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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEElY JOUENAL HOW TO LIVE TO BE 108 NOT HAMLET 44. Cbc plattsmouth lournal PUBLISHED SZIH-WZEKLY AT PLATTSilOLTH, JfEBKASKA CMtrd at jpoatuKlce. Plattsmouth. Neb- a ucoil-dui mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher UBSCEDTIOJJ PRICE $2.00 PAUL LEAVES THE JEWS When Sileas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia. Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them. Your blood be upon your heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gen tiles. Acts IS: 5-6. The key to success locks the door to excess. :o: Do your Christmas thinking early and avoid the rush. Ilard coal prices are increasing rapidly. We told you so. :o: Is the inheritance tax the proper thing? Not by a long shot. 1 Omaha was selected for next year's southern Scottish Rite council meet ing. :o: It will soon be time for Dawes to show himself in the way of control ling the senate. :o:- Now that Yale is to have a 20 story building, it is going in for hieher education. -:o:- It is announced from New York that the Stillman case has ended, but we've heard that before. -:o:- Oovernor McMullen pleads "Mys tification" at bankers' attack. Is that something good to eat? -:o:- Blessed is the city that gains pop ulation as fast as it can take care of the newcomer and no faster. :o:- In France, a woman 107 years old drinks wine, but perhaps she would be even older if she didn't drink. -:o:- Winter's best because then you know summer's due next. But in summer, you know winter's coming. :o: Most of us are mad at the world just because there aren't enough first prizes for all of us to have one. :o:- Be honest with your wife and it follows as the day folows the night that you can't be so awfully terri ble. -:o:- A group of governors told the House ways and means committee of their opposition to the inheritance tax. Contentment lies in your own world. The fish wouldn't enjoy fly ing or birds find pleasure in swim ming. :o: You needn't blow up just because your auto tire does. The opinions of those with you are much harder to change. :o: It is pointed out that if Europe paid us what she owes us there would remain of the national debt to be paid by taxation only $S,;00, 000.000, that is plus whatever the next war.we protest against this unconstitu costs. itional abridgement of freedom of -:or- An editor wonders why Gloria Swanson's husband should worry about his title as if his title as Glor ia's husband were not enough. Prob ably it isnt he that is worrying about the title. :o: Comparatively few churchmen are being punished for heresy these days, although it is a much more comfort able age for heretics than a few hun dred years ago, when there were more of them. :o: "Uncle Ike," a character in Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills" has been bounced from the job of postmaster down at Branson, Mo., which shows what the Coolidge ad ministration thinks of good litera ture. Garage for Sale My garage building, 36xS6, equipped with heat, light and water system, modern In ev ery way. Located in Elm wood, Nebraska. For particulars see John W. Kunz Avoca, Nebraska I-H-I-I-I-I-I-I I I I H-H-I- T v PEE YEAR EN ADVANCE Many a bull at the stock exchange is a bear at home. Col. William Mitchell was served with court martial charges. .o:- Three bandits stage fifth taxi theft and rob several cab drivers and fill ing stations. -:o: Many a man does not become a prominent citizen until he dies, and then it's too late. -:o:- Young bandits from IT to 20 years of age seem to be getting in their iwork successfully. -:o:- About the most dangerous thought in the whole world is thinking you can whip a man you can't. :o: The man whose only thought is to contribute to the happiness of otrrs is near sanctification. -:o:- J The old bandit6 don't seem to be j"in it" with the boy class in the jcities. and Omaha especially. -:o:- I Don't put off until tomorrow what can possibly be done today. For to morrow it may be against the law. :o:- j An English churchman has cogi tated an inspiring slogan, to-wit: j'Hats off to the past: coats to the ! future." :o:- A scientist is a man who can dis cover a fragment of ancient thigh bone and tell how long the animal's jaw was. ! :o: J Another person who does a lot for j humanity in general is the wife who teaches her husband nice company manners. -:c:- If Greece and Bulgaria have de cided to have a war it is hoped they have made arrangements to finance it at home. -:o:- The trouble with being a rich man is when the telephone rings you think your son has been jailed again for speeding. German nationalists may oppose ratification of the Locarno treaties in the reichstag. Well, politicians will be politicians. :o: Live your age. From twenty to forty follow your twenty to forty in clinations. Then you are ready for forty to sixty. :o: Napoleon, as we recall, insisted on j being called emperor after his down fall. That didn't bring him back from St. Helena. -:o: Uncle Andy Mellon says every one should have a stake in the Govern ment. Even if it's only a minute stake, eh, Andy? -:o: James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, died leaving an estate of $150,000, 000. Every smoker of a pipe helped to make his fortune. :o: j Minnesota has a law against mak 1 ing untrue statements in campaigns. ! speech. :o: j Secretary Mellon opposes plan to ; exempt all incomes of less than $5,000. Of course he argues direct tax, however small, makes one feel a stake in his country. :o: In Great Britain shopkeepers cr.n only be prosecuted for giving shrrt weight in the case of bread, coal a: d itea. In other cases, the prosecuti n must be for obtaining money uncl?r false pretenses. :o: Probably marriage services ought to keep up with the times like every thing else, and recognize institutions as they are. That's modernism, we .suppose, and the condition and not the word i3 what counts. :o: Calvin Coolidge is a corking good politician. His harshest critics admit it. Right now this country is get ting a demonstration of Mr. Cool idge's political acuemen and will presently reap the benefit of it. j :o: j The country has had quite a long rest from congress, and oh, what a .relief. On the first Monday in De jcember the new congress will gather and again all eyes will be turned to , Washington. The new congress will have a chance to show whether it intends to live up to its sworn duty to serve the people. the fireproof nallboarcT) Decorate Sheetrock walls and ceilings any way you wish paper, paint or Textone. Textone gives a beautiful stippled fin ish. Sheetrock, too, is fireproof and perma nent. It won't warp or shrink. Erected quickly and at low cost. CLOIDT LUMBER & COAL CO. COOLIDGE SPEARS TRUTH Discussing lawlessness, which he said was too prevalent. President Coolidge spoke truth when he told the annual council of Congregational churches in Washington that the peo ple canot be redeemed by law. The power of law is limited. It can only deter by punishing. It cannot reform or elevate the moral standards of the people, nor can it be enforced with out the support of public sentiment. Restraining a criminal, the Presi dent said, docs not reform him. It is only the treatment of a symptom. It does not eradicate the disease. It does not make the community virtu ous. No amount of law can do that. 'The utmost ingenuity on the part of the police power will be substan tially wasted in an effort to enforce the law if there' does not exist a strong and vigorous determination on the part of the people to observe the law. Such a determination cannot be produced by the Government." The only remedy for lawlessness and immorality, in the President's 'opinion is religion in its broadest sense, meaning the enlightened con science and moral suasion. The converse is true. Since the Government cannot produce a de termination to observe the law, the Government cannot enforce a law that is not sustained by public opin ion. By trying to enforce laws which lare not supported by public senti ment the Government merely under mines respect for law. It creates law lessness. In short, good citizenship, (good morals and orderly society de pends upon the enlightened consci ence of the individuals composing (the nation or the community. :o: ENFORCING ANTI-TRUST LAWS. Assistant Attorney General Dono van in reporting the anti-trust ac tivities of the Department of Justice during the past year makes a state ment of policy which will neither 'appease the department's critics nor prove particularly informing to any one else. It is the department pol icy, we are told, to confine its activi ties to cases involving serious viola tions of the law and to avoid, so far as possible, investigating unsubstan tial complaints. This may mean much or it may mean little. Just where does the department draw the line between serious violations and any other sort? Who determines whether a complaint is substantial or not? Does the de partment's failure to investigate the aluminum monoply imply that it re gards the Federal Trade Commission's complaint against the concern as un substantial? The American people at present are in no humor for a campaign of general "trust-imsting," but when the Department of Justice announces that it investigated 270 complaints last year and the fact of their in vestigation indicates that they were substantial complaints with only 16 legal proceedings resulting, it is not surprising that the effectiveness of its enforcement of the law is called into question. :o:- Our modern boyish-bob girls can- ;not be truly charged with becoming effeminate until they begin using ataslick on their hair. :o: Doan's Regulets are recommended by many who say they operate easily, without griping and without bad af ter effects. 30c at all drug stores. No rum, says John Stroup, but plenty of corn bread and "biled" meat. That is his recipe for long raise him in the opinion of the mil life and good health. And John lions to wnom he has afforded amuse Stroup, at the age of 10S, has been ment. It has proven that Charlie has named as administrator of his wife's mucn more regard for the fitness of estate. !things than is evident in his laugh- John's wife died in her nineties able if silly antiCs on the silver and he has a younger brother of99. 'screen. The life story of this Georgian who j Xow there is room in this world uses liquor only for frost bites and for namiets and for Chaplins and has few other hard and fast rules, 'for a hundred characters in between, leads us to think about the various ;witn an their variations. Each has rules and reasons that old men set' r.ar.P n fin hut the mereine of forth as the outstanding reasons for living long. The rules are all different. Two centenarians never agree. An old gentleman in Newark, N. J., celebrated his 100th birthday last month and said that when he was sixty he was told he had to stop smoking or tobacco would kill him. He wasn't interested. Instead he in- creased, after awhile, the number of cigarettes and cigars he smoked. daily. He liked liquor and consistently drank it. An old man in Los Angeles passed away the other day at more than a hundred. He had been a smoker all his life. A headline writer, with a sense of humor, wrote: "Tobacco Gets An other Victim." A carpenter, still working at his trade in Brooklyn, was discovered to be a hundred years old. "What is your philosophy of life," asked the inquiring reporter. "I don't know what." said the old man. "With carpenterin' and one thing another I've been too busy to have one." Mr. Havelock Ellis, brilliant Brit isher, wrote a book not long ago call ed "The Dance of Life." In it he makes plain that life is an art. It is not to be lived by hard and fast rules. What is good for one may not be good for your neighbor. What is good for the Hottentot may not be good for the man who lives in Platts moutb. What keeps one man alive may not keep you alive. It is the wise man who knows him self and knows what rule to apply and what rule to put Taside. Living is an art and a great art. You, yourself, with eyes upon your ideals, are to make your rules. And the one rule which covers all things is the rule of common sense. :o: FLAPPERS OR MODERNS According to recent news advices, there is a concerted movement on to have the word "flapper" eliminated from the American . vocabulary of tslang. It is claimed that the appel lation lacks dignity and that the girls of today are in reality not so frivo jlous. lightheaded and vain as the ,term indicates. From one source i . ... ... comes the recommendation mat "modern" be substituted for "flap per" in the public vocabulary. It is a question whether the Amer ican mind would willingly consent to call a group of present-day girls "moderns." The word has an at tractive air about it, but somehow lacks the zip and dash which is to be inevitably associated with a label applied to young womanhood of to dav. Also, the word "modern" im- pnt-a nii iuc pciu ia.nife title is thoroughly informed on how to be modern in the fullest sense of the word. Perhaps there is a short coming in this particular which will entangle the movement to abolish the "flapper" title. At any rate "flapper" i3 merely a slang title and bears no more real significance than many other slang words of the day. To attempt to change the title by solemn recom mendation is hardly -a logical method I of procedure. Americans take their slang impulsively have no desire to carefully contemplate it and adopt it by weighty, resolution. :o: In view of the fact that M. Call laux has found insurmountable op- 'position in the French chamber to jthe proposal to pay the United States 'one per cent interest for five years, 'we refuse to be cheered by the re jport that he contemplates a new of ;fer that he thinks will be more ac ceptable to America. :o: It is not only dangerous to try to shoot it out with a bandit, but the chances are that after the bandit ihas won the fight and got away, the 'police will call on you at the hos-ithe pital and want to know what you Iwere doing carrying a gun. :o: Our first indignation on learning that the government had barred the; Countess Karolyl from the country was considerably abated on learning that she had intended to deliver lec tures. -:o: We met a man the other day who confessed that he was old enough to vote before he knew who Santa Claus was. The refusal of Charlie Chaplin to assume the role of Hamlet should personalities is hazardous. Too often that is just what occurs. Qne who would make an excellent clown aspires to the heavy lead, and one who is by nature cast for the 'more serious thinss attempts to ape the jester. That is the reason there are so many misfits on the stage of life, and so many disappointments. A man or a woman often makes but a jpoor failure of his or her career of iJfe because he or she is cast for the wrong part. The clowns have a very important role to fill. They must disperse the troubles of humanity, for a little space at least, and bring the smiles to the faces of men and women who are weary of their burdens. That is an excellent work, if it be well and cleanly done. To all are not given the talent to make it possible. With the Charlie Chaplins it is a natural gift and humor is but second nature. All the force in the world will not produce one spontaneous laugh, yet one little motion from a born corn median can send a crowd into gales of fun. But the world does not wish to laugh all the time. That would be come wearying. Life has it's serious side, and each chord must be struck in turn, even though we might shrink a bit from the over-tragic figure of Hamlet. At least, if we behold a Hamlet, we would wish him to be the Hamlet of John Barry more that we might see him in his proper setting, without our thoughts wandering to that grotesque image which we carry of Charlie Chaplin. In this world of light and shad ows there is place for the king's jes ter, and also for the noble crusader. And it is better to remain the jester, with gay cap and bells, than to make a sorry spectacle of a knignt. ORDER OF, HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the es tate of Fritz Heinrich. deceased: On reading the petition of William L. Heinrich praying that the instru ment filed in this court on the 13th day of October, 1925, and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and allowed, and recorded as the last will and testament of Fritz Heinrich, de ceased: that said instrument be ad mitted to probate, and the adminis tration of said estate be granted to Fred Heinrich, as Executor; It is herebv ordered that you, and all persons interested In said matter, may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said coun ty, on the 9th day of November. A. D. 1925. at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by pub- :,,c,; f this rr,lfr in thP Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and seal of said court, this 13th day of October, A. D. 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) ol9-3w County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE To Norris D. Talcott as Executor of the estate of Mariah L. Amick, de ceased; Dora A. Nightingale; Sterl ing F. Amick; Ellen B. Kirk; Lillie S. Mefford; Nellie M. Bauers; Louisa Mefford; Quit Gladys Mefford and Vernice Amict: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14th day of Oc tober. A. D. 1925. Lydia Ann Mercer, as Plaintiff, filed a petition in the District Court of Cass county, Ne braska, in which you and each of you are made defendants, praying among other things for an order to be enter ed by the Court directing the Execu tor of the estate of Mariah L. Amick, deceased, to convey to plaintiff Lot twenty-one (21) in West Greenwood, and Lots seventeen (17) and eighteen (IS) in Jones' Addition to Green wood, which is an incorporated vil- 1 o era in Poafl inimr Vchrocta nnnTl the Dayment of the balance of the purchase price in accordance with contract entered into between jthe plaintiff and the said Marian jl,. 17th day of February, A. D. 1923. Vmi and each of vnn are further notified that there will be a hearing upon said petition at the District Court room in the court house at Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, on the 16th day of November, A. D. 1925, at the hour of ten o'clock In the forenoon, to all of which, and the allegations of the petition you will take due notice. LYDIA ANN MERCER. Plaintiff. C. A. RAWLS, Attorney. ol9-3w. THEY LOOK GOOD EXTRA ELASTIC MERCERIZED TOP HEAVY DOUBLE VELT RAVEL STOP PIcXVENTRUrNERS r 3 SEAMS IN BACK, Harrow AtfrUX SHAPED Ih'STEP THREAD TOE J . v X1A The Newest Shades Black White Priscilla French Nude Blonde Zinc Flesh Sunset Harvest Gun Metal Extra fine gauge, 240 need le, extra heavy weight pure Japan silk. Unconditionally guaranteed. A new pair if they don't wear. Pair The Ladies Toggery Fred P. Busch, Mgr. We Give Cash Savings Script NOTICE In the District Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. Ella Kennedy, plaintiff, vs. the un known heirs, devisees, legatees, per sonal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Shepherd Duke, deceased, et al. To the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Shepherd Duke, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate cf John Tallon, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Mary Ann Doyle, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal represen tatives and all other persons interest ed in the estate of Ella Cooper, de ceased. All persons having or claim ing any interest in Lot Nine in Block Five in the City of Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska; and Loriue Grace Windham: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 24th day of October, A. D. 1925. the plaintiff in the foregoing entitled action filed her petition in the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska, wherein you and each of you are made parties defend ant, the object and prayer of which are to obtain a decree from said Court quieting the title in plaintiff to the following described real estate to wit: Lot Nine in Block Five in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass Coun ty, Nebraska as against you and each of you, and by such decree to wholly exclude you and each of you from all estate, title, claim, or interest therein, and to have the title to said premises forever freed from the apparent claims of you and each of you, and quieted in plain tiff and for equitable relief. You are required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 7th day of December, A. D. 1025, or your default will be entered in said cause and a decree granted as prayed. ELLA KENNEDY, Plaintiff. C. A. Rawls, Attorney. (o26-4w) NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John Bartz, 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 2nd day of November, A. D. 1925, and on the 4th day of February, A. D. 1926, at 10 o'clock a. m. 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 2nd day of Novem ber, A. D. 1925, and the time limit ed for payment of debts is one year from said 2nd day of November, A. D. 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 5th day of October, 1925. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) o5-4w County Judge. AND WEAR BETTER 30IfVCH OVERALL StolNCH roor HIGH SPLICED 1 THEEAD HEEL DOUBLE SOLE Zanibar Grain Rosewood Peach Pansy Maize Lavender Mandarin French Tan Squirrel NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun- , ty, ss. In the County Court. ! In the matter of the estate of Philomena Neff, defeased, j To the creditors of aid estate: i You are hereby notitied that I will sit at the County Court room in i Plattsmouth in said county, on No vember 1C. li2o, and February 17, 192fi, at 10 o'clock a. ni.. each day, to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the prcs i: t a t inn t claims against said estate is thr-e months from the 10th i!ay of N'o 'vember, A. D. 1?'25. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said ICth day of Novem ber, 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Co irt, this 12th day of .October, 1923. a. ii. nrxBrnv. (Peal) ol9-4w County Juit;e. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass roun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Mag gie Kauf mann, dec ased. 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 2nd day of November. A. D. 19J5. and on the 3rd day of February. A. D. 1926. at Ten o'clock a. m.. of each daj- 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 I months from the 2nd day of Novem ber, A. D. 1925. and the time limited 'for payment of debts is one year from said 2nd day of November. 1925. j Witness my hand and the Heal of said County Court, this 2Sth day of September. 1925. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) County Judge. 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 ot Harriet Jane Davis, deceased. On reading and filing of the peti tion of John A. Davis praying that Administration of said Estate may be granted to O. A. Davis as Adminis- Itrator ; Ordered. That November 9th A. D. 1925. at 10 o'clock a. m. is assigned , f or hearing said petition, when all persons interested in said matter may 'appear at a County Court to bo held j in and for said County, and show 'cause why the prayer of petitioner should not be grated; and that notice .of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter ly publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a se-mi-weekly newspaper printed in said County, for three successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing. Dater October 19th, 1925. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) ol9-3w County Judge. Death and ruin in wake of coast gale. rV I a r j 5 I