PLATTSBIOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1917.
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The hunt ins season's here.
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Xiinrods sure polishing their guns.
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Tluy say there- is plenty of quail
and rabbits.
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An early wntei is prophesied.
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Hut don't get seared until after
Indian Summer.
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The f.liov who talks his own brain
to sleep is never interesting.
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The trouble with mobt fast fel
lows is that they are slow with their
creditors.
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One can't look at a company of
Toy Oconto and despair of the coun
try's future.
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If yru can't do anything but criti
iise your neighbor, you're in mighty
poor b'.i.-ine-'s.
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J t -1 because a man is a fighter
around home is no F.'gn he will make
a goo i soldier.
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Thos-je who pretend to know say
that drinking near beer is like kiss
ing your sister.
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Those who look to the constitution
for t scape from the draft are doom
ed to complete disappointment.
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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-
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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.
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('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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The man who will teach hatred
in any community is not a very de
sirable citizen and nearly everybody
shuns him.
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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.
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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.
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Publicity makes the world move.
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It is time for Villa to get killed
again.
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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
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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.
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always at your instant
command a pleasure to
your friends ar well as to
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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
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