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V MONDAY. APKL 18. 1932. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOXUNAX PAGE TTTRTF. i M i s I uhe Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Poetoffice, 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 Postai Zone, J2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, 53.00. per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.80 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly In advance. Balance the family budget first. -:o: Spring is with, us again, but that's all. -:o:- A stiff tax on necking would wipe out the deficit. :o: Politics is politics and we wish it were something else. :o: In this political campaign nobody is "pointing with pride." :o: If hard times hang around much longer we may soon begin to like them. :o: It's a consolation, however, that the changing styles do not apply to false teeth. :o: Some people giggle, some croon and others have sense enough not to do either. -:o: The kidnaping industry is step- ping right along, with hopes cf f ur-1 ther improvement. i -:o: Even the depression can not squelch some people the bill col lectors, for instance. :o: Don't blame our missionaries for preferring foreign fields. It would be a heck of a job at home. :o: Government doesn't reach into our pockets and take our money. It Just takes the whole pocket. :o: By the time they get through our lives will be about the only things not taxed and they will no longer be worth It. . :o: If you do not think the Amer ican standard of intelligence is be ing lowered, Just consider the stuff we listen to over the radio every day and night. :o: If the government i3 hard up for cash why not confiscate the inter national bankers and sell them back to themselves for what they think they are worth? :o: : 'Persons who had been in the habit of referring 'to the moving picture game as a "racket" were really jok ing, until it came out the other day that a film director had been charged with evading about $100,000 in in come taxes. :o: An authority attributes eating spinach and other forms of rough age to indigestion. Now, when the doctor places a ban on green onions, hog's Jowl and greens and corned beef and cabbage, there w ill be noth ing left for us to live for but mem ories. ; A World's MORE than three thousand births without a single loss of either mother or child I That is the official Piatt County record of Dr. W. B. Caldwell, in fifty years' famiry practise in Illinois. No wonder mothers have such entire confidence in giving little ones Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin! If you have a baby, you have constant need of this wonderful preparation of pure pepsin, active senna, and fresh herbs. A child who gets this gentle stimulant for the stomach . Liver and bowels is alwavs healthier. It keeps children's delicate systems from clogging. It will overcome the most stubborn 1 F f J '$&? 4 Ohio Man, Married Nine Times. Goes Insane. Headline. Goes? :o: Simile: As chagrined as a drug gist confessing he's out of lemon pie. :o: In balancing the budget the big question is whether to use moie tax or more ax. :o: What's really worrying Republi can officeholders isn't present but future employment. :o: Thanks to the Japs and Chinese for giving us a few days rest. Gang sters please emulate. :o: If this unemployment insurance scheme is ever adopted nobody will want to work again. :o: We recommend that everybody buy a government bond, but where are the two-bit ones? :o: But if an iniant can't think, why does it yell the moment it sees the (kind of world it is in? :o: There is little news of spring freshets this year, except the flood in the Literary Digest office. :o: Another sad phase of the wolf at the door, is that it frightens the stork away from the chimney. :o: It has been discovered that in giving until it hurts, some people are extremely sensitive to pain. :o: It appears that Hindenburg has a better "line" now than he had in 191 S. :o: America won't recognize Japan's. territorial gain in China. Not, any way, when Japan gets through with it. :o: The proposal is made that our Army and Navy be consolidated. It might give them a pretty ball team. :o: rood foot- Seldom in the last quarter-century has there been a time when you could buy so much with the dol lar you haven't got. :o: Sometimes we think if people had to buy a license tag each year for their good health, they would take better care of it. :o: Perhaps the student investigators have avoided a w hipping in I Kentucky if their parents had done a little more of it at home. :o: Gettting money under false pre tenses is a crime unless you are big enough to sell $1,000,000 worth of stock in a $40,000 business. Record condition of constipation. It builds them up, and is nothing like the strong cathartics that sap their strength and energy. A coated tongue or bad breath is the signal for a spoonful of Syrup Pepsin. Children take it readily, for it is really delicious in flavor. Taste it! Take Syrup Pepsin yourself, when sluggish or bilious, or you are troubled with sick headaches and no appetite. Take some for several days when run-down, and see how it picks you up. It is a prescription preparation which every drug store has ready; in big bottles, just ask anywhere for Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. GET OUT THE HOE After all, if you are a true ama teur of the garden, it doesn't make much difference whether the cater pillars get your tomatoes or you do, provided they give you at least a chance to save the cherished vine. Actually, part of the fun in growing a garden is in trying to outwit the various interlopers from arrant ragweed to bone-burying dogs that would try to keep your harvest from coming to fruition . And whether your attempts be di rected at tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, beans or Jerusalem artichokes, you will have opportunity enough to ex ercise your wits. You may plant seeds or transplant seedlings, but the fun doesn't begin there. It began long ago when snow was on tne ground, cold and frosty by night, but melting and trickling over the eaves into long icicles during the day. That wns when your pcred over the seed catalogue. When you get the things into the ground is when the activity begins. You stroll out in the morning to see what has taken place over night; and in the evening, after you have mowed the lawn, you do a little hoe ing in the garden, water and other wise caie for the silent growing things there. There may be some feeling to equal the de!ight that greets the appear ance of the first little green tomato, or the first tiny "cuke." A "baby" anything is an appealing object, and it requires some restraint nor to caress the youngling tomato or cu cumber, j Yes. there is a feeling that to some extent equal this. When the day comes that a large red tomato that j is, it may be large and red. or it may be purckered and a somewhat pale pink is on the table. And right frcm the vines, your own vines. So get out the rake and hoe and spade and your wife will show you where she wants to plant the sweet peas. :o: " Some people are disappointed when they talk to-hear their heads rattle. Nothing there. :o: Margot Asquith is writing some more memoirs. That lady certainly can remember, when she gets right down to work on it. :o: Lmory Hatnaway ot t nion was among the visitors in the city today, looking after some matters of busi ness and visiting with friends. :o: Rumor has it that a ten-cent store is going to increase its maximum price to twenty going into the ness. cents. Maybe it's foreign-bond busi- :o:- Jesse L. Pell, for many years a resident of near Union and now re siding in Omaha, was in the city last evening to look after some business matters. :o: A consumer is a boob who howls when he pays his own tax of $4.30 aml rnafces no protest as he pays $430 a year passed on to him by the big taxpayer. :o: A light coupe, pulled out of a creek in Iowa, was filled with minnows. There seems to be a general impulse, on seeing a coupe, to try to imitate sardines. :o: Probably nothing is less interest ing, as a topic of conversation, than the recent memoirs of a man who has decided to cut down on his cig arette smoking. :o: The United States Navy conduct ed a mimic war near Honolulu, while over in in Europe the United States delegates were assisting at a mimic peace conference. :o: How in heck can the government expect to collect a tax on foreign bonds sold in this country, when most of the bonds are not worth amount of the tax? :o: Charles Garrison of near Union, was in the city today for a few hours attending to some matters of busi ness at the court house and visiting with the friends here. - :o: Still, there's no use in bringing beer back to the market unless there is a lawful place to drink it . Any boer drinker certainly will tell you that two-thirds of the satisfac tion he used to get from that harm less beverage was in drinking a bot tle or a stein with a friend. :o: Senator Couzens is in favor of un limited estate and inheritance taxes, but not for the purpose of breaking up big estates. Senator Couzens, if we understand him aright, favors the taxes for revenue only, and if any big estates are broken up there by, he prefers it to occur by accident. BABE RUTH AND THE NATIONAL EFFORT Our theory of the sweet uses of adversity is borne out by the per formance of Babe Ruth, who, in his first game of the season, knocked two home runs on a salary of only $75,000. In the old glad days before prosperity had retired around the corner, Mr. Ruth received $S0,000. To save baseball from the taint of commercial profiteering in times ot economic reconstruction, he took a salary cut of $5,000. He now has demonstrated his elan has not suffered from the sacrifice, and we are thereby justified in our belief that the period of economic reconstruction will, in the end, bring out the national effort in a handsome way. The only tning needed to be shown was that the na tional effort would be made on a sal ary of $75,000 as greatly as on one of $ SO, 000. Mr. Ruth has shown it can be. Now- that the po'nt has been so triumphantly established, the way to complete economic recovery is wide open. All that is necessary to be done is to cut the salary of con gress in the same proportion Mr. Ruth's salary was cut. Congress could scarcely allow Mr. Ruth to make the national effort all alone; it, too, would respond under sacri fice, just as he has, by knocking some legislative home runs. It would be under a moral compulsion to show it wasn't wot king for money alone; like Mr. Ruth, it would contribute to the national effort a:.d wear its sacrifice r.ot as stripes upon its back, but as a crown upon its head. We suggest that Mr. Ruth's na tional effort be brought to the at tention of congress, that his two home runs on his cut salary of $75, 000 be inscribed on its walls and that the lesson of his sacrifice be recognizsd by appropriate action ap plied to all government salaiiee. :o: K0T0BD01I STILL EXPANDS This year again motorists of the Lnited States are financing a pro gram of road construction and main tenance that will give employment, direr t!y and indirectly, to hundreds of thousands. This is the salient point in the announcement by the United States Bureau of Public Roads that the nation's highway pro giam for 1932 will involve the ex penditure of $1,353,000,000. Aijnrt from its meaning to the relief of unemployment, however, the announcement contains mater ial from which a logical optimism may be derived. Comparatively speaking, this is a low year in road building. That means appropria tions are being proportioned to ac tual revenue rather than artificial ly expanded as they were last year when they exceeded $1,500,000,000. The shrinkage is due almost en tirely to the decline in local muni cipal and county highway appro priations. State expenditures will be approximately the same as last year, since they are based upon gasoline tax and other motor revenues. The amount thus derived remains vast and virtually the same because the motor vehicle holds a constant place in the nation's transportation. The average man may not have bought new cars at the same rapid rate dur ing the last two and one-half years that he did at the peak of prosper ity. Automobile sales figures show that he has not done so. Yet motor vehicle tax revenues reflect the fact that he has continued to use his old er car as much as ever. His depend ence upon the motor vehicle has not lessened. So. even in a quiet year, motordom remains a sufficiently vast realm of human activity that it can finance a $1,353,000,000 road - building and maintenance program. Another figure in the tabulation which should confute pessimism is that which shows this money will add 3G.000 miles of improved high way to the national system of first- class roads. Such a mileage con structed in 1932 will bring the to tal in the improved category to more than 350,000 miles. It is clear that motordom goes on expanding in certain fundamen tals in Fpite of economic adversity. It cannot be viewed otherwise, for, in respect to roads alone, it keeps a billion-dollar auxiliary industry go ing. :o: We note a disposition in various parts of the country to discuss the subject of reducing the salaries and lowering the expenditures of our hordes of American public officials as one step in the campaign to re store prosperity and put our idle men to work. With Tiving costs and all other personal and family ex penses materially reduced, is there any good reason why our public of ficials should hang onto their high water mark salaries? It's w.orth thinking over. SHORT SELLING QUESTIONS Testifying before the senate com mittee, Richard Whitney makes a "determined defense" of short sell ing and the New York Stock Ex change. Naturally. Mr. Whitney is president of the exchange. But would Mr. Whitney clear up three points: Often it is said, by way of defense, that short selling is but a small per centage, maybe 5 or C per cent, of total market transactions. But Mr. Whitney testified yesterday that on a recent day the short interest in United States Steel was 361, 6KS shares, and had been 386,422 shares about a week previous. What per centage would that be of total trans actions in the one stock? Once be fore, it was shown that while short sales in the entire market were only about 5 per cent, those in steel, a market leader, were nearly 25 per cent. An even smaller volume ol selling of one market leader or Just a few such stocks readily could turn the course of the entire market. The strategy of short selling is to con centrate on a few securities. Again, increasing restrictions have been placed on short selling recently by the exchange authorities them selves. Mr. Whitney has emphasized this. But why? If short selling is necessary and the stabilizing factor it is claimed to be, why restrict it all? Why not encourage it? Finally, Mr. Whitney testified that "usually a decline in prices was ac companied by a decline In short in terest." But it is held that it is a decline in short interest, or "short covering," that helps to put the mar ket up and thus to justify the prac tice. Purthr, it was shown in the testimony that since last November here had been "a marked decrease" in total short interest, and that the market since that time had been steadily declining, except for short periods. Why that? These things are puzzling to a layman. Whatever the merits of short selling, they have not been in dicated in the numerous recent de fenses of the practice. The principal merit seems to be that short selling creates business for the market and the brokers. :o: DANGER SIGNAL Never was the admonition that eternal vigilance is the price of lib erty more aptly illustrated than it was one day last week in the senate restaurant at Washington. The go ings on of that fateful day should be sufficient notice to freedom-loving souls throughout this still great if somewhat depressed nation that something has got to be done and done quickly about the spinach situ ation. We dislike to keep harping on spinach. The whole subject of spinach Is distasteful to us. But there is a great deal more involved here than the mere academic ques tion of whether or not spinach con tains more vitamins than sassafras tea or roast ribs of beef or young spring frys. A principle is involved. The paramount issue is this: Shall the freeborn citizens of the United States of America be forced to eat spinach, whether or not they like it? One day last week Senator Huey P. Long, recently up from Louisiana, introduced pot likker to a dozen of his colleagues in the senate restau rant. But, some naive reader may ask, what has pot likker to do with spinach? The answer is, plenty! Pot likker is composed of two main ingredients, one of which is turnip greens. Turnip greens! First blood cousin to spinach. Spinach is of the greens family, along with dande lion?, horseweed and prairie hay. It is but a step from turnip greens to spinach greens. The second ingred ient is, according to Senator Long, himself, four bits worth of dry salt pork. leah, dry: He pretends to be a dry, does he? To ally the suspicions of Bishop Cannon and Mr. McBride and Dr. Clarence True Wilson, he calls it "dry" salt pork. But how long does that pork stay dry? They dunk that pork, friends, and in what? In pot likker, that's what! And now Senator Long has fed this demoralizing beverage or porridge or goulash or whatever it is, to 12 other senators. What will be the result? The result will be that the stuff will get a hold on them, as it has on Huey Long, and they will vote it on the rest of us. That's the way with so many politicians. If they like a thing, we've got to like it. If they hate it, it's out, whether we like it or not. You say pot likker Is not likely to get a hold on them? Then pon der this: Senator Long had planned to introduce his celebrated dish to the senate this week instead of last week. But, says the Associated Press, he became "impatient" and sent peo ple scouring over Washington for turnip greens and four bits worth of "dry" salt pork. It wouldn't be like 0GD (327!?0CD , FTf BAKING liY POWDER You save in using KC. Use LESS than of high priced brands. FOR OVER IT'S DOUBLE ACTING iw..i.L....Hi:i.i:..i. the pre-war greens and salt pork; L ' CvncS " l HI k '"25''.- that he had dreamed of bringing up (south door of the court house in the frnm T.ii ht f.ii v.a v r, J Cit y of Plattsmouth. in said county. kick and would have to do. For he was "impatient." Impatient? His appetite got him! His throat got to burning, he got nervous and shaky and despondent. He was about to see snakes! And now he has fed it to 12 other law makers. They'll legislate it right in to the constitution as sure as you're born. It will become the Twentieth amendment and then where are your state's rights, your local op tions, your candied yams and every thing else you fought for in all those wars? :o: ALL GOOD NATUSED We are a good natured people in America. Here we are in the midst of our worst depression, tripping along in our accustomed manner, greeting our friends with a smile, eating when we have the price and carelessly tightening our belts when we don't, buying what we can afford and do ing without the rest, and almost as happy as if we had rounded that mysterious corner and bumped right into the long promised prosperity. We're not forming processions with flaming banners, nor damning the government for not putting us all on a pension list, nor shierking for a free gratis for nothing dole. No, we are not doing any of these foolish things we read so much about in other countries. They don't get people anywhere except deeper in the mire. We're just going right along with our business, doing the best ve can under existing conditions, whistling to keep up our courage and waiting for the promised day of relief. If that isn't good nature we're a grouch. :o: FOR SALE For sale Good work horses R. G. Livingston. Dovey section. al4-2tw Phone the news to No. C. Lumber Sawing Commercial sawing from your own logs lumber cut to your specifications. We have ready cut dimen sion lumber and sheeting for sale at low prices. NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY CHATTEL ilORTGAGE SALE Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a certain chattel mortgage dated on November 20th, 1931, and duly filed for record in the office of the County Clerk of Cass county, Nebraska, on the 24th day of No vember. 1931. and executed by Paul Kelly to E. J. Kiddle, and duly as signed to the International Harves ter Company of America, a corpor ation, on the 20th day of November. 1931, to secure the payment of the sum of Ten Hundred Fifty-six and 2400 Dollars ($1056.24). because of default having been made in the terms of the transaction, we are sell ing the property herein described tc wit: One International Motor truck. Model No. A-2 Chassis No. 8429. Engine No. 295115. Equipped with inclosed cab. 30x5 heavy duty tires front and 30x5 heavy duty dual tires rear; together with all other equipment now on the truck or which may be added. at public auction for cash at the place of business of the P. A. San born Service Co. In the city of Greenwood, County of Cass, State of Nebraska, on the 23rd day of April. 1932 at 12 o'clock, noon, of said date. Dated this 29th day of March, 1932. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA. By- Paul H. Koeller. xn31-4w NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, SB. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate cf Ru doph H. Ramsel, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified that I will sit at the County Court room In Plattsmouth. in said county, on the 6th day of May. A. D. 1932 and on the 7th day of July. A. D. 1&32. at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each day, to receive and examine all claims against naid estate, with a view to thtir adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months from the Cth day of May, A. D. 1932, and the time limited for payment of debts Is one year from said 6th day of May, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this Sth day of April. lf32. A. 11. DUX BURY. (Seal) all-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by C. E. Ledeway. Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county. Nebraska, and to ine directed. I will on the 2Cth day of April. 1S32. at ten o'clock a. m. of said day at the if 11 at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following describ ed real eftate, to-wit: The southeast quarter of Sec tion eight (8). in Township eleven (11). North, in Range thirteen (13). East of the Cth P. M., in Cass county. Nebras ka, containing 160 acres. "Subject, however, to a mort gage in the sum of S14.000.00, in favor of John M. Leyda, wth interest thereon at six per cent, and due May 1st. 1934." The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Theonald Vallery land Elizabeth Vallery. defendants, to satisfv a Decree and Judgment of said Court recovered by William Sporer, Plaintiff against said Defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 24th, 1932. ED. W. THIMGAN. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska m24-? ORDER OF HEARING and Notice of Probate of Foreign Will In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Terrace Hennings Pitman, also known as Terrace H. Pitman, deceased. Oa reading the petition of Sophia M. Schafer and Calvin II. Taylor praying that the instrument filed in this Court on the 29th day of March, 1932. and purporting to be a duly authenticated copy of the last will and testament of Terrace Hennings Pitman, also known as Terrce H. Pitman, deceased, that said instru ment be admitted to probate, and the administration of said estate be erant- ed to W. A. Robertson as executor for the State of Nebraska. It is here by 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 29th day of April. A. D. 1932. at 10 o'clock, a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the peti tioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Jour nal, a semi-weekly newspaper print ed in said county, for three succes sive weeks prior to said day of hear ing. Witness my hand, and the seal of said court this 29th day of March, A. D. 1932. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) a4-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF SALE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the trusteeship of the estate of Anna Gorder Ploetz, de ceased: Notice is hereby given that In pur suance of an order of the Honorable James T. Begley, Judge of the District Court of Cass county. Nebraska, made on the 12th day of March. 1932, for the sale of real estate hereinafter described for the payment of legacies and expenses of administration under the last will and testament of Anna Gorder Ploetz, deceased, there will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the south door of the Court House at Plattsmouth, Ne braska, on the 30th day of April, 1932. at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., the following described real estate, to-wit: The east one-half (Ea) or the northeast quarter (NE',4) of Section eighteen (18), Town ship twelve ( 12 ), north of Range thirteen (13), east of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska, and an undivided one-half inter est in and to Lots two (2). three (3) and four (4). in Block thirty-five (35), in the City of Weep iag Water in Cass county, Ne braska. That the sale will be held open for the period of one hour and that the highest bid will be submitted to the Court for confirmation and approval. Dated this 26th day of March, 1932. FRANK A. CLOIDT, Trustee of the Estate of Anna Gorder, Ploetz, Deceased. A. L. TIDD, Attorney, m28-5w A lot of papers are going in for printing the news of ten and twenty years ago. Wore respectable than that of today. i i