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MONDAY, MARCH 9. 1931. PLATTSMOUTH 9EMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THRZB 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 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Gandbi and British in agreement on salt tax. :o: Economy consists in knowing how to make others supply your wants. :o: Husbands and wives never argue with each other. They merely dis pute. :o: How poor Eve ever managed to dress without a mirror the devil only knows. : o: When a woman puts her purse in a man's pocket it is a sure sign she loves him. :o: Practically all threatened strikes in Norway last year were settled by arbitration. :o: Plant your spring garden now, and you won't have to work so hard when the sun gets hot. :o: Charlie Chaplin was mistook for a holdup man in London. That ought to make him talk. :o: The Government, it seems, can't understand how Al Capone can do it on nothing a year. :o: It is folks we don't like who sin. Those whom we lov.e and admire merely make mistakes. :o: Clothes help to create emotional effect. Style note. Yes. especially when dad gets the bill. : o: To an old-timer tennis in winter is as hard to get used to as strawberries and fresh peas at Christmas. :o: We used to refer to our system of "free education," but the taxpayer knows that happy time is gone. :o: The well dressed man, for 1931, should have a wardrobe worth $5. 000, according to a fashion expert. :o: The Wickersham report is so im partial that either side can take the data and prove its every contention. :o: And how many of the former doughboys would now be able to get new cars if they didn't have votes? :o: Lincoln i3 honored for having split rails, but think how busy our modern statesmen are kept at rolling logs. :o: Washington used to be a place where statesmen gathered, now it is headquarters for organized minor ities. :o: Alabama robbers burned their way into a bank vault, grabbed $4,000, and then burned the wind in getting away. :o: With 20,000 speakeasies in New York there are a great many people who will doubt the seriousness of that water famine. -o: The United States exported more than 25,000,000 artificial teeth last year. No wonder we are so falsely represented abroad. :o: Every man makes a fool of him self at times, but the biggest fool is the one who tries to beat the record of being the biggest fool. :o: The steamship Leviathan stocks its pantry with 5.000 dozen eggs for each trip. Wonder why they don't carry hens along with them :o: Beauty shops are said to now rank sixth in American industry. It must bo admitted that beauty shops have advanced many good features. :o: A scientist says the law of gravity may be abolished. Wouldn't surprise us a bit. The gravity seems to have been abolished sometime since. :o: News from Columbia of a threat ened prison break reminds us that breaking out of Jail seems to have become an old American custom. :o: Someone suggests the feasibility nf marriasre bv radio. That's fine. A divorce could be had then before the principals got together for a quar rel. :o:- We are to have another Friday the 13th in March, according to the cal endar. However, the unluckiest day of the month will be the 15th, which is the time limit for filing your in come tax return. Ask somebody to name four of 11 members of the Wickersham commis sion. :o: Britain has just passed the two million mark In the number of tele phones. : o : It is wonderful to see the agility with which a lame duck can chase a new job. :o: Our "pennant hopes" go South in the spring, but, alack, they go blooey in the summer. -:o: President Hoover ought to realize by this time that Congress is defin itely against him. :o: If theories keep pouring in, we may eventually have Einstein A, Einstein B, etc., like vitamins. :o: President vetos Muscle Shoals bil! as invasion of private rights measure goes to next Congress. :o: More than $15,000,000 worth of American automobiles were received into Canada last year. -o: An "unavoidable accident" is the one in which the automobile at faults belongs to a prominent citizen. :o: You'd be ashamed to whine about your little ups and downs if you'd watch an emotional Adam's apple. :o: The President doubtless feels we ought to have an extra Thanksgiving Day for escaping an extra session. :o: When a woman drives wild the wrong way on a one-way street it makes a perfect day for the garage men. :o: For today's hero we nominate Mr. Hoover, who so nobly refrained from the Senate all those names he un doubtedly had in mind. :o: At this writing it is impossible to select the campaign issue next year. It may be the full dinner pail and then again it may be the empty soup f)OWj -:o:- Is there anything sadder than he- ; iug padlocked out of your fraternity house while wearing a suit belonging to a brother who now demands it back? :o:- Blondes of all types are to be very stylish this year, says the beauty ! i-osmeticians in session phia. Hurry to the girls! at Philadl drug store One of the fundamental problems of our time is to close the chasm that exists in the American mind be tween the thinker and the man of action. :o: Hot-headed members of the Aus trinn Pn rliament thrpw inksnots at , , i each other. 1 he country may well regard this as a blot on its legisla tive history. :o: If Herbert Hoover is the great engineer he has been touted to be. why doesn't he draw up some blue print plans showing him the- way nut of his dilemma? :o: Some folks who stand up in churr'i and lustily sing. "I've reached ti e land of corn and wine, and all i 3 riches freelv mine" in realitv n- - for straight rye. :o: an awful It must be shock f r Al Capone to discover a judge in th's i country who actually doesn't knew that the King of Gangsters is abo3 all laws and courts! :o: Calvin Coolidge lias been offered a million-dollar job to direct the dairy industry in New England. If Cal ac cepts he will no doubt make his own hay while the sun shines. :o: New York Republicans are groom ing Mrs. Ruth Pdatt, present mem ber of Congress, as a candidate for the Senate in 1932. Ruth should get busy and garner in enough sheaves to form a fat campaign fund. :o: If there is anything more contemp tible than an ordinary sneak thief it is the "two-time" lawyer who, with snug hypocrisy, represents both sides in a controversy, and gets a fee from both ends of the line. He is even lower down in the ethical scale than an ambulance chaser. TIMBER-SAVING STUDY It is said that the overproduction of our forest products is a grave problem. It is. That is why the first meeting of the National Timber Con servation Board, recently appointed by President Hoover, is now called upon to study timber saving. The board now is in session. It is com posed of leaders in the forest indus tries and in the forest conservation movement. It will consider the eco nomic problems which confront the lumber and other wood-using indus tries. It will endeavor to ascertain fundamental facts upon which may be devised practical ways and means for bringing about a stabilization be twen production and consumption of lumber and other forest products. According to Franklin W. Reed, an expert authority, the forest in dustries represent a capital invest ment of more than $10,000,000,000 He says that the gross value of their annual production of lumber, pulp and paper, naval stores and other commodities in daily use is close to $4,000,000,000. These industries employ, all told, about 2,000.000 per sons and nearly one-tenth of the country's population is dependent up on them for support. Their raw ma terial is the timber grown on 500, 000,000 acres, or one-fourth of the country's land area. They rank sec ond in importance only to the textile industries. In number of producing plants and workers they are second only to agriculture. This writer asserts that there is a surplus of forest products and that chaos threatens for our future gen erations unless wise councils prevail with reference to forest production and conservation. The National Board is to inquire into these pressing matters. They will report their recommendations of national policy. It is to be hoped that this great industry may be pie- served in full usefulness. The for jests can be conserved. The fact that the larger part of the timber supply is held in private ownership should not stand in the way of a solution in a matter which so vitally affects so many of our citizens. That this will not be the case is evidenced by the fact that the study was initiated primarily by the parties in interest, and not by the Government. LAME-DUCK SESSIONS DOOMED Prior to the existence of railways there was some excuse for the delay I of many months between election of Congress and its first sitting, and thus for the "lame-duck" session fol- lowiS an election. But for 100 years that excuse has not been valid' 'et the provision remained effective, be cause it was in the Constitution and consequently considered sacred, The Senate many times has passed resolutions to advance the dates of sessions and abolish the lame-duck nuisance. But the House has been I adamant in its adherence to outworn customs until Tuesday. Then, by the astonishing vote of 2S9 to 93, the House voted to initiate the constitu tional amendment. Differences of opinion remain in the Senate about the details of the resolution. Speaker Longworth's mo tion, adopted in the House, to pro vide for a short second session in even years, giving time for party con ventions and campaigns, may make trouble. But there is no reason what ever why the Senate should not pass the measure and permit it to be sub H muted to the states for ratification at once. We have had lame ducks for 140 years, and that is quite long enough. :o: MR. SNOWDEN'S ULTIMATION The warning of Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the British labor party must modify its social problem in order to bring about better times signifies evidently Li a . m - lnal lue government nas almost ex hausted its financial anility to meet further drains for employment and other relief. He indicated that all economic branches, except industry. must make sacrifices. His remarks are almost capitalistic. Two facts are conspicious in his declaration for a change in policy. The first is that Britain had to make a choice between paternalism and revolution and that it took the only prudent course, which was to give the dole. In a sense, it was an im perative choice between two evils. The second fact is that in due time the financial and other drains of so cialistic paternalism would reach the stage necessitating a return to nor mal and conservative measures. The really striking feature is that, the warning should come from the chan cellor of the exchequer in the labor ite administration. :o: Many tragedies are enacted these days because of the common opinion that laws made for the control of the wicked should not meddle with the habiti of nice people. HOOVER AND MUSCLE SHOALS Mr. Hoover complains that the 10 year battle to put the Government into the power business at Muscle Shoals has made a political issue out of this question out of all proportion to its economic significance either to the people of the Tennessee valley or those of the United States. We agree that Muscle Shoals has become a political issue, but we do not agree with Mr. Hoover that its importance to the country has been exaggerated. We agree with Samuel Untermyer, whose recent address be fore the University Club of Los An geles, that nothing else exceeds in importance exactly suc h a demonstra tion as Muscle Shoals promises that power can be produced for from one half to one-third what the country is paying for it, if it can be taken out of the greedy clutches of profit eers and spared the super-charges im posed upon it by high finance. This is what has made Muscle Shoals a political issue. The great political industry, whose racket is, in the words of Senator Dill of Washing ton, literally "picking the pockets of the people," cannot afford to have any such yardstick as Muscle Shoals threatens to become laid down beside its scale of prices. Mr. Coolidge also thought the im portance of Muscle Shoals was exag gerated, but he did not slight its im portance to the power industry. To him is attributable the greater part of that period in which a public in vestment of $160,000,000 has gone absolutely unproductive. Mr. Hoo ver's position differs from that of Mr. Coolidge only in being somewhat more courageous. He will not, ap parently, submit the bill now before him to a pocket veto. He is disposed. or seems disposed, to accept Muscle Shoals as a political issue and end the bill back to Congress with an emphatic protest against putting the Government into the power busi ness. There is a degree to which we in dorse Mr. Hoover's sentiment in this espect. We do not believe that the Government ought to be in all sorts of business. Nevertheless, its first obligation to the people is to protect them. It is as much its duty to pro tect them from predatory interests within the country as it is to defend them against forces from without the country. Muscle Shoals is, as Mr. Hoover says, something more than a mere hydro-electric power plant. He calls it a symbol, and that is precise ly what it is. So was Died Scott a symbol, and so has every great pub lic issue been somehow symbolized. We do not know what the Presi dent means when he says the effect of the agitation over Musc le Shoals has been to "sidetrack effective action on the Federal regulation of interstate power in co-operation with the states." Apparently he refers to a re commendation in his annual message to Congress in December, 1929. when he said the authority of the Federal Power Commission should be extend ed to certain phases ot power regu- lation. The Federal Power Commis- sion at present has no authority to regulate interstate power. The Couz ens bill contained this among other features, but Senator Couzens has not brought it out of the committee because he says it would be prema ture to do so before the Federal Trade Commission has concluded its power inquiry and revealed the necessary facts. The Senator denies that Mus cle Shoals is in any way related to power control legislation. The charge that it is, or that some other bill has been sidetracked by it, is truculent and disingenuous. It is especially so when Mr. Hoover implies that Con gress stood in the way of public nec essity in order to deal with Muscle Shoals. This is to imply that some other bill was before Congress and that Congress deliberately sidetrack ed it. That in Hot the case. It will immensely clarify the situ ation to have Mr. Hoover accept Muscle Shoals as a political issue and stand the ground he has consistently taken ever since he entered the White House. He protests that to be against the Norris bill is to be put by its advocates upon the side of the power industry. Why not? The power in dustry has for 10 years kept Muscle Shoals idle. It has used its giant trength to keep the Government from exposing the exorbitant prices charged for power all over the Unit ed States. Neither Mr. Coolidge nor Mr. Hoover has been able to devise an argument for opposing Federal operation at Muscle Shoals that does not put him squarely upon the side of the power industry. That is, both object to it on the score that the Government ought not to be in this business. Neiher has pretended that any fair private offer for the prop erty has been available. Neither has been sufficiently public spirited to agree that Congress is right in be lieving that the country has here a means of redressing a great public wrong. We suggest to Mr. Hoover that he run for a second term in the White House on the Muscle Shoals issue. If the people of the United States did not say in the 1930 elections all they have in mind with respect to the power industry and its iniquitous practices, we do not question that they will be glad to make themselves plain in 1932. He will not find it the pillow fight we had in 192S. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. MANKIND ADVANCING The American Philosophical So ciety at its general meeting in April is to make an effort to chart the course of mankind advanc ing . A rather large order. But the society successfully has undertaken many other large orders throughout its ca reer. The chief subjects to be consider ed will be: "The Changing World." in the hope that "The Promise of Science" can be indicated and the question "Whither Mankind" can be answered in understandable terms. These subjects again will be con sidered and studied in proper sec tions and subdivisions. The more popular papers will be given to the public. Bold and brave. As is well said by its projectors, "If ever the world needed an Aristotle, a collective in telligence to develop a method by which the population of the globe can best be sustained in health, com fort and dignity; to organize the world for better advantage of the race; it is now." It is the matter and work of the society to promote useful knowledge. This, it believes, can best be done through the assemblage of a collec tive intelligence. Hence the proposed symposia and synthesis. It is hoped that the society's leadership may be an inspiration and, in some measure, a guide to mankind advancing. Every branch of human knowledge is represented in this oldest learned society in America and it is believed that it can be of untold service to humanity in the carrying out of this momentous effort. In short, it mere ly proposes to make this world a bet ter place in which to live. THE FUTURE OF COTTON The future of cotton, if it has a fu ture, is a cause for concern not only in the south and other cotton-growing areas, but wherever there is trade in which cotton figures either direct ly or indirectly, and that covers about the whole of the earth's face. Cotton, when it sells at a profit, pro duces a generous slice of the world's wealth, so it naturally follows that hen cotton prices drop there is less trading the world over. Before New England lost its textiles to the soues it sugered every time the cotton mar ket misbehaved. Many are the troubles of the cot ton industry. The domestic market has fallen off tremendously, consump tion during the 1929-1930 season having fallen off 1,000,000 bales, or 14 per cent, from that for the pre- !ce(jjng season. Foreign demand has also fallen off and the American industry is losing through a competition with foreign cotton-producing countries. The textile industries in the Unit ed States and Great Britain are at low ebb. But that in the Orient is expanding, which means that cotton grown In the Orient is finding a greater demand than American cot ton because of the shorter haul. The same factor tends to give an advan tage to Egyptian cotton. After surveying the world situation the bureau of agricultural economics at Washington conies to the conclu sion that if the American crop is to maintain its position in world trade it must follow the spindles, and to do this it must compete in price as well as in quality with the spindles in the far corners of the earth, that means selling American cotton for less than foreign market prices. :o: OUR UNLAWFUL ALIENS One may conceive a plausable argu ment against drastic laws to restrict alien immigration. Our laws being what they are, however, it is hard to see how anyone can logically op pose the deportation of those who are here in direct violation of those laws. That such aliens are here by scores of thousands perhaps we should say hundreds of thousands is a fact which few care to risk an explicit denial. Their large numbers are plainly enough indicated by the fact that in 1929 there were 12,900 such persons actually deported. This result was obtained with a slender force of Federal agents to do the work, and the President is entirely Justified in recommending to the House of Representatives an al lowance of $500,000 to increase the force up to the point where depor tations can be made at least equal to, if not greater than, the number of those who ars constantly work- era v I 25 ounces for F 25c Eg KC BAKING POWDER double acting Use K C for fine texture And large volume in your bakings. ing themselves in by one illegal means or another. Of those who knowingly violate the laws to enter the country, no one should be surprise by the evidence that a considerable proportion are ready to violate other laws as well, and thus contribute to the clogging of our criminal courts. In addition to this, they add to the present diffi culties of unemployment and the care of those who are in distress. Congress should grant without op position or unnecessary delay the ap propriation for which the President has asked, and to which the director of the budget has added his own re commendation. :o: AN ALCHEMIST IN JAIL Since precious metals first came to have prestige and economic value alchemy has been the hope of count less dreamers. Visionary men who would make gold out of base metals are famed in history and legend. But few such goldmakers have spun fantastic careers on a web of patri otism and international politics as did the German Tausend, now in jail for a three-year term. Tausend in 1925 conceived the brilliant idea of making gold, taking 5 per cent of the profits for himself, paying 20 per cent to investors and using 75 per cent to pay Germany's reparations. His plan was taken up bv Nationalists, eager to free the Reich of its heavy debt burden and capture political power for them selves. And so the devotees of the old regime paid in their savings to Goldmaker Tausend. Tausend thrived. He bought coun try homes and motor cars, wrote a book explaining his project, and went about the country demonstrating an apparently foolproof method of manu facturing gold. Unfortunately for Tausend. police decided he was a magician, not an alchemist, and his scientific- treatise on the "harmony of the elements" was termed by scien tists the work of an uneducated ig noramus. And so the alchemist of the repa rations payments has gone to jail, leaving a trail of disillusioned Na tionalists, and leaving the Reich to pay its international debts in the customary manner of world finance. Synthetc gold remains a plaything for the authors of fiction and opera, not for political parties. :o: The prospects for Charlie Chaplin, still a British subject, for elevation to knighthood are not very good. The honor will not be offered by King George, and if the honor should be offered Charlie says he would not ac cept. Probably the little movie star is afraid that the dignity of the rank would put a crimp in his comedy. ORDER OP 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 William Shea, deceased: On reading the petition of Searl S. Davis praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 26th day of Febru ary. A. D. 1931, and for final settle ment of said estate and for his dis charge as 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 County, on the 27th day of March, A. D. 1931, 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 pub lishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 26th day of February, A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) m!-3w County Judc NOTICE OF APPLICATION For License to Operate a Pool Hall in the Village of Manley Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will on the 16th day of April, 1931. at 11 o'clock a. m., at the court house at Plattsmouth, Ne braska, make application to the Board of County Commissioners of Cass county, for a license to operate a pool hall in the building located on Lot 5 of Block 3, in the Village of Manley. Cass county, Nebraska. Dated this 16th day of February, A. D. 1931. GEORGE E. COON, fl6-4w Applicant. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of George E. Wever, 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 20th day of March, A. D. 1931. and the 26th day of June. A. D. 1931. at ten 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 20th day of March. A. D. 1931, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 20th day of March, A. D. 1931. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Couit this 20th day of February, A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) f23-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass c oun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of An ton Krajicek, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will set at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 20th day of February, 1931, and on the 22nd dry of May, 1931. at 10 o'clock a. m., on each day. to re ceive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their ad justment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 20th day of February. A. D. 1931, and the time limited for pay ment of debts is one year from said 20th day of February. 1931. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court .this 23rd day of January, 1931. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j26-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Termi nation of Guardianship and Settlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, S3. To all persons interested in the estate of Ralph L. Daft, an Incompe tent Person: Notice is hereby given that Gladys L. Daft, Guardian of Ralph L. Daft, an incompetent person, has filed her final report and petition asking for the termination of said guardianship, approval of her final report and for her discharge. It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said county, on the 14th day of March. 1931, 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 pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereon 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 weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this 19th day of Febru ary, 1931. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) f23-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF HEARING Estate of Julius Doering and wifo, Christina Doering. both deceased, in the County Court of Cass county, Ne braska. The State of Nebraska, to all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Ern estine Jahrig has filed hor petition alleging that Julius Doering and wife, Christina Doering died intestate in Plattsmouth prior to 1925 being residents and inhabintants of Cass county, Nebraska, and died Mixed of the following described real es tate, to-wit: Southeast Quarter of Section Thirty-four. Township Seven teen, Range Nineteen, all in Custer county, Nebraska, leaving as his sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to-wit: Ernestine Jahrig, Minnie Lillie and August Doering and pray ing for a determination of the time of the death of said Julius Doering and wife, Christina Doering, and of their heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real property belonging to the said de ceased, in the State of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing the 27th day of March, A. D. 1931. before the court at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., In the Court House in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Dated at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, this 28th day of February, A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) m2-3w. County Judge. An Ohio chemist says it is pos sible to manufacture rubber from Irish potatoes. When that glad day conies we will eall them inner tubers.