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K0I7DAY. JULY 18. 1932. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY J0UR2IAL page Timn the IPIattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEEXY AT PLATTSMOUTH, KEERASXA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., a3 second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION ERICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, 52.50 per year. Beyond COO miles, $3.00 per year. Kate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All eubscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Even a lightweight politician can swing a heavy chunk of mud, with out mentioning any names. :o: Eotb the Democratic and Repub lican parties are in good spirits, and this statement has a twofold mean ii.g. :o: It's all very sad and interesting these hundreds of miliions of dollars the multimillionaires of America have lost since 1929. But who got it? :o: One of the annoying things of be ing a candidate for public office i: the blisters one get3 pitching hay for the benefit of the farmers and quite frequently for the benefit of the photographers. :o: The Associated Press quotes Libby Holman's father as saying "Libby is the tenderest girl in the world, and v.ould d; no harm to nobody." What is meant, we take it, is that Libby ain't never done no harm to nobody and never won't. :o: When a business man goes home and finds his wife in tears over some annoyance, Le gives her the tender sympathy she expects. But at the same time he is probably thinking that if he gave way to his feelings in proportion to the aggravation after a hard day in the store cr office, you could hear him bawling for a mile. Do You Remember THE Republican Party isn't a "Poor Man's Party." Repub lican prosperity has erased that eifgradinir jihasf from our xo litical vocabulary. The Republican Party is equality's party opportunity's party democracy's party, the party of national development, not sectional interests the im partial servant of every ta1e are! condition in the Union. Under higher tariff and bnv r taxation, America has stabil ized output, employment and dividend rates. Republican efficiency has filled the working-man's dinner pail and his gasoline tank be sides made telephone, radio and sanitary plumbing- standard liHUsch old equipment. And placed the whole nation in the silk stocking class. Iejrimr eight years of Repub lican management, we have, built more ,and belter homes, e reel e d more skyscrapers, pa-sed more benefactory laws, and more laws to regulate and pur.'fy immigration, inaugurat ed mire conservation measures, more measures to standardize and increase production, ex jamJ export markets, and re duc industrial and human junk piles, than in any previous quarter century. Republican prosperity is written on fuller wage envel ops, written in factory chimney smoke, written on the walls of new construction, written in savings bank books, written in mercantile balances, and writ ten in. the peak value of .docks arid bonds. Republican prosperity has reduced hours and Increased earning capacity, silenced dis content, put the proverbial 'chirken in every pot." And a car in every backyard, to boot. It has raised living standards and lowered living- costs. It has restored linancial con fidence and eti t h u s i a s m, changed credit from a rich man's privilege to a common A Chicken for Every Pot Wages, dividends, progress and prosperity say "Vote for Hoover" The stirring description cf Elysium printed above is a word-for-word reprint of one of the full-page advertisements printed in behalf of Mr. Hoover when he was campaigning four years ago. In view of the fact that Le has been renominated by the Republican convention, the material has a certain piquant interest. There is nothing more unsatisfac tory than a one-sided kiss. :o Vacation time is almost as bad as the Christmas holidays. By the way, do you know there are only 142 more shopping days until Christmas? :o: After a prolonged absence of sun light, men on polar expeditions find that their eyes, irrespective of pre vious color, have turned blue. :o: As soon as Governor Roosevelt re turns from his yachting cruise, we understand, he will resume his cam paign, di-cussing the issue of hard times. :o: A national research council in quiry indicates that nearly half of the reporting companies spent more on research in 1931 than in 1929 a fact revealing the value placed, even in face of falling sales, on im provement of eld products and pro cesses and finding of new ones. :o: Clara Bow, erstwhile redhead of the films, has returned from the ranch of her husband. Rex Bell, and announces she has lost eighteen pounds "by doing my own cooking." We appreciate the difference the loss undoubtedly has made in Miss Bow's general architecture, but would it be too impertinent to ask just what chance her cooking has wrought in Mr. Bell? When- utilily. generalized t:ie use of time-saving devices and re leased women from the thrall of domestic drudgery. It has provided every county in the country with its concrete road and knitted the highways of the nation into a unified traffic system. Thanks to Republican admin istration, farmer, dairyman and merchant (an make deliveries in less ti'iie and at less expense, can borrow cheap money to re fund exorbitant mortgages, and stock their pastures, ranges and shelves. Democratic management im poverished and demoralized the railroads, led packing plants ai;d tire factor ies into receiver ship,, squandered billions on impractical programs. Democratic, mal-administra-tion issued further billions on mere "scraps of paper,' then encoui'a'-ed foreign debtors to believe that their loans would never .be calle, n,nd bequeathed to tie- Republican Party the job of mopping up the mess. Republican administrat ion has restored to the railroads solvency, efficiency and par .-e-curil ies. It lias brought the rubber trades through panic and chaos, brought down the prices of crude r u b b e r by smashing monopolistic rings, put the tan i.er's b rd;s in the black and se cur. d from the European pow ers formal acknowledgment of their obligat ions. The Republican Party rests its case on a record of steward ship and performance. Its presidential and Congres sional candidates stand for election orr a platform of sound practice. Federal vigilance, high tariff, Constitutional integrity, the conservation of natural re sources, honest and construc tive measures for agricultural relief, sincere enforcement of the laws, and the right of all citizens, regardless of faith or crigin to share the benefits of opportunity and justice. It is curious that we never seem ed to mind the hot weather much un til the health experts began bom barding us with advice about what to eat to keep coo!. , :o: The most unfortunate man in town right now is the one who has been forced to forego his customary roasting ear orgy because he can't afford to pay for repairs on his store teeth if he should happen to strip a gear. :o: A man called at this office to find out where he could buy nice, clean rags. He said he had been trying for weeks to buy some rags but just about had given up hope of obtain ing any until the women began wear ing more clothes. :o: Says the Smith County (Kas.) Pioneer, giving the grounds on which a wife is ruing lor divorce: "Once in a rage, her husband, she says, hit her over the head with a banjo, and then still warlike, he left to join the army." :o: Vacation is a necessary and noble institution. It gives people a chance to get away from other people and associate with bugs. And it gives Lugs a chance to get away from ether bugs and associate with people. 1 hope the bugs get as much benefit from the chance as we do. :o: Will the time ever come when the newspapers print honest-to-goodness articles telling the public exactly what the defects of some of the can didates arc? Such items as printed now are like the epitaph on a tomb stone they tell only the good points and pass over the bad qualities Odessa Democrat. :o: The Irish Free State is launching a tariff war against Great Britain. The tariff gun is a new type cf w eap on in the hands of Irishmen, but it has proved very deadly in a number of previous cases. One of the inter esting features of a tariff gun is that no one is ever very certain which way it's going to Fhoot. All that is known about it is that the safest place is in the direction cf the ; weapon is pointed. :o: OUTLAW TEE SUBMARINE Once again the world is shocked j fcy a peacetime submarine disaster. One? again in response to the world's demand to know why and how it j happened there is no answer except jthe speculations and conjectures of I the experts. Meanwhile some sixty 'men lie in 150 feet of water off j Cherbourg trapped in the French submarine Promethee. Less than six months ago the world was shocked as it heard of the sinking of the British M-2 off Portland Bill and the heroic but un availing attempts to raise it. Three months before that it was the turn of Russia, when one of its subma rines sank in the Gulf of Finland. iFour months previously the British submarine Poseidon foundered off the coast of China, and eighteen days before that a Russian submlrine dropped to the bottom of the Baltic sea. Two similar disasters have dark ened the career of United States sub marines since 1925. How often must the world be shocked before the na tions rise and demand the abolition of all slinking submergible craft? Unlike the airplane and the air ship, whose achievements in peace are far greater than they ever were in war time, the submarine is de signed only lor murder and destruc tion. It has no other use or pur pose. It will be argued, and with justice, that such is the purpose of all war armament. But no other form of it is more repulsive to every sense of decency in its war-time ac uities, or so sinister in its menace to those who man it in time of peace. The time is ripe for the outlaw ing of the submarine and the oppor tunity is present. On the very day that the rromethee' sank, Mr. Stan ley Baldwin, reading to the House of Commons the declaration of the British disarmament policy, stated that the United Kingdom view has been, and is. that the submarine should be entirely abolished. It is true the submarine seems more necessary to the defenses of some nations than of others. France has held it indispensable in view of her peculiar circumstances. One may wonder whether, in view of the pres ent disaster, French opinion may not question whether such supposed protection is worth the price. It may be inquired, too, if there are not oth er forms of security which may be offered in lieu of reliance on the un dersea boat. Already the Disarmament Confer ence is said to be agreed to limt such craft to a certain tonnage. Civ ilization and the common dictates of humanity cry out against the sub marine, its war-time and peace-time horrors. DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT COUNTRY NEEDS President Hoover vetoes the re lief bill, as he had made known that he v.ould. In his veto he repeats soum? objections which he had made previously and which The Journal ! has discussed and supported With them, however, he says other things which reveal again his failure to un derstand what the country needs, lie reveals his limiting, inescapable belief that the only possible way to help anybody is to give the big man more money, and then hope and pray that the man in need will somehow benefit. "The purpose of the expansion," says the president, "is no longer in the spirit of solving a great major emergency by to establish a priv ilege, whether it s rves a great na tional need or not." How does any man, president or anyone else, get a right to attack the 'purposes of other men, pronounc ing them wrong becaure their meth ods are not his methods? It is just a.-- easy to sy tha; the purpose of the enormous refunds of taxation by the treasury was to enrich great concerns and influent ial men, wheth er the refund was justified or rot. As for "establishing privilege," what about subsidies to shipping lines, under the name of carrying the mail, reaching all the way to 59 thousand dollars fcr 12 pounds of mail? And loans to these con. panics in cdidtion to these gicantic sub sidies? A loan of more than 10 mil lion dollars to one concern at ar. average rate of of 1 percent, when the government was paying S per cert for money? But if it is pro posed that money go to individuals bet ause they have not been helped by the Hoover ?1, 500. 000, 000 Re construction Finance corporation fund. then. Mr. Hoover says, the pur pose i "to establish a privilege." "It would be within the power of these agenciesj" says Mr. Hoover, "to dictate the welfare of millions of people, to discriminate between competitive business at will." Yes, and this is now within the power of his Reconstruction Finance cor poration. Nor has the corporation offered reports to show that it is not doing exactly these tilings. President Hoover shows courage when he attacks the proposal to u?e federal taxpayers' money to let muni cipalities and states which have fail ed to meet their responsibilities "dump their liabilities upon the fed eral government." Chicago won't like that and Chicago is more than three million people, casting a lot of Illinois big electoral college vote. But Mr. Hoover mars his good and sufficient reasons with his impat ience, apparently his irritation at that part cf the relief bill which with all its weakness, was intended to show that the government of the United States cares about the indi vidual. Milwaukee Journal. :o: BLOODY BUT UNBOWED The head of Rev. F. A. High, sup erintendent of the Nebraska Anti Saloon league, may be just a wee bit bloody, but it is unbowed. The de sertion of the league by the Rocke fellers and others may cause Rev Mr. High and other league leaders a bit of worry as to where their sal aries are to come from, but there is always tie possibility of stimulating collections among the parishioners In his telegram to Nebraska's rep resentatives in congress Rev Mr, High declares that "we" meanii himself and other members of the po litical organization' which he heads "are opposed to submission of any repeal or modification proposal which would destroy or weaken national prohibition." Just why Rev. Mr. High should insert the word "weak en" in his statement is puzzling. But it will be noted that Rev. Mr. High studiouslv avoids usins: the word "temperance" in his statement, or in any of his pronouncements. It mat ters not what a congressional candi date's personal character or reputa tion may be, if he will vote to retain prohibition, the league will support him, according to Rev. Mr. High. Tariffs, finance, world relations, re habilitation, relief from bankruptcy, farm relief all these sink into in significance when compared with the question of retaining a police regu lation in the fundamental law. World-Herald. :o: A reader of the New York Sun wrote to the editor the other day inquiring how to get rid of cats which gather nocturnally in his back yard. Next day another reader wrote to the reader suggesting that the complainant strew his back yard with catnip. "The results will be immed iate and amazing," promises the au thor of the suggestion. They will. In case the catnip does not work, the sufferer might also open a few- cans of sardines and set them around at convenient points in his yard. '- SEEING THE UNDER SIDE A young woman author of a movie scenario of flaming title chose the other day to go to jail instead of paying a $50 traffic fine, saying she wanted the experience" because it "might help her with her writing." The supposition that a person must know the seamy side of things by becoming party to its eordidness in order to write dramatically is one that deludes too many of those who wish to spin stories for the world. It may appeal in an altogether un warranted degree to the novice who feels himself inexperienced. This is not to say there is not merit in the kinds of writing which help humanity to see "how the other half lives," to sympathize with the ui! fortunate, to understand the way ward and even to comprehend the warped reasoning of the criminal. But to create Euch literature it is not necessary to steal rides on freight trains or consort with mem bers of the underworld in their speakeasy hangouts. One need not ahandon himself in order to estab lish touch with the abandoned. First hand experience can be gained in many ways. No writer of liction could wish to know the men tality of the itinerant worker or the hobo better than eloes Mr. Whiting Williams in his frequent excursions as a social analyst into the ranks of unskilled labor. Readers of the Good Housekeeping magazine lately have enjoyed the true-to-life quality of Miss Lenora Mattingly Weber's stories of "the simple annals of the poor" as seen fcy a settlement worker, much as an earlier decade enjoyed "Mrs. Wigg? of the Cabbage Patch." If one wishes to get close to- the man whom society puts behind the bars, there are other ways than by getting one's self committed to jail with him. A score of channels of prison welfare work offer opportu nity to talk with the prisoner, to learn his yearnings and his short comings, to follow him or. parole, to hear the story of his youth or watch nis efforts to win his way back. These are to be commended to the young writer who would learn some thing of the world and of service. :o: THE WILD DUCK PROBLEM Next fall will apparently be an other season cf restricted duck shoot ing opportunity, although the re strictions cf last fall may be consid erably liberalized. Few rportsmen appearing before the federal advisory board on migratory fowl regulations are asking for complete return of the status quo ante the great drouth of 1931. They believe, however, that conditions warrant a longer open sea son than the CO-day limitation of a year ago. Tleas for a D 0-day sea son are accompanied by suggestions for re-t day periods during the sea ron, when no shooting would be al loved. The drastic limitation of last year followed a survey of duck breeding grounds in the north which disclosed that drouth bad greatly reduced the area and prevented a normal hatch of young ducks. That condition ap parently does not prevail this year. Rains have been plentiful and the marshes have again been filled up. Nevertheless the wild duck is still greatly in need of protection. The advance of civilization into areas which he once possessed unmo lested except for nature's predators, the reclamation of swamp lands for agriculture, have slowed down his rate of increase on the one hand. On the other he faces an ever increasing battery of guns on his flight south and the death rate grows. Sportsmen are between the horns of a real dilemma in attempting to deal with the problem. They want to have their cake and eat it too. Each is loath to give up any of his own shooting privileges and so most of the proposals made are aimed at protecting the prosperer but making it hard for somebody else. Ameri can males have been pretty well sold on the idea that duck hunting is a nifty sport. The number of guns on lake and stream increases every year. The conservation problem will not be solved until sportsmen gen erally come to realize that every body, including the expert old-tim ers, w ill have to get along with few- j cr ducks. World-Herald. :o: The promptness with which Presi dent Hoover replied to Governor Roosevelt's suggestion of a confer ence on the St. Lawrence power pro ject leads us to suspect that some body has slipped in and tipped the Presidnt off concerning the nomin ation the Republican convention made at Chicago. Although he has not been notified, he acted very much to U3 like a man who was in full possession of the news. Some body has spilled the beans before the official notification, and practi cally spoiled everything. 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 MORE THAN PROTEST FROM SHORN LAMBS During the laFt few months dis appointed holders of bonds and de bentures of the rpectacular Krcu ger k. Toll and International Match companies, of various deflated Flor ida communities, of many South Am erican governments, and of many other boom and propaganda spawned profiteering enterprises:, have formed associations and are prepared, not only to defend their rights, but, when necoxr.ry, to press fsr retributive measures. Protective associations of bond holders are no new tiling in Amer ican business experience, but today they have a more than ordinary im- , porta nt meaning. They are not niere- ly wreckage floating on the financial i ea marking the scene of a eatas ircphe, and they are certainly some thing more than jut organizations of "poor losers" ard "squawkers." as there has been a tendency in some quaiters to name them. In reality they are symptoms of healthy con valence after the fever and collapse of the boom. The increasing numbers and the determined activity of those associa tions are signs that the dormant spirit of self-respect and self-confidence among investors has been rous ed by the jolt of the depression into intelligent and resentful conscious ness. And. if one looks back at the years of the golden twenties which were deemed by most to be merely the dawn and prelude to a new era and possibly the milennium, it is plain how necessary some sort of an awakening jolt was. A former small town banker, writing frankly in the July Forum of those halcyon bond jobbing days, recalls the investment orgy as follows: "So well had the work of the ex pert salesman been done that the mere statement that his bonds were "listed" was sufficient guarantee that they were good. For a pros pective customer to ask how they might be secured, even though listed was merely evidence of ignorance and unworthy of discussion or reply Even the local banker hesitated to expose his unfamiliarity with the in side workings of high finance to raise a doubt of the sac-redness of any security that bore the hallmark of the New York Stock Exchange." There is no doubt that most of the security buying of that period was done with just the blind optimism and confidence that this ex-banke describes. It was not investment at all in any sane sense; it was a cock eyed kind of gambling in which the savings and credit resources of the country were sqnandered by a gen eration which was ignorant and reckless of what it was doing. The recovery from this mania was bound to be painful, and were the blind and misguided victims content to accept their losses with a fatalistic shrug, it would be futile and stupid as well. But they are not content, and the energy and intelligence with which they are going about the busi ness of protecting their interests and investigation their situation may mark the begining of a new and bet ter day in American finance. For, if we are not mistaken, this move ment is not a mere protest of shorn Iambs against the shearers, but a declaration that from now on the bonel and investment houses have to do with an alert public which will insist that its confidence and its in telligence be net abused. Detroit News. :o: On account of economic pressure. the government has reduced its standing reward of $50 for the re turn of an army deserter to 525. This enables the private citizen who wouldn't turn up a deserter for a thousand to revise his standards, and anr.ounca that he wouldn't turn one up now for $500. :o: ml. ; . r . . n middle of the street to make a right turn is pretty bad; and so is the fel low who signals for a left turn and then turns to the right, and when you find both failings combined in the same driver, a3 we did the other day, you just run your car up on the sidewalk and hope for the best. :o: LOST OR STRAYED Lost or strayed, one hundred pound Duroe-.-Jersey gilt. Notify Otto Schafer, phone 2903, Murray. j!4-2tw Journal WanUAds get results! NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Ne braska. In the matter of the estate of Ber tha Halmes. 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 having no last will and testament and praying for administration upon her e-state and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the premises as may lie re-quired by the siatutes In such cases made and provided to th end that said estate and all thing pcrtrinlng there to may be finally fet tled and determined, and that a hear ing will lie had em paid petition In fore said Court on the 5th day ef August. A. D. 1922. at 10:u0 oclo k a. m.. and that if they fail to appear at raid Court on said r.th day of August. A. D. 1932, at 10:-0 oYlo'k a. m.. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same- and prant administration ef said estate to John X. Halmes or some either suitable per son and proceed to a settlement there of. Dated this 7th day of July, A. D. 19C2. A. II. DUX BURY. (Seal) jll-3w County Judge, ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL. In the County Court cf Cass coun ty. Nebraska. State of Nebraska. County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the- es tate of Christina Rumnicl. deceased: On reading the petition of Max J. Rummel. William Hummel. Edward C. Rummel. Charles Rummel and Lu cille Rummel praying that the in strument filed in this eourt em the 29th day of June, 1932. and purport ing to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be preved and allowed and recorded as the last will and testament of Christina Rum mel, deceased: that said instrument be admitted to probate and the ad ministration cf said estate be granted to William Rummel 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 any there be, why the pray er of the petitioners should not be granted, and that notice ef the pen dency of said petition and that tho hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matte r by pub lishing a copy of this Order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-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. H. DUX BURY. (Seal) j4-3w County Judge. SnmtiH 7.rlmrla. Atfrner M4 JirarnlelJi Tlieutre J!i:ildllig, Omutia, NrlirioLn 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 Barn, at 7th und Main streets, located on Let 5. Block 30, Original Town of Plattsmouth. in Plattsmouth, Cass county, Xchrat-ka. the undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash: One White Truck, Model 61, Motor No. G. R. 10512, Serial No. 129300; One White Truck. Model 61 A, now Motor No. G. R. 085: feinn frlv Motor No. G. R. It 4132, Serial No. 147139: One White Truck. Model CIA, Motor No. G. R. B 11225. Ser ial No. 149903: One White Truck. Meidel 61, Motor No. G. R. B C7CC. Serial No. 14 04C3, Including one A lrame crane; One White Truck, Model 61A, Motor No. G. R. B 10671. Serial No. 147138; One White Truck, Model 61A. Motor No. G. R. B 3332, Serial No. 147099; One White Truck, Model 51A. Motor No. G. R. B 11223, Serial No. 14 9903: Seven Pole Trailers, complete with poles; One Caterpillar Tractor, Motor No. P. S. 6969. 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, Block 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. 0987, Serial No. 112649. complete with Crane; One Pierce Arrow Truck, Mo tor No. 4100, 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, 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, en 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 2Sth 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 64100 Dollars (19,272.54); that no suit or other proceeding at law has been instituted to recover said debt or any part thereof. THE WHITE COMPANY. i ll-5sw Mortgagee.