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1T0NDA7, AUG. 13. 1928. -PAGE THBEE V f. '( Cbe piattsmouth lournal rmausHED semi-weekly at piattsmouth, hebrasxa Btr4 at FoateClc. Flattamoutb. Nfc &a ooad-olaM mUinkttt R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PES YEAS IN ADVANC1 While shepherds preach politics the eheep are going astray. :o: Eureka! Just the job for Senator Heflin president of Mexico. :o: Tom Heeney has not given up fighting. He has just got married. :o: The succesa of many great men is due to their use of other men's brains. :o: If you heed the teachings of the fist affliction you may avoid the second. :o: All vote for John H. Morehead for congressman, for he is a square and upright man. :o: A college girl must suffer when she is so unpopular she must spend part of her vacation at home. :o: It is going to be a thrilling sight to see Charles M. Hay try to cross the River des Peres on the camel. -:o:- A headline says: "U. S. and Brit ain Neck and Neck in Race for Air Superiority." As friendly as all that, eh? :o: A country isn't going to the dogs while a majority still reads the last chapter first to see if the story turns out right. :o: The potato bug may be a pest, but his color scheme has given the mak ers of sport coats and blazers some snappy new ideas. :o: The falling off in new building is being reflected in a number of local ities by asurplus of skilled mechanics as well as laborers. :o: The women folks dress to suit themselves, and they are not going to take advice or orders from any man, be he Rev. or plain person. :o: About the only advantage Hoover has is that he's the only American eitizen who has been all the places that we send our marines to. :o: . Senator Tom Walsh, fishing in a Montana stream, got two fish on the same line the other day. When he put them in his net, it is said, both of them claimed the transaction was Just a loan from one old prospector to another. Our Repair Garag is kept constantly busy because mo- torists recognize it as the best and most reliable repair shop for every kind of damage a car can possibly sustain. And, being practical men of long and varied experience, all our repair work is excellently and thor oughly done, without unnecessary de lay and at reasonable charge. Fradys Garage Phone 58 A great many men owe their suc cess to the failure of others. :o: It is easy for a man to follow ad vice that coincides with his own views. :o: Hoover is the candidate of the money power, and there will be plenty of money flowing. -:o: Stephenson says his imprisonment is costing him thousands of dollars. Well, that proves he ought to be set free. :o: Freight rates on grapes have been lowered. It's gotten so that even that actiong might be called a vic tory for the wets. :o: A dentist's body was found in a lonely spot in the woods in Ohio. We knew something like that was going to happen some day. :o: Having received a new sedan as a birthday gift from Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller might reciprocate with a gallon or so of gas. :o: The demand of the big nations for the abolition of submarines re- ' sembles, in a way, the wish of bull dogs to be rid of a hornet. -:o: A condemned man escaped from a West Tennessee jail and left a note saying "liacK in tne morning, out failing to specify which morning. :o: General Nobile was hissed in Nor way. That reminds us tnat a young man named Columbus was hooted once in one or tnose towns over there. :o: A Fourth biplane flying under wireless control without a pilot has made several flights and has taken off and landed eleven times without mishap. :o: A Massachusetts woman made a hole-in-one, played the same course again and made the same hole-in-one. Maybe Amelia Earhart didn't do so much after all. :o: A New England cooking export praises the swordfish as a delicious food. The news probably will be hailed with delight by veteran sword-swallowers. :o: An automobile hit a freight train at Cincinnati and derailed two box cars. Now that that's happened, your chance of doing it during the next 100 years is zero. :o: The women of today are dressing with more comfort and common sense than before in all history. It is only the prudish who prate against short skirts and silk stockings. :o: Grover Cleveland Alexander has won 12 games this season, and is batting .298. He and Henry Ford are about the liveliest pair of young sters the country boasts of. :o: Culture is sadly on the wane in America, according to a French critic. Maybe he had in mind the fact that a prize fight doesn't seem to draw quite SI, 000, 000 any more. :o: Some of us common citizens wiph Senator Borah, while he is about it, would take up a collection to pay v.s back for all the donations we have made to all sorts of things at diffe- ent times. . :o: We are always championing the rights, equality, superiority and gen- eral advancement of the woman a'l over the world, so it is with some thing of sorrow that we must adm t a slight setback for our cause in the New Hebrides. Segars ) THE POLITICAL PANACEA At last our political Ills are all to end. The United States is to become Utopia. The ballot box is to be a fountain of perpetual youth where from the lamest and haltest func- tions of state will draw hale effi ciency. The ladies no longer will have to worry with a perverse gen eration of males who are mostly slackers at the polls, nor the hearts of reformers be broken by the wick edness of ward bosses. Ours is to prove an ideal republic, beside which riato's at its best would be a pitiable makeshift. The secret of perfect gov ernment has been found. Where? Why, of all unexpected places in Chicago. And by whom? By the director of the psychopathic laboratory of that city's municipal court. At a Race Betterment confer ence In Battle Creek the doctor an nounced his discovery. It is this, that the right to vote should be limited to persons of superior minds by "the granting of the franchise on a basis of the intelligence quotient." This done, the march to the Millennium will start; for, "When superior in telligence and exact knowledge can function, we will be on the way to riddance from great evil." The enthusiasm thus aroused among devotees of the intelligence test, and particularly among pious believers in the "intelligence quo tient," is more easily imagined than depicted. True it is that hoi polloi looks askance; and the press, lack ing, we fear, the awe which it should feel for the intelligentia, seems dis posed to put its tongue in its cheek Even from Boston comes a bit of comment by the Transcript, which, if the grave temper of that journal were not known, one high suspect of snickering at the epochial dis covery. We quote ai typical passage: "It is to be assumed that when election day came, after the limita tion was imposed, the truly intelli gent would go to the polls instead of playing golf. As to the unintelligent. they might be reconciled to the de nial of the franchise by the fact that they would have a day in which to use the family car for picnic pur poses. While stepping on the gas, they might even jeer at the intelli gent plodding to the polling places. But the wise, charged with the sol emn responsibility of government, could afford to ignore the boorish merriment of those of a mental age of thirteen years or less. Newspapers are perhaps already contributing to the establishment of a golden era or truly intelligent government. They are conducting intelligence tests of their own. These tests not only re veal, but they may also be said to cultivate intelligence. Thanks to the press, we may be enlarging the nunv ber of citizens capable of voting in the light of a comprehensive know ledge of the new economics, sound finance as applied to international indebtedness, and what ought to be done about Muscle Shoals and Boul der Dam." If it be asked why the "intelli gent" today do not vote in larger numbers, the answer is that they lack the incentive of trial by the "quotient." A thing so emotional and so antiquated as patriotism does not appeal to the coldly scientific yet pantingly modern minds by which the Chicago savant would have us governed, nut wnen it is re- quired that one shall have passed the doctor's laboratory brain test ere one is permitted to vote, then shall we see the polling places packed with the highest of brows, and a new earth, if not a new heaven, will be on the way. Some have held that what we need is an awakened pub lic conscience, a higher civic morale; and that when it comes to the broad er things of government there is more to safety in a multitude of counselors where common sense Is likely to prevail than in rule by effi- ciency experts. But such opinions are hopelessly out of date. The "in- telligence quotient" is one thing, and the only thing that will set right our disjointed times. What city, we wonder, will be first to adopt it? :o: BANS BULL FIGHTS Bolivia has put the ban on bull fights. A government decree says .t . x mat an puunc spectacles must educational. Since bull fights aren't that, whatever else, they must be stopped. It would be interesting to see how such a law would work out in this; country. Would a heavweight cham pionship prize fight, for instance, classed as educational? It ought to be. An earnest, inquiring young man can learn a great deal about what kind of country this is by the fact that two 200-pound bruisers can go rfng, tap each other for an into a hour, and come out with something, prize fighting, will retire from the like a million dollars to divide be- ring. He has announced, however. tween them. j no future plans. Our guess is that The prize fight points its own Tunney actually is retiring, in a few moral. It is, really highly educa- months it will be made known that tional. he is writing a book. COST OP ELECTING PRESIDENTS This early in the campaign we are hearing much concerning the fi nancing of the fight, and it is not in the least probable that what we' are hearing is what the managers oft the parties are thinking and say - ing among themselves. There every indication mat more money corporation duly organiz- will be spent than ever before. TheJe(1 and existing under and greatest sum ever acknowledged as by virtue of the laws of spent before by the Republicans is a very little over $4,000,000 in 5920, when Mr. Hays created a heavy deficit, handsomely paid off after the election. One month ago Chairman Work thought 83,000.000 would be ample; in one month he has increased the fund sought by a mil lion dollars. This brings the fund sought now by Mr, Work to within $22,000 of the largest fund the Re publicans have ever had. If one month can raise the needs a mil lion, it is probable that another month or two will add more than an other million. The battle plan of the Republi can organization will necessarily be expensive. Tne usuai neeas oi tne committee proper are heavy enough. And this year there are "nonparti san" organizations interested in the defeat of Gov. Smith that must be adequately "oiled." Even the Meth odist Bishop of the South who heads the pro-Hoover bone-dry movement has coyly intimated that he will "not look a gift horse in the mouth." Whatever amount is wanted by the managers of Mr. Hoover will be forthcoming. The interests repres ented by the recent power lobby of Washington alone can raise a com fortable sum. It is a reasonable assumption that the Democrats will be less embarras sed financially than they have been since the days of Cleveland. The Bryan free silver issue, which drove men of means out of the party, has been wiped out. The party needs more for perfectly legitimate ends than it has had in many campaigns It can get what it needs without any. necessity for concealing the source, and the action of Col. Herbert H Lehman of the Finance Committee in announcing the contributors to the fund and the amounts contributed up to July 31 should, and will, be repeated at intervals. It is an aus picious sign and the Republicans will do well to profit by it also. :o: BLUSTER FROM ITALY Mussolini, incensed at the unkind things that are being said about No bile and other members of his party, declares that the Italian government will investigate the whole thing and insists that the world reserve judg ment until all the facts are present ed. Obviously, it is unjust to form op inion on scanty knowledge. But Mus solini has only himself and his com patriots to blame if this has been done. Ever since the Italia crashed the Italians have been highly secretive.. They have allowed widely different versions of every incident to creep out. Their attitude has not only en couraged the spreading of rumors; it has given the impression, rightly or wrongly, that there was something they were trying to suppress. Mus solini demands that th world re serve judgment until it gets the facts. The world has a right to de mand of Mussolini with equal blus ter, one might add that the Italian government resort to complete frankness. :o: A NATION OF CLIFF DWELLERS Some one has said that the Unit ed States is fast becoming a nation of "cliff dwellers." This is doubt less true in the cities where limited 6pace makes the apartment house in dispensable. It is not true in small towns. A reason that Is sometimes advanced for the attraction of the single family Is that people are not as anxious to assume the cares and responsibility of home ownership as they once were. Even assuming that ' . .. there were some truth in this it does not appear to be the major fa - tnr Mnst npnnle have the feeling of ! A nA fi-AoHnm .ot cnot mui:i:iiucm.c m '"-"v"" with owning a nome. Tne conven- iences and lack of responsibility in apartment house life are attractive to some, but many others would be willing to exchange their advantages - i for the privileges of home owner be! ship. Tne main cause of the in- creasing trend toward apartments in the cities is economic. :o: It is rumored, by the way, that Timnaw Tiuuin maif a tnllHrm n n rl 'half from what is humorously called LIENS sure OF TAX In the District Court of County, Nebraska Cass . . Plaintiff J vs. is'rst national wan or the United States, its as signes, trustees and per sonal representatives (their true and real names un known); H. J. Spurway. Receiver of the First National Bank of Piatts mouth, Nebraska; also 23 feet of Sublot 5, the south 25.55 feet of Block 32 and 23 feet of Sublot 6. the south 25.55 feet, all in Block 32 in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and recorded and all persons, firms, co-partnerships, cor porations (true and real names unknown) having and claiming any right. title or interest in 23 feet of Sublot 5, the south 25.- 55 feet of Block 32 and feet of Sublot C, the south 25.55 feet all in Block 32, in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and recorded First National Bank of Piattsmouth, Nebraska, a corporation, duly organiz ed and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States, its as signes, trustees and per sonal representatives (their true and real names un known); H. J. Spurway. Receiver of the First National Bank of Piatts mouth, Nebraska; also 24 feet of Sublot 3 of Lots 12, 13 and 14 and 22 feet of Sublot 4 of Lots 12, 13 and 14, all in Elock 32, in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded and all persons, firms, co-partner ships, corporations (true and real names unknown) having and claiming any right, title or interest in 24 feet of Sublot 3 of Lots 12, 13 and 14, and 22 feet of Sublot 4 of Lots 12. 13 and 14. all in Block 32 in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass. State of Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded First National Bank of Piattsmouth. Nebraska, a corporation, duly organiz ed and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States, its as signes, trustees and per sonal representatives (their true and real names un known); H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the First National Bank of Piatts mouth, Nebraska; also east 24 feet of Sublot 1 of Lots 12, 13 and 14 and west 24 feet of Sublot 2 of Lots 12, 13 and 14, all in Block 32, in the City of Piatts mouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as sur veyed, platted and record ed, and all persons, firms. co - partnerships, corpora tions (true and real names unknown) having and claiming any right, title or interest in east 24 feet of Sublot 1 of Lots 12, 13 and 14, and west 24 feet of Sublot 2 of Lots 12. 13 and 14, all in Block 32 in the City of Piattsmouth. County of Cass. State of Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded First National Bank of Piattsmouth, Nebraska, a corporation, duly organiz ed and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States, its as signes, trustees and per sonal representatives (their true and real names un known ) ; H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the First National Bank of Piatts mouth. Nebraska; also west 23 feet of Sublot 6 of Lots 13 and 14 and west 23 'feet of Sublot 6 the north 16.30 feet of Lot 12, all in Block 32 in the City of Platts mo"th. County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as sur veyed, platted and record ed, and all persons, firms, ' -Partnerships, corpors tions (true and real nam unknown) having an corpora- ames d j claiming and right, title 'and interest in west 23 It" Ul OUUiUl O Ul LU13 J. and 14 and west 23 feet of Sublot 6 the north 16.30 feet of Lot 12, all in Block 32, in the City of Piatts mouth, County of Cass, Stat, of Nebraska, as sur veyed, platted and record ed First National Bank of Piattsmouth, Nebraska, a corporation, duly organiz ed and existing under and by virtue of-the laws of the United States, its as- a SigneS, trustees and per- sna 1 nre"?,tai!J" 1' knoWn); H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the First National Bank of Platts- """'Jnynorth 80 feet of west 24 feet of Lot 3 and the east 20 feet of Lot NOTICE OF foreclo . 3 and the north 4 0 feet of Lot 4, all in Block 46, in I the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of ' Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ited and recorded, and all 'persons firms, co-partner-! ships, corporations (true ' i n1 real n n m c a nn1rnnurn ) V. . V . . I ..IV J v.. ..VI. .. f having and claiming any right, title or interest in Lots 1 and 2 and north 80 feet of west 24 feet of Lot 3 and the east 20 feet of T .nt 3 and thp north 40 feet of Lot 4. all in Block 46. in ine uuy or fiattsmoum. County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded Livingston Loan and Building Association, a corporation, duly organiz ed and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Nebraska, its assignees, trustees and personal representatives (their true and real names unknown); Searl S. Davis Receiver of the Livingston Loan and Building Associa tion, a corporation; H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the First National Bank, of Piattsmouth, Nebraska; al so Lot 6 in Block 36 in the City of Piattsmouth, Coun ty of Cass, State of Ne braska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded, and all persons, firms, co-partnerships, corporations (true and real names unknown) having and claiming any right, title or interest in Lot 6 in Block 36 in the City of Piattsmouth, Coun ty of Cass, State of Ne braska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded Livingston Loan and Building Association, a corporation, duly organiz ed and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Nebraska, its assignees, trustees ana personal representatives (their true and real names unknown); Searl S. Davis Receiver of the Livingston Loan and Building Associa tion, a corporation; H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the First National Bank, of Piattsmouth, Nebraska; al so east 22 feet of Lot 4 in Block 33 in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and re corded, and all persons. firms, co-partnerships, cor porations (true and real names unknown) having and claiming any right. title or interest in east 22 feet of Lot 4 in Block 33 in the City of Piatts mouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, a sur veyed, platted and record ed Livingston Loan and Building Association, a corporation, duly organiz ed and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Nebraska, its assignees, trustees and personal representatives (their true and real names unknown); Searl S. Davis Receiver of the Livingston Loan and Building Associa tion, a corporation; H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the First National Bank, of Piattsmouth, Nebraska; al so east one-nair or ixt & in Block 33 in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and re corded, and all persons. firms, co-partnerships, cor porations (true and real names unknown) Having and claiming any right. title or interest in east one nair or ixt 3 in biock 33 in the City of . Piatts mouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as sur veyed, platted and record ed Byron Golding, single; also Lot 10 in Block 42 in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded, and all persons, firms, co-partner ships, corporations (true and real names unknown) having and claiming any right, title or interest in Lot 10 in Block 42 in the City of Piattsmouth, Coun ty of Cass, State of Ne braska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded Byron Golding, single; also Lot 11 in Block 42 in the City of Piattsmouth, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded, and all persons, firms, co-partner ships, corporations (true and real names unknown) having and claiming any right, title or interest in Lot 11 in Block 42 in the City of Piattsmouth, Coun ty of Cass, State of Ne braska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded Defendants. You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 28th day of July, 1928, the County of Cass filed a netition in the District Court Cass county, Nebraska, against and each of you, which cause appears on Docket 4, Page 49, of the records of the Clerk of the District Court NOTICE. Cass county, Nebraska, the object and prayer of which petition in ac Icordance with a resolution adopted June 4th, 1928. by the Board County commissioners ior county Cass, State of Nebraska, is for strict foreclosure of tax liens on: 23 feet of Sublot 5, the south 25.55 feet of Block 32 and 23 feet of Sublot 6, the south 25.55 feet all in Block 32 in the City of Piattsmouth, Cass county, Ne braska, as surveyed, platted and recorded ; 24 feet of Sublet 3 of Lots 12, 13 and 14 and 22 feet of Sublot 4 of Lots 12. 13 and 14, all in Block 32 in the City of Piatts mouth, Cass county, Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and re corded; East 24 feet of Sublot 1 of Lots 12. 13 and 14 and west 24 feet of Sublot 2 of Lots 12, 13 and 14, all in Block 32 in the City of Piattsmouth, Cass coun ty, Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded; West 23 feet of Sublot 6 of Lots 13 and 14 and west 23 feet of Sublot 6, the north 16.30 feet of Lot 12. all in Block 32 in the City of Piattsmouth, Cass coun ty, Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded; Lots 1 and 2 and north 80 feet of west 24 feet of Lot 3 and the east 20 feet of Lot 3 and tbf north 40 feet of Lot 4, all in Block 46 in the City of Piatts mouth, Cass county, Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and re corded ; Lot 6 in Block 36 in the City of Piattsmouth, Cass county, Ne braska, as surveyed, platted and recorded; East 22 feet of Lot 4 in Block 33 in the City of Piatts mouth, Cass county, Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and re corded; East one-half of Lot 3 in Block 33 in the City of Piattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, as sur veyed, platted and recorded; Lot 10 in Block 42 in the City of Piattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and recorded; Lot 11 in Block 42 in the City of Piattsmouth, Cass coun ty, Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded. That the several parcels of real es tate described herein were subject to taxation for State, County, City, Vil lage. School District, Drainage Dis trict and Municipal and public pur poses for the several years as enum erated in the petition and the ex hibits thereto attached and by ref erence made a part thereof, and that unless the same is paid by you, or any or you, tnat a decree win oe entered in this Court foreclosing and forever barring you and each of you of any and all claims upon, interest or estate in, right or title to, or lien upon, or equity of redemption in or to said herein described real estate, and that the same or so much as may be necessary to satisfy the plaintiff's lien, together with costs, shall be sold in accordance with law, and for such other and further relief as equity requires and as to the Court may seem just and equitable. You and each of you are hereby notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before the 17th day of September. 1928. COUNTY OF CASS, By PlaintifT. W. G. KIECK, j30-4w County Attorney. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Thomas Wiles, Jr., deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Piattsmouth, in said county, on Aug ust 24, 1928. and November 26, 1928. at 10 o'clock a. m., each day, to re ceive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their ad justment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 24th day of August. A. D. 1928, and the time limited for pay ment of debts is one year from said 24th day of August, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 20th day of July, 1928. A. II. DUX BURY, (Seal) J23-4w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, 88. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Jo seph Skalak, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Piattsmouth, in said county, on the 24th day of August, 1928, and on the 26th day of November, 1928, at 10 a. m., of each day, to receive and examine all claims against said es tate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 24th day of August, A. D. 1928, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 24th day of August, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 20th day of July, 1928. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) J23-4w County Judge. The latest in the way of criticism of the Democratic party is a series of verbal hemorrhages directed against the Jewish treasurer of the oganization merely because he is a Jew. If memory serves us right, Je sus was a Jew. Why not condemn the meek and lowly Nazarene also because of his racial descent? :o: In Erie, Pa., a contestant in a dance marathon quite a $50-a-week job to enter the dance contest, and he and his partner won $5 after hav ing danced for two weeks. The puz zle is, how did anyone with as little sense as that chap possed ever man age to get a $50-a-week Job? of you of of oi the