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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TJIU11SDAY, MAY 9, 1J13.
Cbs plattsmouth journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Kntercd at 1'ott office, PJattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter
R. A. BATES, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
THE ONLY WAY.
If you want to protect your nome
and your own,
You had better subscribe for the
Liberty loan.
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Fair is over.
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And a big time enjoyed.
The ladies worked bard.
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And deserve great credit for the
success.
Have you bought a Liberty Pond
yet? If not, why not?
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We know of a lot of better way?
to help win the war than by trying
t get George Creel fired.
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Cod bless flic Red Cross ladies. Is'o
Persons are doing more for the noble
ti-blier boys than they arc.
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The lir.t robin gets the mo:-t press
notices but the ones that cone along
later get a lot more worms.
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Ilalf of the time we do not know
what we vote for, but we always jell
our heads off because we don't get
it.
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"Kaiser offered two crowns in Rus-s-ia."
is a headline. He'll be lueky if
b cp.n bang on to the crown he al
rcadv hp. 5.
This country is free to everyone
who is for the Stars and Stripes and
proves their allegiance to the best
and most liberal government n
earth.
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Haircuts, fifty cents; shaves, twen
ty cents, and collars are twenty cents
j-traight. By going without the hair
cuts and the shaves a while, the col
lar;; will also become unnecessary.
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Str.rtling as the statement now
i.i that we have just endured the
coldest April in thirty years is not as
frtartling as it would have been if
we hadn't been prepared for it.
The Cermans, of course, have no
other thought in setting up a mi'i
tary government in Ukraine than to
preserve order, which they say the
I'kraine government was too weak to
do. Evidently it was.
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A bristling, fighting army of 2,
n0,o00 men, backed up by a war
fund of 15,000 millions with plenty
more when needed, is the program.
for July 1. Anyone but a divinely
blighted idiot would be taking a
strong liint to himself from America's
war preparations by this time.
"Milwaukee is a generous city, a
loyal city, an American city," writes
William G. Bruce, secretary of the
Milwaukee, Chamber of Commerce. It
is the kind of news we like to hear
from Milwaukee, and we hope the
Burger Socialists there don't make
Mr. Bruce any trouble for having
written this letter.
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To witness the big Red Cross pa
rage in. tin? city r riuay evening
oucht to be sufficient to convince any
one that Plattsmouth was not a veiy
healthy plate for Kaiser sympathiz
ers. There were hundreds of Ger
mans carrying the Stars a:i5 Stripes
i:i the procession and they display
ed great enthusiasm.
Catarrhs! Deafness Cannot Be Cured
tv local application. s hey cannot reach
th dieart portion of ths ear. Thre ia
nnly onn way to cure catarrhal deafness.
a.j-4 that 1m by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness Is caused by an ln
fm"t condition of the mucous lining of
h Kustachian Tube. When thia tube ia
tnnamed yon tiave a rumbling sound or im-p-Tft-ct
harinr. rl when it is entirely
ringed. Lafnes3 is the result. Unless the
inflammation can he rrd-.iced and this tube
r-r'ored to its normal condition, hearing
vr-1! t- dtrovd forever. Many cases of
rj,f:"ti are caused by catarrh, which Is
kd inliarned condition of ih mucous mir
fares- Kail's Catarrh Medicine acta thru
tui blood on jhe noo-m surfaces of the
tf'rni
v r!;l On Hundred Dollars for
ct cafu of O'urba! Deawieea that cannot
Je rurd bv KaJVa Cata'ih Medicine.. Or
cu.tra fr. All rruqrsria's. He,
F. J. CUESEJ ii CO.. Toledo. O.
The Red Cross done well.
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The ladies worked hard too.
Patriotism above everything else.
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The last month of school
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No discount on women patriotism.
n
Bread and buns will down the
Huns.
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Nevcr put off until today what you
can do tomorrow.
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Liberty is ono of the greatest
things obtainable, but it isn't fool
proof. :o:-
Every duty which is bidden to
wait returns with fresh duties at
its back.
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Wcll, there is this hope: If spring
don't arrive some time in May, maybe
it will in June.
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Lord Rhondda, the British food
dictator, is ill. Terhaps he "has
eaten something," as they used to say
to us children.
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The biggest parade ever pul'ed off
in Plattsmouth is the comment in
speaking of the Red Cross procession
Friday evening.
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What becomes of all the lead pen
cils women borrow "Just for a mo
ment" from their husbands? Do they
sell them, or something?
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The sooner a man learns that the
world does not owe him a living, a id
that he owes it a service, the better
it will be for him and the world.
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Ohio's recent cycline picked the
chickens and turned them loose with
out a feather, and the Ohio State
Journal says no Kansas cycline ever
did that.
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London has rumors of more revolu
tions in Austria-Hungary. Have ru
mors any definite purpose in heading
straight for London the minute they
are liberated?
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It would seem that the promoters
of the new Russian government are
fearfuly modest about it. When an
American promoter is discovered
dodging the newspaper men in such
a manner, the blue sky sleuths are
put on his trail.
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The Plattsmouth Home Guards
company has been accepted by the
governor and they will soon be uni
formed and be in a presentable ap
pearance. Captain Rawls has work
ed hard to organize this company,
and deserves great credit for his
work.
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No more vampire films will be
shown at training camps, partly be
cause they arc unsuitable for sold
iers, and mainly because the soldiers
don't care for them. It's the high
school kids and the married women
with no housekeeping to do who seek
out the vamp films.
Mr. Hoover's definition of a sand
wich is meat or cheese between two
slices of bread, or two muffins with
meat or cheese on the plate beside
them. In either case, meat or
cheese, is an important factor, whlth
does not seem to occur to the
gentleman who sells you sandwiches.
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Thc old lady who suddenly over
came her religious scruples and be
gan knitting on Sunday "because
hell would be so full of Germans
there wouldn't be any room for her."
originaly lived in Coffeyville, Kas.,
according to the files of this depart
ment. But now she is found to hae
moved into Texas, Iowa Colorado,
Pennsylvania and Oregon, and only
yesterday was living in Alabama and
Illinois at the same time.
GERMANY'S TRADE LOSS.
Do not for a minute think that
Prussianism's only task is to keep
the German people fooled in regard
to the situation on the western front
A Job of equal difficulty for the
tricksters of Potsdam is to keep the
German people in ignorance of the
empire's trade loss; a loss which has
been the result of the war and which
will not be recovered after the
war.
Junker newspapers, for the sake of
their own readers, threaten the
United States in this fashion: Ger
many will not send dyes, drugs.
chemicals and optical goods to Amer
ica if this country will not send
petroleum and grain to Germany.
Germany, after the war, may buy
petroleum and grain In the Unitod
States, but she will have to pay the
market price for them. On the other
hand, the United States will not find
it necessary to buy the good? for
merly monopolized by Germany. For
example, this country has produced
enough dyes during the past year to
supply the home demand and to ex
port $16,000,000 worth of the pro
duct. Since the beginning of the
war new companies for the manufac
ture of dyes, drugs and chemicals
have been formed to represent a total
capitalization of $373,807,000. Also
the American manufacturers have to
a large extent been able to meet the
shortage of optical goods caused by
the removal of the German product.
"When peace comes and Germany
begins to build anew foreign trade.
one of the first awakenings will bo
her great loss in this country. ITer
old commodities, which before the
war seemed essential to American
industry, will find a competition so
keen in this country that it is doubt
ful if this branch of German trade
will ever flourish again. The loss
n dollars will amount to millions
and the German people will be oblig
ed to charge the deficit to the kaiser's
mad dream of world conquest and
slaughter. World-Herald.
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BRIGHTENING SKIES.
There are those who would favor
giving the American people all kinds
of dope about the war except the
plain and simple truth.
Some say you shouldn't give them
too much sunshiny news or opinion
lest they become overoptimistic, con
clude the war is won anyhow, and so
fail to contribute their full strength
to carry it on.
Others say you should be careful
not to spread bad news, or make
critical comment, lest the people be
come discouraged, lose their "pep"
and courage, and, with morale de
stroyed, clamor to the government to
conclude a shameful German peace.
The World-Herald has little pat
ience with either lot of advisers. It
has a better opinion of the American
people than they have. Americans
are not a nation of kindergartners.
They are neither stupid nor neurotic.
They are an enlightened people,
blessed with courage, steady nerves
and an abundance of common sense,
and they can stand the truth and
profit from knowing it. They have
enlisted in this war to gain certain
clearly defined ends. Until those
ends are attained, come good news
or bad, they will not slacken their
pace or lessen their- efforts, much
less lay down their arms.
We feel perfectly safe, therefoic,
in venturing the comment that
things are certainly looking up, cn
the battle front and in Washington.
Just as obviously and surely as sum
mer is displacing winter so optimism
Is displacing pessimism with refer
ence to the progress of the war.
The formidable German drive on
the French and Flemish fronts the
greatest of all history In men and
in gns has been brought to a defi
nite stop without having achieved its
purpose. It was made with callous
indifference to the cost in human
lives. There was put into it all the
artillery that could be moved from
the East front, together with the
captured Russian and Italian guns.
There were thrown into it all the
troops that could be drawn from the
East front or assembled from other
quarters. It was under the persoral
direction of Kaiser Wilhelm, Hindtn-
burg and Ludendorff, as well as of
generals brought from the East front
who had known only success how
to drive through to victory. . It was
the supreme effort. It may be poss
ible again to equal it though that is
greatly to be doubted. It will never
be possible to excel it. It is tr..e
that the campaign is not ended. The
battle may on any day be renewed
with all the strength Germany can
muster, and there may perhaps be
other gains and further advances.
But the sum of what has happened
since the drive began Justifies us in
believing that the story of Vord in
is to be told over again and that
"they shall not pass."
Coincidently with the improved
situation on land is the improved
condition at sea. The submarine
menace is certainly lessening. The
best evidence is the reduced marine
insurance rate on vessels pissing
through the war zone. Last August
it was 6 per cent. Today it is3
per cent and it is soon to be reduced,
it is forecasted, to 2 per cent.
America's part in the war is begin
ning to be one worthy of our
strength. The incompetence and dis
organization that delayed us so great
ly and at so critical a time have
been swept away in large part and
the prospects for the future sre
heartening. Strong and experienced
men are at the helm and system and
unity and efficiency become daily
more manifest. There Have been fail
ures so great that they amount to a
national scandal. The latest to be
exposed is the failure of aircraft
production, in which a year's time
and a billion dollars of appropria
tions have been wasted. But the
curative, driven by the stern hand
of fearless criticism, has been applied
and an efficiently reorganized de
partment may be depended upon to
atone in the near future for the
shameful past.
In ship production there is gratify
ing improvement to record. The
output was 50 per cent greater in
pril than In March, and nearly 2u0 j
per cent greater than in January. It
s believed now that the launchings
for the year will aggregate not less
than four million tons. Thanks to
ships taken over from Holland, furn
ished by our allies and assembled
from other sources, it has recently
become possible to move troops and
supplies to France at a late and in
a volume that befits this great coun-
ry. The Chicago Trbunc, which
has been extremely critical when
criticism was deserved, vouches now
for the statement that we have more
than 500,000 men in France today,
that there is a prospect of there be-
ng a million by July -1, and that the
total by the end of the year may be
nearer two million than a million
and a half. And congress and the
war department are in accord on
plans for increasing the total
strength of the army to three mil
lions or four, or five whatever size
s necessary to bring our full strength
to bear and that shipping can be pro
vided to transport and supply
These are the important facts aud
developments at home and abroad
that make us hold up our heads with
pride that we are Americans and in
confidence that the gigantic task to
which we have devoted our lives and
our fortunes will be triumphantly ac
complished. World-Hcraid.
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AMERICAN INVENTORS RESPOND.
According to articles in technical
and other magazines, the- Browning
gun Is the greatest invention in arms
for the last fifty years. It solves a
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problem that has defied all. the pro
fessors of ballistics during that per
iod and it was solved by a man wi'.h
out college education or technical in
struction of any kind. Collier's in
speaking of him says: "In his chosen
specialty this man is without a peer
in the whole world." John Browning
is a western man, born in Iowa who
in 1852 went to Utah which has
been his home ever since. His fath
er was a gunsmitn and the son 'ias
never done anything but make guns
He made his first at thirteen years of
pge, and at twenty-three he made the
first successful breech-loading rifie
It is said that he is the inventor of
all the long series or repeating rifles
manufactured by the Winchester,
Remington and other companies.
What the military experts wan.ed
was a gun no heavier than the ser
vice rine that would pour out a
stream, of bullets without heating.
and Browning has furnished that
gun. The smokeless charge In a
..ju-canocr cartridge generates a
heat so terrific that continuous firing
is possible only when the barrel has
a heavy Jacket of water. Even then
the water soon boils away unless he
operator gives the gun time io cool.
In the tests at the Springfield ar
mory the Browning heavy-type gun
fired 39,500 shots without a break
and without heating, which is in
some way prevented by the control
of the gases at the muzzle of the
gun. It can be. fired from the
shoulder or slung at the hip with
a strap and bullets poured out in
the same way a fireman directs a
hose. It takes only one man to
handle the gun, but four or five to
secure and hand to the operator the
enormous amount of ammunition to
keep it going.
It is said that several large factor
ies will be turning out these guns by
the thousands in a very short while.
Our European allies will not be dis
appointed in their hope of assistance
from American inventors. World
Herald. :o: ' '
ONE HUNDRED MILLION STRONG.
The number of Junkers and dyed
in the wool militarists in Germany
is not known, but it is known that
the affairs of Germany, Austria and
Hungary are manipulated by aniere
handful of men, the central figure
being Emperor William. Not only do
these few militarists decide upon the
part the central powers are to take
in war, but they decide upon the
civil laws, the taxes and the very
personal interests of the people.
Such is autocracy.
Turn for a moment to the men
who are helping President Wilson in
mobilizing America's resources in
this conflict. Despite the ravings of
such men as Senator Sherman who
believes the tories of the country
run the war," the - president has
called men from all channels. Po
litical and religious prejudices are
swept aside; it is the aristocracy of
brains that counts. In the agricul
tural department is Carl Vrooman,
the socialist; there Is William Wil
son, the man who came up from
the mines, in the cabinet. Samuel
Gompers, the guardian of organized
labor, is a constant Washington visit
or. On the bench there is Justice
Brandeis, the Jew, and the presi
dent's secretary is a Catholic.
bcnwaD, the great industrial cap
tain, heads the shipping board.
Thus are men from all walks in
life, all beliefs and all parts of the
country summoned to help the
i
United States win the war. The one
prerequisite is the combination of
ability and Americanism. And there
in lies the keynote of democracy
Every man, woman and child mut
put their shoulders to the task. It is
America of the people, for the peo
ple and by the people.
And that these American . princi
ples might not perish, the sons of
Uncle Sam are going forth to battle.
It is the people's war and the sold
iers defending the Stars and Stripes
are cominir from mansions and
humble cottages. The men who are
helping direct the affairs of the war
likewise represent the United States,
and not one special class. The first
line of defense is in France, but
the last line is at the dec-r step of
j every American home. The war is
Children ?y
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Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Expcnrneat
c What is CASTOR. A'
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Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contain:'
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it lias
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
"Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Fevcrishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
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not between the kaiser's armies and
the American armies, it is a struggle
between the kaiser's militarists and
one hundred million
Americans.
Lincoln Star.
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White Orphington eggs for hatching
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FOR SALE
One new Satley corn planter, all
attachments.
Two registered Short Horn animals
one year old.
Also some, young mules and
horses. Inquire of
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DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
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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 Kidney Pills
and Foley Cathartic - Tablets. Sold
everywhtre.
Rand-McNally "war maps for sale
at the Journal office.
Waste
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WHY DOES ANYONE WORK HARD FOR MONEY AND THEN
WASTE IT? WHAT YOU WASTE, IF IT WERE PUT INTO THE
BANK, WOULD PILE UP SO FAST YOU COULD FINALLY INVEST
IT IN SOME SUBSTANTIAL THING.
THAT MONEY YOU ARE WASTING NOW WOULD MAKE
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COME IN AND SEE US, WE WILL CHEERFULLY ADVISE
YOU AT ANY TIME.
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ANNOYING SYMPTOMS.
l'eopie who suffer from intestinal
indigestion crave the very foods they
cannot use, especially sweets, fats,
etc. Their intestines are unable to
digest such articles, and even very
small quantities of them- produce
flatulence and palpitation of the
heart. Such symptoms show that
the patient is below normal in vi
tality and in the power of resisting
diseases and therefore it is neces
sary to go to the root of the evil.
Triner's American Elixir of Bitter
Wine is the remedy which helps
surely in such cases. It cleans the
stomach and the intestines, aids di
gestion and braces up the entire sys
tem. At drug stores, $1.10. If you
need a reliable remedy for rheuma
tism, neuralgia, lumbago, sprains,
etc., Triner's Liniment will satisfy
you perfectly. (35 and 65c at drug
stores; by mail 45 and 75c), and if
you need an efficient and pleasant
gargle for sore throat or some swell
ing in your mouth use Triner's Anti
putrin. (50c and $1 at drug stores;
by mail, 60c and $1.10) Joseph
Triner Company, 133'-1343 S. Ash
land Ave., Chicago, Illinois. mO.
When baby suffers with eczciiia cr
some iching skin trouble, use Doan's
Ointment. A little of it goes 3 long
way and it is safe for children. COc
a box at all stores.
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