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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1913)
The Plattsmouth Journal : Published Semi-Weekly at Plaitsmoath, Neb. i I 1 i K. A. 1 !ATHS, l'nllllier- Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter - $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE - kkmm-hmmh-h THOUGHT FOR TODAY. .J. Few chum's ago tin? body J - faster than wilful indolence I i ami iiioiicl i'iiy nf mind Hit' ! mind, that very principle of J J. physical iut li fulness. ! 4. .lames Lane Allen. ! 'V 'I-M':H-I-H-W"l :o: With free sulfa r and free wool wo can all keep sweet anil also warm. :o: . Tin; automobile is a big factor m making good roads. Hut it rauT do it all. II. takes money and bitv to make roads. That is "sure as shooting shad with a nil." :o: Kansas has uinlit'lakoii to regu hite the ingredients of mince pies. "'Ik.' Kaiisai!.- are evidently lired of Idling on peach stones, collar bullous ami damaged piclui'e lillllS. Compulsory physical connec tion of all telephone lines is now a law, the bill having received the signature of I he governor. It was a long time coming, bid it was li rial ly landed. :o: Tlio officers of the English gov ernment base finally decided to put a slop to militant sufl'ragolts and have accordingly closed Iheir heailguarters and attached their finances as a starter. There is something to do all the lime for the fellows who want to do the doing. :o: Reforms that an? slow but cer tain are certainly belter than re forms that are fast and futile. :o: The Jersey ille, (Illinois, mail carrier who eloped with a St Louis heiress, proved in reality more of a fe-mail carrier. :o: The late session of the legis lature has demonstrated one thing that it is always best to leave the pessimist at home. :o: There are a whole lot of things t hat are liable to happen in Platlsmoulh this season for the good of the city and its people. :o: The siill'ragel.s of Wales are be ginning lo place bombs at. the doors of banks. Perhaps trying to popularize the real' entrances, ;o: When one looks at the way so mans grafters get, in on the polil icians for money, it. makes a man shun, rather than seek a posil ion in the political arena. :o : Considering the trouble he has had gelling diplomats lo serve in peaceful countries, it looks like President Wilson would have a heha time securing an ambas sador lo Mexico. :o: I'd mi lime lo time it would per haps be a good idea for the voters of Nebraska to give some thought and study to the matter of the university removal, for Ihcy are to decide I he question. The telephone patrons are Filipinos, as has been pointed iut, may not be capable of self- .uovernment. but they have large ly solved the delicate problem of living without work, which strikes (his spring fever victim as it I k i kinr hard over the increased greater achievement. rale, and if the railway commis sion does not do something to al- Arter a newspaper controversy lay this procedure many threaten J,uu, i..mt.,i i Widnui 1ms to have Iheir phones removed derided lo have Hie minutes of from Iheir homes each meeting published in the :o: local papers and paid for by the Of course you are arranging lo district. And why not? Taxes for bring your family to the lug show school purposes are now the next Monday, May r. The Yankee heaviest thai taxpayers bear, and llobinson Ihree-ring circus is one the public is entitled to informa- of the biggest shows in the world, Hon showing how Hie money is and the only one that will visit spent, not only in the larger Plattsmouth this season, towns, but in all school districts. :o: :o: . F.v.ry democrat, especially W. M. Whelan, who has been those who delight in seeing bar : Congressman Magnire's secretary mony prevail within the demo ever since he has been in con- crat ic ranks, breat he freer now to gress, has been appointed super- know that Clark and Hryan clasp intendent of the document room ed hands without either atlcmpt- of the house of representatives i'.g to uppercul wilh the left, at Washington at a salary of :o: 110(1. Hilly will prove equal lo Ihe The Outlook thus succinctly emergency in almost any position characterizes the new tariff bill y hi may place him. "In contradistinction to the re :o: publican tariff, which was a pro Looks as though the democratic ducer's tariff, this is designed to a lininistration was going to give be a consumers' tariff; and in 14 good crops. rreniont Tribune. contradistinction to a protective . Yes, just, the same way the repuh- tariff, this is a competitive tariff Leans always gloated over the :o: s mie thing when we were blessed According to the opinion of , with favorable seasons for peace I Captain Slodter, U. S, A who is and plenty. The Ruler on high on patrol duty on ihe border at , lias more lo do with good crops Naco, Arizona, there is a pos , than either a republican "or demo- nihility of two or three stales of . ccalie administration, I Northern Mexico gaining their in :o; dependence and then applying to Here is something that will this government for admission ; t mke tbo suffragists scream with into tho Union. . horror. The bachelors of Earrell, :o: Pa., have organized, and will Hon. V. J, Hryan, secretary o struggle to make a united effort slate, will arrive in the capital of . to escape from the women in that California today to intercede for :. town who they say are chasing the best interests in the Japanese Hieni. The Forrell bachelors say question. He will appear beforo Hial the unmarried women in Far- the legislature and advise with rvll outnumber the men, and that the members as to what is bes ihe women are anxious to marry, to be done, and Mr. Hryan's ad 1 arli one picks tier man and so vice will have great weight with 1 tnr has landed him. The men any them. The people of California Mii.t tb.ey do not. blame the worn- as is the case in every state in the n. but they do nut want to marry, union, have great confidence in N. w, isn't that Ihe limit? Mr. Hryan. The Japanese should not talk lightly of boycotting American goods. They are needed on their merits and a boycott is always a Iwo-edged affair. :o: The people of Plallsmoulh are up in arms against the raise in telephone rates, and many of them expect lo appear before the rail way commissioners next week and protest against such action. They are singing war songs in Tokio and printing in. Ihe papers plans for capturing the Philip pines and the Hawaiian Islands, all of which is intended to force the defeat of a pending law in California. :o: Some wise man has said, "It is a good thing for the tranquility of some homes. that the telephone girls do not tell all they know." And said girls know a great deal more than some folks think they do. Everything is quiet and peace ful in Plattsmouth. Everybody seems to be attending strictly to their own affairs, and business is good. May peace, prosperity and happiness continue, and may nothing occur lo mar the pleasure of such surroundings. Among the bills of the right soil passed by the legislature and approved by Ihe governor is one allowing half the wages received by convicts who work in the peni tentiary to go to their family, if ley have one. That's simple isl ice. If a man isn't fit to be . large be can' be placed where iciety is safe and still be i ble to iclp support his family at least. :o: No matter how ardently one ay believe in equal suffrage he must deplore Ihe condition which now exist in Europe. Justify the women who are deliberately de- troying properly in any way you will, il must slill be admitted that the proposition is all wrong somewhere, For ourselves we. w ist Hie men of England were in a position to surrender, and we have little doubt that they wish it about as much as we do. Hut Hie war is so much of a "family row" thai neither party dares to give up and acknowledge defeat. And in Ihe meantime the voters of the United Stales are quite probably being projudicetl against suffrage to a arge extent by this very bitter war in its favor, here s Hoping nothing like that starts here in this country, for if it does, we will sail for the South Sea islands on the next boat. :o: The tragic death of Dr. A. E. Don't forget that Plattsmouth will have a big celebration on the Fourth of July. :o: What about those band con ceils? It is about time we were getting things in shape. :o: We have had several very fool nights, but not sufficient frost to country do much injury. :o: One striking contrast between Nebraska ami Ohio this spring is People who go to work aud make garden and keep their own chickens penned up. don't want to be bothered with their neighbors' chickens and they won't. :o: Anol tier band of Mexican army fugitives will circle through Arizona and return to their own They ought to he grate ful to Uncle Sam for permission to loop. t he-loop. .0: that Nebraska didn't get all its water in one phu e. :o : Is .Mrs. Pankhurst's husband factory. slill living If he is he probably is in favor of carrying out that I hree-year sentence. :o: Crop news is even belter than in I 111 -J, when the si(l,O0O,00(),000 line was reached. Another of the same kind will re very satis- :o:- Everyhody is for a greater Platlsmoulh, or should be. Re member, "be who is not for us is against us" and must be so con sidered. :o: There are 115 oid veterans in ixenrasKa wno saw service in me memorable battle of Oct tysburg, and the $1,000 appropriated by the recent legislature to pay the way for these veterans, many of whom desire to cltend the big celebration on Ihe battle ground on the Fourth of July. It is The farmers are on with their 10Uf?ht that - one-half of these spring work with a rush, and from vHfrans wi ,aki, Uf!vailta0 of the appropriation for that pur- early morn till dewy eve they are, with Ihe exception of the noon hour, loo busy to entertain visit ors or be bothered with traveling sharks who always have some thing to "gull" the farmer. :o: No nation can really afford a war, ami il is uoumiui it Japan coiilil even nuance an extensive one so soon after the laic un pleasantness with Russia. Hence it seems thai persons in high places may sometimes have more sense than Ihe plain people. They can always prove il by playing for peace when the rabble ri.ds for red w ar and I riuiniings. :o: Congressman Loheck of the Omaha disliicl voted against fret sugar in Ihe democratic hoiisi caucus I lie oilier day. lie was evidently standing by President Wilson in his agreement wilh pose. Walker, at I'nion, removes from our county one of the most promising young physicians 111 Nebraska. The manner in which ie ended his life is very regret able to bis family and friends, and it will probably never be known why he coinniitleil the rash act. Mr. and Mrs, James A Walker, bis parents, are among Ihe pioneers of Cass county, and no heller or more eolinable peo ple ever lived. They are rapidly declining in years and this great calamity is a sad blow to them in their old age. They should he pacified, as other loving parents have been pacified, in the thought that they have done all that a loving father and mother could do in rearing their only son. Dr. Walker was a magnificent speci men of manhood and possessed a heart that was freo to the very limit, and while perhaps he had his faults, as all men have, ho also possessed many lino traits of character that were more than creditable to ono in a similar career. While tho silent form sleeps the sleep that knows no waking, and the tomb holds one that, was dear to them, the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of all who have known Mr. and Mrs. Walker for so many years goes out to them in this, the hour of their affliction, and none more so than the Journal. A new swindle is being practiced in some of the adjoining counties, and for all we know, 11, ay have been practiced in some sections of Cass county. A per son makes 111s appearance at a school house aiiout I lie noon Hour or iilioul closing lime in (lie oven- . lie is selling scholarships to some business college. Jle tarries vi long mat 11 ine icacner is a lady she signs a note for the first payment on Ihe scholarship in order lo get rid of him, when she I'l ds to her sorrow she has been Ceirauiieu. learners, sign no pell papers. Legitimate colleges do not have to send such scalla- wags over Ihe country. :o: gold medal lo Ihe school boy or girl between the ages of 10 and tariff leaders to leave a tariff of r, who writes the best coinposi une cool a pound on refined sugar not to exceed 800 words, on lv Ibree years, and then let it renair ' ami maintenance of come in free. I iiivssiiiiiii Cnrlh roads, is to be awarded hv l.obeck is a man who votes as his i.ogan Waller Page, director judgment leads him, and he is ollice of public roads, United right most of the lime in do- states department of agriculture. ing so. Washington. I. C. AH comoosi- -t. Imns must be submitted to Mr. Among the good laws passed by Pag,, before May 15, liH.'J, and the 1.1 1 1 .... . ; 1 u ; . l. 1 . ... e laie legislature is one which modal will he awarded as soon empowers county commissioners (hereafter as the compositions to create road dragging districts Can be graded. The composition in each precinct, and appoint a I may be based on knowledge gain superintendent for each, who ,., from books or olher sources, shall receive 1.50 a day and ac-lM1( no quotations should he made. lua! expenses.- A majority of Afler many years' experience in voters of any portion nf the coun- dealing with the public road ly may obtain exemption from situation of the country, il is Mr such road dragging and expense page's belief that ignorance on attendant thereon. Superintend- the subject of repair and main s are given authority to employ Nominee of roads is as much the persons for work. cause of (heir bad condition as :o: 1 11 11 v other one factor. It is ex It's coining. You can't slop it. pooled that the competition will Sure as fate you're elected lo have bring about a better undorsland spring fever. Which simply jnK- 0f the subject of repair and means that the sap in you is akin maintenance in the rural dis 01 (ho sap in Ihe nudding trees, in d iols. Many children living in the flowers just beginning to stir (he rural districts have ex Inward Iheir beauty, in the cheery, porionced the disadvantages of chirrupy birds; indeed in all the roads made impassable through living creatures on this merry old a lack of proper maintenance and globe. Spring was meant for this it is expected that their interest sort of thing; and we don't mind in tho competition will stimulate saying we think the chap a chump greater interest among the par- .vho doesn't let nature have a lit-1 out s. Bad roads have prevented He rein for fun and frolic at the many children from obtaining a teasing time of year. proper education and have even :o: prevented doctors from reaching Tho appropriation of $20,000 the side of rural patients in timo for an armory at Nebraska City lo save their lives. Any child be by the legislature has evidently iween the ages mention, attend slartod something. Now nearly ing a country school, may com- cvery town in the stato of any pole. Only one side of the paper note, except Plattsmouth, wants must bo written on; each page an armory, and wants the state to snould be numbered; the name, build 11. It is a little something r.ge and address of the writer, on the order of normal schools, and the name and location of the Kvery section wanted one, and school which he or she is attend- wanled the stale to put up tho ing must be plainly written at the money to build it, and where a lop of the first page. Tho an- town had a local normal school, nnouncement of the competition they wanted Iho state to buy them has been sent to tho superintend- and make them stale institutions, ents of schools in the rural dis- And in some instances the legis- tricts. No further information lature did so. Too many normal can be obtained from the office of schools is not a paying proposi- public roads. This announcement lion. Neither can the slate afford should be plain to everyone and to supply every town that wants all children will thus start, on a an armory. basis of equality. Will the Japanese trouble in California prove a boost lo ihe Panama expo-it ion ? Many are disposed to believe that it will. :o: Taxation in Japan is extremely heavy. It is one of the peculiar ities of war songs that they glorify everything in national growth except taxes. :o: All that is necessary to relieve the people is for congress to take the "graft" out i f the Aldrich tarilf law. The graft is what makes the high cost of living, of which there is so much complaint and suffering. If il were Secretary Knox, in stead of Secretary Hryan, who went lo California, he would have organized a parly of thirty or forty friends and relatives, re quisitioned a warship and made the I rip-by way of Cape Horn. :o: Former Secretary of State Olney asserts that the United States, as owner of the Panama canal, has the right to make rules according to discretion. Mr. Olney denies Ihat this country can be its own "customer," His opinion is I hat of a man who has studied the subjei I extensively. :o: II is possible that peace or war may depend upon !,.'ie phraseology of the California law. The Jap anese statesmen know that our naturalization law excludes their people from citizenship on ethnological grounds. They are coinpelleii to regard such an ex clusion as an r.cl of national overeignty, of which they cannot rightly complain, do matter how I hey may resent it inwardly. The lalk of raising a test case, for de termination by Iho supreme court of (he queslion whether the Jap anese are not of ancient Cau casian -origin, is more interesting wide open. We suppose there are some cranks in Lincoln who want the same conditions to exist, and give boot legging a wide swarth, which will be the case if they vote out the saloons. Hut cranks exist in all towns and cities, and Lin coln may have enough of them to do the business. :o: The California race prejudice is threatening to involve the Unit ed States in an imbroglio with Japan, which may mean disaster to commercial relations and might mean war. That the situation is regarded as serious in Washing ton, President Wilson has direct ed, and Secretary of State William J. Hryan is in Sacramento, the capital of California to urge the legislature to use great caution in the matter of framing the alien land bill now pending there. The proposed bill denies to Japanese the rights of acquiring realty holdings in that slate. The Japan ese ambassador points out that this law is in strict violation of the American-Japanese treaty provisions and il is diflicull to see how this contention can be denied, as the language is very plain. The United States govern ment must see that treaty rela tions solemnly negotiated are held inviolate. They cannot be ignored or treated with contempt simply that some local prejudice may be given vent. California is a great slate, but its E. Pluribus Unum status has in no wise been impaired. There is no disposition in this country to sacrifice any thing of dignity or lawful ad vantage to Japan. We must be as determined in our advocacy of the square deal abroad as we are at home if we do not expect to be come an international laughing slock. In view of our new rela tionship to Pacific and oriental affairs as a result of the develop ments of the past, fifteen years, it is highly; important that wo main tain peaceful understanding with not only Japan, but all other countries so long as that can be done without Ihe sacrifice of prin ciple. California should be patriotic enough to rise to this view.