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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1913)
PAOE 4. PLATTSIHOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1313. The Plattsmouth Journal Published Semi-Weekly A. I3ATKS. Publisher Entered at the Fostoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter S1.5Q PER YEAR IN ADVANCE HIGH-PRICED MEATS. Gxnvhere you will, in any part of the world, you will hear peo ple complaining about the hi price of meat, whether it be beef, mutton or pork. The greatest and most frequent complaint is about the high price of beef Some are disposed to lay the blame on the packers, others on the retailers: others on the far mer. They seem to regard it as the farmers' duly to feed the world with what it prefers, and at a price within the means of the consumer. We d not intend to lake responsibility of distributing blame between the packers, railroads, the retailers and fanners. We simply wish the the the the to suggest that the farmer is a very human sort of being who is looking after his own business from his own standpoint, and will follow that particular line of farming that will afford him the best proliL So long as it pays him better to raise grain for sale in its crude form, he is very likely to do so. When he begins to realize that in order to continue raising grain, he must put more of his land in to grass and grow more beef, he will grow more beef not as a duty he owes to humanity, but as a duty to his family and himself. In our judgment, however, the prime reason for the high price of beef is the fact that cheap grass grass on land owned by the government and which can be had for the grazing is becoming scarce all over the world. With the occupation of lands hereto fore given over to grazing, cattle that are good enough to eat grain will gradually become t dearer in price; and farmers will not feed them unless they can get a price that will furnish them a legiti mate profit. We learn from the best auth orities that there is no such glut of cattle in Argentine from which country Europe is. now supplied with meat, or in Brazil, from which meat eaters hoped a large supply could be obtained, as is generally reported. The Argen tine has seven million people and twenty-six million cattle, but the proportion of cattle to people is constantly decreasing. The act ual supply is now from three to four million short of what it-was a few years ago, and the decline is still going on. The Argentine folks have the same sort of human nature that our western people have; and when prices are high they sell off their she stuff. They have done this to such an extent that even with the best of management it will take some years before there is any increase in the surplus of cattle in the Argentine. Brazil is merely beginning in the cattle business and has barely enough cattle to supply its own wants; and the cattle they have are such as would not meet the require ments of either the English or the American consumer of beef. They are good canning : stock; that's about all; and this 'is all they will be uulil after years of improvement. We have been receiving a good many cattle from Mexico; but Mexico is now in the throes of a revolution, and there need be no expectation of any increase in the supply from that source. A great deal of the Mexican beef is of poor quality and tick infested; and revolutions do not furnish a good opportunity for either eradicating lick or breeding up cattle stock. Notwithstanding the amount at Plattsmouth, Neb.: of meat that England gets from the Argentine and mutton from Australia, the English farmer, and especially the cattle feeder, wouiu ue in a er uau waj, u it tii ? . i j : 4 were not for Ireland. Ireland is one of the best grazing countries in the world, three or four coun- lies with land so rich that it will make cattle sufficiently fat for anything but an epicure, without grain, and a large amount of land with, grass rich enough to grow the best kind of feeders, or as I ( a . 1 . I ine- caii innin siores .... , i Nowhere in the world can thejbut at last he bought the rights, supply of cattle be increased rap- idly even under the most favor- able circumstances, until the cow is so modified that she will produce two calves a year. leo- pie are complaining of the high price of pork. Consumers im-1 inn that :k a hroo.l sow will produce on an average live pigs in a year, the supply of pork can be increased rapidly; and it would be if it were not for the ravages of cholera and the high price of si for corn other than cattle feed and such a small area in which it can be grown successfully, that com is hoiimi to h hizh nrieed. and the farmer considers not only how many pigs a brood sow will nr'nilni'o Imf how inneh Pfil'n it will take to fit it for market. So le is inclined to -so slow in that inc. While we were in Great Britain this summer, dressed pork was urnished by farmers to sell aj from 66 lo 70 shillings per 112 pounds. (Some of the boys can ure out how much that would I ho nop flin iM.i.n.la Iiv weih As long as these conditions continue, people who eat meal must expect to pay a high price for it; and the better the quality, the higher the price they will have to pay. Every cloud has a silver lining, and there is some good even iu things evil. Peo ple have been eating loo much meat, more than is good for I hem especially old people and those of a sedentary life. So the high price is not an altogether bad Ihing. Wallace's Farmer. :o: Fred F. Sparks, of Charleston, of industry, as much devoted to ey on the part of people receiv W. Va., probably regards his reasonable recreation and sen- jnpr .sucb incomes. When it marriage certificate as a good in- vestment, and thought he should live happily ever after. The blushing bride was thirty-five years his senior, and possessed of three million dollars, which explains why she was the blush- ing bride. It looked like easy money to Fred who needed it. Ile needs it still. Although his a iancy price lor a young nus- . - - . band, the courts have interfered, and red must continue lo get along without being an oil mag - nale. Of course, he is an oil magnate's husband, and may eat afternoons during the blessed regularly, but the fortune con- baseball season, but it is a god tinues to be controlled by an 8end as a general rule. Those agent, and Ihe courts have de- cided that the wife can't give it to her husband, as she wished. She has children by a former marriage and-lhey are the ones who butted in through the court room and spoiled glove's young dream of affluence. It is a heart rending story, of course, and the bereaved husband is entitled to the sympathy of the multitude. But so many others have married for money without collecting, that he probably won't get it. -to: Twenty years ago people had grave doubts ris to the practica bility of the "horselesscarriage," then the dream of inventive gen ius. Now the automobile is al most as comraqn as the buggy. ' TWO RICH MEN. Two men have recently died. One was Adolphus Busch. He was the youngest of 21 children, and he came to St. Louis in 1857 when he was 21 years old. Hi first job was clerk on a river steamer. When the war broke out he served in the union army, and after his services were fin - ished ho opened a malt house. This brought him in contact with Eberhard Anheuser, who owned a a small brewery in St. Louis. In 18G1 he married Anheuser s I i i. t a w i i. ... r. ,. uaugiuer. u wasu i long oeioiu he obtained control of the brew- ery, and his wonderful business ability made it at the time of his death the largest establishment of its kind in the world. He formed a friendship with a brew- er, Carl Conrad, and from him obtained the formula for Bud- weiser beer. He paid Conrad a 1 i m 1 . - rnva iv inr n f?oon manv vrni s. " - " " o . and was the sole owner, uuscn was a liberal and generous patron r overytning mat tended lo up- build St. Louis. He followed out old Louis Fourteenth's idea, who said: "I give best by spendin; largely," and at his death he left a forluno of $60,000,000. The other was Jienjamin Ailman. When he died he left an estate of about $50,000,000. Hut he left his immediate heirs only $800,- 000. The rest he distributed anions: his intimate associates a"J the employees in his busi- ness, and gave a hundred thous- and dollars to art. All persons m tne Ailman store m .ew oik City who worked there twenty pears received ?2,500. Those who had been employed more than eighteen and less lhan twenty .500, and to each employee over 15 years a thousand dollars. These men understood how to use money while they were living, and in spite of numerous benefac lions they each left immense fortunes. IJusch left a large faiM,,v' but Ailman was a bachel- it .. v. ii ii .,:..,.. 11 lual l"V l'lu in crasnimr. miserly aualitv . .. . . .. , w - - - i laiis 10 meei me inouern require ments. We demand nvv of a rich man that he shall rem. mber that much of his wealth came from opportunities which the public gave him, and in dividing up his substance he should bear in mind that the men who help him pile up his accumulations are entitled to some share of it. :o:- Monotony isn't so bad, unless it be the monotony of idleness. A monotonous life of eight hours -uie 8,ue "nes, wun a similar sum lor s,et'P nia' be ,norc sau isfaclory than riotous living, "aving no acidic aftermath and basting longer. But restricted "oaiing ana waiting for some- lhinfc' lo happen is what tries I . a 'l I uien s souis, anu makes a sonucr piay ior war. i-reat gnei grows Sreatpr an1 pleasures pall on one ii.,... i : .. i ...i. "- imu, aim uose me-wo-iv iis,im i he no comn aint over a limited to loafing. Being busy is oouiersome ai nines wnen lore- inS absence from something we wisn to see, and cuts into one's w-1'- work to do should do it Hieerfully, consoling themselves wil'- tle thought that it might be worse; they might not have work lo do. -:o: In the First congressional dis- trict of West Virginia", where a special election was held last week a republican paper says: The democrats held their own." Well; wasn't that sufficient for all practical purposes? o; The cranberry crop in New England has been practically ruined by an early snow storm which means that the fellow who eats Turkey for Thanksgiving will also have a good sized bill to pay for the side issues. The mother is the pride oi every girl and boy, if that mother I has the good of her girl and boy at heart, and certainly it is i i Verv cruel mother who has not. Jf sne is not the right kind of mother, then it would be far bet- ter -,er giri or hoy had never been t,unu Generally the boy or girl who goes to the mother for ad- 1 -iro eonnsel .will never come j,aok with a story of crjine and sin Mother is the safest guide iu aJ1 n,0 world. She leads her child only where safety lies NNj,erc virtue and honor are pro- I . I tected and preserved where the angels may come and bless, when temptations come, if the boy or -hi would go to mother before yielding to the tempter, there would be no heartaches for battles lost. Right would always win when mother led the light, Tempestuous and inexperienced youlh m.edsj a mother's hand to I 'limine. I i l s ni iiol emmeioiii men nnirtier v in hiii'Mii ins ;i. i 11 ... i far a(me. jf Joo venturesome, it Inay loo far away, to ever get hack lo mother. And when the wr,1K j done, a w hole ocean of tears is not enough to wash away the stain. It is loo late then to go to mother. :o: State Journal: 'Cliief tiame Warden CSust Itutenbeck has re- ceived a copy of the national reg- illations relating to the killing of migratory walerjovvi. The open season prescribe! by the govern- ment is from September 1 to l)e- cember 1(5. One change made in the national regulations not heretofore announced is that the shooting of water fowl on or in 1 h( Missouri river from His- marck " N f) (o Nlbraska City, Neb., is prohibited at all limes, It is unlawful to shoot birds mi this stream either from Ihe banks or from a boat. The original in- lent ion of Ihe government was lo allow the shooting of water fowl on the Missouri river two months in each year, The state game warden says the slate laws in re gard lo water fowl are set aside and the national regulations will . ..... . B"'1"1 :o:- The Lincoln Trade Review has the following to say in reference to i lie income tax: Ihe income lax as incorporated in the new tariff bill, will not work a hard nip upon anyone, it touciies no income under SJ.uuu, ami n a person is at the head of a family, the limit is placed much higher before the tax falls. The lax on aji reasonable incomes is light, am joos not jnvolve more than au 0,-jjary day's spending nion- Comes to the gigantic incomes that arc few in number, the tax hs iaij on Illore i.avily, but at the same time, it is recognized that the proportionate burden i equalized all alomr the line. The jncome tax will raise over -$82, 000,000 and this will in a long Uvav. offset some of the reduc- tjons made bv Ihe tariff on the Surely, there haw ,,iat has f(. jls purp,, tb cheapening of Ihe necessities of ifu (o ile people of meagre sal aries ami incomes, at the ex peuse of those who have large incomes. :o:- And now experts say that meals will be still higher in price. Con found Woodrow Wilson. Before n,e election we were told that cat- n x.,..,i,i ..,.11 r, ..... .iiwl ll'v V 1 H J I tj tit 1 ' HI 1 I lll'O I -L hogs at two cents per pound if Wilson were elected president. He got our vole also our goat, And now these products are going still higher- in price. Iloosevelt gave us a panic in 1907 and brought down the price of cattle and hogs and if Wilson doesn't give us a panic soon we'll vote for a Sagvva Indian president next time. Our voice goes up for cheaper domestic'animal meats. We've subsisted long enough on groundhog, squirrels. rabbits, 'possum and 'coons. We're for a change. MORE OF' MEAT QUESTION. T,e packers met and solemnly a resolved that the farmer and the hmisewif' ri In hl:iiiu fur Ihe a high price of beef. In the first' place the farmer kills his calves for veal. In the next place the housewife demands sirloin steak instead of being contented with whin ).... tvv.iv in,.,- iin government to put in $5,000,000 to assist the beef raising in- u us try and they will start the loan by contributing 500,()00 to the cause. Then thev gave a banquet that cost 25.000. Of course, it wasn't the beef that tbev ale thai, rosl II. is. in fad. Lot the meat at all. At all ban- quels the liquid supplies are much more in evidence than the solids. The truth of it is, these packers have grown enormously! rich from the fact that they have monopolized the business. The I i . . . . , , , . . . supplies from the fanner direct and sold it to his own customers has disappeared. The Chicago Lackers have eaten him un. A up. local dealer has lo si: m i i Ait tract in order to tret his meal. that he will not patronize a local slaughter house. Consequently, we are wholly dependent upon I these Chicago Millionaires and1"" ,1"!S' they pay what they pleas; for the cattle ami charge what they please to the consumer, and then. you are. Now, some of them ad- voeate the idiolie notion of turn ing the privates of the regular army into cowboys and setting them to raising beef on the great i pastures of the west. The lam 1 if so stocked, they say. could supply the army with meal, first, and then Ihe rest could be sold In the packers at cost and the consumers could el it with the mere price, of dressing added. This is certainly a novel idea of using the army, Mil it is not so good as Ihe proposal of the sec retary of war to teach the enlist ed men trades, so that when they leave the service they will have some calling that would provide Ihem with a living. :o: A married school teacher in New York had a baby six months ago. and the school hoard dis charged her. She won 11 not be discharged, ami since then there has been the biggest hullabal Ioi in New York over the Sacred Itiyht of Motherhood. The sob squad has howled about mur dering the innocents," and edi torially the papers ask: "Must Ihe Holy Right of Motherhood be denied a school teacher?" It must, in New York. The school board has made marriage insub ordination, and a school teacher who marries is liable to dismiss al on that ground. The wailing of the newspaper girls for these "Outcast" mothers make it. al most impossible to hear the rea sons the New York school board gives for its act, but Oeneral Ocorge O. Wingate, a member of the board of education, insists upon being heard, and says in tin Associated Press: "The marriage problem is a great one. Fighly women teachers became brides in the summer just ended." Gener al Wingate cited one instance of the inability of teacher-mother lo live up to Ihe requirements of her school position. In four years this woman, he said, had become Ihe mother of three chil dren. "In three years," he added, "she did not work three weeks in h..f school. However, she drew her salary for Sundays, holidays and the summer vacation period." In another case Oeneral Wingate found the husband of a married woman idle while she taught both in the day and evening schools. :o: Veterinary surgeons are advis ing farmers to use care in feed ing new corn to horses, on ac count of a poisonous mngu growth or mould found in the . 1 ..-l.is.il fll.kX. corn this year, aim wui-m w sav usually appears' when a dry crop year enus won i-yu 'u-" rain. Try our Pancake or Buck wheat Flour and genuine Maple Syrup for break fast some morning! Our Fancy Chinaware is nyw in and unpacked. Be sure to look it over a display in our east window. H . M. SOENNICHSEN'S m I Almost as much as the United Stales needs a national uniform divorce law is needed a national marriage Jaw, uniiorm in every part of the country. In fact these t 1.,... . .... I. .1, .-I I.I l. enacted loirellier and b made to operate iu conjunction. The talk of : medical; .examinations for those seeking to marry, and the requiring of a doctor's certificate --"o ia..iVi - i...r ii. . i : : -. i ...I led lo legislation 'in some slates. This will . meau: that' niany more couples will be seeking states with less rigorous regulations to wed. e believe lully m tnis campaign, so fully that we be lieve the laws which are being tried out in a few states ought to be made general, so there will be little or no chance of evading them. The opponents of these laws tell us there is danger in I heir enforcement, that making marriage Harder will make social purity less stable. We do not believe this lo as great an ex- lent as the alarmists argue. Make economic conditions better and raise the standard lo which i man knows ne must measure up lo be a candidate for marriage home and children, and the'stan- dard will come up to the re quirements lo let us have a real, sensible national marriage law that will mean belter social con ditions and better babies for the generation lo come. m 9Ji fcarr n iois i mum u RELIEF IS WITHIN YOUR GRASP Don't try us as a last re sort, but try us as a first resort, and you will never be disappointed. In acute cases our re sults are marvelous, quick and positive. The accompaning illustration depicts a human spinal column, surmounted with the grandest handiwork of the Creator, the head, through which passes a conduit the spinal cord carry ing the vital force Life. Two sections of the column are enlarged, showing two nerves leaving the spinal cord on their way to some organ within the body. See the difference in the size of the nerves. The large one is the health-giving one; the small one disease in the organ in which it ends. If you are suf f rin or ailing, you have one of these, caused by luxation of the vertebrae. Let us fix this trou ble before you become a chronic sufferer; if your trouble is already chronic, we can still conquer it. Examination and consultation free. " If trouble is not within our line or ability we tell you so." BAK1Af4k1 fk CHIROPRACTORS Two Blocks Worth of the Catholic Church J Secretary Houston of the Unit ed States Department of Agricul ture in an admirable address be fore the American Road Congress at Detroit, declared that the suggestion for federal aid in road building raises grave ques tions ami involves possible dangers. That an instant clamor from every section of the country for immediate road building at federal expense might result in a drain tin- treasury could not bear is true. This could be checked by requiring large slate appropriations as a condition precedent to federal aid. Star tled as some members of Con gress apear to be at the sugges tion, there is ample authority in the constitution for federal aid of road building. There is even precedent for it. In Oeorge Washington's administration, in I7i)t, Congrc: authorized the building of a road westward for a distance of G50 miles. :o: The rush of people lo the land ofiiccs at Broken 1jw, Valentine, find North I'latle emphasizes au inconsistency of the federal gov ernment I hat should be correct ed. I he leason for it i-- a laud lottery. The hunger for land and the hope to get some for nothing are at the bottom of it. Add to Ihese liberal advertising by the railroads and we have the answer lo this big rush. mvzQ r r ".:."!.?) n
