PLATTSWOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1914.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
J- Th man of true humor
l- all sides of a proposi-
J- tiin. Selected. 2
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I$c sure you are ripht before
ou throw over the high-speed
lever.
Have you eut those weeds yet?
.Why not?
:o :
U' your lly-swatter often and
keep it handy.
:o:
The new court house will be
done riuht on lime. And presents
a line appearance.
:o:
And U"w C. l Heavis of Falls
I'ily may cnler the republican
race fur congress.
:o :
"When I hey read Perkins out
thy will have to read ine out,
ton," ay Teddy Hoosevelt.
. :o:
These are hot days and this
is Hie time fur hot days. livery
corn crop has rot to have its days.
T:o:
You can now hear the music of
the reaper in various parts of the
county. The golden harvest is
surely uii.
:o:
The priees for new wheal is
pp'le at ." cents. Last year the
opening juice was 7(1 cents, 11
cents ni' ie than this year.
:o:
F.arly cl'-intr is becoming more,
the rub' than the cxccplion, cen
in the -mailer towns catering to
the farmer trade, says the Omaha
Trade Exhibit.
:o:
If "the laborer is worthy of his
hire" i a true saying-, why is
there so lllUCh sid-tepilltr when
the bosses are asked to boost him
up a little? Is it because he loves
another laborer who has not been
one-hair as worthy?
Piaitsuioulh is gradually in
creasing in population. if we
had a few more decent rental
houses it would incerase more
rapidly. We need twenty-live new
resideneos riyht away. New
comers arrive daily, and go away,
because there is no property to
rent.
:o:
In sections of the counlrv there
is talk of twine famine, all on
account of the big harvest that
ha just begun in the west. Of
course the twine trust will jump
at every opportunity to raise the
price by making it scarce in har
vest time. Yet we are told that
local dealers have all the twine
that will e needed in this imme
diate v icinity.
:o:
Plat I smuul h is one of the best
and prettiest towns in the west.
Honieseekcrs should come ,and
buk over the many nice building
lots mi (he hills, where a family
man can erf cl a comfortable cot
tage, where he and his family
could spend Hie balance of their
days in peace and happiness. If
jou are looking for a pleasant
location in the west, don't pass
IMattsinoulh.
:o:-
Most of the newspaper men
who have been hovering around
Lincoln for the past week seem to
be of the opinion that Governor
Morehead and Hoss Hammond will
be the candidates to head the re
publican and democratic state
fickels at the general election.
We don't know so much about
Hammond, but it - a certainty
that Governor Morehead will be
renominated.
From present indications there
will be more independent voting1
this year than ever.
:o:
Wheat prices have taken a
tumble. Of course, just as the
new crop is coming on the mar
ket.
:o:
If politics were as hot as the
weather, there would certainly be
something doing; in the political
line.
:o:
How can the suffragettes think
they are lilted for citizenship
when they know so little about
baseball?
:o:
There is an end to all things,
both good and bad, excepting the
story that Huerla is going to
resign in a day or two.
-:o:
There are some pretty good
men for office in Cass county this
year. Dot it is impossible to
foretell the result of the primary.
:o:
A ladies' tailor defends the
dress of the American women
with great eloquence. It is just
possible he is an interested wit
ness. :o:-
Tho public should go a little
slow about accepting all about
that California volcano eruption.
It may lie only advertising for the
San Francisco Panama fair.
:o:
I n some sections of this state
the wheat crop is so heavy that
the farmers are attaching gaso
line engines to their reapers to
run their machines. Why wouldn't
the automobile do the business?
:o:
A man who claims to have made
the experiment says a family of
live can live on i.80 a week.- This
is of very little importance, as
there are but very few families of
that size these days.
:o:
An editor makes a few enemies
once in awhile because he pos
sesses the independence to call a
spade a spade. Hut this does not
hurt, the newspaper. It simply
makes a difference at to "whose
ox gets gored."
:o:-
The Nebraska bankers are de
cidedly opposed to the removal of
the slate university. And so are
the taxpayers in general, who do
not believe in voting' a tax upon
themselves to gratify the desires
of a lot of scheming real estate
speculators.
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a Turkish headline the other day.
It requires only a rudiment of
mathematics to ligure that a
dozen wives cost twelve times as
much as one wife.
:o :
1 1 has long been our notion that
the man who reveres the memory
of his mother doesn't need to
wear a flower in his buttonhole to
prove it, and that ledgerdemain
with the old Jlag isn't necessarily
an indication of patriotism.
:o:
Money can't buy ancestry,
bliss, children, devotion, equality,
friendship, gratitude, health, il
lusion, joy, kindness, love, mind,
nature, originality, peace, quiet,
respect, sincerity, lime, under
standing, virtue, wisdom or youth.
:o:
All laxpaers who vole against
the removal of the stale univer
sity will be voting- for the saving
to the taxpayers of the state the
great sum of $3,000,000. Or,
would they prefer to till the pock
ets of a lot of real estate sharks
who W'H reap a harvest by the
removal? Don't be fooled into
voting against your own interests.
MORE RUIN.
The measure, of our industrial
ruin under the Wilson adminis
tration was given to and solemnly
received by the republican county
committee of New York Thursday
night, when Congressman Hum
phrey of Washington said that
business "has decreased $20,
000,000 every day" of his regime,
or the trifle of about $0,000,000,
000 down to June 1. The par
ticular cause of it all is located
by him and by the Mail in a tariff
which has "increased imports
$2i,938, 113 and cut down exports
$112,400,783."
At this rale the first full year
of the new tariff will show a re
duction of $230,000,000 in the
foreign trade balance from the
year above. As the country s
business by the Humphrey figures
was nearly wiped out by June 1,
nothing- will obviously be left of
it by October 1, when the new-
tariff will have finished a year of
deadly work.
But in the liscal year 14J12, on
a smaller volume of trade under
the Dingley tariff the trade bal
ance was cut down by over
$ )S0. 000, 000, and we can all re
member how the country went to
the dos as a necessary conse
quence. The trade balance was cut
down by over $813.0(10,000 in li0l
under the same high tariff, and
it is clear from the Humphrey-
Mail logic that hot a wheel was
left turning throughout the land.
The trade balance in the first
liscal year of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff was cut down $108,000,000
on a smaller trade volume, and
by the same logic we can calculate
a business decline "every day" of
that period of almost, if not quite.
20.000,000.
There has evidently been noth
ing wor.-e for the country than
this democratic tariff, except the
two republican tariffs which pre
ceded it. New York World.
:o :
IMattsmouth should make its
plans for a safe and sane observ
ance. :o :
Take it from the candidate,
there are a mighty lot uf great
principles in this world.
:o:
The primary date is approach
ing, and the nearer the approach
the more anxious become the
nomination contestants.
:o:
Henry Ford, the automobile
manufacturer, has offered to build
Detroit a general hospital. The
offer involves an expenditure of
about $3,000,000.
;u :
It is now charged that the Lou-;
don militants are drugged in jail.
Very likely. Something has to be
done to prevent them from burn
ing- the jails, even.
:o:
The insurgent Woodmen don't
seem half as mad as they were
before the Toledo convention.
Maybe they have came to the con
clusion that there is not much
use now to kick against the pricks.
:o :
Genuine prosperity in this
glorious country of ours can no
longer be denied, and the one who
attempts it is a bigger fool than
Thompson's colt, which crossed
the river to get a drink.
:u:
The biennial announcement of
Senator Hurton's opposition to
the rivers and harbors bill was
delayed by the fact that congress
is behind with its work. Ikit
everybody expected it.
:o:
Some candidates may be ad
verse to announcing their names
in the neyspapcrs, whether be
cause of the fee charged or be
cause they ar opposed to making
public their desires. It always
pays to advertise.
: o :
A scientist has discovered that
the grasshopper can jump one
hundred limps its length. That's
nothing. A vaudeville performer
often has to jump from Winnipeg
to New Orleans.
Don your swatting harnes
tnev are comins bv tne minions.
:o:
Kansas long ago learned the
advertising value of queer harvest
stories.
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Whv ero to Omaha to be skinned
- - -
when the Plattsmoutb stores are
so handy?
:o:
Swat the fellow who tells you
"it's warm today." Don't you
know it as well as he does?
:o:
The telephone trust has yielded
to the demands of the govern
ment, but can't bluff central that
way.
-:o:
A great deal of charity Ihat be
gins at home is usually too public
to walk into the next block.
:o:
Instead of using your energies
trying to stir up trouble, get busy
and try to help those who are in
trouble.
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A portion of the newspaper
men have just finished a week of
pleasure in Lincoln, and returned
to their homes to make up for
lost time.
( :-
It is estimated that the rural
telephone has reduced the per
centage of insanity among farm
ers' wives. This may balance the
insanity caused by city telephones.
Teddy Hoosevelt says he will
not run for governor of New York.
Isn't he the same man who said
he would not run for a third term
for president, and did?
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A gentleman who was a member
of the stale senate at the same
time Hon. John Mattes was a
member of that body, tohl us in
Lincoln the other day that Mr.
Mattes is an able man and one of
the best parliamentarians in the
late.
:o :
On the other hand, this ham
mering of the trusts may be a
good thing; the Standard Oil
company, which has been ham
mered lung and hard, is now sell
ing gasoline at If 3-10 cents a
gallon anil coal oil is almost as
cheap as water in some places
but not in IMattsmouth.
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The Kansas City Star has the
following pert saying in refer
ence to the wheat crop: Chicago's
foremost banker, announced that
the bumper wheat crop now being
harvested will "make business
bum." It is feared that the G. O.
P. will never forgive Providence
for failing lo send droughts and
hot winds two years in succession.
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The heavy expense in handling
them in Washington and the
transportation are not the only
reasons why the distribution of
free seeds might be abolished with
profit. In a circular letter, one
of which reached the Journal, an
English llorist is bragging be
cause he sidd our government
forlfy-four tons oT garden and
vegetable seeds. . Four other
foreign seed houses, one English,
two French and one Dutch, sup
plied seeds to this government at
good prices to be distributed free
for the purposes of lining; up
votes.
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Speaking of President Wilson's
new and acceptable brand of pas
teurized war, William Allen While
says: He has twisted the tail of
the democratic jackass and it
ealeth from his hand. He hath
manicured the claws of the Tani
manyy tiger and put it on a mHk
diet. He has banished champagne
from diplomacy and grog from
the navy and generally pulverized
the rum power, wherever his gen
tle lingers have touched it. He
hath ovanescented the money trust
and started to build a government
railroad in Alaska, while the
whang doodle mournelh for its
born. Surely he is either a con
jurer or a fool for luck, and the
good Lord only knows which, as
we go to press.
FRENZIED FINANCE.
Of coarse bank failures, like
any other business failuers, may
be entirely honest and legitimate
and may come about without any
body's fault. Husiness reverses,
like colic or cold feel, may come
unannounced and nobody be able
to explain why they come. Men
who do their best and fail, are
deserving' of sympathy and they
are entitled to a lift from their
more fortunate brothers, that
they may get up and try again.
But men who fail because of
crooked anil devious ways in
business, can not be condemned
or punished too severely. Frenzied
finance is a dangerous thing un
der any circumstances in the
banking business it is a crime.
Men who speculate on other peo
ple's money are fooling with a
firebrand in a powder house. II
is merely a matter of good luck if
the whole blame shootin' match is
not blown into kingdom come.
Why men will take such desperate
risks is a puzzle that has no solu
tion. It would seem that the
commonest kind of business
brains would tell a man to keep
out of the fire. Men are sent to
prison every day for having taken
undue liberties with other peo
ple's money, and yet men keep on
trying the same thing over and
over, always with the same result.
Hankers, above all others, know
how extremely dangerous it is to
speculate on other people's
money, and the level-headed
banker discourages such precari
ous business. Safety first is the
inflexible rule of business of the
conservative banker, and none
should be recognized by those who
handle money that is not their
own. Jiiis cnieagi naiiK lauure
is an ugly looking affair, and
bears the marks uf unclean hands.
Three million dollars of worthless
securities were not the result of
accident or mistake. Money was
not loaned to relatives of the
bankers without knowledge of the
relationship. Bonds and notes of
insolvent corporations sired by
the bankers themselves, were not
left on the doorsteps of the bank
by strangers. These bankers
must have had criminal knowl
edge of the questionable trans
actions in which the bank was
engaged, and of the insolvency of
the bank. And having this knowl
edge thev should be made to suffer
the penalty provided by the law.
The courts do not hesitate to send
the chicken thief to prison and
place upon him the felon's brand,
but all of the chicken thieves in
chrisliandom have not purloined
so much as have these bankers.
A prison term would not restore
the money lost, but it would be a
wholesome punishment p ss ibly
a wholesome warning to others
who might be templed.
:o:
Next Saturday is the date lo
shoot firecrackers, but be careful,
boys.
-:o:-
Harvest hands seem fairly well
paid to a man who never was a
harvest hand.
-:o:
Combinations may be effected
iiinong candidates, but they will
prove 'of no assistance n me
ofers "catch on." Which they
are very apt to do.
:o:
There seems to be no rise in
alchiug and wailing and longer,
olhing that is coming our way
ems to happen.
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Mr. O. II. Brown, Muscatine, Ala.,
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ABOUT THE WEATHER.
The old controversy between
the astronomical scientists and
the meteorological scientists con
cerning the weather has broken
out afresh. We can think of
no weather more likely to pro
voke such a discussion than that
which this June has brought
us, in defiance alike of the astro
nomical and the meteurugical
sciioojs of weather science. We
are able lo find in a long-range
forecast, astronomical in its
processes, the forecasting of
weather for the early part of this
month which has not appeared.
And we are aide to find, almost
from day to day in the meteor
ological reports of the weather
bureau, the coming of conditions
which do not come.
The plain fact appears to be
Ihat science, meteorological or
astronomical, has learned prac
tically nothing more than was
learned when Torricelli, 250 years
ago, found a way of measuring
I he weight and pressure of the
almosphere, and called his me
chanical device a barometer. A
cood barometer can be trusted to
ti II us of what is going to happen
in a hurry, but usually allowing a
margin ot tune lor a partial set
ting of our houses in order. At
bast, any one finding a storm
indicated Jy a oarometer ami
failing to act instantly on the
hint, would have to be classed
with people, who are contemptu
ously spoken of as those who can
not tumble when a house falls on
them. The thermometer can
only tell us what is happening,
which we already know. The
barometer can fell us what is go
ing to happen next, and that is
always the thing 'we want to find
out.
As to temperatures, we have
had' in this latitude and longitude,
changes of 28 degrees in eleven
hours this month, which neither
(he astronomical nor meteorolog
ical scientists had foretold to us.
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schools of thought are, of course,
equipped with barometers, but
each of them is ambitious to go
farther than the barometer can
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weather bureau is of some service
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telegraph, it can warn sections of
country of something coming to
ward I hem and w hich, in tho
cour.-e of nature, will reach (hem
if it doesn't stop, or change its
course. Since. the barometer, lit
tle has been done to confute the
wisdom of one who said: "The
wind bloweth where it listelh and
Ihou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it
Cometh and whither it goelh."
-:o;
Villa declares that he will not
fake the presidency of Mexico.
We don't blame him.
:or
New York is back on the map
again. Teddy Hoosevelt has re
turned from Europe.
:o:
Although he doesn't seem to
show very well in finance or poli
tics, it may still be said for Wil
liam Lorimer that he. doesn't
chew, smoke, drink or swear.
:o:
An Iowa pastor has retired
from the pulpit to run for con
gress. It eems some limes as
though these two were about the
only occupations Iowa offers.
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