aromxiY. jfit 27. 15. GE THRO Cbe plattsmoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT FLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Katarad 4t Posiofflc. PlatumoutH. Net. a icaid-clui mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCBJPTIOH PEICE $2.00 CHRIST'S GLORY REVEALED Beloved, think it not strange con cerning the fiery trial which is to try you; but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. I Peter 4:12-13. :o:- Scopes says he will fight on for principle. -: o : - "Bryan Won Out" headline. Won out before he went in. -:o:- Cool weather to stay awhile, ac cording to weather prophets. -:o:- An efficiency expert is a fellow who still lives with his wife's folks. -:o:- Be careful about reducing or you are liable to reduce your chances of living. :o: One thing harder than living up to a good reputation is living down a bad one. :o: Scopes is guilty of course, under the Tennessee law. Then why all this fuss? And- here we pause to shoot a query to the world in general. Do dog fish bite? -:o:- Teachers who have had no luck at marrying are signing up for another year of teaching. :o: Our estimate is that all photos snapped on vacations will be shown to almost everybody. :o: It's hard to get fleas off of a dog but you can get the ticks out of a clock with a hammer. -:o: Women may talk more than men, but they don't say as much. That Ehows women have the most sense. :o:- What has become of the old fash ioned man who used to say that women never could learn to drive a "ar? :o:- This is the time of the year when the June bride quits trying to make biscuits and begins to depend on the baker. The greatest of gamblers, the farmer, now has his cards on the table and waits for the weather to show its hand. -:o: Did you ever go to one of those picnics where they have fried chick en and you wonder how it is there are so many more wings and necks than there are chickens? :o:- We bet the Chicago girl who is suing her fiance for $50,000, claim ing that she cried so much over the affair that it injured her sight, could see her way for settlement, all right. -:o: It's really harder work to stall around explaining why you don't do things, than it is to buckle down and do them or explain why they don't. Naturally, they must have it pretty easy. :o: "Home first the world after" in state affairs. We want no central ized government. The people of Ne braska are plenty able to look out for their own affairs without any outside interference. Clarence Darrow is a leader in a movement for a league to abolish capital punishment. Mr. Darrow seems to be a pretty effective little League to Abolish Capital Punish ment all by himself. :o: A New York philanthropist has endowed a course of study in war profiteering. From the sutlers with Caesar's legions to the shoddy ex ports of the war between the states, it's a subject that embraces all his tory. o: Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury and Mars are all visible early in the evening from this earth. It is like a reunion of the Planet family and a most notable occasion. Neptune and Uranus, however, are unable to at tend. :o: Dayton, Tenn., which is not strong for Darwinian evolution, registers itself as strongly in favor of consti tutional evolution by taking special precautions to suppress the indigen ious bootleggers who by Ignoring the eighteenth amendment had hoped to turn a penny or two during the Scopes trial. FEB YEAB IN ADVANCE The second crop of straw hats will be ripe in August. :o: Science this summer is getting all the publicity it needs. :o:- Education in modern times consists of three R's: Rah, rah, rah. :o: Summer brings its troubles, among which is trying to keep the pick in the ice box. :o:- Clothes areso foolish. Toes feel much better when you let them just roam at large. Teach the children table manners. Then they won't get into the soup or spill the beans. :o: First thing after getting rich we are going to put a calendar where our clock is now. America's gigantic ccrn crop is coming in at a rate that makes the pessimist turn pale. :o: - Even if smoking is nice it keeps a lot of men from getting nervous enough to go to work. :o: Beef eaters will pay more for their their meat this winter than they have for several years. :o: Don't think such heavy thoughts during the warm spell. Too much will make you bowlegged. -:o: Stay at home. A Boston man made a fortune in Africa. The first day back thieves got his watch. :o: Another bargain day is past and our advertising merchants are very well satisfied with the sales made. :o: Farm crops are again going up, v hich must make Senator Norris glad lie didn't consent to lead the third party. :o: Don't ever look for sportsmanship or open and above board dealings in the boxing game. You won't find them. -:o: Once in a while a prediction comes true. For instance, the one last spring that skirts would be shorter this summer. -:o:- Dawes is still howling about the senate rules. He knows a heluva sight about the rules in the senate. Only he don't, that's all. :o: What will it profit intolerance to win the Scopes case if ignorance is to be unseated by knowledge divulg ed in connection with the trial? :o:- Let every state look after its own affairs by home people. Sending in a lot of administration pets from the east is not going to help matters in the least in Nebraska. :o:- The new community building spon sored by the Legion boys to be erect ed soon will be an ornament to the city. You, who are able to help them in their noble efforts, do it now. :o: The government of Latvia has in formed "the United States it will make arrangements to pay its debt to this country. Now all that will be nec essary is to read about the debt fund ing commission and one can becomo proficient in geography. :o: There is no more attention paid to the speed limit in Plattsmouth than if there was no such law. And it i ; not always visitors that break th? speed limit rights. Why people per sist in racing up and down Main street, we cannot understand. :o: Both the coal mine operators an 1 workers say they are opposed to a strike this year. That ought to make it unanimous. The consumers wi.l scarcely insist, accustomed as they are, to these recurring fall festivals for 'which they invariably pay. :o: "So far as President Coolidge knows," says the Associated Press, "neither Secretary Mellon nor Am bassador Herrick are contemplating submitting their resignations." The responsibility for that grammar is the A. P.'s, not the president's. :o: There is so much talk nowadays about the payment to the United States of the European war debts that there is ground for hope that really some payment will be made, for usually where there is a great deal of smoke there is at least a mod icum of fire. THE MOTOR BUS The railroads of the country have been made to realize and feel the competition of the motor busses. Just as the trolley hurt the steam rail road, the motor bus has hurt both the trolley and the railroads. This newest device for mass trans portation was ridiculed and belittled when it made its first appearance several years ago. At that time neither the officials of steam railroads, nor the trolley magnates foresaw the effect on their business of the comfortable and com modius motor bug of today, as the le gitimate successor of the reviled jit ney bus. But if the old and estab lished companies failed to foresee the effects of the improved motor busses, it cannot be said of them that they haves failed to recognize the compe tition of the motor bus. All over the country the steam and electric com panies have begun to utilize the gas oline motor for both freight and pas senger traffic. The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad company whose lines traverse one of the most dense lv populated sections of the United Spates, has purchased thirty-seven large buses for operation in Massa chusetts and in Rhode Island for its subsidiary company, the New Eng land Transportation company. Other buses will be purchased for use in Connecticut. In this way, the rail road companies propose to meet the competition of the trolley line sev eral years ago, when it engaged ex tensively in the trolley operation bus iness in an effort to recoup from ser vice offered by the electric lines. Practically all railroads have un profitable branches. They are main tained as a rule because the parent company prefers to stand a loss rath er than jeopardize their franchise rights. The roads operating in New England have many such branches on which, because of the loss, the ser vice is indifferent. These particular branches have suffered severely from the bus competition The New Eng - land railroad company hopes to re coup such losses and so it has gone into the business of operating motor buses. , :o: THE HOMELESS OIL KING John D. Rockefeller is homeless. That is, he is homeless in that he has disposed of all his residences in cluding the famous Pocantico Hills estate, the home at Daytona. Florida, one at Lakewood, N. J., and his West Fifty-fourth street. New York, man sion, lie win not De permmea co ue without a roof to shelter his head, however, as the purchaser of his var ious properties is his son, who has generously consented that his aged father shall have continued use of any or all of his former places of abode. Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., explains that the sale of the elder Rockefeller s properties at a price exceeding $3, 000,000 was not consummated with any intention of evading the inherit ance tax which would have been col lected in event of the father's death. Oh. no! Of course not. It is strange that anyone should have suspected such an intent, and stranger still that anyone should have given voice to the suspicion as quite a number of thoughtless people are said to have done. At the same time, persons with a penchant for figures will not fail to note that a 40 per cent federal tax plus a New York tax of 4 per cent, had the transfer not been made prior to the death of Mr. Rockefeller, Sr., would have netted the govern ment a rather pretty penny. And it will be remembered, too, that both cf the Rockefellers are by nature thrifty, the elder especially never having been averse to saving the shining nickels and dimes. Their word as to the reason for the trans fer must be accepted, but neverthe less, in real Rockefeller fashion they have tuxned a neat and profitable business deal. :o: JUVENILE CRIME Statistics of juvenile crime are frightening critics of the "degener acy of the age." But it may not be so bad as the figures indicate. There has always been juvenile "crime." The difference is that now it gets into the record. When j-ou stole watermelons, in your youth, the only risk was being caught by the farmer, with a pitch fork. Now the city gangster who steals junk gets into the Juvenile court. When life was simple and there was plenty of room, all sorts of things could happen. Now, "life is too crowded and complicated for un ruly youth. Every time youth jumps over the line, it bumps something. There are more bumps; but it by no means follows that there are more Jumps. :o: A small town is a place full of in nocent bystanders. WORTH $2,500 In Indiana they use Lewisite, most deadly of gases, to kill or discourage bank band'try. Chicago, where life is the cheapest of commodities they pay rewards for dead bandits. At least such is the offer of the Chicago and Cook County Bankers associa tion. Tire only condition is that the bandit must be dead. Bankers have no use for live ones in the profes sion of outlawry. Whoever kills a bank robber gets $2,500. In the opinion of the Chicago bankers it is far better to kill a rob ber than to catch him. Probably no similar encouragement to kill has ever been posted by a responsible body of prominent citizens and given official approval Lv the police. The old rule was to catch a bandit if pos sible, and only to kill him if neces sary. In Chicago the new rule is to kill without compunction, while catching a thief is made a lesser merit. The Chicago attitude is that the only god bandit is a dead bandit. The action of the bankers is more drastic and much more immediately effective than that of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, which recently memorialized the state legislature to provide life im prisonment for bandits. The Chicago innovation waits for no leisurely leg islature, and it provides no loophole for the devastating work of senti mental juries, easy judges, or too lenient governors and boards of clemency. Placing a premium on killing is, generally speaking, contrary to the dictates of modern civilization. But civilization has to protect itself, and n great ctics it has been found wth- in recent years that humane methods do not protect. :o: WHAT WILL BRYAN SAY? Bobbed hair scores again. Ne braska rural school boards, which had declined to employ young wom- en With short tresses, found they had either to revoke the edict or go with out teachers. The girls won, of course, and Nebraska was again made safe for the three R's. All this happened in the heart of the original Bryan belt. What will the Sage of the Coral Gables say to this dangerous dalliance of his for mer neighbors with a practice un heard of, in biblical times? Some how, we can't conceive pL a bobbed haired young lady be she school teacher or bandit as being, in her heart, anything but a modernist. We can't believe that any generation of pupils taught by bobbed-haired teachers will ever follow the exam ple of the Tennessee legislature. As we used to say with appropri ate libation, in the days before Vol steadism, out of Bryanism, begat the cghteenth amendment, "The ladies God bless 'em!" In the bobbed haired ladies on the rostrums of our schoolrooms lies the chief hope of a future without a monkey law. Bob on, girls, bob on! St. Louis Post Dispatch. :o:- HEADLIGHTS You may think yourself a very careful, considerate auto driver, but before you plume yourself too high ly, ask yourself one more question: How do you handle your headlights? Do you always dim them on ap proaching another car? Do you al ways keep them dim except when there are no other cars coming and you can't see to drive without hav ing them on full tilt? If you don't you can't qualify as a considerate driver. Bright headlights are a menace to everyone else on the road. Keep them dim when meeting other cars. And don't depend too much on glass lenses that are supposed to dif fuse the glare and render it unob jectionable. Most of. them are pret ty nearly as blinding as any other kind. :o: If you want a farm loan, it will pay you to see John M. Leyda, Gund building. Plattsmouth, Neb., phones 42 or 91. lmw-lewd Moye Produce Co. PAYS CASH FOR Poultry, Eggs, Croam and Hides! Sells Chic Feeds and Oyster Shell. "Prompt and Courteous Ser vice Our Motto!" Opposite Tidball Lumber Co PHONE 391 Plattsmouth, Neb. READ AND REFLECT Postmaster General New "guesses" the department deficit for the fiscal year now beginning will be something like $40,000,000. Last year it was $24,500,000. For the year ending with June, 1924, it was about $12, 000.000. The situation calls for a new study of rates. Within two weeks hearing will be begun by the joint congres sional commission preparatory to a report to the government in Decem ber. Old estimates have gone awry. The experts have demonstrated how prone to error are their own best judgments. This impending deficit, of course, is due to the action of congress in adding $68,000,000 a year to the de partment overhead in the form of in creased postal salaries and in failing to provide additional revenue any where near sufficient to carry the ad ditional burden. The increased rates established, instead of meeting the salary increase, as they were sup posed to do, are likely to fall short of the needed amount by some $40, 000.000. It will be remembered that the first salary bill was vetoed by Mr. Coolidge because no provision was made to meet the expense. Then the meas ure was reconsidered, the rate in creases agreed on, and the whole pro posal went back to the president. He approved it. Now the head of the postoffice department tells the pub lic how wrong the estimates cf that time were. Adjustment of postal rates is not so simple a process as it might ap pear on its face. Adding to the rate of a given class of mail may decrease rather than increase the revenue that particular class produces. It is known that if some classes of mail at least the present higher rates have diminished business. To this extent the new rates have decreased them selves. The postoffice, though in the main is a monopoly enterprise, does much of its business on a competitive basis. If a business house can ship more cheaply and with equal satisfaction by express or freight it probably will not patronize the mail. A postal rate that is too high, like an over- burdensome tay, lives to mock its authors. There will in the nature of the case be no reduction in postal salar ies. The late increase is a permanent charge on the department. The task is to fix rates in such a way that in fairness to all they will produce the necessary additional revenue. Before the hearings soon to begin and in congress next winter there ought to be a fair discussion of the whole matter of rates and wages and service. Recent experience as shown in Mr. New's guess on the deficit shows the folly of tr-ing to penalize a particular group of postal users. In other words, Mr. New's plan imposed a very heavy burden on sec ond class mail matter, which in cludes newspapers, and as a result the newspapers have, whenever pos sible, been using baggage and ex press methods of shipment, thus de priving the postoffice department of many thousands of tons of second class matter each day. :o: THE SOCIAL YEARNING A young American woman who went to Paris to "get into society," and failed, committed suicide. Most aspirants do not go so far. But a million minor tragedies of life are incident to that same struggle, to "get into society." What is it all for? Certainly not the "society" Itself. That is merely a certain group, sup posed to specialize in certain amuse ments, and probably get more fun out of them. They are a bore, anyway, beyond a certain small dose. Doubtless it is a reflection of that form of egotism known as the infe riority complex. Society, inheriting the traditions of the courts of kings, is supposed to be a group that can pick its own company. Therefore, whoever, is not picked is supposed to feel inferior. The person of real pride does not care. He has his own position and his own achievements, and he thinks they are, at least for him, as good as any others. But the petty egotist does care. Picturing himself in. his own mind as being superior to other people, he accepts the dictum of a self-appoint ed group that they think him infe rior to cares. So he claims, and grieves, and. In a rare crack-brained case like tms blows his brains out. The mayor of Independence, Kan sas, has refused permission for the Ku Klux Klan to holding their meet ings in one of their public parks. Isn't this going rather far, with an organization that is organized to rid the country of its bandits and crime producers. -:o:- Every now and then a bathing girl goes In wading. Charter No. 1914 REPORT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BA5M At Plattsmouth. in the State of Nebraska, at the Close of business on June 30, 192j. RESOURCES Loans and discounts, including rediscounts $337.!M7.3r. $337, !M7.::.". Overdrafts unsecured 1 ':;.'; I . S. Gnvrrnmrnt Sernrillea Onnfd: Deposited to secure circulation U. S. bonds par value) F.0,000.00 nn.noo nj nihrr boDtlH. alorkn, weruritieM, -tr J '.'J..:i Banking house 11. 000. no Furniture anil fixture? 5,Suo.Oi l''..sti0 (! Real estate cwned t!;t r tlian banking house "i. J4 Lawful imhi- witj-. Kei'ial liesc-rve Lank 1 fi . r i ."i . s Cash m vault and aiaouM due from National bank li.Mii.oti Checks on other lank, in the same city or town as re porting hank W-i . "0 4 2 Miscellaneous cash iterr.s V0 3 Ked mption fund with X'. S. Treasurer and due from V. S. Treasurer : 2..00.00 Other assets IT.tfSS.Utt 4t,0;'.' H TOTAL HESOl'HCEK 4j'H(; uiJ LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in f.o.oon oo Surplus fun-l :r..(u(C0 1'ndivided profits 1. ':! 71 Circulating notes outstanding A ' "0 Amount due to Sti'le banko. lar.lit rs and trust companies ii! the I'nited Mutts and foreign c.'.;ntries Cl'.u 'j OenmiHl lrpiit (other than hank deposits subject lo reserve deposits p;ah!e within 30 duvsi: Individ. .at deposits subject to c heel 1 1 :,S..9.3r, Certificates of uept sit due in less than days (other than for money borrowed 21,0JS.r,7 Slate, count." or otln r munii'lpo' deposits secured hy plede of assets of this l.anl: or surety hnd 4 0,1 fi.js Time lr-iilln subject to reserve (payahle after 30 days or subject to liu days or more notice;: Certificates of deposit other than for money borrowed.. 1 1'L'.VO. 1 X Other time deposits 37.7 .!'! "3. 77.32 Bills payable (including all obligations representing money borrowed other than rediscounts) nono Notes and bills rediscounted, including: acceptances of other banks and foreign bills of exchange or drafts sold with indorsement of this bank '. TOTAL LIABILITIES r. :..!:: "0 State of Nebraska County of Cass J I, Geo. O. Povey. Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly sw:ir t! at the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. GEO. O. POYEY. Correct-Attest Casl.br. II. N. Dovev, K. J. Rlchey, G. Knapp. Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of July, lL'".. EPN'A M. WAUKEN. (Seal) Notary I'ublic (My commission expires October 19, 1926.) What has become of all the old fa vorite movie actresses that used to pack the movie house in Plattsmouth Elsie Ferguson, May Allison, Elaine Hammerstein, Mary Miles Minter, Wanda Hawley and others? Come on back, ladies. :o: Ireland has a bachelor 100 years old. Another 100 years and he will be safe from matrimony. LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court, Cass county, Nebraska. In the matter of the guardianship of Kenny Goodman, incompetent. . To all persons interested: You are hereby notified that there has been filed in this court the final report of George W. Goodman, guard ian of the above named Kenny Good man. That a hearing will be had thereon before this court on the 28th day of July, 1925, at 9 o'clock a. m. All objections, if any, must be filed on or before said day and hour of hearing. Witness my hand and seal of said court this 22nd day of July, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j23-2tw County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by Clarence L. Beal, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 1st day of August, A. D. 1925, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the courthouse, in Platts mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following real estate, to-wit Lots ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12), in Block one (1), in Stadelman's Addition to the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Lucius J. Buckley and wife, Mrs. Lucius J. Buckley, real name unknown; the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the respective estates of Lucius J. Buckley, deceased, and Mrs. Lucius J. Buckley, real name unknown, deceased, et al, Defend ants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by David Z. Mum mert, Plaintiff against said Defend ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 27th, A. D. 1925. E. P. STEWART, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. A. L. TIDD. Attorney. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of James Williams, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: Ycu are hereby notified that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 3rd day of August and on the 4th day of November, 1925, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days 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 3rd day of August, A. D. 1925. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 3rd day of August, 1925. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 30th day of June, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j6-4w County Judge. Reserve Dist. No. 10-J CONDITION OP 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 Alice Cory, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of John Cory praying that adminis tration of said estate may be granted to him as administrator. Ordered, that August Sth, A. D. 1925, at 9 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 fliow 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 persons interested in said matter by publishig a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a we kly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks, prior to 6aid day of hearing. Dated July 16th, 1925. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) j20-3w 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 Henry S. Perry, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of George E. Perry praying that ad ministration of said estate may be granted to George E. Perry, as Ad ministrator; Ordered, that August 3rd, A. D. 1925, at 2 o'clock p. m., is assigned for hearing said petition, when all persons interested in said matter may appear at a County Court to be he Id in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of the 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, a serai-weekly newspaper print ed in said county, for three success ive weeks, prior to said day of hearing. Dated July 11.- 1925. A. 11. DUXBURY. (Seal) jl3-3w . County Judge. NOTICE OF APPLICA TION FOR TAX DEED State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To Emma Coburn, owner, and all persons having or claiming an in terest in the KM of Lot 7 in Block 5, in South Bend, in Cass county, Nebraska : You are hereby notified that upon the Sth day of November, 1923, Henry Brown purchased at tax sale. Certificate No. 5710 in the office of the Treasurer of Cass county. Ne braska, covering the following de scribed real estate, to-wit: East half of Lot 7 in Block 5, in South Bend, in Cass county, Nebraska, said prop erty being assessed in the name of Emma Coburn for the year 1922, for the taxes delinquent for said year 1919. You are further notified that after the Sth day of November, 1S2S, the purchaser will apply to the Treas urer of said county for a deed of and to said property. You are also noti fied that the said purchaser lias paid all subsequent taxes levied against the above described real estate, for the years 1923 and 1924. Dated this 9th day of July, A. D. 1925. EMIL STURZENEGGER, Tax Sale Purchaser. A. L. TIDD, Attorney. jl3-Cw