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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1915)
-J PAGE . PLATTSMOUTII SEMMVEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, DKC'UMIiKU !). 191.1. Cbe plattsmoutb journal ri IILlSIf KO SKMl-WKKKLV AT I'LATTSMOITH, J KHKASK A. Entered at I'ostoffice at l'lattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter. R.A. BATES, Publisher SIHSCKIITIOX l'HKKi lJVO TIIOUGIIT FOR TODAY. . 5" Life is noble in the propo- ! i tion to the nobleness of faith; it is successful in proportion to ' the fixedness of faith. Joseph -l- Le Conte. I :o:- The boring1 for oil will soon begin. :o: Experts are very positive there is oil in Cass county. :o: Wonder how the pig-headed state treasurer feels now? :o: German toys by any other name will serve the kids just the same. :o: Some state officials assume too much. The voters will assume for them next fall by retiring them. :o: Buy Red Cross seals to put on your Christmas packages you send to your distant friends. Now, don't forget it. :o: It appears that Teddy will have to make a clear choice between two con flicting aims. That isn't much of a feat for Teddy to perform. :o : - Congressman Shallenberger will be right in the fight, being assigned to the committee on military affairs. Shally will prove all right anywhere they put him. :o: The work of congress can either re elect Wcodrow Wilson or defeat him. So it stands every democratic member in hand to stand by our worthy presi dent in his efforts to save America and its people from infringement from other nations. :o: Dr. I. L. Hall, member of the na tional democratic committee, has gone to the meeting of the committee in Washington. He also carried with hirn the petition to President Wilson from Nebraska democrats, which he will present to the president. :o: If you hear a man talking at the rate of 200 words a minute, don't think he has brain fever and think it necessary to call a doctor. He has probably just returned from the Tana ma exposition, and is trying to tell more than he knows about it. :o: Perhaps not ail the uses of the auto mobile have been discovered. A farmer in the wc.-t part of the state has been killing woodchucks with the exhaust gas from his motor car, attaching a hose to the exhaust pipe and running it into the woodchuck burrow. ;o: It would seem that all the democrat:; who were announced for governor three months ago, have evidently Hew the track. Don't get scared, gentle men. When Morehead was nominated the first time wc had fellows tell u there was not the least show for his being nominated. Yet he was nomin ated and re-nominated. :o: "German toys" made in Japan wiil be everywhere on the market this Christmas time, we learn, and Nurem berg, if she could see them, would find it difficult to identify them as not her own. Those papier mache and bisque cows and sheep which seemed inimitable are proven not so, nor do they look like Japanese cov3 or sheep. Railroad cars, music boxes and me chanical t6ys have been reproducc.1 'and dolls with straight Caucasian eyes, npt at all like the orb- of Nip pon. Japan has appropriated every thing from the west except its re ligions: and into our mataphysies sh 'cither cannot or docs not cure to fol low us. 1KH VKAll l. ADVA.VfE COMMON SENSE PREVAILS. That the state treasurer has no right to question the applicability of the money paid in by insurance companies for the compensation of the fire war den to the service for which they are paid in is the ruling of the supreme court. Very few stem to have ever been able to imagine that the supreme court would hold otherwise. The common sen-e view of the matter has seemed to be that when the legislature creates an office and provides for its main tenance through the collection of fees, it makes a lawful continuing appro priation of such fees, so that they do not in fact become a part of the state's funds usable for other purposes, and it is reasonable to conclude that they may ie applied, without specific bien nial j'.ppropriation, to the purposes for which their collection was authorized. The holding of the court in the case of the fire warden points with seem ing certainty to what must be the holding in the other cases involving payment of the cost of maintaining j the pure food and other departments jof the state's suprvisual activities. The holding is that inasmuch as the funds in dispute are paid in by in surance companies for a certain pur pose, and these companies are not ob jecting to their disbursement for that purpose, the state treasurer is not in position to refuse or object to such payment. The fees of all of the other depart ments involved in this controversy are paid in by those over whom the state maintains supervision, and must be considered in the same light as the fees for maintenance of the fire war den's office and work. There is one expression in the opin ion that is rather vague. It is the sen tence wherein the court holds that the right of the legislature to create the office "is not questioned." Whether that means that the court does not question that right, or simply that no body has specifically raised the ques tion, may only be guessed. Bat if the right of the legislature to create such offices as fire warden, food commis sioner and the like, can be successfully ienied, then a comprehensive fabric of state regulation must fall to the ground. Scr.ie effort has been made in cer tain quarters to prejudice the public against the integrity and good intent of the governor in arranging that the departments effected by the refusal of the state treasurer to pay out these funds should continue collecting the fees, letaining them to meet the ex penses of administration of the re spective departments, with the under standing that only the excess should be turned into the state treasury. Undoubtedly there were some to whom the attitude of the state treas urer appeared to be the only proper one under the law. Of course they were the ones who assailed the posi tion of the governor. Now that the highest court has rejected the position of the treasurer, some credit and apology must accrue to the governor for his indisposition to see the super visual departments which the legisla ture, speaking for the people, had cre ated put out of business for lack of funds to meet the expense of their op eration. Lincoln Star. :o:- Villa is hiding now from his pursu ers, and it is hoped he will soon be captured and punished according to the crimes he has committed, and that his captors will not be slow in dealing out justice to him and his generals. ;o: The politician who hopes to gain preferment through the difficulties with foreign nations and oppose the VVikon administration on these grounds, is not worthy of being called an American- 'citizen, with not an r,i:ncc of ' patriotic blood flowing through his veins. The bread has all got to be wrapped now. :o: The old year is on its last round, and the Now Year is in sight. :o: The Merry Christmas time is com ing on apace, and the kids are happy. .u.-- like, this It looks would be the hardest winter that Dandit Villa ever experienced. :o:- It is almost impossible to build up a town and at the same time keep down the wrath of some taxpayers. :u; Some of the crusades in modiaeval times were no more futile than Henry Ford's; but they had their uses. The Dodge county court house at Fremont was gutted by llames Sun - day morning. It will be rebuilt right away. Reports from Washington are to the clfect ihat the appointment of a fed eral judge rests altogether with I 'resi dent Wilson. :u:- As soon as a man buys an automo bile there is a widespread feeling that he should spend his afternoons run ning around town on errands for the Sunday school, the Woman's club and a fraternal society. :o : In the selection of a place for the demociatic national convention, Dr. Hall is for Omaha first and Dallas, Texas, next. This may be all right, but we believe that should it pi eve im possible for Omaha to succeed, the convention should go to St. Louis or Chicago. :o: The Ford ship is well on its voy age of peace, and it is the -wish of every American citizen that it will re sult in more good than we can really contemplate. If the envoys can even get the warring nations to ponder over peace measures their mission will not have been in vain. :o : Congress is now grinding away, and the people are watching their every movement. It is generally be lieved that a big majority of the mem bers will stand by President Wilson, notwithstanding Messrs. Biyau and Roosevelt are present to oppose his measures for "safety first." Theie is always something in the way. Just as it seemed that every body was going to get a piece of money out of the increased European trade it is announced that all the rail roads are choked with war shipments; that for a hundred miles out of New York all the sidings on the railroads are filled with loaded cars awaiting fhips. The congestion will result in reduced prices. All of which should teach us that a man who is set at the second table never gets much. :; We would like to impress upon those of our patrons who have notices for the Evening Journal or display advertising that they can help us a great deal by having such in the office by noon. When they pile in upon us after 1 o'clock it makes it pretty hard. We like to accommodate our friends, :'nd many times we do when it delays us in getting the paper out on time. Perhaps you are not aware of this ract. Rut we desire to remind you that the holidays are approaching, and more than ever it will necessitate your getting in your notices aiul ad vertising on time. :o: 1 A town that never has anything to do in a public way is on the way to the cemetery. Any person who will do nothing for his town is helping to dig the grave. The man that curses the town furnishes the coffin. The man who is so selfish as to have no time from his business to give to city af fairs is making the shroud. The man who will not advertise is driving the hearse. The man who is always pull ing back from any public enterprise throws bouquets on the grave. The man who is so stingy as to be howling hard times, preaches the funeral, sings the doxology, and thus the town lies bn;i"d from all sorrow and care. Bruning Booster. CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE. From the secretary of the War Children's Relief Fund in New York there comes a timely reminder that ' the glad festival in which our chil-j dren will be permitted in peace and prosperity to participate three weeks hence seems likely to bring little to; awaken in the hearts of the children; j of the war stricken countries or j t.u rope any unusual sentiment oi goou i f 1 i will or bring any glad tidings of groat joy or consciousness of peace on 1 earth. We are reminded that the children cf warring nations will look with ! touching wilfulness toward their, friends and well-wishers in America ! for some token of love and good cheer j which may lighten the gloom of this' : second Christmas since the awful ' struggle going on around them has I ovei whelmed them with sadness and j desolation. I i-ov't believe more than half you A year ago thoughtful Americans ; hear in nous from the rcat of war; had taken precautions to have en route I for instance that b.'d linen is made to Europe at this period of the y--nr ' of celluloid in Germany. hips laden with trophies of affection.) :- Sii.ce then Italy and Poland and the A sufferer with an indersni'.e ad smaller countries of the far oast have i rn,l:t f'" ut every few days just added their suffering thousands to' hat is the matter with him; in fact, the lanks of the bereft. Hence the ! -'very time he changes doctors. suggestion: It rsiy le difficulty always, to be ::g"d!y neutral, but in the glow of the approach of the greatest anniversary in the world, Christmas day. the day of "Pcaee on Earth, Good Will to Men." set apart for all the r.al.onsl an 1 all peoples, let the fine neutrality of the soul sweep away all human prejudice and make us realize that all; thee fighting men are equally i-w: brothers, brothers in the divine brotherhood of our common human ity. And so the War Children's Relief Fund authorities at "" and 'J7 West Ninth street. New York, are sending Christmas stockings to the orphaned children of Europe, each containing candies, nuts, an expensive toy and a few pennies f the coin of their re spective countries, with a Christmas card stating that the gifts come "With love of the chi'dren of America." j Useful gifts of wearing apparel are enclosed with the stockings in each package, and all decorated with red ribbon and holly. Subscriptions have been invited to aid in this project, large or small sub scriptions from willing hands and generous heatts. The time is shoit and promptness is urged. A few days ago the press associa tions directed e -pecial attention to the fact that Christmas money is more plentiful in this country than it has been for years. Reports firm a dozen cities disclosed that the merchants have enjoyed a tremendous trade in preparation for Christmas and arc prepared for a record trade for the season. This means that the children I of the United States have a joyous i J and Merry Christmas in prospect. Only opportunity to do so will prevent them from sharing in as large meas ure as possible with the orphans of war the joys that belong to the e-hil-hod world at Christmas time. Lin coln Star. A state organization is proposed in the inteiort of better babies. It will create some new jobs, but of course that isn't the reason. The very idea! In one respect the people have changed their opinion rbout the great war. They don't believe now that the war caused hard rains here last sum mer. "Winter has this advantage," says the ( hicago News: "It brings nothing to swat or inin'..lc" It brings some thing to muzzle if we only could the blizzard. :o:- The Red Cross seal makes a line ornament for Chirstmas packages. The cost is .c f mall that you will be helping a great cause by putting sev eral on each package. :o: Some newspapers constitute Ford's peace trip a "wild goose chase." May be it is, but we prefer to hold our opinion until a later date. One thing certain, it will prove a great adver tisement for Ford automobiles, and they are liable to "go off like hot cakes on a cold winter morning" if Henry returns in safety. Just 1G more days till we hang up our sox. :o: Why is it some men always want to rue or rujn ? t ;o: Let your wife do it; especially if it's finding fault. ;c: That new resolution you intend to adopt! Don't forget it. ; :o: j A groin h may smile and smile and ; still be a grouch. Still one prefers l that kind. j ' Never :o:- str.rt anything you can't finish referring to the European war, of course. .o: Bryan is determined to put the president to all the trouble he can . manufacture. :o:- :o: So long as tin re is work to Ln done at l anama, iienerai Lioeir.a:s will i nave a linger in the pie, and at pres ent it very muchly resembles a mud pie. :o: Why didn't the pa: eel po. t lower lhe t.,jSt of Uviz by pultii the farm cr i:e::t to the consumer? Apparent ly, because the farmer couldn't hi "or ga n i ed " effect i v el y . :-u: RURAL SCHOOLS. The cliiiui.n who attend the ruial seh(;o!s in the winter lime mast cat cold lnnehes i'".- they are nearly all to far from home that ihey mu::-l take their iunihes with them. In the im provemi ut of rural .-.ehoois in Nebras- ha, that matter has btcn attended l.i. in some s'.-hoois thore has been 10 ided a home-made lirciess cooker and the flinches the children Lring can be placed in that and servet. hot. In some instances there has been pro vided an oil stoe and soups, ceiTee cr cocoa can be mru'e. In some placc-s neat little cupuoaids have been eon-.-.Irutled in which dishes and jars can be kept. These are usually made by the pupils themselves out of boxes. In these schoeds when the thermometer is down near or below zeie. the chil dren can have a good hot lunch. Through the consolidation of small districts, in a good many places, the one room school house has disap peared and houses of two or three rooms have taken its place. In these, somewhat more elaborate arrange ments have been made and the girls who arc studying domestic science re ceive practical instruction in their course by providing these lunches. The plan seems to be a reasonable and practical one, but in se me in stances it has failed because it put much woik on lhe already over-burdened teacher and because the teacher had nt been prepared for such in struction. Many of the teachers began work before there was any domestic rcience course in the normal schools that prepared them for teaching. The extention service of the College of Agriculture sends out the following advice on the subject. "It cannot be recommended too strrngly that a modest beginning be made until the interest of the parents, on one hand, and the ability of the teacher to organize the work well, on the other hand, assure the success cf its development on a larger plane. Thr? donation of a few utonsil.3 ml food by some of the patrons may be the initial step which will later ga;n the support of the entire district." An outfit for a rchool, including everything from a wooden spoon to a two burner, oil stove, can be obtained for about $14. If the project is to be a success, the teacher must know how to cook as well as translate I.nin and solve problems in higher mathematics. World-Herald. Have you seen cur fine line cf Christmas Stationery? This line al ways make a pleasant present. See he new initial letter, jus;t in from the Whiting Co. ' tfet Ccaievtts 13 HiutlDntcM .Li.-iiLQL-SKntE.VE AVt-j:la,j!'.-I1rCT)::r.-:tipnfcLs-EiDiJa! in !i:c roodmidCceula f ;r' the St.'uv.disa'.id Hovels ol m rronol cs Jiwcbliou.(-liccrful-i tcss aii J Ifcst .Contains ncul J OniuiaJlorphinc mrUm IS J.jvp!.m Malt JStStfrM-iS- J -r . Jh 'tt.'iitmn :i :C" "r-5.0 a 3 i.-iirtiuii-yr!' 1 1 luxury ?L'iTr ! l- i s0';r5timrich.i)i'c.fl- 1 v'c K-rrc anil -r m V Hornr K-i r THE P; .Mr.lln 'I HON ISSUE. .is brother, Charlie, ' uc eie tei r.i.'nt d to force the prohibi- i .n;:i oaris (-ai. ' q ue.-'.an ;n t i.e e-f ek-mocratie nripv-:r and cam - r. Bryan's j ri, is ill M ;-e upon ioilowu-.g the county jp. oii ijiie.siior. ':ro a campaign wnei: it ... i e :ed that he w; s rot a can-i i 1 mm 1 ;; Vj i did i.e !'.,. office. Tt he s, perhaps, lis a : ur. called for a.- would be an at ev;i iioii.-t that when M r. Bryan's j terant n the part cf s-.otne parly lead ::i!.,o ..jipeared on the tiriset as ;i can-jer t nai.e the I'.uest 'on of baptism a. di late he was ery insi: taut that r.oip, ''.l IV. t:t O'.i, a :'rlj.ai-l. pened ilia: be in'e;-'ed into the III rd tint wiien it so hap- ' was not a caraiidate he i-iate I upon injecting into the cara ign issues that wt re r.ot fiir.dtiment- dly democratic b.it merely matters of ! rersonal opinic n. A few e-.rt a vl.en i n attempt ' vvar. bei.ie- aaaie to foice th county! p4 ion qaes'.i M,, Mrs. lle.ild, reprc-seiitiii'.- t'no Women's Christian tem pera.!, it ui'i:i. asked Mr. Bryan to -ign a petition to the legislature ask ing that the county option bill be en- ic'.ed into law. Mr. Br, an declined ,o s i 1 1 the Petition, saving that the -r...:n issue w..s the securing of the j initiative and referendum; that after j securmj that the people could vote ipon : 11 those questions without re ran! to political persuasion. A car or two r.go Mr. Bryan saw or thcaj.ht he saw an opportunity -o mal e political capital by espousing the county option cause. It seems that iie had forgotten the argument that he put up to Mrs. Ileald. The question of adopting or reject ing a prohibitory law will come be fore the people on a referendum vole .it the next election. There is no more rcasca why the deiv.o. rats .should en dorse or fail to endorse that measure than for the endorsement or rejection C a proposition on the subject of bap-tiai.-! Ly irnmerijn. The one, like the other, is a mr tter cf moiv.1 judgment, no", of political judgment. A man may be opposed to prohibition by legisla tive or coaslitutior.r.l cn:;c:.rcnt and still be a good elc wocr.: f , just as a may believe ia baptism by im- era.Vi and f'."i bo a good democrat, aKl.ou h Mr. Ur'an, being a Pre.-by-tcriar. believe; that sprinkling or courin-r is be.pt isnt. The oLers ei braska will have I iy M N (fcrL All liectaT Diseases i 'i U1rt V operation. No Chloro i Zi 11 VmJp eral aneasthetic used. h write rcK r.ooi: om tiles and rectal diseask . C3.E.n.T2SY, escsar t BAJLKY MACH I Tb larrtit and best equipped dental offices In Omaha Experts la 1 charge cf all work. Lady attendant, r ModtniU Prices. Porcelain fillings just like tooth. Instruments eareiull sterillaed after using. tesaTHIKD FL002?V PAXTOfJ BLOCK, OMAHAczzx For Infants and Children. Genuine Gastoria Always Bears the gnature of c o For Over Thirty Years itTilill mm mm U& mm mm UJ TMt CENTAUR COMPANY. NCW VORM CrTV. an oppf.rt unitv to vote their moral convict .r:s o i this prohibition njes- lion at tin r.c-J election, just as tiny n opportunity of voting for r,vi!I have or against the policies of I lie Wilson adir.in:--trat ion. Prohibition is not a partisan question It has nothing lo ic The effect to th part. po! make it a test f a voter's democracy ' lc... Mr. Bryan h is, of coarse, i-sht to change his mind a rijjht which h.e eaeivi.ci with considerable :frequi ney but the-e are democrats in Nebraska who have no difficulty in re-calling ti'-' time when Mr. Bryan was un-democrat f: to .support, as a party, any demands for sumptuary k.vi.i.i ion. The :emc:.ts who have three tirne.i vali lit I v" fought for Mr. i";.s a candidate for Br.au wh' n he v ..s ; the presidency certain !v h.ave some rights in the premises. It would not be at ail unbecoming on the part of Mr. Bryan to allow t!u:n to have some voice in the matter of choosing the ground upon which democracy is to make the coming fight. W. M Maupin in York Democrat. CTTROLAX C I T R O L A X CITROLAX Best thing for constipation, sour stomach, lazy liver and sluggish bowels. Stops a sick headache almost at once. Gives a most thorough and satisfactory flushing no pain, no nausea. Keeps your system cleansed, sweet and wholesome. Ask for Citrolax. Sold everywhere. Rix Social at Keil School. The pupils and teacher of the Keil school, school district No. i7, will hoi 1 a Box Social and program at the school house on Saturday evening, De cember Uth. Everybody invited. The ladies are requested to bring boxes and the gentlemen the coin. Anna Henrich. CHICHESTER S PILLS n 'cii-..T. lui.n.t,, T:mnjA V-.C I'llU m II. fl a -I ,!! i.-.li'i..V . .T;J t" c.. 'iic-.t vttii Line l.:iN.n. fif lrnB ;!.). A.Kf .r i..Tri:- Im. .W lI."jiNr ia: m imi.I.u, e.r a:. 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