THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 191.
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PL'ATTSMOUTTI Slttli-WEEKLY JOURTVAIL
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
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And the finest fellow of all J
J would be the one who could be
J glad to have lived because the
J world was chiefly miserable,
I- and his life had come to help
cnrrmnno who nrflfd it.
. George Eliot.
There is trouble brewing in the
suffrage camp in Lincoln. Mrs. F. M.
Hall, president, Mrs. J. H. Johnson,
ice president, and Mrs. Chester II.
Arthur, auditor of the Lincoln Equal
Suffrage league, have resigned.
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The border patrol of this country it
seems have been compelled to build
tomb proof trenches to keep from
being killed by the firing across the
line by Mexicans. While the govern
ment has sent at various times em
phatic notes that this must cease, it
Richmond "got it in the neck" for
sneaker, just as we .expected.
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There'll be no room for knockers in
riattsmouth this year.
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The newly-elected officials will as
sume their dutie3 next Thursday.
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We scorn ordinary puzzles, but the
average war map gives us the head
ache. :o:
"Be sure you're right and then go
.ihead," is a good'motto to adopt for
1D15.
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Platt?niouth can do much better in
1015 than it did in 11)14, if we all pull
together.
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If only fear keeps you on the
straight and narrow, don't brag about
it; the world hates a coward. .
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The United States is pressing home
one of England's own precidents for
her to ponder over in leisure hours.
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Every time a married man digs up
a new excuse for being. out late he
infringes on some other fellow's
patent.
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You may have noticed that the citi
zen who talks about the blessedness
of poverty is always the fellow who
owns a third of the real estate in
town.
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The war still rages in Mexico, and
ihe" United States should let them
f.ght it out to their own satisfaction,
so they don't murder any more
Americans.
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The people of Murray will attach
themselves to the Farmers' Telephone
company of Union. Other towns and
communities will in all probability
follow suit.
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At the dawn of the New Year us
old folks begin to look forward to
sprmg. We don't like winter weather,
-lthoujrh this one so far as fine
weather could not be excelled.
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Flattsmouth bids fair to out-do any
city of the same size in- Nebraska in
the way of improvement in 1915. It
done this in 1913, it done this in 1914,
and it will do it in 1915. Watch us
Loom!
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Three hundred and fifty-seven thou
sand and five hundred and ninety
eight people in this country paid as
income taxes the sum of $28,253,535.
Of this number 23,551 were women
and single at that. The number of
old bachelors ought to grow visibly
less at this information in this coun
try, but possibly the ladies are all
waiting for some fool duk"e to come
across and tie up with them.
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Congressman-elect Reavis, of the
First Nebraska district, mourneth and
not be comforted. If there is no
extra session, he laments, it will be
thirteen months from the time of his
election until he can take a hand in
the formation of legislation at Wash
ington and show the people what he
can do to merit a renonvnation. Still,
there have been instances, noN doubt,
in which such a combination of cir
cumstances might be characterized as
sheer luck. Grand Island Independent.
THE NEW YEAR.
Much ado is made over the coming
of a new. year. The New Year is seems that but little attention is paid
made the occasion for kindly greet- to them. f
ings and good wishes, and for the :o- '
taking and making of all kinds of Will Maupin will decline any posi
admirable pledges and resolutions, tion tendered him by the state ad
Some very beautiful customs have ministration. In the campaign he vias
grown up in connection with the cele- f candidate for railway commissioner,
brations of the New Year, and the but was defeated. There was much
world takes on a new smile and a ado about his moral record during the
lighter heart, as Father Time rings campaign, which had much to do vn.h
out the old and rings in the new. And his defeat. Will Maupin is one of the
it is a dull soul indeed that cannot best business men, newspaper editors,
gather inspiration and new courage and has done more for the up-building
from the midnight bells and midnight of the state thany anyone, and as a
voices that welcome the coming and recognition of his services should have
speed the parting year. Acocrding to been elected. There are those who
the calendar, we are iriven a new Utand high in the councils of the
chance at life, another trv at makintr party that are worse than lah
our dreams come true, anotheV op-1 Maupin.
portunity to write success above our J to:
efforts. And it is a friction that we I There are renewed rumors that Sec-
can well afford to preserve. It in-lretary Bryan shortly will resign from
spires us with new hope, and revives the cabinet. The New York World
ambitions that have grown tired in' I gives four reasons why he probably
the struggle with fate. We hope for will get out: He is not getting the
something better from the new year, I glory out of his position he would
and this hope gives us strength to like; he has accomplished what he set
toil on. And we live on and toil on, out to do when he entered the cabinet
because we hope on. It is in the fact that is, got his peace treaties
that we make a fresh start with the i-atified; the work that he is required
New Year that we find the deepest to do in the state department is irk-
meaning of the New Year celebration, some and not attractive; by remaining
We are glad to get away from much in the cabinet he is losing a rich har-
of the past. In the past are all of our vest on the chautauqua platform, for
mistakes, our disappointments, and iunning out and in is not as remun-
our sorrows. We look to the future, erative as lecturing all the time
to the new year to bring what our :o:
nearts nave longed lor and what our The smartest men are those who
ambitions have striven for. We are ciajm to know the least, while the
cheered on by the hope that the fu- average ignorant man frequently pro-
ture, possibly the new year, holds in ;rUdes his chest and assumes to
store for us the "blessings that v.e know about everything. Thomas A.
feel are ours. And this sweet hope Edison, who knows a whole lot, in
comes to us with the New Year like sjsts he doesn't know much. Recently
a bird song in springtime, singing to he said: "There is much ahead of us.
flowers and balmy days. This hope, ye (ont know what gravity is;
tne music or youtn, tne strength of neither do we know the nature of
?ge, the lifeline of the sick and dying, heat, light and electricity, though we
keeps the world agoing and drives handle them a little. We are only
away the gloom and darkness of de- Enimals. We are coming out of the
spair. This hope, like the bugle call dog stage and getting a glimpse of
to battle, thrills us with new energy cur environment. We don't know, we
and new determination, and our just SUSpect a few things. It will
fancy fills the new year with the ful- take an enormous evolution of our
fillment of our choicest wishes. While hra5ns to brinff us anywhere. Our
we expect much of the new year, we practice of shooting one another
shall realize nothing more and noth-
Using the law of averages, one may
afely predict that 1915 will be better
than 1914.
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When there is comparatively little
going on some men may possibly re
sort to talking.
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Some men stay away from home so
much their children are bauhful when
they meet them.
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It won't do to bank
too heavy on
You may
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war is proof that we are still animals.
of our society is
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nig uener man me inings we strive I The makeup
for. Merely hoping for something, hideous."
never gets us anywhere, and never
u ,6. iI4C ciurcn Ex-President Taft in a recent ad
SDire noints thfi wav. hnt. it. novor tr&ta I, . .
" " uress declared that this country is
to heaven. Most of the failures of prepared in the way of defense. e
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1C ,uy umrgeu up to lacK said our coast defenses are superior
of effort. The past has been replete to anythinff of their type in the world
with opportunity as will the future, lhough there is need of more men to
and the new year will make the same operate them . time of war He gaid
demands of all of us as have the further that no investigation ig need.
years gone by. Our resolutions will ed as a the information such as an
test our wills and try our courage as :,,: , . .
j mvPSI lent nn fmiln hrinrr nut micrVir
severely as did our resolutions of a
year ago. Our temptations will be as
great and our weaknesses will be as
sorely tried. In truth, the years are
but circles and we go 'round and
'round, passing the same landmarks
year after year, and over and over
again. Today is the future that we
have been looking forward to through
all the years, and we are disappointed
with it. And the future that we are
now looking forward to will be as
great a disappointment when we
reach it, unless we strive to make it
better.
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The fewer the bills passed by the
legislature the better the members
will please their constituents. We
have a sufficiency of laws on the stat
ute books now. Half of these are not Ffaj
enforced.
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A citizen remarked the other day
that he believed so strongly that
everyone should remain neutral, that
he didn't care which of the allied
powers licked Germany. How's that
for neutrality?
be found in reports to congress on
file.- We need a better trained militia
and a better supply of ammunition,
but Mr. Taft deprecates the idea that
we are defenseless or that we are to
go into a military camp. The navy
was all right two or three years ago,
he says, and all we need to do is to
keep it up to the same comparative
standard, some changes being neces
sary every year. We may need more
men to man the guns of the coast de
fense and an increase of 25 per cent
in the staading army, but this is be
ing looked after and the ex-president
thinks we have nothing to lie awake
nights over. He calls attention to
he fact that when this country is
sued a defi to England in Cleveland's
administration over the Venezuela af-
r it had only one modern gun and
that was at Sandy Hook. Mr. Taft's
moderate and assuring words are in
striking contrast with the cry of the
jingoist3 and alarmists who would
rush into a military camp just when
the probability of war i3 so remote as
to be negligible. There ,never was less
excuse for such a hubbub.
The success of a new year is
measured by the number of resolu
tions kept, instead of the number
riade.
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The immigration bill is hardly an
emergency measure, liicre were 1V1
410 fewer immigrants last year than
in 1913.
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Most of the "financial experts
write lor the magazines and are as
poor as mice. Very few of them are
in business.
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Young women who marry rich but
uotmg oM men should take the pre
caution to get an abstract of matri
monial title.
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GIVE THE REGENTS A CHANCE
Isn't it about time that the bush
whacker should quit bombarding the
university and the board of regents?
By their votes the people proclaim
ed in the recent election their wish as
to what should be done in regard to
location. That was the question upon
which the regents seemed to be un-
rble to agree.' It is not understood
that there is any disagreement among
the regents regarding any other ques
tion of administration.
If there is harmony in the delibera
tions and conclusions of the board, it
would seem it is nobody's else put in
The law is rather comprehensive and Secretary Bryan resigning
detailed in directing how the uni-
versity shall be conducted. The men :o
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,vV i,n .ji t0 mere are no religious uenomina-
law-abiding men who have the best tions in th5s country and each one is
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interest of the Wirntinn nt lw.fi rf. lne only lrue oranu.
They draw no salaries for their serv
ices. It is a labor of benevolence and
state pride with them.
Doesn't it seem as if contentious
outsiders should subside and refrain
from further effort to involve the uni
versity in acrimonious discussion of
what should be done or what should
not be done in one respect or another?
Evidently there are some who
would like to arouse some contention
among legislators over university af
fairs that is some unnecessary and
harmful agitation. It seems evident
that former Regent Coupland has
some hope of starting something to
keep the university location row go
ing. Surely it seems as if he ought
not to be allowed to do it.
Anyone who is in position to intel
ligently observe the progress of the
university knows that the wrangle
over location that has been in pro
gress for six or eight years has re
tarded the griwth of the institution
just that much. Any other wrangle
which anyone might now be able to
institute would continue the work of
lepression for just the period that it
might continue.
Surely the regents who have been
chosen are capable of discerning just
what is best for the university. As
to at least two of them, the people
have but recently emphatically de
clared that their ideas are good, and
that those of their critics are bad.
Why not give the board a free hand
for a while to allow it to begin the
work of university development ac
cording to plans it has mapped out or
may map out? Of course there are
a few in Lincoln who will get excited
and noisy over questions such as
whether a building should face north
or south, whether it should be of yel
low or drab material, whether it
should be plain or gingerbread and
kindred ponderous issues. They can
not help it. They are built that way.
They ' are inocculated with the es
sence of all the arts and if they did
not make a noise about such things
the public might conclude that they
knew little about them.
But let those who concern them
selves over small things quibble and
rave about them if they wish. That
will hurt no one. But as to the
policies that may be determined upon
by the board, if they comprise no
outrage upon the law, it is time for
trouble-makers to observe a decorous
nd helpful silence. Lincoln Star.
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The foes of the hookworm, pel
!agra, hyphard, tuberculosis and can
cer, feel that Mr. Ilobson is trying to
monopolize the mortuary statistics.
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The legislature will be asked to re
vise the school laws ol .Nebraska this
winter. There are many changes to
be made, and it is hoped for the bet
ter.
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The usual number of oflke-scekers
are hanging around the state house,
in the hope that they may be favored
with a S3.00 per day position. It was
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ever thus.
This country, without mucTi in the
way of an army and navy, has some
reason for feeling secure; the powers
which are prepared are fairly busy in
proving it to each other.
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A terrible fight is anticipated in the
legislature against the primary elec
tion system. This is where the poli-
al class, like Frank Reavis, will
endeavor to get in their work.
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The legislature will hardly get
down to business before next week.
They hardly ever do. They will prob
ably elect officials in both houses and
adjourn over to next Monday after
noon. :o:
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There has always been too many
wall flowers sitting around the senate
and house drawing three dollars a
day. Cut them down. Don't waste
the people's money because you have
the power.
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The bank guarantee law of Ne
braska is a great success. The sec
retary of the banking board reports
nearly a million dollars to start the
new year with. That looks good for
the guarantee law.
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Thursday is inauguration day, when
Governor Morehead enters upon his
second term. He is the only demo
cat who ever served as governor of
Nebraska for the second term. Quite
a compliment to our noble governor.
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Senator George W. Norris, also of
Nebraska, has agreed to support a
iimilar bill to that of Senator Hitch-
The minimum upon which working cock's against the shipment of arms
girls can live in Missouri ranges be- and munitions of war from this coun
tween $8 in St. Joseph and S8.50 a trv to Eurone. Of course Senator
week in St. Louis. In spite of this Hitchcock's bill is what strikes the
thousands of girls are existing right spot, but Norris does not like to
throughout the state on $4.50 a week.
This, in substance, is the report of
the special commission appointed by
the state senate a year ago to in
vestigate conditions among working
women.
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ed his name to a Feruna testimonial.
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While men are cowardly in' many
vays, most of them will run a great
lisk in the matter of writing love let
ters.
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No man in a small town has time to
devote to being a Social Lion, xc
::ides, most of the society men are
rabbits.
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The senate and house want to begin
business right by cutting down the
employes to at least two-thirds of the
i.sual number.
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Our revised notion of the apex of
effluence would only include a fund
ruflicient to dig up every time an op
portunity in that line offered.
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The old-fashioned Utah style of
polygamy had fewer harsh features
than the kind which is becoming
alarmingly prevalent elsewhere.
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The man who meets you today and
fails to recognize you tomorrow is also
among the provocations which induce
people to go out and throw bombs at
everything.
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It would be too bad if the efforts
f the United States to provide the
foreigners with breadstuff's should be
docked by technicalities in interna
tional law.
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Years ago, when a boy attended an
agricultural college, they poked fun
at him and said he would not amount
to anything, trying to be a "book
farmer." But now it is different.
Science applied to the occupation of
farming makes farming more profit
able as well as more pleasant.
support the bill because it would boost
the senior senator a peff higher than
himself, who is so many pegs higher
than Norris that it is impossible for
him to reach hailing distance in the
United States senate.
We are too old to overestimate the
mportance of loung Blood, but it
does seem that too much of it is be-
ng used in painting me map oi
Europe red.
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Having given for the Belgians, you
?re very apt to be asked to dig up
for the Severians and the Poles, who
have also been hard hit by the hor
rors of war.
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Jchn M. Tanner was sat down oi
pretty hard when his appointment for
chief clerk of the engrossing room of
the senate, when that body refused
his confirmation.
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The pure stock feed and agri
cultural seed act passed by the legis
lature of 1911, is held as unconstitu
tional and void by Judge Cornish of
the district court of Lancaster county,
because of the fact that it covers
mere than one subject.
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When former Regent Coupland's
farewell letter to members of the
legislature shall have been analyzed,
which it will be in due season, it will
be foL'nd to comprise the old line ot
bunk with which he failed to blind the
voters of the stafe in the recent
election. The coroner has sat on
former Regent Coupland, and a decent
sense of the proprieties would ad
monish that imperturbable creature
that as regent of the university he is
nicely dead and buried. Lincoln Star.
AFTER EFFECT OF DOLLARS.
Money is power. It not merely
brings the comforts and pleasures of
life, but it is influence and patronage.
Ii; builds up, and it tears down, ac
cording as its support is given or
withheld. It is the short-sighted pcr-
ccn who considers only the immediate
icsults of his purchase on himself,
lie should consider also whether the
after effect of his purchase are going
to help him, or going to hurt him.
When a man buys an article in some
btore, he gets two results. One is im
mediate and very tangible. He gets
the satisfaction of the food he buys,
end the comfort of the clothing ho
purchases. But is that all? The
purchase being made at home, a direct
stimulus is given to his home in
terests, lie is thereby helped to make
a business friendship with the man of
whom he bought the goods. If such
purchases are "continued, a dealer
looks at him as a friend worth culti
vating, will take special pains to meet
his needs, and guarantee him satis
faction. The home dealer is made
more prosperous by the home pur
chase. He can in turn help out some
ether home dealer. The dollar cir
culating at home increases home
business, means more taxable prop
erty, more money in one's own town
available for all public cause's, more
funds to employ labor here, general
prosperity, and advance in the value
of all property. On the contrary, the
dollar spent in some other town never
comes back. It goes to build up some
great faraway city. There are no af
ter effects favorable to the buyer. It
would seem as if a-spirit of self-in
terest, if not of local patriotism, and
community spirit, should learn any
intelligent person to spend money in
such way as to receive the additional
benefit that comes from k-ppnin-r
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money at home.
All this flopdoodle about a supreme
court commission should not be treat
ed seriously, unless it is with a
thought of abandoning the proposition
of such a thing. When we had only
three supreme judges it was all right,
but now that we have seven it is all
wrong. Supreme court judges s-houl 1
earn their salaries or get off the
dump for those who are able to do
the work.
It is said that applicants for posi
tions around the state house are ;n
thick as hops on the pole. We thought
they would be if Cass county is any
criterian. We have more than the
usual number, and if our single rep
resentative is able to get them all in
ha will be a daisy in full bloom.
1913 Calendar Pads at the Journal
office.
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