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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1913)
' "' L " """ "'- in- ii irfAl . riiivn,- - - The Plattsmouth Journal : Publisiie J Semi-Weekly K. X. I IATHH, I 'ullilict' Entered at the Poiitoilic? it i'lattsmout!-., N'u'iujkaii seeo-i i-oiii-s (riaiu-r - S1.5Q FER YEAR IN ADVANCE - - THOUGHT FOR TODAY. When we culliate thought ! of strength fur oUicrs, we J ourselves row strong. I Habitual thoughts of itac; J bring us tranquility. C. B. J Ncwcomb. Yes, sir, just as well keep on boosting for Plattsmouth. It's the best town of its inches in the wide, wide world, and still a growing. :o: Women who are in favor of the eight-hour day should avoid get ting married. If the milkman doesn't know, I hen half the world don't know how the other half live. Remember thai, a good citizen will never go back on his own town. Now, you believe that don't you? ;o; i- This is a free country, inas much as one may swat Hies with out a binder's license. Moral: (let busy. Pretty hot again, but what of it ? You can find plenty of other things to worry you besides the weather. :o :- Now that the wheat crop is safe, farmers can worry about the corn before doing their Christmas shopping early. :o: Then don't discourage any movement that is destined to benefit the business interests of I he city and the people in gen era). -:o:- Therc was a time when it was said that "riches takes wings," but at the present lime a touring car or two is good enough for them. The Jap altitude toward the jingoes only goes to show that the world over the hair-trigger fellow is held in about the same regard. Help boost the Fall Festival a3 one thing that will advertise Plattsmouth and help retain her prominence on the map a9 one of I he best towns in the great west. :o: Naval enlistments are growing in the United Stales. The ap proaching completion of the Panama canal points to a good deal of-foreign travel for the nearly 50,000 men in American fleets. MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS - By Gross 1 1 at Plattsmoiita, iSub. Arc we to have a band concert for sure thi. week? Se-ral of the fraternal in surance sorb-lie hae joined in appljing' for an injunction against I lie new insurance law. I Some people, out of anything ,to occupy their minds, are oppos- I ... ... , ,: ... , . . , mg uie locai ion 01 me nana siana oji High School Hill. -:o: It is lucky for most Plat t sonians thai there are many suitable pleasure resorts right here within convenient walking distance rot Roosevelt is still clamoring for a bigger navy. He is bound to keep in (he limelight if he has to keep up a continuous light for it. :o: II is given out that 3,010,000, 000 lish were dumped in the various rivers and creeks by the government during the year, which starts off a new crop of stories in a creditable way. -:o:- Tlie worst trick that the alarm clock eer played on us is to break into our dreams as we are aboiil to dive into the old swim ' 1 1 i n " bole back in the old home. A Michigan waiter's hair turn ed from black to red while hav ing a tooth pulled. He knows now how it feels to have the hair turn gra while wailing for a chop order. tor- Above all things, keep cool. If you cannot keep cool, then re main as normal as possible. Do not worry, get excited or allow anything to irritate you. Re member summer has just com menced. :o:-- If you think advertising doesn't pay, you ought to have stepped into C. Fj. Wescott's Sons store any hour during tbf day Saturday from 10 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock at night. Their store was thronged with buyers the entire timu. The threshing machines are busy and I heir hum is beard from early morn I ill dewy eve. The returns are satisfactory, us yields are being reported, indicating that 27 bushels fall. to Hie lot of poor ground and poor farming or a mistake in sowing so early that the Hessian llv did injury to the wheal plant, while 40 bushels is rather common to the man who keeps his ground rich in plant f I and under a proper state of tillage and sows and harvests at I he right moment. .cs, sir, now is the time to be vm boosting for the Fall Festhal that I'lattsmouth has been talk ing about for these many weeks. It has been an excessively busy reason for Secretary Bryan and urations at Washington are at a premium. But the Chautauqua assemblies are not to be denied the sweet privilege of hearing Ne braska's peerless orator orate. :o : Millions continue to go to jail aad on hunger strikes with con siderable regularity in England, but I be well fed dames in this country are the ones who want tu come to the front as leaders in politics through the suffrage question. How would you like to be a rer reiver of a railroad and resign the job because the pay was in siitlicient when you were only get ting 91,500 a month? That was what the Frisco receiver did and he got another position which doubtless paid him what he really thought he was worth. :o : The nations of the earth should join hands in demanding that Mexico cease their guerrila war in very short order or suffer the consequences. It cannot be termed warfare, but murderous conduct for power and contol of the Hnances of I he county. It is outrageous for the civilized lowers to let this dastardly and murderous guerrillaism to go on longer. The salary of every man hold ing a government position in Washington should be adequate to be living of such official willmul resorting to oilier means to pay expenses. "The laborer is worthy of bis hire" in high as well as in lower positions, it is not right for a man lo serve in any position when I he salary is not sutlicient to pay the expenses of living in Washington. :o: The politicians- of Nebraska that is the grafter pari are out of a job this year. Those who usually have their mil out for soft snaps will have to get their graft from some other source in the harvest Held,, for instanre! Ihm'l you believe it- .Their lily white hands might get soiled. This will be n hard year for them; no elec tion and no opportunity to pull the legs of aspiring candidal. PrHty hard on the- boy. :o: Mr. Jesse Oarr of Sheridan, Il linois, owns a boat on the Fox river. The other day while he was paddling up and down' the stream be found a giant mussel shell. II prieil it open and was- astonished lo tlnd inside a greall pearl. He named it "The Queen of America," and presented it to his wife. He took it to Chicago to have it appraised, and! to his as tonishment he was told it was worth $8,700. The Fox river, as well as the Illinois, has pro duced many pearls in the past, but nothing to equal Dr. Carr's find. A Hungarian aristocrat ad ertises for an American bride with from $1,000,000 to $0,000, oito. Somehow this sprig of i . . t i 1 i I t (i iriiL. fltit i 1 1 1 1 1 irt t k 1 1 I hi I ! he woudl mark down his price 99 per cent, and even then the girl would get worse than nothing for her money. They are taxing bachelors for the benefit of babies down in Memphis, Tennessee. Well, we can see nothing wrong about this. A bachelor who is too miserly to gel married on account of the expense, or loo ornary to get along with a wife after he marries her, should be made to let loose of some of his money to help the dear babies who have homes in orpham asylums. . -. 4 . In round numbers the country spends a quarter of a billion dol lars every year on its army and navy, the biennial appropriations carrying almost two dollars for military and naval purposes for each dollar devoted to other ex penditures. If in round numbers, the country spends $300,000,000 every year on its army and navy, it is terrifying to contemplate the expenditure of $6,000,000 (the amount prayed for by a congress man) on good roads 2 cents for good roads and 98 cents for soldiers, forls, sailors and battle ships. What think ye? While there are some miglily good people in Lincoln, the capi tal city is surely indicted with some of the most despicable specimens of humanity that ever went unhung. What they can't get in the way of state graft they are determined that no other town shall have, if they can pos sibly help it. Now, these chumps would even go so far as to put I he state to the expense ' of an election that would cost more I ban I he appropriation lo beat Nebraska City out of the armory that will cost $20rO0. They arc afler everything in sight as long' as they are nothing mil of popket.' It is certainly a movement that they will be heartily ashamed of if they even possess a heart as large as a mustard seed. The following fronv the Ne braska City Press under the head "Oratilude," hits on nmrc true fads in as brief space as we have read in many days. The article is right to I lie point, and two I birds or more of the readers- will agree with us when we s.iy that we endorse every word here ut tered: It always pleases a news paper or an individual, to work hard and conscientiously for a man during the stress of a politi cal campaign, lisj.cn to his tales of woe and hand out advice and then, after victory has com have him grow arrogant, ungrateful and contemptuous, while- the weaknesses which have been covered up in the past with a fair degree of success begin to crop out like the warts on a small boy's hands. However, figura tively speaking, it's a long lane, etc. Plattsmouth bargain counters are bigger and belter than ever this season. Hop to 'em! :o: The Mendota (Illinois) Brew ing company failed lo pay the government tax on 1,081 barrels of beer and therefore the public officials dumped the whole lot in to the Mendota river. The result was that thousands of fish were killed and the farmers were com pelled to drive their live stock away from the river. An awful waste of the raw material in this hoi weather. :o: The Journal is not so bitterly opposed to woman suffrage as might be supposed, but we are opposed to giving them the right lo vote when one-half of them in Nebraska don't want it. It is not the farmer's wife or the wife sur rounded by a family of nice chil dren, and who takes great pleas ure in their home, that wants suf frage. The matter is simply con lined lo those who think they are better able to look after the af fairs of government and to make themselves conspicuous. We want the women to decide the matter among themselves, and if the majority favor if we will say amen. Let's have an election to settle it, where none but women are allowed to vote. That's the only proper manner of settling it. II may be all right to go west and grow up wilh the country, as the late H. Greeley suggested; it might also be all right to go east or north or south, either, if one will eventually stop long enough to give the country an oppor tunity lo grow up. But no one but an army oflicer or a Methodist preafher or Hnneone who is auxiiwis to get away, can make much of a success by making n:ovii"V a. continuous performance-. A you have frequently been loM, travel is a great education Iml one should eventually graduate, besides tak ing extepirfed vacations in the meantime-.. There are certain advantages- in staying awhile, be sides the- nwire matter of moss gathering'. To one of the right sort, it is well to linser long enough to get acquainted with others of life kind. Besides, travel is one truing, and moving is something els again. Numerous petitions were in circulation her Saturday, and among them ;m one to recall the S-'rt.OOii appropriation by the legislature for am armory at Ne braska Cily. This move is evi dently out of uider, and is in stigated by people right in Lin coln who "have it in" for Ne braska City for some cause or an other. People are too careless in signing petitions without in vestigating their purports. When a gang of people up at Lincoln are willing to pay girls 2 cents a name for alf they secure on the armory petition you can bet there is .something not altogether right in it. Otoe and Cass counties' in terests are too closely connected for us to do anything that is in tended to harm our sister city. Taking it from the Louisville Courier Journal, a.-, we do, the feud man is gradually disappear ing from the hill country of that grand old state. Those Ken tuckians shoot, and the work of extermination was fairly certain, although it took some time. One good thing Hooseseil .-aid at Newport that redounds to his credit, and .that is that the Unit ed States have the right to exist and that we and we alone are t) divide what immigrants have, come to our shores, and whether these immigrants shall heroine citizens of our own land. This is the principle laid down and practiced by every nation in the world, and Ihe attempt of some foolish people to gel up a war scare because we exercise Ibis right is an insult lo common sense. When President Wilson de clared there was a numerous and insidious lobby in Washington there were many persons who be lieved that he had said more than he could prove. There is no one who believes that now. The in vest igat ion by the senate com mittee so far, and it has only scratched the surface, has con vinced the most skeptical that the president knew what he was talk ing about. There has been a lobby for years, and it has corrupted men in high places and spent thousands of dollars in shaping legislation favorable to the in terests. :o: That present Nebraska freight rates on apples are excessive and that people of many sections of the state are denied a suflieient quantity of Ihe fruit because thereof, is the substance of an application for rate reduction made last Monday lo the state railway commission by O. A. Corbin of Vesta, a member of the lower house of the late session, who says fruit is now spoiling in southeastern Nebraska orchards which should be on the way to other sections of the state to re lieve Ihe burden of the people in I heir battle against the high cost of living. :o: It is frequently possible to make a musician mad by intimat ing thai grand opera costs more than it's worth, but anger isn't to be regarded as important evi dence in rebuttal; it cannot alter a fact. The fact is that grand opera costs more lhan it is worth to those who don't like it, whih rule applies equally well to other forms of entertainments on down to the movies. And there are worthy citizens who have had a chance to hear grand opera, who felt they had been shortchanged. If one is more concerned with acting than with music, he may dicker for disappointment when he buys his opera seats, and wish later he had invested less money in the drama, and there is no law against preferring Hans Wagner to the other Wagner, whose efforts are !j source of in spiration to many.
