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'PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, MARCH 11. 1915.
TZbz plattsmouth journal
Published Soml-Weekly at Platttmouth, N b r.
Entered tit the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second-class mail matter.
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"Tailors are putting additional
money pockets in men's trousers,"
says an exchange,
what for?
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For heaven's sake,
Fashion has decreed that women
must reduce in weight in order to
wear the latest gowns. What a
calamity to those who cannot reduce,
and yet refuse to wear an out-of-date
CONFISCATING THE PRESS.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
I think if the Hebrews, the
Catholics, and the Protestants
J- should get together on the ques
J tion, the reading of the Bible in
4 the schools could be brought
J about. S. Parkes Cadman.
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It's easy to quit and just as easy to
stay quit.
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What was it the groundhog predict
ed, anyway?
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Playing the other fellow's game is
no way to beat it.
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Who's got the best of it so far?
The lion, of course.
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Don't shout for war until you arc
ready to go yourself.
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Every politician is a statesman, if
you take his word for it.
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Man is a worm and woman is
the early bird that catcheth him.
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The robin and redbrrd, harbingers
of spring, have been muffled by snow
drifts.
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History says that George Washing
ton loved often and deeply. Evidently
he was ahead of his time.
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lle is a benefactor of the age who
k'arns to make one pound of flour do
what two have been wasted on be
fore.
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A new counterfeit $20 gold certifi
cate is said to be in circulation. There
ought to be twenties of some kind go
ing around.
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We have no complaint to make if
the old saying holds good, "March
comes in like a lion and goes out like
a lamb."
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Norfolk has just decided to lay five
miles of pavement during the coming
reason. How much will Plattsmouth
lay this summer?
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Germany accuses the United States
of having no army, and if that fact
win keep us out of trouble we
shouldn't feel a bit sore.
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If plenty of snow is an oman of a
good wheat crop, evidently Cas3 coun
ty will be among the leading counties
in this cereal this year.
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Most of those statesmen who are
shouting for a larger navy, would
neither enlist nor permit their sons
to do so. Which reference, of course,
is to the army in peace. Most men
arc patriotic enough to take a chance
when trouble really comes.
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Prohibition in Iowa again? How
many times has Iowa tried to enforce
prohibition in the past twenty-five
years and made a failure in its ef
forts? Let some of the politicians of
the Hawkeye state, who have
gained notoriety for themselves and
slid into office on this fale issue, please
answer if they can.
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Mayor Harrison of Chicago made a
grand-stand play of not entering the
race for renomination until his wife
gave her consent. The question was
properly and scientifically mooted,
and duly advertised and discussed in
the daily press, with a weather eye
rlways to leeward for the woman
vote. And the women did vote and
Carter will return to the bosom of
his family, the worst defeated candi
date who ever jockeyed for feminine
favor. i
We can look for more snow any
time, day or night.
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Trying to be neutral on the liquor
issue places a legislator in a most
uncomfortable position.
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Woman's waist line is to be restored
by fashion. However, no one is bold
enough to predict where it will be,
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Profesosr Taft says profanity is
conducive of low golf scores, and
there are equally good reasons for no,t
swearing.
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Ihe trains are running again on
time, which is good news to those of
our citizens who patronize Omaha
merchants.
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There don't seem to be very much
excitement over the city election. It's
pretty near time for candidates to be
getting a move on themselves.
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Here's a bully idea: Let's have a
aw requiring every senator and con
gressman who votes for war to enlist
and ro to the front. Then there'll be
no war.
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A California grafter has been
ordered to confine his reading to the
bible for a month. If like punishment
is to be given all grafters there
wouldn't be enough of bibles to supply
the demand.
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clerical positions. In the east, it ap
pears, there has been a decided falling
cfT of receipts, on account of slower
business ellegedly due to the Europ
ean war. Whether the decrease has
been from this or from other causes,
it appears, that the service in the
west, showing no material decrease in
receipts, is also to come in for the
pruning hook.
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The campaign against the house
fly was inaugurade a little earlier last
year than ever before and it had its
effect in noticeably decreasing the
number of pests later on. It is as
tonishing how many thousands flies a
single pair will breed if let alone dur
ing a single season. The time to get
in effective work is early in the sea
son and with a concerted effort their
number can be greatly reduced. Swat
the fly and swat early!
gown!
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The postal authorities at Washing
ton are evidently determined to intro
duce very decided economies in the
management and maintenance of the
department. All of the large offices,
it seems, are to be subjected to such
r,n inspection relative to the efficiency
of the force, from the assistant post
master to the most recently appointed
substitute, as has been made in the
Omaha office in which several ma
terial reductions have been made in
salaries and changes in the more
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There are always two sides to a
genuine poaticial politician before
election and after election. Before
election he is very conservative in his
expressions, but after election, in one
instance that we know of, his remarks
before election are certainly forgot
ten, and his standpatism is as brazen
as that of Old Joe Cannon. He re
ceived many democratic votes on ac
count of his conservative declarations
in the campaign, but he has evidently
ost sight of his utterances before the
election from his utterances at the
present time. That man is C. F.
Reavis, who was elected to congress
ast fall and who condemns himself as
a political mincompoop who seems to
care but little what his utterances
may bring forth. But one thing cer-
ain, Mr. Reavis can come to the con-
Iusion that he will remain at home
after two years' service.
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A MILLION MEN FOR PEACE.
In reference to house roll No. 736
the Fremont Tribune voices the senti
ment of the Journal in every utter
ance in the following editorial:
The instigator of the proposed
measure is John O. Yeiser of Omaha.
The public could easily have guessed
as much. He wants to get into the
editorial columns of other people's
papers without having to be bothered
with buying and successfully running
one, which he could not do.
The proposed law is not a libel law.
Already there is a law on that sub
ject that is air-tight and one-sidsd
against the newspaper. As a rule
the newspapers are now much more
careful and considerate than they
ever wear. The oldtime policy of
"personal journalism' has been very
largely abandoned. The old belief in
editorial rooms that men must be at
tacked merely to get editorial atten
tion has well-night passed. It cannot
be denied that there are still some
violations of a prudent regard for
the rights of others. But mainly per
sonal attacks are confined nowaday
to exploiters of the public, and thi
kind of publicity is the public's surest
protection against the big malefact
ors.
The bill proposed, known as house
roll No. 736, will make legitimat
criticism very difficult. It vi!i be
great boon to sharks, charlatans
freaks, frauds, mountebanks, who
want to put something over on the
public. It will be an attack upon the
freedom of the press which, say-what
you will, is one of the most potent
safeguards of our republican govern
ment.
Mr. Yeiser does not come with good
credentials to demand such legisla
Secretary Bryan has told bothl
v-rrcai, iii uain ana uermany wnere to i
head in, so that neither should get
osre about it.
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Courtesy is not confined to the
United States senate. In the closing
hours of the house all tints of
absentees were remitted.
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Children Cry for Fletcher's
tion as he asks. He is a lawyer. 1
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Mrs. W. F. Cockrell, of Dehay, Vir
ginia, jumped into the elevator shaft
of the Washington monument at
Washington, D. C, near the top, on
Tuesday of last week, and fell to the
bottom, more than 500 feet below. Her
body was crushed by striking the sides
of the shaft on the way down, and she
was dead before her body reached the
bottom. It was the first time that the
towering obelisk, which was open
ed to the public in 1888 and has been
visited by millions of Americans, hall
been the scene of a suicide. Ten
years ago a painter working in the
shaft accidentally fell to his death.
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Again the Journal reminds its farm
er readers in case any of them need
reminding that all seed corn should
be tested. It is not the Journal's
opinion it is the testimony of agri
cultural experts and practical farmers
-that it pays to test the seed corn. It
stands to reason that the crop will not
be good unless the seed is good that
if half or one-fourth or one-tenth of
the planted grains fail to germinate,
there will be missing hills, or hills
v ith fewer stalks than each hill should
contain. Planting untested seed is
taking chances. It is neglecting a
precaution that may make a difference
of bushels to the acre in the fall.
Men that know more about it than
rr.ybody in the office of tKe Journal
agres that it pays well to plant the
best and make sure that it is the best.
Test the seed corn!
The Army and Navy Journal favors
an army of a million volunteers to
augment our present regular force.
One can't blame a trade journal for
boosting its line of business, and an
additional million in the army would
mean many more officers who would
read the journal mentioned, and be in
some measure influenced by its teach
ings. Tart of its teachings is that a
large army at this time will help us
in maintaining peace. Give Germany
the once over and see how well that
theory works out in fact. Germany
also had an army of nearly a million
men, with other millions ready to get
on the job at a moment's notice. So,
for that matter, did France and Rus
sia, although far short of the Ger
man standard of preparation, and you
have observed how it maintained
peace for them.
There is, however, the other angle
to the proposition; the idea that we
are inevitably to be drawn into this
world war. We don't believe it, and
you and the army and navy publica
tions are entitled to your guess, but
if it must be, the army of a million
men should be raised at once, and then
augmented with another million, and
another, until we are prepared to fight
a regular power, which no one con
tends for a moment that we are to
day.' But militarism is as distaste
ful to the men of this administration
as War is, and the chances are we
won't have the marching legions nov
any occasion for marching them forth
to slaughter. Which would be the
better way, if it can be worked out
accordingly. No man can lift the veil
and view the future with any degree
of accuracy, but if this war is to be
cf real worth to the world, it will be
in proving the folly of powerful
armament, and lead to some system
where other nations will decrease
their forces to something like the
American standard, which is low
enough for police purposes. But, if it i
is to be our war .which it isn't now,
all haste should be made to prepare,
unless we would cut a sorry figure !
when the time comes. Our military
strength is pitifully weak when com
pared to bther countries, but it has
its commendable features for all that; 1
it makes us hesitate, and bear some
insults which are " fighting words be
tween nations which are ready to
fight.
his profession none ever hesitate in
framing a petition in a suit at law to
make any and all kinds of charges
against the person sued. Every crime
in the calendar may be freely and
recklessly charged with the idea that
so much as can be proved will be
proved. Failure to prove the more
flagrant allegations is merely to weak
en the suit. It never sends a lawyer
to prison, as it does a newspaper
editor when he makes any kind of a
charge that he cannot prove, always
with the legal presumption of malice
against him. And the lawyers in their
forensic pyrotechnics in court may
freely bespatter a man without be
coming liable. - "Physician, heal thy
self." If Mr. Yeiser wishes to pro
ceed logically and with proper se
quence let him use some legislative
carbolic acid on his own business. Not
one time in a hundred is a person bar
led by a newspaper from offerinj:
such defense as the personal honor
and standing demand. Not much oft
ener than that do the lawyers fail to
take advantage of their legalized im
munity from the penalty of attack
others.
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Gossip is a great evil, even when,
as often happens, there is some truth
in it. 1 J
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Remember: "Boost and the city
boosts with you; knock and you knock
alone."
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The groundhog is a pretty fair
prophet. His six weeks of winter
closed Monday.
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'" The main purpose of the allies in
reducing the Turkish forts is to re
duce the price of wheat.
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The blizzard predicted for Sunday
night has failed to materialize, and
we hope it will keep on failing.
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The kaiser is said to be looking for
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peace, but one can narcuy see n in
Europe, even with the aid of a
telescope.
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Another argument against making
two states out of Texas is that it
would increase the visible suppply of
Texas senators.
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The legislature has properly killed
the bill designed to prevent com
munities from engaging in their own
ownership and operation of such pub
lic utilities as water, electricity, gas,
eac. .
President Wilson warns Carranza
that he must protect foreigners in
Mexico or the United States will.
That's the way to talk, and we be
lieve President Wilson means what
he says.
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Colonel Goethals has been made a
major general. That is what he gets
for building the canal. On the other
hand the average citizen gets only wet
feet and a lame back for digging a
tunnel through the snow.
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Soil conditions and all present pros
pects indicate another bumper wheat
crop for Kansas, but so much may
happen between now and harvest that
spare time should be devoted to knock
ing wood and other preventive meas
ures.
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Ii the members of the legislature
were drawing ten dollars a day, with
no limit as to time, we know of some
members who would want to continue
in session the entire year. As it is,
they get paid for only sixty days, and
after that they get nothing.
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Senator Mattes' taxation measure
lost out in the senate by a vote of 1-1
to 10. This bill was to change the
revenue system of the state so as to
make the value of property for pur
poses of taxation equivalent to the
value as given for insurance.
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Congress has been adjourned sev
eral clays, ana sun no appointments
of the big offices due to Nebraska has
been announced. Maguire has not
even mentioned an appointment for
the Nebraska City postofrice, and sev
eral applicants are lined up for the
position.
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We reprint in another column of
this issue an editorial from the Fre
mont Tribune in relation to a bill now
being considered in the legislature
that newspapers shall be made com
mon carriers and that whenever one
has anything to say about anybody
that person shall have the right to an
equal space in the paper to defend,
explain, fulmanat and promulgate.
When the public understands that the
instigator of this bill is John O.
Yeiser of Omaha, it is not to be won
dered at. He has run for office so
often and never was successful, on ac
count of newspapers telling the truth
about him, that he has hit upon this
plan to counteract the opinion of the
nress in regard to such fellows. If a
man wants to run for office and is
possessed of a clean cnaracter and
his record is a good one, he need not
fear the criticisms of newspapers. But
it is not clean, able and upright men
who are demanding such a law.
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ing from the common malady of the
grippe at his home, but it is thought
that he will be able to conquer the
disease in a fev days, but it kept hnn
onfined to the house yesterday
J. II. Becker was down town yes
terday for the first time in several
weeks, since he was stricken oo'.vn
with the grippe, and does not yet feel
as v.cll as he might. His appearance
as micrhty pleasing to his many
friends, who have greatly missed him
during his illness.
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This is the time of year for two im
portant works to make Plattsmouth
more beautiful. It is the time for
planting trees, and also the time for
preserving what have been planted in
the past. It is the season when, many
people believe, the trees do best after
being planted. It is also the season
when men go to and fro in the land
professing to know how to trim trees,
and instead of trimming them, the
men commit the crime of tree butch
ery. Forest trees are not made for
man's hand to maim and ruin. The
forest tree does not yield to man's ef
forts at making them conform to his
style of beauty. Fruit trees require
heavy trimming, but forest trees
such as are commonly used for shade j
trees, should be trimmed carefully, if
at all. It is a time for sober thought.
If you can get along'without cutting
any live branches out of your forest
shade trees, do it. They are wild
things and Nature takes care of them.
What man has propagated he may.
trim, but what God has made to be
natural beauty, let alone.
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Talk about impeaching Governor
Morehead! What for? Come on with
your charges, or forever hold your
peace. We are anxious to see what
port of charge can be trumped up
against such an efficient and faithful
official as Governor Morehead. BlufT
is cheap, and a blufFer never could
"show down" when "called."
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