THURSDAY. JULY 7. 1932.
PLATTSMOUTH SE&I WEEKLY JOURNAL
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I tie Plattsmouth JooroaS
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tZ.10 per year. All subscriptions ere payable strictly la advance.
Money oughto be "easy." Wherever
it is, it seems to be resting.
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If it has done nothing else the de
pression has done much to cut down
the hostility to work.
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About the only chance liquor gets
to age nowadays is when a bootleg
ger gets caught in a traffic jam.
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We've found a sure cure for in
somnia. Instead of counting sheep,
we just imagine that it's time to get
up.
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Some girls are so clever in keep
ing their wedding plans a secret that
the boy doesn't find it out until too
late.
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Speaking of men's fashions, we
would venture the opinion that there
will be little change in trouser pock
ets this winter.
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Rockefeller, Jr.. comes out against
Prohibition. Maybe he figures that
tax on gasoline has been running
the country long enough.
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The great public interest ir. mys
tery stories seems to have been rec
ognized by those in charge of writ
ing the G. O. P. plank on prohibi
tion. :o:
An economist tells us that the man
who borrowed ?1 in 1919 now actu-;
ally owes $3.33. And the man he i
Lorrowed It from probably will set
tie for $.33.
lot
One advantage the defeated candi
date always has over his successful
opponent. lie doesn't need to explain
why he is unable to keep his cam
paign promises.
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With everybody marching to Wash
ington to register their complaints,
is it any wonder that the railroads
are squawking over their losses in
passenger fares?
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An old army friend shakes his head
dubiously over the prospect of the:
Democrats eivinsr eood booze and a
bonus to some of his old World War
comrades at the same time.
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Looking down the gun barrel King
Prajadhipok heartily endorses the
revolution and i3 ready to have his
power limited and take a cut in sal
ary, so long as he keeps his Job.
Which shows the king i3 like the
rest of us.
USE GASOLI
YOU FART
Publisher
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Anyway, it will cost our creditors
a cent more for each bill they send
us.
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Gangsters have learned that even
the wages of sin are subject to an in
come tax.
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Our politicians no longer duel as
they do in other countries, but how
they can fence!
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A news item says a mule's kick
restored a man's speech, but it didn't
report what he said.
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The American people can't work
up much enthusiasm for a third
party. Two seem to be plenty.
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Anybody who has seen a board in
a rain-storm knows that a plank may
be wet on one side and dry on the
other.
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Some research organization asks
in a questionnaire our opinion as to
the general tone of business. We
think it's D-fiat.
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Recently published figures show
that flying is decidedly cheaper than
it was last year. Evidently the cost
of going up is coming down.
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The memories of some circus ele
phants are said to be so marvelous
that they can remember when the
patrons used to give them peanuts
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The Texan, walking backward
around the world, is no longer in a
Turkish Jail. Perhaps by backing out
he gave the warden the impression
he was coming in.
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A French composer lias been sum
moned for assaulting his publisher
with a heavy roll of manuscript mu
sic. The poor fellow only wanted to
make a hit with his songs.
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Psychiatrists in Philadelphia are
baffied by a case in which the sub
ject falls into a deep sleep after kiss
ing a girl in a taxi. Personally, we
should describe some other girl
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Perhaps tha young salesman who
f-prayed young women prospects with
a sample of cheap perfume had bet
ter intentions than the municipal
Judge gave him credit for. Maybe he
j was checking them off his list with
hi3 peculiar fcrni of identification so
he wouldn't mistake them for pros
pects again and bore them with a sec
ond sales talk.
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PLATFORM EXHIBIT
OF FORTHRIGHTNESS
Democratic forthrightness is by all
odds the strongest and deepest im-
pression made upon the American
people thus far in the proceedings.
Particularly is this true with refer
ence to the actions of the convention
as a whole. It has not beat around
the bush. It has come out into the
open, has declared itself in a way
that has left no one in doubt as to
what it advocated and wanted.
Take, for example, the platform.
No party's platform in history has
been more direct. No platform ever
before proceeded in such a straight
line toward its objective. This plat
form is almost blunt, so striking is
its brevity. It is no waste of words.
In it there are no efforts for rhetor
ical effects. The language is simple,
diiect, forceful, understandable Eng
lish. One gets the impression that in
the platform the democratic party
has put all its cards on the table
face up. This would moan, of course,
that the democratic party did not
proposed to play poker or any other
card game in this campaign. Instead,
it means that the campaign will be
directed and won or lost on the mer
its of the issues involved, that the
right will be waged in a standup bat
tle, whatever the outcome.
The demand of the democrats on
prohibition goes farther than the re
publican plink of two weeks ago,
which proposed resubmission to the
people. The democratic party takes
no middle ground, no neutral posi
tion. It specifically declares itself.
It takes a side and sticks to it. There
is a difference between willingness
to let the people decide a great pub
lic question and eagerness to lead
the way to that decision.
There have been some wise heads
in the democratic party directing the
work of this convention. They have
sensed the value of brevity and of
forthrightness and sincerity and open
dealing, and they have capitalized
them. In this there is, beyond doubt,
a powerful psychological appeal to
American public opinion.
Once again it may be written that
the outlook is strongly in favor of
the democratic party. Everything
seems made to order for it. The con
dition of the times and the manner
in which the democrats are taking
advantage of every opportunity to
impress the people cannot fail to
increase their strength throughout
fhe campaign. Sioux City Journal,
(Rep.)
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Monuments have been erected to
General Custer. Historians have
w lit ten of his heroism on that day
fifty-six years ago when he and his
small band of fighters were massacred
by Indians. His widow, CO years old,
is still living. The memorial to her
husband which must be most pleas
ine to her is the adoration with
which the boys of America have come
to legard the hero of the Little Pig
Horn. His name, his deeds and the
phrase, "Custer's Last Stand," are
among the copybook lessons in brav
ery which every American boy treas
ures. AT
CHINA RESISTS
The announcement that the Chi
nese government has approached its
late enemy, the Soviet, with a pro
posal for a resumption of diplomatic
relations and a pact of nonaggression
must be read in connection with the
manifesto of a certain "national em
ergency conference" which met in
April at Loyang, the new capital of
China. That conference, called after
Japan had occupied Manchuria and
taken possession of Shanghai, laid
down several principles of Chinese
policy, one of which was "to ally
ourselves actively with those powers
which uphold right and justice and
treat China cn a basis of equality."
Apparently Russia, which three years
ago was at war with China in Man
churia, now belongs to that class
of desirable allies.
The possibility of gaining Russia
as an ally to clear the Japanese out
of Manchuria, however, seems fairly
remote. The real importance of the
April manifesto lies in its proclama
tion of a new foreign policy with
respect to Japan. When the Japanese
started to take over Manchuria, the
Chinese government, painfully con
scious of its military limitations,
a.lopted a policy of non resistance, in
structing the provincial generals not
to antagonize the invaders. Even
when the Japanese presented their
ultimatum at Shanghai, the govern
ment first ordered its army to with
draw. Put the array not only ignored
the order. It proved that Chinese sol
diers could give a good account of
themselves. From that moment non
resistance lost its attraction and the
slogan of China, later officially adopt
ed by the emergency conference, be
came "prolonged resistance."
It is prolonged resistance which
the Japanese now face in Manchuria,
having retired from Shanghai. Ac
cording to correspondents on the
scene, that resistance is not expect
ed to take the form of a direct mili
tary campaign by the Chinese gov
ernment to recover Manchuria. The
government prefers literally to war
the Japanese out of Manchuria. It
is reported to be secretly supporting
various local leaders with money and
supplies, while it has reversed its
policy cf discouraging the damaging
boycott on Japanese goods. No doubt
the Chinese would welcome help from
Russia, but if their plans succeed,
they will not need it.
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The peculiar whistle heard in the
background of the Democratic na
tional convention broadcast has been
identified as a delegate's signal to
his faraway wife. If the uxorious
delegate will arrange for a 3-minute
speech for or against something, his
good wife probably will switch off
her radio and keep it off.
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Standing in the postoffice a few
mornings ago. we overheard a man
talking to himself as he went about
the business of putting stamps on a
number of letters. Every time he
licked a stamp he would say: "1
love my country." lie was evidently
trying to convince himself he wasn't
going to be "sore" when the new 3-
cent letter postage came into effect
TAE
DOLLAR
DEMOCRATS HAVE
SAID SOMETHING
Ping! Thj democrats limited their
platform and said something. They
wrote a platform more progressive
than any other that has appeared in
20 yeais; yes, fundamentally more
progressive than the democratic or
the Pull Moose platforms of 1912.
In contrast with the republican plat
form, they express a determination
to do something rather than worry
along hoping the "corner" will turn
itself.
The relief plank promises federal
credit to the states which must have
help to provide for the needy. With
this is to go employment on projects
which have a public interest and the
example by federal government of a
shorter working week.
Remedy is to he sought by cutting
federal expense. The 23 per cent
promised is probably impossible, hut
it ties the party to real economy.
More important still, tariff policy is
to be determined with the purpose
of facilitating exchange of products.
This is in sharp contrast with the
republican proposal further to in
crease the Gi unely-IIoover duties.
With thcs3 policies goes the prom
ise of sound money. The silver and
other flat money heresies have been
rejected, with a sop in the form of
an international conference to see
what can be done for silver. Like
wise the temptation to repeat ihisi;?I.0ltcst surprises he experienced
year's federal performance of a two
and a half billion deficit is icsisted.
The budget is to be balanced each
year, preventing such danger of im
paired national credit as recently
alarmed the Hoover administration.
The government is to come out ol
business enterprises, except where
necessary to develop public works
and natural resources. This plainly
means Muscle Shoals, and as plain
ly asserts Governor Koosevelt'o prin
ciple of preserving the benefit of the
St. Lawrence water power to the
public which owns it.
Our depression came with the col
lapse of a boom. With it we have
been learning how values were jug
gled and so-called "securities" put
out that in some canes were outright
fraud. To prevent such exploitation
of the common man's savings, checks
are to be provided. Full informa
tion which will enlighten and govern
the investment banker; the separa
tion of securities affiliates from com
mercial banks; restriction of the use
of federal reserve credit for specu
lation. These remedies are not of
the "radical" type; they go to the
root of the wrecking that was done.
They reflect the sober judgment of
Carter Glass, author of the federal
reserve system, and a successful sec
retary of the treasury.
The utility and security business
has gone beyond the power of ef
fective state control. The anti-trust
laws have been circumvented in
many ways by "holding companies
And now there is to be regulation of
holding companies which seel secur
ities in interstate commerce, and
regulation of their rates when they
operate over state lines. There is
also to be regulation of the stock and
commodity exchanges.
Wall street is challenged, the
"power trust" is challenged. The
prior right is asserted of the man
who pays their bills the bills for
service and the bills for the suffer
ing to which their wild reach for
money through manipulation has led
And yet there is nothing proposed
which can be pronounced "unsound.
nothing of the wild-eyed Brookkart
school of fiat economics.
It is a better platform than we
had hoped. The democrats have been
willing in their platform to accept
real issues. They proposed to go for
ward, to do something about depres
sion instead of hoping it will end;
to protect private industries against
the manipulation that leads to de
pressions. They have made explicit
pledges. Milwaukee Journal.
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WOULD PAY WAGES TO PARENTS
Wage3 to be paid to young couples
by the state to induce them to pro
duce children wages sufficient to
more than offset the expense of pro
duction, rearing and education. This,
according to J. J. Spengler, writing
in Scribner's Magazine, i3 the prop
er solution for the situation in Am
erica, where "there is no longer prac
tically any true increase in the Am
erican population and . . . deaths
threaten to exceed births within
three decades."
"Western civilization can bo pre
served at a price," says this writer,
who is an assistant professor of eco
nomics at the University of Arizona.
Children are economic commodities
even as are books, dogs or motor cars.
The production of commodities, such
as motor cars, occasions pain to the
producers. Men produce cars only
when the price obtained for them
offsets the pain of producing them.
"So with children. Four out of
every five couples who become par-
ents do so because they feel that the
joy and pleasure of rearing the chil
dren will more than balance the
money cost and pain cost of parent
hood. Couples ho refuse to become
parents or who rear but one child
are of the opinion that the money
cost of rearing one or more children
greatly exceeds the money value of
any pleasure the child may bring to
the parents.
"A deficit of births, therefore, can
ibe overcome only by the application
of the e -onoinic principles of price.
If American motorists offered motor
tar producers only ?200 per car, the
latter would soon go out of business.
Within a short period of time abso
lutely i;o cars would be produced.
"I'ltimately there would be an an
nual shortage of about y million
births in th-- United States. Already,
in Northern and Western Europe,
there is an annual shortage of mere
than 10 m'llionr, of births.
"The reason for thi.5 shortage is
obvious. In the United States a few
years her-co. and in Northern and
Western Europe of today, millions of
potential parents feel that the money
value ui children in an industrial
civilization is loss than the money
cost of creating and rearing thc::i.
National preservation may be had
but only at a price."
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One of our Piitish critics has de
clared that among the many of the
while here v. as, the fact that Amer
icans want both liquor and prohibi
tion. !!: seems to have been tcio
fuddled to noiice that they weren't
the same Amc: leans.
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WHERE THEY PLAY
Games in the C. S. & L. Baseball
league scheduled for next Sunday.
Greenwood at Ashland
Alvo at Waverly
Eagle at Elmwood
IlarJey at Louisville
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
FS.
Pursuant to a stipulation entered
into between the State cf Nobraska,
plaintiff. Walter C. Johnson, defend
ant, and The Genera! Motors Accept
ance Corporation, in tho case en
titled The State of Nebraska. Plain
tiff vs. Walter C. Johnson. Defend
ant, in the District Court of Cass
County, Nebraska. I will sell at the
west front door of the Court House
at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at 10:00
o'clock in the forenoon on the Kith
day of July, 19.12, at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash. One
Deluxe Chevrolet Coupe, 1931 Model,
Engine No. 2S33SJ2.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 13th,
1932. A. D.
ED W. TIII.MGAN.
Sheriff of Cass County,
Nebraska.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
Py virtue of an Order of Sale issued
by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the Dis
tiict Court within and for Cass coun
ty. Nebraska, and to me directed, I
will on the 9th day of July, A. D.
19 32. at 10 o'clock a. in. of said day
at the south front door of the court
house in said county, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash
the following real estate, to-wit:
Lots seven (7) and eight (R)
In Block fifty-seven (57) in tho
City of Plattsmouth, In Casa
county, Nebraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of John Bauer,
Jr.. and Enr.ia Pauer. defendants, to
satisfy a judgment of said court re
covered by L. F. Holfcrty, plaintiff
against said defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 3, A.
D 1932
ED. W. THIMGAN.
Sheriff of Cass county,
Nebraska.
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ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In ihe County Court cf Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County o! Cass,
To all persons interested in the es
tate of Christina Runimel, deceased:
On reading the petition of Max J.
Runimel. William Hummel. Edward
C. Runimel, Charles Hummel and Lu
cille Hummel praying that the in
strument filed in this court on the
29th day of June, 1932, and purport
ing to bo the last will and testament
of the said deceased, may be proved
and allowed and recorded as the last
will ami testament of Christina Runi
mel, deceased; that said Instrument
be admitted to probate and the ad
ministration of said estate be granted
to William Runimel as 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
county, on the 29th day of July, A.
D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m.. to Jiow
cause, if ary there be, why the pray
er of the petitioners should not be
granted, and that notice of the pen
dency cf said petition and that the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by pub
lishing a copy of this Order in the
Plattsmouth Journal, a serni-weekly
newspaper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said court, this 29th day of June, A.
D. 1932.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) jl-3w County Judge.
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Commercial sawing from
your own logs lumber cut
to your specifications.
Wo have ready cut dimen
sion lumber and sheeting for
sale at low prices.
NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY
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SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale Issued
by C E. Lodgway, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court within and for Cass coun
ty, Nebraska, and to nie directed, I
will on th 2nd day of July, A. I).
1932, at 10 o'clock a. in. of said day
at the south front door of the court
house in said county, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for eash
the following real estate, to-wit:
The south one-half iSV?) of
IxiJs five (5) ami Fix (G) in
Pluck twenty (2o). in the City
of Plattsmouth, Cass county,
Nebraska
The same being levied upon and taken
as the property of B. A. Hoscncrans
i t al. Defendants, to satisfy a judg
ment of said Court recovered by The
Standard Savings and Loan Associa
tirn, plain ti. 7 against said defend
ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, May 2Cth,
A. D. 1932.
ED. W. THIMGAN.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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NOTICE OF. ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of John
F. Corder, deceased.
Fee Hook 9, Page No. 305.
Notice of Administration.
All persons interested In said es
tate are hereby notified that a petition
lias been filed In said Court alleging
that said deceased died leaving no
last will and testament and praying
for administration upon lii3 estate
and for such other and further orders
and proceedings in the premises as
may l.e required by the statutes In
such cases made and provided to the
end that said estate and all things
pertaining thereto may be finally set
tled and determined, and that a hear
ing will be had on paid petition be-,
fore said Court on the 22nd day of
July, A. D. 1932, and that if they
fail to appear at said Court on said
22nd day of July, A. D. 1932. at 9
o'clock a. m., to contest the said peti
tion, the Court may grant the same
and grant administration of said es
tate to Henrietta Gorder tr ome
other suitable person and proceed to
a settlement thereof.
Dated this 22nd day of June, A.
D. 1932.
A. II. DUXnURV.
(Seal) J27-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement cf Account
In the County Court of Cas3 coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska. Cass county, b.
To all persons interested In the es
tate, of John Rich, deceased:
On reading the petition of Frank
A. Cloidt, Administrator C. T. A.,
praying a final settlement and allow
ance of his account filed in this
Court on the ISth day of June, 1932,
and for final assignment of the resi
due of said estate and for his dis
charge as Administrator, C. T. A.
thereof
It i3 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 15th day of July, A. D.
1932, at ten o'clock a. ni. to show
cause, if any there be, why the pray
er' cf tho 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
interested In paid matter by publish
ing 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 here
unto set my hand and the seal of
said Court this ISth day of June,
A. D. 1532.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) J20-3w County Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
To Byron Cough, Joseph Kinney
and all persons having or claiming
any interest in or to 33 acres off the
south sida of Lot 6, and in or to Frac
tional Ix)t 27 of Government Ijot 3.
all in Section 33, in Township 12,
North. Range 14, East of the Sixth
Principal Meridian, in Cass county,
Nebraska, real names unknown, de
fendants: Notice is hereby given that Louis
Stava and Samuel T. Gilmour as
plaintiffs, have filed in the District
Court of Cass county, Nebraska, their
petition against you as defendants,
praying for the decree of cald court
barring and excluding each and all of
you from having or claiming any
right, title, interest or Hen In or to
j any of said real estate, and quieting
(the title to 33 acres off the south side
of Lot 6 in Section 33, Township 12,
North. Range 14, East of the 6th P.
M., in Cass county, Nebraska, in LiOUls
Stava: and quieting the title to frac
tional Lot 27 of Government Lot 3 in
Section 33, Township 12, North,
Range 14. East of tho 6th P. M., in
Cass county, Nebraska, in Samuel T.
Gilmour, all in fee simple title.
You are required to answer nald
petition in said Court at Plattsmouth,
Nebraska, on or before July 25th, A.
D. 1932, or your default will be en
tered and a decree entered. In accord
ance with the prayer of said peti
tion. LOUIS STAVA and
SAMUEL T. GILMOUR
C. A. Rawls, Plaintiffs.
Attorney.