PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, MAY 20, 10 IS.
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Patriots arc all happy.
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And the man who is faithful to his
government is a patriot.
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Fli.'s are slow in gelt'n;
here,
but have your swatter ready.
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Whatever else the war accom
plishes crowns will be retired from
t irculation.
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Another Red Cross drive next
Monday, and we should all be pre
pared for it.
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Don't Yell! If folks were chickens,
I'd like to bet few hens would lay
and none would set.
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What, in Mr. McAdoo's opinion, is
the nxt proper procedure when the
patches wea rthrough?
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The bis idea in Nebraska this year
is to lan for the biggest crop ever
and then "go over the crop."
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Omaha has one Home Guard com
pany composed almost entirely of
business men, one hundred aud fifty
Ft roncr.
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The hesitant spring has been a
puzzler to the oleomargarine makers.
They don't know whether to add the
green grass taste yet or not.
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It's a good thing for you to advo
c.ifc what is right; but there's no
snse in making a boob of yourself,
lvrple will not adopt reforms until
they get ready.
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It appears that when Mr. Lloyd
Oecrge called Mr. Asquith's strong
bo. Mr. Asquith was discovered to
! holding four big spades and the
deuce of hearts.
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The Emperor of Austria has gone
to visit the Emperor of Germany.
When they meet they will kiss, and
while the;- aro kissing each will keep
a hand on his watch.
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An obi gardener out South says it
generally pays to plant flowers
around your war garden. Pogs seem
to like to dig up flower seeds better
than they do vegetable seeds, he says.
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Every Liberty I?ond bought is a
bayonet thrust at the forces of auto
cracy which would enslave the free
Icoples of the earh. Thus can those
of us at home act the part of real
soldiers.
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It's an ingrateful bunch of intern
ed aliens who would mutiny and try
to escape. How would they like to
be turned loose to provide luxuries
for themselves a while? Or be made
to work? Their interned life is too
easy.
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Once upon a time there was a man
who kept his promise that when he
.got car he would take all his
fricnd3 riding. lint the friends saw
it was a second hand car and all
were very sorry, but they had prev
ious engagements for that evening.
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tasi winter mere was a sugar
shortage but sugar prices did not
reach a shortage scale because the
war government did not allow refin
ers a hog's profits. Somebody at
Washington please tell us why the
meat packers shouldn't be treated
'the same way?
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
fry local applications, as they cannot reach
the dlseaaeu portion or toe ear. i nere u
nly on way to cur catarrhal deafness,
nJ that is by a ccr.sti'.utional remedy.
t atarrhal Deafnts is ceused by an id-
am(i condition of the mucous lininjs of
thK Eustachian Tube. When this tube is
liflamed you have a rumbling ocund or Im
perfect hearinfr, and when it" Is entirely
closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the
Inflammation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing:
will b destroyed forever. Many eases of
dtafness are ctused by catarrh, which is
n Inflamed condition of the raucous sur
faces! Hall' C-tarrh Medicine acts thru
the Mood oa tUc rnucou surfaces of the
rv ca-of Catarrhal IWsHteM that cannot
.-. cured bv Hall s Catarrh Medicine. Clr-
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culars free.
re. All Drur?il- 'oc- , .
r. j. CHENEY c CO.. Toledo, a
PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Decoration day next.
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Retrenching at home helps trench
ing in France.
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It doesn't pay to argue with a nut.
Just crack it.
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Meet sacrifice at the front with
sacrifice at home.
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An event was never so tragical
that it is not made worse by talking
it over.
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It is 'funny, but about all the re
forms scheduled by the women are
for the .benefit of men only.
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Ilindenburg may or may not be
dead, but it doesn't matter much
seeing what his reputation is.
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Some of the young army officers
are very ignorant. We have yet to
find a second lieutenant who knows
what fear is.
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One strong argument against the
story that Count Luxunburg has
gone insane is that he is sti 1 too
smart to go home.
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Just why Germany wants to win,
with the crown prince next in line,
is something nobody but a German
can understand.
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Twenty years ago Ave were all ex
cited because President McKinley
had called for an enormous army of
eighty thousand men to fight Spain.
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All the babies in our neighborhood
wake up and cry an hour earlier on
Sunday mornings, conforming pat
riotically to the daylight saving law.
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It takes one-twentieth of a second
for a wireless signal to go from
Washington to San Francisco. Most
of this time is consumed in getting
started out of Washington.
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Just how the Danes ever hit upon
crushed acorns and dandelions as a
substitute for coffee, no one can
guess, but doubtless "There's a Rea
son." 0
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If there is any way by which the
conservation of crabapple preserves
and lettuce sandwiches will win the
war, we believe we can grit our
teeth and carry on with the b?st of
them.
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Army officers do not welcome bald-
headed recruits because they "pre
sent a shining target to enemy air
men." Why not let them go alone:
after the camouflage artists have
painted their heads to resemble anti
aircraft guns?
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See the purple man at the tele
phone. That is not his natural com
plexion, for he is a total abstainer.
He is simply mad. He has lifted the
receiver, and Central has said "I'm
ringing them" before he was given
an opportunity to give his number.
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A Northwestern freight train ran
into a cloud of bugs, and the rails
became so slick the train stopped.
You are supposed to gather from
this that there were a great many
bugs, although it really doesn't take
much to stop a freight train these
days.
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"Last winter Congress footed up
more than 20.000 dollars in'ap
propriations. It now looks as though
disbursements for the year will not
much exceed 12,000 millions. That
is not a gain, but a loss, for it means,
roughly, that war work is that much
behind; and we should be better off
if we had spent more money and got
more results," says the editor of he
Saturday Evening Tost. Tut, tut,
on t you know that a lot of con
gressmen are going to run for re
election on that "saving" this year?
THE DRAFT AGE.
The objections of Secretary Baker
to the extension of the draft age
upward to include .all men under 41
years of age are founded on common
sense and ' military opinion. The
reasoning Is obvious, or ought to be,
and congress is not improving a
credit somewhat moth eaten in spots
by fathering the proposal. It ought
to be clear that the older the levies
we draw the poorer the soldiers we
shall get and the greater the disor
ganization of the industrial and so
cial organization at home. The bel
ligerents have been forced to call up
on their man power up to 50 and 55,
but that was necessity, not policy,
and there no such necessity in
America yet. We may have to call
out men in middle lift, but that will
mean our man power is being drain
ed and c are compelled to retort to
military material of second grade.
If there is any extension of the
draft period it should be downward,
and we trust Secretary Baker will
not commit himself against thi?. The
influence of sentiment, which in
America is especially susceptible to
the claims of youth, the argument
naively urged that young men should
not be sent to war because they have
not yet had their lives, is appealing
but not practical. When the nation
needs men, its best men physically,
it must take its best. The nation
must also guard itself, as far r.s
possible, from the disorganization of
its processes, and older men have
worked themselves into responsibili
ties which younger men have not yet
assumed and, therefore, their with
drawal from civil life produces a
much greater disturbance, of the in
dustrial and social machinery than
that of the younger men.
The civil war was fought by men
below 20. Our enemies are drawing
on their youngest available material.'
We cannot afford to be perverted
from a sound policy by shortsighted
and one-sided sentiment.
It is shortsighted and one-sided I
because it does not take into account
the cost of cur soldiers and sailors
pursuing a policy which would
weaken the army and navy and their
chances of victory through the re
cruiting of relatively inferior ma
terial and the creation pf unneces
sary disorganization at home, where
the maximum -of order and eficient
effort are now more than ever neces
sary. The extension of the draft age will
not be necessary soon, we assume.
But if and when it is the extension
should include younger men rather
than older simply on the grounds cf
military efficiency. Chicago Tri
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A GREAT SURPRISE.
On of the greatest mistakes the
kaiser has made was to attempt to
definitely fix the cause of his war. lie
would have been shrewder to have
waited until the finish. of the strug
gle and then decide upon some sham
excuse after he had successfully
burned all of the empires corre
spondence and murdered all of his
state agents. As it is, one feeble ex
cuse after another totters and falls
as the allied governments disclose in
tercepted papers and German conv
municatiens.
The correspondence of c aptain von
Papen, recently made public by the
British government, gives some il
luminating data. Wlille von Papon
was a military attache at Washing
ton he received a letter from Berlin
directing him to investigate train
wrecking methods in Mexico for use
"in the event of a European war."
This request came about March 12,
1914. After four months investiga
tion, von Papen replied.
War broke out August 1, and the
day before the kaiser in a Berlin
speech said:
"A fateful hour has fallen for Ger
many. Envious peoples everywhere
are compelling us to our just de
fense. The sword is being forced In
to our hand."
A week later in a proclamation he
said:
"In the midst of perfect peace the
enemy surprise? us. r erefore to
arms."
It was indeed a great surprise.
And was not theNBcrlin official who
instructed von Papen" t. investigate
train wrecking methods tour months
before the war a most sagacious
gentleman? In March he foresaw
the "event of a Europe in war," and
yet the heir to the Austrian throne
v as net murdered until June. And
s vcryonc knows the assassination
at Sarajevo was the cause of the
Star.
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UP TO YOU.
Finally, Washington can no more
win the war than rosy Corners can.
In a free country any government
can do little more than make ges
tures unless tens of millions of peo
ple you and your neighbors are
really exerting themselves to win.
Tha war cannct be won without
ships. If they fail everything fails.
The chairman of the War Shipping
Committee recently told a national
convention of business men that they
had got to-help or ship construction
would lag, no matter what the gov
ernment did. Whole communities
have got to help.
In every community where ship
building is carried on an army of
workmen has been dumped. There
are exigent problems of housing,
transportation, recreation, and ?o on
all vitally important to shipbuild
ing. If gangs of tired men wait
half an hour in the rain for dilapi
dated trolley-cars, into which they
are packed like sardines to. be haul
ed for another half hour to squalid
overcrowded sleeping quarters, with
scant opportunity for rational amuse
ment, ship construction is going to
lag no matter how vigorously any
body waves the flag.
The chairman askeT such com
munities: Will your business men
get together and study earnestly how
they can help ship construction?
Will you make a sacrifice of street
car service on some other lires if
necessary to give ship workers trans
portation? Will you lend your auto
mobiles if transportation still ."ails?
Will you even take ship workers into
your houses until quarters can be
provided?
Figuratively there ts a shipyard in
every town and on every quarter sec
tion. Everybody everywhere faces
this question: What will you person
ally do what sacrifice will you
make, what effort will you put forth
to further the war work? Every
body everywhere constantly has a
choice between his selfish Interest
and the national interest It conies
up at every meal, in saving for war
stamps and bonds, in what he pro
duces and what he consumes. Wash
ington can only begin to do it.
Saturday Evening Post.
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WHEN GERMANS SAY: "GER
MANY WILLED THE WAR"
The "Open Confession" of the Mil
waukee Cermania-IIercld that Ger
many began the war is most import
ant because it is typical; for as this
editor's mind is moved, so are the
minds of others of German blood af
fected, here and in Germany also.
The Germania-Hcrold has follow
ed the Berlin lie in attributing the
world conflict to Great Britain. "We
tqo," it says, "have time and again
repeated the assertion to our readers
that English statesmen, jealous of
Germany's success in the world mar
kets, attempted to encircle it. The
Lichnowsky memorandum and von
Jagow admission have made that
view ridiculous.
Many Americans fail to sense the
tremendous weight, with Germans, of
the Lichnowsky expose. Piqued at
being blamed for his failure to keep
Great Britain neutral, Prince Lich
nowsky, in August, 1916, wrote an
account of his work as ambassador to
London and of negotiations preced
ing the war. It was circulated, ac
cording to the Berlin Tageblatt, by
a pacifist officer, a member of an old
family, decorated with the iron
cross," and was printed in the Stock
holm Politik. Unless Lichnowsky is
"an incurable idiot," , as the Mann
heim Volkstimme says, "not-a shred
remains," after reading It,- "of the
fiction that the outbreak of the war
was due to English intrigue. "
When German minds accept proof
that Germany willed the war, its end
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grows nearer. The committee upon
public information could do no more
effective work than by arranging for
printing the Lichnowsky memoran
dum, in the admittedly authentic
German form, in German-language
newspapers throughout the country,
Xcw York World.
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FEOVE THEIR LOYALTY
Judge Button, of the district court
of Dodge coiftity, has handed down a
patriotic classic in his opinion re
fusing permits to preach to two Cath
olic priests. The men, in Mr. But
ton's judgment, felt themselves di
vided by two sympathies, one for
Germany ind one for the United
States.
In referrin.t
tempts to elinj
to the priests' at
to German autocracy
and American democracy, the judge
says in part:
This position is untenable and
cannot no sustained. The two sys
tems are antagonistic and are now
engaged in a death struggle. One
will survive, and the other must per
ish. The applicant's position in this
regard, together with his hesitation
to answer questions and his attitude
at the first hearing, convinces the
court that the old doctrine that 'He
who is not for Me is against Me
should be applied, for applicant now
lives in the United Slater. Hence the
court concludes that the applicant's
heart is with Germany and against
the United States."
Perhaps the most significant opin
ion of Judge Button is that the per
son whoso loyalty is questioned and
who applies for a permit must prove
hts loyalty. The burden is upon the
applicant and "not upon the coancil
of defense to pove disloyalty."
The true Americans of this state
will heartily endorse Judfce Burton's
opinion. - Patriotism 13 not a magic
state of mind to which all may aspire
but few attain. It should be as
universal and essential to the Amer
ican citizen as the air he breathes
or the water he drinks.
It is to be hoped that other Judges
in the state who may have oppor
tunity to interpret the new sedition
law will do so with the same under
standing of patriotism as the Dodge
county judge. Lincoln Star.
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Fcr a Snrained Ankle.
As soon as possible after the in
jury is received get a bottle of Cham
bsrlain's Liniment and follow. the
nlnin nrinted directions whica ac-
company the bottle.' ' "
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FRANK DUGAY ENLISTS IN NAVY.
From Friday's Daily.
Frank Dugay, son of Mrs. Albert
Queen, while in Omaha yesterday en
listed as a member of the navy, and
passed the physical examination, and
will in a short time depart-for;.the
training camp at the Great Lakes.
Cause of Headache.
By knowing the cause, a disease
may often be avoided. Thn is par
ticularly true of headache. The mcst
common cause of headache is a dis
ordered stomach or constipation,
wliich may be corrected by taking a
few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets.
Try it. Many others have obtained
permanent relief by taking thti-e
Tablets. They are easy to take atd
mild and gentle in effect.
FOR SALE
. Light Bramahi egg fors hatching.
15 for $1.25. 50 for $3.50. 100 for
$6.50. Mrs. John W. Stones, My
nard. Neb. 3-ll-3mosw
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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
YOUR OLD AGE COMFORTABLEJAND HAPPY IF YOU HAD IT IN
OUR BANK.
COME IN AND SEE US, WE WILL CHEERFULLY ADVISE
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Eighth and Vine Ste.,
Plattsmouth, Ncbaska
TEL. 603
FOR SALE
One new Satley corn planter, all
attachments.
Two registered Short Horn animals
one year old.
Also some j'oung mules and
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