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PLATTSMO UTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1917.
0c plattsrnoutb journal
PUBLISHES SEMI-WBEKLT AT PLATTSMOl'TH, NEBRASKA.
a.tr4 at Fostofflce at Plattsmouth. Neb., as second-clasa mall matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICK l fljf PER TEAR Uf ADTAKCR
I knead thee every hour
I am the baker man.
And work just as fast
As anybody can.
Lightening the little loaf
So it can raise the price so
The coin can come to me.
For I knead the dough.
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Cut out your bee-iug.
How's your hay fever'
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America First!" All the time.
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If Mr. Hop; goes higher, he'll nee'J
an airplane.
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The Canadian boys are fighters,
without doubt.
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The way to have things comin.r
your way go after them.
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When it comes to going on for
ever. Congress has it all over Teu
neyfon's "Brook."
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If men were as slow to anger as
they are to pay, there would be much
less trouble in the world.
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You never appreciate how power
ful an influence a woman has un
til she asks for something.
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"Man is Unconquerable," says an
article. We'll give you two guesses:
"Was it on the sporting page or the
woman s page?
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Only one or two more wrestling
matches like that pulled off in
Omaha on Labor Day night and it
will be good-bye to the sport in Ne
braska's metropolis.
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Whcn anotlur county superintend
ent is elected let. it be with the
understanding that he or she serves
her or his time out. Matrimony
should cut no figure.
"What would you do, if your phy
sician said you only had ninety days
to live?" From an advertisement.
Try to get an extension of another
thirty days time, avc suppose.
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Far be it from us to be pessimistic
but if you have any ambition to be
a writer and expect to make any
money out of it, better confine your
stuff to the want ad column.
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Richmond (California) has a hen
tbat crows like a rooster. Nothing
new about that. Plattsmouth has
several old hens that crow constant
ly when not asleep.
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A fashion dictator nays skirts will
not be much shorter during the war.
If tliry were, many a lace collar
would be passed off as a skirt.
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With women taking men's jobs, a
lot of cynics arc weeping over the
fact they may never get men's wages.
Ask any married man whether
women can get mu's wages.
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These are strenuous days. Even.
the baud seems to be working with
a strain and the auto is tired. liu.t
the hose seems to be having a good
time playing on the lawn.
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Hardin county, Kentucky, is at the
top of the list again. This county,
the home of Abraham Lincoln, wa?
asked to furnish 132 men under the
selective draft. Only 12 men were
examined, all were physically lit and
none claimed exemption.
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The government carca not a whit
how many times we have to empty
our man's size waste-basket. Gobs
of "free" publicity continues to ar
rive in every mall. If everyone is
wasting paper like the government,
r.o Vou'ier ne-vurint btlls.at Hue:
finish stock prices.
THE MAYOR OF CHICAGO. ,
Chicago has a mayor on its hands
and he is a hard problem to figure
out. He is perhaps the most prom
inent and j persistent and outspoken
antagonist in the country today of
war measures and policies. He op
poses the draft, opposes the sending
of troops to fight to keep the war
from our own shores, opposes loans
to our hard-beset allies, and is the
directing genius of a weekly paper,
the "Chicago Republican," which in
its every issue flagrantly and ma
liciously attacks the President and
criticises everything he is trying to
do.- If Mayor Thompson's words and
efforts lose the war, its allies would
sink to the level of subject states
and the German autocracy would
bestride the earth like a colossus, a
constant and growing and vindic
tively hostile menace to our own lib
erty and security.
It is not German blood that im
pels William Hale Thompson to this
course, for he has none in him. It
is not a perverted and insane radi
calism or internationalism or anar
chistic taint, that explains his coi
duct, for he is a man of wealth, io
puted a millionaire, is a conserva
tive in politics and a member of the
very conservative Hamilton club of
Chicago. It is not a rcligrous preju
dice against all war. for he i? re
garded as very liberal in his code
of thought and conduct, a "good
sport" and a "good fclicw" among
"the beys." For nearly ten years he
breathed the pure ozone of Colorado
Montana, Wyoming an I Nebraska
as a rancher. He is a member of
various athletic and vackting clubs.
He has served as a'dermm and
county commissioner in Chicago as
well as mayor. He ha? a beautiful
home on Sheridan road. I lis coun
try has been vefy good to him, and
one would think Jie would be grate
ful to it, and support it in the hour
of danger, if only out of regard for
benefits conferred.
Amazing as it may seem, the one
explanation offered in Chicago for
lis strange conduct is that lu is in
spired by political ambition. Tt is
said that he desires to go tc the J-en-
ate he was "prominently men
tioned" a couple of year-? ago for
the presidency! and tfcaf. he is
counting ou his opposition to an
"unpopular war" to further his po
litical aspirations.
It is hard to believe that a sup
posedly sane man could make so
stupid a mistake. It sems pre
posterous that any man shcuM think
he would be rewarded by his lellow-
citizens for lending aid and com
fort to a dangerous and formidable
enemy engaged in makin.? war on
them. If he has that hallucination
he is due for a rude awakening, and
the sooner it can be brought to ii'm
the better. The American people,
ordinarily, are tolerant and easy
going. They can forgive the man
who from honest conviction opposed
our entry into the war, especially
since no many of them, with the
light given them at the time, also
opposed it. But they cannot ani
will net forgive him when he contin
ues to oppose the war now that wc
arc in it, and when his words are
poisoned bullets fire'd at the backs
of their sons aud brothers. They
can -admire and respect the man who,
sympathizing with Germany while
wc were still a neutral, now lenda
loyal support to his own country
Out. they can have nothing but con
tempt for him who, having no es
pecial war sympathies or prejudices
when it was Europe that was fight
ing, developes a prejudice against
the United .States and helps to
weaken its arm now that this coun
try has besu forced into the terri
ble struggle. No people, worthy to
hold up its head among the nations
of the earth, ever rewarded sedition
or treason.
It is not only in itself that Mayor
Thompson's course is contemptible,
It is doubly so because of the ex
ample it sets to other addle-pates
who are encouraged by him to poison
the wells of America. It is a blister
ing disgrace to the nation that the
mayor of its second city should be
advertised to the world as the ally
of the national enemy, and that his
words and actions should be cited in
Germany, in Austria-Hungary, in
Russia, as evidence that our people
are divided and that their heart is
not in the cause for which their
young men will soon be dying in
agony.
It is because Mayor Thompson's
offense is a continuing offense, be
cause his conduct grows from day
to day more rather than less sedi
tious, that Chicago, and the great
state of Ilinois. owe it to the repub
lic to take whatever steps are neces
sary to insure that he shall no long
er be regarded as a spokesman of
theirs. He stands before the world
today, encouraging our enemies, dis
heartening our allies and shaming
ourselves, dignified by the high of
ficial honors that have been con
ferred upon him. The situation is
an intolerable one. World Herald.
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HELPING WIN THE WAR.
Rural Nebraska is enjoying high
er prestige at the state fair now in
progress than it has ever enjoyed
before, although Nebraska's fair has
always been distinctively an agricul
tural enterprise.
However this year agriculture has
ittained new important. It is the
man behind the gun. The farmers
were early given tc understand that
they must share equally with the
soldiers responsibility for the results
of the great conflict, a responsibility
which they accepted without com
plaint. And if there should be any
untoward circumstance in the near
future connected with our participa
tion in the war, the farmer has dili-
:ently and carefully provided that
t. hall not be any fault of his. He
has done his share.
Nebraska's lean year fairs have
always been marvels, and its fat year
fairs have been stupendous. This
is altogether the fattest year this
state has had for many years. De
spite discouragements the aggregate
of crops is enormous. In former
years when the state enjoyed big
crops reduced prices tempered the
prosperity and satisfaction of the
producer. This year brought not
only large yields but high prices.
and in every corner of the state
hapiness has reigned in spite of the
imminence of war losses in blood and
treasure.
Obviously that optimism is finding
expression at the great agricultural
exposition. Nebraska's smiling plen
ty is the happiest harbinger of vic
tory at the front.
It need hardly be stated that the
people of Lincoln gladly share in
the joys of this year's play-days for
farmers. This is the greatest and
most welcome of Lincoln's annual
festivals, when Nebraskaus from ev
ery portion of the state are doubly
welcome and when it is the ambi
tion of the people of this city to
make the slay of their visitors in
every way agreeable to all concern
ed. If there be anybody anywhere who
for a moment doubts that Nebraska
is doing her share in a patriotic way
that person should come to the fair
and be shown. Lincoln Star.
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Did you ever hear of a watermelon
being too heavy for a small boy to
carry?
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If the German people would hock
instead of hoch dcr kaiser, they
would fare better.
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It may be all right to praise
family of five -boys who have gone
into the army, and it is probably
all right to say that these 5 sons are
each holding lucrative positions, id
wUlcU tUq pay is tivs times as large
as that of a private.
BUSINESS AND WAR TIME.
It will be to the everlasting credit
and honor of business that it rushed
to the support and co-operation of
the nation the minute it entered
the European war and that business
threw itself, unreservedly, its whole
man power and material power, in
to the breech of national need.
Regardless of present petty and
pernicious efforts to discredit busi
ness, to foment class feeling, or keep
down the surging tide of patriotic
passion a process still going on in
certain quarters the part that busi
ness is playing will not escape the
people. Time will serve only to
make clearer the perspective. Time
always does that. Those who imag
ine that they can dim or deny in
the future the facts of the present
are dead to the force of human ex
perience. We would suggest a warning to
any who may be conjuring the idea
tn their minds that they can keep
the masses from understanding the
wisdom, the righteousness and the
patriotic value of what business, as
a whole, is doing for the nation in
this, the nation's hour of supreme
need. Let such beware, for just so
surely as the future bestows its bene
diction upon business, just as surely
will it pour out its malediction up
on the dissenters, detractors, the
defamers.
America will never need to excuse;
or apologize for her entrance into
this war. For more than two years
and a half she did all that self
respect and honor could do to avoid
war. She endured the most wanton.
willful and intolerable outrages
from the most ruthless despot of all
history. She exhausted the powers
of diplomacy, of international comity,
of reasonable a peal, of every re
course to the abitrament of peace
n a vain and futile, effort to keep
out of the war. She saw her citi.-
zens, helpless women and children,
murdered in cold blood, without
provocation, on the high seas, her
ships denied the right of passage.
She saw her peaceful industries-
factories and mills dynamited at
fearful monetary and some mortal
cost, and as a part of that diabolical
plot for world domination by this
ruthless depotism. Then she caught.
red-handed and active, the accredit
ed representatives of this uncon
scionable autocracy at the capital
engaged in the devilish business of
trying to array two friendly powers
against this nation and finally, all
possibility of maintaining further
peace gone, America eniereu inc
a J 1 A. 1-
war, as President Wilson said "God
helping her, she could do no other."
That is the record, that, will be
history's record. Now, at war Amer
ica needs, must have, the full co
operation of every element of her
citizenship. Of business, she has it.
Let any man or organizations of men
who may not be doing their utmost
for the nation now take warning.
Public opinion, rules a democracy.
Public opinion is going to be more
potent after this war than it ever
has been. Let men beware of it'i
wrath, its fury. It may not sec as
clearly through all the veils o?
sophistry and demogogy today as
it will see afterwards, when time
Poultry Wanted!
Highest rriarket price paid in
cash at all times.
IKIatt
tears away the veils and exposes the
skeleton of truth. Forces that to
day may be "strong in politics," may
have a brow-beating influence over
craven office-holders, had better be
ware. What only partially-organized
public sentiment now condones,
winks at or justifies, will become an
object of its bitterest contempt in
that day of definite understanding,
after war has spent is fury upon us,
takes its toll of our young man
hood. It will be too late then merely to
hope, memory will exact her retri
bution. As Lincoln said:
"You may fool some of the people
all of the time, you may fool all of
the people some of the time, but you
can't fool ALL the people ALL of
the time."
Sulkers, slackers, apologists foj
the enemy, in whatever relation or
capacity they may be, anybody and
everybody who positively or nega
tively withholds free-liandsd and
full-hearted support and co-operation
from the United States in this per
iod of her crucial trial, will, we are
certain, have occasion to regret it
when war marks plain all things
to all men. '
Our friendly suggestion is, beware.
Civilization is at the forks of the
road nothing but its utmost will
do.
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TIME FOR PRUSSIANISM TO GO.
"We waste time and effort in
worrying about (he Russian situa
tion," said Representative C. N. Mc-
Arthur to the national house of rep
resentatives recently, "when we have
a great menace at home. If we are
to' win this war we must put our
house in order before .we offer
gratuitous advice to th- allies. We
must pursue a policy that will give
Frussianisui no quarter in this coun
try. It musl. be wiped out."
Klihu Root and other members of
the Ameircan mission to Russia de
clared upon their return home fro::;
their visit to that troubled country
that conditions were worse in this
country than among the Russian
people.
The Nebraska Council uf Defense
is right in its resolutions, but right
only so far as i hose resolutions go.
They do not go far m enough. When,
the council declared against the
teaching of German in the public
schools "during the period of this
war," it was too considerate. There,
should never be any teaching of Ger
man in the public schools of Amer
ica. Of course if this war ends as
we all hope and pray it may end,
the menace embodied in the promo
tion of foreign propaganda through
our schools and libraries and through
a foreign language press may never
again be acute, but it is a bad busi
ness at best.
Americans have been oblivious
with respect to the subtle process of
kaiserism. They have little under
stood the purposes and7 aims of such,
organizations as the- German-American
Alliance, that institution which
has, out of its own fine understand
ing of itself, concluded since we
got into the war to hold no more na
tional meetings.
To that alliance, and to the Ger
man language ifress it has sustain
ed is attributable the promotion of,
acute kaiserism in this country.,
the exultation of the kaiser as a di
vinely appointed ruler, the super
inanism of the German people, the
VauivtSd superiority of Germany's
brutal and bloody civilization and
the divinely allotted mission of those
supermen to carry that civilization
into all parts of the world.
t is shocking to think that Amer
icans have been asleep to the men
ace involved in the circulation thru
our state traveling libraries of son;
books containing such lines as
these:
Where love aud loyalty so dedi
cate themselves to the kaiser,
Where prince and people thus ex
tend the hand to one another,
Tliere must be true prosperity l
the people thrive; ,
There blooms aud flourishes thfc
beautiful fatherland.
SO LET US SWEAR A NEW LOVE
Children Cry
AWwm ail pi i fml
The Kind You Have Always
in use for ever over 30 years, has bcrne tti2 signature of
Allow
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-gocd " are but
Bxperiments that trule with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment,
What isCASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for C;istor 0:1, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
reithcr Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
fige is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
teen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
"V7ind Colic and Diarrhoea ; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The ilother's Friend.
QEMUIWS CASI
Bears the
S3
b Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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AND LOYALTY TO THE KAISER;
Firm be the alliance; yet, let us
spiritually clasp hands.
We are Prussians let us Prus
sians b'j.
Fine -dope tl.at to he circulating
nuions Americans in a language
which makes i!y circulation subtly
evasive of surveillance. Not only
should it r.ot he circulated "duriuir
the period of this war." Never
should it bo- circulated in America
It is temporizing with flagrant
evil to attempt to read over 1,200
books to eliminate the kaiserism
from them. Every miserable Ger
man book should bp thrown ckU.
The state library board should meet
and recall from circulation those
pernicious books.
There is much that is beautiful
in Gorman life. Our Christmas cere
monies and mysticisms come largely
from Germany, and thousands, put
in their lives in that country Christ
mas toys. The German Christmas
is beautiful. Americans should
learn it, but when it is taught in
this country it should be taught in
our own language.
Every effort from this time n
should be to Americanize the Ger
man who comes among us, rather
than to Germanize the American.
Lincoln Star.
Has a High Opinion cf Chamberlain's
Tablets.
"I have a high opinion of Cham
berlain's Tablets for biliousness and
as a laxative," writes Mrs. C. A.
Barnes, Charleston, 111. "I have nev
er found anything so mild and pleas
ant to use. My brother has also us
ed these tablets with satisfactory re
sults." Journal Want-Ads Pay!
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Withdrawn September 30t h
10 EASTERN CITIES AND KES0JITS: The entire scheme of Eastern sum
mer fares will be available during September, with return limits good
until October olt; this is the last opportunity of the year to visit
the East at reduced rates.
TO THE PA-CIFIC COAST: The low-rates circuit tours are also available
prior to September 30th; these are much lower than the winter fares.
Our Scenic Colorado California route is especially extractive during
the Auturim.
TO WESTERN RESOItTS: Y(Ml can go to Colorado and Estcs Park at very
cheap fares during tuia month. Estes Park in September is an ideal
place for a "rapid-health-come-back."
The big National Parks will be open until September loth. Tho
DJack Hills are available throughout the month.
The ranches about Sheridan, Kanchester and Cody wilj all be open
and can take -excellent care of you after the departure of 'the mid
summer crowds.
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for FleteheKs
Bought, and "which has been
and has been maae under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
no one to deceive you in this.
O R A ALWAYS
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MET AT MEISINGER HOME.
From Fridav's Datlv.
The Auxiliary society of St. Taul's
church met ysterday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. George Meisinger, Sr.,
at 2:30. The meeting was opened
by the president. After the prayer,
the pastor of, St. Paul's church read
an article "A Declaration of the De
pendence of Women," in which he
pointed out the women are depen
dent on their homes for their world
wide influence. If America becomc3
a Godless nation, it will be because
we have "Godless homes. From the
home center the women have a won
derful opportunity to reach out to the
utmost part of the earth. The wom
en are, also, dependent on the church,
especially in this Omadricentcnnial
of the glorious Reformation. Women
should render most hearty thanks
for the trutli released through the
Reformation, that not only may all
men be priests unto God but that all
women may be priestesses. No re
ligion, save the religion of Jesus
Christ, has such a place for women."
The minutes of the last meeting
were read by Mrs. Henry Born, as
the secretary was not present. After
the business meeting was over the la
dies enjoyed their coffee and cake and
were all happy to have a short time
for recreation. Mrs. Win. Schutz in
vited the society for the next meet
ing which will be held October 4th.
FISHING IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
From Friday's Daily.
Grovenor liuffner, who is in the
lumber business at Obert, Neb., just
a little ways this side of the South
Dakota line, having found a good fish
ing place just over the line in South
Dakota, which he gave a thorough
try-out to his own satisfaction, has
written Carl Vriclco about it and
now Carl is trying his luck in the
same place. All you people who like
fish, just diet yourself for the
feast which is to come when Carl
gets back.
Obey the Law. Order your Osgood
Lens. Plattsmouth Garage. All sizes.
Send for publications descriptive of any trip
you may have in mind and let us help you."
W. B. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent.
L. W. WAKELY, General Passenger Agent,
1004 Fanma Street - - Omalig, Nebr.
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