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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1918. PAGE FOUPw. PLATlSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. mm mwi mm ummmmmmmmmmmBman - Che plattsmouth. lourna PCHLISHED IRMI-WEEKL? AT PLATTSJIOLTH, SiEJIRASKA. Rstsrcd at Postofflcaat Plattsmouth, Neb.. a secosd-claas mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher jbscxiptioji pkicisi ti We say, again, cut 'cm out. :o: Now, Buy a Smileage Book. :o: Soon begin to talk "Good Roads. . :o: Fanners are getting spring work. :o: ready for The "shoe that pinches" is the recollection of a mean act. :o: Old Winter seems to have no no tion of giving in y-t awhile. :o: The wist man learns to swim ne- l-.re he attempts to paddle his own tuiuc. :o: We hope there has been no suffer- :;.; among the p',or of 1'lattsmouth l hi; v. ir.ter. :o: After all our country's best resource::- are its women and they should be husbanded. :o: The world is out of .joint. The Tennessee river froze ever this wint er for the first time in fifty years. A lady reader alleges that the hu i:'a;i mind is a sewer through which all the filth of the week is discharg- :o:- A lari;e part of the time allotted to a discu-ion" is i;?ua!!y absorbed by the follow who hasn't anything to say. :o: There is a li'-vr store at Y.:u; I'll ' Ion in whifh no :ino!ing is Pi-.ed. Kvidently the proprietor l.mnvs what his cigars are going to finvll like. -:o:- N. t Tu-fd:iy, February we are -i!ig to find out how many Germr.n- An'cricans we have here with other" Aie.erira'.i citizens. :o: It would seem from reports that in order to make himself more con- picuos Congressman Reavis would MVe to get the F'lited States in trouble with Japan. ;o: !J-;y the bond today! Make it jour business to attend to the matter the first thing in the morning if you for.et it today. You'll feel better when the duty is performed. :o: Some of our citizens who have b'en overly critical of the govern ment's lack war preparedness, were caueht without coal during the re cent cold fcnap and were doing some mishty tall hustling to keep warm. :o: Trotzky and his people want noth ing but food-, peace and land, ac cording to a Chicago Russian. Rut Trotzky is going back to Brcst I.itovsk lo talk some more, so evi dently he forgot something the first :o: : l'remir ( lemenceau of France is r.ow to follow 1'resident Wilson and J'reniu-r Lloyd George in ;i statement of the Allied war aims. Although Germany pretends to be a little deaf our guess is that the heard us the first time. :o: - McAdoo is predicting a chilly sea son for the attorneys who liave been employed by the railroads, not so much for their legal ability as the influence they possess in the way of the drawing the wool over the peoples eyes when it conies to cases in court. o: There were lots of no:;ey critic in the days of Abraham Lincoln, who nought to create trouble just like tome fellows are trying it today. The "-mud man cot through with it, the same as President Wilson will. Men rf today ought to know better and no do'.v;t will before they get through with it. Tv.n rir.iB. ix I l'olitics looming up. :o: Folks never understand the folks they hate. :o: If a steady, colfl winter jood, we ought to be happy. :o: means AnJ thus we find it written ajrain: That man shall not live by wheat bread alone. :o: Notwithstanding the adage, it is the pot and the kettle which are constantly wrangling. :o: The first thing a baby learns is to cry for what it wants, and most are just grown-up babies. :o: Nearly a half million people use lie Tike National Forest, in Colo rado each year for recreation. :o: There are a whole lot of Germans in Cass county who don't need to register to show where they stand. :o: Many counties are hiring county agents. Why not Cass? It might prove a good thing for the taxpay ers. , -:o: Oa advantage of operating the railroads as they are now operated is time tables are wholly unneces i sarv :o: Criticism of a political and friend ship philanthropist usualy comes from the fellow who has received the nio:t of the beneficiaries. :o: Also he may generally be put down as a good patriot vM?o does not try to go all through the winter on the reputation acquired in his neighbor hood by shoveling the first snowfall from his sidewalk last November. -:o:- "I hope tnat the merchants of the country, upon careful consid eration of the subject, will discon Wwws tlif-ir efforts to sell merchan dise and take Liberty Loin Bonds in payment," says Secretary MdAdoo. :or- We are glad to read that the fire which destroyed , the local asbestos plant was not the work of an incen diary, for we have often argued that you cin't vet asbestos afire. This fire, we are gratified to read, orig inated from spontaneous combustion. :o:- IIaing upturned heaven and earth, practically, to head off an in vestigation of the packing industry. the packers, we now feel sure, will presently issue another statement saying "we welcomed the investiga tion" the trade commission now has put untler way. :o: A ijt. Louis army officer says bald heads are not desirable in France, because they present an obvious tar get to hoche bullets. The officer evidently forgets that a Hun bullet will slip and glance ofT a bald head much more easily than from the one covered with entangling hair. rot- Women will take the greater part in wheat conservation, and will re ceive the credit for its success. The only drawback to the plan" is that tna women can make it just as great a success by staying at home as she can by getting cut and run ning around about it. How's This? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any care of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been taken by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty- live years, ami ha? become known as the most reliable remcay for Catarrn. tiail'3 Catarrh 'Medicine acts thru the Blood on the Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poi for; from !ioD1l.oJ and healing the dis eased r.ortiom. Af'cr you rv-ivo takon Hall's Catarrh M.;di-in for a short time you will see a erect irvsprovrmcr.i in ycesr ecneral health. Start takinrr Hail's Catarrh Medi cins at ones and r.-'. virt of catarrh. Send for tPSt'mor.iV.R. fr?c. r. J. CIlKrY & CO., Toledo. Ohlc 3oid by cli Vi iir.Z.z. 73;;. ONLY ONE WAY OUT. The proposal to repudiate the Russian debt has a strong appeal for l-the Bolsheciki. But they ought to be consistent about such things. Germany has set up a claim for cer tain parts of Russia territory, which she asserts Russia owes her for the trouble and expense she has been to in seizing it. If the Bolshevist gov ernment believes in repudiation it ought to start, with this. But it is doubtful if the leaders who are running things in Russia just now will find this principle a sound one in , the end. When .they start to apply it they will find some embarrassment in finding a place to stop. If the Russian government can repudiate, Ivan Ivanovitch prob ably will figure that he can too. lie will try it on the grocery store and the tax collector and it will be very apt to lead to confusion if not to open dispute. Debts are annoying to be sure, but human experience gen erally has found that the only really satisfactory way of getting, rid of them is to pay them. ' :o: EVER NOTICE IT? Men will dive onto the street with an automobile, get out, take a fine fur robe and cover over the hood of the machine. They take every 0 precaution to keep the machine from suffering withthe cold. On the other hand some men will drive up to the hitch rack with a team of horses, jump cut and run into some place of business and sit down bv the stove to warm. The horses have no dankets and are left standing out n the cold to suffer as they may. Don't treat your auto any better than you do your horses- or rather don't treat your horses any worse than you do your auto. Hamburg Reporter. :o: KNOCKERS OVERLOOK THIS. Among 31,000 New York troops at Camp "Wadsworth Spartanburg, S. C, there have been but nine deaths from sickness in five months, yet un der ordinary conditions at home in peace times it is estimated that there would be about sixty deaths among the same number of young men. Such a record speaks well for the healthful conditions in cantonments necessarily constructed in great haste. Fremont Tribune. :o: The seed committee of the state council of tlefense announces that if you buy 10 per cent good seed corn you shall pay not more than $3.00 a bushel, but if you go to the crib and elect it yourself, you bl.all pay $3 a bushel.. If you go at night when nobody is looking and select it your self anel can get away with it, you get it for, nothing. :o: Saturday is the day that old Mr. Groundhog comes out of his hols to tell how much longer winter is go ing to last. If he sees his shadow and goes back it ineans six more weeks we will have to pay-big coal bills. Congress may investigate and in vestigate until the food profiteers are thoroughly torn to shreds, but nothing will bring them to time like a reliable back yard garden and a steady, stay-at-home wife to tend it. The Rumanians are to be punish ed by the Russian Dolsheviki for the worst crime in the Bolshevist calend ar the Rumanians were caught in the act of fighting for their own country. A news article declares that the first gun in the back yard garden campaign is about to be fired, but makes no predictions as to when the first radish will be pulled. :o: The situation seems to be, briefly, th'at while the War Department has made no mistakes precautions have been taken to prevent their repeti tion. , Nothing is so blasted and beastly cold as a cold foot. :o: Food conservation is a, woman's work. THE TROUBLE IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT It was an engaging presentation of his case that ' Secretary Baker made before the Senate committee yesterday. The country has realiz ed the immensity of the war task and has been disposed to be lenient with mistakes. To this reasonable patience of the American people the secretary appealed.' The transforma tion in his attitude presents him in a much more favorable lisht than he occupied at "his appearance be fore the same committee a fortnight ago. But the engaging personality of Mr. Baker, as shown yesterday, should not blind the Nation to the facts of the situation. The picture he painted was in glowing colors. Every part of the vast undertaking was going forward effectively. And yet when the Senate inquiry loom- eel ahead the secretary began a re organization of his department that involved the retirement of the heads of two moat important divisions, and an ntirely new organization to handle the business side of the war. Presumably these changes in vital departments of administration would not have been made if everything had been moving satisfactorily. As a matter of fact, things were not moving satisfactorily. There had been no planning ahead on ordnance, on airplanes or on other equipment. Through the efforts of civilians an inventory had been taken of the in dustrial resources of the country, but the War Department officials had not availed themselves of it. The lessons taught by the European war and by the experience of the troops on the Mexican border had not been taken to heart. The country got into the war with its olel peace establishment. Officers without business experience were suddenly confronted with business problems on a tremendous scale. An illuminating incident was that in volving wool for uniforms and blankets. The offer of the country's entire wool clip at pre-war prices was turned tlown by a quartermast er's department that could not con ceive of buying more than a quarter of a million uniforms, and the coun try thereby lost not only a very large sum of money, but the oppor tunity to get sufficient quantities of cloth at an early day. The defects of the ordnance tie part ment brought cut in the hear ings are still fresh in the public mind. As a result our small force abroad is still dependent on our al lies for its artillery, and we have been preventeel from rushing over the force we otherwise might have e.ent because we have been unable 4 to give the proper training and equip ment. To be sure, the French and British have promised to furnish puns. But that is at the expense of their own forces and of the Italians, who are now dangerously under equipped. Well, the officers responsible for the major delays are now gone and Mr. Baker has reorganized to meet the proposals of the Senate commit tee. Undoubtedly improvement has resulted. But time of the utmost value has been lost. y We Americans have some curious ideas. It is a national habit to as sume that because a man is a moral leader he is therefore a great execu tive. Because a man is. a fighter against special privilege and for quality of opportunity we take it for granted that he can administer an enormous business successfully. Men associated with Secretary Baker in Washington have the high est personal regard for him. But there is widespread skepticism among them as to his fitness to handle a great administrative enterprise. That is why sincere men on the military affairs committee of the Senate, genuinely alarmed over de lays and inefficiency iu war prepara tions are urging the separation of the business from the military side of the war through the creating of a director of munitions, and the con stituting of a real administrative board in the proposed war cabinet. V. C. Star. :o: Subscribe or the Journal. SPRING IS COMING. These days the optimist has little to sustain him. As the winter stretches out to a full-sized season he grows thin and worn by his efforts to maintain a 'full current in his vein of cheerfulness. But yet a few days he will have a trump card. Spring is coming. Was spring ever as welcome as it will be this year? He niay not realize it at the time, but the winter-worn citizen inward ly and unconsciously blesses the lynxeyeel watcher for the first robin, as he '.ells through the newspapers that he has seen what he thinks were a robin's tracks in the snow. The next time you encounter a news item suggesting spring garden activities, note how eagerly you read 't. Observe yourself this evening when you gather up your home-mail and hurry over by the radiator to read it. You will tear open the cov er of a seed catalogue. As you toast your chilled bones over the heat, stop to realize the thrill that will warm your being as you read with joy of spring garden vegetables you never expect to plant or to reap. The advertisers bless 'em brave the rigor of the season nowadays to tell of coming spring and the glad garments they are already showing. Don't you agree they deserve a wreath of spring violets? Think of these things, Mr. Citizen, the next time you tickle the palate of your insatiable furnace, and you will find the monster is losing its terrors for you. World-Herald. -:o:- WILL NEVER GET ACROSS. Partisanism and personal ambition are not going to be successful in tying the hands of the president with a so-called war board to supplant him as the guiding spirit in the con duct of the war. All of the noisy critics at Wash ington seem in a fair way to receive the rebuke they deserve for their suggestion anil promotion of this in famous proposition. For senators are not going to be partisan when the successful con duct of the war is In the balance. They are going to be patriots first, and partisans only after the war shall have been won. Senator Borah of daho and Sena tor Kenyon of Iowa, both recognized progressives, gave notice Sunday that they are not in accord with the bolshevik! program at Washington. Every patriotic democrat who has confidence in the president has rea son to take off his hat to these two strong men for their frank disavowal o fsympathy for "the word criticism of the administration by men who cannot forget partisanship." Speaking at Baltimore to an im mense patriotic league meeting. Sen ator Borah declared that the trans formation of this peace-loving coun try into a war machine is such a big one that "in order to have made no mistakes the administration would need be divine." He urged that the critics be not taken too seriously, for as a whole congress is straining every nerve toward the achievement of the great task. He begged his audience not to judge congress by the few who criti cise. And Senator Kenyon, too, in an address before his home people at Waterloo, Iowa, pointedly rebuked "the unfortunate critclsm of the ad ministration by Senator Chamber lain." The utterances of these two dis tinguished republicans give assur ance to the country tnat the on slaught upon the administration is not to assume a partisan aspect. They are assurances also that the Roose velt "drive" against the White House does not command the allegiance and support of Mr.. Roosevelt's former factional associates. Lincoln Star. :o: Charity is a good thing. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always Lean the Sisrnargra of wim cents (7 S&r&! m V - '? .r Kfxzzs JUST OWE LITTLE NICKEL VILL 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: iO-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 $5.00 CLUB. WE HAVE A CLU2TO FIT YOUR POCKETBOOK. WE ADD 3 PER CENT INTEREST Farmers' THE NEW BANK. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES 50 CENTS PER YEAR. uLlS T IE There will be a Dance at Greenwood, Nebraska, Thursday ighf, February 14th rain or shine, at the De Luxe dancing pavilion. Floor space 50x100 feet. Music by Desdiner's Colored Orches tra. We sing while you dance. Follow the Crowd! Welcome! Next to the thermometer the Jour nal is an elderly man's favorite reading. :o: Found A mud chain belonging to Ford car No. 11. "23. Owner may Ifave same by calling attiiis office and paying for this advertisement. 1-29-tfd. The Parmele Th Plattsmouth, iMebraska m M 1 uVy.. mmm TRAVEL FESTIVAL ALASKA CHINA THft'.LL5HG TESTS OF GIGANTIC i t!-i CATERPILLARS H UNCLE SAMS ARMY -T- H0UNTAIN LIOMS CONEY ISlAHDlyDAYandNiGHT MAHY0THERfbtS Thursday Evening, February 7 Prices: 25c, 35c, 50c. SEATS OX SALIC AT THE PARMELE THEATRE Tfi.suAV Evening 7$o TVt dncsday - I o to i J : 2 to 5 ; y to y Thursday 10 to 12 2 ,to.6 7 to 9 ana State IBank Th dog that can't catch a rabbit isn't worth its feed. -:o:- F0R SALE. SO acres. 2 miles south of IMatts niouth. Call Phone No. S3. 31-4tw Subscribe for the Journal. eatre :---.y cSs"jj . :r JSms tiffin