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PAGE four. PLATTSMODTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. TfiuiisDAY, MAY 1&L8. 7m plattsmouth journal PUBLISHED SZMI-WEEXLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Kntcrt'l at Istofl'icc, riattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter R. , A. BATES, Publisher SUBSC2EFTI0N F3ICE: $1.50 Is there a speed limit? :o: ix-me autoists don't seem to think to. -:o: Tluy will know it some of these days. -:o:- AnJ they should know pedestrians bave rights, also. -:o: What the Summer girls will be s-. n praying for is a moonlight sav ins t ill. :o:- jMi.ne fellows come through Main Mrvtt at the rate o more than 30 i::i"os an liour. Kach individual is a military unit i;i an unbroken chain, and a single vcal: link may cause disaster. -:o: 1: is untrue to say that everybody in ;r;na!iy is hungry. The Kaiser s-r.J Lis family, of course. r.re exepp-ti:-n. -:o:- Atrac-ks of Sr-ring fever will he r.:uth !:c!:t?r this year. There will lo r.o railroad folders to make thorn virulent. :o: The poaltcncrs are talking of t!:i.:uir.g the name of the Guinea hn. .ut the restaurants have beaten thc.i ti it. -:o: Y---. v.e bought a bond a little r 1 i;t w went our limit. If you h.i- r."t gor.e your limit you haven't gi no f.r enough. -:o:- V,r rocl i not alone in h's tli.ii.kfiihu - it at- we., were- unpre-Irt-d for this war. Xo doubt the Ka-tT is jast as thankful as Mr. Cr-.f-l. -:o:- In the war continues until al' i.:ajT league ball players have giu.e :o war, why not have a Nation al Lieue of Fcts and an American Lcatue of Leans? :o: Tlx re is a rumor that many of the .lzh school graduates conserved on ctiiimjiceiiient dress this year in oidcr la have mere money to blow :r en -n graved announcements. :o: The hvt insurance for your prop erty and your liberty is a Liberty 1mu!. Either we wia this war or your dollars are net worth a tinker's ar.i. Loan to Uncle Sam or give to IMl the Hun'. -:o: I'i-.cle Fam, railroad magnate, has idacrd an order for 30,000 coal and lx cars. If the railway companies ht-i shown this foresight a year or so ?. it is net likely that govern ment control would have been neces sary. -:o:- L:t'lc Chase county, away out in vo'crn Nebraska, has st a record that t!:er Nebraska counties will !:? to shoot at for a long time. It has s.Miicribed 173 per cent on Lib erty Il';n'i& and 170 per cent on Thrift stamps. Will .Vaupin. in consequence of bis connection with the Nebraska Fi-ri.au of Publicity, which demands bis entire attention has quit as edi tor of ;he York Democrat. Will Mau I5n is one of the best newspaper men in the ttate, and we hate to lose him from the fold. He is one of our staunch friend. dtarrh il Deafness Cannot Be Cured t arp!ic?ions. ca thjr cannot reach t- -irai porlioft oi tY.o ar. There is niy rs way to cur catarrhal 4eafnena, -.A that ia br constitutional remedy. atarrba! D-afnean ia caa4 by am in-rr.-A condition of the mucous lining: of t ,otchi.a Tube- When this tube lm you hv a rambllnj round or im-l-Tt-ci hesu-ias'. and trhn It f entirely lfni la the reault. Cnlesa the i"jirr.-nat;:'a can b- r-duced asd thia tube Terore4 to ita normal couOtlcn. hearing riii b dfr?royi forovcr. Many catci of afv-a are ctuitd by catarrh, which ia .o l.-ar-pS ccr.itot of the mueoui mr f c U&H's Catarrh Medicine acta thru nl-yo& a Ui saucova surface of tha rj r2 v w?!i c'- otp K-ir.re4 Dollaxi for t"!7 f9r- fT CiTer.!! E-jKifct that cannot , o-j--'! It ilKi'.'s Cii!Ti Medicine. Clx llia 'i Ail DracjseiB. " 5X I". X. CIIiiKiiX i CO.. Toledo. O. PEE YEAR IN ADVANCE liuj' a Liberty bond 550: and Thrift Stamps 25 cents and up. -:o:- If rich men can't violate the elec i tion laws and get away with it, no body can. "Americanize America" should be the slogan of every lover of the Stars and Stripes. -:o: Again it looks like a careless dis tribution when California gets the earthquakes and Germany doesn't -:o: 'It is now a crime punishable by $10,000 fine and thirty years in prison to blow up a war industry and got caught at it. -:o: There seems to be no great effort in this town to sell women's overalls. They are not needed in working in the Red Cross rooms. -:o:- Beef being up again in price, we can go back to the meatless day and fool the smarties who seem to imag ine we have forgotten that training. :o: The Allies have decided to give General Foch dictatorial powers, which is taken to mean all the men and guns he needs to dictate terms to the enemy. :o: Economy in men's clothes will meet with no complaint so long as no curtailment is made which would expose their scrawny calves to the pitiles public. -rot- Fritz Kreisler has declined to write a comic opera for Mr. Dillingham, "because "he doesn't ' feel comic." Since when was feeling, comic a requisite for comic opera composing? :o: The young man who says when he proposes to a young lady that he knows that he can make her happy is as self-conceited as the politician who says he is well qualified to make laws to suit the people. :o: Except for a few members of the American Bolsheviki, everybody agrees that the New York street car conductor who "knocked down" twenty-two fares out of twenty three was Too Ambitious. o: "Every girl should sing as natur ally and joyously as a bird," says Mme. Galli-CurcL Many do, but pick out the wrong birds. Why do so many seem to have selected the turkey hen as an example? :o: ' They were Ilindenburg's picked troops, those who made the 5-day ?t- tack on the Americans at Toul. For the next assault on the American line Hindenburg had better pick troops he doesn't ever expect to need again. Regarding the case of the Kansan whose home was raided for booze and seven hundred pounds of hoarded flour was found instead, a thirsty reader from Oklahoma inquires to know whether the flour ha betn thoroughly sifted. . .u. Max Eastman denies responsibility for what appeared in the Masses, al though he admits he was Its editor-in-chief. But when you remember that the Masses had more contribu tors than it had, readers, you prob ably can get Mr. Eastman's viewr point. t -:o: . Uncle Sam begged the farmers to raise more and fatter hogs because he needed the pork and the . extra fat. The farmers patriotically ie sponded, only to discover that they were being penalized from 60 to 85 cents a hundred pounds for doing so, the lean, scrubby hogs bringing a better, price than the fat ones. If the farmer registers a "kick" now and then at the way things are go ing, we can not find it in our heart to blame him very much. SINCE 1915. In the spring of 1915 a New Yoik banker and a London banker met and talked about the war, and in the course of their conversation they discussed matter of what questions were up for settlement In the titanic struggle. At. first of the opinion that there were no more than five or six problems presented, before they concluded their conversation they decided there were not less than thirty-six. Here are some of the questions they decided were up for settlement: Whether a government belongs to ! a people or the people belong to the government. Whether small individ ual states have any right to exist. Whether the French nation will con tinue to exist. Whether the republi can form of government shall con tinue in France, it being deemed that the people were waiting to see whether a republican form of govern ment can defend the country in time cf war. Whether Belgium shall con tinue to exist. Whether treaties- shall be considered sacred or mere scraps of paper. Since these bankers talked the United States has entered the war. wnicn apparently is no nearer an end than it was in 1915. In the meantime, however, the numerous problems involved have resolved themselves into one big, all-comprehensive problem: Shall democracy or autocracy rule the world? And in the meantime, too, one of the minor questions considered by these bankers seems to have solved itself. Under fearful stress, such as France as a monarchy would not have survived, the republic of France has stood firm and is still ready to withstand the continued assaults of her assailants. France as a republic has made good with the world and made good with herself. Joplin Globe. -:o: CLEANUP TODAY. Cleanup days have but one ene my; it is carelesness. Everything else Is in their favor. The daylight saving system provides the required time to get rid of the winter's gath ering of rubbish and an apprecia- ion of beauty and a sensible step to safeguard property and life should provide the incentive. An hour or two in the late after noon devoted to a determined war on rubbish and dirt will make Lin coln look like a new city. Alleys, cellars and backyards are the great est catch-alls of trash and special at tention should be given to cleaning them. An energetic campaign by Lincoln people will produce tangible results which may be proved if "a year hence the books of the fire depart ment chief are consulted and the number of fires noted. There is no one thing which causes so many fires as pile's of rubbish. A stray match and a pile of trash will nine times out of ten mean a blaze. Piles of dirt left in the corners and by places will mean filth as soon as the heavy spring rains come. And filth means germs and germs mean sicknea and death. If for no other reason, clean up days should be stringently enforced as a measure to afeguard human life. The mostdirect result of a general cleanup is the increased beauty of the property. A city which has no unsightly homes and business places is actually a richer city than metro polis in which the houses are iM- kept and the alleys filled with le fuse. Any real estate dealer knows that he can sell a property quicker f it is clean and tidy. A well kept iome, and likewise, a well kept city, means prosperity. Lincoln Star. ' -:o; TO THE KAISER. These six things doth, the Lord liate: yea, seven are ah abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. An heart that deviseth wicked imagination, feet that be swift in running to mischief. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. -Pr'ov, 6:15-19. , -:o:- Aud stil th bootlegging goes on TO THE. JUNK HEAP. At last the obnoxious statue of Frederick the Great has been remov ed from the grounds of the War college in Washington and appro priately consigned to a Junk heap in the cellar of that institution. This is such a disposal as present condi tions call for and as is merited by the effigy of an autocratic, conquest- loving Hohenzollern of another age. Though not an ancestor of Kaiser Wilhelm, the author of the firit dis memberment of Poland has loug been the inspiration and model of the present would-be world-conqueror, the two possessing: manv evil traits in common, and the statue of the earlier German autocrat standing in our capital has been scarcely less an offensive to our ideals and pat riotic feeling than would have been an effigy of Germany's present arch enemy of the world himself. The statue should not have been accepted when it was offered by the kaiser fourteen years ago, and ac ceptance was very properly opposed in congress at the time on the ground that Frederick the so-called Great, represented ideals of military auto cracy in conflict with all that Ameri cans have held dear. But that time nobody realized that the gift was a part of a far-reaching propa ganda following the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia, who came to rally to the flag of the fatherland the Ger man blood of this country in prepara tion for the coming world-war. Be ing a polite and unsuspecting nation, we accepted the gift in the same spirit in which we gave Prince Henry a good time and innocently helped him to forward his schemes. Now, in the awakening, we are wiser, and in consequence the monument to Hohenzollern aggression goes to the Junk heap. Fremont Tribune. :o: 'THE LAST aUAKTER OF AN HOUR" After all speculation is done with one fairly sure thing remains about the long hammering battle in France and that is that the usual result will depend upon the disposition of the opposing armies when the "last quar ter of an hour" arrives. The Germans are striking at wide ly separated points in the allied line and these tactics have' a tendency to upset all theories of their objective. It will be less confusing if we keep in mind that, it is all one battle and that the German command is fighting it like a game of chess. As a French officer has expressed It they are now swapping pieces" to break up the formation In the hope that when the swapping process is over they will be in superior strength and position for the final phase of the struggle. These are the tactics Grant used in the successful campaign against Richmond, or rather against Lee's army, for Grant 'rightly regarded the Confederate forces in the field as his real objective. He had the numbers and could afford to swap pieces with Lee, and by continually forcing him to swap although Grant lost battles in the process Leo was so reduced in strength that he could not meet the "last quarter of an hour" when It came. Hindenburg is trying desperate?y to outlast the Allies at this game, confident that he has them outnum bered but perfectly aware, we may be sure, that the game will lose un less he can force a decision before the allies reserves come up. He knows that when America brings up tho reserves "swapping pieces" is at an end for him. The present phase of the battlewill be protracted. The enemy must continue to hammer and will strike wlferever he thinks he can at least make the allied losses equal his own. If he is to succeed he must do to Foch what Grant did to Lee, but with this difference ho must do it without nope of making good his own losses and in the know ledge that the Allies can make theirs if they can withstand his blows this summer, and if America can bring up its, reserves In time. K. C. Star. .:o: The- Germans ingenious as" they are have not invented a satitfactJry substitute for victory. And. they never wilL UNCLE SAM KEEPING SCHOOL. The National Bureau of Education has for some time been issuing small pamphlets entitled "Lessons In Com munity and National Life." These lessons should become a part of the regular course in every high school in the United States. The student can get from one of these lessons, such as that on money standards. more scientific political economy than by reading an immense volume I by some standard writer on the sub ject. There are lessons on other sub jects just as valuable. They , ar i completely void of intellectual gym nastics and state the truth laid down by writers of authority In such a simple way that any ordinary stud ent can comprehend. The lesson on standards is espec ially valuable. The student is in formed hgw such terms as "foot" and "yard" came into the use and how they have been reduced to a stand ard so that every foot and 'yard is exactly the same. The money standards is treated in the same in telligent and scientific manner, as the following extract shows: "First, our government cannot control the real value of gold, that is, its power to buy other things. If the amount-of gold is increased, the power of any single dollar of it to purchase other commodities becomes less than it was before. All the gov ernment can do is to guarantee that a coin is of a certain definite weight and a certain degree of purity. It provides that 25. S grains of gold shall be a dollar and that this gold shall be nine-tenths pure. The gov ernment no more regulates the vaiue of gold when it prescribes the num ber of grains that shall constitute a dollar than it fixes the value of wheat when it says that there shall be 60 pounds in a bushel." The treatment cf the question of I corporations, the reasons for their formation and the benefits they con fer on societ3 is just as lucid as the lesson on standards. The impartine of such knowledge has heretofore been largely confined to the finishing course in colleges and universities. In these lessons it is made accessible to the common people. Uncle Sam has gone to "keeping school." World- Herald A HINT TO JESS WILLARD. Nobody is getting up any great en thusiasm over the ambition of Mr. Jess Willard to clean up some money at this time by fighting Mr. Fultcn. What is going on in France is rath er absorbing attention in the fight ing line. But if Mr. Willard really wishes to stir up some enthusiasm he could do it quite handily. All he need to do would be to offer his ser vices as boxing instructor at one of the training camps. K. C. Star. :o: The weather man does the best he can. : -:o:- The man who makes no mistakes Is a scarcity. : :o: i Potsdam lies are no different from other dam lies. :o: We hope the nation will not set over-excited about the chnnge In the foot ball rules this fall. , -:o: ; Not until the day victory or death overtakes us shall we have the right to say we have done our share. -:o:- The number of states already bone dry probably will keep the proposed boycott on Milwaukee from being the howling success its perpetrators expected it to be. : :o: RED CROSS HOGS AND - . RED CROSS FLOWERS m - m ! T.pari vonr flowers . with h ITn XV V. TtniPTiPrnni an1 tfc I hogs with W. E. Rosencrans, v I who will have his garage at ! I the rear of the Elks Club rooms ready to receive and take care 4 of them. ' Mrs: Rosencrans will J see to it that the hog? do not 2- eat the flowers. Do not be I afraid that we will have too ! 4 many hogs, and bring them in h early. 4- i rsvvNet contents larium irar.iurj ttfo ; ft 'ActabfePrcparatioaarAs- ' P .r.mit'il.'.KlthpFand IiVKCSU" m Stomachs and 1W"L 9 r. ft . Thereby Promoting Digestion Cheerfulness and Kcswiau "neither Opium.Morphoie nor Jlincral. rs ot iww il JhmpJtM Sm !.. ALxSrmaa C65 - tachMfSiB I BSts t. 15 ' AhelpfuiReroedyfcr -Constipation and Diarrhoea and Fcvcrishncss anil i 44 v (i Loss oft l?rcsuttin$ thcrefrcinjnlrfafiiy j rac-SiroileSnatnrecf rjffiCpCTAimC-oNPAJor. Exact Copy of Wrapper. Miss Spring is not happy. - :o: She don't like a fellow that lingers. :o: Cowardice has created more menials than any other thing in -be world. :o: It is well and good to be faithful to your task, but never let the task worry you. -:o:- No matter how eager a woman was to break into a hospital, she al ways Is glad to get out. -:o:- In this country we do not put the dollar above the man; we put it be hind him, Buy a Liberty Bond. :o: The American soldiers are fighting and dying in France that the world may be free. What are you doing at home? :o: ( EGGS TOR SALE. Single Comb White Leghorn eggs for hatching. $5.00 per 100. Call Phone No. 2205, Mrs: A. E. Satchell, Plattsmouth, Neb. 4-1-lmowkly FOR SALE Five good, large work horses. Mark White, Plattsmouth, Neb. I r-F--"- -in . . htimithe PBa(Pfl?(iillo) Oonf let them get if; Keep if safe in Our Bank. IF YOU HAVE MONEY, MUCH OR LITTUE, YOU'VE. FOUND OUT THAT EVERY TIME SOME HAND OUT. OH IT DOESN'T SEEM IF THOSE LITTLE SUMS WERE WOULD MAKE A BIG SUM IN NOT ONE OF THOSE HANDS WOULD SERVE YOU IN DISTRESS-DUT YOUR MONEY WOULD. r START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT NOW. WEI PAY PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS. AND .3 PER CENT ON XMAS SAVINGS CLUB. ' .-,'--.. ' , COMETO OUR BANK Farmers' Stat ank THE NEW DANK.! SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES 50 CENTS PER YEAR iFor Infants and Children. Cottiers J(riow That Genuine Castoria Bears the Signature of In Use or Over Thirty Years TMC CINTAUR COMPANY. NEW VOMH CtTT. TWO-THIRDS MILLION GERMANS ARE MISSING Amsterdam, April 28. Speaking before the main committee of the German reichstag on Friday, accord ing to Vorwaerts, General von Ris berg stated' that on March 31, last, the number of Germans missing had reached a total of 664,104. Of this number, he said, 236,676 were pris oners in-France; 119,000 in Eng land, 157,000 in Russia and Ruman ia and-the remainder could be re garded as dead. ' SEED CORN. The County Defense Committee have taken charge of the Lawrence Stull old corn crop for seed, and com mencing Monday, April 29, all these wanting good seed may get the same by calling at the Stull farm, north of Plattsmouth, where there wil1 be a man in charge of the same For par ticulars call Sheriff Quinton p.t Plattsmouth, or County Agent. L. E. Snipes, at Weeping Water. There will be in the neighborhood of 3000 bushels in the lot. w&d SEED CORN FOR SALE White Seed Corn.. Call Phone No. 253-W. R. C. Cook. 4-22-2wkswkly The finest line of Eoz Papers at the Journal office. YOU TURN AROUND THERE'S MUCH HERE OR . THERE. BUT ALL IN THE BANK THEY A YEAR. .ft