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PAGE FOUR. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918. To the Weather Man: Let up. THE DEADLOCK. 1 3 s" Cbe plattsmouth Journal PUKIDHED gE3CI-TVEEKliT AT PLATTCMOCTH, NB8RAIKJL Batarttl at Foatofflc at FlatUmouth. Nb.. a coal-cl&a mall natter. R. A. BATES, Publisher CB8CKIPTIOH PRICK I !. THE OLD FRIEND. There is no friend like an old frend Who has shared our morning days. No greetings like his welcome, Xo homage like his praise. Fame is the scentless sunflower, With gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose With sweets in every fold. :o: Eat more bran. .0:- Every American is a patriot. :o: Tatriots are not pausing to ask the question these days: "Am I my prother's keeper?" :o: What business have American pugilists fighting each other when there are so many Huns to mingle? Scud tnem all to France. :o: Zero weather is coming back to keep compan3 with the zero in the j poor man's pocketbock and the zero i in the poor widows coal bin. :or There i-- - mr.r.y true-blue re- publican candidates fur United Stater- j senator, and if they continue in the primary the pro-German candidate will be re-nominated sure. :o: It is believed that the government will soon take over the packing houses in order to control the three principal necessities in war time meat, coal and transportation. :o:- We hear repeatedly that the Bus sians cannot do much fighting be cause they are short of ammunition. What do's that have to do with it? They still have their vocabulary, haven't they? :o: Slackers and pacifists might have a heart and look forward to the time when their descendants will be try ing to bust into various orders of the Sons and Daughters of the World Revolution. A few disappointments in the matter of peace terms now will be good training for the kaiser, who will encounter a lot more disap pointments when his own people be gin negotiations with him. :6: Germany's announcement that she has a new horrible poison gas to use' on Americans doesn't sound so ter rifying to Americans as it probably would if we had no more to eat than the Germans have. A well known traveling man who makes regular trips to this city, says he is ready to bet that there is not a city in the United States double the size of Plattsmouth that has one half as many dances, and nobody seems to tire of them. :o: It is estimated that there are in Nebraska between 6,000 and 7,000 Germans and Austrians who have been for years voting on the btrengt.h of their first citizenship papers who now claim to be alien enemies, in order to escape the draft. If they insist on being enemies, put them in the detention camps, where they can do no harm and pass a law that full citiznship is required of a voter. :o: Why are war prcliteers cari'atur always as big, fat :nen? War proi" . eers are schemer.-, and Shakc-:;peare. speaking through CaeL-ear, taw a schemer in every slender man. Our imagination pictures Uriah -Heep as a bony sort of citizen. A corpulent Shylock would have been only Fal staff, who gained everything but profit from war. The cartoonist's answer to this tort of argument probably would be that lie knows some profiteers personally, and that they are bis fat mon- In which case, he would be asked to name some, names, and then we might get. koiuc where iu cutting down war profits. P TUB UT ADTAKCB Every patriot buys a Thrift Stamp. :o: People must have enough to eat, if possible. :o: Building fences on government pay, is not right. Still there are many doing it. :a: Billy Sunday said, that if hell were to run up side down "Made in Germany" would be found on the bottom. A heap of greatness is submerged by an overflow of egotism in those who have not sufficient brains to see it. -tor- An exchange tells "how to use honey in place of sugar." Yes, but how in the Sam Hill are you going to get the honey? :o: Eat a little more bran and be rainooe ior we are ioiu mat a ousnei oi wheat must make three pounds mere of flour than it has been making- :o: Plattsmouth is right up with any other town of its size in Nebraska in the sale of Thrift and War Saving Stamps. So far the sales are awaj' beyond expectations. :o: A rocking chair will move about all ever the rcor.i until it finds a squeaky board in the floor, and there it will stay, immovable as the neighbor who keeps a pig. :o: An eastern paper says Teddy Roosevelt cuts down trees and works them into stove-wood for exercise. Maybee that keeps him from talk ing more than he ought to. :o: England now reports that more German submarines are now being sunk each week then are being built and equipped, which shows that the U-boat danger is practically passed. :o:- A little girl of a family was talk ing family affairs with child like frankness to some other little girls the other day. "Mamma wouldn't pay the telephone bill and papa wouldn't either and so now the phone is out of order." :ot Now that M. Caillaux is in prison in France and Emma Goldman in America, perhaps we'll hear less from that class of enemies who go upon the theory that democracies are eith er too weak or too good natured to protect themselves. :o: Germany has agreed to pay 666, 000 pesetas to the family of a man who went down with a Spanish ship sunk by a U-boat. We don't know offhand just how much 666,000 pesetas is, but if it is over $1.75 Germany can never expect to pay all the just claims against her bloody policy of sea warfare. :o: Bathtubs have been known in American since 1842, and still thou sands of families have none. Ford cars have been household necessities since 2 010, although they were un heard of a few years before. There should be more funny stories about bathtubs and fewer about Fords un til tie proper balance is reached, for nobody will intelligently argue any more t ririt the J- or a 15 a good substitute for the bathtub. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a local disease. preatly in fluenced by consMtuUcnal conditions, and in order to cure it you must take an internal rtmody Hall's Catarrh Medi cine is ta';en Internally and acta thru the blood en the mucous surfaces of the system. I 'all's Catarrh Medicine wai prescribe! by one of the beet physicians In this country for years. It is com. po3ed of some of the best tonics known, combined with some of the best blood purifiers. The perfect combination of the ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medi cine is what produces such wonderful results in catarrhal condition;. Bead for testimonials, free. J. CHENEY & CO., Prop3., Toledo. O. All Druxcrtsts, c . - Huli'a Family Pills for nonutlo&Uon. :o:- Fresh eggs are not got-at-abie here. :o : The hens are not busy this cold weather. r ;os-. . .. . The fool and his auto should be parted. :o: Some people whistle just to make others think they are happy. :o: Hash is simply the same kind of stuff that most dreams are made of. :o: Solitude is the place where most men encounter their most deadly enemy. :o: The man who fears the hereafter is pretty sure to get what he deserv es. :o: If it is the right kind of a home the boy or girl will never run away from it. to: It isn't what your enemies say about you that hurts. It's generally what your friends say. :o: : Winter still holds on like grim death, and no doubt has the right away for the balance of January. :o: With cotton thread selling at 6 a spool in Germany it is surprising that the Kaiser can afford to go on stringing his people. :o:- The farmer who does not own an automobile is in the same relation to the farmer who 25 or SO years ago didn't have a cottage organ in his house. :o: No alien should be allowed the same privileges as an American citi zen, and the sooner the laws are changed in this country in this re spect, the better it will be for the government. :o: In these war times Senators, Con gressmen and everyone employed by the government even to po.tmatters and assistant postmasters should be more willing to help pay the war tax than anybody else. :or ; Some of the rest of us will know that war is what Sherman said it was when we get to figuring out our income taxes and excess profit tax returns. Still we would rather do that than fill out those question naires. Newman Grove Reporter. :o: Isn't it strange that every man ap pointed to the imperial German chancelorship soon "falls ill" and is forced to resign solely "on that ac count?" In the interest of super health and kultur German science ought to provide vaccination against being appointed imperial German chancelor. J :o: THE ITALIAN DEFEAT. ! There has been much discussion among the military critics concern ing the Italian retreat. General Maurice, the British director of mili tary operations, makes a statement that maj be summed up as follows. General Cadcrna had conducted a surprising campaign considering the difficulties of the terrain and had been victorious in every encounter. He was informed of the proposed Austrian advance and knew the num ber of troops to be sent. The force was not a very large one, and the ad vance was more for political effect than in the hope of a great military advantage. General Cadorna had a sufficient force to meet it. But a portion of the army became demor alized and fled, on account of the "red"' propaganda. When the Aus trians thus attained a victory they did not cripect, the Germans threw in large forces and came near reach ing the Italian plains, and tney would have reached them but for as sistance from France and England. It is stated that General Cadorna had asked for assistance and that it had been refused, therefore the al lies were to blame. General Maurice says that was true, but the assist ance asked for was not to repel an invasion, but to inaugurate a large j strategic movement, the . purpose -of which was to eliminate Austria from ' the contest. France and England Have this effective remedy at' band for croupy children. It's thankful relief. Pleasant to take. Mildly laxative. Mjff' gold by all druggists 6 for Coughs sCoHs Constipation Causes Sickresj Don't permit yourself to become constipated, as your system immediate ly begins to absorb poison from the backed-up waste matter. Use Dr. King's New Life Pills and keep well. There is no better safeguard agair.st illness.Trv it tonizht. Ail druggists did not indorse the feasibility of that project, holding that to remove troops from the western line for i-ueh a campaign would be verv danerou5. as the Germans had the inner and shorter lines of communication aiul could transfer troons from one front to the other in many days lcs time than the allies. It appears from all that has, been published, that the Italian defeat was caused by the peace and socialistic campaign among the soldiers of the line that gave away and destroyed the morale of the troops. World- Herald. :o:- IF THEY CAIT DO IT, SO CAN WE AMERICANS The president oft he Deutsche Bank of Berlin said recently that the peo ple in Germany are now saving three billion dollars annually of what they used to spend in beers and liqucrs. There are about 70,000,000 people in the German Empire. Fresident Wilson has asked Amer ican men. women and children to save 2 billion dollars in one vear to lend to our government at four per cent to help win the war. There are 100,000,000 of us. Can wc do it? We can. Will we do it? Wc will. How? Simply by "cutting out" the little extravagances to our daily lives that add nothing to our strength of character,- nor to our health or happiness; by cutting down on our candy and gum expenditures; by go ing to the "movies" less frequently, by smoking less; by drink water instead of fancy colored concoctions, and by practicing a hundred and one little economies that will save a penny here and there. When the pennies have been sav ed Uncle Sam has provided simple machinery with which to take care of them. Twenty-five cents buys a Thrift Stamp. Sixteen Thrift Stamps pasted on a card given you when you buy the stamp, with 12 cents addi tional will buy a War Savings Cer tificate, given with your first AV;r Savings Stamp, becomes virtually ; a government bond for which the 1 government will pay you SI 00 i:i five years. A War Savings Stamp h; ju; t as safe as your country. And the more Stamps sold right now, the rafor your country will be. :o: TWO CHANCES IN WAR. A young man, who registered in the recent draft, was asked what he thought about it. He replied: "I should worry. You see I always have two chances. I will either be drawn or not be drawn. If I am not drawn I need no worry, and if I am drawn, I still have two chances. I will take the examinations and will either be rejected or accepted. If I am rejected, well I should worry and if I am accepted, I still have two chances. I will either be called or held in reserve. If I am in reserve I need not worry, but if I am called well, I still have two chances. I will either bo put in the firing line or just behind it. If behind it I need not worry, but if on the firing line I still have two chances, I will either bo hit or missed. If I am missed I should' worry, but if I am hit, I .still have two chances, I will either be killed or crippled. If I am killed I can't worry and I still have two chances and if I am crippled, the government will see that I .am well cared for the rest of my life." We have been repeatedly admen isnea 10 iaue wun a iiucrni allow ance of r.alt reports of food shortage and other untoward conditions in Germany, lest they be but. part of German propaganda designed to lure Germany's enemies into blackening their war preparations. With due allowance to these warnings, there is reason for crediting the stores that come, mostly from adjacent nev.t .ii countries, of chronic hunger and growing unrest and rebiiiiousnes.; among tiie German people. Tliere i; no man and no people thut can light well, and keep :i fighting well, on an empty stcmath. Famine ia a great discourager to bellicosity. And tkuiv i:: the be Ut reason for suspecting ti".;-t there is l.i'k of an au.nle and wfl! -balanced ration in j Germany b c.iu-e of th? frank and somewhat alun-.:in; reports that i come from England ;vd Franco, a to a similar condition in those coun tries, and one that 1.4 steadily worse. However badly o!V they may be. we may )e sure that Germany, and Austria-Hungary a:3 well are. worse ofi. since they have net the same extern al sources of supplies to draw on. We are safe in concluding that hunger and the fe:ir of hunger is playing an increasingly large part in the war, and that it is playing a larger part iu the en em 3- countries than in the entente nations. And it is a part that leads toward peace rather than away from it. 'There are other factors, too, that go far to explain why the ft atomeii and news papers of all lands pre indulging. spite of all angry protects, more in a discussion of peace terms than o? war strategy. There is the appalling mountain 01 cett tnat, with every ri.iir.g cf the eu:i, is larger rnd more dispiriting than it was the day be fore. There is the lack of clothing, of shoes, of fuel, of practically every thing that is needed to maintain hu manity in a civilized state, and thi; lack, too. is growing mere s.riouf daily. There i:; the condition of military deadlock which, in its larg er aspects, has continued for more than a year, and the fear that for either side to break it will re-mho a larger expenditure of force than it can hope to command for anot-ae; year or two, possibly even longer. And anxious student of the situa tion are beginning to ask themselves whether any country, with the ex ception of the United States, could stand the tremendous strain for another three years without break ing. There are other considerations, ii must be recognized, that tend to counterbalance these. In Germany there 13 the hope of effecting a sep arate peace with Russia; a peace that would bring Itimbian foodstuff.-: to millions of hungry Germans and release eventually million--! of troops to ho i-cw in .vii 'iu;;-; int." i r (Hi V.'c-.t front. In Franc?, that illant nation which with eir.plying v ins i: r.gliting with its hscli to the wall, there i. the hope that the United States will enter the war in sufficient force, wliile ther L; yet time, to com j.euvate for the Knsiisn loss and help drive the German hordes out cf 1 orthern France and Belgium. Great Britain hopes that vast fleets of new ships will emerge, within Hie year, from American yards, to replace those sunk by the U-boats and replenish the depleted supplies of foodstuffs and other necessities in England, France and Italy alike. I fere in the United States the hope that mca:s most to us is that Russia may con tinue to stand firm for a just and honest peace and that no separate peace will' be concluded. For that would mean not only the most ser ious trouble in Germany but the in spiriting of our associates in the war. And it would afford us a -little more desperately needed time to get our own troops, fully armed and sup plied, to the front where the fighting is. What will happen to all these hopes no one can surely forsee. But on how they cxtcntuatc will depend the tide of the war and the postponc mnt of peace or the bringing it near er. One thing seems reasonably liure. The war has reached such a stage of terrific tension that the es- - j ii e JO O O ft 'a O J-j to C o O ? 3 S O tfli- 3 hi O , an C5 o 0 o d L et KM C8 ASS, yj n in rr ri . K -i- . -( en ZSL L'J ft. & o Poo j o w sj m o ni wt a tr, - -L- Ti . car- - isting deadlock cannot very long endure and the war continue. The most important thing in the world to us, overriding all other considera tions, is that there may be a "break" and that it will be our way. To in sure that it will be we must do ab solutely and literally everything that it, in our power. Far from slacken ing war preparations, this is imper atively the time for increasing them, in volume and in speed and in inten sity and in practical effectiveness, all that we possibly can. World Herald. :o: Cue cf Interest to Our Readers. Good news bears repeating, and when it is confirmed after a long lai-se of time .even if we hesitated to believe it at first hearing, we feel se cure iu accepting its truth now. The following experience of a Platts mouth man is confirmed after ten years: K. M. Buttery, stationary engin eer, Tenth & Walnut Sts.. Platts mouth. says: y Pains caught me in my hips so that I could hardly raise a shovel of coal. At times, there was lameness across my loins. I had reason to believe that the trouble was caused by disordered kidneys and 1 got Doan's Kidney Pills from the Crescent Pharmacy. I got quick relief."- (Statement given June 11, 1900.) On February L'J, 1916, Mr. But tery said: "It has been two years since I have had any trouble with my kidneys and I have enjoyed good health in every way. I recommend Doan's r,t every opportunity." Price COe, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pill.? the same that Mr. Buttery has twice puhlely recom mended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. HORSES AND MULES TAKEN UP. At my home. 6 miles west of Murray, 3 yearling mules, 1 yearling colt, 2 steel gray horses. Owner may have same by calling at ray place, paying for all damages and the cost of this advertisement. l-9-2wkswkly PHILIP SCHAFFEK. You Can Get a Government-Irrigated Farm in The Big Horn Basin, If You Act Promptly Uncle Sam built ihis irrigating system; he gives you llie lands end charges yon only the actual cost of an ample and permanent water right. The mode of payment is nearly a gift twenty years' time, no interest; with three years' cultivation, these farms will he worth at lcat a hundred dollars an acre; excellcnl surroundings; on the Burlington's main line, near Dt-aver, Wvo. THE BIG IIOR.V HASIX: Because of the rich oil discoveries. ihc great irrigated areas, the heavy alfalfa and grain production, beet sugar factories, oil refineries, growing population, the Big- Horn Basin teems with prosperity and a rapidly increasing- development. XniiKASK,! AX1) 'COLORADO LAXDS: For dairviiv. wheat raising-, for livestock and general farming these lands can be: 72 o o a 13 So g o 2 3 O c 3 c 13 o O a! O k! to j2 a 5 X3 73 O 3 O -5 c c a -a 3 , e) " d U -2- 6 5 3 C O O : -I -J 1 rrt f a ? a o ra r- - o r" w' en O r "5 rt oCQ u T5 Tl - C tr. wJ Gets Good Results Quickly. These few lines from J. E. Haynes, McAlester, Okla., deserve careful reading by every one who values good health: "I find no medicine which acts eo mildly and quickly with good results as Foley Cathartic Tablets. They empty the stomach and bowels, giving all of the diges tive organs a healthy action." Sold everywhere. FOR SALE. 2 Ford cars, 1 large car suitable for truck; 1 Harley-Davidson irotor cycle; 1 Excelsior motorcycle; I Chopie Gas Engine. Inquire of J. E. Mason, at Plattsmouth Garage. l-19-tfd&w. Croup at Micbiislit Well in-Morning. "A few nights ago one of my pat rons had a small child taken with croup about midnight," writes M. T. Davis', Eearsville, V Va. "They came to my store and got a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar. Before morning the child had entirely recov ered." Use only Foley's, for coughs, colds, croup, and grip. Sold every where. FOR SALE OR TRADE. My 10-room residence and two lots in Plattsmouth. Will trade for live lstock or auto, as part pay, or will sell at a bargain for cash if taken soon. Address Julia A. Dwyer, 432." No. 3Gth Ave., or phone Colfax 200G. l-19-2wk3dw LOST. Tuesday, Jan. 15th, on automobile road, between South Omaha and Rock Bluffs, a roll of carpet. Fend er please call Phone No. 1011 7Iur ray Farm Line and receive reward. l-16-dw. Journal Want-Ads Pay! 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