The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, September 05, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER- 5, 1918- PAGE FOUR. PLATT3MODTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAE. Che plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Kntered at Fostoffice, Flattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Keep the old clothes going, IK) the needed sewing; Though the hoys are far away. The hills come home. If there's still a lining Through the old clothes shining Turn the old clothes inside out Tiil the hovs come home. Winter is coining apace. :o:- Prepare for it now in time. :o:- C'oal is as cheap now as it will be. :o: And speeders keep up with their spit-ding and with impunity. :o: Saturday was the day to throw a.-ide that straw hat, but many will not do it. :o: Herman peace is typical of a iiic-clad cottage on the brink of a live volcano. :o:- in a If you live in a glass house, or a 5:oue with many windows, be sure :'T'.d pul! down the blinds as early in the evening as is possible. A word to the wise. :o: When the German soldiers go up au.i:t the American troops they re member Davy Crocket's coon and conclude that their time has come to unconditionally surrender. :o: It is alleged that an Indiana con gressman recently lost Sl.'.rtOO in a .-v. indling operat io:i and his const i tu ms are clamoring for an investi-i-Mfiou to find out where he got the $ 1 '..OftO. :o: "The crown prince is safe," tele graphs Papa Wilhelm to his wife. And the crown prince will continue t" be safe so long as he imitates the tattle tactics of the celebrated Duke P!a.-i Toro who always b'd Jns soldiers from Ik hind he found it more exciting." -tor- Put away your old straw hat, Panama or leghorn. The season for v..,iring them closed officially Sat urday. Men appearing on the str-ets after September 1 in any thing except a felt or derby will do so at heir peril, for it". open sea son now on the straw hat. Put these are war times. -:o: Monday Labor Day was the dullest we have ever seen in IMatts roouth. Several years past every Labor Day we had a celebration worthy of note every laborer in the city taking part in the exercises, with a big parade, etc., and people came from miles around to attend. Whose fault is it the business ii '-n or the laboring men that we can't continue to celebrate Labor Day? :o: At a meeting of the democratic state candidates in Lincoln last Friday, L. F. Langhorst. refused to aecept I he Chairmanship of the state committee for another term, and A. P. Pprague, who has been an assist ant to the former chairman, was se lected as chairman; Clinton J. Campbell, secretary; A. V. Johnson treasurer, and Dr. P. L. Hall, the old wheel-horse, was selected as ice chairman, to see that every thing in the committee maneuvers were carried out in the proper man ner. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollar Tteward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Ha'l's Catarrh Medicine. Hall's Catarrh Medicine has hen takn by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty five years, and has Iwcome known as the most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acta thru the Btood on the Mucous surfaces. expelling the Pol son from the Blood and healing the dis eased portions. After you have taken Hall's Catarrh Medicine for a short time you will Eee a ereat improvement in your Rencrat h-alth. Start taktns Hall's Catarrh Medi cine at once and ?et rid of catarrh. Send for testimonial, free. V J CHESET & CO., Toledo. Ohio. , Sold' by all Drucsla. 75c. Lord Lansdown should be rechris tened Hansdown. :o: "Mother's wing" is the best shelt er for any 16-year-old girl. :or We have got to win the war. Only use one teaspoon f til of sugar a day, -:o: The Kaiser's setting of eggs in Russia didn't hatch the kind of birds he wanted. :o: The profiteers howl with the wolves, bray with the ass and bark with the hounds. :o: The French have taken Ham. and while Ham is not Hamburg, it is in that direction. :o: Don't be a finul slacker. Plenty of of her w ays to lie selfish and mean without descending to that depth. : o: No, the war is not over, but the turning point has been reached and the American boys helped to sharpen it. :o: The speeders get oft" with a $1" fine in many places what do they get off with in Plattsmouth? They simply speed on homeward, that's all. :o: The war is certainly strengthen ing our sense of national unity. We realize that of course 1'ncle Sam's nephews must all be cousins of each other. :o: Kxperience is a powerful instruc tor, but it is worthless to the pilot unless he first learns where the rocks are located so he can steer clear of them. :o:- There isn't much comfort in the statement that the theoretical rise in tho price of coal Is the smallest in a list of fifty commodities if you can't get coal at any price. :o: Among the marriage licenses list ed tho other day was found a groom 4S vears old. Xn reason is ventur ed for this phenomenon, as the new- draft law contemplates 45 is the maximum age. :o: A presidential proclamation an nounced last Saturday grants the withdrawal of SS,f,71 acres of land in northern Colorado from the for est reserve and makes it subject to homestead entry. :o: Every member of congress who voted for the exemption of members of that bodv should be defeated at polls in November. To take advan tage of their positions thusly the voters should not stand for. :o: The Germans, it seems al present writing, are not merely going back to the Hindenburg line: they will be lucky if they are able to find anchorage there. The line has been cut at one end and is floating loose. ;o: The German map that shows how the U-boats are bombing our At lantic coast and "striking terror into the cities" omits the section north of Boston, as "there are no towns there large enough to bom bard." :o: An American under 45 years of age who is holding an office instead of an army gun and yells "slacker," ought to be kicked to death by an old, burro-tailed, scrub jackass, and we crave to be the animal to do the job. :o: An American Colonel asked a cap tured officer if the German privates were told that they would be killed if captured by Americans. "Why, yes." replied the German officer "don't you tell your men the same thing about the Germans?" Nothing so disconcerts a liar as the truth. YANKS IT IS. btars and Stripes (France): Nick- names are not manufactured. When they are, the "nick" doesn't stick. Ten thousand of the world's great- est thinkers working ten hours a day ior ten years couldn't piaster a nick-name on the American army! that would stick ten minutes. For the American army has al- ready received its nickname over here that nothing can shake loose. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing Ampripan nrmv if u'nen't rvirfullv - - J thought out by any prearranged mental lriv Tf was lnt- tho nick- name everyone over here took for granted. Yanks, as applied over here, has lost its old American turn. It no longer means a soldier of the north. It means a soldier from the United otuies, i.uiin, cuuiii, vm uuu es., so long as he wears the khaki of Uncle Sam and battles or works un der the flag. It means Dixie and Yankee Doodle rolled Into one. It is the symbol of a united country that points in mass formation towards the Rhine and on beyond. It means that 1S61 to 1SG5 is forgotton, de molishcd, blotted out against the mighty epoch of 1017 to a finish. "Sammy" was a joke, and a pain ful one. 'Buddy" failed to land. The others hit the soapy chute with equal eclat. One nickname alone has withstood the shelltire ot discussion. It is Yanks Yanks, representing the north .south, east and west, any thing wholly American. You can't manufacture a nick name in a century, nut one can no booked to you in a day. Yanks it is. :o: GERMANY'S PRE FERRED CREDITORS Richard II. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore, has been figuring out a way where by Germany can find the money t,o repay the Allies the cost of the war. and has hit upon the plan of com-I polling it to repudiate its bonded J deht. This debt Germany owes to I its own people and its repudiation I would mean national bankruptcy, which is what Mr. Edmonds would see brought about as a punishment no greater than Germany deserves, as well as a guarantee that it will remain helpless and quiet for at least a generation. "A prosperous Germany within the "next quarter of a century," lit says, would not oo a Mot upon civilization and would show that civilization did not have the moral backbone and manhood to punish the criminal." A prosperous Germany within tho next quarter of a century certainly would look a little too much like a premium on burglary, and the Al lies probably mean to discourage burglary. In lending their money to their government the Germar. people were investing in a get-rich- quick scheme. They were perfect ly willing to take the spoils if the army could bring the loot back. It was advertised in the most public manner that what the army was setting out to do armed and equip ped with the money invested in it by the German people was to rob France. The scheme failed, where upon the investors sought to get a dividend by robbing Russia. The loot there has been rather disap pointing, and the only hope th gamblers in the government's war securities now have is to get their bare principal back. Shall they be permitted to .get it? Shall the Allies allow this wreck ed and bankrupt institution to pay out its remaining assets to preferred creditors, the Insiders in its own conspiracy to rob, while the people of France and the other countries that have saved civilization should er the billions of debt incurred in the job? Obviously that would be to treat this speculation of the German peo ple as a legitimate investment. It would be to admit that the party to a fraud has the same protection in law as the intended victim of it. If there are to be any preferred credit ors of the German government sure- ly they should be the Allies who have been put to the cost of round ing up the robber and recovering the stolen property. K. C. Star I :D: APPLIED EXPERIENCE IN RUSSIA Blessed, to a certain extent, be the name of Francisco Villa! Had it not been for him and his various i colleagues in the work of Mexican, disruption, how should we now I know how to handle the problem offered by the Uolsheviki? 111. UIVM lei St" tlaiUAL v Krtl IJl'IU deemed tho anti-liberalism of the I.. - . .... I united states, in their acts of vio- ,ence nativc aml forti.MK.r I ... ..... . . . I witnin tneir dominions, out more ,(articuiariy in (hPir combination of I (Jn(rinn of lihnml inn with :i Inni of personal power, l'olshevik and Villista show some mutual resemb lance. Despite all superficial dis similarities, such as the Bolshevik chielv lack of sliin on horseback and the Mexican leader's aversion. to put it mildly, to writing with his own hand, the resemblance holds good. Therefore, when the Bolshevik plays the outraged patriot upon the landing of American and British troops on Russian soil, the recollec tion of the State Department will turn back to the years 19 14-1 010. and the relations this country then had with Villa and his associates. Manv mistakes r.iade in the Mexican case have already been avoided in our dealings with Russia. Mr. Hal who did so much to make our Mox icau experience rich and bitter, is new well known and otherwise too b:jsily engaged to attempt any in terference in favor 'jf the Uolsheviki. The friends and admirers they pos sess over here are neither so promi nent nor so perniciously onectu; ! as were those of tho Villistas. It has amounted to a calamity fer the party of Lenine and Trotzky that these could not win ofheicl American countenance or support. It was evident that the I niii 1 States Government and public would heartily rush to the aid of a really emancipated Russia. The Bolshe- viki counted somewhat on the Am ican's impulsiveness and devotion tr social progress to tempt him In: supporting them against the Allie. ' interests. They needed this support both for the money and supplies it was worth and for the cloak of a -proval it would cast upon their questionable schemes. Their fail ure to fool the United States was a PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Tho following proposed amendment to the constitution of the State of Nebraska, as hereinafter set forth In full, is submitted to tho electors tf the State of Nebraska to bo vote 1 upon at the general election to be held Tuesday, November 5th, A. D. 1918: A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Section one i) of Article seven (7t of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska. Be it Resolved by tho Legislature of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. That Seetion One of Ar ticle Seven of the Constitution of th. 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 romformablv to the laws of the United States, in the subject of naturalization, at leart thirty days prior to an election." And inserting in tho place of tin words so stricken, the following words: "Second. Persons of foreign birth who shall have become citizens of tho United States by naturalization or otherwise conformably to the laws of the United States at least thirty day prior to an election. j Sec. 2. That at the general elec-, tion nineteen hundred and eighteen (1918) there shall bo submitted to the electors of the state for their approval or rejection the foregoing propose! amendment to the constitution relat ing to the right of suffrage. At such election, on the ballot of each elector voting for or against paid proposed amendment, shall be written or printed the words: "For proposed amend ment to the constitution relating to the right of suffrage." and "Against said proposed amendment to the con stitution relating to the right of suffrage." Sec. 3. If 6uch amendment shall be approved by a majority of all electors voting at sucn election, said amendment shall constitute Section One (1) Article Seven (7) of the Con stltution of the State of Nebraska. Approved, April 9. 1313. KEITH NEVILLE. Atteet: Governor. CHARLES TV. FOOL i Secretary of State. misfortune for them, a fortunate thing for the world, and no doubt was to prove a fortunate thing for Russia itself in the long run. all came of America's having been pretty generally taken in once lie fore, during the Villista movement There are mistakes still possible to make in Russia and likewi.se pos sible to avoid. The American pub lie knows by now a good deal about the Villista business of a few years ago. It is in a position both to no ticc any repetition of old blindness should such occur, and to appreciate the genuine gain which our policy toward noisy foreign anarchists has made by experience. Our Allies like wise, we b-jlieve, repose confidence in the experience we now bring to bear. Exchange. :o: RAISING EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS There was never such a thing in the world before as the revenm bill now before congress. The sec retary of the treasury has called up on congress to raise more man twice as much monev as anv other government has obtained in any one vear from taxation. The amount has been fixed at ?f!.linii,iiiO,)Oil, not much below the entire bonded indebtedne.-s of the country. At first there was some opposition to raisinir that amount oi money o axation. but it seems to have al most entirely disappeared. im main argument is that it is much .ettcr to provide for a large part of the war expenses than to create an norinous war debt, to be paid by the siieeeeduitr melioration and 1)1'- ome a handicap to prosperity. Then he fact remains Hint the dollar:-. bus raised will be much easier paid than when war pr:ces cease, it will not tal e halt as muci ot t:ie pro lines of labor to pay the cost ot the war as it prooaoiy woui-i ieu ii wenty yours from now when prices iceotiie normal. It is expected that the govern ment expenses during tno coming ear will be $1,000,000,000 and hi:; bill provide for tho paying f one-third with proceeds of taxation. If the war is won In-fore the mili tary experts have predicted and ii'' that. much, is expended, provision should be made to apply the ur plus to reduce t lie war debt. None of the allies will bo ir as good a financial condition at the close of tho war as the United States. Franc-.-with a largo part of her territory made a desert and Belgium with only a piece large enough to make a good sized farm left undestroyed. will be in tlit worst condition. But France and Belgium will havo the giMd will of tho world and in the end become pro.-perons. J'ayas you go is a good rule in private affairs, and il should be followed as far as i reasonable by governments. World-Herald. :o: We need a lot of things. -:o: Believe victory! Think viclory! Preach victory! ' . :o: Those who are unable to find Ber lin on the present war maps arc ad vised to have patience. :o: It is said that Kaiser Bill wan's to be the hut King for Germany. And it looks like ho would get his wish. :o: When a girl gets hold of a young man's heartstrings she proceeds to tie them in a beau knot. :o: Use sonic of your spare time writ ing to a soldier. You never can tell he may got your letter. :o: Patriots will register promptly. Others must or pay the penalty all up to 4 5 years of age. No excuses go. . :o: The crowned heads of Belgium went to England in an airplane. We supposo an ace took the King and Queen. :o: Several well-known neutral coun tries are about due to discover that they are angry because Germany has been sinking their ships for three or four years flare up, as it were. I - -Net Contents ISFluid T)ranhTT. zl S3"" iH , . ALCOHOL-; PliK CENT. i : AVc6elabterireparaiion&rAs- : siniilatintiliielbod by KcS"13. ! linlhoSlomachsandnowclsor i :.c: FK tf - 1 Thereby Promoting Digestion Cheerfulness and KcsLumwu ncither Cpiuin. Morphine nor Mineral. :s ot a" " A' S,rnna Airnrls SuMt Sniff Strd J crmint Jl '' icrtcintcSuL J tin trryrrra fus vr A helpful Remedy for ; Constipation and Diarrhoea ij and Ftvcrishness ana LOSS OF SLEEP resiilling fhorcrrom-in fac simile Signature of ! rue (rsTM-n Company. nrv tmi K - , b'aif of Vr'rsr-pcr. Ikichelors get it in the nock this t iino .sure! :o: Many old bachelors will fall into line at the next call. :o: A selfish man's best friends are those who do not know him. : o : General Ludendorff s initials are 1'. O. presumably .stand for I'hlicker Out. :o: Will, if a congressman does not xenipt himself from the draft, who lso would? :o: Estimates of the corn crop show- steadily decreasing figures. Keep on llooverizing. :o: When a husband says to his wife. 'Come, now, let us be candid about this thing!" he has just thought of good lie. :o: Just because I'rince Rupprecht is going homo to bo married is no roa- (iii whv he should take his army back with him. :o: German military critics report that KudendorlT is drawing Foch on ind "weakening" the Allied armies, fhis weakness will bo more notice- iblc from now on, we take it. 1 M L B 9 . 'ft. v w mm s, i gSISl im Time i ; . ! m am tka TA?yr wtfbi noie7 beoai saving 'h?A puiiin THE BEST BOOK YOUR BOY CAN HAVE IS A BANK BOOK. THERE'S LOTS OF KNOWLEDGE TO BE GAINED BY THE POS SESSION OF MONEY. . YOU SHOULD TEACH YOUR BOY THE BEST LESSON HE WILL EVER LEARN "THAT HIS MONEY IS HIS BEST FRIEND" AND TEACH HIM TO PUT IT SAFE IN THE BANK. SOME DAY THE BANKER CAN ADVISE HIM HOW TO IN VEST IT AND HE WILL BE A RICH MAN. WE ADD 31-2 PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS AC COUNTS AND 4 PER CENT ON TIME CERTIFICATES. COME TO OUR BANK. Farmers State Bank THE NEW BANK. OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS FROM 7;00 TO 3:00,' El Fl fV.S H SI Fa - II M 1 1 1 I M . , 3 XOM U1 EJ V Ll LL U U u For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years IP the :iNTtun copxr. ncw vom citt. 23 POLLOCK PARMELE IN THE TRENCHES From Tuesday's Pally. t C. Parmele received a letter from his son Pollock, which was written from the front line trench, where Pollock was four weeks ago when the letter was written. In the letter was a portion of the wings of a. German plane, which they had just shot down, a short time before the letter was written. He told about having purchased a bundle of straw to make a bed, and having built a lire to purify the air in the dug out where they were located. .NOTiri: OF FIXAI, S KTTIj km k. t. In tli County Court of Cas County, Nebraska. St;tt of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To Janus I. I.atta, and all ntlwr iH-rsnns interested in tlic estate of Kmily A. L.atta. deceased: n reading the petition of Samuel O. I.alta juayinjr a final settlement nnd allowanee of lu's account liled i:i tins eourt on the "1st day of Aucust. and for distribution of said estate to such persons as are entitled thereto. It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may. and do. appear at the County Cunt to be held in and for safd coun lv. on the !th day of September. A. IV, litis. at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause if any there be. why the prayer of the petitioner should not be jjranted, and that notice of the pendency of said peition ami the liearinff thereof ln yiven to all persons interested in paid matter by publishing a copy of this order in the I'lattsmouth Journal, a Semi-Weekly newspaper printed In said county, for one week prior to said day of hearing;. I witness whereof, I have hereunto set mv hand and the seal of said Court this yist dav of Ausrust. A. r.. 1918. ALLKN J. BKKSON. (Seal) County Judjre. " Hy Florence White, Clerk. Kool it'fn the Bank. M w V sutr mm mm . V I A