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MONDAY. NOV. 17, 1920. PLATTSMOUTH M WKMMfA J0I7ENAI PAQZ TH?J2E Cbc plattsmoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PBJCX $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 800 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, St 50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. The gangsters are getting too much gold and not enough lead. :o: According to Kentucky's new elec tion law, honesty is a tedious busi ness. . :o: One-half the world doesn't know how the other half manages to buy gasoline. -:o:- Just in case nobody remembers to mention it, there'll be an election Is November, 1932. :o: If Arizona were in South America just now it would be putting on a bang-up revolution. :o: This year should go down in his tory as the one in which even polish ing the car didn't bring rain. :o: What Jim Ham Lewis handed to Ruth Hanna McCormick might be de scribed as an elegant sufficiency. :o: The Chinese-Russian situation is easy to understand. No man has much fight in him when he's broke. :o: Eventually the time wasted in talking about unsatisfactory condi- tlons will be devoted to improving them. :o: Soviet canned salmon is being dumped in the British market. This is one of those times when red salmon isn't best. :o: A Harvard student learned to fly and made his first solo trip after six hours of training. Perhaps he was a high flyer, anyway. :o: By this time the conclusion has probably percolated through the thick skull of the G. O. P. leaders that the Democratic donkey flings a mean hoof. :o: The bankers' association in Ne braska has offered S3, 000 for every bank bandit killed. Perhaps this move is designed to relieve the de pression. :o: After examining the atmosphere of a number of cities a health officer declared: -"We are living in the dirtiest age in the history of civil isation." And not a theatrical pro ducer winced. :o: That dry Senator who kept his wet goods from the bootlegger snug lyveiled behind volumes of the Con gressional Record probably thought he might as well make use of that ponderous work. :o: Prance has declined to permit Am erican dry observers to watch licuor shipments at the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Prance is a humane nation. It doesn't want to break any dry observers' hearts. :o: The pearl fishing industrv has been ! revived off the coast of California, and it is said that the output this year will amount to nearly $200. 000,000. That represents a large number of irritated oysters. Your Driveways and Sidewalks Muddy roads and walks into and around YOUR house should be graveled or paved. Our men will deliver and spread. Terms Can be Arranged Estimates Free No Obligation We haul a distance of 25 miles from our plant. Stoc k trucks returning from the yards loaded very rapidly. Phone: Plattsmouth 21 George W. Bell Co. Pit on Highway 75, South Side Platte River It iaKes 64 muscles to frown and 13 to smile. Pollyanne was an econ omist. -co: Early success swells the had. Later on it affects only the midriff circumference. :o: The life a young man should live depends on whether your own kids are boys or girls. :o: The successful fisherman is the one who discards the bait he likes and uses the one the fish like. -:v: in Stocks move in narrow lane Headline. And it must be a gantlet, the way they've been spanked. :o: Maybe man is boss; but it isn't the woman that has a fellow feeling for the kids when they're in bad. :o: One man can lift Europe's smallest car. Over here it takes a pretty good man just to lift the mortgage on one. :o: A king and a bellhop have poise. It is the reward of those who know how great they are or how onery oth- er people are. :o:- Being good won't make you rich. Bootleggers still thrive, thus indi cating that people who lost all in Wall Street were drys. :o: Ontario, Canada, has temperance for its goal, through government con trol of the liquor traffic. Thus tem perance, not prohibition. :o: A Frenchman, says a news i:em. has willed his entire fortune to the French government. It takes Gaul to accept a gift like this. :o: Germany has one airship that ha6 carried 169 persons in one load. Thus it makes it hard to get away from people even in an airplane. :o: Commissioner Doran says poisoned liquor is being hunted to its lairs and being eliminated. But he does not. say pure liquor is taking its place. :o: A Pittsburgh husband and wife are rivals in the beauty parlor business. And the gossip is that they are doing it merely to keep up appearance.'!. :o: It is easy enough to agree with the Yale professor who declared that 4 per cent beer was not intoxicating. It certainly isn't if one does not get it. :o: Mr. Borah having said that prohi bition will not be repealed until we can get something better, the Old Rounder is today forwarding the de tails of 18 alternatives by air poft. Detroit News. :o: Adolph Hitler, the man who, as piring to become the Mussolini of Germany, has put Europe on edges j by his announcement of a political i program that would inevitably pre- jcipitate war is an old-fashioned poli tician. He has built up a par:y of six and one-half millions by the time honored method of making speeches. A Pennsylvania house painter had some of his paintings accepted ftr an international art exhibit. Prov ing house painters can also show lucky streaks. :: While a scientist is harnessing the Gulf Stream for power why not har ness the trade winds and the aurora borealis? Many persons would like to invest in them. A .Pittsburgh man, shot in error by a policeman, complimented him on his alertness. And there is little doubt that the tactful cop replied "I aim to please." :o: Though Booth Tarkington, Indiana novelist, has had a third eye oper ation, who can say there are stronger visioned writers better able to view the American scene? :o: It was the presence of a saloon on every good business corner that gave impetus to the prohibition movement which ought to be borne in mind by the gasoline companies. :o: Somehow South American revolu tions bring to mind the game of foot ball which the cowboys went ahead and played anyway in the story, when they couldn't find the ball. : q: Add embarrassing moments: The situation which confronts the two Japanese admirals when their cruis ers collided in maneuvers staged es pecially for the Mikado recently. :o: It all depends on the point of view whether the head of the Pennsylvania railroad, in deserting the regular Re publican nominee, merely took a switch or jumped the track. :o: Labor's answer to the challenge of depression is a startling one to the man who has kept in intimate touch with the thoughts that have passed through the minds of the more far sighted manufacturers during the last decade. :o: The New York Times finds that of the 67 candidates for the United States Senate 29 did not go to col lege. However, that shows a bigger percentage of college men among such candidates now than would have been found in past times. :o: PARTY CONTROL Is party control weakening? The nominal control of Congress appears likely to be held by the Republicans, but the next House and Senate will be most closely divided bodies. The contingencies of physical existence at any time may make for havoc and disturbance, for Congressmen and Senators are men, and men are mortal. In any event these bodies seem destined to turDuiency ana to be more definitely than ever placed in the precarious charge of irregular blocs. The Democratic Party not long ago went to pieces. It has come back to partial power with the aid of Republicans, the caprices of Nature and the psychological reactions of economic law. But party lines in many instances became so involved and completely mingled as to sug gest a threat of descruction to this basic essential in the scheme of democratic government. And the evil leaven continues to work, in village, city, state and Nation. The prestige of the Republican Party sadly has been damaged; its muitani marcn to i ac present has degenerated into something very like a rout. Perhaps a boom of pros perity between now and next Presi dential election could and would save it. It is not impossible that this should occur. The President has set to work great economic and indus trial forces. This work is beginning to bear fruit, and the country needs such development far more than the success of any party. :o: WOMEN PILOTS IN WAR The news that two women on the Pacific coast have broken into com mercial aviation by establishing schools to train male pilots calls to I mind the prediction recently made by a magazine writer that women, in the next war, will take their places with the men as the pilots of combat planes. This opens an interestiny field for speculation interesting, and some what depressing. Off-hand, one can think of no logical argument for it. When women have demonstrated that they can make excellent pilots they are surely as fearless as men, if not more so. Why not let them fighting in the air. Of course, the last vestige of tra ditional chivalry would vanish. But modern war, after all, isn't very chiv alrous any more. It would hardly be any less chivalrous to make fight ers out of women than it is to drop bombs on them when they are miles behind the line, as was done in thr last war. THE DEBENTURE REAPPEARS Senator Borah has not given up his fight for adoption of the export de benture plan for agricultural relief, despite two defeats in Congress and Mr. Hoover's bitter opposition to it. He says the plan will be reintroduced in the coming short session, and, if unsuccessful there, in the new Con gress which has just been elected. The export debenture plan ie a device which, in theory, makes xhe tariff effective as to agricultural prod ucts. Under it, farmers exporting their produce would receive deben ture certificates whose face value would be equal to one-half of the amount of the tariff on the produce exported. These certificates would be accepted by the Government at their face value in payment of tariff duties on goods imported from abroad. For example, the tariff on wheat is 42 cents a bushel. The farmer who ex ported 100 bushels of wheat would receive 100 debenture certificates of the face value of 21 cents each, or a total of $21. These certificates would be accepted by the Government as the equivalent of 521 cash in the pay ment of tariff duties on goods import ed. Since few farmers import goods themselves, they would sell the cer tificates to persons engaged In im porting goods. The presumption is that the farmers would have to eell to the importers at a discount. While the money represented by the deben ture certificates would not actually be paid out of the Government Treas ury, the effect would be exactly the same, Decause it wouia oe paia out of money intercepted on its way to the Treasury. The debenture idea first made its appearance in the farm relief bill as reported to the Senate by its com mittee on agriculture on April 3, 1929. That bill gave the projected Farm Board discretionary power to utilize it. The House voted down the debenture of the farm relief bill June 13, 1929, by a vote of 250 to 113. De benture advocates explain this over whelming defeat as due partly to the lower house's resentment at what it deemed the Senate's usurpation of the right to initiate financial legis lation, and partly to the belief that Mr. Hoover would veto the bill if it contained a debenture plan. On Oct. 19, 1929, the Senate inserted the de benture plan in the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. On May 3, 1930. the House again refused to concur, by a vote of 231 to 161, and a few days later the Senate eliminated the plan from tfie tariff bill. Most of the strength of the deben ture, both in House and Senate, came from the Democrats. tOf the 43 votes arainst it in the Senate, only six were Democratic. Of the 161 votes for it in the House, 112 were cast by Democrats. Thus, advocates of the debenture believe that the increase in Democratic strength in both houses as a result of the election will make it possible to pass the plan. How ever, it is practically certain that Mr. Hoover will veto it, so that to put it into effect the debenturites would have to muster a two-thirds voi:e in both houses. Whether this can be done remains problematical. Regardless of the merits of the export debenture plan, its vitality is due in large part to the widespread dissatisfaction with Mr. Hoover's farm relief program and the methods of his Federal Farm Board. The great promise of farm relief made in the 1928 campaign has not been ful filled. In fact, with wheat selling be low a dollar, for the first time in many years, the other agricultural products correspondingly depressed, agriculture is worse off than it was in 1928. The Federal Farm Board's effort to peg wheat prices by purchas ing huge quantities at around SI. 20 was a lamentable failure and an ef fort to transcend primary economic laws. The campaign to induce farm ers to reduce their acreage, has, we believe, little chance of success. Whether the co-operative movement fostered by the Farm Board will take hold it is as yet too early to say. We do not mean to blame Mr. Hoover for not working miracles in connection with farm relief. Assur edly, the farm problem is a monu mental one. But his failure to make progress leaves an opening for the debenturites to say, "Your plan has been unsuccessful, now let us try ours." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :c: Up in Elizabeth. N. J., last Sep tember, a large brewery engaged in making honest-to-goodness beer was raided, and the plant placed in. cus tody of two Federal prohibition agents. The other day the prohibi tion agents were caught helping three other men turn out beer in large quantities. That's one of the many reasons why prohibition does not prohibit. :o: Russia sent agricultural e:cports from all parts of the Soviet Union to the German Eastern Fair at Koe nigsberg. Germany, this year. It'l.vA First in the dough. Then in the oven. You can be sure of perfect bakings in using KC BAKING POWDER 25 ounces for 25c THE ARMISTICE The world, perhaps, throughout all history never witnessed an event of auch universal thanksgiving and wildly emotional rejoicing as char acterized the announcement of the armistice agreed to between the Allies and Germany and her asso ciate nations in arms. The days of cruelty and pain and hatred and all the frightful compan- ionry of war was ended; above the wreck of empires, the ruin of mul tiple homes, the shattered bodies of millions slain; out of the ashes and the blood that had drained from the veins of Christian civilization, hu manity saw, through yearning, teai dimmed eyes, rise the phoenix of Hope, bearing promise of new mortal accords through peaceful and pros perous coming years. Men and wom en were mad with joy and gratitude for their deliverance from horrors such as Dante never dreamed or Dore limned to picture the dreads of hell. The years which succeeded the armistice have been years of national effort in the way of new adjust ments, of reconstructions, more or less enfeebled by the bleak reactions of the frenzied torrent which so awe somely had engulfed a great, and the most progressive, part of the hu man race. The mingled battle flags of that Armageddon represented the racial and national strains and sov ereignties of the earth savage and civilized men fought side by side, or against each other. But the ferocious feral days pass ed into the twilight of the gods. A new earth, it fondly was thought, had emerged from the ensanguined fields of Europe; a new era of peace beckened to the sons of men, and they were glad for a little space. But soon it was discovered that hu man nature had not been regener ated, had not been made over that the causes of war and the impulses and emotions of men remained essen tially the same as in the far begin nings of the race. Though some advancements on the way toward universal peace have been made, the sinister threat of war remains. But. as the President has said in his proclamation, the agencies of peace have been strength ened and so far as America is con cerned, our present relations with other countries are firmly grounded in amity and accord. They will so remain as long as this Nation re mains competent to command their respect through a maintenance of means and agencies adequate to guard and protect the national in terests. No longer. But the memory of the patriotism, the heroisms and the sacrifices of the men and women of the war will never die. :o:- HOW MUCH LUCK? Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago merchant and philanthropist, is a man. He tells an interviewer that his business success has been about ten per cent work, with maybe a little common sense mixed in, and the other 90 per cent has been luck. On further reflection he raises the luck factor to 95 per cent. This is refreshing, when you con sider how many wealthy men explain their success, at least by implication, as the fruit of heroic labor. Mr. Ros enwald doesn't seem to feel either that wisdom has made him rich or that his riches have made him wise. With about $300,000,000, he isn't in terested in giving other people ad vice. All he gives is money. Wherefore others are all the more Inclined to discredit his account of his life work. For once, at least, this multi-millionaire is caught in a gross exaggeration. Luck is probably a large factor in the life of any emin ently successful person but not 95 per cent. :o: Phone your news to the Journal. TO MARCH FORWARD Inept partisan blundering: is not to be permitted to stay the country's march toward economic betterment. This is the pledge of party present leadership. The unusual congression al situation which has brought about the unprecedented proposal and ac ceptance of what Jouett Shouse cor rectly defines to be "coalition gov ernment" in relation to economic re form in the interests of the entire people, in the light of certain cir cumstances, together with the thinly veiled sarcasm of Senator Watson's pledge on the part of the Republi cans, pardonably might excite ironic amusement. However, in view of the inevitable vast benefits that should accrue to the Nation from such align ment, it should perhaps be unehiv alrous to suggest that in this agree ment is exemplified a parry wisdom which reflects a degree of fine and capable diplomacy not too citen plainly discoverable in party mani pulation and management. The truth is that Democrats and Republicans as such didn't amount to much in the eyes of the voters in the recent election. The Republicans were punished, the Democrats warn ed. The people are demanding a new political deal. They mean to have it. It is creditable to party leadership that for once it is able to clearly re cognize the signs of the times, and, with whatever grace, bow to the pub lic will. Emphasis, perhaps, is added to the present remarkable situation by the veteran Democratic Representative of the Sixteenth Texas) District, who may be the successor of Mr. Long worth as leader of the newly elected House of Representatives. Mr. Gar ner specifically declares that he and his party are determined to aid Pres ident Hoover in restoring prosperity. To do this most certainly is the part of wisdom. It's accompaniment should rebound to the credit of both parties in the proportion that both parties are instrumental In bringing it about. This is what the people mean to have Partisanship will not be permitted to stand in the way of its fullest development. The blund ers of the past will not be repeated. We should be in for an era of con structive statesmanship touching the industrial and business well-being of the country. There w,ll remain enough and to spare of matters for normal party cleavage. : o : THE CALL OF THE COLORS There is no sound and fury in the autumnal call to the woods and fields. The power of silence is exerted upon the senses. Fall colors are nothing, reassuring, healing, inspiring. The only spots exempt from the safe or brilliant or vari-colored pic ture now unrolled to the sense are those in which man has, by the most invenerate work, supplanted nature. In all the so-called waste spaces, in all the shorn or neglected fields, on every hill, by every stream, at every roadside and far out froir the haunts of men the splendid appeal of the season waits in the auiumn glory. Nature has no rival as a painter. The tints now changed in this process. There are no confusions, no clashes, for the spell of fall is not rivaled and inescapable. If you are tired of the noise and confusion of the city, go to the woods! All about Plattsmouth are hills and fields crowned with glory. The glory of creation in never more finely, subtly, or eloquently expressed than it is now. -:o:- It is estimated that the American people now spend $2,848,000,000 yearly on intoxicating liquor, but how can such estimates be more than liberal guess-work? Wao can find out, for example, how many millions of home brewers there are or how much a year they spend on hops, grapes, raisins, and sugar? -:o: Rich in iodine, iron, lime and man ganese food elements essential to health Ocean Spray cranberry sauce merits a place in everyone's diet . . . it adds zest to other foods. Harold Thompson Auctioneer Farm and Live Stock Sales will be given Special Attention My Terms are Reasonable and I will always be found work ing hard for the "High Dollar" Give Me a Trial P. O. ADDRESS Plattsmouth PHONE NO. 41513 SILK SALE 10.000 dress-length remnants of finest silk to be cleared by mail regardless. Every desired vard- age and color. All 39 inches wide. Let us send you a piece of genuine $6 Crepe Paris (very heavy flat crope) on approval for your inspec tion. If you then wish to keep it mail us your check at only $1.90 a yard. (Original price $6 a yd.) Or choose printed Crepe Paris. Every wanted combination of colors. We will glad ly send you a piece to look at. What colors and yardage, please? If you keep it you can mail us check at $1.25 a yd. (Final reduction. Origin ally $6 a yd.) All $2 silks. $2 satins and $2 print ed crepes are 90c a yd. in this sale. Every color. Do not ask for or buy from samples. See the whole piece you are getting before deciding. We want to be your New York reference so tell us all you wish to about your self and describe the piece you want to see on approval. Write NOW. Send no money. To advertise our silk thread, we will send you a spool to match free. CRANE'S. Silks. 545 Fifth Ave., New York City Call No. 6 with your rash order for Job Printing. NOTICE to Stockholders. Directors. Depositors and Claimants of Bank of Cass County. Plattsmouth, Nebraska. You and each of you are hereby notified that the receiver of the above named bank has filed his final re port as receiver and has made appli cation to be discharged as receiver; that you are further notified that a hearing on Baid application for dis charge of said receiver will be had in the court house at Plattsmouth. Ne braska, on the 24th day of Novem ber, 1930. at 10 o'clock a. m.. or as soon thereafter as said cause may be heard. Objections to the discharge of said receiver must be filed with the Clerk of the District Court on or before the time of hearing above named. E. J. DEMPSTER, Receiver, Bank of Cass County, Plattsmouth, 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 Adam Wolf, deceased: On reading the petition of H. A. Schneider, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 27th 'day of October, 1930, and for final settlement of said estate and for his discharge as said Administrator; 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 28th day of November, A. D. 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not. be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publish ing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper 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 27th day of October, . D. 1930. A. H. Dl'XBURY, (Seal) n3-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass, Nebraska George K. Petring. Plaintiff vs. NOTICE The County of Cass . Ne- j its. J braska et al, Defendan To the Defendants, Herman Neit zel, and all persons having or claim ing any interest in and to Lots five (5) and six (6), in Block fifty-four (54), in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, excepting that part of Lot 6 lying within 40 feet of the center of Chicago Avenue in said city, real names unknown: You and each of you are hereby notified that George K. Petring. as plaintiff, filed a petition and com menced an action in the District Court of Cass county. Nebraska, on the 1st day of November, 1930, against you and each of you and others; the object, purpose and pray er of which is to obtain a decree of the Court quieting title to Lots five (5) and six (6), in Block fifty-four (54), in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, excepting that part of Lot 6 lying within 40 feet of the center of Chicago avenue in said city, in plaintiff as against you and each of you and all persons claiming by, through or under said defendants, to enjoin all of said de fendants in said suit from having or claiming any Interest in said real es tate and for such other relief as may be just and equitable in said premises. You and each of you are further notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 15th day of December, 1930, or the allegations therein con tained will be taken as true and a decree rendered in favor of the plain tiff, George K. Petring. as against you and each of you according to the prayer of said petition. GEORGE K. PETRING. Plaintiff. W. A. ROBERTSON, Attorney for Plaintiff. nS 4w