of human blood, to
satisfy the popular desire for sensa
tional entertainment. One who im
agines that the ages have been no
general improvement has not read
history very carefully.
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The rainbow of hope ever spans'
the Niagara of our earthly experi
ence in its maddest, wildest plunges.
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Her worth shines forth the bright
est, who in hope confides.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the application of
Hans Sievers. Administrator of the ruaryt 194. the plaintiff Caroline
estate of Helena Hilbert. deceased, propst, filed her suit in the District
for license to sell real estate to pay court of the County of Cass. Ne
debts. I braska. against you and each of you
Now. on this 23rd. day of Febru-
ary, -1924, comes Hans Sievers, admin
istrator of the estate cf Helene Hil
bert, deceased, and presents his peti
tion for a license to sell the real es
tate of the deceased
and allowances, and
to pay debts
it appearing
from said petition mat mere is no
perFonal estate in the hands of the
Administrator to pay the allowance
made by the county court for the
support of Henry Hilbert, the sur-
viving husband of the deceased,
which is a debt against said estate
as provided by Section 1222 of the
Compiled Statutes of 1922, and the
expense of said administration, and
that it is necessary to sell the whole
or some part of the real estate cf
said deceased for the payment of
such allowance or debt and the costs
of administration;
It is therefore ordered and adjudg-
ed that all persons interested in the
estate of said Helene Hilbert. deceas-
ed, appear before me, James T. Beg-
ley, Judge of the District Court, at
the office of the Clerk of the District
Court in the court house in the City
of Plattsmouth, in Cass county, Ne-
braska, on the 12th day of April,
1924. at the hour of 10 o'clock in
the forenoon, to show cause if any
there be why such license should not
be granted to Hans Sievers, Admin-
istrator of said estate, to sell so much
of the real estate of the said deceased
as may be necessary to pay sucn ai- terest or equity or redemption in and
lowance or debt, together with costs to said premises; that out of the pro
of administration. ceeds, plaintiff be paid the amount
It is further ordered that notice due together with costs and that
be given to all persons interested by plaintiff be allowed to recover a de
the publication of this Order to Show ficiency judgment against the defend
Cause for four successive weeks in r.nt Robert L. Propst, and for equit-'
the Plattsmouth Journal, a legal able relief. i
newspaper published and of general You and each of you are required
circulation in said County of Cass, to answer said petition on or before
By order of the Court. Monday, March 81, 1924, or your de
JAMES T. BEGLEY, fault will be duly entered and a de
Judge of the District crte of foreclosure granted as prayed
Court i in said petition. j
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cas,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale is
sued by James Robertson, Clerk of
the District Court within and for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to me di
rected, I will on the fnd &y of
March, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a.
m. of said day at the south front
door of the court house in Platts
mouth in said county, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for
cash the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
Lots one (1) and two, (2) in
Block thirty-nine. (39) in Young
& Hayes Addition to the City of
Plattsmouth, Cass county, Ne
braska The same being levied upon and tak-;
en as the property of Frank Detlef
and Amelia Detlef, defendants, to
satisfy a judgment of said Court re-j
covered by The Standard Savings &
Loan Association of Omaha, Nebras-j
ka, plaintiff against said defendants.!
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, January
22nd. A. D. J924.
E. P. STEWART,
Sheriff of Cass county, J
Nebraska. j
O. W. JOHNSON. 1
Attorney.
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Railroads Support
One-Seventh of Population'
THE railroads of the United States use in one
form or another 30 of the Iron and Steel
produced in this country. Of the more than
1,600,000 workers in that industry, the product of
something like 500,000 is bought by the railroads.
Of Bituminous Ccal the same railroads con
sunie 28',?. Engaged in the mining of this coal
are 600,000 workers, of whom 163,000 are em
ployed only because their product is needed for the
making of transportation.
They also use 25 of the Lumber output,
which takes more than 500,000 workers to supply,
and the railroads are therefore indirectly employ
ing 125,000 persons in this occupation.
The railroads have nearly two million em
ployes of their own.
With their families, the employes of these few
industries represent 12,000,000 people whose sup
port is derived from the railroads. Including small
er related industries, not less than one-seventh of
the entire population is dependent upon railroad
work.
The railroads could not prosper without the
other groups, nor they without the railroads.
Co-operation is the keystone of our highly
specialized civilization; and in the last analysis
each man works for the other.
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Cow freoh March 4th. Call or ad-
dress L). A. Young. Murray.
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NOTICE OF SUIT TO FORECLOSE
MORTGAGE
In the District Court of the Coun
ty of Cass, Nebraska.
Caroline Propat, Plaintiff, vs. Rob
ert L.. Propst et al. Defendants.
To the defendants Robert L. Propst
and Mayo'a D. Propst:
iou and eac.'i oi you are nereoy
notified that on the 9th day of Feb
impleaded with others; the object
and prayer of which is to foreclose
a mortgage given by Robert L.
Propst and wife to plaintiff bearing
date Novembsr 21. 1921. conveying
to plaintiff Ltfts 7 and S in Block 20,
citv of Plattsmouth, Cass county,
Nebraska, filed December 5, 1921. in
rjc-ok 48, page 356, Mortgage Rec-
orjs Df Cass County, Nebraska, to
secure the payment for six promissory
notes dated November 21, 1921, be-
ing one note of ?2o0. 00 and five notes
cf $300.00 each; said $250.00 note
being payable in installments of
$25.00 each on the first day of each
month, beginning January 1, 1922,
on which the first four payments of
$25.00 each have been paid; said
$500. 00 notes payable in one, two.
three, four and five years respective-
ly from November 21, 1921. the first
of which has been paid; all of said
notes bearing interest at 6 per cent
until maturity and 10 per cent there-
after; that plaintiff prays that an ac-
count may be taken of the amount
duo plaintiff on her said nctes and
mortgage, that it be decreed that
plaintiff have a first lien on said
premises ; that defendants be decreed
to pay plaintiff ' the amount so found
due; that in default thereof, said
mortgaged premises be sold according
to law and each and all of the de-
fendants be forever barred and fore-
clo)ed ofcany and all right, title, in-
Of all of which you will take due
notice.
Dated February 18. 1924.
CAROLINE PROPST,
Plaintiff.
V. A. ROBERTSON.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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