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PAGE 4. PliATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, MAY 14, 191 Cbe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT V LATTS 51 0 UT II, NEBRASKA, Catered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-clans mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PKICEl U PER YEAR IN ADTANCB TM SET TO WIN There is a man in our town Who's wise, there's none can doubt, Midst April snows he did propose To set a garden out. He set out spuds, and beans, and peas; Some onion sets, set in. "Now, Winter, set in when you please," Said he, "I'm set to win!" :o: "Old Sol" is on the job yet. :o:- The mornings are rather cool yet. -:o:- And doing wonders for the farmers. -:o:- There are many things to do that will benefit the old town. -:o: "He who is not for us is against us," and that is all there is to it. -:o:- They arc snatching the attempted boot-leggers right and left in Lincoln. -:o:- Somc people are laying in their win ter's coal. It may be a good proposi tion. -:o:- Thcre is at least one thing that isn't sold by the pound, and that is women's dresses. -:o: Aviation is safe and easy, an air expert avers. Just as easy as fall ing off a log, in other words. -:o: Some of the war rumors indicate that the world is not only going crazy, but becoming childish. The first declaration of war in America was made at Boston against the Dutch colonists in the year 1G72. :o: Berlin has decided to impose a heav ier tax on bachelors, but they make the celebrated come-back, "It's worth it." :o:- A Pennsylvania legislator wants to tax goats. If the human species is included, the measure ought to raise a big icvenue. :o: Beauty is a mighty poor thing for a gal to have if it gets the notion into her head that a life of usefulness is benati- her. :o: . It is mighty poor maple syrup that comes from the catalpa tree. And there is plenty of this kind on the market. Where is the food inspector? tor- Nebraska City is experiencing trou ble with its street paving extensions. All cities, more or less, experience the same trouble. So it's all in a life time, anyway. :o: Matters are gradually getting into shape to enforce the conscription act, and every patriotic citizen owes it as a duly to his country to assbt in en forcing the law. -:o:- Boot-legging is a very poor business, and he who engages in the business will be caught, and it will simply be a question of time when he will be play ing checkers with his nose. :o: A St. Louis commission m:m at tributes to the common rat a loss of 10 per cent of the production of the American cereal before they reach the tables of the consumers. Swat the rat! -:o:- There arc plenty of things to con demn besides President Wilson, but some people delight in condemning the president, and they are not all Gei I mans, cither, but natural born Amer icans. :o:- The government is to control tho prices which manufacturers may charge for war munitions. That's good so far as it goes. But why not go even farther and have a federal com mission to regulate the prices of food stuffs and jail the price booster. MAKE DOLLARS FIGHT, TOO. In other countries than the United States of America there may easily be habits of mind, conditions of the workers, lack of democracy or lack of means that excuse continued bond is sues to pay for the war. There is no such excuse here. The essence of war bond issues is that we side-step our duty and pass up to our grandchildren the thing we ought to do ourselves. That we put dollars before duty and profits before patriotism. That isn't American. The essense of it is that we shall send our sons to die for our cause but will not risk our money. That isn't American. The essence of it is that we shall land upon our country a huge device that always afterward will be working to make the poor poorer and the rich richer. That isn't American. We went into this war for no sel fish motive but only to save the world from slipping back into the dark ages We shall come out of it with nothing gained except the proud consciousness that we have kept faith and contrib uted our share to the rescue of man kind. It may be a hard fought contest. We may suffer many sorrows. There may ba many darkened homes. It promises to be an ordeal that in all respects will test manhood and sin cerity. Here is a man whose only son the nation has taken to fight for the ex alted principles that led us into the war. The son has lost his life in bat tle. The father goes lonely to the grave. Shall we show to him then the care fully guarded millions of some neigh bor? Shall we remind him that while we called for the sacrifice of lives ant the breaking of hearts we kept intact the heaps of dollars. We have enlisted men. We must enlist the dollars just as much. There is but one way to do that. No more long term bond issues. No putting of our burdens upon the workers of the future. No back breaking and heart breaking interest charges. An income tax raising from a small per cent on small incomes to 100 pes cent on all incomes of more than $100,- 000. Universal service for the republic, universal duty, universal obligations. Life and everything this side of life. No shifting, no evading, but men and money to do equally their part. That alone is American and tha. alone is just, right and on the level. Omaha News. Remember your dear old mother to. morrow, and wear a flower as a trib ute to your best friend. tor- Twenty years ago corn was selling at 8 cents a bushel. We publish this as a gentle reminder that corn has not always been as high as it is now. :o:- A few "strategic retreats" like the recent ones made by the Germans will put them back to Berlin, and it seems as if it is impossible for the allies to keep the Germans from retreating. Perhaps the Germans want to coax them to Berlin and then overwhelm them with some trick. :o:- We do not coincide with the lower house of congress in going back on Colonel Roosevelt's proposition to go to France with a big army of soldiers under his command. However, the president and senate were favorable to the idea. Jealousies should be scat tered to the four winds in time of. war. Teddy is a brave man, and here is no discount on his fighting qualities. THE FALSE ECONOMY CRY. Thrift and economy are at all times salutary virtues. But there is a lot of hysteria and unreason marking the economy campaign that has developed as an incident to our entry into the war. There is no occasion for the hoard ing of money, so far as the individual is- concerned. And in its effect on the national well-being it can only be harmful. There is no occasion for it because there is every ground for business confidence, and because there can be no "hard times" brought upon us by the war except as the people them selves become panicky. In England, throughout the war, a steady activity has been maintained and there has been prosperity in all lines of business. And this has been in spite of taxes enormously heavier and resources vastly inferior to ours. The Council of Netional Defense, made up of the best business and economic brains of the country, be lieves it a great mistake for people, in war time, to cease buying the things they need and can afford. It realizes that to prosecute a war suc cessfully requires money and lots of it. The only way that money can be obtained is by keeping the industries that produce wealth steadily at work. 'A single dollar," it is declared, "in active circulation contributes more to ward promoting general prosperity than the entire wealth of this nation if allowed to remain dormant." There is more money in this coun try than ever before. The money raised by taxes will be promptly spent in the United States, and the money raised by bond sales to be lent to the allies will much if not most of it be spent here also. In spite of increased taxes, therefore, prosperity should be come greater than less, if only the people will lead their normal lives, buy as usual what they can afford to buy and so keep the industries busy and the millions of workers profitably employed. There is need for food economy, es pecially for the preventing of waste. The world is threatened with a scarc ity of food supply. That now on hand is short, and every ounce of food that is wasted by those who buy too much means hunger for some man or woman or child somewhere who cannot get enough. But as for other commodi ties of which there is a plenty, that citizen, whether man or woman, best serves the country who continues to make purchases as in normal times. And he who does this, and inspires others to do it, by thus contributing to insure continued prosperity for the whole country contributes also to the safety of his own family and the sta bility and success of his own business, whether he be merchant, farmer or aborer. William R. Hurst has spoken a wise and timely word more than once in the difficult times encountered during the last three years. But he has said nothing more worthy the attention of all the people than this: 'A man with an ounce, of intelli gence, and inch of foresight, can see that, if the people who have the money to spend stop buying at the stores, the stores will fail and go into bankruptcy, hundreds of employes will be discharged, the orders to the fac tories will be discontinued, the fac tories, except those which arc supply- ng government orders, will be closed up and thousands of their employes will be discharged. 'How many thousands, how many millions, of the people in this country are dependent upon the liberal spend ing of the well-to-do elements of the community! 'How many thousands of people would be deprived of their, incomes, deprived of their livelihood, if that iberal spending by the people who have the means to spend were sudden- y. ended! "This alarmist cry of .extreme econ omy, this appeal to save everywhere and spend nowhere, is nothing less than a demand that the country pro ceed to do the very thing which cre ates depression and panic. "Not long ago President Wilson, referring to the depression from which the country has lately emerged, said that the hard times were psycholog ical A great many people laughed at Mr. Wilson's statement, but the fact nevertheless is that the hard time3 were largely psychological. What Mr. & J J b Wilson meant was that tne people nao money to spend but were afraid to where they are displaying the great spend it. and because they were afraid est of activity and getting ready for . , J., . , .. to spend it and did not spend it there was not sufficient business and not sufficient prosperity. "If the late depression was psycho, ated in the same psychological man- ner. If the people do not spend money now we shall soon have hard times - . . flMin. As a matter ot r ain Taet. tne people wno can spena snouia con- tinue to spend. The business of the country should eo on as far as possible as usual. Every man should be kept , . , , , . in his proper and profitable employ- 1 ment, except those who are actually needed and enlisted for the defense of the nation." It would be difficult, of course, to persuade people with money to spend it "as usual" for purely altruistic or patriotic reasons. They will hesitate and skimp if they believe there may be no more money where this money came from when this money in their pocket is gone. Fortunately there is no possible ground for any such fear Money never was so plentiful. The profits of industry and commerce and agriculture were never greater. All we have to do is to continue to pro duce, to sell, to buy, and our profitable occupations are safe even though we are at war. Principally in Nebraska and the neignooring states is the economic outlook bright. It is here that are produced the foodstuffs for which all the world is clamoring. The enormous , liii i r t, A we produce and sell is such that farm- ing and stock raising, our basic in- dustries, are exceedingly profitable With our crop prospects bright and with increased production insured, this means for Nebraska an assured and stable prosperity. There can be no excuse for wast? of any kind. Nor should anyone spend money merely for the sake of spend ing it. But those who have shared in our prosperity, who have their profits in hand, whose occupations continue remunerative, should insure their own prosperity by buying what they want and can afford. World-Herald. -:o: It looks like a joke upon Ilobson that when war finally came, it was not only not with Japan, but that Japan is actually our ally in it. The Japa nese-American News nublishes a ca- ti i- r,- a. oiegram irom iokio io me enect inai America's entrance into the war "to chastise German arrogance has been deemed by Japanese people as an automatic establishment of a Japa- . . ... , . . maker ana is a young iauy nc-iu in nese-Amencan alliance, and that inL, , . , . , - .v ,,,, I the highest esteem in the community Japan "Americans are welcomed wherever they go and are greeted with cheers," while the American flag is displayed everywhere. :o: it there is anyone who comes rj contact with more cranks than an editor we don't know who that person could be, unless it is another editor. An editor seems to be the shining mark for all the cranks to shoot at. Through all this he is expected to keep a smooth, placid temper. :o: There is always a right and wrong way of doing things. It is not very hard to discriminate between the two different ways after they arc finished, but to know which way is right before starting in, is another thing. :o: Give peddlars and agents the cold shoulder. Their interests are of no concern to you. They take money out of a town and leave none. :o: Mans greatest responsibility is woman and she never lets him shrink it, either. :o: Some women find that a new hat is a good cure for the headache. :o: A shoestring is more likely to stran gle you than form a lifeline. -:o:- Another rain to lay the dust. FARMERS VERY SCARCE IN TOWNS THESE DAYS ; tfj 1t 5 From Saturday's Daily. I rP V o fa rmflvo Kovn Knnn inriT cnvr ... .. . . , , m the city the past few days and the reason is found out in the fields i the corn planting. The season has , , , ; , , . been so backward and cold, with a preat deal of wet weather that it has interfered with the corn planting un- til it is now some weeks overdue From one end of Cass county to the other thfi soil is heinc nrenared and the CQrn plantinff beinff rushed to in SUre a crop of this staple grain. A great many of the farmers have been I fnvroA r r1nw nr tlipii- tr:rt i f win - v" t ter wheat, which was killed by the d cf)d weath and Jeplant the han(j with corn, to secure a crop this season, and this has materially in- creased the work of the farms at this time of the year. The prospects are . . .. , , ,. at the present time for the planting of a ,rreCLt tieal more corn than usua and if the conditions are in. the least favorable it points to one of the big gest corn crops throughout the South Platte territory in a irreat many .s The pOVCrnment, as well as the agricultural societies, have point ed out the necessity of getting the 1,1 c J-" sure a yield this year that will m- creage the foodstuiTs of the country and the call is being heeded by the farmers throughout the .-tatc WILLIAM W. CURREY IS MARRIED AT KEYSTONE, NEB. From Friday's Pnily. The many friends of William W Currey, a former plattsmouth young man, will be surprised as well a? pleased to learn of his marriage re cently at Keystone, Neb., to Miss Bes sie . Dumvoody, a most highly re Lsnectcd and talented young lady of keystone. 1 he wedding occurred at the home of the mother of the bride in that nlace. 1 he costume of the 5ride was of bluc brocade with white I silk ovcrlace as trimming. The groom is a son ot -Mr. ana Mrs. m. r. Sur rey, for a great many years residents of this city and community and who possess many warm friends here in the old home who will learn with great pleasure of the happiness that has befallen the young man. The young people will make their home in Keith county near Keystone. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MARRIED AT COURT HOUSE From Friday's Daily. f Yesterday afternoon at tne court house occurred the marriage of .Mr. Irl A. Warlick, of Tecumseh, and Miss Margaret henoemaker, ot .nc- hawka. The young people came to this city, and, seeking the office of Judge Beeson, had the wedding cere- mony performed in a very quiet m:-.n npr. the only ones present beins I 7 . , . i.- i ICoiintv Siinenntendent Miss r.da Marquardt and County Assessor G.I, Farlcv. After the wedding the young I people returned to Nehawka. The bride is a daughter of Herman Schoe- in which she has made her home and I where she possesses a large circle of warm friends, who will learn of her marriage with much pleasure. MRS. HENRY IIIRZ VERY ILL. frnni Sntnrilav's OailV. Mrs. Henry Ilirz.sr., who has been very poorly for the past winter was taken quite sick yesterday at her home west of the city, and her condi tion is reported as being very serious and causes a great deal of apprehen sion to her family and friends. Mrs. Hirz's many friends throughout the county will regret to learn of her se rious condition and hope that she may recover from the illness without seri ous results. DON'T WASTE IT. CAN IT with The Alexander Canning Outfit It is the most efficient of any kind of a canner on the market.' Children can operate it with perfect safety A marvel of simplicity, especially adapted for the canning of all kinds of fruit, vegetables and meats, in glass jars. Sold under a positive guarantee that it will do the work satisfactorily. You can save half your living with one of these can ning1 outfits. G. W. ALEXANDER & CO., On Lincoln Ave., Phone 251. Plattsmouth, Neb. 5-14-4twkly2td Earl Stanfield returned this morn ing from Arapahoe, Neb., where he visited over Sunday with his father-in-law, who is quite ill in that city. QhiMrsn $ry i mm D sM CChe Kind You Eave Always BDught, and which has been a iiso for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per- fJXJ&JZfos E01ial euPerv-isioii since its infancy. All Counterfeits, Imitations and 44 Tust-as-zood " am Hif Bspcriaisats that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What es CASTOR I A CasLoria :s a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It containa nsither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its rga i;; its guarantee. For mors than thirty years it has bs:n ia constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising trercirom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. 2h2 Childress Panacea The Mother's Friend. smmE CASTOR I A always Bears the AS T, 3& For 0 TSiq Kind You Have Always Bought TM IT C RNTAU ACOMPANV F-JfWV-leC ITV MRS GLENN QUITE SICK. From FriJ;iv's Uailv. Mr?. T. W. Glenn has for the past few days been quite sick at her home on Granite Ftreet, suffering: from a ?evcre attack of all stones, which has made her condition quite serious. Mis'' I)o:;i Glenn, a daughter, has been .'ailed from Gothenberp", Neb, to min ister to the needs of her mother and will remain here until an improvement is noted in her condition. Metedith Coates of Kansas City was a visitor over Sunday in this city with his many boyhood friends, departing this morning for Omaha, where he will visit for the day. The most economical Corset on the market Spencer, s?5.00 and up. The Nehawka EUJills arc now Rolling and Manufacturing the Letter FLOUR! The Popular Cass County Brand of Flour 'EVERY SACK GUARANTEED! Also a Full Line ofBy Products! C. D. ST. JOHN, Prop. JOE MALCOLM, Head Miller. For Sale by All Dealers Attractive Summer i Tours Through the East! An extensive scheme of diverse-route eastern tours has been announced circuit tours to New York and Boston, going one way, returning another; eastern trunklines and steamer lines co-operate in these tours that may be planned to include Canadian, New England and Atlantic Seaboard resorts, Sound Steamers, Coast Lines, the Virginias, Boston, New York and Washington, The general limits of these low fares are for sixty-day tickets. The Burlington's eastern tourist-rate leaflet is now on the T-k 't . .1 - I . 1 If. press, uescnoe to me me general tour you nave in mina. i.ee us help you make it and furnish covering the iimumw mi X ft VII ! for Fletcher's ' 4 Signature of r ver BO Years COMPLETES ASSESSING WORK. From Friday's Daily. The firs:fc assessor in the county to complete his work and make bis rt turns to County Assessor G. L. Far ley, is Charles G. Bailey, assessor of Stove Creek precinct, as Mr. Bailey arrived this morning form Elmwood bringing with him the complete list of taxible property in his precinct, as well as the list of residents of the precinct. This is a very pleasing showing as Stove Creek is one of the largest precincts in the county and its population numbers 1,000 persons, as is shown by the returns. Mr. Bai ley has been constantly on the job since being assigned to his work and has completed it in record breaking time, especially as he has one of Y you with descriptive literature proposed journey. MP R. W. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent L. W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent, 1004 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.