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PLATTSMOUTIl SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1915.
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Che plattsmoiitb journal
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R. A. BATES, Publisher
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Pleasure has to be paid for
in advance. A red letter day is !
neevr such to the man whose
existence is one perpetual holi
day. "With the sweat of thy
brow" is the law today as much -J
as it was centuries ago. Baker.
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:o:
A downpour Wednesday night, and
now much cooler.
:o:
The coal trade is looming up, while
the ice trade is not so good.
:o:
If you have any doubt about honesty
being the best policy, try it.
:o:
Some people can forget a favor
quicker than they can earn a dollar.
:o:
A large number of people borrow
trouble. Others buy an automobile.
:o:
There are many a good swift kick
concealed in the crank of a Ford car.
:o:
The cold, chilly winds of December
are on the way. How's your coal
bin?
-:o:-
Ex-President Taft advocates an
army of 500,000, and stands with
President Wilson.
:o:
Autoists are still being killed at
railroad crossings by the fool idea
that they can beat the train to it.
:o:
It takes three years to build a
dreadnaught in American ship yards.
Then why not begin building a few
ri;;ht now?
:o:
And now the allies want two bil
lions more money. But where are
they going to get it? Not in the Unit
ed States, we hope.
:
Prof. Usher says the nations of
Europe will never be the same after
the war; and what concerns us is that
we fear America won't, either.
:o:
Theodo'-e Burton should have given
his reason for opposing appropria
tions for the improvement of the Mis
souri river, while he was in Omaha.
:o:
It is hoped the Panama canal dig
gers will hurry up and remove that
million cubic feet of earth so that there
will be plenty of room for the next
slide.
:o:
You can't judge the size of a steam
boat by its whistle, an auto by the
sound of its horn, or the generosity of
a man by the size of his tip to the
pretty waiter.
-:o:-
Could a man but read before death
the fine things said about him after
he is gone, it would brighten his life
500 per cent and not swell his head
either.
:o:
The wise merchant always believes
in preparedness on the approach of
Christmas and New Year's. His stock
is always complete and he lets the
people know what he has in the line
of suitable Christmas presents. Now
is the time to advertise.
:o:
Mr. Bryan's opposition to President
Wilson greatly elates the republicans
and gives them renewed courage and
hope for success next year. How Mr,
Bryan can be a friend of President
Wilson, as he claims to be, and every
day working against his chances for
Te-election, we are unable to perceive
To our notion of thinking, Mr. Eryan
i working right into the hands of the
republicans.
rKIl VEAH IX ADVANCE ,
If you want to be appreciated be
kind to the old.
:o:
Imitation may be the siucerest flat
tery, but it isn't the most acceptable.
:o:
If you are sure you are right, sit
right down and enjoy the fruits of
you wisdom.
:o:
Uncle John Rockefeller can give
the newer millionaires some pointers
on not being too frequently interview
ed. :o:
Diplomacy is something which
makes you glad that if a man can't be
sincere, at least he has a large supply
of soft soap.
:o :
Congressman Mann, republican
leader in congress, is for Elihu Root
for president, and predicts there will
be no walkaway in the election next
year.
:o:
More than 100 girls weighing over
200 pounds are enrolled at the State
University of Kansas at Lawrence. It
was to be expected that the super
woman would first appear in Kansas.
:of
Elmwood already has a candidate
for sheriff in the field. The Leader-
Echo makes the announcement, and
there is nothing in the announcement
as to who the candidate is only "Bert."
So we presume it is Bert Reed, who
was a candidate for the republican
nomination at the last election.
-:o:-
Thanksgiving only a few days now.
We can all feel thankful for something
that we are alive, for instance, and
others that they are in the enjoyment
of good health. The farmers, general
ly speaking, are thankful for the fine
crops they have in store. Thanksgiv
ing is all right, even if we don't all
have turkey.
:o :
One thousand acres of land will be
presented to President Wilson and
Mrs. Norman Gait as a wedding gift
by an organization of large land own
ers near Earl, Arkansas. The donors
met and voted unanimously to make
the present and to have the land deed
ed to both the president and the fut
ure Mrs. Wilson. The land faces the
Mississippi river on one side and the
St. Francis river on the other. It is
well protected by a levee system. It
is an ideal location for a hunting pre
serve. United States Senator James
P. Clarke was chosen to carry the
deed for the land to Washington.
:o:
Naval experts say the submarine
has failed to revolutionize naval war
fare. Great Britain has fairly check
ed the German undersea menace, and
the geratest advantage in the war the
advantage that must win, if they ever
win, is that Great Britain still rules
the waves. The submarine, of course,
has proved its efficiency it has made
damaging inroads on British com
merce, even in the face of a superior
British navy, and necessitating devis
ing new means of offense and defense.
The submarine might even sink the
greatest battleship as easily as it
wrecks a cargo boat, but is itself so
vulnerable and so limited in scope of
operation that it cannot be said to
have revolutionized naval methods, as
many thought it had when a single U
boat sank three British cruisers at the
beginning of the war.
:o:
Where there is a woman in the case
it makes a great difference. The Greek
nation as a people want to join the
allies, but the wife of the king and
the kaiser are old sweethearts, so this
is what causes all the trouble at home,
She being of German blood, wants to
join the Germans, while the king pre
fers to battle with the allies. Too
much intermixing of royal blood.
Is an opinion an idea?
:o:
Fall weather is perfectly grand,
May it continue so.
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Indications point to Elihu Root as
the republican candidate for president.
to:
Jasper L. McBrien is trying to get
into the political limelight again.
:o :
With the campaign of 1916 coming
on, it is extremely difficult to become
interested in the moons of Jupiter.
:o :
Optimistic voters go forth to elect
somebody to office, pessimistic voters
to beat somebody for office
:o:
James Whitcomb Riley has an estate
of $250,000, it is said. The world do
move since the days of John Milton.
:o:
A woman never boasts that she is
self-made; but one is rather proud
that she is tailor-made.
:o:
If you want a thing done, do it
yourself, seems to have occurred to
Lord Kitchnener; so he has gone to
the Near East.
:o:
It is alarming to see how the price
of cut-glass is coming down, so that
the Christmas present you made that
cost $7 is now only worth $2.10.
:or
Some of the politicians who hastily
climbed aboard the suffrage wagon in
New York now look, no doubt, as if
they" were recalling "the devil was
sick, the devil a monk would be."
:o:
Mr. Kitchin served so long in con
gress without anybody knowing that
he was there, that he enjoys the
prominence his position as house lead
er, won by seniority, gives him.
:o:
If it will ease Col. Roosevelt's feel
ings any, maybe the Mr. Bryan who
wrote "I Didn't Raise My Boyvto Be a
Soldier" will write another song full
of bayonets, Old Glory and gunpowder.
Most song writers are versatile.
:o:
The wiseacres who have it that
Roosevelt and Bryan will form a ticket
of their own next year, Roosevelt for
president and Bryan for vice president.
Don't you believe it. Bryan will be
first or he won't play ata 11. And this
Roosevelt would not submit to. And
there you are.
:o:
There doesn't seem to be much life
in political circles in Lincoln, and the
primaries only about six months away.
The way Mr. Bryan is acting has put
many on the study line, especially
prospective candidates, and they
evidently fear the result in this state.
It is hard to elect any of our ticket
when the party is united, and no one
cares to enter the race with such an
outlook before them.
:o:
Speaker Clark believes in prepared
ness, for defense for any attack that
should be made upon, this country, but
he does not believe in the schemes of
some of the military and naval men
who have axes to grind. Mr. Clark
favors a trained citizen soldiery. He
is a democrat, but not one of the kind
that, if he can't have his way about
everything the party does, he will try
to ruin the whole business.
:o:
After the war is over we will prob
ably have a settlement, and who knows
what will come? Though the allies
have been able to buy immense quan
tities of war munitions which have
made it possible for them to make as
good a showing as they have made,
there is no doubt that the allies would
be just as sharply critical and maybe
just as ready to show their emnity of
the United States as would Germany
and Austria, which have been cut off
largely from getting supplies from
this country. The wisdom of the
policy of true neutrality and the fur
ther doctrine of preparedness for any
eventuality may be demonstrated. The
men of the Bryan type who would
leave the United States a helpless
thing, depending upon the forbearance
of smaller but better armed powers,
should be rebuked and given to un
derstand that they are not to have
their way.
A CHICKEN HOUSE TO ROOST.
When Leo Frank was lynched in
Georgia, and the rope which hanged
him was cut up into souvenirs of the
Georgia holiday, a Chicago paper, the
Tribune, took occasion to slam the
Sunny South in general for resorting
to such measures. Naturally the
southern press replied, and the con
troversy attained such proportions
that it became subject of a review
in the Literary Digest. If a western
er of northern parentage has
prejudices, they would naturally swing
north of Mason and Dixon's well
known line, and yet we can't approve
the indictment of a whole people.
What happened in Georgia might have
happened in Maine under similar cir
cumstances, and that the standard
of culture isn't so much higher in Il
linois is indicated by a recent occur
rence in this grand old state. Here
recently a notorious negro murderer
was legally hanged. If we have grasp
ed the case accurately from casual
reading, it was deemed prudent to
have troops present at the trial to
prevent a lynching. And when, in due
course, the legal hanging occurred,
two thousand people were permitted
within the stockade to see the prison
er pay the penalty. These gained ad
mission by being appointed deputies,
and therefore were still within the
law as it stands in Ilinois. Yet their
nature shows the same morbid trait as
that of the Georgia gathering disposal
to make a festal occasion of the finish
of Leo Frank. Every community has
people of that sort; the morbid and
the vengeful and the curious, who
might grace such an occasion should it
offer. To think there is such a differ
ence in east or west, north or south,
is to show a provincialism unworthy
of a united nation.
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AN OPENING WEDGE.
While the allies, as Sir Edward
Grey reminds us, are bound by the
pact of September 5, 1914, not to con
clude peace separately, there is noth
ing to prevent each talking peace
terms. The pact may hold, although
Serbia in its distress might sue for
peace as a matter of self-preservation.
No doubt the Germans had a separate
peace with Russia as one of the objec
tives of their aggressive movement in
the land of the czar. The first rush
toward Paris may have been to force
France to sue for peace. But, aside
from Serbia, there is no prospect now
of disolving the entante, unless we ac
cept the low estimate some critics
place on Japan's sense of obligation.
Yet there can be no peace until
somebody discusses it as a posibility.
We quoted yesterday some sane ob
servations by a British paper, now
suppressed, apparently for other rea
sons, on the propriety of the official
spokesman of the belligerents drop
ping their rhetorical generalities and
setting out their purposes specifically.
By a singular coincidence the same
idea was being urged in the British
house of lords. The lords a little while
ago were in bad repute in Great Brit
ain and their veto power was taken
away. But it is reasonable to suppose
that the views so freely expressed by
several lords to the effect that Great
Britain should not hesitate to listen to
any suggestons of peace will find an
echo in the breasts of millions of Eng
lishmen, not because the lords gave
utterance to them, but because the
views are so sensible and so humane.
Prosecution of an undecisive' war to
the verge of physical and financial
bankruptcy would be not merely monu
mental folly, but a crime against
civilization. Men like "Bloody Bridles"
Carson may talk bravely, but what
has there been in the results and what
is there in the prospects to justify
their confidence? Let us trust that
the debate in the house of lords was
an opening wedge. N
:o:
The Kansas tornado snuffed out the
lives of twenty people, but the toll
taken by reckless automobile drivers
is more horrible than that. But what
are we going to do about it?
:o :
Mr. Wannamaker might divert one
thousandth of that $100,000,000,000
Belgium fund to provide an endow
ment for the Red Cross.
NEW TESTAMENT AUTHORITY.
It is with a sense of temerity that a
mere layman will presume to intrude
upon the discussion of preparedness
carriedinto the biblical field by Wood
row Wilson, and William Jennings
Bryan.
The plain facts, however, may be
reverently set forth.
President Wilson ventured to quote,
in substantination of his belief that
this nation owes to itself the duty of
being prepared to defend itself
against aggression, a certain passage
from the Holy Scripture.
Mr. 'Bryan, thereupon, expresses
surprise and manifests indignation. It
is surprising to him that "the Presi
dent, a Presbyterian elder," should
quote the Old Testament and "ignore
the teachings of Christ." He fails to
make plain whether he considers it
improper for Mr. Wrilson to quote the
Old Testament because he is presi
dent, or because he is a Presbyterian
elder. Inasmuch as Mr. Bryan him
self is a Presbyterian elder, as we re
call, and inasmuch as he himself has
frequently quoted the Old Testament
the story of Naboth's vineyard has
long been a favorite with him we
are forced to conclude that in his be
lief Mr. Wilson has transgressed be
cause, as president, he relies on the
Old Testament for support.
Having proceeded thus far, how
ever, we are lost. We had presumed
that Mr. Bryan,."as a Presbyterian
elder' accepted the bille as consist
ing cf both the Old and New Testa
ments, and regarded them alike asjthe
inspired word of God. If now the
Old Testament is to be rejected, if
the New alone is to be looked upon
as worthy of respect, are we to have a
bible cut in two?
But even in that case the president
and those who believe with him will
not find it difficult to find support for
their position in the words of Jesus
himself.
In the gospel according to St. John
is told the story of the tragic hours
preceding the crucifixion. When
Jesus was taken before Filate by the
Jews who were demanding his life,
Pilate said to him:
"Thine own nation and the chief
priests have delivered thee unto me;
what hast thou done?"
To which Jesus answered: "My
kingdom is not of this world; if my
kingdom were of this world, then
would my servants fight, that I should
not be delivered to the Jews."
"If my kingdom were of this world
then would my servants fight."
The kingdom of Wood row Wilson is
of this world. He has been delegated
by the people to safeguard the world
ly rights and interests of the United
States of America. The kingdom he
guards is as much that of the humb
lest citizen, as it is of the president
himself. The president asks, not that
it fight, but that it prepare in some
reasonable measure to defend itself
should the day come when there would
be those clamoring for the chance to
heap indignity and insult upon it, to
pillage it, to put it to death.
President Wilson therefore, does
not "ignore the teachings of Christ,"
as Mr. Bryan alleges, in summoning
his fellow countrymen to be prepared
to do that which Jesus said that his
servants would likewise have done if
his kingdom had been of earth and
not of heaven. The Christian religion
does not require of the peoples that
follow it that they lay themselves
naked before their enemies or the
enemies of the faith. In Revelations,
indeed, we read that "there was war
in heaven; Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon
and the great dragon was cast out."
With New Testament authority that
war had to be waged in heaven itself
to defend its integrity, President
Wilson will, not be likely to feel that
he has demeaned himself as a Presby
terian elder or as a president by sum
moning Americans to be prepared to
defend the integrity of their country
should it ever be forcefully assailed.
World-Herald.
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Imitation may be the sincerest flat
tery, but it isn't the most acceptable.
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If one keeps busy enough he will
not have time to wish for anything.
:o:
The turkey crop is reported big, but
that will not make them lower in
price.
:o:
Nebiaska won the Missouri valley
football championship last Saturday
by defeating Kansas, 33 to 0.
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A popular hero after death gets a
tablet' on the house where he lived,
even if he didn't pay his rent.
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Twentieth century is nearly sixteen
years old and we begin to detect signs
of its varied changing if we are
listening toward Europe.
:o:
That Judge Begley has made goo 1
as district judge, is but to listen to
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Cass counties. In his own county of
Sarpy they all regard him as one of
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It is now reported that the state
house is crumbling. That's nothing
new. It has been crumbling for years,
if we leave it to those who want a
new building.
:o:
The name of Associate Justice
Charles E. Hughes has been filed ia
the office of the secretary of Nebraska
for president, notwithstanding Judge
Hughes has time and time again re
fused to permit his name to be used
in other states by his friends.
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, Congressman Shallenberger says he
will not run for United States senator,
but will be a candidate for re-election
to congress. "Shally" knows his own
business a great deal better than those
who insisted upon him running for the
senate.
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Some of our readers may not agree
with the Journal in opposing the
measures adopted by W. J. Bryan in
his attack on President Wilson. If
they think we are wrong in so doing,
what can they think of R. L. Metcalfe,
who opposes Mr. Bryan's policies more
bitterly than we ever have, and wh
was intimately associated with him
for many years, and was considered
his lifelong friend? The democrats
are not going to stand by any man,
right or wrong. He must be right to
receive the party support.
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