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PLAITSlIOnTH sEm-wxaxit joubhal PAGE TTTTtF.Ti TThe IPIattsmouth Journal I 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 Postal Zone, 2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Well, city parking spaces have not reported any unemployment. :o: Nothing is so dangerous as an ig norant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. : o : Don't call the world all wrong just because it is made up of people Just like you. :c: It's about time for someone to make the annual discovery of the man who mailed his wife's Christ mas cards in the trash can. isn't it? :o: Russia is to erect a 370-foot statue to Lenin. This seems to be in keeping with the "tall" stories of success of the "plan" sent out by Soviet leaders. :o: A writer defends the use of "Xmas" because Coleridge used it. Coleridge also used other things that no longer have the approval of our best social and moral circles. :o: A tap dancer's shoe flew off in a Paris theater, striking an American patron and causing loss of memory. Loss of one's Parisian memories is no trivial matter, according to the Detroit News. :o: Timely and useful information from the Sioux City, la.. Tribune: To keep bugs from settling upon fresh ly painted surfaces and being en trapped there as the paint dries, add a little oil of wintergreen. :o: "Bread n butter n sugar," that old-fashioned between-meal treat for children, is reviving in popularity, according to a southern newspaper. It would be interesting to see wheth er it can become a favorite again, with baker's bread. :o: Another thing that perhaps lends force ,to the current suspicion that the Donnelly kidnaping was planned by a seam shovel operator is that the affair seems to have been engineered with all the finesse of one of those interesting and ungraceful imple ments. :o: One of the motor manufacturers announces a 10 per cent salary and vage increase. It seems hardly nec essary to point out that this company is uct one of the subsidiary concerns controlled by Mr. El Dorado, to whom George Bungle is now devoting his financial genius. :o: An actress is going to marry the doctor who saved her by a delicate surgical operation from death. That's fine, but after the wedding suppose the doctor is called in to do some surgical operation for another actress at the point of death. Heck, what's he going to do? :o: : A toy manufacturer has employed a psychologist to prepare a treatise cn why children enjoy playthings. With that as a basis, it should be comparatively simple, then, to find out why a child will play all year long with a toy that cost 15 cents and tire of a $30 mechanical master piece in three days. :o: Even the almanacs ain't what they used to be. When we were a boy it always took a month anyhow to di gest the new almanacs with all their funny jokes and little comic cartoons. Now, alas, the most they tell you about is pills. Looking forward to the coming of the new almanacs was a period of joyful anticipation in the old days. and GSttttnn as Amos and Andy say: "You always give more than you git." Remember, though, if someone remembered you and you forgot, you've until New Years to come back at them with a Post Xmas Gift from a man's shop to a man! Although it was feared for a time that ex-Secretary Fall's health would not stand imprisonment, we are now informed that it has greatly improv ed since he started his term. This is not the first time on record that a man's personal lawyer has made the wrong diagnosis. : o : Somebody sent a bomb to one of the prominent lady movie stars in a "Don't Open Till Christmas" pack age, but the force of the publicity was almost lost on this department. We've forgotten what the star's name was. and we're disinclined to go through the paper and look it up. :o: All this discussion of whether this group, or that country, shall enjoy a year's moratorium or not somehow recalls the old-fashioned bartender who inquired of the proprietor whether Casey was good for one drink. After learning that Casey had had the drink, the boss said he was. :o: DISTURBING FACTORS IN GERMANY Although it is generally admitted that the Bruening government is in a difficult position, being beset by both Communists and Fascists at home, some of its policies, or poli cies apparently countenanced by it, have made it harder for Germany to secure foreign assistance in her pres ent emergency. That assistance clear ly depends upon foreign confidence, particularly the confidence of Fiance. The Bruening government profes.-es to be carrying on the program of in ternational conciliation and co-operation instituted by the late Gusiav Stressemann. Yet certain recent events have been contrary to the spirit of that program. As example of blundering on the part of the government was the se cret negotiations with Austria last spring for a customs union, which immediately aroused the apprehen sion of France and her allies, con cerning the possibility of the even tual political union of the two coun tries. The project was abandoned, but not before it had done real dam age to Franco-German relations. Since then two other events have been permitted to occur which have tended to damage those relations still further by increasing French distrust in Germany's motives. The first of these events was the arrest and conviction of a foreigner, believed to be a Pole, on charges of "attempted treason," growing out of the Stahlhelm review at Breslau near the Polish border in May. The Stahl helm (Steel Helmet) is a Nationalist organization, consisting largely of former German army men, led by ex officers, many of them members of tlie old ruling houses. When the Pol ish government protested against this obviously hostile demonstration near the frontier, the German government replied that the Stahlhelm was a pri vate association, "with no military aims." Yet three foreigners were ar rested as "spies" for watching the rally and cne of them now has been sentenced after a secret trial. The second dis:u:bir.g incident has been the arrest and conviction of two Germans for what is reported to have been the "betrayal of military fvcets," in connection with the pub lication of an article criticizing pub lic expenditures upon aviation. The article suggested that some o? the money was being spent on un itary planes, which are prohibited b the treaty of Versailles. According to the treaty, Germany is forbidder for ever to maintain a military air farce. Yet here was an article dealing ex clusively with aviation and judged to betray military secrets. The court held that the article could not even be read in public wihout endanger in? national security. The general disarmament confer ence is approaching. Its prospects of su"Cfss are darkened by the French attitude that France already has re duced her armaments to the lowest level compatible with national saf ety, unless further international guarantees are forthcoming.' Many Frenchmen feel that Germany has violated the peace treaty and actually is preparing for a war of revenge. These recent convictions lend color to their argumbent, and they are hoping to make Franco-German co operation in economic matters more difficult. HUNTING OR TRESPASSING? Greater respect on the part ot hunting sportsmen should be paid to the warning signs "No Hunting" which are so often seen in the coun try at this season of the year. More importance is contained in these words than the casual passer-by realizes. They are there not alone for the protection of the farmer's lands and his buildings, but also for the persons who inhabit them. If they protect also the wiT3 life with in that haven, they are not to be de plored for that. Each year casualties are reported from careless use of hunters weap ons. Farmers in different parts of the country report the unwelcomed presence of hunters and their dogs, who not only trample upon their crops, but endanger with their shots both the livestock and those who live on the farm. High grasses and shrubs frequently hide roadway en trances to many farms. If hunters are about, persons who chance to be riding or walking along the way without knowledge of their presence are often in danger of flying shot. A hunting license is not a trespass license. And those who intention ally enter upon the property of oth ers fcr the purpose of hunting, with out their permission, are more cer tainly breaking a moral law. Through the efforts of many indi viduals and societies, hunters and or ganizations of sportsmen are pledg ing themselves to ask permission of any owner before trespassing upon his property to hunt, and to respect the owner's reply, whether it be neg ative or affirmative. This is an en couraging sign. :o: PROTECTED FROM JOBS An Associated Press dispatch from London, which reports another long list of commodities to which England will apply a 50 per cent import tax beginning today, notes that: "Several Kinds c.f electrical fix tures are hit in the new schedules. . . . American firms already have plans under way to manufacture these products in England that they may avoid duty. The government raises no objection to that procedure on the theory that unemployment will be lessened." In connection with this paragraph it is interesting to recall the full title of the Hawley-Smoot tariff act, which, by its urgent suggestion of tariff retaliation, is, in large meas ure, responsible for the present Brit ish "experiment with protection." The full title of the act is "an act to provide revenue, to regulate com merce with foreign countries, to en courage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes." Particularly noteworthy in this connection are its purposes to en courage the industries of the United Stutes, and to protec American labor. The encouragement to American in dustry which is provided must be an encouragement to migrate elsewhere to get behind the tariff walls that have been reared throughout the world in answer to the Hawley Smoot enactment. And the protec tion of American labor is presumably a protection from having a job. At any rate, it is difficult to understand hew these purposes can be construed otherwise at this juncture. Balti more Sun. BABY 2b and ailments seem twins as serious at night. A sadden cry may mean colic Or a sodden attack m diarrhea. How would yon meet this emergency tonight? Have 70a bottle of Castona ready? For the protection of your wee one for your own peace of mind keep this old, reliable preparation always on hand. But don't keep it just for emergencies; let it be an everyday aid. It's gentle influence will ease and soothe the infant who cannot sleep. It's mild regulation will help an older child whose tongue is coated because of sluggish bowels. All druggists have Castona. ift - -rrrr ( A t fi (0) Is) n & AN INTERNATIONAL MURAL MOVEMENT Oddly enough, the art impulse in the United States is receiving from other countries some of its strongest reasons for encouragement. In Cali fornia, for example, Mr. Maynard Dixon preached the doctrine of mural painting for many years as a source of activity for artists and as a means of heightening the beauty of public and semi-public buildings in that sections. He and other painters did much work in banks, educational in stitutions and theaters without quite making their work widely known outside the State. Then Senores Diego Rivera and Clemente Orozco, who in Mexico had started a movement for national ex pression in fresco, journeyed north ward and joined their arguments with those of the native painters. The result has been a strong growth in public appreciation of mural painting and architectural sculpture throughout California and the neigh boring states. This recognition of a I native impulse from the outside j seemed just the thing needed to give 'this movement its final impetus. Recently, Senor Jose Maria Sert, Spanish painter, who has completed for the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York a series of fifteen murals based on an incident in "Don Quix ote," has been predicting that the immediate future of art in the Unit-; ed States will cener around the pos-i sibilities provided for murals in the great new buildings now being erect- i ed. Such murals will bring an enor mous recognition to the artists con cerned. A thousand' persons will see their work, when thus publicly shown, to one that would know of their existence if their art were rep-i resented only by easel paintings bought by collectors and all but hid den in private collections. Abbey, Sargent and De Chavannes are perhaps best known to Americans , today through their murals in thej Bcston Public Library. The new Sert ; room in the Waldorf-Astoria is bound 1 to come to national knowledge through report of guests who dine beneath his paintings. Miss Violet, Oakley's illustrated volume on her series of murals, "The Holy Experi ment," for the Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg, has carried artistic report on American history to other countries, and the pictures themselves have become a public treasure. Mr. Lee Lawrie's carved figures for the exterior of the new Nebraska State Capitol have opened new vistas for the use of native sym- bols in American structures. An artistic opportunity. Indeed, is offered by the application of the arts of the mural painter and the sculp tor as integral elements in a nation al architecture. :o: TARIFF BLUNDERS When the Hawley-Smoot tariff law was passed some 18 months ago, it was clear to any thoughtful persons that it would produce ruinous re sults in the form of retaliatory tar iffs in foreign countries. Even while that law was being enacted. Canada made sizeable increases in its import o'uties, aimed directly at American products. Since then Italy has step ped up its rates on motor cars and other American goods. Now it is Great Britain, one of our greatest export markets which is building a tariff wall. Not only does the MacDonald government plan a general tariff on imports, but it is hurrying Its plans for a temporary emergency bill to prevent large im ports of foreign goods in anticipa tion of a general tariff. The major ity of 396 to 51 on the first tariff vote indicates plainly that Great Britain has made up its mind to leave its free-trade policy once and for all. Whatever form it may take, the British tariff will hit us doubly hard in the United States because it will exempt dominion products. Thus mo tor cars and typewriters made in Canada, by Canadian workmen, will enter England duty free, while the same products made in the United States will be taxed somewhere be tween 20 and 50 per cent or even more. Much the same holds true of our agricultural products. In this fashion has the Hawley Smoot blunder led to other blunders. By shutting our doors to foreign goods, we have made inevitable the drastic reduction of debt payments to us. By the same act we have forced foreign countries to raise their tariff walls and thereby close the markets that have furnished em ployment for countless American workingmen. Cincinnati Enquirer. Next morning on the front page of the Gazette appeared this sen tence: "The Hon. James G. Blaine will address the meeting on 'The :o: It's the time of year to replen ish your printed stationery. Phone the Journal your order for Letter Heads, Envelopes, Statements, etc Prompt service, right prieee. HOOVER'S CANDID FRIENDS President Hoover has Buffered an extraordinary run of bad luck dur ing the past two years. No part of it, politically speaking, can have been harder to endure than the indiscre tions, improprieties, infelicities and general incompetence of the succes sive chairmen of the national repub lican committee. It was a sufficient ly unfortunate coincidence that the committee had to meet in Washing ton just as the session of the new congress was opening, and immed iately after pleas of nonpartisan ac tion had been sounded at the capitol. The inevitable effect was to make the democrats feel that they were called upon to be good patriots, to sink party differences, largely in or der to strengthen the republican or ganization and enable it the better to defeat them in the next presiden tial election. But this might have been got over as unintended and re grettable manoeuvre had not Chair man Fess, in his address to the mem bers of the national committee, car ried off first place, with the rest no where, for ill-judged, ill-time and ill-phrased speaking. Such a left-handed tribute as he paid to Mr. Hoover was enough to make the warmest supporter of the president writhe. Senator Fess also plainly implied that the republican party is in for an overwhelming de feat unless it does something to make the country appreciate the real qualities of Mr. Hoover. Here is a great man, declared Chairman Fess, in effect, whose fellow-citizens have been stupidly unaware of his singu lar eminence. What the party must do is to go out and labor from this day forth to correct the prevailing impression of the president, and prove to an incredulous people that Mr. Hoover has displayed "a leader ship without precedent in American history." This theme was developed by Chairman Fess with an elephan tine awkwardness which none but he can command cn such an occa sion. After listening to the descrip tions of himself as the great misun derstood, the neglected genius. Pres ident Hoover must have felt like crying out: "Save, oh, save me from my candid frienSs!" New York Times. :o: BRITAIN'S BALANCE OF TRADE The most immediately pressing of Britain's economic problems is that of balancing her trading accounts. Britain has always spent more on imports than she has received for her visible exports, but when to her vis ible exports have been added pay ments for her invisible exports, for her shipping services, for example, and the income from her foreign in vestments, her trade balance has in variably shown a substantial surplus in her favor. Even in 1926, when industry was dislocated by the general strike, this surplus, according to the estimate of the Macmillan committee, amounted to 9,000,000. In 1927 it rose to 114,000,000, in 1928 to 137, 000,000 and in 1929 to 138,000. 000. Last year there was a consider able drop, but even so, it reached 39,000,000. This year, however, it is generally expected that, for the first time in post-war history, Brit ain's imports will exceed both her visible and invisible exports. For the first time since the war, Britain is spending more than she is earning, a matter as disturbing in the case of nations as of individuals. The problem can be tackled from various angles. Britain can either spend less abroad, or earn more, or do both together. The decline in her overseas earnings has been largely attributed to the supposed fact that her chief losses have been in coun tries whose purchasing power has been seriously diminished by the ef fects of the war. From this the con- elusion has been drawn that as soon as Europe begins to recover from the war, British trade will again revive. But, for better or worse, there are grave reasons for believing that neither the supposition nor the con clusion is correct. In the last year or so, economic distress has been fairly general, and the recent setbacks may, at least partially, be attributed to world causes. But before the slump began, it was precisely in those parts of the world that had been least af fected by the war that Britain's loss of markets was most striking. The decline of Britain's exports to North America was six times as great as the decline of her exports to Europe, though the bulk of North America's imports of manufactured goods from the world as a whole had increased rather than otherwise. Britain's dif ficulties were due, it is possible to maintain, not so much to the misfor tunes of her customers as to her own deficiencies. In its way this is a comforting conclusion. For It means that Brit ain is not the helpless victim of world forces over which she has no control. but that the causes of her retrogres sion are such as she herself can large ly remove. The suggestion that she reduce her imports by means of tar iffs is meeting with great approval, but schemes of this sort should not divert attention from the necessity of improving Britain's technical and business efficeincy. The prime hope for Britain, as for the rest of the world, does in fact rest on a willingness to reorganize the whole of industry where it is not in strictest conformity with the de mands of modern life, to take account of the constantly changing character of the world's demands, to cease sup plying in 1932 the kind of commod ity which has not been asked for since 1923, and to adopt the most ef fective technique and conditions of production, not only to cheapen costs, but also to stimulate consumption. "G. 0. P." ORIGINATED AS "GOP" The year the Grand Old Tarty nominated James G. Blaine for the presidency (18S4), a young printer by the name of T. B. Dowden turned up in the shop of the Cincinnati Gazette looking for work. The Gazette took him on and one morning at 2:30 o'clock, just before the Gazette went to press, Dowden ...k from the mr hook a rrieee of mi y niark.'d: 'Mi'sl go in ten lines." Setting ten lines solid, he franti cally tinkered the spacing, then ap peal to he foreman: "My copy ends with 'Grand Old Party' and I have two words left over. What shall I do?" "Throw them away and use your intelligence," exploded the busy foreman. "Cut 'em short, get 'em in,: abbreviate 'em, use initials. Do some thing and hurry up. This page is1 late!" Achievements of the Gop.' " At the meeting that night the' "Man from Maine" was concluding a 2-hour Republican harangue when a voice cried from the gallery: "Why don't you tell us something about the 'Gop' and what it did?" Blaine retorted: "Why, my friend,, I've been talking about the 'Gop' all evening. The word 'Gop contains the initial letters of the Grand Old Party and that is its official and abbreviated form." In a letter signed "The Printer Himself" published in the New York Herald Tribune recently, Mr. Dow den, now living in Los Angeles, gave the foregoing version of the origin of the Republican party's nickname. He concluded: "The audience roared but Blaine never smiled. That settled it right there and 'Gop' held its own for a long time. Then fussy proof readers got to decorating it with periods and it finally evolved into G. O. P." From Time. :o: DOLES TO RAILROADS Senator Couzens puts the rail roads' appeals for relief through gov ernment in the same class as other relief asked. "There is no difference between paying a dole to an unem ployed worker and paying interest or dividends cn railroad securities representing idle equipment," he says. That is a thought to be an swered, if possible. We should not give Mr. Couzens much on this, if he stopped there. It Isn't all as simple as that. But the railroad question has been en gaging his attention. The plea of the roads fol a 15 per cent freight increase, the plea of weaker roads for a gcvernmetn appropriation re volving fund of 300 million dollars, raise the question. "And then what?" Doles of any kind are nar cotics, silencing the trouble for a time, only to have it reappear in worse form. Mr. Couzens would go to the malady itself. There is enormous waste the rail roads can reduce if they are ready to accept the necessary remedies. Sen ator Couzens says. He speaks of too many stations, better served by truck and bus. of short-haul busi ness carried at a loss and of other wastes. As if to reinforce his charges comes the reminder that not three years ago the Pennsylvania acquired control of the Wabash, paying $90 a share for stock no wselling around j $1. Was that a prudent Investment of funds on which the public through freight, rates or in other ways should now pay interest? Mr. Couzens is constructive be cause he proposed going to the heart of the problem, instead of pouring money into a railroad setup appro priate to the 90's. He is constructive because he does not talk of blame for conditions, but of remedies. But he does say that "the initiative is up to the roads themselves." Milwau kee Journal. :o: FOR SALE One feed grinder. OTTO PULS, dl0-6tw. Murray. Nebr. "See It before you Duy It." t& . . v v.: : -1- r . . : f mm v How to train BABY'S WEILS Babies, bottle-fed or breast-fed. with any tendency to be constipated, would thrive if they received daily, half a teaspoonful of this old family doctor's prescription for the bowels. That is one sure way to train tiny bowels to healthy regularity. To avoid the fretfulness, vomiting, crying, failure to gain, and other ills of constipated babies. , Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin is good for any baby. For this, you hai the word of a famous doctor. Forty-seven years of practice taught him just what babies need to keep their little bowels active, regular; keep little bodies plump and healthy. For Dr. Caldwell specialized in the treatment of women and little ones. He attended over 3r(0 births with out loss of one mother or baby. Da. W. B. Caldwell's SVRUP PEPSIN A Doctor Family Laxative TELLS OF LOVE AFFAIR Reno Dr. Carl Andre's own ver sion of his former love for Martha Hutchinson and the events leading up to her death when she pitched headlong from his automobile was given to the Jury in district court as the murder trial of the young West Virginia dentist moved rapidly to a close. The courtroom was crowded as Dr. Andre told how he had broken his engagement with Mrs. Hutchin son because he had learned there was insanity in her family, and be cause he felt a certain sense of re sponsibility, he had strvleu to keep the young widow from "undesirable associates. The asserted quarrel between the young couple at the ranch of Cornel ius Vanderbilt, a few hours before the fatal automobile ride was gone into a great length. The state charges Andre threw the young wi dow from the machine while the de fense contends her fall was acci dental. FOR SALE Almost new circle buzz saw, com plete. Phone 4412. Hugo Meisinger. Platsmouth, Nebr. d21-3td-2tw Get your New Years Greeting ' Cards at Bates Book Store. NOTICE OF PETITION In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Ferdinand Schuelke, deceased. The State of Nebraska. To all per sons interested, take notice that Richard E. Schuelke has filed a peti tion asking that the above estate be opened and that a supplemental de cree be entered in 6ald estate deter mining the heirs of said deceased, which petition has been set for hear ing on the 15th day of January, 1932. at nine o'clock a. m. Dated December 18th. 1931. A. H. DUX BURY. d21-3w (Seal) County Judge. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Byron Atkinson, deceased. Now on this 17th day of Decem ber, A. D. 1931, it being one of the days of the regular November, A. D. 1931, term of this court, this cause came on for hearing upon the peti tion of Minnie Marolf and Harry F. Marolf, executrix and executor of the estate of Byron Atkinson, deceased, praying for Judgment and order of Court authorizing the petitioners as such executrix and executor of said estate to negotiate a loan of One Thousand Dollars and secure the same by giving a first mortgage on the West Half of the Southeast Quar ter of Section Twenty-six (26) in Township Twelve North, Range Eight, east Ot the Sixth Principal Meridian, in Lancaster County, Ne braska, for the purpose of paying expenses of last sickness and funeral of deceased, cost of administration and taxes on real estate, there not being personal property with which to meet such obligations; It Is Therefore Ordered, that all persons interested in Bald estate ap pear before me at the District Court room in Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, on the 30th day ot Jan uary. A. D. 1932, to show cause why a Judgment and order should not be issued by the Court authorizing said executrix and said executor to mort gage the real estate hereinbefore described for the sum of One Thou sand Dollars to pay expenses of last sickness and funeral of said deceased, costs of administration and taxes on real estate of said deceased. It Is Ordered that service of this order be made by publication thereof for four successive weeks In the Plattsmouth Jouranl, a newspaper published and in general circulation in Cass County. Nebraska. Dated this 17th day of December, 1931. By the Court. JAMES T. BEG LEY, Judge of the District Court. d21-w