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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1924. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL paoj mm Cbc plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Catered at Poatuffloc. Plattsmouth. Neb.. M ecod-clM mall matter R. A. BATES, PublUher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 THE END OF THE JOURNEY Thpsp are thev that were number- i - ed by Moses and Eleanor the priest near Jtricho. But among these there was not a man of them whbm Moses and Aaron the priest num- bered. when they numbered the 011- dren of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. For the Lord said of them.' "They shall surely die in the wilder- nam " And there was not left a man of them, save Calib. the son of Jephunnch. and Joshua, the son of Nun. Numbers 26:63-65. Absence sometimes makes the heart grow fonder or more absent. :o: Two weeks more and "what's the score" will be added to your worries. :o: Maybe the White House cat run away because there was too much pussy-footing. :o: After all. Mr. Coolidge's blows of fortune, now comes the liability of a possible Hearst indorsement. :o: In :he sprli.g the I lough's of the young turn to love and those of an older generation to the coal bin. :o: The way things are going, the man who burns midnight oil is liable to haw a hard time explaining it. :: A delegation of Nebraska business men laud Kansas City as the most exemplary city in the middle west. Good land! :o: :o: Governor Al Smith of New York The day is not far distant when appears to be Milwaukee's choice for there will be as many beauty par the democratic nomination for presi- lors as there are filling stations. dent. :o: :o: Our observation is that wnen a Al Jennings, former train robber, woman becomes hard boiled her hus is now an evangelist. Why doesn't j band is more like a soft scramble, this ooint a subseauent career for . :o-: Albert B. Fall? 1 :o: Mr. Sinclair is charged with con- , tcmnt nf the cpna t f Wtiv di'ri thf ! senate pick out just one voter to ! make that charge against? :o: One hundred and sixty miles of ( the Mexican border . Is to be fenced. Just what kind of a mesh, is used in making a boore-proo.f fence? :o: The DuPont Power Co. has declar- : ed war upon the English sparrow. If you are in the powder business, you have to have some sort of war. o : r The allies say Germany has been ( hiding its gold abroad and isn't spending it. Why don't they try building Germany a water works system? -:o:- Certainly it is nnnc of our busi ness but we reckon a modern young mother can be very happy with her baby if the doctor allows her to smoke in bed. -tor- Harry Micapah Daugherty has no real cause for complaint. Most of his fellows never believed even from the first that he was the man for the high and important position that he held. : o : Now that his successor has been appointed. Harry Daugherty may be cafe in assuming that his letter of re cent date has been received, contents noted and his resignation accepted. :o: The new attorney general comoK from Now York, making the secorfd cabinet member from that state. But the president probably felt it was safer to have two members from New York than one from Ohio. o : o It is reported that the King of Italy has been badly shnken up in a rain accident. His Majesty Is lucky. If he sets in nothirv; Worse -han a railroad wreck during the next few years he will have a lot to be thank ful for. :o: Hiram Johnson need not worry any longer about moving from the Golden West to Washington. He will never be president. When that bunch of postmasters and revenue collectors meet in Cleveland, they will show 5 lot of gratitude to Mr. Coolidge. o : o We will soon be 82 years old. al ways a democrat, for 62 years an edi tor, and we would love to see W. J Bryan elected president ere we pass over the Great Beyond. The time is ripe right now. If he was elected president. Thomas Jefferson and An drew Jackson would arise from their tombs and bless the American people. i PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 1 'I"?-!"!"!-!-!":-:-!-!-!-!"!"!-!-!' " T LINES TO REMEMBER In the battle of life we cannot hire a substitute. H"H"l:-M-H"l"M-M"I"fr :o:- O Wind, if baseball spring be far behind? comes, can Notice bow the country editors have quit kidding the flivvers. :o: - Wonder if the small boy who imi tates the fire truck considers himself a siren. Another thing if one corporation monopolizes the air, what will the angels do? :o: Autos are like radios. You can't look at them and tell what distance you will get. :o. Europe's intentions are good. She'd much rather owe it to us than cheat us out of it. -o:o- Now that the late attorney gen jeral is looking for a profession, he i ought to study law. -:0:- If some fellows we know really want to something for the old home town they'd move out of it. :o : Our idea of an intellectual is an iceman who can keep hi3 summer customers buying all winter. Country editors as a rule are not very enthusiastic about vacations. A fellow can't have fun when he's sick. "O Sometimes a young man doesn't know how fast a girl is until he taks her riding in a slow automo- Di e- -:o: For the first time in decades there is now a truce in the war between the armor plate and the armbr-piere- - mm m m t ln& sneM Another reason why girls don't cry as much as they used to is be cause their complexions are not am- Phibious now -:o: Being in the service, they have no votes, so the G. O. J?, has told the round-the-world flyers to tak? all the time they need. :o: Mr. Jennings was awful absent minded with campaign thunder when the democrats were in need of a whale of a lot of it. All we have to say to Spring is she should keep regular hours and think too much of herrelf to run around at night with Jack Frost. :o: Personally we don't claim to be much of a detective, but when we see a lady in the barber's chair we deduce that she is getting a haircut ro- Of course we are not a candidate, but if the Mohammedans are looking for a Caliph who has had no profit able experience in oil we are their man. Hardly a day passes, now, that some scientist doesn't make an epoch-making discovery. One of these syndicate health sages now an nounces in the papers. "Hunger is the demand of the system for food." :o: William Wrigley. Jr.. announces 'that he has left the ranks of the Hi- ram Johnson supporters. If Bill's chewing gum didn't have any better sticking capacity than that, it wouldn't be any gum at all, would it? -o:o- A fashion announcement says that the new spring colors for a woman's hosiery include tambour, tom-tom. fanfare, clarion and blare, from which we are reluctantly forced to infer that they are going to be rath er noisy. :o: We pick this advertisement from the alsslf.cd columns of a contem porary: "Lady Chauffeur, expert, owning limousine, will teach or drive yov. any time, any place." Mey meie, postmaster, gimme a stamp! real luick! cRUCipmoir warrant Dispatches from the London Ex press state that a French ethnologi- eal mission in Tunisia ha discovered what is believed to be the original military order which directed the trial of Jesus Christ and led to His crucifixion. If the find be genuine it will stand as one of the greatest discoveries of modern times. The writers of the gospel all tell of the betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot. and the four accounts of the events leading up to the cruci fixion are harmonious, if not identi cal. We are told by Matthew that the Christ was led away by his captors to Caiasphas, the high priest, where the scribes held him Him to be "guilty of death," that they bound Him and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate, the Governor. And Pilate when he had released Barabbas and scourged Jesus, delivered Him to the Jews to be crucified. The trial of Christ according to St. Mark is set down almost word for word as Matthew has it, but St. Luke goes into greater detail. He tells us that when Pilate heard of Galilee he asked whether the Christ were a Galilean, and, finding that he belonged under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at the time. Herod arrayed the Christ in a gorgeous robe, mocked Him and sent Hira again to Pilate, but found noth ing worthy of death. Nor did Pilate yet "he gave sentence that it should be as required." St. John relates that Jesus' cap tors led Him first to Annas, father-in-law of Caiaphas, who. in turn sent Him, bound, to his son-in-law. the hall of judgment, and Pilate went out to the Jews, telling them to judge Him according to their laws. It is not lawful." they cried, "for us to put any man to death. And in answer to Pilate's question ."Shall I crucify your King?" they replied: "We have no King but Caesar." Thus, according to the gospels, was the trial of Jesus Christ con ducted by a Roman governor who sought vainly to wash his hands of the whole affair. On one point only was Pilate firm. When the Jews asked him to change the superscrip tion, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews," he replied: "What I have written I have written." And now today, nearly 2.000 years after the trial of Christ, it is believed that the original warrant has been found. If this remarkable discovery accomplishes nothing else, it should at least inspire us to read again those sections of the gospels which tell of the trial and of the crucifixion of our Lord the sublimest passages in all literature. -o:o- WHY ARGUE IT? Some lady, evidently very prim and old fashioned, writes us a scorch ing letter denouncing our editorial giving cordial approval to bobbed hair. But the dear lady spelled it "bob- ed" hair throughout her effusion. Of course, far be it from us to cen sure a person who can't spell a sim ple word like "bobbed." We occasionally make an ortho graphical bobble ourselves, especial ly when writing hastily. And we frequently make a plunge at a word and miss it. It is easy, of course, to consult the big book in the outer of fice. But consulting the big book is a lot of bother. When an idea for a nifty sentence is about to develop in a writer's mind, it is ruinous for him to let go all hold on his type writer and go and dig up the orthog raphy for the word he wants to use. When you do that the idea often es capes you. But we never yet missed the word "bobbed" even in the third grade at school. It does seem that anybody ought to know it contains two b's. However, we once knew a baker who worked at his trade for forty years, turning out hundreds of tons of excellent bread and spelling it "bred" as long a she lived. Of t nurse there is such a word as bred just as there aro two or more spellings for numerous words that are pronounced alike, but mean entirelv riiffprpnt things. Bread and bred, wood and would, weight and wait, gait and gate. Dozens of words with two spellings, two meanings and a single pronounciation confuse foreigners trying to learn English. But prob ably it serves them right for being foreigners. Maybe our critic who spells it "bobed" is a foreigner. At any rate, we are not going to enter into an ar gument of the main question with her. Our observation is that when you clearly and conclusively win an argument with a woman you always lose. -o:o- The average length of dresses in Paris now is four inches from th? knee, but we flout know If this is above or below. SENATOR OWEN'S GAG BILL The assault on the freedom of the press embodied in the bill introduc ed tn the United States senate by Senator Owen of Oklahoma is so ex treme and threatening that we can not believe congress will give seri ous attention to it. Yet the assault is so serious and is so significant of this era of ergulation, repression and suppression that it ought to have attention. In brief, the bill requires news papers to publish a sworn affidavit denying, correcting or explaining any statement made in the news papers containing a specific refer ence by name to any person or per sons, whether natural or artificial For refusing to publish such an af fidavit, the penalty is denial of the mailing privilege to the newspaper and the sole judge of the offense is the postmaster general, who is giv en arbitrary power to bar the news paper. It is a rule of fairness observed ny reputable newspapers in the case of persons whose names are involved in charges of misconduct, unless they are under indictment for crime, to obtain and publish statements from such persons whenever it is possible. But a newspaper may be engaged as a duty to the public in exposing cor- rution or wrong-doing. It may have all the facts for a sound moral con viction of the trutn or its state ments, and it may be attempting to compel an official investigation to as certain all the facts and to punish the guilty. In that case, under this bill, if enacted into law, the news paper, regardless of the merits of the case, would be compelled under a ruinous penalty to publish the sworn affidavit of the person whose. name was involved, in each ana every statement it makes. Take the case of the investigations of scandals in the federal depart ments at Washington. Presumably. under such a law as this, for every statement published in the newspa ers regarding the officials under in vestigation the newspaper would have to publish affidavits from the accused persons. The conspquencps of such a law on the freedom of the press may be imagined. A law of this kind impairing the freedom of the press to attack wrong, whether committed by indi viduals or corporations, would strike a deadly blow at the usefulness of the press as a mora! force for good government and for progress in soci ety. The newspapers would be un der compulsion to avoid using the names of persons or corporations in volved in wrong-doing on account of the fear of the exercise of arbitrary power on the part of the postmaster general to wreck their business. Every person who is libeled by a newspaper has a remedy in law. The erring newspaper can be punished, if guilty, but is not threatened with ruin through arbitrary government power. If the press is not free to publish without the threat of ruin byf arbitrary governmental action, it will necessarily be forced into silence. Th silence of the press would be the op- P portunity of wrongdoers in govern ment and society. The proposed law is in effect a menacing censorship on the press. Publicity is the greatest moral force in the world. It is essential to social progress and to the surviv al of democratic government. We are reminded of Thomas Jefferson's remark that if he were to choose be tween government and the newspa pers, he would choose the newspa pers. :o:- YOUNG ROOSEVELT'S FAILURE Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's statement in the Campbell letter de fending his record in the naval oil leasings clinches the case against his former chief, Denby. The transfer of the oil reserves, he says, was de cided by President Harding and Sec retaries Fall and Denby without his knowledge. When apprised, and af ter a consultation with Admiral Grif fin, he offered an amendment to the order which, in its final modified form, required the "o. k." of the sec retary of the navy on any change in "general policy as u, drilling or re serving lands located in a naval re serve." Thus, it appears that Den by, contrary to general impression, had full knowledge of t-he question ableness of his action. The only doubt remaining is whether, realiz ing it, he chose to let wrong pass without an appeal to teh public rather than cause a rift in the su blime harmony of the best minds. Had young Roosevelt been a man of strong conviction and courage he would have dissipated the secretary in which this portion of the public's business was veiled and let other friends of conservation and foes of graft bring the issue to a head. Roosevelt's own version of his rec ord in the case shows a friendly in terest in conserving the naval oil supply, but not a fight interest. He let the grab go by with only a pro test. He permitted the thing to be accomplished in secrecy and thus failed to live up to the Roosevelt tra dition. o:o WHISKEY AND LOGIC . A story comes from St. Joe about a citizen of that community who took a drink of moonshine whiskey, and a few minutes thereafter he be gan to see reptiles and animals in as sorted colors, so he rented a room and opened a museum. Many people paid 25 cents admission and when they saw only an cmty room, they called a policeman. The policeman was going to arrest him, but the man got him off in a corner and gave him a drink. The policeman then gave the man $300 for a half interest in the show. The story is undoubtedly exagger ated. Corn whiskey, when fresh, has a tendency to make the consum er see things not previously cata logued in zoological guide books, but the story that a policeman was in duced to take a drikn of such crazy juice is altogether unlikely. If one doesn't have sense he can't be a po liceman. Having sense, then, no po liceman would take a drink of fresh whiskey, unless he had already tak- n one. and if ho had already taken one he wouidn t have sense enough lb be a policeman. It is easy enough to come to this somewhat recondite conclusion if one has a logical mind an dean link his thoughts in se quences, like chain sausage?. It is 'he non-sausageous thinker who comes to the consumer of bootleg whiskey. When a person can think by link he is too thoughtful to risk he integrity of his physical outrides. not to mention the integrity of bis moral insides. by forcing bootleg whiskey into them. :o: SEED CORN FOR SALE Yellow Dent Seed Corn for sale at $2.00 per bushel. This corn can be een at the Fairmont Creamery Sta- Mon, opposite the Journal office. Russ Todd. m31-2wks. m NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship. Estate No. of Anna Ptak. de eased, in the County Court of Cass county. Nebraska. The State of Nebraska. To all per- Kns interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Frank Ptak. who is one of tht- heirs of said ieceased, and interested in such, has filed his petition alleging that Anna Ptalc died intestate in Douglas coun- y, South Dakota, on or about Feb uary 12th, 1915. being a resident ind inhabitant of Armour, Douglas ounty. South Dakota, and the own er of the following described real es tate, to-wit: An undivided one-half inter est In and to Lot nineteen (19) in the northeast quarter of Sec tion thirteen, (13) Township twelve, (12) Range thirteen, JAKE, 12751 Jake is a black jack with white points. Was foaled May 28, 1912. Is 1534 hands high, weight 1,150. Sired by Big Jake and his dam was Lady Elgin. He is an excellent jack, and has a good reputation as a foal getter. TE0DY R. 97686 Teddy R. is a fine Percheron Stal lion, black with white hind feet and ria-ht front foot also white. He was fnnlpd March 30. 1912. and weiehsito 1.900 pounds. His sire was Morton, 67203; by Epateur. 51836, (64389) ; by Roliver, 40111 (46462) ; by Amil car, (19979); by Sultan, (4713); by Bayard, (9495). by Estraba. 187 (736) ; by son of Jean le Blanc, (739). Teddy R. and Jake will make the season of 1924 at my home, six miles west of Murray and six miles east of Manley, every day in the week. Terms for Teddy R.. $12.50 to in sure colt to stand up and suck. Terms for Jake, $15.00 to insure colt to stand up and suck. When parties dispose of mares or remove from the locality service fee becomes due and must be paid imme diately. All care will be taken to prevent accidents, but owner will not be held responsible should any occur. A. J. SCHAFFR (13) east of the 6th P. M.. in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, subject to the life estate of Marie Ptak, widow of Frank Ptak. Sr., deceased leaving as her sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to-wit: Frank Ptak, her husband: Leon Z. Ptak, a son, and Irene Ptak, a daughter. 'T' tw.t inn . nulitinnor ia nnn rf t li f I . 'IV. I , ' iv'i. i "111 w ill , jrs , f (leceased Anna ptak, and as such is the owner of nn undivided one-third interest in and! to said above described real estate, subject to the said life estate of the said Marie Ptak, widow; that said decedent died intestate; that no ap plication for administration has been i in the County Court. made and the estate of said decedent! in the matter of the estate of Sena has not been administered in the James, deceased. State of Nebraska, and that the Court On reading and filing the petition determine who are the heirs of said of Guy James. Opal Hartsook and deceased, their degree of kinship and Clyde James, praying that adminis the right of descent in the real prop- tration of said estate may be grant erty of which the deceased died seiz- ed to N. D. Talcott, as Administrat ed, which has been set for hearing on or; the 7th day of May, A. D. 1924, at I Ordered, that April 15th, A. D. 9 o'clock a. m. 1 1924, at 10:30 o'clock a. m., is as- Dated at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, signed for hearing said petition when this 4th day of April, A. D. 1924. jail persons interested in said matter ALLEN J. BEESON. may appear at a County Court to be (Seal) County Judge, held in and for said countv and show CHAS. E. MARTIN, j cause why the prayer of petitioners a7-3w. Attorney, should not be granted, and that no- ! tice of the pendency of said petition LEGAL NOTICE and the hearing thereof be given to in tho nitriot court of fsss emm tv, Nebraska. Wm thp mtrr of th imntieaHon of Fr-.nk G. Hull. Administrator of the ; estate of Samuel L. Furlong, deceas- rd. for license to sell real estate to pav debts of said deceased. j Order to Show Cause. - I Now, on this 5th dav of April. I 1924. comes Frank G. Hull, admin- istrator of the estate of Samuel L. Furlong, deceased, and presents his petition for a license to sell the real! estate of said deceased to pay the! debts and claims allowed, and it ap pearing to the Court from said peti tion that there is not sufficient per sonal estate in the hands of the Ad ministrator to pay the debts out standing against said deceased and claims allowed by the County Court of Cass county, against said estate and the expense of administration and this proceeding, and that it is ministration of said estate may be necessary to sell the whole or some granted to C. A. Rawls as Adminis oortion of the real estate of said de- trator; cedent for the payment of such debts Ordered, that April 19, A. D. 1924, or claims; 'at ten o'clock a. m.. is assigned for It is therefore ordered and adjudg- hearing said petition, when all per ed that all persons interested In the sons interested in said matter may estateof said Samuel L. Furlong, de- appear at a County Court to be held ceased, appear before me. James T. in and for said county, and show Begley, Judge of the District Court cause why the prayer of petitioner of said county, at the office of the should not be granted; and that no Clerk of the District Court, in the tice of the pendency of said petition Court House in the City of Platts-. and the hearing thereof be given to mouth, in Cass county, Nebraska, on all persons interested in said matter the 26th day of May, 1924. at the by publishing a copy of this order hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon, in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi to show cause, if any there be. why weekly newspaper printed in said such license should not be granted county, for three successive weeks, to Frank G. Hail, Administrator of prior to said day of hearing, snid estate, to sell so much of the) Dated March 25th, 1924. real estate of the deceased as may be ' ALLEN J. BEESON, necessary to pay the debts of said m27-3w. County Judge. deceased and claims allowed and costs of administration and this pro ceeding. ' It is furthered ordered that notice' be given to all persons interested by lie publication of t h i Order to Show Cause for four successive weeks in The Plattsmouth Journal. a leeral ic spaper published and of general circulation in said County of Cass. By the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. Judge of the District Court JOHN' M. LEYDA. Attornev for Petitioner. a7-4w ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the application of W. E. Hand, guardian of Gale Ray- mond Cunningham, a minor, for the sale of real estate. On reading and filing the petition, duly verified of W. E. Hand, guardian of Gale Raymond Cunningham, a minor, for license to sell the follow- ing real estate, to-wit: A one-eihteenth interest in and to Lots 547 and 54 8 in the Village of Greenwood, Cass coun tv Nebraska for the purpose of putting the pro ceeds thereof out at interest for thei benefit of said nrnor. and it satisfac-l torily appearing to the Court from ' said petition that said real estate should be sold, and the proceeds put out at interest or invested in some productive stock; It is therefore Ordered, that the next of kin of said minor, and all persons interested in said estate ap pear before me at chambers, in the Court House in the City of Platts mouth. Cass county, Nebraska, on the 28th day of April, 1924, at 9 o'clock a. m.. to siiow cause, if any there be. why license should not be granted to W. E. Hand, guardian, to sell said real estate or so much there of as to the Court may be deemed ad-. i-isable for the purposes above set forth. It is further Ordered, that a copy of this Order be published once each week for three successive weeks, prior the said 28th day of April. 1924, State Farmers' Insurance Co. James Walsh, President J, F. McArdle, Sec') Insures Farm Property and City Dwellings Offers the best policy and contract for less money. Best and cheapest insurance company doing business in Ne braska. Pays the loss promptly. 7,200 members. Organ ized in 1895. Insurance in force, $67,000,000. Call or write TODAY tomorrow may be TOO LATE. CALL ON OR WRITE L. L. DIENSTBIER 2615 Harney Street Omaha, NeUraaka in The Plattsmouth Journal, a news paper circulating in said Cass coun ty, Nebraska. Dated at chambers in said Cass county, Nebraska, this 25th day of March, 1924. JAMES T. BEGLEY, Judge of the District Court of Cass countv, Nebraska. CHAS. E. MARTIN, " Attorney. m31-3w ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administrator The State of Nebraska,- Cass coun- - ty, ss. - a" proii iBMfwn in saiu matter by publishing a copy of this order in tlle IMa ttsruouth Journal, a semi- weekly newspaper printed in said countv- for three successive weeks, Pn"r to, s,a'd (la' of hearing, Dated March 22, 1824. 1 ALLEN J. BEESON. 'Seal) County Judge. CHAS. E. MARTIN, 0Z-5W. Attorney. ORDER OF HF4RING PMj,inn fr i,,, ' f . m. ..avwaa u a i f J ill 111 1 . 1 V ' idministrator The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Jas- per Al. young, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Mattie E. Young praying that ad- r ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment Auministrator The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Abi gail E. Smith, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of I4a7nl I tnrt 1 r ifl a nravifi(T t li n t a(iniinistration of said estate may be granted to Charles E. Martin, as Ad I ministratof; Ordered, that April 19th. A. D. ; 1924, at ten o'clock a. m.. is assigned I for hearing said petition, when all persons interested in said matter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of peti- tioner should not be granted; and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to ell persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Jour- nal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks., prior to said day of hearing Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 25th, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, County Judge. JOHN M. LEYDA. Atty. for Petitioners. m27-3w. Automobile Painting! First-Glass Work Guaranteed! Prices Reasonable Mirror Replating and Sifirn Work! A. F. 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