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MONDAY, DEC. 1, 1980. PIATT8M0TJTH SEME WEEKXJ MWMMJt 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, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Coffee drinking in China is grow ing. :o: A man in love gives. A woman in love forgives. :o: It was Artemus Ward who said a certain number of fleas is good for a dog. :o: And there are the jobs which must be found now for all the campaign orators. :o: "Personality" is what a tiresome vaudeville actor has when he hasn't anything else. :o: The only time a waiter gets in wrong taking a tip, is when it comes from Wall Street. Afghanistan, it is revealed, has had prohibition for 400 years. But maybe it only seems that long. -:o:- If football rules were applied to politics, the Democrats would be pen alized for unnecessary roughness. -:o:- Many a young man who has refus ed to let the grass grow beneath bi3 feet has lived to reap a ricli harvest. :o:- You are not the boss of your own home until you have the gall to use a guest towel right in front of your wife. -:o:- Pre-Judgment of any situation be fore the facts are known has proved a life-long handicap for many an in dividual. :o: A bootlegger who uses the Stars and Stripes to signal his customers when he has a supply on hand ought be arrested. :o: There shouid be no serious diffi culty in raising the funds; asked to give Buccor to the under-nourished children in Porto Rico. :o: It has not developed yet that Mayor Thompson is preparing a public wel come for the federal agents selected to clean up Chicago's criminal dump. :o: One reason there are not more gov ernmental upsets in Europe is that conditions are so bad the opposition party doesn't want to get into the mess. :o: The Soviet trade delegation at Hamburg has given out a statement that Russian wheat exports have ceased for the present, as home stocks are exhausted. :o: The army has perfected the best gas mask in the world, but hasn't found a way yet to supply a few to each of 120,000,000 civilians who may need 'em in the "next" war. CAME 40 YEARS 2$ ounces or 2$ cents pure ITBAKINC rV POWDER errceif IT5 DOUBLE ACTING The political dry whip is cracking as sharply as its frayed condition will permit. :o:- It must be wonderful to be so rich you aren't ashamed to ask for some thing cheaper. -:o:- "Ax me another," said the witty Thanksgiving Day shopper as he or dered his second turkey. :o. All in all, nothing else is as use less as arriving two hours early to find a good place to see a parade. Maybe those thieves who stole a hot stove in Inilia theo ther day figured it came within their range. :o: Once debt was a disgrace; now if you don't owe anything, people think the installment man wouldn't tru.st you. :o: If we understood him Mayor Thompson of Chicago regards Will j Rogers and King George as a pair of :o:- Who Mas it that said: "The only difference between me and so-and-so is, that we both suck eggs, but he hides the shells?" tor- One reason we're convinced the schoolboy will get it in the neck is the announcement that soap sales have increased the past year. -:o: In recent years American educa tion, particularly secondary educa tion, has been criticized with great severity from many points of view. Usually after an automobile has been around six or eight weeks, everybody begins to feel it is one of the family and it is treated ac cordingly. :o: Once tney said "As Maine goes so goes the nation." Then came the Stein song, and it seems that, as Maine sings, so sings a large slice of the nation. :o: It has not developed yet that Mayor Thompson is preparing a pub lic welcome for the Federal agents selected to clean up Chicago's crim inal dump. :o: Professional beggars must steer clear of Plattsmouth. We are pre pared to take care of all worthy poor, and that's enough to ask of any community. :o: The masculine division of the hu man race is steady, faithful and easy to manage. Any clever wife can re tain the affection of her husband as long as she is willing to sympathize Iwith him and continue to look at tractive. PR Brazil has only 20.000 miles of railways. :o: At one time recently nearly 5,000 tons of sugar were stored in Haiti. :o: He is indeed a busy man who can never find time to find fault. In New York they've revised the old gag ot read "An apple a day keeps wolf away." -:o: The married man who shows lots of brass elsewhere is usually the fel low who plays second fiddle at home. :o: Well, if Hooey Long really won't go to Washington next year, the country will be saved that much non sense. -:o: The cause of the current economic situation cannot be captured in a pharsa or its cure distilled in an epigram. :o: We just can't quite get used to the idea of the meticulously courte ous, the gallant and colorful J. Ham Lewis slipping into a seat and let ting a lady stand! :o: what happened to the men who tried what happened to the men whotried to settle another fundamental ques tion by compromise, and also what happened to the country. :o: Every man who has ever named the six of 10 "best books" in world literature has started an argument In which everybody has disagreed with him and with everybody else. :o: In the blithe province of language, words, we suppose, especially young words with the hope of youth in their hearts, aspire above all else to admittance into conventional dic tionaries. Many movements have been launched for modifications of the archaisms known as blue laws, whose enforcement makes the afflicted com munity a laughing stock for the rest of the country. :o: The experience of the Brooklyn baker who baked 800 loaves of bread for the poor and could find takers for only 350 proves, if proof were need ed, that the unemployed want work and not charity. :o: The Nebraska American Legion has an enrollment already for the fiscal year of 1931 of over 6,000 members. Never before at this stage has there been more than 1,000 enrolled for a coming fiscal year. :o: Wickersham's commission is said to have a dozen cures for the liquor situation. What has become of the other 121,000,000 that have been contributed to the correspondence columns of American newspapers? It's bad enough to get people to pay enough attention to issues to "have ordinary intelligence shown at the polls, but when proposed legis lation is thrown in virtual chunks at the people, it's no wonder statutes are approved or rejected without the exercise of any grey matter. :o: EXPERIMENT LN COPPER Copper is one of the most striking cases of overproduction and conse quent low price in this line of low ered price in this time of lowered price levels. After reaching peaks of 24c and being pegged at 22c, the price fell rapidly to its present level of about 12c. Now copper producers of the world have made an agree ment reducing production by 20,000 tons a month, in the hope of restoring the price to profitable levels. The producers of 90 per cent of the world's copper are included in the agreement, which makes its success not improbable. It must be remembered, however, that the inflation of the price of cop per, its overproduction, and the later crash were all the direct result of just such a scheme to limit produc tion and stimulate price. The cartel established some years ago operated splendidly until more and more in dependent producers increased under output, while price was artificially maintained at a higher level than production and demand justified. If this same reckless attempt to main tain a high price regardless of de mand and supply is tried again, it will most certainly fail a second time. This second experiment in copper stabilization will be watched with close interest by many persons, for the undertaking bears a close like ness to projects for stabilization of other industries, notably rubber, pet roleum, coffee and sisal. If the men who engineer this copper cartel will remember that price is fundamen tally a device for equalizing demand and supply, and not the fiat of a group of men, they will have a good chance to stabilize their industry and so contribute to the stabilization of economic lift generally. STABILIZING INDUSTRY One of the foremost among the agencies which have been seeking a solution of the problem of involun tary idleness is Governor Roosevelt's committee on the stabilization of in dustry which has just presented a detailed plan for the prevention of unemployment. This committee goes beyond the usual recommendations for the development of public em ployment offices and the long range planning of public works to show business men what they themselves may do to insure greater regularity of operations. The report urges the intensifica tion of advertising and selling cam paigns as a means of stimulating con sumer and dealer demand in off sea sons. It suggests the development of side lines which will afford em ployment to the working force dur ing periods when the demand fo: the company's principal product is relatively slack. It shows also that employment may be more evenly dis tributed throughout the year if a plant's productive operation is care fully budgeted and scheduled in ad vance. These methods, as the Post-Dispatch recently pointed out apropos the statement of President Gifford of the Bell Telephone Co., are al rady in use by many of our larger and better managed concerns. The Roosevelt report looks toward their more general extension throughout American industry. This may be ac complished in part through the ac tivity of trade associations, cham bers of commerce and other unoffi cial bodies. But if the Government is to meet its obvious responsibility to its citizens it must itself under take to promote this preventive pro gram. To this end it is recommended that the State Department of Labor employ a number of competent pro duction engineers whose service could be placed at the disposal of smaller firms that desire to stabilize their operations but do not possess a suf ficently specialized managerial staff to enable them to do so. By this means the State could act to pre vent the occurrence of unemploymen through the improvement of man agerial technique without destroying the freedom of initiative of the In dividual business unit. Finally, in so far as prevention fails, the com mittee suggests the unemployment which remains should be met (1) by retaining a plant's full force on a part time basis during periods of de pression rather than dismissing large numbers of workers; (2) by guaran teeing a dismissal wage to those who are dropped because of improvements in machinery and method through no fault of their own, and (3) by sta bilizing labor income through the de velopment of plans of employment in surance. The committee's proposals are moderate, comprehensive and well considered. It is to be hoped that they will not be placed upon the shelf and forgotten as is the fate of so many a public report. Certainly there is something radically amiss in a community in which millions of honest and able workmen can find no way to feed themselves or sup port their families. It is notable that the only great nations which have escaped the recent scourge of unem ment are France and Russia. France is but partially industrialized and her economy is principally one of small peasant proprietorship. In Russia, on the other hand, we find coerced nationalization. Thoughtful persons may well ask themselves whether we must revert to primitive agricultural conditions or go or. to communism if we are to establish the economic security of the individ ual. Surely there must be some solu tion which stops short of these two extremes. It is such a solution which the Roosevelt committee has propos ed. Its report merits immediate and serious consideration. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o: FIRST OF ITS KIND President Hoover has invited fifty two nations to participate in a World Conference on Work for the Blind in New York City next April, the re lease of the announcement Just hav ing been authorized. This is the first international con ference for workers for the blind that has been called together since the World War. Twenty-seven accept ances already have been received from other countries. That there is urgent need for such a conference will not be disputed, for there never has been held at any time a convention of this kind which was truly representative of any consider able number of years. After the war, according to Robert B. Irwin, Executive Director of the American Foundation for the Blind, the public interest in disabled war veterans was carried over to the civ ilian blind population. This opened to blind persons numberous vocation al occupations and opportunities that were closed to them previously. At present, however, it is said, the blind and their friends are having a desperate struggle to maintain the post-war advantages. In Germany and elsewhere it is becoming more and more difficult to place blind peo ple in factories and offices side by side with the seeing. There is need for education here. We have in America much In this respect to learn from Europe, though we have here, perhaps, a greater va riety of methods of assisting the blind than may be found in any oth er country. In England there is at present a campaign to find employ ment for the blind alongside of the seeing. The World Conference on Work for the Blind has been called upon authorization by Congress, and will be held under the auspices of the great American organizations and associations interested in remedial effort for people so stricken. Out of the deliberations of such a confer ence as is now proposed should come a definite humanitarian and econ omic good. It is a most praiseworthy enterprise, having for its object the alleviation of the lot of those who suffer from earth's most grievous af fliction. :o: BEFORE THE SNOW Today the aging fingers of the trees Let go their clutch of gold. Knowing that dead hands will not need the hoard Grown burdensome to hold. Flung gold, it stirs in drifts about our feet Still whispering of loss, And all forgotten by the praying trees Changes to crumbling dross. The Joy of bubbling song has fled away From out the wind-raked wood. And though they say no word, the trees foreknow White stillness will be good. They can be patient. The full tide of life Has swept them and gone by; And so, awaiting that deep, passion less dream. Dead hands implore the sky. Cleveland Plain Dealer. -: o:- The circumference of the chest of the child at birth is little less than that of the head, but the difference is not usually much more than half as much. At the age of one year, the bead and the chest are usually just about the same length around. NOTICE OF SALE State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. To Henry Rickabough and all per sons interested in Lot 64. in Pleasant Ridge cemetery, in the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 30, Township 12 North, Range 14, in Cass county, Nebraska: You are hereby notified that the Board of Trustees of Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Association will offer for sale at public auction, the south 10 feet of Lot 64, Pleasant Ridge ceme tery, in the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 30, Township 12, North, Range 14. in Cass rountv. Nebraska, on the 19th day of February, 1931, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, at Pleasant Ridge cemetery, in Cass county, Nebraska. JULIUS A. PITZ, W. T. ADAMS, G. W. SNYDER, J. L. STAMP. W. L. PROPST, n27-3w Board of Trustees. Kraneli V. Hoblniion, Lawyer, I.! ii coin, N -brrckn. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DEFENDANTS To the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Owen Marshall, deceased, real names unknown: Jason W. Hollowy; Eliza beth Holloway; Mary E. Morgan; Charles R. Morgan: Minnie A. Mar shall; Johan Guehlstorff; Barbara Guehlstorff; Peter Witthoeft, Trus tee; John Luetchens, Trustee; Aug ust Bornemeyer, Trustee; Christ Mil ler, Trustee; Emanuel Society of the Evangelical Association of North America; and all persons having or claiming any interest in the north west quarter (NW) of Section seven (7), Township eleven (11) North, Range nine (9), East of the Sixth Principal Meridian in Cass county, Nebraska: TAKE NOTICE that on the 26th day of November, 1930, George Krei ner and Sarah M. Kreiner, plaintiffs herein, filed their petition in the District Court of Cass county, Ne braska, against you and each of you. the object and prayer of which peti tion are to quiet the title of plain tiffs in and to the northwest quarter ( NW 4 ) of Section seven ( 7 ) , Town ship eleven (11) North, Range nine (9) Bast of the Sixth Principal Me ridian, in Cass county, Nebraska, to forever enjoin you and each of you from in any manner or form inter fering with plaintiffs in their quiet possession and enjoyment of said real estate, to recover costs and such other and further relief as may be just and equitable. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 12th day of January, 1931. GEORGE KREINER and SARAH M. KREINER, Plaintiffs. By Francie V. Robinson, Their Attorney. 27-4w EE 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. 4513 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 es tate of Myrtle L. Gillispie, deceased: On reading the petition of William F. GiUispie, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 12th day of November, A. D. 1930, and for final settlement of said es tate and for bis discharge as said Administrator of the said estate; 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 12th day of December, A. D. 1930, at nine 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 f said petition and the bearing thereoi" 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 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 12th day of Novem ber, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) nl7-3w 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 Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of John H. Wiles, deceased: On reading the petition of J. E. Wiles, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his ac count filed in this Court on the 14th day of November, 1930, and for fi nal settlement of said estate and for his discharge as said Adminis trator of the said estate; It Is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said mat ter may, and do, appear at the Coun ty Court to be held in and for said County, on the 12th day of December, A. D. 1930, at nine 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 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 tlie seal of said Court this 14th day of Novem ber, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) nl7-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass, Nebraska George K. Petring, Plaintiff vs. The County of Cass, Ne braska et al. Defendants. NOTICE 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. S-4w NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Amanda V. Wiley Dills, 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 12th day of December, A. D. 1930, and the 13th day of March, A. D. 1931, at nine o'clock a. m., of each day, to receive and examine all claims agaiust said estate, with a view to their adjustment and al lowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims agatnst said estate is three months from the 12th day of December, A. D. 1930, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 12th day of December. A. D. 1930. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 12th day of November, 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) nl7-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, 68. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John Quinton, 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 19th day of December. A. D. 1930, and on the 20th day of March, A. D. 1931. at nine o'clock in the forenoon of each day, to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months from the 19th day of December, A. D. 1930, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 19th day of December, A. D. 1930. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 21st day at November, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) n24-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, 88. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Rob ert R. Nickles, 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 19th day of December, A. D. 1930. and on the 20th day of March, A. D. 1931, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of each day. to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months from the 19th day of December, A. D. 1930, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 19th day of De cember, A. D. 1930. Witness my band and the seal of said County Court this 22nd day of November, 1930. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 22nd day of November, 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) n24-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass. ss. By 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 29th day of December, 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 Platts mouth. Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following real es tate, to-wit: The south 47 feet of Lots 5 and 6, in Block 43, in the City of Plattsmouth, in Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of John P. Wolff, Edna J, Wolff and the Platts mouth Loan and Building Associa tion, defendants, to satisfy a judg ment of said court, recovered by Paul H. Gillan, plaintiff against said de fendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, November 22nd. 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 the heirs at law and all persons interested in the estate of Elizabeth Katberine Hild, deceased: On reading the petition of Michael Hild, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his ac count filed in this Court, on the 22nd day of November. 1930, and for as signment and distribution of residue of said estate, determination of heir ship, and for his discharge as 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 coun ty, on the 19th day of December, A. D. 1930, at nine 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 pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons in terested in said matter by publishing 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 band and the seal of said Court, this 12nd day of Novem ber, A D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) n24-Sw County Judge.