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PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1914. 0e plattsmoutb journal Published 8 e m i-W eekly at Plattsmouth, Nebr. Entered at the Postofflce at Plattsmoutb. Nebraska, as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Subscription Price; $1.50 Per Year In Advance A patriot lately rose to remark that the crying need of the na tion is more holidays. Those who came late, remain seated, and we will amplify in measured accents, as follows and also to wil: This nation needs more holidays to keep it going- good, so let them in several ways, as this man says they should. A day in honor of John Brown, whose soul goes marching on, and one for Grant of great re nown, who is also past and gone; another for our Pilgrim dads, who crossed the raging main, and one for him who gathered scads from oil wells gushin gain. In honor of the woman's vote, take one or three or four. and for T. II., a man of note, add to the list one more. One may not seem enough for him, but let it go at that, and if this lis seems rather slim, let others come to bat. 'Tis easy to select a man and add another dale which patriot and base ball fan will gladly celebrate. Thus postal clerks and banker men may go a Joyous way. while others toil for scanty yen. ( Jap talk for meagre pay.) :o: A teacher gets a five-day week short hours and a long vacation and yet one who knows children may marvel occasionally that so few teachers perish of nervous prostration. It seems to thi outsider that the vacation shouh be on full pay, that the teacher might not have to wait to gather the reward due in heaven. And, despite modern methods and im proved buildings and better pay, in some ways the teacher's lot is worse than it used to be in the days when our young ideas were taught how lo shoot. The rod as a righteous weapon of discipline has been largely eliminated, and teachers are imposed on by pupils more than they used to be. Parents also are different, and the o. f. parents who admin istered further chastisement at home, after punishment admin istered at school, is a grandpar ent noy, or gone on to his or her honorable ancestors. The mod ern parent instead finds fault with the administration of dis cipline, if any, and the teacher's lot is as happy as a hearse. We object to a grouch taking it out on the children, but it might, as some one the name doesn't matter suggests, be better for the children if there were a lit tle more discipline in this home of the free. There is no solid foundation for t ho claim that Nebraska is certain to vote in favor of wom an suffrage next fall. There has been no poll of the voters, and all claims must be purely specu lative. The Telegram does not claim to know what the result will be. We do know that if the advocates of suffrage are expect ing to get the votes of all men who have signed their petitions, then they will certainly be fooled. It is difficult to understand why any man opposed to woman suf frage should sign a petition to submit the question to a vote at the state election, but the fact is that many men have done that very thing. Columbus Telegram. :o: Some United States senators are calling attention to the fact that unless the postmaster gen eral is checked '"bales of hay and bushels of potatoes" soon will be going through the mails. It does seem that there should be a let up some time on this parcel post business. Gus II. Hyers has announced for another term in the sheriff's office of Lancaster county. Gus has made one of the best sheriffs in the state or Nebraska, and should be re-elected as a fitting tribute to his close attention to the duties of the office and his sterling qualities as a gentleman and scholar. Here is another former Cass county boy, whose father, Rube Ilyers, was one of the most daring officials that ever trod over Cass county soil :o: M$iIIy" Thompson, chairman of the democratic state com mittee, has been in Washington this week, ostensibly on other business, but principally to bring the appointive powers to some understanding as to the giving out of the patronage that should have been dished out to Nebraska democrats long ago. The longer this matter is delayed the worse it will be for the party in this state. :o: The republicans of Cass coun ty will meet in convention at Weeping Water on Wednesday, March II, for the purpose of se lecting a county central com mittee, a chairman and secretary thereof, and transact other im portant business. Delegates to said convention will be selected by the various wards and pre cincts on Saturday, March 7. :o: Former President Tuft, in an article written for the Saturday Evening Post, says if the repub lican parly expects to live, the progressives must be administer ed a crushing defeat. Mr. Taft can tell from bitter experience what has been done in the past. Hut is he not looking through a dense mist when he even sug- fc. .-.- I. 111 HUUll 1U1 IIIU IC- publican party? :o: Governor Morehead has hosts of friends in Nebraska who are sun urging nun to become a can didate for re-election. Don't do it, governor. The democratic voters and many republican voters, also, are insisting that he come out boldly for con gress, knowing full well that he is the proper man for the place :o : SOW TESTED SEED. it is cheap is the man who 'is FARMS FOR RURAL TEACHERS. There seems to be a chance SERiOUUS COMPLICATIONS. likely to buy land in some out-of- that Colonel Roosevelt and Judge Whether we sow grass or plant hhe-way country that he knows P. P. Claxton, United Slates Taft will go through the Panama Tin? WiUoti administration is corn or any other seed, common nothing about, and without see- commissioner of education, has canal on the same ship, and we facing a serious complication sense should teach us the im- jng it. in either case, the idea is shattered the theory that his in- ar, " doubt as to whether to pre- Mexico. Watchful waiting s.-em portance of knowing whether it lo sct something for nothing, or USn. .,. , , diet republican harmony or an . ..,,. ail ,.,.. th- bo fore the New earthquake. will grow or not.- If it won't a Rreat doal for vcrv iilllo: and v. .-.. ,t-i... . . . ' . by annealing yiow, wuy ow or piunt n : " y me long experience of mankind :o: . . . .M. In., 1 . . ....... I.............. I . . . ... - . I I I I I I. Ill' I I 1 I I III 11,1111-1 I ..... . . , . uv ui j.iani it wiuuui wiunius ias shown that tins cannot -be ' " Hilly Sunday lias Jong been a whether it will. grow or not? If tjont. successfully. Don't buy seed Superintendents and proclaiming M., , thjs department, you plant or sow anything, you because it is cheap; for cheap the necessity for every rural which abhors unwarranted abuse don t want to plant with it any- st.0j bought from a dealer is al- school teacher having a farm of and grandstanding, but we see by tiling mat will Hinder Us Ue- ways dear seed. We would not twenty or thirty acres on which the statement of his income that velopnient. For example, if you take any dealer's word for it. he should live and which would the birthrate of those who fall sow clover, you don't want any (hough there is less danger in be the agricultural and social for that line remains about the noxious weeds, such as plantain, buving high-priced seed than the center of the community. He same. n. , .i 1 1. : ... 1 1 - : i 1. , t I . . . I . . . ... I or uauaiw imsue, iiu.eu wmi ji. cheap seeds. Dealers always compared such arrangement wiin :o: iou aie aiming 10 grow giuss, have cm hand seed which they the clergyman s parsonage and Tho Church of England lias th' -nn , V m ilnM u'finl f in It I ...,vf. I I f I., J :i ii.ll. ... ... .. t.'u u.'i uu m in- kuow is inierior, ana 01 course kukcI'mi'u mat n nuiit u; t -unru nu-n vrptlm;r wiui Uu iiu-Mnn ipniCA flin. ntiw.mil of AMimn ai. I i i. a rn I at .w M "I . . i iff I . ! I ... I .... . . . . . - i..,.,.. u-. -..,.... moy waui. io sen it. 10 uo so, a uaun-iau. dui ii ins iucu of omul ing the word "obev Iioni United State--, which has I :i asserting its rights to ! the ua: pire and decide when something should be? done to I'r-tore p. .ire ill Mexico, and which reserves th right to take any art i n, may forced by other ciiliei nation to ! soniefliing. Am- riea I ara.-t ears auo wn..ii lu. v was commuting barb.inu-s m Uui'ope. While lies and prop erty were being sacrificed, we .- . . . . t pressed the Utlllo-l IIM'I.MMI for interference bv tlo Itr jf i - it weeds that you already have. You they put Hie price low enough to should be generally followed, no th,, marriage ceremony. They . ,lU.nmil.llt (.r n.t. f.-r-e,.- i have plenty of them as it is. Why enable them to get rid of it. such simple name would be used, mi-hl hist a well omit it for the ,., ... ,.!...,.! ,,.. .:;...-.!.: Grass seeding will soon be ft is not the custom of the -conn- women, do a they please over there ..w Vmeriea stands in ing the number? hero. If lu-irifis in Fehrnarv in try. Even the teacher is called 'h...... ih.. t.t.... n ili..v .1.. in n... n... e ..: ----- o i - ......-,...- ........ ...... . ( jn.iii- in, ii j'r-in j.i-- We speak of this because every the southern part of our ter- professor. Home fancy name this country, anway. .i. It is a terrible thing I., en- year farmers sow hundreds of ritory, in March in the central would have lo uo given a place of :o: i.. v w .,.f .i ,,,-iv i... ..n.- ..f thousands of dollars' worth of part, and in the early part of Uo much local conseiuence. Many little boys envy the Swiss ihe repon-il i!itie .,f the I'mJe l grass seed that has no grow th in April in the northern. Therefore, Mr. Claxton's argument is that Mad win. has been found lo have States to slet, in. intervene an I it, and because they do them- there is no time to be lost in Ihis would make the teacher's hUo slo.'iiachs. Dut while it nut an end to the i:-hti;i' in selves a vast amount of damage definitely making up your mind position permanent and respect- .might be a great advantage at Mexico. It will mean the c.t of by sowing seeds that grow with how much land you are going to able. In proof that it is necessary Thanksgiving and Christmas, millions in Irea-ure the crop and pollute the land for seed down, what grass seed is lo make the teacher's piece per- just think of the capacity of thousands .f lives. necessary lo give a good stand, manent, Mr. Claxton clinches the stomach-ache when the green that the I nile.i Slates mn-L e . . .... I ee that you sow plenty of it; but argument by simply stating the apple season comes around. ert all its statecraft to .-:al.!i-ii and perhaps It w:!l men years, temporarily depreciating the value of the land itself. Wallace's Farmer says all this first have your seed tested and fact that it is so in Switzerland. i can be .avoided if they will only thus insure a good stand, so far Switzerland furnishes us fash- test the seeds both for viability as this matter is concerned, ions in government and educa . i: f n't. i ! or yeriiiiiiaiiug power ami ior men no sure uiui you give u a lion, even as j'aris devises slvies purity. Kvery year farmers plant chance to grow for much seed of personal adornment. One .. i i a 1 1 . f i . . . i ...... I:. ,i..i ii i. .... t . . n. . , . ... uiui u'.'es in.il. pl ow uiiu can-I i.-s niiMnj hm ou,ii imi ii o v u u ii i 01 nor ai gUUU'UL is amicu: i. ne not; plant corn that is not conditions thai will favor germ- teacher to be effective must fa .i.lra.l...! i . . ii, n , i ..i . . i .....it. , "'H'i"J io i ne ioiiim.y, iinic i liuuion unu ya owiu. i initial ize inmseii wiiii me corn that will not produce an ear :o: hereditary influences in the lives at aJI. Of .course, this cannot be From the way they arc start- of the children whom he teaches. i determined by testing, and the hUg out the Lincoln voters may Mr. Claxton overestimates tin variety is not a matter subject to expect a warm ballle of the bal- time necessary to acquire such test; but they can test for ability hut in that city at the spring elec- information in a small com- to grow and for uniformity. Corn tion. It is warming up lo a con- munity. Salient features should i i costs so little for seed per acre UjuYrable extent already. 1k learned w ilhin a month, by 4 I. .. I .... 1.1 J 4 1. . I ... .... . nun no man ouym io commit me :o: comfuning what the folks say seed lo the ground without How's: Ihis- "Sho eonl.I swiiitr ahonf. themselves with wii.il Hie -:o:- Someone has invented a ma chine that will register the num ber of blows struck by each contestant in a prize light. The next thing in order will be a ma chine to tell I he number of iisli the average lisherman catches. which will cut out all lying. :o: The standard Oil in Mexieo a -fable y.v-rn:iient and to suppress th bandits wh are parading rs patriot. Th'-n- seems tr lo IiO choiee ar.l'Tig ,'e Mexican faclions. All are c' l- b!loied. Iieartle-s, ije-t T T 1 i i1 -" murderers, and if the I'lwfed Slates shouM intervene, it cer tainly should not fae the part of any if the contending fa. -lions who are merely ti'hling f r what btot there may be in it. ;o ; I'ven Ihoii-'i there wa no knowing that it is the kind he a 0-pound dumbell, she could neighbors say about them. Th - .-...I.. i ia.i-.I . . . . I i . . v.aio.?, a uneiy iioapieu io ins fence and she eon d mix: she teacher s Place. under the locality, and knowing certainly could row upon the river; she scheme, is to become a model that it will grow, so that if he could clamber over rocks: sin1 farmer. This implies that the plants a hundred grains at least could golf from morn till even- leach. r must not only be skilled ninety of them will grow jng anj play tennis all day long, in pedagogy, employing even the vigorously, so as to be proof but she- couldn't help her mother, information gleaned in re- against even adverse eireum- Yause she wasn't very strong!" searches in heredity, but he must stances and conditions. : -n- know more nhonf farming than Some of our readers have It is said that the health, item the best farmer in his district, L, w ... , their own grass seed. They ought department of one of our favor- who has followed it all his life not to sow it unless they know ite magazines is edited bv a con- and not bothered about heredity. that it is pure. They ought not sumptive. and that the pages de- except insofar as it affects his o sow weed seeds while sowing voted to religious news are in live stock rass. TheV OUgllt not to SOW it char-re of nn nmil pimvict company have at last received permission to explore the oil lields of the province of China, and if they are found to be productive a li-i 'i- and .spiritual -i-n if.canc. large company will be formed '' '''", .-ea-.n. lli-'iv is n, with the Standard owning the 'loii!,t that a foitv-.lay ah-tmenc.. controlling interest of the slock. ir"m uv.iny forms of i,id-;!-epce :o . is a good policy o -.ave the human The question of removing the body a complete change. i..,!h in state university is a matter that the f N and drinks that are must, surely interest every tax- partaken as well as in the amuse- paver in the state. And it should nb'nts. itest f..r the f..maoh and le fully understood that it will "'st for the miu.! c-rne witli th- cost them fully Iwo-thirds more Lenten sea-.ui to t!io,e who de- f.i i-i.iiuivo i l.i Hio farm serve it. I -'t!'l"U bt e. !y there is improvement s stands. This think about. make the needed -feat benefit in the n.nf. -mpla-whero it now tion of the spiritual ide of Lf. during the forty ilavs. :o: is something to :o: What thi bull moose party in Hating Huerta has J. nig been a favorite indoor amusement M:i The crudest blow has been truck, the bitterest and most crushing adjective has been said. A. London paper characterizes President Wilson's Mexican policy as "shilly shally." Presi dent Wilson- simply treats such references with silent contempt, and goes right on with his work. :o: Uncle Sam will go from the Panama canal to tho Alaskan fields, there to build a railroad for the development of the ter ritory and the good of all man kind and to the injury only of Mr. Guggenheim and a few others. Let the good work proceed. -:o:- Los Angeles is certainly hav ing a time with the water. The total damage so far amounts to about $1,500,000. Every section gets it in the neck one time or another, and balmy California is no exception to the rule. :o: And Iloss Hammond still holds the fort as collector of internal revenue, and continues to draw- he big salary attached to the office, which should be going into the pockets of Chris Grunther or some other good democrat. :o: A congressional pork barrel is the surest way to put the cause of good roads on the hog. Mr. Claxton lakes it for grant- 41. 1. -4 I .... - - I ...... l,,., xw.wv u win nai uo you uiiuk 01 maiy men, od the teacher is a man and thai Nebraska ouht to do instea.l of this sije ,,f ;he riotous n,., We need not tell farmers how to again, there are democrats edit- he has chosen leaching as his jnd. ling bamiuets. is lo ai rdv for Grande, but it- is h.-cming in- profession and that he will be a receiver. It is a party without jcreasinIy apparent Ih.U Hi- willing lo slay in one school all an issue of any kind in this s'ate, world. Amer ica nor Meie.. will his life. Experience is counter to am js most thoroughly out of gain much, when the valiant Villa all three conclusions. While old joint in the nation. Ihit the triumphs over the present pro- teachers complain of ambitious most of them will not join hands visional president. Corning fr..m republican parfv. as I different walks of life one a test grass seed. They know all ing republican papers and repuh- about it, and it is easily done. licans editing democratic paper Corn planting is a good ways nut right here is where we draw off; but a little time spent now in the line. , i ,. riiiiin sccu corn a preliminary ;o: testing would be well spent. If If president Wilson does not young men and women using the with the it is properly cared for, there is demonstrate to the people of profession as a stepping stone, it Teddy Roosevelt won't let them, trained soldier and the other nut nine uoum aoout us growing these United States that he is the has availed little. The most sue l t 1411 it M I I ue.vi May, nut me tune taken lor greatest chief executive the cessful men and women in busi- the second test is time well country has been favored with in ness and the various professions spent. If the farmer does not the past forty years, we miss our have at some time in their know what kind of corn he is go- guess. Every move he makes careers been - school teacher i.ig to piani, he had belter hnd meets with the general approval Some of llieni were good teach- out pretty soon. It is a great of two-thirds of the 'people, ano ors, loo, and planted seeds of in mistake to put off buying seed N y the time his term expires, if Upiratiou in hundreds of lives. If corn until April in the central this pace is kept up, nothing on every community could -:o:- bold bandit tiny seem s much If the new currency svsfeni, as I alike, viewed in th" Ii-ht of recent some predict, will make every events and at this di-tance. that merchant give a nole for his pur- choice between the two is dif- ....... rtt wait oinn- coin ueu, or until me earth can prevent the people man possessing all the virtue? mighty good thing last of- March in the southern from renominating him, and the and all knowledge, ami all ac- merchants. Omaha part of it. Get it now; and bo man does not. wear n.'ints that can comtdishmenls nn. willin-r foli.n.n ure you get the kind you want, neat him. Mark that, will you? spend his life in that community, a kind that is adapted lo your :o: as a farmer, teacher and expert Climate. Tin. rr..l.rn V'4ulinnn i.T .... n.;...r. J., rrr.Tio.Mil Mi- CImv i'l'.'UV 14 T oi-villlV II " 1 C'Jl lllllJO Mil hVlll.1 IW. M. M. m VH ULi. chase and do away with the open licult. Carrana may be a belter account it will also make the man; one hat. s to think there are merchant do away with the in- three as ba.l .as thoe. p.ut Car- definite open account with his ranzo. in,, nominal leader of th. hnd a customers, and that wi 1 be a const luiimnaiiMs, nas p.-. u ovcr- :o:- for many I -ha.lowe.j by Villa almost from Trade Ex- me start. I hat il!a w.ml.l kill him without compunction wlom it seemed an opportune thing to do. Three thousand trainmen of is in accord with Ho- ban. lit b-a.-the I5ui lingtori railroad were er's policy. So viewed from any granted an increase in pay re- angle, it b .ks like a hard winter at a conference held in in Mexico, with vore out ahead Many of our readers do not throes of much discord on ac- ton's plan might work. lint rural nave their own grass seed. We count of the increased rales, high schools and a multitude of cently hope the seeding will cover a there being many camps in Cass other practical reforms will pre- Chicago, which means an ad.li- as the days hm-fhen, giving the much larger acreage this year county that are opposed to the cede his scheme a few centuries, tional distribution of j?IOo.ooo journeymen butch, rs more tim than last; for we must get ready increase. Of course, not being a :o: annually to them. The arbilra- to work at their trade. to grow more stock; but lirst we member of the order, we do not Where will that quad-hiou committee had been working :o: must get the grass to keep it. profess lo know whether or not rennial reformer, George W. for three months to reach a con- A bill appropriating s '.". ooo . I hat is a matter of a year or so; there is any justice in the de- Norris, find himself when the re-J elusion in the matter. Under! ono for u-e on public road ha but before we get it, we must sow America are just now in the publicans of Nebraska refuse to general conditions prevailing Ihe pas-d the hous.. of represent it; and before we sow it, we must niand, but it seems that the order join hands with the bull moos- men can count themselves as be buy it, if we don't already have it. needs an advance in the rales to ors? The senator has proved ing very fortunate. The safe way is to buy your make it a more solid institution, himself a gay deceiver, carrying :o seed now, either test it yourself, and those camps that have not water on both shoulders, even The approaching senatorial or have your state dairy depart- taken any action in the matter I hough he refused to declare fight in Illinois will be of na- ment test it, or have your county should at least study the ones- himself a stand-natler in the last tional interest, b-c;ius men of adviser lest it, or send it to your tion before acting for or against, election. national interest and reputations stale agricultural college and hf the insurgents are victorious. :o: are making it so. President Wil- have it tested there. Don't take it looks to us as Hi on tho I J)oirt think I hat lircauso I he I son sterns inchru'il it tht i-v ji. 1 . . . I ..I me usk 01 sowing seed that you order would be wonderfully Weather kept you away lrom that Ilinois should settle it ow n -k . . . t ' I - . . la a . . 1 I ...'..11. ? lt... aic not sure win grow. We crippled. There is no doubt in church last jsunoay uiai u win uo annus, especially in view oi no- :o:- would not buy any grass seed our mind that the head officers so again next Sunday. fact that the people of the iat without knowing it will sland the have declared for this increase :o: have a primary election for Unit- test. We would buy it subject to because something of this kind There will lie no tampering ed Stales senatorial-candidate that condition. You will have to must begone that in the future with the tariff by congress until Here is where President Wilson pay more for it. of course Imt will mcuit in for- every it. has been thoroughly tried out shows wisdom m reru-iug lo late the man who buys seed because member of the M. W. A. r as it stands at present. any hand in the matter. alives. It js now up to the ep ale. If pi-., 00,oo(j wi come to Nebraska. :o :- There j mmih- ru-o..-ify t.. know whether spring !!., t.. men's hats will be e.pjipp.,J with feathers ,,r tass..; th,. :m,t j bow arrangement, has be.., leached. w 1 - ' - '" II 1 1 I 1 . anout our fie.,, mail d.div if.i . it. i laiisni'iiiiu 7 t 'tf or oiner we hav b r. I...... 11... . . aie.ui in- matter P-r tim Wake up! ry in orue catjs,.