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PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1917. Oe plattsmoutb journal PUBUSnED IEHI-WERKLT AT PLATTSMOUTH, NKBIIASKA. Catered at Postofflee at Plattsmouth. Neb., aw second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher CBSCHIPnoW PIUCEi 1.5 PER YEAR " IN ADTANCB All eyes on the chautauqua. :o:- The Kansas wheat harvest is on. -:o:- America is the money center of the world. -:o: Buckle down to business is the way to get trade. Miss Summer hasn't even got a pood start yet. :o: Butter manipulators believe in a strong market. -:o:- You have to be up and doing; if you do not want to be done. :o:- The supreme judge is always right, because he has the last say. :o: The French arc treating General Tcrshing like a real hero. Well, that'i right. -:o:- Another way to practice economy it to cut out the rice shower on the June brides. -:o: Thomas Edison says it's easier tc improve machinery than it is to im prove men. :o: Let's make the chautauqua a big success. By so doing it will insure another one next year. :o: This is Red Cross week everywhere in the United States. If you haven't given your dollar yet, do so this week. -:o: Nearly every person you know would rather go on being a fool than admit in the first place that he is wrong. If the food speculator had what's coming to him he would be serving :j 99-years' term in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. :o: People who haven't any more sense than to drive their automobiles on the sidewalk ought to be fined, and to the fullest extent of the law. :o: Young man, remember that all the friends you can gather about you can never make your life a success; neith er can your enemies make it a failure. It rests with you to determine whether you shall succeed or fail. Just plao this thought under your hat, and al ways keep it there. :o:- Canada has so far contributed for hospital work (like .'the Red Cross work) two dollars for every inhab itant. The United States is only ask ing one dollar per capita. Many per haps are too poor to give even one dollar, so some will have to give more. By all means don't be a piker. :o: It doesn't pay to gossip about oncVi neighbors. Let us have only kind thoughts and good words for every one, and be sure to lend a helping hand whenever occasion calls for it. In trying to lighten another's burden, we forget our own; and the kind thoughts we send out come back tc. us like echoes! -:o:- We take this method of returning our most sincere thanks to Mrs. Thad W. Rodecker, the elegant little lad:; press agent with Tom Allen's shows for the manner in which she so kindly, remembered us with a box of the very finest of candy previous to her de parture for Red Oak, la., where the company plays this week. We highly appreciate the compliment, not so much for its value, as we do ths spirit in which it was given. Mrs Rodecker is a perfect lady, and she will not soon be forgotten by the Journal family, and by all others whe had the pleasure of meeting her. Long may she live, and may her shadpw never grow less, is the prayer of the Writer. Swat the fly. :o:- There is no excuse for loafers these days. :o:- They are even trying to kill Omaha policemen. :o:- "When thieves fall out" then comes the tug-of-war. :o: Nothing works faster than a wom an's imagination. :o:- This is the year to inaugurate the. "back-to-the-farm" movement. This is Red Cross Week. Now is your time to pass in your donation. :o: Whcn your chickens come home to roost, you have nothing to crow about. :o: Utilize every can you can to can what you can of this season's product. -:o:- It is becoming dangerous even to hint that you would relish a drink of "red-eye." -o: The best way to purify the co;? scaldal is for the government to take all the coal mines. And why not? -:3 Another way to help out the food shortage is to kill rats. They destroy as much as some people eat. :o: Young man, that certificate of reg istration you carry is a badge of hon or, and we envy you your possession of it. :o: A dentist's baby was born at Lewis- ton, Idaho, with two teeth. Next in order will be a coronetist's baby being born with a pair of horns. Give what you can to the Red Cross movement. It is a worthy movement. arid what you give denotes that you are a very worthy citizen. :o:- This thing of turning the clock for ward an hour does not interest us a little bit. What we want is a clock that will conform to our inclinations. :o: Strike up the drums and bugles for the new army, and drown out the threats and epithets which now per vade communities. Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue! An exchange advises the eating of more corn, advice which we shall most willingly and cheerfully heed just a? soon as the succulent roasting ear makes its most welcome appearance. -:o: England turns raw recruits into fighting men in ninety days. That beats our time right now, but the chances are Uncle Sam will soon be able to work in less time than that. -cot- It is just as well to look over the list of draft registrations in the dif ferent precincts, as' well as that of this city, and spot the slackers. They should be sifted out, as the govern ment directs. -:o:- It seems to be the consensus o opinion, by those who ought to know, that Nebraska and Kansas are more alike than anyother two states in the union. And, it is also generally agreed that they are two of the best states under the stars and stripes. :o: There is nothing more charming than a young June bride with natural roses on her cheeks, and no paint. Senator Hitchcock received more than 100 telegrams from Nebraska and other states urging him to oppose stamp tax on checks. Senator Hitch cock is inclined to believe that 'if a tax on checks is necessary it should be restricted to checks of fairly larg'. denomination ' and should not be im posed on all the small checks that gc to make up much of the everyday business of the country. BUSINESS MUST GO ON. "This war," says a London corre spendent of the New York Tribune, "can only be won by effort that ab sorbs the entire strength of the na tion effort that supplants usual ac tivities, that cripples usual trade, that means a' national life far removed from the 'business as usual'- slogan that is now being shouted in the United States." "No nation can fight in this war," he says again, "so long as it has 'business as usual' for a slogan." It is to be expected that in a time of great stress the strong emo tions aroused will lead to extrava gances in words, even among those who tire ordinarily conservative and practical-minded. We have heard much of the same tenor as this from other well-meaning advisers, but it is only necessary to examine the facts to expose its fallacy. We shall have, perhaps, 3,000,000 men in the army and navy. We shall have, possibly, 2,000,000 engaged in the manufacture of the destructive munitions of war and other equipment of the forces in arms. There will be left approxi mately 93,000,000 people, not'directly engaged in the activities of war, whose needs, at least, must be provided for, and whose reasonable desires should, in the general interest, be satisfied. A large number of these will be, it is true, accupied in the production of foodstuffs, a part of which will be re quired for the subsistence of the armed forces, and a larger part for the allies, but nevertheless the greater portion of such products will be needed and consumed by the 93,000,000 who are, in a way, outside of the war. And they, aswell as the army, have other wants that must be supplied. To say that this vast number should devote all its energies to the purposes of the war is arrant nonsense. It is utterly impossible, and if it were pos sible it would be absolutely destruc tive of the sources of revenue upon which the war depends. . Business must go on as usual, or as nearly so as the circumstances will permit, be cause, if for no other reason, the suc cessful prosecution of the war de mands it. Normal business at all times grows out of the production and sale to mankind of the things it re quires for a civilized exstence. War may modify the character of this de mand and lessen its value, but it can not stop it without destruction. We must continue to eat and to wear clothes whether we are civilians or soldiers. We must go on buying and selling; we cease at our peril. The ability of any nation to carry on a war is largely dependent upon its power to maintain the activity of business and the consequent prosperity of its people, for from this must be drawn the sinews of war. War in its last analysis is always and inevitably a matter of money. No war can be fought without it, and the nation that has the most, other things being equal, can hold out the longest. We must win this war, apd we must pay its price. We could not draw money from an idle nation, and, if it were possi ble to absorb "the entire strength of the nation" into the various activities of the war, the t government would necessarily feed upon itself to its own undoing. The correspondent intimates that Great Britain has abandoned the "business as usual" motto. The facts do not support such a theory. Busi ness in Britain has been profoundly affected by the war, but it has gone on, and is being encouraged to go on by the government in every way pos sible. The official reports of its ex ports show how it has succeeded. The total for 19W was 315,000,000, and for 1916, 424,000,000. Up to the first of the year, therefore, Great Britain, notwithstanding submarine losses, was not only keeping up its export busi ness as usual, but was increasing it. So it should be with us. Subject to such shifts and modifications as the needs of the government require, busi ness must continue to the highest pos sible point of volume compatible with the necessary economy in certain ma terials. It is not a mercenary matter. Our salvation depends upon it. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. STARVATION AND WAR. J It is of . the last importance at this time that our bankers particularl: should bring before the wide public with whom they are brought in con tact in the most intimate and confiden tional Way the seriousness and pur pose of the war. Above all, they should discourage sentimental peace, talk, where the wish is merely father to the thought. : Miss Jane Addams furnishes an example of this kind of agitation, unconsciously bringing out the typicaljy illogical position of the, pacifist. She says: "The United States owes too much to all nations who have come here to till her broad acres to allow the women and children of any nation to starve. The United States should tell its allies it is not in this war for the purpose of starving women and chil dren." Miss Addams is incapable of false hood, but this is much more danger ous because it is a half truth. She states that part which suits her senti ment and ignores the rest. When she speaks of starving women and chil dren she means the women and chil dren of Germany. When the north blockaded the south it was not con cerned about the women and children, for the good reason that it was al ways in the power of the south tc protect them by surrender. This is the principle of siege and blockade. The blockade of the allies is increasingly effective and it docs not seem to occur to Miss Addams learns what really has happened. that Germany and its German friends here have made two irreconcilable statements and continue to mako. them, indifferent to the fact that one kills the other. The first is that Ger many cannot be starved out. Tl second is that the allies are, as Miss Addams claims, starving Germany's women and children. Before the surrender of Paris in 1871 Bismarck was asked if, in com mon humanity, he would allow the little babies to $e taken out of the city, in order to save their innocent lives. He flatly refused. lie said the Parisians could terminate the sieg and the hardships it involved by sur render. A siege without such hard ships would be no siege at all. If the women and children of Germany are starving Germany can always ter minate the blockade. It can surren der. It does not hesitate to starve the women and children of Belgium or of Poland or Roumania. But evidently these are not the women and children in the mind ,of Miss Addams Wall Street Journal. , :o: A GERMAN REPUBLIC. Some American liberty-loving Ger mans of New York have organized a national propaganda under the title, "Friends of the German Republic," to dethrone the kaiser. Everything pos sible, will be done to insure William Hohenzollern the same fate that befell his cousin, Nick Romanoff. They don't believe Kaiser Bill has the divine right to rule he claims any more than Czar Nick had, and he is now hoeing potatoes. Circulars in German and English are being mailed to the Ger mans of the United States urging them to co-operate with the movement. They believe that if the people should take hold of the government that the war would soon end and that they would get much better peace terms than the kaiser would ever get. This is a way the Germans in this country could do something to help end the war and be helping the German peo ple at the same time, for they are as capable of running their own govern ment as we are. Then if they would raise a large fund to kep the needy as soon as the war is over that would help end the war also. . :o: It will certainly be a "safe an-i sane". Fourth of July in Plattsmoutb this year. -:o:- W-i-H-WW' 'I-I-H-l- W. A. ROBERTSON. . Lawyer. East of Riley Hotel. Coates' Block, Second Floor uri i u rn r wpi a a js THE LIBERTY LOAN. Since the enormous success of th '' Liberty loan was a surprise even to i many Americans, "who ought to be hep to American ways, we may safely conclude that it will stun the kaiser besides knocking his eye out. It was an overwhelming victory for the United States. It beat all records not only of this war but of all wars; not only of this country but of all countries. Germany's first loan wsj taken by l?ss than 1,200,000 subscrib crs and it was aclaimed as wonder ful, which it was. Great Britain's first loan was taken by"l 00,000. Twenty-five times 109,000 have subscribed to our first loan! And they have of fered to lend 40 per cent more than the amount the government wanted to borrow! Ths millionaire sulrscrib ers will have their quota cut down on account of the tremendous outnouring of the common people eager to lend to their government in amounts of $50 and $100 each. With hardly a ripple of excitement, and with no appreciable resistance, nearly 10,000,000 of our young met. have registered for war. Without the assistance of any un derwriting syndicate, without the gov ernment's being obliged to pay any commission or profits, a great popular loan of two billions has been sub scribed, and the people arc clamorinp fcr more. A very convincing proof, we think and the kaiser must think so too- that the people of the United States much as they love peace, long as they hesitated before accepting the insolent challenge to war, now that they arc in the war mean to fight it throug!. and support their govei nment to the limit. And now it must have shocked the kaiser, especially the success of the liberty loan! Perhaps if the world' greatest autocrat had been privileged to hear American foot ball coaches talk, on the eve of a big game, h-. would have been better prepared fov what happened. The coach's team is invariably weakened by absentees cripples, big holes and poor conditions; the situation is lugubrious, not to say hopeless. Great scalding tears run down the coach's furrowed, haggard cheeks as he tells that the boys v.il go in and do the best they can, but ! And then the boys go in ant play the game of their robust youns lives, in the pink of condition, every man up on his toes, 100 per ccn! strong and swift and 200 per cent fit. So it was with the loan. It was hardly launched before the ululations and lamentations began. It was man aged wiong wretchedly. The hippo droming tour of Secretary AcAdoc was an awful mistake. The thing should have been turned over to some big syndicate that knew how to pull of such stunts. The people weren't interested. The subscriptions weren't coming in half fast enough. FAIL URE a big failure in capital letters was inevitable. And so it was al most to the last day before the score was announced. We suppose undoubtedly the kaiser heard about it, and it must have tick led him pink. It would "be cheering to have a look at him now, when he learns what really has happened. World-Herald. :o:- THE BOY-WHO RAN AHEAD. He get only a little way, the boy who ran ahead. - For ths blackness overtook him be fore he had run a dozen yards. But he took the spirit of this whole great nation with him and as his comrades charged past with break. neck recklessness to cross the space of No Man's Land, that boy knew in all the haze of eternity of the second just before the night.-that he had done his bit as a man from God's country ' should. I And all the rest knew, too though ho was forgotten by them in a mo-' ment. Now, will it be your dollar that1 take the stretcher to tiic boy v,vho ran I ahead? Will your dollars puvntcr to his lips? - Will your dollars hurry - with him back to the tender care of th Children Cry A,1 i V V try K V rm try s m The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has boca in ie for over over 30 years, has borne the si:iat::ie ci and 7 sonal supervision since its infancy,; S&czStyjC4&CC4U4Z Allow no one to deceive you in tl.is. aii rrtnvi-f7it; imitations ana lust-as-zooa " tre i.ut: Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health if Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. hat Ss CAti UH fi Castoria is a harmless substitute fcr Castor Oil, Parcror!.-.. Drops and Soothing byrups. it is pleasant, it contains ssilher Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic euhsiascc. I age is its guarantee. For more than thirty j'c-ars il teen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Fiatnlonry, "Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverisbnecs therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and BoweTs. id3 the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural tl.cp. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend, 3&NUINE CASTOR I A ALWAYS Bears the In Use. For Oyer 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THK CFNTAUR COM nurse so willing to mother hir through the perilous oblivion. Will your dollars 'brighten that first morning when he sees the soft, white pej.cefulness of his cot and pet lc3 back, reassured by the smiles about him, to rest just a bit again? These may be your dollars if you -.vi'l for such is the glorious, wonder-' ful work dollars can do these days. Every subscriber to' the Red Cross .an count his dollars doing just some ;uc-h thine. Every member can know his dollars ?an be hurrying comfort to the boy who has taken the spirit of America 30 bravely "over the top." A five dollar contribution is such a little thing to do so much maybe you Ihink it's all too little to count. Don't feel that way. Don't let that boy go down, choking for the very breath of life don't let his call go mheard, just because you thought a iive dollar 1 ill couldn't do enough. Subscribe to the Red Cross today, now. Our slogan is "Fight or Give!" Put the five dollars you were about to, spend needlessly back into your pocket. Send it to the nearest RerJ Cross station and ask your own heart if what you got isn't worth a thou sand times the price. Red Cross members will not be called upon for field service; and whether this war ends tomorrow or lasts indefinitely, remember , the Red Cross goes right along doing the no blest, most humanitarian work in all the world for it is always taking care of the wounded, food to the starv ing, mercy everywhere. President Wilson, himself, is presi. dent of the Red Cross, and asks that one milliqn men and women enroll Our new and up-to-date machinery for this purpose has arrived, and we are prepared to charge your storage batteries in the most scientific manner and upon short notice. There is always room for one more, so call on U3 at any lime for. quick repairs. WE ARE THE AUip DOCTORS AND CURE ALL ILLS REASONABLY -ISie Plattsmouth Garage- 1 ED. MASON, Proprietor Office Telephone 394 for Fletchers nas Deen mace unaer ms per- Signature of 7 PAN V. NEW YORK CITV. their names as subscribers to the Red Cross at $1, $2, $5, $10, $J00, $1,000, $10,000 or $100,000. He does not ask that you do any thing else but pay your subscription and then if you wish to secure 10, 2, or 1C0 new subscribers, do so if you wish. Xo further service in the field or elsewhere will be required. In this hour of the nation's and all the world's need, every American who loves his country and his fellow men asks: "What can I do? Where can I help?" For stalwart youth the path of duty is plain. Our country and humanity need men to fight and die for them. Yet of our 100,000,000 only a small J fraction now and 'but a tithe at most, or worst, can thus serve. For all who cannot enlist to seek "the great prize of death in battle" or who are not needed in those ranks, as yet, there is another enlistment. It is under tlrs banner of the Red Cross. Enlisting there all, old or young, man, womai; or tender child, can proudly say: "I too am serving humanity and my country." "I too am deserving well of the republic." This is Red Cross week and we ask that you do this by becoming a sup porter of the Red Cross. Send you cash and your check today $5, $10. $100, 81,000, $10,000 or $100,000 give to your very utmost. :o: Some sections in California are in flicted with the heat. The thermome ter registering from 114 to 117. This is hot, indeed, for California. :o:- Teddy still pleads for Red Cross help. There is nothing too good for great Americans like him. Residence Telephone 229 forging! 4 -