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PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1915. Cbc plattsmoutb journal Published 8 e m l-W e k I y at Plattvmouth, N b r. Kntred at the PostofBce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Bubsorlptlon Prloei S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe 4 THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Extremes in Nature equal good J produce; Extremes in man occur to gen eral use. 'I Pope. rrv vivw vwi -:o:- Think it over. Maybe you are at fault yourself. :o: A man may be too proud to fight and yet be able to swallow his pride. :o: "Safety first," is fine, but the trouble is that too many wait until it is too late. :o: In spite of the damages wrought by rain, flood and the Hessian fly, the farmers are keeping a stiff upper lip. :o: It appears some people don't regret the money a divorce costs any more deeply than the money a wedding costs.' . -:o:- Formal announcement has been made of the appointment of Robert Lansing as secretary of state. So mote it be. :o:- Some of the cities that failed to get reginal reserve banks expect to be more than consoled by having a win ning ball team. :o: Mot anyone can borrow money to buy an automobile nowadays, but the trouble is to get a loan on the gaso line and the tires. -:n:- Most women with good forms, it seems, have homely faces; also those with farms. Cut the, latter have no trouble to find a husband. :o: Don't worry about the job you don't like, for it probably will be taken from you soon. No man who is displeased with his job can please his employer. :o: The daisy is now so plentiful that they are now nearly as big a nuisance as the dandelion. Some lawns about town are literally covered with them. :o: TKe people of Nebraska should be spanked for complaining, when people are starving in Mexico, Belgium, Po land, Serbia, Russia, China and other places. :o: A French baby has been named Raymond George Albert Nicholas Jof fre Pourtals. One of the horrors that could not be foreseen when the war started. :o: $250,000 is needed to celebrate the opening of Jhe Panama canal. This is an occasion where it will take a good many thousands of corks for a salute. -rot- Too many young men and some of them old enough to have grown daughters of their own, hang around on the street corners of an evening gazing into the faces "of every lady that passes. Once in awhile you will hear some fellow cay: "I wish I was out of this town!" Well, there are no strings tied on you, and walking is good if you havn't got railroad fare. Go and make room for a more worthy citizen. tor It would be better for the Ameri can people if there were no reports from the battlefields in Europe. Each nation at war sends such reports as they want. One day Germany has the best of it and the next day Rus sia is more than holding her own. But reports coming straight from Ger many seem to be relied upon more than any other. SECRETARY LANSING. President Wilson's first choice for secretary of state was frankly a poli tical one. William J. Bryan was ap pointed to that important and dignfied position because he was a leader in the democratic party, because he had a larger personal following than any other man in American public life, because as a result of his action at Baltimore Woodrow Wilson was nom inated for president, because it was felt that he could be of great benefit and assistance to the administration in matters of domestic policies and in politics, rather than because of any special experience and training which qualified mm for the office. No one dreamed at the time that the greatest war in history was brewing, and that in consequence the head of the depart ment of state would be called to face such grave responsibilities, and un dertake such arduous and delicate duties, as had fallen to the lot df few if any of the long line of distinguish ed statesmen who had occupied that exalted position. Obliged now to change horses while undertaking safely to cross the stream a stream turbulent and wild and dark with blood President Wil son realizes, that never before in its history has the United States known a greater need of trained, able states men in the state department than at the present time. lie turns, there fore, to Robert Lansing of New York, who has acted as counsel for the de partment since the resignation, last year, of John Eassett Moore, who was unable to get along with Mr. Bryan. Mr. Lansing proved to be so super latively able a diplomatist that he got along with Mr. Brj an, and the presi dent now names him for Bryan's suc cessor. A brief recital of the salient facts in Mr. Lansing's . career serves to make it very plain that he worked his way to this high position not by virtue of political .skill and influence, but through diligent study and care ful training. He is the son-in-law of John W. Foster of Ohio, himself a notable diplomatist, who was sec retary of state under Harrison. He is associated editor of the American Journal of International Law. He is author of a work on the origin, growth and form of government in the United States. He is a member ( of the American society of interna tional law and of the American politi cal science association. For more than twenty years, prior to entering the s tate department, he had almost con tinuous experience in dealing with questions involving international law. Il6 served as associate consul for the United States in the Behring sea arbitration; as consul for the United States before the Behring sea claims commission; as solicitor for the Unit ed States before the Alaskan bound ary tribunal; as consul for the North Atlantic coast fisheries in the arbitra tion at The Hague in 100D-10; as agent for the United States in the American and British claims arbitra tion in 1912-14. ' Aside from being a lawyer and studer.t of government, he is vice president of a bank in his home town, Watertown, N. Y. Incidentally it is said that he is a democrat. A greater contrast than that be tween Mr. Wilson's first premier and his second it would be difficult to find. In a political way, as an agent for in fluencing either the congress or the people in matters of domestic policy, as a repairer or builder of party fences, Secretary Lansing presumably will be of little or no value to the ad ministration or the democratic party. But as a wise and learned and sagacious counsellor familiar with the history of nations, trained in the in tricacies of that intangible thing term ed international law, experienced in the arts and usages of diplomacy, it is earnestly to be hoped, and there is reason for believing, that he will prove a tower of strength to President Wilson and to the American people in a time that calls for all that is big and strong that American statesman ship can furinsh. World-Herald. tor The new band-stand is a dandy, That's what everybody say. :o: Keep on dragging the roads. That's the way to keep them in fine shape. tor Popular as Mr. Lansing is with the president, the latter will go on writing the notes. tot There has been no rain heic for sev eral days, and the farmers get in some work now. rot The Old Missouri keeps full, not withstanding the many "dry" people on the east side. :o: Anyone can carry a dig. The thing that counts is good citizenship every day in the week. tot A Plattsmouth doctor says ice cream makes freckles. Girls, we don't believe it do you? tor So long as fortune tellers can't real y foretell one has to live his lifo on the installment plan. tot Before he gets through Mr. Bryan will no doubt issue a statement show ing his attitude on German measels. tor ' The clover-bloat is effecting some of the cattle throughout the country, and a number have died from eat ing it. tot All America is now divided into three classes: The jingos or alarm- sts, the peacc-at-any-price and the neutrals. . tor The English parliament has voted a credit of five billion dollars to spend in furthering the war. That is like hrowing it away. ror It is said 'we spend more for candy than we do on our navy. Would coat ing dreadnaughts with chocolate make us swallow them any faster? ror It may be foreseen how those who aw Europe before the war will take on airs over those who will have to accept the sights and scenes that arc eft after it is over. :o: President Wilson has not made many mistakes. There are few men that have made less. His appointment of Robert Lansing to take the place vacated by Mr. Bryan, is certainly no mistake. He is recognized as a gen tleman of great ability and a man who understands international affairs as well as any man in America. tot The total exports of fresh beef since the war in Europe began have aggregated nearly 102,000,000 pounds, as compared with 5,000,000 pounds for a corresponding period in the previous year, according to the "National Pro visor." Between GO and 80 per cent of this beef, however, was brought from South America for reshipment o European ports. The great bulk of the beef was bought for war pur poses and to supply the shortage due to the war conditions. tot June weddings are coming- to a close in only a few days. The June weddings add much to the gaity of the season. It is good to get married at any time, but the best time is June. Engaged couple should have the knot tied now. Delay is unpleasant and not at all profitable or safe. Long engagements are an abomination. When a young man asks a girl to be his wife he should not mean that the marriage is to take place in 1917 or next year; he should ask that the knot be tied forthwith. Most men do; but those dawdlers who ask for time and who flutter around and can not make up their minds should be sent about their business. If a man wishes a girl to be his wife let him face the parson like a man. June is the month for marrying. TIRED OF WAR. Col. House, the president's friend lately returned from Europe, wheie he visited capitals of both sides in the controversy, and reports that the rulers of both sides are confident of ultimate victory. However, he didn'i devote his whole sojourn abroad to mingling with the mighty; he found time to mix with the proletariat a bit and his observations among the plain people of all the countries is that they are wearying of the war. That seems reasonble, and is easy to be lieve. Whichever nation started the trouble, a question on which people never will agree, it can never be saiti that the people of the guilty nation were responsible. Indeed, they prob ably were as much surprised and as greatly shocked as those of innocent Belgium. But, when it was started, it was the people who bore the bur dens, and are still bearing'them; who will bear them, indeed, long after th diplomats have signed a peace treaty, and changed the map of Europe ac cording to the standards of might. And it isn't strange that they should weary of it, particularly since it doesn't seem to be getting anywhere in particular. Most of the glory of war is in song and story and history, and the real business of hostilities is disagreeable and mussy for those who carry it on, and for those at home who furnish food for the soldiers, and enr their share of sorrow and sus pense. i'eopic naturally tire ot war quicker than the potentates who bring it about and watch its operations from a safe distance. But we doubt that they can end it. Of course, if all men would refuse to fight, that would end the war, and might be a sensible course, but all military law is harder to overthrow than the civil kind, which has more or less influence on the lives of men. However, public sentiment is an influence, even in auto cratic realms, and there may be a hope of peace in the fact that the peo ple are tired of war. to t A Plattsmouth young man has had to dodge so many automobiles he is now becoming clever at dodging his creditors. ror Summer vacation? What's the use, wnen the summer vacation climate is right here? Stay at home ind save your money. You may have use for it next winter to pay the coal bills, etc. :o: "Seeing America First," is the slogan in the east. Many easterners are taking the opportunity to do so, but it is all because they are fearful to risk sea voyages at this critical time. -ro" "Bachelor" wants to know if a day can't be set aside for bachelors as well as for mothers, fathers and the rest. There is a day set for bacehlors, it's "wedding day," and more of them in this old town should celebrate it. :o: Our people are still agitating the proper location for the public library, and some few get very much excited over the matter. What's the use ? We all want the library, and it can't be located to suit everybody, so there is no use trying. Let the library board locate it wehre they desire, and the Journal won't be found among the nockcrs. :o:- If every man in the city were a 1US istler and tradesman hustling for the trade he could honestly get, this newspaper would soon have to enlarge order to run their ads. More than that, everybody on the outside would talking Plattsmouth being the liveliest town on earth. Advertise ments talk away from home as well as at home. tor- As for the Journal, we do not care what the reasons are for Mr. Bryan's re I do irement from the cabinet. But we know this from the facts thus far veloped, and that is that President Wilson is as much a lover of peace as r. Bryan. The difference between iem is one of them wants peace at any cost, while the other wants to maintain the honor and at the same time keep the peace, if possible. President Wilson is taking a much needed rest. Good! :or- When Dr. Dernburg gets home per haps we shall hear "Dern American! ror "The day we celebrate" will soon b here. A big day everywhere but in Plattsmouth. tor Mr. Bryan might do pretty well for assistant secretary of state under Secretary Lansing. ror After having opened the Panama canal Col. Goethols may have a life job keeping it open. ror Peace is now Mr. B.'s paramount issue. Perhaps it's a little more timely than the others. rot Not only does Mexico scold us fo our good intentions, but it doesn thank us for our corn and beans. :o: He is a diplomatic politician who can make the people forget his cam paign promises. There is one in the state house right now. ror Writers who feel disconsolate tha they have written nothing that wil live may feel some satisfaction in writing something that enables them to. ror It is too Lad that the interstate commerce commissioners did not de lay making that ruling about check ing baggage until after they ha taken their own trunks away to a summer resort. rot The first Saturday afternoon con cert was a success and many people were in from the country to enjoy it. It is no doubt the proper caper, and will be followed up during the summer season. tot "PSYCHOLOGICAL." President Wilson was so merciless iy criticised for using the word "psy chological" in relation to a business situation, that in a subsequent ad dress he laughingly said that he would never use that word again, but Joseph II. Finn, who made the principal ad dress to the annual convention of the Associnted Advertising Clubs in Chi cago the other day, made the same tatement even in stronger language than the president used. He said: "It is the truth that good times and bad times are largely a matter of psy chology." The word that the bankers use to describe that condition of mind is "confidence," but the educated man uses the word "psychological." It is a state of mind, but how a great com munity can all get into a depressed state of mind at once is more puzzling especially when all the conditions would indicate that the very opposite state cf mind, if facts were consider ed, should exist. Such effects must be numbered e.mong "those things that no fellow can find out." Mr. Finn, who seems to be a philospher, says: "Undoubtedly the greatest thing that newspapers can do for advertisers for the business world, for humanity is to sperad the gospel of optimism to start a straight course of confidence. A news paper that deals in unquieting rumors, that dispenses gloom and that is al ways on the hair trigger of uncer- ntv, defeats the advertiser and de feats itself." That is "phychology" of newspaper work. The same principle plies in the philosophy of life and politics as well as in business. The rty that appeals for votes by dc- ap to pa daring everything is going to ruin is not likely to win. The winning re former asys: "These things are wrong, but for the country is not going to smash, we propose to right them." psychological wave struck Georgia recently and swept every man, except the stronger, off his feet. wave will pass and then a good many men will be ashamed of their tions. Just such a wave sometimes ac ecps over the business world. The sw stronger minds are not affected by it, and the when the thing is past, those are men -who have the fortunes. World-Herald. Children Cry lTrro)nA! 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Now, or soon after, comes the heated term, when the tired toiler would like to discard his job and hasten to seashore, northern lake or lofty mountain, where summer is moderated by a refrigerating plant which isn't good for the corn crop, but provides great nights for sleeping. Some few will go and write home of big fish and sleeping under blankets, and otherwise torture their perspir ing friends. But most of us must stay and for them is the consolation that they usually live through it, and will have a liner appreciation of fall, when that joyous period arrives, and the frost is on the pumpkin and such like. For them also- is the klowledge that they can do much toward making summer life worth while, even in the corn belt, where hot days and sultry nights are essential to crop pros pects. Feople are coming to dress somewhat more sensibly than they used to at such times, thanks to the Palm Beach suits and other hints grabbed by the travelers from tropic and semi-tropic regions. To all in tents and purposes this might as well be the torrid zone for a few months each year, except that it is more so at times, and one can learn several lessons of living from people who put up with a steam-heated climate the whole year through. Besides dressing for the occasionone can learn to eat for it, which is to eat less and of less heating foods than are common to our tables throughout the more rigorous seasons. Also, in the matter of drink, one should learn to drink lots of water, and not much of anything else. 'articularly should he shun alcoholic beverages, for a hot fire is concealed I Will You Make Homestead Entry in 1915? Ten years' experience has put me auds in Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. Yon now have a choice of An 80-acre Government-irrigated you will be near good schools, churches, markets, neighbors, will have a good climate and be within driving distance of Yellowstone Park. $2.60 per acre pays initial cost, no further payments for five years. 75 farm ers have located on these lands since A 320-acre stock or dairy farm, ence posts, a good place to live. $22.00 pays filing fee. Government water rights in the acre; initial cost $1.10 per acre, payment of remainder distributed over twenty years, with no interest. If yields of this valley, write me. for Fletcher's Bought, and which lias been lias been made under his per supervision since its infancy. no ono to deceive you in thin. ASTORIA Signature of in the cold bottle, and a busthead begets prostration at this time more certainly than work in the harvest field. Also it is a time to avoid work ing too hard, and to join the don't worry club. With these few remarks taken seriously and acted upon, one should go through our torrid tem perature in good condition, and with out great discomfort, and the advice is given at much less than summer resort rates, to be taken or left alone. :o: Marriage performed in other states in violation of the Illinois law are void under a law that has been approved by Governor Dunne. The law also makes illegal marriages performed in Illinois contrary to the statutes of the state in which the contracting parties live. Evidently that's some law. :o: Bilious Attack. When you have a bilious attack your liver fails to perform its func tions. You become constipated. The fcod you eat ferments in your stom ach instead of digesting. This in flames the stomach and causes nausea, vomiting and a terrible headache. Take Chamberlain's Tablets. They will tone up your liver, clean out your stomach and you will soon be as well as ever. They only cost a quarter. Obtainable everywhere. DR. D. i, REYNOLDS, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Office, Coales Building. Thone 208. Office Hours 10:00 a. m. to 12:00. 2:00 p. m. to 4:00. Other Hours by Appointment. in touch with the best homestead farm near Powell, Wyo., where January 1st. good soil, free range, free coal and Scotts Bluff country cost $55 00 per you do not know of the amazing crop Why pay rent? Why not work for yourself? Write for my free booklets and about round trip fares applying . everyday. See these lands with their crops this summer! S. D. HOWARD. Immigration Agent, 1004 Fa mam Street, OMAHA, Nebraska
