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PLATTSMOIJTII REMI.WTCF.Ttl.V JOTTRWAIi.
tuttpsdAY JULY 4, 1918.
PtATTSMODTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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Cbe plattsmouth lournal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Entered at PostofTice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter
R. A. BATES, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Keep the home liars squirming.
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Large crowds attend the Chautau
qua. -:o:
Only C rounds of sugar for each
one.
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Kvery man who sells the truth for
;ain is a brother of Judas.
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The church that employs a $250
preacher is that kind of a church.
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A man may have the best of the
argument by a mile and Mill unable
to prove that he is right.
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Several refreshing little showers
have come to relieve the growing
crops in the pat few days.
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The sugar ration of three pounds
a mouth for each person seems ample
until we remember that rhubarb is
in.
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Madam Gossip is a gay old girl.
She always manages to talk to every
woman in town except the one who
is concerned.
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Mr. Hoover's request to use beef
substitutes causes the peoole to rise
l.eartily in response, and the substi
tutes to rise heartiiy In price.
He has given up all home, moth
ir, sweetheart, ambition and perhaps
life to fight for you. Help him by
giving him the food he needs and
tuust have.
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Congress is considering a tax of
$2.".0 on cats. Such a measure
would no doubt cut down the cat
population of Plattsmouth to the
proper limit.
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A hen wants to cross the road in
front of a fast motor car for the
same reason she wants to cross at
any other time, only the notion
ttrike-s her quicker.
The latest in war prices comes
from Missouri, where the other day
a girl filed suit for $2,300 because
a man hugged her. Hugs must bo
dear down there.
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Mr. IJaker has forbidden his sub
ordinates to criticize the Hearst pa
pers, "ir any other papers." Which
distinctly recalls the fact that they
weren't criticizing any other papers.
rot-
Young recruits in mechanical divi
sions of the army complain tTTat
their new overalls fade ou and turn
their bodies blue the first few per
spiring days. However, you bet it
makes their bodies blue not green.
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It would seem that 40-aere farm
in California which is rntirelv de
voted to the cultivation of violets
might be turned over to something
we and our allies could eat. Hut
on the other hand, the violet is
the flower of mooesly, ami if vio
lets will prow in California, every
body is willing to k-t them do it.
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Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, now
in Madrid, has as-ked for the privilege
of enlisting and fighting for Amer
ica. It is probable that the forces
of democracy can get along without
Johnson's help, but at the same time,
he wants to fight in the field, and
!at is more than borne pugilists have
ever hinted at doing.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
wl! LOCALi APPLICATIONS, as they
rannot reach the scat of the disease.
Catarrh is a lx-al disease. preatly in
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure It you must take an
internal remedy Halt's Catarrh Medi
cine i3 taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. It is com
posed of some of the best tonics known,
combined with some of the best blood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
tho ligredi"nts in Hall's Catarrh Medi
cin Is what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions. Send for
fstimorlals. free. ,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.. Toledo. O.
HaUFamily PUla for constipation.
The days are getting shorter.
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Take a squint at your coal bin.
There is no difference between
slacker and grafter.
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Xow is the time to announce your
candidacy, if you are out for office.
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Only three more days till the Glor
ious Fourth. Come to Plattsmouth
lor a pleasant time.
Does the days seem any longer to
you? You know tney began to get
lengthier last Saturday.
In the leath of the ex-c.ar, the
eldest son succeeds as usual to that
position. Long live the ex-czar.
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Our explanation of the motor cycl
ist's haste is that he is trying to
run away, from the noise he makes.
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Kemember there will be no Daily
Journal printed next Taursday, July
4th. Everybody wants to celebrate.
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Chicken can be cooked in twenty
different ways. But there is only
one way to eat the wing of a click
en, and society frowns on that.
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Crops are unusually good in Hug-
land this year, and we may as well
admit now, before someone makes
us, that the womer are raising the
crops in England this year.
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It takes real imagination to fancy
that the frost is on the vines these
lays, says the St. Joseph Gazette.
Still, this summer vaudeville often
convinces us that the frost is on the
punk 'uns.
There is an Indian soldier in the
army whose name translated is
Johnny Chase the Weasel. After
looking at a portrait of the crown
prince, we think that Indian is the
man to go after him.
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Whenever we read that riches
caused a young man's downfall, we
can't help wishing the wealth could
be turned over to someone, like us,
who knows how to handle it who
can take it or leave it alone.
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Iiefore a man enters tho race for
any position in the gift of the voters
of Cass -county, he should first sur
vey the responsibilities of such a
position and in the next place he
should ask himself, "Am I qualified."
An old rule used to be that when
ever you saw a white horse, you
could also look around and see a
redheaded girl. This, however, is
not the only adage the motor cur
and the helpful henna have put out
of business.
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Austria wanted peace in the I'iave
drive, and got a fine defeat. Which
must be every bit as satisfying to
(lie Austrian people as was the case
of the German people in March.
They wanted peace, and got a half
nourished victory.
Wo give up. A soldier born and
roared in the Ozark mountains writes
back to his parents that France is
"the prettiest country in the World."
Of course our boys all say t hat
France is a pretty country, but per
haps thi.s young fellow has never
been as far north as Nebraska and
Iowa in taking in the world.
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Here is a list of things every pat
riotic home should have out iu front
this week:
Au American flag.
A wagon load of coal.
A lied Cross flag.
A service flag.
A Liberty bond Hag.
A lawn sprinkler.
A motherly looking woman knit
ting a eock.
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.
It is now asserted that Germany
had a population of ninety millions
at the beginning of the great war,
instead of only the sixty-eight mil
lions' of .her official announcement,
and that for reasons of her own she
concealed the vastness of her popu
lation from the world. Naturally
there is some speculation as to the
meaning or purpose of this belated
announcement of Germany's olteged
real population. One commenting
American editor contends that the
Germans could have had no good
itason to conceal the vastness of
their country's population unless it
were a reluctance to publish tho
very great number of illegitimate
births, and that therefore the pres
ent announcement is nothing but a
bit of propaganda without basis in
fi-ct merely intended to give the im
pression that Germany is more pow
erful than she really is in order to
discourage her enemies.
However that may be, and wheth
er the kaiser's officials did or did not
lie about this matter before the war.
here is now a conceivable reason
other than that suggested above why
the Germ ins should wish to claim a
?;reater native population th:m ex
itts. They may wish to furnish an
explanation of their continuing sup
ply of man-power without revealing
the fact that they are drafting into
their armies the subject races now
r.i their power. They may not real
ize that the truth has already leak
ed out through the unguarded state
ments of a German magazine. Das
Noues Europa, which in its April is
iue nuntinied not only native Teu
tonic casualties, but the losses sus
1 'lined by Polish, ltussian, Lithuan
ian and Finnish troops, thus indicat
ing that men from th?se four coun
tries had already been impressed in
to the German military service. If
s-uch concealment is, indeed, the ob
ject of the curious announcement of
a Germany of ninety millions in
stead of the sixty-eight millions un
til recently claimed, it is too late,
the cat being already out of tho bag.
Fremont Tribune.
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NEW SUGAR VEXATIONS.
Very likely, the new sugar regula
tions are necessary and wise, but
their practical operation seems a
little hazy. Three pounds a month
is to be the limit for eacli person,
lor instance; how is the limit to be
nforced? If fhe people eat some of
their meals at restaurants, how are
they to "keep tabs" on their con
sumption and how are the restau
rant keepers? Next it is enjoined
that only two pounds may be sold
sit a time. Then, will boarding house
keepers or heads of large families
have to send out daily or twice or
three times a day for their supplies?
Further, dealers are to inform them
selves as to tie membership of the
lamilies to which they sell. How
is this possible? Will not the effect
of the order be to cause many deal
ers to stop selling sugar? New York
Sun.
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A WELCOME FOR CHAMP CLARK.
Excepting only President Wilson
there is no official of th national
government better loved by Nebraska
democrats than Champ Clark, the
distinguished speaker of the house of
representatives. There is none more
loved and respected by his j:sso
tiatcs in Washington, regardless of
party affiliation. Nebraska demo
crats will rejoice that National Com
mitteeman Mullen has secured his
promise to attend and address the
state convention at Hastings next
month, s a spokesman of the ereat
war administration.
Champ iJIark is a trii'; and virile
democrat, a stalwart and upstand
ing American. A statesman of flaw
less character and long experience,
he is blessed with courage and inde
pendence. He is not and never could
C ASTO R I A
For Infants and Children
Bn Use For Over SO Years
Always bears
the
DiDsrjie of
be a rubber stamp congressman. He
does his own thinking and can be
trusted fearlessly and plainly to ex
press his thoughts. Broad-minded,
kindly, tolerant, transparently sim
ple, wholly devoid of pettiness, mean
ness and hypocrisy, he is a splendid
representative of the democracy of
the great mid-west.
There are men and newspapers
a-plenty that take delight in "pick
ing on" Champ Clark. For those
who keenly enjoy querulously and
meticulously criticizing good and
true men he affords a notable target.
Impulsive and candid, lie makes his
full share of mistakes. They ate
mistakes that shrewder, more sel
fishly calculating man would avoid.
Hut Champ Clark spits out what lie
has to say careless of the conse
quences so far as they may affect
himself. Sometimes he makes bad
mistakes, as when he so vigorously
opposed the conscription law as the
leading champion of the volunteer
system. When he did that he was
only voicing what was In the hearts
of probably a large majority of the
American people at that time. They
were wrong and he was wrong with
them. Together they have realized
th" mistake and atoned for it by the
magnificent support given Its opera
tion and that of the whole vast and
complex people today did not spring
up spontaneously. It was a develop
ment, a growth, and none have con
tributed more effectively to bring it
about than brave leaders like Champ
Clark who brought all their influ
ence to bear in n.ilying the people
to uphold a war program not all of
whose features they had originally
favored.
Champ Clark, though once a col
lege president, isn't a high-brow. He
is a plain, genuine, corn-fed demo
crat, himself one of the common peo
ple, and as such, more than for his
honors and his station, the democ
racy of the Cornliusker state will de
light to welcome him. World-Ilcr-ald.
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INDEPENDENCE DAY
July 4 is the anniversary of the
signing of a paper by a number of
brave men who loved liberty and
who were willing to irive all they
had., even to their lives, to free their
countrymen from oppression. A bit
ter war lay ahead of them, fright
ful hardships, losses of fortune -and
they knew it. Hut fliey signed.
We celebrate the day they set their
names to that great document be
cause it marks the birth of real po
litical freedom and of real govern
ment by the people for the benefit
of all the people Because those
nun signed that paper tho world
has been a better nlaee to live, not
only in America but in France, in
England; not only in countries fa
miliar to us, but in distant Africa
and in the islands of the sea. True
liberty was born and it spread over
the earth, reaching farther day by
day, until few spots remained that
it did not touch. From the moment
of its birth liberty was forced to
"oat tie with despotism. with the
eruelty and ruth Issues that. go
hand in hand with tyranny. It lias
been victorious.
On this Fourth of July, 1!)!S, it
is fitting that descendants of those
signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence should be on the soil of
Franco continuing the struggle their
ancestors began. It is lilting and
wonderful (hat by their sides should
be other Americans- Americans of
alien and oppressed bloods who
fought refuge and Mbcrty in America-
anil that these Americans should
be fighting to maintain what our
nncestors established. This great war
is tho last might j' struggle of those
evil things which oppose liberty to
obtain mastery of the earth. For
those things Germany stand."?, and
against those things America must
battle to the last drop of its blood
because liberty was born nvith
America. Liberty is America's, und
America must maintain it. Whn
evil men tell us we are lighting Eng
land's battle, they tre. When the.-r
say we are fighting France's battle,
they lie. When they eek to make
you believe we are lighting this war
because wealth demands it, they lie
doubly. We fight side by side with
descendants of the Euglishmen whom
our ancestors fought, proud in their
comradeship, because our liberty has
illuminated their hearts, and be
cause the great confederation of na
tions, of which we are a part, is
fighting liberty's f.ght, that liberty
and honor and humanity shall not
vanish from the earth. The Ameri
can Boy.
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UNCLE SAM IS DOING THINGS.
Uncle Sam is not talking much,
but he is doing things that are an
astonishment to the whole world.
The .numbej- of troops and the
amount of supplies that he has sent
to France in the last six months has
greatly disconcerted tho kaiser and
his generals, but he is doing other
things almost as much beyond what
was expected. He started a smoke
less powder plant near Nashville,
Tenn., and work was begun upon the
first of l4st March. The most opti
mistic promise was that smokeless
powder would be manufactured there
so as to be delivered some time this
fall. It is now said that large quan
titites of smokeless powder will be
ready for deliverey by the first of
July. There will be smokeless powd
er in abundance by the end of tho
year and he achieved this triumph
within nine months.
It was necessary in building this
plant to erect a new city capable of
housing 2o.rfio inhabitants and the
city has been finished, although
many of the employes will probably
live in Nashville, as they can be
conveniently transported from there
to the plant by a railroad which has
been built to the plant. For the
country at large and for aur allies
in Europe, this demonstration of the
ability of the United States, and the
willingness as well, to put wonder
ful energy into war work, will be of
great value. General Pershing's
anxiety concerning a supply of
smokeless powder, which is what oc
casioned the building of this plant,
lias entirely disappeared. He can
have all the powder he wants. One
writer remarks that since the war
began 1 nele Sam has built nearly a
hundred cities of from 20t000 to
0,000 inhabitants, at the training
and ship building camps and air
plane fields, aside irom training ami
supplying about 2,000,000 troops.
World-Herald.
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0BTAIN K0G CHOLERA
SERUM TOTALLY
Serum at cost $1.17 c. c. and virus
free at rate of ?, c. c to 100 c. c.
serum of E. F. Marshall of We-ping
Water by any one needing it in
Cass County. The Farm Bureau
Board has arranged with Mr. Mar
shall to keep a small supply of pur
ity serum made at Sioux ('it v. Iowa.
L. It. SNIPES,
County .gent.
Posey is going to Chase c.unty
again next Sunday evening. Get
ready and go along. The trip will
be a pleasant one and you might see
something that will interest you.
Make your reservations for t'.io trip
right now.
ATTENTION OWNERS
OF M0T0P. CARS
Do you know that toe famous Wat
Icrs New Gas Saver and Carbon Ke
mover is a great success, and will
actually keep the water In your car
cool, and eliminate the accumula
tion of carbon in the cylinders and
spark plugs. This device will force
steam in' your car and thereby soften
the carbon. You will save from 2f.
to 10 per cent more on your gas,
gives your engine more "pep" and
more pull, to say nothing of the
more mileage you will get from a
gallon of gas. Thousands of satisfied
users.
One of Ours.
I have one of the Walters Gas and
Carbon Removers on my car, and it
sure does all you claim for it. I get
twenty-eight miles out of one gallon
of gas, and besides it keeps the motor
cool. ED. SCHULHOF,
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
DR. H, G. LEOPOLD
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Speclwl Attention to l)lnM.ies of Women
AClTK PI SKA KISS TUKATKM
Kyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
Night Calls Answered After Hours
and Sundays by Appointment.
SC30 a. m. to 12:00 1:."0 p. m. to 5:30
K'oneIHwJos Plattsmouth, Neb.
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Value of Good Tires
Never were cars so necessary both in
business and domestic life.
Never was their continuous and eco
nomical use so imperative.
Never was freedom from tire trouble
and tire expense so absolutely essential.
The rapidly growing demand for
United States Tires prove their war-time
worth.
Thousands of motorists each week arc
turning to United States Tires to get de
pendability and economy.
United States Tires last longest and
carry you farthest at least cost.
They enable you to make the most of
cour car passenger or commercial
tiozv, when it is more than ever a vital
war-time necessity.
There is a United States Tire for every
possible need.
Oizr nearest Sales and Service Depot
will tell you which ones you should have.
unm stales ums
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THE LONG GARAGE Elmwood, Nebraska.
S. G. SMITH Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
We Know United States Tires are Good Tires.
Thats Why We Sell Them.
The reports that Lenino and
Trotzky have fled, no one knows
where, are disturhiug. Perhaps we
would better roll a few hundred bar
rels up before our front gate.
KEEP
YOUR MONET:
IN OUR BANK
AND HAVE
PEACE OF M IN
1 0 ;i ? teste 3a ii lift
nil OJMl'MWBIIlil"
WHY DO YOU KEEP YOUR MONEY IN YOUR POCKET OR
YOUR HOUSE, WHEN THERE IS A SAFE PLACE; LIKE OUR BANK
TO PROTECT IT?
WHEN YOUR MONEY IS (IN YOUR HOUSE THERE IS A
TEMPTATION TO SPEND IT. WHEN IT IS IN OUR BANK THERE
IS A TEMPTATION TO ADD TO IT.
YOU HAVE PEACE OF MIND WHEN YOUR MONEY IS SAFE
PUT IT IN OUR BANK.
WE PAY 31-2 PER CENT ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.
COME TO OUR BANK.
ariTers State Bank
THE NEW BANK.
OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS FROM 7;00 TO 9;00
m. infill B -U-H m 7M M J TM ti M M
Good Tires -"
Much cooler.
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If there ever was a time for a
patriotic Fourth of July celebration
(hat time is right now.
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