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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1917.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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Batr4 at Postefflc at Flattamoutli.
R. A. BATES,
VBSCKIPTIOlf
pmcai sum
Delays are dangerous.
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Many scohol boys are
corn.
cutting
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It is well for us all to keep in
fighting trim.-
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Keep it before the people mail
vour Christmas presents early.
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A mild winter will reduce the
coal prices quicker than anything
else.
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No matter how the great Russian
jbear walks he doesn't talk any
thing like a real man.
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Head dragging is just as essential
now. and maybe a little more so,
as it is any other season of the
year.
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No one package sent to the soldier
boys in France must weigh more
than seven pounds. Make a note of
this.
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One thing certain, the rising
female feneration will sure be
knitters, if they follow in the foot-
steps of their mothers
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There are plenty of opportunities
to shew your patriotism, but there
is no necessity for any American
to display his opposition to the
war.
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The situation in Russia has up
set our peace figures again. Thurs
day night we had calculated pretty
definitely that the war would last
only jsixm German chancellors long
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Russia is a big country, but we
doubt if it's big enough for a civil
war. When 180 million factions
tear out running from each other,
they're going to find themselves
cramped for room to run. '
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Congress has taxed nearly every
body and everything to carry on
the war, but they were sure not to I
tax their own salaries. And it was capacity and enthusiasm reigned of a modern state could hold or ex
nervy and unpatriotic piece of busi throughout. It demonstrated that press the views voiced by the vice
ness in exempting their own salaries the patriotic people of Platsmouth president of the Bulgarian national
especially in this trying hour. intend to do their part for the war asembly in addressing that body. Yet
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NEWSPAPERS AND THE WAR.
Since the war began and more j
especially since the U. S. entered in- I agricultural crops produced, and I makes right. Might is right. Bul
to it American newspapers have su- I first in the per capita' production I garia is proui to be the sincere ally
bordinated everything to the chron-J
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lcimg ui war news, vvuen me uui-
ted States declared war newspapers
practically turned themselves ' into
bulletins for their government andl
aounuam omeiai auuiibbum yiuv
their inmortant helD
When it comes to the food cam- tutlon for wheat flour that we wond
paign. Red Cross work, liberty bonds er at the Popular objection to it. Just
enrollments, call to arms and appeals consider the work and gas saved on
for any work the plain old commu-
nitv newspapers get there first. They
have to heln in order to live ud to
their traditions, but at the same
time the help which they give is not
without cost to them. The thorough
awakening which has caused such a
patriotic response throughout the
country is due more than to any oth-
er cause, to the newspapers of this
country. Theyliave done their part
well, but nevertheless they stand
ready to do much more.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL. APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat ot the .disease,
catarrh is a local disease. Rreatly in
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure it you must take an
Internal remedy i lairs catarrh Medi
cine ia taken internally and acts thru
45. HalK0 CaUtarrh 8Medicin0t4aS
prescribed by one ot the best physicians
in this country ior years, it is com-
of some of the best tonics known.
combined with some oZ the best blood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
tbe ingredients in Hall's Catarih Medi
cine is what produces such iwfcnderful
results la catarrhal conditions. Jend lor
t'-stimor.i8te. tree. . f. -
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Hali's Family FiiU for con'.'.piUoi
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PLATTSMOUTB, NEBRASKA;
Nb., aa aecoad-elaaa maU natter.
Publisher
pm tea in adtajtcbj
Everything is made for use, not
abuse.
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And now Mr. Hollquitt, we
hope
will quit.
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Just as well do your Christmas
shopping now.
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"What's the matter with a meat
less Thanksgiving?
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Being xa consumer, naturally you
wonder too, what those retail licenses
give the retailer license to do to you. I
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What people want in. this world j
is efficiency and energy, and you J
put it in your business and life,
you will occupy a front seat in the
business of your town.
The first loan was exempt from
all taxes, but the second is not ex
empt from certain income taxes.
This makes the bonds equally pro
ductive to the poor as well as rich.
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The potato raisers in the west part
of the state can't get cars to move j
their crops, and it Is said the pota- I
I tnoo oro r( 1 rA nn in tVlO fiolria fftf t PT1 - I
tuto - -
ing. If this is so it Is an outrage
upon those who have to buy a win-
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"Are some of us more tender with
our dollars than we are with our
bovs?" Sure bet! we know men
who would tear the dome from the
court house hunting a lost dollar
who wouldn't walk to the front
Porch to keeP a bY from going to
the devil.
A nation-wide sigh of relief went
up when the news came that the
jubilant New York suffragists kiss-
ed each other in celebration of their
victory. There had been very little j
in the papers lately to indicate that I
the militant suffs knew anything
about kissing.
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That was a great meeting at the I
Farmele Theatre Sunday evening, j
TIie bouse was crowded to its utmost J
and the boys in the trenches. j
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In 1916 Nebraska ranked fifth
among the states in the value of
thereof. The indications are that0f Germanic powers.
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rteurassa win move up to inira or i
j fourth place in total production, I
and of course hold first place for
per capita production. I
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1 orn meat is sucn an easy substi- I
J one morning meal of corn cakes. The
average growing Doy wm worry
along with twelve or fourteen corn
cakes, whereas it's hard to drive him
away from the table with less than
thirty-six wheat cakes.
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AMERICA FIRST AND LAST.
All the foreigners within our
Douncianes are nere oy tneir own
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initiative: they have chosen to live
in the United States. : While they
are here they should conform to our
national life; they should obey our
institutional regulations. There
should be no loophole of linguistic
Ignorance to explain or excuse any
violation of our laws. No foreign -
born agitator should be tolerated
for a minute to interfere with laws,
as was done recently in the draft
registration. The hundreds of dense-
ly populated districts in bur cities
where English is a foreign tongue
should be Americanized immediate-
ly. Clarence Stratton In Leslie's.
hylan no kaiserite.
There is comfort for Americans. In
the assurance proclaimed by John
F. Hylan, the successful Tammany
candidate for mayor of Greater New
York, that there was no question
of Americanism or kaiserism involv
ed in the election so far as he was
concerned.
Those who sought desperately to
defeat him had urged that bis can-
didacy was tinged with disloyalty
and that his election would be a vic
tory of unAmericanism. Judge Hy
land denied this with all his power
during the campaign, and after his
election made it a special point to
assure the rest of the country that
there was nothing in the charge
against his loyalty. He has a right
to be heard in every corner of the
United States when he says:
I want to make ,it plain to the
world that there was no issue of
Americanism or loyalty involved, in
sofar as I am concerned. There
could be none, for I am as good an
American as any man, as loyal to
my flag, as loyal to my country and
as firm and determined in support of
every act of the government in this
war as any man. I ask the editors of
the newspapers in this city and in
other cities to give prominence to
this declaration, so that there may
not go abroad to the people of this
country who have no appreciation
of our local situation the slightest
intimation that the question of the
war or the war policy of President
"Wilson and the United States gov-
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vimuvui wc m .uC c.,5ti.
volved. My first utterance in this
campaign in esponse to a question
put by a reporter was that I stood
uncompromisingly behind the presi
dent in support of the acts and poll
cies of my country and that the
war must be fought to a conclu
sion which would bring an honor
able peace to America
Even those who distrust and
abhor Tammany have something for
which to be grateful in this state
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I ment.
New York is wedded to its bright
lights. Mayor Mitchel seems to have
bad the medal of the "Too Goody-
owuj viuer w"ireu upuu mm
by the metropolis. Lincoln Star
THE FRUIT OF PRUSSIANISM.
If we didn't know the plain teach-
ings of Prussianism we would find
It hard to imagine that a minister
he was but repeating the kaiser's
doctrine by vote when he said:
This war has proved better than
anything else ever did that might
Here is revealed the virus of Prus-
cianj,m ami tho wnrkine- of it Tn
thi3 view war Is justified if success-
fi Tf vn1. rfln m!1Vp wrnn, nsiv
in other words it becomes right. If
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neighbor's goods it is wrong for him
to resist you, and you are justified
in killing him. That is the doctrine
That is Prussianism as now acclaim
ed by this Bulgarian statesman, and
his words, the dispatch records were
enthusiastically applauded.
It is obvious, of course, that if
this doctrine is to prevail it means
the end of civilized society. There
can be no security in a world where
might is a justification of any act
to which the Dossessor of mieht
or hmtai th Tr,rfiv mv W it i
J the doctrine of barbarism and was
j its practice while barbarism flour-
J ished. It is still the doctrine and
I practice of criminals in civilized so-
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ciety. The burglar and the thug
j recognize and employ it, but we are
I not accustomed to hear them pro-
claim it to applauding assemblies
nor do they set it forth in books nor
j in lectures in their universities as do
J its Prussian teachers
I The object lessons this Bulgarian
J convert furnishes ought not to be
I lost upon society. It is a warning of
the spread that will be given to this
dangerous doctrine if the war shows
a profit to Germany. Once it Is es
tablished that conquest and loot are
the rewards of successful wrong
there will have been raised up an
anti-social force in the world that
will extinguish right and civiliza
tion": . The world must show Bulgaria in
this war that might does not make
right. It must show her that armed
wrong will not be permitted to be
successful and it must so deal with
the teacher of these false doctrines
that she will herself be the proof,
in ruin and defeat, that they " are
false and cannot be followed by any
state under penalty of the same
punishment. K. C. Star.
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UNDER THE FLAG.
Unsullied honor should ever be
companion to the man who holds offi
cial place under the American flag.
But history records that honor
has been stranger to some men who
have been connected with military
and patriotic affairs in all ages, and
ust now the charge is boldly made
that some one in official connection
with the military affairs of Nebraska
has been crooked m ins nanuiing
of military funds. Governor Se
ville has called the attention of the
attorney-general to the shameful
charges afloat. The patriotic peo
ple of the state will expect an in
stant investigation of the charges
and. proper punishment of the crim-
nals.
During the time when the Sixth
regiment was being mustered into
service frequent charges were afloat
concerning the disgracetui conaucc
of one of the high military men of
the state, but the newspapers pass
ed the charges over, and gave no
publicity to them, on the ground
that nothing should be done to dis
courage enlistments. The Telegram
knew of the charges, but remained
silent for the reason here stated. But
now that the scandal is on many lips.
it must be probed to the bottom.
The good name of the Nebraska Na
tional Guard is at stake.
It is high time that a line be
drawn in Nebraska between pure
patriotism and professional patriot-
sm. The dear flag of the republic
must not be employed as a cloak to
shield professional patriots and
crooks from the punishment their
deeds deserve. Columbus Telegram.
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HOLIDAY SHOPPING.
This is the year of all years when
people should adopt the "shop early"
slogan for the holidays.
This is true because the govern
ment has sent out due notice to the
effect that Christmas packages for
soldiers and sailors, must be sent as
soon as posibsle in order to assure
the delivery of same during the holi
day period.
In truth, many hundred thousand
folks in America have already start
ed to make their holiday prepara
tions. They are the fathers, moth-
ers, sisters, brotners, wives ana
sweethearts of the boys who are eith
er soldiers or sailors in the service
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of Uncle Sam.
The government and the Itcd Cross
society are calling the people's at
tention to the fact that Christmas
packages for the boys in France
must be mailed no later than No
vember fifteenth. This has started
the holiday advertising, and the big
stores of the large cities have taken
advantage of this and are doing their
holiday advertising now.
There is nothing that will get the
rhrktmas Khonner out early but
early holiday advertising, -r
There is" no question about this
year going to be a banner year for
holiday sales, as the spirit of gift
giving predominates throughout the
land and it is true that the vast
amount of gifts sent will be practical
articles. " x
Don't overlook the fact that the
tanner time to do your holWay
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shopping has arrived do it now.
Hastings Tribune. . .
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THE RUSSIAN CHILD MIND. .
Lenine's proposal to elect dele
gates from all nations to hold a, counr
cil ti6 settle the war, if honstlj'.
made, shows a very childish mind.
How. is he going to call a world
election in which every nation is to
participate? Is he an almighty rul
er who can command the world to
hold an election on a certain day?
Does he really believe that the na
tions will obey that order? ' The
child mind" of the Russian giant
never had a more forcible illustra
tion. Russia may hold, or attempt
to hold, such an election, bu how
about Germany, England, France,
Italy and the United States? -There
are no laws in those countries to
provide for such a course of action.
Lenine may think that he has great
er power than even the Kaiser ever
claimed, but the rest of the world
entertains no such delusion.
Then there is the other side of the
question. Lenine may know per
fectly well that there is no possibil
ity of his plan being accomplished.
He may be a thorough I. V. W. and
be simply putting energy in the
journals and acid in the belts of the
machinery of government. . In eith
er case it is the result of the cen
turies of tyranny of the Russian
czars, who have kept the nation in
ignorance and stopped every effort
for the education of the common
people, until the majority of them
have only the mind of a child. Even
some of the better educated do not
seem to have passed beyond that
state, for they deny that advance
ment must come by evolution and be
lieve a cataclysm will elevate a
whole people from ignorance ot the
heights of knowledge and science.
that other nations have attained
only after centuries of gradual pro
gress. There are grown-up people
with child minds in every nation on
earth, but outside of Russia they are
not in control of the government.
World Herald.
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GP.ANDMOTHER KANKINSON SICK
From Monday's liaily.
Grandma Z. J. Hankinson, mother
of our townsman Ben Hankinson,
and who is over eighty-two years of
age, has not been feeling very well
of late, and her son has come to see
her. Mr. Ben Hankinson, who has
been at Alliance arrived Saturday
evening and the two other boys, one
George Hankinson of Detroit, Michi
gan, and Charles Hankinson of St.
Charles, Ontario, Canada, arrived
this morning and will visit with
their mother who is recovering some
what from her indisposition.
Charles E. Haynie was a passeng
er to Glenvvood, Iowa, this morning
where he had some business, and
will come back in his car which
was over at that city.
STRAYED.
From my premises, one small
black yearling colt. Any one know
ing anything as to its whereabouts,
please call Fra,nk Schlichtemeier and
I will forward the expense of caring
for it. ll-12-2wkswkly
"That Chase county trip was sure
a dandy." That's what they all say.
The time is rpie now for yo uto go,
and there will be room for you on
next Sunday evening, if you see
Rosey right now and make arrange
ment for one of the best seats all
the way through. ' You may lost out
on a good bargain farm if you fail
to go this time.
Han Troubled for Two Years.
No one should suffer backache,
rheumatic pains, stiff joints.swollen
sore muscles, when relief can easily
be had. James McCrery, 'Berrien
Center, Mich., says ho was troubled
with kidney and bladder trouble for
two years. He used several kinds
of medicine without relief, but Foley
Kidney Pills cured him. Sold ' every
where. . ;
For Sale
A fine Collie puppy, has worked
some on slock, and shows up fine.
$25, and cheap at that. . Dr. Hall,
Murray, Nob.
W. A. ROBERTSON,
Lawyer.
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East of Riley Hotel.
Coates Block,
Second Floor
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AU. Counterfeits, Imitations and "'Just-as-good "-are but
i-xperinients that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Cnildren Experience against Experiment.
'What is CASTOR I A
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Props and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
;ige is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
bzen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
vTind 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 Mother's Friend.
Bears the
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The Kind Ycu Have Always Bought
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