THURSDAY. MARCH 1, 1917.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
What is worth doing at all, is J
worth doing well. Lord Ches
torticld. -I
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Blustery March will ?oon he here.
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Someone must steady the ladder for
t very one who climbs to fame.
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It is often difficult to decide between
the earmarks uf genius and those of
the -nut."
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Don't be in a big hurry about start
ir that garden. You may be mistak
ei in the weather.
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Will it come in like a lion and go
. it like a lamb? Or will it come in
like a li'n and go out like h 11?
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Is it ossible for an aristocratic
uomai to have a mean disposition?
Of course, hen things don't come hei
way.
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Isn't allowing your neighbor a quart
of liquor a week or a month, just as
immoral as allowing him two quarts
or ten quaits? ,
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It is about time to begin thinking
u!oi.t the spring election.. There are
eeral candidates spoken of for may
or, and ul.-o for city clerk.
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"Tl.eie are too many half-timers in
i.: churches," says Dr. Spurgeon.
Maybe some of you fcll-nvs who lead
this item are among them.
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The honk, konk of the wild goose
and tie quack, quack of the wild duck
v. ill mii be heard, and the sports wiii
be en the river as often as possible.
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Tin- "conscientious objections'' are
begin; ing to enter their protests on
this side of the water, before the uni
versal military training bill strikes
them.
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The M.pulution of Rumania last
year was estimated at 7,'J0U,0oo, but
M-vtral hundred thousand of these
have been killed off since that census
was taken. '
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Edgar Howard is receiving many
compliments on account of the very
flicient manner in which he presides
over the senate. He is making the
best record of any lieutenant governor
for years.
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The United States government has
a-ked newspapers not to .publish the
sailing times of transatlantic ships,
because it gives the U-boats valuable
information. Rut the postoffice depart
merit doesn't seem to have heard of
th- request, and keeps right on pub
li.-hing them.
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From present indications it will be
a struggle for Havelock to keep from
being annexed to Lincoln. Havelock
h;s maintained its independence from
tlie staging of the town, and now that
the town has grown to some extent
Lincoln wants to fold the inhabitants
.f that little city under its protecting
wings lor tne taxes there is in an
nexation. That's all.
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Chaiiman Inghorst, of the demo
era tie state central committee was in
Lincoln the past week attending the
Federated Retai!?r.s meetings. Will
iam Ritehi', jr., of Bridg port, also
isi)el Lincoln this week and called at
the state house. Mr. Ritchie took a
prominent part in the campaign last
fall and is mentioned as a possible
randidate for attorney-general two
v-ars hence, when Willis Reed make
The race for United Stales senator.
Omaha Nebraskan.
THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM.
'This war,'' remarked the Des
Register, "has degenerated into a
frankly announced raid on the bread
supply." Nobody any longer expects
it to be settled by the armies in the
field. "The fight is a tight for food.
Germany is almost completely block
aded and its cause is hopeless if the
war lasts long enough. And in order
to raid the English food supply Ger
many is desperately inviting the an
tagonism of the world.
It is not only the belligerents that
are suffering, but the neutrals as well.
The food supply of the world is being
depleted, and in another year America
may feel the pinch. Already the
Scandinavian states, Holland and
Greece, are hard put to it to find
enough for their people to eat. 'Pa
derewski says there are no children in
Poland all starved to death. The
Jews on the eastern front, who knows
what they have borne?" The Des
Moines paper goes on to say:
So much farm labor has been de
stroyed, and so much farm land cie-
astated, and so many workers have
been taken out of productive industry.
atul the destruction of supplies is so
enormous, that not even America can
produce food enough to go around and
the shortage we feel already, meas-
ired in extravagant price-:, will be
moie marked a year from now than it
s now. v hy are potatoes selling tor
s.") a bushel in Chicago? Whv do army
eans sell at the price of coffee? And
what does it mean to the noncombat
antv.omcn and children of our big
American cities? What does it mean
ight here in Des Moines in the heart
if the corn belt?
If we could once bring ourselves to
see thvt war instead of being a glori
ous campetition between stalwart, red-
blooded men is in fact a fiendish pres-
u re on women and children and old
men to staive them into demanding
submission we should get a much
saner line on war. War is today
a scientific study in devastation. The
Question is how most quickly and ef
fectively to destroy a people
Perhaps starving an enemy jut is ju.-t
as cruel as any other form of violence.
Perhaps women and children would as
lief be killed with bombs as forced to
go without food. In any event, let us
ecognize the situation. For hunger
ends more wars than prowess in the
field."
rhe food riots in New York, Penn-
sylvania, Boston and ether rreat cen
ters of wealth and population tell the
story of v.hat the war is doing to the
women and children of our own coun
try. And it is not primarily the sub
marine blockade that is responsible.
The blockade keeps the food at home.
If the war should continue two or
three years longer we probably would
be compelled to establish a blockade,
or embargo, of our own for that very
purpose. It is the enormous demand
for food from the warring countries,
and our greed to fill that demand be
cause of the fabulous prices offered,
that is causing our own people to feci
the pangs of hunger. The situation
is succinctly .stated by the Associated
Press Washington dispatches telling
what official investigation has dis
closed. "Officials reached the conclusion that
the situation primarily is an economic
one and that the rise in some of the
chief staples was due in large meas
ure to the heavy drain of Europe on
the American supply. In this list
were placed wheat and other grains
flour, sugar and meats. Thousands
of tons of meats of all sorts have been
purchased in Chicago by buyers for
entente governments, sufficient, it . was
said, to cause an actual shortage and
the resultant price increase in this
country." '
The New York Times, a very con
! servative and entirely unemotional
newspaper, reaches the same conclu
sion in these words:
"These food demonstrations are dif
ferent. Neither the unemployed nor
the unemployable, are conspicuous
among those clamoring for food. They
are not asking for work, nor wages,
nor charity, but for food. The com
plaint is not of inability to earn, but
of inability to buy what the accus-
tomedwage ordinarily supplies. No
doubt shortage of supply is a contrib
utory cause to the price movement,
but the main cause is the urgency of
concentrated demand. The ordinary
restrictions upon buying are suspend
ed. What we export is taken with
tiisregard of price proportioned to the
conditions which suspend all ordinary
considerations of profit or loss, or cost
of production, or the means of pay
ment. The need abroad is greater
than it is here, and the price paid
abroad fixes the price paid here."
Onlv the end of the war, the Times
concludes, can be expected to bring
any substantial relief.
Surplus wealth is the cornerstone of
civilization. Uv surplus wealth is
meant wealth in addition to that nec
essary for immediate consumption.
This surplus becomes the basis for all
our arts and sciences, for all our long
period processes of development and
extension and improvements. Our
chools anil libraries and hospitals, our
theaters and automobiles, our learning
and leisure and culture, all rest upon
And of that surplus the food sup
ply is the first and indispensable por
tion. Without it one crop failure
would mean famine. Without it men
engaged in writing books, in studying
the secrets of nature, in painting pic
tures, in teaching our children, would
e called back to the plow. And with
out it, in the first instance, there
would be no plow, but only the prim
itive agriculture of our most remote
ancestors who had no surplus of any
iind and who therefore were obliged
to scratch the earth with a pointed
stick to prepare the ground for the
seeiis.
Today the world is shooting its sur
plus wealth away annihilating it
with all the devilish ingenuity and or
that monstrous wholesale scale that
modern destructive science has made
possible. And the destruction is tak
ing place not merely in the countries
at war. The four corners of the earth
are being sucked into the maelstrom
Our own fertile land has been denuded
to such an extent that its surplus foot1
supply" is almost exhausted, so that
a general crop failure this year might
mean famine mowing down millions
such as cursed the middle ages. In
return for it all we have received some
five or six billions of dollars in the
form of certificates of stock and of
promises to pay, as well as a moun
tain of gold, none of which can be
eaten, or worn, or used for fuel.
It is not only the future civilization
that depends upon an early peace. It
is the immediately present civilization;
not our children's, but our own. Even
another twelve months of war holds
such possibilities as to baffle imag
ination and stagger reason. World
Herald. -:o:-
Many states now have pure seed
laws designed to protect the purchaser
of seeds against adulteration, impuri
ties and low vitality. Seeds should be
purchased subject to test as to purity.
Vititality may readily be determined
at home by the use of any simple
germinator. Dangerous week seeds-
are often introduced through the use
of impure seeds.
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"When the springtime comes, Gen
tle Annie," you greet us with smiling
countenance. We are ready to greet
you with outstretched arms and the
perfume of the roses you bring with
you Oh, won't it be nice? So "hurry
up, Annie, we are awaiting your ad
vent, joyfully.
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Nothing very plain and frugal about
Lenten fare this year, with codfish at
30 cents a pound.
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Some men live for all they can gel
vithoitt work and they are generally
pretty successful.
It's a poor cook that doesn't always
have hot water handy.
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Woman's instinct can generally dis
count man's education.
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Lots of well written obituary notices
no doubt provoke hahas in hades.
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Frank Harrison has gone south.
Prohibition has cut him out of a job
here.
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Love which comes like a summer
sigh often goes out like a March bliz
zard. :o:
Do not be discouraged. If you can
not make a hit you can at least make
a kick.
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I'e is a fortunate mar who can live
comfortably and be happy these days
with high cost of living.
The high price of potatoes should
cause the thrifty housewife to b:j
careful how they'r peeled, as every
ittle helps, you know.
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The man who can make both ond
meet in these days of high prices for
verything the family eats and wears.
should feel himself a fortunate being,
indeed.
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The London papers are to be cut
"own one-half in size, in order to save
lews print paper. Mavbe that will
elp to relieve the news print situa
tion some.
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In a reply to the charge against
German submarines for firing upon
ife boats the German government
states that no submarine has ever fired
upon a life boat nor will they ever do
so. The question now is, is one to be-
ieve the German government or is
he to believe the survivors of the
ships torpedoed ?
Cairanza is now posing as a peace
mediator for the European nations at
var. His suggestion is that neutrals
top shipments to the nations at war.
Whik." his suggestion would doubtless
end the war it might not end it in a
way which wou'd be pleasing to neu
trals. :o:-
The members of the legislature
should be happy in the thought that
they are drawing S10 a day, instead of
$, which xwaf the per diem up to two
years aero. Many of them, even at
that, can't come out even at the end of
the session. At least the high-rollers
can't do it.
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The lower house elections commit
tee Tuesday reported favorably for
action the bill providing for nomina
tions of state officers below governor
by state conventions of the various
parties. The measure also provides
for selection of state convention dele
gates by voters of each county.
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After a man goes to bed at night to
lest his weary body, he gets up in the
morning and starts down town with an
order to get something to eat. 'Ait!
just in one night he finds that these
articles have advanced a cent or two
since he ordered them the morning be
fore. Hut such is life during war
times.
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There have been many large hog
brought lo the Morton-Gregson pack
ing house, but to William C. Davis,
the well known farmer of W yonung
precinct, belongs the honor of "break
ing the record. Today he brought in
a hog that weighed l-0 pounds, which
was docked eighty pounds, and for
which he received $102.i'0. This is the
largest amount ever paid for a single
hog in this city and probably is a rec
ord breaker for the west. Nebraska
City News. That is certainly a rec
ord breaker for southeastern Nebraska
in the hog business.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a locafr disease, eroatly in
lueneed by constitutional conditions, and
in urdr to cure i you must lake an
internal remedy Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine is taken internally and acts thru
tho blood on the mucous surfaces of tht
system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. It i3 com
posed of wime of the best tonics known,
combined with some of the best blood
pnrllier. .The perfect combination of
the ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine is what products such wonderful
results In catarrhal conditions. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J CHENEY tc CO.. Frop? .. Toledo, o.
All Druggists,
Hall's Family ?A3 for consUpatlon.
WHY NOT AN AMENDMENT?
The legislatures of vai ious states
are this winter submitting constitu
tional amendments providing for equal
suffrage to a vote of the people.
Why would it not be a wise and
proper thing for the. Nebraska legis
lature to do?
The bill with which the legislature
is now engaged extending limited
suffrage to women is objectionable
for several reasons.
It reverses the popular mandate
against woman suffrage without any
warrant to show that the people want
it reversed. In doing so it does vio
lence to the spirit and intent of the
initiative and referendum section of
the constitution and tends to bring it
into disrepute.
The limited .suffrage the legislature
has power to confer is either too much
or too little. If women are to be en
titled to vote for president they should
likewise be entitled to vote or con
gressmen, and governor, and member
of the legislature. If women who live
in the cities and towns are to be per
mitted to vote for municipal officers,
thin women living in the rural dis
tricts should be entitled, together with
the town women, to vote for county
.Ulcers. There should be no arbitrary
line drawn discriminating against the
women living on a farm and in favor
of the women living in the city.
There is no use in going to much
trouble and expense to take two bite
at a cherrv.
The tj'.iestion of equal suffrage will
e 'permitted and voted upoM in Xei
braska next vear in anv event. Whv
lequiie the suffrage women to spend
much time and effort circulating in
itiative petitions when the legislature
can itself submit the question?
It su ms to the World-Herald that
the fair arid sensible thing for the
legislature to do would be to abandon
I he limited suffrage plan and join in
iiiiaiiimou.- ly submitting an unlimited
equal s tlfrage constitutional amend
ment. It would l-e fair to the women
.ho are demanding the right of suf
frage, ard fair to the men who have
ihe right to decide, wh have voted to
ieny the demand, and who have thi
rivilege of changing their minds, nnd
it would save the initiative and refer-
ndum method of legislation from be-
'rig discriminated in the house of its
friends. World-Herald.
I HAT llEV lilMi.NDl M.
The proposed ": efe: einium" on wa:
s about the silliest proposition eve;
idvanced before an intelligent people.
Ours is not a pure democracy. It i
i representative form of government,
if we were required to take a vote on
the war proposition we must take a
vote upon every step leading to it. The
result would be that the men in charge
f our diplomacy would be afraid to
make a move and every little mon
arch in the world would he wiping his
feet upon u?.
War is a terrible thing and should
be avoided if possible. Uut let us no'
forget that there are some things
worse than war. If that were not so
Patrick Henry would not have immor
talized himself by declaring. "Give mc
liberty or give me death." Thomas
Jefferson would not have written the
Declaration of Independence and Ab
raham Lincoln would have taken to
the cellar at the first shot at. Fort
Sumpter.
In the presence of the threatened
war let us be patient ami even pa
tient to a fault. I'ut do not forget
that a peace preserved in the presence
of repeated and continued impositions
would be no peace at all, for it would
destroy self-respect among Americans,
it would create contempt for their
country abroad and finally we would
have no courHry at all.
"Peace at any price" is not civiliza
tion's phrase. For civilization would
have perished in the presence of that
phrase. It is not the Xazarene's
phrase, else He would not have
whipped the money changers from the
temple. The phrase can only be de
fended by those who are willing to
do away with every police force and
with the army and the navy, depend
ing for protection tqj!i a powder hag
and a' wrisl ,vviil.ch. Omaha ,Ne-bta?kan.
irst Security Bank
CEDAR CREEK, NEBR.
Sound, Conservative and Progressive
THE BANK OF THE PEOPLE
THE BANK BY THE PEOPLE
THE BANK FOR THE PEOPLE
We are anxious to assist the farmer in feeding and
handling his live stock for market
Deposits In This Bank
are protected by the Depositors' Guaranty Fund of the
State ol' Nebraska, which has reached nearly
000,000.00 It is back of us and protects yon!
OFFICERS:
,WM. SCHNEIDER. President
W. H. LOHNES, Vice-President T. J. SHANAHAN, Vice-President
J. F. FOREMAN, Cashier
Cedar Creek
Preaching at the church Sunday,
morning and evening.
For good, fresh Candy, Fruit and
Xuts, see S. J. Iieames.
Henry Ileil unloaded a car of hay
at this place on Monday.
Mrs. Hans Schroeder spent Sunday
at the William Keil home.
Farm Loans, Insurance and Real
Instate. See J. F. Foreman.
Karl ('line went to Omaha on busi
ness Tuesday for a few hours.
' Louis Hennings and wife spent Sun
day at the home of Mrs. Warren.
Jim Faires of Greenwood was a
Cedar Creek visitor Sunday for a few
hours. William Keil an l family were vis
iting in Plattsmouth Saturday for a
few hours.
Miss Ihische ef Omaha is visiting
her uncle, John Ilusche and family
this week.
Henry Thierolf spent Monday in
Plattsmouth looking alter some bus
iness matters.
The dance Saturday night was well
atunded and a general good time en
joyed by the jolly crowd.
Fd Wagner and Ira Dates spent
Saturday in Plattsmouth., visiting and
looking after some business matters.
Mrs. A. F. Seybert of Plattsmouth
was a visitor in Cedar Creek Friday
for a few hours with relative's and
friends.
A. O. Ault and family and Walter
lies-inflow and family motored to
Murray Sunday to visit there with
friends.
henry Dasher was a visitor over
Snnday in Plattsmouth at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. John Likewise
and family.
Charlie Keil and family are moving
to Sarpy county this week, where
they expect to make their home in
riio future. '
The First Security bank has ar
ranged to issue hunting and fishing
licenses, and and any one wishing
them can secure same at the bank.
Mrs. Miiler and children of Chap
pell, Neb., who have been visiting at
the home of her mother, Mrs. L. E.
Meyers, for the last week, departed
for their home Monday evening.
oad of
Wc have taken up the
MAXWELLS
In connection with the
TUDEBA'KER.
in Eight Mile Grove, Plattsmouth and Rock
Bluffs Precinct, and are in position to offer
our customers cars for $635.00, $940.00
and $1,180.00, f. o. b. Detroit. Have just
unloaded a car load of the Maxwells and can
make immediate deliveries of Touring or
Roadster bodies with 30 h. motors and the
new ignition system, ywhich is a great im
provement. Let us demonstrato our cars to
you.j
Cedar Creek
Mrs. P. H. Roberts visited at the
home of Mrs. Peter Schroeder Sun
day. Lloyd Schneider drove to Platts
mouth Sunday for a short visit there
with friends.
Wlliam Seybert and wife of Platts
mouth visited at Andy Thomsen's
home Sunday.
J. F. Wolff and family and Clyde
Lyle and family drove over to Green
wood Sunday to spend a few hours
with friends there.
Lloyd Schneider motored to Omaha
Tuesday, where he visited for a few
hours in that city. ..i
Miss Stella Warren came down from
Louisville Friday morning to visit with
home folks over Sunday.
Peter Schroeder drove to Bellevue
Sunday, where he spent a few hours
in that place with friends.
Walter Schneider and family mo
tored to Blair Friday to visit over
Sunday -in that place with relatives
and friends.
Mr. JJlix, the ice cream man of the
Harding Creamery company, was in
Cedar Creek Tuesday lining up for
the season's trade.
Henry Schneider and family of
Plattsmouth motored out Sunday from
their home to spend the day visiting
at the William Schneider home.
Simon Clark and wife came out Sat
urday evening to visit over Sunday
with their daughter, Mrs. Robert Sti
vers and family, returning home Mon
day. '
The First Security bank wishes to
announce to its customers that they
hae a supply of the new money just
issued. Customers can receive same
bv calling at the bank.
An Honest
Letter From an
Man.
Honest
Knos Halbert, Paoli, Ind., writes: "I
contracted a severe cold this fall and
coughed continually. Could hardly
sleep at nights. I tried several reme
dies without relief. Got Foley's
Honey and Tar and the first bottle re
lieved me, curing my cough entirely.
I can recommend it for all coughs."
Get the genuine. Sold everywhere.
DR. BLEICK.
Dr. Dleick, 532 World-Herald build
ing, Omaha, specialist in eye, ear,
nose anil throat diseases, will he at
Plattsmouth every Tuesday, at D. A.
McElwain jewelry store. Eye glasses
scientifically fitted.
Automobiles!-
sale of
Nebraska
a