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MONDAY. AUGUST 8. 1S32. PIATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOUE3TAL PAGE THHE1 The IPIattsmeut8i Joarnal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATISjIOUTH. NEB2ASHA Entered at PostofCice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-clas3 mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION P2ICE S2.00 A TEAS IN FIEST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone. S2.50 per year. Beyond GOO miles, 13.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. The hay fever season is now on in earnest. Are you sneezin', buh? , :o: Few men profit much by sticking to their mistake-, even if thsy mar ried them. :o: It is said that only 12 per cent of the men in this country can sing, but what furpriscs U3 is that the others all try to. :o: Cheer up. Fifteen years ago we had a war to end war, and now may be we are going to have a depres sion to end depressions. :o: Another thing that has been hurt ing this country, is that too many people have been cutting off their own nose to spite someone else's face. :o: When both pairs of pants to a 2 pants suit reach the point where neither pair looks any mere pre sentable than the other, summer is really here. :o: The women of Paraguay have risen in arms and demanded a part in the war against Bolivia. Too bad the late V.. S. Gilbert and Florenz Ziegfeld arc r.o longer with us. Only they could give this new production the staging it really deserves. :o: Senator Borah is said to have de cided whom he will support for Pres ident, and it isn't Hoover, Roosevelt cr Upshaw. We're beginning to fear we'd better send the chairman of the We Don't Want Will Rogers for President committee around to work on Mr. Borah. :o: II. G. Wells severely criticized King George the other day for med dling In politics. "In England such criticism of royalty is almost un heard of," comments the Associated Press. In that case, th3 king doubt less realizes that Mr. Well's patience was pushed to th limit, and in fu ture, we are sure, will refrain from obeying impulses to meddle with politics or otherwise provoke Mr. Wells. :o: The trouble with this country is that it hasn't enough political par ties. Now Germany, for instance, had twenty-one "leading" parties with tickets in the field last Sunday, and presumably there were a lot more not regarded as important. But if we had even twenty-one parties represented in the primaries today, each with a showing of candidates comparable to that cf each of the principal parties, there'd be virtually no unemployment problem at all until after the primaries, at least. Victims of Fatal Explosion $1 nw ::: ::,:; :y-:my::.- iTT i ii i i mm . 9. ?vw; x-y Stretched out on a sidewalk two of the many injured firemen are shown awaiting the arrival of ambulances following the explosion in the sub coiiar paint storeroom of the Ritz Tower hotel in New Ycrk. Seven fire xnca were killed and fifty hurt, several probably fatally, in the blast hieh followed a email fire two stories beneath Park Avenue. Formerly young men always want ed to be doctors, bankers cr lawyers; new, they ail want to be receivers. :o: If Busier Keaton's facial expres sion rejects mors happiness after the divorce, wj'11 knew what the trouble was. :o: ; A local woman, hearing that vot- wanted to vcte for Henry Field for United Spates senator. :o: A new parasite lias been discover ed eating the cotton in Alabama. Ho probably wouldn't oat it if he knew how little it is worth. :o: The people of Nebrcska have the opportunity this fall of assuring themselves cf an economical admin istration by re-electing Governor Bryan. :o: Life is much like a poker game. The iuck shifts and goes unexpect edly around the table. And, as often as not, the ablest bluffer takes the biggest pot. :o: The ancient Greeks attended the Olympic games every four years without interruption for 1.200 years, but maybe the ancient Creeks were a bit short cn amusements. :o: A radio announcer's best isn't very good v. hen he's trying to bo dra-: matic in his recital of an Olympic event that took place three or four hcurs before he got on the air. :o: Will Rogers has signed a contract for four new motion pictures at $12S,000 each, and everyone is won dering how much loss Will figures he had to take on account of the de pression. :o: Some people are finding it diffi cult to wise up on "politics" in a few days' intensive study. The only way to wise up on politics is to de vote a little time 365 day3 in the year to that subject. :o: There is always a slight and wel come pause right after the primaries, before the general campaign gets un der way. The really noisy period doesn't start until the whispering campaigns get going. :o: Th? Y.'abash railroad's most re cent loan from the It. F. C. went to pay notes at bank?. Nov.- if all the rest of us who owe pressing notes at banks can ju.t manage to dress i'p to look like railroads, we car whip tills depression in pretty thort or der. - ' - H i It was a wonderful crowd 103, 000 people, we believe which gath ered in the Olympic stadium to hear Vice-President Curtis start the ath letes on their way. And another cur ious circumstance is that the crowds have held up pretty well since Vice President Curtis started back to Kansas. :o: A reader of the Detroit News speaks in very bitter words of a thief who "ditberately" broke into his garage and stole his 12-year-old son's bicycle. Perhaps, however, the theif is being done an injustice. Maybe ho intended to steal the family car, but after looking it over decided to take the bicycle. :o: FORTUNES FALL IN D0L1A3, LANDSLIDE The rich families of the United States ars victims cf this depres sion much as the estates cf the wealthy have been victims in the I pest oi VTolant social and political revolution?. Twenty yvars hence, tbe properties class in America will be very different in personnel from th same class as it would have exist ed had there been no great defla tion in the early nineteen-thirties. As tbe old rich are bc-ir.g wiped out, the way is being prepared for the new rich to seize opportunities for fortune building. Unless the eco nomic system is to be radically re constructed o!i nonindividualistic and iionproflt-niaking lines, there must bo a top group controlling and util izing a major share of the country's capital in harmony with the prin ciple of private property. The eco nomic function of such a group must 'oe continued, and this mean that the group itself must be fre.dily recruit ed in so far as its former member ship had become depleted by the heavy casualties of the period we are no v." passing through. The soundness of this theoretical view seems to be confirmed by what is actually happening before our eyes. The older possessors of prop erty, to an extent impossible to measure, are being dispossessed as pit:!r:sly as they would have been if decrees of confiscation in a sorird and political upheaval, like the French or Russian revolutions, had been en forced against them. The rtcer.t shrinkage in values ha caused enormous losses to tome of the larc-ost estates in this country. Samuel Iasuil was worth 100 mil lion dollars three years ago and now he is penniless and the beneficiary of a pension. Many great railroad fortunes ar3 cn or near the ro.ks. Ilecejiver.-hip.-, bankruptcies, "reor ganizations cf capital structure," forced sales under mortgage fore closures, and so on, may cancel debts, bat they also wipe ou the old rich while offering property on a severly deflated valuation to tho oncoming rich seeking to make an advantag eous start. It is to be expec ted that great op portunities for the acquisition of wealth will present themselves to ike rising generation as the wreck age of this economic catastrophe Ts j cleared away. A vast redsitribution of property is inevitable even under x constitution like our own, v.hic safeguards the rights of private property with every possible resource of government. The shifting of wealth will come about mainly in accordance with law and outward decency. There will be no crude despoilment, such as there was of the estates of church and aristocracies in tT.e English re formation and the French revolu tion and the bolshevist upheaval in the old czardom. Yet the final results may not be vastly different, meas ured bv dollar landslides, when a propertied class is forced to absorb a deflation such as the world has expe rienced in tho past three years. Springfield Republican. :o: SIGNIFICANCE OF BENNETT CLARX The rise of Bennett C. Clark to a key position in Missouri through his winning of the Democratic! senator ial nomination is an important de velopment in state politics. Clark is an attractive personality. The son of a distinguished father, he was reared in a political atmosphere. En tering the World War as a captain, ha finished as colonel. His interest in historical characters has produced a life of John Quincy Adams. Should he -De elected senator he would be an effective factor in build ing a statewide organization that could challenge the sway of the Pendergast machine outstate. For, a3 the campaign demonstrated, he is an aggressive fighter. His late start made his candidacy seem almost hopeless. But he came in with a whirlwind finish that carried him to victory. The outcome of the senatorial pri mary may well prove a milestone in the political life of Missouri. EXHIBITS, NUMBERS CNE, TWO AND THREE What a governor says about the bonus army when that army romcbody else's problem does not necessarily bear any relation to what he thinks when it is camped on his doorsteps. Political buncombe conies pretty cheap. The other day Governor Ritchie of Maryland v. as telling a waiting woil.I that the eviction from Wash ington was, in his eyes, all wrong. The movement against the campers cai le "as a shock" to bin. "It is not edifying to see arms and tanks and sabers " and fo on, and so on. But now that the bonus army leaders plan a permanent canton ment in Maryland. 20 miles from Washington G.overnor Ritchie sees things differently. That is not "edifying," either. The governor finds the plan impractical. He thinks of all the citizens Maryland must feed and says it cannot supply break fast, dinner and supper to strangers. The performance of Maryland's gov ernor is Exhibit Xo. 1 of why we have a bonu.i army. Covernor Pinchot of Pennsyl vania was also outspoken about the eviction. It was too brutal for words. But when the red-headed Meyor McCloskey of Johnstown, himself in a peck of trouble because he inaugurated open house for the marchers, appealed to the governor for some tents. Governor Pinchot found that none ecuid be spared. He is for generosity in some other state. Exhibit Xo. 2. General Smedley Butler cf the marines went into the camps around Washington and told the veterans to .stick. His va-. the type of advice thai finally cost two lives in a clash with the Washington police. But General Butler was not thinking about that possibility. He was hav ing a great time haranguing the bonus advocates it was "just like home." Rut, when the routed, bedraggled bonus marchers reached Johnstown they thought of the great general who bed t all-red so nicely to them on tho Potomac. They called him by tele phone, asking him to come down and help them. But things were changed now .The bonus marchers were not the general's problem when he was .stirring them up at Wash ington, just as they wero not Ritchie's or I'irtchot's problem. t, They were Hoover's worry then. But If General Butler Went down to Jn4iiitov. n they would be his problem. He told them to go on Loire. Exhibit No. 3. This thing has? been going on from tho start of tho bonus movement. Governors and mayors helped the marchers to get to Washington. Gov ernors and mayors encouraged them to stay there. Politics, for the sake of a little praise, or r. few votes. Isn't it about time these politicians quit playing horse with the safety of America? Milwaukee Journal. :o: FLIES AND VULTURES WILL WIN THE WAR Cheered by thousands of Bolivian citizens, says the dispatch, a troop train left LaPaz. Two thousand women paraded to tho presidential palace, carrying banners pledgin their lives to the fatherland. The principal of the normal school ex horled the women from a balcony to be ready for Red Cross service on the field of battle. It has the ring of real war, hasn't it? It probably is real war. Many of the Bolivian boys on that train may not come back to La Paz. The Hies that swarm battlefields, the vul tures that circle above, await them. We have no similar dispatch at tho moment from Asuncion, but it is reasonable to suppose that Para guayan sweethearts are kissing Para guayan boys farewell, that Para guayan women are pledging their lives to their fatherland. And who will win this war? That'3 easy: The rues and the vultures. For if it goes the limit, if it becomes what it threatens to become, a A' ar on the grand scale between the whole people of the two patriotic and ex cited countries, it will not end until both are ruined. There' can be noth ing in that strip of border land they call the Cbaco of value equal to the' losses each nation will sustain. No holocaust of bloodshed and human misery can possibly lead to any result other than that which might be forecast by careful an alysis now and brought about by continued patient negotiating. Cleveland Press. :o: A returned traveler says the big game trails in Africa are now as safe as Broadway, but the Detroit News points out that Broadway affords many, more opportunities to stop in and have the films developed. :o: Dennison's Paper Dusters, kind to fine furniture and dainty hands, 10c a package of 12 Bates Book Store. COLOSSAL DEBT BURDEN A staggering debt burden aggre gating $1,07-2 for every man, wom- is(an and child, if spread over the en- tiro population, was borne by the people of the United States Tn the boom year of 1929, immediately pre ceding the onrush of the depression. This Avas disclosed in testimony before the senate committee on bank ing and currency recently by two of the country's leading economists Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale univer sity and George Frederick Warren, professor of agricultural economics at Cornell university. Their figures, summing up the to tal debt in 1929 at 203 billion dol lars, are believed to be as accurate as it is possible to make such cal culations, even with the assistance of the mass of statistics collected by government departments and private sources. The significance of this colossal debt as a factor in the depression is Ken from these facts and deduc tions: The debt was 5G per cent of the national wealth. Tbe ratio of debt to wealth had almost doubled since 1912, when it was 34 per cent. At an average rate of C per cent, interest charges on the debt of 20o billion doMars amounted to $12,180, C0C.000. The two economists estimated the national wealth in 1929 at 3C2 bil lion dollars. In 1912 it was 18 G bil lion dollars. By 1922 it has grown to 321 billion dollars and in that year debt was 4 2 per cent of wealth an increase ever 1912 but far less than the ration cf 1929. The depression has caused rapid shrinkage of national wealth, Prof. Warren testified. An estimate at this time would be a guess, he said, and if right today would be wrong to morrow. He added that in his opin ion if the physical properties of the country were sold today a return half that calculated on 1929 prices would be considered fortunate. Obviously debts do not shrink in corresponding degree, being fixed obligations in dollars, many for long terms. Consequently the burden of paying interest under depression con ditions becomes more acute and nec essarily retards business recovery. The interest on the public debt comes from consumers in the form of taxes. Property owners and oth era pay it . out of income. The vast public- improvement programs of the various governments were paid for chiefly by bend issues and ultimately by taxation of one form or another. Intercut paid by corporations is a fixed charge included in the cost of doing business. Until the depression came it was reflected in prices charged consumers which were con tinually mounting. Now competitive conditions make impossible a main tenance of prices which will provide in full for interest on loans incur red in prosperous times. The result is a shrinkage in value cf securities despite efforts in seme governmental quarters to restore such values a factor to which some observers at tribute retardation of recovery. Sam J. Shelton, in the St. Louis Post-Dis patch. :o: WHAT! NOTHING TO KEP0RT? Maybe nothing will happen to Ma jor General Johnson Hagood, com manding the Seventh corps area, with headciuartcrs at Fort Omaha, but wo are filled with apprehensions Flaunting the fond traditions of the war department is as dangerous as driving a car on a Sunday afternoon or stepping on a rusty nail. And ex posing the sham and pretense of fel iow-QiTicers who expand their annual reports until they run to a vast ton nage is even worse. And these things Major General Hagood has done. Ignoring the time honored custom of itemizing broken bridle straps, missing mess kits, in flamed tonsils, flat feet and all the other trfling joys and sorrows of a command, he informs the Avar depart ment bluntly and succinctly: "Noth ing To report." Intelligent? Surely, but that only emphasizes tho general lack of it. Subservience to red tape kicked out the back door? Certainly. But with it goes the grandiose sense cf im portance of a lot of superior officers in Washington Avho make a day's work out of reading a report that reports nothing. We hope for Major General Ha good, but we hope against hope. You can't kick a general staff in the pants with impunity. Baltimore Sun. :o: A bottle of whisky taken out by an emigrant from Aberdeen in 1862 has been presented to a New Zea land museum with the contents in tact. We can only conclude that he was unable to borrow a corkscrew. :o: Journal Want-Ads get results 1 Lumber Sawing Commercial sawing from your own logs lumber cut to your specifications. Wo have ready cut dimen sion lumber and sheeting for sale at low price3. NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY AMERICAN POPULATION OF PAEIS The American population in Paris stands permanently at a minimum cf about 20,000. This does not include any of the tourists who dash over for a few weeks or months for a frolic. Perhaps half of the 20,000 are in Franco on business commercial, government, professional or Journal istic. Probably 5,000 others are per sons of independent means Avho pre fer the European scene and have adopted France as their permanent home. Perhaps 3. COO more are painters, musicians, writers and students Avho believe, in Aarying degrees of hon esty, that the atmcrphcre cf Mor.t parnasse and Montmartre is more conducive to serious work than that of Greenwich Village, Telegraph Hill cr the Arroyo S"co. This leaves 2,000 still to be accounted for. and many of thorn would find it difficult, not to say embarrassing, to account for themselves. These latter are the American racketeers of Paris, and they may be classified roughly as moocher3, stecrcrs, touchers, gigolos, beggars, sharpers, commissioners, maqucr eaux, tipsters and plain confluence operators. Without visible means of support, they remain year after year, some fairly prosperous, most merely man aging to eke out a precarious exist ence, but all parasites upon the Am erican tourists Avho arri'e in droves in fcummer, and in tlriblct3 the year round, landing with Avhoops of joy and a desiro to spend money. When these trippers have spent what they brought, and perhaps cabled Tlome for more, they return to America, and upon sober reflec tion find a serious discrepancy be tAvetn their expenditures and tbeir results. Tho difference h;.s found its A-ay into the pockets cf the town racketeers. Randolph Uartlctt in the American Mercury. :o: A woman took her husband to the basement, and showed him long rows of fru't and Aegetablas fd.e had canneel during the period of abund ant material's and low prices. "You know," she remarked, after waiting a reasonable time for him to make suitable comment, "I believe I'd make some good appreciative man a good wife." His friends are still trying to assure him she means nothing personal by that remaik. :o: FALLS FROM STACK, DIES Stuart, Neb. A man believed to be John Hutto, fifly-tAvo, of Hutch inson, Kas., died in a hospital here as the result of a fall from a hay stack on the Anton WalJirigcr ranch noar here. No .one- Avitnessed tbe accident. Holt county officials are preparing to bury Hutto here. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the Estate of Ber tha Halmes, deceased. To the creditors of raid estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Platismcuth, in said county, on the 2nd day cf September, 1932. and on the 5th day of December, 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m., each day, to recei-e and examine all claims against said es tate, Avith a vieAV to their adjustment and alloAvancc. The time limited for the presenta tion of claims against said estate is three months from the 2nd day of Septrmber, A. D. 1932, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 2nd day cf September, 1932. Yv'itnecs my hand and the Eeal of said County Court this 5th day of August, 1932. A. II. DUX BURY, (Seal) a8-3Av County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty; ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Mar ian Elizabeth Miller, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified that I will J sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 2nd day of September, A. D.. 1932, and on the 5th day of December, A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock in the fore noon of each day, to receive and ex amine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presenta tion of claims against said estate is three months from the 2nd day of September, A. D. 1932, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 2nd day of September, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 6th day of August, 1932. A. IL DUXBURY, (Seal) a8-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, S3. Pursuant to an order entered in the County Court of Cass County, Nebraska, in t lie case entitled, Tho State of Nt.-bra.-ka, Plaint itT. vs. M. lmlthazor. Defendant, I will sell at tho South Front Door of the Court House at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, at 10:00 o'clock in tbe forenoon on the 10th day of September. 19:2, at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash. One Ford Coupe, Model, 192S, Motor No. A 9259.". Plattsmouth, Nebraska, August Gth, 1932. ED W. TIHMGAN, Sheriff of Cass County, Nebraska. aS-o v NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, f-s. In the County Court. In the matter of tbe estate of Chris tina Rmnm !. dceaced. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will tnt nt the County Court room In Plat tsmcuth. In said county, on tbe 2c'th day of August. 1932. and on tho 2Sth day of November, 1932, at 1 o'clock a. m., each day, to receive and examine all claims against paid s J.itr, v.iih a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presenta ti n of claims against said estate is three months from tho 2Cth day of August, A. I). 1932 and tbe time lim ited for payment of chbts is one year from said 2Cth clay of August, 1932. Witness my hand and the ncal of said County Court this 20th day of July, 1932. A. II. DUX BURY, (Seal) al-3AV County Judg". NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John F. G order, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: Ycu are hereby notified, that I Avill sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the inth day of August, A. D. 1932 and on the 21st day of November, A. D. 1932, at ten r'clocl: in tb forenoon of efch day to reeeiA-e cud examine all claims against said estate, Avith a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims against said es tate is throe months from the 13th day of August. A. D. 1932. and tho time limited for payment of debts is o:ie year from paid 19th day of August. 1932. Witness my hand and the peal of said County Court this 22nd day of July, 1932. A. 1L DUXBURY. (Seal) J25-3W County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and,, Not ice e-n Petition for Set tlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass county, fs. To al! persons interested in the es tate of Robert Willis, deceased: On reading the petition of OA-en Willis praying a final settlement and f.ll.-twanee cf his account filed in this Court on the 21st day of July. 1932. and for final assignment of the resi due oZ said estate, and for his dis charge as Administrator thereof; It Is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said mat ter may, and do appear at the County C.iurt to be held in and for paid coun ty, on the 19th day of August, A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er ef 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 cony of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a pemi-wctkiy news paper printed in paid county, for three successive weeks prior to eaid day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 21st day of July, A. D. 1932. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) j25-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE 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 Don C. Rhoden. deceased: On reading the petition of Kelly J. Rhoden praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 2 Gth day of July, 1932, and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and allowed and recorded as the last will and tes tament of Don C. Rhoden. deceased; that said instrument be admitted to probate and the administration of said estate be granted to Aleck D. Rhcchn, as Executor; It is hereby ordered that you, and all persons interested in said matter, may, and do. appear at the County Ceurt to be held in and for said coun ty, on the 2Glh day of August, A. I). 1932, at ten o'clock a. rn., to show ,.auo, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not bo granted, and that notice cf the pen dency cf said petition and that the hearing thereof lie glA-en to all per sons interested in said matter by pub lishing a copy of this Order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-Aveekly neAvspaper printed in said county, for three succescivo weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and the seal of said Court, this 27th day of July, A. D. 1932. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) al-3w County Judge. Advertising Is trie life of trade, and the merchant who advertises consistently and regularly will reap the greatest benefit. Let the Journal assist you.