Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1932)
IuOSIUY, OOT. SI, 1SC2. PAGE iTTTFlTTB In iiie Paattsmeuth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEELY AT PLATTSJIOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher In St. Louis the citizens' commit tee clothing bureau was given many an old pair of knickers for the poor, but no golf stockings. The bureau recently appealed for golf stockings. :o: Men have used strange methods in trying to convince people that they SUB5CEIPTI0N PSICE S2.00 A YEAR IN PISST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living In Second Postal Zone, 2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles. 53.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, J 3.50 per year. Ail subscriptions are payable strictly In advance. The Lytton Commission report cer tainly lit on Japan. :o: The human race seems to have im proved everything except people. :o:- Tammany's chief objection to an efficient mayor is the contrast he provides. -:o: If Roosevelt can manage the tiger he need not worry about the elephant. :o: The great leader is ono who never permits his followers to discover that he is as dumb as they are. :o: Japan's meaning seems to be that Lhe would rather be in Manchuria than in the League of Nations. :o: The best definition we ever heard for a lame duck, is a Congressman whose goose has been cooked. :o: Americanism: Professing j. great concern for the jobless; taxing busi ness to death co it can't provide jobs. :o: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is edit ing a magazine, Eabies Jun Babies, which, we hope, will fill a crying reed. :o: A merchant fcas explained that duck hunters take ginger ale and pckErr chip3 along for the amusement cf the decoys. :o: No wonder people admire "horse i nso." The horse had sense enough to be scared cf automobiles when he first saw them. ' :o: It may or may not be a, good .idea to "bring" the" 'Insulls back," but a better course will be to recall the lav.s which made their operations possible. :o: The most distressing thing about President Hoover's injured hand is that the fellow who shook it so vio lently as to injure it probably will vote for Roosevelt. :o: The forgotten man at last has been fcund, and placed in a federal prison, lie robbed a post office, then escaped, and finally turned up of his own ac cord after thirty-four years. Will romeone pass the word along to Gov ernor Roosevelt, so he can change his tune? :o: And then, there i3 the fellow who always bought his wife a new broom for a birthday present. :o: Chile has had five governments in four months. Sounds more like a merry-go-round than a revolution. :o: A rubber company recently built its 200,000,000th tire. Of course the directors celebrated the occasion with a blowout. :o: "Many motorists," remarks a writer, "have been forced, for finan cial reasons, to sell their cars." Now they're on their feet again. :o: Who has not suffered the extremes cf rhysieal discomfort in the old fashioned pews? Who hasn't longed for a chance to bs at ease during a sermon? Won't a minister whose flock is thoroughly comfortable aid physically relaxed be able to get his message across better than one whose hearers are not? :o: It seems as if the women folk3 have found out a new receipt. After thinking that we had everything possible tanned, they suddenly dis covered that you could make a sand wich spread that tasted swell and as fa?t as they empty jars, they are fill ing thorn up again with some of tnis A girl in Texas married a man in Oklahoma over the long distance telephone. We wish her happiness and hope she had the right number. :o: All the nations proclaim that ex cessive armament leads to bank ruptcy, but each seems to want to become as bankrupt as anybody else. :o: Looking over the backfleld, we haven't located the young man we sent to college by subscribing for the magazines he represented. lie must be in the line. :o: "For dinner, a thin piece of under done steak two inches by two inches should be taken." says a slimmin expert. It doesn't seem much, but after all it's a square meal. :o: You must pay the price of admit tance to find out whether you like a show. The public doesn't know what it wants until it sees it, say3 a wide ly known theatrical genius. :o: Commercialism seemingly has crept even-toto 'the African' Jungle, where a movie outfit reports that it could not get satisfactory pictures because the wild elephants charged too much. :o: William Randolph Hearst is rccov ering from an operation for oesopha seal diverticulum.. A lot of small tow:: editors may have the same dis ease, but they don't know how to pronounce it. :o: According to a census report, eighty-seven women in the United were differnt from the rest of tne world. Yang Ti, a Chinese emperor, used to have leaves and flowers of silk sewed on his trees every autumn to show that even they were not subject to the laws of the seasons. :o: Judging from the number of poli tical, not to say partisan, praytFs that have been offered in behalf of candidates about to speak this fall, we fancy the end of this campaign will be welcomed with a sigh of re lief not altogether confined to this terrestrial globe. :o: ESTIMATED RESULTS OF ALLOTMENT PLAN PASAM0UNT ISSUE OF THIS CAMPAIGN States earn their living by hunting and trapping. We're trying to get the cencus bureau to pursue those figures further. We think they've dropt five or six ciphers somewhere. :c: Pat Harrison say3 you could put all th3 Democrats in jail and still elect Rconevelt with the Republicans who are going to desert Hoover. Al though we're not usually a skeptic. Senator Harrison's proposal sounds very interesting, and we suggest it be done, just as he says, and see how it comes out. :o: The "wolves" (sport page slang for college alumni) are unusually ravenous this season. Mai Stevens, the Yale coach, and Frank Cava naugh of Fordham ara on the pro scribed list because of losing foot ball teams. And yesterday a head- What is this voluntary allotment plan of farm relief that Governor Roosevelt has approved? someone has asked. It is a simple device by means of which the protective tariff on farm products can be made to apply to that portior of such prod ucts sold in the domestic market. It is the only plan yet advanced by means of which it is possible to compute with a fair degree of ac curacy just what it will mean to the farmer in terms of dollars and cents. Experts have figured, using the statistics of the United States de partment of agriculture, that thi.3 plan would add 51 million dollars to the value of Iowa's hog crop, 22 mil lion dollars to South Dakota's hog and wheat crops, 40 million dollars to Nebraska's hog and wheat crops. It would add $13,500,000 to the value of the cotton crop of Georgia, 19 mil lion dollars to that of Mississippi, 40 million dollars to that of Texas, and so on down the line. That is something concrete and understandable and it also is work able. A bill that would have accom plished that very thing got through the senate last spring before the Hoo verites discovered what It was all about and ordered it billed. It means 42 cents (the amount of the tariff) added to the price per bushel of fully 80 per cent of the wheat raised in this country, 2 cents a pound added to -virtually all the pork, 5 cents per pound addsd to fully half the cotton and correspond ing increases in the price of other products. The farmer who does not prefer that sort cf program to the vague. indefinite and insincere mental vapor- ings, both past and present, cf Mr. Hoover is a difficult person to un derstand. Sioux City Tribune. (Political .Advertising) W. B. Forget about Herbert Hoover and his broken promises for a little while. Forget about Franklin D. Roosevelt and the hope or fear with which he may be regarded. Concentrate for a moment upon the real issue of this campaign, then return to contempla tion of the principal personalities in volved. Stripped of it3 simplest consider ations, the issue simply is this: How shall we continue to exist? It ha3 reached that point for millions al ready. Other millions are inevitably coming to it unless conditions change. Values and processes of distribut ing aud exchanging the products of labor have broken down, or are near- ing a total collapse. Wholesale bank ruptcy is imminent. Repudiation of public debts looms as tax collections languish. Millions of the poor whom mis fortune has already overtaken are living off the more fortunate. The more fortunate are dipping into the public treasury taking out of the common fund to continue the pro cess of feeding, clothing and hous ing those who no longer can sustain a semblance of the normal functions cf business. There is plenty cf work to be done and willing hands to do it. There is an accumulation of unsatisfied hu man wants estimated at 40 billions cf dollars. But goods cannot be sold for cost of producing them, hence there i3 no demand for labor. Above j all, there is no money with which to carry on. The money has all been impounded by a greedy few. Practically, the entire populace of ihc country is subsisting eff its cap ital. Obviously this cannot go on in definitely for eventually it will pull even the richest down to a common level with Che poorest. Now return to a consideration of Hoover and Roosevelt. Which cf the two men offers humanity the most reason to hope that he might be instrumental ;n changing these conditions? Shall this nation go on with Hoo ver under whom these evils have developed, who, in fact, has been the principal author of many of them, especially the doles fcr big business? Has his capacity for righting things not already been put to the test? And Roosevelt at least he has shown a warmth cf sympathy and a depth of understanding' that his opponent does not possess. ' He has proven to be a great executive, at least he is a human being, net a ccld and emotional machine. IT WORKS BOTH WAYS No one In this country today ap proaches President Hoover in claim ing for government action a puis sant control of the movement and direction of our economic life. His current campaign speeches are sprinkled with expressions conveying the idea that his administration must be recognized as the sole or major cause of such economic recovery as we may now enjoy. At Detroit, the president said: "The measures and policies of the republican administration are winning this major battle for recovery. "Our measures and policies . . . have preserved the Amer ican people from certain chaos. "This is the constructive pro gram proposed by the republic an administration and largely adopted for the relief of the emergency. ... It has prevented national chaos. It is today pro ducing national recovery. "I have tonight confined my self to the measures which we have taken to save this country from a gigantic disaster." Eeing obviously a matter of opin ion, these claim3 need not stall us by their sweeping scope and compel minute analysis of them. Accepting them at their face value, a pertinent question immediately arises. If the administration, in Fpite of malignant democratic obstruction, as it be lieves, has saved this nation from certain chao3," from "a gigantic dis aster," by "production national re covery," it is impossible to under stand why, being endowed with Euch powers, it permitted the depression ever to come at all. The underlying theory of the president's campaign speeches crashes the moment it is pointed out that if he can rightly claim conomic re covery as something due to him, or his administration, ho must account for his failure to use his magic to prevent the depression in the first place from striking us. Can Mr. Hoo ver have it both ways to suit his present political needs? Must he and his administration and the 12-year regime he represents be absolved from all blame fcr the coming or the intensification of tho economic crisis, while any degree of economic recovery we may experience must be chalked up to their credit? Mr. Hoover's theory now embraces the assumption that the depression war; wholly due fo the war world causes and origins are his explan ation of its coming. This country wa.3 the innocent bystander. As for the war being tho exclusive cause, mm POWDER SAME PRICE AS 42 YEARS AS0. 25enaecsfcr25 Double ft The choice between them should let us quote the economist and finan- new dope. But it isn't so bad and far line announced the sordid news that be it from us to discourage them in ! "Agitation Is Now Aimed at the Elec their work. Itoral College." (Political Advertising) (Political Advertising) I 0 7 -l 5J I BANNING 1 0 UNION, NEBRASKA O 0 b Democratic f!arj?ir!;t for Q 3 u b b ia r..emuer ouie oenaie, lvuir, a i fi "11. '23. '25. '27. 29. reDre- O 0 sorting the peoDle of Otoe, 8 0 Cass p.nd Sarpy counties. I Q u stand on my past record and V 3 if elected will devote my time S to protecting the interests of a my people as a whole, for x gocd sound business princi- q 0 pies, economy in public Q $ funds and lowest possible N Q taxes. Your vote will be ap- O d predated at Nov. S election. N (Political Advertising:) I be made cn the probable basis from which the two men would operate in the next feur years. It may be as sumed with good reason that Hoove would go along as he has in the past Roosevelt would tackle the problem from a new angle. Sioux City Tri bune. -:o: C-EEHANY'S FORGOTTEN 1JA2I '-f ' ' .- v. .T? 1 .' : V: V:-. "A SACRED PUBLIC TRUST" Aptly Dcines the Duties of Your County Judge When you answer "the summons of death," the disposi tipn of all your property comes under the jurisdiction of the County Judge. It is he you must trust to guard and protect the interest and welfare of your loved ones. You have a per sonal interest in the election of a County Judge who has had actual legal training and experience in the practice of probate law, who is incorruptible, fearless and yet whose "heart beats in human sympathy," and who will extend every kindness, courtesy and thoughtful consideration to your dependent family when they appear in the County Court to settle your estate, and who will protect their property interests according to law. Upon this basis, I respectfully and earnestly ask for -our vote on November 8th. A. H. DUXBURY, County Judge Cass County. Chancellor Franz von Papen statement that the "form of govern rcent" is not an issue In Germany, indicating that in his opinion a re storation of the monarchy today is not in the realm of practical politics accords with the information brought back by foreign observers. At least one member of the Von Papen gov ernment has made no secret of his personal preference for the non archist system and the background of the chancellor and his colleagues generally lies in the old regime. But the evidence is strong that the Ger man people, as a whole, are not par ticularly interested in reviving mediaeval monarchy and their pres ent leaders seem to have accepted that fact. 1 Chancellor von Papen remarked that, in view of the number of prob lems confronting the German people, they were glad not to have to worry about their form of government as well. He might have added that while the German people appear to welcome the almost dictatorial gov ernment now being supplied by Pres ident Paul von Hindenburg after the political uncertainty of recent years. the Hohenzollerns simply do not fit into the picture. Perhaps it is be cause their past record Is so incon gruous with any concept of a mod ern state, whether democratic or fas cist. Even Adolf Hitler, it should be noted, has not tried to make the monarchy a national issue. The former kaiser's sons may at tend military reviews in Germany, but they seem to be regarded rather as museum pieces. As for the kaiser himself, while he may believe that he is indispensable, the Germans ap parently take a different Tiew. Strangly enough, they still prefer to get along without him. :o: The man v.'ho says, "I run things at home," usually refers to the lawn mower, the vacuum cleaner, the washing: machine and errands. cier, Salter: "It is important that we should remember that if the world has now had two and one-half years of very severe de pression, it had, before that de pression began, made an extraor dinarily rapid recovery from the devastation of the war. . . . Within seven years of the con clusion of the war the world as a whole was substantially bet ter off than it had been before the Avar. Production had in creased more rapidly than popu lation. The average standard of living was higher. Belligerent Europe had fallen a little be hind, but it made up in the next few years, and. In 1929, only 10 years after the conclusion of hostilities, not only the world as a whole, but even Europe, had a higher average standard of living than in 1913. That was an amazing achievement." Salter ha3 a good deal of evidence to support that statement. Tras the war, then, necessarily the exclusive source or our economic crisis in 1929-1932? As American citizens, we are forced to pass Judgment on the claim that government, when admin istered by Mr. Hoover and his party, has prosperity in its Special keeping under all economic conditions. Thus, in 1928, Mr. Hoover's election was urged in order to preserve prosper ity; evtn more than that, to perpet uate it in an ever rising curve. In 1932, after experiencing the most terrible depression in history, Mr Hoover's re-election is again urged as essential in orders to nurse back prosperity. This is the republican gospel and Mr. Hoover today is its prophet. If we, the people, re-elect Mr. Hoover, we shall indorse this gos pel and, logically if there be such a thing aa logic in politics give our imprimatur to the principle that ours is or should be a one party gov ernment. For many years, covering the life time of most of us, what the Eng lish economist, Clay, has recently complained of the identification of government with "prosperity" for selfish political advantage in the struggle for power has been in the United States the distinctive char acteristic of the republican party. The people have been educated for at least two generations to expect prosperity from republican adminis trations, without holding it account able for depressions, and to sanction virtually all interferencee by euch administrations with Industry and commerce on "pclitican noneconomic grounds." It is not sound individualism; it is not sound competition; it is not sound capitalism, if we are to have capitalism, and it is not common sense. Yet In re-electing Mr. Hoover, on his claim to being responsible for prosperity only when it is coming in and not when it i3 going out, the American people will give their final and irrevocable blessin to a now ex ploded politico-economic superstition. Springfield Republican. o: PEAY TELL E0V7 MUCH W0ESE COULD IT BE? President Hoover, in his Cleveland speech, kept saying that things could be much worse than they are. At one point in South Dakota corn is selling at 4 cents per bushel, at another, 2 cents per bushel, and at another farmers must pay 2 cents per bushel to get their corn to mar ket. Just how much worse could that be? Since President Hoover made his De3 Moines rpeech, wheat has on three different occasions gone to new all-time low prices. Jist how much worse can that be? Certainly it has never before been so bad. "At "the Omah- rraln" mrfcet;' the nearest outlet, oats ii not even quot ed; in other words, it is not wanted at any price. Just how much worse can that be Mr. Hoover? A farmer on Ivlonday of thi3 we?k came to Mitchell to find out what he :ould get for some cows and he was told that the price would be one and a half cents per pound. Just how much wore could that be, Mr. Hoover? Census reports of 1930 give em ployment for hire in factories as the occupation cf 9,550,000 persons President Hoover admits that there are over 10 million out of employ ment now. Just how much worse could that be, Mr. Hoover? President Hoovers decision to spend the last month of the presi dential campaign in an attempt to intimidate voters by telling them that things could be much worse, i3 one of the most high-handed efforts to strong arm the voters of the Unit ed States in all tho nation's history. Every federal office holder and there are tens of thousands of them and every republican worker has been coached to warn voters that if Mr. Hoover is not re-elected, thing3 will be worse. But how can they be worse It is just a question of whether voters will allow themselves to be brow-beaten cr whether they will ex ercise their right3 of franchise to vote for their real convictions on November S. Mitchell, S. D., Republican. :o: In the good old days, if a boy had 25 cents to spend at a picnic or a Fourth of July celebration, he was lucky and satisfied and had a good time. A young man with 25 cents wouldn't get anywhere now. NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. In the County Court. Fee Dock 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 pit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 11th day of November, A. D. 1932, and cn 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 claims against said es tate is three months from the 11th day cf November, A. D. 1932, and the time limited for payment of 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 Book 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 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 said 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 cf November, A. D. 1932. and the toe limited for payment of debts Is one year from sam 11m aay 01 November, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of 9ald County Court this 14th day of October, 1932. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) ol7-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account Road paving In C&es county this year will run about ten miles. Not bod, fop "depression" times. NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. In the County Court. Fee Book 9, page 321. In the matter of the estate of Jes sie W. Hall, 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 18th day cf November, A. D. 1932, and on the 20th 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 claims against said es tate Is three months from the 18th day of November, A. D. 1932, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 18th day of November, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 21st day of October, 1932. JL E. DUXBURY. (Seal) o24-Sw County Judf- 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 fiTa! tett lament 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 Paid matter may, and do, sppear at tLe County Court to bo held in and for said "ounty, 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 e trrar.ted. and that notice of the pendency cf said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by pub lishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in Eaid county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witnees whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 13th day of October, 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 14th 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 cf 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 mi" istrat ion It is hterefore Considered, Ordered ard Adjudged that all persons Inter ested in the estate of William D. Cole man, deceased, appear before me, James T. Eegley, Judge of the Dis trict Court, at the District Court room in the court house in the City of Plattsmouth, Cars county, Nebraska, on the 29th day of November, 1932, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon, and show cause. If any there be, why euch license should not be granted to N. D. Talcott, Ad ministrator of the estate of William D. Coleman, deceased, to sell all of 'he real estate of eaid deceased, so 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 successive weeks in the Platts mouth Journal, a legal newspaper published and of general circulation in the County of Cass, Nebraska. By the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. olT-4w District Judge.