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PL ATI SMOOTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY,-JANUARY 28, 1918.;
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Cbc plattsmouth Journal
rUnLISHBD HKMI-WEEKLT AT PLATTSMOUTD, NEBHASKii.
Eatarad at Poatoffice at Plattsmouth. Neb.. econd-clasa ma.Il matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
iubi cnuPTioic price: u.s
What cf the spring?
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Your old flag gone?
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Storm paralyzes the east.
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A hero out of a job is a pitiful
sight.
:o:
The modern woman puts her trust
in providence and keeps her knitting
dry.
:o:
We have never known of circum
stantial evidence strong enough to
convict a good looking woman.
:o:
There are some men who are re
ligiously opposed to divorce, but it is
generally before they see the other
woman.
The Lincoln Herald says that,
"sometimes one gets the impression
that this war was undertaken to
make prunes popular."
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The war is teaching us a lot of
things. It is cutting out waste! It
is increasing efficiency. It is draw
ing us closely together. Baby bonds
wili teach us thrift.
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As a preventive measure against
its happening again next year, why
not urge every citizen to plant a
coa! mine in his back yard next fall,
al'ttr the garden crops are harvested?
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Why provide a button or badge
for men exempted from the army
draft? Isn't the fact that he is
Vrescnt in civilian clothes sufficient
pn.i.f that he l as not been drafted
and sent away to the army?
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It is sad, but "t 1:5 true, that the
distinction of the woman who has a
peculiar operation is short lived. Just
as soon as she begans to brag about
it a half dozen other women have the
same kind of an operation perform
ed. :o:-
When love of country and a desire
to be a part of the great battle for
Democracy is looked with the habit
of saving, there is formed a combi
nation of virtues which insure the
future of any nation. Puy Thrift
Bonds."
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Aii'l now when severe hot winds
strike us next summer, and there
comes a great ice shortage, will we
have a "cool administrator" v.-ho
will shut down soda fountains and
meat refrigerators f-.r five days in
order to relieve the situation?
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While there is some difference of
opinion to Jess Willard's desire to
f.eht for the lied Cross, there can be
no adverse opinion to his business
acumen. He has sold his Wild West
show. The Wild West is now in the
same class with the shooting gal
lery. :o:
Bill Stone is now trying awful
hard, to get back into the good
graces of his constituents where he
nee was before lie joined the La
F.l!etfe forces in opposition to the
President and administration. We
were once a great admirer of Sena
tor Stone, but like ourself, he is
getting somewhat aged to serve his
people, and should retire before the
good people of Missouri ask him to in
a voice unmistakable.
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. ILoss Hammond interested a large
number of citizens at the Parmele
I heater Tuesday night. Mr. Ham
mond is a fine talker and told his
story in such a n.annejr that all
could fully understand his lecture,
lioss is not only very popular
mi Plattsmouth, but his friends are
legion all over the state, and his
popularity is further displayed by
the crowds that turn out to hear him.
The Journal editor is a great admirer
cf Ross Ilamuiond.
per teak
is
Pessimism has never
jood.
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done any
A thrifty nation is- a happy na
tion. Buy a bond today.
:ot
The smaller the woman the mere
scenery she can stage.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant.
It oils all "life's machinery.
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A real nervy man is never embar
rassed very long at one time.
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A woman can jump at conclusions
without wearing very short dresses.
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His latest portraits makes tbe kais
er look more than ever lihe a head
waiter.
" 1 0
Opiimism is the greatest bushier
getter, biggest trader and greatest
achiever in the world.
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An Eastern Doctor has written a
book. "How to Rest". That would
not interest us. , We don't hold any
public ofllce.
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We wonder whether the printer on
a Western ppper was unconscious or
malicious the other day when he set
it "the fulo administrator."
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There is no doubt that Governor
Mo:-ebv.d is in the race for lr. S.
Senator. 1'e made an excellent gov
ernor, ami he will a good senator.
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Anyway, buy several "Z-cent
stamps today and give them to your
children. !f you have no children
of yo".r own give their to somee.r.e
else's children.
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Pcultry misers in the Middle West
predict there will be $1.00" and evon
$1.2"; eggs within the next year.
But there is one consolation: There
won't be many.
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A New York theater wa:; d"vt rov
ed by fire and a lot of Uncle Tern's
Cabin scenery is believed lost. Es
pecially are the cakes of ice given up
as a total loss.
Failing with his vote to keep the
country out of a righteous war. Sena
tor Stone is convinced that if war
must he, there should akio be a lit fie
partisan politics mixed in with it.
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"Kat all th" ;:o;;p that is put be
fore you,v says a food cor. server.
Those having scruples againsr tip
ping up the soup plate may do ju.t
as well by soaking it up with a piece
of bread.
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"All young men who were marri- d
sine." May IS. are to be drafted any
how," notes the Kansas Industrial
is. "Men who were married before
that time probably will enlist any
how. What"s the difference?"
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A Chicago society wants the mean
est boy in aaerica, to be the sub
ject of a reforming experiment. Evi
dently uncertain of its success, .they
are calMng for boys now. IX it works,
incorrigible girls will be tried later.
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"Government control etf the rail
roads," says Prof. William Taft, "is
the most absurd plan ever put to
gether." The brewery or the life
insurance company should -send Will
a calendar. He doesn't know it's
101S.
Catarrh Cannot Bo Cured
witli LOCAL APPLICATION'S, as they
cannot reach the sat of the disease.
Catarrh is y. local disease, prcatly in
fluer.eed by conttiuiticnil or.ditipns, and
in orci'a- to euro It. you inuiu take
internal renucly llalft, Catarrh Medi
cine ij taken internally and acts thru
the Lbjod n Hkj mucous surfaces of the
systcai. Hill's, Catarrh Medicine was
picscitbci .l..y ne of t.l(5 bout phyviclans
ir. this country for years. It .13 com-po.-v.'fl
of aorr. .. t!.o Lest tonici known.
L-v.r. hi ti.jvl villi khiir of the host l.lood
purifiers. Tlio perfect combination of
t!?e Iricrocih'i-.ta in UaU'a Citarrh Modr
cii:c is v.hat produces such wonderful
results in 'atp.vri-.al ccr.ditions. sSead for
(Jstirr.')ni'!V', tr e?.
J. e-.'li;:,i;i' CO.. rrops., Toledo, o.
! ri';T?;iM. ':.;
iiall's IcUy I for rc r a U action.
grows better new
It is also very, trite that it is "nev
er too lote to learn."
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Senator Vardaman of Mississippi,
has a great head of hair.
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Getting back to the "simple life"
means giving up the simpleton life.
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Your patriotism is watched. Ycu
can't fool all the people all the tim,?.
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This is no time to shed crocodile
tears; it is the time to slu?d profiteers.
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Washington tape, we find to I e
not only red, but much of it is ad
hesive.
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If you learn to save, you will be
worth a lot more to yourself and
jour country.
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We feel so patriotic most of the
time that we don't even want the
German measles.
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We suppose any Berlin millionaire
able to eat butter at $2.35 a pound
would be too miserly to enjoy it.
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Those who have artificial - butter
to sell generally claim that it is just
as good as the genuine but it ain't
:,y a sight.
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The Austrian cabinet has resigned.
which will help to confirm the im
pression that the entire country Is
becoming resigned.
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Criticism of a political and friend
ship philanthropist usually comes
from the fellow who has received the
most of the beneficiaries.
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Wo are making no further pro
test against the delay of the La ld
lette investigation. We think w
know camouflage" when we see it.
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LIKE TENNYSON'S MILL.
La Fed I et to is still i senator, .for
eign tongues .to still taught. in
American gtado schools l!o alert,
Americans, for there is a world of
vork to he done at once. Ulooin
ington Tribune.
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COMPULSORY RATI02ILNG COMING-
There is now an apparent certain
ty in the advises from the food ad
ministration at Washington that be
fore another year is up resort will bc
had to compulsory wheat rationing,
or rather bread rationing, in order
that the essential sustenance shall
be sent to the soldiers at the front.
The average American has but
feebly realized the privations that
have been endured by the .civil pop
ulations of England. France an i
Italy, where the people have almost,
entirely foregone the eating e;f wheat
bread in order that their soldiers may
have sustaining food.
The United States produced last
year only IS million bushels more
than normal home needs, according
to the department of agriculture
statistics, and already about "S mil
lion bushels have been exported,
either as grain, or as flour. The
figures show plainly the- urgent
necessity of economy in the use of
wh'-at. The hope is that at least CO
million bushels more, and perhaps
HI1) million, may be sent abroad. It
can be done only by a reduction of
20 per cent or more in the home
consumption. The economies affect
ed in the first half of the cereal year
have been much under that figure
and therefore (here should be a re
duction of more than 20 per cent in
the next six months.
When the food saving campaign
began a good many housewives ac
cepted it, if at all, with indifference.
It may be necessary a.s time go.;s on
to find out just what " housewives
have been saving, v,u that provision
may bo made to see that the non
savers shall suffer the? brunt of any
discomforts yet to come. Lincoln
Star.
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KEE? YOUR EYE ON IT.
The Deacon is informed by re
liable sources that. A. C. Townley,
president of the non-partisan league,
recently said upon oath before the
Minnesota public safety committee.
Fuel outlook
every day.
i. Rheumatic Aclies d
Drive them out with Sloan's
Liniment, the quick-acting, sooth
ing liniment that penetrates with
out rubbing and relieves the pain.
Always have a bottle in the house
for the aches and pains of rheuma
tism, gout, lumbago, strains .sprains,
stilt joints nnn all muscle soreness.
ihat his league contained only 20,000
members in North Dakota. In the
191 C election the league mustered
40,000 members. .
In North Dakota, the home of the
league, it is losing ground, then,
while in other states it is gaining.
It is sa:d to have an actual majority
in Nebraska, and Idaho ai d is very
strong in Tdontana, South Dakota
and Colorado. la Kansas and Okla
homa it is gaining members.
In North Dakota a new organiza
tion called the North Dakota far
mers" league threatens the existence
of the Townley organisation. Natur
ally the Tom nieyites brand tim new
society as another tool of "Dig 151::."
as they do everything ch:e which i:
in opposition to tiieir league. Wheth
er their accusation is true remains
to be seen.
The Nonpartisan league is now
attracting nation-wide attention.
The New York World recently print
ed a series of five articles giving
both sides or the tjucstion. Other
newspapers and some magazines
nave become interested in it. Kverv
persons who is to vote intelligently
upon public affairs this year and
two year from now must familiar-
iz himself with the history and
tendencies of the organization. The
story is exceedingly interesting when
one gets into it and should not be
neglected. Its connection with (ho
war is the most remarkable and
significant phase and should always
kept in mind.
The losses in (he state of Its birth
and its growth in other state-:-
what do they mean? Wic'.ii'.fc JVea
con. :o:-
"77" AT TT" i' r tt lr A7' ot-- "in-r
It may be (hat Chanrel'.er ven
IIertl:::g never said in the i'rtis-iau
upper house on Tuesday, as Amster
dam reports, that conditions around
the large town.-: of Germany are ptu ii
as might "fill the members of the
house with serious anxiety and real
pain." It may be thaf Dr. Dorn
burg did not say at the spine time
that the birth-rate has greuily d
dined and the mortality-rat-- amr-::g
children has ir.crca'-r d to an v :
greater extent.
lint we know that such cor.diti-.-?.
prevail, whether they find public
eii:d official i eeognition or not. We
ki ow that the great! v increas-- d
eth-re-t.
not
con';nei to eh;!-
dren but spread; through the whoV"
adult population an J is additional rr
the direct death-rate from war. Xo?
need any doubt arise of the general
impairment and ruin of htm.-ing prop
erty in Germany which has been al
lowed to go on through a devotion
of all energies to war and which was
a text of the Chancellor's .-porch.
The truth i-V that while the other
belligerents are bleeding terribly,
Germany is bleeding to death from
the war and the blockade more cer
tainly and more rapidly. Time still
fights on the side of the allies and
with increasing force. If Germrny
can put up another strong offensive
on the western front by the col
lapse of Ilussia, the allies there are
in a position to put up a great r
resistance than ever before when
their resistances have invariably been
successful.
It is a time for more calm and
confidence on this side the battle
line. The fault of the United States
is not. of doing or having done too
lit tie but of trying to do too much.
We have been stampodeel into get
ting in the way of ourselves. We
shall do better if we hereafter heed
less the panic cries of alarmists at
home and of unduly nervous friends,
abroad. Xew Vork World.
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What's the matter? Nobody has
started to talk bate ball yet. A little
to early, we presume. j
j Genvro-s sized bottle. "" I
DON'T SPILL THE BEAKS.
Dispatches from Washington to
the newspapers of Friday evening de
clared that a senate committee lias
decided to recommend to that body
the creation of a civilian war hoard,
and to refuse membership therein to
the secretaries tf the navy and of
war.
Just what such a boarel will be
expected to accomplish, or to try to
accomplish, doen not appear. Surely
it cannot be contemplated that it
shall seek to interpose in the actual
conduct of military operations, for
in making t lie president the commander-in-chief
of the army and
navy, the constitution lias provided
for the conduct of war.
If it is the purpose of the proposed
war board to help solve the internal
problems, painfully numerous and
perpho -dug. it may accomplish some
thing toward helping win the war.
However tliif; war board proposi
tion is not entirely free from suspic
ion, and if the suspicion is justified
an extraneous war board might work
incalculable barm.
Of course the creation of a war
board implies that there are war ex
peris who are not now engaged in
their country's behalf, and who
would know better than do existing
authorities what should be done to
win the war. Lut just who are these
pas! masters in the conduct of wars?
Where are they io be found and who
will find them?
There lias been a continual bar
ra'.e fire liinnvn out against the
members of the cabinet most direct
ly connected with the conduct of the
war preparation. Its most venomous
s'mfts v.ee long elirected .at Secre
tary Daniels of the navy, yet that
part of it emanating from congress
has i:.oii sib-need by the showing
m: t!e in the c::irrressio:i?.l investiga
tion of the ready response the navy
has made to the nation's needs.
More than two million men have
been mobilized by the war depart-
ri!'.:i. and put in training. An un
1 u ft number of th'om have been
transported to the seeue of action
and adequate supplies are being scut
to sustain thrm. Dillions have been
raised wh
the nation was being
aroused to the needs of the hour.
It has been a stupendous work.
technical in its requirements, and
nr.hody in Am
ica had been trained
tor it. r.INt
alces have been made.
That is a matter of course
Who can
point to a man anywhere with a
!-o i?i" ''onviction that had he been
in command no mistakes would have
been permitted? There is no such
man.
War tens
United Stfte.-.
ire boiling in the j
It is important that I
nobody i,hall be permitted to spill
!hem. There is danger in creating
counter-eurrc-nts in the conduct of
war. What is moat desirable
greater unity, and not division of
'..:!!.-.. jt is witiiin tne power of
. i
i! a. i in neip win Tne war u lie i
de -Ire--. Xo man can do it by knock-
in.g. The masses have confidence in I
the president. Lincoln Star.
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Bring your poultry, Thursday,
Jan. 31. See prices in our ad.
Wc Will Pay For
Hens 22c
Springs ..lOc
FL0UH
$2.
The best grade made by the .Many
Milling Co. rt(, per bag. $y.00
Puritan Flour, per bag $3.25
COFFEE.
Sac Coffee, per lb. ?i 29q I
.;Jc tehee, per lb. (n 2c
23c Coffee, per lb. f?' . 20c
r
La
jnaue neiore tne government ordered vwueu jiiu. i ne mode ot payment is nearly a gift twenty rears'
the u nv way of mixing. time, no interest; with three years' cultivation, these farms will be
Gold Metal 48 11, bags. per Uorlh a( a mmlrea j, . jj Slirr0undngs ,
A Good Pate;,7lL"u7";e7ba"g::$:00 UH lyrrrlnnl 'I'Sv Wy'
... ..r 1 IL UORX BASL : Because of the rich oil discoveries.
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i x linuiu a lutu . .oJ I
IH r him i
Willi 10 cenl s a
in 50 weeks
'HAVE
START WITH JUST A DIME AND INCREASE YOUR DEPOSIT
A DIME EACH WEEK. OR YOU CAN START WITH A NICKEL; OR
WITH 2 CENTS OR 1 CENT AND INCREASE THE SAME AMOUNT
EACH WEEK.
IN 50 WEEKS:
10-CENT CLUB PAYS $127.50
5-CENT CLUB PAYS 63.75
2-CENT CLUB PAYS 25.50
1-CENT CLUB PAYS 12.75
IF YOU WISH TO MAKETHE LARGEST PAYMENT FIRST AND
DECREASE YOUR DEPOSITS EACH WEEK YOU CAN DO SO.
IT COS-:NOTHING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! TO JOIN
THE CLUB AND IS A SURE WAY TO WEALTH.
COME IN AND JOIN TODAY.
WE ADD 3 PER CENT INTEREST.
Farmers'
THE NEW BANK.
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES 50 CENTS PER YEAR.
REASON BENEATH THE SURFACE
Wherever Germany manifests an
unusual desire to take territory from
other powers, it is well to look und
erneath the surface. Almost .in
variably it will be found that in that
particular territory is contained one
or more elements to e used in the
amiable plan of forcible Germaniz
ing of the world. Alsace-Lorraine
furnishes an. illustration.
Less than a jear ago an eminent
German scientist, Prof. Oswald,
boasted that in its monopoly cf pot
ash Germany had a lever with which
ifc could force favorable peace terms
from its enemies. Speaking of the
I'nited States, he said that, there was
a noose around our neck, "and the
free end of the rope was in Germany's
hands." Xo one can doubt that the
professor, in his innocence, reveals
the heart and mind of Germany.
It is true that Germany has had a
monopoly in the known deposits of
rmlnph. Tn tho. nnt tin' mnnnnnlv
has been most selfishly maintained
to screw the last possible bit of ad-
vantage for Germany's benefit. Our
agricultural, metallurgical and chem-
heal industries have severely felt the
pinch since the war. Efforts are
being put forth to develop cur re
source?, but the supply is still in-
adequate
It is not generally known outside
of German circles that if Alsace is
returned to France, Germany's pot
ash monopoly will be forever brok
en. There are large deposits of pot
ash in that territory, the develop
ment of which has been restrained
by Germany in order to favor the
You Can Get. a Government-Irrigated Farming
The Big Horn Basin,
Lncle Sam built this irrigating system; he gives you the lands
and charges you only the actual cost of an ample and permanent
...4 1i MM 1 .- . .
the great irrigated areas, the heavy
sugar lactones, oil relinenes, growing population, the liig Horn
IJasin teems with prosperity and a rapidly increasing 'development.
NEBRASKA AND COLORADO LANDS: For dairying,
wheat raising, for livestock and general farming these lands can be
m
mime (Xub
Come. In
State Bank
Prussian beds. From the German
point of view it would be a calamity
to permit such a vital necessity to
pass into French hands, through
whom the world might be supplied.
Authorities on military matters
have speculated on the waste of life
at Verdun. They have never been
able to see how a victory there could
be worth its cost. Perhaps it would
not, so far as destroying the French
army is concerned; but deep beneath
the surface of that whole region lie
at least three good reasons for "mak
ing Verdun a German cemetery. One
of those reasons is the necessity of
controlling the wrorld supply of pot
ash as a means toward writing that
blessed name "Germania" clear
across the map. Wall Street Jour
nal. FOR SALE.
2 Ford cars, 1 large car suitable
for truck; 1 Harley-Davidson motor
cycle; 1 Excelsior motorcycle; I
Chopie Gas Engine. Inquire of J.
Mason, at Plattsmouth Garage.
l-19-tfd&w.
For Sale 10 head of coming 3-year-old
marcs and geldings, average
weight 1400 lbs. Green broke. The
kind you want. Inquire of J. P.
Falter or Chas. L. Parmele, Platts
mouth. l-26-2wksd&w
"The Red Cross may bring
back to you."
him
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature of
If You Act Promptly
alfalfa and grain production, beet
bought on good terms. They are cheap and
should double in' value, in the face of the
world's demand for food stuffs.
Secure my services; they are free to vou.
S. B. HOWARD, Immigration Agent, C. B. & Q. R. R.
1004 Farnaia Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
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