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MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1934. PAGE TWO PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL IhellPlattsmauth JeornaS PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE 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 etrtctly in advance. Some women stop to look into shop uindows to admire merchandise; oth ers to admire their own reflection. :o:- If the old rule that strikes are marks of prosperity still holds good, we must bo in the midst of a boom. :o: , Among the wanted inventions: A watch that will keep on running when the after-dinner speaker lays it on a table. -:o: By the time a restaurant puts a little onion, a little mustard, a little pickle and what have you on a sand wich; it doesn't make much differ ence what kind of a sandwich you ordered in the first place. :o: Ah, well; if they didn't try to pass a truck on a curve, they might live to pour kerosene on a fire. :o: Times are getting better a man can display a quarter openly now without fear of being married for his money. :o: Disarmament is like turning the other cheek. Nice people can't do, it so long as one hard guy refuses to play that way. :o: In reducing the wheat crop in sev eral places in the world, the weather is doing nothing less than stealing the brain trust's stuff. :o: We have observed that some of the most trivial business affairs can be made to look important if trans acted in confidential tones on a hotel lobby lounge. :o: There's a lesson in propriety. If you're swimming and someone you -know, .but. can'i count as a'VaUlktfp-: pens along and takes your clothing or valuables, don't speak at ,that time, but wait until you have been introduced. :o: In the case of the Canadian ram ily with the newly arrived quintup let girls, there seems to be nothing like getting the family started on an even footing, so none of the children will have any advantage or disad vantage. Furthermore, the practice of handing down outgrown clothing bhculd be reduced to a minimum. "But my dear -- I ty fcig fanio SinJmic. Uc Gem tmua nfho tatnti. I f I I ,1 mm- k:M mi '&w twmm hy' :.. fi ikV ' It mi. yMmi tsmmj ' Young John J. Astor says life is difficult because of his riches. He should trv erettinf? along without them. :o: Chicago has lost 100,000 in popu lation in the last ten years. Now they have sent to Canada for Oliva Dionne. :o: Won't television be grand? Then you can see the pearly teeth result ing from the use of the right kind of tooth paste. :o: ' Two questions: What has become of the old-fashioned girls who rode side saddle? And what became o the side saddles? :o: This year's swimming suit should make a mosquito who had the slight est bit of sportsmanship in his make up ashamed of himself. :o. Youth has acquired c more definite aim in the past year, we think. The hitch-hiker at intersections this year is thumbing in only two or three directions instead of four. :o: It will soon be possible to send mail from coast to coast overnight. One's fan letter will thus arrive in Hollywood before the infatuation cools. :o: Lincoln was born :n a zog cabin, and if this fact has encouraged Am erican youth all well and good. But log cabins are becoming rare except on the highways where they make picturesque filling stations. :o: We surmise from an item in the Philadelphia Iniquirer that the inter nal revenue collector for the Phila delphia district is cne Alvin FfsAny relation, we wonder, to the famiTT- of Nick Fix, about whom H. R. II. used to contribute neighborly news items occasionally to this column? :o: Postmaster General Farley an nounces he will not turn over the reins of the Democratic party until autumn. In fact, he demonstrated his continued fitness fo rail his various jobs this week by receiving a dele gation of disappointed office seekers and sending them home smiling in hopefulness. chap, such waSd western ways- THE FALLING BIRTH EATE In 1932 there were 17.4 oirths in the United States for each 1,000 of the population, an all-time low point in the birth rate. But it is a record destined for a short life. The rate for 1933, according to the bureau of vital statistics, will be still lower. This pleases Margaret Sanger, the nation's foremost crusader for fewer babies. She calls it both a general boon and a triumph for her cause. For some years Mrs. Sanger has car ried ou a vigorous campaign to open the United States mails to propa ganda for the use of contraceptive practices. Since the great American parent, either consciously or uncon sciously, is practicing birth ontrol in an increasing degree every year, her postal objective would seem to be be coming a work of supererogation. Mrs. Sanger says the lower birth rate doesn't mean a populaton de crease. She bases this conclusion on the assumption that the fewer babies will be better babies and the rate of survival will offset the actual de cline in births. Economists generally, however, on the br.sis of experience associate population increase with a high birth rate. However much infant survival may be increasing, the margin be tween births and deaths is being irraduallv whittled down. In 1915 this margin was 11.5 per thousand population. In 1932 it had declined to 6.5. This together with the fact that emigration now exceeds immi gration has led to predictions of a population become static within the next 20 or 30 years. As the birth rate has declined the proportion of eld people to the total population has increased. It is inevitable that, as these older people die off, there will be some increase in the death rate. With a further decrease of births the margin left for population growth will become pretty slim, if it is not wiped out altogether. World-Herald. :o: By the way, who remembers "Pretty Boy" Floyd? :o: An Ohio reader or the Congres sional Record over a period of thirty years says he still can't figure out its policy. :o: The 1-ring circus has been moved from Louisiana to .Washington. But there have been some changes in the ringmasters. :o: As yet the government has not shown how it can switch overrpoduc tion relief methods to drought relief with such celerity. :o: Perseverance has its reward. The proof is in the story of an Arkansas woman who always locked under the bed before retiring and was finally rewarded by finding a big, wounded wildcat there. Corn Seems Best as Forage in Drouth Areas Government Investigations Point to Corn as Late Forage, Sav ing the Stock. Corn, itself, menaced by dry weather, may save many drought harassed farmers of the middle west, not as a grain crop, but as a forage plant. If enough rain falls by the middle of June, or even later, to ger minate seed, there is still time to produce forage corn before frost comes. If the fall happens to be late, there is even time for early matur ing varieties to produce a fair qual ity of corn, but they can not be grown for grain on land where such plant ing i3 contrary to the provisions of any' crop adjustment contract with the secretary of agriculture. Some of the few plants which will make quick and abundant forage are millet, Sudan grass, forage sorghums and corn. But of these, the only seed which is plentiful is that of corn, according to reports to the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. There is scarcely any Sudan and millet seed available and only about 25 carloads of forage sorghum seed. Soybeans and cowpeas can be planted, but while better for the land, they do not yield so heavily as these other crops. Seed of the northern varieties ol soybeans is limited, although there Manchu and Illini. jThe northern limit for the successful production of cowpeas is about the southern boundary of Iowa, and the supply of seed seems to be sufficient. Hay, feed and seed men say that, taqing the drought region in gen eral, the "90-day" or early varieties of corn will make the most depend able forage crop. Planted by the middle of June in the northern states or as the first of July in southern Iowa and Nebraska and northern Kansas, early corn is sure to pro duce fair quantities of fodder of good quality, if it gets rain enough. It is pretty generally agreec. throughout the middle west that the farmer who gets the most out of hie corn fodder is the one who turns it into silagei but thi3 means more labor ah'd '-iiv som 'ceases tlie ' erecting ol silos or the1 digging of pit silos. Probably most of the corn planted for forage will be as fodder. In the drought areas of southern Kansas, Iklahoma and Texas the sorghums would produce more forage than corn When Sudan grass or millet seei can be obtained, these crops can be counted upon to make mature hay it a shorter time than either the forag sorghums or corn. Millet will mature in 65 to 70 days and Sudan grass is a slightly longer time. Sudan grass likes warm weather. In the north ern tier of states millet would prob ably outyiel'd Sudan grass, but as i hay Suden grass is preferable, just as the forage sorghums are prefer able to corn as a roughage, all con ditions being equal. Forae sorghums, millet and Sudan rass probably would make a better yield at this late plant ing and under drought conditions, ii planted in rows, rather than broad cast. This gives an opportunity for cultivr.tion, takes less seed, )keepa down weeds and conserves soil mois ture. A committee of hay, feed and seed men in the U. S. Department of Agri culture has recommended the "pur chase of adapted seed when condi tions warrant planting, such pur chases to include the seed of corn, forage corghums and such seed ol millet, Sudan grass and adapted soy beans as may be available. Turnips, rutabagas and such garden crops should be included. It is inadvisable to make immediate large purchases of need." FARMER KILLS SELF Wilber, Neb., June 8. Charles Savage, 34, farmer, whose home was one-half mile south of Wilber, killed himself by shooting himself in the heart with a 6hotgun about 7 o'clock Thursday evening. A nail had been driven into the side of the barn to use in pulling the trigger. Savage had been brooding over fi nancial matters lately and had IntI mated earlier" in the day that he was planning to end his life. He was un married and was living with his wid owed mother, Mrs. Ed Savage, and a sister, Miss Carrie Savage. He is survived by his mother, four sisters and one brother. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. A Kansas barber is offering free beer with every haircut, according to newspaper reports. At last, the tonsorlal gentlemen are doing some thins practical toward. overc?njns the avtraja peroa'a delay in going to the barber shop. FIX AN ADJOURNMENT DATE Washington. Democratic congres sional leaders are looking for ad journment the end of next week, but they still are doubtful about the ex act date. House chieftains plan to introduce an adjustment resolution either Friday or Saturday with the date either June 15 or 16, but they concede that unless the senate speeds up legislative action the quitting date may not be before June 23. The resolution has been prepared and is in the hands of Representa tive Byrns of Tennessee, the dem ocratic leader. Farmers are Using AI! Avail able Pasture Cattle Being Grazed on Grass Along side Highways Is Report of Prof. Gramlich. Grazing of cattle on grass along side Nebraska highways has become the most extensive in the history of the state according to K. J. Gram lich, head of the University of Ne braska animal husbandry depart ment. He said this was the most common expedient adopted by the farmers, seeking feed to replace burn ed up pastures and short hay sup plies. Other methods adopted to help save the state's cattle, ho said, in clude grazing along railroad right of way, on winter wheat and spring grains, on wild hay meadows, feed in on old straw piles, on ground ear corn and in a few extreme cases, by cutting trees and crubs to make their foliage available for livestock feed. 62 percent in 1683; oats, 47.2 per cent. 78.3 percent in 1928; tame hay, 53.9 percent, 7J in 192C; pastures, 53.2 percent, 75.7 in 1925. Reports Unbelievably Low. "The report3 from seme slates seem unbelievably low," the board commented. An "acute shortage of jay in many states" was regarded as unavoidable in the drouth area. The production of tarns and wild hay was estimated at GO million tons com pared with 74 million to:i3 last year ind 84 million for the five year aver age. The drouth situation "seems most critical in the Dakotas and in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the failure or near failure of pas tures, hay crops and a large acreage Df spring grains can harly be offset by increased acreages and favorable ields of corn and emergency forage :rops," the report said. "In a large area that includes most )f the rest of th3 corn belt and some surrounding states conditions are now serious, but may still show con nderable improvement," if favorable weather comes in time to permit larvesting of corn, soy beans, sorg hums and emergency hay and forage crops." The weather bureau reported that iight rains which started in several states last week continued thru the past twenty-four hours in Minne jota, Iowa, Nebraska and Montana, ivith showers in North Dakota and good rains' in South Dakota. Tem pertaures, however, continued high, rnginging from 92 to 100 degrees. Interest in the day's crop report vas high among officials of the farm :redit, and relief administrations as .hey drafted further relief plans for the drouth area. Cattle buyin con tinued at a speed which was accel erated by starving cattle over a wide area despite the rainfall. Work re lief projects by farmers concentrat ?d on water conservation. Seed and feed was to begin moving soon into emergency drouth counties for re planting burned out acres and carry ing basic livestock herds thru the summer. In the parlance or the American national game, the jcker was wild and the Dionnes of Ontario drew si multaneously five queens and a full house. :o: The fashion of keeping wild ani mals in barless cages is spreading in the zoos throughout the country, as it is found there is very litle danger to the animals. :o: One likes to think there are still some quiet, well behaved people In California, despite the great num bers now engaged in kidnaping, kill ing relatives with axes, and spread ing poisoned chewing gum. :o: ; A persistent pest is the person who say3 at 8 o'clock in the morning. "Well, this is going to be a hot cne." We don't like that. We prefer to bask in the cooling breezes cf the young day ind discover tUs change for cur- pelves when tt searing blasts ar rive. WHY NOT NATIONAL ROAD PLAN A definite, long-range highway pro gram for the nation, comparable to that adopted in Missouri more than thirteen years ago, is advocated by Scott Wilson, chairman of the state highway commission. It is not the amount of annual federal road al lotments that is the issue, the com mission chairman says, but the fact that there should be a dependable government policy in the matter. The desirability of that . is illus- traded by recent experience. About fifteen months ago there was uncer tainty in Missouri, as in other states, about federal aid. It seemed doubt ful then that any aid would be forth coming, and there was faced the ap parent necessity of curtailing state rnnstrnptJnn nlftns accordingly. But when, a few months later, the pub lic works program was agreed upon a runu oi 4 u u minion uuiuis im mediately was set aside for high ways. This was several times more than the usual annual appropriation. Missouri received about 12 million dollars and Kansas approximately 10 million, and both states have made a most helpful use of the funds in construction of needed roads and in the provision of employment for many thousands of men. Now, however, there i3 uncertain ty once more as to what can be ex pected in federal funds. The house has authorized an appropriation of 4 60 million dollars for next year, a sum even larger thn that made avail able for the current year. The senate now raises the amount to 493 mil lion, and votes a total of 923 mil lion for a period of three years. But the highway appropriation called for in the President's request of funds for additional relief and re covery purposes in the next fiscal year is only 100 million dollars. Thus there i3 evident a wide diver gence of opinion at Washington. This, to some degree, is an annual occurrence, with the consequent dif ficulty of road planning by the states. Couldn't the government have a real plan on highways, sim ilar to the long-range plan for water shed development that is now in the making? :o: Folks used to throw rice and old shoes at wedding3. Now they eat the rice themselves and wear the old shoes to tho wedding. - ' ' NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. To all persons interested in the es tate of George D. Nelson, deceased. No. 3029: Take notice that a petition has been filed praying for administration of said estate and appointment of Thelma Olson as Administratrix; that said petition has been set for hearing before said Court on the 22nd day of June, 1934, at 10:00 o'clock a. m. Dated May 28, 1934. A. II. DUXBURY, m28-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. To the creditors of the estate of Luther F. Jones, deceased. No. 3019: Take notice that the time limited for the filing and presentation of claims against said estate is Septem ber 22, 1934; that a hearing will be had at the County Court room in Plattsmouth on September 28, 1934, at ten o'clock a. m., for the purpose of examining, hearing, allowing and adjusting all claims or objections duly filed. Dated May 25, 1934. A. II. DUXBURY, m28-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. To the creditors of the estate of August Kaffenberger, deceased. No. 3020: Take notice that the time limited for tho filing and presentation of claims against said estate is Sentem bcr 22, 1934; that a hearing will be had at the County Court room in Plattsmouth on September 28, 1934. X A mm at ten o ciocit a. m., for the purpose of examining, hearing, allowing and adjusting all claims or obiectiono auiy nieu. Dated May 25, 1934. A. II. DUXBURY, m28-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF PROBATE OF FOREIGN WILL In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. To all persons interested in the estate of George W. Homan, de- ceasea: ino. ay31. Take notice that a petition has been filed In this Court praying for the probate of an instrument pur porting to be an authenticated copy of the last will and testament ot said deceased and alleging that the same was duly admitted to probate in the District Court or Adams County, Iowa, and praying for the appoint ment of Searl S. Davis, as admin istrator with will annexed; that said petition has been set for hearing be for the County Court of Cass County Nebraska on June 29th, J 934 at ten a. ra. Dated Jun 2. 1934. A. II. DT7?T1TTH v H'3w Countv .Tiirt NOTICT TO CREDITORS In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. To the creditors of the estate of Christian May, deceased. No. 3016: Take notice that tne time limited frr the filing and presentation of claims against said estate is Septem ber 22. 1934; that a Hearing win ie had at tho County Court room In Plattsmouth on September 28, 1934, at ten o'clock a. m. for the purpose of examining, hearing, allowing and adjusting all claims ot objections duly filed. Dated May 26, 1934. A. H. DUXBURY, m2S-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. To the creditors of the estate of William H. Shopp, deceased. No. 3021: Take notice that the time limited limited for the filing and presentation of claims against said estate is Sep tember 22, 1934; that a hearing will be had at the County Court room in Plattsmouth on September 2S, 1934, at ten o'clock a. m., for the purpose of examining, hearing, al lowing and adjusting all claims or objections duly filed. Dated May 25, 1934. A. H. DUXBURY, m28-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass. ss. By virtue of an Execution issued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the Dis trict Court within and for Cass Coun ty, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 30th day of June, A. I). 1934, at 10 o'clock a. m. of paid day at the South Front Door of Court House, in said County, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate to-wit: An undivided one-ninth in terest in and to the West Half Of the Northwest Quarter of Section Four, and an undivided one-ninth interest in and to East Half of the Northeast Quar ter of Section Five, all in Town ship Eleven, Range Ten, East of the 6th P. M., Cas3 County, Ne braska; The same being levied upon and tak en as the property of Ralph C. Rager, defendant, to satisfy a Judgment of said Court recovered by Seaii S. Davis, Guardian of Evelina Rager, in competent, plaintiff, against said de fendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, May 23, A. D. 1934. H. SYLVESTER. Sheriff Casa County, m24-5w Nebraska. Jrtnirn Fl. IJetlnnr, A I f ornrjr ' f2i First National Hank Kuildinff Oninlin, rbr. NOTICE of Hearing on Petition for Authority to Mortgage Real Estate Notice of hearing on petition of J. Leslie Wiles, guardian of Isaac Wiles, incomptent, for authority to mortgage real estate of said ward. The next of kin and all persons interested in the estate of Isaac Wiles, incompetent, are hereby noti fied that a petition was filed in tho District Court of Cass County, by J. Leslie Wiles, guardian of Isaac Wiles, incompetent, on which the following order was made: oriDEi: TO SHOW CAUSE Now on this 23rd day ef May. 1934, this matter came on for hear ing on the petition of J. Leslie Wiles, guardian of Isaac Wiles, an incom petent person, for authority and li cense to execute a mortgage covering certain real estate of said ward to secure payment of a loan to be made for the purpose of paying debts against the estate of said ward and for the further purpose of mainten ance and support of said ward and of his family. It appearing that it would be for the best interests of the estate of said ward that said petition be granted and the guardian of said ward granted authority and license to negotiate a loan for and on be half of the estate of said ward and to secure payment thereof by execut ing a mortgage covering certain real estate of said ward, as set forth in said petition. It la Therefore by the Court or dered and decreed that the next of kin of Isaac Wiles, an incompetent person, and all persons interested in his estate, be and appear in the Dis trict Court of Cass County, at Platts mouth, Nebraska, on the 27th day of June, 1934, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the a. m., there and thou to show cause, if any there be, why J. Leslie Wiles, guardian of Isaac Wiles, an incompetent person, should not be granted power, authority and license by this Court, to borrow the sum of Five Thousand Five Hun dred ($5500.00) Dollars from one William Sporer, for a period of S years at the rate of 5 per cent prr annum, and give his note therefore, as such guardian, and secure pay ment of said note by executing a mortgage covering the Northeast Quarter ( NE ) of the Southeast Quarter (SE4) and the South Half (SV2) of the Northeast Quarter (NK'4) of Section Nineteen (19). Township Eleven (11) Range Twelve (14) Cass County. Nebraska, for th" purpose of paying debts due by said ward and by his estate and for th further purposes of maintenance and support of eaid ward and of ht3 fam ily. It is further ordered that notice of such hearing be given the next ot Kin or said ward and all persons in terested in hi3 estate by publication in the Plattsmouth Journal as pro vided by law. By the Court. D. VT. LIVIVC3TON. m31-3w Juiz?. - o . "Sos it before you buy it.'