The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, June 18, 1917, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
k. - PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH S EM I-WEEK L Y JOURNAU MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1917. t CTe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMCWEEKLT AT PLATTSMOUTH, N EBRA.S 1CA EmUred at Postofflc at Plattsmouth. Neb., as aecoad-clas mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher UB9CRIPTIOH PniCKi PEB YEAR Uf ADTANCB Another rain Tuesday night. -:o:- Thc farmers are very busy. :o: Beware of heated arguments. -:o: ' The carnival draws crowds. :o: good night It is easier to win over than to force into line. :o: The war is hitting base ball a pret ty hard blow this season. :o: The best way is to insure your Lridges before you burn them. ' :o: We should all be satisfied with our lot in life, but then we are not. :o: One thing about this June weathei you just can't tell anything about it. :o: Now that three is to be a scarcity of tin cans, the dogs should be happy. :o: Telegraph operators do business on "tick," yet it is done on a "sound" basis. :o: ; The one who sells whisky under the present law is taking a desperate chance. :o: Italy ought to stand a chance of winning. It hasn't anybody to lick but Austria. :o: How do you enjoy the carnival? Only one more day. Come out to morrow the last opportunity. :o: Women are getting to be so tender-hearted that they can't beat an egg but the price may have some thing to do with it. :o: You have also noticed, perhaps, that those people who are always looking for troul le are never satisfied with it after they find it. :o: Imagination is a wonderful ma chine. The bald spot on a man's head in the owner's imagination, is never any larger than a silver dollar. :o: Any public official who attempts to shield a person who has committed a crime against the law of the land,is not a man to be countenanced by the people we don't care who he is. :o: Flattsmouth will have no genuine celebration on the Fourth of July, but it will be the closing day of the chautauqua, which will make up for the absence of the usual program for that day. :o: The officer who does his duty, irre spective of person, sect or creed, is truly the man of the hour. It is now suggested that the gov ernment take charge of all the paper mills in the country during the war. We arc willing. :o: Some men will tell most any kind of a lie to get a divorce. One man in Omaha, who wants to be freer from his wife, says he can't even breathe without her consent. That': pretty tough, if not a lie. :o: The Omaha police officers seem to be in it hotter than ever. Retire the whole batch of them for the sake of the city, which has gained the world wide reputation of being one of tlv most crooked cities in the Uniter, States. -:o:- According to the government report Nebraska will produce twelve million bushel3 of wheat this year. Last year thi3 state produced 01,800,000. But then, what Nebraska fails to deliver in winter wheat this year she wil make good with corn. The indica tiens are that Nebraska will put out a regular bumper of a corn crop nex fall- NOT A NEW SHAME. After this stirring fashion the Lin coln Daily News (Evening Journal) strives to arouse the patriotic ardor or Nebraskans and lend support to the government of the United States in its conduct of a great war: 'Terhaps it is unavoidable, but nevertheless it is distinctly re grettable. Everybody who comes back from Washington these days tells of the open and above board display of petty politics in the hour of the nation's distress. They say it is openly gossiped that the south is in the saddle and riding the government in the interest of the south. This is said to be evident in every taxation program and every other meas ure wherein there is any sec tional interest or advantage to subserve." "Petty politics," says our petty con temporary, is "distinctly regrettable." And then it proceeds to play petty politics on this amazing foundation: "They say it is openly gossiped!" What a basis for such a charge! "They say it is openly gossiped!" In the Congress of the United States today there are 9(5 senators and 433 representatives. Of these 30 senators and 145 repre ives less than a third in the one in stance and exactly a third in the other come from the southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. And of these Missouri and Okla- homahoma are distinctly more west ern than southern, and West Virginia more northern than southern, with two republican senators and four of its representatives republican. What an amazing case it would be of the tail wagging the dog if the News' charge "they say it is openly gossiped" were true! What a confession of northern and eastern and western weakness and in competence it would be if it were true that 60 northern senators were let ting 30 southerners, if 290 northern representatives were letting 145 southerners, "ride the government in the interests of the south!" What an indictment of popular gov ernmcnt it would be if it were true that a President of the United States, because he happened to be southern born, in the greatest epoch of the world's history, in this republic's su preme crisis, were to be betraying his country by "riding the government in the interest of the south!" It isn't true, of course. It is mere ly me tney say, merely the gos sip" which those like the News, whose sectional and partisan prejudice is greater than their patriotism, take malicious delight in peddling. Woodrow Wilson is serving his country with a pure and single-heart ed devotion that is as far above sec tionalism as truth is above the edi torial columns of the Lincoln News and Journal. The members of Congress, republi cans and democrats, northerners and southerners, are and have been co operating on the great war measures most of which have been passed with substantial unanimity, and utterly regardless of sectional and partisan lines. The few individual exceptions such, for example, as Senator Harding, of Ohio, and Congressman Sloan, of Nebraska are the shame rather of northern than southern patriotism. It is just such contemptible slander as the News and men and newspa pers of its ilk pour forth day after day that hampers and embarrasses our government at thi3 gravely crit ical time. It is the weakness of hu man nature that such fabrications find their mark find a very consider able proportion of the ' population whom they can and do influence Those who read and believe them say to themselves: "Why subscribe to the Liberty Loan when a democratic 'southern' government is taxing us and letting the south go free?" "Why enlist in the army that is to be sacrificed by a government 'play ing petty politics in the hour of the nation's stress?'" Why should I register for con scription when southern men will be eft home and I be drafted?" And the very agencies that set these doubts and suspicions, these falsehoods and prejudices, to tor menting the minds of the people at a time of all times when unity is es sential these same newspapers then hypocritically ask themselves and their readers: "Why is it so hard to raise the Liberty Loan? Why is vol unteering falling off? Why is regis tration a million under the govern- outrage that American citizens, pro- ernment estimate?" It is a blistering shame and an out age that American citizens, pro- ected by the American flag, enjoy ing the blessings of American liberty, should thus be stabbing their coun try in the back. But it is not a new shame, not a new outrage. Abraham Lincoln had it to endure, even as Woodrow Wil son has. The same kind of scurrile pens that jabbed poison at the one r.re jabbing now at the other. But the government a half century ago triumphed over the enemies of the republic, the cowardly ones that were behind as well as the brave ones that were facing it and so, please God, the government of today will triumph. It will triumph now, as it triumphed then, because the vast majority of American citizens are true and loyal patriots who "look at the doughnut and not at the hole" and would rather assist their government in war than try to hamstring it. Woodrow Wilson makes his mis takes and the Sixty-fifth Congress makes its mistakes, the same as Ab raham Lincoln and Congress in his day made their mistakes. This news paper would be the last to contend that any one man, much less any body of men, is all-wise and flawless. But it does contend that Woodrow Wilson -.fts proved himself one of the wisest and purest of American statesmen, that he is selfishly giving himself to his country's cause, and that the vast majority of our representatives in both houses of Congress are patriotic and honest and are devoting their best ability to the service of the republic. The Lincoln News has its dates mixed. This is not the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the coun try. The time to come to the aid of party will be next year, in the con gressional elections, when the News, with better though still dubious pro priety, may play the game of parti san politics to its embittered heart's content. World-Herald. :o: A Red Cross worker went from. Omaha to Chadron but met with a frigid reception out there, becauso they thought she lacked authority. The folk out there look with suspicion upon everything from Omaha lately. :o: Russia has been in advance of prog ress. It has for some years had the referendum, the initiative and recall, and you can now see how it is work in government there. :o: The weather was a little too cool for pleasure Thursday night, yet the people were out in full force and the carnival did a splendid business. :o: "Whispers of peace," says Presi dent Wilson, "is a part in a German; conspiracy." And the president has hit the nail right on its head. :o: ...... Last year Nebraska produced 79,- 875,000 bushels of oats. It is esti mated that this year's oat crop will be 95,800,000. That's the talk. tor- Much advice is being offered on the subject of growing old gracefully. Ou contribution: Keep on feeling young. ;o; The cow, as the producer of milk, meat and butter, is entitled to ran'. pretty nearly as a household pet. ROOSEVELT AT LINCOLN. Colonel Roosevelt is a wise and well-informed man and an astute poli tician. Since the government of tY.f United States was born he has had few equals and no superiors in the art of feeling the popular pulse, ol diagnosing the popular temperament, of interpreting and applying the popu . lar will. When the war broke out he knew; as few men knew, what was the at titude of the American people toward it. When the war had been waging for six months he knew; when it had been waging for a year, two years, he knew. He knows what is their at titude today, now that our own desti nies are bound up in the war. Few if any men knew better. . And knowing, Colonel Roosevelt, in his Lincoln invective against the ad ministration at Washington, struck at it wildly and ferociously because' of the efforts it had made to keep this country out of war. He exhausted his supply of opprobrious epithets in abusing the government for not hav ing precipitated war when Belgium was invaded, or when the Lusitania was sunk, or when poison gas was first used on the first cause or pre text that presented itself, instead of wasting thirty months and then taking up the gage of battle only when war was no longer honorable and safely to be avoided. How Colonel Roosevelt can do this and retain hi sself-respect is beyond and retain his self-respect is beyond what he knows, ' what indeed all thoughtful and observent men know., viewing the situation open-eyed, can escape the conclusion that the Roose velt charges are permeated through and through with intellectual dishon esty. Even today, after nearly three years, it is proving exceedingly dif ficult to reconcile the masses of the American people with the fact that their country has actually been in volved. Even today, after all the out rages and indignities that have been visited upon us; after the conspiracies to incite domestic sedition and let loose upon us alien foes; after our having been peremptorily ordered off the seas; after the sinking of our own ships and the murder of our citizens: after the betrayal of our hospitality; after the purpose of the kaiser to dominate the world, ourselves includ ed, has been made plain; when the issue trembles in the balance and our own rights and liberties are at stake even today the martial spirit of the American people is being aroused but slowly. Even today, in spite of tho urgings of the government, in spite of the crystal eloquence of the president. in spite of the colonel's exhortation and the beating of the drums daily from a thousand editorial pages, the people, while their patriotism is be yond question, as a whole are moving toward battle with leaden feet and re luctant spirit. What, in heaven's name, would have happened to this country and in this country had the president demanded war and congress declared it two years ago? More than two years ago, it is true, Colonel Roosevelt was demanding war and he kept on demanding it every day until it actually came. He had twice been president. He was known to' the American people better than any other man. Despite his eccen tricities he was respected by prac tically all of them, and was idolized and loved by millions. Yet - the re suit of his war cries was a rapid and amazing diminution of his own per sonal popularity and influence, the like of which has seldom if ever been witnessed in this or any other coun-. try. Woodrow Wilson was a better man and wiser than Theodore Roosevelt He was a better man because he loved peace and hated war, where Roosevelt has seemed, at times, actu ally to hate peace and love war. Mr. Wilson fervently hoped for an early peace in Europe and contributed ev- erything in his power to bring it about before civilization should be wrecked. He just as fervently hoped that this country might be spared the descent into the black pit, while at the same time insisting that its rights and honor be respected and warning the belligerents and the American people that if it was necessary to fight to defend them this country would cer tainly fight. He was a wiser man because he knew no leader can lead his following in a direction it does not wish to go. He was a wiser man because he knew that no government can plunge a free people into war except for reasons that appeal to them as adequate. And he had to deal with a people drilled in the ways of peace, com mitted to peace, looking upon our own participation in the great European war, upon the sending of our own boys to fight and die in France, a'i an unthinkable thing. Fortunate beyond words to express is it for this great republic that Woodrow Wilson patiently and wisely bided his time; that he had the cour age to endure, the faith to hope, clear up to the limit of the time when en durance and hope alike were ended! Only so was it made possible to in sure to the government the support of the people when war was at' last declared. And even so that support is coming slowly though it is coming God be praised! surely and steadfastly. because Americans now can sec that their government made every honora ble effort to avoid war and that when it came it was inevitable. According to his lights and in hi.--peculiar way Theodore Roosevelt is a patriot. No one can question his love for America, his passionate devotior to its purposes, his faith in its destiny, But he attests his patriotism in s most amazing fashion, after the man ner Of a madman, when he devotes the half of his energies, as in his Lin coln speech, to trying to make th'. government of his country appear pusillanimous and contemptible, and the other half to exhorting the people to support it with their labors, theh fortunes and their lives! World-Herald. :o:- G ROWING HOGS. For a hog to be profitable he must be kept growing from birth to mar keting age. He cannot be profitable unless he is healthy. He can always be in a profit-producing condition if he is fed Ii. A. Thomas' Hog Powder. We positively tell you that this rem edy prevents cholera, removes worm:; and cures thumps. If the powder does not make good, we will. H. M Soennichsen, Puis & Gansemer. Good milch cow for sale. Call phone No. 418-W. G-4-5twkly Display the American flag, all sizes and prices can be found at the Journal office when desired. FARM FOR SALE. An extra good quarter of central Nebraska land. All good black soil and every foot could bo plowed; fenced and cros3-fenced; 120 acres in cultiva tion, balance in pasture and hay land; some timber in pasture; 1 acre now in alfalfa, remainder of cultivated land in wheat, oats and corn; one-half mile to school; two miles to good trading point, two banks; sixteen miles from best school town in the state; fair rix room house, horse stable for 12 head of horses, chicken coop, granary and hog shed; good well and mill. For sale quick at $70 per acre, one half cash, remainder five years' time at G per cent. Rent to go to purchaser. For further information address Lock Box 64, Cedar Creek, Neb. WATCH THE LICE On chicks. These parasites sap the very life' blood out of them. Dust the hen at night with A. B. Thomas' Louse Killer and your troubles are ended. It also kills bugs on cucum ber, tomato, and squash vines. We sell it to you and if it does not make good, we will. II. M. Soennichsen, Puis & Gansemer. vJwAtttlV JeJwJeJw Jf V w. a. Roberts on, Lawyer. East of Riley HoteL Coates Block, Second Floor 4-I.T-T- -7-4-I-M- -J-!--!--:-?- -T7-T-4T Wcscli Flour and Sugar and Buy Butter and Eggs. ZUCKWEILER & LUTZ Children Cry The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for ever over 30 years, has borne the signature of and St z. sonal 7&CC4U4 Allow All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good " are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR I A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its ?.ge is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has teen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ; allaying FeverishrLess arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. sekusme CASTORIA always S3 In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought tmf: cfntaufi comamv. mf-wvoptk citv, ix tiii: iMvrriu-T -m itr of is rot .Mi, i:miAK. The First National Irani: of Flatts riKHitii, Nt'l.ruska, 1 'hi in tiff, vs. I'irry Marsh. 1 Vfenda nt. N"ti (.- to Perry Marsh. 1 lefrnda nt. Ymi arc hereby notified tliat the plaint iff lias eomnietieed art jir-tion imams' yon in tin- listrkt Court f t'ass County, Nebraska, for the pur iinsf f I'm Hosiir-r a .Mm tpsc for $10.00 ari.l interest from .lamiary 1. l'.tKi. at tli' i;:te of ten ior cent per annum, on t';e following dosi-ri bed leal estate, to-wit: . strii of lari'1 out of the XK corner of the NW 'i of the NW of .ec 1. Tup. U K ;r... II, i:. ..f r,th P. M.. about ly "O7 7-J0 feel in size, immediately adjoining lot leven on tho South, and iH'inir all the land between sail lot and Patterson Avenue, ('(immenr-inpi nt the NW corner of NE i, of NW i of See. K. Two. F North Po. 1 I. E. of ;th I. M., theme running South l."4 feet to the point of I.eiririTiinjr. thence run ning south to l'atterson avenue, thence Kast to the road known as I-incoln Avenue, thence Northeasterly alontr said Lincoln Avenue to a point due Kast of the point of leprinnincr, thence West t i the point of l"-;i n n i n K- Sixty eijrht ") feet off of t!;c South side of Lot 11 in S-c. i:. Twp. 1-2, Kjie. 11. Kast of 6th 1. M.. in Cass County, Ne luaska. and for eipiitahle re'sief. You are rciuired to answer said pe tition on or l..-1'ore the ttth day of July, 1!H7. and in failini? so to l. your de fault will he duly entered therein and judgment taken as prayed. for in plaintiiT's petition. TUK FIKST NATION AT, TJANK OF I'LATTSMOFTll. Plaintiff. V.v A. U TIDD, Its Attorney. May I'S Iw u:ii:it of ih:ki; xotici: of iMtoiivn: of In the Con tty Court of Cass County, N.hraska. State of Nebraska, Countv of Cass, ) ss.: To .luliii I'.hvin Hat-wick. Helen Cross land .lulyan, Thomas N. Julyan. Hil da Cofl'man, IVrrv W. ColTman. No ra h AUI.ee, William F. All bee. and to all persons interested in the estate of Selina llarwiek, deceased: on reading the petition of Hilda Coffinan praying that the instrument tiled in this court on the 2!Mh day of May, J!'l7, and purporting to tie th last will and testament of the said deceased, may lo proved and allowed, and recorded as tho last will and tes tament n f Selina Farwick. deceased; that said instrument he admitted to probate, and the administration of faid estate he 'anteil to John Kdwin Far wick as executor. It is hereby ordered that you. and all persons interested In said matter, may, and do. appear at the County Court to be held in and for said countv, on the U 1 1 1 dav of June, A. 1. FM7, at 0 o'clcock A. M., to show cause, if any there be. why the prayer of t lie petitioner should not be Kranted, and that notice of the pend ency of sa id petit ion and that the hear ing thereof be triven to all persons in terested in said matter by publishing a copy of this Order in" the Flatts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper, printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of I tea rin tr. "Dusiness as Usual," to be the National idea. "Wor for every man and earning power greater than ever before are certain guarantees of continued prosperity and of an ever-widening scope to our business and industial life.H J. Ogden Armour, Member Advisory Committee, Council for National De-j Go Somewhere as (Usual This Summer! 1U IHfc.fc.Abl: A complete announced to the Lae region, 1U CUIAJKADO: This ideal available at very low fares and ful Estcs Park is reached over to be thronged. Arrange early. THE BLACK HILLS: Here is another delightful Summer region -reached over night from Nebraska and at low fares. ' THE NATIONAL PARKS: America's grandest W v .. 0sm for Fletchers has been made under nis per- supervision since its infancy no one to deceive you in this. J Witness my hand and seal of paid court, this 1'Oth day of May. A. 1). 1917. ALLKX .1. I3KKSON. (Seal) County Judge. SftTK K TO HKDITOItS. The State of Nebraska, " Cass County, ) ss.: In the County Court. In the Matter of the Kstate of Johann C. Stark. Heceased. To the Credit ors of said estate: Von are hereby notified that T will sit at the County Court room in Flatts mouth. in said County, on the 30th day of June, 1917. and on the COth day of December. 1917. at 10:00 o'clock A. M. on each day. to receive and examine all claims asrainst said Kstate. with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the presen tation of claims asrainst said Kstate is six months from the 30th day of June, A. I). 1917, and the time limited for pavments of debts is One Year from said rroth day of June, 1917. Witness my hand and seal of said County Court, this lath day of May, 1917. Seal ALLKX J. BEKSON, May L'S 4wks County Judge. IX tiii: DISTHICT COUIT OF CASS CO I ATI . Lena Larson, Plaintiff, ) vs. ) Notice. John (!us Larson, Defendant. John Cos Larson wil! take notice that on the oid day of November, A. 1. llU'i. Lena Larson, plaintiff here in, tiled her petition in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, auainst said defendant, the object and prayer of which are to secure a di vorce from def n'edant, and the custody and control of John Larson and Ku frene l.irson, 'children of plaintiff and defendant. (Irounds for divorce alleged in said petition are: Extreme cruelty, lack of support for herself and chil dren and habitual drunkenness. You are reriuired to answer said peti tion on or before the 13th day of July, , A. P. 1917. ! Fated June 8th, 1917. LENA LA F SON. Flaintiff. Hy C. A. 11AWLS, Attorney. P-ll Itsw j American flags, from 5c up, at the Journal office. f. LUMBER FOR SALE. Some native dimension lumber for sale. Inquire of John Ilobson, Platts mouth.' 5-31 SAFETY FIRST. Insure your crops against hail Ioss-I es with a good responsible Insurance Company. Lower rates on fire, light ning and tornado insurance of all kinds. Phone -440-W. James Dvorak 6-7-4 tvily! scheme of attractive excursion fares ia Canada, New England and the Atlantic Summer region, nearbv Nrhrjict-a J with the finest train service. Beautil night. Colorado this Summer i ;J visit Estes, Yellowstone and Glacier on one ticke fcr a sweeping scenic circuit of the East slope o the Continental Divide. Write us; ask for liters ture; let us help you. R. W. CLEMENT, Ticket Ao.n L. W. WAKELEY, General Pas.cng,r Agent, I i