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MONEAY, AUGUST 27, 1917. PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Che plattsmouth journal PUBLISHED IEMI-WEEKLT AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA Kmtarcd at Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher irBSCRIPTlOIf FRICEl SI.M per YEAR Vf adtance Cass county teachers' week. The finest schootnia'anis iu the state. -:o: Nicholas Romanoff is roamin' in Siberia. -:o:- Whcn you are paid back in your own coin you can't Lick. :o:- They all like Plattsmouth, and we must keen tluiu in that spirit. :o:- l'lattsmouth is no place for loaf ers. There is work for all comers. :o: No one can possibly miss the road to hell. There are plain sign-boards posted all along the route. :o: Scnator La Toilette's peace resolu tion, liko the author, is a little out if d.ite at the present time. :o:- Fixing the price of wheat at $2.00 per bushel had the effect of bringing it down to that figure anyhow. :o: Treat them the finest you know how and they will want to come again. Thev like our hospitality. :c: If you hate to see your neighbor prosperous there is evidently some thing wrong in your upper story. :o: : Evidently there is plenty of work in Plattsmouth for every able-bodied liuiti who wants work, and at the highest wages. :o: The ptopl'j do not want to lose siuiit of the fact that the Salvation army can also do some good work for the bovs at the front. :o: American boys in France strongly object to being called "Sammies." It dovs sound too much like "Sissie," of course, and no one can blame them. :o:- Not a farm in Cass county to rent. Every rental farm is already engaged for next year. This speaks well for the excellency of our farm lands. -:o: Every county in this state is ar ranging to give their soldier boys a farewt.ll entertainment or have al ready done fo, while we have not at tempted anything of the kind. 'Wake up. and let's give our beys a fare well some time next week. .It is the duty of the Commercial club to take' the matter in hand and do it row.. William Jennings Bryan hands out the right kind of Americanism when he s:ys: "The number of thes.; re si s'-rg the draft is, fortunately yery few; there should be none. Some are conscientiously opposed to war any war and may prefer to sub mit to any punishment the govern ment sees fit to inflict rather than to take up arms, but even such can not justify resistance or the giving of encouragement to those who re- fist. Still less can tolerence be shown io niose who, wnne opposing con scription, attempt to draft others to join them in opposing conscription. W ar is a last resort it is a reflec tion upon civilization that it still reddens the earth but so long a nations go to war the citizen can not escape a citizen's duty. If his conscience forbids him to do what his government demands, he must sub mit without complaint, to any pun ishment inflicted, whether the pun ishment be imprisonment or death This is the best government on the face of the earth the one most re sponsive to the will of the people but it is a government of the people not of one or a few men. If a few are permitted to resist a law any law because they do not like it government becomes a farce. The law must be enforced resistance i anarchy." The world is full of alarms. :o:- Labor day, Monday, September 3. :o: Big wrestling match in Omaha on Labor Pay. :o: No man can make a mistake by conducting himself like a gentleman. :o:-r As a rule women are very reliable. They are always twenty minutes late. Xo one has to be a doctor to feel the public pulse. It takes a slacker to do that. :o; If you haven't given anything to the Ked Cross society do it now. The ladies need your help. After you have shown a man that there is something in it for him, it is easy to convince him it is all right. You may have been born with brains, and you may have inherited money, but you have to buy experi ence. :o: Everyone should favor giving our oldier boys a farewell reception and t must be done next week if it is one at all. :o: These nights and mornings are a little cool for this time of year. It may not suit everyone as well as the lover of sleep :o: With one million men enlisted and Irafted by the first of September, merica will have made desperate trides in the way of defense of our country :o: Don't be a slacker! Put your shoul der to the wheel and help your coun try win. Be a man and one who loves the country in which he has chosen to make his home :o:- The coal situation appears to be next in line for a good drubbing by he government. It can't come any oo quickly as winter is rapping at he door already. :o:- It will occasion not the least sur- prise that Austria is for the pope's rp.i"p n in for snr has WAiitPfl neacp for some time. Austria's wants are mmaterial so long as she listens to the dictations of the Kaiser. -:or- That the Canadians now fighting on the western front are some fight ers has been shown beyond a ques tion of a doubt. A few more at tacks similar to those of the past week and the German armies will be back on their own soil. . :o: It might be well to recall the fact that buyers of the first liberty bonds were given to understand that if a atter issue of bonds should carry a higher rate of interest, they would get the benefit of the increased rate Now it is proposed to make the sec ond issue at four and one-half per cent, but to make the bonds tax able, whereas the first bonds are non-taxable. :o: Some of our out-in-the-state pa pers are booming candidates for state offices and especially for Unit ed States senator. They may be do ing this for pass-time and maybe to make some friend feel good. That is harmless but they are mentioning the names of some fellows who have been trying to sneak into office for the past fifteen year3 and who could not be elected dog-pelter if they were nominated for such a position "Dead Ducks" should stay where they are and their friends should let them rest in peace. They ought to know when they have enough. These came papers' should be crying "enough" for the fellows jalready iu the state house if they are arrang ing to run for a third term. AMERICA'S RESPONSE. What is going on in the homes of America? What are the plain peo ple thinking of this war into which we have entered to make safe our liberties and to make secure the fu ture of our country? The president and the administration officials and the patriotic members or congress would like to know, says the Omaha News. Nowhere is there manifested any of the hurrah stuff. There is no wild waving of banners and beating of drums. The passionately enthus- astic days of 61 and the boyish ar dor of 1898 when we remembered the Maine are not being repeated in 1917. The plain truth is that Amcr- ca is going at this thing very sobot y. very earnestly, even remaps prayerfully. We have all learned that the da.s of up-boys-and-at-them stuff ive passed. For three yoars v have been reading and thinking about the horror which is latter day warmaking. The glamor, the glit- er, the gaudy have been stripped rom battle. We know now that it is cold, calm, scientific killing, in which every invention known to sci ence has been utilized. And yet, knowing these things, facing these things, the heart and he mind of America have not quail ed. The same old American spirit s being manifested less the noise, the shouting and the boasting. The fact that congress quickly j passed the selective conscription act at the request of the president shows that the folk back home willed it so. rne iact mat an tne otner war measures asked for by the president were passed, often by a reluctant congress, shows that the folk back home willed it so. The fact that, de- pite all the machinations of the pro-Germans and other marlpots, hundreds of thousands of young Americans have presented themselv es tor tne service unaer selective conscription without putting in ex emption claims, shows that the real American is ready to support this war. But there are other tangible proofs too. The regular army of the Lnlt- ed States has been brought up tc 300,000 men, 1S2.000 volunteers having enlisted since we went to war. The national guard, 300,000 strong. has been drafted into the regu'ar service, the navy has been raisea o over 137,000 men, the mar'ne corps to a war strength of 30,000 and there are 45,000 more in the i.ival reserve and the national :ia- al volunteers. This makes a total of about 800, 000 men without counting a sin gle man who will be brought into service by selective conscription and without counting the hundreds of thousands of young men who offer ed themselves to regular army, the malitia and navy and were rejected" for physical and other reasons. All of these facts should hearten the president, the idministration, the congress and the people them selves. It tells all of us what all of us wanted to know. If we need ed assurance, here it is. If we need ed renewal of our faith in the sound heart of America, here it is. :o: Now that the opening of schools and colleges is not far distant, it is timely to urge that the American youths who have not been called to war duty by Uncle Sam can per form no more patriotic service than by entering school in September and studying for all they are worth. The need for educated men after the war will be tremendous. :o: The draft resisters in Oklahoma will soon doubtless be shown the er ror of their ways as they will be brought before a federal grand jury- One hundred and twenty are being held at McAllister. Many tourists pass through this city every day with autos from east to west and west to east, notwith standing the crossing of the Mis souri river by ferry. ,,;6:- It doesn't take a smart man to start an argument. :o: .1". Next week is the week! DEMOCRACY FORWARD. This newspaper, as its readers are aware, has believed almost from the beginning of the war, that it would bring to the world great and far reaching benefits to compensate for the desolating losses that have at tended its .progress, It has believed, in particular, that it would result not only in the spread of popular government to countries that do not now enjoy it, but in the strengthen ing of popular government, making it real in fact as well as in name, iu countries where it now exists. This view was strikingly expressed recently in a speech in the Italian parliamnt delivered by Dr. Trever, described in the dispatches as one of its ablest members. "This war," said Dr. Trever, "has accomplished one good thing advancement of the cause of democracy. Ultimate tri umph of democracy will mean no more war. War has ueieatea war. Dr. Trever followed the interesting line of thought that the belligerent nation's governments are no longer able to control events. They are only the managers of the war, with no power to stop it, he said. In stead of guiding it, they are guided by it. Failure to conduct the war to a successful issue is responsible for the momentous political events which have occurred, and which will still occur, in every belligerent na tion. It is failure rather than suc- cess, that has compelled progress. It was Russian's meager successes in the battlefield, this Italian think er contended, that led to revolution. the downfall of despotism, the ad vent of democracy. Had Russia won the war at an early stage, had Ga licia and Germany and Austrian Po land been added to the empire of the Czar, despotism would have received a new lease on life. So with Germany. Had the Ger man army taken Paris the autocracy and the military caste would have been strengthened. But with vic tory no longer in sight the govern ment is compelled to recognize the power of the people. It has prom ised reforms to feudal Prussia, is holding out in desperation the bait of real recognition to the reichstag. and as the war continues to go against it must move further in the direction of democracy. Austrian despotism has recently ranted full pardon to 20,000 Czechs serving long terms for political of fenses, and is seeking in other simi lar ways to quiet agitation that now threatens the empire's destruction. In Great Britain the war has ad vanced the cause of Irish home rule, autonomy for India and other por tions of the empire, and "the day is not far off when the overseas do minions will be bound only by flim sy ties to filial devotion." As to Italy, he said, it is ripe for any reform. "I am sure the Italy of tomorrow will b quite different from the Italy of today. The people of tomorrow will not leave questions of life and death in the hands of a re stricted caste. They will demand the right to pass directly on every ques tion affecting Italy's welfare and its future, and secret diplomacy and dynastic prerogatives are destined to go forever." So, it is safe to predict, it will be with the rest of the world. The peo ple are going to have not along gov ernment which they have the pow er to control, but they will insist up on exercising the power. The great war will have taught the necessity and pointed the way. World-Herald. :o:- Stomach and Liver Troubles. No end of misery and actual suffer ing is caused by disorders of the stomach and liver, and may be avoided by the use of Chamberlain's Tablets. Give them a trial. They only cost a quarter. Call Plattsmouth Garage for serv ice. Tel. 394, also livery. J. E Mason, Prop. C ASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of 0 Local Wews Allen Land, from southwest, of My nard, was a visitor with friends at Omaha over Sunday. Our old time friend, S. L. Furlong, was a business visitor in the city Saturday morning, and was renewing acquaintances with old friends as well. William Clarence and J. M. Clar ence, from near Union, were in the city last Saturday, looking after some business and getting some repairs for their threshing machine. L. II. Ileil, living west of the city, came in yesterday morning and, to gether with his wife, left for Om-iha, where they were guests at the home of Chas. Thiingam, returning home last evening. A. F. Seybert and wife were visi tors in Omaha yesterday, and were visiting with Will Andrews, f who is a patient in the- Immanuel hospital, where he was recently operated on for appendicitis. Last Saturday T. E. Parmele, C. II. Hist and Henry lieil and son, Ru dolph, departed for Broken Bow, at which place they will spend u few days looking after some' business and viewing the country there. Mr. William N. Lodday and wife, from South Bend, were in the city last Saturday, attending the funeral of Miss Rose Thomas, and visiting the parents of Mrs. Ledday, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Scioskouski. They re turned home Saturday evening. P. W. Nickel and daughter, Mi&s Katie, the latter being one of the teachers of the Cass county schools, came in this morning. Mr. Nickel will visit with friends for the day, while Miss Katie will remain to at tend the Teachers' Institute, now in session. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bates, from the western part of the state, who have been visiting in the city for the past few days, the guests of Mrs. Bates' sister, Mrs. Martin Petersen, depart ed this morning for Fairfield. Iowa, where they will visit at the home of Mrs. Bates' mother, Mrs. C. C. Bates, for a week. A. C. Smith and wife, who former ly lived here but now reside at Car son, Iowa, and Mr. Clarke Boruff, his wife and tfiree chiMren, Lucile. Mar ion and Jesse, arrived last evening in their car from Carson, and visited over Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Smith, the parents of Mr. A. C. Smith and Mrs. Boruff. Mrs. Harry Todd, who has been visiting at Calgary, Alberta, for some time past, returned home the latter part of the week, and reports things looking well up there. Her nephew, Vance Todd, who lias been in the hospital, where he was operated cn for appendicitis, is recovering and had left the institution some time before she departed for home. Joe Seagrave. who has been visit ing at home for the past week, will depart soon for Yankton. South Da kota, where he is accepting a posi tion in a laundry. Mr. Seagraves has been located at Waterloo, Iowa, for the past three years, and lr.it a short time ago resigned his position there, as the offer of a similar position at Yankton was more to his liking. W. A. ROBERTSON, -I Lawyer. . . East of Riley Hotel. .J. Coatea' Block, J- Second Floor 4..t..TTI- M-M A want ad will bring what you want. REPORT OF THE CONDITION -OF- TheBankofCassCounty of riattsmouth, Nebraska. Charter No. 642. Incorporated in the state of Nebraska, at t close of business. August .1. KM 7 he KESOURCES roans and discounts ?.ii."i4 Overdrafts '.;!'" Konds. Securities, judgments etc.... j;.i U0 Banking house furniture and fix tures JOVt Other real estate lu.oiw Current expenses, tuxes and interest paid 1 :.:" . Casli items Wue from national and slate baiiK.s -.l.t' Checks and items of exchange i,: Currency ' Gold coin ;.;, Silver, nickels and cents :.H s 1.; no 30 Total. 53.054 TO LIABILITIES Capital stock paid'in S -V.neo CO Surplus fund 9 1.000 00 Undivided profits ZW' 01 Individual deposits snHiprt, to check .T...t. .1. Time certificates of deposit 34..4(: 53 Cashier'scheeksoutstandintf 5.r.0n 14 Due to national and state banks 4. Depositors' guaranty fund 5,:tiU 2' Total fsD3.Dc 4 70 State of Nebraska, County ov Cass fss I, H. 1. Patterson, assist ant cashier of the above named bank do hereby bwear that t lie above si atement Is a I'orrect. and t rue four of the report made to t lie State Banking Board. R. F. Pattkh-on. ,, Jf'H.45. (J. 1'afmei.e. Director. Attest. 1 i-KtI) ti. Eglxbehgek. Director. Subscribed and boru to befoie ire 2lth dayof A.uifus.1. IWT. Vehna H tt. Notary Public. (Seal) ytxet Contents lSTluid Drac j j Ijjji y Ig fj Jjjl h . i . iii XZJJ H 1 Tv?W M Via k' S3 52 M if.-;,: It," u if T ''v . . .... - TM-r r.PVT. 1 AV. A.-, lr.Vi-nr.r-itionforAs ; ikfViui.iiYu,M i siniil.-i'.iiilhcFcod SyRcula- tcr,f ! linaiiiiOTsnwlBtstfJ tu -r IVnmti'mS TliCSiiCfl - . i Gtc crrJincssandRestConlauTS I r.c"thT Opi'Jm.MrPWRC nor Miacral.JoTXAHCOTic i m rut I i ':ti.r - A" if Sffd- ' farm 1 i flarificl to'Tor lCif-rarrrn hmr - i. - I A hripful Remedy fcr ; Constipation andDiarrhoca. l! aniircvcrishnessanl -1 nl.-Sl.EEP rcscttir.4 thcrcfrCTwnlnO ; : 1 2": ! ft H0f t.:iZ.'-i. cpy OX Wr-ipS... Brinjj your welding to us. Platts mouth Garage. Tel. 394. Edwin Fricke, v.lio has been visit in.!? ;.t hriine for a few days, departed last SautrJpy evenins for Ft. Snel lir.T, where he roes into training for ;he oflicers' divi-slon of the United States anuv. Ilalph Lar.-oii, of Company F, 5th Xebraska. who is stationed at Yy nioro, Nebraska, arrived in this city Saturday evening for a short visit vith his parents. He returned to Wyniore tliis morning. Jlisses Mae and (Jlenna Barker, from wrst of Mjnard. were in the city yesterday looking after some business matters at the office of the county superintendent of schools. Miss Mae Darker will teach at di rict m:mber nine the coming year, while .Miss Clenna will teach at dis trict number ninety-one. Mrs. J. V.". Tritseh and daughter. Ksther. returned this afternoon from 1 trip to the northern portion of the net p. They visited at Norfolk with i brother and sister of Mrs. Tritseh, Mr. Robert and Miss Ida Ilagcl, and at Osmond with Mr. Ed Hagel. They report having had a most excellent ;. iie.e w"iile away. Summer Complaint. During the hot weather of the sum mer months some member of almost every family is likeTy to be troubled with an unnatural looseness of the bowels, and it is of the greatest im portance that this be treated prompt ly, which can only be done when the medicine is kept at hand. Mrs. F. F. Scott, Scottsville, N. Y., states, "I first used Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as much as five years ago. At that time I had a se vere attack of summer complaint and was suffering intense pain. One dose relieved me. Other members of my family have since used it with like results." V -J L GLACIER The climax of the rugged grandeur of the Rockies an ideal vacation land. YELLOWSTONE The land of geysers, painted canyons, forests and " v.-aterfalls, via the Cody Way in automobiles, the scenic adventure of the summer. ESTES PARK Colorado's most beauiful vacation land, by automo- -" biles from Loveland or Lyons. Burlington service offers both routes. THE BLACK HLLS Picturesque and cool; the land of scented pines and medicinal waters, cool nights, trout streams and automobile - drives. THE BIG HORNS The Western Adirondacks; locality of quaint mountain ranches. THE ABSAROKAS Reached via Cody Scenic Road to Yellowstone. Biir came country and locality of splendid tourist ranches. Send for mmm For Infants and Children. iotas Know That benuine Castona Always pOQva fL. Of TvV M of MY 9 C5 o n or Over Thirty Years a a m stars THC ctMTtull company, new vouk Mrs. Robert Drissey, of Table Rock, Nebraska, is visiting at the home of her uncle, Ben C. Hyde, and wife. The Brisseys are farming near Table Rock, and Mrs. Brissey reports crops looking well down that way, and al so that the oats crop was very good this year. The corn promises to yield well if the early frosts do not catch it. For a while the weather was vers dry, hut the rains which came about three weeks ago, served to put the crops in good condition again. Public Sale! The undersigned will offer for sale at public auction on the Goos farm, one and a half miles south of riatts mouth. on the Rock Bluffs road, on Friday, August 31st, 1917. the following described property: One bay mare. 5 years old, weight 1,100 pounds; eleven milk cows and six heifers; one registerd Shorthorn hull; four yearling calves and thir teen calves from one to six months old; one sow with four pigs and one sow with five pigs. One manure spreader, two wagons, cue binder, two hay racks, two mow ers, one grinder, one rake, one sad dle, one seeder, one sulky plow, one disc, one stirring plow, one harrow, two bob sleds, one corn planter, one emery grindstone, two cultivators, two stacks of alfalfa hay, one walk ing lister combined. One silo, wood stave, 30x14 feet; capacity 100 tons. Sale commences promptly at 10 o'clock. Lunch served at noon. TERMS OF SALE A credit of from six to ten months will be given on all sums of $10 and over, purchas er giving bankable paper. Sums un der $10, cash. All property must be settled for before being removed. MRASEIv BROTHERS V. R. Young, Auctioneer. R. F. Tatterson, Clerk. IK F D LIST of TOUG3S or publications: "Glacier', i euowgione , btes, , Scenic Colorado", "Ranch Life in the Buffalo Bill Country", "Dude Ranches, Big Horn Mountains", "The Black Hils". Let us help you plan your vacation ni iny of these attractive localities. R. W. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent L. W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent, , . . , .Air. t