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.
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There is but one end to an argu
ment, and that's at the beginning.
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No, there are not many slackers,
but the worst are natural born Amer
icans.
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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.
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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.
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The only thing left for the un
f ultimate man who doesn't come
within any of the war taxation
schemes is to enlist.
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A slacker never opens his mouth
only when he gets someone aside, and
then he spreads himself against the
government the coward !
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?.
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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.
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Put none but true Americans on
guard.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I-rm T'rii !;i v's 7.tilv.
Mr. Christ Tschirre-n, living west of
the city, has purchased a new car, it
bc-inir one of the new Crow-El kharts,
sold through the agency of the Ceo.
Hild, of this city. These are one of
tho fir. est makes of automobiles and
Mr. Tschirivn is fortunate in iiettinjr
one. Mr. Hild is demonstrating the
frre-at value of this make of car, and
is proving himself a ood elispenser
of this ir.ake of machine.
Plies Never IJother.
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.
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On our Lines West, in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana,
there arc thousands of acres of prairie lands that should be cultivated. If
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My services are free to you. Drop me a postal card for any of the fol
lowing free literature.
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. "Go to Southwestern Nebraska."
"Cheyenne County, Nebraska."
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"The Noth Platte Valley." (Nebr.-Wyo.)
"The Big Horn Basin." (Wyoming).
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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.
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