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PLATTSSlOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY. JULY 20, 19lt. TAG1 3. 'Cbz plattsmoutb 'Journal I'IBLISHKD S K M I -XV K EKLY AT l'LATTSMOl Til, NEBRASKA. Entered at Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SCBSCRirTIOX TRICE! Sl-0 FEU VEAR - IS ADVANCE THOUGHT FOK TODAY i A man is turned into a seni- blance cf the idol he worship:.. A. T. Pierson. ,Tr..T. .r..'-.r.r ??.t. :o: Monday, September 4, is Labor day. :o:- Cut the weeds ami save a doctor bill. One observant woman may be a whole public opinion in herself. -:o: This year of llK' will be another I aimer crop year for Nebraska. :o: The .-bop boys will make a success f "Flag day" at the shops, Sc teni- I I r 4. -:o: We arc :.'A I'.r "Home Coning" twek. and i r t ' - to make it !!g : ll.'iOSS. :o: Everybody is arranging to come t Plattsmouth during "Home Com ing" week. -:o: There are these who are handicap ped by their friends more than by their enemies. -:o: !'!:( vorst of it is, we will ret no lvdit it even if we do have to gj in 'am. cYan u Mexico. Any! ody who can get ti.e solid '.ipp : t T the fault finders oughi. to K tl-'i'cd by a .-afe majo:it The coin crop needs rain, but is ma burning." as ycl Hut it can't :-tand the excessive heat much longer. :o: I ere is a b-.a.i i new question that r.::i he inti v-i:r 5 to spring right now. Well, i- it warm enough for -:o: The pi inter sho set it "liighei of ficial densily await returns" wassn far off in these trying times of busi ness. -:o:- The old-fashioned sailing ve.-scl is once more plowing the seas ami a new crop of nautical yarns may be the result. -:o: The man who invented a rr.uffler for street car wheels has done a great set-vice for humanity if his device i- a success. :o: There probably never would have I ecu such in Hesitation over bathing Miits if the men had looked present aide in them. -:o: The man who respects the rights oi the other.; experiences little dif ficulty in securing the consideration rue himself, but the wolf generally j.ets his due. :o: Somebody ought to tell the Rus-slan.-; to call a hi.lt. If they capture ali the Austrian the Italian;-, won't have :ny excuse to offer why they don't overrun the Trention. An Indiana man asks a divorce do :( on the ground that his wife oews tobacco, a habit which he prob : ldy regarded during courtship as a very cute and distinct little manner ism. :o:- Yes, the weather .vavr: no question about that. The evidence i. ti -ttiiibtakable. But did it -2cr occur to you that July is a month in which v.e larely have big snows'rms?" ' In't worry about anything," al- if-cs John D. Roekerfelle.- But the udvise doesn't so far enough. Also ooii't set s'ck,-don't meet v:i any dents, don't lose in ar.e imn-jr t ;ut undertaking, cn't fail to make 1 j- o; of its, oon't go era..'-. By ob-:--.;;iig these shnpl pree iutic :i i n:uJ, more can be goien o::t of life as ai- journey along. A WORD FOK FATiiiSII The editor of the Inc-'anapolis Xewt thus rushes to the defense of .'he i'.owntiodden father: Wi.e:: a man .ii.;ceeds in living a good or usefu life that fact is usually attributed to the influence of a mother. When men talk of days past no word brings forth more treasured memories than "mother." When a lawyer wishes to arouse a jury's compassion for a client he invariably speaks of the ef fects of conviction on the mother Poets, dramatists and fiction writers ct all ages have united in honoring her name. Pays have been set aside in hrr honor, pensions are given her, flowers named for her, societies founded for her. All this is well. The world would be a sorry world, in deed, if it were not so. But is there not danger of father being overlooked in the shuffle? The average father succeeds pretty well in discharging his duty to society. He labors along persistently and quietly for six days a week that his family may be pro vided for; he stands between his fam ily and the world, shouldering the re sponsibility of the rent, the taxes, the grocery and the coal bills; he ad monishes the boy and advises mother, peeking always to make their burden lighter; he works unceasingly, with out complaint, fighting, scheming, suffering to the end that his family may be assured comfort and inde pendence. In this he sometimes fails, but he keeps on trying, cheerfully, i-tcl'dly. stubbornly plunging along to the end. The sacrifices that mu?t be rr.-.i'Ie he makes willirgly. The boy must go to college and the girl must have music lessons; something must be cut, and usually it is some luxury of father's that perishes by the way side. He is not so poetical a figure as mother, not so demonstrative in his affections, so elated in pleasure, so depressed in grief. And yet many will remember a kind word here, or a thoughtful act there, that stands tut, clear and distinct, as one of youth's happiest impressions. Not of ten is he appreciated by the growing boy. Often he stands in the family ?s the official admonisher to whom) the boy's faults are related for pun-i.-hment. On him falls the unpleasant task of applying the rod; his is the arm that must enforce respect for mother and regard for the rights of others. In this light the growing boy ir likely to view him with a mixture of fear, awe and respect. Not until years bring a proper perspective is he lightfully understood and appreciated and peihaps not even then. :o: "Home Coming." Keep pushing it. :o: The Democratic county convention meets in Weeping Water today. Also, the republican convention, which will occasion the absence of quite a num ber of the faithful of both parties fiom the city who are attending. :o: Piattsmouth is far ahead of any town of its size in the state, and we intend to keep it that way. More im provements will be made this season than any previous season, and resi dences for rental purposes cannot be had for love or money. :o: An American advises Washington that he recently had a talk with Villa, who, he said, had recovered from wounds received at Columbus, N. M., but limped a little. Otherwise, wc take it, Pancho is prepared to take on Chautauqua engagements in the United States. :o: The music of the threshing ma chine is once again heard in the state, and this, ccupled With the jolly joke of the ever present candidates and with money rolling in for the big ciop, makes the kind of music that bids well for the fortune of the grand commonwealth. Stand up for Nebraska. Heard on erery-side: "Meet me at Plattsmouth on "Home Coming" week, begining Thursday, August 31." 1 :o: Let any man get far enough away from home and he becomes quite an important person if judged solely by his conversation. :o: When you get too hot and dis- couraged you can cool off by read- ing about the floods that are sweep- ir.g the southeast. -:o:- If a man won't work when he is offered plenty of it what is he going to do about it? But that is simply the condition throughout the west. :o: Some men "know everything" make a big noise, and get nowhere. Others know a few things and say little and get to the front. Take your choice. :o: Persons who began to fear last year that the climate was changing and there was to be no more warm, dry weather, may now be assurred. -:o: It is awtul hard trying to be a calamity howler in these prosperous times but there are a few darn fools who have the audacity to attempt it and expose their ignorance. :o: A Chicago music professor boasts that he can tell good music from bad even after he has been blindfolded. Now don't laugh because such a dis- tinction really amounts to a great deal. Many music professors, you .... .1.. Know, are entirely at sea concerning the merits of a composition unless they can see the composer's name. :o: The question as to whether the sharks cat their victims, or merely bite off their heads, which is now agitating New Jersey, is not so hair .splitting as it seems to an outsider They have to have some evidence in New Jersey to establish the fact as t& whether' the attack is by a shark , . 1 or one ot those celebrated (mo- squitos) gallinippers, which infest that country. ' :o: J HIE PHOGRKSSIYE VOTE Gilson Gardner, the well known Washington correspondent has it fig ured out that 8 out of 10 progressives ,ere former republicans and 'will re turn to the republican fold for van- us and pecuniary reasons. The other 'J arc irreconciable and will go to Wil son mostly, as he and his platform ire more progressive than Hughes -.nd the platform framed by Root, James & Co. Since Wilson got 7,000,- 000 votes last time to 4,000,000 for Roosevelt and 3,000,000 for Taft, it will take less than one-fifth of the rogressive vote to elect Wilson, and he predicts he will get it. These fig- ures are based on the present outlook, and, like a $5 note, are subject to I change, as the campaign goes on. Blair Pilot. -:o: PREACHERS OF PEACE Washington officials, we are told, believe that it was the calling out of the national guard and the actual lispatch of troops to the border tnat called Carranza to change his hosti! attitude towards the United States. Unquestionably. The thousands of egulars ami the thousands of mil- tiamen called out for service in con nection with Mexico are the greatest preachers of peace conceivable. Many of them probably never thought of themselves in this role, but they fill t just the same. They are doing more to promote peace and a lasting cttlemcnt than all the words of all the pacifists, from David Starr Jor- ian to Henry Ford, could possibly do. t is worth while for those who imag- ne that an army always means war and militarism and a host of public lis, to pause and consider the exact part which our soldier boys have played in the Mexican crisis. If it hadn't been for the fact that we had them and showed ve would use them cn occasion we should very probably have been in a state of actual hostil ities with Mexico by now. There is no way of wholly avoiding the hazard of war. But when all ordinary argu ments for peace have been exhausted the argument of a reasonable pre paredness to resist aggression or to assert fundamental rights is more than likely to turn the scale. WHO WILL BE THE GOAT? One cannot seriously condemn th'e republican convention in Lancaster county because it refrained from en- dorsing prohibition in order- to please the German-American alliance. The republican party is trying to 1 win the votes ot two radically hostile elements the prohibitionists and the German-Americans. One of the pro- claimed missiona cf the German- American alliance is to combat pro hibition. The republicans of the nation may succeed in winning them both. It is making some progress in that direc tion. It will at least !win some of both. But when it has' done so somebody is going to find himself a victim of mis-placed confidence. The republican party clever (not to say unscrupul ous) as its leaders always are, cannot hope to serve both the prohibitionists and the enemies of prohibition. One can't very much blame the re publicans for trying to herd both of these discordant, elements under its banners. It is true that the leaders, in lending their party to the attempt of the radical German politicians to punish President Wilson for having displeased the implacable German- American alliance, is. helping to es tablish a dangerous precedent, and to set up the principle that no president hereafter must turn a deal qar to hyphenism. But what is such a princple to a republcan who wants an office? It is , . . . 4 u . . . - . 1. .. : .. 1: li ' bi,"iik " noier than eider down and carrying no weight perceptible to the office-hungry politician. If the republican party in state and nation is able to get away with this cunning plan of double-crossing either the prohibitionists of the German American alliance anti-prohibitionists, it will be entitled to some admiration. It will hardly be to blame for it from ny partisan standpoint. But when it . I . . -. r.A it- ...:n .J ..H 1L. - 1 - uau upon eiec lorate ot both of these elements that tnov ought long ago to have had a guardian or conservator appointed to protect them from the wiles of the political confidence men. Lincoln Star -:o:- Good lains all around :o: us. Another big day Monday, Septem ber 4 Labor Day and Flag Day. :o: A woman reveals her age only when she is very young or very old. :o: A western doctor says Americans eat too much salt, bull it cannot be said they lack pepper. :o: People who have nothing to do but kill time are sometimes likely to make a rather a bruital job of it. -:o:- As soon as the state conventions are over we will compile the demo cratic national state and coun ty tickets and run them regularly on our editorial page. We shall also do the same for the republicans and give the same a place in our columns. :o: Wc candidly believe this is another dcmocratic year and that the cntire democratic ticket will be elected if there is no mistakes made in handling the campaign. We believe L. F. Lang- horst of this county the man who will permit no mistakes to be made if he is placed at the head of the state committee as its chairman. A man of Lou Langhorst's push and ability is cne that will do the business properly and bring forth success. :o:- Thosc who are opposed to a war with Mexico have been interested in a speech delivered by President Wil son at Washington on July 4 in which he declared that the greatest barrier to industrial peace had been the dif ficulty of gtting both sides to see that "getting our fighting blood up" was "the long way and not the short way" of securing rights. The occasion for this address was the dedication of a labor temple for the American Feder ation of Labor. Though the president did not refer to the Mexican situation in this speech the audience evidently considered that it referred indirctly to the crisis counseling as he did for calm judgement in hours when human passions and prejudices are very likely to get the better of our reason ing faculties. Do you sleep well these night' -:o: Keep in mind August 31. Tell your friends. -:o:- - If a man doesn't recover, he can't kick on the doctor's bill. -:o: A diplomat has to learn how to call a man a liar and make him like ic. -:o: Talk about it all the time "Home Coming" week. Biggest event in our history. -:o: : - A ' fundamental ''error is the one your opponent makes when he first , begins to discuss with you. :o: - 4 . -American aviators are winning fame in Europe but then they don't belong to the American army. :o: the automobile can never expect as many special privileges as were foimerly accorded the family horse. :o: Give a man a choice between two bits in cash and 7,000 worth of ad vice, and he will take the two bits, every time. :o: 4 f. At , . . .-viier me state conventions are over the political pot will begin to simmer, and ere the ides of November will be boiling hot. :o: Most women are admired for what tney are anu not lor what their an cestors were before them. It is not alwavs so of men. -:o:- If another attempt at rain is made,! we hope for a better result than that of Tuesday morning. The ground was barely wet and that was all. :o:- A CHANGE IN MEXICO Certain things are being done and aid in Mexico that seem to indicate that the international situation is i tally improving. The Southern Pacific of Mexico railroad, that had been seized by the government in Sonora has been turn- ed back to its owners for manage- mc-nt. Bullion and ether property of .Americans and other foreigners that had been confiscated havy been iv ! limed. Bandits have been executed by Mexican authorities for raiding the ranches of Americans. r A train load of supplies for Persh- ing's army, started down the road for Cases Grandcs, was held up on orders from General Gonzales. The order was overruled by ueneral Trevino . . . - who directed that the supplies be al- lowed to proceed. The Carranza government has warned us when bandits were sup- posed to be headed in our direction so that we could give them the proper ircention at the border. x These things appear to signify that Carranza and the Carranzistas have experienced a real change of heart and realize at last that they are more likely to achieve their own objects by co-oneratincr with the Americans than l.v onnosintr them. . I L T But as sigmticant as any ot tnese acts is an interview which General Trevino gave out. It is rather remark- able for both tone and substance. It is very different from the expressions of Mexican political and military leaders with which we have grown familiar since the relations between thc United States and Mexico become strained. Contempt and defiance are absent and the general shows a rec- ;f; rt v. vni.x. r.f a tviprirjin friendship to his party in the task of establishing peace and order in Mex ico. World-Herald. :o: P.-n.-msHn-itinn T.nds it.splf to manv lines of endeavor, but a man applies it most frequently to the matter of writing letters There are fever people interested in knowing what makes the price of coal go up than in having the aviator brought- to earth. :o: The county convention at Weeping Water Tuesday unanimously en dorsed L. F. Langhorst for chairman cf the democratic state committee, vhichvwas a very proper recognition ot the valuable services of Mr. Lang horst as chairman of the Cass county democratic committee. Children Cry I 1 I I I v. The Kind You Have Always in use lor over SO years, ' and has been made under his per- il-z, -soiial supervision since its infancy. 'CCccU; Allow no one to deceive you in tlii3. All Conntcrfcits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but . Ixpcrituents that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless snbstitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Irops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms and alia j s Feverishncss. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, - Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS 5 Bears the In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought IC CENTAUR COI S U FFERING NEBRASKA We are pained to state that after three years of democrat rule the peo Tle of Nebraska are suffering some of the consequences. In less than fif teen months just passed the deposits jn Nebraska banks have increased thirty-eight million dollars a record breaking era in all the history of the state and this in spite of the fact I that everybody has bought either an automobile or, a Ford which kept that much of the monev out of the I hanks. Seventv thousand new denos -tors have their names enrolled on the books of Nebraska banks making the total number of depositors more than I four hundred thousand or almost half the population of the state. This is a tremendous showing for the state to rrake when the democrats are in the i saddle especially when one's mem ovy flits backward eight years to the dear, delightful and luxurious Roose i velt prosperity when the Nebraska I , 11 1 J citizen coum go to nis Daner ana diaw as much as ten dollars of his own money if the emergency seemed to wan ant the banker in letting it get away. So, we say we are "pained to state," because the republican spell- binder can't find a single thing with which to interest an audience this fall and that is hard on democrats There's no contest and nothing to argue about this year which means that democrats are to be handicapped, because a democrat is at his best only I . . ... when there is a tight on. Aurora I Sun. :o our army on me ooraer is seining down to stay until winter, anyhow, and by that time it may become a fairly efficient organization, with sufficient machine guns and artillery and aeroplanes to make it apportion- ally the strength of a modern fight- ing force. Just now it is centainly short in many of these particulars, and it may be just as well that in tcrvention was deferred :o:- Germany has been nearly six months battling at Verdun, without getting there, but the fact that she is ....... . i . still battering is tne answer to tnose who expect the war to close in a hurry Drs. 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Roasting ears are ripe. :o: Cut the weeds and keep them cut. :o: Keep it before the peoplc "Home Coming." -:o:- The democratic state convention next Tuesday. :o: How the rest of the men do hate a "model husband." :o: "Suffer in silence it's good for the corn," is a hot weather suggestion. :o: An optomist is a man who is good i.a Lured when there in't much occa sion for it. -:o: i The ice man should know the yeaning of dishabile; he sees so much of it. :o: When a man goes out hunting trouble people are generally glad to see him find it. :o:- Speaking of snaps, what about the Atckison, Kansns, man who o-i;i a turtle ranch ? :o: Comparatively few men arc too bvsy to shave every day, but lots of them are too lazy. :o: Some men arise from the slums, make a few dollars, and then look down upon the source from .which they sprang. Their heads just can't hold them. -:c:- Just when some newspaper an nounces that it has found the mean est man, someone else does something still meaner and takes the title away from him. But it will be a long time before anyone outclasses two health inspectors of the Chicago health de partment who have just been dis charged. They were detailed to ex amine children coming from New York to Chicago to guard against in fantile paralysis. It was found that after making the examinations they demanded pay from the persons ex amined. In many instances the person victimized by this petty graft were poor foreigners who could not afford the $1.50 demanded of them. The city authorities discharged them, but that was too mild a punishment. They should have been ducked in the lake. 3rd Floor Paxton Block, OMAHA