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MONDAY. DEC. 29. 1880. PLATTSMOUTE SE3Q WHEELS JOVBSAL PAGE TH2E1 1 Cbe plattsmouth lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEXLY AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA Entered at I'os;office. Platismouth, 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 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Memoirs: His side of the story. :o: Time, tide and trains waiT for no man. :o: For that matter, many a true bill seems to be spoken in jest. :o: How many of us have read. "It is more blessed to give than to receive." :o: It is estimated it costs $5,000 to educate a boy. not counting t.ie law yers' fees. : o: The predominating characteristic of the efficiency expert seem to be self-sufficiency. :o: i ne iuiure is coming, out we win not enjoy its visit much unless we are ready for it. :o: Then there's the farmer who. when plied. .v.i v . ....... ws was re- "Oh. just sow. sow." : o : Conditions in Italy must be a great deal less roseate than the friends of Fascism have been claim ing. : o : There is an increased feeling in business circles that the country is at or near the "bottom" of the de pression :o:- The disappointed amateur detec tive has turned pharmac ist so that he might know what it is to work out a solution. :o: A Yale professor asserts that the age of the earth is 1,852,000,000 years old enough to know better in a lot of things. :o: The Senate idea of "co-operation" is a condition under which the body gees im ovwi wav auu auu.K, on, uuu, who disagrees with it. : o : There seems great difficulty l :. framing a platform whi.-h can be ac cepted by a French ministry end also by the chamber of deputies and sen ate. :o: "The wets." says a paragrapher. "are bent on making prohibition an ex-act science." Judging from some of the stuff around lately, it would be nearer correct to say "extract science. :o: Believe it or not. but the most comfortable moment in a girl's life is when she can kick her dancing pumps all the way across the bed room and put her tiled dogs in a pair of comfies. If it's all the same to the weather I man. we will be glad to go right j ahead through the remainder of this winter without snow or freezing tem peratures. Uniform warm temper ature will be a godsend to thousands of families. thousand and one different causes. The way to cure a Headache is to find and remove the cause. Suppose it takes days or weeks to find the cause what will you do in the meantime? Continue to suffer? Why should you, when you can get DilMiles Anti-Pain Pills They relieve quickly. Use them for muscular pains and functional pains even when these pains are so severe that you think you are suffering from Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Scia tica, Lumbago. Get them at your Drug Store. 25 for 25 cents 125 for $U)0 Year :o:- The British believe in being thor- ,out:h. even in small matters. :o: Strange how many preachers seem to huve run cut of Biblical texts. ' 1 1 : - Fable: Once the.e was a man whose check stubs agreed with the bank balance. A high school paper claims tlap- pers are a necessity, add. knows no law. Necessitv, we -:o"- Tiriu- !.;.!s wciirnls. and even- jtually Americans will agree on every - tiling except the definition of good .'coffee. J There isu't complete sex equality eVen now. No woman feels free to approach a stranger and say: Gotta match?" :o: High school girls in Maine are playing footbali. And. according to the fashion experts, they've got pretty 1 good lines. i :o: The Republican Senators are not defending their President. They seem to feel that "Hoover brought' t it on himself. i :o: Cornell scientists have discovered what is said to be a cure for the dope evil. But sports writers will still con tinue to pick losers. : n : Knute Rockne might try next pit ting his Notre Dame squad against those Chicago gangsters and see what it could do with them. :o:- A scientist has made a movie of molecules in action. There may be suspenPe in such a film but the soil! Hon is apparent at once. :o: The average motorist just now is i less interested in the color of the j 1 9 2 2 license plate than in the ability I to purchase the 1931 variety. :o: To the scientist who said the germ for the common cold is too small to be seen by the microscope, the witty i cynic says. 'Oh, don't bacilli. : o : The law of supply and demand does not change. Obviously, the most rational way to restore prices caused by over-supply is to reduce the sup ply. The case of Judge Linds-ey, charg- led with disturbing the peace in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.; ! has been dismissed for lack of prose- cation :o:- A beauty queen was recently chos en in a contest among Eskimo girls in the Arctic Circle. As far as the ether contestants were concerned, the whole affair was on ice. Christmas over, the New greetings are in evidence. Everybody has it once in a -while. It mav be due to a WON'T YOU TRY IT? Christmas may not be a merry or a happy time for you. It may be i there is no special pleasure to which you look forward. Perhaps there are sad memories attached to the occa sion. Perhaps your loved ones are in some distant state, and the miles between cannot be bridged. It may be there are vacant chairs about your fireside, or perhaps the laugh jter of some little child there has been stilled. Whatever the reason, it is not leasy for you to enter into the Christ jmas spirit. The festive decorations jno longer make, their old appeal. You :are weary of the lights and tinsel. 'Somehow, there is a sense of loneli ness about this season, and in your neart you wil be gjad wnen M is pu.t sone would censure you. You kuo iw best your own self and your inmost feelings. But listen. You were not always thus. Think back m ross the years. Can't you remember one carefree time of preparation, and one glad, bright Christmas day? Perhaps it was far back in your childhood. Perhaps there was not much in the old stocking. Trifles were not so abundant in those days. 1 Money was scarce. But what is tha when one is young and carefree? Your boyish dream had come true, and with your playfellows you were gloriously happy. Perhaps there were other Christ inases when the tissue paper and the holly berries, the noisy horn and drum did not seem mere foolishness. Don't you remember when you first played the role of Santa Claus. or can't you picture again the brightly lighted tree, and your family gather ed about? Cant you hear the echo of young voices, yours among them? Yes. you have stored deep in your memory the recollection of at least j one Christmas when you too, exper ienced the joy of the day. And how you cherish it ! For this reason, won't you help make Christmas a glad time for some little boy or girl in a home of pov erty, and for whom life at best holds but scant promise. They are just lit- i tie children now, these boys and girls. So little will make them hap py. But when the years roll on, bringing perhaps their burdens and their sorrows there will be one bright treasure in memory's box that you made possible. Won't you try It? No, Christmas, doesn't mean much to you this year. You just can't get back to the old spirit. And yet. when you minister to a little child, when you help bring the smile to baby lips, somehow you too will experience a measure of the Christmas Joy. : o : NOTE ON BANKING Up to November of this year, ac cording to Federal Reserve Board Figures, there was 740 bank failures with total deposits of $312,000,000. During the whole of 1929. 642 banks with deposits of $235,000,000, fail ed. In the severely depressed year ;of 1921, 501 banks closed their doors. They had deposits of $196,000,000. While it is true most failures occur in cities of less than 3'000 population and that fact is used as an argument I for chain and branch banking, the largest bank failure in the history of the country was the recent collapse of 'an institution doing a branch bank ing business. We refer to the Bank jof United States in New York City. which had deposits of $205,000,000. :o: There is growing sentiment against using X in the spelling of Christmas. But the drys have always been fight ing the use of XXX in Christmas. :o: It might be a good idea to save enough out of your Christmas money to buy a new auto license, other wise you may be afoot next year. :o: "He who speaks nothing but the truth," said Hi Ho, the sage of China town, "must live long in silent con templation in order to discover it." :o: Well, it looks like we intend to re main friendly with Germany, for some time, at least. The state depart ment has just purchased a home for the American embassy on the Unter der Linden in Berlin at a cost of " $1.S00,000. Also, we are paying cash jfor it despite the fact that Germany : still owes us money. :o: China's national legislature, the "legislative yaun." has enacted 6.000 laws in two years. That is a record which makes our own proud legisla tive mills look decidedly rusty. The output of the yuan should spur our patriotic lawmakers to get busy at jonce and hold up this country's pres- tige with a flood of bills for longer hotel bedsheets and noiseless sup spoons; also bills against Jaywalk ing, Sunday minnie golf, vertical bubbly fountains, tail-lightless sad- dle nags, laehrymal grapefruit, and Russian tunics on fat women. FEDERAL FOOD LOANS i Although finally refused by Jhe i House, the Senate's demand for ap- t propriations to permit loans to the drought-stricken farmers for food has aroused an extremely bitter contro versy. Most of that bitterness has been unjustified. The Secretary of Agriculture pointed out that loans to Camera for purchase of foods is simply a dole, and would set an un wise precedent. It was this state ment that stirred several Senators to severe condemnation of the Adminis tration. As a matter of fact, there are sev eral precedents for such Federal pol icy, if it seemed desirable in this case. Relief for Porto Ricans, for Missis sippi Valley flood sufferers, for starv- ing European populations after the war, all were financed in part by Federal funds, a calamity of or earthquake. Drought is as much nature as fire, flood and much more so than a world war. Federal loans for this purpose would set no precedent whatever for a "dole." The question of the wisdom of food loans is quite different. Fed eral agencies have developed the proper machinery for loans to farm co-operatives for seed, implements and fertilizers. They do not have any established means of distributing re lief funds to individuals for their consumption needs. Red Cross and local charitable organizations are much better equipped to do this. The policy favored by the Adminis tration, therefore, seems the wiser, and its final adoption is fortunate. If the Secretary of Agriculture had been more discreet in his defense of the Administration's position, the fu tile controversy could have been avoided. :o: CONGRESS RECESSES After being in session three weeks, Congress has adjourned for the holi days. It has enacted promptly Mr. Hoover's emergency relief program. appropriating $116,000,000 for con struction and $45,000,000 for drouth relief. It also appropriated $150,- 000.000 from half-billion-dollars re volving fund for farm relief, and the Farm Board will continue its policy of attempting to stabilize crop prices by taking surpluses off the market. Unfortunately, the Wagner bill1 dealing with unemployment remain to be passed. So does every other constructive measure before Congress that strikes at the causes which lie behind the emergency relief pro- program. It is a question whether the Seventy-first Congress is to make ary serious attempt to grapple with these. It may make some progress, but it is too unsympathetic with any recession from the present opposition to liberal causes to justify many expectations of it. We somehow expect the inter national trade situation to improve without turning our hand to help It do so. We could do that by lower ing our tariffs, as we could ease the international tension by adopting a more healing policy as to the war debts. Mr. Hoover is incapable of leadership out of the present welter. He stands steadfastly by the status quo, disastrous as that is. It is to a special session, or "to the new Con gress which convenes next Decem ber, that the country must look for something better than such munifi cent handouts as the present Con gress has Just voted. :o: BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN North Americans, South Americans and Central Americans, whenever (and wherever they get together, like to tell each other they are brothers under the skin, having a community of interests and struggling with the same eternal problems. This is con sidered good diplomacy and better dollar diplomacy, but there is more truth in it than is commonly sup posed by the high-hatter gentlemen with their tongues in their cheeks. Consider the platform of Brazil's new government: Financial reform. Simplification of administrative processes and war on political para sitism. Reduction of administrative ex penses. Simplification of local procedure. Honest elections. Advancement of public instruc tion. Constitutional reforms relative to judicial and electoral procedure. Reformation of the powers and re sponsibilities of the legislative and executive branches. Where have the people of the Unit ed States heard these eight planks enunciated before? They sound strangely like the eight planks of the platform now before virtually every community in the United States: Sound money, less gorging at the public trough, lower taxes, speedy justice, honesty elec- t ions, return to the three R's, take politics out of the courts, fewer laws. sure LEGISLATIVE RELIEFS" Legislation cannot be the cure-all for economic ills That this is so was never more sadly evident than in these difficult times. There an(1 exploiting the ignorant and sup is suffering in the cities, but it is not jerstitious, particularly the foreign- (confined to them. The farmer has witnessed the approximation of ruin out price levels while a Farm Board, created under a so-called Relief Act. made dubious experiment to avoid, or influence, a something fixed and inexorable. All of this, as pertinently has been pointed out by a Vice President of the Chicago Board of Trade, has a direct bearing upon the various cam paigns now under way to help the poor. Economic maladjustment grow ing out of political experimentation lays depressing burdens upon all of :us. Vice President Carey insists that much of the present pitiful distress ; among the poor anil unemployed is jdue to fear on the part of many busi- nesses; fear of socialistic encroach ment on business: fear that such laws as the agricultural marketing act. which allows a board $500,000. 000 with which to attempt price sta bilization. wi!l next be extended to various other industries. Here is one reason why money is locked up. while the poor suffer. It demonstrates what most likely will happen when Government tampers with business. There are legislative reliefs which do not relieve quite the reverse. In the meantime we must help our needy, the undeserving victims of a form of political experimentation be loved by charlatons and demagogues since the war began. :o: MORE OR LESS TRUE We have seen a lot of girls who were worrying about having too much legs in their stockings, but never have seen one who gave any evidence of losing sleep worrying over having too much nonsense in her head. Giving modern frails presents that were appropriate to the girls of a generation ago would be considered as silly as giving the goldfish water wings. It's funny how much money some people will spend for mes, and then feel like martyrs it they have to spend any of their time in them. It always spoils the afternoon for a woman to think that after such a good time at bridge and getting so filled un with the DEElicious re- vo nA Enrollment must be at the Farm slap together something to appease ; Bureau office not later than January a husband, inconsiderate enough tola, 1931, in order that detailed plans come home hungry. The honey moon gets ready to go bye-bye when he begins to think of it as a synonym for expenses when he calls her dear. Just judging from the ads the modern feminine sleeping garments are 60 hot that daughter must be able to keep warm without making tmother get up in the middle of the night to get her another blanket. Many a modern husband sees his wife's back at a formal reception who would rather see her back in the kitchen. The man who tackles the job of pleasing one woman hasn't any time to waste on other dames if he sticks to his Job. pair of And we suppose a ritzy hose supporters isn't anything like as an acceptable present, as it was a year ago when its charm wasn't wasted beneath long skirts. :o: WITCHCRAFT IN NEW YORK A year or so ago, when witchcraft in a rural district of Pennsylvania came out into the open in connec tion with a murder case, certain New York writers professed to be deeply shocked and horrified. They pointed out that such weird superstitions lin- ger In rural communities, and inti- mated that it is only in the great cities that civilization really comes to flower. Now might be a good time for these critics to do some more articles on the same general theme; for press disnatches from New York reveal that Graves; Matt Wooster- Mrs- Wm dispatcnes rrom ew orK repeal tnat iSh Mrs James Conn Misses Ruth 1 . J A 1 . . -J m V I thousands upon iiiousanus oi -e " Auctioneer C. P. BUSCHE Louisville, Neb. Farm and Live Stock Sales a Specialty Best of References by Many Successful Sales I York's citizens are devout "believers in witchcraft and black magic. A report issued by a health survey re- marks that "witchcraft workers and evil-eye healers are still flourishing born, in New York City." Ignorance, apparently. can be found in the city as well as the coun try. Our New York writers can find, withina few blocks of their offices, conditions quite as shocking as those in Pennsylvania which horrified them recently. f- FARM BUREAU NUTES Copy for this Department rurnlnbed by County Agnt r frH-fr4- I"M"I"M I1 1 I I I' I -r Farm Record Books Collected. December 29 is the date set for meetings with Farm Record Book co-operators to collect their books. Three men from the College of Agri culture will be in the county seven days. There are 132 books placed in the county this year so It will be necessary to collect about 2u a day. One hundred and ten books were com pleted in the county last year and the summary completed covered 109 of these. A copy of the summary may be nad by calling or writing the Farm Bureau office. This summary will give a very good idea of the benefits derived from keeping a book. Time will be given at the various meetings to the new cooperators in accounts. If you wish to keep a rec ord book for 1931 notify the Farm Bureau office and an appointment will be made at the meeting nearest your home. Sewing Machine Clinics. A sewing machine clinic will be held at each of the Weeping Water, Elmwood, Louisville, Alvo and Mur ray halls on January 13. 14, 15. 29 and 30. This will be an all day meet ing lasting from 10:00 a. m. until 4:00 p. m. under the supervision of Paul R. Hoff of the Agricultural Col lege Extension Service. Miss Bald win, assistant county agent, has granted these dates to the house wives of these communities, that those interested may attend and re ceive the benefits of this service. Any woman who will bring her sewing machine and stay with it all day is eligible to enroll. She will clean and adjust it herself under the direction of Mr. Hoff Enrollments are being received by Miss Baldwin who Is making all local arrangements for these meet ings. A guarantee of fifteen machines is necessary for a successful meet ing and not more than twenty can be accommodated. Anyone having a machine that runs hard, breaks thread, makes poor stitches or has any of the troubles common to sew ing machines may expect to leave the sewing machine clinic with a per fect rnnninp machine and ttie know- 1 ledge of how to keep it so. for the meetings may be completed. Application For Tree Seedlings. The Farm Bureau office is again handling the applications for tree seedlings available for cooperative windbreak and woodlot planting on farms in Cass county. A charge of $1.00 per hundred trees for handl ing, packing and shipping Is made by (the Extension Service. The follow ing varieties may be secured, in bundles of 100 trees only: American Elm. Mulberry. Cottonwood. Green Ash. Catalpa, Sivler Maple, Boxelder, Chinese Elm, Caragana, Russian I. Olive, Honey Locust, Scotch Pine, Austrian Pine and Jack PIr.e. An applicant may secure a maxi mum of 400 trees for a windbreak and a maximum of 100 trees for a woodlot. Due to a limited supply of stock, not more than 100 Russian Olive or more than 10o Chinese Elm can be furnished with one order, and then only with other trees. Trees will be shipped, transporta tion prepaid, to the address given by I applicant, in April 1931. Notice cards will be sent a few days in ad vance of shipment. If you are interested In securing trees for planting this spring, now is the time to place your order. D. D. Wainscott, Cass Co. Extension Agent. Jessie H. Baldwin, Ass't. Co. Extension Agent. A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE On Dec. 20th at the pleasant coun- try home of Mrs. Sarah McNatt, a very pleasant birthday party, the, birthday anniversaries of Miss Geneva McNatt of Plattsmouth, and C. J. Mc Natt of Butte, Montana, being cele brated. The evening was spent in a punpral trnnd tiniA Th nmaic was j furnished b. the Graves orchestra. Those present were Messers and Mesdames S. W. Beil. J. I. Fitch, A. T. Campbell. Joe Campbell, John Hendricks, Harold Hul:, J. E. Lan caster, Oscar Campbell, Bill Baker, Joe Shera, Pat Campbell, Norville Hawthorne. Ray Campbell, Sherd Beil, Georgia Hopkins, Thelma j Hutchison. Irene Simons. Dorothy Campbell. Ruth Hull. Alice and Alda Campbell; Harlan Conn, Bobbie Shera, George Hull, Alfred and Frank Conn Harold Lancaster. Jimmy Graves, Paul Shera, Elmer Fitchhorn, Albert Scudder, David Lancaster, Artemer Barkhurst, Glenn Hutchi son, Hershel Furlong, Fred and Ben Hull, Perry Graves, Mrs. Sarah Mc Natt, the Misses Geneva and Emma McNatt and C. J. McNatt. Tell your lawyer you want youi law brief printed here at iome. The lournal is equipped to do this work at reasonable prices. SPEAKER'S OFFICE INVADED Washington Speaker Longworth's office has been invaded either by souvenir hunters or petty thieves. His stop watch and several other articles are missing. The stop watch is used in timing membets making speeches on the floor. Mies Mildred Reeves, secretary to the speaker, said: "Now the members can speak as long as the desire unless a new stop watch Is produced. In the meantime the speaker will use his Ingersoll." The stop watch was missed Satur day morning and Tuesday Sergeant-at-Arms Rodgers was asked to -earch for it. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty. 83. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Ransom M. Cole, 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 16th day of January, A. D. 1931 and on the 17th day of April. A. D. 1931 at nine o'clock In the forenoon of each day. to receive and examine all claims against said estate. wi:h a view to their adjustment and al lowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate Is three months from the loth day of January A. D. 1931 and the time limited for payment of debt is one year from said 16th day of January A. D. 1931. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 17th day of December, 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) d22 3w County Judge. LEGAL NOTIC E In the District Court of Case County, Nebraska. Daniel G. Golding. Plaintiff, vs. Charles L. White, et al. Defendants. 1 u OTICK To the Defendant, Charles L. White: You are hereby notified that on the 16th day of July, 1930, the plaintiff filed his suit in the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska, the object and purpose of which is to foreclose lien of a tax sale certificate on Lots 572 and 573, in the Village of Greenwood, in Cass County. Ne braska, and equitable relief. You are hereby required to an swer said petition on or before Mon day. February 2, 1931. And failing iso to do. your default will be enter- ed and judgment taken upon the plaintiff's petition. This notice is given pursuant to an order of this Court. DANIEL G. GOLDING. Plaintiff. By A. L. TIDD, His Attorney. d22-4w ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set lement of Accounts In the County Court of Cass rnun- ;ty, Nebraska. ; State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss. ' To all persons interested in the estate of Mary L. Wiley, deceased: On reading the petition of Perry Nickles. Administrator, praying a fi nal settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 20th day of December. A. D. 1930, and for final settlement of his ac count and discharge as such Admin istrator; 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 16th day of January A. D. 1930. at ten 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 the seal of said Court, this 20th day of Decem ber, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) d22-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Robert Troon, deceased. on reading the petition of Lois R. Troon prayinit that the instrument filed in this court on the 18th day of December 1930, and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and al lowed, and recorded as the last will and testament of Robert Troop, de ceased; that said Instrument be ad mitted to probate, and the adminis tration of said estate be granted to H. A. Schneider, as Administrator with will annexed; 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 16th day of January A. D., 1931 at ten 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 that 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 bearing. Witness my hand, and seal of said court, this 18th day of December A D., 190. A. . DUXBURY. (SMl) J22 3w County Jodm.