XOXDAY, JAB. 18, 1932.
PLATTSYOUTH SEJU.-WLIK1Y JOUOAL
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Styi and all, the driver who thinks
ten seconds worth more than his neck
may be a good Judge of values.
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The best way to make your rela
tives think a lot of you is to make
a million dollars and then drop dead.
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Speaking of changes in times, years
ago when a man reached under his
coat it was a threat. Now it most
generally means a promise.
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These has been a lot of freedom
in telling what this country needs,
but apparent reluctance to suggest
ing bigger and better prisons.
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. Uncle Sam pretested earnestly that
he wanter nothing out of the big
war and has been given a pain in
the neck for his magnanimity.
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It seems to be safe to assume that
everybody likes praise. The only
thing to determine is whether your
subject likes it piled on heavy or
thin.
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Streets in several foreign cities are
named for significant historic dates.
Why couldn't we pick out the rough
est detour in the nation and call it
1931?
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Alfalfa is a useful plant. From it
are derived fertilizer, breakfast food
for man and beast, and tobacco. It
also is the stuff of which governors
are made.
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A Pennsylvania manufacturer of
red ink went into bankruptcy re
cently. It must have been a case of
pretty bad management. Or, perhaps,
the bess, like the old fashioned
saloon keeper,' was his own best customer.
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4 bars Polo Toilet Soap (Antiseptic) 23s A
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Quantity Prices
A man neve realizes what a vil
lain lie has b;en until he is elected
President.
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The recent overemphasis of foot
ball at Sing Sing doesn't appear at
this time to have injured the at
tendance at that institution mater
ially.
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While efforts are being made by
one group to make the country "pro
hibition conscious," others , are try
ing to make us "debt conscious,'
"air conscious," and indeed almost
exerything except to make us plain
conscious.
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There doubtless will be many
funny movies ere the dawn of an
other new year, but either conscious
ly funny or unconsciously so, there
wen't ba more than three or four
any funnier than the brief news nlm
recently shown in which Legs Dia
mond's moll was interviewed in com
pany with her ma.
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We heard an announcer over the
radio one day thi? week say that tbe
scng which had just been rendered.
"Shine On. Harvest Moon," had been
sung with special permission of the
copyright owner. The first time we
heard that song was in 1909, twenty
iwo years ago. The copyright owner
must be an old man now.
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A Chicago man has been arrested
for stealing 125 bath tubs. Follow
ing the natural assumption that he
was preparing to make gin on a com
mercial scale, we figure that he is
just as well off by being arrested
now, because the government would
have swooped down on him Th 1935
for evasion of income tax payment.
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AN ENCOURAGEMENT
TO BANK BANDITRY
What obviously happened in the
Lincoln, Neb., bank robbery case was
that Gus Winkler, a notorious gang
ster, returned 680 thousand dollars
in stolen bonds and, in return, ob
tained his freedom. Winkler, of
course, had an alibi defense, but, as
Governor Biyan pointed out in his
denunciation cf the "infamous deal,"
he was identified by six or seven
witnesses as the leader of the gang
that stole the bonds. It is a new and
astonishing form of criminal proced
ure that so grave a crime as bank
robbery can be expiated merely by
returning stolen property. That is
to exclude from the case the interest
of the public which the law makes
paramount by providing appropriate
penalties for those who rob banks.
Governor Bryan said:
"It was a sorry transaction, and
the bankers who profited by it paid
a tremendous price. They had to com
promise with the most active crim
inal in the country," and they had to
let him go free to do his work. That
is why I say it is the most humil
iating, the most disgraceful trans
action I have ever witnessed.
Getting the bonds back was mere
ly a matter of convenience to the
bankers. Lasts of them were posted
throughout the country, and it would
have been well-nigli impossible to
market even a fraction of them. Yet
the bankers, through the prosecutor,
aw fit to adopt the dangerous and
unwholesome procedure of negotiat
ing with the underworld in order tc
avo themselves tho time, trouble ant!
co;iioiraii''y ti-Jiing expense of re
issuing the securities.
The ease recalls the Grand Na
tional bank scandal in St. Louis,
wheie an attorney, for a 15 thousand
dollar fee, obtained the return of
stolen bonds upon the payment of
125 thousand dollars. That was to
set up a modern version of the old
thieves" market in Mexico City,
where persons who had been robbed
shopped for their own belongings the
next day.
When legitimate business connives
with the underworld to dsfeat jus
tice, it not only disgraces itself but
lays up future grief. For bank ban
ditry is bound to flourish when
thieves can market otherwise un
sellable securities by peddling them
back to their owners, or, in a pinch,
escape scot free by returning the
loot. Governor Bryan's fine statement
of the Lincoln scandal represents the
view of an honest man and a srrupu
lo'us public official. St. Louis Post
Dispatch. :o:
MASS ENTERTAINMENT
When one speaks of the submerged
tenth in human society it is generally
understood that one has in mind the
down-and-outers, those hopelessly
sunk in poverty and distress. But
there is another class in the modern
world, at least in this country, even
more hopelessly buried beneath the
weight of our jazz civilization.
We refer to the men and women
of moderate means and average in
telligence, who pay the bulk of the
taxes, own most of the common stock.
; furnish the earnest and substantial
student body in the colleges, support
the churches, contribute to the com
munity fund and never get a look
in when quantity production aims at
j the mass pocketbook.
Look over the weekly offerings at
the picture houses 95 per cent sex
stuff. The best and most experienced
actors choose (or are forced by their
managers to choose) shallow and
time-worn plots, and seldom and as if
by accident hit on a truly dramatic
motif. Even then love scenes are
drawn out ad nauseam. One closes
one's eyes in the clinches. The best
features are made to carry the coars
est comedies.
Radio programs would indicate
that we are a nation of morons. Jazz
dance music pre-empts the hours
when most busy people would like
to listen in. This is interspersed with
lcathly crooning or crude and sup
posedly comic dialog.
From 7 to 10 each evening one
turns the dial in vain hope, getting
a dinerent station at every point.
and essentially the same stuff from
every one of them. Even the great
orchestras insist on being education
al, and lead the listener through a
dreary succession of lesser composers,
with emphasis on the modern Rus
sians And the advertising announcer
draw his wordy trail over the whole
dial. Minneapolis Journal.
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A language erpert says the word
"loan" has been used as a verb in
certain constructions ever since the
year 1220. We're glad it hasn't any
really long record of usage, because
we never liked the word used in that
manner. We're going to stick to
"lend."
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Maybe prices generally are down,
but tuition fees Jn the 6chool of ex
perience were never higher.
WHY THE DEI AY?
Once upon a time, as Mr. George
Ade would say, there was a blunt old
gentleman who decided his attorney
was not handling his affairs as he
wanted them handled. He determined
to get a new lawyer. He called in
the old counsel and the prospective
one, and said to them: "Mr. Woof,
you are through; you no longer rep
resent me. Mr. Whizz, I name you
my attorney." Then, to make it em
phatic, he added: "And this takes
e fleet a year from next month!"
The old gentleman is the con
stituency in any United States con
gressional district. On election night
every two years a number of candi
dates go to bed knowing they have
been chosen to represent their fel
low citizens in the national Senate
or House of Representatives, but that
they will not taKe on ice tor more
than a year. And a number of sen
ators and representatives concede de
feat, but pack their bags to go to
Washington for another session of
Congress.
This sort of thing had been going
on for more tnan iuu years oeiore
the Senate first approved the Norris
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment to make elections take effect
more promptly, out it naruiy seems
that it need go on for another 100
years before being corrected. In fact.
now that the Senate for the seventh
time has approved the r solution and
sent it to the House of Representa
tives, there seems some prospect that
decisive action may be aken this year.
The liklihood is heightened by the
fact that the new Democratic lead
ership in the House has favored the
proposal for some time.
There was some occasion for delay
in the early years of the Republic
when communication between New
England and Georgia was a matter
cf weeks, when the first session of
Congress waited a month for tardy
comers to make up a quorum, and
when, as late as 1828. it took An
drew Jackson more than a month to
travel from his home near Nashville,
Tenn., to the national capital. Even
so, it was apparently as much by
chance as by design that the old Con
tinental Congress set the first inaug
uration day some seven months ahead
of the convening of the national leg
islature and so made it necessary to
hold elections still further in ad
ance. Certainly modern modes of
communication warrant quicker ac-
'tion.
The constitutions of several other
nations do not hitch elections so
ligidly to the calendar as dees the
system of ftxed terms of onice in
the United States. Instead, they make
possible a test of opinion immediate
ly when a crucial issue arises. Doubt
less the United States is not ready
to go so far as that, but at least it
can determine to send its represen
tatives to Washington sooner after
it has elected them. The Norris
amendment proposes they shall begin
work January 2.
When Great Britain last fall voted
the Labor Government out and the
national coalitio.4 in, the new Par
liament convened just seven days af
ter the election. The United States,
with the emphasis it places on speed
in other kinds of machinery, ought
to be able to make its governmental
mechanisms do in less than thirteen
months what Britain can do in a
week.
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AVERAGE AMERICAN
HERO OF THE HOUR
If there is a hero of this hour it
is this average American. If the
country weathers crises, it is because
he keeps his head and holds on. For
two years he waited, hoped, tempor
ized, refused to believe that condi
tions would not better themselves.
He was like a passenger in. a ship
keeled over by a big wave who holds
his breath until another big wave re
stores the balance. Now for the first
time he realizes that he belongs to
the crew. All over the country you
feel the stirrings of that rising spirit
which means the recognition of an
emergency.
Thoroughly frightened, the aver
age American always whistles; by
his wisecracking you know that he
knows he is up against it. He can
not be expected to have more wisdom
and foresight than his business and
political leaders, but he perceives
that something has to be done and,
as far as he can, he is doing it. He
is the force behind the "drives"
which seem funny to the satirist,
stupid to the socialist, and to every
clear-4eiyed (Observer inadequate,
whether the sum collected is 18 mil
lion dolalrs in New York or 10 thou
sand dollars in a county seat in Da
kota. But if these campaigns are not the
sound method of coping with hunger
and unemployment, they are, up to
date, the only method. They repre
sent a communal effort unequaled
even during the war, when patriotism
was at Sever pitch and all the fac-
tories were running full speed. "No
body is going to starve in this town
this winter," the truculent boast of
every town, implies a good deal more
strain and sacrifice than the meat
less days when we maintained a
fighting a,rmy much smaller than
the present army of the unemployed.
-New York Times.
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A HOPEFUL LOOK AHEAD
Already we see signs that 1932 is
going to be a better year for most
everybody than 1931 was. Perhaps
the mSst encouraging sign is the
hopeful outlook that most people
seem to have, l tie human mind is a
curious thing. It nas to nave, tor
niott of us, symbols or milestones to
focus upon. The end or 19J1 and the
beginning of 1932 was such a mile
stone. Everywhere we hear people
peak with thankfulness of the fact
that the fear 1931 is dead. They are
sure that 19.J2 cannot be any worse
and, therefore, mut be better.
There is nothing logical, of course.
about such reasoning; in fact, it is
not reasoning at all. But human af
fairs are seldom, or never, governed
by reason, but rather by sentiment.
And if this sentimental belief that,
somehow, 1932 is going to be better,
reflects a widespread hope, then 1932
certainly will be better.
Thre is more than mere emotion.
however, on which to base the belief
that we are going to get pretty nearly
jut of the woods before this year is
over. Probably there never has been
so much painstaking, intelligent re
search into economic conditions as
has been going on during the past
yearv And now the reports are com
ing in from the people who have
been studying the situation much
more closely than any individual ed
itor can study it, and they are all
encouraging. Business is showing
more stability in many lin. s, industry
is beginning to pick up, there is
ground for expectation that the Debt
Conference in Europe and the Inter
national Disarmament Conference
will relieve the world depression in
some way.
Even if the rest of the world does
not find quick relief from its trou
bles, however, nothing can be more
certain than that we in the United
States are beginning to pull out of
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Be sure to get the genuine Phillips
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the Slough of Despond and that is
the first step toward planting our
feet firmly on the road back to pros
perity. At the very worst, we are
and always have been better off in
America than ordinary folks like us
could ever hope to be in Europe.
When we come light down to it, we
have gone farther in this country to
ward solving the major problems of
living for the ordinary man than any
other nation has ever done since the
beginning of time.
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Hoarded money will not help
business conditions to improve,
tt's the money in circulation that
counts! Read the Journal ads and
take advantage of the many bar
gains Plattsmouth business men
will offer you the coming year.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty. Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Willis, deceased.
Notice of Administration.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said court, al
leging that said deceased died leav
ing no last will and testament and
praying for administration upon his
estate and for such other and fur
ther orders and proceedings in the
premises as may be required by the
statutes in such cases made and pro
vided to the end that said estate and
all things pertaining thereto may be
finally settled and determined, and
that a hearing will be had on said
petition before said Court, on the 5th
dav of February, A. D. 1932, and that
if they fail to appear at said Court
on said 5th day of February. 1932
at ten o'clock, a. m. to contest the
said petition, the Court may grant the
same and grant administration of
paid estate to Owen Willis or some
other suitable person and proceed to
a settlement thereof.
A. If. DUXBURY.
(Seal) jll-3w
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
19th day of December. 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 real estate, to-
wit :
The south half (S) of Lot
two (2). in the northwest quar
ter (NWV4) of the northwest
quarter (NW4). 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 northwest
quarter ( NW4) of the north
west quarter (NW4). Section
seven (7), Township twelve
(12), Range ten (10), Cass
County. Nebraska, containing
five acres (5 A.).
And. all of Lot five (5). in
the southwest quarter (SW4)
of the northwest quarter
(NW4) of Section seven (7),
"Township twelve (12), Range
ten (10), Cass County, Nebras
ka, containing ten acres (10 A.).
And, the west half (W) of
the southwest quarter (SV4 )
Section seven (7), Township
twelve (12), Range ten (10),
Cass County, Nebraska, con
taining sixty and 28100 acres
(60.28 A.).
Notice is hereby given that on the
15th day of February, 1932. 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 12th day of January,
1932.
JOE MAYS,
Referee.
J. C. BRYANT,
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
by C. E. Lfdgway, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court within and for Cass coun
ty, Nebraska, and to me directed, I
will on the 6th day of February, A.
D. 1932, at Id o'clock a. m., of said
day, at the south front door of the
court house, In the City of Platts
mouth, Nebr., in said county, s-ll at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash the following real estate, to
wit: Lots four (4), five (5) and
six (6), in Block ninety-three
(93) in the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass county, Nebraska
The same being levied upon and tak
en as the property of Fern Busch and
Fred Busch. defendants, to satisfy a
Judgment of na!d court recovered by
Daniel G. Golding, plaintiff against
said defendant.
Plattsmouth. Nebraska, January 5,
A. D. 1932.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass county,
Nebraska
By Rex Young,
Deputy SherifT.
NOTICES
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. 110S531, Ser
ial No. 3LQ34 743
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 haing been filed in the
office of the County Clerk of Cass
county. 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: $250.58; 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
Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
and
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
Slate of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
Tc all persons interested in the es
tate of Viola G. Smith, deceased:
On reading the petition of Frank R.
Gobelman, Administrator, praying a
final settlement and allowance of hig
account filed in this Court on the
21st day of December, 1931. and for
assignment 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. 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 saia matier uy
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 or
said Court this 21st day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1931.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) d28-3w County Judge.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District Court of Cass
County, Nebraska.
Iu the matter of the estate or
Byron Atkinson, deceased.
Now on this 17th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1931, it being orie 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 or
Court authorizing the petitioners aB
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
uary, A. li. 133Z, to snow cause wuy
a judgment and order should not be
issued by the Court authorizing said
executrix and said executor to mort
gage the real estate herelnbefcre
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. BEGLBY,
Judge of the District Court.
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