PtATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913.
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In every age man has his J
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Excessive politeness often covers a
poison label.
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We all should be happy during the
Christmas season.
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"There is no place like home" dur
ing the holiday season.
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Don't fail to place Red Cross seals
on your Christmas packages.
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During this weather prospects for
penumonia are worse than ever.
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Di.-play windows are full of military
Christmas toys; this is well nigh
cruelty to the pacificists.
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Don't rut off till tomorrow what
you should do tomorrow. Do it today
and tomorrow you can loaf.
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"America First" should be the
motto of every loyal American. Those
who are not with us are against us.
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Our admiration must go out to the
queen of Greece; she has the talent
for domination over the balance of the
family.
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Such queer rumors get started;
well warrant Carranza does laugh
somewhere in the midst of those
whiskers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A grouch may smile and still be a
grouch; still one prefers that kind.
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Fart of the perennial mirth of
America is derived from amateur de
scriptions of weddings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Old Winter
apace.
is surely coming on
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Overcoats come mighty handy now
when in sight.
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"Drive" is a poor word in war, and
the drives turn out poorly.
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It is growing cold enough to give
the man in knee-length underwear a
pre-occupied air.
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There seems to be a new industry
in Washington, D. C, in the form of a
"match" factory.
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In this neck of woods, winter always
hesitates until January. The predict
ed snowstorms never last.
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Praying for peace is like praying
for rain. The prayers are bound to be
answered if you just keep on.
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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.
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Autoists are still being killed by
trying to beat the train to the cross
ings. Some people will never learn
any sense.
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Europe is paying the penalty for
clinging to the monarch idea; but we
didn't think there was so much
deviltry in it.
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"Fourteen thousand men shoveling
snow in New York." Don't that sound
a little chilly? Our time will come
soon, no doubt.
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Don't wait till the last moment to
send your Christmas packages away,
if you want them to reach their desti
nation before Christmas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But the mere fact that there are
two sides to the argument is not a
valid excuse for continuing it in
defiinately. Remember that.
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"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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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