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MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 19S3. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THREB The Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE S2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone. $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 mlle3, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13,50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. How happy modern youth could be if a smart fellow could succeed with out ten hard years of learning how. :o: Money talks. But not when bound and gagged and throv '1 into a vault. :o: Never yet has corruption flourish ed where decent people had the same feeling for corrupt men and skunks. :o: V.'e never stop praising the man behind the gun. but it is the man in front of the gun who needs sym pathy. : o : The next time you have hiccoughs try sticking your tongue out as far as possible. Repeat if necessary. This almost always stops them. :o: When your car loses $400 in value in one year, it is hard to figure just how much of that loss is deprecia tion and how much is deprecation. :o: A common type of leader of men is one who first finds out which may the crowd is headed and then hops out in front, waves a banner and yells, "Come on, fellers." :o: We look forward to Jimmy Wal ker's new book with a good deal of pleasure. As he will not be under oath, we expect him to discuss things with a good deal of candor. :o: The papers have been full of a new word the past few days tech nocracy. Don t be excited, tnougn. Being a victim of technocratic un employment is just an involved way of saying one is out of a job. :o: When all the rest of the country trims the sails for depression, Holly wood goes right on with its vulgar display of wealth. Harry Languor., for instance, testified in an alimony suit the other day that he still had $40. :o: Whenever we run onto one of those headlines stating that Hoover, Hindenburg, MaeDonald, or some other big government head "is at a crisis," we read no further. Those boys have been having so many crisis attacks in recent years, that the ne ..-s has ceased to be of interest. no longer be ioUL that you hats an expensive foot" A AAA A to EEE SIZES. I to 12 Fetzer Shoe Co. Home of Quality Footwear .1 The real cause of crime is about 120 million people who don't give a darn. :o: Some of the big trucks going through town at night are lit up like Christmas trees, but nobody would mistake their drivers for Santa Claus. :o: When an Oklahoma man's cow be came ill, a veterinarian was called and il was found that the animal had eaten a clock, which accounts for her alarming condition. : o : "Viewed from all angles," says a local man, "about the most satisfac- : tory and deeply appreciated gift I (bestowed this Christmas was a ping- ipong ball for the cat." :o: Since reading of Mr. Hoover's con tinued failuro to make the fish strike, we're a little less afraid of techno cracy. There still are a few things engineers can't do. :o: Most of the mystery of how they do things in moving pictures has been cleared up, except how people get their telephone numbers so quickly. :o: We trust Mr. Howard Scott is not reading all the works on technocracy that now deluge the public. Some bod' connected with the institution should keep a clear head. :o: If it is made possible to pay city and county taxes in installments, along with motor car purchases an preachers' salaries, everybody will be in step on an easy payment basis ex cept the bootlegger. :o: The girl of the gay '90s had great faith in mistletoe, to bring her fu ture happiness. However, the girl of 1932 finds it doesn't take mistle toe to bring the first kiss just a likeable boy and a parked car. :o: A Chinese general recently shot another Chinese general at a din ner. However, the victim no doubt brought it upon himself. He prob ably opened his after dinner remarks by saying "Stop me if you've heard it." DETROIT SHARING OFF HER DOLDRUMS Detroit is herself again. She is moving again in the thunderous tempo of the "Miracle City," into which she was transformed from a sleepy Michigan town by the auto mobile. The battle for the "low priced field" is again raging .t is a real industrial drama. The central figures, in the order of their present appearance, are Chrysler, General Motors and Ford. Chrysler has led the 1933 inva sion with his Plymouth, which, abandoning the four, has entered the six-cylinder arena. It is a big ger car, too. The specifications re cite a long ritual of refinements. It carries the unmistakable stylish im print of that producer's genius. Eut the heartening economic message is spoken by the authentic voice of the factory in expanding production. Men are at work who have been idle, and weekly pay envelopes are rout ing desolation. General Motors has just made its bow with a new Chevrolet. This lat est model means, according to the Business Week, that the company "has definitely outlined a policy of expansion rather than reduction of quality." A smart, comely girl, this Mile. Chevrolet of '33. Her elder sis- ters. so they say, look, in compari - son, like laned old spinsters. And she is accomplished as well as beau tiful. Queen of her domain, by ver dict of statistics, she is determined, apparently, to defend her dynasty by the twin title of elegance and de- portment. Anyhow the endless chains of the production lines are revolving, to the sacramental obligato of em ployment and wages. What of Ford? He has yet to make his next year's bow. From his con- valescence in the hospital recently he promised "something really new" in automobiles. The trade is rife with speculation and rumors. The supremacy that was Model T is, of course, a vanished legend, and thejtial process. His willingness to ac triumphant renaisance of Model A, cept responsibility seems rather electrifying though it was, was brief. But the four bloomed into an eight, and nerhans the Old Master will again achieve a masterpiece. Well, it's magnificent, anyhow, this war of the motor giants, waged on a truly titanic scale along the vast front of the modezt purse and shrewd, fashionable thrift. The strug- gle for survival is contriving auto-j ... , . . M tallv and figuratively we close our mobile values undreamed of in the -jt'-'ia , books on the last day of the old year, easier economic days. It is a prodi-I , m , ,. . take account of stock and make our gious spectacle we are witnessing. I , . , . . . . plans for the coming twelve-month. And it rather shatters the COmpIa-1' , . .1 There was more reason for hailing cent gospel of monopoly so many of! the new year in the old days when us were by v. ay of accepting. The . . . . , . .... . , the calendar began with the vernal whole mcrcdibl story of th automo-1 . , . t . , . , , ; equinox, la late March, and the fes- bile is a romance which cculd be . ... tival of the years end was certain written only in tne inK or competi- . . . . . tion is beyond the compass of mon-1 , . . .... . opoly. It is competition at its des- . . , a vo ucci. So Dotroit is shaking nfT hpr dold- rums. Things are better there. How long the accelerated production of motor cars will continue we, of course, cannot say. There is no hon est place for mere optimistic patter in current circumstances. 'Rut there is something inspiring in the courage of our motor magnates, in the gal lant expenditure of their material, mental and moral resources. Theirs is the spirit that will not see defeat. That spirit is today, we believe, as in the past, a national characteristic. It is an unbeatable asset. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o: During the fourteen centuries in which the Bible was copied by hand, so many "improvements" were made by the copyists that at least 150,000 variations can be found today in the existing manuscripts of the New Testament alone. :o: We suspect Mr. Insull's lawyer's comparison of his client to Prome theus is going to rouse some resent ment in Greece among the old friends of Prometheus. Prometheus stole the lire from the gods all right, but he didn't sell any stock to the people. :o: The fish along the Florida coa3t seem to remain obstinate in their re fusal to bite for President Hoover. When a feller's luck is down, there's nothing much to do but stop and wait. The way things are for Mr. Hoover at this time, even if he did get a bite, it would probably be a turtle. :o: Mr. Insull, we are informed, plans to stay in Greece indefinitely. Greece has a special way of making itself attractive to visitors like Mr. Insull. He is going to stay in Greece, we sur mise, for reasons strongly similar to those for which Mr. Robert Burns, formerly of a Georgia chain gang, plans to stay in New Jersey. :o: Don't send your money away if you want to see real prosperity In Cass county. Plattsmouth Is the logical "big town" shopping point for every resident of the county. TREASURY ESTIMATES PRETTY BAD GUESSES In the budget balancing effons at the last session, congress relied up on the estimates of the treasury on what certain specified taxes would generate in federal revenue. It now develops that many of those esti mates were almost fabulously wide of the mark. For example, a tax on malt, brewers' wort and grape con centrate, which the treasury estimat ed would yield 82 million dollars in federal taxes for a year, has thus far been yielding revenue at a rate which suggests that it will not pro duce 10 per cent of that amount. An error of such enormous magni tude cannot be put down to a rea sonable miscalculation of the future course of business in general. Nor does it seem likely that anything like 90 per cent of this home brew ers' and vintners' material is being bootlegged to avoid the tax. The treasury has suggested that there is some bootlegging. But the record j suggests very forcibly that the treas- ury, in this instance a3 well as in many of its other estimates, did a very bad job of forecasting. In the j light of such a record of error it would be appropriate for congress to j direct some critical attention to the treasury estimates, a new set of 1 which are now serving as the basis or calculations ot wnat is requireu Dy way of balancing the budget again at this session of congress. The job of forecasting revenue from new taxes is very difficult, and one in which anything approaching : infallibility is not reasonably to be ! expected. But when the treasury shoots 90 per cent wide of the mark it seems a bit foolish to accept its estimates as bench marks in budget balancing without subjecting them 'to very close scrutiny and this even though Secretary Mills firmly insists on taking full responsibility for the estimate" whose preparation by the treasury he holds to be a confiden- : greater, in the case of his estimates. than his capacity to discharge it sat isfactorily. Baltimore Sun. :o: THE OUTLOOK FOR 1933 There is something about the be ginning of a new year which tends to rpvivp nrsnfnv hnript; Rnth lifer- ... . . to be followed speedily by the re- vival of vegetation and the begin- . . . ning afresh of the annual agricul- . . . m tural cycle. A great deal of the sen- tllr-en tal importance which we at- to New Year's Day is a sur- it'.cn iu rtiew i ear s d ; vival from the pastoral civilizations of the past. I We are no better able than any one else to predict what will hap- r en in 1933. "vno Knowetn wnat !a day may bring fortn : We are cer tain only of one thing: that is that the New Year will be different from the old one. And we hope it will be a better year. We have, at least, put behind us some of the things which made 1932 the hardest year in recent American history, for most folks, and we are closer to some of the things which promise better for the future. The election is over, for one thing: the European debt situation is at least beginning to be clarified. We seem to have about reached the end of the procession of bank failures. Farm products touched new all-time low prices in 1932 and we cannot imag ine that they will not average higher in 1933. It seems to us that the coming year will necessarily be one of thorough readjustment, not alone in matters of money and trade, but in people's mental outlook. It may have been necessary for us to go through three terrible years of depression to purge our minds of the fallacious notion that the road to universal prosperity and individual wealth is an easy one. If it turns out by the end of 1933 that everybody has learned that he is entitled only to what he can get by working for it, and to be content with that, the New Year just begin ning will be the greatest success ever recorded on the calendar. mj: When Greece defaulted on her war debt, we naturally supposed she in tended to remit Mr. Insull on ac count. But now she has refused to pay either the interest or Insull. Sometimes we fear we're stuck, as far as Greece is concerned. :o: See the goods you buy. (Slowing catalog descriptions are often misleading. The only safe way Is to trade with your home town merchant who stands ready to make good any Inferiority, CUT THOSE TAXES The demand for lower taxes has become well-nigh universal. Govern ments, national, state, county and local, went wild in the fat years be fore the crash of 1929, in creating new jobs and finding new ways to spend public funds. We grant that many of the objects for which taxes have been steadily increased are de sirable if we had the money. But in these days, when individuals and their families have to count every penny and get along without most of the things they would like to have, public officials persist in extrava gance should be summarily removed. The difficulty in the way of get ting taxes reduced is that the tax eaters are organized and the taxpay ers are not. We think it was Mr. Cleveland who coined the phrase 'The cohensive power of public plunder. It is natural for those who are feed ing at the public crib to desire to keep their jobs, and to put every pos sible obstacle in the way of those who would oust them. But this is, in theory at least, a "government of the people by the people and for the people," to quote another famous president. And the indignation of the people at this impudent defiance of public opinion by the tax-eater is already beginning, in some com munities and sections, to approach the boiling point. The process of reducing taxes is simple enough. Lop off the unneces sary frills and fads with which we have bedizened our governmental functions. Reduce the administration of public affairs to the bare essen tials and see that honest men ad minister them. We do not think we are exaggerating when we say that the nation would be better off if half of the bureaus and departments at Washington were abolished. We think most States are in the same fix and we are sure that there is unneces sary waste in the operations of most county and town governments. We hope the new administration at Washington will set an example for the 6tates to follow. :o: ROOSEVELT PREFERS A SIMPLER METHOD President Hoover's attempt to draw Governor Roosevelt into the debt problem at this time has again met with the governor's refusal. Mr. Hoover's purpose undoubtedly is to bridge the interim, the last period of his administration, and provide something like a continuity of pur pose. This apparently will not work, and whatever the disadvantages of the situation may be, they remain. The president-elect professes his willingness to be of any assistance noslhle but is convinced that no PossMie, uui is wnvwen mat real team work can be had. He does not see eye to eye with Mr. Hoover in the matter of methods, and. such beinS hp case he does r-ot wisn to commit himself at this time, when ue wouiu nnnnQ uuuiuma: to the president s leauersnip. It is indicated that Governor Roosevelt distrusts the commission and conference method of negotia- tion, probably because it is not as congenial to him as it has been to Mr. Hoover. To Mr. Hoover it has seemed the logical means of meet ing any problem requiring inquiry, fact finding, negotiation, and concil iation. Governor Roosevelt makes it apparent that he prefers a simpler and more direct method. In the mat ter of the debts, he would deal with each individual debtor in the cir cumstances in which it and the Unit ed States find themselves and by ordi nary government procedure come to certain conclusions which would be submitted to congress. It is easy to like Mr. Roosevelt's. idea of procedure. There has been very little in international confer ences of the last ten years to rec ommend them to American liking. American participation in them has left Americans with a feeling not only that they were inherently fu tile but that they contained great possibilities of national injury. The American negotiators have seldom seemed competent for the occasion, either in resolution or in knowledge of what their country's interests were. Consequently, Americans have come to think, we believe th.at not only failure but danger is inherent in these ponderous, highly publicized international conferences. Frequent ly the best press agent seems to win the day, and Lord Riddell of Great Britain has few equals in that ca pacity. In the matter of the debts the Am erican position is undoubtedly weak ened in negotiations which by their form unite all the debtors against their creditor and pool all their argu ments for joint attack upon him. This country can feel much safer if it is dealing with each case on its own merits, and in a simplicity which will have none of the extraneous ele ments so influential to a general gathering of the high hats of Europe. Lumber Commercial sawing from your own logs lumber cut to your specifications. We have ready cut dimen sion lumber and sheeting for 8 ale at low prices. NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY The debts are a business question. The American side requires an Am erican agent whose national interest is undiluted, whose common sense is unimpaired by extraneous matter, and who i3 not susceptible to any consideration other than that of the best deal for the people he repre sents. To get such a deal seems beyond the probabilities of any conference conducted as those with which the United States has become familiar. Chicago Tribune. :o: JAPAN DIGS IN The program for greatly improv ing the equipment and increasing the size of the Japanese army in Manchuria, as just announced by the war department in Tokio, would make still more obvious the absurd ity of the government's contention that the new state of Manchukuo really represents the will of the Man churian people if such a thing were possible. Unfortunately, that is im possible. From the day Henry Pu-yi was installed as nominal head of the so-called Manchukuo administration, protected by Japanese guards and assisted by Japanese advisers, it has been perfectly evident that the will of the Manchurian people, like one of the "Mikado's" flowers, has noth ing to do with the case. On this point the report of the Lytton commission, sent by the League of Nations to investigate the Manchurian situation, is clear. The commission found no evidence of any local movement to declare the in dependence of Manchuria from China prior to the beginning of the Japan ese occupation in September, 1931. And it came away convinced that the new state could not have been form ed without "the presence of Japan ese troops and the activities cf Jap anese officials, both civil and mili tary." The strengthening of the Japanese army in Manchuria, like the earlier recognition of Henry Pu yi's regime, is simply a notice served on the world that Japan is there to stay,, with a request that "Russian papers please copy." :o: WOMAN BLAMED IN DEATH Chillicothe, Mo. County Prose cutor Taylor received a telegram from Sheriff Diehl in which the of ficer said May Vaughn had been ac cused of the fatal shooting of Leon P. Neal, Chicago salesman, whose body was found along a road near here Dec. 15. Diehl is en route from Pensacola with Miss Vaughn, Vir ginia Blum and Henry Maguar, ar rested by Florida officers as suspects Diehl said Maguar had signed a statement accusing Miss Vaughn and admitting a part in the slaying. Maguar traveled to Kansas City with Neal as the latter was driving home from a funeral he attended in Texas He was in possession of the sales man's automobile when arrested in Florida. Insist genuine BAYER ASPIRIN The Bayer crow is not merely a trade-mark, but a symbol of safety. The name Bayer tells you that it cannot depress the heart. The tablet that's stamped Bayer dissolves so quickly you get instant sisf from the pain. A' There's bo unpleasant taste or odor to tablets of Bayer manufacture; ao injurious ingredients to upset the system. Tablets hssriag the familiar Bayer cross hare no coarse particles to tfiftats throat or stomach 0 NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. 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 14th 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 raid County Court this 16th day of December, 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) dl9-3w County Judge. SALE OF ASSETS The undersigned Receiver of the Firrt National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, will offer at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, subject to the approval of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States and a court of competent jurisdiction, without recourse and without war ranty of any kind or character, at the Law offices of A. L. Tidd, Attorney in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the seventh day of January, 1933, at 1:30 p. m., certain assets of the said First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, less such items as may be paid or otherwise disposed of prior to the said date of sale heretofore men tioned. The assets to be offered have a total face value of J132.902.34. A list thereof will be on file at the of fice of the Receiver in Shenandoah, Ipwa, for inspection by interested parties, prior to this sale. The office of such Receiver is in the First Na tional Bank building at Shenandoah, Iowa. CARL S. FOSTER, Receiver of the First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebr. d29-4sw 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 nterested in the estate of Bertha Malmes, 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 eranted, 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. D. 1932. A. H, DUXBURY, (Seal) J26-3w County Judge. 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 Cass 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: 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, son; Anna Bar tek. daughter; Paul Bartek, son; William Bartek, son ; George Bartek, son; John (Bartek) Hes ser, 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. Everything for school most complete line In Cass county at Bates Book Mora, . .