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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1913)
The Plattsmouth Journal : Published Semi-Weekly IV. A.. I ATK-H, 1 .1 llier Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter 1 Q PER YEAR IN'ADVANCE ------ I J 4-H-H .r. THOUGHT FOR TODAY. .J. (id your distaff ready, V and God will send his flax. Mary A. Livci mole's Fa- vorile Proverb. .HHH :o:- At least nobody lo-l their heads at Mr. Hryan's winelcss dinner. :o: Great season' for clcuniup up and improving. :o: Plaltsniotit.il lias a eircus and yet spring work i. somewhat de layed. :o: Still; you would have to dodge more if aulos were .sold on tins in stallment, plan. Dr. Friedmann didn't liave to wait for his serum to make frond ill order to Ret liis ju ice. The SI. Louis congress is a timely one. Let- there he peace and a limitation on amount. After a man begins iainfr the fiddler, dancing doesn't, seem such a gala performance. It is proposed a I I lie capil a I city that students in i u til adas night police offici'i's. Another reason why (lie sjnle universily should remain in the heart, of the city. :o: Not. many weeks now liil the fourth of July. And it is not one v hit too early In b'gin moving nt ihal direction. I. el. the coii, tnil lev get a move on them. I ' :o: ' Congressman Gallagher's in- v et igul inn of the base hall trust has lint begun, as yd. And some of the enslaved plavcrs are still drawing salaries nl. I he rale uf sj.non ami ai :. per innnlh. :o: ' What there is In u that is good or beautiful can be seen by our neighbors in the neatness of our gardens and premi-cs. When you see a garden well filled with elnuce vegetables and rare flowers the owner has his heart in the right place. :o: The Lincoln Herald bits (he right, mark in Hie following: "Plattsmoulh is having difficulty with the Lincoln Telephone com pany over a proposed increase in rates and the railway commission is soon to have another tale of woe to listen to. The telephone corporations will keep on mon keying with the doir people until there will be a referendum cam pargu on for state ownership of telephones." 1 MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS - . By Gross th,nsu WAsjjioonj) rrC house in (J 'e0TA(Cs 0 TTHUMP "ryw4 X CySs Ln ffi Cs I', V2eKiJ thump L; r,Nre ml Lt. at Plattsmouth, Neb.: It, is reported t'uat the house will get thmtigh with the tariff bill this, week, when it will be turned over to the senate. There's where there will be some fighting and scratching before it is passed. :o: President Wilso,- says the plat form pledges upon which he was nominated and elected, plank for p'ank, must be carrb d out, and be proposes to do all in his power to see that they are. Good for Wood row. :o: The people of Cass county should not forget '.hat t he Plalts niouth Commercial club is in charge of I he Fourth of July cele bration in this city this year. This should lie sulliciepi. to convince anyone that it will be a good one. :o: The Japs with Yankee Robin son's big show, n Plattsmoulh today, don't seem to be very much effected by (lie California trouble. They are pretty intelligent fel lows ami as acrobais and jugglers lliey are u'oods. right n re lie :o: II is sanl thai. I. mucin is al ready overrun wit 1 1 "bootleggers"' in ant icipal ion of I lie capital city going "dry" tomorrow. II was a harvest for them when (lie city went "dry" before, and it will be Hie same way again (live it well regulated saloons instead of a system of boot legging. :o: II is likewise not impossible that if California should get the country into trouble that it doesn't want, her exposition in 11)15 ma look like thirty cents. There lies in the mailer another consolation fur the failure of the Nebraska legislature to appropri ate a big sum for "exposition" purposes. While I'lallsnioulh is not grow ing to any great evlinl, everybody seems to be ininroving their places of business, and also their residences. Some new resiliences are in the course of construct ion and the demand for houses In rent is wonderful. We are more than holding our own. and should be content. The police department of Lon don is at last showing fight against the so-called "militancy" of the suffragettes. It is begin ning to fight fire with fire. Espe cially since these violations of law- have been so leniently regarded i: F.ngland generally more firm than our own country, in Hie en forcement of its criminal laws has the lethargy of its officers with these women criminal beea rather unusual. What Mexico needs is a period of rest from its unrest. :o: Considering the numerous wars and rumors of wars wheat is too cheap. :o: The wireless operators going on a strike shouldn't increase the high cost of living. :o: II is conceded on all sides that the Nebraska wheal corp is abso lutely the finest ever seen. :o: China has decided u be "thoroughly modern," even to the accumulation of a large national J Kill. This community has bad at least all the rain it, needs for at least two weeks. Give the farm ers a chance. It is certainly good for that tired feeling to walk over Platts mouth just now and see how things are humping. :o: Mrs. Thomas T. Preston, fir- merly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is president of the anti-suffrage so ciently of New Jersey. :o:- What's in a name? The Mis siss'ppi levee at Waterproof, La., has been broken find half a dozen hamlets are under xvatcr. :o : It would seem that it is not alone the plans of "mice and men" that oft go wrong. Ian Cupid seems to make as many mis calculations as anybody, includ ing the weather num. He keeps Hie courts and lawyers busy an nulling his badly executed con tracts. The beautiful spring month of .May, while it comes to us with the fragrance of flowers and much that is cheerful and beauti ful, yd it also brings to us Memorial day and with it many sail memories. We are not in debted to history for our knowl edge of the greatest of national crisis. Many remi mber it and fathers and mothers now living had belter keep telling that story to their children, so that instead of their being dependent upon cold type and obliged to say: "On such a pase of stub a book you can read that," will they rather be able to say: "My father told me so!" "My nhdber told me so!" Men and women who vividly remember INtil and 1C2 and 18CH and tSiii, be yourselves the his torians telling it, not with pen but with living tongue and voice and gesture. That is Ihe great use of Memorial Decoration day, for the calla lilies on the grave tops soon become breathless '.if perfume and in a week turn to dust like unto that which lies beneath them. Hut the story of courage and self-sac-rifico and patriotism told on plat forms and in households and by the roadside and I:: churches and in cemeteries, but that annual re cital will be kept fresh in the memory of generations as long as our American institutions are worthy of preservation. Revising the tariff may not re sult in lowering the high cost of living perceptibly, but it affords a vast amount of entertainment. :o: Tlie Cincincinaal i Enquirer says that an optimist is a one armed man who 1 mows he will never pound his finger with a tack hammer. :o: "Oil, why should the spirit of mortal be found while like a swift-living meteor, a fast-flying cloud" the dandelions cover everything in sigh',. :o: A Milwaukee court has just de cided that a wif'3 is justified in beating up anotlnv woman who insists on paying direct attention to her husband. Now, ladies, go to 'em. :o: Mayor Saltier wi.l liave to issue another "clean-up' day procla mation. Rain last Saturday inter f erred with the carrying out of his request. :o: The last legislature passed some laws that will be quite bene ficial to the state. It also passed some measures that may prove an expensive experiment. But then all legislative bodies make more or less mistakes, and the last one is no exception to !he rule by any means. There is more or less common eamplainl in certain quarters that then is a dearth of opportunity for young men nowadays. After looking I he situation over care fully and looking over some of the modern voting men just, as care fully, we are led to wonder if it is not fully as likely that there is a lack of young men to meet I lie requirements of tie- opportunities. :o: ' readers - ! anion us if " V, a brother . i 1 1 . . r give i'is o;i,!"i,:i of a s! in' ; i ma. V. .! not ki.ovv vvlii'lLer I here ar" iny Midi in Plat I si,:---:; ii ( r no', Inn all ether towns have them, you know. Our broth-'.- editor savs I hat i I" I here is an v Ii ing on cart Ii ml gives h a longing for dec- I nal rest and deep, damp soiilude ii is a man who co.ocs to a town or country, builds u: a big paying business, grows i it-li and Hi-mi squats down on the gohl IiIm- a ben on a door knob ami is loo stingy even to Id. ine gravel griml in iiis own gizzard. A real, genu ine IS-karat, stingy, selfish man can't be honest, ;,m if he ever gets to heaven and has wings, he folds I hem up and walks for fear be will ruffle a plume or lose a tail feather. The kind of men who build up a town and county and enjoy life and make the itest citi zens, are the enterprising, ener getic and liberal men, who believe in living and Idling others live; and who do not, when they get a dollar, squeeze it till the Goddess of Liberty feels liko she bad on a corset. Such squeezing is what causes such hard limes and stops the circulation of Hie American eagle. If it were not for our broad-gauged, enterprising men it would be impossible to build up a prosperous city. One might imagine the London suffragettes had been imported from Mexico. :o: Mothers' day next Sunday, and Governor Morehead has issued bis proclamation to that effect. :o: Three companies of the state militia will be at 'lie rifle range all next week. :o: Spring poem: Oh, the fish worms are calling, calling, and to work is appalling, appalling. . :o : Does Congressman Sisson of Mississippi want to fight the Japs or get in the limelight? You have only one guess. Tariff revision may reduce the high cost of living somewhat, but the fact remains that the best way to reduce it is to be as eco nomical as possible. That's the common sense way. :o:- The Journal is heartily in fa vor of the movement that is be ing pushed to interest the boys in raising corn. We hope to see nu merous Cass county boys in the! stale contest this year. President Wilson says: "We ropose to prevent private monop oly by law." May we not hope he will be upheld in his holy purpose by all the machinery of the gov ernment and by the people. :o: A Topeka (Kansas) man who had been gone from home seven years was mean enough to show up last week an-.l dispute his wife's claim to I ho 6:,000 life in surance which she had collected. :o: Plattsmoulh last season im proved more Hian any towr. of inches in Nebraska. And v. h.n, is more, she is lia!:'.? to go !evom thai limit this se.vou, '.'rom die way our people arc staiti' g out. :o: Why not be fan? The people iion'1 intend Hi;:. -the railroads shall rob them. To be honest with the railroads the people must not permit legislation that would rob the railroads. The public may as well understand that mod eration in railroad legislation will bring good results, and unreason able legislation will bring good results, and uni :osonble legisla tion will defeat i'self and make conditions worse than they have ever been. The railroad is simply an organization like any other necessary to the public, and managed on the whole as well as any other, by about the same kind of men as ar engaged in other business. You cannot have on the one hand public service. commissions and legislatures, compelling the railroads to reduce their rales, their freight charges and their commutation rates, and on the other hand organiza lions of labor, or arbitrators ap pointed by the government, tell ing the railroads that they must raise wages and employ more men. Y'ou can't cut down the freight rate at one end and raise wages at the other without wiping out the railroads. STATE RIGHTS IN COURTS. A disgruntled lawyer, who had just lost a case in court which he bad confidently expected to win, is credited with the liinark that "if there is any one thing (Sod Al mighty does not know, it is how a petit jury will decide." Most of us have had sufficient oppor tunity to watch, trials in court to come close to agreeing with him in this sentiment. The criticism of jury decisions by the public at large, however, is usually much biased. More over, the very thing that the jury should consider, and which very likely influenced the decision more thany anything else, is usually lost sight of in this criticism. This thing is the right of so ciety as represented by the state to as fair and impartial a trial in court as society, through a feeling of charity and mercy demands for the individual. The jury which cannot place the interests of the society it represents on the same level with the interests of the in dividual on trial is not a good jury. If the public was given the privilege of reversing jury de cisions, we believe the great per cent of the changes would be in the direction of favoring the in dividual rather than society itself. This speaks well tor the senti ments of society, but would be a dangerous condition to introduce when the interests of the whole community came to be considered. Kvery man has a right to justice ill the fullest, sense if he is placed on trial for any crime whatso ever, and the quality of mercy is no less worthy of commendation than in the days when Shakes peare put the well known words in I lie mouth of Portia. Hut the stale, fully as much as the in dividual, has a right to demand justice in its courts, and unless the juries consider this, thev are far more worthy of the disap proval of the public than they are if they look only at the weeping wife or sweetheart, and let senti ment blind their sense of justice toward the individual on trial. Stale rights in court are neces ry to the state and the in dividuals which make it up, and the public will be far better served if they demand these rights than if they only demand mercy to the individual at the hands of every judge and jury. :o; The parcel post has come to stay. Its use by the people will grow rapidly. And there should be a prompt response to this pat ronage on the part of Ihe gov ernment in the way of increased and improved faciLties. This duty not only devolves upon the post office department but chiefly upon congress, which should au thorize and provide for more par cel post stations and cut such foolish restrictions as that which bars a book from the post while admitting a brick r-f a cabbage. :o: It is also pleasing to note that Mr. Underwood is in favor of reducing the crop of tariff speeches. H A