u MONDAY, AUG. 4, 1930. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THEEB Che plattsmoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMGUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers Hying; in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 mjles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Definition of gangster gunmen one who takes life easy. The devil sraile3 when a woman falls in love with the wrong man. :o: There is no place like home when it comes to drawing a meager salary. :o: The French are out of the Rhine land and the Rhinelanders are out of news. -:o:- Cheer up! If it was cold and wet you'd be having summer grip and feel just as miserable. :o: The President has caught some nice fish in the Rapidan and he's now angling for a Chairman. :o: Suppose we'll have to wait for an other Bobby Jones victory to get crime off the front page. : o : One fact which goes against the grain is that bread prices stay up while wheat prices go down. -o: It is pointed out that aviation has made the world smaller. This is true, but still you can't fall and miss it. :o: A Nebraska tourist lost a straw hat when it blew off and into a field where a cow was grazing. Hay! Hay! : :c: The average husband could hon estly say to his wife, 'Thank good ness I haven't a talking picture or you." - ; . ine two Doosier s paradise, a mj wnere it is a punisnaDie onense to question civic perfection, has come to light. :o: There is a whale of a diffe: ence be tween the modern expression. "Tak ing a rap," and the old time "Taking a wrap." o: The cost of prohibition in 1929 is Bet at $959,000,000, and the figures do not include the cost of the trips across the Canadian border. :o: If, as the scientist says, a drop cf water develops 200 horse power a year we've had just enough rain this Bummer to propel a kiddie car. :o: A house without doors has been erected in London. The builders are thought to be amateur bridge fans anxious to avoid further grand slams. uo: This tree sitting craze is not so bad, but when the boys find out that it keeps them out of mischief they'll come down so fast they'll burn the bark. :o: Speaking of language as it is some- timea written, a Los Angeles concern, which is closing out its business, ad - vertises, "We're through forever in four days." Smile At the Ache ..:. r ........ '"; Stop them with that modern, DR. MILES' ASPIR-MINT. It's Try it for Headache, Colds, and J? 41 "XJiwiI c . : : : :Z :. s&JJ: -X:4&.--'i- 'X:-X-X:'y-.-;. :$vvv DR.MILES Mary's little lamb has learned to his sorrow that Wall street and Easy street do not intersect. :o: Another trouble with tne world is that the word "endurance" is get tir.g worn to a frazzle. :o: The only elinerence between a plain hog and a road hog is well there isn't any difference. :o: Thos goofy young tree sitters would soon get over the idea if they were asked to pick fruit. :o: Headline: "A World Without Chicken Wings Is Theatened." Oh well, there'll always be a neck. :o: Girls would make wonderful sold iers. They know how to keep their powder dry, even at a bathing beach. :o: One of the peculiarities of cur business situation is that business gets slack just when money gats tight. :o: Perhaps the most delicious cut on the hog is the one recently effected bringing its price down to the pre war level. :o: The gubernatorial contest is sup posed to be a race for thoroughbreds. but jackasses are not barred. Terhaps that may explain one of the entries. :o: Anyhow, it is quite certain that Bishop Canncn is enjoying his wed- ding trip more than he enjoyed the i. . . . ,. , last session of the Methodist general conference. -:o:- O my gosh, what queer happenings nowadays. A Kansas City woman is suing her husband for divorce be cause he is fat, yet refuses to wear her old corset. :o: The United States perform?d a good job cleaning up Panama, hut we'd hate to live there if the job last ed no longer than the cleaning of our Panama hat. : o: The Mayor of a North Carolina town was arrested for drunker, ne.-s iccently. Probably felt it was hi.; duty to lessen that infernal 'y Ions time between drinks. :o: Press dispatches say Amy John sn, the English skyrider, slapped a young man who tried to kiss her and he backed away with his nose bleed ing. That wasn't a slap; it was what i the boys call a sock. :o: Now that he has recalled Prirao Camera to the Italian army, Musso- jlini will feel that war can bpgin any j time. But it really wasn't necessary to recall Camera for training. He i was getting splendid "setting up" I exercises in this country. - f : . ; . - ..::VV Muscular Pains They may attack you any where your back, your leg3, your arms, your neck. These Pains may be mis taken for Neuritis, Rheuma tism, Lumbag-o, Sciatica. pleasant, mint-flavored tablet quick in action and effective. reuraJgia. Two Sizes 15c and 23c Mff0ffJP93T. iw-TT2i'ri m mm It is enough to make Mussolini go out and bite himself to have Na ture pull off an earthquake like that without asking his consent. :o: The Florida Times-Union thinks that a Senator who can't solve a dial phone can't solve weighty Govern ment problems. What of it? Few of them ever try to. :o: Indition that Hollywood will soon be deluged with talkie talent is con tained in the report that California experts are to produce twite as many prunes this year as last. :o: The heat has made a big share of the population goofy, but so far no body has been crazy enough yet to suggest this is a grand time to start our Christmas shopping. :o: If you would be repared for a de luge of pithy comment on weather conditions in South America, it is now well to be advised that it snow ed in Chile the other day. :o: Irish women and girls spend more than $3,000,000 a year on cosmetics. To show, perhaps, that they can be just as belligerent as the men folks by using a heavy lipstick. :o: Helen Wills Moody attributes her prowess in tennis to the fact she learned to play on asphalt courts. Proving again, of course, that it's the hard knocks that get you there. :o: A hot weather tip from the surgeon-general's office is to keep the spinal cord protected. We doubt, however, if women will make their frocks conform to the suggestion. :o: i Henry Ford donated a million dol lars to a little college over in Geor gia. However, citizens of the Cracker States have spent twenty times that amount for Ford cars within the pait five years. :o: Italian newspapers refer to Mus solini as "the greatest man since Christ," nothing original about that. "Uncle Anse" McLauri said the same thing about William Jennings Bryan thirty years ago. :o:- Although 12 of 13 experts decided that the Bamberger and Watkins babies had been switched, the parents reversed the decision. Each family will keep the child it brought home from the hospital. :o: WORLD COURT NOMINEES Dean Roscoe Pound, of the Har vard Law School, has been named as a candidate lor a juugesnip ci tne Permanent Court of International Justice of The Hague. No happier choice could be found than this, even ihourh the nomination did come from a delegation, tnat ot biam. wnicn does not carry any tremendous weight in League of Nations councils. This follows closely on the nomi nation of Dr. James Brown Scott by Cuba a few weeks ago. It is likely that when the League meets for its annual assembly in September, one or the other of these Americans will be chosen to succeed Charles Evans Hughes, who resigned from the more remunerative but less potent place at The Hague to become Chief Justice of the United States. The nominations of two Americans made by foreign nations since the United States does not share in the work of the Court officially are an interesting contrast. Dr. Scott has been closely associated with inter national gatherings ever since The Hague Conference of 1S99 and 1907. His work with the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace has car ried him through many countries at various tasks of conciliation and de velopment of international law and arbitration. Dean Pound has confined his labors to the United States very largely, but in his own field, the phil osophy of law and the further social ization of law, he has become a final authority of world-wide fame. It is strangely difficult to choose between the two. If Dean Pound is a more liberal type, better prepared for the work of blazing new legal trails in international litigation, it is also true that Dr. Scott has a closer familiar ity with international jurisprudence and the methods of conciliation be tween nations. It will be peculiarly interesting, therefore, to see the results of the League of Nations elections in the fall. It may be that they will choose neither American. Having elected John Bassett Moore and Charles Evans Hughes in succession, only to find that they resigned hurriedly and did little to bring the United States into the Court, the League members may conclude to give the United States up as a bad job. But the out standing merit of the two American candidates is such that one of them can hardly be denied the post merely because the Senate of his country has refused to permit American adher ence to the Court. TIME TO TAKE A THOUGHT As long as times were booming, our current industrial economic system seemed fairly easy to understand. Life was just one long process of ex pansion. Some new miracle had made the sky the limit for practical ly everything. Wages were always go ing to rise, sales records were always going to go higher, and business gen erally was always going to be better each year, than it had been the year before. It was beautifully simple, and it bred in most of us an optimism that was one of the prodigies of the age. Now that things aren't going quite so nicely, this optimism is giving way to a pessimism equally exces sive. Sackcloth and ashes are having their day. The industrial system that formerly looked so simple now seems complex beyond human understand ing. A good deal of the trouble, perhaps grows out of the fact that our me chanical processes went ahead faster than our intellectual activities. We had never bothered to try to under stand this queer combination of fi nancial and mechanical puzzles which brought prosperity. Now we are be ing forced to think about them; it is no longer possible simply to take the result for granted. The upshot probably will be, we shall get back on the highway to prosperity with a clearer idea of what the whole business is about, and consequently a much better chance of getting there, than was the case be fore. For the present, however, the whole thing is very perplexing. The chief trouble in nearly every Irne of business from agriculture to the manufacture of automobiles seems to be over-production. We have brought forth more wheat, more auto mobiles, more bricks, more suits of clothes than can be sold. The result idle farm lands, and factories which are working on a part-time basis, if at all. But what is the remedy? A strict curtailment of production all around? This means that many farm lands and many factories must remain idle per manently. More serious than that, it also means that many laborers must do the same. Is that the only way out? If so, we are indeed in a bad Cx. The optmism that carried us along during the last half dozen years must come to the rescue now and persuade us that there is a better solution. Somewhere there is a way by which we can use to the utmost our amaz ing facilities for producing things without, at the same time, clogging the channels of trade with a surplus. It is up to us to find this way. If the current business depression com pels us to stop and take thought so that we do find it, we shall be amply repaid for the trouble it has caused us. :o: HUSTON TO QUIT Claudius Huston will resign as chairman of the Republican National Committee on Aug. 7. There was never a chance for him to continue in the place after his testimony be fore the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee. That testimony showed he had used funds in his private stock-trading account which he had collected to promote legislation de sired by interests seeking to get con trol of Muscle Shoals. To be sure, he made only temporary use of the funds, but the irregularity of his conduct ended his usefulness in the high party office to which Mr. Hoover ap pointed him. Nor has his subsequent deportment advanced him in public esteem. Instead of accepting the in evitable with such candor and grace as he could muster, he repeatedly as serted he would not resign. His ob stinacy was embarrassing to the Pres ident and to the party. A man of sterner stuff in the White House would have demanded the resigna tion, unpleasant as such action would be. Mr. Hoover revealed the same indecision in this instance which has marked him in other official relations a weakness which, after the dis illusioning session of Congress, the country has come to accept. It was the leaders of the Republican party the practical men who know when a situation must be met that got rid of Huston. To them goes the credit which the country as a whole, we be live, would have been glad to award Mr. Hoover. o: A passenger in a New Orleans taxi cab was found dead the other day, which only goes to show that there ought to be a law against placing those meters where the patron can watch the dial climbing impidly up ward. o: Perhaps the lady secretary who married Bishop James Cannon, Jr., the well known stock market gamb ler, did so for the purpose of reform ing him. Some marriages are inspir ed by that intent. THE EE ALLY BIG QUESTION While League of Nations propa ganda proceeds; while time is frit tered away by the representatives of the nations in peace and disarma ment gestures; while Russia raves and ruins, the Pan-American Union gathers momentum and strength. Such union will be independent of all the world. Self-sufficient and non aggressive, it is destined to be also the earth's greatest conservator of peace, because it can compel peace. Before the potential significance of such a union the insincere and sel fish proposals of alien nations to do that under treaty stipulations grow flaccid and pale. This year will mark the convening of the one hundredth important meet ing of the republics of the American continent in international conference the Inter-American Conference on Agriculture, Forestry and Animal In dustry, to be held in Washington early in September. One hundred yeans of effort find climax here. The event is historic. It signifies glorious things for the future welfare of the nations of the Western Hemisphere. Of particular interest is the fact that this confer ence will be the first pan-American assembly that has devoted itself ex clusively to the study on a broad scale of the problems of agriculture as they exist in the Americas the basic problems of any structure of government. The importance of this meeting is of greater moment than any heretofore ever held by the na tions of North and South America. Out of it well may come immeasur able good for the Western Hemis phere. :o: SUPERSTITIOUS WALL STREET Does it surprise ary one that fortune-tellers during periodic invasions of Wall Street do a land office busi ness? It need not. All gamblers are superstitious; and much of Wall Street's business has an aleatory edge. Jones reads the future from Smith's charts of booms and depressions. Brown reads it in the stars with mediumistic acid aid. White stables a hunch and r ne o. them goes din nerless. The street eats up stores of trader superstitions as. it d.-es the lists of cat-and-dcg "securities" in the strong boxes of deceased million aires. Wall Street is human, and var ious. It includes stenographers and messenger boys as well as fat brok ers; folk fresh from the farm as well as night club habitues; the neigh borhood is an eager marker for really good apples. And what about the bucket-shop-dupes? Is any superstition grosser than theirs? There is no exact science about Wall Street. It is a nic rocosm. It includes many men of all the mand minds that go to make up the wider world. And as there is quite a lot of money floating about there what better pitch could a fortune-teller ask? Wall Street has not produced witch burnings and he murders, but its brand of superstition has many of the earmarks of that of the illiterate, mountaineer. :o: Rhode Island's thirteen-year-old bootlegger i3 getting an early start toward a fortune in the country's most profitable industry. :o: V 4 A i A" "J i f 7 ouuin OLINU Ashland Gasette Miss Irene Rau is spending a few days with Mrs. Frances Shaffer. William and August Mawn spent Friday evening at the Ed Rau home. Mrs. Frances Shaffer of Murdock spent Thursday with Mrs. Ed Rau. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Woitzel spent Sunday afternoon at the Ed Rau home. Mrs. Henry Stander is on a two weeks vacation visiting her sister in Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Elrod spent Sunday evening at the Clyde Has well home. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Laughlin were callers at the Jason Streight home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Christenson of Omaha are spending a few days at the W. M. Blum home. Miss Ethel Hunter who has been in the hospital for some time, is home again. She is on the road to recovery. Mrs. J. L. Carnicle and Mrs. Nora Babbitt called on Mrs. William O'Brien, Mrs. Charley Brown and Mrs. Phillip Kline Thursday after noon. Mrs. Nora Babbitt who has been spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. J. L. Carnicle, returned to her home at Dwight. N. D., Thursday evening. Mrs. Nora Babbitt of North Da kota and Miss Dorothy Barton of Tulsa, Okla., were supper guests at the Homer Carnicle home Wednes day evening. Mrs. Nora Babbit of Dwight, N. D.. and Miss Dorothy Barton of Tulsa, Okla.. and Mrs. J. L. Carnicle were dinner guests Thursday at the Clyde Haswell home. NO WAR FOR' JAPAN The discussion over the London treaty has caused some Americans to drag the old Japanese bogie out cf the attic and look it over again with fear-filled hearts. Before we get real panicky about it, however, we might pay attention to some recent remarks by W. R. Castle, Jr., who has just re turned to this country after serving as our special ambassador to Japan. "It is amazing to me, once more at home in Washington, to find the anti-treaty people still harping on the Japanese bogie," says Mr. Castle. "Japan could hardly live except for her exports to America, amounting to nearly 1400,000,000. She imports from us nearly $300,000,000 worth of goods and depends on America for the cotton which she manufactures and re-exports to China. War with America, which would be serious for us, would be ruin for Japan." That is sober sense. In the face of it, why get so worried about one or two extra cruisers in the Japanese fleet? :o: The girls in Plattsmouth won't notice a boy nowadays unless he can command a sport model car. And we can remember the time right here in this old town when a girl used to throw a guy over for another who was able to hire a lubber-tired buggy for a Sunday afternoon drive. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by Golda Noble Beal, Cierk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me di rected, I will on the 23rd day of August, A. D. 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m., of said day, at the south front door of the court house in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebr., in said coun ty, sell at public auction to the high est bidder for cash the following real estate, to-wit: East half of Lot 9 and all of 10 in Block 27 in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Cass county The same being levied upon and taken as the property of August W. Cloidt et al. Defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by Plattsmouth State Bank. Plain tiff, and Murray State Bank, Defend ant and Cross Petitioner, Plaintiffs against said Defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 15th. A. D. 1930. BERT REED. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Mary A. Street, deceased: On reading the petition of E. H West ott. Executor, praying a final settlement and allowance of his ac count filed in this Court on the 21st day of July, 1930, and for final set tlement of said estate and his dis charge as said 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 county, on the 15th day of August, A. D. 1930, at 9:00 o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner Ehould not be granted, and that notice of the pendency or said petition ana tne hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by pub lishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this 21st day of July, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j21-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF SALE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska Caroline I. Baird and Edith Estelle Baird, Plaintiffs vs. Florence B. Jones, a Minor, NOTICE and Fred A. Jones, Guar dian of Florence B. Jones, Minor, Defendants. Notice is hereby given that under ard by virtue of the decree of the District Court of Cass county, Ne braska, entered in the above entitled action by said Court, on the 12th day of July. A. D. 1930. the undersigned sole referee will sell at public auc tion to the highest bidder for cash, on the 25th day of August, A. D. 1930, at 10:00 o'clock a. m., at the south front door of the court house in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, the following de scribed real estate, to-wit: Lots four (4), five (5) and six (6) in Block sixty-two (62), in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska. Terms of Sale: 10 casa of the amount of the bid at the time of sale, and the balance on confirma tion. Said sale will be held open for one hour. Dated this 15th day of July, A. D. 1930. CHARLES E. MARTIN, Referee. C. A. RAWLS, Attorney. j21-5w NOTICE OF SUIT In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass, Nebraska. Clara Jones, Plaintiff vs. Ed Jones, Defendant 1 OTICE You are hereby notified that on March 12, 1930, Clara Jones com menced an action in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, against you, the object, purpose and prayer of which is to secure an abso lute divorce in favor of said plaintiff and against you, and that plaintiff be restored to her maiden name, Clara Boom. You are further notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before Monday, August 25, 1930, or your default will be enter ed and decree rendered in accordance with the prayer of said petition. Of all cf which you will take due notice. CLARA JONES, Plaintiff. W. A. Robertson, Attorney for Plaintiff. j!4-4w SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cas, ss. By virtue of an Execution issued by Golda Noble Beal, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Casa county, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 29th day of July, A. D. 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m., of said day, at the south front door ot the court house, in the City of Platts mouth. Nebraska, In said county, sell at Public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following described lands, to-wit: The east ninety acre of the northwest quarter (NWU) of Section 25. Township 12, North of Range 12 East of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska, subject to all liens; The same being levied upon and taken as the property of William Kaufmann, defendant, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the Flret National Eank of Plattsmouth, Ne braska, plaintiff against said defend ant. William Kaufmann et al. Plattsmouth, Nebraska. June 23rd, A. D. 1930. BERT REED. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. j23-5w NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of v 11- liam Shea, deceased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested in said es tate are hereby notified that a peti tion has been filed in said Court al leging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and praying for administration upon said estate and for such other and fur ther orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and pro vided to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally Fettled and determined, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 15th day of August. A. D. 1930, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 15th day of August, 1930, at 10:00 o'clock a. m., to con test the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant adminis tration of said estate to William 11. Shea, Jr., or soma other suitable per son and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) J21-3w County Judge. NOTICE of Hearing on Petition for Deter mination of Heirship. Estate of Enos N. Johnson, de ceased, in the County Court of Casa county, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, To all per sons interested In 6ald estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Adam Stoehr has filed his petition alleging that Enos N. Johnson died Intestate in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, on or about March 20th, 1901, being a resident and inhabitant of Pottawat tamie county, Iowa, and died seized of the following described real es tate, to-wit: The west half (W) of the east half (E) of the south west quarter (SWU) of the southwest quarter (SW'U) of Section eleven (11), and Sub Lot 21 of Lot nine (9), in the west half (W) of the east hair (E) of the northwest quarter (NWU) of the north west quarter (NV) of Section fourteen (14), all in Township twelve (12), Range thirteen (13). East of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska leaving as his sole and only heirs at law the following named persons. to-wit: Sarah J. Johnson, widow of said deceased; That the interest of the petitioner herein in the above described real estate is as a subsequent purchaser of said real estate herein described: That no application for adminis tration has been made and the estate of said decedent has not been admin istered In the State of Nebraska: and praying for a determination of the time of the death of said Enos N. Johnson and of bis heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real property belonging to the said deceased in the State of Ne braska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing the 15th day of August, A. D. 1930, before the Court at the hour of nine o'clock a. m., in the County Court room in the court house at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 17th day of July, A. D. 1930. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) J21-3w County Judge.