MONDAY. JULY 20, 1931. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TH3LE1 Cbc plattsmoutb journal 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, f3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. In matters of pure intelligence, st-x is irrevelant. :o:- The fellow who doesn't advertise will remain a secret all his life. It is impossible to overestimate the significance of the word "commence ment." There is a difference between tak ing life seriously and taking it sol emnly. -:o:- If you want to kill any idea in the world today, just get a committee working on it. : o: Religion is taboo in Russia. Won der what the folks do when they want to pray for rain? -:o:- You rarely see a calico horse any more. Perhaps that's the reason for the low price of cotton. :o:- In celebration of Uncle Sam corn lag to the rescue. Germany ought to strike off a new medal called the ironic cross. Ordinarily we are not hard to please, hut nobody on earth can con vince us that a paper napkin isn't a darned nuisance. -:o:- Before leaving France Uncle Andy Mellon should visit a certain his toric tomb and exclaim: "Well, La fayette, here we are again." The most delightful association with people comes, when you use the river for the morning face wash and the woods for a living room. -:o: The Chicago opera lost a million dollars in a 13-week season, but hope for better luck next year, as Mary Garden will be off the payroll. : o: The universe is said to be running down. It may be, but I believe at the same time there is something which keeps constanly winding it up. -:o:- Cheer up: Things might be worse. Suppose, for instance, all candidates had two tongues and people who listen to them had only one ear. Suffering from heat is mostly in the mind, according to a doctor. Therefore, go ahead anil lose your mind and the heat won't bother you. :c: Considering the present state of the world's affairs, how fortunate it is that no radio artist has attempt ed a round-the-world solo flight on a saxophone. -:o: Sometimes it's such an ordeal try ing to get your small son to quit throwing his ball against the house that it's a real relief when he finally smashes a window and quits from fright. : o: We good Democrats are wondering whether Hoover prosperity is going to leave General Motors stock high enough to justify Johnnie Raskob in financing us through another Presi dential campaign. :o: There's always something. A few weeks ago. before we thought much about foreign finances, wheat prices and unprofitable oil production, we fancied that all our troubles would be over if we could just get a c on-1 viction against Al Capone. Get a FREEvas e by imply pur chasing six full-sized 30c cans of WaterSpar at our very special price of only 21c each. Save 54c in ail. Decorate vase in glori ous WaterSpar colors by new, easy b ruthless method. Free instruction. H. L. Kruger Paint and Wall Paper Store saBafa&safl ssMsfcsLsissl s fc r It begins to look like Stalin is rul ing over in Russia with an iron head rather than an iron hand. We have a similar affliction here. :o: It may be better to he happy than rich, but no poor man ever derived satisfaction from the thought while bill collectors are flocking about him. :o: An Alabama girl has just taken unto herself a fifth husband. Natur ally, we wonder if she still has the same poodle dog she started out with. :o: Now that he is about to go to the Leavenworth penitentiary, the name of Scarfac e Al Capone should be rased from "Who's Hootch in Am erica." : o : When a politician reaches that stage in his career when the people no longer laugh at his jokes, he may as well recognize that he is in a state of senility. : o : Life would be very much simpli fied if it were possible to cure one's self of the habit of eating as easy as it is to work up an aversion to work ing in hot weather. :o: One of the big mysteries of life is why women never have had pockets in their dresses to hold their hand kerchiefs, instead of always having to fish for them down their necks thai 'a way. :o: It's also bye, bye for the honey moon when the groom begins to un derstand why all the old married men laughed so heartily when he boasted that he would be the boss in his own home. :o: Artists contend there is no beauty in a straight line, but when one of George Brannon's batsmen Beads a sizzling single right over second base it always brings a yelp of approval from the crowd. :o: DOLE TREAT TO PUBLIC CREDIT The financial difficulties into which the city of Detroit has been plunged as a result of its experi ment with an unemployment dole bring nearer home the recent report of a royal commission appointed to inquire into the working of the Brit ish unemployment insurance system. The report discloses that unemploy ment relief connected with this sys tem is costing approximately 500 dol lars a year, over and above the con tributions of employers and em ployees. The sum is being obtained now partly by taxation and partly by public- loans, but the whole of it eventually will have to be found by the taxpayer. The seriousness of this situation even for so wealthy a country as Great Britain is shown by the treas ury department's warning, quoted by the commission, that "state borrow ing on present vast scale without adequate provision for repayment by the (unemployment insurance) fund would quickly call In question the stability of the British financial sys tem." The majority of the eommision, incidentally, scotch the claim that the unemployment insurance :c';3nie is not, in fact, a dole, despite the contribution of the employers and employees to the fund from v. lich benefits are being paid to the job less. They note that the relation be tween contributions and benetit has been abolished and that the rat of benefit has been raised in some in stances to the level of full-time c irn ings. In other words, the insurance l.asis of the British system has dis appeared. The dole has brought the city of Detroit to the verge of bankruptcy. It is causing the British treasury grave concern and it is one of the heaviest charges upon the German budget, which has had to be relieved by a suspension of reparation pay ments. These facts are entirely apart from other objections to the dole, in cluding its undoubted demoralizing effect. The royal commission, how ever, finds that the unemployment in surance scheme "has prevented ser ious distress in a period of unprec edented unemployment." t is up to opponents of the dole in this coun try to show that such distress can be prevented by other, and less danger ous means. PAYING THE PIPER He who aances must pay the piper. The American people have been dancing and they, too, are pay ing the piper. A recent edition of the Miami Posx carries 132 pages of one-line notices to thousands of investors in Florida bonanzas that their property is to be sold for taxes. This picturesque edition is an echo of the now lamented Florida boom. The Florida boom was a characteris tic American orgy. It elevated values beyond all reason. The very sea bot tom sold in some enchanted spots for better than a king's ransom. When the collapse came it left mil lions of gullible people all over the United States feverishly clutching title to property of so little value that the state now sells it out for taxes. Congress suppressed the Louisiana lottery, but it was not a circumstance to the Florida lottery. The American people want to be rich. When they cannot get their money down on one long shot, they put it on another. The Florida boom was always such stuff as dreams are made on; but that did not make any difference. It was the long shot of the moment, and the country got down on it. Result: Remorse and 132 pages of delinquent property tax notices in only one Florida paper. Meanwhile, a committee from the economic and financial section of the League of Nations has completed a study of the effects produced upon in ternational trade and finance by our now even more lamented bull mar ket. The committee took the period from the beginning of 1927 to the end of 1930. It found that interna tional trade and finance had been dislocated everywhere by the high prices for money in the United States. Mr. Ford said of the bull market that it diverted from their usual chan nels not only the capital of Amer ican business but also Us brains. The League of Nations committee finds that this was the effect of the bull market everywhere. It was not mere ly that it offered an opportunity for enrichment; it also offered high prices for short loans. Our own Am erican corporations took their sur pluses and put them into the rich market created by the investment fever. Capital in England, France and other foreign countries was di verted to it. The committee finds that interna tional trade suffered a state of para lysis from this widespread diversion of interest and capital to the I'nited States. The immediate effect of the excessive demand for short term cred its for speculative purposes resulted in the geenral contraction of capital throughout the world, in a string ency of credit, and in increased inter est rates. International capital that had been used for trading purposes and for financing governments was diverted from these regular channels and went into the attractive market rented by unprecedented specula tion.. The numerous changes in the movements ot international capital were varied and peculiar, but after exhaustive study the committee reaches the conclusion that the stock marke t boom was at the bottom of ih. in all. We were not content with the war debts and the poverty in flicted by war itself upon much of the world. We had to add our own high tariff and the various gambling rigs set up by the shrewd to catch the savings of all those who had something. In the United States, net capital exports fell from $1,059,000,000 in 1928 to 213 million dollars in 1929. New issues for foreign accounts in England fell off by one-third in 1929. France in the same period discontinued her usual capital ex ports of gold and goods. By 1930 the British surplus on account of trade and other current transactions had fallen from 13S million pounds sterl ing to 39 million pounds sterling. The world was by that time in a condition of financial chaos. Aus tralia and several of the Latin Amer ican nations, as well as China, were bankrupt. Silver had dropped below 30 cents an ounce, the lowest price in 'history. The great foreign trade which the United States had built up had shrunk from more than five bil lion dollars in 1928 to $3,843,181, 000 in 1930. The unemployed were estimated at more than 50 million in the five great industrial nations. They were merry tunes the piper played but there is nothing merry about the bill. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. -:o:- Another reason we don't think Al Capone is nearly so rich as his ad miring biographers make out is that he lost a skirmish with the govern ment over his income tax. Really rich folks don't lose skirmishes with the government over income tax. Really rich folks don's lose skirm ishes with the government over in come tax. They win. and the gov ernment acknowledges defeat hand somely with a big refund. NEW WINE AND OLD DOTTLES How and when anc why Herbert Hoover became a Republican is nar rated by the mysterious "Gentleman With a Feather Duster" in his latest book, "The Mirrors of 1932." The deed was done in 1920. Henry Cabot Lodge and Boies Penrose fig ure as the heavy villains in the trag edy. Mr. Hoover, at that time, had been an important cog in the Wilson ad ministration. His closest friends were two democrats Franklin Lane, secretary of the interior, and Frank lin Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, now governor of New York. These two were bearing down hard on Hoover to declare himself a dem ocrat and go after the presidential nomination. Mr. Lane, according to the author, finally won his promise to do so. Enter then, Lodge and Penrose. They had no liking for Hoover. They did not want him for president, eith er as a democrat or a republican. But they did want him in their camp, on their side. They found him "without fixed political convictions." All they had to do to win him. therefore, was to convince him that his political chances were better as a republican than as a democrat. They were able to do that, and the vic tory was won. Mr. Hoover retracted his promise to Lane and declared himself a repub lican. Mr. Hoover, it is said at Washing ton, will neither deny nor affirm the story. Maybe it isn't true and may be it is. It is worth recalling, how ever, that early in that year, before he had taken the republican party to his bosom, he had permitted his name to be filed in Michigan for the democratic- presidential nomination. That may or may not be corrobor ative evidence. What does not appear to be well supported, however, is the theory that Mr. Hoover was then, and has always been, a man without fixed po litical convictions. Just two years be fore he went after the republican nomination for the presidency he had been a good enough democrat to sup port Woodrow Wilson's appeal for the election of a democratic con gress. In 1920 he was for the League of Nations and for American adherence to it. He appealed for votes for Hard ing as the surest way to get the Unit ed States into the- League. Then, later, when the republican party turned definitely against that pro gram, Mr. Hoover turned against it too. In 192S. as a candidate, he was definitely against a general increase of tariff rates except on farm prod ucts. Then, as president, he signed the Grundy tariff bill, "reluctantly." Now. as a candidate for re-election, he supports and commends it. He has been firmly against assoo ciating reparations with war debts and then, with his moratorium proposal, linked them indissolubly together. He would not consider cancellation of war debts. Then Acting Secretary of State Castle indiscreetly made it public that this possibility had been "considered in connection with the moratorium program. And poor Mr. Castle was obliged to enter a dis claimer of his own statement. None of this is necessarily at all discreditable to Mr. Hoover. Some of the wisest and most successful statesmen that ever lived were with out "fixed political convictions." They might be called opportunists or realists, or pragmatists, or merely practical men. They realized keenly how greatly circumstances may alter cases, and how rapidly and radically circumstances can change. In our own day men of "fixed po litical convictions" are rather strange birds. It is hard for a good demo crat to be a good Jeffersonian all the time and mighty few of them are. Mussolini was a fiery socialist not so many years ago. Hindenburg was a junker. And there's Raskob recently of the Union League club, now democratic national chairman. There, for that matter, are multitudes of us. good partisans, but not sure right now whether we are radicals or conservatives, or neither; or whether we still agree with our own party, and our own long-standing convictions, on tariff, or prohibition, or the trusts, or foreign policy, or whatever; or just where our own party stands on any of these issues. The trouble is the world is flood ed with new bottles. And when we essay to put old wine into them we are disturbed as to the probable re sult. Perhaps new wine would be better. Or maybe trial and experi ment is best. It's a fast moving world we are in, and we have to move fast and watch our step and make a lot of quick ad justments to keep up with it. Her bert Hoover is not the only man who is jiggled about from this side to that, and who occasionally is bounced off the floor to hit the ceil ing. .World-Herald. NORSEMEN INVOKE THE WORLD COURT The recent action of a party of Norwegian hunters in planting the , flag of their country over a section of eastern Greenland, and the sub sequent backing of the action by their Government, opens up an old question. Norway's role in Green land goes back to the first settlement in that country of Norsemen under Eric the Red. It became juridically a possession of the Kingdom of Nor way in the thirteenth century, re mained a possession of that country through all the period of the union with Denmark. By the Treaty of Kiel, however, under which Frederick VI of Den piark resigned his sovereignty over Norway in favor of the Swedish King, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes were expressly excepted. The Norwegian contention has always been that this action was in con flict with an agreement of 1C65 which provided for the integrity of Norway and her provinces. Norway never recognized the Treaty of Kiel. In later negotiations connected with Norway's payment of a share of the common debt incurred dur ing the union, the retention of the colonies by Denmark was used as an argument, and upon the conclusion of those negotiations the question of Denmark's claim to the Norwegian colonies was regarded as settled. Not long ago public opinion in Norway became aroused once more by the Greeland question. An agree ment then was made, to last for twenty years, which, broadly inter preted, gave to Norway hunting and fishing rights in sections where no Danish settlements existed. This agreement, however, seems to have been looked upon by Norway as a temporary concession and a partial acceptance by Denmark of Norway's daim. while Denmark considered that the agreement of 1924 was tan tamount to Norwegian recognition of Denmark's sovereignty in Greenland. The whole matter is. however, not no critical as might be beliewd at the first glance. For some time Nor way has been agitating the reopen ng of the question, which Denmark steadfastly held as being settled, at least for the years covered by the 192-1 agreement. The raising of the Norwegian flag, and the following action of the Norwegian Government ire. in actuality, a move to force the whole question back into negotiation. The immediate declaration by Den mark that her case should be carried' before the Permanent Court for In ternational Justice at The Hague is precisely what Norway has been at tempting to obtain. It is interesting to note that there have been no gestures of hostility, no threats, and no intimidating moves. On both sides there is con fidence in the World Court, and an expressed readiness to abide by a decision of that body. In this the world once more is treated to an ?xample of Scandinavia's modern method of handling a dispute. For the World Court it is another op portunity to prove that a vexing question which has remained open for centuries can be settled satis factorialy. :o: "If your house is insulated, keep it closed up tight all day in sum mer," advises an authority on keep- Aches and PAINS When you take Bayer Aspirin you are sure of two things. It's sure relief, and it's harmless. Those tablets with the Bayer cross do not hurt the heart. Take them whenever you suffer from: Headaches Colds Sore Throat Rheumatism Neuritis Neuralgia Lumbago Toothache When your head aches from any cause when a cold has settled in your joints, or you feel those deep-down pains of rheumatism, sciatica, or lumbago, take Bayer Aspirin and get real relief. If the package says Bayer, it's genuine. And genuine Bayer Aspirin is safe. Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer manufacture of monoaceticacidester of salicvlicadd. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS FINE FOR STOMACH "I have never handled a raoedj that pi such wonderful resolta aa Z NStP. Not one who haa taken the marvelous stomach remedy that did not obtain immediate re sults," writes Mr. W. P. Conner, druggist at "Woodrirer, Kebr. End YOUR stomach mis ery. It's GUARANTEED. At ull druggists. IS ZUttggtt ing cool. And even if it didn't keep the house cool, it's worth trying on account of the great number of ped dlers, panhandlers and relatives that go right on by thinking nobody is at home. :o: HOW THAT BOY COULD TALK Astute cultivator of Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, re publican national committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar smoking, bridge playing Hoss Maschke went to St. Paul's Af rican Methodist Episcopal church to help launch Negro Counc ilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for re-elec tion. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he look ed down benevolently upon four hun dred praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. O. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and. spoke: "A great stupendous task devolves upon me. It seems that for a mo meneloquence has gone to sleep and cobwebs have overgrown the brain, searching about for a Cicero. My task is herculean. It takes a man with the wisdom of Solomon, the thought of Shakespeare and the ora tory of Patrick Henry to properly introduce this friend of man. "I heard the morning stars when they sang together. I saw Thor gather in the rainbows to wrap about the dying storm; I walked with Cae sar through the three parts of Gaul and I listened to Virgil when he sang his Aeneid when I was told I was to introduce this man. "The prince has come out of Egypt and no greater honor can come to anyone than the privilege of intro ducing this matchless statesman, this republican wheelhorse, this friend of man who has etched his name on the portals of fame. Maurice Maschke." Boss Maschke then began his speech by saying that he had been put to an oratorical disadvantage. Time. :o: Now that Will Rogers knows what it is to have an airport bearing his own name, and that the renowned Claremore field has been so christen ed, he will doubtless develop the pride that always goes with posses sion and see to it that the landing place is worthy the honor bestowed upon it. If powerful liners of the air cannot go down safely and with dignity on the Claremore port here after, the responsibility will have to be checked up squarely to Mr. Rog ers. SHERIFF S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, 1 will on the 1st day of August, A. D. 1931, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the court house, in the City of Plattsmouth. Nebraska, in said coun ty, sell at public auction to the high est bidder for cash the following real estate to-wit: Lot Three (3) in Block 50 in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Cornelius Mahoney. et al.. defendants, to sat isfy a judgment of said Court re covered by Daniel G. Golding, plain tiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska. June 2Cth, A. D. 1931. BERT REED, Sheriff of Cass County. Nebraska. By REX YOUNG Deputy Sheriff. j29-5w NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed proposals will be received until the 20th day of July, 1931, at 2 p. m. by the Board of Education of school district No. 32, Louisville. Nebraska, for the erection and com pletion of a grade school building as per plans and specifications on file with the Clerk of the school board. Plans may be had from the Archi tect Everett S. Dodds, 5011 No. 22nd St. Omaha. Nebr., on deposit of $10. Said deposit will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders upon re turn of plans with a bonafide bid on the proposed work. A certified check for 5 of this amount of the bid must accompany proposal, made payable to the treas urer School District No. 32, Louis ville, Nebr. In case the successful bidder fails or refuses to furnish bond as re quired by law and enter into a con tract for the performance of the work, within five days after being notified by the boaid. such check shall be forfeited to the board as li quidated damages. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Plans are also on file at the Omaha Builders Exchange. Signed P. C STANDER. Chairman. C. W. MARRIAM, Secretary. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Wil liam J. Miller. 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 31st day of July. 1931. and on the 2nd day of November, 1931. at ten o'clock a. m. of each of said days, to receive 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 31st day'of July, A. D. 1931, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 31st day of July, 1931. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 3rd day of July, 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) jC-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by C. E. Ledgway. Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county. Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will cm the 1st day of August, A. D. 1931, at 10 o'clock a. m., of said day at the south front door of the court house in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in said coun ty, sell at public auction to the high est bidder for cash the following real estate to-wit: The North 140 feet of Lot Eleven (11) in the northwest Quarter of the northwest Quar ter of Section Nineteen (19) Township Twelve (12), Range Fourteen (14). East of the 6th P. M. in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nt-braska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Sarah Cath erine Higley, et al. defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court re covered by Daniel G. Golding, plain tiff, against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, June 26th, A. D. 1931. . BERT REED, Sheriff of Cass County, Nebraska. By REX YOUNG Deputy Sheriff. j29-5w NOTICE OF REFEREK 'S SALE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. Josephine Timblin, Plaintiff vs. Algeran P. T. Wiley et al. Defend ants. Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of a decree of the Dis trict Court of Cass county. Nebras ka, entered in the above entitled cause on the 29th day of May, 1931. and an order of sale entered by said Court on the 8th day of June. Ittl, the undersigned Referee will on the 25th day of July, 1931, at 2 00 o'clock p. m., at the South front door of the Murray State bank. Murray. Nebraska, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, that is to say, 10 on the day of sale and balance March 1, 1932, upon con firmation of sale by the c ourt and delivery of deed and possession of property, the following described real estate, to-wit: Lot Seven (7) In the South east Quarter of Northwest Quar ter (SEViNW); North -ast Quarter of Southwest Quarter (NEVSW4); Lots Three :i and Thirteen (13) in the North west Quarter of Southeast Quar ter (NWSE'i); and Lots Four (4) and Eight (Si in the Southwest Quarter of Northeast Quarter (SWNEVi): all in Section Nineteen (19), Town ship Eleven (11). North Range Fourteen (14), East of the 6th P. M. in Cass county. Nebraska. Said sale will be held open for one hour; an abstract showing mer chantable title will be furnished. Dated this 17th day of June, 1931. J. A. CAP WELL, Referee. CARL D. GANZ. Attorney. jlS-5w NOTICE OF HEARIN'i; on Petition for Determination of Heirship Estate of Roy Austin, deceased, in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, to all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Ogar etta Austin has filed her petition al leging that Roy Austin died inte.-tute in the State of California on or about November, 1927. being a resident and inhabitant of the County of San Bernardino, in the State of Califor nia, and died seized of the following described real estate, situated in Cass county, Nebraska, to-wit: An undivided one-fifth inter est in and to the northwest quarter of the southwest quar ter of Section 2 4. Township 10. Range 13. east of te 6ih P. M., Cass county, Nebraska leaving as his sole and or.1v heirs at law the following named persons. to-wit: Ogaretta Austin, widow; Richard Austin, son: Rob 1 1 Austin, son; Clea Austin, daugh ter and praying for a determination of the time of the death of said Ry Austin and of his heirs, the degree of kinship- and the right id descent of the real property belonging to the said deceased, in the State of Ne braska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing the 7th day of August. A. D. 1931. before the court at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., in the Court House in Plattsmouth, Cass county. Nebraska. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. this 8th day of July. A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) J13-3w. County Judge. Journal Want Ad get result.