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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-VEEKL' JOURNAL. PAGE 4. MONDAY, JULY 23, 1917. Thc plattsmouth journal FCBLISDED SEMI-WEEKLT AT PLATTSMOUTH. NKBHASKA. Eateredat Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher BBSCHIPTIOIf PniCKl PKH VEAH Uf. ADTANCE Slackers, please look out. :o: There is but one end to an argu ment, and that's at the beginning. :o:- No, there are not many slackers, but the worst are natural born Amer icans. :o:- Anybody who would steal seed po tatoes from the ground in this crisis would drop a bomb on a sleeping in. fant. -:o:- If you want to really and truly arouse the patriotism of the people, nothing can beat the old life and drum. -:o:- With everybody working, America is going to produce as never before. And the country will astonish the world. The corn is looking as fine as could possibly be expected under all circum stances. A good shower would stimu late it somewhat. :o: The only thing left for the un f ultimate man who doesn't come within any of the war taxation schemes is to enlist. :o:- A slacker never opens his mouth only when he gets someone aside, and then he spreads himself against the government the coward ! -tor- Speaking of the excrcme cruelty of some judge:-, what do you think of the Kansas City judge who sentenced a man to return to Omaha? -:o:- One of the best ways of serving your country just now is by main taining a sane and just attitude to ward the constructive forces of the country. :o: There is enough tearing down in progress over the sea. Let Ameri cans build up. That means in the sense of a national public sentiment as well as otherwise. :o: If the national census will shut IT the "mush sturT" that is filling the metropolitan dailies, there will be work for the cen.or every day in tho week and Sundays, too. :o: When most of the women are sick and the doctor tells the husband that he doesn't know what is the matter, he simply 3ie, especially if the woman happens to be a farmer's wife. He knows that she is doing twice as . much work as she ought to do. :o:- When a man says he is not an American, he does not deserve to be come Americanized, hut is a subject to one of the warring nations of Europe, ami should be given his pass port and deported to his beloved country. We want no such citizens among u?. :o: Here is some good advice, handed out by Herbert Kaufman: "Europe has tried the amateur nurse and found her emphatically wanting. The care of wounded soldiers is a profes sior.al job in which will is not a sub stitute for skill. Pretty faces are not curative agents. Sympathetic temperaments won't alleviate pain There's no room, for a gushing blush ing bungler in the grim wards where the maimed and mangled wreathe in agony. If genuine sentiment an not maudlin sentimentality actuate your desire to wear a Red Cross uni form enter a training school at once and learn to wrap bandages, drain and dress wounds, take temperatures make beds and move patients. Nurs ing is a serious vocation and does not welcome . flabbidygibe, shirkers and romance hunters. If you meac business get busj" 1IITTING THE BULL'S-EYE. Under the caption of "Shall Twen ty Mii'ion Families Frev.e and Starve,' Capper's Weekly hrrids out the following, which hits the bull's eye: "Secretary Baker's indignant re pudiation of the bargain with the coal operators, expresses the feeling of the country. The coal operators have revealed themselves as appar ently without soul or conscience. All their lives they have followed the business principle of obtaining the highest price. It is nothing to them that young men, the cream of the world's nations, are to offer their lives, on the threshold of living, for the world's freedom. The fact is, the competitive business system in a time of world war has broken down. The public sees this, but the operators fail to see it. In the steel industry important men in the last ten days have themselves proposed that the government step forward and save a situation that has broken away from private control. They say that run away prices must inevitably rule (as was lately the case in the wheat market and prior to that, in the pa per market) because demand has es- ablishcd itself in command, and sup ply is out of it. This is the case whenever demand really dominates: that prices have no measure what ever. There are no limits. The lid s off. Government must step in and issumc control or twenty million workers and their families, dependent upon wages, which can advance but lowly ami unsteadily, will face cold and starvation, and suddenly, in mid winter, perhaps, the nation will face evolution. The nation is suffering under price advances that arc crush ing to the majority, those who must continue somehow to live on wage? averaging but two dollars a day. At such a time Secretary Lane as chair man of a committee of the Council of National Defense actually undertakes to fix a mine price for coal fifty to 100 per cent higher than normal. Nothing could more deplorably illus-. trate the failure of such leaders at this time to comprehend the actual iving conditions of the average man and his family than the preposterous statement that high prices must be allowed to ' coal operators, to jvtcej manufacturers, to munitions makers; in order to stimulate production.' When production in all these direc tions is already stimulated beyond the capacity of plants and machine.1; to keep up with the demand! Gov ernment control is the sole way out. An end should be made of a hold-up of the masses of the American people that has become a national crime." There is no denying the fact that the government is not doing the right thing by the people so long as it fails to take over and operate the coal mines. The coal barons have not, only defied the people but they havq defied the government. It is high time that the govern ment gets into action. -:o:- Put none but true Americans on guard. :o:- This is the year for the farmers to make better profits than ever. Ev erything is in his favor crops are in good condition, weather fine, and the general health of the community ncv er was better. :o: Thc new Journal reporter since the absence of Frank Smith, who enlisted in the "Dandy Sixth," is Mr. M. S Briggs, who has before been connect ed with the paper in this capacity He is a hustler and all-round gentle man, and if you don't see it in the Journal, blame yourself and not Mr, Bris. because he will have it if you give him half a chance. THE MAN OF CRETE. Eleutherios Venizelos, the man of Crete, is the name to conjure with in Greece today. He has dethroned a king, expelled a queen and even now is sending an army of Grecian sol diers to fight against kaiserdom. Guided by Venizelos, Greece, the "cra dle of democracy," is warring against autocracy. This war has dwarfed many a statesman's prestige. It has jolted cabinet officers out of good jobs. Mero politicians crack under the strain of trying to steer the ship of state through one seismic change after another. But the war has done an other thing it reveals big men in all their bigness. It gives ability its chance. A revolution gave Kerensky to re-i born Russia in its needful hour. A few years ago, Kerensky was known only as a pale, anaemic lawyer whosj passionate oratory served mostly to get him in trouble with the authori ties. Today he is the leader of the biggest and the youngest of the world's republics. And he is doing lis duty well. Twelve years ago Eleutherios Veni zelos was a fugitive in the mountains about Khanai, the capital of Crete, Prince George the younger brother of Constantino, the late king of Greece had come to Crete to rule. One of the first orders the prince is sued was to "get" that trouble-mak ing democrat. Venizelos, with ac armed band of loyal friends, was forced to flee to the hills. For fiv( years, the exile and his band l.ved mostly on provisions that brave lads: of Khania smuggled to him in his ever-shifting camp. In 1J)0G Prince George left Khania suddenly and Venizelos returned. Four years later. King Constantine summoned tl,e well- oved able Cretan to Athens and en trusted him with the formation of a new cabinet. Intermittent struggles have beer. the lot of Venizelos since. Sometimes he sided with the king when he thought the king was right. But most of the time he was aria'gned igainst the crown. When Germany kidnaped an entire corps of the Greck.n army and King Constantino preferred to let that national insult pass by unrebuked, it was Venizelos v ho pjtested "The whole world will undei stand," he said, "that King ConstanCr.t v.ho has stepped down from the throne of a constitutional king to become a mere patty chief, must rceept ihc consequences of the defeat of his. policy, just like every other defeated party e-hief." Strong words, these. But they were uttered by a strong man. who vas .vise enough to know his strength. Events have just-tied Veni zelos' condemnation of the king. Con stantino is a man of the past. JTb; critic is making history and daily re storing the "glory that was Gieece.'' Venizelos is one of the biggest men this wci has developed. Besides him, Sir Edwa-.c Grey is a pygmy. And Venizelos is only 53 years old a go ;d age for the president if a republic World-Herald. :o:- The newspaper offices of England are no doubt filled with tearless eyes at the news that an assistant censor has been sentenced to penal servitude, -:o: Some people imagine that anybody can run the government, but it takes tact, diplomacy and executive ability to name the baby as you want it named. -:o:- Iowa is to recruit 2,000 home guards at once for the safety of tlvi people against intruders. What's the matter with Nebraska doing the same. Between guesses that the war is al most over and -that it may last foe another three years, various expecta tions ought to find some safe place to rest and get a vindication. -:o:- Yes, we miss our boys who have enlisted in the army. Let's remem ber them with a letter occasionally and make them feel that they are no forgotten by the folks at home. THE CRITIC'S RIGHTS. A number of writers to the World Herald insist it is their constitutional right as citizens to criticize the presi dent in his conduct of the war, and that it is outrageous to stigmatize them as lacking in patriotism when they choose to exercise that right. It is true the right is theirs. Free speech and a free press are heritages of our people that should be held for ever secred because they are the foundation stones of popular govern ment. But it must be remembered that there are no rights or privileges but are subje-ct to abuse, and there are many abuses, abuses that are real and flagrant, that do not cemie within the scope of the law to restrain and punish them. Such abuses, however, rightfully subject those who commit them to indictment, be fore the great bar of public opinion, and from that august tribunal, which in the last re sort is superior even to the supreme court of the United States, decrees of punishment are handed down. Exer cise to the right to criticize carries with it the liability to be criticized iu turn. Ami citizens who insist upon their right to criticize the president; or any other official of the govern ment, in a way that their neighbors think is unjust and harmful, even shameful, can hope for but little sym pathy in their complaint that they, too, are unjustly and shamefully abused by those whose sense of jus tice and patriotism they have shocked and outraged. Men who in these difficult and perilous days are inclined to criticize President Wilson and his war policies should stop and think seriously be fore they indulge their natural bent. Is the criticism a definite and specific- one? Is it constructive, or merely de structive? Is its purpose to help and strengthen the government and the American people in the great war they are waging to make the world safe for democracy? Is there any possible chance that the criticism, if so intende'd, may accomplish its pur pose? Is it a criticism that is a shoulder to the wheed, or a boulder in the path of the wheel? If the critic can answer these ques tions satisfactorily to himself, hi. conscience may justify him in taking up the sword manfully and entering the sea of public sentiment in oppo sition to the tried and worn and weary man who is officiating, by the mandate of the republic we love, a? commender-in-chief of its armies am' navies in the deadliest and most dan gerous war that has ever affected this earth. But let him not fail to remember that they who live by the swore! are apt to perish by the sword and that in the arena he has entered he will win friends or enemies ac cording as he c-omports himself with fairness, moderation and reason. It is a good scheme, before setting out to belabor the president, to pu, yourself, with sympathetic imagina tion, in his place. lie did not bring on this war. lie strove manfully, as a lover of peace, with the dreadful cbject-lesson of what war does be fore his eyes, to avoid it. Against the ruthlessness and arrogance of the German government he temporized and argued, he "wrote notes" until his own countrymen were laughing in derision, be urged upon Americans that they should be neutral in thought as well as in speech, he ap pealed to the conscience and honor and better nature of the junker war lords, all in the desperate endeavor: to preserve peace, at a time when our ships were being ordered off the high seas, and when the lives of American women and children were being taken in cold blood, all in outrageous defi ance of the law of nations, the plain dictates of humanity, and our na tional honor and self-respect. Wrhen the German government made th; last fateful move that forced the war it did so with deliberate fore-knowl-'edge of what would follow. It had made its plans acocrdingly, it har plotted in advance to turn loose the Japanese and the Mexicans in war fare upon the American people, and it chose war with America because it believed that unrestricted submarine operations would win the war before this country could get into action. It was thus the war came, against Wood row Wilson's prayers and wish es and arduous labors. Neither with honor nor in dishonor could he havi evadeel it. It has come to us, as a tragic but unavoidable necessity, and now that we are in it the president, with the almost unanimous backing of the congress, has taken up the stern, harsh duties it forces upon him, not alone to make the world safe for ele mocracy, our own included, but to es tablish the principles of liberty and justice so firmly upon the earth that never again can a lawless autocracy precipitate another such bloody elel uge. Consider, Sir Critic, the temper in which our president is performing his exacting duties. No word of bitter ness, or hatred, or vengeance, except against evil principles, has come from his tongue or pen. No harsh word has been spoken against his own countrymen who oppose and embar rass him. He has pleaded eloquently for domestic tolerance and modera tion, himself setting the notable ex ample. He has before him a moun tain of work, upon his shoulders i:: burden of responsibility, such as have fallen to the lot cf no other American President save Lincoln. The imag ination cannot conceive the problem . that torture h?s mind, the cares that weigh upon his heart. Remember when you strike at him you are strik ing at your own servant, one who is doing your work and guarding your rights and liberties, and that he is not able to strike back. He has too much more important work in hand, even if he were able. And every un just blow that i.; dealt him and theb aic myriad is a blow to weaken his resolution, to shake his confidence, to break bis spit it, to make nerveless his arm. Remember tht his only buckler against your attacks is the loyal support of the millions of his fellow countrymen who have faith in him, who realize that, for the coun try's sake, he must be shielded and defended, and that they understan and arc inspired by their duly! You have the right to- criticise; well and good. But when you sliik. don't whine and complain if ardent and rugged patriots, in the presi dent's behalf and for their country's good, strike back with blows that hurt. World-Herald. :o: IMPROVING, BIT SLOWLY. Word from the bedside of Mrs. C M. Manners, who is in the Tmmanuel hospital at Omaha, where she under went an operation for the removal f a growth on her neck, says that -he Is very weak, but is showing sein signs of recovery. The many f i iends of this estimable lady will be pleased to know that she is on the road to recovery, although still showing but slight improvement. DISPLAYS HANDSOME SIGNS. From Friday's I)allv. The new coal dealer, Carl G. Fricke, who recently purchased the business of the C. W. Baylor com pany, has today placed on his build ing two very pretty and attractive signs, setting forth his business, the product of the handiwork of Frank R. Geblcman, the sign painter. The signs are done in blue and silver and make a sign that will call the atten tion of the purchasing public. NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY. In the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. Lincoln Division. In the matter of George Reitter, bankrupt, Case No. 383 in bank ruptcy. To creditors of the above bank rupt of Eagle, in the County of Cass, the district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby' given that en the 13th day of July, A. D , 1117, the said bankrupt was duly adjudicated bankrupt and the first meeting of his creditors will be held in my of fice in Lincoln, on the 28th day of July, A. D., 1917,, at 9 o'clock in :'-? forenoon, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, examine the bankrupt, ap point a trustee, and transact such other business as may properly come before such meeting. Dated July 16, 1917. DANIEL H. McCLENAHAN. Referee in Bankruptcy. 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In the summer flics worry an ar.i nuin. (Jet a bottle ef Farris' Hoalinjr Remedy costs but f0e makes a pint worth ?2.00. Apply it to the wound. Flies will not bother it. Cet it today. You may need it tomorrow. We sell it. II. M. Soennie-hsen, Puis & Cansemer. LOST. Hetwcen Murray and J. II. Graves' heme, a lady's leather handbag con taining a pair of spectacles and be tween live and ten elollars in cash. Finder please leave at the Murray State bank. 7-li)-2twkly PALL SEEDING. Purple lop strap leaved and white globe turnip seed, 7"c lb.; shallu, 10; sudan grass, "0; alfalfa, !9?4 per cent pure, ?i".50 to $10.75 bu.; tim othy, $,'!.7."; sweet corn, pk., $1.-5. Ask for samples. Johnson Pros., Ne braska City, Neb. The Wen That Lays is the hen that pays. If she docs not lay, kill her, ';ut before you kill hei give her P. A. Thomas' Poultry Pem edy twice- a elay for r. week, and then you will not kill hr: for she will be paying you a profit. It not only makes iii ns lay bu; it is a remedy for cholera, roup, and gapes. We guar antee it to cure or we refund your money. II. M. Socnnichsen, Tuls & Gansemer. 1 : i . - " rr - J! . " U ' W. L.ji KELP OUR COUNTRY AVOID A FOOD SHORTAGE! On our Lines West, in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, there arc thousands of acres of prairie lands that should be cultivated. If you want to BUY I will poit you on correct prices. PENT 1 will help you to get best terms. , ,. HOMESTEAD I'll tell you where best selections are.. My services are free to you. Drop me a postal card for any of the fol lowing free literature. ' There's a Farm for You in Golorado." . "Go to Southwestern Nebraska." "Cheyenne County, Nebraska." "Bov Butte County, Nebraska." - "The Wheatland Colony," (Wyoming). "The Noth Platte Valley." (Nebr.-Wyo.) "The Big Horn Basin." (Wyoming). "Free Government Lands" (Wyoming). r i .ii.iiuii li.tiini wii iii ! i m m jf 'inieyi niiYltn iimiu -'-' - - il mi warn' -r-----' W hi U U ZJ LI LA LI J LJ For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears tli gnature of Fi use or Over Thirty Years TMC CENTAUR COMPANY. NCW YO ClTT. 1' till irhi lain"" t1 muA. mm wm an IF'f BliSSli EAGLES ENJOY PICNIC NEAR ST. JOSEPH, MO. y A number ef the members of the Fraternal order of Eagles elepartod Saturday evening for Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph, Mo., where they will enjoy a picnic given by the Eagles Sunday. There was a special train run from South Omaha and al-o one from Nebraska City to the picnic grounds carrying members to the picnic. Those to go from here on the evening Hurlirigton train were: Gideon Archer, Joseph Hadraba, John Martin, John Kirkham, Joseph Mason, John P. Sattler, Henry Hesse and J. M. Cunningham. .MAKE WHITE DOES GOOD WOKE From Friday's D;IIy. Mark White has just received a tractor from the Propst garage which he is using for the purpose of grad ing the roads south of the city in the vicinity of Rock Bluffs, and with a grader hitcheel to it, makes the roads look something different, and those who have traveled over the roadway say that it is a decided suc cess. MRS. MANNERS GAINS S03IE. C. M. Manners and daughter, Miss Josephine, were visitors at Omaha yesterday at the Immanuel hospital to see Mrs. Manners, who has been there for the past ten elays, and where she was operated on for goiter. When the folks came away last eve ning Mrs. Manners was quite a bit better, and was convalescing, though slowly, and still remaining quite weak. Hopes are entertained that she will be able to return to her home after a few weeks. ... Obey the Lav. Order your Osgood Lens. Plattsmouth Garage.. Allsii-.es. Bring your welding to us. Platts mouth Garage. Tel. 304. Tell me what you want, the kind of land you nee, and III find it for you. S. B. HOWARD, Immigration Agent C. 6. & ,Q. R. R. !0O4 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. ll IKII IIIHUKI IM