THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1014.
PLATT8K10UTH CEK1 1-WEEKLY J0UI1NAL.
PAQE 4.
CT)e plattsmoutb journal
Published Semi-Weekly at Plattemouth, Nebr.
Entered at the I'ostoffice at riattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class mall matter.
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BASE FALSEHOODS.
The new weekly publication,
the Nebraska Republican, in its
first issue opens mud batteries
on Governor Morehead, from
which it shoots lies, misrep
resentations and tries to stir up
religious haired by charging that
the governor has been catering
to the Catholic vote by liberal
and generous appointments to
men of that faith. This may be
g.d political thunder for the
"re-united" and harmonized (?)
republican party, but as the great
ma-s of mankind considers every
person's religion as sacred and
private concern, that sort of mud
shooting will cause the old blun
der buss to kick back. Fair
minded, intelligent people do not
concern themselves about other
people's religion.
The truth about this appoint
ment business is, Governor
Morehead has been unusually
broad and generous. Two of the
most important positions he had
to give out, private secretary and
warden of the penitentiary are
held by Catholics, and more ef
ficient officers could not be found
in the state. The chief clerk in
the governor's office is a super
anuated Methodist preacher, an
old soldier and a republican. So
was the chaplain at the peniten
tiary. Under Governor Aldrich
the same conditions obtained at
the penitentiary as under More
head a Cathoilc warden and a
Methodist chapalin though with
belter results up to date for
Morehead.
Governor Morehead's board of
control are men of various
shades of religious opinions and
beliefs. So with his food, labor,
fire, printing commissioners,
superintendents of institutes,
efe.
The posthumous sheet tries to
make political capital against
Governor Morehead because the
governor's mansion is heated by
.-team from the state house at
the state's expense. The truth of
this situation is, the heating
plant at the mansion was played
out and would not heat the house
so the state board considered it
a matter of economy Mo pipe
steam from the state house and
heat the mansion, which they did,
and tho governor had nothing to
do with it.
All this mud slinging and mis
representation is put out by the
new paper solely for the purpose
of injuring Governor Morehead
in his campaign for congress and
prejudice the voters against him.
The Herald is not lighting John
Morehead's battles, but we are
strong for the square deal and
so strongly ferminst liars that
we cannot refrain from protest
against such glaring misrep
resentation. If the "harmony"
dopsters, and stale oflicers who
are seeking re-election and pro
moting the new publication will
look to their own best interests
they will corral 1 the long-eared
critter that is making so much
uncalled for fuss and devote the
time and energies to pouring oil
on their own troubled waters and
not to abusing men who have
made as good as the best of their
number. Governor Morehead's
administration and reputation
will stand inspection and com
parison with the best of them.
Judging the future by the past,
Harrison will prove no benefit to
the liarmonizers, rc-incarnators
and office seekers, but quite the
contrary, unless, indeed, they can
incuclale some principle and be
queath a set of brains to take the
place of a bone-head. You re
publicans have plenty of grief of
your own to nurse without wast
ing energy in abusing worthy
democrats and better citizens.
Take some brotherly suggestions
from yours truly: Cut it out,
and tic a can to the pestiferous
dogs' tails that persist in givinj
you trouble along the lines made
clear. You can catch very few
insects with vitrol. Lincoln
Herald.
:o:
Dispatches say that Roosevelt
is entirely out of touch with
civilization. It would be too
dangerous to venture the sug
gestion that he always has been.
:o:
Let the merchants each offer
a prize of some kind to every
farmer who will come to town
with a road drag. Set a date for
their coming, and have them all
arrive on that date. Such a
scheme would do a wonderful
amount of good to the roads
leading into town, and each mer
chant would not miss what they
donate.
:o:
One town in Colorado pro
poses to be know n as r lyiess
Town" this summer. The plan
is to begin early in the spring to
clean up all breeding places for
flies, as" far as thai is possible
and to keep such places clean,
also to employ such other means
as are practical in ridding the
town of flies. The plan is one
worthy of emulation of the Com
mercial club in every other town
in this territory.
-:o:
Our "eminent" representative
at Washington stands pat on his
recommendation of A. V. John-
on for postmaster at Lincoln,
and perhaps he will be appointed
nnd perhaps not. Hut that would
be in keeping with his recom
mendations at other towns. At
fecumseh he went out in the
country three or four miles to
select a postmaster, when H. L.
Cooper, editor of the democratic
organ of the county was an ap
plicant for the position.
:o:
One great drawback to the
primary system is the "free-for
all," in which candidates come to
the front on either ticket, and
often men are nominated who
could not be elected to save their
lives. Still they expect the party
to elect them, and if they are not
they get sour, and blame every
one in the party. By the old con
vention system the fellows would
know better than to become can
didates. We candidly believe that
the primary law should be re
pealed on this account.
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Nearly 800 Nebraska post
masters will have to take a civil
service examination in May, ac
cording to an announcement
made by the civil service com
mission recently. An order was
issued by the commission that
fourth class postmasters in Ne
braska would have to lake their
examination in May lo show their
qualification for continuing in
office. This order was made pur
suant to the policy of the present
administration. The past ad
ministration placed all fourth
class postoflices in civil service.
The Wilson administration de
cided that while it would allow
the order to stand, it would re
quire candidates to pass the ex
amination. No announcement
has been made of the subjects on
which the postmasters are sup
posed to be able to qualify. Tin
doubtedly, however, it will in
clude subjects which men of or
dinary, educational equipment
should be able to pass.
THE RETAILER'S FRIEND.
The best friend the retailer
has is the customer of his own
community.
As much as the retailer is in
clined at times to cuss the peo
ple of his community for their
various digressions and sins of
omission and commission it still
behooves him to look on them and
treat them as the best business
friends he has.
That means taking the people
into your confidence. It means
play square with them in every
particular. It means education
instead of deceit. It means co
operation instead of antagonism
It means giving them the best
deal you can instead of getting
out of them all they will stand.
The express companies give a
shining example. For years the
express companies maintained
expensive lobbies at the seats of
government to forestall any laws
that would hurt their business.
Thev ignored their best friends,
their patrons. They adopted a
policy of secrecy instead of
education and frank publicity.
They dammed up the stream of
public sentiment until it broke
out and swept them away. The
telephone and telegraph com
panies, for instance, have seen
the signs, and are taking an ab
solutely different course.
The retaielrs should follow
the example of the telephone and
telegraph companies and other
ublic service corporations in
this line; they should take the
ublic into their confidence, slate
the facts as they are, get public
entiment for instead of against
them, and then all this talk of
eliminating the middleman will
be as passing breeze to the
mountain.
Cut out the mystery, don't let
eople think you are making a
lundred per cent profit when you
really only make ten. Use tact
and common sense, of course,
Jut you have nothing to lose and
everything lo gain by taking the
public into your confidence, by
eing frank and open and honest.
Omaha Trade Exhibit.
:o:
If Villa is moving on to Mexico
City Huerta will have lo fly the
coop. But he says he will die
fighting, which is bosh.
:o:
Villa is demanding recognition
from the United States. Hut he
will not get it for awhile yet. Vil-
a must be content to await fur
ther developments.
:o:
As nearly us can be learned
he spring styles in kitchen cab
inets and garden making overalls
do not show any great variations
from last autumn's models.
:o:
A Champaign (111.) minister
got mixed at a double wedding
and married a woman to the
wrong man. There are so many
women married lo the wrong men
that one or two additions will
not be noticed.
:o:
If fashion artists are right
when they say summer styles will
put the feminie form on display
more than ever, the new gowns
must be going to be made of
isinglass.
:o:
W. B. Price of Lincoln wants
the democratic nomination for
congress. ell, he II never get
it. And the same will hold good
with Wilber W. Aimers of Dun
bar, Otoe eounty, on the other
side.
:o:
The fact is that not one man
has been mentioned for congress
on either side that possesses
one-half the ability of Governor
Morehead. The First congres
sional district is the second in
importance in the stale, and
should be represented by a per
son of Governor Morehead's im
portance, lie is a man among the
biggest men of the country, and
possesses the ability to represent
the people in congress as they
deserve to be represented.
This weather will oil up the
dandelion crop.
:o:-
Are you getting ready to swat
the first fly that comes?
: :o :
Lest we forget don't fail to
use that road drag as often as
possible.
:o:
Now is the time to announce
your name if you are a candidate
for county office.
:o:
Dick Metcalfe's job in Panama
expired the first of April, but it
was a good job while it lasted.
:o :
The only melons that the rail
roads will be ablo to cut this year
will be of the Rocky Ford variety.
:o:
The Shriveport man who has
just married a third sister pays a
beautiful tribute lo his mother-
in-law.
:o:
President Wilson's Mexican
policy is slill meeting the ap
proval of a big majority of the
people.
:o:
Those who believe in equal
rights probably will grant men
the privilege of paying $25 for an
Easter hat.
:o:-
The estimate that this coun
try's mineral waste is $1,000,000
a day, does not include the
amount lost in smoke.
:o:
The supreme court has again
answered the conundrum as to
when a divorce is not a divorce
by explaining that fraud vitiates
it.
:o:-
It is needless to warn persons
afflicted with the grippe against
kicking. Nobody suffering from
the grippe feels in an osculatory
mood.
:o:-
Astronomers report that Mars
has also been enjoying a hard
winter, and that remote region is
also trying to blame the demo
cratic party.
:o:
Has our friends, the republi
can press, ever noticed that
President Wilson does about as
he pleases, and is the tool of no
man or set of men?
:o:
Has our republican friends
ever noticed that Woodrow Wil
son, as president, does about as
he pleases, and is not "the tool of
any man," as some of them
charged he would be? He is the
president, with full accent on the
the."
:o:-
Joseph C. Burr of Nebraska
City has filed as a democratic
candidate for float representative
from Otoe and Cass counties.
Evidently down in Otoe they do
not consider that Cass county is
entitled to either senator or float
representative.
:o:
The state should steer clear of
purchasing a practice ground
for the state militia when they
are at liberty to use the United
States rifle range, near this city.
Those who are in favor of re
ducing the taxes of the state
should stand up and take notice.
:o:
Will Maupin is now out for
congress. Will is a pretty good
fellow, but this paper can't sup
port him under existing circum
stances. We are for Governor
John II. Morehead. He is the man
that will fill the bill to the satis
faction of-the voters of the First
congressional district.
-:o:-
Omaha is kicking, and kicking
hard because they are placed in
the regional bank district with
Kansas City. No one can blame
the Omaha people. Their in
terests are more strictly identifi
ed with Chicago than Kansas
City, and the entire east half of
Nebraska should have been
placed in the Chicago district.
What the kick will bring forth
we cannot say.
GOOD ROADS AND SCHOOLS.
Some statistics just issued by
the Bureau of Education are
calculated to open the eyes of
those who fondly imagine the
United States has the greatest
school system in the world and
is "educating the largest propor
tion of ttye population. In round
numbers, these figures show that,
while there are 24,000,000 chil
dren of school age in the country,
only 17,500,000 are enrolled in
the public schools, or 72 per cent.
Of. those- enrolled the average at
tendance is not given, but it
varies from 80 per cent in the
highest districts to Gi per cent
in the lowest, perhaps an aver
age of 70 per cent. This means
that the average attendance is
about 12,250,000, or only one
half the number of children of
age to attend.
These figures are being quoted
in an effort to show the value of
good roads for school purposes,
it being assumed that this low
attendance is due to inability to
reach school much of the time in
rural districts. This is, no
doubt, a large factor, but it is
equally without doubt that the
miall enrollment is more largely
due to children being taken out
of the schools during the gram
mar grade period lo help earn a
living in the large cities and in
dustrial centers. In the south,
where poor roads and small
school attendance both exist to
the largest extent, the taking of
children from the schools at an
early age is increasing because
of the rapidly increasing employ
ment of children in cotton mills
and other industries. It is de
ceptive to endeavor to saddle up
on bad roads the responsibility
for the fact that half the children
in the United States of school age
are not actually in school.
Nevertheless, it is being dem
onstrated that roads do have a
large effect upon attendance at
rural schools. This is shown by
the fact that the slates with the
best roads have the largest aver
age attendance as well . as the
largest per cent of enrollment.
It is probable that the same lack
of enterprise which leads a com
munity to neglect its roads is
also reflected in lack of apprecia
tion of good schools and the
necessity for regular attendance,
showing that the problem is not
simply one of roads. Yet in
those states where consolidated
schools have become numerous,
and children arc taken to the
schools in conveyances, the en
rollment and average attendance
are both much increased. Also,
the schools are themselves, a
great deal better, resembling
closely the graded schools of
towns. Illiteracy is not a road
problem, except in part, but good
roads enter to much into the
general problem of rural educa
tional, industrial, religious and
social life, that the movement for
better roads has come to be one
of the greatest and most import
ant now demanding attention of
local, state and federal govern
ments.
:o:
Now that the milliners have
had their openings, and the men
are getting over it nicely, we
quote: "There is nothing dear
er to a man than a good wife, and
very little that is more ex
pensive." :oi
Ottawa county, Kansas, has a
woman candidate for sheriff, and
the papers down that way are in
doubt as to whether she should,
if elected, be termed a sherifTeo
or a sheriffette.
:o:
The" man who has never ex
pressed any views on the subject
of railroads has a hard time be
ing confirmed as interstate com
merce commissioner.
:o: -
The West Bend (Iowa) swain
who tried to elope with a 331
pound girl did not fee much like
a Romeo by the time he got her
down the ladder.
Children Cry
Tho Kind You Have Always
In use for ' over iso years,
ana
' sonal
Z 2sCcUZZ; Allow
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Jnst-as-good " are but
Experiments that triflo with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
Castoria is a harmless snbstituto for Castor Oil, Pare
goftc, Drops and Soothing: Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphino nor other Karcotlo
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys AVorms
and allays Fev irislmcss. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for tho relief of Constipation
Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething1 Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Dowels,
assimilates tho Food, giving healthy and natural Bleep.
Tho Children's Fanacea The Mother's Friend
GENUINE CASTORS A ALWAYS
Bears the
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
Thaw has cost the state of
Xew York $38,500. They paid too
much.
:o:
If the present trend of styles
continues, future etymologists
will have dilliculty iii determining
the origin of the "outskirts of a
city."
:o:
The straw hat will soon make
its appearance now.
:o:
You want to have your fly
swatter handy for use.
' :o: :
What about the street car
nival? The date is not far away.
:o:
Boom means to boom! Knock
'means to knock! Which are you
-boomer or knocker?
:o:
Don't get miffed, gentlemen,
because you were defeated
Others have sailed in the same
boat.
:o:
Fine display of Easter bonnets
If the weather is fine it will
prove equal to the regular circus
parade, Sunday.
:o:
The democrats carried Kansas
City by an overwhelming ma
jority, notwithstanding the
desperate efforts to defeat them.
:o:
There is something else to do
besides filing for office. An an
nouncement in the newspaper is
the proper way to let the voters
know you are in the race.
:o:
Itailroad-owned vessels cannot
pass through the Panama canal
at all, under the present law, a
fact that careful readers have
discovered in the news columns
of some papers that editorially
dispute the fact.
:o:
The Fremont Tribune says:
Maybe the mythical Maguire of
Lincoln will wish he had adopted
the Stephens primary plan of
choosing postmaster. The out
come of the Lincoln fight may
convert him." "Mythical," that
is pretty good.
:o:
After the war the Mexican
Central Railroad company can
recover a considerable part of its
loss by mining for lead in its
bridges, stations and rolling
slock.
-:o:
Germany seems lo be very con
tented, considering that there
are one thousand different kinds
of sausage in that country. At a
recent exhibition over there that
many varieties were shown.
for Fletcher's
Sought, and which has been
lias borno the signature oc
has been made under his per
supervision since its infancy.
no one to deceive you in this.
t is CASTORIA
Signature of
A man who sat behind a young
lady in a Chicago, street car
yanked a feather out of her hat
because it poked him in the
countenance every time she turn
ed her head. He protested. She
said he was an old fool, and then
he picked the plumage. She had
him arrested, but the judge turn
ed him loose.
-:o:-
Ex-President Taft says a man
at 00 has not outlived his useful
ness by any means. If he has
profiled by his experience he
ought to be a better man at that
age than at any other. It all de
pends. A man who profits by his
experience ought to begin lo have
some sense about the time he is
70, and to increase in usefulness
for the next 10 years. Then he
is 80 and he will bo able to live
without making any blunders.
:o:
RUSSIAN AMERICA.
Forty years ago the first day
of April the United States pur
chased Russian American, a tract
as large as the Atlantic states
put together, for $7,200,000. Tho
bargain was widely ridiculed. The
tract was called "Seward's Ice
Box," after Secretary of State
Seward, who was largely re
sponsible for the purchase. The
United Stales gave it the name
Alaska a corruption of the
native Al-ay-eska, meaning "a
great country." - The inhabitants
numbered a few hundred whites
and a few thousand natives.
There were no roads. Commerce
was confined. to fishing and seal
ing, to the extent of $2,000,000 a
year. The people laughed, but
Secretary Seward died with the
prediction that another genera
tion would say the purchase of
Alaska was the greatest accom
plishment of his administration.
Today the resources of Alaska
are slill unknown, but the people
think so well of "Seward's Ice
Box" that their congress has
voted $35,000,000 in the building
of 1,000 ' miles of railway in
Alaska. Today Alaska buys some
$20,000,000 worth of goods from
the United States every year, and
it sends about the same amount
of merchandise to the state. In
addition there has been a yearly
production of $20,000,000 in gold
from Alaska. The population, as
taken in the last census, is over
30,000 whites and 28,000 natives.
Over 5,000 miles of wire com
munication have been establish-1
ed, and some 500 miles of rail
way already built, as well as over
3,000 miles of highway and
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