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MONDAY. MAY 9, 1932. PAGE THRE9 TThe Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at PostofHce, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PBICE $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. 97.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly la advance. Congress should take ether instead of going on it. :o: Americans have more time-saving devices and less time than any other people on earth. :o: No -wonder Rome Tolded up. She had no autos, gasoline, or chewing gum to tax, and no postal rates to raise. :o: Then there was the hikers' club that had to disband because motor ists are not picking up hitch-hikers any more. :o: If you have any knocking to do in your home town, get a hammer and nails and start something con structive. :o: Russia impresses us as a country where it will be a long time before the two-pants-suit movement makes much headway. :o: You don't hear any more jokes about the Grand Canyon nowadays. You hear them about that chasm in the Democratic party. :o: The new scoring in contract is be lieved to spell the end of psychic bid ding. And will have the humiliat ing effect, perhaps, of driving the psychic bidders back to draw poker, where they wanted to go all the time. The "White House furnace tender has resigned. "Wonder if thai, means he has quit the Hoover family cold. :o: In some rarts of the country the liquor is so bad that if it weren't against the law no one would drink it. :o: Warlike gestures exchanged be tween Russia and Japan are remind ful of a couple of Chicago gangsters. And probably neither of those na tions could pay its income tax. :o: Smedley Butler says he constant ly asks heaven to help him say the right thing. That explains a good deal. We now know that Smedley's system is very much the same as Charlie Dawes's, only perhaps a bit more so. :o: When Gene Tunney was first men tioned for congress we weren't much interested, but lately it has seemed as though congress couldn't be much worse, and perhaps if Mr. Tunney oc casionally got his dander up, it might be a lot better. :o: Al Capone went to prison on a mittimus, after a writ of supersedeas had been vacated. Most prisoners Just go on a thumb gesture from the judge. It should pacify the im patient Mr. Capone a good deal to know that he went on the best the government had in stock. THE ALIMONY RACKET "I leave this world because of laws that make the racket of ali mony possible. I have paid $2,500 a year for 13 years to a woman who tricked me into marriage. I had the grief, she had the gravy." Final re marks of a suicide. Former Chief Justice Olson, while disapproving the way out chosen by this victim of the alimony racket, sav3: "Concerning this whole ali mony matter, there is no question that the courts are overdoing the throwing of men in jail because they don't keep up their payfenls. It is true some men evade payments (wil fully), but there are many others who are unable to pay, yet some of them are put in jail anyhow." Primarily these wrongs are the responsibility of judges. Judge Ol son says: "A lot of women are mak ing alimony nothing but a racket, and I'll venture that for every man putting it over on the court in using the depression for not making pay ment there is a woman who is get ting alimony by fraud. These are hard limes and judges should be ex tra painstaking about committing men to jail because they can't pay alimony. In many cases it is easier for a woman to get a job now than a man." Since some judges are susceptible and lacking in discrimination, the o.uestion of more strictly defining and limiting their procedure is worth- of consideration. The evil de scribed by Judge Olson lias grown into a sachet for unscrupulous wom en and lawyers which is especially oppressive at this time. Chicago Tribune. :o: Investigators from many states are gathering at Churchill Downs this week to look into the Kentucky Derby, of which considerable has been said in the press. We believe the hardy citizens of Louisville may be relied upon to extend a bit mere hospitality to the curiosity-seekers than their brothers over in Harlan County. IF RUSSIA WERE KANSAS The tribulations of the Russian farmers under the Soviet system, as described by Dean Edgar S. Furniss of Yale university in Current His tory, suggest a homely comparison. Suppose Communism had come to Kansas. Two years ago the govern ment, controlled by city workers, would have decided that it was time for the farmers to go "collective" or largely to give up their ideas of pri vate property. The farmers would have been forced to accept Commu nism against their will by pooling their land into great collective farms. But rather than turn" their cattle over to common ownership, they would have slaughtered between a third and one-half of ail the ani mals in Kansas. Seeing to what lengths the farm ers would go to resist Communism, the government then would have suspended temporarily its campaign Oi force and tried perr-uasion. It nam be remembered that this city conti oiled government would be per fectly sincere in thinking it knew what was best for the farmers of Kansas, whatever they might think or desire. But this la.-t wittier The method of persuasion would have been abandoned again, when it was discovered that there was a shortage of grain both for the cities of Kansas and for export. Individual farmers would have been called before the authorities and punished for hoard ing grain. Their livestock as well as grain would have been seized and when some of them attempted to leave the state, they woiild have been shot down by border petrols. That is what would have been hap pening if Kansas were Russia. But the blessings of Communism have been denied the Kansas farmer and perhaps Providence can be prevailed upon to refrain a little longer from bestowing them. Despite the added ler.cth of years science has supposedly given us, the good-lookers still dye young. HERE'S THE PROMISED Price for OH Roosters! Per Lb. (q)c Per Lb. Plattsmquth Buyers will pay this special Premium Price for your OLD ROOSTERS brought to Plattsmouth on 'r' Uedncs., Thurs., Friday, Saturday, May 11-12-13.14th This price vill be paid to you in CASK no strings attached to this oer and it will undoubtedly be the highest price paid Cor roosters this season! Guessing Contest IF YOU can ?uess the nearest to the number of kernels of corn a roosterfwill eat, you can have one of these prizes. Reg ister yoor nuess in a Rooster Booster store. Costs nothing to guess and is open to everybody. Prizes will be awarded at 9:30 p. m. Saturday, May 14, 1932. PRIZES ABSOLUTELY FREE Queen Card Table, pad'd top Green glass Water Set Men's Horsehide Gauntlets 3-lb. Red & White Coffee Merchandise Cert, for $2 One Dollar in Cold Cash Regular $3 Fountain Pen 3-lb. can Butter Nut Coffee 48-lb. sack Omar Flour Enamel Refrigerator Pan One Summer Voile Dress Plattsmouth-made Broom :30000000000000000000000000c. Poultry experts who have made a study of highest egg production advise selling ALL roosters as soon as hatching season closes! Here's a chance to turn your old roosters into real money. Don't forget the days 4 of them Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday OF THIS WEEK Plattsmouth stores are offering special "Booster" Values also giving prizes for nearest guess on Rooster appetite. See full par ticulars elsewhere in this paper! BELOW are the names of the merchants par ticipating in this big Rocster-Booster event! Look for the Rocster in their windows and their special ads in this issue of the Journal. ?OOOOGOC00090GOOCOOG0090900& Booster Spscials In order to make one Rooster Dollar do the work of two, the Booster Merchants have exert ed themselves to spread before you a veritable feast of bar gains Below we give just a hint of what you -can buy in Platts mouth Roostsr-Booster days. Each Booster store has one of these items. SHOP TILL YOU FIND THEM Oak Dining Tables. .$3.95 8 c a..' j m. T ii ie. o w uui u waicr i umoien . ic in buymq... you save in ysoimqj V7(r BAKING lMy POIVDER SAME Pmc FOR OVER J 40 YEARS 15 ounces for 15$ EETTER EE PHEPASED FOR DEBT DEFAULT 12-qt Galv. Pails 16c 8 Men's felt Work Hats. $1.29 8 Ladies' Dress Hats 49c $ 6 Sunbrite Cleans'r 25c b Men's lisle Dress Hose. 19c 10 bars Silver Leaf soap . 19c Kraft's Cr. Cheese, lb.. .20c 1GA Ccrn Flakes, 2 for. 19c Popular Copyrights . . .27c Bandana 'Kerchief s, ea. . .3c SGC50S03 Ghrist Furniture Co., H. M. Soennichsen Co., Knorr's Variety Store, Red & White, C. E. Wescott's Sons, Ladies Toggery, Mullen's s Market, Bestor & Swatek Co., A. G. Bach, Fetzer Shoe Co., E. A. Wurl, Bates Book Store, Pease Style Shop,1 Iowa-Nebraska Light and Power Co., F. G. Fricke & Co., Mauzy Drug Co., Tidball Lumber Co., Ofe Oil Co., Wm. H. Puis, C. E. Hartford and Plattsmouth Motor Co. For details consult these firms. Stores Open Wednesday and Saturday Evenings! HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF POULTRY, EGGS AND CREAM BRING THEM IN! The people of the United States prepared themselves less for peace while engaged in fighting the world war than tiny did for that conflict during the piping days of peace. They did not take into their account ing the inevitable and inescapable fact that all the destruction and looses of that devastating struggle must eventually be paid in full. To a considerable extent because they did not. they are now paying in dou ble and treble portions the price of their error. icause the era of war time in flation and false values did not end with the armistice the people of the United States and of other countries continued to live in a fool's para dise of big money, easily gotten and easily spent. Had they prepared for the inevitable deflation, the shock would not have been so great and possibly the tenure of the depres sion would not have been so extend ed. Br.t even in the face of this sad experience, there are a number of leaders who blindly and obstinately refuse to reckon with possibilities and probabilities in connection with the payment of the war debts owed by European nations to the United States. Although clear thinking men likf President Butler of Columbia university, former Governor Smith of New York and others are issuing warnings that these debts will never be paid, a large group of sentimen tal nationalists of the type of Sen ator Borah are refusing even to con sider repudiation, default or non payment. All such will do well to ponder long and seriously the Words used by Finance Minister Dietrich of Germany at a mass meeting the other day. Said he: The moratorium ends July 1, but Germany will not pay more after then. Some time ago Chancellor Eruen ing asserted that Germany "cannot" pay and now Minister Dietrich makes misconstruction impossible by declaring she "will not pay." If Germany does not pay the repar ations account, France, Italy, Bel gium and probably Great Britain will not pay their war debts to the Unit ed States. Why not then be prepared for this eventuality? Why not lis ten to clear thinking men who are suggesting plans by which the United States will get something out oi those debts? Why be so foolish as to wait until the debts are either repudiated or defaulted upon when there can be no recovery? Will we again be so foolish as to get nothing through expecting to get all? Memphis Commercial- Appeal. :o: We used to worry about what would become of bridge teachers af ter everybody had learned everything there was to know about bridge. But we guess it's needless to worry for some time yet. A letter from a local reader to the Washington Star reads: "Does a redouble close the bidding in auction or contract? Can a play er bid who has passed several times?" :o: The original Alice in Wonderland is visiting our shores, and we think the least we can do is to collect some of our local walruses and carpenters and mad hatters and March hares and throw Alice a good party. :o: After 200 years, it is lawful for a citizen of Baltimore to kiss his wife on Sunday, although we sup pose in most cases the repeal will remain a dead letter as has the law for, lo, these many years. :o: Mr. De Valera strikes one as the type the other eleven Jurors might have a little trouble with. MERCY UNDER THE LAW Senator Reed of Pennsylvania thinks that in commuting the Mas sie sentence Governor Judd "has made a very serious mistake which J will turn up to plague the future administration of justice in Hawaii." And a native princess, who is the re-( publican national committeewoman, complains that the trial and its out come has been converted into farce and travesty. Are there to be two! sets of laws in Hawaii, she asks "one for the favored few and another for the people in general." There is something to be said for this point of view. But there is more to be said, we think, for that which led to Governor Judd's prompt ac tion in releasing the convicted de fendants after an hour in jail. And the most to be said is that it will satisfy the moral judgment of the enlightened world. In the hearts of justice-loving and compassionate men and women there is something tells them these defendants have suffered and been puwished enough. To have added to the excruciating torment they have already experienced a long term of imprisonment would have revolted the social conscience. Greatly have they sinned though under extreme provocation. But greatly have they sufferde. The punishment they have endured overtowers their offense. It was important that the law and its processes be vinidcated. And there was vindication. Massie and his associates were indicted. They were brought to trial. They were ably and brilliantly defended. Their trial was a fair and orderly proceed ing. They were surrounded with all their legal rights. And, despite the magic of Darrow, they were con victed, and properly convicted ac cording to the law and the evidence which the jury was sworn to uphold and abide by. Sentence to prison, as the law re quired, followed the verdict of the jury. And that ended that phase of the proceeding. There came then the final phase. The law vests in the governor of Hawaii the power to pardon or com mute sentence when, in his judg ment, the circumstances warrant it. Governor Judd exercised that pow er. There can be no question of his legal right to do it. The only ques tion can be whether his Judgment was infirm. We think it was not. For in the exercise of this power there is log ically to be considered, not alone the question of guilt but of provo cation and of extenuating circum stances. Commutation is an act of legal mercy, and the sense of mercy and compassion, as well as of Justic, are its proper guides. The appeal to the sense of mercy, in this case, seems little short of overpowering young and helpless, had been made the victim of crime unspeakably ful. It entailed for herself and her family deep and ineradicable shame. It inflicted mental torment, anguish of soul and body, beyond the under standing of all who have not exper ienced it. And the loathsome crim inals had been permitted to go un whipped of justice. Not only that, but the odious tongue of unsparing scandal had been turned against the victim. The result was such as might well bring tha strongest minds to the verge of irresponsibil ity to such desperation as led to the killing of one of the young wom an's assailants. with Darrow's favorite web-of-cir-As a rule we have little patience cumstance argument. But here, if ever, is a case in which it wins sym pathy and support.- Massie, the mother, the two sailors, are not bad people but good and respectable peo ple. Fate, of a sudden, had enmesh ed them in such a net of torture, of misery, of shame and hopeless ness, as none but a Hardy or a Flau bert could describe. And their en durance broke . The veneer that through long generations civilization had been painting on their primitive natures fell off. And they acted as children would act or man in a state of nature when, unprotected, he is thrown upon his own resources. All this Governor Judd took into account. In the light of all he knewj and under the guidance, we believe. of his judgment and conscience, he exercised the power the law had giv en him for the purpose for which it was given. He extended mercy. To us it seems that only the flintiest heart could have denied it. :o: 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 FOS SALE Delco automatic light plant, near ly new. Inquire Robert Patterson, Murray phone 2311. al4-tlw NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty. S3. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John Stuart Livingston, 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 May, A. D. 1932 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 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 20th day of May, A. I). 1932. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 20th day of May, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 23rd day of April, 1932. A. II. DUXRURV. (Seal) a: !-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Wil liam D. Coleman, deceased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested in said es tate are hereby notified that a peti tion has been filed in said court al leging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and praying for administration upon his estate and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the prem ises as may be required by the stat utes in such cases made and providtd to the end that, said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally fettled and determined, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 27th day of May. A. D. 1932. and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 27th day of May, A. D. 1932. at ten o'clock a. m.. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant adminis tration of said estate to N. D. Taleott or seme other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. Dated this 27th day of April, A. D. 1932. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) m2-3w County Judge. 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, ps. To all personr. interested in the es tate of Etta Perry Barker, deceased: y-v .1 l a. t t m - . t A wife and daughter, I v " iwikjh ui iiruuir settlement and allowance of her ac count filed in this Court on the 2Sth day of April, 1932. and for final as signment of the residue of said es tate and for her discharge as Admin istratrix thereof It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said countj on the 27th day of May, A. D. 1932, at ten 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 publishing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a seml-weckly news paper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 2Sth day of April, A. D. 1932. A. II. DUXBI'RY. (Seal) m2-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account The house has already wiped out 1C5 million of the 200-million dollar economies promised in the original tax bill. Getting rid of the remain ing 35 millions might be quite a problem to anyone but congress. :o: An expert is a man whose guesses are sometimes right. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cars county, ss. To all persons Interested in the estate of Margaret Wehrbein, deceased: 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 of said 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 said coun ty, on the 20th day of May. A. D. 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 said 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 aid day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this ISth day of April. A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) a25-3w County Judge.