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MONDAY. JULY 27. 1931. PLATTSMO TJTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOT7BNAL PAGE TERES Cbc plattsmoutb Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMO TJTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice. Plattsmoutb. 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, $3.60 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Troubles and babies grow larger by nursing them. :o:- The trouble with economists is that they read more than they think. :o: It only takes intelligence, courage and good will to make a prosperous world. ! n:- The next presidential race will be run between a White Elephant and a Franklin. :o: When a creditor isn't strong enough to carry you, he drops you so hard that you are broken by the fall. :o: A politicial picnic is an event from which everybody goes home to doctor ivy poison and scratch chigger bites. :o: Chivalry is distinctly a masculine garment; on a woman it looks as I strange and becoming as a swallow tail coat. :o: These moratoriums are aggravat ing. They may delay payments on the last war until they lap over into our next war. :o: Biograph- has suffered from being like club sandwiches toast on top and underneath with irrelevant mat ter in between. :o: Last night's threatening rain fail ed to materialize, although it did get a lot cooler, indicating that rain fell to the north and east of us. :o: We can't all have what we want. But then, as Tony Wans say?: "Our ! greatest disappointment of today fades into insignificance a year or so hence." Drastic Price Cuts for Wednesday July 29 In order to take some of the busy load off of Saturday, we are making special induce ments for you to trade on WEDNESDAY! These are things you NEED! Buy Them Now Men's fast color Chambry Work Shirts 39c Men's fine gauge Cotton Sox 10c Men's fast color 220 weight Bib Overalls 79c Men s one-piece Hickory Work Cap, washable. . . .29c Men's very fine fancy Dress Shirts 79c Men's genuine BVD's, elastic shoulder 79c Men's imitation BVD's 59c Men's light weight Summer Dress Pants $2.95 Men's white Sailor Pants, lace back $1.25 Men's dress Straw Hats 89c Men's kiki Screen Crown Hats 49c Men's white duck "Gob" Hats 43z Men s all horsehide Leather Gloves 49 ; Men's summer Coat and Pants, small sizes $b Men's good Wool Suits, 3 pieces $112 Men's silk "4-in-Hand" Ties 49; Men's rib Athletic Shirts 29; Boys' genuine Munsing Union Suits 29- Boys' Muslin Gowns, H to 16 2Bc Boys' Kaynee Wash Suits 98. Boys' Whoopie Overalls, 4 to 12 69- Boys' Corduroy Knickers, 1 3 to 1 6 29c Boys' Long Pants $1.98 Boys' Dress Caps 49c Boys' bright Blazer Sweaters 98c Boys' and Young Men's Polo Shirts 29c Children's Straw Hats 5c Children's Wash Hats 25c Children's Kindergarten Sleepers 49c Men's and Women's all-wool Bathing Suits $1.95 Wescott's Wednesday Evening PlattSltlOUttt Some tilings may be worth waiting for, but there are a lot more of them that it pays to go after. :o: In Fremont the stores close at 5:30 and people seem to get their shop ping done alright. It is all a matter of habit. :o: Add new definitions: State rights Certain privileges the people enjoyed before they turned to the Federal government and said, "Gimme."' San Francisco Chronicle. :o: As we understand the financial situation, most of the nations wish Germany a happy fiscal new year, while France wishes herself many happy and immediate returns. :o: Count Herman Keyserling says that "The American intellect is the least intelligent of the present age." That moratorium plan does make us look somewhat like easy marks. : o : A presidential boom for Newton D. Baker is being launched. Ifebbe it might be a good idea to put a Baker in the White House. He might pro vide all of us with plenty of dough. :o: Americans do not need drink to in spire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, we believe, need a little for the deeper and more deli cate purpose of teaching them how to do something. :o: A New York undertaker scouts the current superstition that dead gang- sters are buried in $2'.itoo caskets. He says one could bury twenty gang sters at present prices for $2'.'U0. Fine, let's try it. 33 South Side Main St. Corner of 5th The Murdock bank robber who be lieved he couldn't get justice "in the sticks," doubtless will be all the more confirmed in his belief when he hears the "bad news" a few weeks hence. :: A noted man said : "Most of my troubles never occurred." How true that is today. We worry and fret about the things that might happen and then find that our fears were all groun dless. : o: Clarence Mackey. millionaire head of the Postal telegraph system, and aristocrat to his finger tips, has just married Anna Case, opera singer. He should now quit kicking because his laughter married Irving Berlin, song writer. :o: Threshing is the order of the day throughout eastern Nebraska. Instead of the steam rigs of olden days, al most everything is trac tor driven and the number of outfits is almost in numerable. Another thing that seems to be relegated to the good old days is "stack" threshing. :o: Writing recently on this page, we commended the road maintainer hav ing charge of patrol south of Madi son on D. S. SI. but alter driving over it. we have concluded there has been a change made in the mainten ance personnel. That used to be one of the finest graveled stretches any where in the country. :o: Columbus. Nebr., citizens were singing the blues, their pet peeve be ing the new viaduct contracted for by the city with distinc t understanding that home labor would be employed. Now they say that not only is home labor discriminated against, but the wage schedule is below the sum that was agreed upon. :o: There is considerable criticism of Waite Hoyt, who couldn't win for Detroit, but recently went to the Athletics and seems to win with his old-time facility. The inference Is that he wasn't trying to win for De troit. There s a good deal to be said on both sides. Some fclks take the extreme position that even Lefty Drove couldn't win for Detroit. WHOSE PAGEANT IS IT ANYWAY ? The officials arranging the pro duction of the Yorkstown pageant, which is to be a part of the George Washington bicentennial celebration next year, are in a fearful quandary. The state department, or rather one of its undersecretaries, has advised the Yorktown producers to exclude from the pageant any reference to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. which it may be recalled was an in cident in the life of Washington that took place at Yorktown in 1781. The state department, or the un dersecretary aforesaid, felt that to re enact the Cornwallis surrender would be to wound the sensibilities of the English, with whom the state de partment now has the most cordial relations. The Yorkstown officials don't know what to do. They have looked over the records of their town, and so far as they can ascertain the only thing that ever happened there was the Cornwallis surrender. To pro duce a pageant and leave the sur render out to put Washington la without Cornwallis presents dfffi culib's that appall them. They could perhaps leave Washington out. too, but then it wouldn't be a Washington pageant. They could leave York town out, but then it wouldn't be a Yorktown pageant. They could, if necessary to quiet the state depart ment's fears, make the pageant show that Washington surrendered to Cornwallis. but then it wouldn't be a historical pageant. Of course, the extreme view might be taken that the observance is to be in Washington's honor and not that of Cornwallis or the English. They have to take their chances just as they did in the Revolutionary War. If they lost then (and that is the way history understands it), they will have to lose in any pageant of the life of Washington that should take any notice of the Revolutionary War at all. The pageant might, to be sure, depict only the early life of Washington say as a surveyor on Lord Fairfax's estate? and his later life as President and as a farmer at Mi n nt Vernon. That would avoid the disagreeable business of the Revo lution and save the feelings of the descendants of Lord Cornwallis and Lord North. It would simply erase the Revolution from history. Still, if it should be thought de sirable to preserve history in some of its more notable outlines of fact, it would be better perhaps to let the pageant adhere to truth, and leave the state department to fix it up with the British foreign office the best way it can. The chances are Uncle Arthur Henderson and the MacDon ald government could be induced to take a reasonable view of it. GOVERNMENT SHOULD MAKE RAIN AS IN NINETIES The fatal mistake our government has made and its consequent unpop ularity now are plain. The govern ment ought to have continued its rainmaKing ousiness. nut it was short-sighted and wanted to save money, so chose the disastrous course of withholding rain where it was needed. It was different once, and the government, of course, fared much better. The "Forty Year Ago" column in a neighboring paper takes note of the recourse that once could be had in time of need and of how government once served a really useful purpose. It is noted, with reference to the early '90s that "if it doesn't rain soon, the citizens may apply to the government for the loan of its four rainmakers now operating or experi menting east of here." The government forty years ago had a fair idea of the service it ought to render the public. Probably it has continued living to dote on the repu tation for usefulness it then attain ed. The government had some con fidence in what it might do forty years ago. So congress actually ap propriated $20,000 to show what pos sibly could be done- in the way of rainmaking by bombarding the sky and forcing it to behave as desired. Congress had heard of the value of cannonading in bringing down the rain and was skeptical of scientific denials that firinj; of the powerful guns had anything to do with rain fall. The government experimenters, wishing to cake no chances, resorted to the exploding of dynamite at suit able heights on a Texas ranch. The rain-maker in charge contended that rain began to fall at once, but the meteorologists on duty insisted it would have rained anyway. That has been the caviling answer of science to such attempts at rainmaking right down to the present. But science obviously knows noth ing about the powers of government. and it was a fatal blunder that con gress did not continue the rainmak ing appropriations annually, increas ing the sum each time. :o: THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE A number of the Journal force, just returned from a week spent in Knox county, had opportunity to view at first hand the devastating work of the grasshopper. At Bloom field, Wausa, Center and west to O'Neill, in Holt county, Mr. Grass hopper is taking his toll in the small grain fields and now with threshing under way and the greener vegeta tion of the stubble fields rapidly dry ing up for want of rain the fear of the farmer is that the "hoppers" will turn to the corn fields, as they have done further up in Dakota, even eat ing the stalks off at the ground. Numerous fields were visited in the vicinity of Creighton. where the "hoppers" had wrought great destruc tion, greatly cutting the yield of oats, which is the main small grain crop of that country. One impressive fact was apparent in that even on adjoin ing farms and on opposite sides of the road, the amount of damages var ied greatly. Along with the grasshopper plague that is infesting itself upon the farm ers of northeastern Nebraska is a still more menacing one the lack of mois ture. Corn, generally, is still look ing good, although beginning to show signs of wilt from the dry spell that has continued for weeks and the hot winds of the past ten days. On the poorer sand soil the failure of the corn crop is well nigh apparent. The richer land is holding out but unless rain conies within the next few days, the farmers will be forced to write off this year's labor to "another ex periment." :o: Bates Book and Gift Shop is ex clusive Dennison decorative supplies dealer in this vicinity. Fungi Rex For the Treatment of Ringworm of the (Epidermophytosis) Commonly known as Athlete's Foot or Toe Itch Caused by Infection with Various Fungi F. G. FRICKE CO. The Rex all Store 11 FRANCE AND ITS FEELINGS Dayton News Of course we shall all call France short-sighted and greedy for its at tit ide to the international Oc-rman loan. With Germany tottering on the brink of bankruptcy, France lays down conditions of the proposed loan which a self-respecting nation can hardly accept. It requires a change jf German policy toward Austria. It pie bribes an armament policy for the boirowing country. Something like 'lib happened in the famous case of one Antonio, forced by the non arrival of his ships cf merchandise to appeal tc a certain Shylock for aid. He could have it by agreeing, in case of nonpayment, to certain physical in convenic nccs. He was to lose a pound of flesh. And France, laying down these conditions to Germany, was lately calling Uncle Sam, for wanting to collect the money he had loaned un conditionally to France, by the name of "Uncle Shylock." Short-sighted in this as in its in sistence upon delaying and radically modifying the moratorium, France undoubtedly is. As to our fitness to point the linger of critic ism at Fi ance we caii not be so sure. In 1870, France and Germany fought a war in which France was worsted, crushed. Germany compell ed France to pay, following that war, what was then esteemed a huge in d enmity, a oi'.lion dollars. It divested France of an important part of its territoiy, Alsace and Lorr aine. France lived for 4 4 years under the sting of that defeat and the exactions of the oonqnerer. Then came 1914. anoth er invasion from Germany, and final ly victory. The Versailles treaty with its exaction of reparations and its paring of German territory was France's "revanche." Shortly before the Franco-German war of 1870 we had a war of our own. There was a four-year strug gle between opposing sections, north and south. The north won and what Gemany did to Fiance after 1870 was slight compared to what the north did to the south after 1865. The south was treated as a conquered territory, set under the heel of carpetbagger de spoilers, and was permanently ex ploited by tariff measures which sub sidized northern industries at south ern expense. Moreover, for the pur poses of politics, northern political and economic interests encouraged and maintained an intersectional hate which outdid anything of which France has been guilty toward Ger many. No later than last year, the political campaign of 1930. 65 years after Appomattox, we found a United States senator from the state of Ohio appealing for votes by waving the bloody shirt, by appealing to northern prejudice against the south. That senator is today the official head of one of the two major national par ties. When we criticize France for in ability wisely to forget, in 13 years, the wrongs it endured from the Ger man militarocray. what do we im ply as to ourselves and our C 5-year (exploitation of sectional prejudice? All we can do is to hope that France can be made to act more wisely and humanely than, in the same circ um stances, we ourselves have acted. :o: CONTROL FOE DISCHARGED PRISONERS IS EFFECTIVE The particular merit of the Federa tion of Justice plan of dealing with released prisoners is the responsible heck that it establishes upon these persons. The plan is designed as a (heck upon those who may be in clined to return to crime as well as an aid to those who endeavor honest ly to heat back and assume places as law-abiding members of society. The value of the plan has been il lustrated in the case of Sam Strada who. within a little more than two weeks from the time of his condition al release from the Missouri peniten tiary, had been caught in an at tempted theft. While unhappily the plan failed to result in Strada's re turn to honest ways, the control part of the plan became effective at once in the order holding the offender for return to the penitentiary, where he wii! be made to serve the remainder of 1 is time and likewise face sentence on the offense attempted shortly af ter his Telease. The establishment of rirfinite and responsible control of i h if kind should act as a preventive of crime. It should assure as well, as !n this instance, prompt recommit ment to prison and full punishment when conditions of release have been violated. . o : Government officials are unable to find any of Al Capone's funds, which leads an exchange to remark that he has probably successfully conceal ed his assets. We disagree! Doubt less the "big shot" of gangland is broke. It really wouldn't be a sur- j prising revelation. Ability to make I money easily and then hold onto it, don't go hand in hand. WIVES OF AVIATORS Lieutenant Jimmy Doolittle's re mark that "Mrs. Doolittle has made Dp our mind that the time has come to give up racing." calls attention to a figure that is too often overlooked the wife of the aviation hero. Her job, one imagines, is no sine cure. To stay on the ground and watch your husband risking his neck in the clouds, clay after day, can hardly be conducive to contented sleep or an unworried disposition. To read in the newspapers of his narrow escapes from death can hardly be soothing. To wait anxiously while he tries to fly across the Atlantic or over the mountains of Alaska cannot be the easiest of assignments. But that is just what the wives of famous aviators have to do: and the wonder is that more besides Mrs. Doo little have not taken the same stand she took. For the ordinary commercial pilot things are a bit different. His job is not as hazardous as the non-flying public imagines, and the risks that go with it are the kind that can be acc pted with, equanimity. But the stunter the ocean flyer, the racer, the endurance-f light expert is in a different class. No one who saw Jimmy Doolittle at the national air races two years ago. when the wings came off his plane and he saved his life only by using his para chute, can doubt that such men do flirt with death frequently. And the daring stunter who met a spectacular death in Omaha is further proof that sooner or later this class of flyers do "get it." So, it is little to be wonder ed at that wive;s now and then decide that that sort of thing has gone on long er.ough. Mrs. Dootlittle has pulled her fa mous husband out of the races. It is very probable that she has, thereby, lengthened his life. A whole nation r.f wives will understand her attitude and will commend her. :o: THE FINANCIAL ASPECT OF AUTO ACCIDENTS During 1930 the casualty insur ance industry incurred an under writing loss of $14,000,000 on auto mobile liability a lot-s equal to 8.4 per cent of premiums received. In 1929 the loss was $4,000,000 2.6 per cent of premiums. Thoughtless people may say let insurance companies worry. But in surance writers are no better satis fied than are other people with a los ing business and they usually know how to adjust outgo to income namely, by increasing their rates. For this reason no one who operates a car can afford to laugh off proof that recklessness on the highway spells higher cost for automobile in surance for all operators. The Baltimore Sun feels that the merit system, by which the careful driver is given a decrease on his in surance premium, should prove help ful in reducing accidents. "The pock et nerve." observes the Sun, "is sensi tive." If our horrible toll of fatali ties does not serve to engender care fulness, perhaps financial considera tions will. The recklessly operated motor car is more wasteful of lives than was the World war for its. toll is endless. Some means must be found for pun ishing the dangerous driver while re warding and protecting the good and careful one. or ANY BABY TTE can never be sore just what W makes an infant restless, but the remedy can always lie the same. Good old Gastoria I There's comfort in every drop of this pure vegetable prep aration, and not the slightest harm in it frequent use. As often as Baby has a fretful spell, is feverish, or cries and can't sleep, let Casiaria soothe and quiet him. Sometimes it's a touch of colic. Some times constipation. Or diarrhea a condition that should always be checked without delay. Just keep Castoria handy and give it promptly. Kelief will follow very promptly; if it doesn't yon shook call a physician. I esssssssssB M SPECIAL OFFER Table UPCHASE at little as a pint of WaterSpar and this $2 table is yours for only 75c Collapsible legs; 11 'z inch top. Ideal as serving table at bridge luncheons, as flower stand, etc. . . . It's so easy to use WaterSpar that you can deco rate this table in stunning colors in five minutes. H. L. Kruger Paint and Wall Paper Store Plattsmouth shopmen ar. eoming back from vacations of a fortnight. The whistle will sound again Monday morning to announce the resumption of work. That's good news to the decreasing number of employees of this institution that was once the pride of Plattsmouth. :o: Read the Journal V ant-Ads SHERIFFS 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 Caas county. Nebraska, and to me direet- ed, I will on the 1st day of August. A. I. 19 31. 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 2th, A. D. 1931. BERT REED. Sheriff of Cass County, Nebraska. By REX YOUNG Deputy Sheriff. j29-5w SHERIFFS 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 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: 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, Nebraska 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 Cas County, Nebraska. By REX YOUNG Deputy Sheriff. j29-.rw NOTICE OF HEAR1NC 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 intestate 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 24, Township lo. Range 13, east of the 6th P. M.. Cass county, Nebraska leaving as his sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to-wit: Ogaretta Austin, widow; Richard Austin, son: Robert Austin, son; Clea Austin, daugh ter and praying for a determination of the time of the death of said Roy Austin and of his heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of 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) jl3-3w. County Judge. 7V