J M031&Y, DEC. 26, 1932: FLATtSLlOtTTTI SEIII - WEEKLY JOTTOHAL FAQS TIItlTl 1 The IPIaftsmGufh Journal ! PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PIATTSHOUTH, NEBRASKA Catered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PEICE $2.00 A YEAB IN FIRST POSTAL' ZOHE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3,50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. A play has been produced in Am erica with only three actors in the cast. We remember seeing some plays with less than that. :o: Using water from its thousands of hot springs, Iceland now is able to grow large quantities of vegetables, fruits and flowers . throughout its long, cold winters. :o: . A local youngster, on her return from her first day of school, was asked by her mother if she learned anything and back came the answer, "No, I've got to go again." :o: A cross-eyed bandit is being hunt ed for a bank robbery in Oklahoma. It is understood he intended to rob the filling station across the street but his eyesight got twisted. :o: . Further confirmation of our theory that old Jokers are the best is the fact that the studio audience in the Cantor, Ed Wynn and similar broad casts always go into the loudest con vulsions over the old ones. :o: Another sign of advancing age, is a disposition to worry over the weath er. Young people find ways to enjoy themselves, no matter how hot or how cold, how wet or how dry it may be. :o: The editor, as a precautionary measure, plans to go to bed with his socks on. Saturday night so when he awakens Christmas morning he will be sure to find something In them. ' :o: ' Another argument against war is that for forty or fifty years after fighting in a war, there is a dim sus picion that perhaps we may have fought on the wrong side. The popu lar anger against France just now makes many people feel that sus picion. :o: - France has sent us several very fine letters about the debts, but none of the letters contained a check. Which is a good deal like listening to some of the ultra-modern French music, like Ravel's 'Bolero" it promised great things, but it never delivers much music. . : :o: How far did-Rome fall, when she fell? What shade of red was the Red Sea? What did Jonah do to pass the time those three days he stayed inside the whale? . Have Hoover dresses lost their popularity since the election? Is the man in the moon married or single? If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions what's the road to Heaven paved with?. How many counties have cushions on their Beats? ii7'JSj. They've Never mm "4 ff THESE are not patent medietas children. Their appetite needs ao eoaxiaf . Their tongues are never coded, cheeks never pale. And their bowels more jnst like clockwork. bscaci they have sever been given a kabrt-formiaf laxative. Yon can have children like this and be as healthy yourself if yon f oCov the advice of a famous family physician- Stimulate the vital onans. The strongest of them need help at times. If they don't set it, they grow sluggish. Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin, is a mild, safe stimulant. When a youngster doesn't do well at it my be the liver that's poisonous watte to doll the senses I A spoonful of delicious syrup pepsin If the eighteenth amendment is repealed or revised a lot of the folks are wondering if the cellar will Just become a cellar again. :o: Somebody suggests a tax on homi cide, but the probable willingness of the murderers to kill the collectors might make the scheme unworkable. :o: - The back seat driver has been giv en legal status in Kansas. Like home brew and beer they have ever been with us, but happened to be legal ized first. :o: While lying awake at night try ing to go to sleep try counting sheep. You may not go to sleep, but you will be surprised to learn how soon it is time to get up. :o:- ' -. If Mr. Roosevelt thinks he set a new record in vote getting, he is wrong. In 1824 Daniel Webster re ceived 4,990 out of 5,000 votes cast for a Massachusetts seat in congress. :o: ; Over in Europe they are speaking of Uncle Sam as Uncle Shylock again. If what he's got back so far is any criterion, we'd be Inclined to think that Uncle Shy was nearer the truth. :-o: As we understand it, the senate isn't so sure that the Philippines will be ready for independence in twelve years, as it i3 certain that we'll have our fill of looking out for them by the end of that period. :o: The new adjutant general -of Mis souri, is .a - dentist. This is appro priate. Getting adequate funds for military purposes out of the' legisla ture this year Is going to be like pulling teeth. - . . .. . ... A young wife . has just found out that the dates she had before her marriage were financed from her fiance's allowance for meals when he was a college student. She feels so bad' about it that she is stuffing him at every meal to make up for it. " :o: Another bad time for father Is when the boys in the family get to the age where they .want good-looking clothes for Christmas instead of toys.- All .the relatives begin buying the boys clothes; utterly oblivious to the fact that father, still needs toys. - . t- :o: Wisconsin coeds, are 'attracting considerable favorable attention by their generous view of student fin an cial problems. Some of them are said to finance their dates, furnishing mo tor cars, theater tickets and late sup pers. Such a girl, we think, 13 en titled to a very cordial handshake and a merry Christmas after such a splendid evening. Taoted a Tonic! 2 once or twioe a week will avoid all this. It contains fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin, and does a world of rood to any system young or old. Yon can always get this fine prescriptional preparation at any drug store. Just ask them for Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin. . Get some syrup pepsin today, and protect your family from those bilious days, frequent sick spells and colds. Keep a bottle in the medicine chest instead of cathartics that so often brin on chronic constipation. Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin can always bt employed to give dogged bowels a thorough griping, or burning fSJ23trts ward. It isn't expensive. : - BIGOTRY FORGOTTEH" IN LAST ELECTION Catholics and Protestants com bined to elect Herbert II. Lehman, a Jew, to the governorship of New York state, defeating a Catholic in the process. Creed played little part In politics. Catholics voted for and against Catholics, Protestants for and against Protestants, Jews for and against Jews. After January 1, three other states will have Jewish governors, and a fourth will have as governor one who was born a Jew and is now a Chris tian. Four Catholics at least were elect ed to the United States senate, which will have a total of eight Catholic senators. A number of Catholics and Jews will take seats in the house of representatives. Two members of the supreme court of the United States are Jews, and any number of Jews and Cattholics hold Judiciary posts and other posi tions in national, state and city gov ernments. To some observers this marks the end of religious bigotry in politics and the definite removal of the Ku Klux Klan from the sphere of poli tical influence. With minor exceptions, says a National Catholic Welfare Confer ence News Service dispatch in the Catholic . News (New York), the question of religion was not raised, directly or indirectly, in the election. "The one-hundred-per-cent-American slogan seems to have been thrust into storage along with the other politica clap-trap of forgotten campaigns. It is generally recognized that the chances of dragging it out again are remote. In the campaign of 1932 neither religion nor race was made a qualification for political , office Catholics, Protestants and Jews were found in the front ranks of both po litical parties." Everybody will recall that Gover nor and President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt, an Episcopalian, and for mer Governor Alfred E. Smith, twice a presidential candidate, a Catholic, Joined forces to elect Lieutenant Governor Lehman, a Jew, to be chief executive of New York. Three other states which will have Jews as governors are Illinois, Henry Horner, first term; New Mexico, Ar thur Seligman, re-elected, and Ore gon, Juliu3 L. Meier, incumbent. ' .The four successful -Catholic can didates for the senate are Augus tine Lonergan of Connecticut, Lewis Murphy of Iowa, Patrick McCarron of Nevada and F. Ryan Duffy of Wis consin. Holdover Catholic senators are Thomas J. Welsh of Montana, Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona, David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Felix He- bert of Rhode Island. Literary Di gest. . :o: BATHER FAB FETCHED Many of the good women who stand by prohibition and ignore the proofs of its failure insist upon see ing mundane things, not as they are but as they ought to be. ' They ' hear with "shocked' protest" some very in nocent things that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is reported to have said. and promptly set to work drafting condemnatory resolutions which give the impression that Mrs. Roosevelt had advised young girls to drink as much as they pleased, provided they properly gauge their capacity. The sum of Mrs. Roosevelt's of fending is that she deplored condi tions that have existed since prohi bitlon and contrasted them with those that prevailed prior to the dry era. She said that the hope that prohibi tion would prove to be a protection would prove to be a protection for the weak had been disappointed. She regretted that, with the loosening of former restraints, "in a certain ex tent the average girl of today face3 the problem of learning very young how much she can drink of such things as whiskey and gin and stick ing to the proper quantity." What is there in this statement that puts "a severe strain upon the loyalty of countless American wom en" to the "first lady of the land?" The first lady of the land has been in position to see more than a vast majority of her. critics of what pro hibition has done to young people, girls as well as boys. And when she says that it has precipitated a situ ation in which it is wise for them to learn that hard drinks are something not to be trifled with, only those who do not understand plain speaking or who misinterpret its meaning will take exception to her remarks. Baltimore Sun. . ' . - to: Do you remember the man with the long chin whiskers who used to come to town wearing & woolen com forter wrapped around his head and with a basket of. eggs under one tor.ttrerpdund "cTmgTbbacco, a package of soda and a spool of thread. I COST OF GOVERNMENT A NATIONAL CRISIS The federal government closed Its fiscal year June 30, 1932, with deficit of $2,885,000,000. This deficit followed one of 903 million dollars for the preceding fiscal year. It is conservatively estimated that with the deficit of the current year the total will be five billion dollars. This staggering sum, accumulated in three years of peace, is twice the deficit created during the desperate struggle for the union In the four years of our civil war. During these three years of peace the rUthles3 spending of national government in excess of receding revenues, a bur den will have been piled upon the back of the nation by the close of this fiscal year four times as great as the nation was carrying when we entered the late war. The nation al government stands on the brink of an abyss. - In the face of this disaster the1 gov ernment, both its executive and leg islatlve branches, shows no concep tion of its meaning to the nation The rising demand of the people for relief is met by evasion and stubborn resistance. Parasitic politics and bureaucracy hold their trenches and defy the nation's instant and critica need. No crisis in the nation's whole history was more fatal than that which confronts it in this situation It is our battle of the Marne. If it is not won by the people against the forces absorbing the life blood of the nation there can be no hope of the restoration of our prosperity or the resumption of our progress. The battle can be won but not un less the people realize the full sig nificance of the issue. They are be ginning to, but it is an astonishing fact of the present stage of the strug gle that in the business and finan cial leadership of the country there is thu3 far no adequate sense of its responsibility. There is no adequate sense of the meaning "of the crisis in the press. There Is the beginning of organization among business men and there are men in public life who are fighting singly to bring the sig nificance of the issue home to the government and the people. But it is only necessary to read the proceed ings of congress and the executive to realize that the battle has only be gun. The American people should not be distracted by the sensationalized events in international finance from the major issue of national solvency. It is our vital concern and our first duty to put our own affairs in order. That does not depend upon interna tional payments or politics. It de pends first and last upon the estab lishment beyond quibble or evasion of sound public finance, upon the im mediate drastic' reduction of public expenditure to meet the drastic re duction of public incomes, upon,. the immediat cessation of public spend ing beyond revenue, and the fatal in crease of public debt. Chicago Ttib une. . :o: ; PHILIPPINE BILL FULFILLS A PROMISE The senate's vote of 54 to 19 dis closes its attitude on the question of Philippine Independence. It was by that large majority that the senate refused to recommit the measure, after It had adopted the Byrnes amendment providing that the adop tion by the Filipino people of a con stitution for their coming republic would be tantamount to a direct popular vote in favor of independ ence. The Byrnes amendment seems to be a satisfactory substitute for the original plebiscite clause in the bill, inasmuch as the adoption of a con stitution drafted for the purposes of an independent and .. sovereign state would necessarily be the equivalent of a direct vote for separation from the United States. The Filipino peo ple thus retain the power, under the Hawes-Cutting bill, to remain under American Jurisdiction, although the assumption is that, having demanded independence for 33 years already, they will not refuse the boon when it finally comes. One or two important differences remain to be adjusted between the senate and the house. The senate bill provides for the attainment of inde- pendence after 12 pears from the date of, the adoption of the Filipino con stitution, while the house bill limits the preparatory period to eight years. It is to be expected that in confer- ence the two branches will agree and that the measure will be sent to the president very soon. A veto would not be ' surprising. As a republican president, Mr. Hoo ver may choose to follow the repub- ican tradition, which consists of 60 parts promises and 60 parts post ponement eo far as Philippine inde- In the house toTlhteleilsIafclon was so overwhtf'nlng that a veto court ALL Our Work is Gimai?ainittoccl2 QUICKLY and ECONOMICALLY That's the way we do things. Youll marvel at the low cost of our expert service. We use only those parts in your car that are guaranteed by the makers. Drive in and let us give you an estimate on putting your car in A-l condition ready for a hard winter's driving. No obligation and remember the job is fully guaranteed. A MERRY CHRISTMAS C. V. Iryant O K GARAGE, Phone 7C L be overcome in that body. The sen ate vote of 54 to 19 against recom mittal also indicates a two-thirds majority in the upper chamber against executive disapproval. When and if this bill becomes law, one pledge will have been suf ficiently redeemed to mitigate the force of the reproach that the prom ises of political parties and even the promises of nations are written in water. Springfield Republican. -:o:- A PURPOSELESS QUARREL "We favor immediate modi fication of the Volstead act to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and other beverages of such alcoholic content as is permissable under the constitu tion and to provide therefrom a needed and proper revenue." On this platform plank Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States by an immense ma Jority of the popular vote and of the several states. On this plank, too, was elected a house of representa tives overwhelmingly democratic, and on it republican control of the sen ate was overthrown. Included also in the platform was the declaration: "We advocate the repeal cf the Eighteenth amend ment." Thero .was nothing hidden or .de ceptive about these planks. They were frank, clear,, and definite. Ev erybody understood them. ' They were widely and fully discussed in the en suing campaign. Everybody knew that a democratic victory would mean a government solemnly pledged to undertake these reforms. In the light of that knowledge and understanding the people voted as they did, de cisively and unmistakably. Shall platform pledges e regard ed as debts of honor,' binding upon a party and its elected candidates? Or shall pledges be ignored and the clearly expressed will of the people be disregarded? This is really all that Is involved in the efforts of . the present "lame duck" congress to enact a beer bill into law, and to submit to the states Joint resolution for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. It wa3 prom ised, the people accepted the promise and issued their mandate. Action should be according. It is true that the president and BMIEffi Not fe safety, bat for its speed. Tt UUei Btnmpfd Bayer dissolves d mem. It gab to the seat of pain defaqr. It is many minutes yon can when you're iapat Per ejedek rcSef efheadaehea, feeiis, sere timet, nemlgia and perioeTle psmi msi2 stieSc to tin A3 nst chores the' heart CicUmz congress elected on these promises are not yet in power. But the man date is as plain now as it will be in March. And in both house and sen ate are numerous members who last November were re-elected on these party pledges, either actively sup porting them, or supporting them in directly by failing to repudiate them. There is every good reason why they and other members in sympathy with these planks should lose no time in permitting the people to rule. And as to repeal of the Eighteenth amendment both parties stand pledg ed to action, differing in degree rath er than in kind. Rehashing in congress of the old arguments, long since worn thread bar, is only a waste of time and energy. Obstructive tactics can only delay, they cannot defeat, the des tined end. If the present congress fails to act the incoming congress will not fail. If the present presi dent vetoes a beer bill, the incoming president will sign another. Why waste time, why make trouble, all unavailingly? The incoming con gress will have an appalling lot of important measures demanding its in stant attention. The decks should be cleared for action regarding them The new congress should not need lessly be saddled with a revival and continuation of this quarrel already decided by the people themselves. Nation-wide prohibition, as we have known it and know it now, is a failure. Given ample opportunity to prove itself, it has brought us bj a degenerative process from bad con ditions to conditions growing, stead ily worse and more intolerable. Pending its repeal, beer, as a mild, nutritious and harmless beverage, with its promise of providing needed revenue, should be permitted, in states desiring it, as a substitute for lawless bootleg liquor. And such is the popular mandate. Though much is needed little is expected from what remains of the term of the existing government at Washington, congress included. But one service it can and should render is to submit to the states a repeal amendment and enact a beer bill, so that these questions, at least, will not remain to vex the Incoming ad ministration. If then President Hoo ver were to take his courage and convictions in hand and sign the beer bill he would by that action add a bit of needed luster to his crown of glory. World-Herald. :o: California, which is probably our greatest consumer of African lions, is now shipping California mountain lions to zoos in Egypt. This , new branch of international trade is still very young, but we can look into the future and see how a great tariff is sue may rise from It in a few years, : :o: Journal Want-Ad coat onto lew cents ana get real results 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, S3. In the County Court. - -. ' -' " -Probate Fee Book 9, at page 326. In the matter, of the estate of Jonas Johnson, 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 13th day of January, A. D. 1933. and on the 14 th day of April, A. D. 1933, at ten o'clock In the forenoon of each day, to examine . all claims against said estate, with a view to their ad Justment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate Is three months from the 13th day of January, A.. D. 1933, and the time limited for pay ment of debts is one year from said 13th day of January, 1933. Witness my hand and the seal .of said County Court this 16th day of December, 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) dl9-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Settle ment of Account. . In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. Probate Fee Book 9, at page 307. To the heirs at law and all persons interested in the estate of Bertha Halmes, deceased: On reading the petition of John N. Halmes, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 24th day of December, 1932, and for assignment of the assets of said es tate ; determination of heirship ; and for his discharge as Administrator; ' 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 20th day of January, A. D. 1933, 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 pen dency. of said petition and. the hear ing thereof .be given to all persons In terested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof," I, have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 24th day of December, A. (Seal) J23V . .County Jtidye. j Lunfcor OcvAig 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. HEDHASXA DAS.1ET FACTOHY Everything for the student from penny leadpenclls to type writers. The place to get them why, at Dates Cook Ctore, of course. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship Probate Fee Book 9, at page 335. Estate of Frances Bartek, deceased. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska: To all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Jo seph E. Benak has filed his petition alleging that Frances Bartek died in testate in Casa county on or about March 5th, 1922, being a resident and inhabitant of Cass county, and died seized? of the following described real estate, to-wit: j . Lot five ( 5 ) . of northwest quarter of southeast quarter and southwest quarter of southeast quarter of' Section two (2); northwest quarter of northeast quarter of Section' eleven (11) all in Township twelve (12), North, Range thirteen (13), East of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Cass county, Nebraska leaving as her sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to wit: Paul Bartek, widower; Wes ley Bartek, son; Mary Benak, "daughter; Fred Bartek, son; Henry Bartek, eon; Anna Bar tek, daughter; Paul Bartek, son; William Bartek; .son; George Bartek, Bon; John (Bartek) Hes Ber. son; ' That the interest of the petitioner In the above described real estate is that of a purchaser of said real estate, and praying for a determination of the time of the death of said Frances Bartek, deceased, and Of her heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real property be longing to the said deceased, in the State' of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing on the 20th day of Janu ary, 1933, before the County Court of Cass county in the court house at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at the, hour of ten o'clock a. m. Dated at .Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 19th day of December, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) d26-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO- ? TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court 'of Cass couH- " ty, Nebraska. 1 ' State of Nebraska, County of Caftfc cs. , Fee Book 0, page 334. To the heirs at law and to all per sons interested in the estate of Wash Landis, deceased: On reading the . petition , of Bess Halstead praying that the instrument filed in this Court on the 9th day of December, 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 ' Wash Landis,' deceased; that said instrument be admitted to probate 'and the administration of said estate be ' granted to Frank . A. Cloidt, as Executor; It is hereby ordered that "you, and all persons Interested In said matter, may and . uo, appear at ine vouniy Court to be held -in and for said coun ty,; on the 6th, day of January, A. p. 1933, at ten o'clock a. m to snow cause,' if aliy there be,. why. the pray er of the petitioner should, not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all pei sons interested in said matter by pub lishing a copy of this Order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weexiy. newspaper printed in said county," for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and the seal ox said Court, this 9 th day of December. " A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) dl2-3w . 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 or. case. 8S. Probate Fee Book 9 at pago 333. To the heirs at law and to all per sons interested in the estate of Henry L. Ofe, deceased. On reading the petition of Carl P. Oft praying that the instrument filed n this court on the 3rd day of De cember, 1932, and purporting to be the last will, and testament of the said deceased, may be proven and allowed and recorded as the last will and testament of Henry C. L. Ofe, deceased; that said instrument be admltteed to probate and the admln- stration of said estate be granted to Edward O. Ofe and Henry J.: Ofe as executors; t is hereby ordered that you, ana all persons Interested in said matter, may. and . do. appear at the County Court to be held in and tor said coun ty,. On the 30th day., of December, A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the" pr&yer ; of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of, the pendency of said petition and that the hearing. thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the lattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed In eald county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearings Witness my hand and the eeal of said court, this 8th day of December, (Camy efrttrr--."-": : Ctxaty TV&ZX'