THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1915.
PAGE 4.
PLATTSMOUTII S15MI-WEEKLT JOURNAL.
Cbc plattemoutb journal
Published 8 m l-W a k I y at P I at t m o uth. N b r.
Entered at the Fostoffice at PUttamourh. Nebraska, is second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
Subaorlpllon Prloai SI. SO Par Year In Advano
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
If thou canst not give pleas
ure to all by thy deeds and thy
J knowledge, give it then unto
the few; many to please is but
vain. Schiller.
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"True blue" docs not apply to first
class fresh milk.
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If Bulgaria joins the German;,
Greece will don its war paint.
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If you arc a resident of Platts
mouth always have a good word for
your home town.
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But it is still permissible to use
the phrase, "drunk as a lord," just as
we continue to say, "work like a
Turk."
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Villa's losses in Mexico arc almost
as great as the Austrian losses re
ported from Petrogral from time to
time.
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Dispatches fail to account for Nel
son O'Shanghncssy's not being on
hand to greet his affectionate old
friend, Huerta.
A headline announces that a new
submarine can stay under water one
hundred days. Some are staying
longer than that.
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Time to bring forth the water wa
gon. It is somewhat dusty, and the
business men along Main street are
clamoring for it.
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A New York typist has written
7.S0O words an hour. But perhaps
i-he cannot talk any faster than any
ordinary woman.
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Soon we'll have shade to inite us
to its grateful embrace. There is
nothing like shade and rest and the
quiet joy of living.
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Buying and felling votes will not be
popular in Terre Haute, Indiana, by
the sentences imposed on the guilty
ones by Judge Anderson.
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While the governor of Arizona may
be shocked at the legal execution of
murderers, the border patrol cheer
fully hangs cattle thieves.
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The Cass county farmer is suffer
ing a two weeks' handicap in his start
this spring, but he will doubtless lie
able to overcome it before fall.
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Property is advancing right along
in this city. Property that could have
been bought for $K00 two years ago,
cannot be purchased now for double
that amount.
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The police in a town not a hundred
miles from Plattsmouth found some
cocaine between the leaves of a bible.
In some households the bible is the
safest hiding place.
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Dr. Eliot thinks that this country
should help England in the present
war because it gave us Milton. With
out arguing about England's step
mother treatment of Milton, we con
tend that Dr. Eliot's whole five feet
of books would not justify us in go
ing to war.
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A visit to any section tf Platts
mouth these days would convince any
one that the people are up and doing
in the way of improvements of
various kinds. There were fifteen
new homes erected in this city last
season, and from present indications
this will be outdone this season.
WILSON VS. BRYAN.
That if a decided and irreconcilable
difference should ever arise between
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan it would be on the prohibition
question is the opinion of the Johns
town Democrat. It is a prospect the
democrat views with dismay. That
newspaper is an ardent friend and
loyal champion of both these great
democratic leaders. Its democracy
is of the radical, Tom Johnson, single
tax sort. But, like Tom Johnson him
self, it is strongly opposed to the in
jection of the liquor question into
party politics, and is opposed to pro
hibition as undemocratic and irra
tional. Tor the first time in its his
tory, therefore, it is obliged to differ
from Mr. Bryan on an important mat
ter. And' it declares that Mr. Bryan
stands in antagonism to President
Wilson's known views when he in
sists that in every state where the
question is presented the democratic
party must take the prohibition side,
not only declaring for prohibition in
its platform but nominating none but
prohibitionists for office.
The St. Louis Republic, another
democratic newspaper that is devoted
to both Wilson and Bryan, takes a like
view. In a Washington dispatch
dated April 13 it says President Wil
son does not approve of making the
liquor question a political issue, and
that his attitude today is the same as
he defined it in a letter written May
11, HU1, to the Rev. Thomas B.
Shannon of Newark, NJ., when Mr.
Wilson was governor of New Jersey.
In view of Mr. Bryan's new position
that letter becomes of fresh im
portance. In it Mr. Wilson wrote:
'I am in favor of local option. I
am a thorough believer in local self
government and believe that every
self-governing community which con
stitutes a social unit should have the
right to control the matter of the
legulatlon or of the withholding
licenses.
"But the questions involved are so
cial and moral and are not suscepti
ble of being made parts of a party
rrogram. Whenever they have been
made the subject matter of party con
tests they have cut the lines of party
organization and party action
athwart, to th utter confusion of
political action in every other field
They have thrown every other ques
tion, however important, into the
background, and have made construc
tive party action impossible for long
years together. So far as I am con
cerned, therefore, I can never consent
to have the question of local option
made an issue between political
parties in this state. My judgment is
very clear in this matter. I do not
believe that party-programs of the
highest consequence to the political
life of the state and of the nation
ought to be thi-ust on one side and
hopelessly embarrassed for long
periods together by making a political
issue of a great question which is es
sentially non-political, non-partisan,
social and moral in its nature."
The position taken by President
Wilson in this letter is precisely that
which was taken by the democratic
party in Nebraska in 1910. It de
clared against the injection of the
liquor issue into party platforms and
party campaigns, and favored its
separate, nonpartisan settlement by
mean 3 of the initiative and referen
dum. To that position the democratic
party of the state has held consist
ently ever since. World-Herald.
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Nebraska stockmen who are
familiar with live stock sanitary laws
of other states ;ay that as a result of
the late legislature's activity Ne
braska has the best live stock laws of
cny state in the union.
:or
Omaha is going to make a desper
ate effort to secure the next repub
lican national convention. May the
effort be crowned with success. Oma
ha is abundantly able to take care of
suh conventions, and she will do it,
too, if the opportunity is afforded.
Why can't we have a jitney bus in
Plattsmouth ?
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Arbor Day next Thursday,
a tree or twig.
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Tlant
The tidy-up campaign is what the
promoters would call a clean proposi
tion.
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Governor Morehead has designated
Friday and Saturday, April 23 and
24, as clean-up days in Nebraska.
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The straw hat is late coming to the
lront this season. But the fly and
straw hat will make their appearance
about the same time.
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Many men who can't name the
capital of Cuba will always remem
ber that Havana was the scene of the
illard-Johnson light.
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Some men are determined to
beautify their home grounds this
rummer even if they have to make
their wives do the work.
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Thc river and harbor bill is not as
large as was hoped, but it is believed
that it will keep the politicians alive
until the next feeding time.
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Complaint is made that when col
lege students come back they won't
help around the house, but they are
always willing to assist someone else's
sister do the housework.
Benson escapes annexation with
Omaha, and is Jef t all to her lonely
self. She may consider herself for
tunate or otherwise. But she can be
more independent otherwise.
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It is strange, but neverlhless true
how some rhen, who run for office, so
-oon forget their friends after their
election. We have one in our mind's
ye who we never thought would do
us such a trick, but he evidently has.
But there are other days ahead.
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"ON TIME."
The Burlington railway is making
proud announcement of the fact that
one of its transcontinental trains was
'on time" 23G days out of 212 last
year.
A remarkable record, that. Most
of us would bainclined to doubt the
truth of the statement, perhaps, did
not the railway substantiate its
claim with "names and dates." Thus
the record seems to be straight and
inassailablc.
It must be a difficult task to run
i train 2,000 miles or more and have
reach its destination on the
schedule. "Getting behind" is so
easy so difficult to avoid. "Being on
time" is such a tremendous task to
most of us.
One reason why we are prone to
tardiness is that in a very large de
gree our acts are elependent upon,
interwoven with, the doing of our
fellows. If our being at a certain
place at a certain hour offers no
chance of interference from the peo
ple, we are late only through fault of
ur own. But if, in addition to keep
ng that appointment, we must visit
other places and see other people, the
matter of our personal promptness
L-ecomes a complicated undertaking.
But the train which made such a
tmarkable record had to meet such
conditions. At all its junction points
were dangers of delays because of
the lateness of other trains. Yet on
til save six days of the 242 it "finish
ed on time." It had -to do it, you
see, for the passengers on the way to
their destination and the friends
awaiting them at that terminal could
rot be expected to feel in the mood to
waste their own time because there
had been waste elsewhere by interests
with which they had nothing in
common.
"On time!" What a record is that!
How few possess it and how many
need to have it! The railway em
ployes must have had to strain every
nerve, and be constantly watchful and
constantly ready for every emergency,
and constantly determined to make
their schedule, or they never could
have done it. The individual, we
fancy, must observe like principles
to be "on time." St. Joseph (Mo.)
Gazette. v
UNDERSTANDING THE WAR.
"If you rolled up all the battles of levise and pass.
Napoleon into one and added to the For example, the newspaper from
pile all the battles of Caesar and of which this report of Senator Bev
Alexander, you wouldn't get nearly so eridge's speech is taken, the New
big a conflict as the war has made up York Times, recently published un
to this time." This is one of the (jer a Londofi date line an article ac
ttriking phrases from an address de- credited to Prof, von, Leyden in the
livered by Former Senator Beveridge Frankfurter Zeitung. This eminent
of Indiana to the Sphinx club of New scholar was quote as saying that Ger
York, after a visit to both the east- mans despise and defy a!! neutral peo
ern and western battle fronts in r;es These words were attributed to
Europe. "In Poland," he added, "I njm: "Germany must and will stand
i cached a battle line and saw just one
little segment of a battle. On the side
I was with were 300 guns and 120,000
men and on the other side were 200,-
000 men and 200 guns. That was just
a little segment."
The most interesting part of Sen-
ntor Beveridge's report, perhaps, is
bis insistence thaj the American peo-
pie have misjudged and do not under-
stand the war and its issue. It is
worth while to quote a part of his
peech as given in the New York
Times:
"I went to Germany, and then to
France, with the idea that we Ameri
cans pick up from our newspapers.
They were all wrong ideas. My ex
perience over there was simply a case
'f dropping one preconception after
f.nother.
"It is a foolish and a fake cry that
this is a rulers' war. It is a war of
peoples. I tried everywhere to find
socialists there were practically 1,-
but they were all for it, and of the 1,-
iuiu.uuu worKers in v.ermany no were
n r t i I. I
socialists there werep ractically 1,-
jOO.OOO volunteers to serve. But in
snite of this the crrat train of the war
in Ktirono. whoever wins and however
the issue comes out, will be the
tremendous advance of democracy
The advance, in fact, has already
come. It has come so quickly and has
extended so far that the United
States today, 'even, may be trailing
aclionarv Christian nation in the
vnri i
"We are too sordid and material in
ooking upon the situation. Here is
he wonderful miracle in Germany
und in France. No man or woman
thinking of himself or herself, or
even of his or her family. One and
all the people are thinking of how
they can serve the state or help the j
soldiers at the front. All the ser
mons ever preached on peace from the
pulpits have done less than this war
has to produce a sp
rit of self-sac-
ifice or devotion to the common
ause. spirituality, tnrougn tne war,
has put materialism under its feet.
nd in this country our best men
hnv mnt fm-Uon n.ntriotism in
the quest for business advantage.
"Every idea I went to Europe with
was knocked out of me. The war will
not end soon. The people in every
devotion have built up machines to do I
work, the like of which were never
seen in times of peace. Why, in the
roianu i-HinpaiKH wvi .......
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found more men than are employed on
ine paj roirs oi icw , jum i
finding out where the good roads lay
and advising tie commanding gen-
eral over what route he could best di-
rect his heavy wagons and artillery.
Tn frninp' to a hall came in Indian-
,nnlw T wmdd nftn bo stonnod an
hour cn the road because of the jam,
but the great German army, cook
wagons, artillery, Red Cross wagons,!
ev rvf hint nasfd alonir one narrow
road and there was no hitch.
"There is no tinge of cowardice any-
where in Europe. In the sublime
earnestness of the combatants what
happens to thera has quite entirely
ceased to matter."
The ideas he has gleaned from tho
newspapers were all wrong, says Sen-
I
ator Beveridge. When he was able to
.Wf.-.-stnnd for himself
w idn 1 wont, to Eurone with
was knocked out of mc." Senator
Beveridge is a fairly big man; a man
I
of education, of legal training, of wide
..i i i I
experience, ana witn a deep ana
cultivated mind. When he frankly ad-
mits that his newspaner reading had
led him wholly astray the admission
may well serve as a warning for the
rest of us a warning against cock
sureness, against bias and prejudice,
founded on newspaper reports and on
other reports such as were accessible
to Senator Beveridge before he went
to Europe.
It should be understood that mis
leading reports arc not the fault of
the American newspapers. With very
few exceptions indeed, whatever their
editorial bias may be, they have every
disposition to report the war and its
issues fully and fairly. But there is
no news comes to them except such as
the press bureaus of the warring na-
I lions inspire or such as the censors
ulonc. The Germans are the salt of
ine earth; they will fulfill their
destiny, which is to rule the world
and control other nations for the
benefit of mankind."
Some six weeks afterwards the at
tention of the Times is called to the
I
fact that no such -article, and no
article remotely resembling it, was
lVer published in the German paper
tQ which it was accredited, and that
p, 0f. von Leyden. named as its auth-
or, died in October. 1010.
The Times frankly admits the im-
position and explains that the article
was obtained from a London news
paper and published, on its part, in
entire good faith. But meanwhile this
fictitious Von Leyden letter has been
copied and commented on in numer
ous other American newspapers, and
the truth will never overtake the lie.
This is merely one little instance.
But it serves to explain why so in-
tcli t a stujont Gf war a3
Ser.ator j
Beveridge is obliged to admit that his
own lucas' Kaineu on me .American
I 1 1 A 1 .
side, were all wrontr. and whv he de-
( 'ares that the American people have
judged the war in the wrong spirit i
r.nd are unable to understand the
r.aturo of the conflict. World-Herald.
M:inv trmr5 vrr in (no ntv S:it.
uruay aiternoon, ana most ot tnem
U.re extensive wheat growers, and
those with whom we conversed say
L,,at nJver in the hJ of Cas.
county did the wheat look finer, and j
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nothing happening to interrupt
it will be the. biggest crop ever raised
jn e county.
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Decoration day will soon be here.
After which comes the greatest day
of all the Fourth of July. It has
j.eerl several years since Tlattsmouth
celebrated. Let's get in line for a
I , i e v-jl t
StHKl Hnc oeiore viner towns in ine
county make arrangements. They all
want to come to the county scat, if
wc h;lve a cec.bration. It is not too
,
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Lincoln Star: The Omaha Bee
sauvely remarks that "the democratic
r.rorr;qp nf ooonomv in .innrrinriatiana
' .
the bottom of that rainbow nestles
a pot of gold containing from $350,- j
poo in 500 000 of coin thnt was I
saved in pursuance of that promise.
was the only, promise of economy
that has ever been kept by any party
-;n this state.
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Thc scssion of thc legislature is
over. It adjourned on Tuesday sine
die. The citizens of Nebraska always
breathe a sigh of relief when the light
is out. There are a lot of disappoint
ed people who tried their best to get
certain bills through and failed.
There arc probably a lot of bills that
A A 1 1. A 1 A 'll
wni tnrougn mat. are ncitner neces-
sary nor right. This is a sure result
of thc session of any law-making
body. There are probably many good
ones, too. We have watched carefully
il i rr i I'll- l 1
ne cmerent mus vwucn nav appai-
t.f in irin rirtca W lm-o nTnrPQSPn
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many times belore, that the state
would benefit from a legislature that
could do nothing but repeal useless
laws, would be of more actual benefit
than one which makes laws, is still
the opinion we hold.
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If you check up the number of bot
tles used you will find Foley's Honey
and Tar in greater demand than any
other cough medicine. It is s:ife,
prompt find effective for colds, croup,
hoarseness, bronchial coughs, throac
trouble, and la grippe. It contains no
opiates and is the preferred cough
medicine for children. Sold every
where. Sell your property by an ad in The j
ournal.
Children Cry
M
ay,
The Kind You Have Always
in uso for over CO years,
ana
S?-f sonal supervision since its iniancy,
Allowno one to deceive youintliis.
All Counterfeits, Imitations
i:.:orimei:ts t?iat trifle with and endanger tlio Jiealtii or
Infants and Children Experience against IixpcriiJueat.
What is CASTOR I A
Casforia is a harmless snbstitiite for Castor Oil, Pare
goric. Drops and .Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, 3Iorphino nor otlier Kareotic
substance, lis ago is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms
and allays Fcv rishness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation
Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teethinjr Troubles and
Diarrhoe-a. It regulates the Stomach and Iiowels,
assimilates flic Food, giving1 healthy and natural bleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTOR I A ALWAYS
Bears the
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Uso Fop Over 30 Years
i c r. r NTAUH COF
The f,uit croI' in general prom-
ises wel1
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Thc painters and paper hangers are
pretty busy these days.
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Brace up, you property owners, and
see that it is cleaned up.
::
-vir. iveaneia nas now started a
prosperity clipping bureau.
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It is hard to tell just what those
Mexicans are fighting about.
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Many farmers and automobiles
were in Flattsmouth Saturday.
Governor Morehead has disap
proved of the efficiency commission
bill.
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Humors of peace moves are de
clared in Berlin to be without founda
tion.
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The probability of a treasury de
ficit indicates that thc congressmen
knew what their constituents sent
them to Washington for.
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With house cleaning and garden
making here at the same time, the
women folks are exerting every
energy to accomplish good results.
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The eighth annual encampment of
the Department of Nebraska, United
States Spanish War Veterans, will be
held in Omaha Monday and Tuesday,
April 26 and 27. Governor More
head and ex-Senator John M. Thurs
ton will be the principal speakers.
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Some wisdom this, from the sultan
of Turkey, in an Associated Press
interview: "It has been said," the
sultan is quoted as saying, "that it
was the factor of luck that made our
victory of March 18 so complete and
great, but wc in the Turkish have a
ying, 'Luck is infatuated with the
efficient.' " The wise ones are de
claring it is old stuff, expressed in a
new way, but there is a lot in it.
MONEY TO LOAN
5
on Cass County Farms
T. hTp OU 0 C K,
OFFICE Telephone BeilUing Piattsmoitt, Nebraska'
for Fletcher's
ft V s
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Boaght, and wLIch has been
lias bornothc? signature ot
lias Deen maao tinaer his per
and Just-os-good nro but
Signature of
There are a good many ways to as
sist in making Plattsmouth more
beautiful. Set out more trees, is one.
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Someone asks what has become of
the man who used to take a day off
in the spring and set out a lot of
trees along the highway? Well, ju.t
now he is telephoning to thc local
authorities to come up and set out
a tree that will shade hio porch, at
public expense.
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There is a general feeling among
'legislators and city councillors that if
the community wishes to keep up with
the progress of the age, said legis
lators and councillors should be sent
tut to view the Tanama-Pacific ex
position at the taxpayers' expense.
But it will never be done Put that
down in the back part of your day
book.
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Some more new residences for rent
al purposes should be erected. Houses
fit to live in are very scarce. New
comers do not care to build a home
on first coming here, and if the prop
el ty they should happen to occupy
should be suitable to their notions,
the owner would no doubt have an
opportunity to sell same after the
renter has been here for a few
months.
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Reports from the principal rail
roads indicate that they now have
employed in the state only four-fifths
rs many men as they had a year ago.
This means that about 150,000 persons
in Illinois, also, who a year ago were
deriving their support directly from
the railroads today are getting noth
ing from them. The forced retrench
ment of the railroads has also thrown
out of employment many thousands
who produced materials and manu
facturers used by the railroads. Until
r.ssured of income increases sufficient
to defray the expenses involved, rail
load managers cannot proceed with
plans made for construction and main
tenance work which would require
many thousands more men.
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