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PCBUIHKD lEXI'WEEKlT AT PLATT8MOUTH, NEBRASKA.
Satr4 at Fotoffle at Plattimouth. Nto.. aa Meoad-elaM mail matter.
It A. DATES, Publisher
raiCKirno mcm iim rum teab. or adtaxce
Do your shopping early.
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Only 21 days till Christmas.
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At least you are thankful that it
Is no worse.
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Lord Lansdowne may be licked
but Britain ain't.
:o;
The Bolsheviki appears to have
been created free and loquasions.
Jt :o:
One place where the kaiser can
still look for victory is In the dic
tionary. :o:
General Confussion has succeeded
Kerensky in control of affairs in
Russia.
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"When it comes to the manufacture
o fshells, the hen beats the munition
factory.
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If you must worry just worry
yourself, and not worry others. They
are very apt to have troubles of
their own.
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"Business as usual" is a pretty
good slogan, but, "Business unusual"
is a better one from now on until
after the holidays.
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Some fellows who fly the largest
flags pass up the Y. M. C. A. war
funds. Patriotism that runs mostly
to show won't help win the war.
Just now money talks.
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Although passenger coaches are
more expensive than freight cars,
there never is a shortage of coaches
when there is need of
special.
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a football
Premier Lloyd George is auth
. ority for the statement that thirteen
million men have crossed the ocean
in the past three years and from that
number only 3,500 were lost.
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The Prussians stole everything the
poor Germans possessed years ago,
dre've them out of the country, and
are now spending their stolen mil
lions to try and coerce others.
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President Wilson is expected to
issue a proclamation soon requiring
every alien enemy within the United
States to register, as a step oward
ridding the country of spies and
saboeage.
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If you have not discovered any
way in which you can be helpful.
anyway of doing your bit, surely it
cannot be because of lack of good
advice and suggestions on that sub
ject.
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The world has seen the documen
tary evidence that Germany was wyi
ing to spend money lavishly to cor
rupt public officials in this country
and France. There is a general milfc
curiosity to know how much a sep
arate peace with Russia is going to
cost.
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i ne Kussian civil committee in
Washington says the story of Miss
Titiana Romanhoff's escape to Amer
ica is a hoax. We wish we knew the
straight of it, in order to know
whether Tatiana we see in the movie
news films before long is the real
thing or not.
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system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
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Let Old Glory float everywhere.
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The pacifist is passing, inept, un-
honored and unhung.
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The way some people become rich
makes a bunco game honest.
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One way to fill a soldier's Christ
mas sock would be to enlist.
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Traitors are judged by their treat
ment of the Stars and Stripes.
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The children are almost counting
the hours from now till Santa's ar
rival. :o:
The British lion seems to be more
than a match for the llindenburg
line.
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Forty thousand Philippino's have
enlisted in the United States army.
Good!
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We can't blame the doctors for en
listing. Food conservation is about
to cure all their pet cases.
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And here comes another Christ
mas, and no likelihood of the kaiser
eating his dinner in Paris.
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We are rather in love with that
British General Byng. It has a whole
some sound. And he seems to be
iving up to it.
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A man never finds out just what
he really is until he gets married
and then he is told more often than
is comfortable.
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If "Sin Fein" is pronounced any
thing like it reads, its a misnomer.
Seems to us its adherents have the
genuine article, judging from their
activities.
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You bet this is a "rich man's war."
When it comes to taking 63 per cent
of . a man's income that is digging
pretty deep and only rich men are
caught in that act.
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We still believe in Russia. When
a nation gets tired of Lenine minis-
ry almost as soon as we do it is
natural for us still to have hope for
Anybody can talk Latin but it
takes a freak to understand it. We
apologize to all the students and
teachers, who have it to do. The use
of it in America should be aband
oned. :o: i-
If it is true, as stated, that Amer
ica pays fourteen times as much for
each soldier as the enemy, the boys
have man-size jobs to measure up to
the pattern cut for them. But they'll
do it.
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The merchant who thinks lie can
capture much holiday trade without
advertising is not as wise as he
thinks he is. Advertising is what
captures the eyes of the Christmas
shoppers.
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Another step has been taken by
government officials in winning the
war. All railroads cast of Chicago
have been pooled and in future will
be operated under a railroad war
board. It is thought that this will
relievo the congested condition of
freight traffic now occurring in the
east and will hasten the movement
of war materials.
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Funny how fate always gets tho
wrong man in the right place, or the
right man in the wrong place or
both, or vice versa, or some other
darned kind of a mix-up. But what
we wanted to say was that we' have
a man in our town who could have
had the war fought to a finish and
the Kaiser whipped to a frazzle if
h'j had only been consulted. We
know it, because he says so.
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IMPORTANT, IF TRUE.
Now there is an insidious intima
tion in partisan republican papers
that "one reason" for the president's
recent trip to the convention of the
American federation of labor at
Buffalo, and his heartful address be
fore it, was "his desire to aid Sam-
uel Gompers re-election as head of
the federation."
And the question is naively put,
"But suppose there should arise op-
position to the re-election of a su-
preme knight of the Knights of Co-
lumbus, or a grand master of the
Masons, or an exalted ruler of the
Elks would the White-Jiouse then
respond to an S. O. S.?"
If President. Wilson really did go
to Buffalo and make his masterful
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speecn to organizeu lauor mrougu
any desire to help re-elect Sam
Gompers, it is occasion for genuine
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applause. Sam Gompers has been a
tower of strength to both the gov-
eminent and to union labor since
the war involved us. He has stood
like a stone wall against Bolshevik-
ism in this country. lie has told the
paciflst socialists in union labor
"where to head in," and he has made
patriotism stick as a chief tenet of
the great order for which he speaks,
While elements that professed to
be in some measure representative of I
the workinirmaii. the organized work-
ingman at that, were diligently
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nourishing the seeds of disloyalty,
old Sam Gormpers stood up like a
dauntless giant and defied and de-
nounced them. They did not speak
for the rank and file of organized
labor. They were rather agents of
the arch enemy of America, and he
wanted the whole world to know it.
xVnd by a vote that was so one-sided
as to be almost unanimous, organized I
labor has endorsed the patriotic war J
activities of Gompers and his asso-
ciates in the fedeartion.
Organized labor has much for
which to be thankful growing out of
the patriotic leadership of Sam
Gompers, and it knows it. The Unit-
ed States has also much for which
to be thankful arising from his
leadership of that great organization,
aud it knows it. " Let us give the
president the credit that partisan
enemies have tried to injure him and I
their country's cause by according
him. Although it does not now seem
as if Gompers needed any boosting
in that patriotic convention. Lin- I
coln Star. I
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The farmers raised a big corn
crop this year, but it is such inferior would keep alive the military zeal
quality that corn experts are pre- and spirit and maintain the cora
dicting that seed corn will sell as ruunity loyalty that will be necessary
ligh as $25 a bushel next spring.
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"Purchasing a Liberty Bond is not
a test of man's patriotism," says an
exchange. No. but it is a darned
good indication.
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Never take credit when you can
pay cash.
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Coal is scarce.
-WANTED!-1
Car Load of Live Poultry
to be delivered at poultry car near
U. li. & Q. depot at Plattsmouth..
Nebr., on Friday Dec. 7th, one day
only ior which we will pay in cash: ing all upon this sphere that free
Hens ir
Springs 17c
. . .
Old Cox ; 12c
Ducks, Full Feathered :15c
Geese, Full Feathered l4c
Cow Hides 17c
Horse Hides $6.00 each
We will be on hand rain or shine
wid take care of all poultry offered
lor sale.
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PLATTSMO DTH SOI I -WEEKLY JOURNAL.
LET STATES PRO
TECT THEMSELVES
In recommending the use of fed
eral troops for the protection of cer
tain property in Kansas, Governor
Capper probably is acting upon re
liable information which he has re
ceived regarding the danger to such
property. It may be well, anyway,
to act upon the old adage that "an
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
or cure," and be prepared ior any
emergency.
It should be understood, however.
that the only excuse for the federal
government furnihslng troops to
protect property in Kansas, or in
any other state, is because of the
emergency created by . the war
Preparations. The fact that all the
ctcin mrra unrn noli twl 1 r.l n t li
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service of the federal government be-
fore arrangements could be made
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-a nome ueienrc army, auurus u
good reason for the co-operation of
the government with the states, for
a. little while, in the use of federal
troops for state purposes,
Congress failed to pass any mea-
sure for raising a home army to take
the place of the National Guard
when it was called into service. Such
an enabling act will be needed be-
Uore the states can organize an ef-
fective military plan.
doubt congress will pass sucu
an enabling act early in the coming
. A l J. 1 A. S A. Ml 1 . - A
session. Alter mat, it win ue up lu
'e states to rate care or themselves.
Special sessions of the legislatures
will be necessary and Kansas and
Missouri and the other states must
make up their minds that they will
"ave to equip their own state armies,
The federal government has all it
can do to equip its own army for ser-
vice in France.
Two weeks ago in The Star, John
fctearn, a t.oney tountv, Kansas,
farmer, suggested the solution of the
problem for home defense. It was
'or the organization of military
companies in tne small towns 01 tne
state, including farm communities,
as wel1 as in the cities. Every man
qualified to fight, but not qualified
for fighting in France, could be en-
listed in sucn a state army, in tins
wav every community would have its
own army of defense and could take
care of itself against the I. W. W. or
an' other treasonable organization
of German agents. In addition,
each man physically fit for military
service would be receiving necessary
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training for any eventuality of the
war. and such an organization
until the last day of the war with
Germany.
Such organizations the states
themselves must equip, " train, help
to organize and officer. It is noth
ing more than the fair contribution
of every state to the success of the
war. K. C. Star.
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COMMIT THIS TO MEMORY.
This is the country of our birth,
the fairest land on all the-- earth.
Here freedom is a living thing, no
fake invented by a king. No galling
yokes are on our backs, we groan
beneath no unjust tax, the govern
ment is all our own and not a ukase
from a throne. The great republic
of the west! The haven of the
world's oppressed, the vital text of
all who plan a world-wide broth
erhood of man. Then thousand eyes
are gazing where her banner flies,
and countless hearts forever make
plans to reach the freeman's shores.
Besides the Ganges sullen flow, and
by the winding, storied I'o, where-
ever men are tired and worn, where
ever life is sad and gray, the eyes of
tnousanUS lurn tms way' Ana uiai
tneir eyes may to us turn, and that
our beacons still may burn, inform-
. . . .
once more the sword and brand to
battle for our native land. For free
dom, iu the people's sight, if wo sur
render what is right would be as
dark and foul a thing as though in
vented by a king. Walt Mason
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The days are getting rather short
UNCLE SAM'S WAR AIMS.
All these feverisli demands that
the allies, each or all of them, shall
more specifically define their- war
aims, such as that of our backward
pulling United States senators, of
the Marquis of Lansdowne and oth
ers, are futile except as they are mis
chievous. When the time comes for the ne
gotiation of peace the will of the
United States is going to be the dom
mating factor. We know in a gen
eral way 'what the war aims of this
government are. They are the same
as those of the American people. They
comprise such measures as may be
necessary to make the world safe
for democracy, with a league of na
tions to give them permanent force
and affect. One of the prime essen
tials is that small nations shall en
joy the same right to regulate their
affairs as larger nations, and with
out outside interference. Another is
that they shall choose their own
government as to form and person
nel. Still another is the freedom of
the seas. Militarism in any country
that is. a menace to the safety or
welfare of any other country is not
to be longer tolerated.
This program may not yet suit
rome of the allies, Vut they are
bound to come to the terms. It cer
tainly doesn't suit the central pow
ers, nut that is a matter or second
ary importance. When the kaiser
shall have been shorn of his power
over middle European peoples not
naturally his subjects the latter will
ike the program immensely.
Everybody will ultimately like
this world program except the ele
ments that comprise the kaiserbund,
the pan-Germanists. The German
people will like it better than any of
the others, becau.se they have been
the worst victims of the system
found upon the doctrine that might
makes right.
Uncle Sam may be trusted to
utilize the establishment cf peace in
the world as the occasion for mak-
ng the world safe for democracy,
the democracy of the present cen
tral powers, the democracy of the
subsidiary countries of the allies, as
well as the democracy of the two
American continents. Uncle Sam's
war aims are the war aims that will
prevail when peace comes. Lincoln
Star.
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KEPOItT OF THE CONDITION
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FIRST SECURITY BANK
of Cedar Creek, Nebr.
Clurt-r No. U'!i.-. in tho Stat. of Ne
braska at the lotft ot business
on November -(. 117.
KKsornci-:
Loans ami Oisrounts . . . .
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41.16
Overlrnfts
Hanking house, furnittm-
tlx tn res
1,000.00
wirrttit t-x penst-s, taxes ami
Interest iail
ue from National
and State banks.. $ L'.1
1,717.11
Currency )m;.(x
Hold coin 150.00
liver, nickels ami
cents :ilL'.7'
)2'.S
Total ? 6,174.7
I.!ArII.lTIl
''"a pi la I st'-c-k pail in
$ 10,000.0'
mH ib'l profits . . .
i,:;:ts.7
llnii viitual deposits
subject to cl, c.-k . . iS.S'.i.IS
Time certificates of
deposit , 1 l,0."5.1'.""
Cashier's checks
outstanding ...... r0'!.7G
Due to National
ami State banks.. 1 .001.3:;
Depositor's s'uaranty fund...
i , i'ii.
21 l.V)N
Total U6.174.37
State of Nebraska)
Count v of Ca.ss ) ss:
1, Jos. V.. ICau, Cashier of the
above named bank do hereby swear
that the above statement is a correct
and true copy of the report made to
the Slate LSanklng' ISoard.
jos. is. n.w.
Wtest: Cashier.
WAI.Til AM SCHXK1DKU. Director.
W. 11. lAHI.NKS, Direttor.
Subscribed and sworn to before, me
this 28th day of November. 1!17.
WAT. J. It AT.
(Seal) Notary Public.
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.
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Lawyer.
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East of Riley HoteL
Cop-tca' Block,
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WE ADD 3 PER CENT INTEREST.
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THE NEW
Americans Soon
May Be On Duty
On Italian Front
PP.ESIDENT WILSON TELLS CON
GRESSMAN THIS, IN LARGE
PART, WAS INDUCEMENT
FOR DECLARATION.
Washington, Dec. 4. It was learn
ed tonight that in conversation with
congressional leaders before leaving
the capitol, the president said that
the Austrian declaration was advis
ed largely because it might be neces
sary at any time to have American
soldiers aid Italy.
Italian Premier Pleased.
Paris, Dec. 4. The Italian pre
mier, Vittorio Orlando, sends through
the officials the following message to
the American people, in the course
of which he says:
"The most alarming period of the
crisis may be considered as past.
Italy's soldiers with admirable hero
ism, have succeeded in opposing the
barrier of their breasts to the in
vader, and behind her army stands
the Italian people to a man, animat
ed by one single will and overflow
ing with energy, now more than
ever united in the struggle and con
fident in victory.
"It is with the utmost joy that I
have noted the direct participation
in the inter-allied supreme war coun
cil at Paris of authorized represen
tatives of the United States. Their
intervention can only signify the
cordial and complete adhesion of
their country to the theory of a
single front, and can only aftirm in
the most tangible manner the har
mony of our souls and wills, the
union of our energies and means.
the fraternity of our arms in the face
of the 'common enemy."
The Wehawka Uills
arc now Rolling and Manufacturing the
nun n n m
ILduuQu m
"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 Jiave good
Bread.
i J. M.
C. D. ST. JOHN, Prop.
JOE MALCOLM, Head miller.
For Sale by All Dealers
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1917.
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State
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BANK.
TRINER'S CALENDAR OF HEALTH
More beautiful than ever before is
the new Triner' "Wall Calendar for
1918. A lofty figure of the Goddess
of Health, with herbal ingerdients
of Triner's remedies In her lap, forms
the centre, -five interesting . histor
ical pictures illustrate the evolutioa
of remedies, and two views demon
strate the modern equipment of
Triner's Chemical Laboratory. Send
10c to cover mailing expenses. Jos.
Triner, Manufacturer . of Triner's
American Elixir of Bitter Wine and
other remedies, 1333-1343 S. Ash
land ave., Chicago, 111. 12-5-3td-3tw
Ready Now at Old Prices.
Fresh lots of Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound are selling at before-
the-war prices. This puts this well
known cough medicine, ready for
use, in homes at less than it costs to
buy and mix the ingredients your
self, and all bother and muss is
avoided. There is no better remedy
for coughs, colds, croup or lagrippe.
Sold everywhere.
GOOD LANDS NEAR HOME.
There are large and small tracts
of land near home that you can buy
right through the agency of Curtain
& Mockenhaupt, of Sterling, Neb., as
you will see by their ad in another
column of this paper. They have
some very choice farms near Sterl
ing, and will take pleasure in show
ing you the value of the same If
you will take a day and viist with
them. tf-tf-tf
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