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FAGZ FOUR. PEATTSMODTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, JUNE 24. WIS. 'Che plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Kntered at rvtofTice. Plattsmoutli, Neb., as second-class mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: S1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE How's your dandelion crop7 Kverybody alert. should keep on the -:o: Home weddings are the most pop ular. :o: The slacker and grafter are the i-anie. :o: It's bi-t'er to eat corn dodder than !e one. :o: Sometimes if you she the si ranger rope enough he'll string you. :o: This is a free country to all who respect the constitution and llltl ! Glory. :o: A girl is always wondering who In r husband w ill be and a woman is always wondering where he is. :o: Sv.ir.o of the thermometers about town pot a little wheezv the pat wpf'k. Suffering from heat prostra tion. :o: Kaiser Hill must have changed his laind about the American army being a joke, else why does he try so hard to submarine transports? :o: Th chautauqua has been boomed an integral part of America's defense in this war. That is very true, but how are you going to get the Ger mans to attend? :o: Probably the railroad presidents i!'i:i'i care much whet ner thev have l;s! their jobs or not. What's the fun of being a president if you can't ride around in a private car? :o: There are happenings in every town every day which cannot bo published for various reasons and yet we get cussed because we do not make some poor mother weep. But we can stand it. :o: Not only are American soldiers pouring into London in great num bers, but they are arriving in such numbers tht the London newspap er reporters have found it out and written pieces about it. :o: A patriot is a fat man who falls out of a cherry tree instead of a hammock at this season of the year. Ami only the difficulty of making oth-r folks believe his story keeps him from being a popular hero. :o: Lieut. John Philip Sousa has prom ised to compose an American wedding march a-s soon as an inspiration strikes him. to replace those in com mon use. both of which were made in Germany. And so he asks, "Don't propose till I compose." :o: Frank J. Libershal, who has served so competently for the nast four years as county clerk has filed again for the same position. Mr. Libershal ha; been very attentive to his duties, is a good, clever gentleman and if anyone deserves re-election it should be Prank Libershal. :o: While we don't kuow- what else (lie advertising writer can do about it, lmt there is a sort of unpleasantness about the way he winds tip a straw hat ad with the blunt characters, 56, $7. Its implacable abrupt-ne-ss reminds too many people of the way a police judge says "$10." There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was sup rosed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it tncurable. Catarrh is a local disease, preatly influenced by constitutional con ditions and therefore requires constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medi cine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toiedo, Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, la tsken internally and acts thru th liiood on the Mucous Surfaces cf the System. Ones Hundred Dollars re ward is oiTered Zor fMiy case tht Hall's Catarrh Medl.-l-.e fnitr. to ture. Send for Chrular:; n-I tf stimoTiiiii. V. J. CHIJXEV ic CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Soid by DvvKgUta, 75'. Hail's Family I'als tor cyastipatioii. Keep the home liars squirming. :o: ' . Have you got your coal bin filled yet? :o: The only way to get the best of the Germans is to beat hell out of them. :o: The "lightning trained" Yankees are raising thunder with the Hun hordes. :o: They say it is the sun spots that cause the heat. Has Old Sol got the small pox? :o: It takes but one-twentieth of a second for a. wireless signal to pass from Washington to San Francisco. :o: l nned we stand divided, we fall." There is a .good deal of gen uine philosophy in that saying, don't. you think? :o:- While it is true that o-cent rail road fare now is in effect, you hear it said quite often that "we hadn't in tended to go anywhere this summer, anyway." :o: He has given up all home, moth er, sweetheart, ambition and perhaps I i ft- to fight for you. Help him by giving him the food he needs and must have :o: The marriage of Andrew Cant ling to Miss Lida Gun in New York last week caused a dreadful claticr among the metropolitan society editors, it is said. :o: There is a little girl in San Fran cisco 2 years old who can read and tell time. Everybody out there, ex cept her parents, says it is that wonderful California climate. :o: Attorney General Reed says that all who desire to become candidates for political honors at the state wide primary on August 20 must file en or before July 20. After that date it will be too late. :o: Have you turned in your excess Hour? A few pounds from every family will keep thousands of sold iers in fighting trim and feed other thousands of hungry French and Belgian children. This is no time for selfishness. :o:- Men exempted from the draft be cause they are married should go slow about getting divorces, as a Vancouver man discovered a few days ago, when the draft board put. him in a less favored class because he was no longer married. :o: Remember that National War Sav ings Day is June 2S. Pledge your self on or before that day to save to the utmost of your ability and to buy War Savings Stamps that there may be more money, labor, and ma terials to back up those who fight and die for you. :o: After several weeks' deliberation, a war board has decided on poker chips as the first item in the list of non-essentials. There are more sub stitutes for poker chips than for al most any other commodity. May each subsequent decision of this board be as easily borne. The Washington dispatch reads that the draft age may be raised to 49 years, "after a campaign of edu cation." But why the campaign of education? asks the Atchison Gloue. If the country needs more soldiers Congress should raise the draft age immediately. The country kno vs. what it wants to gft this war through to a victorious peace as soon as possible, and is willing to fur nish the soldiers and workers to do it. Further than that, action, not education, is what the country wants now, the Globe believes. THE NEW PENSION BILL. The veterans of the Civil war are tardily coming into their own the few of them who yet survive. The pension bill just passed by congress, and which is sanctioned by the president, provides payment which the union soldiers and their friends years ago sought to have allowed ! them. But we are now realizing more fully what is the real worth of a soldier to his country. We under stood during the Civil war, but for got when that conflict had been won by the heroism and sacrifice uf the men whom now we are seeking to requite nan a century alter we should have done them justice. Joseph Gazette. :o: PUSHING ON TO VICTORY. -st Thus far there has not been much time for congress to consider incus tires that would prevent profiteer ing, but it seems that the senate, at least, is determined to perfect legis lation of that kind. A resolution was passed the other day calling up on the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General to furnish all information in their possession con cerning promcering. I here is no doubt that nearly all of the manu facturers have done their very best to furnish supplies and if some inci dentally made larger profits than in the former times no one will cause trouble over that. But those who have deliberately planned to make fortunes out of the war and charged the people excessive prices because of their needs and their distress, will be brought to an accounting. The resolution was adopted unanimously. The resolution was introduced to oblain information uponwhich legis lation could be founded to stop profit eering in the future. This is not or.ly an economic movement to re duce the cost of war, but one of the reatest political importance. The psychological effect that would be produced by a general belief that th rich were marking enormous profits while the common people were otter ing their all to save the nation and democracy for the people of the whole world, would be most disastrous. On the other hand by the general be lief that all people, the rich as well a-s the poor, are doing all that they can to win the war, an enthusiasm will be created which will push the nation on to certain victory. World Herald. -:o:- PRO-GERMAN ACTIVITY. Recently it was reported that four teen German spies had been quickly executed in this country and the story gained such wide currency that an official denial was deemed advis able. This is one of the wild rumors that would have done no harm and might have done much good. In fact, it is to be regretted that the report was not true, for there are very many more than fourteen spies dangerously at work in this country and the execution of a few would have a wholesome effect, not merely as a deterrent, but as a satisfactory sign that our secret service is ac complishing a part of the needed work. We hear very frequently of enemy activities in our midst. Only the other day it was disclosed thai n Philadelphia factory of machinery for our navy was German-owned and operated by secret agents of the kaiser. Since then a German-named expert, chemist, a member of the United States geological survey, has been taken into custody as a danger ous enemy alien. Following this came the arrest of a German-named judge of the municipal court of New York City charged with conspiracy to obstruct our military operations. But so far there seeing to have been no punishment more severe than residence in a comfortable detention cp nip in the balmy south. Perhaps no spies actually meriting the death penalty have been caught; perhaps also there is reluctance to impose the extreme penalty. However that may be, it is evident that the spy menace is great, and that resolute measures lor the country's protection are. imperative. Fremont Tribune. THE UNITED STATES SENATE. Much has been written, to the det riment of the senate. Writers have said that the quality of the person nei nas dwindled until it is now ordinary. The fact is that there are some singular individuals in the senate. Prejudiced and unreasoning as he seems frequently to be, there is not a more courageous man in public life than Senator James A. Reed, of Mis souri and few more able or eloquent ones. He is accused of beinc merelv a politician. The same can be said of every man who has at in the sen ate and most of all of those whose statues now adorn its corridors. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, chairman of the Committee on For eign Relations, is a credit to the hotly. Were the Hitchcock intellig ence, the Hitchcock fearlessness, the Hitchcock independence the average intelligence, fearlessness and inde pndence of the senate, there would not be a more admirable legislative body in the world. The pity is that Hitchcock and a few others like Chamberlain, of Oregon; Johnson, of California; Lodge, of Massachu sets; Knox, of Pennsylvania; Cum mins, of Iowa; La Follette, of Wis consin; Borah, ol Idaho; Smith, of Georgia; Thomas, of Colorado, and I'r.derwood, of Alabama, standout in bold relief from the remainder of the bodv. This little group of men represents the varying shades of American pub lic opinion, except the extreme radi cal group, unrepresented in congress save by Meyer London in he house CV. a r i - ofiiaiors iofige, Knox and Penrose may ne expected at all times to speak for the high-tariff protection ists and to fight to the hut ditch for the nrincinles of the Pavne-AUlnVb tariff act. repealed when the demo crats, such as Hitchcock, Chamber- lai nand Thomas gained the ascend ancy in congress. Cummins and Borah are progressive republicans. piite i ml pendent and powerful, with independent opinion in the national legislature. Hiram Johnson is ran- iu!y outstripping progressives on both -sides of the chamber for ad vocacy of progressive legislation. He is a relentless ligiier for l'ovitm- ment ownership of public utilities. md although seme of his notaole iddresses on this subject would have gained for him the opprobrium of socialist" a few years ago. he is now heard with deep interest, for in his eloquent appeals that the people be given control of dip munication and travel are disclosed rapidly grow ing sentiment through out the countrv. Robert M. La Follette has been ab sent from the senate now for several months. In the city all of that time. iie has refused to go to Capitol Hill even to vote on legislation. The rea son is that he would not leave the side of his son. who has been criti cally ill for a long time. For nearly a month the boy was said to be at death's door and the Wisconsin sen ator then refused to talk with any one over the telephone. A quaint figure on the floor of the senate is that of Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, reactionary republican, of Illinois. Air. Sherman seems lit erally to hate people who differ radi cally with him. His assaults upon Hie president, and many of his ad visers, all of whom he called "eco nomic fakers and socialist freajes, firebrands and pestilent fiends of scdiion," are utterly unlike anything that has been heard in the senate for years. A man Is a socialist to him if he suggests government own ership of the telegraph lines. Those whose memory goes back to the days before the war started will no doubt recall the names of Till man and Culberson. The first of these is the senior senator irom South Carolina. Ben is his first name and "Pitchfork" was the so briquet attached to him in the palmy days when his propensity for strong language created the impression in the minds of folks who read the pa pers that he was a raging bull in a china shop. He was, more or less. He had a way about him that, made his opponents look around for open doors. Ruggedly, healthy and and 1U.S.THRFT.CA13P. $P ; L ptr Two Great Lesson; One Is the joy of self denial the sense of real thrift. His little Invertrnent of 25 cents may mean as much to him as the first ten dollars you ever earned or the first thousand you ever invested. . . He can be made to help wonderfully in developing him into a substantial citizen. His early habit of sensibly savba will do as much as any other thing to start ham on the straight road to success. The other lesson is that of patriotism. He has learned "to do his bit" A country worth living tn is a country worth fighting for. He ii too young to fight, but he wants to help. While you rejoice that he cannot go to the front, teach him to help end this wax by loaning his savings to his govenuxenL Thrift and patriotism two great lessons at one time. All so easy. Just tell mm to get a Thrift Stamp and with it a Thrift Card. Then help him add to it until he has enough for a War Savings Stamp. V&th that he will get a War Sav ings Certificate and his savings begin to draw interest. If you will show him how money breeds money, he will be all the better for it. And every penny he saves and lends may help to save some other mother's boy may go a long way toward bringing peace to all. Encourage him to begin saving today. It's real patriotism. but it is more. It u laying the foundation for his future and it is helping to make him what you want him to be. This Western Machine Works. C. G. Fricke. riattsmouth Garage. Jess F. Warga. Philip Thierolf. E. G. Dovey & Soi Pollock Auto Co. E. J. Eichey. John W. Crabill. F. G. Fricke & C Ecstor & Swatek. C. E. Hartford. L. E. Eaenberscr. vigorous and absolutely fearless, he was always look ins for a fight. That was years ago. Today he avoids every scrap. KnieeMeu by age and illness, he can fight no more. Much as he vould revel in a com- 1tt n nun tw f 1 anr tin l:nnu'c ti 'l t li l. n 'I'll I 111 1 lirui , ill. llllu ll .1 null the strain upon his shattered frame involved in a debate would entail serious consequences. Inerelore lie remains silent. As a matter ot iaet. he is seldom in his seat, except when the hells in the committee rooms and offices announce that the pies- encrof snntors is required upon the floor either to answer to their names in a quorum call or to vote unon a bill or a motion. Then Tillman leav es the chamber or the naval auairs committee, of which he is chairman, sometimes wearing bedroom slippers. and enters the chamber from the main door. lie drags himself down to the seat of Senator Overman, of North Carolina, w-hch is just in front of his own. lie inquires of Over- man what the issue is. He keeps in i touch, of course, with the proceed ings of the body and knows how he wants to vote. He votes, and then starts back to his chamber. Upon seeing him limp into the house upon the arm of Henry Cabot Lodge to bear President Wilson deliver a mes sage last, winter. Arthur Brisbane was led to reflect "And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together." Philadelphia Public Ledger. 1 .v- j ,,lT rJ1 TLA T 3 W 1 m$r- Advertisement Paid for and Donated by A vara & 1-Iciiea.r... Fetzer Shoe Co. Cass County Monument r "2. A. Stanfield. irst National Bank, f.orenz Bros. Peters & Parker. D. B. Ebersob. Kroehler Bros. C. E. Wescott's Sons Farmer's State Bank. H. M. Soennichsen. Weyrich & Hadraba Hold on to n n M,,'. m m 1 u with z HOLD ON TO YOUR DOLLARS. WHILE YOU'VE GOT THEM THEY ARE YOURS. VVHILETHEY AREYOURS, THEY ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND. WHEN ALL OTHERS FAIL YOU YOUR MONEY WILL ALWAYS HELP YOU OUT. IF YOU PUT IT IN OUR BANK IT WILL BE SAFE AND WILL GROW TO A FORTUNE. WHO GETS THE MONEY YOU EARN. YOUR FAMILY OR OTHERS? , WE PAY 31-2 PER CENT ON 3AVINGS DEPOSITS. COME TO OURJBANK. Farmers State Bank THE NEW BAN K.I THE NEW BANK OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS FROM 7t00 TO 9:00 i-ii I V V 4& 3 m SAVINGS STAMPS Thrift Stamps cost 25 cents each ana draw no interest. Yo i can buy them from your letter carrier, either citv or rural route, at the post office or vour bank. You wiil ,o gh en a tal to paste them on. This cots nothinsr. There are spaces for 56 Thrift Stamps on this card lien your card la full, taie it to your post office or bank any time with a few cents additional ar.d y,v.:r card will bf. .x han?d for an interept-bearin-YVar Pavings Ortirtcate worth So on Jan. 1. irv'3. This pives you 4 per cent inter.- t compounded ciarterly You can buy 2') War Savings t erun -ates at rr tim Tl-.-v iH cost you $vl40. and thir fac-p value at the tim of re demption. January 1. 1923, will be Si'"' War diviners Certificates may be converted into cash at th post oflicv- where ipsuel If von ned the money. You will Vet mrerert, too, at about 3 per cent. The name and address of the owner will he placed on eah Certificate at the time it in is sued War Pavinsrs CertifiVatea rnny be registered at anv post SXHj tI e First. Second or Third Class. Waterman Lumber & Coal Co A. G. Bach & Co. uy W. Morgan. ank of Cass County. Popular Variety Store. Hatt & Son. S. Chase. riattsmouth Steam Laundry. W. E. Ecsencrans. Fred Wagner. Service Garage. B. A. McElwain. Fred Mumin. bur Dollars when you det ihem and Keep rfiem safe in Our Bank. . fl i Z-t-T