THURSDAY, FEBR. 16, 1933.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUENAL
TWO
TThe Plattsmouth Journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
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R. A. BATES, Publisher
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Walking is said to be a cure for a
person when run down. Anyhow, be
ing run down is a cure for walking.
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The trouble with going some place
where you are ashamed to be seen,
is that you always find some friends
there.
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Speaking of machines that are al
most human, how about ther
mometers? No two of them ever com
pletely agree.
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Italy will be glad to discuss debts
v. ith the United States, and probably
is preparing already to show how re
duction would be of great benefit to
the esteemed United States.
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Among a large proportion of the
population, musical discernment and
appreciation are measured by ability
to recognize the Sextette from Lucia
and the Anvil Choru3 when played
over the radio. .
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A scientist says we sprang from a
fioh 400 million years ago. Not often
do we take issuo with scientists, but
considering what suckers we are,
some one must have been equipped
with defective springs.
One thing about being President
of the United States, one can really
get in some swell fishing.
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A work of art represents the art
ist's attempt to crystalize in a per
manent form and shape the content
of a fleeting vision.
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Mr. Hoover fell down on his chick
en in every pot promise. A better and
cheaper thing would be- forty bowls
of bean soup in every pot.
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"The old pioneers of 1910 certain
ly had a life of hardship, doing this
every day," said a local man as he
cranked hi3 motor car one cold day
last week.
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History professors are now trying
to prove that Pocahonta3 did not save
the life of Capt. John Smith. Few
will care about that. But did Poca
hontas smoke? .
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The man who invented the tandem
bicycle died last Saturday. "Who re
members when the bicycle built for
two was one of the great social prob
lems, like the rumble seat, the stag
line and the speakeasy booth of later
days.
Vice-President Garner's son is run
ning for mayor of Uvalde, Tex. He
can hardly bo identified as a chip off
the old block, however, until he gets
so he runs for two or three offices at
once.
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A news item, describing a fight be
tween two Canadian gentlemen at
dinner, says one hit the other on the
head with a spade. And what other
garden tools are used as .blewarc
in Canada, besides the spade?
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The Atchison Globe digs up an old
saying: "Don't worry about Amer
ica. One generation works and makes
money. The second spends it. The
third lives on credit. The fourth goes
back to work again."
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"Devalue" is the new word that
is insisting upon being used in con
nection with national currency re
forms these days, but the new word
that seems to us to have the most far
reaching possibilities is Colonel
Stoopnagle's term, VStoopnocracy,"
and its variant, "Stoopnocrat."
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WHAT'S OUR INTEREST
IN THE WAR DEBTS?
It is still a frequently recurring
complaint out here:
"All this talk about war debts and
unstable foreign currencies is inter
esting, no doubt, to a technician, but
it's a long way from Iowa. Why
should I be interested? What's wor
rying me just now is the March pay
ment on my mortgage. I can't' be
bothered with war debts."
This objection i3 answered in a
strikingly direct way in the mar
ket page headlines of a recent day:
"Decline in Canadian Exchange
Sends Chicago "Wheat Lower."
But for England's financial plight,
there would be no reason for Can
ada's partial departure from the gold
standard, which ha9 induced the
present instability in Canadian ex
change. The dominion is producing
more raw gold today than at any
time In previous history. But her
political and commercial tie3 with
Great Britain are so close that she
cannot avoid the impact of financial
disturbances in London. Even South
Africa, greatest gold producing re
gion in the world, had to follow Lon
don in her exchange policy.
Even without the war debt pay
ments staring her in the face, Eng
land might have been forced off the
gold standard, but the debt payments
certainly made the step inevitable.
So England's currency is depreciated,
and Canada's along iwth it and Chi
cago wheat, despite reports of un
usual ardity in the winter wheat
belt, and destructive dust storms in
Oklahom and Texas, sag3 lower and
lower.
Corn, of course, goes down with
wheat; and Parmer Jone3, who ex
pects to sell corn to pay his March
interest, wonders why he should be
interested in war debt settlements
and foreign exchange fluctuations.
Des Moines Register.
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In some parts of Siam the dense
jungle come3 right up to the rail
way line, the jungle growing with
such astonishing rapidity that period
ically men have to cut back the
branches of trees and bend aside the
immense shoots of bamboo which
threaten to impede traffic.
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The weather bureau says the
ground-hog has been wrong nine
tenths of the time and now the
ground - hoggites are giving the
weather bureau the ground-hog
laugh. But in all these controversies
the ground-hog is entitled to the
most respect. Ke doesn't even know
what it is all about, and makes no
pretense of knowing.
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plugs, then the show begins.
Within the cylinders, it explodes.
Every atom turns into energy
drives the piston down in a
smooth stroke of power.
Greased lightning can't beat
it. It starts quick as a spark and
picks up fast as a flash. Press the
starter and step on the gas. No
mis-firing; no bucking, stalling
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A treat to your motor, a joy
to you, yet it costs not a penny
more. It's improved in anti
knock. It makes miles thrifty.
Fill up today. Test it out. Ask the
Conoco man for an entry blank.
Last call to help us name it. Who
knows? iYou may win a prize.
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15 PRIZES OF $ 25 EACH
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A Names most be not more than 12 let-
ters; slogans not more than 12 words.
Submit cither or both on single sheet; plain
white paper; one side only; but preferably
on official contest information -and -entry
blank, free at Conoco dealers and stations.
Elaborate presentations receive no extra,
credit.
O Contest closes midnight, February 23,
1933. Entries must be postmarked be
fore that date and hour.
O Continental employees, members of their
families and others connected directly
or indirectly cannot compete.
A Should more than one person submit
exactly the same name or slogan, each
will receive full amount of any prize such
entry may win. All entries become Conti
nental Oil Company property, and none
will be returned.
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E The Company reserves prior rights to
phrases and slogans of its own creation,
already in prepared advertising. Also it
reserves the names "Continental" or "Con
oco" gasoline, "Conogas", and "101" gaso
line. Whether or not the winning contest
same is adopted, prize money will be paid;
but the Company reserves tho right to use
name of its own creation if decided more
suitable and more protectable under trade
mark laws.
d No purchase is required of contestants.
Continental Oil Company executive
will be the judges and their decisions final.
'Winners will be announced over radio and
prize money paid as soon as possible after
contest closes.
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DEATH ON WHEELS
Three hundred and twenty-live
thousand Americana havo been kill
ed In motor car accidents in tho past
fifteen years. That Is more than the J
total number of American soldiers
who were killed in the Great War.
Last year, according to carefully com
piled statistics kept by the Travelers
Insurance Company, there were
twenty-nino thousand motor vehicle
deaths. This is a reduction from the
thirty-three thousand flvo hundred
deaths from this cause in 1931, but
it must be remembered that there
were a great many fewer cars on the
road last year than there were the
year before. Every death of this kind
is a senseless, useless waste of life
for no good purpose.
It is not enough to say that fatal
accidents aro the fault of careless
drivers; the situation calls for some
way of insuring against carelessness
in driving. The bof;t insurance of
this is requiring everyone who drives
a car to be licensed, after a rigid
examination into his or her ability
to drive carefully, and then to en
force strictly the law3 forbidding any
unlicensed driver to sit behind a
steering wheel and punishing the li
censed driver for any accident
which causes injury to persons or
property. In the half dozen states in
which such laws and regulations
exist tho proportion of automobile
accidents is lower than anywhere
else.
Automobile drivers are not always
at fault. While 44 percent of the
persons killed by automobiles last
year were pedertrians who were
struck by cars, nearly ha!! of those
were killed by the!r own carelessness.
either in crossing streets against sig
nals, crossing diagonally between
street intersections, or stepping out
into traffic from behind parked cars.
No cane person would think cf let
ting a boy or a girl handle firearms
without making sura that they thor
oughly understood the danger inher
ent in their usa and knew perfectly
well how to handle them. But paople
who shudder at tho idea of giving
children firearm3 to play with let
them run automobiles without any
evidence that they have tha neces
sary skill and presence cf mind and
Intelligence to handle them safely.
Ten timc3 as many people arc killed
every year by automobile accidents
as are killed by the accidental dis
charge of firearms.. We have not 5et
learned how to control the motor
car.
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WOULD PUT All E2TD
TO TAX EXEMPTIONS
Senator CordslI Hull of Tennessee,
prominently mentioned fcr secretary
of state in tho Rooevslt cabinet,
may point the way to a balanced
budget by introducing a proposed
amendment to the federal constitu
tion stopping the wholesale issue of
tax exempt securities. I:i the house,
Representative Swansea of Iowa al
ready has introduced a proposed con
stitutional amendment providing for
the taxation cf income derived from
securities now exempt. Senator Hull's
proposal is exnocleJ to harmonize
with that of the Iowan.
The tax cxerapt cccurlties are fed
eral, state and municipal bonds.
They bear lower interest rates than
industrial isuo. Ilxlz was fcr the
purpose of attracling capital and sell
ing the varlcu' -noi rabidly. It is
estimated that the total of capital
thu3 inverted b 26 -billion dollars.
There are other cocuvitie3 parlly tax
exempt, ar.d thc-o reach an aggre
gate in vallu3 of accut nine billion
dollars. If the Hull-Gwanson efforts
succeeded, it would mean there
would ba rcrtcred tor taxation pur
poses the i nc cm a cr. a total ci oa
billion dollars.
Senator Hull, however, in devot
ing his attention to pressing ques
tions of taction has conceived the
idea that legislation should be had
that would reacli the salaries of vast
numbers cf cmrloyai in various states
whose pay i.i now compt frcm tax-
tlon. He also will encourage a step
In that direction in tho next con
gress. A 1 tmr. 13 written, uie iiuii
resolution proposing the amendment
to the federal constitution Is expect
ed to be introduced In the present
ton it is tho belief that the sena
tor's announcement, clo3cly follow
ing a conference with tho incoming
chief executive, la supported by Mr.
Roosevelt. Sioux City Journal.
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Masonic Grand
Master Laid to
the Last Rest
Many Members of the Grand Lodge
Present at Services at Grand
Lland on Monday.
Grand Island, Feb. 13. Suwin B.
Johnston of Grand Island was hon
ored Monday in death as lie was in
life by Nebraska Masons. Upon their
grand master members of the Ne
braska A. P. & A. M. conferred their
highest honors at hi3 funeral here.
The service wri3 held at the First
rt-n-:ivtri.-iTi rlmrch and both the
main auditorium and basement were
filled to capacity. A public address
system carried the rites to those in
the basement.
After the church service a line of
automobiles a mile long Joined the
precession to tho Grand Island ceme
tery. The Masonic committal, fol
lowed bv a brief nrayer and bene
diction by Bishop IJeecher of Hast
ings, grand chaplain, concluded the
rites.
Johnston. 48. wa3 eulogized as a
peer among men, one whose whole at
titude toward life wa3 that of a for
ward locking, upward striving man
of God," by the Rev. Green Rice.
Tho Masonic oration, given by
John R. Trapster of North Bend,
grand master immediately preceding
Johnston, concluded by a statement
that some timo ago during a discus
sion regarding a change of the ritual
for burial, Johnston said, "how
much nicer it would be If we could
be laid away with something like
the 23d psalm." He quoted the
; psalm.
Lewis E. Smith of Omaha, grand
secretary, reviewed Johnston's re
cord in the order, and Bishop Beech
er gave teh concluding prayer at the
church and Mr. Rice the benediction.
Other members of the grand lodge
present fcr tho funeral included
Ralpli Canady cf Hastings, Archie
iM. Smith of Tender, Virgil II. John
son of Beatrice, C. Ray Gates of
Grand Island, Lute M.. Savage: of
Grand Island, William C. Ramsey of
Omaha, A. Phillips of Cambridge.
William A. Robertson of Platts-
mouth and John W. Drisbrow of Om
aha. Johnston died suddenly at his
heme Saturday. He is survived by
his widow and two sons.
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your own logs lumber cut
to your specifications.
Wo havo ready cut dimen
sion lumber and sheeting for
salo at low prices.
NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY
Those boys and girls can't do
good work without proper equip
ment. Bates Book Store can sup
ply every student need at the new
lew price levels.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
cs.
Fee Book 9, page 338.
In tho County Court.
In the matter of the estate of John
M. Kirker, 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
10th day of March, 1933, and on the
12lh day of June, 1933, at the hour
of ten o'clock a. m., of each day, to
examine all claims against said estate
with a view to their adjustment and
allowance. The time limited for the
presentation of claims against said
estate is three months from the 1 t ii
day of March, A. D. 1933. and the
time limited for payment of debt. is
one year from said 10th day of March,
1933.
Witness my hand and the seal of
raid County Court this 10th day of
February, 1933.
A. II. DUX BURY,
(Seal) fl3-3w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S GALE
PSOJECT CLUB MEETS
COk
possibly this
session cf
week.
In rnncunclnj: hl3 attitude. Sen
ator Hull cxplrincd that tax exempt
cecuritlcc handicap credit for bust-
ness ana lr.ctvrmai purposes. lie
ays. too, that thry have been an In
vitation and encouragement to cx-
travaganco In public expenditures.
If tax cxs::;pt tccurltics wci j restored
for punrcici c taxation, the Tennes
see etaterrr.an believer, tho federal
budget tculd be balanced with little
if any additional levies.
The Rooccvclt administration la
expected to look with favor upon
proposs.13 Euc'a as ouerea oy senator
Hull and Ucprcsatatlv Swaueon.
Senator Hull is cae of tuo president,
elect's clcMst advUtra. In Wasaia&
The Pleasant Ridge project club
had a very pleasant valentine party
on Saturday evening at the school
house. The pleasant surrounding of
the school house made an ideal place
for the social gathering of the com
munity reaidents.
. The evening was spent In cards,
pinochle and 500-rummy being play
ed by the members of the party. In
the pinochle contests Mrs. Frank
Salsberg won the first prize and Max
Baumeister the consolation while in
tho rummy contests David Ruther
ford was the winner of the first prize
and L. A. Meisinger the consolation.
At tho close of the evening dainty
and delicious refreshments were
served to add to the enjoyment of the
members of the jolly party.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an "Alias" Order of
Sale issued by C. E. Ledgway. Clerk
of the District Court within and for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to m
directed, I will on the 18th day of
March, A. D. 1933, at 10 o'clock a.
m. of said day at tho south front
door of the court house in said coun
ty, sell at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash the following real
estate to-wit:
The north eighty-saven (87)
feet of Lots one (1), two (2).
three (3), and four (4), in Block
four (4) in the original town of
Plattsmouth, Cass. County, Ne
braska, as surveyed, platted and
recorded
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of William A.
Wells, and Flora M. Wells. Editn
Martin, and the Becker Roofing
Company, defendants, to satisfy a
judgment of said court recovered by
the Occidental Building Loan Anro
ciation, plaintiff, against said defend
ants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, February
7th, A. D. 1933.
. H. SYLVESTER.
-. Sheriff, Cass County,
Nebraska.
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ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Settle
ment of Account
In the District Court of Casa coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the guardianship
of Gertie Beckner, insane.
Now on this 11th day of February.
1933, this cause came on for hearing
upon tho petition of Searl S. Davis.
a- guardian of Gertie Bockner. in
sane, praying for a license to sell said
ward s Interest in the following de
scribed real estate, to-wit:
The west 37 acres of the
west half of the southwest quar
ter of Section 17, and tho east
7 acres in the east half of the
southeast quarter cf Section IS.
nil in Township 11. North of
Range 13. East of tho 6th P. M.,
in Cass county, Nebraska
for the purpose of paying debts and
expenses of administering said estate,
and the support of said ward.
It Is therefore ordered that all per
sons Interested in said est at nnnp.tr
before mo at the District Court room
in the court house at Plattsmouth. in
Cr.ss county. Nebraska, on the ISth
day cf March, 19S3, at the hour of
u o clock a. m., to show cause, if
any, why a license should not be
granted to said guardian to soli said
insane person's interest in tho nbov
dcsrrlbed real ccUte for tho nunirw
of paying doMs. expenses of adminis
tration and unpport cf ald word.
It Is Hirther Ordered, that a. rnnv
rsf this order to chow rau?o be nub-
ishod In the Plattsmouth Journal, n
newppnpor In Konoral HmilMirm
Casa county. Nebraska, for n rertod
of thre puocrssive weeks prior to the
date of hearing.
JAMES T. BEG LEY.
Judg of He District
tlS-Sw court.
In the County Court of Cas3 coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
Fee Book 9, at page 4 4.
To all persons interested in the es
tate of Marshall W. Smith, deceased:
On reading the petition of L. B.
Egenberger, Administrator, praying a
final settlement and allowance of his
account filed in this Court on the Sth
day of February, 1933. and for assign
ment of estate and discharge of Ad
ministrator; It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in said matter
may. and do, appear at the County
Ccurt to be held in and for said
rountj' on the 18th day of March. A.
D. 1933, at ten o'clock a. m.. to show
cause, if any there be, why the pray
er of the petitioner should not be
granted, and -that notice of the pen
dency cf 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 riatts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper printed in said county, for three
weeks prior to said day of hearing.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of sai l
Court this Sth day of February, A. D.
1933.
A. II. DUX BURY.
(Seal) fl3-3w 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 of Cass,
3.
Probate Fee Book 9, at page 3 42.
To the heirs at law and to all per
sons interested in the estate of Daniel
Lynn, deceased:
On reading the petition of Martha
F. Lynn praying that the instrument
filed in this court on the 24th day cf
January, 1933, and purporting to b!
the last will and testament of tho
raid fleccased, may be proved and al
lowed and recorded as the last will
and testament of Daniel Lynn, deceas
ed; that said instrument be admitted
to probate and the administration oC
said estate be granted to Martha F
Lynn, as Executrix;
It Is hereby ordered that you. and
all persons interested in said matter,
fay, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said coun
ty, on the 2 4th day of February. A. V.
1933, at tan o'clock a. m., to show
cause, if any there be, why the pray
er of the petitioner should not be
granted, and that notice of the r'
dency of said petition and that th
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons Interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this Order in
the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi
weekly newspaper printed in said
county for three juccessive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said court, this 27th day of January,
A. D. 1933.
- A. H. DCXEURY.
iSeal) 4SO-3w County Judse.