PIATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOTJEITAE
MONDAY, DEC. 2, 1929-
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GREENWOOD
Mrs. E. A. Landon was a visitor
with friends in Lincoln on last Wed
nesday, she driving over to the big
city in her car.
Gust Gakemeier, of near Murdock,
was a visitor in Greenwood and was
accompanied by Mrs. Gakemeier, they
visiting at the home of Rex Peters
and wife.
Mrs. Earl Clymer, who has been
in not the best of health for some
time past, is reported as being quite
poorly at this time, at her home in
Greenwood.
E. L. McDonald was elected as one
of the executive committeemen of the
Home Owned Stores, and will meet
with the committee at the Lincoln
hotel on December 5th.
Ralph Clymer, who is agent for
the Buick auto, was a visitor in Alvo
and other partions of the county,
looking after business for his com
pany on last Wednesday.
Mrs. John Ellwood has been very
poorly for some time past and while 1
everything possible is being done to
effect her recovery, still she does not
improve as rapidly as she should.
Messrs E. A. Landon, P. E. Clymer,
Ralph Clymer and Carl Weidemann
were over to Omaha last Monday,
where they were in attendance at
the boxing match which was held
there that day.
There were many from out of town
in Greenwood for the two days shoot
which the American Legion put on
last Tuesday and Wednesday and a
very enjoyable time was had by all
those in attendance.
Ray Friedrichs is sporting a new
four door Chevrolet six sedan and
thinks the car is an excellent one.
These are the kind of cars which are
sold by Theo. Carnes, the Chevrolet
dealer of Greenwood.
P. A. Sanborn, who has been taken
with a very severe case of rheuma
tism, is still kept to his bed with
the disease. His many friends are
hoping that he may be able to be out
again in a short time.
John II. Vick and wife, the latter
a sister of Mrs. P. A. Sanborn, of
Omaha, and Henry Deickman, a
friend, of LeMars, Iowa, were guests
for the day last Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Sanborn.
There is quite a bit of new corn
being brought to market and which
is being shipped out. Most of the
grain shows pretty good as to con
dition, notwithstanding the fact that
the weather has been very damp.
Henry Gakemeier and wife and
daughter, of Murdock, were guests
for the day on last Thursday at the
home of Rex Peters. Mrs. Peters be
ins a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Gakemeier. They all enjoyed the
Thanksgiving together.
Seme one told us it was the intent
to divert traffic over the new grade
from Greenwood to the end of the
pavement near Waverly, and so the
writer ventured that way, but we
will allow others the privilege of
traveling that piece of road in the
future.
Uncle John A. Grady, who has
been having some trouble with one
cf I113 eyes on account of a growth
thereon, went to Omaha last week
and to the Methodist hospital, where
he had the growth removed. Although
the eye has been very tender and
painful, it is getitng along nicely.
Robert E. Mathen3 and wife de
parted on last Wednesday for Paola.
Kansas, where they went to spend
the Thanksgiving day with R. E.
Matthews, Sr., father of our Bob, and
with a sister. Miss Addie Matthews.
1 ney enjoyed the visit very much,
even mire than coming home through
tne snow.
i.rauing was commenced east of
Greenwood on the new highway and
win it tne weather permits be con
tinued until the work is done. The
graders are able to work with the
ground frozen some, but if the cold
weather hangs on it will probably
compel them to cease their activities
in the near future.
Art Reese, who by the way is an
excellent farmer, is getting along
nicely with the picking of his corn
and has a piece which he had in
sweet ciover last year, that is mak
ing . 4 bushels to the acre, as well
as another piece which he has had
in alfalfa, that is yielding 62 bushels
to the acre. The entire crop is ex
pected to yield about 50 bushels to
the acre.
Mr. Tucker busied himself with the
rounding up of some of the old
Plattsmouth crowd, they all sitting
down together to enjoy a very fine
supper and a good time, and all the
old friends meeting Mr. McElwaln,
Died in Colorado
Word was received of the death of
Charles Pollard, formerly bt Green
wood and Ashland and vicinity, but
for some time making his home in
Colorado, his death occurring on last
Tuesday. The remains were shipped
to Ashland, where they arrived on
Thursday morning and the funeral
and burial oceurred,on Thursday af
ternoon. The deceased was 55 years
of age and had resided in the west
for about ten years. He leaves a
wife and one brother. Mr. Pollard
was a brother of Thomas O. Pollard,
of northwest of town.
Lignite 'CoaT
Proving a Boon
to Northwest
North Dakota Plant to Turn Out
1000 Tons Daily and More
Mills Being Planned
BLAME PLACED ON ELAN
I. 0. 0. F. Elect Officers
At the regular meeting of the Odd
Fellows of Greenwood held last week,
thev followed the transaction of the
other business which came before
them, proceeded to the election of
officers for the coming term. The
one selected for the guiding of the
ship of state for the order were as
follows: Marion Dimmitt, N. G.;
Forest Osnuts. V. G.; L. C. Marvin,
secretary, and Harry Hughes, treas
urer. The appointive officers will be
announced at the time of the instal
lation, which will not occur for some
time yet. Charles E. Calfee was also
elected trustee for a three year term
DECLARE RUBI0 PRESIDENT
Mexico City The Mexican con
gress Thursday night adopted the re
port of its election commission and
formally declared Pascual Ortiz Ru
bio, candidate of the revolutionary
party, elected as president of the republic.
The report stated that the success
ful candidate had received 1.S25,
761 votes; that Jose Vasconcelos,
candidate for the antire-electionists,
had been given 110,279, and that
Pedro Rodriguez Triana, communist,
had received 23,279. The fall of the
gavel marking the official consuma-
tion of the Nov. 17 election was
the signal for an outburst of cheer
ing in the chamber of deputies.
The parliamentary election com
mission rejected 140.000 votes as il
legal. Included in these were about
1,000 votes mailed from Los Angeles.
A delegation of congressmen was
chosen to visit the president elect and
give him official notice of the result.
The detailed figures showed he car
ried each state and territory with a
handsome majority.
FIND RUM LADEN AIRPLANE
Greenwood Xrans'er Line
We do a general business make
trips regularly to Omaha on Monday
and Thursday, also to Lincoln Tues
day and Friday. Pick up loads on
these trips. Full loads at any time.
FRED HOFFMAN.
Meets Many Friends
waiter iu. railing was making a
trip to Lincoln and asked Mr. B. A
McElwain to accompany him. They
stopped on their way home at Have
lock, where Mr. McElwain" met his
friend of former days, William Tuck
er, whom he had been intimately ac
quainted with when they were boys
pt Plattsmouth many years ago.
Nothing would do but Mr. Mc
Elwain stay for supper, and during
the time It took to prepare the meal,
Stock Hauling
I have a station at Greenwood for
Hauling by Truck service. We will
jnve special attention to your needs
day cr night. Very careful handling
cf Stock and Goods. Call Phone 40,
Greenwood, or Murdock, for best of
service. Your patronage appreciated.
J. JOH ANSON
Detroit United States immigra
tion officers Tuesday confiscated a
rum laden airplane and arrested Its
pilot at a landing field on the out
skirts of Detroit, while across the
Detroit river in Canada the Windsor
provincial police raided ten liquor
export docks between Belle river and
Amherstburg in a drive against On
tario's liquor problem, the illegal dis
pensing of liquor declared for ex
port. The American officers' arrest
was made after they had gone to the
field and were informed that an air
plane carrying aliens would land. In
stend of aliens twelve cases of whisky
were found in the plane, they re
ported. It was the fifth airplane
which American officers have seized
here for liquor running in five
months.
The Canadian raids also were ex
tended to the north shore of Lake
Erie near the Kingsville district,
where supposedly a number of liquor
running airplanes are lor.ded for
their flight into the United States.
Iehigh, N. D. Nature has lost
her monopoly on the process of mak
ing coal. Briquettes, which are lumps
of man-made coal derived from lig
nite, are replacing the old-fashioned
product in many uses in this section.
Last February this competition
with nature was initiated here with
completion of the first unit of the
Lehigh Briquetting Company of
capacity is to bet'soreanshrdleutao
North Dakota s plant. Now the
plant's capacity is to be increased
to 1000 tons of finished briquettes a
day, and a refinery for by-products
is planned.. Moreover, two new
plint3 are contemplated, a second
unit in North Dakota and one in
South Dakota.
Lignite is beginning to be an im
portant factor in another way. Elec
tric generating plants, built at the
mines, are converting it in to electric
power for transmission to industrial
plants in North Dakota and other
states in the Northwest. The start
was made at Columbus, in the north
west part of North Dakota. The esti
mated cost of the lignite for plants
at the mines is 00 cents a ton.
The briquetting process is termed
by engineers simple and efficient
operation. Lignite contains from oi
to 40 per cent moisture. The ob
jectionable moisture is removed by
means of hot pases, evolved from
the lignite itself. The tar oils are
likewise removed. Large vertical
ovens, more than MJ leet nign, con-
tinuouslv receive lignite at the top
and discharge a finished product.
"char." r.t the bottom, the entire pro
ces being automatic.
The heating process is maintained
by circulating hot gases continuously
through the charge by means of
blowers, under absence of air or
oxveen. The smoke of the coal
condensed into liquid, crude tr.r,
which in turn is distilled as a pitch
binder and by-product oils, contain
ing base acids, phenols rid creosols.
The pitch binder so obtained is a
heavy, black, sticky, resinous body,
kept liquid by ster.ni. At ordinary
temperatures it quickly solidfies. Ac
cordingly, when mixed with the pro
cessed "char" from the original liir
nite. it makes a plastic material
which is compressed into small
briquettes by a roll press.
It is claimed by the manufactur
ers and users that briquettes surpass
even the best natural coal, giving n
more intense heat over a longer pe
riod of time. The fact that the fuel is
smokeless i3 expected to enhance its
desirability for use in cities.
Denver Charges that activities of
the Ku Klux Klan and the "penur
ious" policy of the state legislature
contributed to the mutiny of the
Colorado state penitentiary Oct.
in which thirteen lives were lost
were made Wednesday by Thomas
Tynan, former warden of the prison
He testified at the concluding session
of Governor Adams' commission in
vestigating the mutiny. Tynan
charged that the kan, as a political
maneuver, had established a branch
Inside the penitentiary to which both
convicts and guards belonged.
"It resulted in a complete break
down of discipline and had a last
ing effect," the former warden said.
The state legislature, he said, had
never in his eighteen years as war
den of the state penitentiary appro
priated sufficient funds for the prop
er operation of the operation of the
penitentiary.
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
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WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS
MINISTER TAKES OWN LIFE
Tokyo, Nov. 29. Sadao Saburi.
Japanese minister to China and form
er Japanese charge d'affaires at
Washington, committed suicide early
Thursday at a fashionable mountain
resort forty-five miles southwest of
Tokyo.
A telephone report from the re
sort said Saburi shot himself with a
pistol at the Fujiya hotel, where he
had been staying. He returned to
Japan recently from Nanking to con
sult with government officials prior
to undertaking new negotiations with
China.
Saburi was considered among the
most brilliant members of the Japa
nese foreign service with a distin
guished career ahead. His friends
were unable to give a motive for his
act except that he had been de
spondent since his wife's death in
1926.
LOSSES TO CANNERIES HIGH
Seattle, Nov. 28. As reports from
canneries along the Bristol bay dis
trict of Alaska continued to sift into
Seattle Thursday, estimates of the
damage caused by the terrific gale
and tidal wave of November 24th
had reached $200,000 indicating the
storm was far more serious than at
first believed. The only communica
tion with the storm swept district is
thru the signal corps, U. S. army, at
Dillingham, and the bureau of edu
cation station at Kanakanek.
Seattle officials of Libby, McNeill
& Libby were advised that all Its
buildings and docks at Ekuk had
been carried away; that shipways
were destroyed and all floating equip
ment beached. The cannery of the
Northwestern Fisheries company at
Naknek reported all floating equip
ment, Including scows, on the beach..
Dispatches said the storm was the
most severe and the tide the highest
in years. -
Short Horn Bull for Sale.
We have a fine short horn bull
for sale. Call or see either Raymond
Hild, Mynard or P. A. Hild, Hurray.
n28-3tw
Ossirg. N. Y., Nov. 2S. Sparks
from a short circuit in an electric
cord set ablaze a secret tent water
proofing compound in a locket labor
atory, resulting in the death Wednes
day of Miss Lucy Abercrombie, thirty
year old daughter of Col. David T.
Abercrombie, a sporting goods man.
The sparks ignited a fifty pound
pail of powdered parafine the base
of the compound when she turned
on an electric machine to mix the in
gredients in an experiment. The
burning mixture scattered in all di
rections and Miss Abercrombie's
clothing rauht fire. She ran for the
stairway, but found the door locked.
Charles Carlson, the family chauf
feur and said to be the only person
besides Miss Abercrombie and her
father who knew the secret formula,
was unable to help her. He himself
was severely burned on the face and
arms.
CAPTIVE ASKS FOR HELP
Shanghai, Nov. 2 5. The Rev. Ul
rich Kreutzen, of Calumet, Mich., a
Franciscan missionary, stationed at
Wuchang, Hupeh province, who was
kidnaped by bandits early this
month has written Wuchang stating
this his health is good, but that his
captors are threatening to kill him
unless troops seeking to rescue him
are withdrawn. His whereabouts,
said the letter, was beine; changed
continually in the mountains south
of Tayeh, Hupeh province.
The Wuchang mission said that
negotiations seeking his release were
under way, the mission being will-ins-
to pay what Chinese term "wine
and rice money" approximating one
thousand Mexican dollars ($500 in
gold) but not the ransom of 6,000
Mexican dollars demanded.
The bandits received the mission
messengers but threatened to shoot
emmisaries of the authorities who
approached outer sentries.
GALE HITS NORTHERN BAY
Seattle, Wash. A terrific gale ac
companied by an extremely hifh tide,
did heavy damage to canneries and
other buildings in the Bristol bay
district of Alaska, Nov. 25. A mes
sage to the United States bureau of
education offices here Wednesday
from the bureau of education radio
station at an Indian village near Dil
lingham Bajid:
"An extremely high tide accom
panying a heavy Southwest gale on
Nov. 25, caused serious damage In
the Bristol bay district. Wrecked
some of the canneries totallq Some
not heard from may be in ruins."
Twenty-sir canneries , are in the
district. Bureau of education offi
cials here said the damage might
easily run to $100,000.
The Plattsmouth Public Library
gained 29 new borrowers during the
month of October. The number of
books exchanged was 3o23, an in
crease over October, 192S, of 1027
volumes. We feel that this is an un
usually good record. The largest day's
circulation was 223 books, and on
that day Miss Jones and Miss Leo
nard must have been very busy.
A valuable gift has been recently
received by the library. It is a plat
of the city of Plattsmouth, drawn by
Mr. Charles M. Lewis for Mr. D H.
Wheeler. It is dated July 15, 1S5S.
This map is now framed so that it
may be easily examined by those in
terested. The streets are numbered
and named on the map, but the peo
ple of today's generation will be sur
prised at the difficulty in locating to
day's familiar land-marks some of
our "old-timers" will understand it
better.
It will be worth your time to see
the book displays in the Stores for
Book Week. You may see something
that you would like to read. The fol
lowing stores have displays: Wes
cott's Clothing; Ladies Toggery;
Soennichsen's; and Mrs. Emma Pease,
Millinery.
Five new International Mind Al
cove books have been received and
they are very attractive. The titles
are as follows: "The Spanish Pag
eant." by Arthur S. Rigcs. This is a
very readable book on Spain, and
should make a direct appeal to even
the casual reader.
"Understanding India" by Ger
trude M. Williams. This author gives
an excellently balanced view of life
in India, and, as she herself says,
brought away a different impression
of the same country, of which Miss
Mayo writes in "Mother India." The
latter book caused so much comment
and disagreement that it is interest
ing to read other viewpoints.
"Ireland, the Rock Whence I was
Hewn" by Donn Byrne. It seems
to embody all the dreams and poetic
fancies we have had of Ireland and
to give, in exquisite form, a lovely
picture of the land of the author's
boyhood. The book itself is so lively,
it is a pleasure to handle it.
"The League of Nations" by John
Snencer Bassett. This Is one or tne
newest and most authoritative books
on the Leaerue of Nations. It will
be invaluable for reference and study
John Spencer Bassett is probably
familiar name to many who studied
his histories in college.
"The Old Savage in the New Civil
ization" by Maymond B. Fosdick
This is the type of book which can
be read at a sittinp:. It is written to
stimulate thinking on the most chal
lenging problem that confronts our
treneration: "What use are we go
ing to make of our new machinery?
The above comments on these live
books were quoted from the letter of
the lady who chooses the books to be
sent to our mind alcove.
Sterilization
Suit is to be
Dropped
State Board of Examiners Rescind
Order Upon the Advice of
Attorney General.
Tho suit instituted by attorneys
for Rosario Failla, an Italian of Oma
ha, committed to the state hospital
for the insane at Lincoln, for the
purpose of testing the constitution
allty of the Nebraska sterilization
law, is to be dropped a3 a result of
the action of the state board of exam
ineis Wednesday afternoon, but At
torney General Sorensen stated that
it is understood a new action is to
be commenced.
Attorney General Sorensen con
ferred with members of the examin
ing board, made up of medical staff
members of state institutions. He
told members of the board he did not
believe the order for sterilization in
the case of Failla had been done un
der the procedure as outlined in the
amendatory statute passed by the leg
islative of 1929. He recommended
that the order of the board be re
scinded. The board immediately re
scinded its order. The attorney gen
eral will file an answer in the suit
stating that the order has been re
scinded and that there is no order in
existence which can be the subject of
a court order of injunction.
The attorney general said the
board of examiners will adopt rules
and regulations governing enforce
ment of the new law and that it may
then be free to proceed to reissue an
order in the Failla case. He said this
would be done, and his attorneys will
file a new suit under a diffent state
of facts.
The amendatory law of 1929, pro
moted by Senator Reed of Hamilton
county and other members of the leg-
slature, provides for sterilization of
feebleminded, insane and habitual
criminals in state institutions, upon
proper procedure of the board of ex
aminers, board of control and courts,
after a hearing. The former law au-
horized sterilization only of insane
when relatives consented, upon a
court order.
Failla's attorney contended in his
petition that he is not insane, tho
committed as insane, that since com
mittment he has been cured of his
emporary malady. He is arried and
as two children. State Journal.
DAUGHTER
GETS
INSURANCE FUND
Lincoln, Nov. 29. Mrs. C. E.
Melvin, stepdaughter of the late
James B. Harvey, former Fairbury
railroad man, was Friday awarded
the Insurance money from a -1,500
policy held by her stepfather with
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen.
The money had been the subject
of litigation between Mrs. Melvin
and five sisters and brothers of the
dead man since he was shot and kill
ed by his wife, Emma A. Harey, on
Oct. 5, 1927. The brotherhood, being
unable to decide to whom to pay the
money since Mrs. Emma A. HarveJ
had become ineligible to be the bene
ficiary because of having murdered
the insured, brought the suit asking
the court to decide who was the legal
beneficiary.
Bill to Slice
160 Million to
Come Up Soon
Will Make U. S. Santa Claus to Tax
payers; Se3 Early Passage;
GAMER'S
arieiy Store
at Plattsmouth
is Prepared for the Holiday
Shoppers Al! New
Goods at Lowest
Prices
Full Line Toys
Cars, Dump Trucks, Sleds,
Wagons, Games, Erector
Sets, Dolls, Dishes, and a
hundred other items.
Bring the kiddies here and
let them see the many fine
things we have secured for
our first Christmas season's
business in Plattsmouth.
It Pays to Trade at Gamer's
No Oppcsition.
BETTER NOT SAY IT
SEVEN NEW FIRES START
Fresh and toothsome cashew, al
monds and pecans, also chocolate
coated almonds and peanuts at the
Bates Bock & Gift Shop.
Grants Pass, Ore. Seven new fires
in southwestern Oregon forests late
Monday sent every available official
of the United States forestry service
attached to this district office into
active service. The fresh outbreak
was reported at a time when it was
believed all major fires were under
control.
James BillinKsIea. district supor-
vsor, left at once to take active
charge of the situation. While early
rports indicated the Oold Beach fire
bad been brought under control.
latest word said the flames had
broken out anew. With telephone
lines burned out communication with
many of the fire lanes was seriously
handicapped, and in most places com
munication was maintained only by
runners.
Meager reports of losses overnight
indicated the situation may have
reached a serious stage, Billingslca
said before he loft. His office had
received the earlier report lending
hope that the fire condition had im
proved. Fires in the Siskiyou mountains
near the Oregon-California line
swept over 300 acres of brush Satur
day and Sunday and a fire was re
ported on Dutch Creek Monday in
three places. They were not serious.
All were caused by campers or pros
pectors who failed to extinguish
their campfires.
MEXICO WILL ADHERE
TO KELLOGG TREATY
Washington, Nov. 26. Ambassa
dor Tellez of Mexico formally noti
fled the state department Tuesday of
his country's adherance to the Kel
logg treaty for the renunciation of
war.
Phone your news to No. 6.
Bad news travels faster than good
news. There is an old saying, "No
news is good news. Let a man De
converted at a church service and
there is not much of a stir, but let a
resident be convicted of crime and
the news leaps by word of mouth
from one end of the community to
the other.
How thoughtlessly unkind we
sometimes are when acquaintances of
our3 suffer misfortune! Troubles are
bound to come to us all in some shape
or form, and what we say about oth
ers today may apply to us tomorrow.
News is no respecter of persons.
We are prone to consider the ways
of others not our ways when we
should be watching our own steps
What folks say to one another some
times hurts more than anything they
could have done. News, good or bad.
grows and becomes exaggerated and
distorted with peddling. When the
news is good it makes no material
difference how it is exaggerated or
distorted it can never do anyone
positive harm. But bad news given
wings, may bring sorrow and ruin
upon people who certainly are not de
serving of a punishment beyond the
penalty of their mistake.
More charity for others will mean
charity for ourselves and we will
gradually come to take a keener de
light in reporting something good of
some person than something bad.
Good is constructive, bad is destruc
tive. Just before you are about to
lot out a bit of "bad news" stop a
moment. See if you can't think of
something good to say in place of it.
The chances are ten to one that you
will.
BURNS FATAL TO YOUTH
Worcester, Mass., Nov. 28. Wal
lace Schramm, twenty-two. of Pierce,
Neb., died in a hospital Wednesday
as the result of burns suffered a week
ago in a laboratory explosion at Holy
Cross college here. Schramm was a
former student at Creighton univer
sity, Omaha, and a graduate of Holy
Cross. He was taking a post gradu
ate course and serving as an instruct
or in chemistry at Holy Cross.
At his bedside when he died was
his father, O. S. Schramm, of Pierce,
Neb., who came here by airplane and
train upon receiving word of the ac
cident.
Washington, Nov. 29. Decks were
cleared by house leaders Friday for
passage of the $160,000,000 tax re
duction bill by next Thursday night,
with prospects the senate will have
acted on it before the Christmas holi
days. "We are going to move full
speed ahead to pass this joint
esolution, which gives taxpayers
relief and which should stimu
late business," Hawley said.
The joint resolution carrying the
Christmas present for the taxpayers
will be introduced in the house Mon
day, the opening day of the regular
session, by Representative Willis C.
Hawley of Oregon, chairman of the
ways and means committee, he an
nounced. He will call a meeting of his com
mittee for Wednesday, at which Un
dersecretary of the Treasury Mills
and possibly Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon will appear to urge pas
sage of the measure.
Use "Gag" Rules.
Chairman Hawley believes the ac
tion of his committee will break re
cords for speed and that he will be
able to report the measure Wednes
day night for passage on Thursday.
Should a minority in the house de
cide to prolong debate on the meas
ure and seize the occasion for leugi. ;
speeches, the 'gag" rules of the house
probably will be clamped down ar.f.
debate limited.
If Undersecretary of the Treasury
Mills were not going to be absent
from the city because of a previous
engagement on Tuesday, the ways
and means committee probably would
have been called to meet on that day.
But in view of the fact that the re
publican committee on committees
will be in session on Tuesday, this
too obviates a committee meeting on
that date. Chairman Hawley said.
Vision No Opposition.
Similar sentiments were express
ed by Representative John N. Garner
of Texas, democratic floor leader and
ranking democrat on the ways and
means committee.
In view of the gentlemen's agree
ment between republican and demo
cratic leaders, reached at a confer
ence with Secretary Mellon, there
will be no formidable opposition to
the tax melon.
Republican and democrat leaders
on the ways and means committee.
as well as on the senate finance com
mittee, have agreed to put through
the $160,000,000 program without
material alteration.
Some difficulty Is understood to be
facing the Treasury department in
drafting the joint resolution. The in
tention is to make the reduction ap
ply only on earnings in the calendar
year 1929, but payable in 1930.
Omaha Bee-News.
THE COALITION'S SUCCESS
.REFLECTORS FOR TRUCKS
ORDERED BY COCHRAN
When the smoke clears away It will
be recognized, we believe, that the
coalition did most useful work In
the special session of Congress, end
ed last week. It has saved the coun
try from a tariff which would have
placed an unconscionable burden up
on every household, and would have
put American foreign trade In the
products both of farm and factor un
der severe handicaps. It has pre
vented the Republican party from
committing a gross violation of Its
campaign pledges. It has awakened
the country to a realization that
tariff making by the President un
der the flexible provision is a per
version of sound constitutional prac
tice. Through its investigation of
lobbying it has done much to edu
cate the country on the question of
tariff making. It has saved President
Hoover the embarrassment, and pos
sibly even from the political disaster,
which would have befallen him had
he been compelled to choose between
approving of vetoing the Hawley-
Smoot bill. The coalition has done
just exactly what the opposition un
der popular government is supposed
'o do. We have no doubt that its
success has come because it faith
fully reflects popular disapproval of
the tariff bill which the Republican
Old Guard tried to enact.
To say this is not to overlook the
fact that the coalition is at its maxi
mum strength in opposing the Kaw-ley-Smoot
bill and that it would have
great difficulty in writing a satis
factory bill of its own. Being a coal
ition, it does not represent a homoge
nous set of principles. Our own posi
tion may be taken as an example to
illustrate the point. The Post-Dispatch
has been thoroughly in favor
of defeating the Hawley-Smoot bill,
but it has little sympathy with the
ultra-protectionism for agriculture
which some of the Senators from the
Northwest propose. We can see no
good to agriculture or to anyone else
in carrying protection to such ex
tremes. Our own desire is not to see
the tariff on agriculture raised to the
skies, though we recognize a certain
Justice in this form of retaliation
against the past excesses of the East
ern tariff interests. Our own desire Is
to see the whole project of general
tariff revision fail, and to substitute
for its special revision of particular
schedules. i
We believe that the history of the
special session demonstrates the truth
of the argument that general tariff
revision is a bad way of fixing the
tariff. Invariably and inevitably it
comes down to mere log-rolling in
State Engineer Cochran announced
Friday morning that all trucks oper
ating in the state must carry a red
reflector on the left rear side of the which any real consideration of rates
on their merits and in the light of
the available facts is forgotten.
Every general tariff bill raises so
many questions at once, and affects
so many interests at once in so many
unpredictable ways, that it acts as a
general Irritant on the whole econ-
ruck and a green reflector on the
left front side, to enable motorists
to more easily distinguish the side
of the truck. Truck operators will
be given until the first of the year
to comply with this regulation.
Under a bill passed by the legis
lature the department of public
FAMILY FETES TWO
WED FOR 50 YEARS
Stromsburg, Nov. 29. Mr. and
Mrs. G. N. Ekstrana ceieDraiea ineir
golden wedding anniversary at their
home in , this city Wednesday. Mr.
and Mrs. Ekstrand were married
Nov. 27. 1S79. All of their nine liv-
s children and many of tneir
grandchildren were here to help them
foiehrato. A dinner was served at
the Park hotel, atw hich 30 of the
immediate family were present. Mr.
and Mrs. Ekstrand held open house
during the afternoon to their friends.
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lish such rules as they felt necessary r ""1- i country, it is a
better traffic conditions on state tmue auu uusoieie metnoa of pro
cedure, and the country would be
well served if the two parties would
abandon entirely the whole concep
tion of general tariff revision.
For the one certain thing about
tariffs is that the economic life of
the country can adjust Itself to any
tariff if only that tariff is regarded
as permanent. It Is the alteration of
tariffs, up or down, whicn dislocates
me economic structure. Therefore
the alternation of the tariff on each
particular occasion ought to be nar
rowed to the smallest possible scope,
to
highways, if such rules were not con-
rary to, or not included in the stat
utes. While the weight, width and
height of all trucks are limited by
law. State Engineer Cochran said
that this feature was not included
in the statutes. This law is the same
as the Iowa state law with the ex
ception that a red reflector is not re
quired besides the tail light.
NEMAHA PAPER
CHANGES
HANDS
Tecumseh. Nov. 29. The Nemaha
County Republican announced in its
and printing office by Jack H. Walsh, so aa to confine the effects within the
publisher, to O. N. Smith of this city. BUI1"e ximus ana to permit consid
Smith owns an auto agency here eration of these effects uninfluenced
ana is not a neweiiapeiuidu. dt log-roillne banrntno o r ....
not know what Smith Pnofon.
said he did not
was going to do with the property,
but that possession will be taken
next Monday,
Those interested in the deal said . " " 7 " an 01(1 rnenl
that the paper will probably be con- " . a" yww tOKen for the
solidated with the Nemaha county wamuia season and now is the
Herald, published at Auburn by J. time to call at the Bates Bv a
C. voiiae. Girt Shop and mate
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