TQtfXttTAL PAGE TTTrlKFS i a t irr i . PLATTSMOUTH Tfhe tPlattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., aa 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 00 miles, 3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. The chief objection to an open countenance is the noise it makes while it's open. :o:- The striped pusy used to be the most contemptible of all animals un til the hit-skip driver came along. Trouble is much like a hill on the highway. It looks much worse from an elevation than it does frcm the bottom. -:o:- The man who isn't entitled to a bit of sympathy, is the one who can't remember the courses be took in the School of Experience. -:o:- Pity the poor politician. He can't stay in the middle of the road and keep an ear to the ground these days without getting run over. :o:- A thief broke into a store in In dianapolis and stole eight corsets. Evidently planning to combat the slump on an extensive scale. The city of Milwaukee has more than 2 million in the bank and no bills to pay. Beer or no beer, the city is determined to be famous. :o: At least every business is adver tised sooner or later. If the owner does not choose to do so the sheriff will eventually get around to it. :o:- That chauffeur who is credited with inventing a new and more pow erful microscope must have got his inspiration looking for a parking place. :o: Tax experts are perplexed whether candy is a food, a necessity or a lux ury. Father probably thinks its a luxury and Mother a necessity. Lit tle Willie would like to have it con sidered a food. -:o: A sign in a Boston savings bank says "Common Cents Build Substan tial Savings." It might be added that some of those substantial savings spent now with common sense would help to build progressive prosperity. -:o:- When a man reaches the age where the candles on his birthday cake raise the temperature of the dining room to that of the kitchen, it is time he began pleading with his relatives to forget his future birthdays. -rot- Dispatches from Washington say, "Dolly and Alice kiss. Fued is end ed." When two women kiss that doesn't mean the signing of a peace pact. Most likely it is a subtle indi cation that hostilities are about to start again. -:o:- "Get out of Europe and stay out. says Senator Borah. The sentiment is almost but not quite original with the senator from Idaho. There was a faction in the Greek army at the siege of Troy that wanted to quit and go home. -:o: "Pep" Doolittle made known to he boys down at the grocery store the other night that the Christmas pres ents he gave his wife were not all ornamental but that they were very useful a washboard, tub and a car ten of clothespins. -:o:- At la?t a real use has been found for spinach. A young woman decor ating her home for a holiday party, f und she was shy the usual mistle- e. She used spinach instead, and, us far as has been learned, the sub stitute answered very well. -:o:- A popular young man who lives in a neighboring town was bringing K.s lady friend to a movie when sud denly his car stalled near the foot of a large hill. "Several carloads of Try friends drove past us." he said, "but they wouldn't stop. I guess they must have thought we were parked." Finally he had to wain to a farm house and telephone a garage man. They missed the show. :o: "Well, I go my wrist watch fixed for 50 cents," said a small boy the other day on his return home. And to prove it, he reached in his trous ers pocket and produced the watch; then he reached again and produced the crystal; and on a third and much longer trip, he finally produced the hands, which adjusted along the crys tal. And sure enough, the watch has been running satisfactorily ever since. SALARY LOOTING OF FARM RELIEF FUNDS Ciassus looting the temple in Jerusalem, spoils of Warren Hastings in India, plunder by Pizarro in Peru can any case in history be too ex treme for citation now in illustration of the extent in which the American people were mulcted through the op erations of the federal farm board? Yet it was all strictly legal; all within the theory of princely reward to princely ability; all from the no tion during our jazz prosperity that super-human things can be done by men paid superaberrant salaries; all soberly within that magnificent scheme of putting the profits of agri culture on a par with the profits of manufacturing by wizardry in using the taxpayers' supposedly bottomless purse. In this light inevitably do the reve lations of the inner farm board story now appear. Through two years of hard times and. yes, unto the pres ent moment, the manager-in-chief of cotton stabilization. 75 thousand dol lars a year! Chief grain stabilizer, 30 thousand dollars a year! Assist ants. 32 thousand. 30 thousand, 25 thousand! In cotton operations. 95 men setting 70 thousand dollars a month an average of $735 each. Reckon in addition a minimum loss in the cotton specclations of 75 million dollars and, in wheat, 100 million dollars! Add losses perhaps as large in bad loans! Some objectives of the farm board, particularly assisting farm products to market through another source of credit, were good. No doubt a case can be made out that in that way the board helped farmers. Neverthe less, saving anything from such an exhibition of treasure troye, grant ing, under secret accounting, inor dinate pay to scores of men, scarcely can be possible. We desire to be additionally clear in that we see it as corruption re sulting from false theory, a product of extravagance gone mad. and not as stealing in the ordinary sense. But the results in public money gone are the same and the comparisons with ancient examples of pillage stand. Those cases, too, were within the law of their times or were outside the reach cf any human law. Another thing to get at, besides and action that probably must wipe out the farm board, is revision of delirious conceptions cf the value of personal services. And a large new behest is laid up on our whole people to consider the fact that fools dominating legislation wreak more of havoc than the knaves, whether the letter be in or out cf congress. Detroit News. :o: IT S NOT THE LAND, BUT THE MAN There's a satisfying quality in the designation as the American star Tarmer of 1931, which is a feature cf the Kansas City livestock show, of a youth in the Ozark region of Arkansas, his is the region where the drouth struck heaviest last year. It is the region where aid cf the Red Cross and the government was required more widely. In one short year the region was able to send to the big show at Kansas City a rep resentative farmer whose record for making the farm pay was adju.lged the best in the country. The Arkansas farmer, Glenn Far row, whose farm is near Danvill ?, so managed his business that it pa'.d a profit despite low prices and a ;oor season. He supported not only his own family, consisting of his wife and child, but also contributed to the support of his mother, sisters a id a brother. Needless to say, the Farrow farm is a "live-at-home" farm. It has cows, sows and hens, as well as nelds of this or the other crop. The man who runs it works hard the year round, not Just a few weeks at plant ing time, in the cultivating season, and at harvest. But at the end of the year .despite adverse market con ditions and poor crop weather, he has something to show for his labors' be sides debts. The human element figures largely in the question whether farming shall be profitable or unprofitable. The land and the weather art there for all alike; the difference is in the man. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. RADIOCASTING IN BRITAIN Once again the British Broadcast ing Corporation, in issuing the an nual review of its activities, an nounces a vast extension of its aud ience. The owners of receiving sets in Great Britain and Northern Ire land who have paid the licensing fees required by law number now about 4.000,000, and it is calculated that a maximum audience amounts to at least 13,000,000 listeners. On special occasions, then, such as that on which the Prime Minister made his famous appeal to the nation, when messages are relayed to all sta tions throughout the country, it is possible that nearly one-third of the whole population may be listening to the words spoken by one man. The sole power of using the ether over Great Britain for the transmis sion of sounds to this vast audience is vested in a small semiofficial body aided by advisory committees. Its re sources for the instruction and enter tainment cf the public are large; its income derived from its share of the licensing fees amounted last year to 1.224,000. It is entirely free from advertising interests. Political pres sure is not brought to bear on it. It has no other duty and no other interest than to provide programs day by day which will meet with the approval of the listening public. It endeavors by alternative programs transmitted on different wavelengths to provide for a wide range of tastes, but it has no temptation to pander to the tastes of the vulgar. It sends out national and local news, opera and lighter music, lec tures, recitations, literary and dra matic criticism, and statements by well-known public men. To provide these programs week by week is to take a responsible part in molding the tastes and directing the judg ment of the British nation. Naturally, there is much criticism of its policy. How could there not be? Is it fair, it is asked, to intrust so often to the same men the task of criticizing plays cr books? Are the mentors of the public on matters eco nomic wisely chosen? An example of the formidable influence which a single broadcaster may exercise is given in the New Year Book. When. J. M. Keynes had pointed out from the B. B. C. studio the possible dan gers of economy, the sale of National Savings Certificates fell from 250, 000 to 170,000 a day. Hurriedly Sir Josiah Stamp was introduced to show the importance of buying these cer tificates, and the sales within three days leaped up to 450,000, and on the fourth day to 500,000. Such examples indicate the respon sibility which rests on every broad caster, and on the Broadcasting Cor poration all the time. A lifetime of solemn initiation would not be too much to prepare members of the staff for the exercise of influence on such a scale. The British people are quite prop erly critical. But they have every reason to be thankful that they have escaped the commercial exploiter. If anyone compares the activities of the B. B. C. with those, say, of the cin emas, or the music halls, or some of the popular newspapers, he will ob serve from how much possible infer iority the radio has been save in Britain. It offers an abundance of light entertainment, but it always is wholesome, often informative, and sometimes stimulative of thought. :o: DROPPING NEARLY THREE MILES The hazards of the air still im press most of us to the degree of re straint. Yet the resources of fliers iu the handling of impaired planes and in storms and air pockets also are impressive. Long before we had airplanes we had balloons, and pro fessional parachute jumpers thrilled us when they took off a few hundred feet from the ground. Perhaps be cause this stunt had become a com monplace in the course of time, we are apt to be moved too little by the remarkable feats of those who des cend from great heights by means of the "umbrella." It is not so remarkable that James Johnson, air mail pilot, should have resorted to the parachute when his plane became unmanageable at a height of 14.000 feet, for he faced an alternative of certain death in a crash. But it is remarkable that he took off successfully and landed with out injury from the bewildering ele vation of nearly three miles. As if only a part of the day's work, he looked after the 1,400 pounds of Christmas mail in the plane wreck, guarding it until assistance came. He was much better off, no doubt, than if he had been driving a mail truck and had gone into a ditch. Yet the wonder is that adventurers have the coiirage to encounter dangers far above the earth, with only a para chute to save them if a crash is im minent. -tor- Journal Want-Ads oost only a few cents and get real results I A BAD RELIEF PROGRAM One of the committees of the Hoo ker relief organization headed by Walter S. Gifford has analysed and thoroughly punctured a proposal much favored in medical circles, in and out of congress, fo rthe creation of employment and the restoration of prosperity. The proposal is that the federal government issue bonds in the sum of five billion dollars, and with the proceeds undertake a huge program of public works highways, river and harbor improvements, post office construction and so on. If the federal government could not use the huge amount productively, champions of the plan assert, considerable sums could be advanced to state and mu nicipal governments to carry out pro grams of construction and relief. To many the proposal has seemed entirely feasible, but its fallacious character is exposed by the commit tee of the national relief organization in a few trenchant paragraphs. In the first place, the proposed bond issue would depress the market value of the government's outstand ing obligations, and cause severe losses to investors and financial in stitutions. It might lead to w-as-trous bank failures. The net effect would be harmful, not beneficial, and much of the capital would be wasted. In the second place, the proceeds of the bonds could not possibly be used to meet the problem of current unemployment. Legalism and bu reaucratic red tape would postpone the intended relief indefinitely. Hun dreds of millions appropriated for a building program in 1926 still lie idle because of administrative and legislative restrictions. And this des pite the prolonged depression and the repeated appeals to congress for speed and efficiency in executing ap proved programs. Paper billions do not create em ployment. Not even a grave eco nomic crisis cuts through the end less volume of bureaucracy's red tape. Private enterprise, revivified by growing demand, must be relied up on to create employment at a rate im possible to governmental agencies. Chicago News. THE LAST EMPIRE. PASSING King George has signed the statute, already passed by both houses of parliament, conferring practical independence on the former British dominions. His purely perfunctory act breaks officially the links of em pire in a vast domain that at one time covered nearly onefourth of the land surface of the globe. Canada, South Africa, the Irish Free State, Australia and New Zealand are now as free from legislative enactments at Westminster as were the American colonists after the victory at York town. India still remains for the pres ent in statu quo, but economic pres sure promises before long to liberal ize the rule in that turbulent land. Of the once famous red line that car ried the Union Jack around the world, only a few scattered outposts are left British Guiana. Britis"h Honduras, the Falkland Isles. Jam- acia, Trinidad, Barbadoes, the Ber .uaa? still colonies held in the West ern Hemisphere, some trading ports and coaliug stations like Hong-kong and Singapore in Asiatic waters and one or two Mediterranean islands. Allegiance to the British crown yet remains, through which the Tory diehards in England are granted the satisfaction of still being able to talk about the British empire. But to the mass of the English people and to the world at large this has now been merged in the finer title of the Brit ish Commonwealth of Nations. Nor is England itself likely to lose any thing but the tinsel of a glamorous past by wisely taking the inevitable step. Interdependence by peaceful agreement is a better procedure for ending imperial sway than independ ence by rebellion and bloodshed. Sentiment between the dominions and the mother country is a power to be reckoned with as the kaiser found to his cost in 1914. And that sentiment will not be weakened by England's concession to the growing strength of her overseas dominions. King George has done more than of ficialy sig a status-of-equality bill for a new British commonwealth. He has also signed the death warrant for military imperialism. Never again will world opinion permit a Caesar or a Napoleon or an Alexan der or a Cortez to "wade through slaughter to a throne and shut the gates of mercy on mankind." The last of the empires has signed up for democracy. From the Los Angeles Times . :o: In recent years speakers of the house have been "Jack." "Nick "Joe," "Tom," etc. It Is a bet that no one ever called Henry Clay "Hank" or "Hen." -:o:- Tha Journal will appreciate your phoning In news Items. Call Bo. 8. Thanks! PROMINENCE THE PREY OF SCANDALMONGERS There is a sort of person who likes to think evil of his betters. Thinking of others as immoral, or weak seems to excuse our own im morality, corruption and weakness. Our slandering tongues are what psychologists call a defense mechan ism. By making others evil, we make ourselves, by contrast, good. With :ur serpent speech we murder the innocent in self-defense. This weakness of human nature is so widespread that it is some times invoked deliberately, for prac tical ends. Its use in politics con stitutes one of the basest aspects of the never too sweet and savory game. Grover Cleveland, as Jstaunch- and honest a public servant as this coun try has ever had, was, to the whis pering world, a wfie-beater and a drunken beast. Theodore Roosevelt, till at last he seized his chance and won vindication in a court, passed in the scandalmongering world a drunken sot. When Woodrow Wil son, with his noble plans for a Just and peaceful world, reached a poli tical eminence from which, by fair means, it t-eemed he could not be dislodged, the hissing tongues were set at work dragging him down. For public purposes they blackened the private life of as pure a man as ever lived . These are only some conspicuous instances of the havoc sought by mustering this lowest quality of hu man life and character to strike its superior with an envious tongue. In its universal spread, this weakness of poor human flesh has its play in every city and town. It has evoked, in its widespread play, the bitter comment of all times upon the tongue which no man can tame. The pil grim fathers ducked their scandal mongering scolds. Religion pleads with them. Justice calls to them. Yet so prevalent still is this low wish to think ill of our fellows that the slime of the stabbing tongue spreads through every street. To feed this degenerate appetite we have in al most every community the "scandal sheet," carrying to perverted minds the maundering3 of vilely menda cious tongues. Against the aspersions of irre sponsible and unscrupulous tongues and pens the persons vilified have small defense. Assert a legal right, the character assassin becomes a martyr. It took years of watching to secure the fair chance which Roosevelt finally won to clear his name. Cleveland, Wilson, the many other conspicuous sufferers from a loathsome tongue went unresisting to their graves. There was nothing they could do. They could only trust to the better nature of heir country men. It is with these facts, this hu man weakness, in mind, that we come to the several books, now becoming a subject of gossip, in the defam ation of President Hoover. They do not concern the president's American career. Nothing they can say can help America and its government through the present troubles. But for the fatal ineptness of one of the president's advisers in trying to make political capital out of these tales they would have remained unmen tioned in the American press. Yet they circulate. Against such scandal, false as every word may be, the pres ident is as helpless as if he were bound before a firing squad. The fairness of the American people should be the president's defense against such attack, as the fairness of the people of any community should be the defense of any decent man or woman against the defam ation o poisonous mouth. Dayton News. FOUR HURT NEAR EAGLE Four persons were injured, one perhaps seriously, in a head-on col lision west of Eagle between a sedan driven by E. Ray Farris. thirty-eight, 225 So. 18th street, Lincoln, and a light coupe driven by Everett Ayres, twenty, near Alvo, late Monday. Most seriously hurt was W. E. Far ris, sixty-four, 3140 Kleckner street. Lincoln, father of the driver of the sedan. He suffered a severe head in jury and was unconscious until late Monday night. He was taken to Lin coln by a passing motorist, attended by Dr. T. F. McCarthy, and later taken to St. Elizabeth hospital. With Mr. Farris besides his father was his wife, who received a broken right arm, a gash across her cheek and severe bruises. Farris suffered a crushing injury to his chest. After receiving medical care, they we're taken home. Ayres, who was taken to Elmwood. received a laceration across his fore head and lost considerable blood, ac cording to Dr. G. G. Douglas, who attended him. ' HUNT COYOTES BY PLANES AT EWING Ewing Coyote hunting from air planes has become popular with sportsmen here. Usually the animals are sighted thru a field glass, the plane Is lowered to within 100 feet of the ground, and the chase starts. Shotguns are used when the quarry is within range. X Cass County Farm J Bureau Notes 4 Copy furnished from Office $ 4 of County Agent Wainscott 4 -i-m-:-i-i-2-:-h ! i--i-i-:- ? Home Accounts. Now is the time to start a home account book for 1932: Homemaking is a business and never before has one so needed to know facts on which to base their judgment. Many homemakers have found it worth while to spend a little time and thought on household records. What is your food cost? What part do home products contribute? What is the average meal cost per person These are some of the many questions which hove accounts will answer. Anyone interested in keeping home accounts should notify the Farm Bu reau office at once so that you may get your account started as near January 1st as possible. Organized Agriculture Program. The Horticultural program of or ganized Agriculture, for Tuesday. January 5th, relates to the subjects the women's project clubs will study at their January meeting. Follow ing is the program for the day: The initial program on Tuesday morning features talks and discus sions about beautifying the home grounds. Earle Smiley of Beaver Crossing is to open the program when he talks about plants fcr the water garden. Prof. W. A. Baleh of Kan3iis State College will talk about arrang ing annual flower beds while one of the other feature talks will be given by Prof. G. W. Longnetker of the University of Wisconsin. He will de scribe the rock garden. Mrs. Helen Field Fisher of Shen andoah, Iowa, opens the Tuesday aft ernoon program by speaking about arranging the perennial border for continuous bloom. Prof. Balch and Prof. Longnecker are also on the same program. Feed Ccd Liver Oil. Pcultrymen whose hens keep up in health and egg production during the winter give them cod liver oil. The object is to insure the assimila tion and fixation of the feeds and minerals consumed. Cod liver oil is cf special benefit to breeding flocks. High percentage cf hatchability and livatility justify the use of it. Cod liver oil given at the rate of one per cent in mash (one pound or one pint to 100 pounds) lessens the danger of hens losing weight, con tracting colds or roup and generally permits the hens to keep going with out using their reserve energies. Crops Growers Meeting. Announcement of the corn yield contest winners will feature the pro gram for the Nebraska Crop Growers Association meetings held on the College of Agriculture campus in Lin coln during the first week in Jan uary in connection with Organized Agriculture. Discussions and talks on all phases of farm crop production will be emphasized. Nelson Berger, Nehawka; Carl. Day. Weeping Wa ter; Otto Schafer, Nehawka, and Lee Faris. Union, have brought home the honors to Cass county by winning the state contest in recent years, and we hope to be among the winners again this year. The crops program opens Tuesday morning. January 5. and continues thrrugh Wednesday. C. Y. Thompson of West Point is president of the as sociation while P. H. Stewart of Lin coln is secretary. The initial program will feature a discussion on governmental experi ments in price control. L.. u. snyaer, Richard Cole and J. F. Lawrence, all of the Agricultural College, appear on the program. Carrying the discussion of marketing further. G. B. Nance, extension economist of the University of Missouri, will talk about reasons why some cooperatives fail. O. E. Baker of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture will also appear on the same program. T. A. Kiesselbach of the University of Nebraska will lead a corn question box on Tuesday afternoon. At the same program, winners of the 1931 corn yield contest will be announced. Later in the afternoo nthe men will attend the mass meeting to hear Ar thur Hyde, secretary of Agriculture, speak. Another interesting feature of the Wednesday morning program will be a debate on the question "Would the substitution of other crops for 20 per cent of the winter wheat acre age in eastern Nebraska increase the net farm income under present eco nomic conditions " Those on the affirmative side include Amos Gram lich. Fort Crook; D. S. Dalbey. Be atrice; D. L. Cross, Lincoln. Appear ing on the negative side will be Ira Kindig, Holmesville; Carl Schweser, David City, and Paul Stewart, Lin coln. In addition to the debate the Wed nesday morning program also in cludes talks by J. E. Weaver and J. C. Russell. The afternoon program will be a joint one with the live stock section of Organized Agricul ture. The program features talks by O. E. Baker, Chas. Ewing, Dan Hildo brand. Prof. H. J. Gramlich will conduct the pasture question box. Ventilation and Crowding. Apparently a good many poultry raisers are having what they consider ventilation problems when as a mat ter of fact, their troubles are caused by crowded housing. A man called at our office this week for informa tion on ventilating his poultry bouse. Upon inquiry it was found that 200 hens were kept in a building large enough to accommodate 80 hens. Letters are received daily which de scribe similar conditions. A letter in this morning's mail tells of 150 Orpington hens that are not doing satisfactorily. This Cock is shut a 16'x24' house which at the required rate of four square feet of floor space Der hen. will accommodate 96 hens. D. D. Wainscott. Cass Co. Extension Agent. Jessie 11. Baldwin. Ass't. Co. Extension Agent. TED MUELLER. TEKAMAH. WILL REJOIN OLD PARTNER Tekamah. Dec. 28. Ted Mueller, barber in Tekamah for 1G years, ha sold his business to George Nelson, Craig. Mr. Mueller will move to Palo Alto. Cal., to become a partner with Roy Smith, with whom he was for merly in partnership in Tekamah. 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 cpened and that a supplemental de cree be entered in said et-tate deter mining the heirs of paid deceased, which petition has been set for hear ing on the 15th day of January, 1932. at nine o'clock a. in. Dated December 18th. 1931. A. II. Dl'XBURY. d21-3w (Seal) County Judge. NOTICB of Chattel Mortgage Sale Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of January. 1932, at eleven o'clock a. m., at the Dowler Chevrolet Company, of Weeping Water, Nebras ka, the undersigned will sell at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash : One Chevrolet Truck. 1929 model; Motor No. 1108531, Ser ial No. 3LQ34743 covered by chattel mortgage in favor of the Dowler Chevrolet Company signed by Ed Noell and assigned to the Universal Finance Corporation, said mortgage being dated April 30th. 1931, and having been filed in the office of the County Clerk of Cass ccunty. Nebraska, on the 19th day of May. 1931. Said sale will be for the purpose of foreclosing said mortgage, for costs of sale and all accruing costs, and for the purpose of satis fying the amount now due thereon, to-wit: 1250.58; that no suit or other proceedings at law have been insti tuted to recover said debt or any part thereof. UNIVERSAL FINANCE CORPORATION. (Assignee) Mortgagee. 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 the es tate of Viola G. Smith, deceased: On reading the petition of Frank R. Gobehnan. Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his toeount filed in this Court on the Zlt day of December, 1931. and for assimment of the residue of said es tate and his discharge as Adminis trator; 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 22nd day of January, A. D. 1932. at ten o'clock a. ni 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 bearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by publishing 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 21st day of Decem ber, A. D. 1931. A. H. DUX BURY. (Seal) d28-3w 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 Of 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 said estate ap pear before me at the District Court room in Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska, on the 30th day of Jan uarv. A. D. 1932. to show cause why a judgment and order should not be Issued by the Court autnonzing saia 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 ror lour successive weens in me Piottamrmth Jrmrnnl. a newsnacer published and in general circulation in Cass County, Nebraska. Dated this 17th day or Decern Der, 1931. By the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. Judge of the District Court. d21-4w