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PtATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913. TZbz plattsmoutb journal i Ft DLISIIF.D SEMI-WKEKI.Y AT Entered at Postofllceat riattsmouth. R. A. BATES, Publisher si'bsckiftio.n pmcEt f i-t .J. THOUGHT FOR TODAY. g $ In every age man has his J s faith: In youth it is conquest; l- - in manhood, clevereness; in age, J J- sympathy. m a a mm mm - -:o:- Excessive politeness often covers a poison label. :o: We all should be happy during the Christmas season. :o: "There is no place like home" dur ing the holiday season. :o: Don't fail to place Red Cross seals on your Christmas packages. :o: During this weather prospects for penumonia are worse than ever. :o: Di.-play windows are full of military Christmas toys; this is well nigh cruelty to the pacificists. :o: Don't rut off till tomorrow what you should do tomorrow. Do it today and tomorrow you can loaf. :o: "America First" should be the motto of every loyal American. Those who are not with us are against us. :o : Our admiration must go out to the queen of Greece; she has the talent for domination over the balance of the family. :o: Such queer rumors get started; well warrant Carranza does laugh somewhere in the midst of those whiskers. :o : Don't 'phone a man and ask him if he's busy. Call him up and tell him you would like to see him, if it is agreeable. :o: Children's letters to Santa Claus suggest that somebody hereabouts might undertake to be a real person age in the role of Santa and gladden the hearts of the poor little girls and boys of the city. It will surely demon strate a true Christian spirit. :o: The idea of sterlization of degene tates has again been quite prominent ly brought to public attention by a re port of a grand jury in Chicago and who have recommended this penalty for attacks on children. Were this a national law instead of simply by ttates and extend to cover between races it would result in a vast amount of good and the law ought to be writ ten. - :o; Those who arc not in favor of pre paredness for war under present cir cumstances, arc not good, loyal Amor ican citizens. We believe in President Wilson, and also that he is the most popular personage in this country to day, lie has an opinion of his own and i.s right in all his determinations The majority of th-i people of the United Slates stand -jy their president because he is one of the most level headed men that ever sat in the presi dential chair. :o: The passing years make a vast dif fercr.ee in the attitude toward Christ mas. In the morning of life when the world is all aflame with color, reson ant with music and fraught with mys tery, and when every little thing is filled with wonder and the future is rosy and worry is a name only, then the days . just before Christmas drag themselves along at a snail's pace. A week is an age, and a month is an tternity. : When the sands have flowed for a few decades' -it is just the othr way. Nevertheless, "Backward, turn backward, oh Time in thy flight; make me a boy again, just for tonight." I'UTTSMOI TII, N EHIt ASIvA. Neb., as second-class mall matter. pkii vi:ai is advasck Don't forget the poor children at Christmas. :o : A grouch may smile and still be a grouch; still one prefers that kind. :o: Fart of the perennial mirth of America is derived from amateur de scriptions of weddings. :o: Do your filing for office before it is too late. Remember it is better to be a little early than to be everlastingly too late. It won't be long till 1916 is here. to: Just 10 more days remain in which to buy it, if you get it before Christmas and remember, all roads lead to Plattsmouth and they are good roads, too. :o: Ex-Governor Aldrich doesn't seem to be scared off the track for United States senator on the republican ticket. His name has been filed, as well as his platform announced. :o: Two new members of congress from Nebraska oppose taxing automo biles and gasoline, but their rea son for such action is very thin. They are evidently on the lookout for popularity. :o: For ages cooks have tried to invent something to stuff into the turkey that is worth digging out again, but they have never succeeded to any great extent. Oysters cut about the proper caper. 1 :o: The agricultural department now claims that the water fowls have j doubly increased since the migratory law went into effect. This being the case, it won't hurt very much if the ! sports do get a few ducks between now and Christmas. :o: j Some of Mr. Bryan's ardent news paper friends in Nebraska have faith and are predicting that he will be found out supporting Woodrow Wil son for president. Faith is the sub stance of things hoped for, the evi dence of things not seen. Besides, Mr. Bryan supported Alton B. Farker. Lincoln Star. :or Many democrats in Cass county would delight in voting for Dr. P. L. Hall for governor. He is a man inwhom both republicans and democrats have the greatest confidence, and would prove a level-headed man at the head of affairs in Nebraska. He is a man who can always be depended upon to do the right thing at the right time. :o : Resolve to do your trading in Plattsmouth, not alone at the Christ mas season, but all the time. The ex perience of many of the very best buyers in this community and other sections of Cass county, is that they can do just as well, and often better in their home town and it is a well known fact that many courtesies are extended by the home merchant which one does not receive from the strang er, who is interested alone in getting your money. :o: The fight against tuberculosis is a winnig fight. If figures are proof, the figures given by Dr. George M. Kober, in a bulletin issued by the United States public health service, prove that slowly but surely the white plague is, being conquered. In 1830 the death rate from tuberculosis was 326 per 1,000. In 1913 it had fallen to 147.6 per 1,000. If, in 1913, ' the ratio of deaths from the disease had been the same as in 1880, fully 322, 027 people in the United States would have died of tuberculosis. Instead, the deaths numbered 143,000. That means a saving of 179,027 lives in 1913 alone, if the figures are right. NOT PARTISAN ISSUES. Whatever may be the success met with bya-'few partisan leaders, pa triotism promises, in some important particulars, to score over partisanship in congress this winter. There promises, in the first place, to be more legislating in the open and less behind the closed doors of party caucuses. A notable victory has al ready been won, in the senate demo cratic caucus, in the defeat of the ef fort to make cloture a partisan policy. If cloture is to be accomplished in the senate it must be by the free vote of senators, and not at the crack of the whip of King Caucus. And if there is cloture it seems more and more likely that it will be along the lines favored by Senator Hitchcock; requir ing a two-thirds vote to close debate on a measure representing new legis lation. This would protect the rights of minorities as well as majorities, while at the same time making it im possible for a handful of senators to tie up legislation indefinitely by a filibuster. Indications are very strong, further more, that preparedness will not be made a party matter, nor a subject of caucus action. President Wilson as sured Senator Gallinger, the repub lican leader, that he was personally opposed to carrying preparedness into a party caucus. Mr. Gallinger, in his turn, assured the president that, with partisanship eliminated, republicans will co-operate with democrats in the effort to put this country on a footing to defend itself. Few things could happen more un fortunate to this country than for pre paredness to be made a party issue in congress. Division along party or factional lines, with possible defeat of the presidential program in con sequence would be the death blow to what prestige we have in Europe. As the New York World well says, "A divided, a partisan or an impotent congress would be an invitation to foreign aggression such as the United States has not known since the Na poleonic eras." It would give en couragement to both Great Britain and Germany in invasions of our sovereign rights by proclaiming to the world that the United States is a peo ple divided against itself. Further to quote the World, it would be con strued as "evidence that the Ameri can people are hopelessly divided on the issue of national defense, and that no government in the United States which could speak authoritatively for the people of the United States or could act authoratively in the in terests of the United States." Traditionally and properly Ameri can partisanship has always ceased at the water's edge. When it comes to the love of country, the defense of country, to the resistance of menace from abroad, we are not republicans or democrats but Americans. The nearer congress comes to acting in this spirit the more hearty the ap proval it will win from the country. World-Herald. -:o:- Old Winter apace. is surely coming on :o: Overcoats come mighty handy now when in sight. :o: "Drive" is a poor word in war, and the drives turn out poorly. :o ; It is growing cold enough to give the man in knee-length underwear a pre-occupied air. :o: There seems to be a new industry in Washington, D. C, in the form of a "match" factory. : : In this neck of woods, winter always hesitates until January. The predict ed snowstorms never last. :o: Praying for peace is like praying for rain. The prayers are bound to be answered if you just keep on. :o: For heaven's sake! Old Add Waite is again in the limelight for the re publican nomination for secretary of state. Don't these chronic office seekers think the people ever get tired of . constant running for office? We have democrats just as bad. When you order a mine pie of com merce don't. Order apple pie. That's chiefly what you'll get, after all. :o : Autoists are still being killed by trying to beat the train to the cross ings. Some people will never learn any sense. :o : Europe is paying the penalty for clinging to the monarch idea; but we didn't think there was so much deviltry in it. :o : "Fourteen thousand men shoveling snow in New York." Don't that sound a little chilly? Our time will come soon, no doubt. ;n: Don't wait till the last moment to send your Christmas packages away, if you want them to reach their desti nation before Christmas. :o: One of Andrew Carnegie's mistakes was a belief that money could change the English language. Sometimes a man with millions has too much faith in them. :o: When a newspaper now and then tells the truth about you, it is very easy for you to honestly believe in your own mind that the newspaper is a yellow sheet. :o: Paris, in the midst of war, takes a melancholy satisfaction in the fact that low as her fortunes may fall, she still dominates half of the United States the female half. :o: Tuberculosis is a dread disease and almost incurable. Remember when you buy a dozen or more of the Red Cross seals for Christmas packages you are helping stamp out the awful pest. Remember and place seals on all your packages. :o: If you intend to send away any Christmas presents, remember that the earlier you send them the better your chance for getting them through on time. Both the potoffice depart ment and the express companies are going to be rushed. :o : STRENGTHENING WILSON. That disposition that animates the newspaper publisher to give to every reader a fair hearing upon public questions whenever he is moved to speak out has secured place in the columns of this paper within the past few days for several very determined assaults upon the president because of the attitude he has maintained toward the participants in the war in Europe. It is perhaps best that they shall be given publicity, as they disclose the attitude of a class toward the presi dent, and why they who assume that attitude do so. If the president has excited the hos tility and malignant resentment of any class because of his course in re gard to the war in Europe, it is well for every American citizen to know it, especially if any class that may feel aggrieved is bent on punishing the president for the course he has pur sued. These letters are important because an overwhelming majority of the citi zens of the country approve the presi dent's course in regard to the war, and its relation to our own welfare. Let it once be understood that any con certed opposition to the president is due to disapproval of his conduct in regard to the war, and the voters of the republic will know what steps to take. The people of America will never vote an endorsement of Ger many in the war. They will never vote an endorsement of any participant in the great struggle, and they will re sent any effort of anybody to utilize American politics as a means of ap proving or rebuking any such par ticipant. Meantime every letter assailing the president upon the assumption that he has been un-neutral, such as have been written and printed, is bound to strengthen him before the American people. Lincoln Star. Miss Flossie Richardson departed thi3 afternoon for her home in Council Bluffs, after a short visit here with her father, John Richardson, and other relatives' and friends. WAR AND MEDICINE. It is declared in some scientific circles that the loss of life in this war in proportion to the numbers en gaged is far less than in any previ ous war, notwithstanding the number of new murderous machines that have been invented. In all former wars far the greater part of the deaths result ed from disease or wounds. Surgery has so advanced that the lives of thou sands are saved that would have been lost under the old methods of treat ment. Typhoid fever which formerly carried off thousands of soldiers, is now practically eliminated. Typhus fever which was the dread of all com manders, has ben conquered and if it breaks out anywhere it is speedily suppressed. The American doctors made short work of it in Serbia where it was widely spread before they ar rived. No infectious disease of any kind has been reported from any of the armies, and rarely do sporadic cases appear. The essentials of health are care fully looked after in every army. Spoiled food and infected water are avoided. Sanitation is one of the chief efforts of officers, both of the medi cal staff and of the line. Ditches are disinfected. Clothing is sterilized. Bathing is provided for in every di vision. None of theset hings were thought of in the wars of other days and the soldiers died of disease by the thousands. All this is a triumph of peace and not of war. During the many years of peace research was going on in all countries and the result has been the gaining of knowledge that is now being made use of by the military. The medical records of the present war will be of intense interest and of great scientific value. There will be no advance in medical discoveries evolved from them, but they will re cord success in the application of the knowledge gained in the years of peace. World-Herald. :o: It takes a very small person to do a very small trick, but there are enough of them left to keep the sup ply up to the demand. :o: But the mere fact that there are two sides to the argument is not a valid excuse for continuing it in defiinately. Remember that. :o : "Holiday spreads" by Plattsmouth merchants in their stores and in the Journal indicate unusual opportunity and provision for a big ante-Christmas trade, and there will be no trouble to procure what you want right here at home. Do your Christ mas shopping this week and don't wait until the last day before Christ mas. :o: Everyone should open their heart to the children this Christmas season. There are those who will do without presents unless those outside these poor families remember them. Re member these children are unable to help their condition, and the poor mother, nine times out of ten, has all she can do to provide what they eat. And maybe the father is too. trifling to help provide for them. These chil dren should be made to feel that they are remembered by the Christian spirit that should predominate in this kindly act. :o:- FOUND A gent's brown kid mitten. Owner may have same by calling1 at this office and paying for this ad vertisement. 12-11-tfd Daily News Subscribers. Send your subscriptions and re newals for the Omaha Daily News to Bernese Ault, Cedar Creek, Neb., and help a Cass county girl win the Hud son auto. $2.50 for the Daily, $3.0'J with Sunday. You get the premium just the same and help a friend as well. Personal checks accepted. ll-18-3wks-w There is mnrf Catarrh m thw aoctton ot thl country than all otln-r disease put toKftber. and until the lust fi'W j-t-ant was :,uiumm1 to be lucurulili-. Kor a fcrvnt uiuny j cars doctor iroiiouiic.-d It a lx-ul disease and prescribed local remedies, ami by constantly lulling to cure with, local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Calurrli to be a constitutional disease, ml therefore requires constitutional treatment. Wall's fut.irrh t'uro. manufacturf-d by F. J. Ciiciicy ic Co., Toledo. ihio. Is the only Constitu tional cure on Vie market. It Is tafceu Internally In doses from 10 'ro a to a teasponuful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. . Tlicy offer oiw hundred dollars for :iy case It falls to cure. Send for circulars ra4 testimonials. ' - A3drcss: F. J. CIIEXIir 4 CO.. Trie-Jo, OhI 8 id .r prugKlst. 75c. Tau U-Ii's I'auuij- Vl'di tot CowtljaUwu, j i fiii fin n Net Contentsl5Iluidrariffij 1 .1' -ir?r r-E"VT ALCOHOL" o J. r-i --n k t- .t-ti.trWTfr.nttrrnft)EA3" kiiQO tlBgtllC aiOllhs. Hi uiiv-- rfirTfld- rromoic5iJiur mess roawcsLitwu- 1 -J v.onnTlC. fa Jtw7li!t Stt&' ft, mi Stt - Xac Simile 5inatocot Exact Copy of Wrapt. Lrar ALVO NEWS ITEMS S. C. Hoylcs is on the sick list this week. Xocl Foreman tpent Sunday at home. J. A. Shaffer was in Lincoln on busi ness Friday. Ed Caey went to Omaha Friday to visit his parents. Oscar and Harry Toland went to Omaha Wednesday. Carl Price of Eagle was in town Wednesday morning. Joe Vickers and wife were shopping in Lincoln Wednesday. George Skiles of Slurdock was up between trains Monday. Miss Grace Bailey returned from Lincoln on No. IS Sunday. P. M. Grove was transacting busi ness in Lincoln Saturday. Mrs. Chris Eichmann was in Lin coln Monday and Tuesday. J. II. Strocmer was transacting business in Lincoln Monday. Mrs. Alfred Stroemer was a pas senger for Lincoln Saturday. Morgan McCurdy came in from Weeping Water Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Castle Shaffer visited in Lincoln from Friday till Sunday. Mrs. Charles Rosenow and son, Elmer, were Lincoln visitors Satur day. Mrs. Charles Bueknell and Mrs. William Yaeger were Lincoln visitors Saturday. Mrs. Herbert Moore and daughter, Miss Hlanche, visited friends in Lin coln Saturday. The Evans' Mercantile Co. has sold out to Phillip II. Weidman of Red Oak, Iowa, who will be ready to receive the trade Friday morning. Mrs. II. A. Bailey and daughter, Ruth, and son, Kenneth, were shop ping in Omaha Saturday. Mrs. George Foreman, sr., and son, Charles, went to Lincoln Tuesday. Charles returned on No. 14, and Mrs. Foreman will remain for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. L. E. Bobbitt, for a few days. Sevcial of the farmers in this vi cinity have finished shucking corn and others will finish this week. The corn is not as good a quality as it was last year. A considerable amount is being shelled and shipped from here to Iowa and Kansas for immediate feeding. Miss Frances Myers and Mr. Oscar Ca.-h went to Lincoln last Saturday and surprised their friends by getting married. They left Monday evening for Rockford, Neb., where Mr. Cash is agent for the Rock Island lines. Their many friends 'extend congratu lations and very best wishes. Last Thursday the 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Ault- 3- fi Drs. Maoh & Mach, The Dentists The largest and best equippol dental ollices in Omaha. Experts in charge of all work. Lady attendant. M 'derate Prices. Porcelain fillings jut like tcr'. Instruments c-an'fully sterilized after using. -3rd p ill For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of For Over Thirty Years We Wish You A Merry Christmas While extending the compli ments o the Christmas season, we wish to impress our Patrons with the fact that there's noth ing that will make a more suit able Christmas gift for any member of the family than a selection from our line of Choice Footwear! Just think! There are Shoes for all purposes, Slippers of every good Style a fine display. Then, there are Storm Shoes, Rubbers, A rcties, etc. An endless line of suitable Christmas gifts! There is nothing you can give that will make a more practical or more sensible Christmas gift than good Footwear. We'll make any exchanges desired after Christmas! Don't pass this Store when on your Christmas shopping tour! Fefzer Shoe Co. Better Shoes house, while striking two bottles to gether, had the misfortune to get her eye cut quite badly. They took her to Everett's sanitarium, where she was operated upon Monday. She was resting easier until Wednesday, when she seemed to he growing worse. Box Social at Bestor School Dec. 18. The pupils and teachers of the Bes tor school in school district No. 42, six miles west of this city, will hold a box social at their school house on Saturday evening, December 18th. A program will be rendered by the pupiU at 8 o'clock. Everybody invited. The ladies are requested to bring boxe3 and the gentlemen their pocketbooks. Sophia Hild. Come to The Journal for fine sta tionery. 1 FLOGS FAXTON BLOCK, OMAHA LW hi Use THK CtSTHUS COMMNT. NEW TOM CtTT. v.- I - t f. L