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The humblest person can have
fried mush, and it's fit for a king.
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A friend in need is a friend in
dwd- At least as long as he is indeed
la need.
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Rc member, when women had to
take off their hats in the picture show
o a person sitting behind them could
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On or about November 9 this year.
ene will be able to purchase cam
paign orators at the rate of about
six cents a dozen, in dozen or more
lots.
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Surely, pretty soon American girls
will get out of the habit of marrying
for money, as it has been at least
two years since there was any for
them to marry.
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Zasu Pitts testified the other day
that she never attends movies, not
ven her own. Perhaps it's just as
well; movies influence some people,
making them frivolous-minded.
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There are said to be three issues of
phony 20 bills, and at least one set
of bogus two-bit pieces, now in cir
culation. Strangely enough, it's the
quarter that worries us most.
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The rumor that Clarence Darrow
had joined the Unitarian church has
been denied, but at the moment we
san't recall whether the denial came
from Mr. Darrow or from the church.
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When a woman thinks a man
ought to marry her, he still has some
ehance of escape. But when a woman
and her best woman friend both
think eo. he might just as well go
out and buy the ring.
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Frequently the sign "Please" suf
flces to keep people from crossing
one's lawn, but a certain suburban
it didn't find it so. Finally he had
to put up the notice: "Please kep
g2 the grass. Who, me? Yes. you."
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A Sunday school teacher was try
ing to find out whether or not the
parents of her pupils were Christians.
Each pupil gave a decided answer,
"Yes," or "No," until she came to a
boy who hesitated, and then said he
didn't know. A bright boy spoke out
"If 'you don't know, then they
ain't."
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A woman sued her husband for
divorce because he twisted her arm
when she made a bad lead in a. game
of contract. What this country needs
is a course of action for husbands
whose wives make bad leads. The
husband can't slap her; he can't
knock her down; he can't twist her
arm. What can he do?
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ProbahlT the Insulls will be
brought back and Jailed. That won't
get the public's millions back, how
ever, or even prevent the same thing
from happening again. That could
only be done by getting after the
authorities of the various states who
granted the various Insull soap-bubble
companies the power to incorpo
rate and the securities houses which
unloaded all the stocks and bonds on
the public. But It's too much to ex
pect any such curative action as that.
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If it wasn't for his car, many a
poor farmer couldn't reach the place
where his kind are meeting to de
mand relief.
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A political opponent is the chap
who puts out the ill-considered.
puerile, deniagogie stun you wish
you'd thought of.
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At a wedding last week the bride
carried a handkerchief that had been
in her family since 1C0S. We should
like to know the name of their laun
dry. :o:
Even nature makes a mistake
once in a while. If not, then the
white girls wouldn't be buying per
manent waves and the colored ones
kink remover.
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Florida is said to be becoming a
firtt class manufacturing state. The
Scotch whisky made there is now
said to be almost as good as their
Havana cigars.
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The big idea of the Hindenburg-Schleicher-Papen
Government seems
to be to keep the citizenry trotting
to the polls until they're too tired to
start anything.
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Al Smith says one of hi3 chief
problems as an editor is to know what
to do about the poetry that is sub
mitted. If he ever finds out his dis
covery win go far toward making
him President feme day.
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Samuel Insull is not expected
back from Greece at once. A man
who could handle a shoestring as he
did. ought to be able to do wonders
with a piece cf international red
tape.
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Henry French Kollis who, as Unit
ed States senator from New Hamp
shire, ardently supported and voted
for the eighteenth amendment, re
turned from thirteen years in Paris
recently. Said he: "It is true that I
am considered by some persons
throughout Europe as rather an au
thority on wine."
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WHY NOT DICE?
Seeking to promote peaceful and
economical settlement of internation
al questions about which "there is
too much to be said on both sides,"
the International Association of
Journalists accredited to the League
of Nations have presented to that
body one pair of dice. Many a lay
man must feel that the newspaper
men have hit on a useful scheme, al
beit its adoption might give them
far less to write about.
It often seems that there is too
much said and written without re
sult in Geneva. And as Sir Eric
Drummond, the Secretary - General,
pointed out in welcoming the gift,
there are a good many questions,
such as what caliber of cannon
ought to be abolished, which could
well be decided by lot.
Yet even those who have no pa
tience, with palaver recognize that
many of the wcrd3 which use Geneva
for a sounding board are extremely
useful. Sometimes the League pro
vides a safety valve for the letting
off of steam. Sometimes it develops
an Invaluable and impartial survey
such as the 100,000-word Lytton re
port. And always it affords a forum
where disputants can meet face to
face and either adjust their differ
ences or thoroughly air them before
the world.
It is not as a substitute for words
of reason that this gift might have1
the greatest utility; it is as a sub
stitute for that other form of chance
known as war. After all, talk is
cheap far cheaper than tanks. And
"shooting craps" would be better
than shooting men. If nations are
going to abandon reason and right
in the adjudication of their differ
ences, a quick and painless form of
decision is preferable to one of pro
longed terror and misery. As a meth
od of judgment, throwing dice is less
ridiculous than throwing bombs.
But men have abandoned trial by
battle as a means of determining the
guilt or innocence of Individuals.
And there are reasons to hope that
they are ready to abandon it and
all other forms of gambling for
more Intelligent means of determin
ing justice between nations.
WHERE THE BLAME BELONGS
Mr. Coolidge in his Madison
Square Garden speech Tuesday night
laid the blame for the country's pres
ent economic ills to the collapse of
credit. He said:
"Since the main cause of our
difficulties lay in a failure cf
credit, the first object should
be to restore credit."
What caused the collapse of the
nation's credit in the first place? It
certainly did not find all its incep
tion in foreign countries as is gen
erally claimed by administration
leaders.
The foundation of the breakdown
in credit was being quietly laid dur
ing the latter years of Mr. Coolidge's
administration and unquestionably
was encouraged by optimistic state
ments by Mr. Coolidge concerning
the nation's economic progress. In
the fall of 192S the orgy of Wall
street speculation was swinging into
its full stride. Mr. Hoover was elect
ed president, and his pre-election
speeches and later utterances con
cerning "a new era of prosperity"
were taken at face value by the "Or
dinary run of people" of whom Mr.
Coolidge spoke in his Madison Square
Garden speech. It did not stop there.
It was aided and abetted by the
country's central banking system
the federal reserve banks as weJl
as independent banks, not associated
with the federal reserve cystem.
Loans to Wall street brokers by the
federal reserve banks alone, at their
peak in October. 1929, totaled SS,
549,383,979 and an estimated ?3,
750,000,000 additional was supplied
by the independent banks for specu
lative purposes.
That we were riding to disaster on
the wave of speculation had repeat
edly been pointed out by our leading
economists through the press of the
country as long as two years before
the crash came in October, 1929. The
administration and its leaders ignor
ed the warnings.
Now Mr. Coolidge is asking for
restoration cf the credit system
which ha3 been shattered under the
republican administration. A word
from Mr. Coolidge in 1928, or a
word from Mr. Hoover in 1929 to
the governors of the federal reserve
banks to restrict credit of cur cen
tral banking system- to legitimate
channels and to increase the redis
count rate by the banks to a point
where it would severely discourage
use of funds for speculative purposes,
would have done much to cut short
th9 speculators credit. Cut a move
of this kind would have also rstard
ed the much touted "new era of pros
perity" which was being read by the
"ordinary run of people" on the front
pages of our daily newspapers in the
reports of constantly advancing
prices for securities. Naturally the
great portion of the prosperity era
was confined to a limited area Wall
street and Wall street gamblers.
The credit that was then being fur
nished for the greatest speculative
orgy in the history of the world, is
now being diverted into legitimate
channels through the Reconstruction
Finance corporation and other gov
ernmental agencies. In time it is ex
pected to have the effect of stimulat
ing business. We hope it does stimu
late business in all parts of the coun
try. If it does the aid which it is
expected it will give for the benefit
of the entire country certainly could
have been afforded much more quick
ly two or three years ago, and no
doubt have averted the major part
of our economic disturbance.
The improper use of the nation's
credit, encouraged by boom propa
ganda statements by administration
leaders, had a more far-reaching and
destructive effect on business, agri
culture and confidence genearlly than
the "ordinary run of people" can ccn
ceive. What was thereby shattered
is the very thing Mr. Coolidge said
President Hoover and administration
leaders are now trying to restore.
The electorate of the country ha
no other recourse than to place the
blame for our credit collapse square
ly on the shoulders of the republican
party and the men at its helm.
World-Herald.
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Do you recall those big, brown,
flaky biscuits of grandmother's that
about this time of year she used to
spread with clear apple jelly from the
fruit of the old horse apple tree in
the back of the orchard? Those bis
cuits of hers had been dipped in spot
ted ham gravy before they were
baked, and then they raised so high
you always wondered how they held
together instead of popping right out
of the pan and flying through space.
And that jelly! Have you ever since
tasted anything having that tang of
Olympian ambrosia as they did? We
don't know what Olympian ambrosia
tasted like, but it must have been
jelly from a horse apple tree In the
back of a grandmother's orchard.
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Everything for school most
complete line In Cass county at
Bates Book Store.
ME. STIMS0N FORGETS
OUR TARIFF HISTORY
In his address at Philadelphia on
the foreign policy of the Hoover ad
ministration Secretary of State Stim
son said:
"Americans may differ as to
whether their tariff policy should
be high or low. but they never
differed in holding that it must
be a policy which is equally fair
to all nations. Such an apple of
discord as the bargaining tariff
they have avoided."
Unless Secretary Stimson holds the
views of "Americans" to be some
thing quite apart from the course of
action followed by their government,
it is very difficult to reconcile this
statement with the tariff history ol
the United States. For the tariff re
cords of the country indicate that
the federal government has on fre
quent occasions entered upon bar
gaining and reciprocity treaties, and
that, indeed, the policy of treating
nations alike tariffwise, which cur
rently has a notable exception in the
case of Cuba, is of very recent origin.
Under the leadership of Mr. Stim
son's party in the '90's a long series
of bargaining tariffs was negotiated,
and during that period the republi
cans were vigorously defending such
a course while the democrats were
condemning it. When the democrats,
coming to power for a term, had
abrogated many of these bargaining
tariff arrangements, the republican
platform of 1S9C declared that "We
believe the repeal of tho reciprocity
arrangements, negotiated by the last
republican administration, was a na
tional calamity, we demand their re
newal and extension on such terms
as will equalize our trade with oth
er nations." And in the republican
tariff act of July 24, IS 37, provision
was made for the negotiation of bar
gaining tariffs.
Again in 1910-11 a republican ad
ministration, headed by President
Taft, took the lead in the negotia
tion of a reciprocity tariff treaty with
Canada which was in exclusion of
tariff arrangements with the rest of
the world. This treaty, which was
defeated on the Canadian ride large
ly by alarms that it was a major step
toward annexation to the United
States, had been preceded in the pre
vious century by a reciprocity treaty
which had held for some ycar3. And
this was but one of a large number
of efforts by republican administra
tions, many of them consummated,
to derive nourishment from what
Secretary Stimson now -characterises
as "such an rpple of discord as the
bargaining tariff."
It may be the secretary's histor
ical generalizations about American
tariff policy involved some subtle in
terpretation not clearly implicit in
the words used. If so, it is to be
hoped that he will find an early op
portunity to elucidate this interpre
tation. For as matters stand Mr
Stimson seems to be denying much of
the tariff history of the United States.
Ealtimore Sun.
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Tad Jones, th9 old Yale Btar and
later a famous coach, is running for
congress from Connecticut. If elect
ed, however, he probably will be a
freshman again during hi3 first term,
and be may have to run again be
fore he will be permitted to carry
the ball.
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Saturday night the republicans
nominated for mayor of New York,
Lewis Pounds, formerly a real es
tate dealer in Topeka, Kas. Pounds
is 71 years old. He doesn't need any
platform. Any man 71 years old
doesn't have to promise not to wise
crack. -:o:
You'll enjoy shopping In Platts
mouth stores. Don't be fooled by
the so-called "greener pastures"
of a foreign trading point!
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
To all persons Interested in the es
tate of William G. Rauth, deceased:
On reading the petition of Theresa
Rauth, Administratrix, praying a
final settlement and allowance of her
account filed in this Court on the
13th day of October, 1932, and for
assignment of the residue of said es
tate: determination of heirship, and
for her discharge as .Administratrix
thereof;
It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons Interested In said matter
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 12th day of November,
A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m., to
show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not
be granted, and that notice of the
pendency of said petition and the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sona interested in said matter 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 Bala
day of hearing:.
In witness whereof. I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of said
Court this 13th day or Octoher, A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) ol7-3w County Judge.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the Application
of N. D. Talcott, Administrator of the
Estate of William D. Coleman, Deceas
ed, for License to Sell Real Estate to
Pay Debts.
Now, on this 13th day of October,
1932, came N. D. Talcott, Adminis
trator of the estate of William D.
Coleman, deceased, and presents his
petition for license to sell the real
estate of the deceased party in order
to pay the claims filed and allowed
against said estate, and the expenses
of administering said estate. It ap
pearing from said petition that there
is an insufficient amount of personal
property in the hands of the Admin
istrator to pay the claims presented
and allowed by the County Court and
the expenses of the administration of
said estate; and that it is necessary
to sell the whole of the real estate of
the deceased in order to pay the
aforesaid claims and the costs, of ad
ministration It is hterefore Considered, Ordered
and Adjudged that all persons inter
ested in the estate of William D. Cole
man, deceased, appear before me,
James T. Begley, Judge of the Dis
trict Court, at the District Court room
in the court house in the City of
Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska,
on the 29th day cf November, 1932.
at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the
forenoon, and 6hov cause, if any
there be, why ffuch license should
not be granted to N. D. Talcott. Ad
ministrator of the estate of William
D. Coleman, deceased, to sell all cf
the real estate of said deceased, fo
as to pay claims presented and al
lowed with the costs of administra
tion and of this proceedings.
It is further Considered, Ordered
and Adjudged, that notice be given
to all persons interested by publica
tion of this Order to Show Cause for
four sucressive weeks in the Platts
mouth Journal, a legal newspaper
published and of general circulation
in tho County of Cass, Nebraska.
By the Court.
JAMES T. BEGLEY,
ol7-4w District Judge.
Journal Want-Ads get results I
TALLEST GIRAFFE IN ANY MUSEUM NOW
IN PLACE AT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Great Collect'n
of Trophies at
Morrill Hall
Collection of the Late Adam Breede
Is Being Placed in Uni
versity J&usenm.
Lincoln, Oct. 13. There is a new
resident inhabiting Morrill Hall.
home of the Nebraska State Museum
on the University of Nebraska
campus. This newcomer claims the
distinction of being the tallest and
finest reticulated giraffe known to be
mounted in any museum. He is also
an illustrious member of the late
Adam Breede's collection of African
trophies.
This beautiful creature, towering
14 feet T Inches, from hoofs to horns,
ail but fills the mammoth class en
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Fee Bock 9, at page 319.
In the matter of the estate of John
Wynn, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified, that I will
sit at the County Court room in
Plattsmouth, in said county, on the
11th day of November, A. D. 1932,
and on the 13th day of February, A.
D. 1933, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon of each day. to examine all
claims against paid estate, with a
view to their adjustment and allow
ance. The time limited for the pre
sentation of claims against said es
tate is three months from the 11th
day of November. A. D. 1932, and the
time limited for payment or debts is
one year from said 11th day of No
vember, 1932.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 14th day of
October, 1932.
A. IL DUXBURY.
(Seal) ol7-3w -County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Fee Bock 9, page 320.
In the matter of the estate of David
Murray, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I will
tit at the County Court room in
Plattsmcuth. in sa!d county, on the
11th day of November, A. D. 1932.
and on the 13th day of February, A.
D. 1933, at ten o'clock In the fore
noon of each day to examine all
claims against said estate, with a
view to their adjustment and allow
ance. The time limited for the pre
sentation of claim' against said es
tate is three months from the 11th
day of November, A. D. 1932. and the
time limited for payment of debts is
one year from said 11th day cf
November, 1932.
Witness my hand and the real of
said County Court this 14th day of
October, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) ol7-3w County Judge.
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Six-
closed cage and balances the scales at
750 pounds.
The tall fellow was mounted from
a model by James J. Clark, director
of the zoological exhibits of the Am
erican Museum of Natural History
who was assisted by Murray Roper,
former Lincoln resident and Univer
sity of Nebraska student. Mr. Clark
was in Lincoln recently and viewed
the results of his work shortly after
the giraffe had been placed on exhi
bition. .A most unusual and Interesting
feature of the giraffe, which the late
Adam Breede of Hastings followed
for three consecutive days Defore
bagging it, are the deadly claw marks
on its rump inflicted there by its an
cient enemy, the lion. As Dr. E. H.
Barbour. " University museum bead,
sees it, the lion in its mad rush struck
the huge giraffe with its left paw
well up on the neck leaving a series
of permanent wounds or claw marks.
Plainly enough, of coures, the gi
raffe tore itself loose only to be
struck by the lion's right paw on its
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NOTICE OF HEARING
Estate of Peter J. Becker, deceased,
in the County Court of Cass county,
Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons Interested in said estate, cred
itors and heirs take notice, that
Louietta Martin and Charles L. Mar
tin, have filed their petition alleging
that Peter J. Becker died Intestate
in Cass County. Nebraska, on or
about March 27th. 1875, being a resi
dent and inhabitant of Cass County,
Nebraska, and died seized of the fol
lowing described real estate, to-wlt:
The west half (Wi) of the
northeast quarter (NEU ) of
tection six (G), township eleven
(11), north range fourteen
(14), east of the Cth P. M., in
Cass County, Nebraska
leaving as his sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: LIvona Becker, widow, and
the following named children:
Mary Allison, formerly Becker,
George Becker, Jacob Becker,
Abe Becker, Peter Becker, and
Thaddeu3 S. Becker.
That the interests of the petition
ers herein in the above described real
estate is that of subsequent purchas
ers, and praying for a determination
of the time of the death of said Peter
J. Becker and of his heirs, the degree
of kindthip and the right of descent
of the real property belonging to
the said deceased, in the State of
Nebraska.
It is ordered that the same stand
for hearing the 4th day of November,
A. D. 1S32, before the court at the
hour of 10 o'clock a. m.
Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
this 10th day of October. A. D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) ol0-3w County Judge.
right rump. Here the great un
sheathed claws cut parallel lines en
tirely through the hide from the
rump to the hock. When the hide
was tanned these old wounds open
ed and were Btitched together. In
stead of detracting from the beauty
of the specimen, these marks add to
the color and interest of the crea
ture. Adam Breede made extensive col
lections in Africa and returned to
America with one of the finest sets
of skinB ever to be brought into this
country. These skins were consign
ed to the University of Nebraska by
the two Bisters, Miss Louise Engle
of Hastings and Mrs. E. L. CHne,
Lincoln, and his brother David
Breede of Hastings.
The collection when complete and
in place in the museum will offer
the giraffe, two elephants, a rhlno
cerous, and two Cape buffalo, these
already in place; and a Hon, a lioness
and a pair of zebras yet to come. The
lion and lioness are expected to th
rive in Lincoln within the month.
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