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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
REVEAL ABUSES.
Women Factory Inspectors
Of New York State, Who
Tell of Child Labor Horrors.
Orend 'Mask Ball
Given by Cosmopolitan Club
Tuesday EveningDec, 31
Coafes' Hall, Plattsmouth
Dance the Old year out and the New year in
NAGEL FAVLRS
SELF-REGULATION
Secretary ot Commerce Gauss
es Corporation Commission.
POWERS SHOULD BE LIMITED.
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Photos by American Press Association.
At the top. Miss Maud Minor ami Miss
Elizabeth Watson; In center. Mrs. Joseph
Goldmark; at bottom. Miss Mary C. Dreler
and Miss Pauline Uoltlmurk.
SELL SCHOOL LANDS,
ADVICE OF OFFICIALS
Land Commissioner ' and State
Treasurer Make Suggestion.
5 Big Cash Prizes
Music by M. W. A. Orchestra
Admission, Gents 50c, Ladies' 25c, Specta
tors 25c, Children 10c
Mrs. J. V. Egenbergcr and
daughter, Mrs. Emit Hauingart
an. I lillk' bubo, wore passengers
this morning for Omalia tit visit
Miss Anna Kgeiiberger at 1 1 1 hos-iital.
(Ill r is Tschirren was in I he city
mi Tuesday anil called at. Ibis
ollire and ordered I be Semi-Week-ly
Journal sent In his son-in-law,
Mr. II. J. Livingston, at Weeping
Water.
Lincoln, Dec. 16. One ot the im
portant recommendations which will
be brought to the notice of the com
ing session of the legislature Is a
imposition to soli the state school
lands now under lease. The recom
mendation has been incorporated in
the reports of two state officers, State
Treasurer George and Uuul Commis
sioner Cowles.
Both official contend that a sale, of
the school lands of the state will bring
Into the tuto more money than is re
celved at the present time from the
lease of the lands. Umd Com mis-
siontv Cow'f? contends that the larger
portion-; of the school lands unsold
are of a poor class, many of the sec
tions not being worth 50 cents per
acre, and consequently the rental is
so small as hardly to pay for the trou
ble of Keeping track of it.
Treasurer George sets out the plea
that if the lands are sold the state
will derive n revenue from two
?ouice? One of these is by taxation.
The ether reason and the one which
to Mr. George seems the more import
ant Is that if the hind is sold and the
money derived from the sale is In
vested In county, school district or
municipal bonds that the interest on
these bends will bring into the state
revenue more satisfactory' than is
gained by the state holding the lands
and leasing them.
-The Pacific Coast Tour-
. Grandest Railroad Journey in the World
There are more than one hundred different ways to go or to come, but the
all-year way to California, the way in one direction at least, is through the Den
ver gateway, with Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake along the way.
If you desire a more southerly route in Winter, go via Denver and the Santa
Fe Grand Canyon Route, through New Mexico the way of sunshine. If this
is not far enough south, go through Kansas City and Texas, returning through
Salt Lake and Scenic Colorado. But to realize the maximum possibilities as to
scenerVt cities, agricultural landscape and "travel education" of this compre
hensive tour, you should include the Shasta Route and the Pacific Northwest
the Portland, Puget Sound and Spokane regions.
In "Seeing America First" you see its mighty and magnificent half on a
You should not only "See America" First but you should
sec an ot it you can from a Burlington train.
Pacific Coast tour.
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R. W. CLEMENT, Apt.
W. L. WAKELY, General Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb.
I am again ready to supply you with your
-thristmas Needs-
not only with Toys, Dolls, Chinaware or other Novelties,
but a nice line Ladies Coats, Furs, Skirt. Sweaters for men
and children; Suits, Overcoats, Gloves and Mittens and many
other useful and practical articles.
I also received a new shipment of our
Celebrated White Leather Hose
Call and See Them
M Mf AiMTianiiia
He Oppose Giving It Authority to Fix
Prices, and Says Frequent Reports
Should Be Required 838,172 Immi
grants Admitted During Year.
Washington. Dec. 16. Charles
Nagel, secretary of commerce and la
bor, would sharply define and restrict
the powers and discretion of the pro
posed federal commission to regulate
Industrial corporations. In his annual
report submitted to President Taft
the secretary opposes the endowment
of such a commission, If finally creat
ed by congress, with far-reaching pow
er equal to those exercised by the In
terstate commerce commission over
railroads. He disapproves the sug
geFtion that the commission have au
thority to fix prices of commodities.
Epitomizing his doctrine for govern
mental supervision of business, Mo,
Nagel says:
"Instead of pressing federal regula
tion as far ns possible, the real desid
eratum in legislation affecting the
country's business should be to pre-
wve, to the greatest extent consist
ent with the public welfare, the ele
ment of self regulation. The effort
should be to lay down principles of
conduct sufficiently specific to Im
pose desired restraints, at the same
time leaving a wide field for individ
ual achievement.
If such a trade commission is well
defined," the secretary says, "It may
serve the general purpose of giving
largo industrial ami commercial con
cerns much needed federal authority
and control. It Is possible by lodging
Id t,he commission well defined dis
cretion an Intelligent purpose may be
served. Put the obvious danger is
that such a commission, once created,
will soon be vested with further pow
ers. The disposition will undoubtedly
be to give It authority to fix prices
nd conditions of operation similar to
that which the interstate commerce
commission now exercises with re
spet to rallro.lds nnd their rates. In
other words, there Is a strong tend
ency to disregard the fundamental dis
tinction between a public carrier and
a private enterprise."
Other salient features of Secretary
Nagel s report are:
Corporations should be compelled to
liiiikc automatic reports regarding cap
italization, business, profits, control
Ing inteiests, etc.
The bureau of corporations should
Assist federal courts In reorganizing
concerns dis.-elved under the Sherman
anti-trust law.
Appi'-ves an international confer-tni-f
f sec 'i re greater safety of life
at sea
Suggests creation of board of arbi
tration to settle railroad labor dis
putes. DMiiiig the fiscal year 1912, 838,172
Immi'jriinta were admitted and 70,000
ailens naturalized.
Recommends repeal of the law for
five-year closed Alaska sealing season.
Sixth Annual
Handkerchief
Sale
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Dec. 19, 20, and 21
Our past sales have been so
successful that we want to
give you another opportun
ity to see every handker
chief we have in stock. They
will be arranged for your
convenience, everyone will
be where you can see it.
They will be on sale, the lot .
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Dec. 19, 20, and 21
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10 Per Cent Discount
on Furs this Week
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PAROLED MEN MAKE GOOD
State Pardon Board Secretary Com
piles Hit Annual Report.
Lincoln, Pec. 16. Secretary Piper
of the -state prison board, in his bien
nial report to the governor, states
that tne parole tw and the Indeter
minate sentence law have brought
good results, and the board is well
satisfied with the record made by pa
roled prisoners. Up to the present
tlmo 8S per cent of the prisoners pa
roled have led good and useful lives.
Since July, 19tl, the prison board has
recommended pardons for twenty-nine
irlsoners and paroled eighty-three.
fhe report says:
"Since organization, 375 applications
have been filed for their considera
tion, classified as follows: for par
dons, 113; for commutation, of sen
tence, 62, and for parole, 200 "
Jones Wins Contest In Jefferson.
Falrbury, Neb., Dec. 16. Judge
Doyle completed the recounting of all
the ballots In the Jones-Bartel elec
tion contest. The result Is a victory
for Jones by nine votes. He was the
Republican-Progressive candidate for
county assessor and was defeated by
his Democratic rival, J. C. Cartel, by
cne vote on the face of the returns.
Flats Found Dead In Bed.
Schuyler, Neb., , Dec. 16. -Louis
Flala, aged thirty-one, of this city was
found dead in bed. Death was due to
heart failure. Mr. Flala Is survived
by his wife and two children.
Barge Turns Turtle; Nine Drowned.
Port Arthur. Tex., Dec. 16. O. Sand,
master of the Standard Oil barge No.
87, and the nine members of his crew
were drowned In the gulf when a
heavy storm tore the barge from Its
tow and it turned turtle.
CleaniiiK, Ilepalrinp, Pressing
ami Iiyinp dune on short notice at
the lailorinp house of Vojvoda &
Kelcek, Leonard's New lHiiMinp.
Mis IIciii n. A. Schneider am lit
lle dauKhler were passengers (his
niorniiip for Omaha, where they
looked after some luisiness mailers.
FOGLER-RUTT CYCLISTS WIN
German-American Team Finishes First
in Six-Day Race.
New York, Pec. 16. Fogler and
Rati, the German-American team,
won the six-day bicycle race at Madi
son Square Garden. Walter Rutt took
the honors for Ills team in the mile
sprinl .vhlch decided the race.
The Uedell Mitten team, represented
In the r.print by Uedell, was second,
and 'he Clarke-Hill team, with Jackie
Clarke, doing !lie riding, finished third.
The Root II' h Ira team, the Drebach
Colllns team and the Grenda-Pye team
finished fourth fifth and sixth, respec
tively. Root, Prebach and Grenda
rode for their teams In the sprint.
The time for the mile was 2:09.
The sprint was necessary to decldo
the tie between these six teams, which
when thp time for the end of the rid
ing appeared were bunched In the lead.
ThS! teams all finished within the
money, the rrlzes ranging from $1,C00
for firat nnd fl.OOO for second down
to $250 earh for winners of seventh
and "tenth places. Walker and Wells
brought p the rear of the nine teams
which rompleied the long race. The
six leaders had gone 2,661 miles and 6
Inns with the trailing pair a lap be
hind
Famished Wolves Devour 4 Persons.
Lisbon, Portugal, Dec. 16. Fam
ished wolves devoured four persons
In the neighborhood of a village In
the orovlnce of Belra.
. PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS
Balkan Delegates Think Austria's At
' titudt Is Result of Bluff.
London, Dec. 16. Dr. Daneff, head
of the Bulgarian plenipotentiaries, re
turned to London from Paris and the
peace conference is expected to open
this afternoon. Sir Bdward Grey, the
Prltlsh secretary for foreign affairs
will make a brief speech of welcome
and after expressing the hope of a
fruitful end cf their labors, he will re
tire and leave the conference to de
liberate In private.
Thp sessions will be held In the his
toric St James palace.
Notlrng has transpired yet to show
whether any rerlous difficulty Is like
ly to B-. lse over the attendance of the
Greek delegates. Concerning tho Aus-tro-Servlan
controversy, the Balkan
delegates think It is the result of Aus
trian bl'ilT.
Now is I he hesl lime lo order
for Christmas flowers, plants and
wrealhs. Andrews i McDonnld,
1'lorisls. 'Phone No. IT).
I'J-kMfd
llefore ou huv your holiday
jifls slep in and see O. P. Mon
roe. New runs, all sizes, at
special prices for holiday pifls.
'Phone :!li:.
Kai l Itlisli. Mrs. Fred amier
ami .Miss I-mures w iiieinan were
passengers this morniiiK for
Omaha lo attend lo some mailers
of luisiness.
Fred Hevorupe of Murray was
allemliiiK lo some luisiness mai
lers in this city today, and whilo
here called at. this olllce and sub
scribed for the l'lallsinoulh Jour
nal. j
J. J. Lolines of the vicinity of
Mynard was nttendiiiK to somo
luisiness matters in this cily Sat
urday and called nt Him olllce and
renewed his subscription for this
paper.
S. O. Pitman and wife and Miss
Pauline Oldham and Albert, Youuu;
were in Hie city Saturday evening,
having motored up to attend
"lloimhl, and Paid For" at tho
Parinele theater.
Mrs. .1. A. Murray and Mrs.
Ahm Murray were passengers
this morninu: for Omaha and they
expect lo return with Alvin, who
has been in Tmmanuel hospital
for several weeks recovering from
an operation.
There is nolliiiiK morn valuable
than a useful present for ('hrisl
inns. A handsome rocker, a set
of dininp chairs, a library table
are on the list of useful lines. Just
received, a fine new line for tho
holiday trade. See O. P. Monroe.
'Phone 30.r.
Mrs. F. J. Mendings, and daugh
ter, Miss Helen, ramo in this
morning from I heir farm near
Cedar Creek and were passengers
on the early Uurlington train for
Omaha to visit, for I he day.
L. I. Swilzer and son, D. M.
Swil.er, of Weeping Water, were
in the city today for a few hours
visiting will) friends and attend
ing to business mailers.
J The regular monthly
dance of I he Modern Wood- 4
J men will be given at their 4
hall on Saturday evening, 4"
J December 28. Music by the 4
J M. W. A. orchestra. Every- 4
J body cordially invited. 4
ICWAEL MILD
Furniture and Undertaking
Carpets, Rugs and Linoleum
South Sixth Street
Plattsmouth, -
Phones iral'JcaiT
Nebraska