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it i SI05DAT, SOVEMBEK 1C. 1914. PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH S12MMVEEKLY JOURNAL. Cbs plat tsrnoutb journal Published Sam l-W eekly et Plattsmouth, Nebr. Enter J at tlit; I'uctonice at l'lattsmouili. Nebraska, as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Subscription Price; S1.50 Per Year In Advano THOUGHT FOR TODAY. If a.11 who count themselves happy we:e to tell wry simply i can yin .'. n-K-it it was that brought happi ' : ess to them, the others would -I see lh:.i between sorrow and J ! y the difference is. but between a g!ad-.omc. enlightened accept- ant-e of life and a hostile. I skx.my submission; between a ifi?;ro harmonious conception of life an.i or.e that is stubborn :.! ! r:ir:iw. Maeterlinck, v CHRISTMAS SHIPS. We hear much nowadays about Chn-lmns ships that are being sent acioss the seas, and of ships that are food and clothing to the :o: a few more days till Thanks . But what about turkey? :o: Smiiir.r brings sunshine into the 1 i"T.e, ar.d washing the windows helps 'TO. Oi.'y .-ix move Wik: till Chri.-ir.tas. I .ur hej.pir.g while yoa have the c: rr.-seem longest to people who l .tve m.-st reed beer, kicking? Vm. Have you 1 mou.:i tan.es r.o nacK seat ier i ii -y town of '"."00 people oi improve- j r-.:.ts f.-r l.-l r i enixi. c.-ts i-i tiv.".; :o: elect th millions of human beings who have been made helpless by the savagery of the war lords of the old world. And there is dire need for all of these ships and for all of the needful things thoy carry. The whole world is being besought ai d searched for help and for things that will sustain life, and still the crv for more comes across the sea ilke the wail of tormented souls. The need far exceeds tlv; sup ply, and the world is not and will not be able to till all of the hungry mouths nor clothe and shelter the poor hunted and f lightened mothers and babies who have been driven out into the cold by brutal war. After all is dons that can be done, the cry will still come across tne sea, heartrending and full I of anguish and despair. The Ameri- ica.i people have always had a keen ear ! fur cries of distress, and times with iout number they have answered calls jfrom distant lands ar.d from those j whose distress came about by acci Ident or bv the unaccountable acts of nature, and was not self-inflicted. In th.- piesence of an angry Providence men feel the need of mutual love and postmaster j ct'.i.'iidates to pay n. 'Pr.t rt- :i; e . :e".e t'..l: J: help. ar.d their hands reach out t.cross the seas and into the homes tht.t na- i I ture may have laid waste. Christian charity as well as the natural prompt- lot of people who half !in"s of the human heart' ove mcn to cio tr,!s. and the whoie world ap pbtuds thj blessed impulse. Cut we Business is greatly on the improve. notwithstanding the knockers. :o: It is impossible for us all to thin alike. But we make a mistake when we fall out with our neighbors when we cannot control their thoughts. It's h 1 to be poor, but at least one is not required to give serious consideration to the trust pamphlets on "Where to Spend the Winter," which are now coming through the mail. :o: tnat tr.jv Know ara noi. a. ! -til! vr ier wi.v thev don't i! this old world. r: e n: ... n .a'. .1 c... i s . e r. ::-e. We rife !a:e not so sure about these Christmas I .-hips and the vast stores of food and . ., , ... ii- .,. .. iIothl;:g that arc bring donated bv . co tiu-t tell.- US ti.rit l:.e " - American people, to make good the lb s s'js.aired by the people who are at war. We do not understand i r ' the ie of is a-jvancing ; from this that .i--r kraut v. ill be hirhrr al.-o. :o:- It i ; s t bo honest, even in poli t i..: in the lereni election those v.i-o u. rt -i.-h''.e-t lo.: many friend- l.i'H it four, i v. hat they had vl -..e. It i run: e ! that (ieimai.y has : ...it- preliminary ciTVi s of pea-e to t: Kt.ssij(P g.r. e'Tirvnt. which have .. woid i f truth, in the report. I:. I.. Mctcsdfe will make his home Nebras'-.a ::!t-r the 1th of next . i!.-h. His r-pi,-!ivT.n son-in-law. .:gres-man c:.;;s K. Uartcn, will ! . - rra Ki it at date. hi h..:r.' Ne'ora.-ka aft Vi-: rs from other town- give u t.. . ho. when they ibid out what bcl.t r:.t(.s the people are paying i-. this t.,.vr. Who o fault ir it? It is th city f.ur.i-il'.; l:ly to lr.xl out, :.; d Lriv" th.f eorisuricr- the bcr.eiit. :o: TtK- s::ff a.tri-t.- will ha: e to console ii. ir..-e!es with the thought that they ill 1 e gi-ei! anotl.tr cltar.ee four year.- hor.e. Put it will never come i:i N" ra-"..a now. You car. depend iicn that. Oh, There is l.othing selfish al"ut Lincoln. They were after th? t. regents of ihv urdversity, even though they bad to .-elect one from -ach party Miller, democrat, and IJiown, republican. :o: . Tlic people of these United States h;i. much to ie thankful for this year. Peace reigns supreme, and we lvc President Wilson to thank for the pTe.-ent condition. . :o: ii.at high-sounding newsj.aper, "Tlie Nebraska Republican," having I. ric its "dirtiest" to defeat Governor More-head. shoulJ now "crawl in its hole -id pull the hole in after it." li.ere is m room n jod's footstool 1 r such bantlings. hc.v any obligation can rest upon cur r-t-ople to follow after the destroying armies of Eurepo anl minister to those who have been rendered home less ar.d helpless by the cruelties of war. The war is a calamity that Eu rope her., elf has brought upn her people, ar.d the great battles that we 'cud about are being fought by the fathers, the husbands, the brothers and the sons of those whom the Amer ica!; pecp.e r.rc trying to help, Juu rone'.s troubles ate ail her own they might hrt'e been avoided, :md they might :mav be ended, if those fathers, hi;.-band., brothers and sons should so decide. Ou'.-ide of the immediate lulo thiit ihej' rr.ay give, we "doubt if Christmas ship? will appeal very strorgiy to the victims of war. To these victims Christianity and Chris tian civilization must have their meaning, and the coming Christmas must seem a mockery of what Christ taught when upon earth. Christmas ships will not take the place of the faith, the trust and the hope that have been crushed by the un-Christian rul ers of Europe. And it should not be forgotten by generous Americans that million.-; of our own people r.re need ing work and help almost as badly as are the people of Euiope. The charity that begins at home is the charity that put Christ in Christmas. :o: The neau tit ul fall weather holds on amazingly well. :o: How can tha European war be stopped? There really isn't any ques tion worth considering until this is settled. :o: Hon. '. A. Router, who has been re-elected as representative from Otoe county, will endeavor this winter to have a law enacted to educate the vot ers in the use of the long ballots. This will probably be all right, if some means cannot be devised to shorten the ballot in some way. This would prove the easiest way out of the trouble. Charley Tool will be secretary of state after the first of January next This fact will be hailed with joy by every democratic newspaper in the state. It will be remembered that four years ago the present incumbent defeated Mr. Pool by a majority of 90 votes. Tl people do not believe in giving a life-lease on any office, and Wait has been in the secretary's of lice for several years. :: Get ready to do business and make money. With a good harvest, a strong improvement in export trade in the past week or two and the early open ing of the federal reserve banks, to say nothing of the world's greatest war going on across the sea, there is no section of the United States where business will not show quick response. he opportunity of a life time is at land. Get busy and make something to sell. :o : Hon. Henry Gerde-. of Falls City m l Judge Howard Kennedy of Oma- a, two members of the state board of control, were in the city yesterday o view the location presented by this ity for the location of the state re formatory. While here these gentle men paid their respects to the Jour nal. Co!. Bates served one term in '.he legislature with Mr. Gerdes, where we formed an attachment that will last as long as we both live. Hon. F. A. Keuter, who has just been re-elected representative from Otoe county, will probably be a can didate for speaker of the house. If Fred should be elected, every member of that body can surely depend upon receiving fair treatment at his hnnds. "Equal and Exact Justice to All" has been one of Mr. Reuter's chief prin ciples for ages, and he believes in carrying it out to the letter. Pe-ides, he is one of the best citizens in the state. We arc for Fred. :o: THE PEOPLE AS LAW-MAKERS. Is the citizen in the voting booth more conservative, if not more judi cious, a law-maker than his represent ative in the legislative chamber? Is the chief flaw in the working of direct legislation to be found, not in ultra-radical voting, but in ultra-conservative voting a conservatism rest ing on lack of information and ex pressing itself according to the rule, "When in doubt, vote no" or don't vote. Do the people at the ballot box show a more marked disposition to be fair and just when legislating on matters involving corporation inter ests than do their representatives who, in fear of the presumed ultra radicalism of the people, sometimes vote yes when their judgment impels them to vote no? These are some of the questions that naturally grow out of the study of the election returns in Nebraska and in other western stales where di rect legislation is moic or less freely restorted to. In South Dakota, of ten laws and constitutional amendments submitted this year to popular vote, eight were ejected and only adopted by the peo ple. Among those rejected were laws that seemed progressive and merit orious that had been passed by the egislature and then referred to a popular vote. In a previous election the same state, by popular voting, de feated nineteen laws and adopted but one. In Missouri the legislature had, af ter a hard struggle, passed a "full crew" law affecting the railroads. The ailroads had unsuccessfully opposed it in the legislature as unfair and un- iseand financially burdensome. When the law had been enacted by the leg islature and signed by the governor the railroads had recourse to the ref erendum. The result was that the people, voting directly, defeated by something like 150,000 votes the measure which the legislature had adopted. Here in Nebraska the same ten- all men and all interests. The conservatism of the voters when engaged in the work of direct legislation will not prove an unmixed evil if it encourages legislators to cast votes based on honest judgment and not on a desire for popularity. If the representative is a man of good judgment to start wiih, if he has a sincere desire to serve the people's interests, and if then he will take the pains to inform himself as thoroughly as possible, he may cast his vote on the basis of his honest convictions without overmuch fear of the conse quences to himself politically. There is not much to choose, in politics, between the coward and dem agogue on the one hand and the dis honest servitor of special interests and traitor to the people on the other hand. Each is an unmitigated evil. What legislative halls require is men of honor, or intelligence and courage who have the manhood to stand lor the right as they see the right. The coipoiation too, thanks to the pro gressive advance of recent years, is being pretty rapidly weeded out. The coward and the demagogue should be weeded out also. Then we will have not oniy representative government, out representative government, that is intelligent and honest and fair. Then, too, we will have genuine pro gressivism progress in better gov ernment that is enduring because it rests on wisdom, on equity and on tiue patriotism. World-He laid. I ... . ' . I I II r : . : ..." ; u - Jn To 7- - "15 "N - - L . . . .... , CO ALroiJOL 3 J'Lii Ci..:. r. AYcjciaWe Prep -y-jiiipfT s sfiTii'ai'iiSiJirrGC.'fa.nilS'rja liiirJlJicSionraJisaalBwdscf 111 Promotes DiP3!foRkfu! ivss awl Pi'st.Ccntains neiiher O pitmi.Mcrpiiiirc nor? liral Wot Nakcotic. :.S,ra hcr.iXrrJ- nxeuftiir-r. A:i"-!'l remedy for Consfipa tluit , Sour Sloraach Diarrboci V.'orr.is .Convulsions .Foxrisb ngss ctJ Loss of Sleep. rscitr.ille Signature of TiLECnNTAun Cojipasi; NEW YORK. For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of AW Use For Over Thirty Years :o: dencv is observable. Th taxation The big meat packers declare that although there is an epidomic of the foot and mouth disease, there is no present reason why there should be any advantage in th'j price of meats to the ultimate consumer. They de clare they have not raised the price to the dealer and that he thould not raise the price either. In some places dishonest meat dealers have attempt ed to boost prices above the already high price., taking advantage of the publicity that is given the foot and mouth disease and relying on their ability to gull the public. There is plenty of dressed meats in the coun try and there is no need for any ad vance in prices. When a meat dealer asks more the request should be in vestigated. :o: Frederick Llewelyn Coss, inventor of the printing press which bears his name, died at his home in Chicago one day this week. He was born in Wales in 1847. It is one of the Goss presses which is now in use by the Journal, having been installed one year ago last August, and is the finest and most complete press in any city of the size of I'lattsmouth in this coun try. The decedent learned the print ing trade, and after the great Chicago fire of 1871 set up a shop of his own, but the enterprise soon failed. It was not until 1888 that he established himself iirmly, when he established the firm which became the Goss Printing Press company. Of this firm he was vice president until last year, when he ascended to the presidency. He had been ill for several months. The Goss printing press stands in thousands of newspaper offices of this country in honor of one of the great est geniuses this country ever produced. amendment to the constitution, for ex ample, advocated as the essence of sane progres-dvfcm, had been ap proved and submitted by a thr fth vote in both houses of the legislature. The people rejected it at the polls, though it had the immense advantage ef having been indorsed by every po litical party, so that every '"vote in the circle"' was counted, willy-nilly, in its favor. In all the initiative and referendum states the same rule seems to obtain, to a greater or less extent. When the people are not well informed as to the desirability of a proposed law or constitutional amendment, they ?how a grow ing tendency to vote against it. And they show this tendency quite as plainly with regard to measures de nominated progressive as with regard to any others. When the electorate is flooded with proposed laws, so nu merous and so important that the av erage citizen finds it impossible to make up his mind concerning them, meritorious laws suffer with those of no merit, and are endangered by the simple rule, "When in doubt, vote no." Legislators have seemed more gen erally, in recent years, to follow the contrary rule. If the author of the bill says it is "progressive," if news papers and promoters advocate it as "progressive," though the legislator may be in doubt sometimes though he may believe undesirable he "takes a chance" and votes yes. He figures that thereby he car. escape being de nounced as a friend of the corpora tions or as a "reactionary," and strengthen himself politically with "the folks back home. ' Needless to say that this is a re grettable legislative tendency. The representative should be a free man, an honest man, a courageous man. Except where platform pledges are in volved he should be independent, and true to his own conscience and judg ment. He should ask, not "Is it pop ular?" but "Is it right?" He should be little concerned about the effect of his vote on his own political am bitions and greatly concerned wheth er he is voting wisely anJ honestly, with a disposition to deal justly by NEW CL'HIillNC V SYSTI1M. On November lo tho new currency system will be put into elfect all over the country. The twelve regional government controlled banks will be gin business as banks for bankers. This sy-tem has the best and mo.-t valuable feature.; to be found in the banking systems of the entire world, and it will be the beginning of the greatest era of prosperity ever known, and it will be an era that no panics will be aide to puncture. The great benefit to be derived from these new banks is easily explained. For in stance, suppose a bank loans slOL'.OO'J to business men of its community, ar.d more business men wanted another .7".0u0 which the bank could not spare. Under the old or present sys tem the last set of men would go without the loan, and so business and industry would suffer accordingly in that town or county. Under the new system, the local bank would deposit the securities it received as collateral for the first loan with the government regional bank and borrow the 5?7",UOO therefrom at about 1 per cent and then lend it out at about 0 per cent. So under this system no legitimali industry can ever sutfor for want of money and financial panics will be impossible. j rm imj-. kiwi ei ftnvavMiiiflc w Vi.t;T. (Juai-craecd undirtuc Foodc: Exact Copy of Wrapper. The ckntauh company, mcw tork citt ii i analyses of Iowa coals give only G.77 S?J )8 YtJJ I cr cen as' 3 secn therefore, Hi i LiU 8 OislUU I 31 that these supposed coals from Van f"f3I3TV VABQSPfl I Hrn'-S mire contains too much ash to iliii ill ZiAiiO LiUiJ I be classed with coals, even the cannel Items of Interest lo Our Header Oii-aned lriin the Newspaper KilfS of .Many ears Ago. I varieties. In the reports of the geo- I logical survey of Illinois, volume I, 1 1 page it is stated that "there is a 1 greater variety of composition in can nel coals than other kinds, especially in the amount of ash contained, which ft hai often been contended that vanes Horn -o to oU per cent. In the Z i- 1 ... J . x there lies in tlie hills alone the Mis- Iatlt?l !L .weeiy uv mc . - . .1 noma rf rrn 1 litif 5c wavo nrAriflrliT uri river run deposits ot coal, ami "u'"c "l l,"k j f - itermea bituminous snaie. ana us cone cars ago. following tlie discovery of J what was supposed to be coal in the hi'!.-, will be of interest not only to tho older residents, but to the present genet ation who have so often heard tho matter discu-sed. The report is taken from the files of the Nebraska Herald: Dear Sir: In accordance with your iiv-.ti uctiens, I proceeded on Saturday, February 11, to section 17, township 10. north of range. 1 J, east, in Cass county. Nebraska, to examine a coal mine said to have leen discovered at that place. I was accompanied by More than half our grievances are imaginary don't you know. :o : Turkey seems to treat foreigners fully as well as it does its own citizens. :o: Remember the Christmas day and buy of those merchants who solicit your trade. :o: The allies are ordering winter clothing. And it sure docs look like a hard winter. :o: So far as we have heard, every body is getting down to business since the election. :o: We have a curiosity to know how missionaries to the poor heathen ex plains the war news. :o: L'eavis' majority over Maguire for congress in the First district is 3'JC. Pretty close shave, after all. :o . The magazine writers now wi.-h that they had studied military mat ters more and muckraking less. -:o:- Keligious intolerance is nearly as bad as war, and there arc cases in history where it has led to war. :o: The man who doesn't advertise be cause he does not knaw how to write an advertisement should quit eating because he can't cook. Mr. Van Horn, the owner of the prop erty, Mr. MacMirphy and Mr. Mack, the miner who had opened the drift at this place. Tie opening was made near th? level of the Missouri flood plain, where the river comes close to iho bluffs, and about fifteen feet above the water. Forty-three feet from the entrance the? supposed coal was struck, from which point the drift was con tinued seventy-nine feet further. The thickness of the supposed coal is three feet, eisht inches. The drifting was done almost entirely by blasting, tne supposed coal being too compact to be penetrated by the nick. Above the supposed coal there is about four feet of soft calcareous slate, and next above an undetermined thickness of light-grayish and massive limestone containing fusilina, spirifers, produc 1i. etc., of upper carboniferous age Owing to the absence of exposures above the rock, no sectors were ol (ninnd hiirher up. A few inches ot fireclay underlies the so-called coal. As is well known, the deposits under neath the loess here are of upper car boniferous age. The so-called coal is of a dark-black color, with portion occasionally approaching a grayish tint. It seems to become grayer .n drying, and on long exposure to th? atmosphere. As before remarked, it is compact, with gen ran," a s'ntv fracture. Chance blocks have smi of the conchoidal fracture of cannel coal. I selected some of the best spe cimens of this material, and on mv return submitted them to Trof. Bailey for analysis. The following is the re sult: Moisture 10.42 Volatile combustible matter ... 8.30 Carbon in coke 1.12 Ash b3.14 Loss in analysis 1.02 100.00 IS. 72 21.42 SO. "Jo- Total Or, total volatile matter... Total combustible Coke, including ash A separate analysis made by myself only differed from the above in having 1 per cent less of ash. Good coal does not contain more than from 5 to S per cent of ash. The mean of 64 is entirely worthless. Upon the fire it retains its form and is apt to de crepitate, splinters or flakes being thrown about by the escape of mois ture or steam." The result therefore reached by my examination and analysis is that it is made up of shale so highly bitumi nous as to approach in texture and composition the proper varieties of cannel coal. "As seams of this ma terial are more variable than any oth ers,"' (Illinois Reports), "it is impos sible to tell with certainty what furth er drifting into the bluffs might de velop. The chances are, however, in my opinion, against finding any true cannel coals at this point." On my way to this place I stopped over night at Rock BlulTs, where on the lower edge of the Missouri bluffs. next to the river, a drift is now being extended into a deposit which is evi dently, from its stratiographical posi tion, the geological equivalent of the one mined on Van Horn's land. There the shale contains more bitumen, and one specimen received since 1 was there on analysis comes close to the requirements of the poorer varities of cannel coal. For reasons already stated, only further drifting can de termine positively whether even here there is any true cannel coal. Respectfully submitted, SAMUEL AUGHEY, Agent on Behalf of the State. A Night of Terror. Few nights are more terrible than during an attack of croup, and that of a mother looking on her child choking and gasping for breath nothing in the house to relive it. Many mothers have passed nights of terror in this situation. A little forethought will enable you to avoid all this. Chamberlain's Cough. Rem edy is a certain cure for croup and has never been known to fail. Keep it at hand. For sale by all dealers. L. J. Hall The Union Auctioneer Union, Nebraska All sale matters entrusted to my care win receive prompt and care ful attention. Farm and Stock Sales a Specialty! Rates Reasonable! oFAddress or phone me at Union for open dates. if i r 1
