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MONDAY, NOV. 21, 1932. PLATT SLI 0 tmi SEMI - WEEKLY JOTTSNAL PAGE THBL3 Ihe Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBEASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher STJBSCBIPTION PBICE 2.00 A YEAB IN FIEST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postai Zone, 52.50 per year. Beyond 600 mHes, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13-60 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Even the motor cars are demand ing alcohol. :o: . After all the relief promised in tlfe recent campaign, the main relief seems to be from the radio speeches. :o: The quoted prices of turkeys indi cate that they can easily replace the corned beef on the family table this Thanksgiving. :6: If "we understand the news from the far East, the new government of Manchuria is not clearly recognized by the Manchurians, either. :o: Correct this sentence: "I favor what is best for my country," said the earnest citizen, ."regardless of the effect on my pocketbook." :o: Another difference between the ma Jcjr parties this year is that the Democrats are taking the oath of of fice while the Republicans are emit ting it. :o: The election returns at least have relieved us of one continual anxiety and worry. We don't have to wonder any more where Mrs. Dolly Gann is going to sit. j :o: A good way to distinguish "high brow" magazines from the other kind, is that they do not advertise alarm clocks. Their readers are not presumed to be interested in early rising. :o: President -elect Roosevelt an nounces that he will not make any appointments for the next two months, thereby blasting the hopes of the boys who were hoping they would be taken out of their anxiety by Christmas. :o: ' Poldi Miliner, 17-year-old pianist from Vienna, played several Chopin themes at the New York port of en try and thereby gained admittance to this country, charming the customs inspectors to the extent that they were convinced she actually was an artist. Now, how in the world do you suppose that little Viennese miss knew that Chopin would melt the heart of a customs man? :o: William Allen White has nomin ated Governor Woodring for a posi tion on the Roosevelt cabinet, notes the Lawrence Journal-World. But Just what weight the Emporia editor will have as a cabinet builder under the new deal is somewhat uncertain. Now would be a good time for some of the Democratic party's big shots who were saying pleasant things about the Kansas governor at the Chicago convention to repeat their remarks. THE BED CROSS AELI OF MERCY Behind the Red Cross appeals of the President, the President-elect, Chief Justice Hughes, and other leaders, in the humanitarianism of a nation long attuned to the call of this agency for support. In hi3 mes sage to the American people, Mr. Hoover aptly' notes that "a thousand remembered associations of its mag nificent response to the cry of distress in emergency cluster around the name Red Cross." The Red Cross is America'3 far-reaching instrument of mercy, the co-crulnating and like wise the reserve force of all the local and other charitable relief nrraniz- The bravest man we ever knew,ation3 u -3 Ixcmediately rc?Poiisive was afraid to go out in the dark toL i , ,-., , .u i whether it be flood, fire, famine der the bonus act notwithstanding what opponents, for example, the Sun, may say to the contrary. Balti more Sun. :o: PF.0ELEM nrV'OLVllIG TWO ADiUNISTEATIONS President Hoover lias broken a precedent, it is agreed, in asking the president-elect to confer with him about the answer to the notes of for eign governments requesting a con ference on debts. Mr. Hoover makes the occasion clear. The note calls for an answer; it seeks postponement of payments due December 15. Pres ident Hoover can give the answer; lock the coal house. :o: Libby Holman goes free when the prosecutor at Winston-Salem turns the heat off the torch singer. :o: Reverting to the subject of rela tivity, all we know about it is that a dog trot is slow until compared with a snail's pace. :o: If the people get lonesome and can't find anything to do since the election they might start working on their New Year's resolutions. :o: Now that we have turned the corner, we can see cieany anim tne sea of troubles the road to duty. But the path of the ship of industry is beset with thorns and the Slough of Despond which hangs threateningly on the horizon has yet to be stemmed. :o: SAMPLE OF TARIFF FOLLY The United States has no mono poly on tariff folly. North Dakota farmers are letting potatoes rot in the field because the price is too low to pay for digging. A short distance to the north, Mani toba farmers, hit by drouth and grasshoppers, lost their crops, and have not even enough to eat. North Dakota sent word that their Canadian friends might have all the "spuds" they wanted, just for the digging. This is the normal, human way of acting; for the animal called man is a pretty decent fellow, when he gets the chance. But Canada had a tariff of 46 cents a bushel on potatoes; and when asked to Euspend thi3 duty in the present emergency, the min ister of national revenue replied that this is "not a proper remedy," and that to let in free potatoes for hun gry people would bo "unsound in principle." Canada doesn't often make a fool of herself; but she's a thorough soul when she gets started. People of the stricken region of Manitoba say that they will have to get public relief this winter because they haven't money to pay duty on the potatoes which North Dakota is more than willing to give them. To add to the irony, Canada sus pended the duty on hay under sim ilar circumstances a few years ago. It reminds one of our own drouth two years back, when the federal gov ernment was willing to advance money to feed mules but not to feed the people. Next time someone sco!d3 about our tariff, you can win the argument by admitting all he says, and then telling him this potato story. There are others. Labor. he can ask congress to extend the time of payment, cr decline to ask or i this cf congress. But if he accedes the ravages of unemployment in a : to the request for an international time of economic stress. : conference, the discussions will ex- Just now, when the annual Red; tend bevor.d his terr.i of office. The final action will be for the new pres ident ar.d the new congress. There fore, Mr. Hoover asks fcr personal with Governor Rcose- Cros3 roll call is in progress through out the country, it is in order to ob serve the scope of relief which this agency is extending. The recently j consultation issued report of the Red Cross for itsjvclt. last fiscal year, ending with June. I The president's motive is admir shows that more than 12 million ' abie. Hero is a question that in- men, women and children were the : volves two ctViinistrations. It is also object3 of its ministrations. Among Ian American and not a party cucs- the sufferers in the drought areas Hon. Mr. Hoover's sincerity cannot ana tne unemployed elsewhere there ! be ouestioncd. He is acting in the was the distribution of wheat and 'spirit of li is telegram of congratula- other supplies. Use of grain for food.tion on Governor Roosevelt's election, and cotton for clothing was author--in which he promised co-operation lzed by congress, but the proper d:s- j in every possible helpful effort lo tribution and the expense of it were ; farther the common good. the work cf the Red Cross. Er.ier-j Moreover, by his experience during gency relief has extended not only i the Wilson administration and as to distribution of food and clothing, (president, Mr. Hoover is able to give but of feed for livestock and garden I much aid to the study of foreign seed and to provision of shelter, nurs-! questions to a president-elect who, ins advice and care. Working thru I however deen his study mav have 275 chapters, the Red Cross gave been, has not had such experience BAYER iif unemployment aid to nearly 'z mil- Thc difadvantages of such a pro- lion families over two-thirds of the : cess are not so apparent, but they country, expending nearly 2;i mil- are great. Neither party and neither lion dollars for that purpose. outgoing r.or incoming president has These activities merely are repre- j defined a policy to meet this situa sentative of the inclusive service cf:t icr.. Mr. Hoover has . suggested that use the ( f dsakfe cztiom ounces for 25 You Save In Buyinq KC.... You Save in Usinq KC &3 (?QQC36 Q06G this iation-wide agency. Its work is done quietly, as becomes the r.ature of its ministrations. But behind it all is the silent gratitude of the mil lions that have been reached, togeth er with a sense of obligations dis charged on the part of ether mil lions who have made the work cf mercy possible. :o: UNDUE S T ANDING- NEEDED The government of- the United States has gone very radical in Her bert Hoover's administration mo;e radical than ever in its peacetime history. We have taken immense strides in the direction of state so cialism or state capitalism, which ever term one's environment may in cline one to prefer. We have, among other such steps, created an im mense corporation, part of whose cap ital of nearly four billion dollars the whole people provide and the other the whole people guarantee, and we have undertaken to devote almost the entirety of that stupend ous sum to the financing of banks, railroads and other enterprises which are owned and controlled iiy private business interests. Less than one tenth of the huge total goes to the direct relief of millions of poor peo ple who are without work and with out food. It is an unprecedented policy, and it makes a mockery of the conven tional doctrines of individualism and especially of the familiar pat phrases about keeping government out of business and keeping business self-reliant. But .'"conservatives" have justified this policy on the ground of emergency affecting the whole people. (The Sun has joined in support). They have said that when we loan the whole people's money to a particular bank or to a particular railroad, we do so not to help a particular bank president or a particular railroad president, but to protect the whole people. For, our leaders have argued, the emer gency is so widespread that it is im possible to isolate a particular bank or a particular railroad; when one goes down others are pulled down and ultimately the whole structure might go, destroying the whole peo ple's jobs and savings. But if our patriotic conservative groups will stop a moment to think, they should see that it may be diffi cult for a mechanic to understand that when the government lends Gen eral Dawes bank SO million dollars it is helping him (the mechanic). If that mechanic has been as faithful in his station as General Dawes ha3 been in his, and yet is living on the crusts of charity, it may require a considerable act of faith to believe that all is for the best and justice reigns under our "American institu tions." And it ought not to be. hard for conservative groups to under stand that a man who has fought for his country may think that in his distress, his actual want, the gov ernment that can lend money to the Baltimore & Ohio railroad could also advance him the money pledged un- in crchar.ge for markets we might forgive payments tine in a particular year. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated that he thinks the debt question is tied up with the whole matter of tariffs, foreign trade, and our per manent relations with the rest cl the world. Eat it does not stem that any conference on rational debt could cis.-uss such a combination cf foreign and domestic policies. Ar.d there is the jealous congress net entrusted with the power of ne gotiatioii..but with theauXhorityto defeat the result cf any' negotiation Mr. Roosevelt will go into office with p. large majority of democrats in con :Tcss. Yet he cannot tell row how laige a majority he will have for hi.; policies. He cannot afford to alielate sentiment in advance by ap- ipen-Jng to take over too much au- tho.ly. If he agrees to a conference, he vl II of course have representa tives sn the American delegation. He mustle prepared to fight for the con clusicts arrived at, "or to fight again! them. It corner down to Gov srnor lloosevelt s having a major problei of his administration dump ed in l3 lap three months before the tin: . Wha will Governor Roosevelt do? What n he do? HI3 co-operation is aske in a situation in which it is to the : vantage of the country that his co'.: f-el be given. He may ask for por onement of the conference propose but he cannot refuse the counsel .at is asked of him. A situ ation lfc come to him which he could nj have anticipated, and it is that peiiiarly difficult "kind of situ ation irrhich the authority will not be sole! his, but in which he will be helfchiefiy responsible for the outcomj His leadership is demand ed soolr than he could have ex pected. Cut it is demanded in the Interes r-f his country and he must give it Milwaukee Journal. :o: Insist on genuine Bayer Aspirin ! Not only for its safety, but for its speed. The tablet stamped Bayer dissolves d once. It gets to the seat cf pain without delay. It is many minutes faster than any imitation you can buy, and time counts when you're in pain ! For quick relief of headaches, colds, sore throat, neuralgia and rheumatism, periodic pains, and other suffering, stick to the tablets of Bayer manufacture. All druggists. Senator Morris Not After is a Cabinet Job Says Would Not Accept Position If One Oneretl Him Opposed to Canc3llir: War Belt. 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 ma jui, jnea does not depress the heart. 472, giving the defeated candidate approximately 11 per cent. Those are overwhelming: portions. But the popular vote in each election tc!1.3 a different story. Four years ago the Democrats were "wiped out," but had 15 mil lion votes out of a total of lc3 than 37 million. This year, with the count still incomplete, the Republi cans teem certain to have polled more than 15 million out of a somewhat arger total vote. Ia each case the defeated candidates have received a far greater proportion of the popular vote than the electoral count wculd indicate. Smith obtained about 41 per cent and President Hoover's per centage to date is about the same. As; the 192S election has shown, the party that i3 "wiped out" with 15 j million votC3 is still in fairly good condition. .... :o: C-OOD SHOWING TOR THE C0KP0ZIATI0II McCook, Xcb. George V.T. Norris, insurgent republican senator from Xebratka, will not accept a position m the cabinet of President-eiect Franklin D. Roocsvclt if one is of fered. Morris arrested rumors of his pos sible appointment to the next cab inet in an crrphatic statement Fri day as he departed fcr Washington to attend what will probably be t he- last "lame duck" congress in the na tion's history. "I would not consider a position m tne cabinet, even if one was of fered," Xoiris declared. "But it must be mad? elesr that no such post has been offered me." Since th? Nebraska senator pledg ed his support to Roosevelt during the recent campaign, rumors have persisted of assorted plans of demo cratic leader.? to reward Norris for his service with a chance at a cabinet posit'on. As Norr's departed for Washing ion, he made it clear that the incom ing president ?nd Mr. Hoover will fed the bite cf his criticism if in their forthcoming conference cn in ternational debts they decide upon further extension cf the moratorium on foreign debts. g?Inst Canceling War Debt. "Mako the foreign nations pay their debt's cr default," Xorris said. "And if they default. let those debt3 stand against the sky for generations to come as a constant reminder of the costs cf war." Xorris expressed belief he will be asked to surrender his high post as chairman of the senate judiciary com mittee when the democrats reorgan ize congress. Chief among the Interests of the Xcbraskan, he raid, will be two meas ure.! which will be presented on the senate "cor. One of the measures will originate with Xorris. The oth er v, 1.1 originate v. n 11 senator liiram Johnson of California. AUXILIARY HOLDS KEETDTQ The American Legion Auxiliary held a very pleasant meeting: on Fri day afternoon at the home of the unit president, Mrs. H. L. Thomas on Elm street, a large number being In at tendance. The session was taken over with the discussion of the plans for the district convention of tho Auxiliary which will be held in th'13 city on December Cth. The local unit being the hostesses to the representatives of the pests of Cass, Otoe, Lancaster and Seward counties. The ladic-3 also held the election of the delegates to the convention for the local unit, Mrs. C. A. Rosen crans. Mrs. II. L. Thomas, Mrs. Fay McClintock. Mrs. John Falacek and Mrs. Don Seiver3 being chosen as rep resentatives. At the close of the afternoon Mrs. Thomas served dainty and deliciou3 refreshments that added to the pleas ures of the occasion. ILL CF PiJEUMONIA, BB.0OKHABT "BETTER" Chicago, III., Xov. 14. senator Smith W. Crookhart of Iowa was re ported today to be recovering from a slight attack of bronchial pneumonia at the home of friends in suburban Hinsdale. Mrs. Zephlse M. Fope, his hostess, said the senator had been suffering from a cold since Friday, but was improved. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Xebraska, County of Cas3, ' w 1 r 7 n There are three noteworthy fea tures in the Reconstruction Finance Scliools Cut pencitures A S4.C0O.C00 Decrease in the Amoun cf Honey Voted fcr the Cur rent Year. F$EEJT HILLICN VOTES In c tial el. to saye 1 of the last two presiden- ons it has been the fashion at the defeated party was confine result ample, "wiped it." In 1028 the Democrats were s osed to have been the vic tims c this process of erasure bv - vote, l now the same fate is said to ha )vcrtaken the Republicans. For a rty that was "wiped -out" only fc years ago, it might be sug gested, e Democrats have made a renuul 7 quick recovery; and the person; ho shook their heads over ihe ie. of the vote in 1928 and v.-on der whether there was any fu ture fo'ie party of Thomas Jeffer son, rrn feel as if they had seen a modern racle. j The It is that whatever wiping out thefwas in either election wa3 p the electoral vote.' As a he 192S election, for ex Smith polled eighty-seven votes ir? electoral collage, as com pared 1 44 for President Hoover, cr onl;jout 1C per cent of the total. 3 year President Hoover has fftlne electoral votes, while his op; nt apparently has won Corporation report of loans up to the first of this month. They are: . The continued decline in ap plications for loans, tho total for October having been les3 than 40 per cent of that for April, the high record month. This Indicates that demands for aid toward recovery are being satisfied and that the critical situation of last spring and early summer is passing. The progress already made in loan repayments, about 25 per cent of the total now having been returned. The repayments have been made principally by banks and railroads, the former returning nearly 27 per cent of loans. This, again, is an encour aging sign. As the loans are re paid with interest, ft suggests r.ot only that they have done the work for which they were de signed, but that the corporation is proceeding on sound, busi nesslike lines. The fact that nearly three fourths of the fund of 200 mil lion dollars for relief loans to the states yet remains for dis tribution. This condition affords evidence cf conservative policies in the granting of this aid, also reassurance that as money may be needed from this source later in the winter it will be on hand for probable use. Aitogemer, ini3 powertul agency of the government is proving to be a factor cf vast influence in stabil ization and reconstruction. Its ca pacity to aid further, as occasion de- manas, 13 consiaeraDie. including re payments, it still has available more than S50 million of the 2,000 mil lion dollars for loans to banks, rail road3, insurance companies and other corporation?, together with about S5 per cent of the 1,500-million-dollar fund for loans on self-liquidating projects. The latter especially are expected to be an aid to large-scale employment in the months ahead. Walter H. Jurgensen, lieutenant conceit is a rorm of ill health," governor-elect, with II. M. Wulf of a scientist says. Xever mind the man Lincoln, were in the city Friday for who pats himself on the back. He L ellort Tisit and whije here wcre may Just be the victim of lumbago. luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- :o: ert m -Walling at their home on FOR SALE Xorth Third street. While here the Ten ton Prairie hay. Russ Todd, visitore also enjoyed visiting with o31-tfd&wthe many friends here. Xebraska schools reduced their ex penditures last 3'car along with re duced incomes but balances on hand were reduced despite a lower aver age education cost per pupil. The annual report on the state schools. compiled by the state superintendent of public instruction, showed a slight deerea.se In public school enrollment last year altho high school enroll ment increased and number of elig ible children in the state increased Other data shown in the report In cluded a substantial reduction last year in building operations, more than $10.0GT,000 reduction In in debtedness cf the state's schools and a $-l,0CC,000 decrease in amount of money voted for t!i3 current school year. The schools last year reduced their expenditures from 52S.114.C1C m 1D20-31 to 25.054.743. At the same time, income dropped from 532,- 501, Cll to 52S. 701,952. Balances on hand dropped in city and village schools from $3,761,952. Balances on hand dropped in city and village schools from $3,559,423 to $2,SS0, 200 and in rural schools from Sl.- 521.574 to 51.374,443. Attendance in the town3 continued better than in the country. Town attendance was nearly 85 percent of enrollment While it was b.irplv mnr than 7(1 S3- percent in the rural districts. The superintendents office said only 17018 percent of the state's tax able wealth was devoted to public school education. The year before it had been .923 percent. The number of school districts was reduced last year from 7,255 to 7,223 and school- houses from 7.59S to 7,542. Fewer women teachers were employed last year but a slight increase was shown in the numbjr of men teachers. By virtus of an Order of Sale issued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the Dis trict Court, within and for Cass County, Xebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem ber, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the court house, In said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following real es tate to-wit: The north eighty-seven (87) feet of Lots one (1), two (2), .. three (3), and four (4), in Block four (4) in'the1 original " town of Plattsmoutn, Cass Coun ty, Xebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded; The same being levied upon and taken as the property of William A. Weils, Flora M. Wells, Eduth Mar tin and Becker Roofing Company, defendants, to satisfy a Judgment of said court recovered by Occidental Building and Loan Association, plain tiff, against said defendants. Plattsraouth, Xebraska, Xovember 1st, A. D. 1932. ED W. THIMGAX, Sheriff Cass County, Xebraska. n3-5w SHERIFF'S SALE State of Xebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass County, Xebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem ber, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door cf the court house In said county. sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash tho following real estate to-wit: Lots 1 and 2 in Block 31 in Young and Hays' Addition to the City of Plattsmouth, Cass County, Xebraska; The same being levied unon and aken as the property of James E. Waller, Clara Waller, husband and wife; Walt Minnear and Elizabeth May Minnear, his wife, and M. S. Briggs, defendants, to satisfy a Judg ment of said court recovered by The lattsmouth Loan and Building As- ociation, a corporation, plaintiff. against said defendants. Plattoiaouth. Xebraska, Xovember let, A. D. 1932. Sheriff Cas.s County. Xebraska. ED W. THIMGAX, n3-5w SHERIFF'S SALE State of Xebraska, County of Ca is. ENJOYS VISIT HERE By virtue cf an Order of Sale, Is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of tho District Court, within and for Cass County, Xebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem ber. A. I). 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the court house, In said county, ell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate to-wlt: Lots numbered one (1) and two (2) in Block twenty-6even (27) In Young and Hay's Ad dition to the City of Platts mouth. Cass County, Nebraska, excepting the west thirty feet of said Lot two (2) : The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Thomas S. bvoboda and Anna Svoboda, husband and wife, defendants, to satisfy a Judgment of said court recovered by the Plattsmouth Loan and Building Association, a corporation, plaintiff. against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska. Xovember 2nd, A. D. 1932. ED W. THIMGAN, Sheriff Cass County. Nebraska. n3-5w.