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FIATTSIIOTmZ SEIH-WEEKLY 7QUBNAL PAGE 7HBEB i THITBSDAT. MARCH 10, 1932 f 9 r IThe IPIattsmQuth Journal 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. Japan's reply to boycotting seems to be manhandling. :o: . Disarmament may be only a joke, but it is a good one. ;o: Mr. Hoover asks us not to hoard money, and we won't until we get some, anyhow. :o: . Scientists now claim that life on earth began in hot water. And it's back, in it again. :o: A lot of people are willing to im prove economic conditions if it takes everything other people have. :o: Lying never seems so cbnoxious as when the other fellow s witnesses are doing a better job than yours. :o: Sol Bloom is sending out literature explaining everything about Wash ington except why he stood up cross ing the Delaware. :o: , The way a woman finally per suaded her husband to get a haircut. was to warn him that people would soon mistake him for a musician. :o: . However, the moisture reported in the early Literary Digest pool is only ankle deep in the Middle West. Ev erybody expected to be neck-deep in the East. :o: The comparatively few Hollywood divorces on the docket thus far this year might indicate that some of the queens out there have gone in for husband-hoarding. :o: - It's none of our business, but why doesn't the highway department leave its snow fences up all summer and plant vines on them so that it can get some good out" of Them? . :o: "t "Marble season is here," notes the Augusta, (Kansas) Gazette, "and now we suppose dad will whip Willie for playing keeps while the old man plays every slot machine in town." :o: , Gandhi has gained two pounds in prison, and Mr. Hoover has lost twenty-seven pounds in the White House. The Germans refuse to worry about debts, and Germany's creditors walk the floor -at night. -What a world, what a world! : :0: . The . tax burden confronting the country is 'regarded by congress as being too heavy for the rich to bear alone, so the poor will have to help out. ' Fortunately one tough break more or less doesn't depress a poor man so much as 'it does a magnate, the latter not being so well accus tomed to them. Ilnabc's Hampshire Bred Sow Sale Tuesday, March 15, 1932 nEHAVTCIA GALE PAVILION Commencing at 1:30 O'Clock, Sharp This offering of sows (due to farrow in March. April and May) is equal in value to those sold February 1st. All are bred to the same boars as the February sale. Also offering 10 head Sept. boar pigs. Where five or more head are bought to go into the same county within 75 miles, we will make free delivery. Write for catalog. Hairary E&rnalbe AST THOMPSON, Auctioneer J. L. TCTLT.EIt, Fieldman Representing the Journal-Stockman What shall it profit a man to rise in the world's eyes and then have a cigar lighter that won't work? . :o: Now that the girls have got fed up on the slenderized silhouette they're getting fed up again. :o: Germany's plight appears to be due to inability to continue borrow ing on the strength of what she owes Japan's idea of how to break down sales resistance and make business good is to shoot the ultimate con sumer. :o: Germany says that sre is misun derstood by America. How we wish we had misunderstood her when she was asking for all those loans! :o: As we understand the situation, Chicago's big problem is how to raise enough money to tide the police over until Capcne gets out of jail. :o: An inventor is trying to perfect an cuto that will run equally as well on land and cn water. We've seen some like that. They wouldn't run on land. :o: From the way things nave been shaping up in New York recently, it looks as if Franklin Roosevelt will have to be content to get his cheers without the Tiger. :o: "Nowadays, nobody sits in the stalls and winks at chorus-girls," says a writer. We noticed, the other evening, a theater-goer brazenly in dulging in forty winks. :o: ; "What does a fellow do when a girl proposes?" asks a humorist, dis cussing leap year etiquette. -As a rule, according to the Detroit News, he then waits for the girl to say yes. :o: On December 1 Secretary Mellon "s sen went to work in a Pennsylvania bank as a clerk, and in January he was made a director. America still offers opportunity to a young man who has the stuff. :o: We'd be glad to get behind our constructive thinkers in this crisis, as a highbrow magazine suggests, if we were sure we could either con trol our foot or else be certain to come up before a sympathetic judge. :o: Mr. Paderewski says he plays con tract bridge for relaxation, because it requires no concentration. Pos sibly Mr. Paderewski is one of the kind of players who might say, "They laughed when I sat down at the bridge table." 75 Head of BRED SOWS and GUTS . -: WISDOM OF AGE AND COURAGE OF YOUTH There is a characteristic passage in the address which Judge Benja min Cardozo delivered recently be fore the New York state bar asso ciation, that affords a glimpse of the mental attitude of the man who has been nominated to succeed Jus tice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the United States supreme court: "I do not know how it will all end. I know it has been an interesting time to live in, an interesting time to do my little share in translating into law the social end economic forces that throb and clamor for ex pression.' These are the wofUs of a man 61 years old, at an age when the usual tendency, even for a liberal, is to grow cautious and conservative. Yet, Judge Cardozo evidently shares the same zest for living and the same capacity for adjusting himself to new conditions which Justice Holmes has carried through 90 years. Two quo tations from the dissenting opinions of Justice Holmes bring out the sim ilarity in their points of view. Referring to the American theory of free speech? Justice Holmes ob served a few years ago: "It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our sal vation upon some prophecy based up on imperfect knowledge." And, again, speaking of adjust ments, he said: "There is nothing I more depre cate than the use of the fourteenth amendment beyond the absolute compulsion of its words, to prevent the making of social experiments that an important part of the community desires, in the insulated chambers afforded by the several states, even though the experiments may seem futile cr even noxious to me and to those whose judgment I most re spect. This extraordinary ability to adapt oneself to changed conditions, which ordinarily is considered an attribute to youth, also was possess ed by the late C. P. Scott, the editor of the Manchester (England) Guard- an, who. when he was more than SO years old. urged co-operation between the old liberal party and the new labor party in Great Britain: "Is not, for both of us. social jus ice our primary aim and the rais tig of the conditions of the poor and isinherited? " Are we not alike' the apostles of peace? ... Do we not like place right above power and recognize that force is the appro priate instrument cf a lower, not of higher, civilization? And are not enough to overcome minor differences and to enable the two parties, with reasonable good sense, to steer a com mon course and make real progress one ce more possible for the nation?" Men who, like Justice Holmes and Mr. Scott, combine the wisdom at tained in a long life, with the high courage of youth, are rare. Judge Cardozo seems likely to join their anks, and his service in the sup reme court may be expected to re ject the motto of Justice Holmes that 'to live is to function." Kansas City Star. :o: TO THE VICTORS! The people of this city have a right to feel very proud and happy over the fact that their high school basketball team were the winners of the Southeast Nebraska tourney. The victory was clear cut and de cisive in all of the games that the Plattsmouth team played, play was in the usual sportsmanship manner that has characterized the local teams. That victory was possible is due to the fine type of young men that form the basketball squad, clean in every respect, mentally and physi caly capable of the tests that are necessary in the winning of the games on the basketball court. There are many teams that have great scor ing power, but ncne who have a group that is so thoroughly repre sentative of the best sportsmen. Clarence Forbes, Henry Donat, Robert Rummel, Sam Arn, Louis Knoflicek, William Ronne, Maynard McCleary and David Robinson are the members of the Southeastern champion team. The inspiration for the clean cut condition of the team and their fine play has a wonderful background in their coach, Fred A. Rothert, who has trained the members of the team in their athletic work jsince they entered high school. Few schools have as capable a coach as Fred lloihert and none a finer gentleman. The Journal extends congratula tions to the Southeast regional win ners and their coach, Mr. Robert. May their victory be repeated at the state tourney next week. :o: Business will Improve only as we contribute to Its Improvement by exercising our purchasing power. NO THIRD PARTY That progressive dream child, the third party, never was and is not. It shall be born, said the faithful. It must be born. The country can't be saved without it. Time after time they sought in vain for a doorstep on which to lay the babe of their hallucination. Everybody slammed the door. Nobody was at home. The progressives with one consent began to make excuse. Here was a splendid opportunity for somebody else. Sen ator Norris, Hiram Johnson, Mr. Borah the whole lot cf wished-for guardians and adopters declined it warmly on their own account and as warmly pressed it on each other. Twice within five days has Governor Pinchot descended upon Washington and collogued with and taken a poll of the anti-Hooverites. To Senator Borah, who must al ready be cogitating 'the principles be should put into the next repub lican platform, the governor offered his own powerful support, CO dele gates from Pennsylvania, and a fat campaign fund. Mr. Borah, who knows, as everybody except Mr. Pin chot must, that there is no ghost of a shadow of a chance to "stop" Mr. Hoover in the primaries, wearily waved away the knight of the sor rowful countenance. While the un lucky tempter wes trying to tempt, Mr. Mcses was pinning on Mr. Borah's coat a button with the strange device: "The World's Great est Progressive, William E. Borah, for President." The world's greatest progressive is a regular republican this year. He will write resolutions for Mr. Hoo ver's part. Of the orher progres sive senators some will be republi can and some democratic, as the cards fall and the platforms read and the exigencies of saving their baron in the future may requite. Of the nurses of the great third party move ment cone is left except Gifford, un gratefully, pitifully, painfully "left." :o: WHAT DOES JAPAN WANT? As event pile on event in the Far East, it is becoming increasingly dif ficult to gauge what Japan wants The news that she is now more ready for a truce raises anew the question of what Japan's objective can be at Shanghai. What she wants has be come obscured by the necessities of the . situation into which she has blundered. But, though China's spir ited defense makes Japan's military objectives more rained, and perhaps more ambitious, there is no reason to believe that they disguise such dark and devious schemes as are in creasingly offered to the Western public as explanations of Japan's conduct. And there are good reasons for crediting Japan's contention that she does not want to absorb Man churia. Manchuria is 95 per cent populated by the Chinese, and the Chinese cannot be absorbed, as Hun, Tartar, Mongol and Manchu success fully have found cut. That is why Premier Inukai stated on his assump tion of office that the Japanese wouldn't take Manchuria as a gift But, in default of absorbing Man churia, the Japanese insist on or ganizing Manchuria. A rich coun try, full of agricultural and mineral wealth, Manchuria has already solv ed more thn one economic problem for Japan. It could solve many more But the desideration for the Japan ese is that they be allowed more op portunity to develop the region along lines catering to the Japanese econ omy. Japan's main project, for which all the plans are laid, is the completion of a string of railroads in north Manchuria paralleling the Chinese Eastern Railway to connect with the north Korean railroads and thence with northern Japanese ports. Hitherto the Chinese, though bound by agreements to build some of the railroads, have shied from action. A growing Chinese nationalism sees no reason why Manchuria should be made economically tributary Co Ja pan. If Japan does not want to absorb 30,000,000 Chinese in Manchuria, she must be equally loath to try to absorb the 400.000,000 in China proper. Here the trouble is the ooy- cott of Japanese goods. The Japan ese took exception to its organiz ation, directly or indirectly, under official auspices to further Chinese diplomacy. The boycott is an old story in the Far East. It can be turned on and off like a faucet to support a Chi nese case against a power or powers. Most nations have hitherto acted on the assumption that it is an un friendly act. In 1905, the United States, the first victim of the boycott in its modern organized form, took downright action to stop it. Of late years the Japanese have been the ob ject of boycotters. Hence, for at least three years, they have sought to per suade Westerners that, in so far as the boycott is an instrument of na DARGAin Fares Over the Week End March 13-13 Kanacac City Excelsior Springs $4.75 Leavenworth $3.25 Atchison $2.75 Round Trip Fares Tickets on sale for trains leav ing 1'lattsmoutM it:lT am and JlrUTi Tim Jlarc li 12 and 12:4 2 am March 13. Ueturn limited to reach I'lattsmouth lot later than :01 am Marcti 11. Chair oars ami ?oac-hes only. IIeU fare for iliili' ren. Tickets-Infornaticn H. L. THOMAS, Ticket Agent Missouri Pacific K. B. Co. A Sri- I InMHtntior." t: . v.-3;V7 imp tional pclicy, it is warlike. At the 1929 conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations they pleaded for a change in the terminology of the Kellogg pact to take cognizance cf such "invisible" -weapons. That the boycott is warlike there can be little question. Otherwise it would not figure as a "sanction" in the Covenant of the League of Na tions. But Japan failed to awaken more than anacademic interest In her pleas. And when she determined to act unilaterally on the assumption that the boycott was warlike, she found that the China of 1932 is less acquiescent than the China of 1905. Also she found that world opinion had become more sensitive to mili tary intervention by a single power. Japan now asks lustily for the demilitarization of this and the dis avowal of that, and the reopening of a host of issues. These demands need not all be taken too seriously. Jap anese "diplomacy must beat a big drum in order to lend color to the military oeprations which have fol lowed the blunder at Shanghai and China's surprising defense. But if a reading between the lines means any thing, all that Japan is anxious to do is to get cut of the present im passe in a manner consistent with what passes for national honor. It should be the part of the other pow ers to help find a way. It is to be hoped they wil do everything pos sible to promote the latest move to make peace. :o: AL SMITH ON EDUCATION Whether or not Al Smith has an education depends only on what you mean by education. If you mean a trained and efficient intelligence and mastery of all the principles and de tails of his profession. Elihu Root and Former Attorney General Wick- ersham will tell you emphatically that he has. He remains one of the most strik ing examples of a man who, with no initial advantages, succeeded in educating himself by human contacts and by long, arduous and often bit ter experience. There are limitations to even the best education possible without leisure or books or teachers. Al Smith himself does not recom mend his method. His rooms are hung with the school and college diplomas of his children, and he i3 proud of the honorary degree of doc tor of laws which Columbia univer sity conferred upon him. His advice to any young man would be: "By all means educate yourself. and for heaven's sake, if books, schools and colleges are within your reach, take every advantage of them. It is much easier that way, and like ly to be much more satisfactory. "But," he would add, "whatever the situation with regard to books and schools, whether you .pull an education out. of the fire of life or not is strictly and emphatically up to you." Christian Gauss In the Sat urday Evening Post. :o: There's no denying the fact that girls are quick to learn and do not hesitate to put their knowledge to practical use. A local young woman took a leap year date to the basket ball game. After the game she took him for a ride In the country and out on a lonely road her car, for no very apparent reason, slid into a ditcb. :o: Journal Want-Ads get results! POSSE KILLS 'WILD MAN' Long Lake, X. Y. A "wild man" of the Odircndacks, for whom the northern New York . wilderness has been combed for four days, was shot to death by a posse about fifteen milc3 southeast of here. The body of the fugitive, a gigantic negro about thirty-five years old, was left in an abandoned legging camp where the man had taken refuge. Because of the deep snow it could not be brought cut without a sled. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The state of Nebraska, Caps Coun ty, SS. In the County Court. In the matter cf the etat of William G. Rauth. deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, tiiat I will sit at the County Court Room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 1st day of April. A. D. 1932. and on the 2nd day cf July, A. I). 1932. at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each day to receive and examine all claims against said 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 from the 1st day cf April. A. I?. 1932. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 1st day rf April, 1S32. Witness my hand and the seal of said Ccuntv Court this 4th day of March, 1932. A. H. DUXBURV. (Peal) n;7-uw County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In tlio matter of the estate of Flor ence Rose-Ilia Patterson, deceased. To th? creditors of raid estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the ISth day of March, A. D. 1932 and on the 20th day cf June. A. D. 19 32, at the hour of ten o'clock in the fore noon cf each day to receive and ex amine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 18th day of March. A. D. 1932 and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said ISth day of March. 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 19th day of February, 1932. A. H. DUXP-URY, (Seal) f22-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE ' State of Nebraska. County of Cass, ES. By virtue cf an Order of Sale issued by C. E. Ledgway. Clerk of the Dis trict Court, within and for Cass County. Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 9th day of April. A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the South front door of court house in Plattsmouth. Nebras ka, in said County, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate to wit: West half (W'i) of the southwest quarter (SV) of Section twenty (20) in Town ship twelve (12) north; Range twelve (12) East of the sixth principal meridian in Cass Coun ty, Nebraska; The same to be levied upon and taken as the property of James Tig- ner and Mary Tigner, defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court re covered by Charles Johnson, plain-:. tiff, against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 7, A. D. 1932. ED W. THIMGAN. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska m7-5w REFEREE'S SALE - Notice is hereby given that by virtue of judgment in partition en tered on the 20th day of February, 1932, confirming shares in the case of Humphrey Murphy, plaintiff, vs. Joseph P. Murphy, Margaret Mur phy, Edward W. Murphy, Agnes Murphy, Bradford J. Murphy, Mar garet Murphy, Catherine Wonder, Charles J. Wonder, and Ershal Mur phy, . then pending in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska. wherein the undersigned was ap pointed referee to partition the land involved in said action; upon re port of the referee that physical par tition of the land could not be made without great prejudice to the par ties it was thereupon ordered and adjudged by the court that said land be sold and the proceeds thereof be divided into shares between the parties as theretofore determined. Pursuant to said Judgment of the court, the undersigned referee will, on the 31st day of March. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m., of said day at the south front door cf the court house in Plattsmouth, in said county, sell the said real estate, to-wlt: The SEU and the N of the NEVi of Sec. 20. Twp. 11. North Range 12, east of the 6th P. M., In Cass county, Nebras- : ka at public auction to the highest bid der for cash, ten per cent of the bid in hP nafd at thp time of the sale and the balance of the purchase money to be paid upon confirmation of sale and making deed by referee. Said sale will be made subject to a mortgage in the sum of 11842.12. with interest from Jan. 1, 1932 at 5 per cent, to the Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank 'on the of the NEi of Sec. 20, Twp. 11, North Range 12. Dated this 26th day of February, 1932. J. A. CAP WELL, Referee. D. O. DWYER, W. L. DWYER. Attorneys. f29-4w LEGAL NOTICE To Alexander M. dayman, Alex M. Clayman, George Snyder, William Statler, William Stottler, and all per sons having or claiming any interest in or to the south half (Si) of the southeast quarter (SEU ) of Section 19. in Township 10. North of Range 14, East of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska, real names un kuown. Defendants: Notice Is hereby given that Annie R. Heafey, as plaintiff, has filed in the District Court of Cass county, Ne braska. Ler petition against you as defendants, praying for the decree of said court barring and excluding each and all of you from having or claim ing any rijrht, title. Interest or lien in or to Raid described real estate, and quieting the tJtI thereto in plaintiff in fee simple. You may answer said petition in said court at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, on or before March 2S. 1932. ANNIE R. HEAFEY. Plaintiff. By WM. II. PITZER. Attorney. fl5-4w SHERIFF'S SALE State cf Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue cf an Order of Sale, is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the District Court within and for Cas3 County, Nebraska, and to me di iccted. I will on the 2nd day of April A. D. 1932. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door cf the Court House, in the City of Plattsmouth. in said County, fell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, to-wit. The north eighty-seven (&") feet of Lots one (1). two (2). three (3) and four (4). Block lour (4). in the Original Town of Plattsmouth, Cass County. Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and recorded, together with all the appurtenance thereunto be longing, subject to the lien of Occidental Building and Lean Association ; The same being levied upon and taken as the property cf Edith Mar tin, defendant, to satisfy a judement of said Court recovered by Becker Roofing Co., defendant and cross petitioner, againt said defendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 1, A. D. 1932. ED W. THIMGAN. Sheriff Ca3 County, Nebraska m3-5w 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 Alice Shipley, Jack Graves and Clifford C. Graves and all persons In terested in the estate cf Drury M. Cjraves. deceased: On reading the petition of Ralph J. Nickerson, Administrator de bonis ncn. praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this court on the 19th day of February, 1932. and for order of distribution of the funds In his hands as Adminis trator de bonis non, and for dis charge; It is hereby ordered that you and all perrons interested In said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held In and for said coun ty, on the 11th day of March, A. D. 1932, at nine o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons in terested in said matter by publishing1 a copy of this order In the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 19th day of February, A. D. 1932. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) f22-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship Estate of Stephen Osborn, deceas ed, in the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, To all per sons interested In said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Wal lace J. McClelland has filed his peti tion alleging that "Stephen Osborn died intestate in Cass county, Ne braska, on or about August 10, 1879, being a resident and inhabitant of Cass county, Nebraska, and died seized of the following described real estate, to-wit: South half of southeast quar ter (S4 SE4) of Section four teen (14). Township twelve (12), N. Range nine (9), east of the 6th P. M., in Cass coun ty, Nebraska leaving as his sole end only heirs at law the following named persons, to wit: Elizabeth J. Osborn, widow; Jessie Osborn: Stephen OEborn, Jr.; William Osborn; Harry Os born; John Osborn; Eddie Os born; Martin Osborn; Comfort Bryson and Mary Abel, child ren ; That the interest of the petitioner herein in the above described real esmie is inai ui a tuuwquriu pur- chaser, and praying for a determina tion of the time of the death of said Stephen Osborn and of his heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real property belonging to the said deceased, in the State of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing the 25th day of March, A. D. 1932. before the court at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., at the court house in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Datd at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 24th day of February, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) f29-3w County Judge.