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If you would have more friends,
I'll tell you what to do;
Just always do to others
As vou'd have others do to you.
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Do something for your country.
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If you don't like this country, get
out.
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And you can't do it any ton quick,
either.
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Don't he afraid to let your dollars
work for you.
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Remember that eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty.
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The farmers are busy between
showers, and can generally lind plenty
to do.
It is easy enough to paddle your
own canoe after you get the piddle
?nd canoe.
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And now corn is being used as a
substitute for macaroni and cheese.
What next?
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The German masses will find when
the war is over, that it never was a
war on them.
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King George of England has ttrcided
to drop all titles of German origin.
Good for King George.
If you are too old or too young, or
too unsound to join the army, get up
at four in the morning and swipe the
potato bug.
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Divorces seem to be easy to get
these days. And they are all right
where the parties lind they cannot
live together in peace.
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The two billion dollar Liberty bond
was only our ante to get into the war
game, and the American people have
plenty more to back up their bets.
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There were no flies on Nebraska.
City when it came to subscription?
for the lied Cross. The amount raised
was nearly $14,000, several giving
$1,000 and ?500 each. It would be
very satisfactory if Plattsmouth hod
raised half that amount.
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The local conditions of Omahn may
possibly have had something to do
with the defeat of our big city for the
cantonment. The uproar among ths
city officials will injure Omaha in
many more ways than one. Let the
people of our pride city rise in their
might and throw the disturbers out.
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We'll rally 'round the hoe, boys,
and join the ranks of toil, shouting
the battle cry of "Feed 'cm." We'll,
train the crops to grow, boys, as til
lers of the soil, shouting the battle
cry of "Feed 'em." Where there is
work to do, boys, we'll gather on the
spot, shouting the battle cry of "Feed
'em." To duty we'll be true, boys, and
till a vacant lot, shouting the battle
cry of "Feed 'em." Nature, kind
mater, will aid us in our deed. Down
with the tatcr; up with the weed. So
we'll rally 'round the hoe, boys, and
train the crops to grow, shouting the
battle cry of "Feed 'em!"
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Governor Bamberger of Utah, at a
meeting of the Western Red Cross
conference at Denver, Colo., last week
said: "I was born in Germany and
lived there as a boy. I love the coun.
try and the people. I came to Amer
ica in the steerage alone. I had r.o
friends, no introduction nothing. I
made good. Any German who comes
to this country as I did and has made
good, through the wonderful oppor
tunities offered by this magnificent
land, should love this country above
all others. If he is not loyal to Amar-
ka, he should be stood up against a
wall and shot instantly." Denver
Post.
Don't be a grouch.
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Attend the Chautauqua.
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You'll miss half your life if you
don't.
They also serve who only stand
and hoe.
If persistency is a virtue, tlcn a
fly is it.
To can all you can will take a whole
lot of cans.
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Ile who is suspicious of everybody
will bear watching.
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If you want to make time pass
quickly, sign a thirty-day note.
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Young or old; brunette or blonde,
get in and buy a bond if you can.
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Nothing knocks the enthusiasm out
of a man as quickly as a sprained
ankle.
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We don't need any more million
dollar rains just now. A little later.
please.
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Ed Howe says, "Every time I have
caught hell it was because I was fol-
owing it."
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The wisest man of the day is he
who knows what to say and then
doesn't say it.
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If you can't do anything else you
can always join the great army of
producers.
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If a man is honest because he thinks
it is the best policy, he will be dis
honest for the same reason.
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"Marriage,'' says a recently wedded
young woman of this town, "is the
monotony that relieves the excitement
of life."
The Germans regard the menace of
an American as negligible. Let 'em
keep on doing it, and they'll soon
learn better.
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The outlook for the corn crop gets
better every day, and there is more
wheat in Nebraska than one would
even dare to suppose.
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Of course it will be a safe, sane and
sober Fourth in Nebraska this year,
where the bootleggers do not get in
their graft.
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The Plattsmouth Chautauqua is
proving a great success. Big crowds
are attending both day and night.
Everybody is well pleased with the
programs, and the entertainers are
first-class in every respect.
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On with the Chautauqua. It is edu
cational as well as recreational. It
brings great things home to us to see
which, otherwise, would require hun
dreds of miles of railway travel, and
entail an expense account that very
few could afford.
Tomorow (Sunday) is Food Saving
day. This does not mean that we are
to economize just on this day, but we
are urged to acquaint ourselves with
methods by which we may best con
serve in the consumption of food
stuffs.
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The German kaiser, the champion,
friend and protector of small nations,
is profoundly moved by the fate of
Greece. That is to say, he is pro
foundly moved by the fate of Con
stantinople, which is the same thing.
Poor Greece, deprived of a king just
at the time when it most needed one
That is to say, poor Constantine, de
prived of Greece just at the time when
he most needed it. That is to say,
juit at the time when the kaiser most
needed it, which is the same thing.
GOVERNMENT OK GREED.
When it comes to embargoes upon
food and fuel, such as are now pro
posed as measures of national defense,
nothing new is advocated. We al
ready have embargoes.
Food has been embargoed in this
country for years by combinations of
warehousemen and speculators. To
check the free movement of supplies
from producer to consumer and to
with hold them from market for the
purpose of creating an artificial scar
city are policies that result as truly
in an embargo as any prohibition on
restriction of exports by government.
The only difference is in the motive
and the results.
That coal has been embargoed in
the United States is proved by the
findings of the Federal Trade corn
mission, and it is now practically ad
mitted by operators and railroad man
agers. There is no Jack of coal, but
production has been inefficient, dis
tribution has been faulty and car
shortage has become chronic. Taking
advantage of these conditions, by no
means unavoidable, speculators and
middlemen, standing between the min
er and the consumer, have practiced
a holdup which is nothing less than
an embargo.
These embargoes are privately or
dained for selfish ends. They are
without authority of law. In fact,
most of them are in plain violation of
law. They are intended to keep fam
ine always within sight of the people.
They do more than interfere with in
dustry. They lead .straight to plun
der and outrage.
Such limited governmental embar
goes upon food and fuel as are advo
cated at Washington are in the pub-.
lie interest alone. They are not to
make prices higher, but lower. They
will facilitate and equalize distribu
tion, not check it. They will hoard
nothing except from the enemy. They
will so administer the basic products
of the country that they will help us
win the war. Finally, these public
embargoes will automatically remove
the worst of our private embargoes.
No private embargo can survive a
public embargo for a day.
Food and fuel monopolists know
this, and that is why many of them,
th rough the agency of serviceable
members of congress, are protesting
against the pending legislation. Af
for Americans in general, the question
is not whether they will have food and
fuel control for they have it already.
It is whether that sovereign right
shall be exercised to their oppression
by greedy and lawless interests or for
their welfore by the government it
self. New York World.
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PRECTOUS SENATORIAL TRINITY
It was not a very pretty spectacle,
that a senate committee staged the
other afternoon in Washington. A
meeting was called presumably for
the purpose of getting some light on
the president's high-important and
greatly needed food control and food
conservation bills. Instead, it degen
crated into a scene in which Senators
Reed, Gore and Vardaman indulged in
the highly edifying game of chcip
heckling of Herbert C. Hoover, whon
the president has chosen to be th-:
food administrator.
It happens that Hoover has don?
things. As one man very aptly said.
"It is not necessary to look into Who's
W:ho to learn who's Hoover."
Eleven million men, women and
children of war-stricken Belgium and
northern France owe their lives todav
to his practical knowledge of how
to ration millions. He is prepared to
render the same kind of patriotic serv
ice now to his own country.
Whet her they intend to do so or not
whether wittingly or unwittingly
every day senators hold up the food
laws by idle speeches, by heckling, by-
time-wasting interrogatories, they are
rendering aid and comfort to tho
German enemy, and lining the pock
ets of unscrupulous food speculators.
The food gambler desires delay in
the enactment and enforcement of
food laws. Days mean dollars to him.
Every hour means an extension of his
wicked graft.
The government of the kaiser also
wants a delay in these same food
laws. To have food wasted in this
country, to have the allies and' the
neutrals bidding against each other
for our grain, to bring England and
France nearer to starvation because
our government is helpless to inter
vene this condition is more valuable
to the German cause than to win two.
or three battles on the land.
The allies can easily survive a few
reverses in the field. It becomes in
creasingly difficult to face the urgent
food problem Omaha News.
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WORLD-WIDE WAR.
The point has been reached where
war is waged literally by whole na
tions. Every man, woman and child
is involved, and nearly every adult and
most boys and girls can be efficient
factors. We are in this war for the
purpose of defending our rights, of
making sure that, as a wiation, we
shall be able to live the sore of life
and to have the sore of institutions
we desire, of making democracy per
sist in the world, and of safeguarding
the world against the recurrence of
such a war as this. To accomplish
this, the nation must aim at the per
fection of organization, and therefore
each individual must recognize the
necessity of making sacrifices for the
common good and more than ever of
working under limitations of doing
team work. Our people have a geniu"!
for organization and they will not fail
in the task they have assumed. Our
farmers, on whom a great responsi
bility rests, are the most efficient
farmers in the world when they do
their best. They will not be found
wanting in this crisis. David F.
Houston, secretary of agriculture,
June 12, 1917.
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COLD STORAGE MANIPULATORS.
If anything is to be done about the
high cost of living it is high time that,
action were taken. Last year the
cold storage men were permitted to
corner almost anything they desired,
and thus compel the public to pay
exhorbitant prices.
The government's records show thai
the moldings of eggs in cold storage
were reported greater on June 15 of
this year than at any corresponding
time last season, for the first time
since storage reports on eggs were be
gun in August, 191(5. On September
1, 1016, holdings reported by 185
houses were 19.2 per cent less than
on September 1, 1915. On March 1,
at the end of the season, they were
8G.3 per cent less than on March 1
last year. On June 15, however,
5,151,421 cases of eggs were reported
by 2(54 storages last year and 5,239,
985 cases by the same firms this year,
and increase of 1.7 per cent.
In spite of the low stocks on hand
on September 1, 1016, the rates of
withdrawals were proportionately
larger during all of the winter months
than they were during the correspond
ing period of the previous season.
During January, 1917, for example,
Stocks on hand January 1 decreased
83.7 per cent, whereas during tho
same month last year, the percentage
of decrease was only 66.7 per cent,
though a large number of cases of
eggs were withdawn last year than,
during January, 1917.
During March, April and May and
the first two weeks in June, the rate
at which stocks of eggs have been
placed in storage has been proportion;
ately larger than during the same
months last year, though the actual
number of cases placed in storage was
larger during March and April. Dur
ing May, 1916, 2,140,018 cases were
placed in storage in 236 houses,
whereas 2,621,856 cases were reported
in storage during May this year in
323 storages. During the first two
weeks in June, 571,524 cases more
were placed in storage as reported by
311 storages this year than were re
ported by 219 firms last year. The
total holdings on June 15 were re
ported by 338 storages as 5,752,225
cases, 477,609 cases more than the
holdings reported by 252 storages Au
gust 1, 1916, the date of the maximum
holdings of last season.
It is also shown that the total but
ter holdings in cold storage on June
15, 1917, as reported by 284 houses
were 23,057,122 pounds. Holdings re
ported by 214 storages show 4,429,
527 pounds or 17.3 per cent less than
reported by the same firms last year.
During the period of June 1 to June
15, holdings in 254 storages increased
14,074,198 pounds, 4,288,883 pounds
less than the increase during the cor
responding period last year.
From September 1, 1916, to April
1, 1917, stocks of butter in storage
ranged from 3 per cent to 18.4 per
cent less than for the corresponding
months the preceding year. On April
1, 1917, 6,022,216 pounds were re-t
ported by 214 storages, which was
2,676,499 pounds or 80 per cent more
than the same storages reported on
April 1, 1916. The larger part of the
increase of 2,676,499 pounds reported
April 1, 1917, was held in the New
England, middle Atlantic and north
central east sections, in which are lo
cated, respectively, the cities of Bos
ton, New York and Chicago. By May
1, however, storage holdings of butter
in these three sections had decreased
approximately three and a half million
pounds.
Congress should lose no time about
heading off butter and egg manipu
lators. Hastings Tribune.
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AM ERICAN GOVERNMENT.
Buck fever partisan patriots, both
ways from the New York Tribune,
who are despairing over the alleged
dilatoriness and inefficiency of the
United States in entering the great
war, may find a grain of consolation
in the facts having to do with the
landing of General Pershing's army
in France.
The invariably conservative Asso
ciated Press is well within the limits
of deserved praise when it says:
"Considering the distance to be
covered and the fact that all prepara
tions had to be made after the order
came from the White House the night
of May 18, it is practically certain
that never before has a military ex
pedition of this size been assembled,
conveyed and landed without mishap
in so short a time by any nation. It
is a good auguy of future achieve
ments. "The only rival in magnitude is the
movement of British troops to South
Africa in the Boer war, and that was
made over seas that were unham
pered by submarines, mines or other
obstacles.
"The troops will be fed, clothed,
armed and equipped by the United
States. Around them at the camp on
French soil tonight are being stored
supplies that will keep them going for
months, and more will follow.
"General Pershing and his staff
have been busy for days preparing for
the arrival of the men. Despite the
enormous difficulties of unprepared
ness and submarine dangers that faced
them, the plans of the army general
staff have gone through with clock
like precision."
Five or six weeks ago, as the As
sociated Press points out, the men
now safely landed in France with am
ple supplies, were on the Mexican bor
der. General Pershing himself was
there. Army transports were not
available and the vessels that carried
the troops were scattered in their
usual routes. Reserve stores were
depleted and the regiments were be
low their war strength. All of these
difficulties were met and overcome in
record-breaking time. And while this
task was being undertaken and com
pleted there were innumerable other
important military activities in prog
ress. Ten million men were being
registered. An army of 50,000 offi-.
cers was being assembled, housed,
equipped and trained. Arms and
equipment were being gathered for
millions of troops yet to be organized.
The regular army was being expanded
to full war strength, and the national
guard was also being recruited and
prepared for war.
In the midst of all this work of war,
on a scale of unprecedented propor
tions, our troops were dispatched to
France through hostile and dangerous
waters and landed with ample sup
plies in positions prepared in advance
of their coming:, and it was all done
without a hitch or an untoward inci-
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Can't we can't even those who are
"crabbing" the hardest and pulling the
longest faces and indulging in the
most lugubrious forebodings can't
we all unite to give three rousing
cheers for the United States army?
When we stop to reflect that two or
three months ago there were not even
a general staff worthy of the name,
and that all the experience its mem
bers had in directing the humdrum
routine affairs of a little army of
100,000 men, and then when we con
template what they have been called
upon to do since, and are doing now,
can't we be big enough and patriotic
enough to look at the doughnut and
not the hole? Can't we find inspira
tion, rather than excuse for defection
in the record? And is there any man
of sense and business experience who
does not realize that, if mistakes have
been made, they are unavoidable in
affairs of such magnitude so hurried
ly and unexpectedly undertaken?
The American army, the war de
partment, the council of national de
fense and other bodies that are co
operating in the advancement of the
huge task that has been undertaken
arc doing well. They are not per
forming miracles or accomplishing im
possibilities. But they are attesting
now as they have attested before the
marvelous energy of America, its or
ganizing and administrative skill, and
its capacity to rise grandly to meet
great emergencies. World-Herald.
Mrs. Charles Wolf of near Murray
was among those going to Omaha
this morning to spend a few hours.
W. II. Tritsch, residing west of this
city, brought in a load of oats this
morning, and while here took time to
call at this office and have his sub
scription extended for another year.
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Sleety gflnnfeiift
This magnificent vacation-land, so near at hand, has been made a Na
itonal Park and it certainly has eveiy requisite for a National Summer Play
ground. It is a region of forests, canyons, streams and lakes, a paradise of
mountain air and wild flowers, a natural amphitheatre of 150 square mlies,
with snow-capped panoramic barriers, -Long's Peak, James' Peak and the
Continental Divide.
Burlington trains take you there quickly and at a small cost, only
$27.00, generally speaking, from middle and Eastern Nebraska to Estes Park.
This includes rail and auto via Lyons or Loveland.
Over 50,000 tourists visited Estes Park last summer.
Colorado has hundreds of resorts, recreative places and automobile
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GREAT AIR FLYING WHALES.
The British and the French admir
alties have just placed another huge
order in this country. This time it is
a hurry-up call for the construction of
.twenty-five giant flying whales. The
flying whale is a development of the
Cutiss invention of the flying boat.
Since then Mr. Curtiss has made sev
eral changes in the design of the
craft, and the present order of twenty-five
is to bridge the gap between
the old order and the completion of
tests with the later model. The whale
is used by Great Britain and France
in submarine hunting, in coast patrol
along the English channel and the
open seaports. It has a wing spread
in excess of ninety feet; the boat body
is more than forty-six feet long and
the whole craft, ready for flight witfy
fuel and oil tanks loaded, weighs near
ly two and a half tons. Machine guns,
anti-aircraft guns and bombs can be
carried. The pilot's compartment is
completely enclosed and has room for
the easy movement of five or six men.
It certainly begins to look as if the
decisive battle of the world's greatest
war were going to be fought in the
air.
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FARM FOR SALE.
An extra good quarter of central
Nebraska land. All good black soil
and every foot could be plowed; fenced
and cross-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
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room house, horse stable for 12 head
of horses, chicken coop, granary and
hog shed; good well and mill. For
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cash, remainder five years' time at 6
per cent. Rent to go to purchaser.
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