THURSDAY, MARCH 14. 1018.
TAQE FOUR.
PLATTSMODTfl SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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t UBSCRIITlOp PBICBi 9t9
Yes, buy a tlirift stamp.
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It is never too late to do good.
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A loyal citizen is the noMest work
tf ilod.
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There is one day that is consid
ered speechless day in congress, and
that is Sunday.
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This suffrage thing is going a hit
t far when it protects the hens
and puts the roosters on the block.
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MeAdr.o warns against offers to
K-lp collect claims for war risk in
surance. There is a penalty against
ti.is course.
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: 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.-.
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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.
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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.
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PKK TKAK IM ADTAMCH
March is marching on, but slowly.
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Soiue people are getting ready for
making garden.
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Easter less than three weeks
Sunday, March CI.
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The pessimists about the war have
agreed to make every day a smileless
day.
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A pig was sold in Chicago for
$10,000. At that rate, a week will
soon have seven porkless days.
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The people who complain that
poultry raising does not pay fre
quently find that nothing else pays.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is this difference between
Itoosevelt and liryan. Ten years
ago Roosevelt favored extensive
preparation for war and Bryan bit
terly opposed him.-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Another reason why the kaiser
i must be dealt with severely is that
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Perhaps Germany's longing for a
square meal will ultimately lead it
to a square peace.
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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.
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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
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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.
You should write or telephone at
once to A. HOSPK CO. of Omaha for
their list of used pianos and for their
catalogues of new high grade guar
anteed player pianos ranging in
price from $395.00 up. They invite
correspondence and comparison.
3-1 1-4 wkswkly.
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ISN'T IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DEPRIVE YOURSELF
OF SOME LITTLE UNNECESSARY EXTRAVAGANCE AND START
A BANK ACCOUNT WITH THAT MONEY?
YOU WORKED FOR THAT MONEY-IT IS YOURS; WHY
LET IT GO TO HELP SOME OTHER MAN'S FAMILY?
IT IS SAFE IN OUR BANK. OUR BANK TAKES AN
INTEREST IN ITS DEPOSITORS AND HELPS THEM.
WE PAY 4 PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS, AND 3 PER
CENT ON XMAS SAVINGS CLUB.
COME TO OUR BANK.
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SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES 50 CENTS PER YEAR.
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Hens 20c
Springs 20c
Broilers 14 to 2 lbs. per lb 20c
Stags 18c
Ducks 18c
Geese 17c
Old Roosters 12c
Eggs 25c
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