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PLATTSBIOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. pa (in . i THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1917. 3 Cbe plattsmoutb foiinial t'CBLISHED IEMI-WEEKLT AT PLATTSMOl'TH, NEBRASKA. Eitered at roetofflce at Plattmouth, Neb., as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher rSCRIPT10Jf PRICEl S1.5 The hunt ins season's here. :o: Xiinrods sure polishing their guns. -:o: Tluy say there- is plenty of quail and rabbits. :o: An early wntei is prophesied. . :o: Hut don't get seared until after Indian Summer. :o: The f.liov who talks his own brain to sleep is never interesting. :o: The trouble with mobt fast fel lows is that they are slow with their creditors. :o: One can't look at a company of Toy Oconto and despair of the coun try's future. :o:- If yru can't do anything but criti iise your neighbor, you're in mighty poor b'.i.-ine-'s. :o: J t -1 because a man is a fighter around home is no F.'gn he will make a goo i soldier. :o: Thos-je who pretend to know say that drinking near beer is like kiss ing your sister. :o: Those who look to the constitution for t scape from the draft are doom ed to complete disappointment. :o: Th-'re lIiouM be no I?ryan faction, i, or i n oilu-r faction (call it by what yot i:iay) in the democratic party of Nebra.ka but some pub lications are endeavcring to bring a:ididates for senator out, who are : ii k tly nieniui rs of the Eryan fac- :o: Ti e people of Kight Mile Grove I .- tiit.'L have soiue feeling for the boy drained for army service, and who soon will be called. The meet in their honor showed they had loi.io love and respect for their hoys, --.bile here in PlaUsmouth not even . tiVort has been made to give our boy- a. farewell reception, and but a very short time now remains in which to do s-.o. :o:- ('arl Kuusinan and 1 G. Egen bt rger, went to Omaha the other day b rg, wor to Omaha the other day in the car of Mr. Kgenberger, and when returning, brought Mrs. John 1". Carniach homo with them and she will visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kunman for about a wtek. John Carmack came down this morning and joined his wife, and will also spend his vacation here. Tluy both will enioy their vacation here it being their old time home. :o: We will state for the information of the new editor of the Eagle Bea con that wo knew personally the late lamented President Garfield, being a age in the Ohio state senate when tins illustrious gentleman was a member thereof, and that we was a member of the 40th O. V. I., which was a part of General Garfield's bri gad?. We attended his inauguration as president and had the pleasure of meeting him at the White House be fore leaving Washington and this was the last time we ever saw him I!e was indeed a friend that one could never forget. :o:- The government has finally decid od to deal with the I. W. W. agita tors as they should be dealt with Their i'gttation is bad enough in tunes of peace when we are patient and can stand for most anything, but to urge strikes at this time and gen era! tie-ups of industry is not only unpatriotic, but is little short of treason itself. Every patriot is will ing to make any sacrifices in these war times that will help to end the war as soon as possible. To hinder this laudible end is treason and all tfce-e who .contrive to in any way lv.udar it are traitors and should be dealt with as such. PER YEAR III ADTAXCE AN AMERICAN VICTORY. Peace is in the air because victory if: in the air. Victory is in the air because Amer ica is in the war. The thunder of the guns and the s.nashing drives of the armies of our allies on 500 miles of battle front are the response of the anti-German forces in Europe to our rally for the defense of democracy and humanity. The pleas for peace from Berlin to Constantinople are the answer of the Central Powers to our challenge of autocratic militarism. The potent influence of our en trance into war, with immediate preparations on a vast scale for its vigorous prosecution, is becoming manifest in two directions. It has infused confidence and fresh vigor in our allies. They are no long er timid. They are not sparing mon ey, guns, men or munitions, because they know that back of them are the great resources of America in money, men and all war materials. We arc preparing to spend 120,000,000,000 the first year. American troops are on the continent, an American fleet s in European waters. Nearly one million American soldiers are under arms and 557,000 men of the draft of 10,000,000 are nearly ready to go nto training camps. We are orga- ii-ing industries for ship construc- i.m and the making of guns and mu nitions on a vast scale. We are or ganizing food production and food .'istribUtion to assure ample food sup plies tor our own and our allies needs. Hunger and the fear of starvation passed from the doors of our allies when we entered the war. Out of this renewed confidence and ourage comes the greatest effensive igainst German', promising the one ireatest victory over German arms of lie war. Britain and France and Italy are striking hard. Distracted rtussia and feeble Rumania are also "stiffening: their resistance. On the other hand, hunger in grim form and fear beyond measure en tered the doors of the autocracies of Central Europe when we entered the war. I hey know in their hearts that defeat is inevitable and this know ledge is confusing their minds and paralyzing their strength. We struck a deadly moral blow at Prussian militarism when we decid ed that peace was impossible and war in defense of justice and liberty was imperative. We awakened mankind to the menace of armed, irresponsible and greedy autocracy. "We aroused in the breasts of all men the inspira tion of freedom, independence and self-government as the goal of vic tory over military despotism. President Wilson drove a wedge between the German militarists and the German people when he declar ed mat our war was against imperial militarism for the freedom of all peo ples on the face of the earth.- He fired mankind with a new hope and fresh courage for the battle against oppression everywhere. The victory we are winning will not be a victory for the ambition or the greed of any nation; it will not be a victory for the crushing of any people; it will be a victory for our own precious American principles and ideals a victory for civilization and humanity which in the end assures a peace of justice. St. Louis Post Dispatch. ;o:- Maryland's plan of putting every man to work U the newest and san est proposition we have heard of. in years. And thi3 compulsion act will cause the members of the I. W, W. to give Maryland a wide birth There should be such a law in every state, and their motto should be "No Work, No Eats." Nest Monday Labor Day. "MIGHT" AND "RIGHT" Iu Thursday's dispatches the Ger man imperial foreign secretary. Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, was quoted to this effect: "A policy based on might alone, and not on right, is doom ed to failure from the begin ning. The rights of the neu trals and their necessary con ditions of existence we shall be most careful to respect AS FAR AS IS COMPATIBLE WITH OUR OWN MILITARY NEEDS. To arrest further defection of important neutrals is an extra ordinary serious and important task confronting us. We can only solve it successfully by observing the principle that in politics might counts, but also Tight, and that only if we base our conduct on both can we hope to achieve lasting results." The psychology of the German rul- i . . . ing class is apparently us nopeiess as its ethics is debased. No better proof need be searched for than is disclos ed in the foregoing paragraph. What is it Dr. von Kuehlmann ys? In plain words, this: Might is important. Right is important too. We should base our conduct on both. But Might comes first. We are anxious to drive no other neu trals into war against us, and so "We shall be most careful to respect their rights as far as is compatible with our own military needs." And this clearly, is intended as a reassuring statement! It is meant to convey the notion that the German government of today is a better than the government that committed the crime against Belgium and sank the Lusitania. Its purpose, if it has any purpose at all, is to assure those neutrals that have not yet been driv en, by German wrongs, to war on Germany, that they need have no fear, tha their rights will be re nted, that their big neighbor is just as well as strong. And then, in the same breath, "as far as is com patible with our own military needs." Who is there that would not be just as fair as it was compatible with his own needs! What most degraded criminal that ever walked to the gallows ever re fused to obey the law as far as it wras compatible with his own indi vidual needs! It was because the German gov ernment deemed it incompatible with ts own military needs to respect its plighted word that it outraged Bel gium. It was because it deemed it in compatible with its own military needs to respect the laws of nations and humanity that it sank the Lusi tania. . But German might does not stop there. It was under the reorganiz ed cabinet for which Dr. Kuehlmann speaks that only recently 41 prison ers of war were lined up half-naked on the deck of a German submarine, their life boats destroyed, and they themselves left miserably to perish as the U boat submerged. What military need" was subserved by that act of brutality? It was on the very day that Dr. von Kuehlmann was speaking that German aviators, near Verdun, drop ped incendiary bombs on two hos pitals, and then, flying low, turned loose their machine guns, murdering the wounded and murdering the nurses who were trying to rescue them. What "military need" de manded that atrocity? It is against the government that commands and sanction such crimes, it is against the barbaric philosophy to which it Is committed, that prac tically -the whole world is in arms, prepared to fight to the last man and the last dollar until both are buried so deep they can never be resurrect ed World-Herald. :o:- This war is the last great effort of the common people to free them selves from the burden and dicta tion of the titled aristocracy, which has ridden on the backs of mankind tor thousands of years. There is but one way out of the contest and that is, over the prostrate forms of kiugs and their supporters.. - ;o ; . .... Sometimes a man is lucky when he fails to get what he wants. v Also, would be the fejow who gets what he wants, v . . "HOLD ON" COMMANDMENTS. 1. Hold - onto your hand when you are about to do an unkind act. 2. Hold onto your tongue when you are just ready to speak harshly. 3. Hold onto your heart when evil persons urge you to join their ranks. 4. Hold onto your virtue it is above all price to you in all times and places. 5. Hold onto your foot when you are on the point of leaving the path of right. 6. Hold onto the truth, for it will serve you better than anything" else. 7. Hold onto your temper when you are excited or angry or others are angry with you. 8. Hold onto your good name; t is and ever will be an asset in your journey through life. 9. Hold onto your wits, so thoy will not be wandering when you need them most. :o: THE RICH MAN'S WAR. No previous war has seen such systematic and drastic taxation of wealth for war purposes as this one. Under the senate bill the man who has an income of 11,000,000 will pay more than half of it to the gov ernment. He will pay $500,000 as a surtax under the new law, and $110,000 as a surtax under the old law and $40,000 as a normal tax under the old law total $650,000, leaving him $350,000 out of his mil lion. Henry Ford's personal income last year is said to have been about $50,- 000,000, which means that Mr. Ford wil have to pay to the government over $30,000,000 in income taxes if he makes as much money in the year. to come. The man with an income, between $750,000 and $1,000,000 must pay 45 per cent surtax in ad dition to the surtax and normal tax of the old laws; and so must be the levy at a declining tax rate, down through the smaller incomes of the rich people of the United States. It will be said that, after paying these enormous taxes, the rich will still have enough to live on in com fort. True; but it cannot be said that they will enjoy paying taxes that takes half their income, nor can it be fairly said that they pre fer war to peace because it is more profitable to them. Before we get through with it, the notion that this is a rich man's war, in the sense that the rich as a class fatten on it and revel in it, will be kicked sky high. Springfield Republican. Our old friend Bowlby, of the Creete Democrat gets off the follow ing, which contains a whole lot of truth in a very few words: "When a man gets an office, as a rule he at once becomes ambitious to fill some high position, no one ever dreamed that he was compet ent to fill." This hits some fellows most completely up around the state house, and we guess the old man knew who he meant when he wrote it. -:o:- Our city is honored with the Cass county school ma'am this week, and we defy any other county to even at tempt to turn out as good looking class of young ladies. There is not an old maid among. That speaks well also of our past teachers, who have gotten married or gone into other business. School ma-am is al ways preferable for a wife by any young man with good common sense. :o:- Don't condemn an idea set forth by another simply because it doesn't happen to fit your case. . Remember that conditions frequently altar cas es. There may be a rare gem bur ied in that idea for you if you will but dig it out and shape it to your own conditions. ;o:- The man who will teach hatred in any community is not a very de sirable citizen and nearly everybody shuns him. .:o:- Secoud call for Liberty bonds soon. A EUSINESS MAN'S PRAYER. Teach me that 60 minutes make an hour, 16 ounces one pound, and 100 cents one dollar. Help me to live so that I can lie down at night with a clear con science and unhaunted by the faces of those to whom I have brought, pain. Grant that I may earn my meal ticket on the square. Deafen me to the jingle of taint ed money and the rustle of unholy skirts. Blind me to the faults of other felows, but reveal to me mine own. Guide me so that each night when I lok across the dinner table at my wife, I will have nothing to con ceal. Keep ine young enough to laugh with my children. And when come the smell of flowers and the tread of soft steps, and the crunching of wheels out in front, make the ceremony short and the epithet simple: 'Here lies r, man." Western Farmer. -:o: BUSINESS AND PATRIOTISM. The only way out of the present price-market is backward backward to prices within sanity. But how can that way be built? Certainly net by the individual producer. If I own ci keg of nails, and all my customers are crazj- for nails, as they arc, r.nd if one of them offers me $3.20 and the next ?3.50 and the next $4, it is useless to tell me that the boys in France are dying. The boys in France are dying under concerted binding or for concerted binding purposes, with concerted binding enthusiasms. I am an utter ly unbound and unordered individual competing with numerous other ut terly unbound and unordered indi viduals, eacli of whof.i may desert at any moment from the ?3.2u price to the ?4 price, and all of whom I very strongly suspect of having already deserted, leaving me to die in my dug-out. Of what avail is it for senators and representatives to attack such situa tions with a fire of moral maxims leveled at the "patriotism" of the individual business man? Of what avail is it to try to make out that such, situations can be mastered, that prices can be contrcled, that the mar ket can bo stabilized, by a sort of individual industrial volunteering, is as absurd, as unjust, as ineffective as individual military volunteering. Ev ery senator, every representative, who really wants to see consumers pro tected against oppressive prices of primary commodities, will surely be driven to doing his best to help the administration to devise a competent method of public price-control. New Republic. -:o: Publicity makes the world move. -:o: It is time for Villa to get killed again. -:o: Feace signs may be hopeful, if nothing else. Bring: your welding to us. Flatts mouth Garage. Tel. 394. A NECESSITY Mrs. Collier Says Could Not Keep Hcrase Without Black-Draught. Hardin, Mo. Mrs. J. W. Collier, of this town, who knows from experienco of the merit of Black-Draught Liver Medicine, has following to say for publication: "I want to let everybody know that I have used Thedford's Black-Draught for manyyears, and it U just what is claimed for it. I am never without Black-Draught, and really I couldn't keep house without it. Whenever I feel bad, I take a small dose, and feel better right away. I advise everybody who suffers from liver or stomach trouble to use Black-Draught Liver Medicine." For three-quarters of a century (75 years), Thedford's Black-Draught has been regulating: irregularities of the liver, stomach and boweh, and has long been recognized as the standard remedy. It is a fixture in thousands of homes as the main stay of the fam ily medicine chest. If you have not tried it, get a pack aT from your nearest dealer, today. He sells it in 25c and $1.00 packages, making it cost you only one cent a dose. NCB3 V w - jUpagl J a? rnm.-: VF.Tl GENT. : AVc5cJaU?rrcpr:ra?ioibrAs- simiJalirVi-'CFood trKcguto i t i r. ; fStofiiAi-KS awl H J.'.vls ci L-Vii! rucrcPfomctiniDiiJcsUon s - i i r"i-..- -T.,iT?.-t5 CnnUiUS l' ; iuiCCTii:n:ws3iu.""--"- i. .-.. f.-,;:m farrhtr.e nor 1 j Mineral. Not AncoTc htm SrtJ : r I . '. 1- '.: ' i Constipation ana uiu . fit LOSS OK SLEEP I rac-vjic Siiatcrcof j 4 " n la t 3 Excct Copy of Wrapper. ENTERTAINED AT ' GARFIELD PARK Last evening the Commercial club entertained the visiting school teach ers at a watermelon feed, at (lar lield p.irk, which was attended by over a hundred of the in3tructors of Cass county. Music and songs were r. portion of the features of the even in jr. as well as contests of various; kind, such a eating con tests r.f different groups, resulting in a number of tho.e groups winning prizes. One contest was won by Miss Xeushafter and her bevy of seven teachers, which was a water melon weighing seventy-two pounds. Another prize was won by Mrs. Cochcl, and her crowd. During the evening the Ehnwood teachers fav ored the crowd with many soles of which were one of the distinctive charms of the occasion. tm Reward, 160 The tcj.Ccts r.f this p:per will bo rl'isoi'. to i. urn that t'n re Is at least .-r.o dr--3s2ed direise that science has hem able to -ure 1m e.U its stace--? r.r.d that is. o-uarrii. Catarrh Ixlng greatly inllucaeed by fir.stltutiorial conditions requires ror.s'.ituti r.al treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts thru the Iwood on the Mucous Sur faces of the System ther-hy destroy ins1 the foundation of the dhcns', pivinjj the pfint stror.trih by baiidins? cp the coa sihution and nsshs'imx nature in doinrits v,r;i. Tho prop:-!e-:ovs have ro much faith in th-' curative papers of Hall's Catarrh Medic: no font they offer One I ru ad red IVll.irs for any rate thai it fa:l3 to cure ficv.'i f'r list of testimonials. ddiTFS I J. CITKNF.V & CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold by all Drurirt. 75, ' -J . , . i Ml Ever-ready entertainment The unexpected guest is royally entertained with the music of the 9 The world's best music always at your instant command a pleasure to your friends ar well as to your family. Come in and let ur, joys of this wonderful ( instrument. Victrol.r! $!S to Victors $10 ta Terms to s uit r convenience DDI .I For Infants and Children. Know That IIlII.IIU B .Jl T " C I K I J Always Bears tlie Signature For Over illy Years THE CENTAUR COMPACT, ft E W VOHK CITT. VISITED FT. SNELLING. Miss Olive Gass, and Miss Lucy Arnold, after a two weeks visit at Minneapolis, where they were the guests of Mr. C. B. Enterstein, re turned home this morning. Miss Cass reports things looking fine in that portion of the country, and that they visited the numerous lakes and summer resorts in that region, find ing the weather most delightful, and just recently approaching the criipiness of the mornings and eve nings, which denotes the approach of early autumn, and is a harbenger of the coming winter. They visited Ft. Snelling. which is just across the river and only a few miles away, so near that the cannon can be plain ly heard in Minneapolis. Speaking of the drilling, which she witnessed on the grounds at the fort, she said it was grand. There are at present about three hundred boys for the navy with those of the army, and with the officers in training makes the place very busy. FARM FOR SALE. The Bcins homestead, 3 miles south of Plattsmouth. Inquire of E. W. Beins, or call Phone 4211. PIANO INSTRUCTION. On September 3rd Miss Olive Gass will begin the Fall term of her class in music. Telephone 292 any time after August 30th. a27-lwdaw introduce you to the your -f,k-&3& E. . r K I 13 11 Mothers jM 1 b H H iVt ft Jr a .Pt& RI - Th (