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MONDAY, MAY 2, 1922. P1ATTSM0TTTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THREE TThe (Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth. Neb., as aecond-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. "Talking pictures have definitely come to stay," says a film expert. So much for the belief that they Just popped in to have a chat. :o: Riddle: If you butter a slice of bread in Russia (butter is $1.14 a pound in Russia) and drop it, which tide falls up heads or tails? :o: Any student of economics can see that more automobiles must be sold this year so as to take care of the growing army of hitch-hikers. :o: Well, congress is learning a lot about the stock market these days and some of the clever members will be able to do quite a little speculat ing when the market gets better. :o: Paul Revere took his famous ride in 1775 on account of taxation with out representation, and now we are being taken for another ride on ac count of taxation with, misrepresen tation. :o: It is costing the Farm Board IS cents per year per bushel to store its Millions of bushels of wheat. So. ycu :-ee, somebody is making money out of wheat as a result of the Farm Board's activities. :o: Since the Democrats and the Re publicans these days are on all sides of almost every public question, the only way you can tell them apart is to subscribe to a good, careful news paper that keeps track of such things. :o: A clairvoyant predicts Roosevelt's election, because all the "oo candi dates are winners" C-oo-lidge. H-oo-ver and next R-oo-sevelt. But President Hoover's "oo" offsets Gov ernor Roosevelt's "oo," and besides that, Hoover is already there. :o: The maharajah of Jaipur and the daughter of the maharajah of Jodh pur were married at the home of the bride in India yesterday, and there were elephants, tigers, pink lemon ade and virtually every other ad junct of a first class circus except Courtney Riley Cvoper and a pocket ful of passes for the press. :o: Mr. Ford, who has been working on an employees gardening plan in his own plant for several months without widely publicized success, has turned his idea over to President Hoover. This probably is no sur prise to President Hoover. From the very outset it must have looked to him like a plan which would sooner or late rbe turned over to him. The President must have a very inter esting collection of plans by this time. I Where Does She tf!jf IKv iA:: - 'A " 5 SHE doesn't look 'seventy. Nor feel that old. The woman who stimulates her organs can have energy that women half her age will envy! At middle-ace your vital organs begin to slow down. You may not be sick, simply sluggish. But why endure a condition of half-health when there's a stimulant that will stir a stagnant system to new life and energy in a week's time? This remarkable stimulant is perfectly harmless. It is. in fact, a family doctor's prescription. So, if you re tired of trying every patent medicine that comes along, tell the. druggist you want a bottle of Dr. Cald well's syrup pepsin. Take a bit of this delicious syrup every day or so, until you know by the Humor requires contrast. Take, for example, the 1932 automobile tag and the thing to which it is attached. -:o:- Wotta life ! The bulls ate the sheep, the bears aie the bulls, and now the wolves are devouring ths bears. :o: Mr. Hoover says we can make times good by buying a car. Then, too. it's so much nicer to ride as you look for a job. :o: Well, the country finally got that good 5-cent cigar Tom Marshall said it needed no badly, but romehow, in getting the cigar it seems to have lost the necessary nickel. :o: Yesterday was the 110th anniver sary of Gen. U. S. Grant and very little notice was taken of it. Wouldn't you think it would be celebrated by somebody the wets or the drys? : o : The farm board suggests that pros perity can be restored by every Am erican taking an extra bite of meat at meal time. Why net take two. so everybody can have an extra car? :o: Women's clothes, says a trade magazine, have fewer buttons on them than they used to have, and it is also true that women's buttons have fewer clothes on them than they used to have. :o: Some of the Roosevelt Democrats back in the old home town believe there ought to be some w?y cf put ting free-wheeling Democrats like Al Smith and Bill Murray back into conventional gear. :o: Hens are pretty dumb creatures. Not only do they never seem able to decide which side of the road they should be on, but they cackle just as loudly over an egg that sells for a cent as over one that sells for C. :o: Congress strains and perspires ter ribly, trying to frame a tax law that will balance the budget. One shud ders to think of the agony it would go through if it had to get cut and earn the money, like any other busi ness concern. :o: The news comes from Washing ton that an order is issued that all saloons in Chicago must be closed during the Republican and Demo cratic conventions. And it mean; just what it says. It will be recalled that the same order was issued for the Republican convention in Kan sas City and the Democratic meet in Houston in 192 8 and both towns were bone dry as everybody pres ent will testify. Get Her "Pep? 99 v A .. ' - fMO&HftAet X -S.S NX-. way jrou feel that your lazy liver is again active, and your bowels are poison-free. Men, women, and children who are run-down, who tire easily, get bilious spells or have frequent head aches, are soon straightened out when they get this prescriptional preparation of pure pepsin, active senna, and fresh laxative herbs. (Syrup pepsin is all the help the bowels need, and you do not form the very bad habit of always taking cathartics.) Keep a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin in the house, and take a stimulating spoonful every now and then. It is all that a great many people ever take to keep strong and vigorous, and absolutely free from constipation. - -TvC v'vx - - n- .... at. Alimony is a shorter name for matrimonial reparations. :o: Don't pray cream on Sunday and live skim-milk the remainder of the week. :o: Great Britain ends her fiscal year with a comfortable surplus. Mebbe we made a mistake in 1776. :o: Many who went from rags to riches in the late boom times didn't realize that they were on a round trip. :o: Two important divisions of the British Empire a.e back to normal cy. Ireland and England are quar reling again. :o: "'Congress has gore tax-mad," says a head-line. Man alive, you haven't seen anything tax-mad until you in terview a taxpayer. :o: Judge Lindsey says that C. 000, 000 young American men are too poor to geL married. Investigation would probably disclose the still more tragic lact that most of them are married. :o: A particularly cruel species of third degree is reported from Los Angeles, where a suspect broke down and confessed alter a couple of hours in a room with a detective who smoked an unusually malodorous pipe. :o: A Detroit woman, quoted by the News, probably is a lot too practical tver to be much of a success in poli tics. She says: "Our streets would be safer if v e took most of our fat speed cops off their motor cycles and put them to wok repairing holes in the ravenient." :o: A Kansas City policeman resigned recently to become a dentist. He al ready has his instrument kit. his of fice and his diploma f:om dental college, tut it may be several weeks before he gets out of the habit of holding hi:-, patients for investiga tion. :o: The humble iiuie dandelion is not an ugly flower, nor is it usually put in the same class w;h itr, big sister. i the chrysanthemum, but when it is spread out in such profusion as it iii in the city park this season, it makes a plain bit of ground lovely in its golden coior. And they do sa;- that dandelions make a finely favored wine if a fellow knows how to manipulate the blossoms. :o: EX POST FACTO Under the quota act of 1929 immi gration into the United States has been effectively damned. The flood of aliens entering this country whic-h, at it's crest, was more than a million in a single year, has been reduced to a mere trklile. During the year 1930-31 theie were but 97, 1C9 arrivals, nearly balanced by more than CI. 000 departures and IS. COO deportations. This year more aliens are leaving the country than are arriving. This condition would seem to be sufficient to satisfy the most thor ough-going hundred per center. But apparently it isn't. The Daughters of the American Revolution have adopted a resolution recommending that the president be empowered lo deport all unemployed aliens. As a solution for the problems of the depression this is as shallow as the suggestions that employed mar ried women be dismissed from their jobs or that steam shovels be replaced by pick and shovel men. Even as a palliative of unemployment it would no more than make a faint scratch upon the surface. The practical ef fect would hardly be compensation for the insufferable hardship that might be visited upon a few persons innocent of any fault save the tem porary loss of a job. It would of course satisfy some what the hankering that still per sists to kick the aliens out. But that seems so unnecessary now that the alien increment to our popula tion has been so definitely checked. The foreign population from past immigration is of course still large. The census of 1930 showed 14,204, 000 foreign born as a part of our population and more than 2C mil lion of foreign or mixed parentage. For the present there remains the problem of social, economic and po litical adjustment of this foreign element to the standards of the new world. In a generation absorption will have been almost complete and the problem will no longer remain. In two generations it will be so far in the background that the new im migration will amount to nothing but an interesting fringe on an al most complete native population. There is no need to be so impatient about it as to graft an ex post facto provision on our immigration exclu sion laws. WAE DEBT QUESTION BROUGHT UP AGAIN War debt discussion has been pre cipitated again by the British gov ernment in dropping American debt payments from its budget estimates The British action does not call for any hysteria in this country. Brit ain obviously does not intend to de fault. She is receiving from her debtors as much as she pays us an nually, and she expects the Hoover moratorium on reparations and debts to be extended another year. If the moratorium is not extend ed Britain doubtless will resume pay ments to us. As a large creditor na tion she cannot afford to set a de- fauling precedent. This newspaper long has pointed out that it is futile to attempt to handle the reparation-debt problem alone, that mere cancellation of re parations and clems v.ni not in itseir appreciably stabilize Europe or in crear.e world trade. It did not help when we cancelled those debts from 20 K SO cents on the dollar. The reparation-debt problem is only one factoi, in the Eu ropean malady. Tariff walls and arm ament waste kill more trade and un balance more budgets. As long as Britain can afford to pay G7S million dollars a year for aimaments she can afford to pay us the 171 million dollar service due on debts. The same is true of France and the other c-ountries. The answer is, cf course, that they cannot afford either excessive armaments or debt payments. Xor can they afford the tariff walls erected partly in retaliation against our tariff wall with which they block the flow oi international trade and prosperity. To reduce re parations and debts will not increase international trade unless artificial trade barriers are swept aside at the same time. Reparations and debts have been reduced before without having the desired effect, because of those bar riers. This is especially true of the United States, with a higher tariff wall than any other. Moreover, it is impossible to re store Germany to economic health by removing the reparation-debt load if France and Jiritain insirt on main taining the Versailles treaty, design ed to destroy Germany. And it is impossible to pacify Europe by ex cluding Russia. With a deadlock on debts, with a failure to achieve tariff reduction and with a disarmament conference go ing on the rocks, now is the oppor tunity for a joint settlement of these inseparable problems. Let the United States propose a wholesale, proportionate and mutual cut in debts, tariffs, armaments. The lean American taxpayer will never be willing to pay Europe's war debts for Europe merely to free more European funds for armaments, which in turn force the American taxpayer to spend moro on Amer ican armaments. New York World- Telegram. :o: COPPER IN ALL 0ITE COINS The nickel or 5-cent piece was born May 1C, 1S66. It replaced a 3-cent piece which had been coined by the United States government for many years, and which was one fourth nickel and three-fourths cop per. The metal was liked by the people, for it had a silvery color and did not tarnish. The nickel is there fore an alloy of 75 per cent copper and 25 per cent nickel. A nickel, therefore, is a gay de ceiver. It is more closely related to the humble penny than it shows upon its face. "Surely," you say, "a little penny is just itself a small disk of inex pensive copper. L)gK closely as you will at the face of either the Indian or Abraham Lincoln as embossed in copper on the penny, and you will never detect two other metals, tin and zinc, that mingle with the red der metal. Our pennies are actually of "French bronze" and are compos ed of copper, D5 per cent; tin, 2.5 per cent; zinc, 2.5 per cent. The dime was born, with other silver coins that represent fractions of a dollar, in 1792. It always has had some copper in it, but rn 1853 the amounts of its metals were fixed by law as 90 per cent silver and 10 per cent copper. All of our "silver coins have the same composition. Do generous uncles give you gold pieces for your birthday? If they do, you must be prepared to accept ten pennysworth of the same hum ble copper that has invaded all of our coins. Pure gold is too soft for money, as it would wear away un reasonably. The one-tenth part of copper so hardens the 90 per cent of gold that the gift will endure hand ling by yourself and friends. It will buy its face value In goods (if you know where to trade), and hence a little copper is not a deception. after all. From Current Science. LA F0LLETTE IDEAS ADOPTED La Follette appeared in the Unit ed States senate on April 19, 1906. Until 1925 without interruption he represented Wisconsin and the "Wis consin idea" in the senate and ruled his state with the uncompromising dictatorship of the ruthless boss that he was. In those years he kicked enough holes in the government fabric to admit nearly thirty new ideas, an astonishing feat when one realizes that the United States hadn't recog nized a new idea since the Emanci pation Proclamation. Every four years he crashed the Rjpublican national convention with his progressive platform. And every convention threw it out. Yet, oddly enough, administration after admin istration, seeking to save its face, went to the La Follette library and seiected one or more of his advanced ideas and jammed them through. using the hole that Bob had made for it. Let's look. In 190S he offered the Republi can convention a platform of tnir teen planks. All were rejected. Be fore he died twelve had been made law, nine of them by Republican con gresses. In 1912 he submitted eight een propositions to the winded re actionaries who nominated the un happy Mr. Taft. All were waved aside, Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania observing that Mr. Taft would be defeated without their assistance. Fourteen of them were new. Within the next ten years fifteen had be come law. In 191C he offered Mr. Hughes sev enteen ideas, fifteen of which had to do with the conduct of the war. Mr. Hughes and his management scorn ed them. But La Follette again was being called traitor and pro-German and the country had no need of new ideas then anyway, booting all the old ones all over the lot. In 1920 Bob was tired. He had about run his course. The Wisconsin idea had won national recognition and, for a large part, adoption. Nev ertheless, he plunged ahead with a platform on which he was to run on a third party ticket in 1924: Gov ernment ownership of stockyards, packing plants and all natural re sources in which there is inherent natural monopoly. Revision of tax schedules to place greater exactions on wealth. Popular election of all federal judges. Initiative and refer endum in national legislation. Re call for senators and representatives. A deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Make a note of those projects. And wait a while. Walter Davenport in Collier's. :o: ARMIES WERE SMALL IN 18TH CENTURY The early Roman empire policed the entire Mediterranean world with an army of about 300 thousand. In 1M4 a single poor province, Serbia put in the field more than twice as man-. The middle ages restricted armed feudal service outside of the soldier's immediate locality for 40 days. From Ijjl4 to 1918 millions of men. the survivors of those originally mobil ized, were held with the colors for more Than four years. But at no time in history was war more suc cessfully limited than in the one hundred years ending in 1775. To understand how limited were the eighteenth century wars we must first note how small were the armies in proportion to the population. A few examples will suffice. In 1700 France, with about 19 million souls, was the first military power in Eu rope. A fully conscript country can mobilize about a tenth of its total population. Therefore, had France then suffered from or enjoyed a uni versal service army on the democratic plan, a general mobilization would have given her nearly two million trained or partly trained men. By the greatest efforts she raised 300 thousand. In 1738. with about 22 million souls, a full conscript mobilization would have given her more than two million. She actually had only 180 thousand on a peace footing, of whom 60 thousand were militia, and the English government estimated that for war these numbers could not be more than doubled. The contemporary English army was small even when compared with the other armies of the time. In 1776, at the height of the effort to reconquer the 13 colonies, intensive recruiting among the nine million inhabitants of the British Isles fur nished only 33 thousand regulars for American service. It is true that eighteenth century strengths are usually given in terms of "rank and file," omitting commis sioned officers, sergeants and com pany musicians; nonetheless, the foregoing figures tell their own story. Hoffman Nickerson in the Amer ican Mercury. THE STANDARDIZED HOUSE Anything that comes close home conies close to hearts. The passing of the "personal" dwelling and the rise of the "model village" and stand ardized house, as foreshadowed in the first report of the organizations which are making a survey of social trends in the United States for Pres ident Hoover, will arrest attention among home owners and home lovers everywhere. Many Americans are becoming positively shy of anything that savors of standardization, especially as it may affect home life. But be fore bolting doors against the pos silbe intrusion of that influence up on the architectural preferences, they may yet wish to know what it has to offer them. If model villages are to be made up cf unimaginative rows of boxlike shelters, distinguish able from, one another only by the numbers over their entrances, Am ericans will say they already have had enough of them. If, however, they are to be composed of pictur esque groups of architectural gems "standardized" to conform to the best ideas of appearance and econ omy, they probably will find a ready market. One of the promising features of the new trend, as revealed in the report, is the possibility of increas ed beauty and economy. Production of standardized houses should offer not only a reduction in construction costs, but an opportunity to engage the services of more able designers than are available for small assign ments. The development of the model village might well Fupplcm?nt their services with those of experts in landscape architecture, and the result should be a marked improve ment in community environment a harmony expressed not merely in the design of one's own house, but in the relation of that house to all its neighbors. Of course, some individual tastes may have to be modified. But are there not evidences along American streets todaj- that such modification would hot be all loss? There seems no reason, however, why the stand ardized house should not be adapt-: able to variation of detail, nor why there should not be English, Amer ican, Dutch or Norman villages from which to choose. A feature of the report that is less encouraging, perhaps, is the attri bution of the standardization trend to a lessened interest in the suburban dwelling. With an increased ability to get from place to place, the re port notes, the population appears to be paj'ing less attention to the ap pearance or its residences, and architectural expression is shifting to commercial building. No doubt the increase in mobility which has come with the automobile has caught the public fancy. But that is not the only reason people are spending less thought on their dwellings and more on their motorcars. Mankind naturally turns in that direction where it finds most satis faction for its efforts. The efforts required to obtain architectural beauty In its houses are often so great as to discourage a large part of the population from attempting to express itself in this way. But it can and does find satisfaction along the highways at a price it can more nearly afford to pay. Here, then, may be seen a paradox In the making. The shift of interest from housing to motoring may be Lumber Sewing 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. - EEC2ASXA BASXET FACTOSY j paving the way for a return of that in tt rest through the c-conomical and attractive Kianuardi&ed house to things nearer the linside. In the future, perhaps, more families may own not only good-looking cars, but good-looking houses as well. :o: EUTLER STILL A GOOD MARINE Many a man v. ho has distinguish ed him.-elf in other fields has learn ed that politics is a game apart and not nece:-;arily for him. Gen. Sim-d-lcy I). Butler, for example, known how to "tell it to the marines," but he was Jess successful when he told it to the voters of Peiinrylvania. A dry candidate lor the senate against the wet Senator James J. Davis, sen k irg renorination, Butler came out a poor second . The result is not a con cl".sive test cf liquor tentinier.t in Pennsylvania; ft probably vould have been about the Fain? if both candidates had been dry or wet, al though the state seems to be delin itely wet. But Davi.i is an exper ienced politician. He had the state organization behind him. Butler is a fighter of distinguished record, but ! not on the stump. His entrance into politics was characteristic of his ini-pul.-iveness, t ut the result was not a surprise. :o: Governor Murray says his purpose is to give the government back to the people. It doesn't seem to have occurred to the governor to afk the people whether they want the gov ernment back. What does he think they let it get away for? :o: FOR SALE Delco automatic light plant, near ly new. Inquire Robert Patterson, Murray phone 3311. al4-tfw NOTICE TO CREDITORS Th? State cf Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John Stuart Livir;gfcton. 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 20th day of Ma v. A. D. 1132 and on the 22nd day of August. A. D. 1932. at ten o'clock In the forenoon of each day. to receive and examine all claims against said state, with a view to tluir adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months from the 20th day of May, A. D. 1932. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 20th day of May, 1932. Witness my hand and the nr-al of said County Court this 23rd day of April. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) a23-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ts'. Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss. To all persons interested In the estate of Margaret Wehrbein, deceas ed: On reading the petition of John F. Wehrbein praying a final settle ment and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 18th day of April, 1932, and for settlement and distribution cf :;aid estate and dis charge of executor: 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 rafd coun ty, on the 20th day of May. A. I). 1932. at 10 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 raid petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons in terested In said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed In said county, for three weeks prior to faid day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 18th day of April. A. D. 1932 A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) a25-3w County Judge.