The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, October 22, 1917, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
PAGE FOUE. Cbc plattsmoutb journal rraUIBKO fUII-WECKLT AT JrXATMMOUTH, NICBIU-SKA. mUret at Fostofflce at Plattsmoutb. Neb., as coad-clas mall matter. R. A. DATES, Publisher imfomiPTiQV r kicb i wiM rmm a m adtahcb Don't worry. Its bad policy. :o: Smile and look pleasant. :o: It pays. In buying new shoes, lookout for the pinch. v :o: Corn husking machines are ready for the work and many farmers now. own one of these swift huskers. :o: A man may be just as much of a slacker on the 'Liberty Loan as the fellow who makes a false affidavit to escape the draft. ;o: The Tolstoi estate in Russia has been pilaged by peasants. That's how Tolstoi's doctrine of unrestrain ed brotherly love works In practice. :o: If you contemplate laying in a big supply of 2 cent stamps before the new postage rates goes into ef fect, don't forget to buy plenty of "ones" too. :o: ' Bobby La Follette may be smart, but not smart enough to bluff the entire government of the United ! States. He will soon have to crawl j in his hole, and pull the hole in af ter him. And then farewell, Bobby! :o:- This literary outcry by the rail roads about their patriotic co-operation with the government toward winning the war begins to get on one's nerves, for it is just what ev erybody else is supposed to be do ing without making so much fuss over it and without looMng for profits. Lincoln Star. :o: The writer received a letter yes Iprday from our former reporter, Frank II. Smith, with whom we have been associated for fifteen years, floated it was a new thing to Amer and it revives many of the scenes of ica. Only a proportion of the former years. We are glad that American people had ever bought ?. i Frank is in the enjoyment of good health and is well pleased with his work. He reports all the PlattS- mouth and Cass boys doing well, but he is not favorably impressed surprised to find that they got any with the Deming, but he has to grin thing back they had merely made and bear it. We hope Frank will have good health, and ever be on the look out for the treacherous greasers. I -:o: I WHAT IS A GOVERNMENT BOND? Q. When I lend my money to the United States Government, what do I get in return? A. You get a promissory note giv en by the United States Government and bearing interest. This note is called a "bond." Q. What, then is a United States Government bond? A. It is the direct and uncondi tional promise of the United States of America to pay upon a certain date a specified sum of money in gold, together with interest at a specific rate, payable at specific date, until the bond matures, or is called for redemption. Q. In what form is this promise? A. It is engraved upon a sheet of distinctive paper used only for the money and securities of the United States, and is executed by the Sec retary of the Treasury and by the Registrar of the Treasury and seal ed with the Treasury Department teal. Q. When are bonds of the second Iberty loan dated? A. November 15, 1917, is the date they will bear, because that is the .date on whch they will be Issued by the Government and the date on which Interest begins. , Q. When will these bons be paid by the Government; that is, when will fhey become due? A. November 15, 1942; but the Government has the right to pay them any time after 10 years from. uaie oi iuc uuuui ... No one has any use for a waster. :o:- The old hen always swells up in delivering the goods. :o: The first thing your enemy does is to seek your faults. :o: The grouch always loses in com petition with the man who smiles. :o: There is nothing slack about the way the government get the slack ers. Very few men would gamble on p straight chance game; they like to think they are backing their judg ment. . :o: Out of thousands of exemption claims, the Minneapolis (Kansas) Better Way has found only one who had nerve to admit he was afraid to go to war. ':o: The base ball fans are through for this season, and can now turn their attention to foot ball for a few weeks. Then the baby game of basket ball for the balance of the winter. :o: WHY YOU SHOULD BUY LIBERTY BONDS. The war cannot be fought with out money, and mSst of the cost of the war must come from this source. It is your duty to subscribe as much as you can; but it is not giving to the government, it is lending to it lending your money at a good rate of interest to a nation with the best credit on earth. It is not a gift, but a sound investment. When the first liberty loan was bond in their lives before. There were authentic instances of people who snhscrihed thoir ivhnlp Ravines to the liberty loan, and then were a good Investment when they thought they were making a gift to their country. Yet millions of people subscribed to liberty loan bonds, and there are today in this country a hundred times as many bondholders as there ever were be fore if not a thousand times as many. This time it will be differ ent. Investment in government bonds is no longer a new ""thing. Everybody is famiilar with it. Most people that you know bought lib erty bonds and have now paid for them and are ready to buy some more. ' The campaign for the second lib erty loan will begin in a few days. There VH11 be a chance to buy 4 per cent government bonds. You know that the money Is needed to win the war, and that you can do a patriotic act and make a good investment at the same clatter. Be ready and be early with your subscribtion. Make it as mucti as you can carry, not only for the country but for yourself, your family and your future. Gov eminent bonds as a nest egg against rainy days and old age can't be beaten. St. Joseph Gazette. :o:- OUR FLAG. I "No matter what happens to you I no matter who flattsrs you or who I abuses you, never look at another I flag, never let a night pass but you J pray God to bless that flag. Re J member, boy, that behind these men I you have to do with, behind officers J and government, and people even j there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that youTelong to Her I as you belong to your own mother, Stand by Her, boy, as you would i jvu uvvuv Good-bye Miss Summer. ;0j Enter, Old Man Winter. :o; Iowa is wet. goat? Don't that get your -rot- Three cent postage after Novem ber 3. :o:- Thc coal question is the all ab sorbing. :o: Sometimes when a fellow feels that the world's all wrong, it is really only himself that is all wrong. When you move' to a new -town, all the relatives feel that they owe you a visit if it is a town worth while. :c: It is not too much to expect that even autocracy will come to realize that divine right was never intend ed as a human prerogative. :o: It will prove a tough proposition for our Missouri river if Iowa gets saloons. It will prove a game of tit for tat with Plattsmoutb. :o: If people would only talk when they have something to say of im portance, maybe there would be less gossip in the community that is of no earthly good to anyone. :o: Everybody knows there is no jus tice in paying $1.50 more ' a ton here in Plattsmoutb for the same coal that is sold that much less in Omaha. That's why our people kick. :o: The fact that all the beauty treatments she has tried have been a disappointment cloesn t keen a woman from having perfect confi dence in any new one that may be presented. :o: "We shall fight for those things which we have always carried near est to our hearts and to this task we must dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have." President Wilson. :o: A physical culture doctor said the other day, that women were as strong as men. Now comes a woman who says women are better soldiers than men. Lets all keep quiet now and not let on .we are listening and see what they say next. :o: As we undertsand it, many of the Germans do not even understand that they do not understand the rest of the world, while a few of them understand that they do not understand but do not understand why they do not understand. :o:- THE CRIME OF TREASON. Treason is the, most, serious crime known to the law. It is as much so in the United States as in Germany. The state regards treason as a crime greater than murder or arson. It is an offense against the federal government and its penalty of death, is imposed by the federal govern ment. Consider the heinous character of this crime.- To take a human ifle is bad enough, but treason strikes at the life of the state. It is direct ed at the welfare of all of us, the protection, of our homes, our wives, our children, what we own, what we hope for in life.. A successful treasonable act in time of war costs the lives of our soldiers. Treason, therefore, is murder plus. Arson, which is setting fire to property, en dangers the human life and the law presumes that this possibility wpe in the mind of the incendiary. Simi larly the law presumes that all the dire consequences of his treasonable act were in the mind of the traitor The traitor means to strike the state, to murder, our defenders, to open the country to invaders, to do any or everything to aid the enemy, to hurt his own people. It is perfectly clear- why the state regards treason as the most enormous of crimes. Hence there follows the relentlessness with which the state -deals with treason It cannot do" otherwise and obey the PLATTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. law. of self-Dreservation. It must not do otherwise for the sake of ev eryone of us living and of those still unborn. To be lenient with treason Is not only folly buta be trayal of society and of the future. The potential traitor in this coun try is the encouraged Amreican tol erance and the American disposi tion to confide solutions to the kindly offices of time. At this criti cal puncture it is well for the po tential traitor to realize that in war ime no such tolerance Is permissible. Hit every traitor's head the moment it appears and hit it hard, is the only safe doctrhio now. This, republic offers privileges such as seldom have been offered man. It has offered tnem to sons or Europe as well as to its own child ren. But the republic lays upon us duties as well. And this is the time when the duties are sternly demand ed of us. Snivelling and whimpering about the conflict of our duties with our sentiments and sympathies for race and kindred across the seas is neith er manly nor honorable. Duty is superior to emotion. The patriotic obligation is not one that is to be fulfilled or not, in whole or in part, according as one feels. The patriotic obligation is laid upon us, i3 a de mand. And he who does not ac knowledge it is in danger in this country now. The United States is not culy entitled to loyalty, but is going to impose loyalty. Minne apolis Journal. :o:- FIRST ESSENTIAL OF PEACE. Since the kaiser's diplomatic trickery has been exposed in so many different quarters of the globe even Germans, with all the?r Intense love for the fatherland, are beginning to see how Impossible it is for people of the world to ilve in peace with kaiserism. Responsibility for the war is now so well understood, any person wno oners to blame it on the enemies of Germany is discredit ed at the outset. British artillery is also convincing Germans that there is nothing except buncomb to back up their race superiority egot- sm. The boast of German writers to the effect that they understand, all other people but no one under stands them, has proven the claim to be the worst example of egotis tical asininity that any great people lave ever been guilty of. From the kaiser down no people ever showed less aptitude in appraising the value of sentiment and in mistaking apathy as a lack of virility. Bridgeport Herald. :6: LAWMAKERS DODGE TAXES. The congressmen who voted an ex cess profits tax upon salaries above $6,000 carefully exempted themsel ves. To create a preferred class large enough to give the discrimi nation considerable support they al so relieved officers of states, terri tories and the District of Columbia of the tax. A great many years ago, when national sovereignty was not as well recognized as it is today, the su preme court of the United States denied the power of a state to tax the agencies of the federal govern ment. Long afterward the court held as a corollary of this proposi tion that the national government could not in comity tax the agencies of the states. From these two Judgments much confusion has arisen. The constitution is silent on the point except as to the president and the judges of federal courts. The president's compensation "shall neither be increased nor diminshed There Is mor Catarrh in this section Of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it wa3 sup posed to bo incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failinff to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional con ditions and therefore requires constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medi cine, manufactured by P. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, i3 a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acta thru the Blood on. the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars re ward is offsred for any case- that Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENSr fc CO., Tcledo. CUo. FoM by Druggist 8. '5c- Hall's Family Pills for constipation. during the term for which he shall have been elected" and the salaries of judges "shall not be diminishes during their continuance in office." It will be seen, therefore, that we' have nothing but one supreme court decision to justify the exemp tion of any office holder from taxa tion applying to citizens in general and, of course, that decision so far, as it relates to the exercise ovula tional power, may be overruled by congress whenever it is disposed to act upon the matter free from in terested motives. If it is scandalous secretly to pass a law bearing oppressively upon an element already carrying a great burden of war prices and war taxes, how shall we characterize the men who were at such pains to safe guard their own pocketbooks? It is not without significance that the author of this provision is Claude Kitchin, who was against preparedness, who voted against war ana wiiose ciilei ambition ap- parcnlly is to make the war as burdensome as possible to the peo ple who pay the taxes to carry it on. New lork world. -:o:- 0UR ALLIES IN GERMANY. It is comforting to realize that while the kaiser has his subtle and determined allies in this country, America is occasionally acquiring quite definite and convincing hints that we are not without allies in Germany. Comes a cablegram now that the Krupp gun works and its allied in terests have been compelled to buy up many German newspapers and to establish others where none could be bought, through which to con duct an anti-peace propaganda. The hopeful tiling in this cable gram is the certainty it conveys that there is a genuine poace propa- ganda which the Prussian war in- terests must fight, and that it is of such potentiality that it is neces sary for the Krupps to expend large sums in conducting an anti-peace press bureau. Further than that, this peace propaganda has become so threaten ing that the Kruop outfit has had to go into the movies to counteract, or to attempt to counteract, its tend ency to grow. It is confusing, isn't it? Here we have been having peace propos als emanating from the kaiser, who is but a puppet of the Krupp inter ests. And yet these same interests are spending money like drunken sailors to discourage the German people from urging the coming of peace. Suggesting that the Krupps want peace, but a peace which nobody else, not even the German people, wants. Just as here in this country we have kaiser allies who want the sort of peace that nobody else wants except the kaiser.. The difference between the two brands of pacifists is that the pa cifists of Germany seem to desire a peace that would in some measure benefit mankind, which the pacifists in this country want peace, even to the everlasting advantage of the kaiser and kaiserism, the perpetual menace to the lasting peace of the world. Lincoln Star. :o:- WOULDN'T IT BE' AWFUL? Humor now has it that Edgar Howard, slated to soon succeed Gov ernor Neville, will follow the gov ernor's example and resign, thus giv ing way to Senator John Mattes of Otoe, who, as president protcm of the senate is in the line of guber natorial succession. Rumor sayn that Governor Howard will resign to make way for Senator Mattes, and in return receive the eupport of the Hitchcock-Mullen "wet" element for the United States senate. Of course it is all the sheerest rot. but that does not prevent the cap ifnl ritv ronnrl3 of a couple of v v . - - K republican papers from playing it up. The quickest and surest way for Edgar Howard to kill off. his every chance for a senatorial toga would be to become party to any The Neh'awka SIT ills are now Rolling and Manufacturing the tiff if InlO "Letter Roll" Flour needs no boosting. For on the top shelf it now is roosting. L The best cooks wherever you go Use this famous flour, you know. They just set their yeast and go to bed, For they know on the morrow they will have good Bread. J. M. C D. ST. JOHN, Prop JOE MALCOLM, Head Miller. For Sale by All Dealers such deal. And Edgar knows it. Not that Senator Mattes would be a misfit as governor, but because the people would not sanction that sort of political trading. But what would happen if such a deal were put across and John Mattes of Nebraska City sworn in as governor? ' Not a blessed thing save that another straightforward, honest, courteous and able gentle man would be occupying the execu tive chair at the state house. As governor of Nebraska John Mattes would bo the same public-spirited, lawabiding, level-headed, conscient ious Nebraskan that he has been for forty years. State affairs would move along smoothly as of yore, the laws would be enforced to the utmost possible limit, and a courteu3 gentle man would continue to occupy the executive mansion. You can not frighten us by threatening John Mattes for gover nor. Far be it from so! On the contrary, we could view such a con dition with equanimity under ordi nary conditions, and under others as a consummation devoutly to be wished. York Democrat. :o: Fcr Sale 10 head of Duroc boars, at $30 and $35 each.- Oldham Stock Farm. v For Sale A good gentle farm team. Also, harness and buggy. In quire of Adam Ilild at Baylor resi dence.. 10-15-2wkswkly CEMETERY. We are now prepared to make your monument, markers and lot corners right at home. Cass County Monu ment Co., W. T. Wassell, manager. Hotel Riley block, Plattsmouth, Neb. Mrs. Smith Recommends Chamber lain's Tablets. "I have had more or less stomach trouble for eight or ten years." writes Mrs. G. II. Smith, Brewcrton, N. Y. "When suffering from at tacks of indigestion and heaviness after eating, one or two of Chamber lain's Tablets have always relieved me. I have also found them a pleas ant laxative." These tablets tone up the stomach and enable it to per form its functions naturally. Iyou are troubled with indigestion give them a trial, get weh and stay well. We have some choice 80, 130, 160, 240 and 320 tracks of land near Sterling, Adams, Tocumseh, Elk Creek, Cook, Burr, Douglass, Vesta, Crab Orchard, Filley and Lewiston, Nebraska. Prices very reasonable and the terms good. Call or write ocEtenhaupf & Curtain, STERLING, NEBRASKA Hfl MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1917. 93 Sour Stomach. Eat slowly, masticate your food thoroughly, abstain from meat tor sour stomach will disappear. If it does not, take one of Chambei Iain's a few days and in most cases the Tablets immediately after supper. Red meats are most likely to cause sour stomach and you may find It best to cut them out. GOOD FARM FOR SALE. A good farm of about 120 acre3 four miles southwest of Mynard. Good eight room house. Good barn 40x44, also good hay and cow barn 32x48, and other out-houses. In quire of A. L. Tidd, Plattsmouth Nebraska. 10-19-lwkd&2wkswkly CASS COUNTY MACHINE OWNERS ASSOCIATION The Cass County Machine Owners Association will meet at Weeping Water, next Tuesday, evening, Oct. 23rd, at 8 o'clock. 10-16-tfdltwkly ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE. The Ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold their annual rum mage sale, October 24, 25, and 2 6. Anyone having old clothing, old hats or old shoes to contribute, will please call phones, 402, 535, or 384, when the goods will be called for. The place of the sale will be an nounced later. 10-17-ltwklylwkd ATTENTION COMPANY. First class Ford car to trade for horse, cow and oats. Call 385-J, Plattsmouth, Neb. 10-9-tfd Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the Most Reliable. After many years' experience In the use of it and other cough medi cines, there are many who prefer Chamberlain's to any other. Mrs. A. C. Kirstein, Greenville, Ills., writes, "Chamberlain's Cough Reme dy has been used in my mother's home and mine for years, and we always found it a quick cure for colds and bronchia ltroubles. We find.it to be the most reliable cough medicine we have used." CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature off IFIeurl