MOffBAY. DEC. 8, 1930. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAQ1 TJEEU3 I r Cbc 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 Postai Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond S00 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 3.60 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Absence makes tbe beat go wander. :o: There are only five horse cabs left in Paris. :o: America leads the world in chew ing gum and the rag. :o: When a man is sowing his wild oats he expects to grow sage. :o: Hell hath no fury like a woman when you knock ashes on her floor. :o: Tax collectors make pretty good doctors. They keep everybody in good trim. :o: Jay walkers sometimes prove easy marks for persons hunting in auto mobiles. :o: "The noble experiment" might be noble in purpose, but it is rotten in practice. -:o: Noted skipper dies Headline. Per haps just another pedestrian caught on the wing. :o: Some men think it's immoral to smoke. And some men can smoke without getting sick. :o: The man who is trying to put something over should be willing to put up with some sheriffs. :o: British builders have invented cork houses. Will a man staying out late be obliged to carry a corkscrew? :o: The frost is certainly on a pump kin in the case of those fellows who won't wear a hat even in zero weath er. :o: A glance at the fall lists of the chief publishing houses indicates that there is no let-up in the great flood of books. :o: A student in chemistry at class was asked to definite nitrates. "Well er they're cheaper than day rates," was his reply. :o: In view of reapportionment, some tates are talking of electing their extra Congressmen at large, but, call 'em what you like, many of them stiil may be small potatoes. :o: A tum-tum, tum-a-le-tum orches tra dinning its drivel in your ears is bad enough, but when one of the players bursts forth in adenoidic song, murder without warning is fully justifiable. I :o: 1 Now it's up to the Republicans in Congress to return the compliment and promise to co-operate with the Democrats on Muscle Shoals, lame duck and unemployment legislation if they want to avert a special ses sion. :o: Some folks are hard to please. A lady was listening to one of those coffee advising programs the other night wherein the slogan used is "good to the last drop." and she queruously asked, "I wonder what's the matter with the last drop." f "W9k "7- I 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. Stock trucks returning from the yards loaded very rapidly. Phone: Plattsmouth 21 George W. Bell Co. Pit on Highway 75, South Side Platte River J On the showdown, a crock is al ways shown up. :o: Truth crushed to earth rises again. Pedestrians are not truth. :o: Motorists think repair shops have one mechanic and six accountants. :o: Some reformers are so close to heaven that they never get duwi to earth. In the business world these days a profit is not without honcr in any country. : o: Advertising successfully is an art, and just now should be a popular fine art. -:o:- Wouldn't it be awful if the girl:? didn't have any more sense than we ( think they have? -:o:- Too often people who have sense enough to interest you have too much to be interested in you. :o: It's funny, five or 19 dollars will buy a good book on history which cost billions of dollars to make. :o: That ex-convict who was elected to the Massachusetts legislature; was he running on a platform of vindica tion? :o: If there is such a thing as mind reading, it should be a great help when the driver in front holds out his hand. :o: The old-fashioned man who got his winter's exercise splitting cordwood now has a son who's been elected uni- versity prom "king." :o:- They say the old saloon will not come back, but if some old-timer ; starts with the old-time struggle will be terrific. :o: Like the team that makes a couple of first downs against Notre Dame, it any, tne uemocrats aid Deuer ti.an they expected this year. :o: Jud Tunkin says the intellectual benefit from midnight oil depends on whether you buy it from the grocery store or from a filling station. :o: Einstein wants quiet and solitude while in this country. Why doesn't he suggest that he be seen only by those who understand relativity? i :o: Perhaps Mussolini is afraid some- one will mistake him for a pianist. A political reformer is a politician who can't win under the old rules. :o: From time to time in the last year have come reports from unofficial ob servers and statements by Governor fJneral Roosevelt that ooverty is prevalent everywhere in Porto Rico, j :o: . . , viet is Considering that tne so broadcasting all the hokum about the anti-Russian plot, it looks like the people over there might he getting a little cool on the Utopia proposition. yOGOQQOOOSOCCQCOOeOOOOOSGGOOSOSCC, V K Ik O pi iperly administered, result in busi fW "T tVne&s stabilization." Horrors! Will PARITY OF SECURITY That was an extraordinary prop osition which France submitted to the disarmament conference; namely that the victors should have the op- ;tion of reducing armaments or leav ing the situation as it is. It natural ly evoked a protest from Count von Bernstorff, who declared he would feel justified in voting against the whole tentative convention draft if it contained such a proposal. He : was taiten snarpiy to tasK Dy ixra ! Cecil of England, whose ire. appar ently, was aroused by the German representative's phraseology rather than the substance of his objection. There can be no question as to the soundness of Von Bernstorff's posi tion. Lord Cecil may find comfort in the points he cited as to budget ary limitations and various paper ar rangements designed to give the ap pearance of progress in reducing mili tary establishments, but Bernstorff's protest was directed at the bristling, menacing realities; at the tremen- Idous army France has built up since the World War; at the defenseless ness of Germany imposed by the Ver sailles treaty; at the intolerable in justice of the French proposal to con tinue or change the status quo as it elects. In pleading for honest armament reduction and "parity of security," Von Bernstorff was not merely ex pressing the German point of view. He was voicing the anxious senti ment of responsible public men everywhere at the militaristic policy of France. His language was re strained compared with the indict ment filed by Lloyd George, for in stance, in a recent article in the Post-Dispatch. Though her peace establishment is computed at half a million men, France, according to the British publicist, "could put into the field fully equipped, force of sev eral millions of men," and "the equip ment of these millions would be in comparably more powerful and de- structive tnan tnat or tne uerman armies of 1914." j What is Germany's position? Her 'military security "no longer exists." jshe has an army of 100.000, to say ( nothing of the inferiority of her war , material. She is forbidden to train her young men for war. Under com- pulsion she is fulfilling the terms of !the Versailles treaty which France, notwithstanding Clemenceau's pledge, has disregarded. This charee of bad luncn tne,raltn preferred by Lloyd George, has been more violently stated by an Italian naDer which, edited bv Mus- ;golin.,s brolQel presUmably speaks i official approval when it says: Is the right to security an ex clusive French privilege, and not a principle of life and death for all nations? Peace treaties were not made to condemn to death certain nations, and if their in terpretation is to lead to that, nothing can stop the movement tending to modify and tear them up. Security for all and respect of treaties by all! If France does not disarm, the Reich has the right not to disarm, and if Germany arms, following her right as a sovereign state, the situation which the treaties wished to stabilize will receive a mortal blow. . . . The policy of France is the only obstacle to disarmament. In the opinion of Lloyd George, "if the security for world peace is left to the Disarmament Commission at Geneva, then another world war is inevitable." That judgment has had disquieting confirmation in the impossible French thesis which Von . .Bernstorrt nas repuaiatea ana wnicn 'the good will of the world repud iates St T.onis Pnst-T)isnatch. To Premier MacDonald she prob ably seems like Stepmother India. The National Association of Manufacturers say: "The tariff bill will when fully understood and have to wait that long? :o: To the Romans a road was a means to an end. Straight as a string, built with uncompromising zeal over all obstacles; streams, marches, moun tains, other men's property, and the numerous other irregularities which lie in the path of material logic, your Reman road was designed to "get ' there." :o: Sunday morning to the American is a time inviolate. Then as upon no other occasion is a man's home his castle. The alarm clock does not go off, or if it does through accident, it rings in vain. The added hours of Sabbath rest glow with luxurious leisure. There is no hurry about breakfast. :o: The outskirts of American cities are generally curious places. There are usually two or three suburban neighborhoods with large houses, well-kept lawns, and great shade trees, where the well-to-do live. There are other, larger neighbor hoods, with smaller trees, where the lesser folk live. THE DUTY OF CONGRESS Eighty-three lame ducks, or Sen ators and Congressmen repudiated in the recent elections, sit in the final session of the Seventy-first Congress which convened Tuesday. Hardly a heartening circumstance for a country suffering from ill-advised policies and a species of gov ernmental blind man's buff. Never theless, the duty of Congress is much too pressing for the Seventy-first Con gress to mark time until it dies. There will not be a new Congress until next December, and before next December the United States should have the benefit of remedial measures which only Congress can institute. Only Congress can decide whether or not we are to persist in the tollies of the Hawley-Smoot tariff. Only Congress can ameliorate the war debts. Only Congress can put up to the United States Supreme Court a valuation formula for the public utilities based upon investment. Only Congress can put Muscle Shoals to work. Only Congress can make Federal taxation more equitable than it is. Only Con gress can retain ownership to the people of valuable water power sites, and only Congress can increase Gov ernment control over our fast-growing communications system. It goes without saying that even the lame duck session will do something about the plight of the unemployed; that it will pass the Wagner bills and ap propriate more for public works; but the responsibility of Congress is much greater than that. The dying Congress might employ the next three months to assert its own opinions. Up to this time it has never had any opinions. It has never followed any policy not handed down to it by the people who have made its entire career an orgy of privilege. It has dumbly followed in the House the lead of the Longworth-Tilson-Snell machine, and except for the liberal coalition in the Senate there has not been any freedom of action in the Seventy-first Congress. It has acquiesced in gag rule, always bowed to the will of the Anti-Saloon League and the traders in privilege and pow er. Nobody knew whether or not Congress thought it a good thing for us to raise tariff reprisals against us all over the world, or if it is a good thing for us to insist every year up on war payments from impoverished Europe. The Seventy-first Congress has only moved to its master's lash, and the consequence is that its record could not be worse. The recent elec tions sufficiently indicated popular detestation of that servility, and if the next three months are to be like the period since December. 1929, the Seventy-first Congress will die with too few mourners to fill a country graveyard. There is only one recourse if the next three months are also to be thrown away. That is for the new Congress to be called into special ses sion to consider the international situation and the part played in it by the United States. It is not a situation from which we can detach ourselves, nor is it one in which we can wholly blame the rest of the world. We are more to blame for what has happened than any other people in the world. We are the great trading nation, essential to commerce and credit everywhere. It was a suf ficient blow for Germany and Russia to be taken out of the international economy. To have taken ourselves out of it, or what amounts to that, has been an incredible blunder. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o: ARMY-NAVY GAME Faith, hope, charity, but the greatest of these is charity, which succeeded after all else failed in re newing diplomatic relations on the gridiron between the Army and Navy. For three years the force of gov ernment, alumni interest and public demand could not budge the Mule and the Goat from their stubborn aloofness. They hadn't agreed, they wouldn't agree and they refused to try to agree. In other words, they wouldn't play ball. And then came the business de pression, putting millions out of work and in want. Dire condition suggest ed a show for the benefit of the un employed, and that idea suggested the greatest show known to the na- j tion of shows, an Army-Navy game. The deadlock was instantly broken. Their consent to play a game so late in the year and after a hard season displays on the part of the service teams a commendable spirit of charity and good will. Later, in the afterglow of a hard-fought con test in which each team has done its best, negotiations for resumption of the historic annual claah on the grid iron will be taken up with a fair prospect of success. When the Christmas season of good will draws near old contentions Just naturally disappear and friendships take the plame of enmities. It will be a propitious time for a "peace conference." BAKING POWDER mm You save in using KC. Use LESS than of high priced brands. . fr 25 FOR OVER 0 YEAS IT'S DOUBLE ACTING ,JT..T..t..T..t..T..T..T..;.., LOTS OF CLEVER WAYS TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS Remember, every Christ mas, out of the scores of cards the postman brings you, there are always three or four so bright and clever that you want to show them to all your friends. And you think such nice things about "Good, OV Bill" and "Clever Cousin Mary," who invariably send that kind of a card. Oh, yes, and you de cide right then and there to go card-choosing early, the next year and to pick out something sprightly and original, yourself. Good reso lution! Only this year you're going to keep it. Right to town this very day and have a leisurly look around at all the clever clever Christmas cards at all the stores and shops. (How different from the weary sort you have to pick from, when you choose cards at the last minute! ) Now, you can be modernistic, even futur istic, if you like. Or quaint ly old-fashioned. Or gorge ously colored and artistic. Maybe bold, with a wood cut affair that carries a twinkle of humor with it or picturesque and dainty, on parchmen. Oh, you'll find no end of ideas, Christmasy and clever, if you'll take care of that card choosing, right away. The Plattsmouth Journal. A. T 4 -r 3- Jtm 4 5 Jt, :o: A SEASON OVER After their final spurts to win last minute victories over historic rivals, the colleges close their stadiums and prepare to put their half backs away in moth balls until they are needed again. It has been a good season, all in all. Public interest has been keen, although the scrable for tickets for a few major games has not been so noticeable as in other years. Popular enthusiasm shifted from the tradi tional rivalries of older schools to the greate intersectional contests, one or two of which remain to be played. As always, footoall has been profit able, as profits are reckoned. Univer sities have taken in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Stadiums have been built or improved in many places; coaches have earned hand some salaries; publicity men have held on to fat Jobs in spite of "hard times," and players have picked up such emoluments to fall to those technically known as amateurs. A few less optimistic notes are sounded, of course. Profts are not the measure of football's usefulness, in the Judgment of some thoughtful groups. Here and there warnings ap pear that careful investigation would disclose a great deal of out-and-out professionalism in this college sport par excellence. The Carnegie Foun dation promises to renew its feeble inquiry of a year or so ago with a zeal that may rival the lobby inves tigators of the Senate or even Con gressman Hamilton Fish and his Communist chasers. However, inves tigations rarely do any harm, and sometimes prove useful. :o: Unfortunately, the only time when liquor makes a man go straight is at some point where the road curves. Auctioneer C. P. BUSCHE Louisville, Neb. Farm and Live Stock Sales a Specialty Best of References by Many Successful Sales KC Mr. Coolidge has disposed of the question of the five-day week in a few terse sentences. It is simply a matter of our living standard. As MOBlllfj the day's work as the equiv alent of a room, we may choose to live in six-room houses by continuing the present industrial calander or we can step down to a five-room domicile by adopting the five-day week. 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 John Cory, deceased: On reading the petition of Sybil Brantner, Executrix, praying a final settlement and allowance of her ac count filed in this Court on the 28th day of November, A. D. 1930, and for final settlement of said estate and for her discharge as said 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 county, on the 26th day of December, 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 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 28th day of Novem ber, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) dl-3w County Judge. Franrin V. RuIiIdmiu, I.hm -r. Llorvln, rbraikm. 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 4 ) 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 -lay 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 (NW34 ) of Section seven (7), Town ship eleven (11) North. Range nine (9) East 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 oetition on or before the 12th day of January, 1931. GEORGE KREINER and SARAH M. KREINER. Plaintiffs. By Francis V. Robinson, Their Attorney. n!!7-4w NOTICE OF SOT 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 thai 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 a against you and each of you and ail 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, an against you and each of you according to the prayer of said petition. GEORGE K. PETRING, Flaintffl. W. A ROBERTSON, Attorney for Plaintiff. S-4w 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 ofj 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 county. 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. Jl"LIUS A. PITZ, W. T. ADAMS. G. W. SNYDER, J. L. STAMP, W. L. PROPST, n27-3w Board of Trustees. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, CaBS coun ty, ss. 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 of November, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) n24-SW County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, BS. 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. 19 31, 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 la one year from said 19th day of De cember. A. D. 1920. Witness my hand 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-Sw 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 F. 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 tbe heirs at law and all persons interested in the estate of Elizabeth Katherine 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. rn . 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 hand and the seal of said Court, this 22nd day of Novem ber, A. Dl 1990. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) a24-ftw Couiry Jude.