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PAGE FOVB. JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1918. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY Cbe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Kntered at Postoffice, riattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE "America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea." :o: Friday is the 13th. :o: I'ershing celebration Friday. :o: Don't forget the date. :o: Be ready. Kvery patriot should honor to the hero. :o: Unless you are very sick, there is no place like home. :o: Kven our town clock stops once in a while. When it is all run down. :o: Pretty soon man will want but little here below zero. Save your coal. :o: If the Kaiser would put some more of his sons in command of armies it would make our task even easier. :o: England's grain crop this year is the biggest sinee 1S6S. according to Sir Charles Fielding, Director gen eral of food products. :o: The German crown prince denies that he is a fire eater, which was quite useless. No one had accused the crown prince even of getting within eating distance of the firing line. :o: Putting a conscientious objector to swinging a scythe In the broiling sun may remove some of his ob jections to the easier tasks of the non-combatant branches of the ar my. :o: We are told that the government lias stopped the sale of gold to dentists. Is that good news or oth erwise to the man who feels that he really ought to have that old tooth, filled. :o: It is said Von Ilertling believes the German army will be able to bring the war to a climax by Octo ber. Appearances now indicate it is pursuing the climax with zeal and is liable to overtake it west of the Rhine. :o: You may be damned for some thing important. lint the things you wake up in the night and damn yourself for, even after the lapse of years, are the little fox passes, such as getting hold of the wrong fork or stepping on a lady's corns at a dance. :o: Another evidence of the fact that there is something else happening in France than the straightening of tho Hindenburg line, which should appear even to the German people, is the absence lately of any messages from the kaiser about the Lord's co operation in the fight. :o: The celebration of General Persh ing's birthday next Friday evening, should be attended by a large crowd of patriotic citizens. The exercises will be held on the Garfield park, so that there will be plenty of room for all who come. General Pershing is deserving of all the honor that, can be given him, and we hope to see a large turnout. How's This? 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Caruso has embarked on the high C's of matrimony. :o: It is still a little cool nights and mornings, but no frost yet. : :0r The more bonds you buy, the few er boys will die over there. :o: Did you ever notice how little it costs a rich man to sympathize with a poor man? :o: ' The Fourth Liberty Loan will be open for subscriptions Thursday, September 26. :o: Some stay-at-honiCs show their humanitarian spirit by adopting war orphans, others by adopting resolu tions. :o: Will Hohenzollern has again been compelled to postpone his plans to visit Paris, by forces over which he has no control. :o: Lieutenant Schweiger, who sank the Lusitania, has been captured and taken to London. Where will he go from there? :o: German prisoners may be brought to this country. The only thing the matter with the idea is that they might want to stay here after the war. :o: The war is costing the United States $52,000,000 a day. But there isn't any doubt in any quart er about the country getting its money's worth. :o: Imprisonment for one year and heavy fines will be the form of pun ishment imposed upon those who neglect or refuse to register on Thursday next. :o: The Germans need not concern themselves about the final disposal of Belgium. The new Belgium Re lief Committee headed by Gen. Foch will attend to that. :o: It is inspiring to learn that Brit- ish troops are now on ground that they have not reached before since 1914. The tide is rising and will be irresistible at is full flood. :o: The German female may be even more deadly than the male, but they seem to have found it necessary to chain her to the machine gun when they leave here to work it, while they run away. :o: Nobody is asking any more, who is Hoover? Everybody knows, and an amazing good job he has done, too. There were critics and fault finders when he first began to ap ply the brakes on our eating, but they are shy these days. :o: The Germans' discovery that the American soldiers are good offensive fighters, but poor on the defensive, is not alarming. The Americans are not planning on making any de fensive campaigns in this war, and there is no other war in sight at this moment. :o: The Frankfurter Zeitung has small hope for immediate peace, be cause "the United States Is war crazed." If the Zeitung means that Germany has finally got our old uncle riled clear throught. it is right, and need not hope for any peace until we say when. : :o: The Prince of Monaco has offered Monte Carlo as a leave centre for the American Expeditionary Forces. If the offer is acceDted. Uncle Sam's fighters will have for their play grounds two of the most beautiful and famous resorts in Europe, with all the best charm of both in full evidence and.' we gather, consider able of their wickedness extracted A CHEERING WINTER OUTLOOK. With this winter promising to be a race for man power accumulation, Germany has but one hope. Her sole potential human reservoir lies in Russia. If assistance from that quarter fails, then the slow, grind ing process of attrition alone would bid fair to wear out her resisting power before another summer. The possible help that may come to the harassed Huns from that chaos of riot, anarchy and more or less organized civil war which is the Russia of to-day and promises to be the Russia of all the ensuing winter, may perchance bring them some sporadic gleams of hope. It is a con tingency, however, that is hardly likely to be a disturbing factor in Marshal Foch's calculations. The increase to his forces is not a spec ulative contingency. It is a con crete fact. "For the next seven months," said General March, "we shall send men to France at the rate of 250,000 a month. Later on the movement will be larger." And when all our eighty divisions of approximately 43,000 men to a division are over there, then the tapping of the American man pow er reservoir will only have begun. If new Hun recruits from Hun ter ritory proper aggregate GOO, 000 men, as indicated, there are the Knew recruits from France, Great Britain and Italy to offset them as well as those which distracted, half starved Austria may drag into the field. And as to the relative morale of tho Hun and the Allied armies, the difference is precisely that be tween men who are winning and men who are losing. Never before since the war be gan has the approach of a winter brought with it such abundant and substantial grounds for buoyant hopefulness for the forces of civiliza tion, on the one hand, and so dis heartening an outlook for "civiliza tion's enemies on the other. On our side we have only two things to fear overconfidence and relaxation of effort. On the other side there appears to be about everything to fear. And that fact is sinking deep into the Hun drill sergeant benumbed consciousness is apparent in the re- I ports from many quarters of im pending Hun "peace drives ; of campaigns of oratory; of all the shopworn Hun devices of trickery and mendacity which even now are coining thick and fast from all Hun dom. It has become the settled Hun conviction that all the higher as pirations for peace on earth and good will toward men imperatively de mand that the boys shall be out of the trenches by Christmas. -:o: GERMANY'S CRIME IN RUSSIA. Seldom have German trickery. German violence and German greed been painted by an enemy in such vivid colors as in the revelations of German policy in Russia by Maxi milian Harden, the German. Harden, in an article in his "Zukunft" that must bring the blood into the eyes of the Potsdam gang, points out that the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and the subsequent treaty of Bucharest, exhibit "no trace of political morality," nowhere manifest "either a spark of intelli gence for the sacred value of the personality of peoples or any sense of the unpardonable wantonness of gambling with nations in order to meet the interest on a temporary bill." Both these treaties Harden characterizes as nothing but "rhe torical tricks, qualifying their au thors to be the devil's advocates." Leaving aside the question of the higher morality presumably as e quality nonexistent in the German soul Hcrr Harden lashes the Ger man militarists on the score of their sheer lack of intelligence in "attempt ing to place the German boot upon the necks of the Russian people through the chicanery of a treaty of peace and amity. He says: Had they concluded a large-handed peace, then from Lake Peipus to the Black sea all the troops would have been made available for ser vice elsewhere. Then, indeed, all the raw materials and foodstuffa so urgently needed could have been had for the purchasing, and the peasants, workmen and traders, spared and treated with considera tion by the invader, would have be come firmly reconciled to the Ger man spirit of such a peace. Such a peace, at the same time, would have opened tho door to the west, and might after a brief interval, per haps, have borne back to us, either from the White House or from the camp of the allied socialists, some echo such as this: "Since the Ger maus are so manifestly resolved to restrict themselves within tho bounds of good sense and modera tion, it would be unpardonable to kick against a general discussion of peace questions." Put such a peace was beyond the grasp of the German mind and the German conscience. The treaties of Brest-Litovsk and of Bucharest un masked German ruthlessness more effectively than the rape of Belgium had unmasked it. If the violation Belgian neutrality was an act of mad passion, the treaties of Brest-Lit - ovsk and of Bucharest were acts of enslavement committed in cold blood. But Russia is not dead. Neither is Roumania dead. Germany has sown a harvest of dragons teeth in the cast. The crop of armed men is ripening. :o: BE READY. The main provisions of the new Draft Bill are so familiar to Hi" country that the President's signing cf the measure should mean an in stant start not only of the machin ery of the draft but also of the co operation of the millions to whom it applies. Whatever the date set for regis tration, all men between the age- of eighteen and forty-five inclusive should make up their minds thai the immediate future contains im more imperative business for then than careful, conscientious plac ing of themselves and full informa tion regarding themselves at the disposal of the Government accord ing to the manner officially pre scribed. The man who has any doubt about his age or the date of bis - birth should at once do his best to have the doubt cleared up. The Director of the draft in New York give notice that "registrants in the new draft who are between the ages ol PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL 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 the State of Nebraska to be votel upon at the general election to ha held Tuesday, November 5th, A. D. 1918: A JOINT RESOLUTION to amenl 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 tho Constitution of the State of Nebraska be and the sam hereby is amended by striking out tho following words: "Second. Persons of foreign birth who shall have declared their inten tion to become citizens comformablv to the laws of the United Stater., on the subject of naturalization, at least thirty days prior to an election." And inserting in tho place cf tho words so stricken, the following words: "Second. Tersons 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. ! Sec. 2. That at the general cleo, tlon nineteen hundred and eighteen (1918) there shall be submitted to the; electors of the state for their approval; or rejection the foregoing proposed amendment to the constitution relat ing to the right of suffrage. At such election, on the billot of each elector voting for or against said 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 such amendment shall be approved by a majority of all olectors voting at such election, said amendment shall constitute Section One (1) Article Seven (7) of the Cod atitution of the State of Nebraska. Approved, April !. 1018. KEITH NEVILLE, Attest: Governor. CHARLES W POOL Secretary of State. eighteen and twenty-one and those between thirty-two and forty-six will be required to produce birth certificates or other written evidence of the correct date of their birth." Few men, we imagine, have birth certificates they can produce, and in many cases the difficulty of obtain ing them from cities or towns where the records have not been rigorous ly kept is pretty sure to be consid erable. The Draft Director should make clearer what kind of written evidence regarding birth dates will be accepted in order that regis trants may save confusion by pre paring themselves in advance. The Nation enters upon a further great and impressive task in record ing and measuring the major part of its man power for the speedy, uninterrupted reinforcement of it military strength. It is not enough that no man within tho age limits of the new draft should fail to register. Each and every one should be ready to answer all that is asked of him with an accuracy, intelligence and pre cision that shall make it an easy matter to determine his proper place in that vast potential power which tho United States is prepared to draw upon to any extent that will bring victorv. -:o:- WHY GERMANY WENT TO WAR. Extracts from German papers which have lately been published in this country show that the Berlin professors and other scientists are very much worried over the falling off of the birth rate. They, say that tli ere are at the present lime at least S0O.OOO widows in Germany under fortv-five vears old. Before the war, these same men wrote a great deal about the over-population of Germany and declared that a territorial expansion of the empire was a necessity. The only reason they can be interested in (he birth rate now is that they are looking for future soldiers. Their logic is just as faulty as ever. There was no reason why the people of Ger many should not go to other coun tries if there were too many at home, and millions of them did go. There was no reason for expanding the em pire on account of population, for they could go to any part of the world and take-anything except their government and their Kaiser with them. To enable them to do that, tliey devoted themselves for many years to a study of war, raised a great army and built the second largest navy in the world. It was not bo cause that there was no room for the German people to expand, the whole world was open to them, but it was to expand the German govern ment and extend the rule of the Kaiser that they went to war. World-Herald. :o: Thanking God you are not a Pharisee is Pharisee. another way of being a :o:- It does not matter what a thing costs if the money you pay for it does not cost too much. :o: State politics seem quiet but when you turn them inside out. you can easi'.y see the maneuvers are not squirming. -:o:- Bufcher Kaiser may not succeed in' fooling all the German people all of the time, but ho seems to get away with it wi'h Kaiser Karl. :o: Mi-rid-: tu-' rii, srrnr.i-.MiiM'. In Hi.- County Court of Cass County, XclrnsUi. Stiite nf Nelirnska, County of '.- ss, ss. To Jiim-s IV Latl. find fill other persons interested in the est ale ol Kmitv .V T.;ittii, iloTn'rt: On rer3in- the Tvtitiou of Siiin-.irl . I.atta prfivintf it. flrrr.l settlement itid allow-anc "cf lis J.ee.nt lil.-d n i court on llic P. 1st day of August. 1 atnl for distribution of said e tate to sueh person-- n:3 nr entitled thereto. It is hereby ordered that yon and all persons interested in said ii.itt.-r mav, ftid do. appear nt the County roiirt to be held in nd for said r-oun-tv on the (Mil day ol September. A. I.. lOlS.at 10 o'cloefc A. M.. to show ;Mse if nnv there be. why the prayer of trie petitioner should not be granted, a n't that notice of the pendency of said pcition and the hearing thereof be piven to all persons interested in sanl matter by publishing a coi;y of thi S.-mi-YWeUlv newspaper printed c-iid count v. for one week prior ; . i.-. iiw. i' o i is n u ,i m : i if ii in to said ilav of hearing. T witness whereof, I have hereunto et niv band and the seal of said "ouit thlS Sl.t day oA-n AIMM.. (?eal) Countv Jurt?". 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I am also aware that a lar.ee part, if not the greater part of the ' rouble heretofore hecau.-e of Ques tionnaires heins improperly made out has arisen from the fact that the Ltal Advisor wrote out the answers instead of having the reg istrant hiia iclf do so. In nearly ev every instance where a man is im properly classified because of im proper answers to question it turn ed out that tl'P lawyer had done the writing, and had either not taken the trouble to propound the ques tion to the registrant rr else mis understood the registrant's answer. While of course it is desired that those matters be attended to quick The r?Kn wUKiOie,v .ScAViAv, - w--i- - - X 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 H PER CENT ON TIME CERTIFICATES. COME TO OUR BANK. UTariin ers THE NEW BANK OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS FPOM 700 TO 9.00: for FSetcfierfs nas been made under his per- supervision Kinm ito infancy no nnp o ,.0;Q . it.- Signature of ly, it is even more essential that they be attended to correctly. Of course where a registrant cannot write in English (or writes so il legibly that it may be truthfully said that he cannot write), some one must write the answers in for him, hut in every cave the certificate of tho Leeal Advist.-r on the margin should not only show his assistance to the registrant but that the ans wers are in the handwriting- of the Legal Adviser. This exception i:i not to be used as a loophole to es cape the main rule. On many of the. Questionnaires I have f?een. where the lawyer wrote the answers on the theory that the registrant could not write, the signature of the reg istrant showed not only that he could write but that his chlrography was at least, as legiblq as that of the Legal Adviser. GETS A PROMOTION. From Tiir.il;iy's Tally. Last evening t!. M. Porter was in the city coming from his home in Omaha, aiid is looking; after some business matters for the Omaha lire. Mr. l'orter who has been with the Lee Publishing Company for many years has been the manager of the o.'Iiee and circulation on the south side, but has been promoted to a position in the Ilee Iluilding and will be given a larger salary soon, he now being placed in a bet ter position. Flairs at the Journal Office. school Fuwe tale Bank