THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1927.
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SUBSCSZFTIOS PRICE $2.00 PES YEAS IN ADVANCI
The treasury should hurry up with
that new, crisp paper money.
Our guardian never tire. Fresh sup
plies came from the subconscious.
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Refinement does not always bring
genius, but this encourages refine
ment. :o:-
Outlaws used to take to the tall
timber but now they take to the corn
fields.
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A new reformer says he would
abolish all precedents and traditions,
as antiquated.
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Keeping an open mind doesn't nec
essarily mean that everything must
be kept out of It.
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Some farm relief might do a lot
for agriculture. With other meas
ures, agriculture might be done for.
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Duty at home and Charity abroad.
Did you ever stop to think that
children know a thing or two? They
do.
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The wisdom of the older genera
tion was in doing what the younger
generation is doing before it did i
them.
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Shortly after Christmas, we think,
the coal companies should beging
urging their customers to lay in their
fuel for next August.
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The Chilean government has abol
ished the use of the word "tomorrow"
in all official records, written or ver
bal. Thus the world moves.
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We inherit Jazzy instincts from our
Jellyfish ancestors, a British zoolo
gist tells us. The professor must
have been peeking in at a dance.
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There may be some members of;
congress really studying up this mat
ter of immigration. It must not be
left to the bureaus to fix up things.
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Delegates of the American farm
bureau have reached Paris, where
they plan to study a mass of agri
cultural statistics. The first night
they visited the Casino de Paris,
where, as almost any ex-doughboy
will tell you, the figures will knock
you for a row of stem-winding statistics.
The cigarette that makes
smoking a genuine pleasure
You can smoke Camels all day
long without thought hut of the
pleasure and refreshment that
each one brings That's the
advantage of choice tobaccos
and skilful blending
1927. RJ. Remold. Tobacco
Company, Winitoa-Salem, N. C
Don't discredit your weight, some
thing else may make up.
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A genius is a man who knows
when to keep his mouth shut.
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Charity begins at home. So it does,
and examples set there follow out
side. -:o:-
Why is it that the drivers who are
not going anywhere, always want to
get their quickest?
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A floating paragraph says no man
can look dignified in a bathtub, why
should he wish to?
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A Great Bend girl calls her young
man friend he "coupa boy." It seems
that she cooes and he pays.
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Why is it that the ladies these
day don't seem to mind at all if the
cigarette smoke discolors their lace
curtains?
Where does the president draw his
supply of names from? Some leaders
woud like to know. But the presi
dent is not telling.
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Alabama has a new law requiring
sexology to be taught in its schools.
It is the work of advance agents of
pretended morality.
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Some European minds of intellect
uals are discrediting American men
tality. When it comes to European
loans, perhaps this is so.
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The Mississippi carried 50,000,
000 tons of freight last year. River
transportation has not only come
back, but it is just starting in on a
bigger and better future.
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Germany keeps up with the Dawes
plan. In the first ten months of the
third year 1,202,096,210 marks were
paid. Thus good faith and prosperity.
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Perhaps President Coolidge, who
used to preside over the senate as
vice-president, felt right at home in
Yellowstone Park among the geysers.
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Billy Sunday declares Al Smith
cannot ride into the White House on
a beer wagon. And, again, Mr. Sun
day indulges in a disagreeable refer
ence. Some small boys of this pecul
iar generation will never aspire now
to be president.
Cam
Backward, turn backward. Oh, time
in your flight.
Make me a child again, just for to
night. But in the morning, remake me
quick,
Before that class in arithmetic.
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The number of people with par
alyzed left arms is astonishing, were
it otherwise more people would sig
nal when about to turn a corner
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. A Russian newspaper says farmers
lynch dandies as horse thievees in the
United States. And we hear that over
in Russia they lynch thieves as dan
dies.
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The commissioner of labor now
says he is in favor of permitting sep
arated families by reason of our law
workings, to rejoin each other. Thus
sense.
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Hungary is to import American
methods and machinery to reclaim
5,000,000 acres, an area about equal
to that of New Jersey. Thus again
our genius.
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The statement is made that the
Geneva conference, despite failure of
agreement, left more good will than
existed before,
derstanding.
There is better un-
Aviation is hardly yet a safe sport.
In the preliminaries for the mara
thon races to Honolulu several fliers
lost their lives. Most people will
wait awhile.
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Poet ascribe wrinkles and crow's
feet to this life "tedious as a twice
told tale" to the cares and grief that
like a worm in the bud, feed on the
damask cheek.
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The movie operators in Chicago
went on strike and theaters were
closed. Maybe Mayor Thompson was
just a bit indiscreet in defying King
George like that.
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Political leaders may be expected
to take on more nerve ' force with
coolor weather. The supply is ample
for all purposes, but works better
after the heat of summer.
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A writer in a medical magazine
suggests that patients who undergo
operations be told exactly what has
been done to them. We thought they
could read that in their bank state
ment. -:o:-
A Parisian to take five days out of
the calendar and give them names,
leaving twelve months of thirty days
each. Fine, if he can think up a
rhyme so we can remember when the
five days come.
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The renomlnation of Senator Reed
for another term in the senate might
or might not be a good political
move. We are glad to leave such
questions to the wiseacres of his
party, and the verdict of time.
ENEMEES OF DEMOCRACY
Contrary to widespread belief
among the unthinking, the greatest
enemy of democracy is not the occa
sional bomb thrower, who with that
sort of argument brands himself a
fool and can there fore never be num
erous, but the designing fascist who
calls that radicalism which seeks to
maintain our free institutions.
For every-rattle-brained person
who would with violence destroy the
republic there are a thousand plot
ting fascists who would as certainly
destroy it and are immensely like
lier to do so by taking from us our
freedom. John Philpctt Curran said
that eternal vigilance is the price of
freedom. That is true, and it must
be just as vigilant against one sort
of enemy as another. There are very
few anarchists in the United States.
They are a mentally disordered lot
who have not even the good sense to
consider what anarchy means. It pos
tulates no government at all, as if
there could in human nature be any
such political status. The most prim
itive peoples who wer found upon
the is! s of the seas had chiefs and
kings, that is, government. There has
been but one instance of anarchy in
history, and that was the brief per
iod in which the Argonauts of IS 49
lived for a time together in Califor
nia without laws. The beginning of
government there came when the fel
ons from the British penal colony
of Australia swarmed into California.
They induced vigilanteeism. Com
munism in the United States is equal
ly absurd. The fascist does not at
tempt to tell us how many commun
ists there are because he believes
there are any considerable number of
Americans who are so politically be
wildered as that. He cries his alarms
because he wants to thicken his own
ranks.
All these the fascist, the com
munist and the anarchist are the
enemies of democracy. Only the fas
cist is a real menace to it here. This
is because, while the anarchists are
no more than a handful of visionaries
who have not even learned the les
son of Russia, the fascists are mostly
people of substance who are not in
the least visionary. Most countries
in history have been fasoistic. Dem-
ocraev has been the exception. X he
battle for democracy in the United
States, in France, in Germany, in
China, has not been with anarchists
and communists, but with fascists.
They are the enemy, as all the men
who gave us our free American insti
tutions clearly saw. Those men were
never fearful of the rabble; they
were fearful of the fascists.
The fascists warn us that anarch
ists and communists are threatening
to destroy the government under
which most of us were raised. That
is ridiculous. There are not enough
weak-minded people in the country
to constitute any such threat. It Is
the fascists who would destory the
government under which most of us
were raised. They have already ren
dered meaningless the Bill of Rights,
which was the touchstone of our
liberty. They have set upon and drag
ged down every man who stood in de
fense of demoncracy. A Jefferson, a
Lincoln, a Madison, is in our time a
radical. A man like La Follette, or
Borah, or Norris, who would save
the government from the fscists, is
held up by the fascists as an enemy of
the country. The fascists have never
denounced the Harding administra
tion and its corruption. They talk
about Moscow under the commun
ists, not Washington in the hands of
the Ohio Gang.
It is a wise country that knows its
enemies. Is ours a wise country?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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PRAYERS FOR LEGISLATORS
A member-elect of the legislature
is going to o:Ter a bill at the January
session providing for the employment
of chaplins in both House and Senate.
This member, who is. a veteran
lawmaker, sr.ys that the presiding
officers always have a hard time find
ing somebody to pray for lawmakers
at the convening of each session;
that members of local clergy volun
teer for this duty, but after the ses
sion gets wfll under, way they are
conspicious by their absence.
Inasmuch as the new legislature
will contain only three members of
the clergy t .vo in the House and one
in the Senate it might not be a bad
idea to have regular chaplains to do
the praying for the lawmakers.
In defense of members of the clergy
and their alleged failure to stick to
the job, it should be explained that
after giving the legislature a thoro
once-over, they go home and pray for
the state.
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There never was any wreck of the
Hesperus on the reef of Norman's
Woe, according to the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey. One of
these days the Department of Agri
culture will come along and tell us
that Maud Mullet never had a rake in
her hand.
MEXICO, HONORABLE OFFER
Throughout the long and bitter
controversy over the Mexican oil
laws, the United States government
has never presented one concrete
case in which an American citizen
has been injured by the enforcement
of those laws. Thus President Calles
informs the Mexican congress.
We hope the American people will
pause and reflect upon the tremen
dous reproach conveyed by this state
ment. For more than a year our state
department has been growling and
snapping at Mexico. It has aggrevat
ed almost the breaking point. One
of its high officials even attempted
to launch a campaign of propaganda
designed to convince the American
public that Mexico had gone bolshe-'
vik. Yet never in this time, the Presi-
dent of Mexico solemnly points out,'
has it submitted evidence of a single
case of actual injury, or asked for
reparation. j
The Mexico oil laws have been in ;
effect for eight months. The state i
depaitment, during all this period,!
has failed to produce a single case
of the sort which it anticipated. In
the circumstances may it not well
afford to wait now until such a case
occurs? When that time comes, if
ever, it has the solemn assurance of
the Mexican government that a fair
hearing will be given, and compen
sation made where it is due. We sub
mit that this is a fair and honorable
offer.
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EXTRACTING THE DANGER
To say that ocean flights should be
halted until greater safeguards have
been thrown around the fliers is to
urge something directly opposite the
spirit of daring and of conquest
largely responsible for the forma
tion of our own nation.
Always there are men, and women,
too, who seek out danger, who crave
the hazards and adventures of pion
eering. It is probably true that the tragic
life loss which has accompanied the
steady stream of ocean fliers will
have a great part in bringing about
safer conditions for long distance
flights.
For one thing, the Atlantic ocean
is not sufficiently well weather-chartered.
The aviators need, as shipping
frequently does, a thorough source" of
information along the entire ocean
route. Even fairly slow steamers,
given adequate warning, can dodge
most storms. How much easier can
airmen, ripping along at 100-mile-an-hour
clip keep out of the path of well
defined storm areas?
Perfection of the system of giving
out weather information, along with
more certain radio facilities, will be
the first big step in removing life
loss from this zestful enterprise call
ed ocean-hopping.
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BRITISH LABOR IS
NOT COMMUNISTIC
Those who have observed commun
istic activities throughout the world,
especially as fostered by the Russian
government, have a good deal of con
cern as to the possible inroads made
on British labor. Great Britain has
had a stupendous labor problem
since the World War. The number of
unemployed has been decreased con
siderably, but it still is very large.
Such a situation seemingly would
make fallow ground for red doctrines.
Russian propagandists have been ac
tive on this assumption, and some
times there have been disturbing
manifestations of radicalism as a re
sult. But when the British Trade Un
ion congress convened the other day
it was decided that no delegates of
communistic connections should be
seated. The vote was more than 25
to 1.
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GENEVA, THE WAILING PLACE'
Geneva, Switzerland, has become
one of the world's best wailing
places. In fact, that is one of its
chief functions. The small powers
come there and lift up their voices on
their grievances. At least they have
that much satisfaction from the
League of Nations.
Just now their grievance is the re
fusal of the great powers to accept
their proposal for disarmament. The
small powers remember the fate of
Belgium an innocent bystander, in
the war. Evidently It is to their in
terest to induce their big neighbor
to give up their guns. Evidently, too,
the big powers have no intention of
doing this. So there is a fundamental
impasse, as the diplomats say.
It is unfortunate that this should
be so, but unhappily this is still ahip and the right of descent of the
rough, naughty world, and force is 'real property belonging to the said
still the last resort. The United States
has Just had its own experience in
the naval conference with the un-;A
willingness of a great power to dis-
arm on the sea. So it sympathizes!
with the small powers in their disap-
pointment. But it doesn't see what
it can do about it.
The Best Buy for You
You can find plenty of tire dealers who'll be glad
to dicker with you, tempting you with all sorts of
"special'' deals.
We can't! It goes against our grain to pad up the
list prices in order to give you a discount or a
"long trade" to make ourselves seemingly good
fellows at your expense.
We've been in the tire business for a good many
years. We've watched the "bargain boys" and the
"long discount" fellows come and go. Every
year our tire business has steadily increased.
Every year more shrewd tire buyers come to us
for Goodyears and they "stay put" on Good
years. Doesn't it seem logical that Goodyears will prove
the best buy for you?
The New Ford Car will be out in a Few Days
Then You'll be Glad You Waited!
Plattsmouth Motor Company
Corner Sixth and Pearl Streets Telephone 44
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
HAVE GREAT SHOOT
From Monday's Daily
Eleven members participated in
the weekly shoot of the Piattsmouth
Rifle club yesterday on the govern
ment range north of town.
13. C. Rakow qualified as Marks
man bringing the tctal of qualified
shots in the club up to ten. Elmr
Taylor shot a perfect score at rapid
fire froma sitting position, inking 10
consecutive bulls-eyes in one minute,
inaddition to taking his position and
reloading once. Clyde Hutchins was
well on his way toward a perfect
score while shooting prone at slow
fire: his first nine shots were bulls-
' eyes but the last shot went outside
the black and he scored 49.
The four highest scores .for the . on the 2 4 th day of December, 1927
day were Elmer Taylor, 218, B. C. i at ten o'clock a. m., of each day to
Rakow, IPG; Warren Taylor, 194, (receive and examine all claims
and Ray Larson, 192. ! against said estate, with a view to
A great deal of interest is being1 their adjustment and allowance. The
shown in the club, which has a num- ' time limited fr the presentation of
ber of applications for membership claims against said estate is three
on file, w hich it is unable to accept months from the 23rd day of Septem-
at present due to delay in receiving
a shipment of ammunition. As f.oon
as this additional ammunition is re
ceived, it will be possible for new
members to be accepted.
NOTICE OF HEARING
on Petition for Determination of
Heirship.
Estate of Thomas Hansen, deceas
ed, in the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons interested in said estate, credi
tors and heirs take notice, that Hen
sine JL Hansen has filed her petition
alleging that Thomas Hansen died
intestate in Cass county, Nebraska,
on or about June 18th, 1923, being
resident and inhabitant o'f Cass
county, Nebraska, and died seized of
the following described real estate,
to-wit:
Lot number two (2) in the
southeast quarter of the north
east quarter (SEU NE'i) of
Section twenty-three (23),
Township eleven (11), North
Range thirteen (13), East of
the Sixth Principal Meridian,
being all of that part of said
southeast quarter of the north
east quarter of Section twenty
three lying south of Rock Creek;
in the County of Cass, State of
Nebraska, containing 9.14 acres,
more or less, according to the
government survey thereof
leaving as his sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: Hensine M. Hansen, widow;
Arthur T. Hansen, son; Hannah
Vantine, daughter; Edith Young,
daughter, and Christine Jesp
ersen, daughter.
That the interest of the petitioner
herein in the above described real
estate is as the widow of said deceas
ed, being an undivided one-third in
fee simple title to above described
lands and homestead rights and pray
ing for a determination of the time
of the death of said Thomas Hansen,
and of his heirs, the degree of kin-
.deceased, in tne btate or .-seDrasKa.
" s ordered that the same stand
D. i927, before the Court, at the
hour of 1Q o'clock a. m.
Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
6th day of September, A. D.
. TT Trv-TTP(T1,,
(Seal) County Judge.
A western Bachelor learned to
cook from recipes he received via
radio. Having cured the static con
dition of his stomach, perhaps radio
will prepare his heart for a satisfac
tory hookup.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court.
The State of Nebraska, CaFs Coun
ty, ss.
In the matter of the estate of
Charles Landis, 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 23nl day of September 1927 and
ber A. D. 1927, and the time limited
for payment of debts is one year from
said 23rd day of September 1927.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 20th day of
August 1927.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court.
The State of Nebraska, Cass Coun
ty, ss.
In the matter of the estate of
Herman Tiekotter, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified. That 1
will sit at the County Court Room in
Plattsmouth, in said county, on the
2.3rd !a?' ,f September. 1927 and on
the 24th day of December, 1927 at
the hour of 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 23rd day of Septem
ber A. D. 1927, and the time limited
for payment of debts is one year from
said 23rd day of September 1927.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said county court, this 20th day of
August 1927.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal, County Judee.
CHAS. E. MARTIN.
Attorney.
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210 Omaha Nntluual Hank Ilulliliox
Omnhu, rbramka.
CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE
Notice is hereby given that on the
20th day of September, 1927, at 10
o'clock a. m., at the A. W. Propst
place of business, Union, Nebraska.
Cass County, the undersigned will
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash one 1925 Fordson
Tractor, Motor No. 502834 covered
by chattel mortgage in favor of A.
W. Propst, signed by Henry Milton
Shepherd and assigned to American
Credit Corporation, said mortgage
being dated September 3, 1925, and
having been filed in the office of the
County Clerk of Cass County, Ne
braska on the 11th day of Septem
ber, 1925.
Said sale will be for the purpose
of foreclosing said mortgage and for
the purpose of satisfying the amount
'now due thereon, to-wit: $162.22.
AMERICAN CREDIT CORP.
L. C. HAWLEY, Attorney at Law.
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