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THURSDAY, JAU. 28, 192. PLATTSUOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY 70TJBSAI PAGE THREE Uhe PlatfsiiiGuth Journal FUEUSIIED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSUOUTH, NEBRASKA Enured at Postoffice, Plat tsmc nth. Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUXSCRIPTIOn PRICE (2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, 12.50 per year. Beyond (00 miles, 3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, fl.SO per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. The latest reports from Denver indicate that the kidnaping indus try may have to pass another divi dend. :o: Babe Ruth says he has spent the winter reducing. It was on hearing that, apparently, that the Yankee owners began reducing his contract. :o: Remember the fellows who par aded a few years ago under the ban ner, "No Beer, No Work?" Well, they got their wish no beer and no work. :o: Though the old livery stable is gone forever, keen-scented observers give assurance that the atmosphere still lives in some of the so-called humorous magazines. :o: A Jingo is an old-fashioned fel low who believes that an American should have the protection of his government, at any cost, anywhere. so long as he behaves himself. :o: The news films of ski jumpers tak lng bad falls at the end of a long leap always suggest somehow the plight of the American speculators in the falls of 1929. But it was a grand ride while it lasted. ;o: A recent newspaper picture of Newton D. Baker shows him smoking a pipe that angles off in a direction exactly opposite to that preferred by the Charles G. Dawes pipe. And there are other differences. :o: The Democrats have chosen "Hee! Haw! We're Coming Back!" as their 1932 slogan. The Republicans should, we believe, select something equally dignified and impressive. Like "Ob Yeah?" for instance. :o: Probably it is too much to hope that producers of "Dr. Jefcyll and Mr. Hyde" will ever reach the age where they can realize that it wa3 a better story before "love Interest" was added to the plot. :o: - We share the curiosity of the Bos ton Globe in wondering what the members of an Olympic bobsleigh team do to Justify their existence. We are Informed that No. 1 steers the sled and No. 4 applies the brakes; but what do Nos. 2 and 3 do besides ride? Pull the sleigh back up the bill? :o: V A "straw" Jury voted 8 to 2 for acquittal for Mrs. Fortescue and Lieutenant Massie. Two others were In doubt. That's the sort of thing that results in hung Juries, retrials and accumulated expense. Why couldn't, the "straw" Jurors have agreed, one way or the other, and saved a lot of expense? Y y X Y X Y Etnabe's Tenth Annual Fcfcroairy let, 1932 A Word About' Our Boars y y Y y y y y y y y y Y y y Y P&0U0TEE (pictured at right) in addition to being Grand Champion Boar 1931, also won first prize Junior Yearling, 1930, and Junior Champion Boar, 1929. He is one of the greatest Champion Boars that has ever been shown, and one that sires the top winning of pigs. . Fart of the offering of sows are bred to this wonderful boar. Other herd boars in use: PBOMOTEB'S TYPE, first prize fall boar at the Nebraska State Fair, 1931, and BRILLIANT, an outstanding pig purchased in Missouri. The other boars are "Lucky Lad," full brother of world's Junior Cham pion Boar, 1928; "Clean Sweep," "Yankee King, Junior" and "Hawkeye Marvel." Write for Our Sale Catalog KH SPECIAL PIQ CLUB OFFER Any Pig Club member in Cass county, Neb., who buys a sow in this sals and wins first prize gilt or boar at Cass county fair, at Weeping Water, Neb., in Pia Club class, I will give 25 cash for either boar or gilt or if you win both gilt and boar I will oive 50 cash. I will also re-breed all sows bought for Pig Club work for fall litters in 1932 free of charge if brought to my farm. Harry a. Knabe. Eflamrsr tl. Etoofco, richevka, Jcbr. Auctioneers Art Thompson, Lincoln, and Rex Young, Plattsmouth Clerk The Nehawka Bank Fieldmen Russell P Hall with American Herdsman and Jack miller with Journal-Ctockman ChCmCmCh000m00 Huey Long promises to take his seat in the senate this week, and what became of that plan discussed at New Year's to print only cheerful news as far as possible? :o: All those who have expanded their enthusiasm for Jack Sharkey to no purpose on two or more previous oc casions are excused from the chore of working up additional excitement in his behalf for the new battle of the century alleged to be in prepar ation for next June. :o: Congress is urged by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat not to spend all of Uncle Sam's money until 500 million dollars has been set aside to build prisons for people who wouldn't have been criminals at all before the Vol stead law was passed. Does the Globe Democrat think 500 million will be enough? "America's consistent success in war," says the Methodist Bishop Leete of Omaha, "has been due to the assistance of God." There are some thinkers who regard such lan guage as almost sacrilege, except when quoted from the Old Testa ment, which does not mention Am erica. In every war equally devout people are praying to the same God for victories of their own armies. :o: THE SOVIET RELIGION The Protestants in Russia are Bap tist and Evangelical Christians cf a puritan turn of mind. They did not have great churches, so escaped at tention for a time. But their indus try brought them into prominence and their growing strength at last alarmed the bolshevists, who began to restrict their progress. They were against divorce, birth control, etc.. holding beliefs which are contrary to the soviet rule. The bolshevik dictatorship charg ed them with dogmatism, which the U. S. S. R. reserves unto itself. The Protestants also believed in private property, which added to the bol shevik rancor. It is no wonder, therefore, that when Lenin's widow pronounced protestantism a greater menace to the revolution than orthodoxy, the country echoed her sentiments. Now the Protestants are forbidden to do missionary work or to preach in un authorized places. Administrative functions have been refused them, so that they are due for suppression like the orthodox worshipers, the Roman Catholics, Jews and others. All must give way to the one relig ion in the U. S. S. R., communism. Russia today is under a great dic tatorship' which forbids questioning. Montreal Gazette. - 45 PROMOTER, Grand STIMS0N, DIPLOMAT; DAWES, FINANCIER The sudden fchift in the personnel of the American delegation to the Disarmament Conference and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, about to be organized, by which Gen eral Dawes is withdrawn from the former and placed at the head of the latter, has already evoked wide spread applause in the United States. People sincerely desirous of seeing results attained at Geneva will feel that it is far more fitting that Sec retary Stimson should be assigned to the leadership of the American delegation than that so influential a post should have been given to the eminent Chicago banker who is the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. General Dawes shines as a man of initiative, force and pertinacity. In his home city of Chicago, where these qualities do especially recommend men to the favor of the business community, he stands at the very front of those who succeed in get ting great things done. The notable things which he has pushed to com pletion, however, have in the main to do with financial activities, his lat est exploit being the successful rais ing of $10,000,000 guaranty for the Chicago World's Fair at a moment when raising money for anything except payment of debts seemed to be impossible. As a diplomatist. Gen eral Dawes has had little opportunity to manifest unusual qualities, so that his especial qualifications for so deli cate a task as advancing the cause of disarmament before a suspicious and even hostile conference at Gen eva may well have been doubted. But as the head of a great federal corporation, having for its purpose the distribution of $2,000,000,000 to banks and financial institutions in such a way as to relieve credit and start the wheels of industry again revolving. General Dawes should be thoroughly in his element. As in the international commission which pro duced the so-called Dawes plan for the systematiation of the payment of reparations he had at his right hand the hifihly efficient Owen'D. Young, so in this new task or reorganiing the business finances of the nation he will have as an associate the veteran, Eugene Meyer. The combination of these two men is a most happy one for the purpose sought. There may arise in Congress or other centers of public opinion a feeling that Mr. Meyer is too much the technical banker, and that his vision does not go beyond the relief of the banks to the necessary revival of the commercial and industrial life of the people, which is the real pur pose of this legislation. If there could be any justice in this doubt, the presence of General Dawes as head of the commission, with his thorough comprehension of popular needs, his essentially democratic view of conditions in the United States today, and his thorough recognition that the banks exist to serve the peo ple, will go far toward correcting it. president Hoover is to be highly congratulated upon the change which he has thus made at the very last moment in the directing force of wo such important agencies of gov ernmental policy. :o: Journal Want-Ads cost only a tew cents and get real results! Sou Sale! Head T T Y Champion Boar, 1931 f Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y V 1 V 7 CHECKING UP ON C0LUMEUS Mild surprise very likely was the reaction of a good many readers to the news that Mr. Herbert W. Krie ger, curator of ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution and author ity on West Indian archaeology, was about to start for the Bahamas with the hope of locating the landing place of Columbus. Such readers had assumed, without giving the matter much thought, that the place where Columbus landed wa3 known, and presumably marked with an appro priate tablet. If a Plymouth Rock, why not a Columbus Rock? The spot, to be sure, would be inconveniently situated for pilgrimage; and there is perhaps in the public thought a little dissatis faction with Columbus for having "discovered" America on an island instead of the mainland. - But the spot, where first for good or ill the fateful banner of Castile Waved o'er a western world is not known; nor even on which of two islands the discoverer first plant ed foot and flag. One reads that "San Salvador Watling Island on English map: appears to have the best claim to this honor, but the landing may have trken place on the larger Cat Island, a few miles to the northwest." History tells us that the natives of the island on which Columbus landed called it Guanahani. and that Columbus, evi dently not taken with this name re named it San Salvador; but Cat Is land also was set down as San Sal vador on ancient maps. It would that Columbus, must have sailed within sight of Watling Island to reach Cat; but we really know little of just what happened, and Cat Is land may have seemed a more likely landing place. Mr. Krieger's quest is therefore akin to that of the perspicacious in vest i gator in a mystery story. He must look for clues, make deductions and. if the result warrants, eluci date and establish his case. Wherever Columbus landed, it is known that he found the island in habited by Indians. An ethnologist and archaeologist may not unreason ably hope, therefore, to find evidence tending to identify the island. Co lumbus was not an ethnologist, and his description of the Indians, it ap pears, must be taken with a shaking cf ethnological salt. It did not occur to him. for example, that their high foreheads were not natural but had been slowly and artificially formed because that shape of head was the fashion. Nevertheless a study of contempor ary report in the light of what an ethnologist and archaeologist may find out about the contemporary life of the islands may result in plausible as well as interesting conclusions Columbus made only a short stay in the island. The hope springs unbid den that he lost or forgot something that Mr. Krieger will delightfully find. :o: THE GOOD OLD DATS IN SCHOOL Condemnation of the present as compared with the past is always easy and often wrong. A frequent complaint is that the way is harder for young people today than a gen eration ago because youth faces more competition. The growth of competi tion is real, but the other part of the complaint is answered by the growth of something else. It is the improved opportunity to prepare for the work of life. The United States office of education has made some comparisons of school conditions to day and those of twenty to thirty years ago. It is found, according to the Jour nal of the National Education Asso ciation, that the average child in this country now has the advantage of two years more of school train ing than was available only seventeen years back. The average child today is a member of a class in school that is about 14 per cent smaller than twenty-one years ago and therefore may receive better attention. Again, the average child's chances of a high school education in 1900 were but one in ten, while now the chances are even. And the chances of at tending college were only one in thirty-three in 1900, but now they are one in three. School opportunities have enlarged in Nebraska, as in other states. Youth shculd be better prepared to meet increased competition, together with other changed conditions, good or bad. -:o: There has been considerable ex citement in the paragraphing indus try ever since the Chicago man stole 118 bathtubs and then "made a clean breast of it." Some are of the opin ion that the long expected tarn up ward has come, but we are not so sure. If that is all the flurry amount ed to, the recovery in the paragraph IS THE LEAGUE A "BUST?' "This washes up your League of Nations," declares Will Rogers, tre mendously impressed by arriving on a scene of warfare in Manchuria. He but repeats what many are saying. His humor is forgotten, or it would occur to him that although a boy of 12 cannot do everything a man can do, the boy is not therefore a wash out, and that the wish of the com mon people of the world for peace is a greater force than the little armies he Bees on the move. The League of Nations gets a blow, of course, in these Chinese-Japanese matters a blow and a setback. But law and order in the United States, far older than the league, get a set back when here is a lyntching in Oklahoma. When the United States of Amer ica was older than the league is to day, its decrees were floated by Ub own states a:id it could not even keep its treaty premises. But it was not a washout. Its people made a strong er government. There is the case of the League of Nations today. It is treading an un charted field. Less than 12 years old, it has already accomplished so much that the nations would not give it up. In Geneva is a place for discussion of what is right between nations. And the discussion already has influ enced Japan and China, and will in fluence them more. Against the world's hope of peace we hear what? Shameless, exultant cries from those who have from the first opposed the leagfiue. Prejudice outweighs for them the world's need for peace, as fear oppressed John Marshall and John Quincy Adams. But in the end it was not those who feared but those who hoped who were right. Milwaukee Journal. :o: TRISTAN DA CUNHA WOKST PLACE TO LIVE When Great Britain held Napol eon Boneparte prisoner at St. Helena she placed a garrison on Tristan de Cunha, and this group of islands, known as the worst place in the world to live, has since had a steady population of descendants of a hand ful of British soldiers who refused to go home after Napoleon had died and thei rterms of service had ex pired. The islands are located in the "roaring forties"- of the south At lantic where. storms seldom cease.. They are almost eternally hidden by fog and drenched by rain and chilly mist. Seldom are they visited by ships, once a year or sometimes once in two years. And then the ocean may be so rough that boats cannot be landed. ' A British naval vessel, the Car lisle, carried Christmas gifts to Tris tan da Cunha but did not arrive til January 8 of this year, and then found it absolutely lm possible to communicate with the shore. Neither, the ship's boats nor the boats of the natives could live In the furious waves. Probably it will not be so very hard for the islanders to wait till next Christmas, for in their incred ibly uneventful lives a year is but a day. They have goats, turnips, pota toes, rats and fleas; and they have plenty of fish when the boats can brave the seas. The sun shines but a very few days each year. And from this place no Tristaner can be lured or coaxed. Verily, home is sweet, no matter how bitter. Cleveland Plain Dealer. -:o: SOMETHING LACKING It seems to dispassionate observ ers of restaurant contest! Dies as though something has come over the salient features of pumpkin pie as served in these autumnal days. At a season where everything that is most significant of fruition should be in full flower, the pie of our foremothers is lacking in all that of old made It worthy the attention of poets and other devotees of the true, the beau tiful and the good. There is a fearful suspicion, grow ing in certainty, that pumpkin pie has fallen under the domination of the machine age. There is a cold precision about a segment display ed f jr consumption by the proletar iat in disharmony with that inform ality once Its most charming char acteristic. In the consulship of Plan- cub a pumpkin pie had a crumbly crust and a flllin' of brunette am brosia that found difficulty in stand ing alone without the physical en couragement of Its enclosure. Today the fillln of a commercial pumpkin pie is almost flouting in its independ ence or mere' crust. And the crust itself is of a starchiness so unyielding as to resemble something hewn of wood. The. result is something me chanically perfect, but lacking in what may be called human interest. Newark News. ;o: If you want to aall anything. try a Journal Want-Ad. Tha cost Support of Home Industries Urged Patronage to Develop Payrolls in Local Institutions Object of Chamber' of Commerce. The industries committee of the Chamber of Commerce is launching a campaign to urge support and pat ronage of Plattsmouth industries so that there can be a larger develop ment of payrolls in the community, more employment and substantial and solid forward movement for the city. This committee has worked hard in securing the Nebraska Basket fac tory for this city, an industry that will be developed into a real aset to the community. They are now urging support of industries that are already here, operating in a small way, but, with the support of the citizens can be made potential sources of employment. There is located here and in oper ation, butter manufacturies, broom and cigar factories, flouring mill, one of the oldest in the state, as well as the basket factory and the home bakeries, all of these capable of be in gexpanded into a source of pay rolls. If the residents of the city alone will join in a campaign to boost the local industries, it will mean a sub stantial gain, make possible the hir ing of additional help and thereby aid the city in developing. The local support of the factories, mills and bakeries can make possible the employment of additional work ers from among those now idle in the city and thereby make more sub stantial the prosperity of the com munity. The trend of factories and indus trial plants is to seek the smaller communities for their expansions, the committee expecting to make all effort to locate a share of these for Plattsmouth, but they are also urging that our people who are now engaged in industries be given the whole hearted support of the community that they might further develop their plants and make them sources of em ployment to many of our people. The campaign is a fine move and the committee is to be congratulated on the position they are taking, de veloping the local industries so that they will grow into aids in the city building. "In spite of the fact that he al ways gets a low number on his mo tor license plate, he doesn't amount to much," we heard p. man say con cerning another tha other day. 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 petl 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 day 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 said estate to Owen Willis or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) Jll-3w County Judge. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska. In the matter of the trusteeship of the estate of Anna Gorder Ploetz, deceased. Now on this 23rd day of January, 1932, this cause came on for, hear ing upon the petition of Frank A Cloidt, trustee of the estate of Anna Gorder Ploetz, deceased, praying for a license to sell the following de scribed real estate to-wit: The east half (E) of the northeast quarter (NEVi) of Secttond (18). Township (12), Range (13) in Cass County, Ne braska, and the undivided one half interest in Lots 2, 3 and 4 in Block (35) in the City of Weeping Water, Cass County, Nebraska, for the purpose of paying the specific legacies be queathed in the last will and testament of Anna Gorder Ploetz, deceased, and costs and expense of administration of said trust estate. It Is Therefore Ordered that all persons Interested in said estate ap pear before me at the District Court Room in the Court House at Platts mouth, Cass County, Nebraska, on 12th day of March, 1932, at the hour of 10 o'clock a m., to show cause, if any, why a license should not be granted to said trustee to sell the above described real estate for the purpose of paying specific legacies bequeathed in the last will and testa ment of Anna Gorder Ploetz, de ceased, and costs and expenses of ad ministration of said trust estate. It is further ordered that a copy of this order to show cause be pub lished in the Plattsmouth Semi- Weekly Journal, a newspaper of gen eral circulation in Cass County, Ne braska, for a period of three suc cessive weeks prior to the date of hearing. By the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. Judge of the District Court. NOTICE TO CREDITORS " The State of Nebraska, Cass Coun ty, ss. - In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Floyd M. Saxon, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will tit at the County Court Room iu Plattsmouth, in said County, on the 19th day of February, A. 1). 1922, and on 20th day of May. A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock in the tort-noon of each day to receive and examine all claims against paid estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months in-ra the 19th day of February A. I). 1932, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 19th day of February, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 18th day of January, 1922. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) J25-:v County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING on Petition tor Appointment of Administrator de bonis non In the County Court of Cans Coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Drury M. Graves, deceased. Probate Rec. 8. Pg. 397. Upon reading ihe petition of Ralph J. Nickerson filed herein on the 2 1st day of January, 1932. praying for his appointment as administrator de bonis non of said estate: It Is Ordered that the 19th day of February. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m., be and hereby is assigned for the hearing of the petition, when ull per sons interested in said estate may appear and show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, and that no tice of the pendency of said petition, and the time of hearing, be given to all persons interested in said es tate by publication in the Platts mouth Journal, a newspaper printed in said County, three weeks success, ively, prior to said hearing, of a copy of this order. A. H. DUX BURY, (Seal) J25-3w County Judge. SHERIFF S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale issued by C. E. Ledgway, 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 10 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, sell 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 Eusch and Fred Busch. defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by Daniel G. Golding, plaintiff against said defendant. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, January 5, .4. D. 1932. BERT REED. Sheriff Cass county, Nebraska By Rex Young, Deputy Sheriff. 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, Cuy 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 GraveB 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 (NW'4 ) of the northwest quarter (NW,4 ), Section seven (7). Township twelve (12.), Range ten (10), Cass County, Nebraska, containing five acres (5 A.). And, the north half (NH) of Lot three (3), in the northwest quarter ( NW'i) of the north west quarter (NW4 ), Section seven (7), Township twelve (12), Raniee ten (10). Cass County. Nebraska, containing five acres (5 A.). And, all of Lot five (5). in the southwest quarter (SW'4 ) 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 (W4) of the southwest quarter (SW'i) ' 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 5th 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, 932. JOE MAYS, Referee. J. C. BRYANT, Plaintiffs' Attorney. J14-5W market looks to be a Ions way off. a email. J25-3w