MONDAY. APRIL 14, 1924. PAGE POUS PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL Cbe piattemoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT FLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Poetofflce. PUttamouth. Neb., m ecoad-cUss mall matter R. A sUBSORTPTIOJ? PSICJ S2.00 FAITH WITHOUT WORKS But wilt thou know. O vain man. that faith without works is dead? James 2:20. :o: Mr. Wilson the democratic candi date for sheriff. Is one of the best nwn in Cass county. If you are well bred, you will buy your new straw lid instead of get ting it in a restaurant. :o: That riphteous feeling peculiar to Sunday is still felt by folks who take a bath on Saturday only. o:- Jim Dahlman's slate sweeps Oma ha like a cyclone. Our Jim is a great man, and a good one. :o: - Some candidates evidently believe in the old maxim: "If at first you don't succeed, try. try, again" and often. , :: Some people will now find out that getting the nomination and fretting elected are two different things. :o: Governor Bryan, here's to you! And may you live to serve through two more years as successfully as the last two. , i? Al Jennings, ex-train robber mixinp in politics. This will be a blow to many people who had thot Al had reformed. ; o : If Thorpe defeats Sellick it will be the greatest disgrace that was ever perpetrated upon the republican par ty of the First congressional district. :o : Oh! where was Charley GrafT when the lights went out Tuesday night? Perhaps wandering bis way homeward to console hisself in de- t feat. :o:- A Pittsburg man, accused of steal ing $50. was fined $25. We publish thiu as an inducement to our crooks to move to Pittsburg, where they seem to be assured of a fair living. :o: It would have been better not to make the announcement that the wealth of this country is now $320, 000.000.000. That may make Eu rope decide collect. that we don't need to :o:- From the far north comes a story about a crazy man keeping a vil lage awake nearly all night. This may col poem so very terrible to you. but up there the i.ights are six ; months lone:. -o:o- Kenneth W. McDonald was our choice for senator, but he has been defeated by a man (because the ring wanted him) who cannot command the vote that Mcnnnald rnnM snH they will find this out when it is too late. :o: President Coolidge says he will spend the summer in Washington. It's a wise decision. Chilly Cal has only a few months left to remain in Washington. He vacates the White House promptly at the noon hour on March 4th next. -:o: The ring moved heaven and earth to nominate Norris against his sev eral times declination, and Sloan's friends believed he would be true. But. now. how about Mr. Sloan's friends holding true to him at the elections? : o : But it's all right, girls. We're not kicking. Nothing's too good for you. Ajiything you want is yours for the asking, even a million dol lar's worth of hair curling apparat us, and a complete right-of-way in tho barber shop if you even look like you are in a hurry. :o: The Sunday papers carry the pic ture of a hardy New Yorker of 98 years, who has been chewing tobac co since he was four years old. He posed with a cigar in his mouth, but it didn t seem to be lighted. How ever, he'll probably wreck his health yet. o:o Senator Thonws J. Walsh in tak ing note of the suggestion that he should seek the democratic nomina tion for president, declared that he would not accept the nominatin un der any "conceivable circumstances." Senator Walsh is having too much fun where he is to think of seeking another show. BATES, Publisher PEE YEAR EN ADVANCE LINES TO REMEMBER Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their bet ters. Swift. :: Auto helps: Chewing gum will patch a leaky top so always carry a stenographer. o:o Germany declares Hitler a traitor, fines him $40 and gives him five years of free board. :o:- When a man is shot he is shot, and the fact that his wife didn't aim to do it doesn't matter. :o: Sweden reports red snowflakes. Let's see; how was it that prohibi tion came out over there? :o: The first cannon was made in Scot land in 1554, and it is about time the last one was being made. :o: A pianist's fingers move about 2, 000 times a minute, while his neigh bors move about once a week. :o:- A golf ball leaves the club head at about 13 5 miles an hour, which is about as fast as the golfer leaves the office. :o: Garden hints: Your bean vines' ambition may be aroused by telling them the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk. -:o:- How to marry: Invite him to din ner. Feed him so much he will be unable to protest when the preacher arrives. :o: The word "boss" comes from An glo-Saxon. The boss, however, seems to come from nowhere when you are loafing. :o: They say Calvin combed the list of eligibles for attorney general. He's tired of political dandruff that makes 'em fall out. o:o Snow in the lakes region, floods on the Atlantic coast, drought on the Pacific coast and in Nebraska sweet spring in April green! o;r Well, the legislature has tried to amend everything except the Ten Commandments and the Lord's pray er. It is time to go home. o : rv Brooklyn's bobbed hair bandit is getting rough. She shot a. a man the other day. Well, a life of ban- ditry is likely to ruin most any girl. : o : The senate has approved payment of $45,000 claims arising out of our occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. By ,the way, has Mexico saluted the flag vet? -:o:- Congressional contest, the presi dential tight, and a whole lot of oth er things. Don't cherish any fears that the newspapers will be dull this summer. :o: A count fought a duel with a nov elist in Rome and wounded him se verely. If there's anything in old proverbs, the novelist should have used a mightier weapon. :o: People get mad if the drug store 'doesn't sell stamps and yet they wouldn't think of raising cain at the ipostofflce if the stamp window refus ed to sell them some drugs. :o: The Topeka Journal complains thai with a republican president in the White House and a reubliean ma jority in both houses, the democrats seem to be running the country. o : o A subscriber writes us for infor- fation concerning the home of Andy Gump. So far as we can learn about Andy's domicile, any old place he hang3 his hat is "Home, Sweet Home" to him. :o: O. O. Mclntyre tells a pretty tale of the origin of the cocktail. But why bring that up now? As the Sultan of Sulu sang mournfully, "O, it is no time for mirth and laughter i the cold gray dawn of the morn- ! . ing after." i:o- In St. Louis a boy found the school was on fire and notified the teacher before it gained headway. He was 1 It wants in particular the punish either very thoughtless or a Bov 1 ment of anyone responsible for Scout. No ordinary boy could resist the temptation to let the school hum I especially if it was a uice spring day. WASHINGTON'S ANCESTRY Genologists are taking a lively interest in the claims advanced by some of their number to the discov .'ery of lines of George Washington's (sneefltrv that trace to an early Eng lish king. We like the comment made upon this by the Beaumont En terprise, which says: "But what of it? Why worry over Washington'; ancestors? No matter to what high forbear they trace him. He was more than a king. He was a chosen leader, in war and in peace, of a people just emerging from autocratic domination and entering democracy. He was one of the na tion's founders. He helped to carve it from the British domain with his ! sword and set it on the right path with his statesmanship. "Father of his country," when that country is the home of representative govern ment and free institutions in Ameri ca, is an infinitely greater title than any that kingship knows. It is a greater distinction to found a great name than to inherit one. Washington was greater than any English king before his time, and greater than any who has tome since. Napoleon Bonaparte, commoner, be came emperor, not by inheritance, but by the force of his genius. He was greater than any French king who had come before him; yet he was despised as an interloper and a usurper by his contemporary mon erehs. But for their fear of him they would have accorded him no respect. The great and near-great of his tory wdTe great because of their per sonal qualities, not because of their dead kin. even though many of them came of long and distinguished lines. A good family name is much to be honored. It is natural for us to take pride in the good qualities of our forefathers; but it is easy to put em phasis of appreciation on the wrong head and the wrong qualities. It ill becomes us indeed, it makes us absurd to boast insinuatingly of the quality of our ancestors if on ac count of our personal inferiority we have failed to uphold the traditions of the family, especially if we are ad dressing somebody of special merit whose dead kin were not distinguish ed, except as fox hunters and horse shoe pitchers. -o:o- CABINET STABILITY With Coolidge appointees at the head of the department of justice and the navy department, the cabinet is likely to remain unchanged until xMareh. If the president is elected in November it is to be hoped that he will choose a wholly new set of advisers for his own administration, retaining few if any of the men pick ed by Mr. Harding three years ago. The public will hope that cabinet up heavals are over for the present. At least it may cherish the hope that no other member of the official family chosen by Harding are involved in scandals. There are. of course, political in fluences at the capital which will not be content with the disposal of Dmby and Daugherty, but will con tinue to make as much trouble as possible for the administration. It is already evident that Theodore Roosevelt will have to quit his place in the navy department. Secretary Mellon has been under fire by one group for months. So far it has fail ed to make a case. The head of the treasury apparently retains public confidence. Any further warfare on executive chiefs unless supported by convinc ing evidence is likely to be inter preted as mere partisan play design ed to influence the fall election. It was well that Denby resigned, and Daugherty's retirement had been long overdue. This accomplished, critics of the administration may well hesitate to make further at tempts along the same line. The in vestigating committees have enough to do in fields already designated without branching out for new con quests. This session of congress is likely to remain long famous for its inves tigations the oil leases, the depart ment of justice, house members in volved in the Chicago grand jury re port, the veterans' bureau and other inquiries. No one can doubt that much good has been or will be achieved by these activities. It is time now, however, for house and senate to give up thought of further excursions of the kind unless com pelled by circumstances and to de vote themselves to legislation. Whatever inquiries are now under way will not, of course, be dropped merely because one official or another ! involved has left office. The public wants facts. It wants these investi gations to continue as long as perii- nent facts remain to be uncovered wrong-doing whether he is still in office, has resigned, or never held an office. WHO PASSED VOLSTEAD ACT? The national prohibition act, pop ularly known as the Volstead act, was passed at the special session oj the Sixty-sixth congress, by a first vote of 287 to 100. That this vote was cast in the ex pectation htat Pres. Wilson would veto the bill seems to be proved by what happened after he did veto it The veto message was sent to con gress on Oct. 27, 1919. The bill con tained provisions for the enforce ment of war-time prohibition, as well as for general enforcement. Presi dent Wilson, holding that war-time prohibition was no longer necessary, vetoed it on that ground. Within four hours of the receipt of the veto message, congress passed. the bill again, over the veto, but what was the vote now? This congress consisted of a total of 529 members, 433 in the house and 96 in the senate. Passage of the hill over the president's veto being a distasteful job, not less than 305 out of the 529 absented themselves. Hew ever, by pairing, a number of those sent voted on the veto. The new vote was 241 to 75. So that, out of a total of 529 mem bers of this Sixty-sixth congress, in trusted with the tremendous duty of deciding on a measure thai mean; the confiscation of milliono of dol lars' worth of property, nullification of constitutional rights and inter ference with the personal habits of millions of persons, only 22 4 took the trouble to be present and tho bill was put through by the vote of 241. or less than half the total mem bership. With these facts, how can it bv said that the Volstead act truly em bodies the people's will? -o: THOSE TAX REFUNDS Tax refunds made by the Bureau of Internal Revenue to taxpayers on account of taxes illegally collected have been relatively small in the aggregate as compared with the amount of additional taxes collected as the result of office audits of in come tax returns and held investi gations by revenue agents. It is very easy for persons who are un familiar with income tax collections and the income tax administrative tgencies to jump at wrong conclu sions and draw erroneous inferences from a partial statement of facts, which, if fully stated, would be self explanatory and obviously without the slightest taint of impropriety or injustice. The reecnt howling comment made about the fact that the Bureau of In ternal Revenue authorized refunds during 1923 aggregating $123,992, .820 or ignored the equally important fact that during the same period the bureau assessed and collected $600, 670, 532 from taxpayers in addition to the $2,621,745,227.57 which was paid voluntarily during 1923 by taxpayers on their admitted net in comes. During the years of high war and excess profits taxes which I were imposed under new and intri- cate laws, a great number of tax- , . ,,jf due while a great many others did not pay all that was due. Neither those who underpaid nor those who overpaid can be charged with dis honesty or fraudulent purpose. The fact stands undisputed that -99 per cent of the errors made in the prep aration of tax returns were almost wholly due to unfamiliarity with the law or inability to properly in terpret it in advance of rulings by the bureau and decisions by the courts. When a taxpayer makes an error in favor of the government whereby he pays more tax than is lawfully due, the government should be as prompt in rectifying the mistake and refunding the amount of over-payment, as it is in checking up returns and collecting additional taxes in cases in which the taxpayer has paid less than is lawfully due. It is be lieved that the Bureau of Internal Revenue has endeavored to do this. :o: THE POOREST MAN Now that Henry Ford is accounted the richest man in the world, who is the poorest man and what is his name? The question admits of no one an swer. For, in our common parlance, the richest man is he who has ac quired the greatest fund of the world's wealth. But poverty may, and often does, reside in a number of places. It is, difficult to measure poverty. is fi For instance, the man whose house lied with merry laughing child ren might consider childlessness the greatest poverty on earth. Ano'her, possessing a host of friends, might judge a solitary habit of life to be poverty. While a person richly en dowed with fine tastes might con- eider the lack of culture as poverty. There are many spiritual and mate- rial possessions of mankind, the dearth of which would connote pov erty. Obviously one cannot contrast the riches of gold with the poverty in herent in the lack of gold. Mr. Ford's wealth means very little to him, as he confesses. He would be rich with out riches, for he has a fertile im agination and an inquiring mind. Some of the world's "richest" men have lacked these things. Many of the "poorest" have possessed them. Actually, the richest person in the world is a new-born baby whose wealth is the expectancy of a long life crowded with teh possibilities of friends, honor and a happy heart. The poorest person is one who facesVhe sunset of a misdirected life and has learned but one great truth, and that too late, "It might have been." WHEAT ESTIMATE SHOWS DECREASE Condition April 1 Indicates Produc tion of 549.415.000 Bushels 572,340.000 Last Year. Washington, April 9. The condi tion of winter wheat on April 1 in dicates a production of 549,415,000 bushels this year, compared with 572.340.000 bushels in 1923. the De partment of Agriculture announced this afternoon. The board issued the following forecasts and estimates from reports of correspondents and field statistic ians: The average condition of winter wheat on April 1. was 83 per cent of normal, against 75.2 on April 1, 1923; 78.4 on April 1. 1922. and S2.5, the average condition for the past ten years on April 1st. There was a decrease in condition from De cember 1, 1923. to April 1, 1924. of 5 points, as compared with an aver age decline in the prst ten years of four points between these dates. Upon the assumption of average abandonment of acreage and average influences on the crop to harvest the condition April 1. forecasts produc tion of about 549,415,000 bushels, which compares with 572,340.000 bushels, the estimated production In 1923; 586,S78,000 bushels in 1922, and 589,858,000 bushels, the average of the preceding five years. The average condition of rye on April 1, was S3. 5 per cent of normal, against SI S on April 1, 1923, 89 on April 1, 1922 and 87.9 the average condition for the past ten years on April 1. The condition of rye on April 1, forecasts a production of approxi mately 59,i::r..000-bushels; the esti mated production in 1923 was 63, 023,000 bushels, the 1922 crop 103. 362,000 bushels and the average of the preceding five years, 70,324,000 bushels. RADIO SET FOR SALE Radio complete $12.50; enables you to hear concerts at great dis tances. Particulars for stamp ad dress Ira Silvus, 3105 So. 14th St., Omaha, Neb. Kansas City elected the entire, re publican ticket. Machine politics don't suit the people. JAKE, 12751 Jake is a black jack with whits points. Was foaled May 28, 1912. Is 1534 hands high, weight 1,150. Sired by Big Jake and his dam was Lady Elgin. He is an excellent jack, and has a good reputation as a foal getter. TEDDY R. 97686 Teddy R. is a fine Percheron Stal lion, black with white hind feet and right front foot also white. He was foaled March 30, 1912, and weighs 1,900 pounds. His sire was Morton. 67203; by Epateur, 51836. (64389); by Eoliver. 40111 (46462) ; by Amil car, (19979) ; by Sultan, (4713) ; bv Bayard, (9495). by Estiaba. 187 (736); by son of Jean le Blanc, (739). Teddy R. and Jake will make the season of 1924 at my home, six miles west of Murray and six miles east of Manlev. every day in the week. Terms for Teddy R., $12.50 to in sure colt to stand up and suck. Terms for Jake. $15.00 to insure, CQlt to stand up and suck. When parties dispose of mares or remove from the locality service fee! becomes due and must be paid imme-i diately. All care will be taken to' prevent accidents, but owner will not be held responsible should any occur, i A. i. SGHAFFR I US, Voters- generally are happy that ; the primaries are over. :o: I Senator Borah i:; convinced politi ; cal parties have been spending too much money on campaigns. And spending it for too many purposes ! not strictly concerned with the op i eration of our political system, prob jably. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship. Estate No. of Anna Ptak, de ceased, in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, To all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Frank Ptak. who is one of the heirs of said deceased, and interested in such, has filed his petition alleging that Anna Ptak died intestate in Douglas coun ty, South Dakota, on or about Feb ruary 12th. 1915, being a resident and inhabitant of Armour, Douglas county. South Dakota, and the own er of the following described real es tate, to-wit: An undivided one-half inter est in and to Lot nineteen (19) in the northeast quarter of Sec tion thirteen, (13) Township twelve. (12) Range thirteen, (13) east of the 6th P. M., in the City of Plnttsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, subject to the life estate of Marie Ptak, widow of Frank Ptak. Sr., deceased leaving as her sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to-wit: Frank Ptak. her husband; I-eon Z. Ptak, a son, and Irene Ptak. a daughter. That your petitioner is one of the heirs at law of said deceased Anna Ptak, and as such is the owner of an undivided one-third interest in and to said above described real estate, subject to the said life estate of the said Marie Ptak, widow; that said decedent died intestate; that no ap plication for administration iias been made and the estate of said decedent baa not been administered in the State of Nebraska, and that the Court determine who are the heirs of said deceased, their degree of kinship and the right of descent in the real prop erty of which the deceased died seiz ed, which has been set for hearing on the 7th day of May, A. D. 1924. at 9 o'clock a. m. Dated at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, this 4th dav of April, A. D. 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON. (Seal) Countv Judge. CIIAS. E. MARTIN, a7-3w. Attorney. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the District Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. la the matter of the application of W. E. Hand, guardian of Gale Ray mond Cunningham, a minor, for the sale of real estate. On reading and filing the petition, duly verified of W. E. Hand, guardian of Gale Raymond Cunningham, a minor, for license to sell the follow ing real estate, to-wit: A one-ejghteenth interest in and to Lots F47 and 548 in the Village of Greenwood, Cass coun tv. Nebraska for the purpose of putting the pro ceeds thereof out at interest for the benefit of said minor, and it satisfac torily appearing to the Court from said petition that said real estate should be sold, and the proceeds put out at interest or invested in some productive stock: It is therefore Ordered, that the next of kin of said minor, and all persons interested in said estate ap pear before me at chambers, in the Court House in the City of Platts mouth, Cass county, Nebraska, on the 2Sth day of April. 1924. at 9 o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be. why li.-ense should not b; granted to W. E. Hand, guardian, to sell said real estate or so much there-! of as to the Court may be deemed ad-! visible for the purposes above set forth. It is further Ordered, that a copy. of this Order be published once each week for three successive weeks, prior to the said 2Sth day of April, 1924, in The Plattsmouth Journal, a news paper circulating in said Cass coun ty, Nebraska. Dated at chambers in said Cass, county, Nebraska, "this 25th day of : March. 1924. . JAMES T. BEGLEY. Judge of the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska. CHAS. E. MARTIN, Attorney. m31-3w LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass coun tv, Nebraska. In the matter of the application of Frank G. Hull. Administrator of the estate of Samuel L. Furlong, deceas ed, for license to sell real estate to pay debts of said deceased. Order to Show Cruise. Now. on this 5th dav of April. 1924, comes Frank G. Hull, admin-1 1st ra tor of the estate of Samuel L. 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DIENSTBIER 2615 Harney Street petition for a license to sell the real estate of said deceased to pay the debts and claims allowed, and it ap pearing to the Court from said peti tion that there is not sufficient per sonal estate in the hands of the Ad ministrator to pay the debts out standing against said deceased and claims allowed by the County Court of Cass county, against said estate and the expense of administration and this proceeding, and that it is necessary to sell the whole or some portion of the real estate of said de cedent for the payment of such debts or claims; It is therefore ordered and adjudg ed that all persons interested in the estate of said Samuel L. Furlong, de ceased, appear before me, James T. Begley. Judge of the District Court of said county, at the office of the Clerk of the District Court, in the Court House in the City of Platts mouth, in Cass county, Nebraska, on the 26th day of May, 1924. at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any there be, why such ' license should not be granted to Frank G. Hull, Administrator of said estate, to sell so much of the real estate of the deceased as may be necessary to pay the debts of said deceased and claims allowed and costs of administration and this pro ceeding. It is furthered ordered that notice be given to all persons interested by the publication of this Order to Show Cause for four successive weeks in The Plattsmouth Journal, a legal newspaper published and of general circulation in said County of Cass. By the Court. JAMES T. BEGLEY. Judge of the District Court. JOHN M. LEYDA. Attorney for Petitioner. a7-4w ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administrator The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Jas per M. Young, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Mattie E. Young praying that ad ministration of said estate may be granted to C. A. Rawis as Adminis t ra tor ; Ordered, that April 19, A. D. 1924, at ten o'clock a. m.. is assigned for hearing 6aid petition, when all per sons interested in said matter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of petitioner should not be granted; and that no tice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all pei.;oiis interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order ;n the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing. Dated March 25th, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON. m27-3w. County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administrator The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Abi gail E. Smith, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Hazel F. Hendricks praying that administration of said estate may be granted to Charles E. Martin, as Ad ministrator; Ordered, that April 19th, A. D. 1924, at ten o'clock a. m.. is assigned for hearing said petition, when all persons interested in said matter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of peti tioner should not be granted ; and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Jour nal. ?. semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks., prior to said day of hearing Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 25th, 1924. ALLEN J. BEESON, County Judge. JOHN M. LEYDA. Atty. for Petitioners. m27-3w. Autom :Jle Painting! First-Class Work Guaranteed! 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