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PAGE TWO PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUBNA1 MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1931. Ihe jplattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., aa second-class mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAE 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, 13.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. SLOWER BUT SURER THAN CENSORSHIP It isn't poverty that develops strong character. It is the determin ation to get out of it. : o : The consensus of the observers at the Hitler-Mussolini affair in Venice is that neither of them was in very good condition. :o: There are two ways of finding a car key in the lining of a suit; burn the clothes or have them X-rayed. Either is reliable. :o: "All dog lovers have qualities In common," writes a friend of the dog. Including that quality of total deaf ness when their personal hound is keeping the whole neighborhood awake, we suppose. :o: It costs the government seven tenths of 1 cent to print a $5 bill, and since it costs no more to print bills of larger denominations, we suppose the demand for more of the bigger bills will continue. :o: There are two mysteries which the general public will never know. One is what the catcher says ct the pitch er when they meet in front of the plate and the other is what an auc tioneer says between bids. :o: W e suppose quintuplets are very nice as long as they're little and get lots of attention from the neighbors and newspapers, but wait eighteen or nineteen years until they all be gin getting telephone calls. :o: Zaro Agha, the 164-year-old Turk, is in the hospital again, greatly agi tated because some people refuse to believe he is 164 years old. Then the fact that he has been sent to the Children's hospital in Istanbul ought to run hi fever up a few degrees liigher, too. ' " ;. :o: There is a saying that half the world doesn't know how the other half live3. A reader cf this paper gives it es his opinion that this is another saying that lives because it 6ounds well, rather than because it is true. This reader tells us that in his neighborhood this never was true. The neighbors know all about how he lives and if there is anything they don't know they ask about it. Premature celebrations of the Fourth of ( July sem to have abated for the moment. And General John son hasn't exploded now in nearly a week. :o: It may be that most of the famous Mussolini-Hitler conversation wan ex pended in bewailing the rough treat ment Camera and Schmeling received over here. :o: All this talk about the United States going to. war with some other country is stuff and nonsense, because a country htat can't whip Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd has no busi ness getting ambitious and jumping on an entire nation. :o: : We hope the boxing commissioners will devote more attention to tne physical condition of the principals in future bouts. In the heavyweight affair last week, Graham McNamee was on the ropes frequently after the seventh round. :o: France sees no point in holding Finland up as a debt-paying model, intimating that anybody ought to be able to pay 1166,000 twice a year. The point the others miss is that Finland used a little Judgment in her borrowing when credit was easy. :o: A recent school report from Moscow reveals that Stalin's young son was barely able to skin through the thiird grade. Maybe he had been getting poor help on his home work a handicap which frequently works great hardship on (American youngs ters". - :o: The liquor control administration finds there are two ways of eliminat ing the bootleggers forcing him out by law enforcement, and starving them out by making their operations unprofitable. Both methods' sound so plausible that it's a wonder at least one of them is not given a trial. :o: The AAA drought administrator has submitted a report to Governor Landon showing great improvement in conditions as found by a survey of fifty-five Kansas counties. And did the report make clear that it was the AAA and not last week's rains that brought the improvement about? The essential fact about the cam paign against indecent mov:es under the leadership of the Catholic church is that it seeks to accomplish its end through the Individual and not through official censors. Tim Is very much to the good. Whatever the of fenses of the movies against good morals, the cure lies not through .the invocation of official sanctions, but through appeals to the good sense and the essential decency of movie patrons. By, moving along this path It is possible to avoid the errors and the excesses and the stupidities of a bureaucratic censorship. It will, to be sure, be a more dif ficult task to mobilize the decent and sensible patrons of the movies in a moral protest. The results of such an approach will probably be slower than the results that would follow an immediate recourse to spectacular censorship. But in the end the slower method will be more effective than the . other. For tne movie magnates keep their ears at tiind to the box office returns, and if the rumblings from that quarter are not favorable, they will be quick to heed. Mcch quicker, in fact, than they would be to listen to the re monstrances or the orders of any of fical'watchdogs of public morals. Be sides, bureaucratic zeal has a way of creating sympathy for its victims. There are some who hold that the movies are more guilty of stupidity than they are indecency. Certainly stupidity is as much in evidence in the gilded palaces of the cinemas as offenses againsti good morals. In the long run, the pubic can protect itself against offenses of the one sort only by the same method by which it can protect itself against offenses of the other. . But it may be that a warfare on indecency may of itself help in the attack on stupidity. For if the producers can be forced to dis pense with some of the lures with which they have attracted patrons to see stupid pictures, they may awaken to tflie importance of giving patrons a greater measure of high-grade en tertainment. It must be realized, of course, that the movies distinctly have their good points as well as their bad. Like the English theater in the time of Shakespeare,, they are in a form ative stage in which--t he demand for entertainment is far in excess of the supply, and when the demand 13 bal anced aginst. the resources that are available to meet it, it is clear that all is not venial in Hollywood. Even so, the proposal to institute a pro test at the box office the abuses of the moment is not to be dismissed as superfluous. It may help to hasten the advancement toward which the more intelligent producers are them selves groping. Baltimore Sun. :o: Journal ads bring you news of timely bargains. Read them! "and all I ask of you, boss, is the price of a beer!" , O IIH Kw'l Furara SrnhuK. lac. Gcr Bouin (ifha mamd fMrnM lltfe, i Wis- tijm uM ffllf 1 AMP i ym .f fogy u i W ' H vEtc ROOSEVELT STIIL LEADS There are radically difterent opin ions about some of Roosevelt's econ omic and monetary policies, but there is common agreement on his political sagacity. The man who focused the attention and inspired, the hope of a distressed country in 1932 by the promise of a vaguely new deal has seen most cf his extraordinary pro gram enacted into law In sometthing le33 than sixteen months from the day of his inauguration. This is a remarkable record, even considering the administration majorities in both houses and the general co-operation of the insurgent Republican members. It is remarkable because of the radical departures made by congress, and by the President with delegated authority, in economics, finance, agriculture, securities mar keting, communications, labor ad justments and the rest. There is, however, a well defined difference between the Roosevelt leadership in the first session and in the second sitssion of the seventy third congress. In the first the Pres ident came fresh from election, in which he had such an overwhelming majority that it seemed, even to con gress, to carry with it a mandate for full liberty of action. In that ses sion there was a disposition on both sides to regard the national status as an emergency. Democrats were little more than rubber stamps. It was a session in which the President asked and congress gave. Policies that, historically, would have been great issues in presidential campaigns were adopted almost without con gresional debate. Departures that would have been wholly untenable in normal times became matters of course in the national emergency. The second session witnessed a change throughout the country, and this change was reflected in congress. Criticism, which the President prev iously said was wholesome, but lack ing, began to assert itself. Dissatis faction with the operation of some parts of the new deal program was voiced. Irritations were numerous and became vocal. Apprehension be cause of unprecedented peace-time expenditures was expressed in warn ings from both Democrats and Repub licans. With this change, new meas ures were subjected to more scrut iny and had the benefit of extended debate. Conservatives generally were uniting and making themselves heard. ''' In the second session the President had two major defeats, the rejection of the St. Lawrence waterway treaty and the passage over his veto of the bill increasing the pay of veterans and government employees. He lost prestige in the abrupt cancellation of the air mail contracts and the loss of life incident to the trans fer of the service to the army. He sustained numerous lesser shocks, and he had to make more conces sions than are generally known in order to hold his program substan tially intact. But if the President found him self less ablw to command, he still was the unquestionable leader. His maintenance of this role was due in considerable measure to his readi ness and skill in making necessary compromises. Yet the necessity for making concessions did not affect the characteristic boldness of his action. At a time when there was manifest concern over the revealed theories of some of his mont intimate advisers, re precipitated an issue on this very question by giving the chief target a promotion nomination and handing the nominee to a critical senate. Also while congress still was a week or more from adjournment, he an nounced his "forgotten man" pro gram for future consideration, a pro gram of such score, of such implica tions, as to arouse new and disturb ing speculation as to where, in the distance, all the money was to com from to supply the billions and bil lions already un&er commiament and the indefinite billions for indefinite social reform. Thus, with the ending of the sev enty-third congress, with congress ional elections in the offing, Roose velt continues the obld, popular (if less popular) leader of his party, with support ranging beyond party lines and opposition growing within those lines. He rovided action when action was universally demanded. He show ed himself tho champion of the under privileged classes. He impressed the public with his independence of those financial and Industrial influences whose shortcomings had become bo painfully evident as the result of the depression. And.he had the advant age that would naturally come from huge expenditures of government funds in the stage when credit was easy and before it was necessary to pay the bills. As time tests the value of his policies and as the bills fall due for payment, tha jercftips test ot Ills leadership will pme. Kansas City Star. W abash News L. W. Reese who has been working near Sioux City on some road im provement, with the completion of the work, returned last week to his home at Wabash. The machine shed of II. J. Ruhge, living a few miles southeast of town was blown over and rather badly de molished. Will Rueter was called to Weeping Water last week where he is work ing on the hog-corn work for a few days. L. R. Standley was a business visi tor in Lincoln on last Thursday where he went for a supply of goods for the store and even with the very quiet time now prevailing he has to make a trip every week and some times more to keep the supply up to standard. The wind of Tuesday evening re moved the glass from the kitchen dcor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hardaway. On Wednesday of last week Messrs. P. H. Clarke and Ralph Door were harvesting their wheat and while the crop was not a record breaker, they were pleased with the very fine qual ity of the grain and were rewarded with something to put in the bin. Charles E. Cook of Plattsmouth, was a visitor in Wabash on last Wed nesday and viewed the old land marks, which were familiar to him when a boy, when he and a brother, Phillip who was at that time farm ing near here, picked corn and haul ed same to Wabash more than forty years ago. Frank Rcdgers, who is employed at the Louisville quarries, was ill and not able to work for a day or so a few days ago but has recovered, and was able to take up the task again during the early portion of last week. Eugene Colbert was looking after some business matters in Weeping Water last Tuesday, getting some re pairs for the harvester, that he might cut his wheat, which he estimated would make about 15 bushels to the acre. Frank Colbert was assisting with the farm work of Fred Towle for a short time early last week. Herbert Hanson was harvesting his wheat last week and was pleased when it made him some twenty bushels to the acre. Ladies Aid Enjoys Meet. The Ladies Aid of the Wabash church met last "Wednesday at the home cf Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pool, where they did much work for the church and as well enjoyed a social time during the afternoon and were served a delightful lunch by the genial hostess. Putting Trucks in Order. John Woods, the garage man and general hustler, for he gets out and contracts hauling and heavy hauling is his strong point, with the con clusion cf work on the O street road has been making some substantial re pairs to his fleet of trucks and will be ready as scon as contracts are awarded for another piece of road work. Yes, the Wind Blew. Last Tuesday evening after the wind had blown for the entire day and all thought there was going to be a heavy rain, the wind veered and sure blew hard, tumbling over some light buildings and blowing down some trees and otherwise playing pranks. One was the borrowing of the sky-piece of our citizen John Drown, when it took his hat and carried it away, depositing it by the roadside cast of the home of Grand mother Bothwell. John did not find the hat until the following evening. GUN FANCIER FOUND DEAD Omaha. Relatives expressed be lief that his penchant for collecting old firearms was responsible for the death of Robert McClintock, 18, found dead in his room, a bullet thru his head. Alarmed members of the family discovered the body after the youth had been missing two days from the concession ot an amusement park. An old rifle, one of three he owned, lay beside the body. McClintock, relatives said, had been in the habit of standing in front of a mirror while doing the manual of arms, and they believe he was at this when the riflo struck the edge of a dresser, and was discharged. . "Seo It before you buy it." ? Thomas Walling Company jr fr Attracts of Title Phone S24 - PlattsjaoutU t T i V Nebraska Counties Hit FERA Plan Although Signed Pact Are Displeased and Seek Local Control Want Counties to Bule. McCook, Neb., June 20. County commislons of six southwestern Ne braska counties today were on record that the articles for an agreement between the counties and federal re lief administration as a basis for re ceiving further FERA funds are not agreeable to the counties. However, all of these counties pre viously signed the agreement. They are Red Willow, Frontier, Hayes, Chase, Dundy and Hitchcock. Want County Eulc. The commissioners took the posi tion that poor relief expenditures should be under direct control and supervision of county boards, that relief directors should be appointed by the county boards with FERA ap proval, and that all administrative officers should be named by the counties and salaries fixed by coun ty boards. Officials of the counties explained they would not withdraw from the agreements made, but meant their action as a protest. The convnissioners met here yes terday and adopted resolutions. Meanwhile, two more counties Madison and Pawnee today had signed agrements to co-operate with the federal government by increasing county expenditures for relief in or der to obtain FERA funds. Tells Provisions. In Lincoln, Harry Elmore, acting state relief director, today said all all of the six southwestern counties signed the agreement. "We told them then they could withdraw at any time," Elmore said, "and there isn't much more that can be said. If they don't like the agree ment they can drop out and we will withdraw our expenditures of fed eral fund3 in those counties. "-World-Herald. Stripes The new black an white corded stripes in Men's Wash Trousers 22-in. bottoms look like $6 styles Perfectly Tailored and only $2.95 Wescott's Since 1879 FORDS AND BREX WIN In the kittcnball contests last evening at Athletic park the Ford V-8's were the winners of the open ing contest from Mynard by the score of 21 to 3. The Fords accumulated eight of their runs in the 6th inning to assure them of the game. Roy Turner allowed but three hits while sixteen were made off of Livingston and Ballery. The box score: Ford V-8 ah k SHOE MEN TO J0LL0W NBA Omaha. Kenneth Dameron, de puty administrator for the distrib uting trades section, fourth NRA di vision told the National Leather and shoe Finders' association convention that the details of private business must continue to be run by those en gaged in that business, and not by the government. "I think the idea of the NRA will live in what form I don't know. And I'm sure President Roosevelt has a united people back of him," Dam ercn said. After hearing Dr. Dam eron, the convention voted unani mously to change its by-laws to con form to new federal regulations un der the NRA. SUMMER SEASON UPON US Chicago. Summer made its offi cial 1934 debut after a spring that brought damaging wind storms an record breaking temperatures tha seared the crops of the grain produc ing areas of the nation. The final days of spring were marked by high temperatures in the central west with Chicago recording a !)5. It was 100 at Peoria, 111., and 102 at Kan sa3 City, Oklahoma City and Wich ita. Altho the grain belt received beneficial showers last week the damage from the long dry spell was considered by crop experts to be ir reparable in many sections, and windstorms and crop pests added to the damage. R. Hirz, cf 3 Rodigups, b 5 Ofe, rf 5 Newman, ps 5 Carlson, If 5 Smith, c 5 Brittain, 3b S Krejci, rs 4 Otredosky, lb 4 Turner, p 5 G. Hirz, cf 2 0 1 O 1 1 4 2 3 II 0 1 0 1 ro o l o 3 1 1 o o 2 2 0 3 o 9 1 0 A 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 i: 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 48 21 1G 21 10 Mynard Spangler, 2b Carey, ss ) Hild, c Meisinger, rs Zimerman, lb Smith, rf Beckman, cf Leonard, cf M. Wiles, 3b I). Wiles, If Livingston, p Gansemer, rf : Vallery, p AH o o . 3 3 O . 3 . 2 3 1 2 ' o 2 1 0 rt o l l l o o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 II 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 i-o 2 1 0 2 1 4 3 1 0 1 A 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 K 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2S 3 3 21 8 9 Umpires, Taylor, Handley, Spang ler. Struck out by Livingston, 0; by Turner, 0. Bases on balls off, Livings ton, 2; Turner, 1; Vallery, 1. MAY VOTE ON BETTING Malcolm Baldridge of Omaha Thursday night announced sufficient petitions have been signed to assure a place on the November general election ballot for the question ol legalizing pari-mutuel betting at horse racing meets in Nebraska. Baldrige said about 67,000 persons have signed petitions which now are in the hands of the Omaha committee interested in tl e Ak-Sar-Ben exposi tion which sponsored the campaign They will be filed here soon. Only about 57,000 signatures are required. A Pennsylvania coed admits she would marry if she found a man with a $25,000 Income, provided, of course, she loved the man and he was a steady young man. It is very encouraging to find the college girls getting back to simple tf.stes, and fortunately it is considered fairly easy to love a 6teady young feller with twenty-five grand a year. :o: The President seems well aware that hi3 brain trust ha3 provoked a bit of i laughter from time to time, but U,8 lnteqd3 to keep w;th ;t- Peyl;ap ft fy jrsvided tyiiu a aw quiet caukle, too, now and then. The Nightcap. In the second game of the evening the BREX had a close call from de feat as the Donat's-Wimpey's started out to clout the ball with several home runs to their credit and had it 8 to 6 on the BREX when a last inning rally by the shopmen started the fireworks. The tabulated score of tlie game was as follows: BREX An it Schlieske, 2b 3 2 Swoboda, ss 2 Hall, rs 4 Spidell, c 4 Gradoville, 3b 3 . O'Donnell, lb 4 March, cf 4 Long, p 3 White, rf 2 Mason, If 3 Thompson, rf 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 II 2 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 ro 4 3 1 0 3 0 2 0 A 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 K 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 13 11 21 Wimpey-Inn A 15 Ii ii ro Forbes, c 3 2 2 3 VanLan'ham, rs 4 1 2 2 Carlson, 2b 4 2 2 1 Krejci, s 4 0 0 3 Smith, 3b 3 110 Rvobodn, cf 4 1 2 2 Knoflicek. p 4 111 Rummcl, lb 3 0 14 Timm, if 10 0 0 Lohnes, If 3 0 12 A 1 (y i l l o o o o o o o i 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 33 8 12 18 4 2 Umpires, Shellenbarger, Taylor, Handley. Struck out by Knoflicek, 2; by Long, 3. Bases on balls off Knoflicek, 5; off Long, 4. SALE On in Full Blast Bargains in Everything Specials Every Day V