I The Plattsmouth Journal
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Published Semi-Weekly
IV. A. HATHS, ulllMliei-
Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter
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4 THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
4 You picture In yourself !
J tlit beauty of braver.v and
fr steadfastness. And then !
J som lill.Ii.', wretched, dis-
& agreeable duly comes which 4
J is your martyrdom, the
lamp of your oil; and if
J you do not do it, your oil
is spoiled. Philips Brooks. 4
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Thi9 section of Nebraska has
had plenty of rain until after har
vest. :o:
The Nebraska wheat crop will
knock the spots olT the sun if
anything will.
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The Hies are coming thicker
and thicker every day. Put that
swatter in use.
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Therc never was a new business
started that some pessimist didn't
predict that it wouldn't pay.
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Disarmament is not gaining
in Europe, but there is more
caution than formerly in striking
a match in international affairs.
In the Japanese army great
eare is taken that the socks of
Kildiers properly lit their feet.
Attention to such details has been
known to push through a long
hike and win a buttle.
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A new war in the Balkans is le
flared to be inevitable. But the
stales there have had a taste of
it he expensiveness of w ar and a
more moderate word than inevit
.able may be found to fit the case
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With all due respect to the
canditlacy of Fred Volpp, it should
be borne in mind that Nebraska
has quite a number of democrats
who arc well fitted for governor.
It is somewhat early for prospect
ing.
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I An Anti-American Youths
association in Tokio, Japan, has
adopted resolutions for im
mediate war with us. fu Japan,
too, there are young men not
knowing what war is, but very
willing to find out.
It is staled that if one grain of
corn could tie added to each ear
there would be a revenue thus de
rived to pay for all the agricultur
al colleges now in operation, and
if no seed were planted without
being tested, our crops would be
increased to an amount sutlicicnt
to pay the national debt every
year.
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at Plattsmouth, Neb.:
The W. C. T. U. lias declared
war on tobacco, especially cigar
ettes. :o:
There is a fashion in words.
Strenuous has been replaced by
insidious.
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Society gets its hardest knocks
from the woman who is trying to
break in and can't.
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Nebraska farmers are yelling
for harvest hands, and they need
all that will come.
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Secretary Hryan says President
Wilson's new money plan is 0. K.
and thinks business men will wel
come the act.
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There will be no cause for any
able-bodied men in Cass county
being idle next week. The wheat
harvest will be on and good wages
aid.
A Hank movement is threatened
against Mexico by Central
America. After a country once
gels into the trouble belt it is
always diflicull for it to get out
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Press dispatches from 'Frisco
announce thai there are one hun
dred college graduates washing
dishes. Such a college educa
lion is good for something after
all.
The kaiser's twenty-five years
have been peaceful, a fact to re
member in connection with the
military preparedness of Ger
many, the most thorough and
scientific in the world.
Anti-American meetings in
Japan are poorly attended. The
jingoes are accused of a desire to
embarrass the Japanese cabinet
and I he game is too apparent to
have much influence on public
sentiment.
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The big base ball attraction of
the season will lie the game at
Plaltsmouth next. Saturday on the
local diamond. A genuine Ha
waiian base ball club will be here
to play the Boosters at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon. A free concert
will be given by the Hawaiians
before the game begins.
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Mrs. Lillian Sluart of St. Louis
savs thai too much good clothes
are responsible for the shallow
life of today with ils scandals and
divorces. The trouble is that we
are sulVering from too little
clothes. The fashionable woman
of today appeals to the sensual
side of men by wearing no clot lies
at all. or so little as only to be
suggestive and immodest.
Nebraska has emuiah moisture
for all practical purpose and
some to spare.
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Crops were helped in some
places and some damage done in
others by the rain storm Tuesday
night.
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A 19 steer is said to cost the
consumer $97. Men are given
steers occasionally that eventual
ly cost them more than that.
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If you are looking for work, re
member that every wheat grower
will need from five to eight extra
hands next week, at good wages.
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We haven't much confidence in
the business man who thinks
every other business in the city is
run on a crooked basis except his
own. '
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You haven't heard any panic
i
talk in the past few days. -Oh,
no! President Wilson closed up
the Wall street sharks like so
many clams.
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If it is true that President Wil
son will not be present at the
Gettysburg celebration he will
miss one of the most important
events of the four years that he
remains at the bead of the gov
ernment. :o:
If the Billy Sunday evangelistic
schedule is a criterion it is very
evident that the tariff on soul
saving and revision downward
have not yet crossed each other's
path in the helter-skelter inarch
of human regeneration and re
form. :o: .
There seems to be no slowing
down of the wheels of industry.
Everything is prosperous. Presi
dent Wilson has had control of
the reins of government now
nearly four months, with no
gloom over the country nor any
panic in sight. , -,
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The Fremont Tribune disputes
Grand Island's title to the "third
city" in Nebraska. Why not set
tle the matter by a show-down?
They are both line cities, but it
has always been in our mind that
Grand Island is at least a thou
sand the largest.
Across thousands of miles came
the native Hawaiian base ball club
to make their tour of America.
And in their tour have consented
to slop ofT at Plattsmouth to play
the Boosters one game, which will
occur tomorrow (Saturday) after
noon at 3 o'clock at the ball park.
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After Senator Lodge permitted
the sugar trust to send out sugar
trust documents under his sen
atorial frank, the postage of
which would amount to $10,000,
it doesn't lake a man with a glass
eye to see just how the trust lobby
has been getting in some of its
work. Is it any wonder that
President Wilson is anxious to
j clear the senate of these corrupt
i influences?
You don't have to go far from
I'lattsmiiulh to celebrate. ;,, . I
(he Tulene glove, one mile west!
of town, and yon ran amuse your-
self delightfully. Plenty of good
music.
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The boys and girls of Cass
county will have to hurry up if
they want to get in on the June
weddings. Plattsmouth has done
better this month than it has
done in numerous ears pasl.
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The people of Plattsmouth will
have a good excuse to lay aside
their work Saturday afternoon
when the native Hawaiian base
ball club plays the Boosters at the
park at 3 o'clock. lon'l miss it.
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This accounts for the cooling
atmosphere from the north Mon
day night former Vice President
Fairbanks bad arrived in Omaha
to be present at a republican love
feast. It did not prove a very
"hot" affair, however.
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Fairbanks' harmony dope
proved unetllective at Omaha, a
the bull moosers refuse his com
forting words as too cold and
chilly. The Indiana statesman is
not of the kind to bring en
thusiasm to warring factions.
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During the recent senatorial
investigation of the conditions
under which certain West Vir
ginia mines are operated there
was a fierce colloquy between one
of the operators and Senator
Marline of New Jersey. During
the war of words the operator as
serted confidently and without
hesitation thai the New Jersey
senator had taken three drink-
willi him wit h in half an hour.
Good thing that operator wasn't
a newspaper man! He would be
up agaiusl a libel suit for sure.
"Every normal city newspaper
man." declares the Lincoln News,
'"carries around 'for years the
dream that some day he will save
up enough money In permit, him
lit buy mil a newspaper in a coun
try town, preferably fhe county
seat, and there enjoy the leisure
thai his talents and hard work
have entitled him to receive." As
to leisure, however," it might be
suggested that some discrimina
tion might well be employed even
as to country county seat towns!
Evidently distance always lends
enchantment to .1 he view.
The advent in Nebraska of Wil
liam B. Mckinley, the Illinois
inlerurhan railway magnate, is
taken to be a matter of import
anre, since it foreshadows activity
in that line of enterprise. He has
bought the Omaha-Papillion line
and is reported to favor pushing
it on to Lincoln. Mr. McKinley is
the big noise in trolley line opera
lion in the west. We may con
sider ourselves fortunate that he
has come over into eastern Ne
braska with his money and his
ability. In due time local trans
portation in this rich region will
be largely that of electric power
hvtlro-electric power.
Eventual free sugar and free
wool are (o si and in t he new tariff
bill.
Some meddler started the
rumor that the stars and bars
would float over the capital build
ing at Lincoln during the reunion
at Gettysburg, from July 1 to i.
Col. John A. Dempster, depart
ment commander of the G. A. H.
of the slate, wrote Governor
Morehead about it, and the gov
ernor soon put a quietus to such
a rumor. Some sensationalist of
the old bloody shirt order prob
ably thought it would be a good
time to revive the feeling of forty
years ago, even in Nebraska, while
a democratic governor is in the
chair. Thank God, peace reigns
supreme between the north and
south, and "One Flag and One
Country" is the motto of every
true and loyal American, and he
who would attempt to float such
a rumor is not worthy of being
classed as an American citizen.
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The big city papers never tire
01 poKing lun at ine provincialism
of the country editors. And we
must admit that they do some
times cause merriment by their
crude sayings, poor grammar,
bad spelling and fly-specked
punctuation. But it may be said
of the country editor that he lives
nearer to nature than his city
critic and is therefore closer in
touch with the everyday affairs of
life. The country editor knows
how to milk the family cow. lie
knows a llock of sheep, a herd of
cattle or hogs, a swarm of bees
uinl mi on. through the list o
rnrul things that make life happy.
He sees more blue sky and buys
less than the city editor. He
smells the fragrance of flowers
and knows their name better than
the cily editor. He knows the
difference between katlir corn and
sumac belter than Ibe cily editor.
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All kinds of publications,
printed in all parts of the coun
try, are printing stories of Ne
braska's remarkable prosperity,
remarkable in contrast to the
conditions and prospects in other
sections. In the first place, the
crop conditions in Nebraska are
far above the average for this
stale, and the very best in the
union. On those prospects 'are
based most of the optimism
found in Nebraska business. But
more than that. Nebraska's banks
have shown a remarkable in
crease in all classes of deposits
during the past year, business
failures are fewer ami the general
prosperity and wealth of the
citizens of the state has steadily
grown. This is in the face of a
change in administration, decided
activities 011 the part of the 11a
lional government in business af
fairs, depressing conditions in
the east, a strong money market
and a weakening of securities
strikes and other labor troubles
and many other things that have
adversely affected the business
prosperity of other sections.
Omaha Trade Exhibit.
One thing certain the common
people stand squarely by Presi
dent Wil-ou. And as long as he
retains them he feels encouraged
to go onward in efforts for riuht
as aaaiust wrong.
President Wilson is said to be
receiving many requests to hurry
up the passage of the tariff bill,
on the plausible theory that the
sooner the bill is passed and the
question settled, the sooner the
business of the country will bn
on a more settled basis for the
next four years. There might be
some advantage, after all, in giv
ing congressional orators free
"leave to print" and let it go at
that,
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An unusual sample of divorce
justice has been meted out in a
case al Chicago. Peter Van Vlis
singen was a prominent and
wealthy broker. He made money
by crooked transactions. Hi9
stenographer, acquainted with his
business methods, married him.
She knpw of- his misdeeds; but
she was socially ambitious and
willingly shared in the fruits of
his actions. He was caught at it
and is in the Joliet prison. She
wants a divorce on the ground
that he is a felon and wants
likewise a goodly share of the
property that is left. The court
commendably refused the decree.
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While the weed question is on
there has been many suggestions
as to the manner of getting rid of
I hem along the public streets in
this city. The best one that we
have heard is for the city to place
an additional tax on all property
in a sufficient sum to pay for cut
ting the weeds twice each season.
By this means we are sure to get
rid of the pests. By 'the "free-
for-all" plan some people will
never cut their weeds, while their
next door neighbor's property is
kept clean. Property owners will
have to pay the tax all alike, and
by this method we can have a city
free from weeds the entire sea
son round without any great cost
to anyone.
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Eilgar Howard, editor of the
Columbus Telegram, says that
Phil Kohl will manage Fred
Yolpp's campaign for the demo
cratic nomination for governor
next year. Mr. Howard thinks
thai this means a "wet" and "dry"
contest, which he hopes can be
avoided. The writer hopes that
such a contest will not come up.
If has always proven disastrous
to the democrats in Nebraska.
Edgar Howard is not a prohibi
tionist and never was. In this he
is a man after our own heart, and
we believe two-thirds or more of
the democratic voters of the state
are anii-prohihitionists, but we
are afraid of the treacherous
brewery interests, who cannot be
depended upon to support the
party that furnishes the most
voies against proinnil ion. no
matter how many promises they
make so to do. "They have been
1 tried and found wanting."