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JIOITDAT.- SEPT. 17, 1928.
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CHAS. HUGHES ON GOV. SMITH
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Maine went republican. Nothing
les9 expected.
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No church can run politics suc
cessfully, no matter how hard they
try.
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Young John Coolidge refuses to
be an advertising man. Blood will
tell.
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Good for Turkey. Word comes
Sunday is to be a day of rest. The
example might spread.
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King of Spain opines that it must
be great fun to be a bootlegger. But
they don't do it entirely for the sport,
Alfonso.
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There Is a fitness in all things,
and reading of the scriptures in poli
tical meetings as suggested by some
one, is all out of place.
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All kinds of reports are circulated
during the campaign and you can
take what comes your way and let
the others pass on.
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At times we incline to believe that
the reason the man of one book was
feared was because' there was not
much chance of borrowing it.
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Senator Norris says the electoral
College system stands in the way of!
a third party, and must be abolished.
However, there is no LaFollette. J
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The political parties say they will
rely on small contributions and ex-j
pects the members to come to the
front. A case of great expectations.
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Cuba is pointed out as an example
of our course towards our sister re
'public. We can secure from Cubans
all references needed, and to spare.
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The interior department has open
ed up in Idaho 160,388 acres to set
tlement, with preference being- gtven
to war veterans. That sounds good.
A mystery to which we revert
when we have nothing else to do is,;
did they ever find the correct answer
to some of those all-day military
problems indulged in after the armis
tice? Chairman Work declares religion
and prohibition are not proper sub
jects for political discussion and will
form no part in the campaign. Then
why did they not leave it out of the
platform?
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If Governor Smith is not elected,
It will be because too many Demo
crats voted against him. But we
read every day of democrats back in
line and a whole lot of republicans
coming over also.
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Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton of
New York says he prayed for thef
rain that fell while Al Smith was
making his acceptance speech. Tex
Rickard ought to try to employ Dr.
Straton to keep clouds away from
his next heavyweight fight.
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The rock-ribbed Democrats down
in Alabama have solved the problem
of what to do with over-ripe hen
fruit. They are throwing it at the
misnamed Hoover Democrats who at
tempt to make speeches in that com
monwealth. We have always con
tended that a restaurant was no place
to serve that sort of stut'.
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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
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PES YEAR IH ADVASCI
Nebraska is getting in line for
Governor Smith.
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Governor Smith's wife will accom
pany him on his trip to Omaha.
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Voting instructors should be num
erous. It is the duty of all voters to
vote some way.
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The way to discover which side a
Chinaman is on is to wait and see
which side kills him.
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Whisky is about as safe in a gov
ernment warehouse as the poor pedes
trian in a safety zone.
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The pleasant part of buying a vase
at a 10-cent store is that the clerk
doesn't call it a "vaws."
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Many projected coasts of tan de
veloped into the kind of tan that
mantles a freshly cut beefsteak.
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Men should understand pain smd
suffering, says a philosopher. May
be that'3 why the ash tray always is
in some other room.
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There is a promise of a net work
of commercial air lines soon. People
will fly from their homes, but not in
the way usually mentioned.
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"We can not," says Gov. Smith,
"carry water on both shoulders,"
And he shows a stiff reluctance to
carry water on even one shoulder.
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It's all the same with the mer
chant. The poor man pas's a little
each month for six months, and the
rich man waits six months to pay.
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The trouble with most of these
pilots who graduate as full-fledge:l
flyers after studying aviation three
weeks is the place they usually pick
out to pile it.
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In an interesting novel of some
years ago it was told how Aunt John
nie emptied her brains when want
ing to rest. There are those who
don't have that troubled v
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Possibly a mother's greatest tri
umph, aside from that of having
negotiated a happy marriage, comes
when she finds she can wear her
girlish daughter's pretty clothes.
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A six-year-old New York girl
speaks English, French and Span
ish, paints pictures and composes
poems. All she needs to become fa
mous is a flagpole sitting or marathon
dancing record.
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Don't let your angry passion rise
to scratch out each others eyes dur
ing this campaign. The constitution
gives every man and women in the
United States the right to vote as
he or she may desire.
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Speaking of daredevil stunts,
Volivia is the first man to travel
across the under side of a flat world.
One of the tragic features of the
Spitzbergen region is that an aviator
can fly almost anywhere and find a
marooned party.
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John D. Rockefeller, Sr. is credit
ed with having given away $443,
000,000 to various objects, including
foundations and his son $0,000, 00C.
Here is over half a billion returned
to whence it came. Neither are im
poverished yet.
The Nebraska State Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
meeting in Kearney, adopted a reso
lution which said In part that the
political record (of Al Smith) is of
such a, character that his election to
this office would be a moral and poli
tical calamity.
This is the first time so far as we
can learn that the Nebraska State
Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church has shown any concern
over the political welfare of the
country.
Our records do not show that the
conference ever saw any moral and
political calamity in the wholesale
robbery of wounded veterans by Col.
Charles R. Forbes.
If they were conscious of any moral
or political calamity in the descent
of the Ohio gang upon Washington,
they did not express their feelings
in any public resolution. If they
felt that the friendship of the late
President Harding with Jess Smith
and Harry Daugherty was a moral
and political calamity, they did not
say so.
When the Falls, Dohenys, Sinclairs
and the rest worked out their scheme
for despoiling the public domain, the
Nebraska State Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was as
silent as Mr. Herbert Hoover.
But the Democratic party, in con
vention at Houston, nominated by an
overwhelming majority a- man of
whom Charles Evans Hughes recent
ly said:
"He is one who represents to us
the expert in government .' . . and
a master of the science of politics
... In the highways and byways of
the law, particularly of the statutory
law . . . while we go haltingly and
with much study, he threads his path
with perfect familiarity, for to him
the administration of government is
not a study but a life. If we had
the customs of. other countries, he
would long have been elevated to
OUR GROWING TRAFFIC
If you "wonder where all these
automobiles are coming from" read
these statistics for automobile pro
duction for July, just announced by
the Department of Commerce:
Based on figures received from 156
manufacturers in the United States.
July factory scales of motor vehicles
was 390,445, of which 337,933 were
pajssengejr cars andJ2j5U2 . were
trucks.
This compares with production of
39C.967 in July 1927.
Figures for passenger cars include
taxicabs, and those for trucks in
clude ambulances, funeral cars, fire
apparatus, street sweepers and buses.
That begins to give you a faint
idea of where all the cars are com
ing from, as well as a hint of the
tremendous amount of men employ
ed in the production and sale of
motor vehicles.
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the peerage . . . But we do better
than that. He long since became a
member of high distinction of the
fine aristocracy of public service. We
have watched him. some of us care
fully, all with fascination. The title
that he holds is the proudest that
any American can hold because it is
a title to the esteem and affection of
his fellowcitizens."
And this is the man whose elec
tion, in the opinion of the Nebraska
State Conference of the Methodist
Church, would be a moral and poli
tical calamity.
The only comment which we care
to make on this strange situation
is that the political standards of the
Nebraska State Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
those of Charles Evans Hughes are
not quite the same. Baltimore Even
ing Sun.
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A GAIN IN TRADITION
If President Calles had chosen to
argue from his own pre-eminence
that the country could not dispense
with his services he would have been
following a familiar historic prece
dent. Instead, he seems to have 'de
cided that the time has come for
testing Mexico's progress toward
non-personal government. His suc
cessor may be far less qualified for
the office of President than Calles,
without undue conceit, might con
sider himself to be. But the los3
would be more than offset by the
gain in constitution tradition.
DEFINING "NEWS" IN
A CAMPAIGN YEAR
The classic definition of "news"
has been ; "if a dog bites a man, that
is no news. But if a man bites a dog,
that is big news." In campaign year
this definition needs amending.
"Its news if Hoover's acceptance
speech pleases a democrat or Smith's
acceptance speech pleases a republi
can." :o:
Reports come that China is mak
ing progress towards national unity.
Easy To Handle
fiAAAAM
HOLIDAYS AND THEIR MAKING
There is no reason for adding to
the number of holidays the country
has now. The fact is too many of
these are not a relief, but act as a
disturber of orderly procedures.
There exists at present Christmas,
New Year's, Washington's birthday.
Memorial day. Thanksgiving day, and
perhaps some others developing into
these occasions. Indeed, these re
membrance days are now being com
mercialized, that in a way are holi
days. On the regular occasions banks
are closed and all business suspended,
while the celebrating" feature itself
is mostly in the supposing. Then
again, regrettable as it Is, these
events are taken advantage of for
addresses in which politics plays a
leading part, or else the propagating
of some cult or issue that has noth
ing to do with the special day. Now
a proposition comes from an eastern
city that May 21 be declared a legal
holiday by all the states, this to be
known as Lindbergh day. The pur
pose is to celebrate annually the day
on which Col. Charles Lindbergh
successfully made a non-stop air
flight across the stormy Atlantic, (
reaching Paris in safety. None may
question this remarkable exhibit of
heroism and unequalled skill, for all
have praised and honored him, but it
does not warrant a national holiday.
If we thus make a holiday for one
particular hero why not for others
who in our country's history also
performed notable and daring deeds?
Of these there are a goodly number,
for our history is rich with them,
and these are remembered and hon
ored in silent thought. No public
notice is taken, for it is not neces
sary, and if these .were established
our politics would take due advan
tage. We are not idol worshippers,
we respect and remember, that is
sufficient.
The Chicago News has the follow
ing of interest on this subject:
"Enthusiastic New York admiers
of Col. Lindbergh are circulating
throughout the country a suggestion
that the legislatures of the 48 states
enact laws making May 21 each year
Five chassis sizes and eights prices ranging
from $860 to $2485. Car illustrated is Model
610, five -passenger Sedan, $875. All prices
f. o. b. Detroit.
Fred G. Ahrens, Manager
O. K. Garage. Phone 120 Washington
Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
a holiday Lindbergh, or aviation
day. May 21, 1927, was the day on
which the then unknown air
mail pilot completed his great flight
from New York to Paris.
"Among the young flier's notable
qualities are modesty and unfailing
common sense. If the proposal for a
nation-wide Lindbergh holiday were
left to his decision doubtless he would
pronounce it silly and reject it with
becoming emphasis.
"There is most assuredly no need
in the United States for more official
holidays. Already In many states
there are a dozen in addition to Sun
days and Saturday half holidays. May
now has one holiday Memorial day,
which well might be consolidated
with Armistice day. Another could
serve no good purpose.
"To many holidays are the curse
of European peoples. " They destroy
business and promote poverty when
they are unduly plentiful. Ameri
cans should quench the sporadic rage
for more official holidays."
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A MISTAKE
One day Mrs. Gladstone was dis
cussing with some ladies a knotty
problem, while her husband was up
stairs busy in his study.
As the discussion proceded, one of
the ladies exclaimed with a sigh,
"Well, there's One above who knows
it all."
"Yes," said Mrs. Gladstone, "Wil
liam will be down in a minute, and
he will tell us all about it."
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INCLUDING THE CANDIDATE
The Socialist-Labor candidate for
President, Verne L. Reynolds of De
troit, estimates there now are 8 mil
lion unemployed in this country. The
figures must include all children of
pre-school age, as well as surplus
candidates for office.
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We have a full stock of rough Cy
press Cribbing, 6 and 12-inch, and
Cedar Poles. If you are going to
build a new crib or repair the old
one. it will pay you to see us. We
deliver anywhere. Cloidt Lumber,
& Coal Co., Plattsmouth, Nebr. I
Owners are emphasizing how
easily Graham-Paige motor
cars handle in traffic and
the relaxation they enjoy in
driving the open road. A
car is at your disposal.
PA
PLANE RIDES FOR DEAFNESS
There have been a number of
stories printed recently about air
plane rides as a cure for deafness.
Hearing has been restored, it has
been asserted, by precipitous descents
from high altitudes in planes.
But now Major L. B. March, chief
urgeon at Mltchel Field, L. I., comes
out with the declaration that these
"cures" are not only ineffective, but
actually dangerous.
The sudden change in air pres
sure, he says. Is often enough in it
self to burst the eardrums. Add Jo
this the fact that there is always a
chance of a fatal accident when a
plane is doing violent stunts, andd
the further fact that the fright in
duced in the patient by the sudden
dips and swirls may have serious
consequence, and you have a pretty
strong list of objections.
A good physician, says Major
March, can, in his own office, help
a deaf person as much as any air
plane ride.
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FRANCO-BRITISH DIPLOMACY
The old pre-war habits of secret
diplomacy and mysterious inter
national "understandings" seem to
have too firm a grip on some Europ
ean chancellories to be shaken off.
A car In point is the much-discussed
"naval entente" between Eng
land and France.
All that is known of this agree
ment is what the British and French
officials have let fall disconnected
hints, capable of varying interpreta
tions. It is only natural, therefore,
that some other nations should be
growing suspicious and should find in
this entente, not a step toward arma
ment reduction, but a 'new alliance
that may lead toward anything but
peace.
That is the chief trouble with se
cret diplomacy. If this Franco-British
understanding is the i nocuous,
virtuous agreement its sponsors say
it is, let them publish the full text.
If they do not they have only them-;
selves to blame if other nations mis
interpret it and suspect the worst, j
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EXODUS OF YOUNG FOLKS
MAKES TOWN SEEM QUIET
Louisville ia going to seem very
quiet after this week with so many
of our splendid young people going
away to their different temples of
learning. Miss Minerva Worthman Is
taking a course in dietics at the Agri
cultural college of the University of
Nebraska, Misses Gertrude and Ber
nice Stander will also be at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, Miss Gertrude
taking a course in business adminis
tration and Miss Bernice registering
in the arts and science college.
Billy Dlers will enter the Univer
sity of Nebraska, taking a course in
business administration, Harold
Gauer will take his senior year at
Creighton university, in Omaha, in
pharmacy, Harry Eller will take an
engineering course at the state uni
versity and will assist in the regis
tration department, Bob Lamson, who
has been located here for a number
of months as' sand and gravel tester
for the state of Iowa, will return to
his studies at the Iowa state college,
at Ames; Ted and Arthur Hartman
will also be at the University of Ne
braska to resume their studies, Ted
taking a course in Journalism and
Art in the dental college.
Other of our girls are teaching in
this vicilnity and some in distant
towns, and they will be greatly miss
ed but (hey will take with them the
best wishes of the community for
success in their climb up the hill of
knowledge. Louisville Courier.
WEEPING WATER CREEK OUT
The Weeping Water creek which
flows through the southern part of
the county has been on a rampage
since the rain of Tuesday night and
especially in the vicinity of Union
where the water rushing toward the
mouth of the creek southeast of
Union, has overflowed on the low
lands in several places and, making
it very disagreeable for the residents
there. This creek drains a large area
and a great volume of water is car
ried down the creek after each heavy
rain to empty into the Missouri river.
APPLES FOR SALE
Plenty of No. 1. Guaranteed
Grimes Golden and Jonathan apples.
Raised In Nebraska. F. P. Sheldon
store, Nehawka, Neb. s!3-2tw.
A good maiy of the non stop poli
tical orators this summer are up in
the air in "The Spirit of Controversy."