PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAC
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1916.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
The troul !e with efficiency is
that it i seldom charitable. Its
i.-ioii i.- :o htror.jr that it can
ret help sec:r.r th; mote in its
bi other's eye. Emilart.
Ma;ch is ho'dl:::,- her own pretty
well.
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As YiV.z mor.ey jroes down, cigar
ette c jiipv'n.- iro up.
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It i c-iimated that only one per
s. ri in lrr e knows hjw to spell vil-
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Yh::t has become of the old-fash-io:.?d
g;:i who wa handy with the
hatpin?
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In the rpii:in of the bet authori
ties, tin s after the war will be bet
ter r v. :?.
-tor-
Take it all in all, w? haven't had a
l a i Ma; oh so far. Dut she may go
out like h II.
The rr.-t thing that makes the re
f;!:rr.e: wi.-h he had stayed in
the ouurtry i the chicken ordinance.
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We'd hat- xo have a presidential
b-n l.ke "kman du Punt's, that no
no woa! 1 to strike a match on.
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It i
ii .-.i that the Turks h
rive
ihi.-.j'jhif i.iy kit c r.omh Armenians
i tlu- ' v.vt-r.- .- that the hunting will
I e fai: 'y :.! durir.g the next open
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R.i k t '.all is c-r.s:derr i a game
i -vi! J "'.:." I'rxal 'juickn..-.: of thought
ha- t o- you couldn't slug the
other fil!ov.s -anile the referee isn't
-tot-
Yin.: nay a hard to catch as
v.as AiruiriaV'. in the Philippine.1:, but
1 wa- caught, just the sar.ie, and so
will Vill i, ilea I or alive.
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It !- h p'-.1 'hat t-io many doctors
won't i-yior-e .-hort .-kirts as sanitary,
for ft-;r the perverse fashion makers
r-.ay change the r.tylos back like they
were three years ago.
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I."ka!i Ku '.11 says i-he never was
mairi'- l to a man who gave her
r.v rcy up.L-.-- he asked for it. And
LiMie .-peaks from a wide experience
i.r. 1 wider ui.de! standing of the men
u-lks.
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There i liable to be a change in
the dc raocratic gubernatorial cam
paign a week before the primary, and
it :s ;.ot liable to be i.t favor of Char
ity II; y an. Th; i is not confidential, by
anv mtans.
-to:
Who says the v.-' Id is not getting
is: iter? Jos : Willard refused to fight
v. A.-h Woh:e.:lay. It is very kind
of .!e-; ! be so con-iderale of the
church s.-orIo. Kn jcking the head off
of seme one i.s nut a crime on any
other d;'3
to :
If rb'f top;- keep climbing upward,
like the (".-rntiic young man who,
v. l.tn the shades of night were falling
fa.-t right through an Alpine village
j as.rJ. thi skitts continue to keep cut
of thei- irach, very presently we shall
cca.e writing about such .subjects.
to: .
Same time ago the writers and procurer-
of p'uy made up their minds
that when thr. y couidn't think of any
other way to be funny, they could
woik in swear words, and that what
the piddle pwnripally wanted was in-d'-cercy.
fSi:i;c then there has been a
bi fa'.r.i g off in Mieatcr attendance.
Th Wo things may net be wholly
disconnected.
l'Kii yk.vu i.v advance
It is an awful cort, of course, but
the European war his silenced the mil
itant English suffragettes.
:o:
Congress is rushing preparedness
plans, but a rush in congress is never
so swift as it sounds unless it be a
rush for pork.
:o:
Whether we capture Villa or not,
the Mexican mess gives a fine demon
stratum of the national preparedness
to fight.
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The Xehawka News came to us last
week enlarged to a seven column
quarto. Rutledge is a hustler, and
proposes to give his readers the very
best that can be obtained. He is a
young man of excellent character and
ability. We are glad to see him pros-
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We believe that the more distinctly
the voters understand the school bond
proposition and the condition in which
we are placed to care for our chil
dren's education, the more they are
convinced that the need of a new
school building is alarming. All who
isit the school building and view the
conditions as they truly are, come
away with the determination of vot
ing for the bonds.
We heard one cf our progressive
citizens say the other day that he
would be willing to pay $25.00 a year
for a new school house until the bonds
are paid for the privilege of knowing
that our Plattsmoath children were
comfortably cared for while in school.
Now, mind you, this taxpayer has
neither chick nor child. That's the
kind of a progressive spirit that builds
up our towns and cities.
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George Derge has a terrible time
getting in the-spotlight. He first got
in the gubernatorial race and with
drew. His friends then filed his name
for attorney general and he withdrew
ar.d then finally concluded to accept,
at the dictation of Attorney General
Reed's enemies. That George has be
come a tool of the Charley Bryan fac
tion, there can be no mistake. We
feel scrry for George, tut maybe he
will be wiser after the primaries.
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The writer served in the legislature
with Victor E. Wilson, candidate for
railroad commissioner, ar.d while we
were not intimate in any way, we
considered him a very able member.
He is well qualified for the position cf
railroad commissioner and should be
nominated. We think more of him
rince he gave Mr. Bryan such a
'"dressing." He used to be Mr. Bryan's
right hand man until he tried to force
him into something that wasn't dem
ocratic, and Vic wouldn't stand for it.
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The hen is becoming a very busy
creature. This is the time of year
when, after many discouraging weeks
for the hen owner, the hen begins to
pay for her keep. She is working
overtime now, laying eggs and cutting
down the high cost cf living. Already
i he has depressed the price of eggs
materially and is getting herself in
shape to make Lenten fare not quite
so expensive for those who follow a
diet consisting chiefly of eggs during
the forty days following Ash Wednes
day. There are those who figure that
there isn't any money made out of
chickens by the chicken raiser, but
right now the poultry fancier who
gathers more than enough eggs every
day to do his family, puts himself into
the lanks of the real plutocrats. The
hen i.s industrious right now, and is
giving a reason for her existence.
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Moving southward from the Mex
ican border, an invading American
army would fight its way first across
mesquite covered, sandy plains and
then into barren red and yellow foot
hills. Villa, it is believed, will make
his first stand, if attacked, in these
ravines, the hiding place in recent
years of bands of Mexican cattle
raiders and desperadoes;. In those
foothills, where knowledge of the
country would prove of the greatest
advantage to the Villa bandits, the
border raiders would be expected to
carry on guerrilla combats with the
American cavalry, avoiding a general
engagement at all costs. Eventually
Villa would be forced to fall back to
the Sierra Madera range, one hundred
miles to the southwest, in western
Chihuahua, scttering his forces into
small band3.
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
"Immediate peace" is in the air
Like Sergeant Pistol, in Shakespeare's
play, the belligerent government
abate something of their fury in
j.peech, at least. They talk of peace
Let us examine what an immediate
peace would involve for those govern
ments.
What would the English families
ruined by the war in body and estate
ray to an immediate peace? What
would the German people, robbed of
their children, and beginning to go
hungry, say to an immediate peace?
What would the patient, heroic French
people say to an immediate peace af
ter all they have suffered and lost
and the nothing they have gained?
What would the Russian people say
to an immediate peace which restored
the "situation as it was before the
war alter an tneir slaughter and
hardship.
One and all the people would do the
same thing welcome peace then
turn fiercely on their governments
Mid demand: "Why did you do this
thing?" Empty-handed, the. govern
ments would be empty-tongued.
So the German government talks
grandly about being willing to give up
conquered territory which it knows it
cannot held.
And the English government talks
magniloquently about being willing
not to "crush" a Germany which it
knows, and always has known, that it
cannot crush.
For what has the war accom
plished?
Germany has "punched the Rusian
pillow" with about as much result as
Von Buelow said that performance
would have. Germany has befouled
her name by trampling into the mire
small nation once known as Bel
gium; has seized at a terrible cost a
part of France which she holds at a
cost more terrible still, and has crush
ed, as a boy crushes an ant on the
path, a small nation called Serbia.
England has been late. She wras
ate in Flanders, late in Antwerp, late
at Gailipoli, late at Saloniki, late at
Bagdad, lata at Montenegro and lrte
at Neuve Chapelle and Loos. She
threw away 114,555 men in a futile at
tempt to open for Russia that passage
through the Dardanelles which it has
been, for nearly a century, the joint
endeavor of British diplomacy, British
bloodshed and British commerce to
keep closed from Russia. And of
those 114,555 men lost not so much
through Turkish skill as through Brit
ish muddling a huge proportion were
Australians and New Zeaalnders,
given, like the Canadians at Neuve
Chapelle, "the post , of honor," which
is polite military slang for the dirty
work.
For all this, what is there to show
but desolate women and dead men ?
If allied officialdom ever supposed
that Germany could be "crushed"
(which is doubtful) they have aban
doned that illusion. They have even
abandoned it publicly. They even con
cede that Germany should not be
"completely humiliated." Then what
becomes of those German and English
official boasts about "fighting to the
last man and the last drop of blood"?
What becomes of that "national hon
or" which figures so prominently
when nations arc being maneuvered
into war, and so obscurely when it
comes time to maneuver them out of
war? Must everybody eat crow? Ap
parently they must. The only prob
lem is: How to cut the pie?
The terms of peace are not, nor will
they be, a question of justice, or even
of "natiolal honor." They are and will
be a question of how the various bel
ligerent governments can save their
own and one another's faces with the
peoples they govern the peoples,
who have suffered all things, hoped
all things, endured all things, in the
belief that this war would settle some
thing. It has settled nothing. Nor
is it even likely that the peoples who
fought the war will have so much as
a voice in settling the war they
fought.
Dupes they were when the war be
gan. Dupes they will be when it ends.
And the main, about the only problem
of peace is how to end the war in such
a way as to keep them duped.
The governments of Europe have
plunged their peoples into the great
est crime and the greatest swindle of
all the ages. Come back from it
empty-handed they dare not, any more
than the prodigal son who gambled
away his heritage. Peace is a ques
tion of what to swap, so that each
government may come back with at
least something to show for the blood
rnd money spent. Billions in debts,
millions of cripples, shattered homes
and lives and what to show for all
the losses?
The great military state of an
tiquity was Sparta. In strict accord
with military ethics, young Spartans
were taught to steal. In equally
strict accord with militarist ethics
they were also taught that the only
crime was to be found out. Once a
young Spartan stole a fox and hid it
under his cloak. He was accused. In
stead of confessing the theft, he held
the fox under his cloak. And even as
he denied his guilt the fox devoured
his vitals.
That is Europe today. For the gov
ernments to conclude an immediate
peace would be a confession of their
guilt. The governments, one and all
deny their guilt and seek to defer
their day of judgment. And the fox
devours their vitals. Boston Globe.
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Oh, for another Diaz down in Mex
ico!
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Some people manage to get there
too late.
:o:
The Dutch may yet take Holland
out of the neutral column.
:o:
Spring is reconnoitering and pres
ently will break through.
:o:
It seems that a man can disappear
for ten years and not be dead.
:o:
Garden making will soon be in full
blast, but don't let the wife do it all
:o:
Maybe if Henry Ford were making
heavy motor trucks he would tninK
better of war.
In other words, the Russians have
probably substituted iron guns for the
wooden ones they began with.
:o:
Mr. Bryan's idea is simply to slide
n his brother Charley into office on
the prohibition wave. This, and noth
ing more.
:o:
A non-partisan tariff commission is
the next thing in order. Then the
tariff question will be out of politics
thank the Lord.
:ot
Talk about the expenses of a news
paper office the Journal is compelled
to pay $400.00 more on a car of paper
than it did six months ago. We just
think it's awful.
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A New York minister avers that
e has made a photograph of the
phost of one of his ancestors. The
minister is the Rev. Charles Tweedle,
but it is not known whether the ghost
was Dee or Dum.
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We know some candidates that if
they expect to be nominated, had bet
ter get a move on them or they will
get left. And we know of some who,
if nominated, will get it in the neck
at the general election.
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If we could obtain honest reports
rom Mexico we might know what to
believe. As they come now you can't
believe. One day they have Villa sur
rounded and the next day he has es
caped. And so it goes from day to
day.
:o:
Of course, the United States and
Germany are going to adjust their
differences and be friends, but, really,
under any circumstances the United
States should not go to war against
Germany until England gets into the
war.
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The Sioux City Journal uses a tale
to point a moral. The tale is that of
the meeting of Colonel John G. Maher
and W. J. Bryan at Lincoln and the
passing of the lie by the colonel. Mr.
Bryan was in a state of unprepared-
ness, and there was no war. This is
cited as proof of the efficacy of the
Bryan position.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For State Senator.
I will be a candidate for the demo
cratic re-nomination for state senator
from the district composed of Cass
and Otoe counties, subject to the will
of the voters, at the primaries on Ajril i
18th. JOHN MATTES,
Nebraska City.
For County Sheriff.
We are authorized to announce the
candidacy of John Wunderlich for re-
i omination for the office of sheriff of
Cass county, subject to the will of the
voters at the primaries on April 18th.
For State Senator.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for state senator on the repub
lican ticket from Cass and Otoe coun
ties, subject to the will of the voters
at the primary election.
ANDREW P. MORAN.
For County Sheriff.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for sheriff of Cass county on
the democratic ticket, subject to the I
will of the voters at the primary April
18th. G. II. MANNERS.
For County Attorney.
I wish to announce to the voters of
Cass county that I have filed on the
democratic ticket for the office of
county attorney. I will appreciate
your support and if elected will do ray
best to fill the office faithfully.
J. A. CAPWELL.
For State Senator.
I hereby announce that I will be a
candidate for the office of state sen
ator at the primaries held on April
18th, subject to the will of the repub
lican voters of the district, composed
of Cass and Otoe counties.
A. F. STURM,
Nehawka, Nebraska.
For State Representative.
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of state representative sub
ject to the will of the democratic vot
ers at the general primary on April
18. Your support will be appreciated.
JOIfN MURTEY,
Alvo, Nebraska.
For County Treasurer.
I hereby announce my candidacy for
re-nomination to ths office of county
treasurer on the republican ticket, i
subject to the will of the voters at
the primaries on April ISth. The
support of the voters will be ap
preciated. MAJOR A. HALL.
For County Treasurer.
I desire to announce my candidacy
for the office of county treasurer on
the republican ticket, subject to the
wishes of the voters at the primaries
April 18th. I will appreciate the
votes of my friends.
ARTHUR L. BAKER.
For Float Representative.
I will be a candidate for the office
of float representative from the dis
trict composed of Cas3 and Otoe coun
ties, subject to the will of the demo
cratic voters at the primary on April
18th. The support of the voters will
be appreciated. L. G. TODD,
Union, Nebraska.
For Float Representative.
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of float representative for
Cass and Otoe counties at the pri
maries on April 18th. Subject to the
will of the democratic voters.
M. G. KIME, Nehawka.
Float Representative.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of float representative
from the district composed of Cass
and Otoe counties, subject to the
democratic Voters at the primaries cn
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April 18th. A. E. PAlLlrLi.
For District Clerk.
hereby announce to the voters
that I will be a candidate for the of
fice of clerk of the district court at
the April primaries, subject to the
wishes of the republican voters.
JAMES ROBERTSON.
For Float Representative.
I hereby announce smyself as a can
didate for Float Representative, be
tween Otoe and Cass counties, sub-
ipct to the will of the democrats at famous declaration: -1 am for vooi
jecc XO Uie vui ui ROW WILSON WITHOUT AI'OLOGV
tnc primaries on -n-piu iom.
C. J. Mulhs.
For County Assessor.
I will be a candidate for the nomi
nation for the office subject to the
ishes of the democratic voters at the
primary April 18th. The support of
my friends will be appreciated.
P. E. Ruffner.
For County Assessor.
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of county assessor on the
democratic ticket at the forthcoming
primary election on April ISth. Your
support. will be appreciated.
Al. D. Despain.
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LETTERS FROM OVER STATE
Favorite Candidate fcr Governor oi
the Democratic Side is Meeting
the Voters, MaWng Speeches
and is Becoming a Sea
soned Campaigner.
North r:-tt!. X-l-.. M.u, h 20. Tlir-re is
nt a !'us; : .! 11 .N. i iasx;! than the
IsVville fir ;i' ii-" J I.-.uli . u:i rt or?
Ko?. ioth. 1lnr - is nt n lusi-r man than
K'iiJh X-vi:. siji.-:;:n.ir. wntinp, h.u.il-
shaUini?. n:-t i rs.ur -M friends and iiiMUirjr
nnv ;!i.-s th i o is no rn'in-iit of rest for
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DEMOCRACY'S FAVORITE.
hi:n wiu-n liomc, and lie strikes a strenu
ous pa-it when on Ins speakjns trips. lint,
lie taki-s to it all like a duck to water.
and it is frft-Iy said that he has already
ben. mi- a seasoned campaigner.
lake Ids distinguished rither, the late
C "onsresstnan .Neville, he likes it. Not
even the Albican war exeitement tends
to divert the popular west X. liraska can
didate from his determination to win ttie
Kubernatoi ial nomination April In. lie
keeps riulit at it. by word and bv letter.
sayiiiR to the constant string of calb-rs
stockmen, farmers, business men, fellow
democrats and friendly republicans that
lie is making- a frank, clean, honorable
caicpaiKii. backed by no special interests
anl shackled to no faction firmly re-
soi-d if ei-cted. to r:xFoncK Tin:
LAWS TO Till: I.KYTKU.
-peakim? enKasremonts will prevent Mr.
Neville from nic. tinsr his old fri-nd. V.
.1. Itryan. who iui-,ij-; lure to speak for
his brother Charley, on the eve of next
Tuesday s '.ection. Mr. Neville i.s beins
suppoitcti here, by tho.e having divergent
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un i 1 1 lit t'iiM i ii ?. 1 1' 'i i. ut- it-uii
of the contest will therefore have no
bearing upon his campaign.
It is plain that one quality or Keith
Neville impresses everybody frankness.
lie don't say one thinp in the western
part of the state and another thinrr in the
eastern, ile is tirm, but not dictatorial.
and is considerate of those who take
i-jue whhhhn.
m of letters which come
pouiinK in from democrats over the stale,
most of them warmly commend Mr.
Neville's position on the issues of the day.
Manv of ihem begin. "I admire your
frank and can. lid manner." Others. "Your
statement shows that you have the cour
age to be governor." And still otlijis:
can use all the literature you win sen i
me because it rings irue : arm nunurns
say, 1 was just wauirg ior a man like
vo'u." Hut most of his letters, from far
Rnd near, enthusiastically applaud m now
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THC CCNTAUH COMPANY, NEW VOft CITY.
For County Treasurer.
To the democratic voters of Cass
county, I desire to state that I will be
a candidate at the primaries on April
18th for the office of county treasurer
and would appreciate their support.
W. R. Bryan.
Only two more day:
the weather fine.
of March and
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City election next Tuesday, April I.
Who will be elected mavor?
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When nations, like men, get thor
oughly mad they run amuck.
Don't take them off yet. Plenty of
cool weather in April, and even in
May.
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It is the sense of this meeting that
we must have Villa's skin, with or
without the owner in it.
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The democrats have enoutrh candi
dates for congress in this district to
make it interesting in the primary.
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Until it stoops far enough to cap
ture the average man the income tax
will always be reasonably popular.
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Perhaps now is the time for Uncle
Sam to keep some of his ammunition
at home. He may need it in a certain
climate to the south of us.
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GEORGE J. HUNT
A Lawyer of Wide Experience
For Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court
Twenty-five years in Omaha, t?rt
years in Bridgeport, western Nebraska,
has made George J. Hunt a most de
sirable candidate for the State Su
preme Court.
Those who know him call him "A
young man with a ripe legal experience."
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