PAGE FOUR.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1913.
AN ADMIRABLE EXAMPLE.
THE BOLSHEVIO OCTOPUS.
BUT WHERE IS THE FARM HAND ?
tZhz piattsmoutb journal
PUBLISHED IKMI'WEEKLT AT PLATTSMOUTn, iflSBRASKA.
atrd at Postofflce at Plattamoutb. Neb., as secoad-class mall matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
acvscHiPnojf
PBICBi
llil
There is going to be a whole lot
of moving litre about next month.
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This is the kind of winter they
have iu Russia every year, only
worse.
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Is Nebraska to have an extra ses
sion of the legislature? Nobody
knows but Gov. Neville.
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Ex-Governor Morehead has prac
tically announced that he will file
as a candidate for United States
senator.
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To he sure, we have clapped a vol
unteer consorship on this paper. We
publish the truth and often we are
too tell only that much.
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"liuffalo Hill" had plenty of band"
hut that's no reason why the camp
rained after him. should have been
located in the middle of a dreary
desert of sand and cactus.
Pork steady; pickled hams quiet.
Which shows that even the menace
of two porkless days a week has
l.ot ruffled the equanimity
jh If -posse's -ed pickled ham.c
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of the
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Rumania feels slighted that she
wasn't mentioned in President Wil
son's last address. Rut if Rumania
will pick the daisy petals off she
will find Uncle Sum still loves her.
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!f a man is a patriot, let him show
the coh.rs of a patriot the stars
jnd stripes. Let them wave in front
of jour business place and from the
housetop of his residence. It is easy
t profesb one thing in public, and
be another in the dark.
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Ion"t flatter yourself that you are
fortifying your own position by
cultivating the good graces of men
who have no enemies. Just remem
ber that the history of your country
ic's not contain the name of a man
who did not have enemies.
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HfMiveriziuc has become so general
in some communities that the young
roosters are learning to crow with
their mouths shut, presumably to
save breath. That food order pro
tecting hens and pullets but not ex
empting roosters may have more to
do with it.
It is said no member of Congress
has hit Hilly Sunday's trail during
tin Washington meeting. Lilly's
trail is a 1-way affair. The only
trail a congressman is interested in
is one that must be traveled both
ways and a mileage allowance of
twenty cents a mile going and com
ing. -:o:-
Priat- J. W. Roucher of the 257th
Canadian Railway Rattalion has
Itevii sent home from France be
f.iuse he is too old to fight. He is
7::. ami before they discovered his
i-.rre he put in eight months of ser
x ! at the front, and he begged to
May in the army. Private Loucher
is -i Canadian from Michigan and
served in the Civil War from that
stile. If a few more of the "old
vets" of the Civil War are discovered
playing the parts of youngsters
among the Canadians, everybody will
unJerstand w hy they have made such
game fighters.
How's This?
Tv offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any cane of Catarrh that cannot ba
cured toy Halt's Catarrh Medicine.
Hall's Catarrh tiedic;ne has becn taken
hy catarrh su.Terers for the past thirty
five yearr. and has become Unotvn as the
most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's
Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on
the Mucous s:jrfacT. xp- Hi)? the PoI
fon from the Blood and healing the di3-ea-d
portions.
After you have takon Hail's Catarrh
Mullein's for a abort t!:no you will see a
rrcat Jr.ir.r3vemcnt to yevr general
h-alth etrt taking Hall's Catarrh Medl
r:i at once ar..! ?et rid of catarrh. Send
' .,- fst'rr o-.-jV.Is. Irnff.
' y j iv CO..Toledo, Ohio.
TEAR
in
ADTANCJE
.Make the best of what is in your
power, and take the rest as it comes
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With all the "less" days it is only
natural that Mondav should be
wash less.
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To be an American is to believe in
America and in the Anicrcan people.
Henry Cabot Lodge.
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The trouble with a lot of people
who are saving wheat is that they
are saving it for a rainy day.
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"A pacifist" is de tined as "a per
son who believes in fighting his
friends instead of his enemies "
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Many men are grubbing along to
day who might be living in easy
treet if they had kept their tongues
in cheek.
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About the only difference between
war bread and white bread is in war
time you have to sharpen the knife
oftener.
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One hears considerable oojection
to unsightly breakfast caps;, but
j nobody has ever seriously suggested
abolishing them.
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There are few luxuries left to give
up during Lent this year, but each
of us might give up a dozen or so of
our fool notions.
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One-half of the country doesn't
know how many of Hoover's rules
the other half is following, but
would like to find out.
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Nebraska is leading all the states
in the matter of "Thrift Stamps."
Rut that is not surprising. Ne
braska has fallen into the habit of
leading in all good works.
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We greatly fear that there are a
few senators much more 'interested
in puncturing some possible presi
dential boomlets than they are in
helping the country win this war.
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What,' by the way, is being none
these days with the clastic which
formerly was put in men's hose sup
porters? The man who can walk
a block nowadays without stepping
for adjustments is a rarity.
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Running a newspaper is not all
"honey and jam," for sometimes
when the editor thinks he is going
to please people by publishing their
names as having accomplished some
thing in the world, he (the editor)
gets a reprimand for his pains.
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Speaking of male rash ions, we
hope our garments will never be
come quite so transparent or quite
so shy at both ends as most of the
feminine apparel we see. We are
somewhat bowlegged and a low cut
shirt would reveal a chest somewhat
marred by hirsute.
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The American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association has recommended the
return to the 2-cent piece. Do you
remember the old 2-cent coin, with
the big figure "2" on it? It was
decorated with a wreath and almos;t
everything else that could be crowd
ed onto it.'
It is always the case. In all states
in the west, particularly, that the
metropolis of the state is the target
for all the people and the -newspapers.
There is no more meanes.s per
petrated in Omaha than in any other
big city of 200,000 in the United
States, but it is simply a right the
outsiders have established to give the
old town a "shot between the eyes"
whenever an opportunity is afford
eil and many times when there is
not the least cause for it. Omaha
is the coming big town in the west,
and all Nebraska people should be
proud of her.
PER
In rejecting the ambition of John
T. Adams of Iowa to be the chair
man of the republican national com
mittee on the ground that he had at
one time given expression to a Ger
man interpretation of the war and
its purposes, the committee has set
an example that must excite emula-
lltion and win the applause of patrio-
lie Americans.
One can ignore such acts of the
I strictlv partisan
I
in approving this act of insisting up
on the selection of a chairman who
may not be suspected of any sym
pathy for the aims of Prussian mili
tarism or any lack of sympathy for
the aims and purposes of the allies. J
One might credit this action of the
committee to expediency, and to the
consciousness that a great plitical
party that could content itself to go
into a national campaign under such
leadership could not hope to win
That would be a sinister interpreta
tion of the committee's action. Com
fort is found most readily in a more
generous interpretation, ana it is
probably more accurate to conclude
that a militant patriotism prompted
the rejection of Mr. Adams and the
acceptance of a mun who has becn
right from the start concerning the
issues of the war.
It has been quite generally under
stood that forces have be'cn at work
for some time to bring influences to
bear upon, the next national election
i v-f ivnuui t nciinvi 110111 tjy utsLltuuillb
me American government, it is
common knowledge that every effort
will be made to secure the elction of
as many congrssmen and other offi
cials who have at times disclosed the
same inadequate consciousness of the
national war aims as were charged
up against Adams. Junkertum is
not going to be asleep in the coming
elections. German propaganda has
been too diligent and subtle and
penetrating to permit one to imagine
that the full force of kaiser sympathy
in this country will not be brought
into play to corrupt public sentiment
and inject disturbing elements into
high place.
This miction of the republican na
tional committee seems to be signal
notice to the country that that great
party is not going to allow itself to
become an avenue through which
disloyalty can hope to work. The
committee has evidently taken painr
to put the party right on the one
great issue that must dominate all
others in the next national election.
The reputed turniifg down of
George W. Perkins as the dominat
ing force in the party, and that with
the consent of his late defender, Col.
Roosevelt, interesting as It is, in no
way compares in importance with the
rejection of Adams as chairman up
on the ground upon which stress is
particularly laid. Lincoln Star.
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WORTH MILLIONS. BUT FREE.
Do you know, fellow Americans
who talk German, that our advice
i-o yon is worth millions of dollars?
You don't realize what a frightful
future you are building for your
selves and children. Of course we
mean this for pro-Germans and not
loyal Americans who speak the Ger
man language. A rich copperhead
once told us that he would have giv
eMi one hundred thousand dollars to
a kindly friend who would have
warned him of the awful consequence
in assailing Old Glory in the Civil
war. Then heed our warning! Heed!
Uncle Mose Warner in Lyons Mir
ror. :o:-
A Mexican business man assures
the Houston Post that only the peons
and the-very poor class of Mexicans
are in sympathy with Germany. Well,
it has been intimated that the Mex
ican government is pretty hard up.
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If the severe cold weather 'don't
let up pretty soon old winter may
try to sit awhile in the lap of Miss
Spring.
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Spring will arrive one week from
today, but we can't vouch for the
weather.
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We a no all glad that Col. Roose
velt will son be himself again.
The flames in the near east are
spreading. North, south, east and
west they are eating their way from
Muscovy, which is the heart of that
bolshevism that is a portent to the
world.
.Bolshevik violence and anarchy
manifested in Finland, with its large
bwedish population, threatens to
bring Swedish arms from across the
Gulf of Bothnia to protect Swedish
nationals from massacre. And this
would be the first long step toward
Sweden's entry into the war, since
Finland is Sweden's Alsace-Lorraine.
To the south and west Poland. Ru
mania. Bessarabia and the Ukraine
are involved in what promises to be
an inextricable commingling of both
civil and foreign warfare, with old
alliances shattered and domestic au
thority constantly growing weaker.
Toward the far east the flames are
eating their way clear to the Paci
fic, where Japan, enormously streng-
ineneu aim enriched uy the war,
watches and bides its time But it
does not wait in idleness. Almost
from the beginning of the great war
Japan has been burrowing and intrig
uing and building up its influence
in China, whero there is the man
power to dominate half the world if
only it could he organized, armed,
nnanceni ana miiameu with a mo
tive.
In Austria-Hungary the problems
and conditions growing out of bol
shevism in Russia arc adding great
ly to the difficulties of the govern
ment, strengthening the peace sen
timent, and widening the rift be
tween that empire and Germany.
Germany itself is between the
devil and the. deep sea. Heartily as
the bolsheviki are damned in this
country, and in Britain and France,
it is safe to conclude that they are
damned more fervently still by the
German junkers, militarists and lick-
ers of autocratic boots. Bolshevism
presents to Germany a problem it
doesn't know how to take hold of
because, apparently, there is no way
of taking hold of it. It is without
form and bony structure. Like the
octopus of the deep it is a glutinous.
viscid substance that reaches out
with its thousand poisoned, cupped
arms and enmeshes the victim who
is powerless to fight it because there
is no vital point at which to strike.
Germany would like to make peace
with it, but can't. To hesitate be
tween peace and war seems no bet
ter, because the monster keeps on
reaching out and crush incr. The
only recourse left to Germany, it
may develop, is to renew the war; a
war in which there can be little gain
and no glory but which will call for
vast expenditures of wealth and
energy.
To all organized society Russian
bolshevism is a menace, hut the men-
lce is greatest to its nearest neigh
bors which is to say, to the Central
Powers. Here are close to 200 mil
lion people fallen into anarchy and
on the borderland of starvation.
Their inflamed minds are filled with
an evil doctrine. It is a doctrine that
may become epidemic among neigh
boring peoples weakened and their
resistance lessened by the misery and
privation of war. It is taking the
lory and heroism and popular in
centive out of the war on the east
front and making it a hideous thing.
To the German people the German
government boasts over its Russian
victory. But in the secrecy of its
own war councils the German gov
ernment recognizes the Russia of
today as a Frankenstein monster of
its own creation. It is a nightmare
that haunts the Kaiser's sleep and
makes Ilindenburg swear. And to a
esser extent as yet, in a remoter
way, it is a nightmare to the re
sponsible leaders of every, people on
earth. World-Herald.
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Von Ilindenburg says he will bo in
Paris on April 1. We opine that
Von, old boy, is going to be the
biggest April fool in the whole
world.
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Farmers who are too busy to stop
a day to test their seed corn, may
have to stop much longer to replant.
Grafters abound.
The government has formed a bi,
and admirable machine for supplying
harvest hands and farm laborers to
the farmers. Every postmaster and
every rural route carrier has been
made an agent for filling demands
for men to work on farms.
When a farmer needs a hired man
he signs a form blank, hands it to
the rural carrier, who takes it to the
postmaster. The postmaster posts a
notice in the postoflice, where it re
mains for three days. If, after that
time has expired he has not filled the
order, he sends it along to a central
office somewhere, and the notice is
again posted. If the central office
falls to find the man after three
more days
Well, then the farmer goes with
out the hired man.
Jt is a i;ig plan. Kerythmg is
provided except the men to do flu
work. That important item appears
to have been overlooked. If idl
men are in the towns, it is hardly
likely that any farmer will wait un-
til his "form blank" can get around
through the slow processes of the
mail route. Trust the farmer to
climb into his motor car and beat
the rural mail carrier to town. He
will be anxious to "nab" such a man
before his neighbor gets him.
One hundred thousand rural route
carriers and postmasters and other
agents arc to be used in this scheme
to deliver farm hands at the door
but where are they to get the men
Nobody knows.
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The Star has suggested before, and
again emphasizes the necessitv of
finding the men in the towns and
cities. There are not enough idle
men in any town probably to supply
a single neighborhood of farmers
with such help as they will need
The supply will have to be furnish
ed from men now at work, some of
them, possibly all of them, at salar
ies equal 10 or greater man tne
wages they will get on the farm. But
they are not now doing necessary
labor. It is not labor actually re
quired for conducting the war.
The clerk must be taken from the
store and the butcher shop and tlu
real estate tffice. Driving jitnevs
from the hotels to the depots may be
profitable, but it contributes nothing
to help the United States or her Al
lies in the war. In Des Moines, for
instance, there is hardly an elevator
in an office building or hotel that is
not operated by a woman.
If the farms are to be supplied it
must be by making it as unpatriotic
to keep away from the farm as it
has been to refuse to contribute to
the Red Cross or to buy a Liberty
bond. The chamber of commerce
and the local council of defense in
every town will be compelled to
take the campaign in hand, just as
they ditl the drive for the Liberty
bonds or the Red Cross. It will take
the kind of a survey that will rake
the towns with a fine tooth comb,
for men who can be spared and not
alone for men who are out of em
ployment and looking for work and
when this survey is made the men
selected must be made to feel that
thejr are slackers if they refuse to go.
The time to make such a survey is
now; before the time for actual ser
vice, tor alter the nrst drive lor
farm hands there will be others.
There must be a central bureau to
direct the drives, antl to send back
word to the local workers to make
stil another drive, and another, un
til the army for the farm is mobilis
ed. After the men are found the gov
ernment's organization for delivering
them to the farmer is very good, but
the trouble with the plan now is that
it provides for delivering the man
before he is found. K C. Star.
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GOOD AND BETTER
IN FOOD SAVING
There are those in Great Britain
who have doubted that the people of
the United States would make any
food sacrifices on behalf of their al
lies in the war, and they have made
themselves known by periodical out
cries of whether the American peo
ple are asleep or only half awake
to those exigencies of the situation.
And there are those in .the United
Children Qry
-: rr'j-r '.. jr.
few pC Hill w. W
The KlnJ You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in. usa for over thirty years, has borne the signature of
? , - and
t-ffi-fr?TA sonol supervision siaco its infancy.
S-f2rj. s.-C'C'!. Allow no one to Aarriv ron ir. u--
U ilUJ.
.All Cour: forfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but
Br.por:;aor:tj tLct trifle vith and endanger the health of
2r-iar.tr. -..-A Children Experience against E.r,cnment.
v.
-3 W
Ct. .rrri i is u fcarrlcc:; substitute for Caslor Oil, Paregoric,
3:rop;-; ar.d Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
HJU'r urn, .v'CTtcjir.'e
ir- jc for the
-aS Celt:
lJ. Itii,. i rj.
ret -ui.-iu.:?
lie assimilative of Peed; givinrr healthy and natural sleep.
'j ht Ccx-z-ii I-aiiscca 'ihe Mother's Friend.
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ihe &ir.'J Y?js Hqvq A!vvsys Bought
States and in its eo;i!i re;. who have
not cnlv doubted t!ie e-'r.eiencv of
the federal food a(minir:tratie-n but
have ridiculed all iis i fforu:.
Uoth of these noi.-y flocks (,i l.-ir-Is
iire thrown into a flutter bv a liitle
statement of facts froiii Sir William
Goode of the Hritish food minis. rv.
lie says that early lart moiitli Mr.
Hoover tabled that ;..s a result of the
American food-conservat ioa t-.v.a-paign
he had ir.0,0l.0,0fiO poui-.'Is of
bacon and L'.v.oOO.OOO pounds of
frozen meat to send over in excels
of what the Uritish representatives
here had theiught Hvaihible; and it
later developed that the amount of
trozea meat available was "thous-
anus of tons'' above the Hoover esti
mate.
Which teaches all concerned two
or three things. T!ie l'nite'1 Plates
food conservation law i rot a fail
ure. .Mr. iioovers auini!:isr;t ;n o: ;
it is not a failure. The vclTintrv
respons-es 01 the American people te
the efforts of that admini.-' ration are
not a failure. They have been almost
surprisingly effective, as this inci-I
dent shows." Hut we can ail do even
better, and with a renewed feIiue-
of confidence that Mr. Hoover is
working out this vital side of the
great war problem, let there be no
gv'f rUT
THIS PICTURE TELLS ITS OWN STORY. THEY HAD
THEIR MONEY IN THE HOUSE; THEY WERE SAVING THAT
MONEY FORTHEIR OLD AGE, OR SOME OTHER PURPOSE.?
NOW THEY HAVE NO HOME; BUT IF THEIR MONEY WAS
SAFE IN OUR BANK THEY COULD DRAW ON IT FOR ANOTHER
HOME.
YOUR HOME IS NOIPLACEVTOS KEEP YOUPJMONEY- LOTS
OF THINGS MIGHT HAPPEN TO IT. PUT IT IN OUR BANK.
WE PAY H PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS.
COME TO
anxiers
THE NEW BANK.
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES 50 CENTS PER YEAR.
for Fletcher's
has been made under his pcr-
nor t-ther narcotic st.
nor (-ther narr'tr m.'f.r.r
r more in&n th:rrv :-. -r.
1 r .
xi':z of Ccnstir.atK.r:, i'lr.Lukrcy,
totomacii ana iJcveis. aids
V:. SI
t
A
2
'jUestiou that we shall do even bet
ter. New York World.
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A
PHD uARMilUP
One That Should 2e Heeded
Plattsmouth P.esidents.
by
Frequently the first siun of kid
::y trouble is a slipht ach or pain
in the h.i'is. N-gleet of this warn
ing makes the wav easv for more
serious troubles dropsy, gravel,
liright's disease. "Tis well to pay at
t'i!tio;i to the frst .sign. Weak kid
neys generally grow weaker ;:ud de
lay is often dangerous. Residents of
ti'is community place reliance in
Doan's Kidnoy Pills. This tested
rci:!c(ly lias been us.mI in kidney
trouble (ver r.O yi?.v is recm
m ended ovt r the civilized world.
Head the following Plattsmout h
proof if their morits.
Mrs. J. M. liiber. 14 0;'. Vine St.,
1 la 1 ii; uii i I: , says: "Once in awhile
I g a doll pche i'.ciess my kidneys,
but a few doses of Doan's Kidney
Pi:ls soon overcome this trouble. I
couldn't recommend a better medi
cine for backache and any other
symptom of kidney complaint."
Price ;e, at all dealers. Il.m't
simply ask for a
Knlney remedy
get Hoiin's Kidney Pills the same
that -Mrs. Hiber had. Fevter-Milburn
Co., Props.. P.ufralo, X. Y.
riarrs at the Journal OiSce.
IT IH CUE BANK.
OUR BANK.
State Bank
ALWAYS
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