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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1915)
MONDAY, JANUARY 11. 1913. TT" TTCVTOTTTTT CTff T. WP VK T.TT jnTTTTtM ATI. PACE . 'Cbc plattemoutb journal PublUhtd 8ml-Wkly at P I at t m o u t h. N e b r. Exit red it the Postoffice at ruttsmouth. Nebraska, as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, PublUhcr Subaorlpt Ion Prloei S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe 4- THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know J V best, that I always plucked a J. thistle and planted a flower -J when I thought a flower would -J j- grow. Lincoln. I roc- Modern dancing is mostly sitting around and watching someone else Co it. :o: The bread line is the big problem lor the east. Here in Nebraska the pie line is what bothers some fel lows. :o: Since revenue stamps are now at tached to marriage licenses, an old l.achelor in this old town says he can't help but regard them as war docu ments. :o: An Ohio husband expressed his reelings in a forcible manner by thooting at his wife's portrait. Even t that, he's only one lap ahead of the man who beats his wife. :o: Maybe the young man does not be lieve it, but a boss can generally tell whether a man is capable of a bigger job by watching the way he does the i-maller things he's hired for. :o: There may be such a thing as platonic love but did you ever hear t.f these affairs in which a cross-eyed girl got mixed up with a sprouting moustache?. That's the platonic love. -:o:- "Who for mayor?' This is a mat ter that has been agitating the minds of some citizens of Plattsmouth quite reriously, but not one name has been mentioned that meets the aproba tion of any considerable number. Did you ever notice it? The fellow who claims to be a rock-ribbed demo crat, and does the least for party success, always gets the soft jobs. That has ever been the trouble with the democratic party they never re ward the faithful. :o: It may not be so easy for "Old Joe Cannon" to get into congress as he thinks. He is liable to face a contest. A grand jury at his home city, Dan ville, Illinois, is being contemplated, so it is said, to ascertain the truth of alleged corruptions in the election. "Old Joe" has found his way into tongress many times, and it has al ways been alleged that honesty has not always prevailed. :o: While - Representative Gardner's lesolution demanding a special in quiry into the country's preparedness for war, either offensive or defensive, was defeated by the house committee cn rules, the facts are apparently be ing brought out by the house com mittee on naval affairs. The people take an interest in the revelations. The public is neither pacific nor jingoistic. It is patriotically Ameri can and wants to know the exact facts, where not incompatible with the public good. There has been but slight violation of propriety in the inquiry so far. Representative Hob s-on overstepped the line, perhaps, when he asked his pointed question of Secretary Daniel3 as to the strain ed relations between this country and Japan in May, 1313. Mr. Hobson must have been actuated by personal pique more than by patriotic concern when he asked this question. He has been ridiculed so much that it was but Human in hjm to seize n opportunity to demonstrate that he had not been imagining vain things. , . THE LEGISLATURE. The thirty-fourth session of the Ne braska legislature opens auspiciously, Both houses perfected their organi zation expeditiously and without fric tion; also which is doubly gratifying without factionalism. The contest over the speakership, which on many a previous occasion has been a source of much turmoil in Nebraska politics, created scarcely a ripple of excite ment. Such contention as there was was friendly and good natured throughout, and was based solely on natural differences of opinion as to the comparative availability of the several candidates. There was no factional division, and, what is even more promising of good sense and good work, there was no division along 'wet" and "dry" lines. Mr. Jackson, the successful aspirant, is a man of legislative experience, of high stand ing, and with a reputation for cour age, fairness and common sense. His ictory carries with it 110 bitterness and no regret for the losers, since they must realize that the chance for honest service and the distinction it entails is quite as great on the floor of the house as in the speaker's chair. The legislature meets with partisan as well as factional feeling at a low ebb. And the less there is of both as the session journeys on to its des tined end the better it will be for the members and for the state. There are no radical differences along party lines in Nebraska this winter so far as concerns state problems and poli cies. 10 inject partisanship would be merely to roll the waters and les sen the legislature's capacity for calm, intelligent, judicious effort to serve Nebraska. There are a few qualities desirable in legislators that it may not be amiss to mention. P'irst and foremost is fi delity to the pledges on which the can didate was elected. Another is the courage of his convictions. Another is the disposition to do what the mem ber believes to be fair and equitable, regardless of the possible conse quences to himself personally. And the sum of all these is just plain, old fashioned honesty, combined with plain, old-fashioned patriotism. Add to these a reasonable degree of intelli gence and a willingness to work hard and unselfishly, and any legislator so endowed can end the session deserv ing, even if he does not receive, the plaudits of his constituents. He will have, in any event, the approval of his own conscience, which is beyond price. To the one hundred and thirty- three members of the Nebraska legis lature is intrusted a great and heavy lesponsibility. As they discharge it well or badly the state will profit or suffer, not merely in the immediate present, but for many years to come. They are to act on important matters presented in a time of no ordinary stress and uncertainty; The situa tion is one to call forth the best that is in them. The World-Herald trusts there is not a member but will re member that he serves himself best who serves his party best, and his party best who best serves his state. World-Herald. -:o:- I3y the time a man finds out who are really his friends, he is lost. :o: Say something good about your town. If you can't do this, say noth ing. . :o : . People who go through life expect ing the "Lord to provide" are then disappointed if He doesn't carry out the dishes and wash them. :o : It is now reported that Teddy Roosevelt has cut out coffee. Then there will be no possibility of his pgaia wanting the third cup. Once an office-holder, always an of fice-seeker. :o: What's the record for high jumps is becoming great. . :o : Prohibitionists are fond of playing the role of Banquo's ghost. :o: Many a good fiddler has been ruin ed by becoming a violin player. :o: Man wants but little here below, but he keeps right on wanting it. :o: So many people are always willing to give sympathy and nothing else. :o: Will your New Year resolutions outwear the children s Christmas toys? Now, what about "Ground Hog day?" It isn't long off now Feb ruary 2. :o: The suffragists threaten to become militant before congress next week ut 'em out! -:o: While safety may be the first policy of the United Railways, economy seems a close second. :o: The war may last a long time, but it is not likely to outlive the Dr. Hyde case at Kansas City. :o: And now they have it that Teddy Roosevelt is to go on the stage. Some how we had supposed he never was really off of it. :o: There was a time when Ogder, Utah, would have not dared to boast of having the highest birth record in the United States. :o: Our search of ancient history fails o reveal where the jokesmith got the otion that a bald head is essential to a keen interest in legs. :o: The disappearance of the snow may not add materially for the betterment f the wheat crop, but other snows will be very apt to follow. :o: The governor rightly opposes any xtra pay for hangers-on about the legislature. There has been too much extra pay for an hour's work after upper. :o: Governor Morehead's message is a ery able state paper, and his recom mendations are right to the point and will result in much good if adhered to by the senate and house. :o: If Governor Morehead has his way bout it the appropriations will be urtailed to about one-half of what they were two years ago. And the egislature should stay right with im. :o: The Journal agrees with the Grand sland Independent in the following: "The Jefferson county farmers have taken a high position in refusing to L-ell horses for the European war. Ap parently they go farther than to bab ble peace in one breath and exhaust the next in a grab for dollars to be j made at the expense of human lives and suffering. But can the commer cial world be made to take cognizance of the fact that every direct dealer is also a direct participant in the con tinuance of the war? Or, even if cog nizance of the fact is taken, is the commercial conscience of such fiber as to control action? Mr. Clarence Howard, president of the immense steel concern in St. Louis, a former Grand Island young man, has refused a contract of $1,000,000 in war muni tions. Are there enough Clarence Howards in America? How general is the reported sentiment of the Jef ferson county farmers? It will not do to underestimate the high, moral grounds the Howards or the Jefferson county farmers have taken, if head way is to be made. Eut the commer cial sense can probably be more effec tively appealed to. The destruction by ourselves, by means of such sales, 0 all these horses and other supplies, will react upon ourselves we must certainly share in their loss in the future." "BARBAROUS MEXICO. lou may recall that some years ago a certain magazine, having some what exhausted the muckraking pos sibilities of this land of the free press, sent an able artist in that line to Mexico with the result that the Diaz dynasty came in for an awful iianning. lne horrors tnerein set forth ranged from control of the vot ing machinery by machine guns in stead of ward heelers, to plain and fancy slavery in the fever swamps of Gueatan and points south. That writing person made a great case against Mexico, and much of it we have been based on facts, for all we know to the contrary, but a know ledge of the course of muckraking warrants the belief that much of it was made to order, exaggerated and distorted to suit the occasion and make the irate readers snort. WThat is known for a fact is that the Madero revolt followed, to be followed in turn by a revolt of the younger Diaz, and Huerta and Carranza and Villa and others too numerous to mention, until nanslaughter has become the favorite pastime of a large proportion of the populace. Business and industry are r.11 shot to pieces, and natural re sources are remaining steadfastly in natural state for lack of foreign capital to develop them. It is also admittedly true that Mexico made its greatest strides in business and de velopment during the regime of Porofrio Diaz, even if he did rul-2 :n a rough way. There is some reason to believe that that is the only way that will work in Mexico, and even it doesn't seem to work very well, now that so many rival patriots have sprung up. W men may not make the muckraking magazine responsible for Mexico's continuous performance, but the widespread disturbance followed so closely that there may have been a connection. And certainly agitators of one kind and another, foreign aril domestic, have done more toward making Mexico barbarous than did Diaz during his long and prosperous rule. Doubtless a majority of Medi ans would like to swing back to those days, but there doesn't seem to be any way; Mexico has started some thing it can't stop. :o: In looking over the bunch that has hung around the state house this week, one wonders why so many want to hang around all winter for the small stipend received. It is the soft, easy chair and lour hours a day s work that catches the most of them. :o: As we start out on the new year, why not look on every act of our brothers and friends as coming from pure motives? Others may make mistakes, we all do that. But it is better to attribute the mistakes to a misconception of the right than charge wilful and malicious violation of the proprieties. Why not try this mode of procedure for a year and see the results? :o: If the food inspector should happen to visit some of the stores in this town he would find egg3 that had been in storage for at least six months and not fit for use. The oTije of state food inspector is perhaps all right, but the trouble is they do not come around often enough to keep merchants from getting cureless in taking in stale articles of food. Each town should be inspected at least once a month, and so should all the hotels. :o: In direct contrast to the reports from other metropolises of the Unit ed States, the business of Omaha shows a gratifying condition for the year just closed. Reflecting as it does the general condition, throughout the states of Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas, the clearing through Omaha should be especially pleasing. Figures compiled by the bureau of publicity of manufacturing and jobbing show a gain in these two lines of business of more than one million dollars. Manu facturing shows a heavy increase and the increase comes in those lines which are especially Nebraska's. For instance, the value of packing house products increased more than seven million dollars, due partly to the high er prices prevailing. The nresident of France predicts that by the next New Year the wa will be at an end. If the rate of Kill ing is kept up during the present year that reports make it for the past four months, there may rot be soldiers enough left to carry on the war. -:o:- There were a few fellows taken down a notch or two in the race for speaker of the house of represent atives, one in particular who had im posed on his friends for years in the way of borrowing money from all he possibly could and never refunding it, lie has done this so long and publicly that the members had caught onto him and turned him down good and plenty. :o: WHY ALONG PARTY LINES? lhe Nebraska state senate, by a vote of 19 to 12 more than three to two has adopted the joint resolution offered by Senator Howell of Douglas county memoralizing congress in fa vor of the Hitchcock bill to stop the trade in war munitions. In adopting this resolution this newspaper is persuaded that the state senate has only done what the people of Nebraska would do and do by a more overwhelming majority if they were given an opportunity to vote on the question. The sentiment in favor of the Unit ed States following the example set iy the neutral European nations, and forbidding the trade in arms and am munition, is growing rapidly. But this newspaper does not believe that sentiment is growing along party lines. There is no more reason that v. e can see why a republican should oppose the principle of the Hitchcock bill then a democrat. There is no more reason why a democrat should favor it than why a republican should. Among the prominent Nebraska men favoring the policy incorporated in the Hitchcock bill are Senator Nor- ris and former Senators Millard and Brown, all republicans. Throughout the state republicans are joining with democrats in petitions to congress in its behalf. Why, then, was the division in the state senate practically on party lines? Why did all the republican senators but three vote against the adoption of the Howell resolution, while all the democrats' but two Senators Seal and Robertson vote for it? The World-Herald cannot answer its own questions. Of one thi'ig, however, it is persuaded; that Sen ators Lahners, Randall and Spencer, the three republicans who voted in the affirmative, move truly represeme l their constituents, republicans as well as democrats, than did the ten repub licans who voted in the negative. We make bold to say that if the senate of the state of Nebraska realizes how high and how fast the tide of public sentiment is mounting in favor of this country stopping the sale of arms and ammunition, just as the neutral countries of Europe have done, the vote for the Howell resolu tion would have been all but una nimous. World-Herald. His Stomach Troubles Over. Mr. Dyspeptic, would you not like to feel that your stomach troubles were over, that you could eat any kind of food you desired without in jury? That may .seem so unlikely to you that you do not even hope for an ending of your trouble, but permit us to assure you that it is not alto gether impossible. If others can be cured permanently, and thousands have been, why not you? John R. Barker, of Battle Creek, Mich., is one of them. He says, "I was troubled with heartburn, indigestion and liver complaint until I used Chamberlains Tablets, then my trouble was over. Sold by all dealers. Genuine Fletcher's Castoria this week only at 19c; Gering & Co., the Spot Cash Family Druggists. Phone 3G. C. W. Stoehr and Ed Tschirren came in this morning from their farm homes near this city and were pas sengers for Omaha, where they ex pect to visit a large f tock sale that is to be held today at the South Omaha market. '1 'HhBUI.W -ALt'OIiOI., 3 Ii CKNT. AYrgclaM? PfcparallonilrAs ltd Sio:nadi5 anuIicYclsaf m Proves Digestion .Cfeerful ncss and lfcst.CoataIasnciifcer Opiur.i.MorpIuae norliiicral XotNadi COTIC. :,. i.iJ:'.l Sitdm jtLx.Sc-Tua A;hcSctl J.t CurtiLit SsJa iuUd Swyy hi;C t3". Apc-frct Remedy for Consflra t ion , Sour Stomach Diarrticei Wcnus ,Coir.uIstons,rcYensn nssssidLoss ofSlce?. TacSiniila Signature of Tii Centauh Compass; NEW YORK. V. v.5 ..-: 7 i'. ' f.F h VfcO Guaranteed ur.ter theToo3jS Exact Copy of Wrapper. M. Tritsch, refracting optician, at Gering & Co.'s Wednesday and Sat urday evenings. Examination free. Ed. and Philip Recker and families were here Saturday spending the day with relatives and looking after some matters of business with the mer chants. Frank Grauf of the vicinity of Murray was among those in the city Saturday afternoon for a few hours attending to some trading with the merchants. F. J. Ilennings and wife drove in Saturday from their farm home near Cedar Creek to attend to the week end shopping with the merchants for r. few hours. George M. Hild of near Mynard was among those in the city Saturday looking after some trading. Mr. Hild will move to this city in a short time to make his future home. John Deck came in Saturday after noon from his farm home some six miles west of this city to look after 5-ome matters of business with the merchants for a few hours. C. E. Metzger came up from his home at Mynard Saturday, to enjoy a few hours' visit here with his friends and to look after some matters of business with the merchants. John M. Meisinger and wife came in this morning from their home near this city and were among the pas sengers for the metropolis on No. 15, where they will spend the day look ing after some matters of business. Henry Born and Ed Tritsch, two of the leading farmers residing near this city, came in Saturday from their homes and visited here for the day at tending to some matters of business with the merchants. January Travel One of the big events of Nebraska is the annual convention and ex position of ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE, LINCOLN, JANUARY 18 to 23, 1915 This is . the convocation of the Agricultural, Horticultural, Live-stock, Dairy, Floral, Good Iioads, and Home Economics Societies; it intercuts farm ers, orchardists, live-stock men, business men and bankers. The best Apple-show and Corn-show of the Middle-West will be held during this period. Over twenty-five associations interested in the development and improv ment of Nebraska's agricultural, live-stock and dairy interests and allied subjects will hold convenions that will interest everr mmfitsm HU For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bear; Sign; Sale Begins January 9th and continues until the entire stock is sold. Damaged by water and smoke. After January 10th I will re move to the room in the Perkins Hotel Block. Mrs. O. P. Monroe. 1-8-JJtd Palms and Oils. Phone 36. Gering & Co. L. J. Hall The Union Auctioneer Union, Nebraska All sale matters entrusted to ray care will receive prompt and care ful attention. Farm and Stock Sales a. Specialty! Rates Reasonable! TAddress or phone me at Union for open dates. AUCTIONEER -Weeping Water, Neb.- will take charge of your public sale business. Farm sales a specialty. Owners' interests Are always guarded with the best ability, and satisfaction guaranteed. For open dates telephone at my expense to Weeping Water. WM. DUNN. 3 tho A a iture f LU hi Use Up For Over Thirty Years yii S BUI THE CtNTftUM COMPANY. MW TOMK CITT. 1,1 " '" """"" """j.-'f--wrT'j m HI Specialties ! inhabitant of Nebraska. For ofTicial programs,. information, etc., apply to W. R. MELLOR, Chidrman, GEO. W. KLINE, Secretary, Lincoln, Nebraska.