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PLATTSMOUTH 8 E5II-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1917. PAGE . Oe plattsrnoutb journal mnUSUED 8EMI-Wi:F.KLT AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. Eatered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher UBSCIUFTIOX PKICEl 1.3 Hear Hon. 11. i. Metcalfe. :o: At the Pa nr. el e theater. :o: Thursday night, May 17. pay you. It will :o:- Thc farmer needs your boy durinj. vacation. :o:- .Aiul do think for. you more good than you -:o: A hoc at the rear, or a rifle at the front, which? :o: Five thousand Chicagoans to join Teddy's army. :o: Twenty-five dollars per ton for hay is going some. :o : All weeds should he kept under strict surveillance. :o : Hear R. L. Metcalfe at the Taimcle theater tomorrow night. :o: Russian problems seem to he ret ting settled Petrogradually. T .v. , Show your colors tomorrow by floating Old Glory in front of your stores. :o: You can't get away with Yankee in genuity, and there is no use talking about it. :o: The nights are a little cool yet. "Old Sol" should get a move on himself, and tiled his lays in a more heated man ner. :o: If the .-kills keep on receding and the shoctops keep on progressing, we greatly fear the belt makers will have to go out of business. :o: The trnvc i nnu nt is after the makers of hiuh prices, and while it is at it, we hope he will rive the paper trust a few punches in the short ribs. :o: Mot of our people have planted a garden, and by the way, they are put ting in all their spare time in working it, too. Every little bit helps, you know. :o: In civil war times flour was P1Q a barrel and pork $KJ per hundred. Rut that was fifty years ago, when it took two dollars in government money to buy one in gold. :o: No matter what opinion you had before this nation entered the war, it is row your duty to do your part to ward helping her fight it effectively. No privation that helps can be spared. :o:- Sun lay is a hard day for most folks We do not work quite as hard as we do the rest of the week and we keep lirht on eating just the same, so that when Monday morning comes we arc duller than a meat axe. And we fin. fault with everything. :o:- No punishment is too severe for the natural born American, and his par ents, before him born in this country, who makes a practice of condemning the government for its action on the war question, and also President Wil son. It is but little less than down right treason. :o: As Lincoln said: "U is for us the living to be. here dedicated to the treat task remaining before us." Then again, we should ''highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." Let us all help to consecrate the great day made as memorial by the lives and blood of our forefathers. Not only should the day be observed by public meetings but every school in the country should prepare special programs for May 30th that will teach the younp the glory of our nation and that will make the elders more sol emly proud of our great land. PER VEAK 131 ADTANCB MOTHER: THE HEROINE. The bugle calls. The cry "To arms' Resounds throughout the land. Our hearts quiver with dread alarms, As on war's brink we stand. And mothers, nil, grow sad and drear, When draws the parting near, As all their sons, their blood and life, Go forth into the strife. The bugle sounds. The sharp com mand Sends forth to death; the youth. And leaves the out-stretched arm and hand Bereft of all, in truth, That is held dear. His mother grieves And wavers, as he leaves, But 'tis for just a moment. Joy Fills her heart to give her boy. The bugle stops. Her boy is gone, Rut her heart now serene, Rejoices at her duty done. Sick at heart she has been, Now glad; for when the nations call Mothers willingly give all. No other half so brave and grand, As mothers of the land. FULTON MOORE. Wanted Young America soldiers. -:o: Enlist before the draft gets you. :o: Conquer we must, for in God we trust. :o: Potatoes are on the decline in price. Good! :o: Germany is again to announce new terms of peace, so reports say. :o: The dandelion crop is always good or bad whichever way you may take it. :o: The first battle of the revolution was fought near Charleston, S. C, on August 27, 1782. :o: A change in the police force may have been a wise proposition, and may not. Rut as to the taking off of the regular night police we don't think it was. :o: If we can't have a Fourth of July celebration, let us at least have a flag pole raising on the great natal day. Genuine patriotism is subject to dem onstration. :o: Parents should caution their chil dren against pilfering flowers from the lawns of their nearby neighbors. If this practice isn't put a stop to, parents are going to get their children into serious trouble. :o: The plan of the government to take charge of the production and distribu tion of food stuffs, may prove bene ficial to the common people, who have a hard time to make both ends meet. :o: The newspaper reporter cannot al ways vouch for the truth of what he prints. Sometimes he must tell the -story as he hears it and leave the reader to form his own judgment. So you cannot blame him if he does get a little off sometimes. :o: Every patriotic citizen who can pos sibly do so, should come out and hear Jlon. R. R. Metcalfe at the Parmele theater tomorrow night. It will be worth coming many miles to hear him. He will open your eyes as to the state of affairs that is brewing, and no mis take. -:o:- "You are taking a great deal, so far as actual dollars and cents are concerned," said Mr. Reavis, "but in the proportionate sacrifice that the men who pay it will make, you aro taking a great deal more from tht married man with $2,000 who has a family to support than you are from the $10,000,000 man. The man with the income of $10,000,000 is paying that income out of the funds that he can use only In the way of investment. The relative sacrifice cannot be com pared." This is seid by our congressman. WHAT PUT NEBRASKA DRY. Under the above caption the Kear ney Times gives utterance to editoria truths as accurate as the scriptures of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Every man who is at all observant and who has "mixed" with the people of Ne braska for a long period of years knows who the "reserves" were who rushed to the firing line and saved the day for the prohibition army last fall. The city of Aurora furnishes abundant proof of what occurred in communities all over the state. In this city scores of men who had been accustomed to drink moderately, and some of them at times rather immoderately, voted to drive the liquor traffic out of the state because from actual not theo retical experience they had grown weary of the assertive insolence of the system and its hangers-on. For the prohibition "generals" of the state to take unto themselves all the credit is like purloining any other whole loaf when but half of it belongs to them. The Times says: "One of the speakers at the big mass meeting Tuesday night seemed inclined to give the credit for a "dry" Nebraska to those "old soldiers" of prohibition who have fought for years that this might be obtained. Another took the stand that the condition came as the inevitable result of the awaken ing of the public conscience. The latter was far more near the truth of the matter than the former. If only the men and women had worked, who had never known through personal experience and their study of material facts, the insidious effects of liquor, the state would still be "wet." Theie political fights during the years were usually met with defeat and they only won when the men who had learned by their own personal contact with the stuff turned the trick. "With all seriousness, it was the drinkers of Nebraska that put Ne braska dry. As has been said by one of the most notable writers of the times: "We must advance. It will come through scientific thought or suffering." This has been shown in the liquor fight. The men who have suf fered are the ones who furnished the balance of power. And this is said with no idea of discounting the ef forts of the professional prohibition ist." -:o:- THE UNITED STATES OF GREAT BRITAIN? Naturally the proceedings of the Im perial Conference, now about to ad journ in London, have been secret in the main, but official publication is made of two agreements which hava great historical importance. The end of the war is to witness a confedera. tion of all the self-governing states of the empire and the recognition o' their right to an adequate voice in de termining British foreign policy. Even India is to share in this. Thus Great Britain prepares for the final step which, except for its heredi tary sovereign and aristocracy, will make its governmental system like our own. From the loss of the American colonies and the system which the United States established for the gov ernment of territories or dependencies the Tories themselves learned a great lesson. Local self-government has been widely extended. There has been no taxation without representation. In sharp contrast with our system, however, each self-governing domin ion has been under no military ob ligation to the empire and has been free to establish it own economic pol icy. Federation, with an Imperial Coun cil at London by which foreign rela. tions will be pased upon, may easily introduce to the world in time the United States of Great Britain. New York World. :o:- HOW CAN I SERVE MY COUNTRY? "What can I do in case of war?" Well, what would you do? Examine yourself. You will prob ably find that the best thing that you can do is to practice deep breathing and bending exercises until you can touch the floor with the tips of your fingers without bending your knees. See if you can run around the block four times without having an attack of heart failure. Have a competent person look at your feet. The chances are ten to one that you have mis treated them shamefully and would be unable to walk five miles with a forty-pound pack on your back. Do not blame congress for unprepa red ness or the administration for being "slow to act'' if you have a thirty eight-inch chest and a forty-two-inch waist line. One way to bring about a condition of national preparedness is to prepare yourself for the simp lest elemental duties of a citizen and soldier. Cigarets before breakfast, an ingrowing toenail, and a conse quen tinability to run 100 yards are just as reprehensible as a lack of pa triotism. The World's Work. A PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT. Copperheadism in congress is hid ing behind reputed fears that the things we are asked to do toward the winning of the war are so undemo cratic as to imperil American ideals. It is a subterfuge. The only dan ger there is that this government will ever go wrong by stifling demo cratic ideals lies in the possibility that foreign autocracy may in time destroy democracy here as elsewhere. Today the people are sovereign in this country. It is folly to imagine or suggest that the people will ever allow themselves to be betrayed. If they relinquish anything that seems democratic, it will be merely a tem porary experient for the accomplish ment of an imperative purpose. When the emergency is passed they will restore any item of democracy that stress of circumstances may have led them to relinquish. Congressmen who are professing such intense devotion to democratic ideals that they refuse to do the things that must be done if we win the war ought to be jolted by their constituents. :o: NO EXCUSE FOR PANIC. What condition is imaginable upon which to question the accuracy of the statement of Herbert C. Hoover that There is absolutely no occasion for food panic in this country." America will raise enough food to feed all its people, and have much o spare. Foreign needs, notably those of our allies, may make prices high for what consumers here have to buy, but consumers are being taught to exercise precaution toward having to buy as little as possible. In order to avoid buying each should produce as much food for himself and family as possible. That will increase the surplus that we mav be able to send to our allies in Europe. Consumers have been responsible for the recent high prices. They fe verishly hoarded supplies. Those who bought flour and sugar in large quantities simply laid in supplies that spoil upon them, and the waste simply helps to keep prices up. Nobody is going to starve in Amer- ica. It is a land ot plenty, ana ine people are too intelligent to starve in the midst of plenty. But for human ity's sake, produce all you can your self. Do not exercise hysterical and ex cessive economies. It will cripple busi ness, paralyze industry and destroy prosperity, all national essentials in time of war even more than in time of peace. Lincoln Star. :o: NOT A WAR FOR PROFITS. Nor can any particular class in America profit by our participation in the war. The rich will be taxed as never before; the "war industries" will be squeezed like a lemon of their excess profits. With the passing of neutrality dissappeared this coun try's golden opportunity to acquire wealth; and while were it neutral it is trua that the opportunity was so completely grasped that the world said we fattened on the blood spilt by other nations. But one cannot fat ten on both neutrality and war. In going to war this country threw away the greatest opportunity in modern times to work the gold mine of neutral isolation, and Mr. Asquith j must have had the fact in mind when 1 he said to the British house of com-' ;mons that our entrance into the war as a belligerent was "one of the most ' disinterested acts in history' United States is to profit materially bv coiny to war with Germany, the demonstration will be welcomed. Our material interests were so glaringly on the side of pace that in the last year of our neutrality we hud to dis- claim sordid reasons for opposing war if we adhered to a pacifist posi- tion. The Republican knows this be- cause it upheld the policy of neutral-j if ir ce lnnir ie it pmiiil nrvnnv't i; m'.nn. tain that neutrality did not involve national shame and degradation. What the war mav profit America in spiritual and moral values, time may be left to show: but it has been clear from the outset that it can yield to us no dividends in material things. Springfield Republican. :o:- TIIE BUILDING OF THE ARMY Undcr the heading "The Real Be ginning" the New York Times prints the following editorial, which gives an excellent idea of the work that must be done, in the next few months, to raise and equip an American army under the policy of .selective conscrip tion: "The hard fight has been nearly won and only the final legislative forma.1 ities and the president's signature L the army bill are required to make selective conscription the military law of the United States. This, however, will only be a small part of the pic digious task, in which all the zeal and energy of the war department and the governors and people of the states will be needed. If the volunteer recruiting does not go on more rapidly within the week, diafted men will fill the vacancies in the regular army and the national guard must be raised to au thorized strength by conscription. That must be attended to first. Then the formation of the first increment of the great reserve army must begin. Apart from the transportation of these 500,000 men to the various mili tary posts, their formation into divis ions, brigades, regiments and com panies, and their traininer, in which the services of. 150,000 seasoned offi cers, non-commissioned officer.-, and privates will be required, this enor mous task will provide night and day operations for thousands of mills and factories, ammunition plants, and armories. Contractors, horse dealers, leather manufacturers, laboratories, motor car makers, foundries, will be involved in the great labor. "For the men must be uniformed, armed, equipped. The cavalry must be mounted. The airmen must have their machines. There must be more gunpowder and cartridges, more field guns, rules, maenme guns, sauces and bridles and ppurs, tents, and blan kets than soldiers of this country have ever had before. A continuous supply of wholesome and nutritious food must be supplied for an army of a million, to be made 2,000,000 presently, and perhaps 3.000.000 within little more than a year. With the passage of the conscription act the world learns that the United States has entered this war in earnest, to fight on its own account, to help to bring the war to a victorious conclusion for humanity and democracy. With the beginning of the operation of the law, millions of the inhabitants of this country, who until now have looked upon the war as something apart from their daily lives, will have a realizing sense of what modern warfare means. The war is here now. j "Happily, the war department has already made all its preliminary plans. The machinery is ready. By August 2,000,000 men will have been selected for military service. The medical ex aminers are ready, the transportation arrangements have been perfected most of the problems relating to sup plies have been solved by the Council of National Defense. Before the end of a month the wheels will be moving. The prosecution of this cnnrriou j work, which will cost the country to much, will have its direct effect on every inhabitant. The wasteful must stop their waste. The people must pay for the war, but it will cost them less than a German victory would cost, for that would be the death of democ- racy, the downfall of civilization. j !J; jjj CEDAR CREEK, NEBR. Sound, Conservative anrJ Progressive THE BANK OF THE PEOPLE THE BANK BY THE PEOPLE THE BANK FOR THE PEOPLE ' (I - j; r YVh nro anxious to assir-t handling his liv; V jjj. m j 'Sits li ), jfl n aro protected by the Depositors' Gun ranty Fund of the State of Nebraska, which has reached nearly 1, 000,1)00.00 It is back of us ami protects you! -OFFICERS:- WM. SCHNEIDER, President W. H. LOHKES, Vice-President T. J. SMANAKAN, Vice-President J. F. FOREMAN, Cashier UNITED STATES ROHIBITION BILL Washington, D. ('., May Ke-ver.-.ing its ac,i"M of S-.'.tur.lay, the senate today struck l':-'.m the admin istration o-pionage bill the Cummins amendment prohibiting the use- of ceieals and gr:an in the manafacUue of !iq'jor during the period of the war. The vote was 47 to ."7. The effort of Senator Overman to reinsert the press censorship provision in the bill was defeated by a vote of IS to .'i 1. The entiie bill tbr-a was pa- -en by a vote of 77 to o. The measure wa: st nt to conference imrnediatelv. There is only one principal differ .. tween the two houses, that being the censorship section. It is possible that if the Louse again gels a change to vote on the censorship it wiil eliminate the section. ' The elimination of the Cummins j'.Tv.'ndrncnt from the hill was a com plete surprise. Ihe amendment vv;r put in the bill by a vote of ?.S to -2 or. Saturday, an I although it was ex pected the liquor clement would! make a lucd light today, it was not ex j ette.l that so many senator.-', who di i not vote on Saturday would vote ia-J day against the proposal. Neither was it thought that two sc.atois, John on of California and King of Utah, who voted for prohlhi- lion on Saturday, would change their votes and vote r.gaini-t it today. j plattsmouth has led to the Omaha or- The vote on tha Cummins amend- j .-miration taking steps to form a merit sounded the death knell of at-jun,rx-h in this city to permit the tempts to conserve grain by prohibit- ! y ivat-heart jd women of this com ing as a war measure, it use in the3nan;ty a full part in the work, manufacture cf liquor. Although at- Among those identified with the tempts may be made later to revive I movement throughout the nation are the subject, it is realized that the senate h:ts put itself on record against national prohibition. jv.ill Senator .King of Utah moved tojiaet strike out the Cummin-; amendment. lie was support: d by Senator Under - wood and Husting. Senator Under wood said it was neither a real con sol vation nor prohibition move, would destroy immense quantities of whisky in bond for beverage purposes. Senator Cummins said he was not alarmed over tempoiary loss of em - ployment by those in breweries and distilleries which would have to close if the amendment is retained. "We ought to close this nefarious is li t'J fl vilh present conditions at the various factories exist ing and the scarcity of freight cars in which to trans fer cuter., if is a coid fact that a great many buyers will be disappointed st the inskility cf agents to secure cars with which to fill orders already sold. We anticipated this condition early and bought a isupply of cars of both "Studebaker" and "Maxwell" sutos and can make im mediate delivery to yo-j. Think this matter over care fully and call on us or write and we will be pleased to give you a demonstration of either make. Thsre is a raise in price cf both makes which we can avoid if you will act quickly. Subject to stock on hand Studebakcr G-50, f. o. b. Detroit $1,250.00 Maxwell 4-40, f . o. b. Detroit 940.00 Maxwell 4-30, f. o. b. Detroit 635.C0 Cedar Creek cunty the farmer in feed ing ytoek for market a nil kV mm it r j a &. t r.Lvi-p; is---, at least during the war," said the Iowa senator. Sei :.- -r Kcl d.claie.l th. t'uni r.i ajTU-idriunt would destroy prop. e:ty v.o-t'i Sl,000,o0, throw 1,!MJO,00') nun ou. of employment, frighten cap it::!, c.vA di-Unb bu.-iness, all without adequate time for proper considera tion. LADIES INTERESTED IN AIDING HE BED GROSS WORK TO MEET FRIDAY TJ !adi. PI. tL-inoath who are inter; .- U-! ill the woi k o lied Cii.-ss work will meat r .,;.!;,,,, it,.. Fiidav a.f- te: v.ooi at. 2 o clock sharp auditorium of the public tt the ibiary buildircr. v. hen a branch of the tional Surgical Dressing- ConiiiiitU-- -f Amu ica will be fr ladies of this- city to s.ed by the -i-t in the cause of the v.oaaded on the Ihivo pean battlefields. .Mrs. (.). C. lledick and .Mis. Charles T. Kountz. of Oma ha, . he pjs:e;it to a.-si.-l in the work and -give an outline of the work as proposed and which is an import ant part in the program of the ex tension of (lie lied Cross work. This committee is earing for home as well as foreign war relief and their mis sion is recognized as ore of the great est, of impoi tance to mitigste the suf- i'ering of both the soldiers !(1 non and at combatants in the war zone !-,,,n ie. Tiie great interest shown in ladies of h op-'sition bv the j numbered the leaders of the women oi meri-;a and. their part in the war be most important as the ton progresses. Let every lady in . I'lattsmouth I iltcnd the meeting. OUR GISAXni'ATHKUS I drenched horses for colic. That was j the old way, which was uncertain and unsafe. Farirs' Colic Remedy does j away with drenching is applied on i the horse's tongue with a dropper which comes packed in each bottle. Cet it today. W gua.antee it. II. M. Soennichsen. Tills & Oanscmer. Nebraska 11 V I
