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PLATT8MOUTI1 SEMI-WEEKLY JOUKNAL. TllUHSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1018. PAGE FOUIL Cbc piattsmoutb journal unatl-WKEKLT AT PLmSMOl'TH, NEBRASKA. Batrdat Pcstoffic at PlatUmouth. Neb., aa ecoad-elasB mall raattar. STAND BY THE PRESIDENT. R. A. BATES, Publisher flXVSCaUPTIOX PRICEl M PK TEAR LST ADTANCS L5uy the baby a bond. :o: Have you laid by your seed corn yet? :o: They all want them slacker. :o: save the Woodrow Wilson was elected by the people of the United States as president, and by the constitution of the United States, during the time of war, becomes the active commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. He is. the supremo power of our country in the conflict of this war and it is treason in tue army or in the navy to criticise the president' WILSON ACTS WHILE conduct of the war and would not SOCIALISTS ARGUE! he tolerated for an instant in the army or in the navy of the Limed versal loyalty and universal service, even without asking one question. Kansas City Post. :o: NEBRASKA AND FLIGHT OF TTJ Tell the truth. When the Kaiser talks for peace he spells it "piece". Or.c hundred thousand citizens in St. Louis are expected to pay income tax. :o: People are for America or they ar asaiurt the old flag. There is no middle ground.' :o: : .Vk almost any modern girl about Jt; ;i m" Arc, and she'll tell you it's a d::i:ly fvx trot. :o: The Austro-Gcrmana liud that Pjii'iy Italy is living up to i;s warm (Innate reputation. :o: Congressmen will now perhaps cx- . free railroad passes cm po.-t- uTlieo frank ins privilege. :o: The cold wave cut short the f-j'' "'g-!:e woatiUT lor a low cays, It'H we'll have to take :o: There is something amusing about the present attitude of the socialists who but recent ly were wont to write books and make speeches about the necessity of the government taking over the railroads and other great public utilities. Possibly they meant bv "government" the socialist admin istration soon to be elected. It was the fashion to point out the fact that, in their efforts to pay divi dends on the excessively watered stock, the railroad rajahs were charg ing enormous rates and continuous ly ciamoring for increases; that in these fleecings the people of the United Stales were, within stated period.?, buying the railroads but n vcr inciting on their delivery. Jm-t paying fjr the railroads and their equipments by excessive lolls hut leaving them in the hands "of the exploiters. These statements were provable to Don't believe ail war reports. :o: Newspapers should tell the truth as well as others. Do you shut ooors after you in this weather or aro you just an ordi nary fool? :o: What has become of the sleigh and bells. Thev don't seem to bo "in it" this winter. :o: War pessimists are beginning to worry about what they'll have to worry about when peace comes. :o: States, but, unfortunately, it re mains for the civilian and the poli tician and for the idle and irre sponsible and for the pro-German to run riot throughout the country i with criticisms and complaints that j 1 A 1. ... 1 . I "uum uc u-.-,r.t-u u. a cuuri-iiirti- Adoration at Ieast, js founded on tial and a firing squad if made either (ltinocratic princil,i0!,. The girls love Let the people remember that their j (lo a lk,ltemu:t. country is at war; that the future of i the entire human race depends upon j the success or failure of this war; ! that the freedom of. the world is in volved; that the liberties of all man kind are threatened and that the only way this war will be won is through the universal loyalty and patriotism and support of the Amor- j can. people. f All criticism, all suspicions, all doubts as to the conduct of this war or as to the efficiency and intelli gence of those in power who are Supplementing the advice to avert a coal famine "next" winter by buy ing coal in the summer we insist also that you may avoid drowning i by staying away from the river. "Ilindle high cx!o:ives with care," advises an army olfierr. The , only reason we can imagine for ad vice of this kind io that perhaps high, explosives are very expensive this j year. ;reat il-gree. Then the socialists conducting the war might well be :o: .vii eastern ucc-'r lias written a i 7 TV 11? v lO U(.'M . .Mine Ol us j wjuld point cut the desirability of ';S(.ir.e day insisting on some basis or other'of delivery of the roads to the people, Much naoer, ink. labor and i oratory were devoted to advocacy of i purchase n some basis and I)!v "Wlicn the authorities tried to get stamped with that most odious of all ; a love letter from her a New York -.1 it " -1. J . A- l purases inaua in uermany, lor n. . woman ate it. says an exciiange. luyond any question. Is a part of the i And she isn't the first woman who most subtle and dangerous propaganda. German lias swallowed a lot of fool stuff her sweetheart has written her. ;;i this mat- on liiat need any i-i.- true! : tt r. "Give us :; rest :o: Xo one has addressed a letter to "the prettiest girl or lady in Platts mi'Uih." If :-. j!u pc:-t oli'ce would i!o:-i;U wi'h v.'iiiii,'!i as soon as i! is known. It is time right now to look this question squarely in the face and for :o: When a can reaches fi-r his hip picket now. you neither expect a ?u:i. a flush liulit nor a plug of to hacco. Yv'h.it's the use of the hip P ekets. ny way ? :o: It is hoped much of that "powder ed glass" found in candy received by the soldiers is nothing more harm ful than sugar, which creates sus picion if found anywhere these days. . . :o:- There is a saying to the erect that tliis war would be won by silver bui lts. And it is up to the stay-at-homes to furnish these bullets. Let there be plenty of them. :o: If there remained any doubt as to our being unprepared for war, there is the testimony of Senator Stone am! W. J. P.ryan. Pot a of then are well satisfied 'with the .situation. :o: "To havj insurance when you ii-e; it. ycu must get it ".hen you u n't need it," says the insurance agents. And the same rule applies to an army, and most people have found that out. :i: The war is teaching us a lot of things. It is cutting out waste. It is increasing eliiciency. II is draw ing us closer together. 15uby Ponds v ill teach us thrift. Puy your child ren baby bonds. :o: Aj.parei'.ty tli.- Atiif-rieyji Iroops have been taking over more trench territory. .Most of the soldiers have 1-een writing from "Somewhere in Prance," but the other day a soldier's letter arrived, dated from "the gates or hell." :o : . Another l'h icago woman suggests leggings for wt!i:en, since short. s-kirts show ro disposition to ilisap- jv:ir from the seenery. Well, that so:ini!s like as g :.-d a way to bring lei g skirts ha c ua any. :o: In case Mr. Baker decides to carry out .Mr. Vilson's war aim?, he prob ably can get some valuable technical information about hi.; department frrrn Senator I'hamberlain of Oregon, wlio seems to have beeu around quite a bit. Despite disagreements as to the methods of acquiring all agreed that some ttop should be fallen. The boldest advocated confiscation. Oth ers urged purchase on any reason able b.isis of valuation. All wanted some action. "Let us not quibble about meth ods. Let us buy at any price, watei; and all if nerd ho, but let us acquire and start operation. Xo matter what the fr:-r steps may be let us take them." Ti. is appeal was common ::nd always met with approval. Now comes Woodrow Wilson at a time most critical in the historv of the nation, and as president of the United States, by authority vested in him by the people, through the con gress, takes the "first step" and takes it in the only practical man ner.. The fact that the president com mandeered the roads as an act of war does not mean anything to these erstwhile advocates, now critics, with a pro-German accent, who pretend to see in the process another con spiracy of capitalism. They would criticise any act of the government at this hour even the complete socialization of all industries. They would scoff at the fourteenth chap ter and third verse of Karl Marx, Das Knpital. or denounce excerpts from the Eighteenth Prumaire if such utterances were ascribed to the president. To sensible people no matter what the details of the transaction the fact of paramount importance to the workers of America is that the United States government has tak en the first, step towards the social ization of the moans of distribution. Tli is lias been done by a president who. no matter what criticism may be directed at others at Washington, has been eminently fair to labor. Railway employees can rest assured of fair treatment as long a: Wood row Wilson has control of the ad ministration. - Frank K. Wolfe of thn American Alliance for Labor and De mocracy. :o: It would also appear that if the Hon. r.ill Stone had been trying to select a time when his speech would be overshadowed by events of some importance ho couldn't have picked a better week with horoscope. :o:- .nother cold wave is predicted, each citizen to answer to himself evidently on the theory that if old -:o: The ice men will have plenty of coolness" next summer, if they will take the finest crop of ice that has grown on the Missouri river in many years. "Are you taking any part in the dissemination, in the repetition or in the retailing of this 'made in Ger many' criticism of the government in its conduct of the war?" If you are, stop it at once for the sake of your country, and for the sake of 3-oursclf, because any ser ious division of the people on this question can have but one effect either to prevent our winning the war or delaying our winning the war with a divided country. Make up your minds to that now. Also remember that the present administration is the only adminis tration we have; that it will remain in power at least three years long er, and that maybe just maybe Mr. Wilson and his cabinet are at least as patriotic, as honest and as efficient, and as intelligent as you areand maybe they have vital secret information that they cannot give to the people and which you do not possess; and under these conditions maybe they know a heap more about what should be done and what should not be done than you. Nothing could be more unflrtu naje at the present time than poli tics intruding its selfish and suspic ious head into the conuuet of this war. This is not the time for any political divisions in the country it is a time for united patriotism; it is a time for every man to sustain his government, to back up President Wilson and his administration with every ounce of loyalty, with every dollar of money and to encourage ev ery soldier and sailor in loyal ser vice to the country. It is a time for every man to re main sane and tranquil and determ ined. It is a time for every man to stand willing to sacrifice everything he possesses even to his very life itself to win this war. It is not a time to play politics. It is not a time to gossip and scandal. -It is not a time for criminations and re criminations; it is a time for uni- - Although it was admitted into the union in 1SC7, Nebraska is con sidered in tills part of the country a new Ktale. True, time does not stag nate there; things move; the wind blows; the coin grows and the farm er steps on th' "gas" and whirls out on the road to town. It seems but the other day that William Jennings Bryan with flashing eye wa;; the boy orator of the Platte. Yet Nebraska's claim to antiquity is. more valid than some of the places where crumbling rums in the ante-m linn: nays were stand at by trippers from Omaha under the kindly guidance of Mr. Cook, or whore, across blowing sands the Pryramids and the Sphinx rear themselve,;. The Nebraska husbandmen of to day uriving his tractor plow at sun up across h;s endless prairies 101 lowed the prairie schooner as lb prairie schooner follov ed the Indian A "new" country truly. Well, the American Museum of Natural History has just exposed to the public the skeleton of one of Ne braska s earliest settlers, the nioro- pus. his pioneer was a relative if the horse, the tapir, ti e giraffe tiie camel ana the rhinoceros, :av- oring the latter in size and graceful ness. His lineage is lurther compli cated by the presence of prodigious claws. He is, in fact, a sort of gi ant ic platypus unclassi fiable. So it is to be hoped that any care less thinking per?o:i who i disposed to dismiss Nebraska as "new" will pause and consider the moropus. Tall Troy leu 1 1 M. 15. (.. l;:t in an age before, so dim that no man can know its beginning, that strange, a mor phous Nebraska! gave his final grunt. bellow or whatever farewell a dvin moropus niau: and saniC back uead in his fo-sil bed while he-die- time began to fount off more ages. New York World. ask 1 with accents and 7 ?v. mm m weeks . X iL JLh7 ,1UST ONE LITTLE NICKEL WILL START YOU IN OUR 5 CEN" CLUB; OR YOU CAN START WITH 10 CENTS, 2 CENTS OR 1 CENT AND INCREASE YOUR DEPOSIT 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 OR YOU CAN MAKE THE LARGEST PAYMENT FIRST AND DECREASE YOUR DEPOSITS EACH WEEK. IF YOU WISH TO DEPOSIT THE SAME AMOUNT EACH WEEK, JOIN OUR 50 CENT, $1.00 OR $5.00 CLUB. WE HAVE A CLUB TO FIT YOUR POCKETBOOK. WE ADD 3 PER CENT INTEREST. Farmers' State Bank THE NEW BANK. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES 50 CENTS PER YEAR. -:o:- I-IAISEH AND B0LSHEVIKI. The fact of autocratic government is on- ot the most amaruiig of the Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL- APPLICATIONS, as tliey cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a. lo-.'ul ilisoiuso, T!atly in lluenced by constitutional conditions, and in order to euro it you must take aa internal remedy Hall's Catarrh Medi eine is taken internally ami acts thru the. blood on the mucuus surfaces of the system. Unll's Catarrh Medicine was preseribed by one o the beat physicians in this country for years. It is com posed of some of the bust tonles known, combined with snm of the best blood ruririers. The pen'oct combination oj the i.isroiJipnts in Hall's Catarrh Medi ci nt is what produces such wonderful results in catarrhal conditions, tiend for testimonials, free. V J. CHENEV & CO.. Props.. Toledo. O. L All llwiiMvit ;r r Hall's Fumily TUla for ooosUo&tion. iinir u inter diuu t ciouu tin anu test the efficacy of the Fuel Admin istration uuring tne recent warm days, somebody else would. :o: We are quick to blame politicians for drag.nins politics into the war. hut we ttop there. We should force them to devote all their time to poli tics and quit monkeying- with the many amazing tilings in this world. war. which is a scientific lob. bit and bridle that the autocrat - - - ;q I i i :ir jn-.'iui:, Hit ii.nji-j V, Alii i About the only time we feel s-afc which he hitches them to his chariot. i iu believing Prussian statesmen is I are so very, very frail! lv taking when they say they will not meet even a deep breath the people can cur peace terms, which we did not snap them to pieces. And the e.viien mem 10; out tney win oe i sr irengtn ot the people, by comuari- son with that of the autocrat and all his armed retinue, is as the- strength of a hundred compared .to that of one. the mob, the red rags of riot and re bellion ! The rising tide of bolshevism is running swift across international joundary lines and there is no power at Potsdam that can sweep it back. World-Herald. -:o:- CAPTUEES A DESERTER. From W-lnesd:iy's Daily. Carl Carhart, a private at Ft. (rook, who has been missinvr for the past two weeks, and for whom the officers have been searching, was discovered ., Oliver. Newton, also station at Ft. Crook and turned over to Sheriff Quinton yesterday who took him to Ft. Crook delivering him to the oificers at the Fort. Mr. Hayiiie was telling of a trip' to the south, from which he has just returned, in which he visited Galves ton, Beaumont and Port Arthur, as well as Houston. He tells of the south being rather quiet, on account of the non shipment of cotton, but that the oil business at Port Arthur is brisk, with the pipe lines running from many points in many states to that place. The ship building is al so progressing at Beaumont, where the government has a large force of men working. THE SOUTH A LITTLE QUIET. glad to do so before another year rolls round. :o: Until further developments, those rumors of an uprising in Austria will be laid alongside the reports of a mutiny in the German navy wo received the other daj providing we can remember where we put the meeting reports. :o:- What people are stranger than American-,? Mr. Hoover has made us go without meat and wheat and sugar and other things we lik'ed better than anything in the world, and yet we have no quarrel with Hoover. Hut how we snarl at Doc tor Garfield for thrusting upon part of us one holiday a week! :o:- MR. BRYAN WRONG, OF COURSE. Mr. Bryan does not appear to he in receipt of any advance information from the administration, in which re spect he is in the same position that the rest of us occupy. Otherwise it is proper to assume he would not have selected the time he did to an nounce that the appointment of a director of munitions was unneces sary. The appointment followed so quickly upon the announcement as almost to invite the belief that the one was the effect of the. other. But probably this theory will have to be rejected as implying an influence with the administration which Mr. Bryan plainly does not enjoy. Grant ing that he did not know what the administration was going to do, he still ought to have taken no chances, but should have reflected that prob ably the Secretary of War didn't know either. Mr. Bryan, however, probably is not alone in his sur prise and if he needs condolence very likely he can get it from Secretary Baker. K. C. Star. So lonvr as the people are measur- hiy content thev mav be t'amelv submissive. And so lone: cs thev are suomissive me autocrat reigns in pomp and panoply. But when dis content arrives and is aggravated till it becomes Litter, then tame sub mission ceases. Ana n ever it is converted to a fury of resentment and rebellion, then the power of the autocrat to govern and control the masses is no greater than that of an insect to stop the great fly wheel on which it rides. We have seen, already, what hap pened to the Russian autocracy. We are watching now, with an in terest that grows constantly keener, to see what, is to happen to the Ger man and Austrian autocracies. The troops are beginning to murmur. Labor, that mighty and invincible force that like Atlas bears on its back the burdens of a world, is grow ing rctive. Its belly is empty. Its ears ache with the lies and vain promises that have been poured in to them. Its heart and soul are hungry; hungry for peace and the vast blessing of a happy fireside; hungry for an untroubled mind, for the simple pleasures of life, for a chance to sleep at night. Well may the Hertlings and the C.ernins, well may even the Kaiseru and Emperors, the Tirpitzes and Hin-denb-.irgs, be talking of peace. They cannot talk it too earnestly or bring it too rapidly to pass. With every new day the -danger mounts the danger that on the day peace dawns (here will be left for them nothing to enjoy; the danger that it will be ushered in. not by g--iicrals on a vic torious field, nol by diplomats about the council table, but by the fury of From Wednesday's Pally. This morning ('. K. Haynie and wife departed for Omaha, where they are spending the day, looking after some business and visiting with relatives. YA hue at the Burlington station this morning waiting a train. Frank Mefford and son Emmit and C. Hurlhurt were in the city tr. day, the young men coming down to take their physical examination and were accompanied by Mr. Frank Mefford, they departed this after noon for their home in the west end of the county. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children in Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of ifi e Parmele Theatre Plattsmouth, Nebraska Thursday Evening, February 7 Prices: 25c, 35c, 50c. rg-r.:-' "fr; . . Li v sv ,-4.1 .'':- .' . j-i. mm 4& rnl o jk. ri V TRAVEL FESTIVAL ALASKA CHINA THRILLING TESTS OF GIGANTIC :. ' i CATERPILLARS IN UNCLE SAM'3 ARMY CAPTURING MOUNTAIN HONS MU COHtY ISIAHD ty DAYani HIGHT ferf A rVTSIPE-V BIG -JEW t; j si An I Uin&K features - -.f-'ii'-jiR. A 0T 1. . .... - -