THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEElY JOUENAL
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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