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MONDAY, JULY 21, 1924. PLATTSM0I7TH 8IM1 - W-CJSJY JW&HAL PAG1 POTOl " "ST THIEF CATCH THIEF' FOR A BUSINESS REVIVAL DEATH RAY" DOESN'T KILL ' a Cbc plattemoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI -WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Ea tared at Poetofflce, Piattamouth. Neb., aa aecoad-olaae mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher STJBSCEIPTION PRICE $2 00 THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdi-j t ion. For the love of money is the root of all evil. I Timothy 6:9-10. Sharp hole. eves will scratch a key - -:o: Plenty mouth. of prosperity in Platts- -:o:- Mott women are window dressers of a sort. :o:- People who don't look before they leap land in disgust. :o: Going: riding alone on a beautiful night is wasting gasoline. :o:- A serious shortage of people with nothing to say is reported. :o: Many a pink complexion hides a blue girl green with envy. :o: Those not careful about what they get into find it is trouble. :o: Bofa leave the farm because they hate to plow through life. 0:0 Some politicians are just one ilanin mistake after another. : 0 : A burglar can open almost any- thing except a bank account. : o : Aa antoiat should be sure he has the right and then g ahead. :o: A good looking wife is worth mor if she is a good cooking wife. 0:0 Ad Tertise your wares Mr. Merchant and keep the buying ball rolling. : o: How many ity youths have home making as their ideal of happiness? :o: The average man has a better av erage than the average man thinks. :o: Permanent waves and summer re sort romances last about six months. 0:0 Choose your words carefully, be cause you may have to take them bat k. :o: A few of the men who married in June admit rolling pins and dishes bounce. :o: Every man want to make the world safe for something chiefly himself. 0:0 We are training for our vacation trip !; giving dimes to everybody we meet. -0:0- They caught a famous Oklahoma bandit in Missouri, possibly because he couldn't show them. 0:0 The established fact that opposites attract may be why poor girls like to marry rich husbands. :o: Reading a man's palm to deter mine his future isn't as sure a way as asking his neighbors. :o: It must be awful to be a genius and have to sit around thinking up new ways to act strange. 0:0 A good shimmy dancer has the ad vantage of being able to rock the baby to aleep standing up. :o: Lawyer claims a New York cop It. a: a woman in a dispute, hut we still claim it can't bo done. :o: Staying up all night may make you as vise as an owl, but owls have no sense during the day. :o: Tomatoes once were called love appks. So this may be why they are best taken with a grain of salt. :o: Habit clings; the old timer who worked his way through college is now working his son's way through. :o:- Maybe- Jack Dempsey has lost his punc h as one sport writer says, but just the same no fighter has found it- -:o:- The formal notification of John W. Davis of his nomination will take place at Clarksburg. West Virginia, his old home. It a g ing to ta a democratic candidate of gre?r ' trengrh to defeat Adam Me Mullen, the republican can didate for governor. Please put this in your pipe and smoke it. PES YEAR IE ADVANCE JU .f. J a LINES TO REMEMBER What Tully says of war may be applied to disput- ing--it should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace: but generally true disputants are like true La, sportsmen their whole de- $ light is in the pursuit; and J. a disputant no more cares J. for the truth than the sports ,U man for the hare. J Pope. v- 0:0 Generally speaking, the man of the hour requires several years to arrive. :o: Two classes of people are now busy stirring the soil plowmen and golf ers. 0:0 We don't need four wheel brakes so much as we need foresighted driv ers. 0:0 The one who gets the biggest kick out of life is the one who puts few est into it. :o: A Music Week should be success ful because everybody likes to blow his own horn. :o: Action speaks louder than talk, Remember this and use more action ! and less gab. :o:- Therc are sermons in stones, and a large stone in a ring gives a girl the right 10 preach. :o: "Better Days with Davis" is sug gested as the democratic party slo gan. -:o:- The worst thing about running af ter a girl is you have to run still faster after you get her. -:o: Nothing looks better on a girl than a bathing suit; but not. how ever absolutely nothing. :o: This is the season of the year when they are busy swapping po litical bunk for easy berths. :o: People liking turtles better than cops will be pleased to learn that a turtle bit off a cop's toe in the Hudson river. :o: It is estimated that high water this spring washed away several thousand stills. And still 1. ore stills are coming still. :o: Another big sabsday is r. And many were in from the country to take advantage of the splendid bar gains offered by our merchants. : o : Secretary Davis of the department of labor says sitting on a stool and eating from a lunch counter is a test of real Americanism. It is a test, all right. :o: There is one time in the year when you hear very little about the call of the open or the wish to have a farm. That is when the farmers are ailing for help from the harvest field. :o: The condition of matters in gen eral tliroughout the country will oc casion many to pur on their study ing caps, ere? the dawn of election day to ferrit out what party is the 1 able to aelminister a way out of the dilemma. :o: Cove rnor Bryan has certainly stir red up the animals by naming four of his choice for governor, with no show of eithe r of them being elected. Tom Alien might pull through. W. H. Thomnson has tried several times for governor and never got any where. As to Broady and Knudson, well, there is no use talking. Gov ernor Bryan had just as well let the committee name his successor and be clone with it. Loosen the reins, Charley, and let the committee free to do its own selecting. Weil Digging and Gleaning We are prepared to sink wells, clean wells or do any kind of well work J. W. Hobson & Son "Set a thief to catch a thief for a long time has been a more or less popular dictum. In these latter days, in practice, the phrase appears to have been slightly changed to read, "Set a crook to catch a crook." That may account for the employment of crooks now and then, here and there, to ' investigate'' alleged or suspected wrong-doing. The trial and conviction of Gas ton B. Means, until recently em ployed in the United States depart ment of justice, on charges of con spiracy to violate the liquor laws, and his sentence of two years in the pe nitentiary at Atlanta, and the pay ment of $15,000 in fines, is a case in point, proving the fallacy of employ ing other than the most reputable persons to investigate alleged wrong- I doing, with a view to bringing the guilty to justice. In this instance the antecedents of Means were well known before he was given government employ ment. Although he had been tried and ac quitted on serious charges, previous ly, the court record carried evidence that he was not, at least, above sus picion. Being employed by the gov ernment, his methods of operation must have been known to his su periors, at least to those immediate ly responsible for his employment. If he was employed to do "dirty work" to "get" those against whom there was more of prejudice than of justi fied suspicion, then are those who employed him censurable, their of ficial conduct to be condemned by all who believe in "fair and square" dealing. and especially when the matter deserving of condemnation affects the character of reputable people. The Means case is particularly conspicuous, because the government was first the employer and later the prosecutor, and because of the offi cial prominence of those who were more or less dragged into the pre: eeedtnga, although the evidence was not convincing as against those named by the defendant as being re sponsible for what he did, and the jury so decided. The Means case is not the only one in which the government makes bad showing in the matter of em ploying "crooks to catch crooks." Men may be honest when given em ployment in the government service, and ' go wrong'' when they se how easy it is for others to violate the law and escape detection and pun ishment. In such instances those responsible for the employment and assignment to duty are not to blame. But when it is known that a man "crooked." the government serv ice is the last place in wnicii ne should be employed. Even honest. reputable men, sometimes are se verely tested in the ir contacts with crime and criminals; "crooks" more likely, will become their allies, aid ers ami abettors, rather than their detectors anel expose rs. In reputable private business. "crooks'" known to be such, are not given employment. Is the govt rn ment any less reputable than private business? If it is, then it is time to drive from official positions those who employ disreputable people to do "dirty" work, which, under no circumstances the government is justified in having done. :o: WHERE WILL END I She who was Marguerite Clark, famous stage and screen star, but who, for six years past, has been the wife of a mighty lucky hus band. Harry Williams, or Patter son, La., writes that she is playing her greatest role; that she finds happiness in raising chickens, work ing among her flowers, and attend ing to household duties. "I believe," she says, "I could find similar hap piness if I had to work hard in a smaller home." A good many heads of city homes are being convinced that there must come a return of woman's ideals to something like Marguerite Clark's, or there will be a crash, moral and domestic-. In such homes, the child ren are coming to care less and less for the home life. It is go, go all the time. Dances joyriding, theatre parties, one-piece bathing parties, card parties, cigar ettes, face paint, lipsticks a con tinual urge for "thrills." The rapidity, rush and daring of business life in these days are noth ing compared to the rapidity, dar ing and sophistication of youth. A good many fathers are anxiously asking what will become of the ris ing generation; where will all the "thrill" lead to; when will the social breakdown come? , All that fame, public applause and ,big pay could give, Marguerite Clark .had, bi-t she finds her greatest hap 'piness in working, in her home, and I the home is the foundation of civi ; lization. How many city youths have home making as their ideal of happiness? As a result of the nomination of John W. Davis, business conditions in the United States almost certain ly will return quickly to normal. They have been slightly below nor mal for some time, because business has had no means of ascertaining who would be the choice of the de ocratic national convention, but has been fearful and with what seem ed to be good reason lest its choice be a man whose candidacy and prob able election would be injurious to the sound interests of the country. "Business." in this sense does not me an great wealth; it means every group or individual that owns or operates any enterprise, great or small, whether a railroad or a small shop and includes every man whose living is dependent upon sound fi nancial conditions in the country, from corporation president to me chanic in a car bar. Business in this sense is very sen sitive, and business has been afraid; afraid or McAdoo, afraid of middle west radicals, afraid of all ultra progreesivism, just as it is represent ed publicly by what used to be the Old Guard of the republican party. Anel although i! is afraid of ultra ec.ns rvatlsm, which is represented privately by the interests that still want to centralize the money power in New York, it would have looked With at least a speculative and kind ly eye upon Coolidge, who is an ultra-conservative, rather than upon several of the candidates who were most prominent before the conven tion. John W. Davis is a conservative progressive. That is to say, he is not an ultra-conservative, not en tangled in the old (iuard's net; but he is in no sense a radical progres sive. The wild theories advanced by the middle west radicals find him wholly unresponsive, just as the "predatory interests," as Mr. Roose velt used to call them, find him without a joint in his armor. He is not in business in the pop ular sense, because he is a lawyer. But he is a modern lawyer of the? highest attainments, which means that he is thoroughly familiar with business; that the business of th nation as a whole is as important in his eyes as is the business of a small store important in the eyes of its owner. part from the many splendid qualities which equip Mr. Davis to serve the nation as president, he is wholly to be trusted by business, great or small, by employers and employes, throughout the United States. Therefore, a speedy revival of business is to be expected. jo: WASTEFUL FASHIONS The chief wrong with the Ameri can dry goods industry at present. according to the National Wholesale Dry Goods association, is too much fa hlon. An association balletin ex plains that retailers are buying from hand to mouth because fashions . I I I . 1 I I l I . 111 - ill I A 1 'll' i l' ' ' ' ' change so rapidly that they do notmost 42 per crnt ,n thc past year take a chance on having a large , Ra(j(j (U.serves ,arKe portion of the stock Irt on their nanus ny inecredlt nexl shift in public taste. It would not be nearly so bad it', 18 taste shifted in any particular lection, the same styles were still saleable in other sections. The big trouble nowadays is that fashions change almost simultaneously thru out the country. This is the result of the wide-spread publicity given them by the newspapers, fashion magazines and other periodicals. Consumers, no doubt, are often slow in buying or buy In smaller Quantities than they might for the same reason. Th y. too, do not want to be left with a stock of clothing un wearable because it has sudden ly gone out of style. All this is natural development from the viewpoint of both indus try and human nature. But it cer tainly doesn't speak any too well for national sense. Why change feathers so often, When there would be enormous sav ings anel perhaps no loss of attract ive nesa in wearing the same kind of plumage a little longer? Some way should be found to accomplish such a reform either by the clothing in dustry or by organized consumers. Women's clubs have done something, ye t the situation is now more ser ious than ever. :o: FARM DRIFTERS Discontented middle-western farm ers used to drift from state to state, then Into Canada, as if drawn like .the compass needle. The lure of weste rn Canada is on the wane. Canadian government I f. 1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ok i closes a number of land offices it! maintained for a quarter of a cen-1 I the committee fails to place a tury in our western states to entice popular man upon the ticket for gov farmers north. One of these, in Om- ernor next week to succeed Governor aha, closes its doors after sending Bryan, they had just as well shut up 50, 000 farmers across the border, shop and quit. We have heard men They took 54 million dollars with tioned one young and able man. who them. Where do the drifting farm- can be elected and that is Kenneth rs land now? Cities, apparently. W. McDonald, of Bridgeport. The famous "death ray" announc ed by a British inventor seems to have fizzled out. The British Air Minister announces that it fails to fulfill the promises made for it. In the course of the tests, one of the government experts placed himself directly in the path of the ray, only ten yards distant, and was not Bcoroheel, withered and abolished ac cording to specifications. In fact, he showed no signs of injury or discom fort. So that's that! The mysterious death ray, blighting invisibly, re mains a scientific nightmare of the future. In the meantime, there has been demonstrated in this country a ray that does blight and blast, without any question. There is nothing mys terious about it. It is merely a solar heat ray, immensely intensified and directed at will a sort of combined burning glass and searchlight cap able of carrying concentrated heat rays to a great distance. It is cred ited to a young California inventor. He is said to have set fire to trees several hundred yards away and to have burned holes through plates of half-inch steel and melted chunks of iron In less than a second. This device is limited by weather conditions. It requires sunlight. It should be a great defensive weapon for the great American climate belt. It should also have valuable com mercial use in any section blessed with ample sunshine. The inventor says the application of his ray can be perfectly controlled and used for such homely purposes as boiling water and cooking eggs. This is worth while, war or no war. : o : LIGHTNING AND FOREST FIRES. Thirty-three forest fires started by lightning in the Klamath National Forest in California, some of which assumed serious proportions, is an unusual record. But it shows what the Government Forest Service has to fight against in its efforts to con serve our timber. These forest fires not only greatly reduce the area of available timber each year, but oftem cause loss of life and are a heavy drain on the Forestry Depart ment's resources. Fires from other causes, such as carelessness of campers and settlers, can be prevented by education and by watchfulness. But lightning is different. There is but one way to guard against it by lightning con ductors. It might be worth while for the Forestry department to ex periment, with a view to finding out what is possible along this line. Lightning rods protect a given area around them. The waste from forest fires is so costly that if rods can prevent some of it, the experi ment would be worth trying. RADIO HELPS YOUTHS Radio keeps many potentially bad boys good. The number of juYenile 1 etni't 'U ucia in A niorwoi t 1 1 itnsl I It diverts youthful energy into placid channels. Crime, after all, is to a consider able extent just a matter of misdi rected energy. C.rownups, as well as children. Many professional crim inals would become good citizens if shewn that they'd make more money if they'd apply to legitimate work the energy, time, brains and schem ing they devote to trying to get something for nothing. :o: FORGET POLITICS They forgot all about their muni cipal election this year in Grime land, X. C. Even the politicians were asleep on the job and neglected to provide candidates. It's a town or 500. Strange to say, things are going along as well as ever, with former officials continuing In office. Be a good thing if the nation could forget politics a bit more. Our many months of ferment make busi ness timid. The uncertainty that ac companies presidential elections, is, in effect, thc largest single item in cost of government today. : o: CATARRHAL DEAFNESS is often caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. Unless the inflammation can be 1 educed, your hearing may be de stroyed forever. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will do what we claim for it rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE has been successful in the treatment of c"lJr,,ly. Yeara- Go to Glacier Park this summer and re fresh your soul. Here the Rockies surge and toss in the wildest and grandest confusion of mountain grandeur in America. The mountain sheep pose at the edge of space and the Blackfeet In dians pitch their tepees where their fath ers have lived for centuries. Two weeks or even less in Glacier will remake you. Your Burlington tour of Glacier may embrace scenic Colorado without extra cost (free side trip, Denver to Colorado Springs and return) and for only $4.50 more may include transportation to the gateways of the Yellowstone Geyser land. See it the Cody Road way. Very low summer excursion rates. Stop overs anywhere. Come in and let me help you plan a wonderful vacation tour. The National R. Park Line FUNERAL OF WRECK VICTIM IS HELD AT OMAHA THURSDAY Mike Freyer. One of the Men Killed Sunday at LaPlatte is Buried Yesterday. From Friday's Oaily Because of the critical condition, the wife and daughter of Mike Frey er. one of the victims of the auto accident last Sunday morning at La Platte. have had the report of his death kept from them. The wife and daughter are both at the Clark-j son hospital and in very serious con-j dition the reports from there state. 1 The daughter. Bernice. has grown, much worse and apparently unaware' of the fact that her father had heen injured so seriously and suffering so much herself has been kept from all news of the real facts of her father's death. The wife of Mr. Freyer, was alro kept from the real facts of the case anel while inquiring for her husband was informed by the attend ants that he had gone back to work. The death of Mrs. Freyer was at one time reported, but the latest re ports states that she is still alive al tho in critical condition. The funeral of Mike Freyer was held yesterday from the Immaculate Conception church in Omaha anel the services very largely attended by the friends of the family who have been greatly shocked by the death. MINERS FORCE MEN TO LEAVE THEIR WORK. McAlester, Okla., July 18. About 1 hundred miners, most of whom were armed. today overpowered guards at the Kali Inia mine at Cambria, on the Pittsburg-Latimer county line, and without apparent violence, forced a nonunion mine crew to leave their work. Homes of several miners were searched and guns found were con fiscated. No open labor trouble of serious proportion was known to exist in connection with the operation of the mine. It had, however, been re opened recently on a wage scale the same as in 1917, in difiance to the opposition of miners' union officials No arrests have been made. William 7.. Foster, head of the Communist Workers party of Amer ica, says Senator La Follette's mes sage to the La Follette convention was "the most reactionary docu ment of the year." There is just no pleasing some people. LEGAL NOTICE To Bearling. real name un known; John Doe. real name un known, ami Jedin Doe Company, a corporation, real name unknown, Defendants: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14th day of May, A. D. 1924, Henry Klemme filed his petition in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska, against you and each of you, the object and prayer of which petition is to recov er damages against you and each of you. in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and costs of suit for damages to plaintiff's car on or about May 6, 1924. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 11th day of August, A. D. 1924. I HliAKl KLEMME, J30-4W. Plaintiff. aciet W. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent GOING TO STORM LAKE. j Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thygeson and ! family will leave Sunday or Monday for Storm Lake, Iowa, where they ex pect to spend a few clays. They will make the trip in their car.- Nebraska i City Press. Let F. G. Egenberger figure your life and income insurance in the New York Life Co. 3d. 2w SHERIFF'S SALE Ptate of Nebraska, County of Cass, S3. By virtue of an Execution issued by James Robertson. Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me direct ed. I will on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of court house. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following property to-wit: and trans script thereof filed Lots seven (7), eight (8) and nine (9), Block seventy-five (75), in the City of Platts mouth, in Cass county, Ne braska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Max Preis, defendant, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by Hartman Furniture Company, a corporation, plaintiff against said defendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 7th, A. D. 1924. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. SHERIFFS SALE State of Nohraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by James Robertson, Clerk of the District Court, within nml for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed. I will on the 16th day of j August, A. D. 1924, at 10 o'clock a. im. of said day at the south front idoor of the court house, in Platts 1 mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest ! bidder for cash the following prop jerty, to-wit: I Lots eleven (11) and twelve I (12), in Block one hundred I twenty-three (123) in the City I of Plattsmouth, in Cass coun ty, NVbraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of A. H. Shin el lebower et al, Defendants, to satis fy a judgment of said Court, recov ered hy The Livingston Loan & Luilding Assoc iation, Plaintiff again st said Defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 16 A. D. 1924. ' E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, t Nebraska. A. L. TIDD, Attorney. Automobile Pacing! First-Class Work Guaranteed! Prices Reasonable Mirror Replacing and Sign Work! A. F. KNOFLICEK, Phone 592. W, PL.mouh V