The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, April 08, 1915, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
PAGE C PLATTSMOUTn S12M1-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 19!. Cbc plattsmoutb journal Published 8am HW k I y at Plattamouth. Nabr. Entered t the Postofflce at PUttsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Subscription Prloei $1.50 Per Year In Advanoe THOUGHT FOR TODAY. To get peace, if you do want v J it, make for yourselves nests of J- pleasant thoughts. Ruskin. :o:- Jess Willard fight. is a winner on the Color Easter. eggs for the children for -:o:- Vish stories are another harbinger cf spring. :o : Look out for the grand display cf Easter hats tomorrow. :o : Fine spring weather, and the roads are getting in fine shape. There will be cutting and slashing of bills in the legislature this week. :o;- Garden-making is now in order. The weather is propitious for such work. :o: Jim Dahlman will again be mayor of Omaha, running 3,500 votes ahead of any man on the primary ticket. :o: Americans who are buying Villa's paper money, paying $1 to $12 Mexi can, must aim to spend it right away ;o: It is claimed that every spring each fly breeds 5.9l)8,25t;,00a descendents I.'ow will you begin to swat them early in the game? If you can't get the cream, try and be satisfied with the milk of human kindness. :o. PHANTOM HOPES . :o:- -:n:- Nearly everybody is glad that Jack Johnson got it in the neck. -:o:- Good morning, Mayor Richey. Suc cess to your administration. :o: It is hard to convince a chicken jailer of "the economic value of the hawk." -:o:- Voters should not forget the city election next Tuesday. All should be sufficiently interested to go and vote. :o: ' A gorgeous new spring hat dasztes all the men, especially those who con template matrimony, especially if it lias a pretty face under it. :o: China wants England to attend to Japan, but England seems reasonably busy with bigger business nearer home. Looks like the Yellow Perils might take it out on each other. :o: It's going to take a lot of steam to get folks to take hold of the city beautiful scheme and keep hold this spring. Every porperty owner should j'imp right into the bandwagon. :o: Road improvement will be in oido now that springtime is at hand. Vt who have been booming good roads with all our might, ought not to give up just as the goal is approaching. : o : Lilly Sunday received $80,000 for expressing his opinion of Philadelphia. After all, maybe the means justify the enus. ile will soon nave an oppor tunity of repeating the dose in Omaha. ;" ; The buy-at-hor.ie proposition has Some people, no matter how per sistentthcy arc in shaking hands, can got to be a mutual affair. Every man never be popular. And there is no reason why they should be. :o: y A healthy man is apt to have a great contempt for the medical pro fession, but most of the doctors con tinue to ride in motor cars. :o : The late spring has put the farm ers back greatly in their work. Sun-i-hine will do wonders in helping them ou Let "Old Sol" be up and doing. :o: Cheer up! If gentle Annie don't insist on shining around Jack Frost too much we probably won't have to hang crepe on the fruit trees this summer. :o: It has been definitely se'.tleJ that Shakespeare did not serve as a butch er's apprentice in his boyhood days. But even this has failed t. lower the price of meats. :o: From the impatient way in which those warships in the Dardcnclles are acting, it is evident that they are not willing to wait until Thanksgiving be fore carving Turkey. :o: Notwithstanding Billy Sunday is abused a good deal, the figures in dicate that he will be several lines a millionaire before he quits. And he no doubt will bear up bra-.x-ly. The latest Oklahoma bank robbery appears to have veen intended as a special defiance to the recently ad journed legislature, which had pre jcribed peculiar pains and penalties for bank robbing. - iy - Pre:, en t soil and weather conditions indicate that there will be d?ay in getting in the usual crops on the thou sands of farms in this section and the fact ought to be somewhat in favor of a large sweet corn crop as a profitable side-line for the farmers in not too large a tract for every individual. There is a sure market To,- such a crop and ready and early money. The crop is. likewise, in any ordinary year, a sure one. should apply in his own case what he urges upon others. If this is done to the -longest possible extent the city will profit by it. :o : The contribution of foodstuffs sent 1 y this country to the Belgians al ready amounts to over S20,000,000. Evidently the profits of war muntlons are being swallowed up by those made homeless through the results of the war material sold. What profits there arc in war seem to be dearly bought. :o: The Lincoln State Journal is author ity for the statement that, of the nine teen democrats in the state senate, "it is safe to say not more than four and pei haps not more than two would vote for Bryan as against Ilitchock for sen ator." It does not look reasonable that democrats would take the State Journal so far into their confidence as to tell it anything of the kind. :o : Railway employes follow a calling more healthful than almost any other, according to figures compiled from the United States census and com pared with showings from other coun tries by the bureau of railway news and statistics. Figures for the Unit ed States covering 27 industries shows that for every 1,000 employes engaged, there is a yearly mortality of about 15, varying from 23.8 in the case of toopers and 2o".f among flour and grist mill workers, down to 9.1 among plumbers, gas and steam fitters. How long in this scaie of mortality the railroad man stands is shown by the fact that steam railway employes re port only 10.8 deuths per 1,000, com pared with 15 for all classes. Most significant in the showing for railway men is the scarcity of deaths due to lodily infirmities, for, while deaths due to accidents arc higher than in any other occupations reporting, mor tality due to tuberculosis, pneumonia, heart disease and diseases of the nervous system is so far below that for almost any oi.her calling tha. the total deaths per 1,000 arc held down to mors than four less than the aver age for the 27 occupations. Alaska is seeking to counteract the influence of that prohibition story ty announcing another rich find of gold :o: Hats oft? to the American flag. It is saving the lives of defenseless men and women in the remote corners of the world. :o: Young Mr. Thaw knows what it is to be in, and what it is to be out, but he never knows whether he is to be in or out. :o: One of the peculiarities of an inter national war is that a nation can go into it voluntarily, but cannot retire from the game without permission from the combatants. v The European war hi' 3 greatly simplified the vacation problem for a large number of Americans, and in ciuentally, provided vacations tor a large number that would prefer to work. :o : THE DEATH PENALTY. A few days ago Governor Dunne of Illinois sent a message to the legis lature, recommending that the death penalty be abolished in Illinois. A f;Y states have already passed laws abolishing this severe icnalty, but in a large majority of the states and in most countries of the world the death penalty is indicted. In some states e'.ectiocution has been substituted for hanging, but this has been done only because this method seems less pain ful. If we were speaking of dress we should say that it is a matter of taste, or that the style has changed. Elec trocution, is said, by its advocates, to be more modern and more in keeping with out advanced civilization than is hanging. The general resultc, how ever, arc ahout the same. And murder is as grave a crime today as it was when Cain's tragedy gave the world its first shock. We doubt whether Illinois civilization has reach ed the point where the death penalty an be safely abolished. Murder is lie killing of a human being, with malice aforethought. It is not an accident, it is not an act of self de- ense, it is not an act that can in any manner or to any extent, be excused or justified. In common parlance, murder is a "cold-blooded" killing, and was thought out and planned before hand. A man who will lie in wait, with murder in his heart, and de liberately kill another, can have no laims on society further than to be given a fair trial. And he is a man who could not be restrained from tak- ;ig another's life, by fear of any mnishnient less drastic than that of death. Imprisonment would have no terrors for such a man. Hanging might. If the death penalty is to be abolished, then should the pardoning power as applied to murderers, be abolished. The pardoning power is sometimes abused, as in the recent case of Governor Blease of South Carolina, who gave freedom to sev eral hundred murderers. And the so called prison reform is sometimes overworked. A murderer might make a flawless prison record for half a lifetime in order to obtain a parole or a pardon, so that he might get revenge on those who caused his con viction. A man who ha:i had murder in his heart once, is capable of hav ing it in his heart any number of times. And reform, like conversion, doesn't always "take." You can't tell whether it's veneer or real quarter-sawed, until the varnish cracks and it is exposed to the weather. To us there is no question of sentiment ii.vclved in the infliction of the death penalty in a proper case. It is true that the taking of human life, even according to law, is a barbarous act. But murder is also a barbarous act and deserves punishment to fit the crime. Life being the most precious thing to man, it should be given the best protection that the state can pro vide. If there were more hangings in Illinois, there would be fewer murd erers. There should be more hangings end fewer pardons. Republican politicians are hugging to their breasts the fond delusion that the voters are wearying of the demo cratic party, that they are getting ready for a change, and that they will vote the republican ticket by a large majority at the next election. They are giving no reason since there is none to give why the people should turn to the republican party because ol any particular virtues of its own. They are content to think that the country will "go republican" for no other reason than that it is "agin the administration." That, apparently, was what New York state did last fall. It installed a republican administration at Albany, And it found, after doing so, that the republican administration was grave disappointment. It had no leadership. It had no ideals. It stood for nothing. Says the New Republic: Since the return to power of the re publicans the one idea of their poli ticians has been to legislate the demo crats out of office and to fill the vacancies with their own associates. Never in the history of the state has i he legislature offered a more sicken ing spectacle of stcrlity, incompetency and latent if not actual corruption." And the New Republic likens the situation in New York to that in the country as a whole. Its comment is keen and wise, and calculated, we think, to disturb the cocksureness -cf republican leaders who are looking so hopefully forward to the election of a republican president and congress in 191G. The New Republic says: "Republican dissension and in- epitude at Albany have more than a merely local significance. They ex hibit the republican party as a group cf disconcerted but unrepentant sin ners, without recognised leadership, without effective organization, without an acceptable public policy, and with no negotiable asset except possible democratic unpopularity. Their record bas been almost equally dubious in other states which they now control, r.uch ts Wisconsin and Ohio. "The lack of national leadership and policy is even more conspicuous and demoralizing than the lack of locaMea lership and policy. They have no candidate for the presidency who is capable of forcing the fighting and of capturing popular- imagination cither by his personality or his pro gram. A dozen or more states will put forward favored sons, no one of which will have the resources and the prestige to make a national campaign Under such circumstances they will be unlikely to nominate a candidate in whom the mass of republican voters can take any positive interest. The probable event of a real revival of business between now and next spring will deprive them of their only issue, and a sterile and treacherous issue it is. "Should the republicans elect their presidential nominee after a 'pros perity' campaign, they could not re deem their pledges except by the use of means which American public opinion would immediately and over whelmingly repudiate. A republican administration at Washington would merely repeat the trival and incoher ent partisan antics of the republican administration at Albany. If the party is again to. become the power ful agent of government which it has been in the past, it must do some thing to recover its self-possession. Its two factions have been drifting into reunion because of the political desir ability of a united opposition to the democrats, but for all positive poli tical purposes they are as much divided as they were in the spring of 1912." The republican leaders estimate too lightly the intelligence and essential patriotism of the American voters. If they figure they will return the re publican party to power solely because it Ts the party of the opposition and wants the offices. The democratic rarty has ideals, it has prinicples, and it has been writing them into law. It made promises to the people and it has been redeeming those promises. The republican party broke its prom ises and split into two parts because it had no principles on which it could agree. With its blasted record behind it, with no principles except of nega tion and office-hunger, its leaders now expect it to be returned to power. To voice that expectation is to pay a highly doubtful compliment to the voters. World-Herald. :o: Occasionally a man's profession is more successful than his practice. :o: Don't forget that you cAve it to your self as well as your neighbor to clean up. :o : Fiesident Wilson will deliver the oration at Arlington on Decoration cay. -: : The obvious moral of that incsli bag case is that women should pavronizc the banks. :o: The daily bulletins on King Albert still pronounce him the finest monarcn in Europe. :o: The things that keep the warriors guessing in time of hostilities arc over-ground and under-sea batteries. 1 :n: Talking of government by Injunc tion, an Illinois judge has been -i.-'ic to enjoin a man from beating his wif :o; While the belligerents are engage in the free and unlimited manufacture of international law, the neutral might retaliate by devising new rule for interned vessels. Or : Children Cry for Fletcher's 32 iu u so fur over -:o:- This fine weather admonishes every-body-to clean up their premises. The United States is a great natio in the pursuit of scientific research she is no less a great country in he ability to command peace at a time when all the world save ourselves i .t war. :o: Illinois legislators are moj.-ing to ward another increase in salary. At present the annual compensation is 2,000 a year, with liberal allowances for postage and stationery, but they want $2,500. Their present pay is calculated on the basis of what had been the average sum drawn out of the tieasury by members under the per diem plan, when no session failed to yield each member a per 'diem of ?1,000 during sessions running from early January into June. By doubling the wage it was hoped that business would be expedited and sessions short ened, and also that a better class of men would be called into service. All cf these expectations have been dis appointing. :o: SHORT-BALLOT REFORM. The Nebraska state senate, with only four negative votes", has amended a house bill so as to provide for four year terms for county officers and postpone county elections in Nebraska until 1918. This is short-ballot reform of a rational and effective sort, and demo crats, as well as republicans, radicals as well as conservatives, can give it hearty indorsement. According to this bill Nebraska in presidential years, will be called on to elect only federal and state officers. At the. half-way period between presi dential years it will be called on to elect state and county ofiicers. Be- fween-whiles it will have rest and ouiet and contentment. By this method the ballot is short ened without taking any power from the people. They will still elect the same number of officers they do now, instead of electing only a few and leaving those few to appoint the rest, as some propose, uut they will elect them for four years a term long enough to get the maximum efficiency out of an official and protect them selves with the recall provision which the bill carries. This means not only an appreciably shorter ballot next year, and in every presidential elec tion thereafter, but it means further that in presidential years, when na tional and partisan poiitics are para mount, the votcr3 will be free to de vote their attention to important is sues without local distraction."? which, properly speaking, have nothing to do with them. And it means that in the years wr.cn local oincers arr; io ue elected there will be no presidential and national politics to interfere with the discharge of that duty. It is to be hoped that the action of the senate will meet with the concur rence of the house and of Governor More-head, so that this genuine short t allot reform, which will make for better government m NcbrarVa, may be promptly secured. Y.'orld-IIcrald. The Kind You Have Always Bonjjht, and which lias hcen O years, lias borne tlie pignut lire or rind lias been made under his pcr- S S7 . - ' fniifil ciirirrlclnn ti Ha 1 n fn TWV. VVJ;' S-t6tZ Allow no one to deeeivo.you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations ami Just-as-good" are bu6 Experiments that trifle -with and endanger the health of Inlauld iiiid CIiHdrcn Expcrienco against lisncrixucnt. What is CASTOR! A CaKiorin is c harmless snhstitufo for Castor Oil, Pare Rorie. I)rtps i;d Soothing: Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains ns.lthc-r Opium, Hlorphiuej nor other Nareotio nuhstaiiee. Its :igo is its guarantee. Jt destroys "Worm and allays Pev -richness. For Kioro than thirty years it lias hcen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething" Troubles ami Ui.irrlica. Jt regulates the Stomach and Uowels, assimilates the; Food,gi-inpr healthy and natural bleep. Tho CiiLldrcii's luiiaeea, Tiio Mother's Friend. ; Bears the Signature of The Kind Yoa Ifaye Always Bought In Us2 For Over 30 Years "Mt: r fntaur -or- r - j v , n r w v o-- k c i t v . Champ Clark says it is a mistaken The West Virginia legislature ad- idea that any American boy can be.journed without making any ap- president. He has tried oaec and W. propriations, and the governor and J. Bryan three times. :o: 1 The city of Omaha would do well to put in its be.it licks in an endeavor to rid the city cf a gang of confidence men that ir.fets that city. :n : The dandelion will ;;oon come to an noy and vex us. And when it is re membered that it will likewise again ui.-appcar, why fret about it? -:o:- The gct-i ich-quick promoter who announces that he had "a bully time iif he federal prison at Atlanta," may wisii to show that he is different from hat famous literary prisoner. -:o: The boy vTho has the proper sur- ounuings when he starts out in a isiness career generally has the bat- e half won at the outset. But the oy who rises against untoward en ironment and wins out anyway is to be commended. state officials are working without pay. The state normal and other schools are closed for the want of money. They s.ay there is no money to ap propriate. A pretty predicament for a prohibition state! :o: If a representative ot the Japanese government can see so much in the completion of the Panama canal, cer tainly the American people, to whom the credit is due for its construction and building, ought to be proud of the achievement. The learned Jap says no other nation except the resourceful American government could have suc ceeded in so great an enterprise. :o:- Compiaints of boosting hotel rales in Si.n Francisco on account of the ex position are already beinj? made. In fact, one San Francisco paper is in vestigating conditions, and says that t'O per cent of the hotels and apart ment houses have increased their hates from 25 to 100 per cent. Still, attendance greatly in- will come down j through competition. Concessionists jare complaining that business is on the bum. unless the creases the rates The Falls City News is responsible or the report that the forty-year fucd hiit has existed between Church Howe nd Tom Majors was brought to an nd in Lincoln a few days since when ne long-time enemies shook hands I ' ' i nd became friends. Mr. Howe isjVall Paper. Gering & Co lowly recovering from a serious ill- ess with no assurance of weathering he storm, while .Mr. Majors is far dvanccd in years. Neither could cross to the unknown with bitterness rank ing in his upcast. FOR SALE. FOR SALE Assorted eggs for .'"Ci ting, $2.00 per 100; also duck eggs. Inquire of Mrs. Fred Spanglcr or call 'phone 2104. 3-lG-d&w-tf lore the Ch Big H oice farms in in Tra ora Dasin : Irrigated from the newly constructed lateral "A" of the Shoshone Project near Powell, Wyo., will be opened by the Government for entry by settlers on some date in April. There are over 4G5 prosperous far mers now in this locality one of the most advanced communities of the various Government enterprises. Out of the 51 farms described "choice" by the Government experts on January 1, 1015, there yet remain about 15. Lateral "A" lands are fine and prospective settlers are urged to act quiekly. Watch for the date these lands are to be opened and be there at Powell ready to file on that date. Only $52 for perpetual Government right, 20 year's time, no interest. Settled lands alongside are now priced at from $00 to $Ki0 an acre It is hardly necessary to advertise these lands. They will go fast enough, but wc feel it our duty to advise you so that y u may have a fair chance with others who knew about the opening. Write me. S. B. HOWARD, Immigration Agent. M004 Fain am Street, Omaha, Neb. it