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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1914)
t 9L?wirr-- v ----- -hs . THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1SI. PAGE 4. PLATTSnOUTH 'SECT I-WEEKLY JOURNAL. 3 'A Cbcplattsmoutb "journal Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebr. Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Subscription Prloe; $1.50 Per Year In Advanoe THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Don't sit ' supinely on your roost, but come along and help us boost for bet ler things of every kind, -J and leave your kicking clothes behind. 6, let us boost for better streets, 4 and softer beds, and longer sheets; for smoother lawns and better lights and short- -J er-winded blatherskites; for finer homes, and larger trees, for bats and boots 4- 2 and bumble bees; lor shorter hours and longer pay, and fewer thistles in our . hay, for better grub, and bigger pies, for two more moons to light the skies. And let the wolves of war be loosed on every man w ho doesn't boost I Walt Mason. :o: The voters of Nebraska will do well in the next eight months to inform themselves whenever the opportunity presents itself as to whether it is better to buy more real estate in the heart of Lin coln to enlarge the university or have the taxpayers of the state pay for new buildings on the state farm, three miles away from the business center of the city, in order to gratify the de sire of a few real estate specu lators. It is a matter that will be settled under the initiative and referendum law next fall, and every voter should inform himself on the matter. We are decidedly in favor of the uni versity remaining right where it is. :o: For our part we don't see what more rights a woman needs, since a man can't sell his house and lot without his wife's con sent; he must pay her bills what ever they are if he deserts her she can jug him; if she deserts him he has to take his medicine; if he jilts her she can sue him for breach of promise; if she jilts him he gets the laugh; if she dies he gets the funeral bills; if he whips her he gels the rock pile; if she hits him with a skillet the neighbors conclude that he de serves it. And still she wants more rights, and there are a lot of damphooi men who are willing to give it to her. :o: War with Mexico means more than some people want to ac knowledge. It means an army of half'a million American youth, at a cost of much more than a mil lion dollars a day, and many lives risked in a dangerous climate for years; a continuous home ward procession of physical wrecks and new blood forwarded to replace them, draining the na tion's vitality; the spread of sor row in homes now happy; the disturbance of peaceful industry and commerce and a genera tion fretted. Who are call ing for such a sacrifice? The owners of property in Mexico, many of them gamblers on a long chance. Dig interests which find in war new opportunity .for plunder the restless, the spec ulative, the turbulent. Not one of the men who are clamoring for the invasion of Mexico would be in the ranks. Those men never fight except by proxy. You would have to do the fighting you and your sons. There will be no invasion of Mexico by the American army if President Wil son can honorably prevent it. Without making any.specia outcry about it, let's all resolve to do our part in making Platts mouth a better town than ever We can do it if we will work to gether unitedly, burying al jealousies and working shoulder to shoulder for the general good. -:oi- Scanning the history we open when we become imbued with ambition and high brows, we de cide that the past was largely de voted to battles. Indicating that the people have always been dis satisfied, and if we didn't have the high cost of living with us today there would be something else just as bothersome. - There always will be something to quarrel about, even after : the death of the ground-hog. :o: . The trade territory , of a town is not all dependent upon the distance to neighboring trading points. The trade territory de pends upon the enterprise of the merchants and the residents" of the town. If a town does 'not reach after the trade it will come only as fast as it has to, and it will grow as it is. forced to. But if the merchants go after busi ness in the surrounding country, advertising in every possible way, and making good every word of their advertising, trade will come from an ever-increasing radius, the town will gain a reputation for being wide-awake and will forge to the front. :o: The popularity of the Farmers' club room .. in numerous towns and cities, reminds us that the idea would be worth considering light here in Plattsmouth. How many times have you seen the farmers' wives and daughters waiting on the street corners for hours together, or perhaps sit ting around the livery barns where their teams are being fed, with no other place to go where they feel they have a right? How gladly they would welcome the installation of such a meet ing and resting place. In our opinion the city or town whose merchants would join in main taining , a Farmers club room will find it paying big dividends on the expense incurred. The farmers will soon be going to trade at the town where they can find a meeNng and resting place, ami the gratitude they will feel will go a long way to ward promoting- the friendly spirit between dwellers in city and country. :o: We raised $10,000,000,000 worth of crops in the year 1913, and yet the cost of living did not fall. The department of agri culture says that, while consum ers pay high prices, ranging from 5 to 500 per cent oT what the farmer gets, the latter only makes a fair living. The real truth of the situation lies in the increase of population. When we were 20,000,000 of people land had comparatively no value When we were 30,000,000 of peo ple we sang, "Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us a farm." Japan, out of territory about as large as Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, much of it mountainous, rocky and unfit for cultivation, supports 00,000,000 people, and the result of it is she isn't able to give all of them one good meal a day. What will be our conidtion when the United Stales contains 200,000,000? That will be a question that confronts us, and is a problem connected not so much with high cost of living as with living at all. FATHER AND SON. Tlfe new uplift movement, to eventually become nation-wide launched at Cleveland; Ohio, by the Y. M. C. A., is called the "Father and Son" movement, and has for its object the closer re Iationship of dad and the boy that they may become tru com rades and pals. The idea has taken root in many cities and the new organization promises to be a valuable auxiliary to the Young Men's Christian associa tion. Many of the leading cities of the nation, , from Bangor Maine, and as far west as Denver have declared their intention of spreading the movement. Gov ernor Morehead, of our own slate, recently endorsed the movement very strongly by proclamation. Civic bodies, and in the case of Harrisburg, Penn sylvania, and Charleston, South Carolina, city executives ask for details to carry out the plans Mayor Newton D. . Baker of Washington, D. C, the first of 500 American mayors asked to issue a proclamation urging father and sons to begin the new year with a resolve to be more intimate and companion able, complied with the request in a 300-word document, closing with the words: "If we can be gin the new year with the resolve that our sons shall be more our companions and our fathers more our comrades it will add both to the sweetness of our private life and to the value of our citizenship." ine idea is a beautiful one, and ladden with possibilities for the better future life of the boys and young men. If fathers would enter into the play, the pleasures of -their growing sons; if they would go skating, swimming and to the base ball game with them; f they would take a hand in the game of the back yard, how many sons would seek the companion ship of bad boys, and be saved from going to destruction through the avenue of the saloon? It is not necessary to await the formal establishment of a father and son movement in Mattsmouth to attain the bene fits and pleasure of such com- adship with your boy. Every man who is blessed with a little man in his home should become lis pal at once, no matter wheth er he be a little toddler in dresses or the strappling youth of near maturity. Get into his confidence and enter into his life, and the chances are his mind will remain pure and wholesome. No one is so competent, no one has more right to point out to him the true pleasures of life, the pitfalls in his pathway, and to warn him of the awful and inevitable penally for transgressions of the laws of nature, God and man. There is no question that this idea that fathers should be pals with their boys would be tre mendously beneficial both to the fathers and the sons. But while father needs the restraining in fluence of the Intimate boyish association to keep him from prematurely ageing himself in business and to keep his life well laianced and fully rounded out, and the son needs the close rela tion with father to learn that ragtime and cigarettes are not adequate preparation for the serious business of life, why not include the daughter in the ar- augement as well? . Is it not true that the girl may benefit ust as much as Hie boy by more intimate association with father? He can do just as much as moth er to keep daughter's life ron an even keel. If it is at all true that the follies of young womanhood are vaguely inspired by a desire to attract men, father can say some things more authoritatively than mother, because he has a man's viewpoint and man's ex perience. He can give daughter an idea of the standards by which men judge women and by which boys judge girls. The girl who has acquired this perspec-l tive is on a sure road to the right kind of womanliness. As it fits our individual j families why no amend the title of the move nicnt to father and "children?" ; -:o: Billy Sunday is stirring up the animals in Pittsburg, Pa. II has had an! enormous tabernacle built and is, going after the devi with a pitchfork equal to Satan' own. In the meantime the Ransoorn Publishing company i about to issue his life, in which extracts will be given from his sermons, garnished with luri statements from Billy himself. ,:o: SIGN OF A SQUARE DEAL. The first sign a merchan means to give you a square dea is when he' comes out in print and, tells you exactly what he is willing to do. lie is putting a promise on paper in words he cannot recall He is giving you a written con tract you have a right to hold him to it. He deserves your confidence and your consideration if you need his wares. All things being equal choose the man who advertises in the Journal against the one who does not. Perhaps the one wiio does not advertise is merely an old fogy or perhaps he is afraid of some thing. Even if it is simply through old fogy-ism that he invites the pider to spin webs over his door shun him. Who wants to trade with back lumbers and never-wuzzers in these days of live wires you lon't, do you? :o: If the copper, miners wish to eat regularly they should try to effect a settlement without a con gressional investigation. A con grcssional investigation is one of the world's slowest processes and doesn't yield much in the way of general results. :o: The farmer thinks it must be a snap to work in an office and et your wife leisurely telephone to. the store at the last moment for the stuff, the farmer has spent months in raising. When the office man looks at his pocket book at the end of the month he thinks what a puddin' it must be to be a farmer and have the city man's money at the end of the month. We would like to tell you what both think of those between the producing and consuming point, but the postal regulations will not permit. :o: A level-headed chief executive of this nation has surely demon strated what can be done when ie makes up his mind what hould be done for the common people. President Wilson is a real student of national affairs, and he knows the needs of the country. He has a head of his own, but not too Headstrong to welcome suggestions, he gen erally consults his own mind first, and generally comes out on top. You may talk all you please about others doing this and do ing that, but President Woodrow Wilson is the' man of the hour, and the people know it. :o:- 4 If you cannot be loyal to your ionic town and your employer, quit.- If you are.disloyal you can count on some- other man gelling your job. And speaking of jobs, positions or whatever you care to call them, if -you have a notion that you were created and fitted for the place you fill, get rid of that notion. . There are dozens of men and women who can take your place and do your work as well, and perhaps belter, than you are doing? il. In these times, when so many' persons are seek ing employment, you should be more greatly " concerned about ow you might get along without your job than now your job could get along without you. THE SAVINGS HABIT. Economy is the poor man's mint. Somebody has said: "Take care of the pence, for the pound will take care of themselves. ' There is a lot of truth in this saying, and it is well worth "re meinbering. Many a rich man becomes poor because of his extravagance or his indifference m me sinuii tunics, una many a ii., nil.: . t .. ..I poor man remaiifs poor because ue uoes noi suve tue nine mat ne might. Accumulating property depends more largely upon a man's ability to save, than it does upon his ability to earn. - Of course a man must be able to earn before he will be able to save, but the amount that might be saved seems so small fie quenuy mat it doesn l appear worth while to lay it awav. Thi is true of men with small in comes, and right here is wher they make a serious mistake The smaller the income the mor urgent is ine necessity lo save a portion of it, and no man should despise the saving, however small it may be. If a man cannot save 10 a mouth possibly he can save 5, or it may be only ?2 or $1, but whatever amount it may be, it should be laid away for that proverbial "rainy day" which is sure to come. In every man s life and in every Iioin" comes times vvlien emergency funds must be drawn upon, and if there is no emergency fund t. uu,w Ul'""' u,,u t",IM- l,M UMUN days of distress and want. ........ II,.,.. II... 1.1 I I The grasshopper that sings all summer, dies with the lirst frost, but tne busy nee mat stores honey away, a little at a time ail through the season of flowers. lives like a prince all through the winter and comes out in the pringlime ready for anoth summer's work, llie bee knows . . low to economize and save mall things, and this is the Ies - son that we should like to im- press upon the mind of every rea.ler who is able to save only in a small way. And saving is made easy nowadays, ami it is mad.- profitable also. And we have in- stitutions that receive the child's pennies as willingly as they d the dollars of the older folks. The small saving is given the same attention as the large, and it draws the same rate of in - erest. The banks will pay you interest on your savings, and sjfr argument. He hadn't lo,k you can add whatever amounl C(J at it j,, jiat lipht before, so he you have from time to time. T!i- anks furnish an easy method for you to lay away your dimes and your dollars, and they pay you for the privilege of helping you save. The building assoe a- tions are among Plattsmoulh's biggest and safest financial in stitutions, and they want your savings. tor a "rainy day- there is nothing belter limn a few shares of stock in a building association, uiu nn- j.tv ..u air rate of iiwerest on your savings. And men incie nuii . runs ins postal savings nanu wiiere you can lay uwav .on. small change and get it bacjc with interest, when you vish. I -y all means get the saving habit,. o: Politics will soon begin to oil in Washington, and appoint-l inents will be dished out in Ne-I jraska, where the "power lind the throne" thinks they will tlo the most good. There are a ot of fellows in Nebraska wish- ja il a f . ing lor. soniemuig lo urop irom Washington. Now it is walch and wait! I :o: i Talk about sf renuosity, the lirst ten months -of the present administration has been all work and no play with President Wil- sou. Teddy nor Tafl, either, were in, it w hen it comes to hard I work. ! o: If some people in this vicinity ever have occasion lo die lliey will certainly 'go with a disease nown as "lint on the lungs," I caused from continually chew- ing the rag. Probably with the withdrawal of J. p. Morgan & Co. from inter- hocking directorates is a great ,ra victory (may the people OI,y) although 'we don't know much about it. Our knowledge of finance at this season i largely limited to the fact that the bills Como drifting in :o:- The express companies ar porting their greatly reduce rates that become effective Feb ruary 1. An immense reduction is announced all along the line ai, it unquestionably only an additional benefit to the rna e f,r ,. ,.,.,,!.. hromrht about hv Ui t'staMi shutout ;f Ihr parcc post. -:o:- I AM A DOLLAR. A little age-vurn, perhaps, but still in circulation. I am no to mato-can dollar not I. Thi? town is only my adopted home but I like it, and hope to remain Permanently. When I came out of the mint I was adopted into a town like this in anotlo-r state Hut, after a time. I was sent oft a fnany , (urru.(1 . MAIL OKDKH HOUSE. For several years I -.tayed in that city. Millionaires bought cicars with me. I didn't like that, for I believe in th plain people. Finally a traveling man brought no to Plattsmouth and b'ft me here. I was so glad to get bark In a smaller town that I was determined to make a .i....--.!- t..i jay a citizen of this town a about to send me back to that j,i;r cify. I ratigbt him tonkirr? over a mail order catalogue. Sud dvnly I found my voice and said j,,,,,. jj,ii,js here. If you'll h,.. , t.nv ;n mi. town rii rir. ruiat,. around and do you a .t of tr I. Yon l.nv n l.i- h.effenk th-'Ljth . and the butcher will buy U, - ,,,.,.,. an,j ,,,, Krot er will buy- hardware, and the hardware man xvjjj pay his doctor bill with me. amJ .5e doctor will spend me with a farmer for oats to feed his horse, and the farmer will buy some fresh meat from the butrh- ,.r vj1M wiII come around to the dentist to get his teeth mended, jn u,e Jong run, as you see, ni n, ,,.,, ,,s,.rul (o von !ore at home than if y ui'd sen. I me away for- lexer" Tno lnnn sai,j n xvas a iiii?hty Went and bought the beefsteak. Lm, x i.?an circulate round home again. Now just Mippn. aj ,j,e oilier dollars that are Sent to Chicago or some other hig city were kept circulating richl hero n home, von ronl.l ic .. . .... the town grow. Honet, now! Ain't I ripht? :o:- May that nude little fellow. Nineteen Fourteen, clad only in a nigli Hal and a .aii. reaen a Hot he sale l.ariraln counter l fore he encounter: one of those northwest blizzard ;p;. j j, republic of Mexieo an armistice means thai Sunday ha intervened, and that the contend linir armies hae adjourned from the battlefield to the bull lins :o If Teddy doesn't come back be-jfrom South America soon he'll hind more of his "follow me any- where" deserting. There's S.'ii- ator Itristow of Kansas, and then I. l again, mere s jo mi . l eiser. :o: I he young women who have organized a emu at uod.. i,ny. Kansas, placing the social ban on the you in; men that Mnoke and drink, will probably be indulgent to penitents who promise to re form and don't. :o: The income tax blank are now aailable. It is belter, if your in come is anywhere near thn inousano, to get one and ii- ure you are not on the list than to neglect il and posiblv pay a fine. even if it be only the minimum line of iO. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. According to every reaor.--. t indication the buines null " for 1914 i better than lh r-crd of 1013, say. the Omaha Trade Exhibit. If we take any stock in th- oi l axiom that where there i much smoke lhr mut b a 1'' Ie fire, we mut conclude tha. n .pile of the denials and optiniiii and the initenre that everything was fine, there wa orne uneai nes., .-me slackenir.ir. !ome r- trenchments. some diH'p"iiit ment in the buine3 of 15 13. even thoiik'h the Mini total and the individual record d;-! hov an increase over IilJ. Probably thi uneaine 'a caused as much by weather con dition and by variu thin- of that nature a by legislation or other political or econonii" cause. However, thit is pal and w ire concerned with getting a clear v ision if poit!e f the oit- lonk f..r the new year. What real foundation hav we for pros perity, what are the indica! i- r., what i the preef;t state of in dustry and buirie and what i- the general tendency? Pro pert fr corp ruM scarcely !. better. Of rour' there are many chance fr tii- appointment yet, but it i a I"nsf odd in favor of fi.x biin that condition. a far a the crop raier are concerned, are a rood a they are rl-'ht now. Some of the iifo-t import iut egilation i out of the way. th.il which na etipposed to caue tlt rreatexl furor in the buire world. It may b too . n I" judsre the -,'Tect. and it may ! we will have that in 1911. buf to uncertainly i gone and the t.-n- lepcy of hume4 -cm to be to take matter philosophically and - et down to the ituafin raHo-r than to be panicky and hysterical a m it'll t have be mi the ra. The real wealth priNluefjon f-r 13 wa larze. lar-'er than for the prevjou year, and that i the foundation f-T lh buine4 of lull. Merchant a!l over thi territory rrp.rt th- Iet holiday buines they h ive ever h !. We tret that direct from the m-r- rhant and from reading IL country pew -paper. And where ean yon find a fru-r criterion lfi.ii a country newspaper? There U no diputinz the fact that the brakes have ben e a ittle, but bisr buir.e men are aM f the opinion that it wa a mislity p 1 thing for evervone and a they are rae, ,.ff th- wheid of pro?re biiine vil procf-t-,; again with more raufiop. wilh truer progre and Ie. danger of diater. :o:- r;overnor Morehead'i admin itrafioM i surTici..nl to demon strate that he j a practical bui ne man. and jn-l -jrt, a p.,r. on a would b an hoor j,, ulf. Firt Congressional di-tnVt a Hour representative at Washing ton, lit. is a gentleman ..f r,,.,r than average ability, ad wh.i the governor ha pot. a yet. fu!!y deUrmined to .-nler th.. r.nrrr. iona! rare, if f,e doe, and i elect.-d. the J p'.. ra .J-p.-nd upon hiving a repres.t jt,,. , WaIiir?ton who j- p.b'.. to def.oJ hi poition before cngre. without simplv writing a sp.-.-r, that wa nevrr del.vrred. and ask ing the privily,. ,lf havmg it pruned a bejpg delivered t upon ine noor of the h. of r.-p- resentativ e :o:- A mad Chicago Nn.nmi eyg denier ha in the na,i tx,t '"nllM. which tho.. u,, f:) ITiee for the perl,. hre.V.ft f ' W" hr,d eay t bel.eve. It i ho pe.J President Vi!.,.-i il,,ln,,,i"- .aprUma- "'.n and hve ,irIin,n1(. eelebraUd ir, . - - a -iiii.i.),.- manner " --""Win I,e s.-jfe ni:. ine. '"ure. ap,, ifh h3t tmpre4 diunity udable a ...... af iu,m casion. All tl
