MONDAY, NOV. 3, 1930. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL Cbe plattsmouth lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, 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 living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. A beavy foot on the gas means a cold foot In the grave. :o: Success slogan in India: If at first you don't secede, try, try again. :o: In football the kicker wins cheers much more easily than in politics. :o: The Bhifting of political gears may account for some of that noxious static. :o: More men of standing would run for office if politics wanted men who stood anywhere. :o: Germans are successful because they investigate chemicals instead cf each other, like we do. :o: In case of moonshine overproduc tion we may expect some one to start a buy-a-gallon movement. :o: Utopia will come only after the second-story men have declared them selves flatly opposed to night work. :o: "He married her for her money." "Everybody knows that, but what nobody knows is why she married him." :o:- Maryland reports a complete fail ure of her late spinach crop. That's nothing to cry about, either softly or out loud. :o: When a preacher dabbles in poli tics he accomplishes no good either for his church or the cause of good government. :o: Co-operation is a wonderful thing. If all the freckles on a girl's face could get together she would have a coat of tan. :o: Population figures are hard to re member, but you can guess the size of a town by the number of holes on Its golf course. :o: Federal reports say there are few er divorces. But the way they get played up in the newspapers, they must be important ones. :o: When the Anti-Saloon League claimed that 74 Senators "the dry," It might have kept to the spirit of truth by adding, "in a manner of speaking." :o: The world's record for taking dic tation In shorthand is 425 words per minute, but many a husband takes dictation much faster than that and never gets even a chance to raise his hand. :o: If you are one of those down-in-the-mouth folks who believes the world is growing worse with each i if the populace doesn't stop tramp passing day, hunt up your Bible, j ling on it the time isn't far away brush off the dust, and read F'roverbs , when no one will be able to recog 31:10. j nize prohibition. Chbir-minl mint relieves ordinary headache and neuralgia, muscular pains and functional pains. It's excellent for Cory z a cold in the head and for the sore throat that often accompanies it. Physicians have been writing prescriptionfl for a similar combination for years. The Dr. Miles Medical Company has standardized this well balanced formula and is glad to offer it in the form of a stable, palatable, mint-flavored tablet for home use. Pocket Size 15c, Regular Package 25c Chivalry is the quality a man thinks he possesses when he's afraid of his wife. :o: What chance has a man 1 ving a clean life when they arrest him for stealing a bathtub? :o: With a short hay crop this year the number of hay fever victims ought to be smaller than usual. :o: What the German Reichstag needs is a flying squadron of burly Amer ican prohibition bouncers. :o: The fellow who called it the "world serious" wasn't so far wrong, judging from the way most people take it. : o: Any woman who can back a car down a 100-foot driveway without bending a fender is simply too smart to be trusted. : o : With the corn on the cob E.nd wa termelon season over. etiquette doesn't cramp a man's table manners quite so much. :o: Cheer up, you folks who a few weeks ago were complaining of the heat. You can soon scold the cold winds and snows. :o: It appears that the water-power question will come up for attention after we've settled the question of the power of firewater. :o: "Frozen assets" is often assigned as the cause of bank failures when the real reason is the petrified con sciences of bank officers. : o : "About the time it gets cool enough to enjoy a good rest at night," it gets so cool one wants to stay in bed in the morning. :o: "We are losing the art of conver sation," says Roger Heywood, a Bal timore writer. It is quite evident I that Roger is not married. :o: Almost every day one sees items in the paper which should be a sol emn warning to all girls to be care ful about marrying strangers. :o: Naturally government of the peo ple, by the people, for the people must wait to see which way the ref erendum cat is going to jump. :o: King Albert of Belgium dips his bread in his coffee, but he says that the queen objects. The avenge Am erican wife would crown him for "ge-dunking." : o : Senator Fess says that ho refuses to recognize prohibition as an issue. "Smile At theAche There's a new, pleasant. - flavored, tablet thai VICTOR LION OF JUDAH On November 2 the King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, the world's most conscious and among the very last of earth's absolute mon archs, Ras Tafari, will ride to his coronation as Haile Selassie I., Em peror of Abyssinia. The streets of Addis Ababa will welcome the Son of a Thousand years. For Ras Tafari is of the line of Solomon. When Sheba returned unto her own land after her visit with the Great King, she bore within her bosom a gift greater than any other that the King had given her. And since that day the sons of Solomon and Sheba have ruled the Ethiop lands. But will the new Emperor be per mitted to realize his dreams and be left undisturbed in upholding the traditions of centuries? Will his 10, 000,000 mediaeval subjects, in this last "undivided" corner of Africa, see the line of Menelik broken and ended, the land given over to pro gress, as viewed by Western eyes? The new Emperor, in his former capacity, has labored long to oppose flame with flame, so to speak. He has done great things in the way of con structive modern material develop ment. Abyssinia, in this Son of Solo mon's dream, is to become a great modern nation. His forcefulness al ready has enabled him to have his sovereignty included in the member ship of the League of Nations. But there is gold and oil and other wealth in Abyssinia. The way of Selassie may be a hard and troublous way. Mussolini is Duiiding a railroad south from Eritrea. France now con trols the one railroad that gives ac cess to Addis Ababa. The British de pend upon the waters from Lake Tsana to irrigate the Sudanese cot ton lands. A construction company from our own glorious republic of America is building the dam which makes the waters available. The world might be better than it is, and it is only reasonable to as sume that the new monarch in time will be assailed by grave internal and external dangers. To date he has proved himself to be a resourceful, skillful and astute man. One is in clined to wish and hope that he may be able to maintain in security the centuried independence of his storied land, while realizing to the full his desire to bring to his people the com forts and enjoyments of Western civ ilization. : o : THE OIL CHARGES BLOW UP The charges that the interior de partment had permitted extensive transfers of oil shale lands to private interests without proper protection of the people's interests have been discredited by the department of jus tice after a careful investigation of the records. It was to the records that Ralph S. Kelley, field agent for the department in the Denver divi sion, directed the investigation. These records show that 97 per cent of the shale lands still belong to the government, that no irregularities are shown in the details of transfer for the other 3 per cent and that their ultimate value is problematical. The Kelley charges seemed improb abe from the first. There is noth ing in the life, character, service and repute of Secretary Wilbur to impair the public's confidence in him and hi? department. Even if he were less well known, and even if he had been a man of activity in machine politics after the manner of the Ohio crowd that brought disgrace upon the Hard ing administration, it would have seemed incredible that he should have dared to follow so closely in the steps of Secretary Fall. The department of justice, which did the investigating, is a wholly different department from the one under Attorney General Daugherty, which was supposed to be safeguard ing the public interest during the orgy and graft under Fall. The find ings of the department as now or ganized carry weight with the pub lic. Mr. Kelley has had a chance to produce all his evidence. Presumably he produced all he had in a series of copywrighted newspaper articles. So far he has discredited himself rather than the department which he at tacked. He declares the department's report is not a whitewash for Secre tary Wilbur, but it certainly is a blackwash for Mr. Kelley. Kansas City Star. :o: "Bugs" Moran didn't like the Chi- caog jail they dumped him in. Any body who could get the kind of fun eral he would after a ride Bugs feels they ought to have a palatial jail to house him while he is pulling the strings to get out. :o: "Tariff tinkering and the confu sion that will go with it in event Democrats gain control of Congress will throw the United States into a turmoil that will take years to clarify." LATIN AMERICA AND THE NEW U. S. TARIFF Nations of the New World are well represented on the list of those which have formally criticised the new tar iff of the United States, but the chorus of protest is one in which the voices of certain singers are much louder than others and in which most of the parts taken by nations to the southward are intermittent and in many instances contribute little to the refrain. In tariq interests, as in most mattesr, Latin America is not a unit. Our new revenue law affects the markets of some of the republics very severely, of others only mildly of others practically not at all. Among the greatest lines in which we are dependent upon foreign sup plies are foodstuffs, to which Latin America contributes more than any other of the world, more, indeed, than all the rest of the world combined. Two articles stand far in the lead, coffee and sugar. Practically all our imports of both come from our New World neighbors. Coffee comes in greater part from Brazil and Colom bia, and sugar almost exclusively from Cuba. All told, we took last year $302,400,000 worth of the for mer and $209,300,000 worth of the latter. But the tariff treatment of the two commodities under the law now in force shows high contrasts. Coffee comes in free under a well estab lished policy of not taxing the break fast table, so nothing at all is paid on the great shipments from Brazil and Colombia. The new tariff bill to these countries is almost a matter of indifference. But not all our break fast is unaffected by the tariff. Sugar has regularly in the past paid heav ily on entry into our ports and it now pays new high rates. As a result, Cuba has in some years paid a fourth of all the tariffs collected from all the world. The new tariff, which increased the rate of Cuban sugars from 1.7 6 to 2 cents per pound, hits Cuban pro ducers severely, especially since the increase comes at a time when the sugar market for five years has been weak and the price of sugar deliv ered in New York has reached a low er level than at any previous time. With sugar at about 1.1 cents per pound. Cuban leaders declare a tariff rate of 2 cents work out not far from 200 per cent which can hardly be considered to put Cuba in a specially favorable position such as was con templated when our reciprocity treaty with the island was made in 1903. So Cuba is far from unconcerned about the tariff act of 1930. Down at the other end of Latin America, also, in Argentina and Uru guay, there is no laca or criticism of the new law as a "monstrosity." Part of the criticism from this quar ter, like that from Cuba, rests on a sound economic basis and part does not. Argentina produces, for exam ple, in good years about three-fourths of the linseed that enters world trade, and we are the greatest: buyers. The new rates will hurt her sales. Meats, hides, wool and casein Ar gentina exports in large amounts. We are good buyers of the last three items and have in recent years offered a growing market for Argentine can ned meats. Any increases in tariffs on these lines cut the Argentine pro ducers' market. Protests are also made against the cereal rates which have been adopted with the desire to protect the American farmer's mar ket. But under normal conditions shipments of these to the United States cannot be expected to reach large amounts, for this country al ready has difficulty in finding mar kets for its own production Argen tina in these cases is more scared than hurt. Nevertheless, to new tariff rates on all agricultural lines Argentina raises a vigorous objection, for she believes that even if her sales are not now in some cases important, they may become much greater if the tar iff rates continue low. Her anxiety is the more pronounced because al most the noly things she offers for sale abroad are the vegetable and animal products of her farming in dustries. The rest of the Latin American nations, though in none of them is our new revenue law welcomed, find it of minor consequence. Most of them ship us raw materials, chiefly such items as copper, nitrates, iron ore and petroleum, which come in free under the new tariff, as they did under the old one. Chile, Ecuador and Peru, Mexico and the countries around the Carib bean Sea in which political as well as economic interests of the United States are so prominent, find, except in the case of Cuba, that they are af fected by higher rates in the Hawley Smoot tariff in only a small part of their total exports to the United States. Though this is true, the pro tests of some of these countries have" been vigorous nevertheless. Some, on the other hand, are so little affected KC FOR OVER 0 YEAS Guaranteed pure I Wjk C, end efficient. ZD use :0ycw!i less than of high ;j: r r, priced brands. jjjffijSrO that they can be called the darlings of the free list. The exceptional position which the Latin American countries, with the exceptions cited, have held and con tinue to hold in our import markets is strikingly illustrated by classify ing what they send as as "free" and "dutiable," keeping in mind that a good Bhare of even what is classed as "dutiable" pays only low rates even under our latest customs law. Of all that Mexico sends us, only about one- fourth pays any duty at all. Almost nine-tenths of what Central America ships pays nothing to our customs of ficials. The South American coun tries, with the exception of Argen tina and Uruguay, pay duty on the average on less than one-twentietn of their shipments. The countries of Northern South America, on every $100 worth of goods they send to the United States, pay duty of any sort only on goods worth 30 cents. It is not to be presumed that the favored position in which Lalin Am erican nations stand in relation to our tariff is a result of a desire ese- pecially to favor their trade. Their exports to us come in free or at low rates because of their character, not because of their origin. They fall in classes which those who made the tariff law feel it is to our advantage to admit without paying duty. The fact is, nevertheless, that Latin American shipments, with rel atively few exceptions, continue to enter our ports under more favorable conditions than those from any other major section of the world and as a rule witnout paying any duties ai all. Is it surprising that the Europ ean critics of the American tariff find only scattered support in the nations of the New World? NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of John Quinton, 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 further orders and proceedings in the prem ises as may be required by the stat utes in such cases made and provid ed to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally settled and determined, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court, on the 21st day of November, A. D. 1930, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 21st day of No vember, 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m.. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant ad ministration of said estate to C. D. Quinton. or some other suitable per son and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) o27-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. Bv virtue of an Order of Sale issued by Golda Noble Beal. Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 15th day of November, 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 highest bidder for cash the follow ing real estate, to-wit: West half! of Lot 8 and 9, and the south half of the west half of Lot 10, and the west 24 feet of the east half of Lots 8, 9 and 10, all in Block 31, in th City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska the same being levied upon and tak en as the property of Sybil Brantner, Edward Brantner and Oscar Wilson, defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by Paul H. Gil- Ian, substituted for Silas Y. Gillan, plaintiffs against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, October 11, A. D. 1930. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. By REX YOUNG. Deputy Sheriff. CHARLEY'S EAST WAY "Spend money and you increase your credit. This will restore nation wide confidence." Thus says Vice President Charley Curtis. Sounds simple. Charley forgot to tell us where to get the money before starting the spending orgie, but that is immater ial. Being a Republican, the Vice President is not expected to furnish details. It's up to us to get busy, spend money, and restore nation-wide con fidence. And then, when that is ac complished, we can start throwing the harpoon into each other again. : o : The chief trouble with being a man is shaving takes longer than smearing on a little rouge. 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 Bertha Lancaster, deceased : On reading the petition of Glen Boedeker, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 21st day of October, 1930, and for final settlement of said estate and his discharge as said Adminis trator; 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 nd for said county, on the 21st day of Novem ber. A. D. 1930. at 10 o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing 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 October, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) o27-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice of Probate of For eign Will In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. To all persons interested in the estate of Ransom M. Cole, deceased: On reading the petition of Mar garet J. Cole, praying that the in strument filed in thiB Court on the 14th day of October, 1930, and pur porting to be a duls' authenticated copy of the last will and testament of Ransom M. Cole, deceased, that said instrument be admitted to pro bate, and the administration of said estate be granted to Roy O. Cole as Executor for the Stale of Nebraska. 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 14th day of November, A. D. 1930, at 10:00 o'clock a. m to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the 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. Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 14th day of October, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) o20-3w; County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the Matter of the Guardianship of Lucian Carper. Hazel Carper and Dalien Carper, Minors. To all persons interested in the matter of the Guardianship of Luc ian Carper, Hazel Carper and Dalien Carper, Minors: You are hereby notified that Ger trude Carper, guardian of the above named minors, has filed in the Coun ty Court of Cass county, Nebraska, on October 18th, 1930, her accoutit together with a petition wherein she alleges that Frank P. Sheldon de parted this life on August 31, 1930. and that he is at present her official bondsman as guardian of the above named minors, and praying therein that an order of court be entered re leasing said bondsman from all lia bility and for authority to file a new bond in this court with new surety thereon to be approved by this court, and praying further therein that all of her accounts and reports filed in this court since the date of her ap pointment as guardian of said minors on June 10th, 1916, be fully approv ed, allowed and forever settled by order of this court, and for an order discharging her as guardian of Luc ian Carper and Hazel Carper, who are now of legal age. You are further notified that a hearing will be had before this court in the County Court room in Platts mouth, Nebraska, in said county, on the 14th day of November, 1930. at the hour of ten o'clock a. m., at which time the said petition will be heard and a full and complete ex amination of said guardian's reports and accounts will be had, and that if you have any objections to the prayer of said petition, same should be filed in this court on or before said day and hour of hearing. By the Court. A H. DUXBURY. County Judge Caas Coun ty, Nebraska. o20-3w NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Ger trude L. Morgan, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 21st day of November. 1930, and the 22nd day of February, 1931, at 10 o'clock a. m., of each day, to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view of their adjustment and allowance.. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 21st day of Novem ber, A. D. 1980 and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 21st day of November. 1930. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 24th day of October, 19 30. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) o27-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, CasB county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Fred Hat. ni. deceased: On reading the petition of Herman Rieke. praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 24th day of October, 1930. and for pro-rating payment of claims, assignment of property and discharge of the Ad ministrator: 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 21st day of November, A. D. 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice cf the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 24th day of October, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) ol7-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebr?.sk?.. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Robert R. Nickles, de ceased. On reading the petition of Mettie Ray and A. F. Nickles. praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 17th day of October, 19 30, and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and allowed and re corded as the last will and testament of Robert R. Nickles, deceased; that said instrument lie admitted to pro bate and the administration of said estate be granted to Mary A. Nickles and Bertha M. Nickles as executrix; It is hereby ordered that you. and all persons interested in said matter, may. and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said coun ty, on the 21st day of November, A. D. 1930, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be. why the prayer of the petitioners should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing 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. Witness my hand, and the seal of said court, this 23rd day of October, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) o27-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF HEARING In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the Guardianship of James Petersen, Mentally Incom petent. To all persons Interested in the matter of the Guardianship of James Petersen, Mentally Incompetent: You are hereby notified that Mrs. Anna Marshall, formerly Anna Peter sen, guardian of James Petersen, mentally incompetent, filed in the County Court of Cass county, Nebras ka, on October 18th, 1930, a petition together with her final report as guardian, wherein she alleges that Frank P. Sheldon, is now deceased, and that during the lifetime of the said Frank P. Sheldon, he was the surety on her official bond as guar dian and praying in said petition for an order of court permitting and authorizing her as said guardian to file a new guardian's bond in this court with a new surety thereon to be approved by this court, and pray ing further therein that all of her reports as such guardian since the date of her appointment as such guar dian on February 25th, 1922, be ap proved and allowed as correct by said County Court, all of said reports be ing now on file in this Court. You are further notified that a hearing will be had in the County Court of Cass county. Nebraska, in the court house at Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 14th day of No vember, 1930, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock a. m., at which time the said petition will be heard and a full and complete examination of said guar dian's accounts will be had, and that if you have any objections to the prayer of said petition, same should be filed in thiB court on or before said day and hour of hearing. By the Court. A. H. DUXBURY, County Judge. Caas Coun ty, Nebraska.