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HOBDAY, EOV. 9, 1831. PLATTCIIOUTII SECT- LT 70TTCJTAL ! TTEae PSaffsiiioufb Journal ! FDISUSnED SEXfJ-WEEXLY AT PLATTSOUTII, HEB2ASZA Entered at Poetoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as aecond-class mall matter R. A. DATES, Publisher SHESC3UPTI0N PEICE $2.00 A TEAS IN FILST POSTAL Z03Z Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond COO miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries. $1.60 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. After all. the only way to spur the market is to take the check reins off of money. -:o:- We are all excited by the Tove of praise, and the noblest are most in fluenced by glory. :o:- "Money is easier," says a financial note. Perhaps it goes that way, but it comes much harder. -:o:- . In thawing out frozen assets, prob ably it would help to eliminate the political plums in plumbing. To brand men with infamy and let them free is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. It is said times are so hard over in England that Queen Mary is thinking about letting the cook go. -:o:- The hard part of classifying good and bad people is to agree on the crowd that shall do the classifying. :o: Now that "Wang has been super seded as foreign minister, it behooves Japan to know its China from A to Sze. When a show girl decides to shake down her millionaire husband, her divorce suit usually fits without alter ation. :o:- Before Adolph Hitler sets up a dictatorship, he hatTbetter consult Al Capone. "Scarface" won't stand any muscling in. :o: Jack Sharkey may go into the movies. He may not be the next heavyweight champ, but he'll be a wow in the talkies. :o: If you think you are up against it, facing desperate dilemmas, please consider the case of the shabby gen teel gentleman who tried to take the shine off the seat of his pants and rut it on his shoes. Ladies Toggery "The Shop of Personal Service" Plattsmouth "TUMMIES" will not be smart this season! Not a single fashion forecast approved of "tummies. And H you wont to look as the new clothes were designed just for you you must do something about that curve below your waist... now! We suggest this Gossord com bination because its 8-inch inner-belt has a way of mak ing unwanted abdomens dis appear. Pink brocade and satin tricot. Model 0406. GOSSARD $350 Even when the office seek the man it has trouble finding him because cf so many bug-eyed ' candidates jumping in the way and shouting, "I'm it. -:o:- Apropos of thai story of George Washington throwing a dollar across the Potomac: If George was alive today, he would wish he had his dol lar back in his pocket. ;o: So many diverse systems of bid ding in contract bridge are now in vogue that perhaps it will be better to go back to the ancient expedi ency of kicking your partner's shins. :o: Each poor family in America could have at least four dresses, two suits of clothes, and four pairs of shoes if families in fairly good circum stances could be induced to clean out their clothes closets. -:o: This is the 100th anniversary of the birth cf George M. Pullman, the man who invented the sleeping car that bears his name. Mr. Pullman was the world's foremost contribu tor to insomnia and nomenclature. -:o:- If you feel you are being held down in the world, please bear in mind that it seldom has fallen to any one man to be of much service to hu manity, and those who achieve great ness or distinction pay a terrific price for it. -:o:- fter all. getting right down to some close and cogent thought, mebbe the people are better off when dis satisfied. Satisfied people are likely to grow quiescent, and that is the worst fate that can befall any dem ocracy. :o: Writiizg folks say foolish things at times. For illustration, a well known medical journal advises peo ple to see the doctor before tbey get sick. Now. how In the heck -does anybody know when they are going to K'it sick. -:o:- An American returning from Rus sia says there is no sentiment in courtship in that country; that no where does one see lovers walking hand in hand, or jilting on park benches in sentimental ecstasy. That's not hard to understand. How can a fellow get ecstatic about a girl who hasn't washed her neck since the revolution? -:o: PLANETEERING A giant planet is reported to be kicking up a disturbance in the out er area of the solar system. Although a posse of astronomers is expected to be put on the trail of the offender, some doubt is expressed as to wheth er it will be immediately apprehend ed and identified. Professor Picker ing, who has given to the world the first information concerning the mar auder, asserts that the unseen and hitherto unknown planet has betray ed its existence through the peculiar actions of smaller bodies, and espe cially the "perturbations" of the planet Uranus, which is said to have been chased off its orbit. If Uranus and other members of the solar system family are being so annoyed by Planet P, as Prolsssor Pickering calls it, that they "can not sleep o nights," Jupitor and Sat urn and a few others of the larger planets will have to call in a!! the planets, comets, leonids and meteors for a solar system peace conference. The giant planet is said to have "cap tured" no less than fourteen co:net3 while foraging about the ekies and has got its eye on Neptune, which will' be in a way to be pertu:bed" 109 years hence. In view of Professor Pickering's statement that Planet P is five times as big as the earth and takes 656 years to make its "annual" run around the sun, the new planet is in a position to do quite a lot of "per turbing" among the lesser lights. Now that Professor Pickering has told the world that the disturber is in the "taU timber" of the solar system, so to speak, there is likely to be a general scramble for first plare in getting photographs of the adventurer. Meanwhile poor ' little Pluto, discovered about two years ago, , may prepare to see itself illus ttated in the newspapers alongside the new . entrant, being relatively about the size of a huckleberry com pared to a tennis ball. A CHA2XCE FOB THE TRUTH AT LAST Three Americans who were cast away on a desert island and lived there six months have been rescued and brought back to civilization. They are the men we have been look ing for a long time. Civilization has some questions it would like to ask them, to settle controversies of long standing. First, what books did they have with them on the desert island? The subject of a choice of books for-a so journ on a desert island is one that has kept civilization agitated ever since the book publishers first thought of bringing it up. Persons who never have been cast away on a desert island have told us what books they would take in case they should be, but we never have believed them. We think they have chosen the books they would like other people to think they would choose. This never has fooled us a bit. We personally know a number of persons who are waiting until they are cast away on a desert island to read "The Pilgrim's Pro gress." At home by their comfort able firesides they read detective stories. If these present castaways, back from Cocos Island, will tell us the truth before the book publishers get to them to give them a hint as to what the public expects of them as to their literary tastes, they will confer a boon on the world; they will also reduct its prevarication per cap ita to some extent. We would also like to ask these castaways if they founded a social ist state on their desert island, di viding the tasks of the day equally among themselves and sharing equal ly the rewards of their labors. We would like to have them all tell the truth about it if convenient; wheth er, for example, he whose turn it was to get up in the morning and catch the turtles for breakfast always did it, cr whether he turned over and went to sleep again and let one of the others do it. If it is not asking too much of them, we would be glad if they would tell us, too, whehter they left their desert island with regret, shed ding tears at the memory of its kind ly shelter, its peaceful solitude, its lullabying waves on its sunlit sands, its gorgeous flora, its silver moon and its musical mosquitoes, or wheth er they were tickled almost immod erately to-: get back to civilization and a haircut. :o: SUCKING WOKEN Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secre tary of the Methodist board of tem perance and public morals, seems to be a rather loose-lipped sort of per son. Closely following his ill-tempered and unjustifiable criticism of The American Legion for adopting a reso lution proposing a national referen dum on rronlbition. Dr. Wilson comes forward with this assertion: "Every smoking woman on earth would have been a drinker in our saloons, if the saloons were open." It is a bit difficult to see the con nection between smoking and drink ing. Both are habits, of course, and a lot of folk? think they are not nice habits, yet we have known many ex cellent members of the clergy who freely used tobacco, without affect ing their morals. The inference must be drawn from Dr. Wilson's statement that a wom an who smokes will likewise drink, which is far .from being true. There are many excellent women who use cigarettes, and if they would have been . saloon patrons in the old days it is quite certain that they are now patrons of the bootlegger and the speakeasy, which emphaically is not true. Dr. Wilson has no right to assume that merly because a woman smokes she is a lost soul, headed straight for perdition. C2CO EC;0 7c Elavc Dnlli THE no agent ccrrnssion TO PAY Drive Cv cr V7c HOOVES. WAS Of EE&0B Little things sometimes cause a great deal of trouble. That Herbert Hoover, in 1917, op posed a separate American army in France that he favored the use of American troops as replacements in the ranks of the allied armies seems now, 14 years later, rather a little thing. There was a great confusion of counsel during those trying war days, there were many men of many minds, and many serious mistakes were made in all sincerity of judg ment. But at the time the question of the use of the American forces was not a little thing. It involved a funda mental principle. The British and French commanders, and their gov ernments behind them, were dire fully in need of more men for their own depleted columns. They insist ed that the levies of the United States should be offered for that purpose, so that they could be used as . cannon fodder under proved and experienced commanders to the best possible ad vantage. But General Pershing interposed a stubburn and determined no to that. So, too, did President Wilson and Secretary Baker. The American boys, if they were to lay down their lives in France, would do it at least under the Stars and Stripes, and in response to the orders of officers who bore the commission of their own country. It was a pretty bitter controversy that ensued, and the European pres sure brought to bear on Pershing and the Wilson government was enor mous and determined. But the Am ericans stood pat. It was an Amer ican army that fought in France, in collaboration with, not under the or ders of, the allies. Now it is generally admitted that not only sentimentally and patriot ically, but for the greatest effective ness, the Americans were right. That Herbert Hoover did not agree with this policy, that he lent his influence to send our soldiers "simply as man power to France," may be taken as evidence only of an error in Judg ment. But it was the kind of error in judgment that hurts, because it happened to be an error that ran di redy counter to an overwhelming public sentiment. :o: WHAT IS ASXED FROM AMERICA An attempt to explain Europe's demand or rather France's demand on the United States was made re cently by a French writer, M. Andre Pironneau. It is all the more inter esting since the Laval-Hoover con versations. The French memoran dum on disarmament suggested that mutual assistance in the event of ag gression was a condition of the re duction of arms. Though no particular form of help was mentioned, there has been much talk of a consultative pact which would implement the Briand-Kellogg pact. M. Pironneau's chief point is that no responsible person has ever proposed "a sort of alliance," which, of course, would be unacceptable to the American Senate. In the first place, the signatories of any pact of mutual assistance would have diverse and sometimes opposite interests; they would be linked together merely to resist a hypothetical aggressor un known in advance. How could such an association be described as an al liance? Moreover, it is pointed out, the whole tendency of the policy of mu tual assistance is to allot to each nation the role it may properly and voluntarily fulfill. At Geneva four years ago a resolution was passed calling upon the various nations to signify what they would be prepared to do in case of a conflict in a par ticular region. Always has it been understood that the nature and the importance of the measures expected of the different nations would vary in accordance wih the geographical, political and economic situation, and the part of the world in which the conflict may occur. This qualification was recognzied in the Locarno Treaty, which guar anteed peace as between France and Germany with the support of Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The nations pledged themselves to collaborate in so far as might be compatible with their military situation and their geo graphical position. In view of these efforts at defini tion of the degree of help required in certain contingencies, M. Piron neau suggests that all that might be asked of America, in the event of a European conflict, would be to re frain from sending foodstuffs and other goods to the aggressor. Cer tainly this does not appear to be an excessive demand to make. M. Piron neau considers it the minimum; and it is hard to see how anybody could possibly argue that a country which has signed the pact outlawingNrar would have the right to trade, as G30C3 SAME PRICE tor over 40 years though nothing had happened, with a nation that deliberately broke its pledge. If his statement is sound and it would seem to be there can be no gocd reason for America's aloofness from a consultative pact which un doubtedly would be found encour aging the Disarmament Conference. It is logical that the nations which signed the peace pact should get to gether to consult on ways of pre serving or restoring peace; and it is exceedingly probable that, with or without a consultative pact, the United States would' join its voice ot that of other peaceful nations. If, therefore, a discussion on these lines wculd forward the cause of dis armament, America, which is deeply interested in peace everywhere, might usefully join in such a discus sion. It stands to lose nothing; it will not be obliged to commit itself to any course of action that is un reasonable or that it could conceiv ably avoid. A grand jury at Atlanta in its final report to the court suggests repeal of the prohibition law and says: "Many people normally law-abiding have utter disregard for and, in fact, in seme cases take delight in breaking the prohibition law." It is a condi tion not common to Georgia. :o: The turkey crop is somewhat shorter than last year, according to poultry market reports, which isn't good news for the housewife who has been saving for a month in order to pet toother enough money to buy a turkey for the Thark;giving feast. :o: While the S. S. He de France was en route to New York a 150,000 jewel robbery aboard the vessel was reported. The officers at least should have had a good idea where the crook was, even though his identity was not discovered. :o:- A couple of busted vaudeville com edians, we read, have found employ ment on a California sheep ranch. The wits presumably have been put tc wool gathering. :o: If it is true that dominating per sonalities are making money for in dustries, why doesn't some spaghetti maker sign up Mussolini? $13 AcicS SICK stomachs, soar stomachs and indigestion usually mean excess acid. The stomach nerves are over-stimulated. - Too much acid makes the stomach and intestines sour. Alkali kills acid instantly. The best form is Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, because one harm less dose neutralizes many times its volume in acid. For 50 years thestand ard with physicians everywhere. Take a spoonful in water and your unhappy condition will probably end in five minutes. Then yon will always know what to do. Crude and harmful methods will never appeal to yon. Go, prove this for your own sake. It may save a great many disagreeable hours. Be sure to get the genuine Phillips Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physicians in correcting excess acids. deetoAcrf -:, j ACID STOM Mtirrsu" 1' ,- Public Pro- gram Planned for Armistice Nite Thirteenth Anniversary World-Wide Peace Recalls Memories of Big; Celebration Here in 1918 A dual Armistice night celebration is to be held in Plattsmouth Wed nesdav nleht the first nortion ODen to the public and the second an ex clusive Legion and Legion Auxiliary get-together party. Both events will be held at the Legion community building. The public program, sponsored by the Plattsmouth Patriotic Council, is to heein at 7:30 sham and last for just one hour. Post Commander W. T. Distell ofibe local Legion post will preside, the meeting opening witn a brief prayer by Legion Chaplain H. L. Gayer, following the singing of "America" by the audience. "Extending Aid to Worthy Com rades" will be the subject of a brief report by County Judge A. H. Dux- bury, who has acted as service offi cer ever since the organization of the local Legion post. The Legion quartette, a new music al organization being whipped into shape by Commander DisteH will en tertain with e medley of the Songs of 1917-18 that will revive memories of the days of our last national con flict. Mrs. Don Seiver, president of the Auxiliary will give a brief report of the work accomplished by the State Rehabilitation cemmitfee, of which Mrs. Lottie Rosencrans, now state Auxiliary president, was formerly the head for a period of two years. The main address of the program will be by City Attorney J. A. Cap well who will speak on "The Signifi cance of Armistice Day." The public is invited to attend this program, which will be over at 8:30. Thirteen years ago this day was one cf great rejoicing in Plattsmouth as excited townspeople paraded thru the shops and were Joined by the then six workmen who dropped their tools and went out to join their neigh bors in one of the greatest demon strations Plattsmouth has ever seen. It is the hope of the Patriotic coun cil that a goodly number will be able to attend this one-hour program and participate in the celebration on this 13th anniversary of world peace. legion-Auxiliary Social Following the Patriotic Council's program. Legion and Legion Auxiliary members will meet for their annual get-together party. A joint commit tee of the two organizations is making arrangements for this event and an even larger attendance than present at last year's party is expected. The party will be open to Legion and Auxiliary members.' their "Wives or husbands, but the edict bas gone forth that the children must be left at home so as not to interfere with the card games, et cetera. The Aweont Camp Fire met at the public library Nov. 4, 1931 and held a business meeting. The business meeting was opened by giving the hand sign. Then our guardian taught us a new song. The minutes of the last two meetings were read by the secretary, Edna Mae Peterson. The roll call and the money report was read by the treasurer, Mary . Jane Marks. The new members were at their first meeting of the Aweont Camp Fire. We planned our hike a week from Saturday. The president went around the group asking each one how they earned their annual dues. Then we sang "That's a Camp Fire Girl." Then we checked out. JOAN MOORE. Scribe. SUSPECT EX-EMPLOYE AS AQUEDUCT BLASTER Los Angeles A discharged city employe who threatened to "get even" for his dismissal was sought Tuesday for the dynamiting of the Los Angeles-Owens valley aqueduct, which supplies Los Angeles with most of its water. FOE SALE Duroc Jersey boars, large stock. OTTO SCHAFER. ' n5-4tw Nehawka, Nebr. Field run potatoes. Reasonable Plattsmouth phone 3113. n5-2tw NOTICE To whom it may concern: The undersigned, has filed an ap plication with the Board of County Commissioners of Cass County. Ne braska, on the 3rd day of November, 1931. praying for a license to oper ate a dance hall on O Street, four miles south of Weeping Water, Cass County, Nebraska, at the intersec tion of Highways No. 50 and 24. All parties are hereby notified that a hearing will be held on said appli cation before the Honorable Board of County Commissioners of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska, in the Court House at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the 1st day of December, 1931, at 10:00 o'clock In the forenoon, and ft there are any objection, they must be filed by that time; being the date of hear ing. ..... Dated this Srd day of November, A. D. 1931. LEE EASTRIDGE. n5-2w Applicant. The motor truck without lights, whether moving or standing still, constitutes one of the greatest men aces on our public highways. Try to tell one of their drivers that, how ever, and you will find yourself all mussed up in a fight. NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE Pursuant to an order of the Dis trict Court of Saunders County, Ne braska, made and entered on the 22nd day of October. 1931. in an action pending therein . in which. Nora Folsom and husband, Guy Fol som; Margie Gilbert, a widow, are plaintiffs, and David Wagner and wife, Abbie Wagner; Edward Wag ner and wife, Sarah Wagner; Harry F. Wagner and wife, Anna Wagner; William Wagner and wife. Rose Wagner; Josie Nichols and husband. James Nichols; Amanda Morgan and husband, Morris Morgan; Jesse Wag ner and wife, Neddie Wagner; Addie B. Gilbert and husband. John Gil bert; Emma Graves and husband. Hod Graves; Nancy Graves and hus band. Wallace Graves; Frank G. Arnold and wife. Effie D. Arnold, are defendants, ordering and directing the undersigned Referee in said cause to sell the following described real estate, to-wit: The South half (S) of Lot two (2) in the Northwest Quar ter (NWVi) of the Northwest Quarter (NW), Section seven (7), Township twelve (12), Range ten (10) Cass County, Nebraska, containing five acres (5 A.) And, the North half (N) of Lot three (3), In the North west Quarter (NWU) of the Northwest quarter (NW4) ot Section seven (7), Township twelve (12). Range ten (10), Cass County, Nebraska, contain ing five acres (5 A.) And, all of Lot five (5). in the Southwest quarter (SWi ) of the Northwest quarter (NWi) of Section seven (7), Township twelve (12), Range ten (10). Cass County, Nebraska, contain ing ten acres (10 A.) And. the WTest half (W4) of the Southwest quarter (SW'4) of Section seven (7), Township twelve (12). Range ten (10). Cass County, Nebraska, contain ing sixty and 28100 acres (60.28.) Notice is hereby given that on the 30th day of November. 1931, at the hour of 3 o'clock p. m., at the Wag ner farm, one mile east and one mile south ot the Post Office in Ashland. Nebraska, the undersigned Referee will sell the above described real es tate at public sale, to the highest bidder, for cash. Said sale to be held open for one hour. Dated this 28th day of October, 1931. JOE MATS. Referee. J. C. BRYANT. Plaintiff's Attorney. o29-Sw NOTICE OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska. D. O. Dwyer, Plaintiff. vs. Joel Solomon, et al. Defendants I NOTICE TO: Joel Solomon, Mrs. Joel Solomon, real name unknown; D. H. Solomon, Mrs. D. H. Solomon, real name un known; John Fitzgerald. Mrs. John Fitzgerald, real name unknown; Sam'l H. Moer. Mrs. Sam'l II. Moer, real name unknown; Alfred Thom son, Mrs. Alfred Thomson, real name unknown; Ellen A. Steele, Ellen A. Steel, Steele, her husband. first name unknown; Harriett S. Newton. Harriett Burns. Burns, her husband, first name un known; Alice Newton. Alice Ruth Newton. Newton, her hus band, first name unknown; Wm. L. Browne. Trustee; Annie M. O'Rouke. O'Rouke, her husband, first name unknown; the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estates of Joel Solomon. Mrs. Joel Solomon, real name unknown; D. H. Solomon, Mrs. D. H. Solomon, real name unknown; John Fitzgerald, Mrs. John Fitzgerald, real name un known; Sam'l H. Moer. Mrs. Sam'l H. Moer. real name unknown; Al fred Thomson, Mrs. Alfred Thomson, real name unknown; Ellen A. Steele, Ellen A. Steel. Steele, her husband, first name unknown; Har riett 8. Newton, Harriett Burns, Burns, her' husband, first name unknown; Alice Newton, Alice Ruth Newton. Newton, her husband, first name unknown; Wm. L. Browne, Trustee; Annie M. O'Rouke. O'Rouke, her husband, first name unknown, each, deceased, real names unknown, and all persons having or claiming any interest in and to Lots 1 and 2 In Block 12 in the City of PlatUmouth. Cass County, Nebraska, real names unknown, defendants: You and each of you are hereby notified that D. O. Dwyer as plain tiff filed a petition and commenced an action in the District Court of the County of Cass. Nebraska, on the 31st day of October, 1931, against you and each of you. the object, pur pose and prayer of which is to ob tain a decree of the Court quieting title to Lots 1 and 2 in Block 12. la the City of Plattsmouth. Cass Coun ty. Nebraska, in the plaintiff as against you and each of you and for such other relief as may be Just and equitable In the premises. You and eaeh of you are further notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 21st day of December, 1921. or the allegations contained in said petition will be taken as true and a decree will be rendered in favor ot the plaintiff. D. O. Dwyer, as against you and each of you ac cording to the prayer of said peti tion. D. O. DWYER. Plaintiff. W. L. DWYER. Atty. for Plaintiff. n2-4w