MONDAY, APEH 27, 1925. PLAJTSMOUTH SLmWEEEXY JOTJElfAL PAOE THREE Che plattsmouth lournai PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Mmtrd at Postufflce. Piatt taoutn. Nub- m cod-ol rntll matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PEE -YEAR IN ADVANCE DECEIT Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, saith the Lord. Jeremiah 9:6. -:o:- A kiss in time paves alimony. The East is not a friend of the West, anyway. :o: Why is it that radio behaves per fectly until the guests arrive? :o: If more children were brought up, fewer would need to be sent up. :o: Strangers are not all crooks, but crooks are nearly always strangers. :o: In the seventeenth century leather coins were used in parts of northern Europe. :o: ' The cross-word puzzle is doomed. Every possible joke has been squeez ed out of it. -:o: Nowadays a story isn't a real love story without several divorces sprin kled through it. :o: The first telephone was installed in the White House in 1881, when Grant was president. :o: Bomb throwing has become almost as fashionable as playing ball, but does a vast deal more injury. We are distinctly opposed to a cen tralized government and every citi zen west of the Ohio river should be, also. :o: Experts estimate congress increas ed each individual's tax one cent in voting to raise Its pay. Another game of penny ante. :o: The old fashioned basket was a great money saver in the days before 8-cylinder cars ate up a 'dollar's worth of gas on the way to the mar-J ket. :o: It won't be long now until the press agents for the summer resorts will start out their battles between the local reformers and the 1-piece bathing suits. :o: "Can my baby go out if her tem perature is 100?" writes "Young Mother" to a local health official. Certainly. High temperatures are a public menace only In mammas. :o: The Hebrew university at Jerusa lem, by a gift from Samuel Unter meyer, is to have a new stadium. Now if it can obtain the services of a football coach, its educational fut ure is assured. :o: Three hens that lay purple eggs arrived on the liner Southern Cross yesterday, reports New York. These talented birds, having just missed the Easter market, may find demand for colored eggs a little slack Just now. -:o:- A Moultrie, Ga., Judge (male) de cides that under some circumstances a man has a right to spank his wife. Of course the, husband should assume all the risk, such as the danger of being riddled with bullets from his wife's gat. -:o:- When it Is taken into considera tion that America alone consumes seventy-five per cent of the world's rubber output, there is a big reason for Ford, Firestone and Edison tak ing an active interest in producing rubber in this country. :o: No farmer in Cass county should oppose graveled roads, because good roads will add more to the value of a farm than anything the public could do, and we see no reason for a man owning a 160 acres or more opposing any proposition for good roads. :o: Isadore Duncan complains that she has vainly sought the world over for freedom. Patience, Isadora! The kind of freedom you are looking for went out of style when Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, but in dications point to its revival within the next few years. :o: - ; The government estimates that it ' takes $2 to buy what 1 did in 1890.! But before you condemn inflation, Wall Street, the war, or modern, taxes, find out what dad was getting J in 1890. We'll bet he wasn't get-j ting $1 for every two of yours today -not by a four-letter word meaning, to patch socks. ' This is April with March winds. :o: The merging of railroads don't look good to the West. -:o: Tennis is the only game in which love stands for nothing. :o: - The moon makes a single man see things in a different light. :o: If Estelle Taylor Dempsey is man aging Jack now, we wonder for how long? :o: You can lose anything. A Mis souri man is looking for his 213 pound wife. :o: In starting your garden, make it small enough for your wife to do all the work later on. -:o:- The West would be much more prosperous if there was a let-up on buying automobiles on time. :o: Horseradish, sassafras "and spring onions are on the market. Gentle Anne has surely come to stay. :o: This is the time for the prophets to predict a long, hot summer, or whatever they want to predict about the summer. -:o:- Omaha claims to be the leading city in the world in the number of telephones per capita with 284 tele phones for each one thousand of pop ulation. :o Several scientists contend that the use of poison gas is the most humane method of warfare. And even if you grant that, you must admit that it is perfectly beastly. -:o:- The French franc is now worth a nickle in American money. No won der French politicians hesitate to as sume the responsibility of restoring the value of the franc. :o: 1 As for the assertion that human intelligence reaches its maximum at the age of 16, observe for half an hour two persons of opposite sex, who have advanced that far toward maturity, and then ask yourself if you believe it. :o: If a man on the look-out for a farm in Nebraska and especially in Cass county and he views the unan imity with which the farmers favor ing good roads are for public im provements, he will be more apt to settle in Cass county than elsewhere. ; :o: The unmarried Oriental who eats his fig or sop or two of olive oil, and spends the rest of the day sit ting down meditating, will never at tract much attention nor accumu late much of this world's goods, but he hasn't much to do, and to; that ex tent has a little advantage of the rest of us, who must meet schedules. :o: Wilmington, N. C, officials are up in arms against roadside spooning, and will make arrests when neces sary, states a dispatch from that city. It is safer to have spooning party cars parked along the roadway out of the way than to have them "cavorting" over the highways, but the Wilmington officials do not see it in this light, evidently. :o: : Jack Dempsey's desire, according to an unofficial spokesman, is to re tire, undefeated. We believe thin ambition is as laudable in the heavy weight champion as in other pre eminent artists; for example, the late Jean de Rezke, who retired at the zenith of his career because he could not bear to have the publi" witness the decline of his powers. AnC the decline of a heavyweight champ is even more sudden and violent than that of a grand opera star. :o: Newspapers are making experi ments. One in Iowa is classifying crime news like society on an inside page, ande one in North Carolina is omitting all crime news. They are trying it temporarily to test the taste of the reading public. Neither scheme, however, touches the main problem, which is crime Itself. It isn't how the history of crime is to be handled by newspapers that counts so much as the fact that the crimes occur. We had gruesome crimes before we had newspapers; we have a fearful amount of crime now that the country has more news papers than it needs. Is it crime or crime news that shocks people? Is it crime or crime news that should give us cause for worry? STATESMEN AND HUMOE During the last presidential cam paign it was said that John W. Davis lost ground with the American pub lic because he revtsaled a sense of humor, and often before it had been asserted that in this country public humor in public men is fatal. How ever that may be, it is interesting to find that even the highest and most responsible British statesmen suffer from no such handicap. This is the more remarkable in view of the well known American theory that ours is the land of humor and that the av erage Englishman is hopelessly in capable of seeing an American joke. Whatever the international differ ence in this particular, it is notable that Prime Minister Baldwin, speak ing recently before the London Press Club, very humorously discussed the cross-word puzzle, and even went so far as to read aloud a side-splitting letter, written by Cadi of Mosul to Sir Henry Layard eighty years ago in response to the latter's request for accurate information as to popular industries as follows: "My illustrious friend and joy of my liver: The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Although I have passed all my days in this place (Mosul), I have neither count ed the houses nor have I inquired in to the number of inhabitants. And as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in his ships, that is no business of mine. But, above all, as to the pre vious history of this place, God only knows the amount of dirt and con fusion that the infidels may have been eaten before the coming of the Sword of Islam! It were unprofit able for us to inquire into. O my soul! O my lamb! Seek not after the things that concern thee not!" :o: THE GOVERNMENT ON THE JOB Reports from Great Falls. Mont., where Senator Wheeler is on trial, state that from twenty to thirty de partment of justice deectives are on hand to "look after the government's interests." The government apparently in tends to give itself a square deal in this case. Senators Walsh and Wheeler will not be permitted to drug the Jury or otherwise tamper with the true course of justice. But it seems the government is a litte bit tardy in this zeal to look af ter its own interests. Would it not have been well for the government to have had just two or three of those agents on the trail of Colonel Stewart of the Standard Oil, and thus prevented his undigni fied flight to Mexico, just at the time the government needed him at Chey enne? And wouldn't it have been a splendid idea for the department of justice to have guarded its own in terests by making doubly sure that the indictments against Fall, Sin clair and the Dohenys were not jeo pardized through error? It appears as if the government attaches greater importance to the Wheeler case than to the alleged stealing of Teapot Dome and brib ing of a secretary of the interior. Omaha Daily News (Ind.). -:o:- TWO-EDGED The department of agriculture, taking up the president's campaign for econom3 sends out a bulletin pointing to one way in which the American people may economize. "The wasting of a single 6hoe a year," it says, "by each person in the United States costs the country at least $250,000,000 annually at present pricea" This is interesting, but suppose that a single shoe were saved? Then the 6hoe industry would clearly do a billion dollars less business in the course of a year. That is a great amount, and would mean less divi dends for the widows and orphans who have their little savings in the shoe industry, and possibly a reduc tion of wages for the workers in the shoe factories, and certainly a reduc tion of the force. Savings here mean loss to some of the American people and so in all other lines of business. The presi dent, who hails from the state of the shoe industry, is surely not urging us to save a shoe a year. :o: GASOLINE PRICES The makers of inexpensive auto mobiles are watching the price of gasoline very carefully. If gasoline goes too high, the man with the flivver will find it cheaper to use street cars and railroads. That will throttle the automobile indus try. You can worry about gasoline prices if you wish to. But the makers of small cars will do it for you, and they are in a po sition to meet the situation by find ing new sources, devising substitutes or by improving motors much better than you are. wc ) 25 Ounces AAinG ' x W 'lip (l for25cervts for over WE ARE LUCKY News from Europe: France is in the throes of one of the worst crises in the history of the third republic. King Boris of Bulgaria narrowly es capes death at the hands of assass ins. Here in America there is stability, prosperity, plenty of work to keep malcontents out of mischief. Even the most dyed-in-the-wool, "down with everything" kickers have to acknowledge that, after all, things are not so bad here. When they start to tell you what's wrong with this old country, invite them to look at Europe. :o: The Immigration Bureau is con cerned over the large number of aliens who come to this country and like it so well that theywant to stay here. The solution seems obvious. The nation is too alluring. What we need is a "Make America Unat tractive" week. The Lord's Day Al liance, the National Security League and the Clean Books association ought to be counted on for big con tributions. :o: M&t every trtoai dam and ha the way f Sfcafibosry, pencils and ink stay be bsd si the SaJxs Book and GSft Step. S very bast gzade of history paper far 75e per ream. -TT,J....T,T..;....,r....?r-T- WHAT ONE CUSTOMER HAS TO SAY ABOUT OUR Single Comb Rhode Island Reds Nehawka, Nebr., March 15, 1924. Friends: Received your letter last week. Were glad to hear from you folks. The chicks we got from you last year certainly have done well. They are such a rich dark red and we had such excel lent luck with them. They have been real healthy and we get lots of eggs. We surely would like to have some of the chicks. When will they hatch? Will be glad to come for them when ever you say. Will take 50 V 4- t. or 100 as you can spare -m them. LESTER SHRADER. And They Have Come Back for 200 More This Season. V t E. F. GRYBSKY 1018 North 11th St. Phone 399-J Plattsmouth I-I-I-M-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-'M-I-M- Barred Rock Eggs lor Hatcning irom Ac credited Farm Flock Average Egg Production . 148.6 $1.50 per 15 $7 per 100 MRS. C. L. WILES Plattsmouth, Nebr. . E. T. D. NO. 2 4- THE AUTOMOBILE TAX Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is finding the task of reducing taxes more difficult than he had expected, Various classes and interests are sub- , merging him with special appeals for recommendations to ronerefis for tax- ation changes that will only affect the class or interest in which they impossible to be happy, or enjoy the are interested. (good times around you? Then there's The automobile men of the coun- something wrong and likely it's your try have gone before him to ask a re- kneys- Why not get at the cause? Use Doan s Pills a stimulant diur duction or removal of the taxes put etic to the Sidneys. your neighbors on automobiles during the war. The recommend Doan's. Read what this delegation representing the automo-! Plattsmouth resident says: bile men asked Secretary Mellon to c E- Hitt, carpenter South 10th , . I street, savs: "I suffered with back- recommend to congress the elimina- i.he and j rouldn.t 6toop over to tion of the war time automobile tax.pjCk up anything. KniTe-like pains when revision of the revenue law is j stabbed through my back with al- undertaken next fall. He was told, that an automobile price reduction of five per cent of the wholesale cost of all passenger aotomobiles will take place when congres removes the tax. The delegation pointed to the fact that passenger cars are sold on a ba sis of nationally advertised prices plus the war tax. They asked for the removal of this tax because in their belief the motor vehicle should be made as cheap an instrument of transportation as it is possible to sell and still make the American car the standard of production the world over. These excise taxes which were im posed as a war emergency revenue have always been looked upon as such, have even been itemized sep arately, it was stated, and have been considered a part of the price which reflect the manufacturer's cost. Con sequently, it was declared that if congress should repeal the levies at the next session, an average price reduction amounting to $31 per car and running much higher on medium and higher priced models, would take effect immediately. The federal motor vehicles tax on now accounts to about 90 per cent of all the special excise levies on manu factured articles still retained from the war, and about 65 per cent of the special excise levies passed at that time, and which still remain, according to the motor car execu tives. MONEY FOR CLOTHES The male bird is the fellow for gorgeous plumage, while the female is as modest in her clothing as other wise. The reverse is true of modern men and women, and, without in quiry one is disposed toward prompt agreement with Mrs. Catt when she says if women's ideals In dress were as drab and colorless as those of men many great industries would fall and the commerce of the world suffer very seriously. The facts as to nten's expenditures on clothes, however, in dicate that they amply support some very' considerable industries. It would appear that the outlay of money on men's clothes is almost as great as that of women. As one looks about there seems to be little cause to sus pect it, yet we have the supposedly authoritative statement that in 1921 the factories turned out women 6 clothes to the value of $1,023,000.- 000 and men's clothing to the value of $935,000,000, to which should be added $232,000,000 for shirts, cuffs and collars, which raises the factory output for men a little above that for women. It Is to be borne In mind, however. that the factory output does not tell the whole story, more especially in the case of women. To say nothing of the innumerable gowns manufac tured by expert women at home. In 1920 there were 236,000 dressmak ers and seamstresses, as compared with 192,000 tailors and tailoresses catering mostly to men. As for lux uries, it is asserted that men with tobacco included are larger consum ers than women, even when counting in the bill for cosmetics. The fail ure to mention candy and certain other luxuries in the statistical statement leaves considerable room for doubt, but unquestionably Mrs. Catt'B generalization based on a sur face view were rather hasty. :o: OUE STOMACHS Babe Ruth's condition serves to bring home the fact that many of the rest of us are mistreating our stomachs. We persist in pouring therein an excess of soft drink gasses, thereby extending the digestive organ. We swallow food In big chunks, leaving the muscles of the stomach to do what the teeth should have done. We eat much hardly digestive food, and little easily digestive stuff. And most of us eat too much. Ask your doctor if that isn't so. Also ask him how many of his patients over 50 suffer from digestive diseases. :o: Let the democrats drop the fight on McAdoo and Smith and go to work for reorganization without any sectional disturbance. This is Al Smith's idea. Now what is McAdoo's idea? The party is not In the humor to listen to a "rule or ruin" policy. STOP THAT BACKACHE! Jlany Plattsmouth Folks Have Found the ygy to Do It. Is a dull, nerve-racking backache s n -r r 1 . 1 rearing you out : uo you it-ei uiuer and 6lower than you should? Are vou tired, weak and nervous: find it most every Dream ana my nacK be came sore from tne constant pains. My kidneys acted too often both day and night and the secretiions con tained sediment. After using two boxes of Duan's ills I was cured." Mr. Hitt is only one of many Plattsmouth people who have grate fully endorsed Doan's Pills. If your back aches- if your kidneys bother you, don't simply ask for a kidney remedy ask distinctly for DOAN' S PILLS, the same th.t Mr. Hitt had the remedy backed by home testi mony. 60 cents at all dealers. Fos- ter-Milburn Co.. Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. "When Your E:ack is Lame Remember the Name-." OUR GROWTH Unofficial figures compiled at Washington indicate that the popu lation of the United States will be 113 million by July. That's an increase of something like eight million in five years. Two million are immigrants; nearly a million native born. We are growing fast, but there's room for even faster growth. There are enough resources here and enough land to take care of many times 113 millions. :o: There are now 1,900 men em ployed as federal prohibition enforc ers, with the addition of 200 men this week. That's about one dry agent to every G0,0C0 inhabitants of the United States. That throws con siderable light on President Cool idge's declaration that curtailment of the littie bootlegger was the work of local authorities. :o: Mvertle your wtac. ORDER OF HEARING On Petition For Appointment Of Administrator The State of Nebraska, Case 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 ss.id 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 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 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 emi weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to haid day of hearing. Dated April 13th. 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) al3-3wks,w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass 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 8th 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, 192 5. Witness my hand and the seal of said county court, this 7th day of April. 1925. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) alS-4w County Judge NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter cf the estate of George W. Shrader, 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 19th day of May, 1925, and on the 19th day of August, 1925, to receive and examine all claims against said estate with a view to their adjust ment and allowance. The time limit ed for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 19th day of May, A. D. 1925 and the time limited for pay ment of debts is one year from said 19th day of May, 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 20th day of April, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) a23-4w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass County, sfi. In the Matter of the Estate of Kate Barthold, Deceased, j To the creditors of said estate: I You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court Room iu Plattsmouth in said County, on the ISth day of May, A. D.. 19tT. and on the 18th day of August A. D., 1925, at ten o'clock a. m., each day to re ceive and examine all claims against said Estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of c laims against said Estate is three months .from the 18th day of May. A. !., 1925, and the time limited for pay ment of debts is One Year frm said ISth day of May 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this ISth day of April, 1925. A. H. DUX BURY. (Seal) A20-4w County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE John M. Henry and Minnie J. Hen ry, you and each of you, are hereby notit'ed that on the 14th day of Anril. 1925. The Standard Savings land Loan Association, rr plaintiff j filed its petition in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, and you and each of you are made partita de fendants. The object and prayer or said petition is to foreclose and can cel a certain contract in writing dated December 2S, 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 of the following described real estate, to-wit: The north 7S feet of Lots 7, 8 and 9, Block 64, in the City of Plattsmouth, according to the surveyed and recorded plat thereof. That a decree be entered by the Court loreclosing said contract. That you the 6aid defendants and each of you be enjoined from claiming or asserting any right, title or interest 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, lta Attorney. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA P. A. McCrary. Plaintiff, vs. The heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other per sons interested in the estates of Oran S. Thompson, Rebecca B. Thompson, his wife, Joseph Mc Creary, Edmund A. Done lan and Lucinda Billings, each deceased, real names unknown; and all persons having or claiming any interest in Outlot sixty-four (64), Section eigh teen (18), Township twelve (12), Range fourteen (14). east of the Cth P. M.f Cass 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 B. 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 fixty-rour (64), Section eighteen (18), 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 t, Range fourteen (14) east of the 6th 1'. 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 you 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 the 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 the third day of August. 1925, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said estate is three months from the first day of May, A. D. 1925, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year tram 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) ii9-4vtev OdtuitT TaHf.