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THURSDAY, MARCH 14. 1018. TAQE FOUR. PLATTSMODTfl SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Cbc plattsmoutb journal PlltlJilBED IEVI-WEBKLT IT PLATTIMOtTH, JfEHBASlO. rtr4 at PotG3ce at PlatUmouth. Neb., as coad-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher . ' t UBSCRIITlOp PBICBi 9t9 Yes, buy a tlirift stamp. :o:- It is never too late to do good. :o:- A loyal citizen is the noMest work tf ilod. -:o: There is one day that is consid ered speechless day in congress, and that is Sunday. :o: This suffrage thing is going a hit t far when it protects the hens and puts the roosters on the block. -:o:- MeAdr.o warns against offers to K-lp collect claims for war risk in surance. There is a penalty against ti.is course. :o:- : is a bit unreasonable to expect laboring man to respond to ap-l--als to his patriotism while the I f'liu-iTs go unmolested. :o:- T','- K;is.-i:iu and German peace i l.-i;.stes parted with a feeling of tb-a'l'.v enmity. "That such was the case is a deeply regrettable event." s;'.s the llerlin Yorwaerts. greatly pr.zid. Leave it to the liolsheviki to do the i'.biica! thing. They are tearing u; th" Si;r;an railway to keep out t!..- Japanese, and in so doing are inij-vling their own getaway from ; i.c Germans. ii;it talkintr about "doing your 1 .'" That isn't enough for you to i. I iu all ou possibly can. your u '-I.,--. what Fncle Sam demands f i. and anything short of that i-- not enough. :o: Katless banquets are coming in .-fvle. J tit as well. What you get at tie average banquet to eat. won't f unnier anyone anyway. The ban quet is no place to fill up. and smart l'ip!e get a good supper at home J t fere starting to the banquet. :o: A German paper says New York bis been stricken with war fright, ;i'd has fenced itself inside G2o i::ik of barbed wire. This is not the tlrst inaccuracy that lias been lifted in the German press since the ynr lic;an. As a matter of fact, it i ::t NVw York, but Washington. th:.t is fenced off. and the fencing matt rial is not barbed wire, but red tajx.-. :o: Industrial conditions, the public is bl. have brought a new type of girl, iad 'pendr ni. prosperous and afraid to marry. Perhaps you have noted bw this abject fear of matrimony ba been reflected in the marriage license column during the last year. Met of the girls whose names you n-ad in that column were afraid to m:. rry. just like those young men vcro afraid to enlist next dav and mr.rcTi away to war. -:o: Is it right, when every other busi ness has raised the salaries of their mployees on account of the high cost of living not to advance the salaries of the school teachers? Why not raise th .salaries of t lie teachers in our schools accordingly? Is not the lab orer worthy of his hire? If that be sy. then why should the salaries of teachers not be boosted? They are do'.ng so in every other county, and vkLv rot here? $ 1C0 Reward, $100 Th readers of thi3 paper will bo fleas d to learn that there Is at least tre dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its staged and thst is catarrn. Catarrh beins greatly Inunced by constitutional conditions rKi'.Jires onstitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and - . . Itinrwl rin Ihp Miirnna Sur faces of the System thereby destroying ti e foundation or ir.e uip-asc, giving mo irtint strength by building up the con fatitution ari-i listing- nature in doinfflts nork. The proprittors have so much iif in the curative powers of Hall's 1 'h M1ietne that they offer One 1 DoliLr" for any case that it faila Jlriit sul for li-t of testimonials. Yoj4m F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. - PKK TKAK IM ADTAMCH March is marching on, but slowly. -:o:- Soiue people are getting ready for making garden. -:o:- Easter less than three weeks Sunday, March CI. :o:- The pessimists about the war have agreed to make every day a smileless day. -:o: A pig was sold in Chicago for $10,000. At that rate, a week will soon have seven porkless days. -:o:- The people who complain that poultry raising does not pay fre quently find that nothing else pays. :o: The first step taken in the cam paign to promote the eating of fish was to make a big increase in the price. Spring sunshine is drying up the battle fronts, news accounts say. All except the eastern front where the Russians are still talking. Many people seem to think that if they postpone filing their income tax long enough, they will be able to forget all about it. But your Uncle Sam won't. :o:- "If Uncle Sam puts women in the grain fields this year, he will never live down the disgrace." says a speaker. Nor will he ever forget what it cost. :o:- The iuestion, "What will women do after the war," is becoming ter rifying as well as puzzling. Just now the nurses in base hospitals are being taught boxing. -:o: Some of these kids who usei to be such an awful nuisance with their airguns out in the back vard are now picking off German snipers very successfully in the trenches. Forcing Russians into the German army is just another way the Ger mans have of showing the world that they subscribe to the principle of the self determination of peoples. :o:- The time for tiling income tax re turns having been extended, the pro crastinators will have the same rush to get them in March 31 that they were going to have February 2S. :o: There is this difference between Itoosevelt and liryan. Ten years ago Roosevelt favored extensive preparation for war and Bryan bit terly opposed him.- -:o:- There is one wish the kaiser will get. He sent his troops forth . in 1914 with the reminder that they should never let the world forget that they were Iluns. The old fashioned boy of other days who got in late and took off his shoes on the front porch to avoid noise, now has a son who muffles his late arrival by leaving the car at the public garage 'way up the street. :o:- The newspaper is a great conven ience, particularly in time of ' the aurora borealis. Those who did not see it, read about it, and those who saw it, read the next morning what it was. :o:- Maiiy of these people who -are kicking because we haven't 500 de stroycrs ready for action are the same ones who used to kick because the war department asked for one warship a year. :o: Another reason why the kaiser i must be dealt with severely is that it i , i . . i . . . i . . . . i . . . t ; i me miei nuun tiuin noit uccn &eiin a mighty poor variety of playing cards since the war broke out. Some of them break in two at the first shuffle, indignant readers say. FIGHTING MIT SIGEL. We do purpose that those German democrats in and out of Germany who have kept alive and cherished the memories and the spir it of liberty that swept over Ger many in 4S and '49 shall be aid ed, and that that spirit be made so strong that it will conquer and the autocrats who have succeeded thus far in smothering it, and make the dream of '4S the reality of the Ger many of the future. Franz Sigel. To'the friends of German democ racy the son of Gen. Sigcl put in these telling words the aim of lib eral Germans on both sides of the sundering sea which shall again unite and the aim of our president. The spirit of '4S is the spirit that sent our boys to France, and thou sands of German-Americans among them are still "fighting mit Sigel" for democracy. New York World. -:o: THE BROKEN WORD. Germany agreed at The Ha'gue con vention of 1907 to certain definite rules of war. Among them were these: No employment of deleterious gases. No bombardment of unfortified towns. No pillaging. No levying of illegal contributions in occupied territory." No seizure of funds belonging to private persons. No collective penalties for individ ual acts (prohibiting shooting of hostages. ) No terrorizat ion of a country by outrages on its civil inhabitants. Every one of these provisions has been deliberately violated by Ger man forces violated as deliberate ly as the neutrality of Relgium was violated. We know what society does to u individual who flouts his word. Its action is of a sort to make the break ing of promises unpopular. In that way it has helped educate men in the way of truth telling and reliabil ity. The same process must be ap plied to the treaty breaking nation. Kansas City Star. -to AS TO HEADS. A doctor now conies forward with the discovery t hat the war is a con test between the longheads and the roundheads. Perhaps the American and English and French and Italian type of head is long, and perhaps the German type is round we are not certain. But a..s for the war be ing one between longheads ami roundheads, it would be as correct to say that it is one between blue eyes and pink eyes or between snub noses and hook noses. We have a notion that there are some fairly long heads in Germany and we are very sure there are some perfectly round ones in England and America. Feet are also mixed up to a considerable extent, cold ones be ing pretty equally distributed prob ably. A better guess about this war is that it is a struggle between the tight" little system invented and up held by a privileged class of auto crats, who took the precaution to lay in a large supply of superior guns, and the forces of world democracy which have determined to smash that system. The shape of heads has less to do with it than what is in the heads. The Entente peoples have it in their heads whether long or round to win. To do it they should be less concerned about the roundheads in Germany than about the flatheads at home who are now trying to find some other way of winning than by fighting. K. C. Star. -to:. It is not customary for a really God fearing man to speak of his re gard for the Almighty as frequently as a certain European monarch does. -:o:- A judge has ruled that a man has no right to kiss his wife by force. How did this matter ever get into court anyway? Out of the movies? :o:- It is presumed that all those half hearted citizens who have been forc ed to kiss the flag are now red hot Americans, rearing to get the kaiser. N RURAL COLONIES. A bill is before Congress to estab- i lish rural Colonies, with five acres or more of land to each man. The idea is to provide expert supervision and agencies for buying supplies and selling products. It is hoped to in duce young men to take up scientific food raising on a large scale. It's about time to do something more on the food question than appoint com mittees, give hearings, and print government reports. Young men will take up such a proposition pro vided it will give them as good a living as they can earn in other call ings, and they won't unless it does. Considering the high prices of fcod, and the prorpocts that they will stay i:p, this proposition looks good. By buying and selling co opcrately a lot of lost motion and wasteful profits should be cut out. If these Colonies are established, it will be well for the public to buy directly of them as much as possible, so as to cut out the needless intri cacies of the food distribution sys tem. :o: NAILING THE SLACKER. During the progress of solicita tions for subscriptions to the new Liberty loan there will be opportun ity to discover the attitude of many citizens who are suspected of dis loyalty. While the loan itself is a good investment, there will be found a good many persons who will refuse or be reluctant to subscribe, even when their financial ability to do so is very apparent. Men in Dodge county who have discontinued their subscriptions to The Tribune because it is too patriotic to suit them are the kind of men who will disregard their duty to aid their country by purchasing bonds. There is no law to compel them to continue their newspaper subscriptions, and if there were it would not be invoked for the purpose. But there are laws by which they can be made to do their share in supporting the governmeut through bond subscriptions. The Dodge County Council of Defense, which has thus far been somewhat moribund, is possessed of authority to make examples of some of the pro German slackers, and the bond com mittee will not fail to avail itself of this authority. We look for a big subscription when the books are op ened. Fremont Tribune. SUPPRESSING ANARCHY. The government is at last taking measures to defend the people against anarchy. Secreary Wilson's orders for the suppression of radical prop aganda by aliens are regarded by of ficials as the final step in the Gov ernment's determination to put a stop to extremists who seek to in terfere with the prosecution of the war from motives sincere or other wise. Citizens of the United States who preach anarchy will be ha lulled by the Department of Justice, which brought about the arrest of scores of Industrial Workers in the nation wide raids last year. The havoc that doctrine has creat ed in Russia should lead this gov ernment to such action as will pre vent its growth in this country among tiie fanatical and ignorant. The trouble lies in the fact that a workman, who would not think of practicing sabotage or any destruc tion of property can be led into it, by announcing a general principle which will so confuse his reasoning powers as to lead him to give con sent to it. The doctrines that the contest between labor and capital is "war" and that laborers, when it will advance their interest, may de stroy property the same as is done in war holds within it the very es sence of anarchy, and it is against that, and not against labor, that the government must protect the people. The recent orders are along that line. World-Herald. -:o: Perhaps Germany's longing for a square meal will ultimately lead it to a square peace. :o: Remember if you are careless about observing the meatless day law, every day will be Tuesday by and by. FIRST AND LAST FALL OF JERICHO On the morning of Washington's birthday General Sir E. II. II. Allen by's Australian troopers rode as con querers into a little village of huts, noted geographically as being the city of lowest elevation, on earth, and in Biblical story as being the scene of the first victory in Israel's conquest of the Promised Land. In the Canaanite days Jericho was a fortified city, commanding both the lower ford of the Jordan and the route leading up to the highlands' of Judea. The story of its siege and capture and the destruction of its population is one of the spectacular stories of the Old Testament, which contrasts strongly with its gentle seizure by a Christian army in a year of our Lord, 33 centuries lat er. According to the Old Testament story the city was left desolate with a curse from Joshua upon the man who should attempt to rebuild it. And it is related that Hie!. the Bethelite, who did rebuild it, lost his two eons in the construction of the wall as punishment for his temerity. It was at Jericho that Joshua in stituted his campaign of f rightful ness upon his enemies; and it was on the Jericho road leading up to the Judean highlands that Jesus laid the scene of the story of the Good Samaritan who gave first aid to a wounded enemy. The advance from Joshua to Jesus in the human ideal of duty toward one's enemies is the very measure of the spread between the ideals of Hindenburg and Alien by on the same question. This war is fundamentally a con flict between the ideals of modern brotherhood and ancient overlord ship; and nowhere is the contrast more noteworthy than in this little village of Jericho, where the people today are safer in the hands of their enemies than they were under the rule of their own people. The world, with the exception of Germany and Turkey, lias traveled a long way be tween the t W I) I iX lis of Jericho. Minneapolis Journal. :o:- LET SOME BEAT THIS ONE. From M'!nlay's ini!y. The Omaha papers had about a week ago, a picture of their oldest Red Cross knitter, who was 7G years of age, we have then faded to a frazzle, in the case of our oldest knitter for the Red Cross, and not only that she is one of the most loyal and patriotic women in the county. Mrs. Elizabeth Wiles, who will be SS on May Sth and has since the 13th of February knitted four pairs of sox and four pairs of wristlets. Mrs. Wiles is the mother of eight boys and five girls, is a great crand motheF a number of times. LAURA S0CHER VISITS HOME. From Monday's laily. Miss Laura Sochor, who has been employed in Lincoln for a number of years past, and employed with the Herpelscheimer Department store of that place, where she is one of the saleswomen, was a visitor at the home of her parents, over Sunday, being the first time for over seven months, returned to her work last evening. FOR SALE. I have for sale the following de scribed land: 1200 acres. Cherry County, Neb. S00 acres at Edison, Furnas Co., Neb. 160 acres. 5 miles from Tomax. Custer county, Nebr. 4 80 acres one mile from Callowa5'. Custer county. Neb. These places are now, rented, all have good improvements and can h'i bought one third cash payment and balance 5 year mortgage atG per cent interest. Thomas E. Parmele, Office in Bank of Cass CotCfr 9-lmo "It Sure Does the Work " Mrs. W. II. Thorton, 3523 W. 10th St., Little Rock, -Ark., writes: "My little boy had a severe attack 'of croup and I honestly believe he would have died if it had not been for Foley's Honey and Tar. I would not be without it at any price, as it sure does the work." Best remedy known for coughs, colds, whooping cough. Sold everywhere. FOR SALE. 25 head of good young horses. Al broke Can be seeu at the Tom Til- son farm home. For particulars, see Vallery & Tilson. 2-18-d&Tr lllll''T!l''J ' -1- m Jjj S'f Net Contents ISTluid Drachml us - i) teas - 3 " . '.. PVT. 6 ri ! ' AVc'icKiblo Preparation forAs So I TiicrctrcivioUnDKcsliw If I Chccrrdncssar.dncst Contains Hi ' ' Ar A una J' J'.ftrrr.u.i , I !'itrci Sffd ; k ,n!nfsi! Remedy for I (nsiiVUon a;idDiai"rW: i and Fcvcnsnr.y.-. ! LossorSLEh'' j resulting ii?rcfroniinJalan I- Fac-S:mfc Signature of I r . i L.xact Copy O. vrarpw.. AFTER SOMETHING HERE. Klom Tuosii y'.s I;ii!y. Last evening Detective Wilkersou, the man who gained so much popu larity in the famous Ax Murder case at Villisca, la., when he was search ing out the murderer, for which Lynn George J. Kelly was twice tried, dropped off the train here at about three o'clock and spent the remaind er of the day in the city. Something is doing, and no one will know un til the matter drops. He seems a very nice gentleman, and while he was here but few people know of his character, and none his business. as he was keeping in the background. while the others were flashing in the sun light. Cut This Out It Is Worth Money DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with five cents to Foley & Co., 2S35 Sheffield Ave., Chicago, III., writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup, Foley Kid ney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tab lets. Sold everywhere. 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