THUSSDAY, NOV. 12, 1931.
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Still the fact remains that the fool
and his money are. soon parted.
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A speaker says Americans' faces
reveal in-anity. Nope! Hay fever.
Ail things miglit come to the man
who waits it starvation didn't get
there first.
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A dollar bill, says a news item,
caused an alarm. Funny it didn't
causa a riot.
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Workmen who wanted a shorter
working day seem to have wished a
little too hard.
The depression may have ended
chivalry in business, but in most
bakeries nighthood is still in flour.
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"Doing without money is a good
leson for tfce people," says a noted
financier. Yes, we live on lesson on
less.
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Now is the season for making ap
ple sauce,, for which there will be
great demand in the twelve months
ahead. " ' ' ' ' .
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Herbert Hocver may be a great
engineer, but he seems to have his
political train running wild on the
wrong track.
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Wouldn't it.be interesting to be
alive forty years from now and see if
any of the principals in companion
ate marriages are celebrating their
golden wedding anniversaries?
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ed the thiriecHth anniversary of its
independence. Well, as a nation it
can now Czech and double Czech.
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The prize Pollyanna of the world
is the person who believes prosperity
will return over-night; that he may
go to bed poor and wake up to find
himself rich the next morning...
The Federal Farm Hoard has on its
hands 200,000,000 bushels of wheat
and don't know what: to do with it.
Aw, go ahead and plant it. Flour is
still four times the price it is worth.
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A boy of 11 was arrested in Paris,
111., for operating a still in the base
ment of the orphans' home. The state
cf Illinois i3 very strict about its
child labor laws.
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-When you see a man running
around with the seat worn out of
his plants, don't jump at the conclu
sion that he got that way from lazing
around. Maybe he wore it out fight
ing with his back to the wall.
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Mayor Cermak, of Chicago, is
quoted as saying: '."The people are
sick and tired ot political leaders
who are wet in the belly and dry in
the head." Not naming any names,
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With two governments in China
and a government and an army giv
ing each other orders in Japan, no
wonder the situation is a bit mixed.
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In the recent British election, Eng
land's only prohibitionist member of
Parliament lost his seat. Beastly an
noying, just when he was sitting
pretty.
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The Duke of York, brother of the
Prince of Wales, on a recent visit to
Paris ordered chicken wings cooked
in champagne. Probably felt like
fluttering about. '
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"She was a good, kind and faith
ful "v.ife for sixteep years," we heard
a man say, ."and then she began
making me assist her in playing out
all the bridge hands she sess in the
magazines."
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If you want the cold truth about
the matter, here it is: ' The chief rea
son Y.-h7 the world Is taking so long
to convalesce is -that it is slowly re
cuperating from the worst licking it
ever received. -
The Standard Oil Compaoy and
the Coca-Cola Company have just
declared their usual handsome quar
terly dividends. Folks, we've just got
to be oiled up and doped up, or we
can't keep moving.
The Republicans, the Democrats,
and . Central Europe , have attacked
the Hoover-Laval debt plan. And Al
Capone, with those Federal liens
a g a i ns t his property, probably
wouldn't approve of it either.
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There was a sharp decline in the
birth rate throughout the nation dur
ing the month of September, accord
ing to a government report. Dog
gone it now we're up against the Job
cf bringing back prosperity and pos
terity. -
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They say a person should have
equalized vision in both eyes before
being permitted to drive a motor car,
but,' of course, we suppose some al
lowance must be made for women
drivers during a vogue of hats that
obscure one eye. .
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WHEAT TUBES UPWARD
October was a month of memorable
developments in the economic world,
but none was so spectacular as the
upswing in the price of wheat, which
improved some 40 per cent in half
that number of days.
No commodity price can stay long
below the cost of production. If there
13 no profit in growing or making the
commodity, the grower or maker will
turn to other commodities, and the
stcck available to consumers will
therefore decline. Moreover, the price
decline always attracts new consump
tion from pecple who canaot'afford
the higher prices, and a new: equili
brium Is thus regained, which pushes
prices higher. This is partly "what
has happened ta wheat.
BuY it"-Jh not' the whole story. If
ever a commodity got frightened over
the Five-Year Plan, it was wheat.
Last year the Soviet union harvested
a bumper crop Out of which it sent
abroad some 110,000,000 bushels.
Judged from the hue and cry that
was raised in other wheat regions,
one would have thought that the
Five-Year Plan had decreed that
bumper crops were henceforward
the Russian rule, irrespective of
weather conditions. But the Russian
wheat belt, like every other 'wheat
belt, is affected by the vagaries of
the weather, which, the experts say,
has this year been more adverse to
Russian production than to that of
other continental areas.
Uncertainty as to how far the Rus
sian crop has been cut has given rise
to many rumors that apparently are
not based, on anything approaching
fact. For instance, it seems to be
an exaggeration to say that the U. S.
S. R. will not export wheat "this year
or next." All that is known, and this
is confirmed In the Soviet publica
tions, is that wheat prospects are not
bearing out the figures of the Five
Year Plan.
The market has given evidence
that it has believed the wild reports
that appeared originally about Rus
sian conditions. If so, the violent up
swing, which has been carried for
ward by powerful operators, may not
last. Yet there are enough grounds
for the assertion that the world's
farmers have left the low wheat
point behind them. This in itself is
encoura'ging. What Is wanted is that
wheat should recover until it provides
the farmer with the livelihood, that
was denied him when he was ' only
getting quarter a . bushel for his
crop. y
Such a recovery as has taken place
in the last four weeks has put mil
lions cf dollars into the pockets of
the farm population of the world. The
benefit will not accrue solely to the
rural community. In adding to their
buying power, which may be expect
ed to find reflection in fresh demands
ipon factory capacity. The world can
never be soundly based unless the
ruial and the urban classes and the
agricultural and industrial countries
are in a right relation. That we are
returning to that equilibrium is one
of the most encouraging signs glimp
sed on the business horizon for
months.
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ICR. CYE IS SQUEEZED OUT
Advancing from one state office
to another in Louisiana seems to
have its hazards. Here was Lieuten
ant Governor Cyr of that state who
expected to advance to the position
held by Governor Long, claiming
that the executive, who had been
elected United States senator, no
longer could legally hold his post.
But when the lieutenant governor
relinquished his job by taking the
oath as governor. Alvin O. King,
president pro tempore of the state
senate, was advanced to fill the va
cancy. The state attorney general
rules that the senator holds the new
job In accordance with law, and
meantime the once-lieutenant gover
nor makes no headway advancing to
Mr. Long's position. He does not
seem to be able to find anybody to
rule in his favor.
The governor says now that his
political rival, Cyr, is out and that
King is In. The governor states he
will relinquish his office to King,
after a few months required to carry
out his policies, and will move on to
Washington as senator. This must be
confusing business to the people of
the state, including the former lieu
tenant governor. But politics works
that way at times. Still, the former
lieutenant governor ought to make
a bid for his old job. Winter is
ahead.
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Wallace Beery's Hollywood home
was damaged 1 10,000 worth the oth
er night when somebody left an elec
tric heater turned on in one of the
several libraries In the house. That
shows how It pays to be a personage
of means and respectability in a
town where such virtues are appre
ciated. Almost anywhere else, such
a fire would have been blamed on a
still In the basement.
' LUKE OF THE QUEST
; . Men are trekking - to the' West
again.'
When the price of gold was fixed
at $20 an onunce by international
agreement, not long ago, hundreds
of unemployed remembered that the
creek beds in the hills are said by
seme to hold nuggets. So they have
started the old adventure. They have
become placer miners who start out
every morning with the hope that
today they will find the precious ore.
They have become weary men who
come home i every evening, wonder
ing if the quest is futile some days,
surprised at their sudden good for
tune on others. , '
For tlie first time in 40 years Mon
tana newspapers are advertising
gcld-panning equipment. But ' th-;
present rush is only a postscript that
has been added to the long parade
which rode the far trails Westward ;
in a pioneering yesterday. Then there
was a buccaneering spirit of ad
venture. Today there is a panic-,
stricken urge to discover gold since
no other employment doors are open.
Yesterday belongs to a romantic
yarn of a new country. Today be
longs to the economic chronicles of
a great nation. .
Yesterday men's hearts sang as
they followed the dusty roads. Hope
rode high as the green boughs burst
into pink and white riot of flower
ing blossoms, or the flame shades of
autumn and the white frost of a too
cold evening made them urge their
horses faster. Today they go, not so
much because they seek fortunes as
livelihoods. Making a living is never
as colorful as making an adventure. '
Men took along a caravan of vi
sions yesterday. Their wind-blown,
rain-faded 'wagons held more than
the horse-hair parlor furniture that
their wives wanted to bring to the'
new land, the meal and bacon and.
ammunition. There was: a lonely
ecstatic joy when they swung toward
the promised land, and a sharper
thrill when they saw It over the
ridge. The Children of Israel who
roamed for 40 years before they came
to Canaan had felt that same fierce
joy when the long road home was
ended.
Perhaps a little of this old ventur
ing spirit will come back to the
modern placer miners. If it . doesf
whether they find gold or not will not
be bo important. vThe lure pf the
quest; that something which reaches
beyond, forever unsatisfied, will re
turn. And that, after all, is worth
more than a nugget or two,
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HUNGER AHD REVOLT
When William Green reminded
the American Federation of Labor
the other day that "revolutions grow
out of the depths of hunger," he
touched on a simple truth with which
every student of history is familiar.
And yet that statement, by itself,
is incomplete. Hunger does not breed
revolutions until the ordinary man
has lost all hope that his hunger will
ever be appeased. Hunger must join
hands with despair before it can re
sult in violence.
That, probably, is why real revo
lutions are such rare events.- There
has always been hunger, since the
first cave man had to poke arsund in
last week's bone pile for something
to gnaw on; and starvation has al
ways been a very real possibility to
a vertain percentage of the earth's
population. But revolutions, all
things considered, do not take place
very often.
Perhaps that is the most surpris
ing part of it all. The human race
will stand a good deal of kicking
around before it uses its fists. If the
meek are to inherit the earth, the
common man will surely come into
riches some day, for meekness is one
of his outstanding characteristics.
The patience with which human be
ings will put up with hunger, priva
tion, and injustice is one of the most
amazing things in all history.
There is something rather - signi
ficant in this. Without knowing it.
tbe ordinary person has a good streak
of the doctrine of non-resistance in
his heart. Gandhi, who cries that not
even liberty is worth having if it
must be fought for, knows more about
human nature than some of the be
lievers in strong armies realize.
Must cf us have moments in which
we are neither sure why we are here
nor confident that anything worth
getting lies ahead of us. But mean
while we can make a go of it, if
only we can contrive somehow to get
enough to eat, a cozy place to call
home, and a little leisure for love and
laughter. This goal may not be a
very lofty one; yet the race as a
whole clings to it with a fidelity that
is astounding.
And hunger? Well, revolutions
grow in its depths, as Mr. Green
says; but it has to be hunger of an
appalling intensity, coupled with a
despair whose blackness blots out
even this humble little dream ot ours.
Otherwise we shall simply complain
a bit, think dark thoughts in pri
vate and make the best of it.
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The governor of Bermuda asked
the assembly to grant him special
permission to drive a motor car, but
the assembly refused, and the ban
continues. It seems to be recognized
in America and Bermuda that liquor
and motor cars don't mix, but there
is a difference of opinion as to which
is preferable to do" without.
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; O. O. Mclntyre says he visited with
Gene Tunney, recently, and found
nothing high hat about the former
"champion. Well, some of the elect
are that way. We met the 1928
champion high school hog caller a
few weeks ago and found him, as the
saying U common as an old shoe.
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There it iio stack frailness period
for the merchant who advertises his
rood the year 'round.
NOTICE
To whom it may concern:
Tbe 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 0 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 tbe 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 if there
are any objection, they must be filed
by that time; being the date of hear-j
ing.
Dated this 3rd day ot November,
A. D. 1931.
LEE EASTRIDGE.
n5-2w - Applicant.-
LEGAL NOTICE
In the .County Court of Cass Coun
ty. Nebraska. '
In, the matter of the adoption of
William Jt; Reddle, a minor.
To the father of said minor, Wil
liam H. Reddiei and all other per
sons interested in said matter: '
You are hereby notiied that on
the 4th day of November, 1931, a
petition was Jflled rn said court by
August F. Knoflicek, Sr., and Mary
Knoflicek, husband and wife, resi
dents of 'Cass County, Nebraska,
praying "for 'the adoption of ( said
miner; that1 the " mother' "-'of - said
minor, Agnes Knoflicek Reddie, is de
ceased, and that' the father .of said
minor, 'William H. Reddie, to a.tfbn-
resident of the State of Nebraska
and kas given his consent to-aafd
adoption In writing; that a hearing
will be had on said petition for the
adoption before said court on the
5th day of December, 1931, at 9
o'clock a. m., at the county court
room of Cass County, Nebraska, and
unless you appear at said time and
place and ' contest said petition, the
court may grant the prayer of said
petition whereby said minor shall be
adopted by said August F. Knoflicek.
Sr. and Mary Knoflicek, husband and
wife.7 :-.'.- ..
A. H. DUXBURY,
n9-3w (Seal) County Judge.
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-
scm; 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:
Tbe South half (S) of Lot
two (2) in the Northwest Quar
ter (NW14) 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 (NW14) of the
Northwest quarter (NW) 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 (SW) of
- the Northwest quarter (NW)
of Section seven' (7), Township
- twelve (12), Range ten (10),
' Cass County. Nebraska, contain
ing ten acres (10 A.)
And. the West half (W ) ot
the Southwest quarter (SWVi)
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 of 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 MAYS,
Referee.
J. C. BRYANT.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
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ORDER OF 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 tbe
estate ot Alexander Jardine, de
ceased: On reading the petition of Matilda
Jardine praying a final settlement
and allowance of her account filed
in this Court on the 5th day of No
vember, 1931, and her final distri
bution of the assets of said estate
and for her discharge as executrix
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 4th day of December,
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 cf hearing.
In witness whereof. I have here
unto set my band and the seal ot said
Court, this 5th day of November, A.
D. 1931.
A. II. DUXBURY,
n9-3w (Seal) County Judge.
ORDER OF'HEARINO
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account.
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
State ot Nebraska, Cass County, ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of William J. Miller, deceased:
On reading the petition ot Cbas.
E. Martin, administrator, praying
a final settlement and allowance of
his account filed in this Court on the
3rd. day of November, 1931, and for
discharge of himself as adminis
trator It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in said mat
ter may. and do. appear at tbe Coun
ty Court to be held in and for said
County, on the 4th day of December,
A. D. 1931. at 9 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
pendepcy 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 3rd day of November,
A. D. 1931.
A. H. DUXBURY.
n9-3w (Seal) County Judge.
NOTICE OF. SUIT TO QUIET TITLE
In the District Court of Cass
- County, Nebraska.
D. O. Dwyer.
Plaintiff.
s.
Joel . Solomon, et al,
..Defendants
NOTICE
TO:
Joel Solomon. Mrs. Joel Solomon,
real name unknown; D. H. Solomon,
Mrs. D. H. 8olomon, real name un
known; John Fitzgerald. Mrs. John
Fitzgerald, real name unknown;
Sam'l H. Moer, Mrs. Sam'l H. 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. 1 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. 8olomon. 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 S. 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 Plattsmouth,
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. in
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 la the premises.
You and each of you are further
notified that you are required to
answer said petition on or before
Monday, the 21st day of December,
1931, or the allegations contained in
said petition will be taken as true
and a decree will be rendered In
favor of 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
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