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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913. PAGE. 4. rLATTSMO UTfl SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAC II II It u Cbc plattsmouth journal Published Bam l-W e k I y at Plattamouth. Nbr, Entered at the Postofflce at PUttsmoutb, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Bubtorlptlon THOUGHT FOR TODAY. J Never fancy you could be J J something if only you had a dif- 5 i- ferent lot and sphere assigned I you. The very things you most J deprecate, as fatal limitations J or obstructions, are probably v V what you most want. What you I- call hindcrances, obstacles, dis- -l-J couragements, are probably V God's opportunities. Horace -I- Bushnell. : : And the next day after is what don't count. :o: And Plattsmouth is to have a ball tournament next. :o: It takes a heap of warning notes to destroy a torpedo boat. :n : They will come to town on circus day, and it didn't rain, either. :o : Executive ability is capacity to draw pay for work somebody else is doing. :o: Cut the weeds along the roads. The law says this must be done by Aug ust 15. :o : Street paving enhances the value of property a great deal more than the cost of paving. :o: Paris fashions are said to be as absurd as ever, so no doubt they will sell well this fall. :o: The largest crowd ever at the ball park Sunday. Over six hundred peo ple in attendance. :o : No wonder the politicians are gloomy about business, when there are so few state elections this fall. -:o:- The conviction of Judge Lindsey for contempt of court will merely increase his drawing power at chautauquas. :o: Despite its well known aversion to entangling alliances, this country con tinues to go in for matrimony quite regularly. Pacificists and jingoes continue to stir up the bitterest of rows over the tightly held principles of the former, Feace is h 1. :o: If the new potatoes seem pale and Fallow perhaps it is because potato bugs have not been as numerous as usual this year. :: The fruit crop has been very watery this season, and many have failed to cut up small fruit, such as berries, cherries, etc., on that account. :o: Should this country buy Belgium, our first proposal would be to bring n!l the Belgians to this country, where they would be safe and happy forever- more. :o: Billy Sunday's trust pardncr3 arc arranging to accommodate large crowds in Omaha. It i3 after the money solely. Such religion don't count with the Ruler on High. :o : The women are preparing for th-; duties of suffrage by reading tho Paris fashion page, just as the men long ago qualified for the same by their study of the base ball news. . :o: That limp-covered volume carrie- by some of our prominent citizens which the pious old lady fondly im rgines to be a bible, may perhaps be merely the 1915 Automobile Blue Book. , . Prloet S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe KAILKOAD TAXATION. Objection of the state equalization board to the alleged disparity be tween railroad figures reported for rate-making and tax purposes, re spectively, emphasizes the antiquity of the system under which the pro ceeding is undertaken. The system provides for an assess ment on the basis of benefits derived. Modern tax doctrine, subscribed to by the ablest and most business-like tax authorities in the country, insists that the ability to pay should govern the assessments. The latter system has everything in its favor, while the i present system has obstacles galore to overcome. In favor of the ability-to-pay plan is its ease and accuracy of adminis tration. By following it the tax au thorities can make their assessments in a simple manner, and on a definite, accurate basis. There can be no dis crimination. Every payment under it can readily be adjudged sufficient and yet at all times equitable from the standpoint of the assessed cor porations. In the case of the railroads, con formity to this plan would mean a gross earnings tax. Such a tax is levied in many states at the present time, and where it has supplanted such a system as Nebraska possesses there has been no demand for a re turn to the old order. Tax officials, the people for whom the tax is levied, and the corporations against whom it has been fixed unite in attesting its efficacy and the satisfaction it gives. Some day Nebraska will instill business doctrine into its tax system, and then state officials will find ad ministration of the revenue laws a pleasant duty, instead of an over whelming burden. World-Herald. We cannot make this town what it ought to be unless we all work in harmony to the same end. Pulling, bickering and knocking will only drag our house down over our heads, and it is time we look the facts straight in the face and turn over a new leaf for the better. We can do much to im prove our social and commercial con ditions if we want to. Let's unanimously resolve that we want to and shoot straight ahead. :o: President Wilson refused even to appoint his own brother to a federal position, while Mr. Bryan, ex-sec retary of state, has been instrumental in having the following relatives ap pointed to various positions: W. J. Bryan, jr., son; Mr. Bryan's son-in- law, Ilargreaves; Mr. Bryan's son's wife's brother, Berger; Mr. Bryan's son-in-law's brother-in-law, Steim. This is certainly nepotism with a vengeance. Mr. Bryan did not favor such a thing as this fifteen and twen ty years ago. Now, the question arises, what would he have done had he ever been elected president? :o: Men with mind3 for figures say that about $28,000,000 worth of tomatoes go into cans every year in the Unit cd States and that perhaps twice as many more are eaten raw and canned by thrifty housewives. The little gar den patch produces a large part of the supply of this food that a century ago was very little known to people as an article of diet. The name "tomato" seems to be of Aztec origin, given as tomato by others, and still persists in some few of the older Mexican town names, such as Tomatlan, Tomatepec etc., but the general consensus of opinion among botanists seems to be that the plant and its culture for edi ble purposes originated in Peru, where it snread to other sections of the , - - A Americas. , It is certain, at any rate: that it was knovn and cultivated for its fruit centuries before the Colamb bian discovery. The farmers are not feeling so blue now. -:o:- , r i We have had weather, anyhow one weeK oi ury, :o:- Politics sometimes is just one bad cigar after another. :o: Let Mexico look on Haiti and see what she's coming to. . :o: The Dove of Peace is about ready to light in Mexico again. :o: All the others are "friends in tone," but they mean about the same as Vil la's. :o: But will Carranza pay any more at tention to a round rcbin than to other notes? -:o: Anything will do to gamble on, even war stocks; but why is Wall street? :o: Mules are the most persistent kickers known, but what have they gained by it? :o: The famine threatening Haiti is probably due to a shortage in the wa termelon crop. :o: . Villa has told this country to go to h 1, and probably has taken posses sion of California by this time. :o: The Tan-American confrees are agreed as to what Mexico must do. Now if they will make them do it. :o: Neither the kaiser, nor Carranza, I nor Villa, nor the weather man was responsible for the Eastland disaster. But several greedy Americans were. State Treasurer Hall, it would seem, is trying to run the whole busi ness around the state house. Reed, Pool and Smith have to toe the mark or h 1 is to pay. He hasn't tackled Morehead yet. o: It is claimed that the crops raised n the United States this summer would load a freight train 7,000 miles long. lne ordinary ireignt tram often seems that long now to the motorist who waits at the crossing. :o:- When a man wants to assume the authority of dictator in a community the people should sit down on him pretty hard, says the Plattsmouth Journal. We sometimes do that very thing here in Lincoln, if anybody happens to ask you, Colonel. Lincoln Herald. :o:- An Iowa doctor advises young men to marry the oldest girl in the family because she has learned through wait ing on the younger ones how to as sume responsibilities. It is quite plain that that doctor, remembering that he must go home occasionally, knows which sister he married. -:o:- It is somewhat encouraging to note that what wheat has been threshed in Cass county is turning out much better than really expected. The most of it is yielding 25 to 35 bushels to the acre. Considering all that the farm ers have had to go through with thi3 rainy season, they probably think themselves lucky a3 it is. :o: If Dr. P. L. Hall makes up his mind that he will accept the democratic nomination for governor next year there will be but little use for any others to apply. Dr. Hall will make an ideal candidate and no one man has more friends in the state. True to his party at all times and faithful always to his party candidates. :o: Speak a good word for the church. It never speaks ill of you. It does nothing to your detriment, and much for your benefit. It is not your enemy, and it is your friend. As a friend, it is entitled to your respect, your con sideration, your support. And more, it is entitled to your presence it ought to have your presence. What is good for the church is good for you. Keep it in mind speak a good word remember your friend, and go your- self. Welcome will greet you at the door. I ii7,i?cTc,TT'T.Tr,T' tv ATivrrnTTCivr: The man who is starting in cn nn ' nHi-er-5incr ramnaiVn freoiipnt.lv faila - ---- - . - to appreciate the necessity of persist ence. He is more apt to pay for a J few numbers and then quit for a time. The general trend of advertis ing opinion is that a smaller space used regularly pays better. The re sults of advertising come in one of two ways. A buyer may have in mind some particular purchase that it is de- fsired to make at that time. The newspaper is searched to see what merchants are advertising in that line. The most attractive offerings are noted in the memory. The customer visits those stores. While this is the kind of thing that happens every day, it is not the whole result or effect of advertising by any means. The other result is the creation of a general im pression that a certain merchant is enterprising and is using much effort and intelligence to give good values. That kind of advertising is cumula tive, the oiftcome of driving a certain idea into the public mind day after day. A woman may read advertisements for many weeks and not buy anything in a certain line, simply because she is already supplied with these goods. All at once she concludes that she must make a purchase. Her mind re verts to the notices of that kind of goods she has been seeing in her news paper. The man whose advertising she has seen week after week or day after day is the one that has made the impression on her mind. Slight impressions govern trade. It is next to impossible for a man who does not advertise to convey the idea that he is an enterprising dealer. His towns people will net push his business for him, if he is too slow to push it for himself. The only way to convince people that you have values, is to tell the public what you have and let them judge. The newspaper will talk to hundreds of people while you are ex plaining things to one. l:o:- The submarines may be eventually known as the equalizer of the seas. The state officials' kinsfolk must be paid, whether Nebraska has any pub lic schools or not. :o: There was one woman who had the best man in the world for a husband, and that was Eve. :o: The wheat , and corn crop in the United States will be worth ?3,500,- 000,000. That's not so bad. :o: In barring from the civil service married women who are separated from their husbands, is the postoffice department not putting a premium on divorce ? . : A little over a year ago declarations of war were flying through the air so thick they bumped with each other, and subsequent happenings indicate the warring nations meant what they said. :o: What's the matter with the new city hall we were to get so fast? We sup posed that arrangements were already perfected for the city hall and library both. Have the knockers been getting in their work to delay matters, be cause they did not get a bite of the cherry? :o: - Some of our high-up statesmen who have been very busy getting all their relatives lucrative positions with the government, seem to have forgotten those friends who have stood by them in their efforts to elevate themselves to positions of honor and trust, but these deserted friends have not for gotten this treatment, and they ain't going to either. That the United States buy Bel gium, restore its government and sovereignty, and then when suitable, return it to its people, was a sug gestion made by John Wannamakcr in Philadelphia at a meeting of the National Security league, of which he . is president. He would pay a hundred '; billion dollars for it, and would stop exports to end the war and glorify the I American flag. Don't it beat the dickens? Two ; women have entered the list in Kan sas for the United States senatorship race in 1918. :o It is a question of taste with some men whether they prefer single life while they are young or after they are divorced. -:o:- After the introduction of . "round" coiners for buildings, then the build ing with wavy architectural lines. Revolutionary eras revolutionize everything. :o: It isn't so much what happens at night, as what might happen, is what keeps people up late. And other im portant truths become plainer as time passes. . :o : Somebody has predicted that Washington will be a dry city within a year. It has always been contended that the national capital should be removed to St. Louis. :o:- Col. Roosevelt calls Col. Bryan a milk and water statesman, but Col. Bryan doesn't claim to be a statesman and doesn't want to be. He prefers being Prince of Peace. :o: Really the heaviest strain put upon America by the war is the necessity of thinking up the new freak fashions for men and women on this side of the water. Let Paris do it. In a recent Indiana fiddling contest, "Hell on the Wabash" won over "Tur key in the Straw," but the contest was one-sided. Missouri's "They've Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around," made no entry. :o: An appeal to Mexico to quit fight ing will be made, and a reasonable time given for the several army lead ers to reply. And if this appeal goes unheeded then more severe measures will be decided upon by the Pan American nations. . ;o: Perhaps agricultural implement makers had better not unduly hasten to invent an appliance to take the place of the beer kegs used by farm ers in dry states as third wheels for binders on ground made boggy by con tinued rains. Get that? :o: - We regret to learn that Hon. R. D. Sutherland of Nelson, Neb., former congressman from the Fifth district, is in a hospital at Kansas City suffer ing from a very severe case of acute Bright's disease, without much hope of recovery. The Journal sincerely hopes for his recovery, as he is one of the best men in the state, and one of its ablest lawyers. For Sale. One good, all purpose work horso, coming G years old, weight 1,300 pounds; also" one good young horse coming three years old. Both horses are in thek best of condition and are : a bargain. James Mrasek. 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