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PAGE. 4. rLATTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, JULY 15. 1915. GERMANS DON'T WANT WAR. Ilereafter it may be called Russian ! Oe plattsmouth journal Published 8 m l-W oekly at Platttmouth. N b r. Entered .t the Postofflce at Plaltsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Bubtorlptlon Prloei S1.50 Per Your In Advenoe i i i THOUGHT FOR TODAY. It is a matter of economy to be happy, to view life and all its conditions from the bright est angle; it enables one to seize life at its very best. It expands the soul. II. W. Dresser. V -:o:- That was certainly a gully-washer Sunday night. :o: An Indiana grand jury has "tag ged" Tom Taggert. :o: America will not act hastily in the present crisis with Germany. :o: The town clock is almost human. It seldom tells the exact truth. :o: German dyes are much needed in this country, but Germans dying is another thing. ro : There is nothing that reconciles us to other people's misfortunes like our own philosophy. :o: The big raias Sunday night and Monday morning done considerable damage to property in the north part of Omaha. :o: If you expect gratitude in exchange for favors bestowed, return your re spect for the human family by re turning the favors. KNOCKING RURAL SCHOOLS. --:: American factories can turn out automobiles faster than foreign buy ers can take our horses. Henry Ford can almost do this by his lonely self. :o: Did it ever occur to you how many fellows of inferior quality are fixing themselves to run for the democratic nomination for governor? :u: If the kings of Europe are not ex posing themselves on the line of fire, it is not because there would be any audible protests from this country if they did. :o : It will probably not be easy in the future for excitable looking strangers to walk into J. P. Morgan's front door and sit down in the best plush chair in the parlor. :o: Some of our people have always been in favor and against commission form of government, and are yet, but don't you think it would be a good thing right now? -:o:- Somc fellows may try to defeat Woodrow Wilson on the one-term proposition. But the man who suc ceeds in securing the nomination on this pica will never be elected. Mark that! :o: It is believed that Mr. Bryan, in his devotion to the one term plank, would at the present time patriotic ally and unselfishly sacrifice any chance he could possibly have of be ing even re-elected president. :o: The newspapers make a good deal of the fact that President Wilson stopped to render aid to an over turned motor party. Whoever 13 president, it alway3 scem3 to attract a lot of surprise when he act3 liks an ordinary gentleman. :o: The civil service reform farce should be repealed,., and give i3 "to the victors belong the spoils." Then there will be less trouble about the appointive offices. When the demo crats are in fire all republicans bodily, and the same with the democrats when the republicans are Li power. The esteemed Saturday Evening Tost compares the average country school to the penurious process of stealing pennies from the children with the advantage on the side of the latter performance. Which is some slam, and, we believe, unmerited. Con solidation and grading of the rural schools with better housing and ade quate pay for teachers is doubtly a worthy movement, and a needed im provement over conditions as they are today. Yet a chance to compare the pupils of the dreary, one-room, one teacher schools which dot the Ne braska landscape, with the pupils of the modern educational plants of towns and cities, is likely to convince one that the rural system is not so deficient in planting the rudimentals of an education, as the editor of the Post seems to believe. Sometimes we think that the pupil in town, sur rounded by all the comforts and con veniences ot modern educational in stitutions, cart less for education than the country kid who must tramp a mile to the bare and battered box of a building which serves him as a tem ple of knowledge. Possibly it is the difficulty of ac pairing an education, or such a start ii that direction as the country school affords, which makes it more appreciated. Besides, school is more of a diversion in the rural districts than in town, where there is more "going on." Theoretically, of course, the town or city or consolidat ed school, made modern in every method, is far superior to the despis ed little red school house, or white or brown or ding,y gray, as the color scheme may be. But it isn't well to despise that which can show so much in the way of results. It may be destined to go; to give way to bigger and better buildings; to more modern methods of pedagogy, but it has a record of usefulness and achievement behind it which Americans should cherish as a jreat factor in the build ings of a nation. :o: One of the greatest delights is to watch a beaut ful woman who doesn't know she is a beauty. But in this man's town most of them know. :o: j One swallow and a robin doesn't make a spring, but a couple of swal lows and a blind robin sometimes make a fellow think that he is a bird. :o: The stage may be glittering, and all that, but any magazine devoted exclusively to things theatrical is really as dull as the Congressional Record. :o : It is claimed that the farmer who does not own an automobile is not "in it" any longer, but anyway he knows that his wife is staying at home quietly doing the chores. : o : They are still hanging negroes down in Georgia. But it is a safe bet they deserve it. If northern people had such things to contend with that the southern people have, they would be more desperate than the people in the south. It makes a great differ ence sometimes whose ox i3 gored. :o: There is on-j certain gentleman who has been holding a lucrative state ap pointive office for eight years past, r.nd now he thinks he is big enough for governor, and is working awful hard to induce some of his friends to boom him. But he doesn't boom worth a cent. In the first place, he isn't qualified, and in the next place he will have to remove that iron band from around his head before he can be elected to any state office, much !cs3 that of the high position of gov ernor. He his had more than he is entitled to already. Leading Germans do not want war with the United States. They are willing, it apepars, to concede many points to avoid a war, if reports that come across the waters are to "be ac cepted as true. Expressions made by thoughtful men indicate that the in fluence of the United States in the war in Europe would be a grievous burden for Germany to bear. It is taking a stand for humanity in de manding that indiscriminate raiding of commerce be stopped and that pro vision be made for safety of non combatants in the sinking of vessels by submarines, the whole world not already in the war would be siding with the United States. While the most aggressive of the war party do not see it this way, men who are not so aggressive in military and naval affairs see it. They say that while the United States would be un able for a long time to furnish any soldiers to add to the forces of the allies in Europe, it would be able to accelerate the manufacture of war munitions, it would eventually be able to throw into the war a largo navy and a large number of aeroplanes and submarines which might. count heavily and that eventually the Unit ed States would have a large well equipped army that would mean much. Germany has no intention of provoking war with the United States. Germany is now conceding, so says Von Jagow, minister of for eign affairs, according to an inter viewer, Miss Jane Addams, that there is nothing wrong with the United States allowing the exportation of rms. Indeed, it is beginning to ap pear, from statements made by manu facturers of war munitions in the United States, that Germany is get ting immense supplies here and put ting them through, either by way cf Greece, Denmark, Amsterdam or the Scandinavian countries. An em bargo on war munitions would cut Germany off, too. War with the United States would cut off food ship- mpnts to Germany and Germany con trives to get food supplies in, not withstanding the blockade. A Bridge port, Conn., manufacturer of war munitions is quoted as saying Ger many is getting 15 per cent of the war munitions manuractured in Bridgeport, where the largest amount of war munitions is being made. The cry that Germany was being unfair- y treated in the sale of munitions to the allies is therefore without force. In the meantime, Germany doesn't want war with us and won't have it. : o : "Seeing America First" is also a kind of life insurance; you're more apt to live through it than when go ing abroad. :o: All the good that automobiles do may net be at once realized. They make even a lazy man hustle to get money enough to buy one. :o; Apparently there is an unbridge able chasm between tho:-c who, holt! that criminals arc mentally defective and those who think they can be re formed. :o: . With the abolition of capital pun ishment, even the humblest citizen without any money at all escapes the gallows. Such is the leveling of our institutions. :o: Watermelons have reached their i apogee. The meloniam is here. :o: "Don't overestimate people," says a pastor; particularly during courtship. :o: Thirty-two bushels to the acre have ' a thrifty sound to the farmers of Ne ! braska. j :or I Some men endeavor to do what is I right, but in many instances their J tires will skid. . ! :o:- Note succeeds note and nothing done. The pen is also more dilly-dal lying than the sword. :o: Big business might get out ofj politics if politics would let big busi ness alone; but it won't. :u: Sixty days ago the farmers could have had uso for rain; even now they are not profaning, merely grumbling. :o: A bitter argucrer may glory in his dominance of the field; but people ! just go away when he comes around. :o: The war and the weather combine to strengthen the faith of the people who believe the end of the world is near. :o:- :o:- Truth is stranger than fiction; and what happens as this war progresses in Europe will be full of astonishcrs .nd paralizers. The present form of European civilization may be totally altered. :o: It certainly was the irony of fate that a world's champion by the name of Cutler should have been so badly used up by a pair of scissors. Come on, Mr. Gotch, and get a dose of the same kind. :o:- President Wilson does not view matters critically at all with Ger many. It takes a level head to run this great country of ours successful ly, and that's what President Wilson i3 doing, and he will get to the end in safety for the people. The Russians have won ano;hcr glorious victory consisting of retreat ing so fast that iaiy couldn't all be captured. :o: Don't try to locate the library on some lot just because the owner wants you to. Remember past ex periences. :o : A man who has drawn a fat politi cal salary for twenty or thirty years for doing nothing in particular is apt to say, in retiring, that he has "given the best years of his life to the public." bimfih zszzza Bay. Last night when we closed our doors, we had finished the largest day's Clothing and Furnishing Goods business that lias ever been done by a Plattsmouth clothing store in any single day. We do not sfeak of this boastingly, but Ave take it rather as a handsome tribute to truthful adver tising and honest' value-giving, .which we have established as the cornerstones of this business. The bargains are truly wonderful and need only to be seen to make good our claims. The reason we're offering them, simply this, we must cut our stock to a certain figure before we close this sale on July 24th. Come early and get the best. Open evenings during sale to accommodate shopmen and farmers. . Manhattan Skirts Stetson Hats And pours. stiil it lains, and at times -:n:- :o:- NOT AN INSOLENT NOTE. Some of the anti-German jingoes in the American press were most in temperate in their denunciation of the most recent German note, giving some color to the otherwise incredi ble charge so often heard that there are American t newspapers bent on promoting a war that will involve this country. Any newspaper writer who could denounce that note as "a climax of improdence' must entertain some other feeling in the matter than any that could be inspired by the diction or spirit of the note. Anyone who could discover in the German reply "the most insolent note ever addressed by one govern ment to another" gets from it a significance not perceptible to the most of us. It is true that the note is not re sponsive to the suggestions made in President Wilsons note on any of the vital points mcussed in the latter. But there is a notable evasion of any thing that can sound to any sane man like insolence. There s nothing im pudent in it. The worst that can bo found in this note, so far as the spirit that marks its diction is concerned, is a firm and avowedly kindly denial by one friend of the contentions of another. Americans who are not partial to war and bloodshed, and who are in terested in upholding or promoting no other interest than the common in terests of all Americans, will be able to discern in this note no such studied insult as the jingoes profess to find in it. There 13 nothing in it that pre cludes the possibility or advisability of further and continued temperate and friendly negotiations that shall not cease until the humane principle iJiall have been recognized by all and shall become established between the powers now at issue. President Wilson will discern the temper of that note and will respond in kind. He may be relied upon to do that, despite all the jingoes every where. And the great body of the American press will be with him. Lincoln Star. The farmers arc surely becoming discouraged. :o: Wc don't mind to much the hats the women wear as wc do the protruding hatpins. . :: In the meantime there is no use of Un.cle Sam becoming as crazy as Europe. :o: "Women without the ballot are Eerf;," says a Boston suffragist. Serf lagettcs, eh? :o: Germany is not fighting for exist ence, perhaps, but militarism on earth may be. :n: If these rains keep up it will he very difficult for most farmers to save their wheat cros. :o:- With due regard for our national fashions, wc refuse to let any base ball player select our smoking tobacco for us. :o: Yale beat the tar out of Harvard in the recent boat races, and Prof. Taft has enjoyed other triumphs over Teddy Roosevelt during this strenuous season. , :o: "Gotten" may be your pet aversion, but how do you like "be having?" Somehow suggests the vocal perform ance of a certain melancholy long- earcd animal. :o: The experience of our oWn army demonstrates the value of inoculation against typhoid, but it is hard to get a healthy civilian to submit to injec tion of serums. :o : It ought to be possible for a man to hold up his head in the community and be considered an object of re spect, even if his machine can't climb a 10 per cent grade on high speed. :o : There is optimism in the agricul tural department at Washington in dealing with the prospective corn crop. The department figures it out that, notwithstanding excessive rains and continued cool weather, the crops of this year, with favorable conditions for the remainder of the season, will be a quarter of a bil lion bushels larger than last year, when it reached two and three-quarters billions bushels. :o: England last Saturday night called upon organized labor to come to the aid of the government in -the serious crisis developed by the shortage of war munitions. The minister of munitions, Lloyd George, issued an appeal to the trade unionists, signed by tho united labor leaders of the na tion, urging every skilled workman to enroll as a volunteer in the munition factories. The proclamtaion described the ammunition question as very grave. 3 t All the statesmen are for economy, but when it should take effect is a disputed point resulting in increased taxes. :o: FOR SALE. A Permanent Result. No. 1. (MO acres, fine improvements, 1(30 acres broke, the very best of farm ing land, mostly level, rest good pas ture. Price 8,500. Good terms. No. 2. G40 acres, good well and windmill, about C0 acres can be farmed, bal ance fine grass land. The best that is. This is all fenced. Price, $8.00 per acres. Good terms. Four other sections of 010 acres each at $5.00 per acres. $500.00 cash, balance 5 years at 6 per cent.k Good Slock Farm. 1,280 acres, 300 acres broke, fine farming lard and pasture. $10.00 per acre. ..Terms. All this land is close to school, on public read, the best of neighborhood and about 10 miles to good town and never fails to raise a crop. I will be i'i Plattsmouth about ono week. If not in the city, call 3212. The land above joins the 1,280-acre farm of the Ilild boys bought this spring. -C. B. SCHLEICHER. 7-8-1 wk-d&w The treatment of diseases should not only aim to secure relief of pain, but a permanent cure. 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