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. THOUGHT FOR TODAY. -
In nature there is no blemish
but the mind none can be call-
ed deformed but the unkind.
Shakespeare.
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"Heart failure" covers a heap
medical ignorance. ,
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The Zeppelins, wreck little except
the nerves of villagers.
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A substantial gain in the Chicago
wheat market is reported.
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Mexico is always finding a brand
new Joshua, but he always gets lost
in the wilderness.
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If the airmen destroy Greenwich
we shall. have to find some new place
from which to reckon time.
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The Smith family seems to have
considerable influence with both
branches of the Mormon church.
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New York continues to grow in
wealth and population, notwithstand
ing Jhe Decker and Sulzer cases.
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Mr. Hobson has not yet verified
that Turtle ttay rumor, but he may be
jealous of that amateur alarmist.
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To be reasonable one must reason,
:;!".d to reason one must think; that's
why some people are so unreasonable.
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The most stragetic thing a Mexican
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general can do is to capture a tele
graph line that has an end in the
United States.
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Mr. Armour says that when labor
unions get a little power they begin
excesses. The same charge has been
made against packers.
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Want a good joke on the other fel
low? Wait till this item gets cold
then cement a nickle to the sidewalk
and watch 'cm try to pick it up.
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England is trying to placate us. It
has modified the cotton and dye
orders and invited Eilly Sunday to
cross the Atlantic. Maybe they think
Lilly can stop the war.
We notice quite a number of extra
nnc colts this spring, which indicates
tnat our Cass county farmers are
paying more attention to the raising
of better horses than ever before, and
.hey are receiving better prices for
.nose they sell.
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It is hinted in Lincoln that if
Charley Bryan should happen to be
elected to the position of mayor, he
will become a candidate for governor
next year. He may be elected mayor
f Lincoln, but we doubt it. And as
to governor, he wouldn't reach the
first base.
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If President Wilson could have
heard how unqualifiedly Senator Hitch
cock extolled him in that recent ad
dress tu the legislature, perhaps the
president might forget that he has al
ways at his elbow an enemy of the
senator who never learned how to quit
hating anybody. Omaha Examiner.
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Tomorrow is clean-up day in
Plattsmouth, according to the request
of both Mayor Sattler and Governor
I-lorchead. Just as well get all your
ld tin cans and other trash ready to
be hauled to the garbage dump. It
will also be a good time to bury some
ild grudges, grouches and despisa
ble personalities beneath the other
x rubbih. One is just as detrimental to
the health of the city as the other.
HOW TO STIR AMERICAN PRIDE.
Writing of the probable injection
into the next national campaign- of
hostile feeling against the next na
tional administration because of the
quality of its neutrality in the war be
yond the seas, that astute and ultra-
republican, Ross Hammond, says in
his Fremont Tribune:
"Politically speaking, there are very
many of us who would not care to
defend the administration, but if it
should come to pass that its attitude
toward the war should be made a line
of clear demarkation, there w ould be a
r.uick and decisive realignment in
favor "of supporting the administra
tion, right or wrong. It is to be hoped
it will never come to this."
Ross Hammond has unmasked a
s-pectre that stands in the way of the
realization of otherwise professediy
ardent republican hopes. The great
mass of the American people believe
that the administration has honestly
and impartially tried to maintain an
attitude of the strictest and fairest
neutrality with reference to the
troubles in Europe. That it has in
cured, without consciously inviting,
the protest of both sides of that
awful controversy is the best evidence
that its neutrality has been of the gen
uine sort. Its course has no more
won the approbation of the allies than
it has of the foes of the allies. When
ever either has sought to use this gov
ernment as a club with which to dis
advantage its enemies, it has met with
disappointment.
The ferocity of hatred existing be
tween the combatants, and the effects
which resulted to the legitimate com
merce of neutral nations, have corn-
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situations for the solution of this gov-
ernment. Americans as a class reject
me suspicion or imputation tnat in
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their solution ar.y favortism has been
shown any belligerent.
Its attitude in regard to this brutal
war is perhaps the very best asset of
the administration. An impetuous
president might very easily have in-
volved this country in unnecessary
hostilities with one or both elements
of the sanguinary struggle beyond
the sea. Avoidance of precipitate ac-
tion or national arrogance has alone
kept cur own skirts clear. This is the
trump card of the administration. It
would have been destroyed by an un-
neutral act.
closed by the president to merit the
confidence and friendship of all the
nations involved in the war, and to
evince no other emotion in respect to
the conflict than one of abhorrence of
its results and commiseration of its
victims, has been manifestly shared
by all the members of the president's
cinciat tamily. jew Americans will
harbor any regret that our govern-
ment did not evince more readiness
to take offense at any of the many op-
poi tunities offered by the interfer-
ences with American commerce and
thetindifTerence for possible losses of
American life end property in the
naval policies pursued by all of the
belligerents. Few will regret that
their government did not bristle with
summary ultimata or undertake to lay
down threatening rules in restraint of
cither party to the combat.
Granting that this nation may con-
tinue to avoid actual entanglement in
the fierce hostilities, the administra
tion will, when the war is happily
over, have smething to offer in a rec-'
crd satisfactory to the American
masses. It will be its chief asset
when it seeks vindication from the
people. It will need no other.
But if anybody want3 to make its
triumph in the next national 'election
more o a certainty than it now bids
fair to be, he will assail it for its
course in regard to this awful war.
The raising of a question like that in
a campaign in this country, as it
would in any country, will obscure all
other questions and rally to the sup-
port of the administration most of
those who are now recognized as its!
foes on issues involving only our do-
mestic policies and partisan preced-
ence. Lincoln Star.
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Terre Haute, Indiana, takes the
cake on the "clean-up" business.
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Why is it that the more fishing
tackle a man buys the less fish he
gets?
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Teddy lost out in the first round
in his libel suit, when he failed in
getting tne judge to entertain a
motion for a dismissal of the suit.
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The United States can feel free to
send all the protests it wants to the
i-uropean governments, as their waste
baskets are very large and capacious.
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Huerta intimates that his military
code of ethjes prevents his exonerat-
ing himself of responsibility- for the
death of Madero. Such devotion to
ethics is unparalleled.
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In Omaha jitney busses are carr;'-
ing local people anywhere they .want
to cro for 5 cents, but the traveler
from a distance is welcomed by allow-
ing him to pay a dollar to get to the
railroad station.
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It must be that the Riggs bank of
Washington has a good case or it
would certainly not attack the gov-1
i
ernment. Most people are on the de-l
i
fensive in dealing with the govern
ment in such cases.
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It is considered all right in the
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modern household to make up for high
prices bv cuttimr down on the meat.
bread and other substantiate con-
sumed, but there must be no leti.sn.
up in the style in which. the food is
served.
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CONCERNING AMERICAN RIGHTS
The saving clause in the Briiish
"ma in vuuiiiii, iu niiicii Luc uuiivm
States took such strong exception,
was that dealing with its adminis-
rative featurps. ijirr. riisirpt;n.i
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was left in the hands of the officers of
the crown as to the manner, and also
the measure, of enforcement. The
Washington protest of a few weeks
ago called attention to this fact, and
more than once expressed the ex-
pectation that the commerce of this
country would, by such means, be re-
lieved of many of the obstructions
which the order, if it was to be ?iter-
ally and strictly enforced, would raise
against it. The Washington noU, in
fact, insisted that a much wider lati-
tude than that fixed in the order
should he allowed in its annlirat.iorv
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This, as we said at the time, was all
that the United States was in a
position to demand. And that such I
3 form of protest could not go un-
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heeded, the official British announce-
ment that cotton is now removed
from the list of contraband and that
certain cargoes of dyestuffs from
Germany will be permitted to pro-
reed to thi rmi ntrv is virion I
These announcements seem no suffi-
cient answer to the late German con-
tention that the United States has
made a supine surrender of its neu-
tral rights. But we shall expect to see
other concessions made from time to
time as emergency demands and con-
ditions permit.
In the American note the strongest
emphasis of protest was laid upon
u,at part of the Order in Council
serving all the purposes of a block-
ade of neutral European norts. This I
protest will, no doubt, be removed if
such an administartion of the order
as will facilitate our commercial com-
i
munication with such ports does not ly wipes the dishes for his wife, be
lemove the embargo. We have gone came tired of his job and refused,
far in the successful assertion of our I
rights and interests as neutrals, and
we will go farther as occasion war-
rants. This blockading position of the
allies was so indefensible from the
fctart that its modification could be
seen as likely to follow each a 6trong
protest as Washington sent to London
against it. -
Let everyone get into the game for
a cieaner ana prettier f lattsmoutn.
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Are you doing your duty on the
clean-up proposition? If not, why
so?
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Never count ' your chickens until
you are sure the incubator is work-
iag-
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Swat the fly, and keep on swatting
him. Now is the time to bejrin the
task.
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Considering the low market value
I of a grouch it is surprising there are
so many of them.
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There are many things that can be
done for the betterment of Platts-
mouth, but we have not heard of any
suggestions from the Commercial
club
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The population of the country has
passed the hundred million mark, but
there is still enough land so father
can have a back garden, if he ready
wants one.
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Uncle Henry Clews is feeling much
l retier over iraue conumons. ine
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gambling on WTall street always regu-
lates the feeling of those Napoleans
of Finance.
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The celebrated elephant is begin-
I "ing to appear in the cartoons 'with
i some irequency, inaicaiing ina a
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presidential campaign' looms up in
great shape, and that the republican
party has some hopes.
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The coming city election in Lincoln
will be a lively one. There seems to
be a great opposition to Charley
I V. ...
1 ran. wno wan to be mayor, as a
"eppmg stone to governor. Jie mav
be biS enough for mayor, but not for
governor. Oh, no!
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Remember Governor Morehead has
designated rrulay and fcaturday as
clean-up days. Maybe some people j
will do as he suggests and other
won't. Some people -are filthy, and
the way to determine who they are i
to take note oi tne conditions ot tneir
premises. '
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LaunuLi in u.i l iv v; lu i;ui tva
ers, urge too strongly that you keep
them on a while lone-er. The temnta-
tion always comes on a warm day,
but always in the early spring hot
davs are followed bv cool davs. and
then's when vou. cret it in the neck.
and head, and lungs.
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Germany, in all probability, feels
the pinch of the British blockade in
the matter of needed imports, both
for war and industrial pursuits, but
the probability of Germans starving is
mostly talk for sympathy, which all
natinnc at -ar ore ool-imr nithnuoli
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it hasn't much to do with winninc bat-
ties
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Politics are very quiet, and will
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perhaps remain thusly until the
dawn of 19L6. Then candidates and
party organizers will begin to get in
their work. The people generally are
more mixed in their views than thy
Yt o rc dvp Knon i nrl frnm nrocmt in.
dications it will be" hard to tell "who
will be who" wrl91G.
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Don't cuss the farmers because they
want all the benefits of a good town
near them and want to avoid all ex-
penses in supporting that town, for in
that they are not different from many
other kinds of human beings. Make
the farmers believe you can serve
them better and cheaper thanother
people and in doing that you have a
Wd firht with nm evnerts in that
business. Omaha Trade Exhibit.
One of our citizens who occasional-
saying that "it is not a man's work.
Not feeling disposed to lose his help
she brought the bible out to convince
him of-his error and read as follows
from II Kings, 21 : 12: "And will wipe
Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish,
wiping it and turning it upside down."
It is needless to say that he is still j
doing his occasional stunt.
CLAIMING TOO MUCH.
The women are much like men in
claiming more for the reform in
which they happen to be interested
than is at all likely to result. Demo
crats and republicans alike have had
the fatal habit of boasting overmuc
legarding the programs they have put
forth and of what would be accom
plished thereunder. Both have been
compelled to explain and apologize
when the event rose to plague them
and to deny many if not most of their
claims.
Commercialized vice, we are now
told by eloquent apostles of equal suf
frage, will never be wiped out until
women get the ballot. Perhaps not
and perhaps not even then. Even
women will not be able by their bal
lots to change human nature; and
there happens to be a lot of human
nature in commercialized vice. It is
only perverted human nature.
We shall hope that when women
obtain the ballot as they are prac
tically certain to do in this state be
fore the end of the current year they
will come to the aid of those earnest
men who are striving, not to chang
human nature, but to permit it free
play under normal conditions. Com
mercialized vice cannot flourish to any
great extent in a society where the
struggle for existence is unembittered
by monopolistic control of natural op
ttortumties. Commercialized vice is
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practically unknown in primitive so
cities where the chances to make a
living are open to all on substantially
equal terms.
Commercialized vice is a symptom
only. It is not a disease in itself. It
manifests itself only under certain
economic conditions. If these condi
tions are removed or overcome, com
mercialized vice disappears, just as
pimples disappear Trom the face when
impurities in the blood are eliminat
ed. It is unthinkable that com
mercialized vice could flourish on any
large scale or perhaps on any scale at
1.11 where young men and young wom
en could mate in the mating season
without fear of the future in regard
to food and shelter.
Here is the whole story. But our
suffrage friends do not appear to ap
prehend it or sense its meaning. With
the ballot they fancy that they shall
work wonders And with it they cer-
tainly may work wonders. But not
U 1onK the lines suggested by some of
their evangels. If they banish corn-
mercialized vice they will hot do it by
legislative decree, not by resort to
proscription and force, but by so im
proving economic condition that nor
mal ties may confidently be assumed
by young men and maidens at the
time when nature
most insistently
calls.
However, the women cannot be
blamed if they dream dreams and
float in clouds now and again. We
lords of creation have set the ex-
ample. The women could not by any
possibility outrun their fathers, their
husbands, their brothers or their lov
crs in imagining vain things. Men for
thousands of years have been tryin
with might and main to banish corn-
mercialized vice and other evils which
afflict society, resorting even to the
rnost drastic meaift, yet without prac
tical results. Commercialized vice
still flourishes and other evils remain
to challenge and to shame the society
"der which they are bred. If the
women shall not quite realize their
fondest hopes and desires when the
ballot is theirs, they will at least have
the satisfaction which men have in
knowing that they have used it ac-
cording to their lights. If the lights
have been dim and ineffective, that is
kot the fault of the ballot; and lights
may become better as we progress
from the tallow dip to the electric
bulb. This progress, of course, marks
fcimply the gaining in knowledge.
Johnstown Democrat.
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Evcry day should be clean-up dy
with our people. If you cannot do it
all in one day, take two, but clean up
your premises.
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Meat prices jumped up a notch or
two this week, and the people will
have to be content or go without meat,
which is one of the necessities of the
laboring man.
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PECULIAR ACCIDENT AND .
DEATH NEAR ELMWOOD
From Saturday's Daily.
Otto htubbendeck, jr., passed away
Tuesday afternoon at the Stubben-
deck home, southeast of town, from
injuries received while attempting to
bridle a fractious mule last Saturday
afternoon. He was taking up the
animal preparatory to making use of
t in the field, and was trying to get
the bridle on so he could proceed in
harnessing. But the angered mule
tell over against him, and he was
pinioned between the animal and the
partition in such a manner as to
horribly mash his abdomen about the
chest and lungs. He suffered terribly
until death came to his relief. Fun
eral services will be held this (Friday)
afternoon, from the North Branch
church.
Otto Stubbendeck, jr., was a splen
did young man, and a member of one
of the most properous and respected
amilies of that locality. His un-
imely death is a great shock to his
elatives and many friends. He was
aged 20 years. Elm wood Leader
Echo. Splendid for Rheumatism.
I think Chamberlain's Liniment is
just splendid for rheumatism," writes
Mrs. Dunburgh, Eldridge, N. Y. "It
has been used by myself and other
members of my family time and time
again during the- past six years and
has always given the best of satis
faction." The quick relief from pain
hich Chamberlain's Liniment affords
alone worth many times the cost.
Obtainable everywhere.
Letter files at the Journal office.
You will find the most complete
ine of stationery in the city of
Plattsmouth at the Journal office.
he finest line of box paper, visiting
and calling cards.
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Where Are You
Going This Summer?
Not everybody can go to California; the summer will bring thou
sands from the East to the ranch resorts and hotels of Scenic Colorado,
the Black Hills, the Big Horn Mountains, the Absaroka Mountain ranches
beyond Cody. x
THE NATIONAL PARKS This is going to be a big season for Gla
cier and Yellowstone National Parks, and forEstes Park, Colo., just north
of Denver, adjoining the new Rocky Mountain National Park. The in
creased number of Eastern visitors to these western summer localities
during the summer of 1914 showed the "grip" that the glorious summer
life of the mountains was taking with the Eastern people.
Publications now coming off the press. An early mention is made
to call them to your attention anr? to indicate the wisdom of makiog
your plans f.arly.
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Returns From Hospital.
From Saturday's Dally.
Mrs. Arthur Keffler, who has been
in Omaha for the past few weeks tak
ing treatment at the Wise Memorial
hospital and recovering from the ef
fects of a very serious operation, was
able this afternoon to return home to
this city, where she will remain at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Thrasher, for a time. Mrs. Keffler
is feeling much improved since the
operation.
STATE FEDERATION OF
COMMERCIAL CLUBS
TO MEET IN LINCOLN
From Saturday's Dally.
The State Federation of Commer
cial clubs will hold their annual con
vention in Lincoln on Wednesday and
Thursday, May 5 and 6, and a very
extensive program of entertainment
has been arranged for the visitors in
that city during the convention. Many
helpful ideas in regard to means of
aiding in the development of towns
can be secured by the interchange of
ideas by the representatives of the
different organizations of the state,
and a large number of delegates are
looked for from the different towns
scattered throughout the state. The
development of the cities of the state
are largely aided through the assist
ance of their public bodies, and for
this reason the meeting of the state
federation will be productive of much
good to every community that is rep
resented at the meetings at Lincoln.
The Plattsmouth Commercial club will
be represented by delegates, who will
gather the ideas that may be found
of use in aiding in the betterment of
the city and its interests, and the re
sult of the state meeting will be one
that cannot help but be of assistance
in originating ideas for future work in
the lines of improvement.
Write me of the locality you have
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in uumu.
R. W. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent
L. W. WAKELEY, Gen'l Passenger Agnt
1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb.