PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOUKNAC
MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915.
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'Chz plattsmoutb journal
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Published 6 m'l-W eekly at Plattmouth, N b r.
Entered t the Postofflce t PUttsmouth. Nebraska. u second-class mall matter.
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. THOUGHT FOR TODAY. -
-- To educate the heart, one
must be willing to go out of v
J- himself and to come into loving
'I- contact with others.- James v
! Freeman Clarke. !
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:o:
First a man becomes a loafer; then
an anarchist.
:o:
If you stretch it, truth can be made
to go a long ways.
:o:
No rain Wednesday or Thursday
two solid days of sunshine.
:o:
"Let us have peace" and proceed
with our public improvements.
:o:
A man may also be known by the
way he blows his own auto horn.
:o:
Truth is stronger than fiction be
cause there is less of it on the mar
ket. :n:-
A war baby was born in Otoe
county recently, the birth following a
shotgun wedding.
" :o:
Paving is a thing that talks loud
for a town. Then why not keep on
with the good work in Plattsmouth.
:o:
There was a time when a girl would
not allow a young man to accompany
her home from church is he didn't
take her there. But where is that girl
now ?
:o:
The sun rises nowadays not far
from four o'clock, but it would be im
possible for most Plattsmouth people
to verify that fact other than by
looking at the almanac.
:o:
Just as we supposed there would
be there is quite a lot of knocking on
the action of the city council Monday
night. But did you ever know the
council to act on any matter that
there wasn't knocking and kicking on
what they done?
:o:
They know that Charles Becker did
not kill Rosenthal, but it is not
positively known that Frank did not
kill the little girl. Yet Frank gets a
life sentence and Becker has to die
for being accessory to the crime. Is
there any justice in that sort of busi
ness ?
:o:
It is tommyrot to hear newspapers
and statesmen inquiring where the
war will end, and in the next instant
urging the nation to go ahead and
prepare for war. That's a great deal
like a merchant who advertises at his
fmrA door that he is selling out to
quit business and is piling in new
goods at the back door.
:o:
If the mayor and city council will
simply take the reigns of government
in their own hands and proceed with
th matters of the city as their own
good, sound business judgment would
suggest, wc believe they would give
more genuine satisfaction .to the
greatest majority of the people ot
Plattsmouth than to be handicapped
by the dictations of those who have
their own selfish interests to gratify.
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A traveling man who makes all thr;
big towns in Nebraska, told us yester
day that Plattsmouth had improved
more and was still improving more
than any cjty of it3 size in the state.
Then don't"' let us oppose improve
ments that are really necessary and
will add greatly to the appearance of
otr pretty city. Give us electroliers,
and let's keep up with other cities in
this respect, also.
THE HAM) OF GOD.
God has been accused of a good
many things since man first learned
to sit on a fence and talk, but here is
a minister accusing Him of the worst
thing that ever happened, in. these
words: "We are too close to present
events to see the result which the
hand of God planned in the European
war." Of course the minister was
doing the best he could for God, and
is evidently optimistic enough to be
lieve that something good will come
out of the present struggle. But to
use such words in connection with
the works of Diety is a reckless use
of language. To imagine that a
Creator of suns and moons and stars
and of the earth could have anything
to do with so fiendish a crime as the
present struggle is repulsive. There
isn't anything in nature and the
only way we have of estimating God
is through nature so cruel or un
called for ai this war. In nature we
find the various species struggling for
life. We find varieties and kinds and
individuals of vaiieties and kinds
seeking with all their might to per
petuate themselves and their off
spring. But nowhere in nature is
there such a useless struggle as this,
or such a wasteful one. All of us can
believe that good will come out of the
war. That is, we shall probably be
able to learn something from it, if
nothing else the ridiculousness of
fighting. That will be good if we
learn the lesson and then prevent
other wars. But we ought to have
learned that without a war like this
struggle. The truth is, man ar
rogates to himself entirely too much j
importance in the realm of the uni
verse. He seems to think it was all I
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created for him, and that he, of all
the objects in this universe, is the
special creature of a Great Father
who guides him with a fatherly hand.
He does not seem to realize this i
thing called man that he is quite in
significant when a billion planets such
as the one he inhabits, are to be.look
ed after, and a billion suns and moons
and stars are to be kept revolving in
their orbits. We have all been placed
here for something. There can be no
question about that. But it is pretty
hard to imagine. that we were put
here to cut each other's throats, or to
make orphans out of each other's
children, or widows out of each
other's wives. All of our actions are
in accord with natural laws; the war
followed a certain chain of events; it
was inevitable from the time man got
into the rut that leads to selfishness
or vanity. But to believe that this
war resulted from the careful plan
ning "by the hand cf God," that would
be to try to make infidels of nine
tenths of the human race. For nine
tenths of the race vould refuse to fol
low or to honor a God who would have
anything to do with such a damnable
thing as this war las proven to be.
Dayton (Ohio) News.
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Piscatorial is another word report
ers are shy about using, even after
they know the meaning of it.
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In some communities the farmers
are praying for rain, but nowhere in
eastern Nebraska, thank you.
:o:
. Making prison life an Arcadian ex
istence the plan in some places is
moving forward; but the important
question to ask is: Is crime de
creasing? That, of course, is the
primary object of prison life.
:o:
It is suggested as a safety measure
that shrubs and other objects
obstructing the view at railroad
crossings be removed. Motorists like
to feel sure that there is an even
chance of getting out alive before
crvsing ahead of a train.
The submarines do not even lay off
Sundays.
:o:
No man goes out hunting for trou
ble; he is always hunting for "fun."
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The oil indications continue splcn
did. The best prospects are near
town.
:o:
And still we get some rain
enough to keep the roads good ant:
muddy.
:o:
Looting is lessening in Mexico;
there is a rift in the loot; in fact, it
is all gone.
:o:-
Every city needs a slogan, and
Plattsmouth's is: "Get together for
electroliers!"
:o:
When the dispatches tell of the
German's striking, it does not mean
they have quit.
:o :
If you must play poker, play it with
your wife. Then, if you don't have
the money she does.
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The next trip of the Liberty Bell
should be around the world. The be
nighted nations need it.
:o : ;
A boost in express rates by permis
sion of the interstate commerce com
mission is next in order.
:o:
Diplomacy consists in knowing ex
acting what you are going to say be
fore opening your mouth.
: :o:
The hardest worker is not employed
n the harvest field, or as first assist
ant supply agent to a hungry threshi
ng machine; the' hardest worker is a
fat man at a dance in the good old
summer time.
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A RULE OF SUCCESS.
The Chicago street railway arbitra
ion brought to light that Leonard A.
Busby, president of the surface lines,
with a salary of $(50,000 a year,-be
gan as an investigator at a salary f
$2,500 a year, and in a few years
worked to the top. .This led the Chi
cgo Herald to, begin an investigation
of the life work of most (jf the best
paid executives' in Chicago, and the
query revealed that practically all of
them began at the bottom and work
cd'to the top. The president of the
Illinois Trust and Savings bank, John
J. Mitchell, began as a messenger boy
in that institution, with a wage if
$2.50 a week. He now gets 75,000
a year. James B. Forgan started as
an office boy in a Scotch bank, and is
now president of the Chicago First
National with a salary of $75,000 a
year. George M. Reynolds, an Iowa
farm boy with a High school educa
tion, began work as a clerk in an
Iowa bank and is now president of
three Chicago financial institutions, at
a salary of $80,000. Charles II. Mark
ham began about as far back, as pos
sible, as one judges both wages and
opportunities. He bag his working
career as a section hand, but now is
presiSent of the Illinois Central rail
road, at a salary of $50,000 a year.
The list is much longer, and all
equally remarkable, but these will
suffice, and should be considered by
every young man who thinks he has
no chance. The rule which led these
men to success is also short, simple
and important. They merely made
it a point to be the best man on the
job, and to work. You may. do your
best without attaining such success
and distinction as came to these men;
indeed, without becoming the best
man on the job. But your efforts will
be appreciated, and it is probably the
best single rule for success developed
by the ages. And to do one's best,
one must keep in health, which is also
worth striving for; even more so than
wealth. One can't do his best today
if he batted around a large portion of
last night, nor if hi3 nerves are shat
tered with booze, nor if he eats too
much. The simple rule of success per
mits, of course, of some amplification;
politeness, initative and natural abil
ity are factors, but to him who does
his best these things come in some
measure, and so, if success is not
made certain, its probabilities are
greatly increased. .
GREAT BRITAIN'S DELAY.
Nearly four months ago our De
partment of State made a protest
against the British orders in council
on the ground that they were "a prac
tical assertion of unlimited belliger
ent rights over neutral commerc
within the whole Europem area, and
an almost qualified denial of tho
sovereign rights of thu nations new
at peace." The note of March
conceded the "right. to establish and
maintain a blockade of an enemy's
ports and -coasts and to capture an
condemn any vessel taken ia trying to
break the blockade," but it insisted
that "free ships mak.2 tree good-;.
and that no neutral nation could
countenance a blockade of "every por
of possible access to enemy territory'
when this included neutral 'ports of
the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Ta
note was fortified with a citation o
a decision of our own supreme court
subsequently affirmed by a board o
aibitrat;on to which Great Biitain bad
appealed.
Great Britain has taken plenty of
time to consider the matter. There
was nothing- novel about it. The
principles have been long established
Not only did it wait nearly three
months, all the time enforcing its il
legal orders, but it detained largo
shipments of cotton against which
there was no pretense of formal em
bargo. Finally a note, of whose con
tents we are ignorant, was sent and
received. Before it could he publish
ed a caijlegram to Secretary Lansing
asked that it be withheld from pub
lication until another note could be
sent. We have the secretary's assur
ance that the note already received
does not even suggest destroying the
noncontraband character of cotton.
But the English press has clamored
for such action, and Premier Asquith
hinted at the possibility of this in i
recent speech in the house of com
mens. It is possible that Sir Edward
Grey's cablegram means that the gov
ernment, has yielded, greatly as the
cotton mills of England may suffer
from the precedent in some sub
sequent war. Placing cotton on the
ist of contraband would be a severe
financial loss to this country. Our
only ground of complaint then would
e against the regularity of the block
ade. The proposal that England buy
all our cotton and dole it out to
European neutrals under its own
regulations could not be entertained
lor a minute. We cannot com
promise or sell our rights under inter
national law. We have all along, in
dealing with all belligerents, stood for
fixed principles, which cannot be made
the subject of barter or special ar
rangements amending them.
p :o:
When we consider how often "facts
emain," is it any wonder that the
truth is not overtaken oftener?
:o: ;
Who will have the last word the
United States or Germany? As talk
is cheap, it will be hard to tell.
:o:
Russia may be deficient in other
ways, but she seems to have estab-
ished a record in masterly retreats.
:o:
Railroads have decided that it
doesn't pay to run trains sixty miles
an hour. This wisdom may gradually
filter down to some motorists.
:u : V-
Tucsday people sat under the big
tent of Barnum & Bailey holding um
brellas over them . to witness the
circu3 performance. At night they
would not show on account of the
ram.
:o:
After a toilsome trip to some
glorious spot where there is a grand
view of the wonders of nature, most
people spend their time in the. notion
store buvincr six post cards for 10
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cents.
:o:
Becker has paid the penalty. He
may have been a bad man, but a life
sentence would have been a sufficient
punishment for .one who did not do
the killing. The fellows who really
did the killing paid the penalty long
ago; then why should Becker pay the
ife penalty? Rosenthal was a great
deal worst man than Becker, to say
the last.
I Keep your umbrella in good repair,
but don't loan it.
:o:
" Germany can hardly evade the issue
as presented in the last note.
:oi.
The Missouri Pacific is asking for
higher rates in the federal courts.
:o:
Charles Becker was put to death
protesting his innocence to the last
minute.
Get elected to a high and lucrative
office and all your kinfolk will come
out in the open.
, :o:
Nashville, Tenn., is now to be run
as a business proposition, and poll
ticians down there will get a much
needed rest.
:o:
There are 8,034,250 unmarried wom
en of marriageable age in the United
States nearly ",U0U,U0U. Could any
bachelor tax overcome such a vast
state of spinsterhood ?
:o:
Only a few states have elections
this fall and the political orators who
usually save the country for $10 a
night will have to remain regretably
at home minding their own business.
:o:
This government maintains the
rights of its citizens to travel as they
please on peaceful missions, but this
government isn't exactly a guaranteed
life preserver, you should remember.
:o:
Tommy Allen's commission as Unit
ed States district attorney has ar
rived and he will take the office next
week. Then it will be a great big
office with a little man in it.
:o:
Considering the hasty mariner in
which many men perform their
ablutions, it is probably just as well
that the low neck style has never
spread to the masculine sex.
:o:
Uncle Johnny Wannamaker wants
the people of this country to buy
Belgium from Germany and give it
back to the Eelgians. John is plenty
able to do this himself if he wants to,
nd not bother other people. So go to
it, Johnny. See if you can't be as
good as Carnegie in this charity busi
ncss.
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Our rural friends must not forget
that Yankee Robinson's big shows will
be here on Monday, August D. Thi
is not as large a show as Barnum &
Bailey or Ringling Brothers, but is a
good show, just the same. It was
here two years ago last May, and, if
you . will remember, it pleased our
people greatly. We seldom recom
mend a circus in the editorial column,
but we feel no hesitancy in recom
mending the Y'ankee Robinson show,
because we know it will please all
comers.
:o:
A p.iece of -refuse in the street, or
yard or elsewhere, is just one piece
and is easily pkked up. But when it
is allowed to remain from day to day
awd is joined by other and still others
it soon becomes an unsightly, dirty
and filthy collection of rubbish, a
detriment to the good name of the
town and a menace to the health of
our people. Who's for picking them
up thi3 summer? Who's for im
provement and progress, and more
sanitary measures? If left for one
or two persons to do, it will never
be done. If everybody does it, there I
will soon be nothing left to be done.
:or
The gathering of the great invent
ors and scientists of the country to
gether and the formation of a board
to co-operate with the navy depart
ment at Washington causes one to
stop and ponder the "wiy" of this
sudden activity on the part of the sec
retary of the navy. Is the country in
danger of invasion by a foreign foe?
Is the government in possession of
secret information which impels this
sudden gathering, of the brains of the
nation in the aid of national defense?
It is a question which we cannot
answer ana wnicn oi tuui
emment will notanswer, yet one can
not suppress the thomrht that beneath
the surface calm a volcano lies ready
to burst.
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Constantinople is reported on its
last lejrs. Perhaps fulTeiing from the
hardening of the artries.
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State assessors report a ten mil
lion dollar increa.se in taxable prop
erty holdings in Nebraska.
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It seems strange that the IJoy
Scouts have not yet succeeded in put
ting down that great European war.
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Public opinion and the court should
Y
stand firm for a sulncient expiation
to discourage future Eastland
slaughters.
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Efforts are being made to stimulate
r.cronatics in Amartra. Our "high
flyers" arc apparently all the wrong
kind,
:o:
Speaking of strange company, there
are the wolf and the stork. Some
people can't keep either of them from
the door.
:o:
A man may play some r.jueaking
instrument for hours at a time for his
own benefit, at the same time caus
ing misery to his neighbors.
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The illustrious Teddy Roosevelt
wants every man in the United
States to be a soldier, and enlistment
to be modeled after the Swiss plan.
The idea has no terrors for us, if
adopted, as we served time in the civil
war and are somewhat aged to serve
at this time. Teddy evidently uses
an up-to-date dictionary to secure the
names of suflicient objection to ex
press his contempt for those opposing
his ideas.
Our Wall Paper
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Hotel Riley Block,
for FEeicIuer's
Uottght, and. v.liicl. has lo
, has borne the 'slirnature
noon
lias boon mado under Lis por-
supervision since its in la v.ry.
110 one txloeo:ve win i;i f hi.;.
Sicrnature nf
The State Journal has become the
official state Bryan organ. Talk
about politics and strange bedfellows,
will you?
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No, we are not going on a surnmer
aeation. It's not very much of a
vacation, when you return home more
tired than when you went. We've
tried it. More people go simply to
kill time, but we have no time to kill.
Someone asks what has become of
the old-fashioned woman who used to
spend all her spare time cultivating
flowers? Apparently just now she is
telephoning over to the florists for
two dozen of those long-stemmed cut
roses. . ;
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The question is asked what has be
come of the woman who used to spend
several weeks at this time of year
canning fruits and vegetables? Well,
probably she is telephoning down to
the grocer's to put a winter supply of
preserves on the bill.
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The old hypocrite who claims to
control the editorial column of the
Nebraska City News finds fault with
the Journal for printing something in
which he is in no way concerned. Ife
is eternally going out of his way to
at tend to some body else's business. He
i noted for this. But we would sug
gest irr the future tnat he keep hi?
nose out of our business. Fifty-two
years in the newspaper business lias
learned us that an editor makes
money by attending to his own busi
ness; and we would advise the editor
of the News to turn over a new leaf
and try it awhile.
Has' Been Designed
io meet with the appro
val of folks of good taste..
For the dining room, sit
ting room, library, bed
room and hall., we have
artistic paper that will
tit the "scheme" of your"
home. And the prices
are far lower than you
imagine. Make your se
lection early.
Plattsmouth, Ticb.
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