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THURSDAY. JULY 14. 1932. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THivEl TThe IPIattsmoEith Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth. Neb., aa second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAS IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, 52.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, 13.04) per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, I2.S0 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Th best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. :o: The Republican platform is per fectly clear. It means ehfxbfwhm fkzgwqqgbh. :o:- A new hose has been propagated called "The Candidate's Pledge." It is very pretty, but it fades in a few moments. :o: Modern woman is said to be in re volt, but it can't be against her hus band, who lost control of her some years ago. :o: Membership in the League of Na tions costs million dollars a year, and then we suppose there is a cover charge besides. :o: Celebrating the Fourth of July makes motorists appreciate their freedom more the the traffic Jams. :o:- Most small boys next day after like to play in dirt. It is a sign they are normal. and doesn't necessarily mean that they will spend their adult live3 in politics. :o: There are countries in the Far East and aboriginal tribes in the is lands of the sea where women who are fat are considered beautiful. But nowhere on earth is a fat man ad mired. :o: The Annapolis Naval Academy Band went to sea recently for the first time In forty years. After due deliberation. It decided to look into this matter of Joining the navy and seeing the world. io: A Honolulu young matron, engag ed In a discussion of family affairs with her husband, swung at his Jaw, missed, and fell over a C 0-foot cliff. Ordinarily, this showing would lose her the title, but we don't pretend to know what a New York boxing com mission ruling would be. :o: The adult who doe3 not enunciate clearly In an address or conversa tion cannot expect to interest his listerers. But the child whose lisp ing words can be understood by none but Its mother will get a tremendous amount of applause. Every member of his audience will work overtime trying to help him, and although they don't know what he was trying to Eay they will figure it was pretty good. What a grilling nru Polarino gets be'ore the grade for any make or model of motor earns specification on the Polarlne Chart! The oil chemists test it for harmful ingredi ents, for behavior at low temperatures and high heats. If it does not crack" or harden, if it has body enough to protect against friction wnd won't cause power-wasting oil drag," if it passes other drastic specifications, it is approved for farther test. Next, come experts on automotive design. The location of the oil pump, the size, length and exposure of the oil lines, the type of lubricating STANDARD &-Jl22L2 CjZoT&m 2 nen you lick a stamp now, you lick something. It ain't no cheap af fair. :o: As far as the vice-presidential race is concerned, it's Just the old game of cowboy and Indian. :o: The Fourth of July has come and gone and one thing is that fireworks don't scare the cars as bad as they used to frighten the teams. :o: In the good old days a man was either at the depot when the train came puffing in or came puffing down the street as the train came in. :o: Ke is the kind of a guy, who. when you tell a tourist it is twenty five miles to the next town where he wishes to stop, will correct you and explain to the stranger you are mis taken; that it is twenty-five and one- half miles. :o: Although the country long ago ex hausted the possibilities of prohibi tion as a conversational topic, we aren't quite through with it. Its fight-provoking possibilities are Just entering upon their advanced state of development. :o: Mayor Cermak of Chicago is forced to go to a hospital to rest up follow ing his hard work during the Demo cratic convention. That he worked hard there is no doubt, but he needn't have done so. The boys from out in the country did all the work. :o: Kentucky has an ancient statute which requires anyone operating a still to blow a whistle. We'd rather not go into the history of this law much further; we would hate to find that any law relating to the liquor trade lias--been--violated In Kentucky. :o: More than 14.000 books, some of them out since 1913, were returned to the Washington (D. C.) Public Library during two "fineless weeks." Owners of private libraries would be pleased if the originator of the plan could work out something equally ingenious in their behalf. :o: Now that the delegates have all gone heme, vacation is over for the Chicago beer warriors and gunmen. They returned to work Wednesday night, and next morning flowers were bought for Red McGhee and Goat Larkin, two young guntoters who had already lived too long for the convenience of the big shots. OIL COMPANY OP 'A Nebraska Institution" 2J- Se rvic e - Xaio n , and, DAYS OF HAPPINESS FOE SOME Everywhere in the United States it's summer now. School is out, and the small boy comes into his own. Is there any such complete, irre sponsible happiness anywhere in the world as that of the schoolboy in the long summer vacation? We can't re member that we ever were complete ly happy except in those two or three years each side of twelve, when we had nothing much to do, aside from a few chores around the place, from June to September. How many things a boy of that age finds to do in the summer, swimming, fishing, berry picking, baseball, or just loafing around in the fields and woods with his dog. The country boy has it all over his city cousins in" summer. He can go barefoot without losing caste; he is not always running into a po liceman to stop him from having a good time; he doesn't have to comb his hair and put on a clean collar every little while, and if there's a hole in his shirt or his bree hes no body worries much about it, least of all the boy himself. The small boy isn't old enough to understand the troubles that worry his elders. He hasn't had enough ex perience to realize that life, for most people, between the ages of fifteen and, say, sixty, is a succession of more or less tragic emergencies. School, of course, is an awful nui sance, and keeps him from being com pletely happy nine or ten months in the year. If we wer3 asked to point out the happiest individual in the world we'd pick almost any country boy of twelve or thirteen in the summer. :o: DRAW THE LINE We hope those citizens who want the United States government to keep out of the restaurant business will win their case. The protest runs to the postoffice cafeteria, which, it is said, is catering to all comers. Act ing Postmaster Green says that the place is intended for postal employes only, but that, at the start, others may have made use of it. Very likely so. Wherever the gov ernment establishes a store for ac commodation of its own personnel, outsiders, attracted by the cheapness of the service, horn In. In Wash ington a few days ago a representa tive displayed a amazing amount of stuff that had been purchased by citizens at a poTefnment commis sary. There were lingerie, food, gaso line, oil, many kinds of clothing and strange to say. various extracts for use in making intoxicating bever ages, all flavors being dispensed. Peo ple scenting bargains seemed to have no difficulty in devising ways and means to secure advantage of them. This is unfair competition with the ordinary merchant. He cannot sell as cheaply as the government when he must meet the many taxes it imposes. And while Uncle Sam is dipping into pretty much every line of business these days (while talk ing about keeping government out of business), he ought to draw the line somewhere say at public cafe terias. Baltimore Sun. u system, the operating speed of the motor and its normal heat are considered before they pass the oil along. Finally, engineers conduct laboratory and road service tests to determine motor wear, engine power and mileage, oil consumption and other practical facts. The grade of new Polarine which all tests with the highest rating is the grade shown on the Polarine Chart. Use the grade of new Polarine the Chart speci fies and your motor will get everything oil can give in efficient and economical lubrication. NEDQASKA D c a te r; JSv'eryw h e Ke A NEW DEAL In his speech as permanent chair man of the democratic national con vention, Senator Walsh of Montana summed up the evidence against the post-war government of the United States and pronounced a Judgment from which there can be no success ful appeal. Characteristically, Mr. Walsh spoke in the language of the impartial historian and with the Judicial clarity of a high court. He addressed the intellect of the nation, not th'e emotions of his audience. His material was facts, familiar enough to all of us now, but presented in un answerable arraignment. Those facts, embodied in our prac tices and policies, derived from a philosophy of government, from the theory, as Mr. Walsh phrased it, "that national well-being is to be looked for by giving free rein to the captains of industry and magnates in the field of finance, and accommo dating government to their desires." iiie appalling results are upon us, but the speaker charted step by step our path to disaster. Tariffs increas ed, not once but twice, at the demand of interests rich beyond precedent, which have driven the nations to re taliatory measures and are banish ing our industry to foreign lands: Forty-eight American factories in Europe, 12 in Latin America, 28 in the Far east, 71 in Canada. "Ev ery week in 1932 has seen four Am erican factories moving to Canada." What is our fiscal policy? In our hectic prosperity we demonstrated our "constant subserviency to the wealthy and powerful by repeatedly reducing their taxes." Had great wealth been required to help pay off the vast public debt, as should have been done, the government's credit toady had been in a happier case and the dreadful burden of taxes approx imating those exacted by the exig iencies of war, would not be neces sary. The "unequal distrivution of this amazing accumulation of wealth In the 10-year period from 1920 to 1920" is shown in a few figures. In 1929, the aggregate income of 504 individuals paying taxes on incomes of more than one million dollars a year was 51,145,000,000. It is cal culated that that sum is sufficient to have employed C15 thousand auto mobile workers a lull year at cur rent wages. Senator Walsh referred to the kingly ransoms distributed as bon uses, in many instances secretly. among the managing directors of corporations; to the peddling of bil lions of questionable securities by the great banking houses; to the stock Jobbing and kindred devices on the exchanges by those on the in side of corporate management. And in the golden abundance the masses of the people shared scant ily, while "the tragedy of the last decade was the continued prostra tion of agriculture." Let us repeat that such evil things do not Just hap pen. They are the progeny of the vicious philosophy of government which Mr. Coolidge, while president. stated in a sentence: "The business of the United States is business." i n - Tfefrrask a To correct conditions and estab lish a stable prosperity we have got to renounce the deadly political credo at the last three administra tions, dissolve the malign partner ship between government and wealth and put into effect a new deal by applying the eternal principles of the Jefiersonian doctrine to present conditions. The concept that "the business of the United States is business" has been tried, and not a voice can now be raised in its behalf. The business of the United States is happiness and security of the people of the United States, through government commit ted to justice to all. Such is the obligation and purpose of democracy as exponded by Senator Walsh. And there is really no option about it. That is what must be done. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o: LEST WE FORGET! There are some things that will remind you of what has been going on in governmental affairs for the past decade. Every time you mail a letter that additional 1-cent stamp will remind you of extravagance in government expenditures. 13 v e r y time you lay down an additional nickel when you purchase a 50-cent admission ticket to the movies will remind you that a decade of malad ministration brought about a great deficit in the national treasury which you must help make good. Every time you fill the tank of the family car with gasoline the extra cost will remind you that you are helping to pay for an administration that just didn't seem to give a darn as long as it could squeeze the money from the public to carry its load of useless em ployes and commissions. Every way you turn you will find another tax to pay to make up a deficit that never had a legitimate excuse for existence, but was brought about by the most colossal misman agement in the history of govern ment. Every way you turn you will see jobless men suffering in a land of plenty because a once great party failed to rise to its responsibility. You will not be able to forget it. You will be reminded of it every time you turn on the electric light or step on the throttle of the family flivver. It will meet you at the breakfast table and be called to your attention every time you hear tne postman s whistle. Twelve years of misrule and the heaviest taxes ever laid upon the people. The highest tariff ever levied "for the protection of American la bor," and more Jobless men and women than were before in the his tory of the republic. If you can forget it, then you de serve all you are getting. World Herald. :o: CAN UNCLE SAM BE UNIVERSAL BANKER Loans to private competitive busi ness concerns by the Reconstruction Finance corporation, recently urged by the administration, have found little favor in the senate, which has passed the Wagner relief bill minus any such provision. The government since January 1 has gone a long way, through that corporation, toward state capitalism in the loaning of great amounts of government funds to railroads, banks and insurance companies; but, in extending such loans to private competitive business not having the character even of so- called public utilities, the govern ment would confront rather stagger ing implications and demands. As an illustration there is this item in the news: "Efforts are being made to in duce the Reconstruction corpo ration to extend advances to private industry in the hope of creating work. Steel companies in the Pittsburgh-Youngstown districts are said to have un der consideration appropriations of 100 million dollars for mod ernizing equipment and it is understood that application will be made to the Reconstruction corporation for assistance in carrying out this program." If steel companies may secure loans from the Reconstruction cor poration, there is no private busi ness that is not entitled to fully as favorable treatment. If no discrim ination could be fairly shown by the corporation in making loans of what is really government money, an im possible situation would arise. There would not be funds enough to go around by billions of dollars, as the petitions for loans piled in from all quarters of the country. A case for such loans to private business can be made out on the ground that they would reduce un employment, but, practically speak ing, there are limits to tne united States government's capacity to act as a aistriDutor oi credit wnicn tne banks are loath to extend on ordi nary business principles. Spring field Republican. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Ber tha Ilalmes. deceased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested in said es tate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court, alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and testament and praying for administration upon her estate and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in surh 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 said petition be fore said Court on the 5th day of August. A. D. 1932. at 10:00 o'clock a. m.. and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 5th day of August. A. D. 1932, at 10:00 o'clock a. m.. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to John N. Ilalmes or some other suitable per son and proceed to a settlement there of. Dated this 7th day of July, A. D. 1932 A. II. DUXRURY. (Seal) jll-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PRORATE OF WILL In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the es tate of Christina Rumme!. deceased: On reading the petition of Max J. Hummel. William Pummel. Edward C. Runm"I, Charles Rumniel and Lu cille Rumnul praying that the in strument tiled in this court on the 29th day cf June, 1932. and purport ing to be the last will and testament of the sad deceased, may be proved and allowed and recorded as the last will and testament of Christina Pum mel, deceased; that faid instrument be admitted to probste and the ad ministration of said estate be granted to William Hummel 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 r.f July. A. D. 1I32. at 10 o'clock a. m.. to liov cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioners should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be triven to all per sons interested in said matter by pub lishing a copy of this Order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newi paper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and the seal of said court, this 29lh day of June, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j4-3w County Judge. Snmii I Zaoharla, Attorncy SAi Hi'ari(!( is Tfif-ntre Kuildinp, Omaha, .NHiranka NOTICE OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE Notice is hereby given that on the 1st day of August, A. D. 1932, at eleven o'clock a. m., at the former Jones Livery Parn, at 7th and Main streets, located on Lot 5, Block 3G, Original Town of Plattsmouth, in Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash: One White Truck, Model 51. Motor No. G. R. 1C512, Serial No. 129300; One White Truck. Model 51 A, now Motor No. G. R. 6S5: form erly Motor No. G. R. B 4132, Serial No. 147139; One White Truck. Model 51 A, Motor No. G. R. ial No. 1499C5; B 11225, Ser- One White Truck. Model 51. Motor No. G. R. B C766, Serial No. 140463, including one A frame crane; One White Truck, Model 51A, Motor No. G. R. B 10571, Serial No. 14713S; One White Truck, Model 51 A. Motor No. G. R. B 3332, Serial No. 147099; One White Truck, Model 51A. Motor No. G. R. B 11223, Serial No. 149963: Seven Pole Trailers, complete with poles; One Caterpillar Tractor, Motor No. P. S. 5969. NOTICE is further given that on said 1st day of August. 1932. at 12:30 o'clock p. m.. at the lot at 11th and Timber streets, located on East half of Lot 2, Blork 224. Original Town of Plattsmouth, in Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, the undersigned will also sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash: One White Truck. Motor No. G. R. C9S7, Serial No. 112549, complete with Crane; One Pierce Arrow Truck, Mo tor No. 410G, complete with Crane; One Pierce Arrow Truck, Mo tor No. 2114, complete with Crane; One Pole Trailer, less tires covered by chattel mortgage executed and delivered by Gerry Transportation Co.. a corporation, by A. M. Gerry, I President, to The White Company, a corporation, on the 20th day of Feb ruary, 1932. Said mortgage was duly filed for record in the office of the County Clerk of Douglas county, Ne braska, on the 23rd day of February, 1932, and filed for record in the of fice of the County Clerk of Cass coun ty, Nebraska, on the 28th day of June, 1932. Said sales will be for the purpose of foreclosing said mortgage, for costs of sales and all accruing costs, and to satisfy the amount now due there on, to-wit: Nine Thousand Two Hun dred Seventy-Two and 54100 Dollars ($9,272.54); that no suit or other proceeding at law has been instituted to recover said debt or any part thereof. THE WHITE COMPANY. ll-Dsw Mortgagee. 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 SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. Pursuant to a stipulation entered into between the State of Nebraska, plaintiff, Walter C. Johnson, defend ant, and The General Motors Accept ance Corporation, in the cas" 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 tlie 16th day of July, 1932. at public auction to the highest bidder for cash. One Deluxe Chevrolet Coupe, 1931 Model. Engine No. 2S338G2. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, June 13th, 1932. A. D. ED W. THIMGAN. Sheriff of Cass County, Nebraska. J13-5w NOTICE OP ADMINISTRATION In the County Court cf Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of John F. Gorder, deceased. Fee Rook 9, Page No. 305. Notice of Administration. Ail persons interested In said es tate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed In paid Court alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and testament and praying for administration upon his estate and for such other and further orders and prejeeedings in the premise as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and provided to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally net tled and determine d, and that a hear ing will be had on said petition be fore said Court on the 22nd day of July, A. D. 1932. and that if they fail to apnear at said Court on said 22nd day of July, A. D. 1932. at 9 o'clock a. m., to contrst the said peti tion, the Court may grant the name and grant administration of said es tate to Henrietta Gorder or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. Dated this 22nd day of June, A. D 1922 A. II. DUXRURY. (Seal) J27-3w County Judge. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION MINUTES of Meeting of the Village Board of Greenwood, Cass county, Nebraska, held on the 2Sth day of June, 1932. The Village Board of the City of Greenwood, Nebraska, met in regular session at the regular meeting place in said Village, on the 28th day of June, 1932, at the hour of S:00 o'clock, p. m. The members of the Board present were E. A. Landon, Chairman; E. O. Miller, Dr. N. D. Talcott and Rex Peters. R. E. Math ews was absent. Meeting was called to order by Chairman Landon. Minutes of the last matting were read and approved as read. Bills were allowed us fol lows: R. E. Mathews. $7.90; John E. Turner, County Treasurer. $67.50; Ashland Gazette, $10.65; The Kors meyer Company, $3.09; Andy Mays, $23.40. Total. $112.54. Bill from the City of Lincoln In regard to poles salvaged was read and clerk was instructed to write the engineer that the bill would not be paid until the streets that were cross ed by the pipe line were repaired and drained. Judge Cosgrave was in attendance and gave his opinion on the proposed contract with the Light Company. Motion by Dr. Talcott was made, and seconded by Miller, that the levy made for Water Bonds and Interest be rescinded and no levy be made. Village Clerk to notify the County Clerk of the action of the Board. Mo tion was carried. Motion was made by Miller and seconded by Talcott that a levy of three and five-tenths (3 510) mills be made for street lighting purposes. Motion was carried. The Chairman then had submitted to the Village Board, the proposition of the sale of the Village distribution system and transmission line to the Iowa-Nebraska Light and Power Com pany. After a thorough discussion of the matter by the Village Board, it was decided to accept said proposition and it was moved by Trustee Dr. N. D. Talcott. and seconded by Trustee E. O. Miller, that an election be held In the Village of Greenwood. Nebraska, on the Sth day of November. 1932, for the purpose of submitting to the electors of said village the question of selling to th Iowa Nebraska Light and Power Company the electric dis tribution system in the Village of Greenwood, Nebraska, and the elec tric transmission line extending from a point adjacent to the Village of Waverly, to Greenwood, Nebraska, a distance of approximately seven (7) miles, and that notice and proclama tion for calling said election be im mediately submitted for publication as required by the Statutes of the State of Nebraska. Upon the motion being put by the Chairman, the following Trustees voted "Aye:" E. O. Miller. Dr. N. D. Talcott, Rex Peters. E. A. Landon. Those voting "Nay," None. Moved by Peters and seconded by Talcott that meeting adjourn. Motion carried. , (Signed) L. C. MARVIN. Clerk. Journal Want-Ads cost only a few cents and get real results 1