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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAE.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2fi. lot:
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
J Shun the habit of "putting J
J off," as you would a temptation
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Two weeks of dry weather is what
we need right now.
Too much rain for the farmers.
Their work is again retarded.
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Getting married is like falling into
a vocation very often not premedit
ated. :o:-
Over in Europe they uestroy a city,
r.nd then fine it a few. millions for
getting in the way.
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"President Taft's Society to Enforce
Peace" should turn its attention to the
aggressive Federal league.
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Some of the European powers are
willing to allow Goa a small share of
the credit for their victories.
:o:
Norfolk claims to Le the third
largest city. What's the matter with
Fremont, Grand Island and Hastings?
:o:
The children won't bo really happy
until school opens ag:;:n, so they
won't have to work so hard having a
pood time.
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S'jme newspapers are making what
they consider excellent puns on the
word Warsaw that are really worth
shout a cent a column.
The war is a little over a year old
and the only thing it has accomplished
is the appaling destruction of life,
property and honor. General Sher
man was right.
:o:
When there comes a hot summer ice
i.;. "nigh because it melts so fast. In
a cool summer, like the present one.
ire is high because it does not sell so
well and the ice men have to live,
along with other people.
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The Americans who insists on going
to and coming from Europe in English
ships are to a great extent to blame
for the trouble between Germany and
the United States. Notwithstanding
the government ha.3 warned them to
"keep off.''
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Ex-Senator Robert Patrick would
like to fill the late Judge Munger's
f hoes, but he is entirely too small for
the place. We have one of small
caliber already, in the person of Tom
Allen. And it will not do at all to
have two of that character.
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It is reported that there is a widow
in this city who makes her living by
washing. Ilr lawn is well-kept, and
the entire yard neat and clean. Not
far from her on either side of the
street two men with families of boys
reside, and their lawns and yards be
speak of poor care and little atten
tion. Which is the most appreciative
citizen? .
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Today the dollar is the world's;
rtandard of wealth. The value of
money of European nations has been
depreciated so by the enormous lia
bilities contracted on account of the
war that the dollar, backed by the
gold standard, is the measure. Al!
supplies bought in the United Stater,
arc bought in terms of the dollar and
inasmuch as the value of foreign
money has dropped, it is costing those
governments more as the purchasers
must make up the difference between
the value of their unit of value and
that of the United State.
at Platitmouth, N b r.
Nebraska, as second-class mall matter.
MARRIAGE AND INCOME.
The newspapers are printing a more
or less mythical story of how certain
girls at one of the Harvard university
summer schools have pledged them
selves not to marry a man with less
than 2,000 income. While stories of
this kind are usually more or less
famulous, they do represent the con
viction entertained by many twentieth
century women. A good many of the
products of the exotic civilization of
the larger cities would say that $2,
000 is altogether too little. To the
girl who has come up in a family hav
ing several servants, automobiles, and
all the finish of cultured and wealthy
living, the income of a ycung business
or professional man seems hopeless.
There is a great decay in our modern
life of what can be called the pioneer
sphit. In all periods of our country's
history, ambitious men and women
have been willing to go into the
fingers of civilization and live on the
wages of day labor, until they got
their start. Mutual love and con
fidence in the future made it possible,
and gave J.est even to washing dishes
or sawing up a wood pile. Many
young men of today are unable to
push a lawn mower, and many young
women give up in despair if their sec
ond girl quits work. Comforts and
luxuries that are unearned, not
achieved by toil and struggle are en
ervating and soften moral fiber. It
may be too much for the children of
wealthy homes to be expected to start
as their fathers dicL But they make
some very bad guesses when they per
mit their choice in matrimony to be
much influenced by the question of in
come. This is one of the cases where
the last at 20 is often the first at 40.
This has certainly been a mighty
late spring.
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We are beginning to appreciate
some of the trials of Father Noah.
The dove of peace is certainly hav
ing a hard time finding a place to
light.
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The idea that man wants but little
here below is probably based on what
he pets.
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The mayor of Atlanta, Ga., does
not intend to lose the mob vote if he
can help it.
:o:
If Russia succeeds in seizing the
Turkish capital it will be some jolt
for the chief gobbler.
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Begin the study of diplomacy in
your own home, and the rest of the
lessons will come easy.
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A great many "reforms" wouldn't
be thought of if those promoting them
were not making big money at it.
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The people who draw their money
out of savings banks to invest in war
i-tock at top prices may be the same
ones that say the world owes them a
living.
:o:
The month of August was named
by the Roman Emperor Augustus for
himeelf in honor of his victories.
However, there's no movement on foot
to change it to Hidenburg.
:o:
It will be some time before a new
city hall is built, and it seems to a
man up a tree as though it would be
some time before the new library is
built, or even a site for it i3 selected.
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Austria has been informed by this
tinuing the sale of arms to all nations
regardless of protests, and cites the
fact that Austria has always done the
.same thing. That is something like
telling the other fellow to attend to
his own business.
PROGRESS AND THE WAR.
It is generally admitted that the
present war is one of the greatest
calamities that have fallen upon
humanity. In the face of this vast
horror wrought by civilized man is
progress itself to be dismissed as a
mere mirage?
Menri Eergscn, the leader of mod
ern French philosophers and physo-
logists, answers this question in the
negative. Bergson does not despair of
civilization or of human progress. He
is convinced that great and lasting
good will come out of the war, for he
expects that it will teach humanity tlie
tragic folly of exalting the material,
the mechanical, the technical elements
in what we call progress, and neglect
ing the spiritual and the moral. The
modern world has worshiped false
gods, according to Bergson, and its
ideals and standard of greatness and
success must undergo radical revision.
The war will take humanity back to
the simple standards of national and
individual conduct back to righteous
ness and morality.
Prof. John Dewey, a lend:ng Ameri
can philosopher and educator, former-
lyy of the University of Chicago an 1
now of Columbia university, lia.
reached the same conclusion, al
though he expresses it differently.
The war, he holds, does not disprove
the cherished theory of progress, so
cial, national and international. What
t proves, according to Dr. Dewey, is
that we have been cgrcgiously mis
taken in some of our ideas as to the
inevitability of progress; that we have
been too complacent, too indolent, too
ready to assume truth, progress must
be carefully planned; it must be
patiently worked out and persistently
pushed.
Evolution will not bring progress,
declares Dr. Dewey. There is no such
thing as a "law of progress." What
modern humanity possesses to an ex
tent never dreamed of in past ages is
a method of progress or opportunity
for progress. Invention, discovery,
science, material abundance, the inter
nationalization of commerce, of let
ters and art, of knowledge all of
these things make progress far easier
than it could ever have been before
human history. But these things
are not in themselves progress in the
true sense of the word. Progress is
the humanization of societies and na
tions, the abolition of war and
militarism, the eradication of unjust
privileges, the establishment of equal-
ty of rights and opportunities, the
ealization of the highest religious and
luman brotherhood. None of these
things will come to humanity unless
we desire them and work intelligently
xnd scientifically to bring them about.
These are sound views. Humanity
has sinned in its exaltation of the ma
terial. It has nourished a false and
ferocious patriotism which devours
justice and casts out mercy. It has
cultivated selfishness in the mass. It
as hated its neighbor an coveted its
:eighbor's goods. The greatest benefit
that can come from the war is inter
national trust and fair co-operation.
Chicago News.
Dr. P. L. Hall, who has been
ur.animously endorsed by the demo
crats for governor, stated at a ban
quet in Lincoln last Saturday that he
never had and never would ask for
the office. Go slow, Doctor. No one
ever said you asked for the office. It
s your many friends throughout the
state that are doing the asking.
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Talk about "model husbands." St.
Joseph, Mo., has one that will do to
talk about. Besides earning $60 as a
railway clerk he does the washing at
home and also dresses and undresses
the children. He owns his own home
and is the father of four children.
And now his wife wants a divorce.
Ungrateful woman!
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With the exception of the com
munity where the crime was commit
ted, the newspapers of Georgia con
demn the lynchers, and the governor
has asked for removal of the warden
of the penitentiary.
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Whoever loses faith in himself has
lost the fight.
Every human being faces the
straight road to happiness, but there
are many by-patb.3 en route.
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Hastings now has three candidates
for governor one democrat and two
republicans and maybe the returns
are not all in yet.
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There are all ways of making
money, one of which is to be agent
for the disbursal of a "lost estate in
Europe, valued at $700,000,000." And
the fools are not all dead yet.
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Mr. Root has been unanimously
chosen president of the American Bar
association. He might also be elected
president of the United States if the
choice were left to the lawyers.
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More than 48,000,000 cent pieces,
4,375,539 nickles, 22,430,000 dimes,
nearly 2,000,000 quarters, 1,422,550
half dollars, and $40,533,810 in gold
were coined by the United States gov
ernment during the last fiscal year.
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We repeat every dollar kept in
this community enriches the com
munity just that much. Always buy
what you need at home, if you can
get it here. But try at home before
going elsewhere. You'll feel happier
and more contented by so doing.
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A month ago, from the enthusiasm
set afloat, one would have naturally
supposed that the location for a new
city hall and public library was set
tled. But it was all a mistake, as the
city council last night rescinded all
its proceedings in this direction. And
"now what are we going to do about
it?" Just as long as the members of
the city council listen to the bicker
ings of a lot of selfish fellows in such
matters, nothing will be done. But
when the members who have been in
the habit of listening to these speel
ers, throw off the yoke, become inde
pendent and do as their own con
sciences dictate, something can and
will be done. The same with the light
ing question.
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It is not easy to get free advertis
ing. Newspapers are chary about
giving unpaid space to private enter
prises. But a persistent advertiser
can always get people to spread the
news about his doings. When the
women get together over the back
yard fence or across the tea table one
of the questions very frequently ask
ed is: "Have you seen those goods
that A or B is advertising? It
looks as if they were selling out some
goods pretty cheap." Women always
talk over their purchases, prospective
and past, as much as another interest
in their lives. If they are interested
in a certain newspaper advertisement
they rarely keep it to themselves.
They pass the word along and discuss
it with friends. In that way the in
formation thus conveyed is by no
means limited to the people who take
the newspaper.
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OUR NEW MAN OF BUSINESS.
For generations throughout the civ
ilized world the farmer has been re
garded simply as a farmer nothing
more.
He has been classed as a farmer,
rated as a farmer, and treated as a
farmer, and all because there are none
so blind as those who will not see.
But all of that is changed today.
The farmer has come into his own,
and stands before the-world in the
twentieth century a3 the most solid,
substantial and reliable class of peo
rel cn the- face of the globe.
He is a man of business of tremen
dous business the one man without
whom the peoples of the world would
cease to exist.
Men go out to the great cities, and
many of them rise, and fall, and are
heard from no more.
But the farmer moves steadily on
ward, and upward, always to better
and greater things.
He is our new man of business our
greatest man of business the man
upon whom all the world depends for
the vital sustenance of life.
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CONGRATULATE GALVESTON.
That Galveston was not wiped out
of existence by the West Indian hur-
rican that spread death and devasta
tion in that region last week, is not
due to fortuitous circumstances. Gal
veston earned its salvation from the
flood. Its great seawall, on which
$2,500,000 was expended, has justified
its existence. Judging from the losses
elsewhere and all accounts as to the
velocity of the wind, said to have been
from 90 to 124 miles an hour, the re
cent storm was severer than the one
of September 8, 1900, which cost Gal
veston 7,000 lives and $30,00QrO0O in
property. This would have been a blow
to any city. Galveston could not be
called a great city, in point of popula
tion. At the last census it had but
36,981 people. But it is great in its
commerce, being the second port in the
United States in the value of its total
commerce. It is the seventh port of
the world in the value of its exports.
The average citizen of the United
States expected that Galveston would
be abandoned as the site of a city, fol
lowing the appalling disaster of 1900.
Why should anybody care to risk
danger when there were so many
other safe places in which to live?
But the sturdy citizens of the stricken
town took no such timid view. They
rebuilt the city in larger proportions
and constructed the great waterbreak.
Their achievement was in some re
spects greater than that of the Dutch
in reclaiming so much land the sea
had taken from them.
Millions of people read with joy the
"greetings" sent out by official and
commercial bodies of Galveston last
Wednesday night. The rhetoric could
be pardoned. It was but natural that
there should be an ecstatic note in
their first message to the world, from
which they had been isolated for
forty-eight hours while they had wres
tled with such terrible uncertainties.
The seawall, of which outsiders have
been somewhat skeptical, is a success
and Galveston's safety is assured.
Grievous as was the loss of life and
property elsewhere, the nation's re
gret will be tempered by satisfaction
at the escape of Galveston, the in
domitable.
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The appetite for poditical plums is
nonpartisan.
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The man who "soaked" his overcoat
now wishes he hadn't.
:o:
"Safety first" sometimes consists
largely in keeping still.
:o:
A lecturer inquirer: "Is civiliza
tion a disease?" It would seem to be
worse than that.
:o:
A pessimist is a man who is worry
ing about how Europe will be divided
up when the war is over.
:o:
When men and women with big feet
wear conspicuous white stockings, it
is not always because the war has
made coloring dyes scarce.
;o:
New York politicians want the
bureau of standards abolished. Wll,
it doesn't look as though New York
standard is worth preserving.
:o:
It is a shame thai there are a great
number of people in this country who
consider that constitutions and laws
are only scraps of paper.
The business men who are taking
military training should look out that
they learn to dance the one-step with
out their sword getting between their
feet.
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Tommy Allen, United States district
attorney, is going to be permitted to
ive in Lincoln, notwithstanding the
government designates Omaha as his
ace of residence. Perhaps his close
friends fear that the surroundings in
the metropolis might contaminate him.
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A man may use every effort to
please everybody, but he's fooling
away precious time in such effort. Do
what you think is right in your own
mind, and you will always please
yourself and retain more friends than
you would in trying to please every
body.
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Answer a fool according to his fol
y; we're all well equipped with his
impunity.
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The conference of governors, in ses
sion in Boston this week, will discuss
reform legislation, but after dinner
much more valuable information on
how to control the caucusses next year
will be exchanged.
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Toadstools caused the death of a
family of four at Kalamazoo, Michi
gan. People who cannot distinguish
the difference between toadstools and
'truffles" should be more careful, or
let them alone entirely, as one is fine
eating, while the other is sure death. .
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Otfdcn Canyons. The Great Salt Lake region.
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gold fame. Truckee
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emigrant perished just previous to the California gold rush it
1849 Emigrant Gap, another forty-niner land mark, and alsotha
bead of the beautiful American River, the most picturesque of
California rivers. The view down the canyon is supeib. Blue
Canyon and Dutch Flat, the immediate legion which produced
sixty-five million dollars in gold in 1852. Sacrannento.Berkeley.Oak.
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Those business men who are taking
military training in a New York camp
what, in the words of Goldberg,
are they "gonna do with it?"
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Occasionally we hear of a thing
wearing breeches who beats his wife.
History tells us that the same pas
time is in vogue among the savage
tribes.
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The governors of over thirty states,
in session at Boston this week, passed
resolutions of confidence and support
of President Wilson. This further
demonstrates the American people be
lieve in the war policies of the ruler
of this nation.
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