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-1 THURSDAY, TJOVEMBER 22, 1917. TLAlTSMOUTn SOU-WEEKLY JOURNAL. TAQE FOUR. (Ml Cbe plattsmouth journal rCBUSHED SEKI-WEKKLT AT PLATTSM Ol'TH, NEHnASKA. KKtr4at Potofflct Plattsmouth. Neb..' as secoad-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher ICBtCRIPTIOn PRICEt tJS The ice man still in evidence. :o: Conserve and help win the war. :o:- How do you like the .meatless days? :o: Remember the soldier boys Christ mas. :o: Have you been thoroughly Hoovcr- ized jet? :o: Good old Indian Summer has gone glimmering in the past. . :o: We hope the corn will turn out better than it now appears. And Ave believe it will. :o: Wonder why Uncle Sam don't put a revenue tax on" political aspira tions? It would prove a go-getter. :o: I 4Tig Bill" Thompson of Chicago has a double-bill like .revising his opinions relative to the loyalty of the people of Chicago. :o : Sdme cause for thanksgiving, too. in the fact that we are privileged to i be such an important factor in the fij-ht for universal democracy. :o : The ultimate consumer has be come so sensitive that rvrry time lie reads of a new food probe he feels the gauge before the investigation has started. :o :- When you hear a man grumbling about the war tax, scratch deep enough and you will find a German sympathizer or an American whose. patriotism is bounded by the rim of a silver dime. 4 :o: Unless the caLinet crisis in the al lied countries quiet down, Colonel House may have to raise his voice to gain their attention, while he ex plains his errand. And perhaps, the colonel hoped to go and come with out raising his voice. .o: , la these days of food shortage there should net be a single idle man in the United States. L.abor is in demand everywhere farmers need men, industries need men and Uncle Ram needs men. The non-producer is worse than criminal. :o: It is an outrage, if it is true, that while our Hed Cross ladies are knit ting sweaters that are sent to sold iers in the east, our own dear boys in Camps Cod, and- Funston, ai without these cold weather necessi ties. If this report is true, it is an outrage. :o : The Saline County Council of De fense has started a campaign to close schools secretly conducted by German churches near the towns of DeWitt. Crete and Western. If they are teaching the doctrine of the Kaiser it is certainly time that they be squelched. ' :o: The United Slates is spending money with dizzy rapidity. Some idea of how fast may be had by the fact that one billion and two hund red million dollars were spent by us during the month of October alone This is far in excess of any other na tion's expense account, but we have to get somewhere soon, so we are doing the best we can to catch up. Catarrh Cannot Be Cared vlth LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they car.not rcacn the seat or the disease. Catarrh 12 a Iot-al disease, greatly in fluenced by constitutional coniuuon.-, and in order to euro it you ir.ust taka an internal remsuy Hail's Catarrh Med; cii'e ia taken internally and acts tliru the blood -;ri tho mucous surfaces of the svstem. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of the bet physicians in this country tor years, it 3 com- TJosi.-tl ct tiomo cf tha besA tonlc3 Known ct.Tr.bhisd with, come ot tbe best, blood j-.urif.er-i. The perfect combination of tho ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medi cs n! is what produces such wonderful rf-siilts in atp.rrhaJ conditions. Send for fstiinonla!. frc. p ,t. CHKNE"-' & CO., rrop3., Toledo, O. Hall's family Iili3 iov conalipal.ta. PER TEAK AIJTANCIE P'ine fall weather continues. :o: Ambulances are now made to fly. :o: Every time you buy a cigar you buy a bullet. : -:o: Better to be called 'a rough-neck than a slacker. :o:- It may take two to make a quarrel, but its possible for one to keep it go ing. :o: After mature consideration' we have consented that we prefer a. dumb barber to a dumb waiter. :o: Vv'e can't help but believe that some thieves have no higher ambi tion than the top roost in a chicken house. :c: If all men followed their inclina tions at all times the straight and narrow road would never be over crowded. :o: Many a mother who didn't raise her boy t. b. a. s. now wonders why his promotions don't come cftener ban every three weeks. :o: The service flag in front of the New York Hippodrome contains eighty-seven siars. Gee are there hat many chorus men in the army? :o: A headline, "Sufi's defy husbands," implies that the husoanas aenea tne suits hrst. What a wonuertuiiy brave lot cf men the uffs are marry ing these (lavs; :o: With so many meatless, wheat- less, sweetless, heat loss, treatless. eatless and cheat less days, whatever a poor fellow who is trying to turn on honest penney to do? :o: An Iowa insane asylum advertises for pome back numbers of the Con gressional Record. Save your money Mr. Superintendent. We are read ing some copies and will bring them when we come. :o: About one-half cf the submarines operating since the war began have been destroyed. We now begin to understand the reluctance of Ger man sailors to engage in that in teresting occupation. :o: We regard the Russian struggle' with much the same troubled inter est that we watch a grass widow's designs on our favorite chum, hope ful for the best, and glad that we ere no more closely involved. :o: Another thing which makes us feel that Mr. Lloyd George will continue to be Britain's man of the hour: When confronted with his state ments, he admitted them, instead of saying the newspapers had misquot ed him. The small boy probably will sur vive the demands of the sugar saver; who urge abstinence from cran berries on Turkey Day. He probably will retain his composure also if it is decided not to serve any sour pickles on that da;. , :o: ' Perhaps the best war economy that may be applied to your Christ mas gift list is to give only to those you honestly wish to gladden. Al most anyone's gift list would be re duced to a satisfactory war mini mum if all the duty presents were stricken off. :o: Tammany's gallant majority for woman suffrage suggests the chival ry of the average man who absent mindedly removes h!s hat when women are in the elevator. Tarn many wouldn't have done it if its mind hadn't been on something else. FARMERS AND OTHERS. Complaining that the railroads, 1 thc elevators, the dockage workers and others absorb too large a share from its solution we naj. console of the price paid for wheat, a farmer ourselves that we have made pro reader of the World-Herald speaks of ress. The American farmer of to the "middlemen who like parasites I -s immensely better off than was fatten but produce nothing." It may be that these and other middlemen are exacting too high a charge for their services. Seme of them at least, probably are, and tho government is wrestling hard with the problem of bringing them with in reasonable bounds. As to the railroads, however, the prices they may charge for their services as carriers are regulated by law, much the same as the price of the far mers wheat. The farmer is getting approximately double the price for his product that he got before the war. But the railroads, with in consequential exceptions, are getting the same price for their services, though they, like the farmer, must buy on a rapidly rising market. If the elevator companies are realizing enormous profits the interesting query arises, what has become of the farmers' co-cperative elevators? Why is not their competition hold ing the old line concerns to a rea sonable profit? All this, however, is a diversion from what we started out to say. And that is thss: The middlemen are not like "parasites who fatten but produce nothing." The middle man may be everything that is des picable and wicked but he is not, economically and strictly speaking, a parasite. He may, like moct cf the rest of us, be willing to charge for his services all that the market will stand. He may be greedy and be getting rich too fast and stand badly in need of reform and regula tion. But he is not a parasite who could be dispensed with without .arm to societv. Russia furnishes a first-class ob oct lesson. Tho middleman there has been pretty effectively put out of .business. The result is great f-tores of grain and other foodstuffs remaining on the farms with no way to market them, while in the cities hundreds of thousands of peo ple are hungry. The only stage of society that ould dispense with the middleman the primitive stage, in which each family produces for itself about everything that it needs. But in a complex and highly de veloped civilization like ours the middleman is indispensable. Where- over there are a million, or even a hundred thousand people gathered together in a city there must be agents and carriers and organizers operating between them and the country, or the cities will starve and the bottom will fall out of the price of farm products. There is no farmer that can har vest his own grain, convert it in to wheat and the wheat into bread. himself bring the bread to the city and peddle it directly to the ulti mate consumers, and make a profit at it. There is no city that could live for a week on such a founda tion. The elevator is a necessity, the railroad is a necessity, the miller is a necessity, the baker, and so on, though perhaps in a Fomevvhat less- i er degree, is the Jobber and the re tailer. So with beef and pork, so with coal and iron ore, so with all the multifarious products of our in tricate industrial and commercial system. Without the middleman for whole structure Avould infallibly fall to pieces. The world of today- is like a great factory, with an in finite division of labor, in which each workman devotes himself to but j one of the scores or hundreds of op erations that are alike necessary to produce the finished product. Some undoubtedly, are paid for their ser vices more than their fair share, and others are. paid less. Aside from winning this war the greatest prob lem with which the world has to deal is how to correct the3e inequali ties, how to eradicate special privi leges, and how to secure, through cut society, an equitable division oif the joint products of land, capital and labor. It isn't a new problem. It is the same old problem that has tortured the r?ce through the cen- turies, and though Ave are still far the European peasant of the middle ages. And the average modern worlvingman lives in a clean, well lighted, sanitary home, well-heated and comfortably furnished. He en joys as every-day comforts what would have been undreamed-of lux uries even a hundred years ago, rends his children to school, and his son may rise to the heights of human achievement. So far as the farmer is concerned he is the victim, like most of the rest .of us, cf certain injustices and inequalities. But he is not really suffering. In a generation his land has doubled and trebled in value. The prices of all bis products have mounted rapidly, he is enabled to bcrrow money cheaper than ever be fore, and tlie hardships of twenty years ago have become a fading memory. hen war fell, with a terrifying crash, upon our heads, and t was necessary for the government to move radically and in great :acto, the farmer, because he raises wheat, "the staff of life," was the first to feel the hand of price regu lation He msy feel as the World- Ile-rald thought at the time, that the prices of other commodities as yet untouched should have been brought within the scope of price control at the same time with wheat. But congress, in its wisdom, with scores cf tremendous problems clamoring for attention, thought otherwise, and the World-Herald is willing to abide by the judgment of the government until it is changed. And fo. it thinks, are the vast majority of far mers. The value of our farms, of our shops, of our newspapers, the happi- iisss and security of our homes, the wcrth-whileness of our verv liven. are all and alike dependent 0:1 the Miccesful prosecution of this great war. It :s the crisis of all the ages in which we are involved. We can not afford to stop and quarrel with each other. We cannot afford to measure relative advantages and disadvantages, to split hairs. There is but one thing we can afford to do, and that is to pile in, each and every one of us, and work our hard est, do out best, for the advance ment of the common cause. After our country is saved, after our prop erties and liberties and opportuni ties and rights are saved, then we may resume, at the old stand, the old business of fighting among ourselves over how to improve them all and how to bring justice and equity nearer home. Even in the midst of war we may properly differ and con tend over questions of political pol icy. But there is no class or inter est that can afford to weaken the government, the country, to cripple its fighting power, because of griev ances real or fancied, so long as their own permanent stake in this country looms larger than their temporary wrongs. The farmers, we are well convinced, would be the last to do it, and this despite the prediction that they will refuse to raise the wheat that is needed be cause of dissatisfaction over the price. World-Herald. :o:- HIS OWN CHAMBERMAID Senator Norris is going to run again, because it is Senator Xorris who makes the statement that he will. Patriotic republicans, espec ially patriotic editors, are wonder ing how the former pro-German representative- of the great loyal state of Nebraska can be ditched at the primaries, and some of them are already casting about for suitable OA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of fiiC material for the job. The republican newspapers of the state have, with a -few exceptions, been highly loyal to the country in which they do busi ness, and Senator Norris has been the sand-burr in their shoes ever cinco his unpardonable attitude in the United States senate last spring. With Norris in the field he will need the support of these papers. How can he consistly expect to get it? Norris made for himself a badly tumbled bed, and many red blooded American newspaper men are willing that he should lie in it, but do not want to occupy it with . Jiim. Aurora Sun. :o:- VAE DEATHS, 7 PER CENT. One of the tricks of pro-Germans is to whisper it about that for a soldier to be sent abroad is his death warrant. Fighting men sometimes unthinkingly aid the deception by repeating inexact trench gossip that this or that command is "shot to pieces" with an incredible death list. Secretary Baker sets such stories at rest in his letter to Senator Sauls 1 ury, stating that of the total num ber of British soldiers in the ex peditionary forces about 7 per cent have been killed in action or died of wounds up to June 1. "Improved tac tics and the swiftly mounting Al lied superiority in artillery" are still reducing the percentage of losses. British losses in the retreat from Mons were heavy, though four-fifths of them were in the "wounded" and "missing" columns. Many French regiments have fared as badly. The fate of the Princess Patricia Canad ians was a war tragedy that will long be remembered, but it was an unnecessary tragedy. We have come to different conditions, when com manders use artillery to save their men and have it to use. The American people, as Secre tary Baker says, 'are not children to be frightened out of the path of duty." Yet no one need fear that the path of duty is the sure path of death: When at parting the boy soldier says, "Don't worry. I'll get back all right'," the chances are unless the war lasts mere than three years longer fourteen to one that be will. New York World. -:o:- H0V7 THE INCOI-IE TAX AFFECTS YOU The 630-a-week man or woman must pay a war revenue tax of $11.20 if unmarried and not entitled to ex emption. Thirty dollars a week Is 51.5C0 a year, and the tax is 2 per cent cf the amount over 1,000, that is, 2 per cent of ?560. If married, men or women in this class need not bother about the in come tax. They probably have troubles enough of their own to keep them busy. However, if a man is making $30 and his wife $25, the government demands a tax. The combined in come of the , family would then be ?2,SG0. Uncle Sam will exempt $2,000 of this amount and tax hus band and wife 011 ?SG0 at 2 per cent, making $17.20 they will have to pay. There is a $200 exemption for each child and in case the family cited above ban four children, only $C0of the $8 60 would be taxable. The war revenue tax is levied on net income from all sources and in teresi on any kind of indebtedness may be deducted. Exemptions may be filed at the time j-our income schedule, is presented at the collec tor's. If you own an equity in a house, if you owe money on a note, or if you own rented property on which repairs have to be made, you ma- claim exemption to the amount charged against jour income. For instance, if you pay interest on a mortageg to the amount of $400, and $150 in txes, your net income will be $1,000 and no income tax will be required. Under a recent ruling any amount j-ou give to charity, up to 15 per cent of your income, is non-taxable. Sup posing the rather unusual case that ja $30-a-week man should give $560 WHF- irNivirniS At. CAH - - - can make quick delivery We sters and bedans. Keep your eye on our two Ford Trucks hauling materials to the new Ford building. We solicit your orders, T NL Pollock 5kuo Go., Authorized Sales and Service, 6th St, Plattsmouth, Neb. Office Telephone No. 1. Shop Telephone No. 58. to the Red Cross, $234 of this amount would be tax-free, and he would pay 2 per cent of $326, or $6.52. :o: SON STILL VERY SICK. From Tuesday's Dally. Wm. Stohlman was a passenger to Omaha this afternoon where he goes to see" what he can do to get a fur lough for his son Walter Stohlman who is at Norfolk, Va. Walter has been sick in the hospital there for some time and his father goes to Omaha to see if he can get a fur lough that he may come home and see if the change and home treat ment would be beneficial. VISITING MRS. M0CKENHAUPT. From Tuesday's Dally. This morning Christian Mocken haupt, and daughter Mrs. Fred Liindeman, accompanied by Mrs. Nicholas Halmas, mother of Mrs. Christian Mockenhaupt, were pass engers to Omaha, where they go to visit with Mrs. Mockenhaupt, who is in a hospital at that place, where she underwent for an operation some time since and where she is con valescing. OYSTER SUPPER. An oyster supper and program will be given at the Taylor school house, 3 V2 miles west, on the Louis ville road, Saturday evening, Novem ber 24th. Program at S o'clock. Supper. 20c. Everybody invited. ! MARGARET ALBERT, Teacher. ll-17-2tdltwkly. FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANS. I am prepared to take applications now for farm loans to be closed not later than January 1st, at 5 per cent. Inquire of Chas. C. Parmele, at The Bank of Cass County. FOR SALE. The late Andy Dill homestead in the citj- of Plattsmouth, good house and three lots. For particulars, call or write B. Dill, Murray, Neb. For Sale SO acres S miles South west of Plattsmouth on easy terms. Price $130.00 per acre. T. H. Pol lock, Plattsmouth, ll-16-3td2twkly A want ad will bring what you want. The Nehawka Chills are now Rolling and Manufacturing the "Letter Bill" "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. J. M. .. D. ST. JOHN, Prop JOE MALCOLM, Head Miller: For Saie by Ail Dealers 1 on Ford Touring Cars, Road Man Troubled for Two Years. Nq one should suffer backache, rheumatic pains, stiff joints, swollen sore muscles, when relief can easily be had. James McCrery, Berrien Center, Mich., says he was troubled with kidney and bladder trouble for two years. He used se-aeral kinds of medicine without relief, but Foley Kidney Pills cured him. Sold every where. For Sale A number of white Brahma Cockerels. Mrs. C. E. Heeb ner, Nehawka. ft M-dQ- Car Load of Live Poultry to be delivered at poultry car near Burlington freight depot at Platts mouth, Nebr., on Tuesday and Wed nesday, Nov 27th and 28th for which we will pay in cash. Hens . 116c Springs 16c Old Cocks . 11c Ducks, Full feathered 14c Geese, Full Feathered 14c Cow Hides 18c Horse Hides $6.00 . each We will be on hand rain or shine to receive all poultry offered for sale. VJ, E. KEEHEY HH"H"I"H''I"I"I"r-I'-'I"I"I W. A. ROBERTSON, Lawyer. ' 4. East of Riley Hotel. Coates Block, f Second Floor. i 4M.M-M.I4"I'M"I"II.1..I 6 IFlBtori l i :1 t V , t w i -1 It J