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MONDAY, KAY 14. 1923. FLATTSMOUTH SXKI - WTEELY JOtTESAI. PAGE THREE REAPPORTIONMENT IN CONGRESS PRAISE TOR SMITH Cbc plattsmouth lournal ftJULIS-TEH SEn-VEEXL7 AT PLATTSMOUTH, KHES1S3L& acr a: rojLoric. lr';ttmoutt!. Nb u cosd-ciasa m.il "matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SCT:C$:i?TION TLICE 520O Note on bridge: light work. Many hand- man1 0:if touch of nature makes the Sunday afternoon traffic jam. -:o:- Getting warr.it r? You bet summer will soon be with us in full biu.-t. What does, bi llot to look to ih. pie? vt'iiiii-.t-nt nuan, if V. .-1 1';'. ! ;f its V O- : o : - Old-age pension in Great Britain ate expected to increase $3,000.00(1 in the next year. The Republican campaign fund also seems to run on a syst in of checks and balance-. : o : - Exportation of American a -rorriS'!-tic products tliis ar is expected to he twice that of 1927. -: o : - where i'lri" of the cigarette manufacturers cut prices. Well, the ladies do love a bargain. :o: What always purples us is how the poets manage to write spring poetry with no weather to speak of. :o: The Japanese government spent more than $0,000,000 in improving it.-- electric railways last year. :: German manufacturers are launch ing a campaign for the return of the use of the old-fashioned shoe polish. It looks more like Hoover every day. Before the Harding convention it was hard to tell where lie he'or.o t ed. :o:- More than 1.300.000 pounds of canned unsweetened miik were sent from Canada to the United States last year. to: Germany's per capita expenditure for electrical goods is now higher than that of any ether country in Europe. -:o: Liver, we und?rrtand. is good for pernicious anemia , the pernicious part probably being that liver is good for it. :o: Jim Watson wrn from Hoover in his own state of Indiana. Watson had better be looking out for his s- at in the senate. -o: A family of ten children at Elmo. Nodaway County. Mo., has furnish ed six of the valedictorians of the high school there, the Maryville Demi erat-Forum says. All of the other members of the family not valedictorians have made excellent grades in school. r5 TS , jt Larger, Quicker, Cheaper Gains Corn alone doesn't make pigs grow big enough or fast enough. It needs a supple ment, and Purina Pig Chow added to your corn will give you just the right proteins and minerals for big frames and quick growth. Quick growth means early m a r k e t high prices more profit- Ask us about Pig Chow today. W. F. NOLTE Mynard H. M. Soennichsen Plattsmonth ! F PID CHOW 3 PES YEAS IN ADVAXC3 IV?. still a small town it the m -igh-bors can tell win n a irl is Wearing h-r sis: r's dress. :o:- The prohibition question by elec tion time, will in- fu thiii there will he no taste to it. :o: A Democrat u one who refuses to Compromise so long as there remains a possibility of a fight. :o: Cf pr.uisr Texas and the South can defeat Al Smith, but f f course they ar- not going to do it. :o: 'Permanent waves" so good that they vill "last t ight months. are limine: offered in England. :o: Of 2eO f.rms exhibiting at the agricultural fair at Brussels, Bel siu!T!. fve were American. : o : - Henry Ford is going to send Lloyd j George a new tractor. That ouuht to improve friend George's pull. -:o: Purse-snatching in automobiles has been causing fear among women shoppers of Sydney. Australia. :o: A wage strike at the railway shops at Calcutta. India, has spread to several engineering plants of the citv. More than lf'.OOO.OOO pound- of garden and other hose were shipped trim this to cthrr countries last year. -to: The strangest thing about auto I soeeders is that almost invariably those who drive the fastest have r.o place to go. :o: Parisians are objecting because taxieab drivers carry trims. The French don't like to have their f.ghts interrupted. : o : Americans ate only l.OOO.OOo cans of imported peas last year, which is about one half of the amount con sumated in 1926. -:o: Department stores complain be cause some people adopt the .self-service system without the customary visit to the cashier. -: o:- If Noah had debated as long a? congress over flood protection, this teresrtial sphere would now be in habited exclusively by fishes. :o:- Dainty little parasols for men are becoming fashionable, says a dis pach from Pat is. Fifty million Frenchmen must be wrong after all. Another thing that proved some thin?. is that in the old days, when she did have tnough material for a dress, she did not make a dress out of it. o: Scientist at Carnee;i Institution have tamed the enorra us electric pressure of "..OOn.oO 0 volts. Now maybe we'll know how to handle in surance agents. -:o:- Whon an outside candidate conies into a state ami captures it from a home candidate, it looks pretty b; d for the home man. And. at the. sam? time, it may be a ju buke. j Th- purchasing power of the d; ! liar, which sank to 4S.9 cents j 1920. is now hack to C2.1 cents. t (that rate cf recovery those of u w", . hoped to see it become a dollar agin will hardly he here for the festiviti' . -:o: A couple in California stood :i their heads all night when a fold ing bed locked tip; the woman si s for $?.r,,0fl0 "iud the man IT., 00;. Probably the man wants less becau v he's used to being stood on his hea :o:- Keep it strictly before the votes cf Nebraska, that every candidate on the democratSc ticket was 'placed j there because of their worth, honesty land competency. Their records have j no black marks on assurance that : they are cf the kind to fill the posi- jtion as are demanded from the public ' servants. l :o:- I The management of the democratic J campaign in Texas, has not shown I very much brilliancy in his abrupt ness displayed in announcing Texas ! was not for Al Smith. Of course Texas is an overwhelming democratic j state, and if he gets the nomination at Houston, which he is now almost sure to do, Texas will help to elect him, of course. I The reapportionment of the coun try for congressional purposes, for which a general resolution is before the house, is going to bring out a lively debate and airing of the dis franchisement of the colored race by the south. While the population pro portions are practically the same in all the states, the number of voters p- r congressional district are widely apart. Thus in South Carolina the vote per district was around 7,000, but in Ohio was 91,000 and in Cali fornia 114.000. The large excess in the Pacific state, however, is due to the decided increase of population since the last reapportioning under the 1910 census count, this being largely at the expense of eastern titats. The bill in question contem plates the use of the 1930 official census and provides if congress fails to act promptly, the figures shall be certified to each state, which in such event, will reapportion as the cen sus bureau has indicated, the states acting upon the present number of representatives: which is 4?,Z. It must he said that the number of voters exercising the rights of suffrage in northern dis tricts disclose quite a variation, but nowhere in such a great disparity as in the south. Even in southern states the disfranchisement varies, but nowhere approaches the equality of nothern districts. In states like Maryland. Kentucky and Missouri, the vote per district Is larger due to the less-severity of the disfranchis ing laws and absence of intimidation; the biggest differences exist in the southern belt and Atlantic coast states, Oklahoma being included in this belt. It is felt that the only way this dis proportioring of votes can be reach ed must be by scme process not in volving the use of military force at the polls and counting of ballots, and just how to get at this has a lot of angles. The probabilities are that nothing will be done, whatever the injustice maye be. It is sixty years or so since the south through its re spective legislatures nullified the fourteenth' and fifteenth amendments, and since the ratification of these, no federal arm has been stretched to enforce such. In the opinion of many who realize that open nullification has been resorted to by the south, yet after the decades that have pass ed with the federal government ac quiescing by doing nothing about it, it is now too late to reopen the sub ject. A Inte Washington dispatch giving an account of congressional proceed ings, has the following on the reap portioning as such bears on the dis franchising cf the colored race by the south : "The average population per rep resentative in South Carolina under the 1920 census was 240,532, while the average population per repre sentative in Illinois was 240.195, in dicating on its face an equality of re pi esentation for the citizens of the two states. "When the election figures are ex amined, however, it developes thr.t the number of votes actually cast in the last presidential election aver aged 7.250 per representative in South Carolina as compared with 91. 4 S " per representative in Illinois. "The election figures indicate that in South Carolina the white citizens do a more effective job in keepirg the Negroes from voting than any where else in the south. The voting totals in all of the southern states, however, are far below those in the northern states. " te? cast in Alabama in the last presidential election averaged 13.499 per representative; in Georgia. lH. SS1; in Mississippi. 14,057; in Louis iana. 15,253; in Arkansas, 19.79fi; in Virginia. 22.301; in Florida. 27. 2E8; in Texas. 36.52S, and in North Carolina, 4S.26S. "There is a wide discrepancy be tween these figures and the votes cast in Illinois and adjacent middle western states. In Wisconsin the votes cast averaged 76.42S per rep- J :r-ser.tative; in Michigan. 8S.360; jin Iowa. SS.S14, and in Indiana, 97, 1.394. I In Massachusetts the votes cast per representative averaged 70,718; in New York. 75.905; in Ohio, 91,647, j and in California, which is to gain i seats in congress under the reappor Itionment bill, 116,525. The votes jcast in the last presidential election j throughout the country averaged 66,- 709 per representative in congress. j North Carolina, the southern state with the heaviest vote, thus was 18. j441 below the average, while South Carolina was 59,459 below the aver age." In the belt states not including Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, .there are 112 members of the house of representatives, and from the three omrnitted states 33 representatives. .The United States senators are not --. . - : V I m II i BAKING POWDER Same Price for over 25 ounces for Zip cents Guaranteed Pure and Healthful OurGwerimient used millions cf pounds included in this i apportionment business because the constitution guarantees two from each state, but this same instiumer.t provides that congress shall be the judge of the qualifications of its own members. :o:- WHO WILL FOOT THE EH.L? There is a great difference of opinion as to whether the L'niud States as a whole is to pay for flood control of the Mississippi, or whether the government shall pay part and the southern states a portion. Of course the states along the Mis sissippi will receive the most benefit from flood precautions, hut again it is declared that it is the water pour ing into the river from the northern states that swells the rising waters in spring and thus caus- s the banks to give way. The Chicago American is very de cided in its opinion, declaring the government should pay the entire cost. Some excerpts follow: "The suggestion that a great part of the cost of making the Mississippi safe be put upon the farmers recent ly flooded in the Mississippi valley and on the few states in which the work of proection would actually be done is a rather suggestion. "Seven states under that ruling would be taxed to pay for work that would benefit the United States. "As a matter of fact, more than thirty of the states pour their wa ters into the Mississippi. And the waters frcm those states pouring down the Mississippi valley cause the floods and all the damage. "Certainly, if any states are to pay. the states that send the water into the Mississippi and drown out the people in the lower reach s should pay their full part. "Making the Mississippi river safe its entire length is not a work for individual states, but a work for the nation." ':o: A California novelist who holds "advanced views about marriage has fihd suit for divorce. A year ago, he says, he and his wife agreed in a "trial separation." Our notion is that trial murriages are apt to lead to separation, first trial and then per manent. Don't Neglect Your Kidneys! You Can't Be Well When Kidneys Act Sluggishly. DO you find yourself running down -always tired, nervous and de presaed? Arc you stiff and achy, sub ject to naggin? backache, drowsy headaches and dizzy spells? Are kid ney excretions scanty, too frequent or burning in passage? Too often this indicates sluggish kidneys and shouldn't be neglected. Doan's Pills, a stimulant diuretic; increase the secretion of the kidneys and thus aid in the elimination of waste impurities. Doan's are endorsed everywhere. Ask your neighbor! DOAN'S p,&s A STIMULANT DIURETIC 8. KIDNEYS foster-Mil burn Co. Mfg Chem. Buff.ola.5Y Dr. James F. McCaleb, of Claiborne county, has just issued a pamphlet entitled "Why the South Opposes Al Smith." Whether or not this little publication will in any way aid the candidacy of Governor Smith in this state where it has not ment with popular favor we are at a loss to conjecture. At the same time wh n it ccnie-s to the so-called religious is sue in connection with that candi dacy, we are forced to acknowledge that the writer has handled the sub ject v. it'n infinite tact and in a con ciliatory tone which is worthy of imi tation in discussing so delicate a mat ter. Ai:d we have no doubt that if this pamphlet be widely circulated it will do not a little- in mitigating the spirit of r ligious intolerance which unhappily exists throughout the Southland. Ui. McCpleb makes out a strong case against those bigots who would make ;t man's religion a test to the holding cf public office; and he mar shal's together uncor.troverted facts in proof of his contention that in this country the so-called "Catholic Vote or Catholic Political Machine." is nothing but a myth pure and sim ple. Moreover, he sets up no 1 -s.s an authority than James Madison, "the Father of the Constitution," who had made a scholarly investigation of the Catholic doctrine, to prove that, in the exact words of that great stateman. "There is nothing in the Catholic religion inconsistent with the puist republicanism." On the. prohibition question, which he treats at some length. Dr. McCaleb is an avowed "wet." He none the less advances strong reasons for believing that the eighteenth amendment, which he would like to see repealed, as interpreted through the Volstead Act, will stand a better chance of enforcement under Gov ernor Smith as President, than it has under the Coolid.ce regime. Dr. McCaleb also has something in teresting to say about Governor Smith's affiliation with Tammany Hall; although we regret that he fails to point out that Tammany deals primarily with vast charitable and benovelent enterprises. But he tells with great effectiveness how that or ganization has always been the friend of the South, laying special stress upon the act that during the dark reconstruction era it singly and alone saved the Democratic party from extinction. -:o: THE MELL0N-C0UZENS FEUD Hound 1: Couzens led with a sizzling investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau of the Treasury De partment. Round 2: Mellon countered by slapping a $10,000,000 bill for taxes on Couzens" Ford stock. Round 3: Couzens backs Mellon to the ropes by winning his suit against payment of the tax. Round 4: Both contestants ad vance gingerly to the center of the ririg -:o:- PRAISE FOR SCHOOLS German educators now touring the country find our schocds very good. They praise practicality and effi ciency, but do not end there. "In Germany." they say, "we have many fine organization but we stress always learning. You give more attention to character." And many of us have been com plaining that our schools neglected character building! -:o:- My hut the voters are sick of the present hunglesome primal y lavs. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROPATE OF WILJ, - 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 William Ballance. deceased: On reading the petition of Jeanette Tartsch praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 5th day of May, 1!2S, and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and allowed and ree-orded as the last will and tes tament of William Ballance. deceased; that said instrument be admitted to probate, and the administration of said estate be granted to Henry II. Tartsch. as Executor; It is hereby 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 list day of June, A. D. 192 S, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be. why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all persons inter ested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three suc cessive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand and seal of said Court, this 5th day of May, A. D. 192S. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) in7-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by Golda Noble Heal. Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 2nd day of June, A. D. 192S. at 10 o'clock a. m., of said day, at the south front door of the court house in the City cf Plattsmouth, Nebr., in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder tcr cash the following real estate, to-wit: Eots 4, 5 and C, in Block 9, in the City of Plattsmouth, Ne braska, as surveyed, platted and recorded. Cass county, Nebras ka The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Dr. O. San din et al. defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by The Standard Savings & Loan Asso ciation, plaintiff against said defend ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, April 24th, A. D. 1!2S. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by Golda "Noble Beal, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed. I will on the 2nd day of June. A. D. 192 S. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day. at the south front door of the court house, in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in said coun ty, sell at public auction to the high est bidder for cash the following real estate, to-wit: The south half (SVi) of Lot3 one (1) and two (2) in Block twenty-nine (29) in Young and Hays' Addition to the City of Plattsmcuth. Cass county, Ne braska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Laura Peter son, defendant, to satisfy a judgment of said Court, recovered by Helen Copp. plaintiff against said defend ant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, April 24th, A. D. 192S. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an execution issued by the Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass County. Nebraska, and to me directed. I will on the 26th day of May A. D. 192S. at 10 o'clock a. m., of said day at the South Front door of the Court House in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in said County, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate to-wit: All of the east half of the northeast quarter and the east one half, of the west one half, of the northeast quarter of Sec tion Twenty-nine (29) Town ship Eleven (11) Range Eleven (11) east of the six principal meridian in Cass County, Ne braska. The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Fred Neben. defendants, to satisfy a Judgment of said Court recovered by John Mor ris, plaintiff, against said defendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, April 18th A. D. 192S. BERT REED. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska a23-4w ORDER In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass. Nebraska. Philip Thierolf, Plaintiff, vs. Liv ingston Loan & Building Association, Defendant. Now on this 2Sth day of April. 192S, this cause cam on for hearing upon the application of S. S. Davis, Receiver, for an order fixing the time for filing claims against the Living ston Loan & Building Association, and the giving of notice thereof. And it appearing that such an order should be entered and notice thereof given: It is therefore Ordered, that all persons having claims against the Livingston Loan & Building Associa tion shall file nroof of such claim. duly verified in the office of the Re ceiver, on or before the 27th day of June, 192S. It is further Ordered, that all claims not filed by said time shall be forever barred. It is further Ordered, that notice of the time and filing of claims shall be given to all persons interested by publication of this order In the Platts mouth Journal, for three successive weeks, commencing with the issue of April 30, 1928. By the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. Judge of the District Court, a30-3w. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the State Nebraska, Cass Coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Mar garet V. Livingston, 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 May 21st, 192S. and August 22, 1928. at 10 o'clock a. m., each day 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 21st day of May. A. D. 1928, and the time limited for pary ment of debts is one year from saiJ 21st day of May, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal n paid County Court this 21st day of April, 1928. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal)-a23-4w. County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska. Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John W. Edmonds, 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 lbt day of June. 1P2S. and on the 7th day of September. 192S. at 10 o'clock a. m., of each day, to receive and ex amine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims aganst said estate is three months from the 1st day of June, A. D. 192S, and the time limited for payment of debts is one vear from said 1st day of June, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 4th day of Mav, 192 S. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) m7-4w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, , ss. I By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by Golda Noble Beal. Clerk of j the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me di rected. I will on the 19th day of May. A. D. 192S. at the hour of 10:00 a. m. of said day. at the south front door of the courthouse of the City of Plattsmouth. in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following describ ed real estate, to-wit: The southwest quarter (SWi) of the northwest quar ter (NW'U) of Section twenty (20), Township twelve (12), North. Range twelve (12). East of the 6th P. M., Cass county. Nebraska, subject to a prior mortgage lien in the sum of f 3,000.00, of record against said premises and accrued interest thereon the same being levied upon and taken as the property of Emma L. Spence et al, defendants, to satisfy a decree of foreclosure and Judgment of the District Court of Cass county, Ne braska, recovered by the Conservative Mortgage Company, a Corporation, plaintiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska. April 14th, A. T. 1928. BERT REED. Sheriff of Cass county, Nebraska. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received at the Department of Public "Works in thu State House at Lincoln. Nebraska, on June 1st. 192S. until 10:00 o'cIock a. m.. and at that time publicly opened and read for placing a wear ing surface on the bridge on U. S. highway No. 75 across the Platte river between Plattsmouth and Fort Crook. The approximate quantities are: 3.12 4 Sq. Yds. Rock Asphalt Wearing Surface. Plans and specifications for the work may be seen and information secured at the office of the County Clerk, at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at the office of the County Clerk at Pa pillion. Nebraska, or at the office of the Department of Public Works at Lincoln, Nebraska. The successful bidder will be re quired to furnish bond in an amount equal to 100 of his contract. Certified checks made payable to the Department of Public Works for not less than five per cent (5) of the amount of the bid will be re quired. This work must be started previous to June 15th, 1928, and be completed by July 1st. 1928. The right is reserved to waive all technicalities and reject any or all bids. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS By R. L. Cochran, State Engineer. GEO. R. SAYLES. Co. Clerk, Cass county. JOS. E. STRAWS'. Co. Clerk, Sarpy county.