o MONDAY, APRIL 20. 1925. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOTTRUAL PAGE THEE3 Che plattsmouth lournal PUBLISHED SEm-WEEXLY AT PLATTS2I0UTH, NEBRASKA Katr4 at PostoKlc. Flattamoutn. Neb., mm ecofl-clj mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCEIPTIOH EE1CE $2.00 PEE YEAS US ADVANCE AS TO WISDOM Should a wise man utter vain knowledge? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Job 15:2-3. Spring detours are ripening fast. -:o: Being lucky Is often a sign of bad luck. -:o: Loganberries were crossing blackberries lies. :o: produced by and raspber- A few peach crop scares are now awaiting sufficient postage to get in to circulation. :o: Do you think robins ever try re ducing exercise, or blue Jays take lessons in voice? As a man gets older, he remains pretty much what he always was, only he gets more so. :o: Women are not men's equals. Just try to slap one on the back and bor row a dollar from her. :o: The early gardener finds the big gest fishworms. Then he's apt to lose interest in his gardening. :o: They do things different in Paris. A thief escaped there on a bicycle instead of in a high-powered car. :o: Sports are a large part of college life, the well formed man being more popular than the well informed man. :o: They tell us there are no contra dictions in Nature, but did you ever notice that a blackberry is red when It is green. :o: Correspondent inquires: "Will mo lasses make a person short-winded, and If so, why?" This is a sticker, and we pass it along for someone else to tackle? :o: How Bad it is how the big order passeth! Take the German nobility, for example. According to reports from Berlin they are dying cff stead ily; von by von. :o: Time brings changes. The girls of way back yonder made their lov ers do all the wooing. The girls of a generation ago would meet them half way. The girls of today go and ! get tnem. i :o:- With the conclusion of new anti bootlegging treaties, Washington expects rum smuggling to be reduced to a "minimum." Whether this re sult is satisfactory or not will seem to depend on what the government considers a minimum of rum smug gling. :o: Persons with the pioneer spirit who are attracted by schemes for colonizing distant Jungles might be surprised to learn that there are still a good many square miles in the United States that await only Irrigation and perspiration to pro duce income and Independence. :o: Mr. Coolidge has in his cabinet now a couple of six-foot, 200-pound-ers. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and Attorney General John Gari baldi Sargent. If he had been as well-heeled with bruisers a year or so ago, he wouldn't have had to cudgel his brains so long ever the matter of throwing Daugherty out. :o: The League of Nations has decid ed to publish a list of the 600 best books of the year. A terrible task that of keeping war at a safe dis tance. We suppose President Cool idge will appoint an unofficial ob server to scan the list and decide if Washington can afford to give it recognition. All disgruntled authors whose works are not included in the list will be referred to the world court for adjustment of their claims to immortality. :o: We suppose that when the first rubber-tired buggy was made all the wearers of dark glasses said it meant the world would ride to hell. It Is certain that a few years ago when women "got so bad" about stuffing j feminine, who refused to touch food their natural hair with "rats" their prepared by women or have any con gloomy critics were very abusive of j tact with them whatever. It is them, and some of them, probably, gratifying, however, and not all were sincerely alarmed. Now the ! surprising, to learn as the poem pro former rat fans have flapper daugh-jceeds that the man in the case was ters of their own, or are old enough insane and our women readers will to have them, and they, too, are ajbe glad to know that he died before bit worried about the drift of things. ' his time. Somewhat cooler Wednesday. :t i Decoration day will soon be here. :o: Wedding bells have begin to peal forth in these lovely spring days. :o:- Things could be worse. Bills are usually mailed Instead of sent by wire. :o: An optimist is one who realizes things can't be as bad as he thinks they are. :o: A scientist claims he sees crops on the moon, so. could it be grain for moonshine? to: The Wall Street sucker's motto seems to be, "If at first you don't fail, try, try again." :oi Long dresses didn't look well with bobbed hair. We hope the women never shave their heads. not our merchants did a very fair bus iness yesterday, notwithstanding the busy season on the farms. :o: Perhaps this cut rate war among New York taxi drivers might be called a 10,000 meter race. :o: "Through with men," says a fa mous actress. Maybe it's about time. She has finished five of them. :o: Churches are being built in the middle of the block because filling stations have all the corners. :o: Well, we might have known that the greatest vice trust in the world would prove to be in Chicago. :o: If there is any trouble the Irish want their share. A Dublin paper is printing cross-word puzzles. :o: "We worry about posterity," re marked, the Man on the Car, "to have posterity come along and laugh at us." :o: ' The people must awaken to their own Interests if they would live un der a free government many years longer. :o: As long as the government pays such enormous salaries to state ! agents. Just so long will bootleggers Burvive. :o: The thought that there are so few young people in church on Sunday night doesn't mean that they are not loving one another. :o: George Washington In his day threw a dollar across the Potomac river. We doubt that he could toss one across the Missouri river. You can't make a dollar go very far in -:o:- The power of the president to re move a federal officeholder without the consent of the senate is another step, and a big one, in favor of cen tralized government. Whither are we drifting? :o: German imperialism has taken at least one leaf from the book of re publicanism. It is raising a $12, 500, 00Q slush fund to elcet Von Hin denburg. :o: The fine thing about French poli tics i3 that if there i3 any element in society you don't like, you can easily make out that it is getting the worst of it. :o:- Blinding lights of an approaching auto caused the bus between Omaha and Fremont to leave the road and upset, injuring several. These bright, flashy lights should be done away with. :o: The almighty dollar is cutting a greater figure in this country than good government. There should be more attention paid to the affairs at Washington or the government will be in the hands of a few leading pol iticians. It is almost that now. :o: We note an amusing narrative poem called "The Devil Is a Wom an," which is published in a current periodical. It is the history of a man who decided that the devil was A GOOD CITIZEN A good citizen is a man whom you like to have as your neighbor. He does not throw tin cans, brush, papers or rubbish in alleys or on va cant lots. He does not scatter lawn cuttings in the streets or alleys. He does not burn leaves against the curbing or on paved streets, knowing that this ruins cement and asphalt and means added cost for re pairs to himself and to you. j A good citizen knows that un cleanliness and carelessness are the obsequious footmen of disease. ' He does not leave his garbage pail uncovered to breed flies. The less ha leaves rotting, the less he is swat ting. He does not allow stagnant water to stand about his place and breed typhoid, nor invite alley-rats to be his guests. A good citizen knows that over 75 per cent of all fires start in the homes that over 80 per cent of those burned to death yearly are women and children. The next time it may be his wife or his child. He does not use the roof of the ga rage or outhouse as a Junk yard, nor pile his basement or attic with rub bish. These things are prolific causes of fires. He does not leave oily rags about his home or garage, knowing that they cause spontaneous combustion. The good housewife does not keep oil floor mops in a corner or closet, but places them in metal containers. She dees not clean with gasoline, but uses non-flammable cleaners, of which many are on the market. A good citizen thinks of public property and public premises as well as his private property for he ?& part owner of the streets, the alleys and th? parks. He knows that he must help pay for all damages, all wastage. He does not commit vandalism, nor permit others to deface and scratch public buildings and 6tatues, or break and destroy benches be cause it is his property and he must pay the bill. A good citizen, whether male or female, is constructive. He knows that every sweep of the paint brush spreads sanitation, and makes for beauty and contentment. He knows that a well-kept place attracts. But a neglected place de tracts. He knows that paint and varnish are the natural guardian of property. The good citizen plants in his gar den and cultivates roses in the cheeks of his children. He makes a home out of a house by planting shrubs .and flowers about it. :: THE BUND SPOT Man marvels at how much he knows, and then goes on trying to know more. It is the best pastime of this little life. Why call it labor? The naturalist working a lifetime on some special problem is doing what he desires to do; he would be happy in no other way. The physicist elab orating a new theory and the chem ist searching for new elements or new relationships or new principles of the structure of matter is doing Just the one thing that is truly a pastime. So, too, the astronomer whose mind Journeys to suns and worlds and unverses almost infinite ly remote. And so, with equal truth. tne explorer wno undergoes un speakable hardships and welcomes peril in the hope of finding some thing which no one has seen. North of Alaska, is the great space that lies toward the pole, is the world's blind spot. No one knows what is there. There are reports of a great continent vague reports, little more than fantastic tales, like the old tales of Atlantis' and Estoti land. There may be a continent, or there may be only frozen brine or there may be groups of islands like the known lands of the Arctic archi pelago. Whatever is there, a deter mined effort to find it is to be made MacMillan, perhaps the foremost liv ing Arctic explorer, is to lead an ex pedition, and from this expedition airplanes, operated by men of the American navy, are to fly out into the endless day of the Arctic sum mer. Endless day, but a region as black and endless as night to the knowl edge of man. The world's one blind spot.; more man a million square miles of the earth that might as well be on Mars or Arcturus. No wonder that volunteers are clamoring to be chosen for this work. There are al ways volunteers when any work like this is afoot when there is hope of doing something utterly new or see ing something hitherto unseen. :o: Since the advent of radio, some men go home and get Calgary, On tario, and others go home and get hell. :o:- Apparently what France needs is not so much ministers and a parlia ment as a business manager and a board of directors. THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES Women have been asserting them selves more in the past 25 years than in the past five centuries. The causes of this are interesting but they in volve a long, complicated and phil osophical rigmarole. Just take the effects. Woman have a vote today. They have property rights. They have buying power. They are the great readers of books (mostly trash) the great prop of retail stores and the great, unknown quantity in local, state and national politics. Therefore there are many selfish interests which find it to their ad vantage to foster the idea of wom an's independence.' In the language of the poet, she finds herself "Flattered, followed, sought and sued," Schopenhauer, in his famous es say on Women, gives two quotations from poets which, he thinks, indi cate the right standpoint for the ap preciation of the sex. One is "Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation." The other is from Byron: The very first Of human life must spring from womans' breast. Your first small words are taught you from her lips. Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing " The second quotation is more sen timental than the first. The first is clearer, more intelligent and more convincing. Here is the question that is offered for your thought: Can women become happier thru political, social and economic inde pendence than they can through ac cepting and being satisfied with the role of nurse, companion, sweetheart and wife of men? There is no doubt that their inde pendence is growing. But are they growing happier? Happiness is the great object of individual life. There are no rules for attaining it. It depends so much upon the iron "claws which control the mind, the temperament and the fate of each individual. One is made happier by this, the other by that. What contributes most to the hap piness? Surely not the ballot. Pro hibition has accomplished nothing. Many men have died and have left their widows in indisputed control of millions but it has not made them any happier. Does independence of any kind contribute to the happiness of wom en? What do you think? In doing your thinking, consider first Just what happiness means, as distinct satisfaction or contentment or pleasure. Then consider the fact that some women are queens, duchesses, count esses, etc., some are wives of mil lionaires, some are wives of book keepers, chauffeurs, street cleaners, etc., 6ome are stenographers, sales women, models, chorus, telephone girls, etc., and some are house maids, elevator girls, scrub women and laundresses. But all of them are WOMEN. Do they want independence of the tyr anny of men? Or do they want the love and care of men? :o: NATIONAL DISTRUST Diogenes more than two thousand years ago, started with a lantern to search the Near 'East for an honest man. Evidently, the search still con tinues. At least. Dr. Dodge, head of an American college in Smyrna, now in this country, says: "Ask any head of government, of business or of re form, in this, whole end of the world, what it most needs, and the answer will always be, 'men that can be trusted.' " Ages of despotic governments, of discordant races, languages and re ligions, of the battle of force and guile, have bred in the Levant a habit of mutual distrust which may take generations to outgrow. The Balkanized corner of the world, made of the wrecks of the Austrian and Ottoman empires and intervening states, must endure this and take its consequences. The real problem of our generation is to keep from Balkanizing the rest of the world, by universal national dis trusts. :o: The Literary Digest is out with an article headed: "Do Fish Smell?" Let the Digest editor take a walk around the markets and he'll soon find out. :o: Cuba's entire war debt to the United States has now been paid, but of course, we helped do it by go ing down there in the winter time to spend our money. :o: Cta(i!ia cVinw that ttio TlritiRh spend three times as much for beer as for milk. And we don't need tot look virtuous about it maybe we'd j do the same thing if we had the! chance. j iSjSiM cYour money goes farther When it buys BED GIANT oils because BHD GIANT oils last longer ami do a better job of lubrication. It will pay you and your motor to investigate these guaranteed superior oils. Ask me for prices on a handy home supply. Representing- the Capital cttr on CMfnr Council Bluffs. Iowa, CHAS. F. HILL 835 So. 31st Avenue Lincoln, Nebr. LEGION AUXILIARY HAS FINE MEETING FRIDAY AFTERNOON Large Turnout of Members for the Mouthy Session at Home of Mrs, Michael Hild. From Saturday's Daily One of the largest turnouts of the year was present at the monthly meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary held yesterday at the home of Mrs. Michael Ilild. The program was devoted to the subject of "Americanization," a very timely topic, and included several interesting phases of conditions that the Legion and Legion Auxiliary are co-operating to help eradicate. The organized "red" forces of the coun try present a problem that must be combatted, and while we of the smaller communities are familiar with their workings only thru hear say, it is known that vast sums of money are being expended and every effort made to spread dissention in the more thickly populated sections of the United States, having as its aim the ultimate overthrow of our democratic government and the sub stitution of communistic ideals. That is why the Legion and the Legion Auxiliary in common with other pa triotic societies, are united behind a plan "to foster and perpetuate a 100 per cent Americanism." On the program, Mrs. Gobelman. district committeewoman. read a true story of Revolutionary war days en titled "Soldier's Reprieve," that elic ited applause from all. The Auxiliary is devoting itself to a study of proper respect to the flag including the rules for its display, and each member between now and the May meeting will familiarize her self with these matters. The local unit is planning to take part in Music week, May 3rd to 9th. in the observance of which several local organizations will unite. A card party for the members and their families is also a projected plan to materialize in the near future. At a suitable hour, the hostess served delicious refrshment that provided a fitting climax to the en joyable afternoon. The next meeting will be enter tained by Mesdames A. II. Duxbury and Emil Hild. PREPARING TO RETURN HOME From Saturday's Daily Mra Fred Hesse, who has been spending the past year with relatives and old friends at Sarrbrooken, Ger many, writes here to friends that. while her stay in the old home has been a very pleasant one. she is de siring to return to the land where she has spent so many of the years of her life the United States and that during the coming summer she expects to come back to Plattsmouth to reside amid the scenes of her lat er life. Mrs. Hesse will join Misa Marie Kaufmann when she visits Europe the coming summer and ex pects to return home with her in late August. Miss Kaufmann was in the old world last j'ear but was not able to visit many of the scenes that she desired and will take this sum mer in reaching the sections of the European nations that she was un able to visit last year and will also spend some time in Switzerland and Germany where she has friends and distant relatives. SWEET CLOVER SEED Not too late to sow strong ger mination high quality Sweet Clover seed. Another shipment due to ar rive at $7.50 per bushel. Tested by Nebraska state analysis, 92 per cent germination, purity 99.5 per cent. W. F. Nolte, Mynard. al5-d&w All the home news delivered to your door for 15c a week. no YOr SAVE MOEYf Several FORDSOX tractors, some only slightly ised as demonstrators. All ready to put in the field. As low as $1d0.00. Prompt deliverv. Easv terms. M'CAFFKEY MOTOR CO. Authorized Ford and Fordson dealers Atlantic 7711 Howard at 18th Omaha. Nebr. j Open Eveninsrs Many bargains in used FORD cars and trucks. i NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass County, ss. In the County Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Kate Barthold. Deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court Room in Plattsmouth in said County, on the ISth day of May, A. D., 1925 and on the ISth day of August A. D., 1925. at ten o'clock a. m.. each day to re ceive and examine all claim3 against said Estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said Estate is three months from the ISth day of May. A. D., 1925, and the time limited for pay ment of debts is One Year frm said 18th day of May 1925. Witness ray hand and the seal of said Count j Court, this 18th day of April, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) A20-4w County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE John M. Henry and Minnie J. Hen ry, you and each of you. are hereby notified that on the 14th day of April, 1925, The Standard Savings and Loan Association, as plaintiff filed its netition in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, and you and each of jrou are made parties de fendants. The object and rrayer of said petition is to foreclose and can cel a certain contract in writing dated December 28, 1922, made and executed by and between the Living ston Loan and Building Association of Plattsmouth and the said John M. Henry and Minnie J. Henry for the purchase cf the following described real estate, to-wlt: The north 78 feet of Lots 7, 8 and 9. Block 54, in the City of Plattsmouth, according to the survesed and recorded plat thereof. That a decree be entered by the Court tore losing said contract. That you the said defendants and each of you be enjoined from claiming or asserting any right, title or interest in and to taid real estate or any part thereof. That said real estate be quieted in said plaintiff and that said plaintiff have such other and fur ther relief in the premises as it may be entitled to and to the Court seem just. You and each of you are required to answer this petition on or before the 1st day of June, 1925. THE STANDARD SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. By O. W. JOHNSON. Its Attorney. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA P. A. McCrary, Plaintiff, vs. The heirs, devisees, legatees, personal represents tives and all other per sons interested in the estates of Oran S. Thompson, Rebecca B. Thompson, his wife, Joseph Mc Creary, Edmund A. Donelan and Lucinda Billings, each deceased, real names ur.known; and all persons having or claiming any Interest in Outlot siity-four (64), Section eigh teen (18), Township twelve (Z), Range fourteen (14), east of the 6th P. M., Cans county, Nebraska, or any part thereof, real names unknown. Notice of Suit to Quiet Title To the defendants, the heirs, devi sees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons interested in the estates of Oran S. Thompson, Rebecca 13. Thompson, his wife, Jo seph McCreary, Edmund A. Donelan and Lucinda Billings, each deceased, real names unknown; and all per sons having or claiming any interest in Outlot sixty-four (64), Section eighteen (IS), Township twelve (12), Range fourteen (14) east of the 6th P. M., Cass county, Nebras ka, or any part thereof, real names unknown: You and each of you are hereby notified that the above named plain tiff filed a petition and commenced an action In the District court of Cass county, Nebraska, on the 15th day of April, 1925, against you and each of you, the object and prayer of which is to obtain a decree quiet ing title to the Outlot sixty-four (64), Section eighteen (18), Town ship twelve (12), Range fourteen (14) east of the 6th P. M., Cass county, Nebraska, as against you and each of you. and for such other and further relief as may be just and equitable. You and each of you are required to answer said petition. Monday the 28th day of May, 1925, or the al legations of plaintiffs petition will be taken as true and a decree will be entered in favor of plaintiff and against jrou and each of you, accord ing to the prayer of said petition. Dated this 15th day of April, A. D. 1925. P. A. McCRARY, Plaintiff. J. A. CAPWELL, Plaintiff's Attorney. al6-4w. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In th'i matter of the estate of Frank Hughson, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the county court room in City of Plattsmouth in said county. on the first day of June, 1925, and i the third day of August. 1925, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days to receive and examine all ilainio acainet anisl Mlato with view to their adjustment and allow- Q ance. The time limited for the pre-It sentatlon of claims against saidlV estate is three months from the first J day of May, A. D. 1925, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said first day of May, 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said county court, this 7th day of April. 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) a9-4wks,sw County Judge. 1 TO you m j because Texaco Motor Oil Ford lubricates every moving part with clean, clear, golden colored Texaco cold or hot AND A OR OR W MS ask for Texaco Motor Oil Ford and see what your Ford can do. OFE OIL CO. Texaco Service Station FLAT'l SMOUTII, NEBRASKA SOCIAL WORKERS MEETING The regular monthly meeting of the Social Workers' Flower club will be entertained at the home of the Misses Olive and Blanche Horning on Wednesday afternoon. April 22d. Advertising w!& pay yon. ORDER OF HEARING On Petition For Appointment Of Administrator The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Bar bara Klinger, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of George J. Klinger. praying that administration of said estate may be granted to petitioner as administra tor: Ordered, that May 4th, A. D. 1925, at Nine o'clock a. m., is as signed for hearing said petition, when all person3 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 petitioner should not be granted; and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a seml weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Dated April 13th, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) al3-3wks,w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Case coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of David J. Pitman, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the county court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 8th day of May, A. D. 1925, and on the Sth day of August, A. D. 1925, at ten o'clock a. m., of each day to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 8th day of May, A. D. 1925, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 8th day of May, 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said county court, this 7th day of April, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) al3-4w County Judge. -M-1-I-1-M--I-S-M-M-M-M. 4 f 4- Barred Rock Eggs 1 4- for Hatching from Ac credited Farm Flock Average Egg Production 148.6 $1.50 per 15 $7 per 100 MRS. C. L. WILES t i I- PlatUraouth, Nebr. JL F. D. NO. 2 4- 0s 22