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MONDAY," NOVEMBER 2f),. 1913. PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTIl SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Cbc plattsmoutb journal n BLISIIED SfcMI-WEEKLV AT PL ATTSMOt Til, X Ell R ASK A. Entered at Postofiice at Plattstriouth, Xeb., aa second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Sl'USCllII'TlO.N" IMUi E: N $1.50 THOUGHT FOR TODAY. V When we climb to heaven 'tis on the round of love to men. ! V Whittier. V -r :o: . Christmas next in order. :o: Did your Thanksgiving: turkey set well? :o: Have you commenced your Christ mas advertising yet? Time you was at it. :o: National defense and revenue needs wiil stand out as the chief features in the president's message. :o: The Lincoln Star says Lincoln's trade has doubled in the last five years. That is surely going some. :o:- General Kitchener is quoted as say ing by next March England will have four million soldiers under arms, and the Russians six million. That ought to be enough for all practical pur poses. :o : Greece is evidently between the devil and the deep blue sea; she will be damned if she does and be damned if she don't; right out of the frying pan into the fire, no matter which way she jumps. Poor Greece! :o: Yuan Sh;h Kai is the father of thirty-one children. Realizing that re publics are ungrateful. Yuan is im pressed with the necessity of becom ing emperor of China if his offsprings are to be provided for. :o: Umbrellas multiply on the face of the earth. A friend says he started out two years ago and on counting up how many had accumulated in his closet the other day, found there were six. Some people are awful, lucky in borrowing umbrellas. :o : In Washington last Thursday the .i:triet supreme court dismissed an action brought by L. M. Johnson of Louisiana and other negroes against the government to recover more than $--?,000,(K0 which they alleged was due to their ancestors as slaves for in oVniary servitude in connection with federal handling of cotton during the civil war. :o:- You can learn from everybody. Take a lesson in perserverance from Booker T. Washintgon, the noted colored educator, who died recently. He founded and built Tuskegee in stitute, worth nearly a million dollars, with its 3,500 acres of ground, al though he started in a rented shanty i.r.d an early bequest to the institu tion was a half dozen eggs while an other was an old horse. Keeping ever lastingly at it, Washington built up the institution which is a credit to " the country and his race. Keeping everlastingly at it is a system hard to beat, but most of us are quarter horses. :o: A nut at Kalamazoo, Mich., wants to change the name of the tlnited States to "KE-bur," and then call the people "KE-bins." He would also change the constitution so that the president would have the power of appointing a senate of twenty-four members which would . be called "FED-a-cums." Representatives would be referred to its "REP-turs." There is nothing harmful in the reform this iiut proposes. He wants to get his i.ame in the papers as a Great Leader, a Friend of the People, a champion of High Ideals and a lot of other popular foolishness that is rampant all over the eotratry. . l'Elt VEAR IX ADVANCE MR. KENNEDY'S PLATFORM.. The platform on which John L. Ken nedy will run for United States sen ator will appear somewhat con traaictory to a good many men. He says: "lhe tariff will be the paro mount issue in the coming campaign. On that issue the two great parties decisively disagree. The republican party will adhere to and advocate the policy of protection to American in dustries." Then he adds: "The return of the republican party to power will mean the extension of our trade rela tions with other countries,, and especially with South America. We are a producing country, and the sur plus products of the farm and the factory should find a ready and profit able foreign market." If Mr. Kennedy will explain how we r.re "to extend our foreign trade" after we have enacted high tariffs that will prevent the introdutcion of foreign goods into this country, he will confer a favor upon the farmers, the banking interests, the economists and the peo ple generally. How are the people of foreign nations to pay for our goods if we refuse to buy goods of them? Will they pay for them with gold ? All the gold in the foreign nations to which we might sell goods, if our for eign trad is to continue at the rate of the last few years, would soon be exhausted and then they could buy no more goods and foreign trade would cease. It would seem to most men that Mr. Kennedy's plan would more likely ruin foreign trade than assist it. There is nothing that appears more certain to the ordinary man than that, if we have a foreign trade, the goods we expect must be paid for by goods purchased from the countries to which they are sent. Sometimes this sort of j exchange is accomplished indirectly, nevertheless that is the way interna tional trade is carried on, and any country that does not import as well as export, cannot long engage in for eign trade at all. World-Herald. :o:- The retail trade has now reached the point in the year when an unusual amount of money will be spent. The approach of winter makes necessary the purchase of an unusual amount of regular supplies. On top of this comes the gift buying habit. The people who do this buying have a lot of good hard work ahead of them in shopping. They will try to cut down the time thi3 takes. They take ad vantage of every advertisement seen in the newspapers to find out what merchants have the most attractive offerings. This saves an enormous amount of running around from store to store. o u . i Shipments of turkeys from Texas are under way in volume, and farm ers are reaping profits to add to bank accounts started with the proceeds from agricultural products and food animals. More than 3,000 of the Thanksgiving and Christmas birds have gone from that center to east ern and northern cities, the growers receiving from 12 lo 13 cents per pound. Reports from other centers of the turkey-growing industry show re turns as low as 11 cents per pound. :o: A film concern in New York sends the editor a letter stating it is in search of the prettiest man In America to show on the screen. Why they should send us word to come to the front with our picture, we don't know. Maybe some of the Plattsmouth ladies were kind enough to report our fine looks. But our beauty is nothing to brag about. :o; Olive oil. is being made of sunflower Feeds. Cotton seed is also a source, Wonder what olive oil made out of olives would taste like? "SUPPdRT ftiESfe Bills- As soon as congress settles down to business, bills will be introduced in the the senate and house providing for the government manufacture of armor plate, guns, ammunition and the gov ernment construction of warships. Every American citizen should put the whole weight of his active support back of these bills. For it is not too much to say that the safety of the country depends upon taking the manufacture of guns and ammunition and armor plate and warships out of the hands of private monopoly, which has not scrupled to betray its own country for the sake of making mil lions of dollars. It is bad enough to be robbed by collusive bidding and excessive prices. Rut it is treasonably bad to use polit ical pulls in order to have battleships built on out-of-date plans that would make them simply death traps in ac tual battle with foreign fleets. The outstanding naval lesson taught by the Japanese-Russian war and by the present war is that the victorious battleship will always be the fastest battleship, because the fastest battle ship can decide when and where a bat tle shall be fought, tt can stand off and fight, it can advance and fight or it can run away from a slower battle ship that may be more powerful. Yet building slow, heavy-armored battleships and inducing congress to order more slow, heavy-armored bat tleships to be built has been and is now the policy and set purpose of the armor trust. Why? Because slow battleships, with their enormous thickness of armor, rep resent millions of profit to the armor trust, which the armor trust would not receive if fast, light-armored ships were built for the American navy as they are built for every other navy but the American. Nor is this all. Both experiments and actual battle-tests have proved beyond any doubt that high explosive shells will wreck the heaviest armor plate. So the armor trUst has steadily used its secret influence to prevent the use of high explosive shells by our navy. Why? Because the armor trust did not want its obsolete and profitble heavy armored, slow battleships discarded in future naval program, and the adop tion of the high explosive shell would have resulted in those slow, heavy- armored battleships being discarded. And so here is our navy without the high explosive ammunition which is on board the battleships of every other first-class power at this very moment. There must be no 'more business done with this unscrupulous, un patriotic trust. It is not fit to be trusted. Henceforth the government must build the ships and provide the armor and the guns and the ammunition upon which the safety of the nation finally depends. New York American. - :o: : Omaha should double her police, authorize every citizen to arm him self, and the killing of a few highway men might possibly put a stop to the hold-up business in the metropolis. Surely the authorities are not going to put up with this state of affairs very much longer. ;o: Miss Bessie Snow of German town, Pa., was unable to withstand the warm protestations of eternal affec tion by a young man she had known only a month, and she eloped. Her name is Blizzard Mrs. George Bliz zard. Girls generally run up against a blizzard when they marry On short notice. rJCK- While war is still as full of horrors as ever it is being crowded off the front page of many newspapers. That almost anything will become monoton ous in time was demonstrated years ago when a man failed in an attempt to eat quail for thirty days. The European war news is the greatest continued news story in the world's history, but only the papers in big cities, where there are large foreign population, are sticking to it with early-vim. - ,- - - - ' If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again. :o: We have often .noticed that a cheer ful giver is nearly always broke. :o: Faith in Nebraska is a faith that will remove mortgages on the farm. :o: So far as the ultimate consumer is concerned, there is no closed season. :o: Only' twenty-three buying days be tween now and Christmas. Mind that, now. :o: The man who advertises never lays awake nights worrying about the man who does not. :o: Greece is in favor of a safety first policy if it could only decide the course in which safety lies. :o: Jess Willard has made $200,000 since the Jack Johnson encounter. Does physical courage pay better than moral courage? i If the serpent hadn't butted in, it is quite likely some real estate agent would have come along and induced dam to leave the garden. :o: The hanging of Turks for mistreat ing of Armenians may endanger the sultan's scepter. That is about the only real joy the Turks have. :o: If Great Britain should crush Ger many in the war, Bernard Shaw pre dicts a defensive alliance between the Teutons and the United States. -:o: It's a mighty poor brand of religion that impels a man to pray for his neighbor one day in the week and then throw bricks at him the other six. -:o:- Each nation's official statement about itself is interesting, if not al ways convincing. But it is a waste of time to read what one belligerent says about another. :o: Joe Stecker, the wonder of the world, is certainly entitled to the honor. The Terrible Turk soon found cut at Lincoln Thanksgiving day that he couldn't train in Joe's class. :6: The United States district court has declared the South Dakota blue sky law unconstitutional. The name of Hue sky law is enough to condemn it. Too many swindling real estate trades are concocted under the blue sky sys tem. :o: The old state house could not fall down if it wanted to. The Lincoln schemers simply circulated the report in order to get a new one. If the capitalists of Lincoln want a new state house let them put up the kale to build it. :o: In running for office it is wisdom for the candidate to be a little con servative in his declarations. But John L Kennedy, candidate for Unit fed States senator, don't seem to be 'fishing" for anything but straight standpat votes, and if he keeps that kort of policy in electioneering, he will be more liable to remain at home than go to the senate. :o: J. Ogden Armour says the United States will be on a boom for the next three years. Mr. Armour is in a position to khow as much about com mercial conditions as any one. But what is to become of the republican spell-binder who has been predicting dire failures for the past three years ? He will simply have to draw in hi3 horn. ; :o: Collier's Weekly, a magazine that has long been allied with the repub lican party, in the current number, in discussing republican presidential tim ber, says: "No man can make any kind of showing against Wilson, and no man probably will get the re publican nomination, except one who can command at least a fair number of progressive votes." It i3 general ly conceded on every hand that Wood row Wilson will be nominated by the democratic convention without oppo i$ion, and that he will be elected. THE LIBERTY BELL. An old, cracked bell never much of a bell even in its youth has just com pleted a slow journey across the con tinent. Everywhere it stopped, people turned out by the thousands lo look at it, to lay wreaths of flowers upon it, sometimes to make speeches about it and to shed tears over it. It is the Liberty Bell, the bell whose peal first proclaimed to the people of Philadelphia that a declaration of independence had been signed by the representatives of the thirteen British colonies in America. Its days of peal ing are over; it could not ring now if it wished. It is a relic only. But it has for Americans an attraction that no other bell possesses; from them it commands honor and reverence as probably no other single relic does or ever has in the 139 years of the nation's history. There is something inspiring and hopeful in this universal interest Here is something spiritual, unsoiled by anything materialistic, something that pulsates through a vast multi tude of people with a message of idealism. That such a sentiment should cause so many thousands to pause in these busy times is some thing to think about and to cherish. But that is not all. The bell's cross- continental pilgrimage comes, it would seem, at a particularly opportune time. It rang out its patriotic mes sage in 1776 in a time of peril, when a people gave themselves over to an introspective review of their own con dition, and then struck out boldly for what they deemed right. It now stirs the nation's pulse in a new time of trouble and vexation, when once again a people are taxing stocK oi tnem selves, questioning their own strength, searching for a path to future national safety, when again there is need of making a decision and then striking out boldly to put that decision into execution. The nation whose birth was signal ed by the Liberty Bell has waxed great and strong. But as it has grown, so have other nations. As it has achieved a place in the front rank of world powers, by leaps and bounds, it has suffered international jealousies that would have been ridiculous if di rected at the weak little colonies of i 776 and it has assumed responsibili ties unthought of when it was born. The time has now come when the mature nation must decide whether it is to be prepared to meet the possible aggressions of other powers or suffer the terrible penalties of unreadiness. In 1776, the Liberty" Bell rang for democracy, . a militant, courageous democracy. That is now the need, as it was then. This country wants no militarism; neither does it want spine less humanity. It wants democracy, but it wants a democracy that knows its power and has the courage and the power to stand up for what it believes to be right. Tis a pity, in a way, that the Liberty Bell cannot be resurrected and become an active, living thing, instead of a relic. For then, one can well im againe it ringing forth a new mes sage, under the same inspiration that pulled its clapper in 1776, a message of preparedness, not unreadiness, a message of democracy, not militarism in a word, an endorsement of a sane reasonable policy of national defense. World-Herald. :o:- Victor-E. Nelson of Stromsburg don't know yet whether he wants to be the democratic nominee for con cress or railway commissioner. Our advice to the Smart Aleck is he had better stay out of the race for either. He is unpopular at home as well as abroad, and can't even carry his own county. The democrats want men that can be eletced. :o: Beware of Cheap Substitutes. In these days of keen competition it is important that the public should pee that tney gee namoeriaiu a Cough Remedy and not take substit utes sold for the sake of extra profit. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has stood the test and been approved for more than forty years. Obtainable everywhere. A want ad in the Journal will bring result?. Children Cry LftMQ) Tho Kind ou Have Always Bought, and which has been iu use for over SO years, lias born the signature of ad has been made under his per-tjCKfJ?7--r sonal supervision since Its Infancy. uzr-yjrt sCCCUZZ Allow no onq to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" ore but F.xperiuicnts that trifle with and endanger tho health of Infants and Clnldrcn Experience against Experiment What is CASTOR I A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, lrops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. Ifc contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms, and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years ifc lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It assimilates the Tho Children' s Panacea Tho 3Iother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS "J Bears the In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought TW K CENTAUR COMMNY, SANTA CLAUS AND THE WAR. Early in September we were con gratulating the little people of Ameri ca upon the running of the blockade at Amsterdam by Santa Claus. The British authorities, who had sequest ered at that port millions of dollars worth of goods made in Germany and consigned to importers in this coun try, had Somewhat relaxed their tight hold, under the orders in council, and the goods released included some mil lions of dollars' worth of toys. The still more pleasing announcement was then made that this was but the beginning of shipments of that sort. which long before Chirsstmas would bring over enough for Santa Claus to fill all the little stockings in the and. For some reason there came a hitch in the program after the first cargo came over. It began to appear that there might be long lines of little stockings empty of toys because Santa couldn't get as many as he always need;? in addition to the many he al ways makes himself. But they don't know Santa Claus. The warring na tions can defeat one another now and then. But when any one of them un dertake to get in the way of Santa Claus, it finds itself immediately up against an irresistible force. Santa Claus has set large number of toy-' makers at work in additions to their factories our American toymakers have built to accommodate him, them selves and the children. Toys of all sorts, including all the old favorites and battleships, submarines and aero planes which fly until they have to come down (which is all the best of them can do), make up the stocks in trade. Kings fight for land-greed, conquest, and sometimes for the mere love of fighting. But Santa Claus Secure a Farm in the North Platte Valley THE NORTH PLATTE VALLEY, frequently called the "Scottsbluff country," is making a more wonderful showing every year in its produc tion of irrigated crops, sugar beets, alfalfa, potatoes, wheat and oat3 it is becoming one of the richest localities for breeding and fattening of live stock. Many Government irrigated holdings of 1(50 acres are being reduced to SO acres, making it possible for land seekers to secure 80-acre tracts ir rigated under the reliable system of the Government on terms that will never again be duplicated. All we can ask is that you visit the Valley And let our agents put you in touch with tonnage, the increased population, and note the general prosperity; this will tell you what advance in land values you may expect there in the next five years. Or write mo for the Burlington's i Mm for Fletcher's d) regulates the Stomach and Bowels, Food, givinsr healthy and natural slen. Signature of EW YOWK CITY, fights for the children, and "Thrice ia he armed who hath his quarrel just." Incidentally, he is giving employment to many long idle hands and profit to long unproductive capita. MISSOURI COUPLE ARE MARRIED RY REV. DRULINER From Saturday's Daily. This morning Mr. Howard J. Bran tiock and Miss Celia D. Reimers, both of West Plaine, Missouri, appeared at the court house and sought the office of the county judge, where they pro cured a license to wed and continue their journey through life as one in the future. After securing the license the your.g people repaired to the resi dence of Rev. F. M. Druliner of the Methodist church and were united in the holy bonds of wedlock, the mem bers of the Druliner family being the witnesses for the happy event. Don Rhoden of Murray came up Saturday afternoon for a few hours to look after some matters of busi ness. F. B. Elliott of Tipton precinct was among the jurors arriving this morn ing to assume the work on the jury panel. How to Prevent Croup. It may be a surprise to you to learn that in many cases croup can be pre vented. Mrs. H. M. Johns, Elida, Ohio, relates her experience as' fol lows: "My little boy is subject to croup. During the past winter I kept a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy in the house, and when he began having that croupy cough I would give him one or two doses of it and it would break the attack. I like it bet ter for children than any other cough medicine, because children take it wil lingly, and it .is safe and reliable." Obtainable eevrywhere. reliable firms. Ask about the trop new publication, "North Platte Valley." Let me help you go there and see for your self this locality which is the talk of the West. S. B. HOWARD, IMMIGRATION AGENT, 10 4 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. f i r
