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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1913)
The Plattsmouth Journal iPublisteii Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Neb.: IV. A. IIATHHf JnlHlicr Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second-class matter $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE- A new candidate is in t lit field for th appoint nifiit of revenue collector. Senator Ollis of Old, il would seem, has been prevailed upon to try fur the position. It is a fine jolt, and is worth $1,500 per annum. .Some autoisls ure exceeding the speed limit in the city limits, and it would be well for the city officials to look more closely to tti is matter. II is not outsiders who do this, but residents of the city. The motorcyclists should be looked after, also. We were asked recently, "Why are there so many more girl graduates than boys?" We are unable to say, unless il, is the girls are closer students, and per haps there are more oT them at tending school regularly. Hut this is the case in the schools all oe,r the country. :o: After a man spends his money with a lavish hand buying flowers and candy before marriage, ami after marriage not, a cent, are the flower and candy dealers justified in appealing to the federal court to dissolve the merger on the ground that it is in restraint of trade? :o: The standpatters are trying to make friends with the farmers by declaring that pulling agri cultural products on the free list will ruin American agriculture. Intelligent farmers know that so long as we produce a surplus of wheal oats and corn there is no danger of such products being brought into this country, tariff or no tarifT. I , :o: There's very little use talking about dragging the roads unless the people interested those who use the roads do the work. Newspapers can talk till dooms day about the efficacy of properly treated highways, but unless the beneficiaries of the roads lake in terest in the matter themselves, talking through the newspapers will do but Utile good. We will add, however, now's the lime to begin the work. -O; The city council did a noble act it lit when it unanimously voted to increase Joint Fitzpal rick's salary I0 on the month. This will please a large majority of our cif izens. :o : An exchange Ihusly defines the word "cigarette:" "A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco and drugs with a fire at one end and a big fool at the other. Some of the chief enjoyments are con sidered to be nightmares, tils cancer of the lips and stomach, spinal meningitis, softening of the brain, funeral processions and families shrouded in gloom." :o: 11 would be well for the public to keep an eye on those states men who are so anxious to muzzle the newspapers by regulation, in spection, supervision or censor ship, says the Tamaroa Lyre. The man who lives in constant horror of being bawled out by the press, must have quite a load of -nine Hc.rl (in his conscience. The pies usually plays fairer than I lie people. "Women do not want to vote," sas Mrs. Dodge. If they did I here would have been more than 8,ooo women in the suffragist parade in New York, after suf fragsisls had raised heaven and earth and had women come from all over the United Stales to inarch." Who is Mrs. Dodge? She is president of an association of women opposed lo woman's suffrage. And she is a pretty smart lady, too. :o: The insurgent Woodmen of the United Slates, in their recent na tional meeting at Springfield, Il linois, organized the Nationa Modern Woodmen of America Federation. Among the long list of resolutions passed is one re pealing the increased rates; de manding the restoration of pop ular government, and one, by no means the least in importance, demanding the heads of officials responsible for the present rale t roubles. writer a-ks : "Do handsome i This is the season fur house cleaning and the wife needs new carpels. As a tribute to the manufacturers she lias to pay a tariff tax of from tin to 8if per cent. She has to buy clothing for herself and children and pays a tariff of from GO to 1J0 per cent. And Vet her husband complains because a democratic congress is trying to reduce the price of car pels and clothing to an equitable basis so that she may buy them at a reasonable price. Party prejudice binds some people as lightly as the bonds of slavery bound the negro in ante-bellum days. Fverything seems to be run ning smoothly around the state bouse at Lincoln since the ad- ft is aw ful nice for an editor , journincnt of the legislature. in his own town to hear visitors speak so flatteringly of the man ner in which our business men are brushing up. No one can help but note the greatly improved condition of the business houses even so far this spring. II, is in deed encouraging to hear visitors speak of the handsome appear ance of the business blocks. All bul a very few are neat and tasty, and we trust these few will fall in line before I he season's over. (lovernor Morehead has finished his appointments very satisfac torily to himself, and thus he is rid of the vast number who thronged bis office in quest of positions. He has now an oppor tunity for a breathing spell, and can lay back on his oars until something exciting (urns up to need his attention. The death of Luther MeCarly will knock out prize-fighting in Canada. p, en no'ke the best husbands?" If they do there are darn few rood lin-liiiuds in Plattsmouth. :o: "If you want to make people love you, 'sass' them," said a Plattsmouth man the other day. "lloosevcll, some years ago, told the people of California he would force the Japs into the public schools in that state at the point of bayonets, and in spite of that slap in the face, the people out there gave Roosevelt a majority for president at the last election." Decoration day, f next Friday, will be faithfully observed in Plallsmoulh, as usual. .' l'he trust magnates of the east i i i - ire narking up me wrong iree when they think Ihey can in the east intimidate Wood row Wilson, le isn't a man of that character. No man in the United States has made a closer study of the trust evils, and he knows there is not the least justification. -for such combinations. He is the only president, since Lincoln's day, in whom the people at large can place explicit confidence. And success is bound to crown his ef forts to give this country an ad ministration of which the masses can feel proud. Hurrah for Presi dent Wilson 1 Weeping Water lias concluded lo celebrate on the Fourth this year. :o: To produce a given net output requiring a certain amount of power ami a certain nuniiier-ot workmen in the United Slates, Hie Hrilish manufacturer must use one-sixth more power and two and a half times as many work men. This is the finding of the Department of Commerce. Of course this superior efficiency of American labor is responsible for the better condition of labor in the United States. The only way, on earth that an American work man can be better'" 'ff than a Hrilish workman fs by producing more. High tariff duties have en abled manufacturers lo make larger profits. But they haven't been responsible for the com paratively high wages of the workmen. Advocates of a law that will prohibit killing cattle until they have reached a certain age, be cause cattle are becoming scarce, a committee of commerce of the District of Columbia will confer willi Secretary of Agriculture Huston. After investigation, the committee has decided that with in the next ten years children will have no shoes lo wear, beef will sell at between 40 and 50 cents a pound, milk will be at least 15 cents a quart and the price of buller will soar lo the sky. All this is laid lo killing cattle with out giving them a chance to breed. The only way in which to stop this, says the committee, is to have passed a law which will prohibit the killing of cattle until a fixed age, which should be 3 years in the case of steers and G for cows. -:o:- The Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, twice elected governor of Iowa, and former secretary of the treasury, is seeing things in as rightful an aspect as Hichard Pessimist llobson views them. In an inter view given out a few days ago he expressed himself as being doubt ful as to the finishing of the Panama canal, and said be did not believe it would ever be finished. He also threw in a few Japanese scares to make the situation one to make a fellow shudder. Leslie is a dead political duck, and it is always the man out of a job who becomes a pes simist. They may have to give him another soft job to cure him. -:o:- F.x-fiovernor Dockery, third assistant postmaster general, was in Missouri, his home state, the past week, attending the grand lodge meeting of the Odd Fellows of Missouri, of which he is grand master, lie is also grand master of the Masonic order, and also a member of the Masonic Home board. Before he accepted the third assistant postmaster gen eralship it was understood by Postmaster General Burleson that ho should retain these positions. There is a good demand for good houses to rent. Every day there are inquiries for decent houses. If somebody Would buibf a few cottages they would have tenants occupying them before the paint would be dry on them. o: When the metropolitan jour nals of the east think Ihey can fool the people of the west on the tariff question Ihey are simply barking in the wrong direction. F.very line in the protection jour nals against the new tariff bill is paid for by the trust manu facturers of the country. These fellows have bought up every newspaper of any importance that has a purchase price. In fact, money is no object to the trusts if it will only kill certain sections in the bill. They are even trying lo buy senators, and have a large number of lobbyists on the sen ate lloor every day seeking whom Ihey might devour, with Iheir imckets filled with money. We would hale to be the senator who would so far forgel his principle and respect as to be caught in the trap set for him. In the eyes of nil honest people he would be a bigger traitor to his country than Benedict Arnold. The fact is the Missouri Pa cific people are not treating Plattsmouth fairly in the running of their passenger trains. It would appear that they have "it in" generally for the people of Cass county, from the manner in which they are running their trains. There would be much more travel lo Plattsmouth from the west side of the county if t he people could get here and back home tlie same day, but the way the trains are now run, to the disadvantage of the people, we are determined to have the relief that fairly belongs to us. And high-up officials of the road have acknowledged tills fact, but still refuse to come to our rescue. But a railroad corporation that won't do what they ought to do, there is a higher authority that some times compels them to do ttie slate railway commission and the probabilities are that this higher authority will be appealed to, as a last resort to an outraged people. :o: If you don't think the tly is nasty just read what an eastern phyiscian has written about him: "You may readily picture to your self what takes place when a Uy, gorged with a liquefied diet of typhoid material, tuberculosis sputum, or microbe-milk, hops gawly here and there on your berries, butter, sugar bowl and kitchen utensils. The apparent ly clean and harmless tly that glides idly into your kitchen from the passing garbage cart in order to have a bit of your bread, your sugar, your meat, or your butter, regurgitates a few times here and there wherever it alights. If a tly wishes to sip some nourish ment il must regurgitate several times at least upon the food it craves. It has been abundantly confined by experiments that the lly not only stores up food for days and weeks at, a lime in its crop, but it also regurgitates fresh, as well as old food, very often. , The fly will thus regurgit ate food through its mouth and proboscis mixed with saliva, in order to dissolve and liquiefy food that is loo solid to take. In deed, flies are so filthy in their habits that the regurgitate and re-swallow the same food many times. Some of its ejected saliva and food may be the remnants of fetid repasts obtained some days previously from the filthiest places. Moreover, the sticky, gluey cushions upon a fly's feet are literally alive and swarming with bacteira and other disease spreading filth. The graceful act of the fly upside down is due to this mucilaginous material pres ent upon the insect's feet." Get your swatter ready, for if the weather keeps getting warmer they will soon be here in great droves. :o: in Ger- aud the world; and whatever the errors in the details of impcach- iii.itit mn nr.tve fit lie Trie rilM serva i e new siianers oi iierman unite Willi t lie radical journals iu recognizing the shameful char acter of the simple and undesira ble facts. Nothing shown in the matter is worse than the share of the military party iu the govern ment itself is booming the arma ment husines. Could it be pos sible (hat the same stale of af fairs exist in this country? If there i- we can trust President Wilson to nip it before, it has proceeded ery far. The recent exposure many of the extent lo which great manufacturers of armaments and war material have worked to stir up war scares in order to gel trade and promote army and navy increase, have shocked Europe In Michigan, where t he manu facture of beet sugar 'is an im portant industry, the state authorities have been investigat ing the prices paid to the farmers for beets in the state and across the border in Ontario. The re sult is interesting as a comment 1 'IV 11. 1 1. . rt I oil uuiiis as iney useu 10 ue mat The Michigan farmer, it wa9 found, is paid .$4.50 a ton for his beets having a sugar content above a certain per cent. The farmer pays for his seed and pays the freight. There is a tariff "protecting" the American farm er from t tie blighting competition of t he farmers just across the St. Clair river in the Dominion. It was found, however, that the base price for beets was exactly the same on each side and that the Canadian farmer gets his seed free and pays no freight. The only offset for this advantage is I hat no bonus is paid on Canadian beets having a high sugar content. The conclusion of the investigation was that the Canadian gets a little better price for his beets than the American. The need for protec- i l lw,ii,i f,.,A n.ri.rtli' imn i on. lur-iriuir. is I'luij ima ginary. Soon the graduates of the Plattsmouth High school will go hence, to battle for themselves. Their happiest school days are over. , Some,, no doubt, will fit themselves for teaching, while others will go "higher up" in scholarastic work. The young men orrnmiates wi EO OUl into the world to battle for themselves which they now nave tne oppo t unity to do. They go forth with a clear conscience that they have done as near right during their school career as is possible for boys to do. They are young and have had their fun, now they must think of what the future has in store for them. The boy graduates in the past, generally speaking, have done well, and many of them today are filling honorable and lucrative positions and are highly respected in the communities in which they re side. And it is hoped that the graduates who go forth today will fare as well in their future avoca tions as the boys who have gone out into the world before them. The Journal extends congratula tions to each and every one of the young ladies and gentlemen, with the hope that they will prosper, nml ninv linnvnn'a fhrienit tiles. sings attend mem wnerever iney may go. MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS By Gross v i . . .rr-r-rr . r tMMC MO Bihl rtP kdrA I VMi MOTMCQ . i i --w i , T-i . . N ii it ni TeiX K DFrv , I fl Of toKV'tw I Jvcoe ...2! YToT VMfft fc'i V " I v- the nr.ioW4 vow lAOTrttfc MTS Tt 2SWs OeW l l ( 79v err A I f 'ix- w .ikK,i I m ; i f m is l. tyi