MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918.
PLATTSMODTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAE.
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Cbe piattsmoutb journal
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ARKANSAS POETRY.
Oscar says
That since (he daylight saving
plan
Went into effect
He has saved
About fifteen hours
Which he would like to trade
For a ham or something.
Little Rock Gazette.
lol
ls the road drag moving'
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If it an t, it ought to be.
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Glorious weather
crops.
for growing
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Another fine
inorniug.
shower yesterday
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Tlie riders are all up and ready
for the fray.
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The man with tin? longest 1'ole
knocks the persimmons.
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A headline says: "Austrian Minis
try to quit." To quit what?
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The outlook in Russia is extreme
ly gool for something or other to
happen, but nobody knows what.
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Hoover says there is plenty to eitt
in t liis country. Hut how about the
prices? That's what worries the
most of us.
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The pastures are in fine shape.
Itecent rains is what livened up ev
erything. Come on. Mr. Weather
Man, with more such showers.
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The circuses are on the move.
Hut they give I'lattsmouth the go
by, because there is no ground close
enough to town upon which to pitch
their tents.
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A citizen said the other day that
if some of the city otlitials would
cut their weeds, it would perhaps
prove an example for others to fol
low suit.
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Some fellows around this town are
just now very much interested in
the extension of draft age from 10
and !.". It is perhaps well that they
should be.
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There are smart men. who think
they know it ll. but in the course
of time they come across men who
can toon convince them that they
are not nearly so smart as they
think they are.
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"We retired from south of the
Marne unnoticed." says the official
German statement, by way of assur
ance to the people at borne. The Al
lies noticed about seventeen thous
and of them, who failed to retire be
fore the noticers arrived.
A young soldier who has Just ar
rived across the sea and became very
sea sick while cropping. When he
recovered sufficiently he wrote to his
father, and among other things said:
"I don't blame Jesus for learning to
walk on the water."
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Mr. S. I. Cresap. democratic candi
date for congress was in the city yes
terday and called on the Journal. He
Is very energetic, able and thorough
ly qualified for the position. If he
. not nominated and elected. we
miss our guess away over there.
fTatarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL. APPLICATION'S, as they
cannot reacn '.ne seat. 01 me
t- i M f.w.i riicpa prpatlv in
fluenced by constitutional conditions, arul
Jn order to cure it you miut : ta!y ; an
internal remouy nan -i
inictii. ltrnv nml arts thru
cine la if "1 - - l.
the blood t. the mucous surfaces o tno
svsterr. Halls Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the beat physicians
i .-, ir, cuuclij J
rosed of some of the kort tomca known
. . . m.io nt tr. best hlontl
The perfect combination of
XZ SZxk In Hairs Catarrh Mcrli-
-' suits in catarrhal condition, dend for
$TcHZXVYrO.. rrcps.. Toledo. O.
ftfi.Av for -deration
The only asset some men have is
a good disposition.
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This time the Kaiser didn't drive
he merely hitched up.
-rot-
it was the foot and mouth dis
ease that killed Russia.
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Aud to think that all this started
as a German offensive!
t'ol. Roosevelt refuses to accept
the republican nomination for gov
ernor of New York.
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Onward, boys, right onward to
Herlin, and get the Kaiser and the
whole Hohenzollern outfit.
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The crop of candidates in Ne
braska is fairly good. On Tuesday,
August 20 the people will do the
threshing.
The non-partisans of South Dako
ta have nominated a man named
M. P. Hates for governor. No rela
tion of ours, however.
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llavo vimi trivrn tlio T7nrl frnse I
I
X I IA x V I P V It. 111V . w. v v V
anything lately? IT you have not,
walk into headquarters and give the
ladies a dollar or two.
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"What's the trouble with the Com
mercial Club?" Has it given up all
interest in I'lattsmouth? We are
not the only one that has made this
inquiry.
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The small boy in our block doesn't
see why lift in Germany should be
unpleasant. The people have beeit
ordered to go barefoot, and there is
a shortage of soap.
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It is remarkable how superquick-
ly a superman can clear his super-
self out of a given territory when a
gang of yelling Yanks convince him
it is time to begin the super-re
treat.
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Perlin is now undergoing a ty
phoid epidemic from unclean milk.
Tho.se cows the Germans stole from
Iielgium and France seem to have
learned all about war time contami
nation from their new masters, and
are putting it into practice.
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The kaiser was all ready to point
to the Marne drive and say to Em
peror Charles: "There, that's . the
way you should have done it on the
Piave." Put he couldn't seem to
find the right words, and so there
was another "strategic retreat."
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The soldier boys who left here
Monday evening met with a fine re
ception at Creston. On arriving at
Creston, where they layed over for
several hours, plenty to eat and car
rides over the city galore. Nothing
small about the people of Creston.
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In making rules and regulations
governing the newspaper, and print
ing business the services of a prac
tical newspaper man should be se
cured. Those who never have had
experience in practical newspaper
management are not qualified to
make rules.
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A U-boat came all the way over
to America to sink a tug and a
barge loaded with rocks. What
kind of an explanation is that
U-boat captain going to make to his
superiors
How can he ever con
vince them that the barge he sank
was a hospital ship?
Paid for a watermelon the other
day at the rate of five cents a
pound. It seems fifty years or
longer since the farmer caught us
stealing a melon from his patch one
summer day, and as we dropped the
prize and lit out, he yelled, "What're
you runnin' for? Come back here
and get this melon."
SHORT MEMORIES.
Happy is the candidate for .high
office in Nebraska this year who
didn't express himself on the war be
fore the United States became a be
ligerent. Politicians will play poll
tics, and before the turning point
in April, 1917, things were said
which the speakers would like to
forget.
In the United States senatorial
contest there must be a lot of chari
table forgetting. Mr. Sloan will not
be proud of the things he said in
opposition to the declaration of war.
Senator Norris will not say in pub
lic the things he said immediately
before the declaration of war dur
ing the recess when he came home
and drew cheers from a crowd of
pro-Germans and pacifists. Governor
Morehead will try to forget that he
was so shortsighted as to send a
message urging a Nebraska repre
sentative to vote against the draft
law and declaring the wrong of
conscripting men to fight on foreign
soil. Mr. Metcalfe, who has a splen
did record for patriotic activity, will
not call to mind in his campaign
speeches that a couple of years ago
he was getting sentimental over the
horses which were being bought in
this country by allied agents to
serve in a cause which he now sends
his sons to fight for.
It will be a good year for short
memories. Beatrice Sun.
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KEEP THE TROOPS MOVING!
There should be no abatement in
the movement of troops to Europe.
The events of the last week hare
shown what it meaus to the Allies to
have enough men to take the offen
sive. It would be a very great mis
take for Secretary Baker to permit
the movement to slacken.
With plenty of men it is possible
to overwhelm the enemy with the
east loss to the attacking troojxs.
This was demonstrated In the Ger
man ouensive in March when
Cough's army was cut to pieces. We
can turn the tables o nthe German
if we will.
That meaus that Congress must
make speedy provision for calling
additional troops by extending the
draft ages. We cannot keep up the
present transportation rate without
providing for the training of more
men immediately.
The heavy troop movements of
April, May and June were made
possible by the use of some British
tonnage in addition to our own. As
stated in the House of Commons
something over 300,000 men, or ap
proximately half of the total num
ber transported in that period, were
moved In British ships. Assurance
was given that these ships would
continue to be available for this
service
Our own tonnage, of course, is in
creasing and some of the Japanese
ships obtained in exchange for steel
plates in the negotiations of last
spring are now coming into our
possession, according to recent an
nouncement. With these resources
there seems little question of our
ability to keep up the record figures
of the past months.
The required manpower must
come from America. We are the
Allied reserve. The stage of the
war is now reached when the re
serves have been called up. The
faster they arrive the quicker the
finish. K. C. Star.
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THIS LAW IS OUT OF DATE.
Allotments from 'the salaries of
our army officers to their families
cease, it seems, as soon as it in
known to the war department that
the officers are prisoners in the
hands of the enemy. The reason is
that under international law 4.he
salaries of such prisoners must be,
and therefore in theory are paired by
the government that captures and
holds them to the government they
are no longer serving, and from the
money thus received the regular al
lotments to dependents can be made
That is a fine law and a sensible
one. In the United States and other
civilized countries its provisions are
scrupoluosly carried out. As it hap
pens, however, we are at war with
a country that pays no attention at
all to international law nd inter
ntional agreements, and naturally it
has made no remittances out of
which the needs of our captured offi
cers can be met. In the circum
stances, to stop the allotments from
our own treasury, while entirely
legal, is equally absurd and equally
wrong. It is the iron enforcement
of a good rule without regard to con
ditions as they exist to conditions
that make the good rule a bad and
stupid one.
It is no excuse for the war de
partment officials to say that the
law prevents them from doing oth
erwise than they do. It is their
obvious duty to call the attention
of congress to the state of affairs as
it is so different from what it ought
to be and to get the law so chang
ed that our government can make
the allotments now and collect later
from Germany, in the happy time to
come when Germany will do what
she is told to do by the decent peo
ples of the world. New York Times.
EXTEND THE DRAFT AGES.
The Civil War was fought by boys
of 21 and younger. It is not neces
sary, of course, to extend the draft
age downward to Include such boys
as fought from '61 to '63. But cer
tainly the suggestion of lowering it
to 19 as well as of extending it to
43 is reasonable. Military men in
sist that the best soldiers range from
19 to 25. In those ages men are
vigorous, enthusiastic, and their
habits are not so fixed but that they
can readily adjust themselves to new
conditions. The boy of 20 doesn't
mind hardship. The man of 40 miss
es his morning bath and generally
doesn't make so good a soldier.
The country is going to need an
army of at least 6 millions. It can
not get that army from the existing
draft ages without taking men with
dependents. It can at least defer
the invasion of deferred classifica
tions by extending the draft ages
from 19 to 45.
Obviously there is need for prompt
action. Without it the flow of
troops to Europe must slacken. The
Nation has read with concern that
the War Department plans to cut in
two the number of men summoned
for training in the months beginning
with September. No satisfactory rea
son for such action has been assign
ed. If there is one it should be made
public. There ought to be no slack
ening of effort. America will need
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL j
AMENDMENT
The following proposed amendment
to the constitution of the State of
Nebraska, as hereinafter set forth in
full, is submitted to the electors of
ihe State of Nebraska to be voted
upon at the general election to be
held Tuesday, November 5th, A. D.
1918:
A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend
Section one (1) of Article seven (7)
of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska.
Be it Resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That Section One of Ar
ticle Seven of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska be and the same
hereby is amended by striking out the
following words:
"Second. Persons of foreign birth
who shall have declared their inten
tion to become citizens comformably
to the laws of the United States, on
the subject of naturalization, at least
thirty days prior to an election."
And Inserting In the place of the
words so stricken, the following
words:
"Second. Persons of foreign birth
who shall have become citizens of the
United States by naturalization or
otherwise conformably to the laws of
the United States at least thirty days
prior to an election. 1
Sec. 2. That at the general elec
tion nineteen hundred and eighteen
(1818) there nhall be submitted to the
electors of the state for their approval
or rejection the foregoing proposed!
amendment to the constitution relat-i
ine to the riicht of suffrage. At such;
election, on the ballot of each elector;
voting for or against said proposed i
amendment, shall be written or priniea
the words: "For proposed amend-;
ment to the constitution relating to
the right of suffrage." and "Against
said pfbposed amendment to the con
stitution relating to the right of
suffrage."
Sec. 3. If such amendment shall
be approved by a majority of all
electors voting at such election, said
amendment shall constitute Section
One (1) Article Seven (7) of the Con
titution of the State of Nebraska.
. Approved, April 9, 1918.
KEITH NEVILLE.
Attest: Governor.
CHARLES W, POOL
Secretary of State.
all the men it can possibly put in
Europe to end the war.
If it is impossible to continue to
transport and supply men at the
rate they are now being summoned,
the reasons should be disclosed. Un
less such reasons are imperative the
movement ought to continue with
out interruption. K. C. Star.
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FREE SPEECH.
The firemen are in the engine
house playing checkers, comparing
baseball scores and gassing about
politics. A man appears in the door
way and addresses them as follows:
"You are dupes. The government
you work for is owned lxdy and
soul by capitalists who use it only
to exploit you. There is no need of
a fire company 'anyway. People
would put out fires voluntarily if
left to themselves. If you had any
manhood and self-respect you'd quit
this job." The firemen laugh, Josh
the speaker and go on playing
checkers.
But next day they are fighting a
bad fire, choked with smoke, show
ered with sparks, drenched with
water, carrying the hose into what
may be a death trap. The orator re
appears on the scene with a mega
phone. The firemen do not laugh
then. They demand angrily of the
police captain: "Why don't you shut
that fellow up?" If the policeman
does not. they resent it. They feel
that the administration which calls
upon them to sweat and choke and
permits them to lie insulted while
they are about it insults them it
self. In time, with repetitions of
that experience, they are not so
zealous in attacking fires as they
used to be.
No amount of seditious lalk in
the United States would stir up any
really dangerous physical resistance
to the government. Whatever re
sistance might develop the govern
ment could put down. Our govern
ment does not actually need sedi
tion laws to protect itself from its
enemies. It actually needs them to
justify itself to its friends. It is
the policeman at the fire.
We go on the supposition that
millions of normal American citizens
react to common conditions substan
tially as we do. The government
calls upon us all to meet the war.
If it permitted people to stand round
and insult the effort on the silly
and ignorant theory that anybody
must be permitted to say anything
he pleases on any occasion we
should have a poor opinion of it.
So unquestionably would a vast
number of other citizens who want
to be loyal, and inevitably their zeal
would suffer a check. Saturday
Evening Post.
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"Live and let live." should be
the motto of every good and gener
ous citizen.
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When the American soldiers en
tered Jaulgonne Tuesday morning,
they found the bodies aulgonue.
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Still, maybe Germany Rets some
satisfaction in reading about t lie
peace terms it would like to impose.
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NOTK M (!' 1 1 K.t It I. Mi.
In tin
County Court of Cass County.
rlirnitkn,
In llio .Mutter of the Kstale of Ma
tilda Ksslck. Deceased:
To all poisons interested in said es
tate. Creditors and Heirs at law:
Yon are hcrhy notified tliat "William
15. Fssick lias tiled liis petition in this
oourt, alleging that Matilda Ksslck,
late of said county, diet I intestate, in
said county, on or about tlie -d day of
September, 1!U:t. being: a, resident and
inhabitant of said caunty anil the own
er of the following described real es
tate: Liot eleven (in in block three (3 in
the village of Mauley. In Cass county,
Nebraska, ami leaving as her sole and
only heirs at law, the following named
persons, tow It:
William H. Rssick, husband. Minnie
f... Coon, a daughter, Helen Lt. Coon, a
granddaughter, Mable Coon, a Krand
daushter and Ralph Coon, a grand
son, who are Interested in said prop
erty according to the decedent laws of
the state of .Nebraska, ami praying lor
a determination of tho time of the
death of said Matilda Ksslck. deceased,
the names of her heirs at law and the
degree of kinship thereof, and the
right of descent of the real propertj
belonuine: to said decedent In the state
of Nebraska, and for a I order barring:
claims aeaiust said estate, and for
such other and further orders as may
.Ue necessary tor a correct disposition
of said matter.
Said matter had been set for a hear
ing at the county court room in I'latts
mouth. said county on the 28th day
of August. 1918, at the hour of nine
o'clock a. til., at which time all per
sons interested may appear and con
test said petition.
Bv th Court.
ALLEN J. BKESON,
County Judge.
Dated. July 27tli. 1918.
JOHN M. LEYDA,
Attorney for Petitioner. .
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FRSEhJD
DID YOU EARN THAT MONEY? WELL YOU VVORr1 ED FOR
IT, DIDN'T YOU? WHY CAN'T YOU PUT SOME LITTLE PIECE
OF IT IN THE BANK EACH PAY DAY, SO THAT SOME DAY IT
CAN WORK FOR YOU?
YOU WON'T ALWAYS BE ABLE TO WORK; EVEN IF YOU
ARE WELL. THEN IT WILL BE A FINE FEELING TO HAVE THE
MONEY YOU BANKED, WHILE YOU COULD WORK, WHICH IS
NOW. BANK IT.
WE ADD 31-2 PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS AC
COUNTS AND H PER CENT ON TIME CERTIFICATES.
COME TO OUR BANK.
Farmers State Bank
THE NEW BANK.
OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS FROM 7;00 TO 9:00
CANNING CLUBS AT
THE STATE FAIR
The importance of the canning of
fruits and vegetables will be fully
stressed at the 1!)1S Nebraska State
Fair in the boys and girls' canning
club activities and in the exhibits of
the domestic products class, it is
stated by the Nebraska State Board
of Agriculture. Canning, as a
means of conserving food, was never
so important as this year. With
our food reserves still distressingly
low and with tons upon tons of fruits
and vegetables going to waste in the
fields each year there is need of a
new interest in canning.
Last year a great deal of comment
arose out of the demonstration at
the State Fair of a community drier
for the preservation of fruits and
vegetables and the demonstration
was responsible for a drier being
used in a good many communities.
It is hoped that this year's canning
exhibit may be of equal interest to
the housewives of the state and that
Nebraska may do her share in con
servating as well as in producing
food.
Some of the candidates have a
wearied look. Cheer up, boys, the
votes won't be counted for three
weeks yet.
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Some men think that because they
have done a few turns for their
country that they should be elected
to some office. Such fellows are
more liable to get left than elected.
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Journal Want-Ads Pay!
WIFEY: "Bill where did you get this perfectly good
looking suit of clothes?"
BILL: "Why this morning as I passed Phil ThierolPs
store I noticed some Clothcraft suits marked $25,
guaranteed and all one could ask in a suit of
clothes. I stopped in well this is it."
WIFEY: "Better, hike right down and get you an
other one; suits like these are rare and will soon
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I.EliAL .VOIICK.
To T'auline Oldham, as Administra
trix of the estate of George J. Oldham,
Deceased: liiehard Conway Oldham:
Cuzza J. liaker: Laeuna Connally:
I'auline Oldham: Fay Oldham: John J.
Oldham: Jessie I . Snyder: Ellison I
Oldham: James Yv. oklhpm: Vera H.
Oldham: Tolly Oldham: Mary L. Orals',
and all persons interested In the estate
of Jackson G. Oldham, Deceased, jin-cliulins-
creditors and claimants.
You are hereby notified that on the
4th day of May 1!US. plaintiff, tiled a
petition in the District Court of Cass
County, Nebraska, praying among oth
er tilings for an order to be entered
by the court directing the administra
trix of the estate of George .T. Ol.lham,
deceased, to convey to plaintiff the
Northwest (Quarter of the Northwest
Quarter of Section thirty-one Oil!
Township elev.-n til) Kanse fourteen
illi Cass County. Nebraska, upon the
payment of the balance of the pur
chase price in accordance with the
contract entered Into between the
plaintiff and the sail George .1. Old
ham, during his lifetime, on the l.'.th
day of January. 1 !!;. and to have the
title to said land quieted as against
the defendant. All persons interested
in tin estate of Jackson G. Oldham,
!eceast il. including creditors and
cla i ma nt s.
You are further notified fhere will
be a hearing upon said petition at the
District Court Uooni in the Court
House, at I'lattsmouth Cass County,
Nebraska, on the 3rd day of September
mis. at the hour of ten o'clock A. M.
to all of which, ami the allegations of
the petition, vou will take due notice.
C. A. KAWI.S. FRANK J. LIU. IK.
Attorney. 1'laintiff.
J22-6wks
oti i-: to ii:orroits.
Stittt of rbrnokn, iiim oiint. mm.
p the Matter t.f the Kstute of Gallant
Hakes, deceased:
To the Creditors of said Fstale:
You nr. hereby notified that I will
sit at the County Court room in lMatts
mouth, in said county, on the ':th day
of August, and 'J'JXh day of November.
A. D., 1!'is. at nine o'clock a. m., of
each day. to receive and examine all
claims against said estate, with a view
to their adjustment and allowance.
The time limited for the presentation
of claims against said estate is three,
months, from the "'Jii day of August.
A. D.. l'JIN. and the time limited for
pavment of debts is tine year from
said L",Hli day of August, l'JIS.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said Countv Court, thif loth "lay of
July, 1U1S.
alij;n j. hrkson.
County Judge.
Flags at the Journal Office.
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