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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1913)
J i It i 1 1 , f HI?: 1 ! I 'rf The Plattsmouth Journal Published Semi-Weekly R. A.- BATEH, FubliH Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter S1.5Q PER YEAR IN ADVANCE J. THOUGHT FOR TODAY. . , 4 $ Genius is the highest type f. J of reason talent is the $ i highest type of understand ins1. Hickok. 4 W-H' ! -H-H I-M-M H-H -:o: Fine auluinn weather. Fine weather for sleeping. :o: All is not so lovely on the Rio Grande at the present time. :o: ; A lot of time is lost on the dreams that never come true. :o:- The straw hats must soon van ish, or Jack Frost will get them. :o: Among the horrors of war are some of the things written about it. -:o:- The melancholy days have come and with them comes cool weather. :o: Are you not ashamed now you did so much "heeling" about the hot weather? :o: A IMattsmouth man finds he has been paying another man a salary for knocking on him. :o: There may be no pumpkins for the frost to alight on this fall, but don't let that delay the game. :o: It seems to us that it isn't im portant how a rich man earned his lirsl dollar. Anyone can do that. :o: A family reunion is usually held at mother's to get her to do the cooking required at such mo mentous occasions. :o: If however, upon the arrival of Mrs. Parkhurst someone will kid nap her and set her free at Coatieoak, we shall still be willing to forgive and forget. :o: New York certainly is making an extra demand on front page space in the metropolitan papers this year the Sulzcr impeach ment, the Thaw case, and now the death of Mayor Gaynor. :o: We once read of a young man who hanged himself because some people found fault with him. If this practice was to become gen eral the trees would be hanging full office-holders teachers and preachers and editors. :o: It is said to be a rule that big crops follow a season of great drouth. Therefore we may con lidently expect a good season in 1014. There is a reason, as the Post Toastie man says. The dry weather causes the ground to crack open, and air is admitted into the ground. Heavy soils benefit more than light soils. :o : Nebraska has li fly-seven crea meries scattered over thirty-sev en counties and they maunfacture about 50,000,000 pounds of butter every year. Aside from this there is the output of butler direct from the farms. Mill, Nebraska will double that amount in a few- years. Stand up for the cow! :o: People ask the Journal every day in the week when the jail is to be built. Nobody knows but Oin or.nnlv rninmissioncrs. The voters instructed them severa months ago what to do, and why they haven't done as instructed we are unable to say. The whole matter is now up to Ihem. at Plattsmouth, Neb. The Plattsmouth schools are starting out in fine shape. :o:- Onward, right onward to Ne hawka tomorrow. Are you going? You ought to. :o: Steel cars seem to be as neces sary to the railroads as lifeboats to an ocean liner. :o: Incidentally speaking-, the weather man has been treating us very well recently. :o: Glcnwood is to have carnival next month. The Iowa city is alie to the demands of its patrons. :o: John D. look no holiday on Labor Day. No doubt he felt the need of economy to pay his in come tax. :o: Some people will not be salis lied until they can carry automo biles and cattle and horses by parcel post. :o: Instead of welcoming dread- naughts to Mexico, most of the American residents 'would, pcr- iaps, prefer doughnuts. :o: The currency bill fails to meet the approbation of the republic an members in congress. But it will pass just the same. :o: - More Americans have been captured in Mexico. They should have remained at home where eace and plenty are supreme. :o: The republican members don't like the democratic caucus and have forgotten the caucuses they entertained a few years ago. Their ox is being1 gored now. -:o: : After a man has spent ten minutes looking up a number and finds the line busy, it is hard to convince him the telephone is a time-saver. "Don't it. Aint it!" :o : A Michigan man is the father of twenty-four children, and is still an optimist! Which is printed as a prelude to the time ly young. What arc we thinking about? :o: A man in Washington was sent to jail for stealing his wife's false teeth. The poor man probably thought that, owing to the high cost of living, she would not need them. :o:- Warden Fenton of the stale penitentiary straightway lops off several employees who are relat ed to him. thus coming within the attorney general's . opinions easily and gracefully, and a nose ahead of the other fellows. :o: - It takes thirty million sticks of gum to keep the gum-chewing jaws of the nation going a year and our statistician is busy fig uring the total horsepower, the figures lo be presented to the next conservation congress. :o: Less tharu three years ago every retail merchant was posit ive that a parcels post system would put him out of business instanler. However, no failures yet, attributed to the reduction in the price of transporting art icles. ' :o: And now, it is said, the best looking girl in America is to marry an Knglish nobleman. It beats the band what tastes these girls have. Strive for a sort of a reputation, then sell it to some blamed foreigner, only to be di vorced later. The Canadian authorities final Iy became disgusted at. the antics connected with Harry Thaw, and they deported him to New Hamp shiresaying, in effect, to the United States, "You wash your own dirty linen." The proceed ings were becoming a scandal to Canada. The lawyers showed that Thaw's millions were quite as potent in the Dominion as they had been in the United States, but finally they sent the degenerate across the border. It is obvious that all the sympathy for him was manufactured. The good sense of the officials finally cut the Gor dion knot and Thaw was sent into New Hampshire, where the tight over sending him back to the asvlum is centered, and it is hardly possible, if he is returned to that institution, he will be al lowed another chance of escape. The other day in New York a blue-eyed young woman, after a fruitless quest for honest work, friendless, discouraged and think ing that only in death lay the al ternative of earning ease by shame, swallowed poison, but was discovered in lime. She was taken to a hospital and her story told in the newspapers. All day long her cot was besieged by well dressed women who called to offer help. The mails, too, bore many messages of good cheer. The cop who picked the poor girl up, and the hospital doctors and nurses chipped into a generous relief fund, and the big city, previously so callous, seemed as if by a mir acle to become all at once merci ful and kind. The reason was that the poor girl did not under stand the virtue of advertising. As soon as she was in a position to avail herself of it she found relief. Moral: Instead of taking poison, go to the newspapers and slate your case. :o: Remember the dates October 18 and 10. Two big German days. -:o: Dig event at Nehawka next Friday. Let Plallsinouth semi down a big delegation. :o: Don't kick because you aren't appreciated. Ty Cobb, the best in his besiness, also feels that way about it. :o: The tractor show at Fremont is declared by those who attend ed from Cass county to be one of the greatest events ever pulled off in Nebraska. :o: Winter apples are falling fast in nearly all the orchards in Cass county, ami when gather ing time comes the crop will fall short of expectations. :o : The government has created another time-saving renovation in the pre-canceled stamp. Now, if Uncle Sam would only invent a self-licker stamp, everybody would be happy. :o: In 1870 there were 207 male teachers in Nebraska and -'(3D fe male teachers. Now there are 0,'iG0 female teachers and only 1,470 male teachers, and the most of these are in the cities and towns. -:o:- At the end oT a dispatch from the. Panama zone is the follow ing: "Small vessels probably will be able to pass through the can al from end to end by October 10 and the waterway should be ready for shipping proper'-early in December." Uncle Sam has made a record in what can be done in nine years. :o: - Mrs. Pankhurst shows at pro found knowledge oT human nat ure, especially American human nature, when she says she ex pects to draw large audiences in the United States because, she "is so what shall I say so much talked about?" That is just what she is, and just why Americans pay their money ut the ticket window. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. RULES OF THE ROAD. The following summary of the rules of the road should be pasted in the hats of everyone who travels on the roads, be lie either in auto or other vehicle. These are based upon the state law, and if followed, to the letter the Journal will guarantee that accidents which are generally laid at the door of the autoisf, will not happen. The man who drives a team is just as liable to be fined as the man who drives the auto, if he violates the law, and he should read these over several times before he starts out from home. If you do not want to paste Ihem in your hat, paste them in your home, where you can see ihem every time you enter: When meeting vehicles keep lo the right. Always drive on the right hand half of the road. Pass all vehicles on your left when coming up from behind. Return to the right hand side of the road as promptly as you can. When approaching corners sound your horn and go slowly. Keep to the right. When slopping in town the curbing should be at your righl hand, if it is not there you have stopped wrong and cannot pos sibly slop right. Never turn around in the mid dle of the block. Turn at street intersections. When going slowly to stop or turn give signal lo the driver bc-1 hind you by holding out your hand and arm from the driver's seat. Remember that it is your duty to pull out to the right to allow vehicles lo pass from the rear. Always use your horn before passing a man with a team or a horse. If you overtake a vehicle in the road you have a right to pass it, but a proper consideration for the rights and pleasures of others dictates that you must maintain the speed at which you passed until you are well in front so that others may not have to eat your dust. The rules of the road apply to all vehicles whether motor driv en or animal drawn. :o: The democratic administra tion is certainly sticking up to its promises to the people, as per the democratic plalfor.m, upon which it was placed in power. From the way some of the oppo sition papers talk, they seem sur prised that the president and both houses of congress are ready and willing to carry out the pledge made tit the people. They are not used'to this way of doing. The republicans through their plat form, lime aid time again, made pledges to the people, that they never intended to carry out, and neither did they. Hut Presi dent Wilson has the courage that many of his predecessors should have possessed, but didn't, and it seems stranger lo them that congress has the backbone to stay right with President Wilson in bis demand to stand by their pledges. That is the only way lo be honest with the people, and we belie.ve a great majority of the people are ready to applaud the president in his efforts to do his duly, as he sees that duty. Long live President Wilson! It begins to look as though the year 1013 would bring another year of maximum losses to fire insurance companies. The year started out nicely but then came the spring tornadoes followed by the drouth which is still on and causing numerous fires like that one at Hot Springs, Ark., the other day when ten millions in value went up in smoke. At the same time a regular typhoon swept the Atlantic coast de stroying many more millions in value. Managers of companies will have to look pretty closely if they discern any profits from fire underwriting this year. It rained all round us yester day and but a few drops fell here. -:o The apple crop in Cass county is splendid, and there is quite a sprinkling of peaches. AH of which helps out. :o: Japan spends nearly 50,000, 000 a year on public education. That country evidently intends to hold on to a place among the leading powers. The International Harve.-ler Company has mailed out a little booklet containing a very apt motto: '"The temple of silence is the monument lo an uuadvertis- ed business." :o: Tom Lawson's appearance in the political arena in New York will at least add frenzy to the sit uation. Lawson proposes not only to hold Gov. Suler's hat, but to acl as his inaster of exchequer. :o: In Chicago in six years auto mobiles have increased 570 per cent, while horse-drawn vehicles have declined only 12 per cent. The American passion for get ting about keeps up with all ap proved facilities. :o: When Governor Morehead names the dales for the mill roads work and the ladies along the route will promise to have plenty of fried chicken and other good things to eat at the dinner hour, there will be a rousing demonstration all along the line. :o: If you are pampering and pet- ling and indulging a lively boy with a penchant for spending money and exercising his own sweet will, think of Harry Thaw. If a boy is ever to be of any ac count - he must be mastered while he is a boy and denied his whims, if only to teach him the lesson of self-denial. :o: The whole country oer it is probably true that farmers are not worry inir as much as towns people- because of the partial loss of crops. The grower's loss on corn is partially made up by an increased price of his wheal and oats and hay, but the laboring and salaried man in the city hasn't any chance to'get even. :o: Argentine beef is sold in New York ami has been for the past three months, and after paying the tariff, it is sold in the mar kets for considerable less than the trust American beef costs. It is hoped that, before another ship load arrives President Wil son will have signed the tariff bill and when beef is admitted free it will be sold much cheaper. Still some people will claim there is nothing wrong about our pres ent tariff laws. :o: Late as the recent rains are, much for the fall crops, if too late for corn. They are also in time for plowing for wilder grain. With higher prices for what he has saved, with feed enough to last through le winter and with preparation for next year's crop, the Nebraska farmer has not been so hard hit as has been sup posed. Add to this his education in the need of silos, and it might be possible to figure out a bene fit from the ear's experience. :o: It looks like Governor Suler will have to walk the chalk line. The supreme court of the slate of New York has passed upon the pardon. Joseph G. Robin, the beneficiary of executive inclem ency, issued by the Oovernor since his impeachment, the im peachment proceedings having been found to be regular, the governor temporarily deposed and the pardon void. The im peachment trial will come off in a few days, ami the prospects are that big news from New York will continue for a few days, at least. Now is the time to sub scribe, . , : ;-: 3,i&;ifS WOMEN TAKE NO INTEREST. Speaking from the pulpit of All Souls' church, of which Rev. Jenkin Lloyd ' Jones is pastor, Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout told a Chicago audience Sunda- that "women really do want the bal lot." Mrs. Trout said: "The double standard which says that men can vole and women cannot is the standard primarily responsible for the double stan dard of morals. Let women be come politically independent of men, let women take a hand in the government and in the elec tion of public officials, and then we shall see the double moral standard wiped out of existence." While Mrs. Trout was speaking in- Chicago, a statement was is sued from Washington by Miss Annie Duck, a Californian wom an who was once an ardent suf fragist. Miss Duck asserts the results of women suffrage in her stale are not only unsatisfactory and disappointing, but disas trous. "The majority of wom en," she says, "not only do not care to vole, but have no inter est whatever in suffrage. Women suffrage in California brought woman in too familiar contact with man. She has her rights now; she is equal with him on his level. Where prexiously men were generally courteous, now they are rude." II is appar ent from suffrage discussions re ported from all parts of .the country that its advocates are claiming too much for its influ ence upon morals and legislation. It is exceedingly difficult to in terest women in something xviih which they are not familiar and which is entirely foreign to lhir natural instincts and inclina tions. We confess it is hard to understand how moral regenera tion can result as a by-produci of universal suffrage. :o: A correspondent of the Ne braska Farmer (exidenlly old fashioned) wants to know xvhal has become of a lot of the cus toms of thirty, forty and fifty years ago. Speaking of eatables he asks: "Where are the home cured meals, the barrel of kraut, the fresh canned fruit and the good old-fashioned lye hominy?" where, indeed? Yery few even of our poorest people have the answer. The list might be length ened and still no answer. The tin can and the paper carl on have ad ded the top notch to the high cost of living-. Economy and con servation of resources are twin lost arts. And instead of learning "how to live" there are millions of people in this country who have forgotten how to live. State Journal. - : :o : The Indianian at present occu pying the chair of the vice-president of the United Slates is a small man but is full of ginger so well supplied with "the old pep," as the third baseman would, say. that he cannot keep silent while on the coaching lines. There were phrases in his inaug ural address, it will be remember ed, indicating that he submis sively entered into four years of silence. Dut a railroad has fre quent xvrecks, there are many killed in the "wooden cars used wooden because it costs a little more money lo make Ihem of steel and the vice-president isn't backward about expressing his opinion. Moreover it xvill have 1 r be admitted that the opin ion is one in which ninety people out oT a hundred xvill concur. Good railroads, indeed, are adop ting steel cars without any pres sure from public opinion. The Durlington, one of the best man aged roads in the country, is one of them. -:o: D. K. Thompson, of Lincoln, who has railroad interests in Mexico, declares he is going back lo that country to see about them. He does not fear for his safety, he declares. Dut he ought to 're member that he is stamped, in the shipment, "Oxvner's Risk." THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1913. France is about to select its site at the Panama exposition. The French are never inclined lo miss a good thing. :o: The democrats are not very harmonious, it would seem in various sections of the slate. The factions are still quarreling over the distribution of the offices that are to be "dished" -out lo Nebraska from Washington. The fact is this is a very delicate matter, and the distribution of the offices xvill have to be "han dled with care." :o:- "Road Hogs!" is an expression frequently met xvilh all over the country, and by it means a var iety of things. There js I lie road hog xvho insists on -kimming along at dangerous speed; the road hog xvho refuses to let oii pass or to gixo you any of I In road xvheu you meet him, and I In man xvho turns the xvrong way xvhen you meet or try to pass him. Of all these the last-mentioned class is certainly the mo.-t. danger ous. Dear reader, do you belong lo either of these classes? We hope not. :o: The Lincoln Trade Rexi'ew, in speaking of business failures, compare- these failures xvith Iat year from which can be seen that they are less this year than last, notwithstanding- President Wil s.ni has been in nearly 0 months: "DDusiness failures in the country for the last xveek totaled 170, as compared xvith 101 the corresponding xveek one year ago. Western failures last week were thirty in number, as against thirty-three Ihe same xveek Mie year ago. In the United Stales 80 per cent of the total number of con cerns failing last xveek hud capi tal of .?5,ono rr less. The. wes tern states had only five failures in xvhieh the capital exceeded COO. :o:- The death of Mayor Oaynor of Nexv York caused especial regret oxer the country, because he was generally recognized as a thorough-going and honest official and because of his sudden re moval from the contest for his own suecessoiship. He xvas elect ed as Tammany's candidate, but xvas fearless and independent, and in the present contest had Tam many's opposition, xvith, however, increasing chances to xxin. He was several years ago Ihe intend ed victim of an assassin and the bullet wound in his throat leTt a weakness producing coughing, it being the supposition that it xxas in one of such spells that Hie heart gave way. He xvas at one lime prominently mentioned as a candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency. :o: This month, finds imre lliar. 285,000 Nebraska school children starting for school. Upwards of 8,100 school house's are being throxxn open lo receive Ihe more or less xvilling urchins ami 11,000 teachers are jui duty. The Nebraska school system al xvays uppermost in the minds of those xvho make the slate laxxs or those xvho enforce it in counties and localities, has been going forward at a remarkable pace. Figures compiled on the activi ties of the past forty-two ears demonstrate this. In 1870 there xvere just 12,710 school children in the stale xvho xvere actually going to the .modest buildings then erected for such purposes. Upwards of 20.000 children of school age xvere not enrolled in school. Then, there xvere 707 school districts in Hie stale and only 208 school houses. The value of the structures aggregat ed only si 77,182 or less than half of xvhal the city of Lincoln is putting' in its High school build ing, now being erected. Stale funds appropriated for schools in that early day totaled 138,8 11. Oreat is Nebraska in her school system, xxhich attracts the par ents of other states. i i 1 ) A V 1 1 -1 'BV!l!yyS'!f'lMi