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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1925)
PLATTSSIOUTH SEMI-WEZZXY JOTJSHAL PAGE THE ITS r KEPORTERS AND ORDERS t obe.plattemoutbloumal. PUBLISHED ST.MT.wrngTrr.T AT PLATTS1IC 17TH. NEBRASKA trel at f"oillic. Plattazuoutn. N-b.. cod-cl.. mail muir R. A. BATES. Publisher TJSSC2IPTI02i PEICE $2.00 PEE YEAR LT ADVANCE TURN THE OTEER CIIELH I'nto him thai :::iuth the or. the one chc.k offer aito t!:' other; and 1 im that taheth awty thy cloke for bid not that lie t:i";e thy coat also. Luke C:29. You don't have to cross the river now to get married. : a : A very important thing going on now i? spring; clothes. :o: :o:- Whatever may be said of McAdoo i he never tricked Davis. All this water in flood'i-d conies from the FDring. livers -:o: YVbv is it moths seldom mke the! Nothing draws forth good as much ' as to know good is expected of us. -:o: mistake of eating a patch? :o: j In the future we will be careful I about what we want. We are so Wouldn't it be niee if we were an , likely to get it. nice as we wish our friends were? :o: Legislators who enn legislate and won't legislate should be made tc legislate. :o: To the member? of the legislature: Adjourn and go home and attend to your spring work. :o: If sh had had a wreath of arbu tus yesterday March might easily impersonated May. :o: A cantor is one who cants. But a canf r who can cant and wont cant can't be made to cant. :o: We still maintain almost any man can make a success if he has enough chances to practice on. :o: There are about 5.000 different languages in the world, all of them being spoken by money. :o:- Scuth America is showing prog r ss. Chile has just deported five former government officials. :o: A foreigner admits he paid $500 to be smuggled into .America. We admit he got a good bargain. :o:- Tleent discoveries indicates the Indian built up a great civilization before realizing it wasn't much use. :o:- If wo work here as well as we can, we shall be equipped to begin work ther at the other end of the bridge. :o: Dawes is the first vice president this country ever had who swore himself into office. :o: Another sure sign of spring is when you wonder if you hear a saw mill or a mosquito. :o: As long as their are bitter jeal ousies in the democratic party, we cannot expect success. :o: Scientists say they can overcome war as they have disease. The two are just about the same. Never let a seed store cheat you. If you are buying wheat there are 55 0,000 seeds in a bushel. :o: The fifth annual announcement of the death of jazz has been made by the New York Music League. :o: A .Boston doctor has an apparatus to sober up drunks. But drunks may claim that's a waste of bootleg. :o: That Just because you have no an cestor worth bragging about is no reason why your descendant's should not have any. :o:- The trouble with the bungalow ia. there isn't any attic to put father's old fishing hat in and the crayon portraits of the family ancestors. :o: The president will devote a long vacation from the cares of the con- gressional session to a study of the I problem of government. All things The flapper is passe. Now she is are rciative even vacations. the bungalow crirl. She has shingles on the top, paint cn the sides and nothing in the attic. :o: We ?re abov.t to witness the an nual struggle fcr supremacy b-tween the perfume on the lady and the per fume on the flowers. :o: :o:- With the resigation of Rush L. Holland the last of the Daugherty clique disappears from the depart ment of justice. Attorney General Sargent is off to a good start. :o: American cities can't seat all their Bf"Tir(-1 rhillren savj n tioth- ftr-m The Russell Sage Foundation op-' If gach gcbool wouM buiM 8Qme gort poes child marriages. We trust par- of & rQof Qver Us tadium the prob. errs will place this fact in evidence WQU,d be solved for yearg to before children threatening main mcny. -to: come. Grayheads may ponder the p"ob-j leni of the influence of the sex ele- ment on juries, but a 16-year-old; girl defendant in a murder case : hopes for an all-male panel. :o: You handle nothing well, when your're angry. Neither i3 there any butter for your parsnip in being able to boast of the cute smart-alec things you said to somebody in an argument. :o: Two million years hence, says a zoologist, man will have a huge, I Mussolini is ill and some Italians dome-shapped head, and hardly any- j surest that a triumvirate should thing else. And another scientist ' take over the government. Moral: sa-s that the human brain is grow-;. You should so live and think that ine smaller. If vou'll just average i when 'ou are 111 lt wi take at leaEt th-?e two statements, vou'll get near : thrce men to fiil J"our Pce. If a enough to the truth for all practical . triumvirate should be appointed to purposes. :o: carry on Mussolini's work the inci dent would represent the greatest Let tne wise men scoff. Let the compliment yet paid tne dictator. doubters doubt. The proof of the :o: pudding is in the realization of Its Enpland clings to her laur- correctness. The groundhog taretoia " .f,- , - a sr-rinsr. Erero. the pro prophet to be respected. He must'opped a nve nonar go.a piece in be without honor even in Ms , e pmie at "iuu, ""'"s i a penny. The following day he It really isn't hard to explain the frequentcy with which public men call newspaper reporters liars. The whole trouble lies in the great dif ference between the written and the spoken word. Perhaps you have ob served it. The ordinary conversa tion, printed verbatim would be dis owned by the talkers. People speak one language and write another. Without the connivance of the re porters, few spellbinders could sur vive their own assaults of the Eng lish language. If a reporter has a grudge against public men and wants to get even with them, he has no better way of avenging himself than printing one of his enemy's speeches without changing a single sentence or word. There are exceptions to this rule, but most men who bear the name of being good speakers, were "made" by reporters. This is all more or less true, but it doesn't explain what we started out to explain, which is the frequen cy with which public men repudiate statements attributed to them by newspapers. They don't do this to get reporters in trouble. Sometimes they are quite sincere in their belief that they have been misquoted. They start out to make a speech and from that time on they are the victims of their audiences. Some theme upon which they have intended to touch lightly strikea a responsive chord and the orator automatically changes his plans, harking back again and again to the subject which seems to be popular. Hypnotized by his own eloquence, he says things in the heat of the mo ment which sound fine. His hearers applaud and he goes home in a fine glow. The next day he picks up the paper and is shocked and dismayed to see himself misquoted, as having said things which he knows are un wise, no matter how fine they may have sounded. Then he turns to his notes, and proves to himself that the objectionable statements were not a part of his speech, as he had outlined it. By that time he is convinced that he has been misquoted and unjustly treated. When the time arrives for him to repudiate the remarks attrib uted to him, he honestly believes that he has been made the victim of a deliberate attempt . to Injure him. So he has- no compunction about branding the report as false and the reporter as either inaccurate or crim inal. In 9 9 cases out of every 100 it is the speaker and not the reporter, who is mistaken. No good reporter ever deliberately misquotes a man. In no other profession In the world is accuracy so essential, or so scrup ulously observed, as among newspa per reporters. :o: HELPING COMPETITORS Cal's official residence is no longer m eariv spring and th-re is an early . a tho prrnmli, ia a there. A man iu Middletown, Conn , not own country. :o: 'went to the church treasurer and i i i Cross-word puzzles have caused j ciaimed it. l ne cnurcn cierh. was the dust to be wiped from diction-j in favor of keeping the $5, anyhow, arics and this book now occupies a : but the treasurer gave it back to its. prominent place upon the center ta- owner, who was so gratified that he ble of the average American home. gave the oficial a quarter "for your' A plan that would cause the Bible to j honesty." If that bird ever gets to j be brought forth and read more of-! heaven there will be an epidemic of: ten would no doubt prove of benefit. I apoplexy among the angels. j The world no doubt needs more of! :o: th brand of religion that was dis- The democratic party lacks aj posed some fifty years ago. whole lot of being dead. The prin- :o: ciples of the party were not made to j New postal law increases the rate j die. We have not forgotten tne cte of souvenir and all other private j feat of Horace Greeley ia 1872. Then mailing cards from one card to two cents, beginning April 15. Informa tion reaching postal authorities is that many business firms who hore- a howl went up that the party was dead. At the next election in 1874 the country went democratic in a whoop and the democrats had a big Although the Dawes plan has been in effective operation enly a few months the backfire from it is al" ready heard in this country. Ameri can business and industrial inter ests supported enthusiastically and generously the German loan floated here as an effective part of the plan. They appreciated fully that one-half of the world could net enjoy sus tained prosperity if the other half were prostrate. They were easily convinced that the way to help them selves was to help German'. Today some of them are so sure already they are meeting German goods in competition in expert mar kets and finding themselves at a dis advantage; not so much as a result of lower price offers by German, how ever, as because of the long term credits German merchants are able to extend solely as a result of recent borrowings in this country. The American loan, in other words, has fortified German industry so well fi nancially that it is better able to ex tend credits than are many of its American competitors who subscrib ed to the loan. It is getting busi ness at their expense. That is but one of the many un pleasant effects of the reconstruction in Europe which will appear during .he next decade or two. The burden it debt and reparations payment in evitably will weigh heavily upon the nations committed to such payments, but the nations standing to receive them will also feel the adverse ef fects of these international, commer cial and industrial adjustments. Before the war obligations are fin ally paid much serious consideration will be given to the question of whether in the end their collection was worth while -:o:- tnfnre have made their own Drivate i malorirv in congress. And in 1&76, ; mailing cards will buy one cent post-j you remember the fraud played on! als, print their advertisements there-j Samuel J. Tilden, who was fairly i on and thus escape an extra cent cn j elected president. Oh, no, don't think: postage. In view of this fact, it is , for a moment the democratic party is ( stated, the government print shop is dead or that it will ever die. It has making ready to turn out extra mil-' gone through too many hard fights to . lions of postal cards to meet the ex- die now. Democracy is bound to eur-' pected increase in demand. vive forever and erer. ! Young McClintock was left an or phan in Chicago with a couple of million dollars which made it cer tain enough that he would die young. If you know anything about Chicago you will understand that the state is trying to find out how, not why, he died. Wheat prices tendency. :o: have a downward w m f n f i s mm 4 w fi LJ m - m ff i:K 1 -'iff- r- I H U -Z-i.J I E':1' J-' J I f I gf j atur 1:00 P. EOT. We are stocked with used cars and they n Spring Housecleaning. Between 50 and 60 under the hammer to the highest bidder. move. This is our big ood used cars to be sold lgriss ivery -Gar The cars to be sold include 35 Ford Cars and Trucks, one Oakland, one Elgin, two Chevrolets, two Overlamls, one Dort, one Buick, two Oldsmobiles and several others. B Also one For dson tractor, one Oliver plow, one horse drawn plow, one tractor binder hitch, one tractor steering device, new Oliver cultipack er, one pair Oliver breaker bottoms for tractor plow, one Amsco cul tivator, one motorcycle, side car, one truck body and many smaller articles. Also team of mules and other live stock together with a few odd tires. This will be a sale well worth attending. You Buy Them 'at Your own Unusual Liberal Offer Anyone having: a car they wish to sell may sell it at this sale FREE OF CHARGE and have the proceeds applied on the purchase price of a New. Ford Car or Truck. $19 Gasoline Book FREE To the person who pays the most money for a Car or Truck at this Auction Sale. Terms One-Half Cash, Convenient Terms on Balance! at (RAIFJ OR SHSNE) EX YO.UNQ, Auctioneer