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: 1 PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY. JANUARY 10, 1916. (: 1 '1 ' r i a w "I Cbe plattsmouth journal PI IlLISIIKI) SKJIWVF.KKI.Y AT 1'l.ATTSMtU Til, SKURASKA. Entered at I'ostofflce at Klattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher sirnsciMPTio X I'HICEj IJM & THOUGHT FOR TODAY. In the occupation and pursuit '? of happiness one must work by "J the day. None ar-i permitted to" v draw upon the rewards or hon J ors of yesterday., ! ,v v vw w w -:o:- Longer days and cjlder nights. :o: Every voman can keep a secret going. :o:- State candidates are a little slow in making their wants known. :o: No man can walk the straight and narrow path and carry a jag. :o: The meaner his habits the louder he will howl about "personal liberty." :o: Congress is again batting away, ar.d the inning promises to be a lasting one. :o: It is a poor rule that won't work both ways, and it's a poor feci that is worked both ways. :o: The ilea of Bryan surpcitir.g Champ Clark to defeat President V.'il fcn. Ain't that funny? :r : Nobody ever cauchi satan asleep in church, and at that he sets a very good example to others. to: What has become cf all the brown derby hats which you see no one wear ing? They deserve popularity. :o: Though trouble ca- their shadows before, it -is a blessing that departing troubles rately cast their shadows be hind. :o: There aie so many laws these days that sometimes a man is uncertain which one to violate and get off the easiest. :o:- No knockers are going to stand it very long in Plattsm-juth the coming season. The progressive, energetic people are going to move so fast next spring and summer that they must keep out of the way or get knocked down and run over. :o: Ida Tarbell, a well known writer, says girls ought to be trained for marriage. Ida may be all right in this suggestion. Eut no old maid who never tasted the sweats of marriage has got any right to advise the girls on the matrimonial question. :o : Another week and all will be settled down to routine business and then we will have time to glance into the fut ure and see what we ran and will do for progressive Plattsmouth the com ing season. Let all be ready to begin the booming with one loud voice. :o: There is not a finer location on earth in which to build a residence than the surrounding hills of Platts mouth. Retired farmers and retired business men of ail kinds seeking beautiful locations on which to build a home for comfort and ease over looking the Missouri river, and the beautiful scenery for miles over in Iowa. :o: There are quite a number who are anxious to see Charles W. Bryan the democratic candidate for governor cf Nebraska. They have been waiting for a long time to get a chance nt him, and even up scores of long standing. Dock Tanner can unlim Lcr his heavy artillery on him in such a way that he will h?ve to print his magazine on asbesto-. York News- Times. , PER VKAIl IX AUVAXCU WAR APPROPRIATIONS. That there has been an immense amount of grafting done by those who have furnished munitions for the army and navy cannot be truthfully denied. In armor plate and in the manufacture of shrapnel it has been proved. The government is today manufacturing shrapnel shells at ore-half the price that it is paving manufactures for them and the lact that the armor manufacturers, who now claim to be the great patriots of the nation, have been selling armor plate to possible enemies at one hundred dollars a ton less than they forced the government to pay, is not denied. They were able to do that by using that blessed thing they call a tariff. Government owners-hip of munitions and gun manufac tories would settle that question, but the fact is that war will always cost this government more in the ratio of the si.e of armies and navies than European governments, even if the government manufactures the muni tions and bulk's the ships. The people cf this country will always insist that the men who fight for the ration shall not be allowed to die in poverty or their wives and child ren suffer on account of death or be ing disabled in the service. It fol lows that there will always be an ini- mer.ee pension bill to pay. The European nations pay no pensions or cnlv a mere nittance. The cost of war, to the United States is much larger than to the nations of Europe, if pen sions are included. Without pensions t is not greater. In the year 1911 there were paid out ftr pensions $173,- U'V2:!1. That was almost exactly half of the appropriations for military pur pose", in which pension appropriations are included. The second largest navy n the world, the army and the sea-. coast defensive, aside Irom pensions, r,ere maintained at as low a cost, not withstanding the armor plate and other grafts, as that of any ether na tion. What congress outfit to do is to cut cut that grafting. If it were cut out, there could be an increase in the nmy without; an appreciable increase n taxation. Munition makers and the steel trust will light legislation of that kind to the bitter end. World-, Herald. :o: Colder weather the balance of the winter would decrease sickness. :o: Piattsmouth's population has in creased 75 in 1013. If we can do as well in 101(5, we will pass the 3,000 mark and then some. Come on, boys, and help us do it. :o: From t!:e present indications Plattsmouth will do more in the build ing lire in 11)1G than was done in the past year. However, we may have to hump to do it. But that is easy when we take the notion. :o: The probabilities are that ex-Senator Bartlir.g will get in line for some office this year. Henry is a rattling good fellow and the only objection we ever had against him was his repub licanism. But that won't cut much figure this year. :o : There is no question as to Roose velt taking the republican nomina tion for president, if he can get it. Not any more, so than that Bryan will take the democratic nomination if he can get it. Wouldn't that be a dandy twister? :o: The naval board of this country think this an opportunity not to be missed and they all want to be in at the "getting." Wood of New York resigned because a half billion a year for, the corning five years was inade quate and wanted it doubled. The en tire board are agreed that by 1025 the navy of this country shall exceed the world. A few filings are being made for state offices. Evidently the demo crats at the state house are taking it for granted that they are safe so far as the nominations are concerned. But good men are plentiful in the demo cratic ranks of Nebraska, and some may come to the fr;T:t yet who can be elected. :o: A Milwaukee man admitted he had eight wives, and was sent to prison for four years. He kicked fearfully because the time was so short. He says he should have been sent for at least twelve years, and by that time some other man will be keeping them in spending money, and he will have enjoyed a good long rest. :o : President Carranza of Mexico has forbidden the taking up of collections in the churches of that country. He evidently believes th?.t religious serv ices should come without money or without price. Of course a protest has naturally been filed in this country, but it will take some pretty hard ex plaining to prove that Carranza is wrong. ;o: Governor Morehead has reappointed Ilarley G. Moorhead of Omaha election commissioner for Douglas county. Owing to corrupt elections in Omaha the legislature passed a law providing for' the apopintment of an election commissioner lor uougias county alone. The appointment is fcr two years, dating f cm the first of this year. Hhen JMooineau wuz mst ap pointed there was much competition, but there was none for the reappoint ment because Governor JTorehcr.d an nounced during hi- last campaign that f re-elected he would re-appoint the present election commissioner. :o: At a love feast at Indianapolis laft Friday the Indiana republicans indors ed Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president, for president of the United States. Edwin P. Morrow at the same ime pledged to Fairbanks the delega ion from Kentucky at the national republican convention in Chicago in June next. Fairbanks is an able man, and were it not for his cold-blooded nature the republicans might be in- duced to "warm" up to him. The United State.-, will be blamed for the loss of the European war, and the successful nations will say they won in spite of the United states. Director General John Barrett declar ed in Washington Friday before the educational section of the Pan-American Scientific Congress. All America must be prepared to resist European effort nt territorial aggrandizement in this hemisphere, once the present war is settled. Barrett backed up the plan suggested by Secretary Lansing to combine the armies and navies of all the Americas by the statement that to aggression and violation of the Monroe doctrine the nations of this hemisphere must present a solid front in order to preserve their integrity. to: EUROPE AND THE PRESIDENT. Colonel George Harvey hurries home from London to tell us that "next to the kaiser, President Wilson is "the most unpopular governmental hed in the world." It appears that "there is no feeling against Americans but there is a real bitterness against the present administration," and we are all expected to be very low in our minds because the policy of the Amer ican government docs not command the approval of London. It would not be difficult for Presi dent Wilson to be popular in London. Indeed, he could easHy be more popu lar there than any member of the British government. If he would simply, let the British foreign office dictate the foreign policy of the United States government, the thing would be done. London does not ask us to come into the war. It would be satisfied to take charge of our diplo macy. By a similar process the president could win a vast popularity in Berlin or in Tar is. Americans who are much more con cerned about their social status in England or in Germany or in France, than about the welfare of the United States are much disturbed because the president has persistently put Ameri ca first. Abroad they devote much of their time to inciting foreign dis satisfaction with the United States government. At home they abuse th president and pose as the only people sensitive about the national honor, Put in the meantime Wood row Wil on is president of the United States If he lives he will remain president o the United States until March 4, 1017, And while he remains president of the United States the foreign policyof the United States will be directed from Washington, I). C. not from London or iieriin or i'aris. To one who knows the history of the American people, all this sniveling snobbery over foreign disapproval of the United Stales government need not be taken too seriously. We went through a similar period of foolish ness in 1.0.; when Washington pro claimed neutral' y in the war between England and France. In conparison with tle abuse that pro-British and pro-French Americans heaped upon George Washington at that time, cur rent criticism of President Wilson at its worst is almost flattering. Even Lincoln was never smeared with such vituperation as the frenzied partisans of the British and the French plaster ed over Washington, who roundly cursed the day that he ever became president, but who held the country firmly to the wise and sane course that he. had charted. What Europe thinks of the United States may be important. But what we think of Europe is far more im portant. Europe is always in a state of cither hating us or despising us. Occasionally a surface friendship is professed for the United States when Our interests happen to run parallel to the interests cf some European country or we are patronizingly per mitted to do them favors; but there s no love for us there, never has been and probably never will be. Nor is here any particular reason why there hnu id be. At the present time the cause for hatred is of infinite proportions. Blundering European statesmanship has plunged civilization in the great- st war of all" history. American statesmanship has thus far succeeded n keeping us out' of it without yield ng any of our rights under interna tional law. The belligerents are bleed ing themselves td death. Future gen erations will be burdened with a load of debt that already staggers the hu man imagination. We are not bleed ing to death. We are rich and pros perous, ami we are likely to be the commanding nation of trie world after the European powers have exhausted themselves in a war brought on by third-rate diplomacy. Naturally, feel ing runs strongly against a govern ment that thinks more about the wel fare of the United States than it thinks about the interests of the coun tries that are at war. In the circumstances we are unable to mingle our tears with those of Col onel Hcrvey or to lament the presi dent's unpopularity in London. We should as soon think of lamenting his unpopularity with the kaiser. The Declaration of Independence has never been repealed. New York World. :o : It takes longer to earn a dollar than it does to forget a favor. :o: Any young man can paddle his own canoe if dad furnishes the paddle. :o: The saloons are out in Iowa, and the bootleggers can now get in their work. " ' -:o: Catching cold is like catching re ligion every person must catch it for himself. :o: It snowed the other day at Pasa dena, California, for the first time in ten years. :o: About 35,000,000 barrel s of salt were produced in the United States last year. -:o: The United States iueds no con scription to get soldiers to fight for the old flag. :o: Young men crowd into the cities for excitement and amusement. In later life the most of them might want to crowd into the country for peace and quietude if they only knew how. If enough people agree to it, any thing is sport. :o: Let every citizen do the best they can for themselves, by boosting for Plattsmouth. :o: Uncle Sam made $2,500,000 last year from the sale of wood from gov ernment forests. -:o:- We have come to the conclusion that a diplomat is a man who can talk" the most and say the least. :o: Hard work never kills anybody. If it did we know several doctors in this town that would have been dead long ago. :o: Theie are plenty of new leaves yet to be turned over in Plattsmouth, and some people should get in on the turning. :o: Just about the time a jilted lover believes he can't bear the strain an other minute, he sees another girl coming down the street. :o . If the standpat republicans come into power again will they attempt to help out the depleted European population by fathci ing "infant in dustries" in this country? :o: V e don t pretend to know very much about it, but we believe the world as a whole is getting better all the time. We have an idea, however, that it is healthier to be optimistic than the other way. :o: While going down this shady vale of tears it would be well to remember to learn to anoint our friends before- land for their burial. Postmortem :indne:;s does not cheer the troubled spirit and flowers on the casket cast no fragrance over life's weary way. :o: There have been many cases the grippe in this community during the past month, and r-ome of the vic tims have been dangerously ill. We heard an old gentleman describe his case to his physician yesterday, when he said: "Doctor, I am just a moving picture of pain," and from the looks of his face we easily come to the con- elusion that he knew what he was talking about. :o: We have heard it said that Bryan s a coward. We are of the opinion that this is a great mistake. We don't admire the man's manifest ambition o become dictator cf his party, and ;side from this tendency, and his ef forts to throw overboard good, re- iable democrats for those who never were known to vote a stright demo- ratic ticket in their lives, when favors are to be given to the worthy, :r: THE UN'vNOWN, QUALITY. This is the time of year when the tatisticians fcot up their columns and give to the world the results of their work in many varied lines of in vestigation. In a general way the public is not endeavoring to estimate what have been the gains and losses accruing to cqmmevce, science, art, literature, population and other valu able assets of the race during the most destructive twelve-month in this his tory of mankind. The statistics for 1015 now being published in the news papers are of value end interest, but they fail in their entirety to give us the enlightenment we crave regarding the full price that humanity has been forced to pay for the cataclysm of a world war. The race has lost in Europe during the past year potentialities invaluable to its future to a degree far beyond the power of the most expert statisti cian to estimate. Kill ed in battle have been the geniuses of the next genera tion, the poets, musicians, play wrights, scientists, the young men with creative imaginations, destined, had not war supervened, to throw the light of their .inspiration upon the darkness that forever menaces civilization. "O, the pity of it, Iago!" Were this really an enlightened world, the nations, without changing their j comparative numerical strength in i war, would send their old men, not their striplings, to the battelfields. 7 it Com 15 Fiaid anetoj RM Ml ft - 5 i. ruuijj i IP &y?nm$ ' : - AA evet aLh frepaaSoafrrA3 srsilTilind fiidoau aiuliula ! OiuniJiorl'Macr-irinjaj. i INOT NAKCOTIC. 21 JT.L:!f Lin -Sit !' J:x-;'rr.ra H,n: Suf -tfiftvuil-'St'xr ; mm "! ArcrrfttLVrKdyK.rvr tiPn.SotirSionia'f- TczTtc0-'" ( J 253. Exact Cory of Wrr.psr. Youthful genius, with its golden task undone, peri-hes in the trenches while graybeard.-: who have fulfilled their mission upon earth remain to muddle the work (hat it belonged to the gift ed young mr.n to do. ''O, mourn for Adonais he is dead." JIo who was to sing the songs of tomorrow, to paint its pictures, to advance its scientific research, to compose its mu.ic, to write its books, has been sacridced to the Moloch who destroys without making distinction, both the prince and the pauper, the hero and the coward, the genius and the clod. So many killed, wounded and miss ing, so many billions of money ex pended in the conflict, so many widows and orphans made by the war I statistics such as these stagger the imagination. But it is, after all, the elusive, unknown quantity in last year's mad destructiveness that ap pals us. The posibili'ies for advance ment in all worthy lir.es of human en deavor that the world lost in 1915 on the battlefields of Europe can never be estimated, but nr.i't remain to fut ure generations a subject for sad con jecture, a permanent reproach to that iconcolastic tendency of war-like races that destroy the most precious of all images, those that cannot be seen by the eye of man and are real only in his soul. New York Sun. Letter files at the Journal office. I NEBRASKA MILITARY ACADEMY Inc. The School That Understands Boys The next term of the Nebraska Military Academy begins January 4th, 1916. If you want your boy to gef a good start in Education, 'phone or white for reservation at once. Only a limited number can be accommodated. For information address City Office Col R. D. Hayward, President, Lincoln Nebraska Phone B 3560 1307 N Street January Travel Specialties Some of th? biggest and most important conventions of the year will be held in Lincoln in January. These conventions will interest thousands of Nebraskans. ' IN LINCOLN, JANUARY 17-23 Meetings of Organized Agriculture: Board of Agriculture Horticultural Society Live Stock Improvers Horse Breeders Cattle Breeders Dairymen's Association Swine Breeders General Ccn vent ions: State Horticultural Society Brick and Tile Manufacturers State Lumbermen's Association to Vv. S. j.... . .... , . r MSiil For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears th .oignature For Over Thirty Years at j mm TMC CIKTUH COMMNY. KCW Venn CITY. From Near Alvo. From Saturday, Dauv. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. llardnock, from near Alvo, are in the city for a few days' visit and are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brinkman. Mrs. Brinkman is an aunt of Mrs. llardnock. Mr. llardnock is a sub scriber of the Journal, and of course was a pleasant callor at this office yesterday, and although he has been a leader for several years, this is our first meeting. He is one of the pros perous and progressive young farm ers from r.ear Alvo, and we found him to be a mighty fine gentleman. We trust he will call oftener in the future. They will return horn -i Monday. Receives Deserved Recognition. Yesterday Miss Gladys Hall receiv ed a well deserved recognition of her faithful attendance at Sunday school when she was presented by the Metho dist Sunday school, with a handsondy engraved medal for eleven years of unbroken attendance at Sunday school and '.his is a record that there are few ethers can boast of. Not missing a single day in all this time the young lady has truly made a splendid record in her Sunday school work. While absent from the city several times Miss Hall has always attended Sun- dav school. On Thursday, January 13th. Mrs. M. C. Stillman will show the full line jof New Spring Models of Gossard Cor- sets and Brassieres at the store of E. G. Dovey & Son. Women desiring special fitting are invited to take ad vantage of this service. Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers Corn Improvers Florists and Bee Keepers State and County Fairs Good Roads, Rural School ' Patrons and similar associations State Bottlers' Association County Assessors Vlt ' l l I ffX US8 '1 WiA For official programs, information, etc., apply W. R. MELLOR, Chairman, HITTEN, Sec, Commercial Club, Lincoln, Nebraska.