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PiAtTSMOUtn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 11917.
Cbe plattsmoutb Kournal
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IL A. BATES, Publisher "
itiiciiftiok meat sum
High, diddle, diddle, ihi. war is a
riddle . , t . " . .
It makes prices jump o'er the
moon
But can all the food that is reason
ably good,
Then the prices will tumble down
soon.
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A fool and a gun don't hit. .
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Hats off to the Boy Scouts.
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It seems a hard matter to settle
the coal question.
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The hardest thing for a pacifist
to do is to hold his peace.
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The man of small calibre always
shoots off his mouth the loudest.
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A good hotel in a small city does
wonders in the way of advertising it.
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Anybody can get a few points
from a paper of pins especially a
woman. '
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What has become of that once
popular ditty, "I Didn't Raise My
Boy to Be a Soldier?"
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You no doubt have been enjoying
a great Indian summer, if you were
wrapped up for it.
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".May split on raw sugar," says
the headline. Why not pulverize it
and dust it around equitable?
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"Coal dealers exceed fixed price",
says the government. There seems
to be no price fixed or imaginary,
that they cannot exceed.
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''Get out around town and talk
freely and make friends," we were
once advised. The advice proved
to be worthless. The way to make
friends is to listen freely.
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Until the sugar shortage is over, I
your sweet tooth may as well be
pulled. Those whose sweet teeth
are false, of course, may leave them
in the sugar bowl on the mantel.
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It's the man behind the man be
hind the gun that keeps the man be
hind the gun in the trench. The
farmer is the man behind the man
behind the gun. Figure it out for
yourself.
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Travelers used to go to California
and ccme back and talk about the
weather and flowers and the scenery.
Now all they talk about is the movie
stars they saw "in person." It's a
wonder the native sons will stand
for it.
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All eyes are turned in the direc
tion of Ohio. Next Tuesday the peo
ple of the Buckeye state vote upon
the prohibition question again. Two
ycar3 ago the state went 55,000 ma
jority against prohibition and both
sides are claiming it this year.
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A BOOSTER AT COURT.
Earl B. Gaddis, who ts officiating
as Senator Hitchcock's secretary
varies the monotony of his official
duties at Washington by boosting
for Nebraska. He has just finished
distributing 1,000 pamphlets' issued
by the bureau of publicity and is
calling for more. Recently he no
ticed in a New York paper an in
terview with a Kansas woman, and
took exceptions to some of the re
porter's conclusions. Whereupon he
sat down and wrote the director of
the bureau for some figures, and
when he got them he submitted them
to the aforesaid reporter and there
by got a nice booster story about
Nebraska In the paper. Nothing
tickles "Gad" more than to get a
chance to put Nebraska Into com
parison with other btates. York
Democrat.
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The biggest hypocrite is the pre
tended saint.
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President Wilson will take no
vacation; - the chief executive, we
find is almost as busy as a newspaper
man.
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The truest test of civilization is
not the census nor the size of the
cities, nor crops but the kind of
men the county turns out.
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Germany may, as Michaelis says,
know what she wants, but what is
more to the point, the balance of
the world knows what she needs.
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This may be crude, but neverthe
less it is true, the biggest sneak and
coward is the anonymous writer. The
devil is a saint compared with such.
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Necessity, they say, is the mother
of all inventions, including the
guillotine So be pa.tient and hold
fast to the enemy spies, while we
think.
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Low prices paid farmers doesn't
help the consumers. The speculators
must go before the consumers get
any benefit, and that is all there is
to it.
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They say turkeys are more plen
tiful than they were last year, but
what difference does that make when
the price is a third higher than last
season.
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The Jiigh price of sugar isn't
worrying the inhabitants of those
bone-dry states. What's the use to
worry? They haven't anything to
mix with it.
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The question now agitating the
mind of the average Kentuckian
is as to what disposition he is to
make of his corn crop since its
natural destiny is prohibited.
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Count Luxburg's advice to his
government to sink Argentine ships
"without leaving a trace" might
have been alright if the Count him
self hadn't left such a plain "trace."
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The Harvard man's discovery of a
new tear producing gas ought to
gain a warm welcome from the coal
dealers, whose copious weeps have
earned them great leniency from the
public.
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The deposal of Chancellor Mich
aelis probably will be hailed as a
great victory for the liberals in the
Richstag, and now they will go
ahead and vote another war credit.
just as the junkers want them to do.
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Again we ask "have you written
the soldier lads?" It's such a small
task to write the boys a few lines
anu letters from home mean so
much to these lads and the oftener
you write the better it will please
them.
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HAS A CURE TO RECOMMEND.
The world war has come home
it has reached our very hearthstone.
There can be no more guess work.
There must not be tolerated even
the breath of opposition to the task
before us much less the expression
of sedition. Brought home to us
most forcefully is the necessity of
crushing forever a Prussian domin
ance, and anyone who lends aid.
either by act or deed, to the enemy
should not be temporized with. The
government's right to confiscate hie
property and deport him is lot the
kind of justice which changes his
mind or shuts his mouth. A rebel's
slimy, slippery being should be
hushed forever, and there is only
one really effective coqre - treat
him as a spy.Seward Tribune,
Winter is surely here.
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Slight snow Sunday night.
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We can all eat lesa and do just
as well.
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man . without an overcoat
unfortunate.
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The dream of youth sometimes
makes life worth living.
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So long as you, make good, you
have a right to- show your pride.
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The corn huskers are busy. Only
the farmers cannot get enough of
them.
Santa Claus is going to have a
lot of home knit socks to fill this
unristmas.
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No man is as happy as he who
suddenly finds himself doing what
he has always wanted to do
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It was one time said, the American
people made hogs of themselves.
And it wasn't any lie, either.
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Kaiser Bill will not rejoice when
he hears the result of the Second
Liberty Loan. Americans don't do
things by halves.
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PETITION TO OUST HALLEB.
Bernhard Alshouse was circulat-
ing a petition the first of the week
asking for the removal of Frank L,
Haller from the board of university
regents. We presume that similar
petitions were circulated all over the
state, and if as generally signed as
at this place Regent Haller will wish
that he had resigned when urged to
do so. He is charged with disloyal
ty, but what course, if any, he will
pursue in an attempt to disprove it,
or. whether he will surrender his of
fice without resort to the courts is
not known at this time. Certain it
is, though, that the citizens of Ne
braska are in no mood to temporize
with a public official whose loyalty
is in the least doubtful. Kensaw
Progress.
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NEW POSTAGE RATES
START NEXT FRIDAY
The increase in the rate of postage
on first class mail will go into effect
next Friday, and the new two-cent
postal cards and the three-cent post
age stamps and stamped envelopes
will be seen in this town the latter
part of this week.
"It will not be possible, however
to provide 2-cent cards and the
3-cent stamps in sufficient quantities
to exchange for stocks of 1-cent post
al cards 2-cent stamps or 2-cent en
velopes held by the public or by
postmasters.
It win therefore be necessary,
beginning November 2, wheu the
new postage rates become ffectiv
for postmasters to continue the sale
of 1-cent cards and 2-cent envelopes
while their stocks last, and for the
public to fix adhesive stamps to the
carps and envelopes to the amount
of the increase in postage.
The new postage rate calls for
a charge of three cents an ounce or
fraction on first class mail. Drop
letters may be mailed at the rate of
two cents an ounce, including deliv
ery at letter carrier offices.
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i DEMOCRACY OF OUR
BRITISH ALLIES
The thing that impressed the Wes
tern editors about Lord Northcliffe,
it is safe to say, was the thorough
going democracy of the man. Some
of them were expecting to see the
affected stage Englishman. Instead
they found . an absolutely simple,
i.
Thera is mora Catarrh" in this section
of he ' country than all other diseases
put together, and, tor years It was sup-
?oseq to do incurable, junctors prescribed
ocal remedies, and by constantly failing
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 F. J. Cheney A
Co.. Toledo, .Ohio, is a constitutional
remedy, is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on tha Mucous Surfaces
ct the System. One Hundred Dollars re.
ward ts offered for any case that Hall s
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send tor
circulars and teRtlmonlais.
F. J. CHGNEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by DruirxlsttJ. 75c. -
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
straightforward man who, as M. P.
Amrine said in the Council Grove
uuaiu, very mucn rcbemDiea - ai
most any American who has by force
of character and hard work gained
a leadership in any particular line."
The associations produced by the
war are going to teach us that we
have been under many -misconcep-
tions about our British allies. They
retain the vestiges of the trappings
of medievalism. But we are learning
A A J . a -a I
inai mose are oniy vesuges, ana are
not the real thing. In England they
call him "Lord Northcliffe." If he
naa ueen au American puimsner nq
I v. a jjm m
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wou,a nave Deen cauea coionei
arnisorui. ana tne titles wouia
have been practically equivalent.
I Lord Eustace Percy, a real denio-
crat, who Is attached to the British
emDassy in Washington, tells of a
I visit to a labor leader in Chicago
&tc a time when the police had made
some arbitrary arrests in a strike
The indignant leader turned to him
with: "It couldn't have been more
tyrannical if it had been in monarch-
ial England."
The supposed tyranny of "mon-
archial England," doesn't exist. The
fact is the government of England
is more responsive to public opin
ion than our own, because the prime
minister is not chosen for a fixed
term. He holds office only so long
as a majority in the House of Com
mons supports him. If the members
hear from "the folks back home"
they can upset the government any
day.
British and Americans have got to
work tosether fr a good many years
I T to nxll J i I
" " iUi "a l"
alllcs and to know tnat in the es3en"
t,als of government they are thor-
ough democrats. It would be more
nearly accurate to call the British
Empire the British Commonwealth.
Kansas City Star.
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A COURAGEOUS SENATOR.
The hunting accident that cost
Senator Husting of Wisconsin his
life, deprived the senate and the na
tion of an upstanding and forthright
patriot. In spite of he demagogic
pro-Germanism of his colleague, he
made Wisconsin count heavily in the
deliberations of the senate. He had
common sense, he had loyalty, . he
had unusual political courage.
Coming from a state with so heavy
a proportion of German-born voters,
a weaker man would have vied with
La Follette in playing politics with
But Senator
the republic's safety
Husting was always on the right side
of war questions, and he never hesi
tated in asserting himself.
When the subsidized German pro
paganda was weakening the resolu
tion of men like Stone and Reed and
Clapp and Cummins by its barrage
of induced telegrams from const!-
tuents, Husting penetrated and ex
posed the game relentlessly.
He counted on the essential patri
otism of the mass of German-born
people of Wisconsin, and the event
showed he was a better judge of his
own people than LaFollette. In the
end he had Wisconsin pretty solidly
behind him in his strong support of
the administration's war policy,
whereas the very political committee
that had managed La Follette's cam
paign for re-election turned "upo
him and asked for his expulsion from
the senate for disloyal utterances. '
The pity is that of the two Hust
ing should be taken
Wisconsin
must make careful quest for a worthy
successor. Minneapolis Journal.
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A CONGRESSMAN GETTING WISE.
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,,K r "Snuiig lur.me greaiebi
cause in history," said Congressman
Sloan to a company of his consti -
tuents.at Seward the other day in "nients. from the United States Gov
. . . Icrnment, aWshington, U. C, for in-
Qn QnnAQI fn T ihr lAntiu I
muviLjr
and one feels like taking off his hat I
and shouting "Hurrah" for him. For
it is not so long ago that he was not
4n11r A i i.i 11..
kai m life bu euiuuMUUUdiil uui au I
intelligently in support of his gov-
eminent. .
It was on April 6 that congress I
A AS1 3 Ar1 fliof 4 CT1 tft fS? WQ ff wit Tt
Germany existed. Among the fifty
who voted against the resolution J
was Congressman Sloan of Nebraska,
J while 373 congressmen voted for it.
- men ucngressman bioan came
I home and on Memorial day, the one
day above all others in the year,
with the possible exception of July
4, when the spirit of patriotism and
devotion to government should pre-
I vail, he made a speech at Geneva,
I his home town, in which he declar-
ed himself, between the lines, out
of accord with his crovernment.
While admitting that during the
European war "our rights on the
hIgh sea3 were so violated by two
of the great earring powers that,
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had the American people been seek-
ln war we shouid lone ajro have
been involved," he was one of those
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who believed that in entering the
war we should not "take up the
ourden of the continental conflict
with the allies," or place ourselves
on such footing with them that we
could not with national grace con-
I tract pp wittmn thir- annrnv,i
He declared his belief that
in
neither peace nor war should Amer
ica yield her splendid isolation and
enter into entangling alliances, or
assume relations, equivalent thereto
with European powers." He favor
ed simply declaring that a state of
war existed, that we should place
the country in a state of thorough
defense, and that we should use our
army and navy to enforce and pro
tect our national rights, and the
rights of our citizens on land and
sea, especially in the submarine
blockade zone. This would have
constituted an American war. begun
for an American cause, waged by
Americans in defense of. American
rights, to be fought upon the high
eas or wherever we might be as-
sailed, with the right of America
to enlarge or diminish its scope, and
finally to grant its own terms of
peace after an American victory had
been achieved.
His proposition for an exclusive
ly American war had received but
auout a hundred votes, while the
resolution contemplating co-opera-
tion with the allies, which, he said,
"was not given the consideration by
many its gravity required," received
373 to 50. And he was wne of the
co-
Evidently time and thought have
modified the views of the Fourth
district congressman. We have
espoused the cause of the allies as
our cause, despite his conclusion
that "It was not my judgment," and
he now mailfully and sensibly comes
forward to declare that we are fight-
Ing for the greatest cause in the
history. He has found out that we
are fighting for democracy, and that
it would have been the acme of non
sense to have gone into the war in
such a way as to advise those who
are now allies that we had nothing
in common with them and that we
proposed to paddle our own canoe.
The Fourth district people, and
indeed those of the state of Nebras
ka, are to be congratulated. Their
congressman is getting wise. Lin
coln Star.
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RUPTURE EXPERT HERE
Seeley, World Famous in This Spe
cialty, Called to Omaha.
F. II. Seelcy, of Chicago and Phil
adelphia, the noted truss expert,
will be at the Paxton Hotel and will
remain in Omaha this Sundav and
Monday only, November 4th and 5th.
PIr - Seeley says: "The Spermatic
Shield WU not only retain any case
or rupture pertectly, but contracts
(the opening in 10 days on the aver-
age case. This instrument received i
the only award in England and in
' '
Spain producing results without sur-
gery, inactions, medical treatments
or prescriptions. Mr. Seeley has doc-
u,.orHo All rhoPitir v,C without
charge, or if any interested call, he
will , be glad to show same without
charge or lit tnem.it uesirea. uusi-
,iess demands stopping at any other
n -r, , , , .
P. S. Every statement in this
notice jias been verified before the
Federal-and State Courts. F. H.
Seeley.
(jau i'laitsmoutn oarage xor eerv-
ice. Tel. 394, also livery. J. E Mason,
Prop.
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A PATRIOT'S PRAYER.
"Do the soldiers at the front ever
pray?" The question was asked at
a ministers' meeting in a Canadian
city. This is the storv a returned
army chaplain told in reply:
"One of the boys had been given
dispatches to carry over a road ex
posed to the enemy fire. ,He stood
by his motorcycle ready to start. Ho
knew well the danger he must ride
through, the slim chances of escape.
Looking ahead and unheeding by-
I standers, he exclaimed: "O God, I
don't give a damn for mj-self, but
I for England's sake help me through".
I A real prayer. The spirit of it is
the spirit that nlust inspire every
man who gets a clear vision of what
I this war means. Chicago Post.
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CEMETERY.
We arc 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.
GO HAVE A LOOK!
Vallery and Cromwell leave
Plattsmouth every Saturday night
at 7:45 for Keith, Perkins and Chase
counties.
They have the good level black
soil that is raising all kinds of
small grain, corn and alfalfa.
Nobody has any lower prices and
better soils. Ask those who have
been out. 17-swtf
STATEMENT.
Statement of the ownership, manage
ment, circulation, etc., required by
the Act of Congress of August 24,
1912, orThe Plattsmouth Journal,
published daily at Plattsmouth,
The Rlehawka Oils
are now Rolling and Manufacturing the
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LeHor Ml
"Letter Roll" Flour needs no boosting,
For on the top shelf it now is roosting.
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.
C. D. ST. JOHN, Prop.
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