The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, March 18, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
PLATTSM0UTI1 SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, MARCH 18. 1313. page rcun. Cbe plattsmoutb jfournal PUBLISHED IKMI-WEEKLT AT PUTTSMOl'TH, JfEBHASKA trd at Potofflc at Plattsmoutb. Neb., aa ieod-clm mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher iraCUIPTIOS PRICKi HJ PER TKAtt IW lOTANCK WISHES. I wish I were a bullet, A-s:tting in a gun, l".r wouldn't it be jolly nice Just to hit a Hun? Id travel straight across the line Where no Man's Land might be, And when I'd stop a Hun would drop iiurrah for Liberty! A Soldier's Mother. -:o:- l;v us more spring. :o: I'iiy election April lYi.ple are eager to make garden. :o: Art- you doing your duty to the Kid Cross? : o : The man with a single purpose us lial'.v gets double results. -:o: There will be some building in I 'I... :.-i:u)ut h this season. It Las hecome so much easier to x.:-.' a Russian town than it is to 1 -renounce its r.ame. K-:sia sustains her reputation as tl:e "Dn-a gain-off -again-gone-again-l innegan" of the war. :o: The Prussians seem to believe that tiny were ordained to be stepfathers t all the r-st of humanity. :o: !) unto others as you would 1 others do unto you. provided 1 1 ;.- tint you are determined that l r u r c I f you shall ask only v. ii.tt is just and right. : o: Well. Old Boreas can have no room t complain that restrictions hamp t r d him this winter. If he didn't ":. his worst it must have been his -v. i! finilr. -:o: When the third Liberty Loan drive gets under way no one is go ing to he asked to loan more to the government than they can afford to loan. The soliciting committee will known yeur ability to help the gov ernment. : o : If that Chicago building and loan ;gcnt who embezzled 1 million dol lars had speculated in Middle West ern oil prospects instead of stocks, lie might not have been driven to suicide last fall. More likely, he would is t i 1 1 be waiting. :o: The new war gardening costumes f. r women look expensive, but so are the business suits the men wear in the garden rather titan take time to c hange for overalls. Gardening is a luxury at best. But for the love we bear our Allies, we fear most of it v. tuild be left to those already equip ped for the pursuit. :o: Time in its flight is almost certain to bring every one into their own rightful place. The standing of the Sioux savage of the early day is, for iiist; ii.ee, much higher than it was formerly. It is remembered that many of the treaties made by the Sioux with the civilized whites were kcp. but Kaiser Bill and his crowd have broken all they ever made with civilized people. The Sioux was not sucii a bad fellow after all. He wanted only a small part of the earth, while the present day savage wants it all. $100 Reward, $100 TJj readers of this paper will b j!eased to learn that there 13 at least nne dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all its staged and that is catarrh. Catarrh being Rreatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken Internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur f ce? of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, givin? the r!ient strength by building up the con ftltution and assisting nature in doing Its iL-n-k The proprietors have so much faith' In the curative powers of Hall's r-a-arrh Ie!icir.e that they offer One Dollars for any cab that it falls Jn rurl Snd for 1'st of testimonials. Aire-s F J CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O&t "sow I by ah Drugtfst. 76c. The Easter bonnet on tap. -:o: Clean up, dress up, and get ready lor spring- :o: The Omaha. Nebraskan came to us last week with four pages blank. -:o: Even a fruitless day is not going to help the peach crop in the least. :o:- When they catch a spy in Ger many, he does not need to look around for bail. :o: "Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind" is no dream with Russia now, and the harvest is great. -:o:- Mcst people believe tn signs of one sort or another, except when they come to doors marked "In" and "Out". -:o:- Join the big Liberty loan drive Saturday April G, and invest every dollar you can spare in "Liberty loan bonds." -: o : The cost of living in Germany goes up i'2 per cent a year, and we can't understand why any German should want to pay it. :o: Perhaps a codee administrator is necessary, if for no more than the refining influence he may have on the sugar administrator. :o: The war Department now permits women to qualify as inspectors of small arms, according to an an nouncement by the Civil Service Com mission. -:o: Someone wants to know what has become of the youth who used to mail a valentine to his best girl, and then tremble a week to know how she took it? -rot- It is suspected by some disagree able persons that one reason food conservation is so didicult to keep going is because it requires no stun ning new costume. :o: Another excellent reason why many are unwilling to keep poultry and help raise food, is that the wives pertinaciously refuse to take the en tire care of them. :o: Many of the people who kick on the wheatless days are the same ones who used to howl for more of that good old fashioned corn cake like what Mother used to make. -:o: Cass county will have to furnish seven in the next draft call. Not many to be sure, but Cass county is ready to comply in everything that she can and the country needs. -:o:- Draft for labor and for dollars, as well as for soldiers. Let's get right down to business and win this war quickly, so we can return to our peaceful pursuits. :o:- Just a few fellows in each com munity are strenuously trying to make it possible for some other fel low to carry their gun. Wonder if they will ever know just who is carrying it. :o: Were it not for the probability that the women will all clean house this spring anyway, we would sup press the news that a Topeka, Kansas, woman, while cleaning her house found a $20 bill she didn't know siie had. -:o:- After the Kaiser's hirelings had duped Trotzky and Lenine into sign ing a peace pact, the old Hun butch er wrote his Chancellor that "The German sword, wielded by our great army leaders, has brought peace in Russia. We feel deep gratitude to God, who has been with us." Rather I magnanimous of the old devil to give God part of the credit. GOOD MEN AT THE TOP. According to the service journals i of the United States army doubtless good authorities upon this subject the two chief advisers of President Wilson and secretary of war upon all matters incident to the war are to be Gen. March, the new chief of staff, and Gen. Goethals, the quarter master general. As chief of staff. Gen. March will be the ranking officer of the army. He will hold the grade and receive the pay of general; lie outranks his predecessor. Gen. Bliss, and technic ally outranks Geu. Pershing, the commander in the field. He is to be the responsible adviser of the president and the secretary, and is to be consulted upon every import ant matter. We learn in this con nection that army oificers, both in this country and in France are loud in their commendation of the selec tion made, and particularly so be cause the new chief of staff is a young and vigorous man. As quartermaster general, Gen. Goethals is under Gen. March, but it is made plain that he is given a very free rein in his own department, and the reports from Washington are all to the effect that he is accom plishing great things in the over worked department under his author ity. St. Joseph Gazette. :o: A GOOD SIGN. It is not all matter for concern that General Pershing is finding it necessary to send home considerable numbers of officers of all ranks be cause they have not proved to be up to the mark. It is rather a cause for satisfaction as showing that the high command is discovering the misfits early and weeding them out before their deficiencies work harm. It was inevitable that in the rap id expansion of the army and the hurried dispatch of the expedition to France there should have been ofli cers assigned for service who were not unfit indeed, but whose exper ince, age or temperament were against them and against the getting of the best results in the places where they served. It is matter for congratulation to General Pershing, to the army, and indeed to the oiiicers themselves that the mistakes in such assignments can be corrected by the means adopted, and that the prelimi nary training period in France gave opportunity to discover and correct them. But for that the trouble would have shown up too late, per haps, to avert some disaster. The country will see in this action of General Pershing additional rea son for the confidence It feels in his courage and ability to make of our expedition broad an efficient fighting machine, in which no man will have a place for any other reason than because he belongs in it. K. C. Star. ALARMED NEUTKAL NATIONS. Now it is Sweden, accounted since the beginning of the war as the most pro-German of tiie neutrals, tiiat is reported violently anti-German and on the verge of joining the allies. Sweden has been inflamed by the occupation of the Aland Islands, which in German hands are daggers aimed at her throat. But this is only the culmination of the policy of cold greed that has established Ger man control over Finland and made of the Baltic, as it. has made of the Black Sea ,a German lake. Formerly it was Russia that was the black beast holding the Scandi navian states in fear. Now that fear is gone, only to be replaced by the fear of Germany. Control of the Scandinavian peninsula would not only shut Russia off from the world but would enable the Germans to establish a naval base in one of the magnificent deep water harbors of Norway, protected by natural forti fications. It would be a prize of in comparable value, and would double the allied naval problem. A London cable says that Ger many's rapacity in the Russian and Rumanian negotiations is reacting violently on all the European neu trals, and that all may now be class- Jed. as potential enemies ot German Bruises and Sprains J lave Sloan's Liniment handy for bruises and sprains and all fnins and aches. Quick relief ollov9 its prompt application. No need to rub. For rheumatic aches, neuralgia, stiff muscles, lame back, lumbago, gout, strains, and sprains, it gives quick relief. enerous sized bottle" """ " - 3!' 3 mm 1! mm aggression. This is a natural re sult. The German government has strip ped off its own mask. It has shown bc-youtl any disputing or conjecture what its motives are, and what it will do if given an opportunity. There is no nation in the world safe so long as Germany is powerful, and it is the weak neighboring states that are in the greatest danger. Not all the money they have made from their German trade during the period of the war can blind them to the fact that Germany is a ruthless aggressor standing with drawn sword threaten ing their liberties. World-Herald. -:o: WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. One war-savings stamp will my one hundred cartridges or a cartridge belt or a scabbard for a bayonet ; two will purchase two pairs of wool en trousers or two flannel shirts; two and a half will buy a gas mask. Three war-savings stamps will buy an overcoat or two woolen service coats; three and a half win buy three pairs of woolen blankets; four will buy a rifle. Tooeka Journal. STANDING BY RUSSIA. President Wilson's message of sympathy to the congress of Russi -.ns moo. ing at Moscow may, or may not. bear fruit. The president makes it plain that the United States as a nation is in full accord with t lie Slav hope for an everlasting democracy. Those Russian pi asants an work men may find some comfort, while under the pressure of Germanism, in knowing that their aspirations are ruderstood by the American people. Though the foot-print of Prussian imperialism has virtually stamped out the democratic government in Rimsia. no sane man will believe that the kaiser's dream of Russian con quest will ever materialize. During these dark days which are to follow in Russia, during these days of in ternal misunderstanding and exter nal oppression, the United States should not forget to stand by the new born democracy. President Wil son knows that the expression of faith in a loser will often make him a winner, and by sending this mess age of encouragement to the con gress at Moscow, he has done fcme t'ning in helping the fallen Russian democracy to arise again. Lincoln Star. : o : WE ARE IN. Upturning; from the front. Gener al March declared American soldiers in France wholly capable of meeting the enemy on his own terms. Seldom has ihe occasion so promptly indors ed a prophet. That, night, for the first Time, the army of the United States appeared in the communique of one of our allies as a separate, self-.-ufhcient fighting force and a victorious force. The engagement in the Woevre, ferocious and thrilhng as it was, has lio strategic meaning. Though the forces facing each other in the little American sector are greater than those in contact at Bull Run and the numbers actually at grips exceeded the total engaged at the battle of Lexington, in the history of tins war this trench raid will not have even a name. x. But. it will not remain uncelebrat ed. Nor is it without deep military significance' both jn France and at home. Before the Prussians attack ed, our Americans, despite their 'training and the shadowy patrol en counters of No Man's Land, were raw, untried troops. Today they are masters of an elaborate and difficult ' technique, . and, by the outcome of the fighting prepared by tire enemy to him in' his own field. The swift, magnetic thrill of just i pride in the achievement and noble auger for the lost now passin; through the American army doubles the power of every division. Rip pling across the Atlantic and spread ing westward, it exercises that co hesive force which a single emotion gives the morale of any people New York Tribune. :o:- MEATLESS, WHEAT- LESS PATRIOTISM Don't talk patriotism. Live it Consider the seemingly small duty of wheatless and meatless davs. A lo of people have taken the initia tion of those days at the hotels and restaurants almost as a matter of course, yet the same men who agree that it is right to go without meat for their Tuesday luncheons go home at night and have meat suppers. Their i wives forgot it was meatless day and the husbands do not consider it of enough importance to object. Jop- lin Globe. :o: NEW STUFF FOR, BILL There used to be such a thing as jingo before the war. Put that word is lost, now. The man who stands up on hit. hind legs and hollers Americanism isn't laugh ed at any more! This country is young, but never theless it has a wealth of tradition, a gold-mine of glorious history, vol umes of stories of fights won against fearful odds. Uncle Sam has never lost a war and will not lose this one, if it takes a half a century to get the decision. So much for that. At this writing there lias come over the wires the information that American troops have successfully raided German trenches in a certain sector, have captured a great deal of material and prise tiers, inflicted com paratively largo losses upon the ene my and suffered none in return. This brings the thought that the Kaiser has a new sort of animal to deal with now - the full-blooded. 1; party, eager, brainy American sold ier! Take a glance at the pictures of the captured Germans, Austrians, Bulgarians por devils! In nine out of ten of them you will find the in dication that the man-power of the Prussian military force is deteriorat ing. Comparison proves beyond a doubt the supremacy of our own Yankee Doodles. Every man in our American armies regulars, volunteers and conscripts has the clear eye, the beacon-light of intelligence, the making of an offi cer. There are exceptions, as usual, but a group photograph of Sammies i.; sure to make you proud that you are an American! Brains! Free and enlightened brains is the reason therefore! The American soldier goes to France knowing what's what and why! . On that his opponents in the ene my ranks night know as much! World-Herald. -:o:- Is beer food? Perhaps if you can get it. :o:- For meatless day try a dime's worth of steak. It won't hurt you. :o: Another sure sign that spring is here is when the little girls have added a rope to their customary jumping. . : o : A whole lot of winter wheat that is killed between December 1 and February 1 usually threshes out well in July if let ajone. ' :o: Just how is it to be proved that Si Rabindranath Tagore is a spy, when nobody has ever found the key to his cipher poetry? Before Hindenberg begins that boasted drive we hope he will pause long enough to consider Nehemiah's advice to the boastful Sanballat. -:o:- Oh. no. Winter is not over yet. And you are foolish to take off your winter underwear until the onions. letU-ce and radishes are ready to pull. to his own advantage, superior -Met Contents 15Pluicl Drarhrej mummlmm ALCOIiOL-3i'EnCEST. AVc4 c !ablc lVoparat ion ion s S'Uii'.HiriS iheloai byKaw- a : v. Hie : ' cm acas r.nui "a :'iv liiUin ,.-.- - , . i ri-crfumcssaitfRostXotu ncithti- Opiam,M..rphmcror i Mu:c:T.l.XoTAncoTiv J-'i,.T.pKi'a 3 .'. vli-t .f.tr.' 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