THUESDAY, JANUABY 7, 1926. PIATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THREB Cbe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEM-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA latirM at Poatoflo. Plsttsmoatb. Nb u ooad-dasa mall matter R. A. BATES, . Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE CLEAN HANDS .' The righteous also shall hold on his way, &nd he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. Job 17:9. :o:- Now down to work. Begin the New Year right. :o: Nearly always a man's hobby something he can't afford. :o: as . Farm situation vexes Coolidge the New Year begins. Why? :o: There is a vast difference between) working and Just being on the job. -:o:- The bootleggers are not so much to blame as the agents for the condition -of affairs. -:o:- All the world sends greetings the Unted States on the advent the New Year. :o: to of "Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some ' "Just, grate upon you." -:o: Any small schoolboy would tell you the two greatest Americans are Uncle Sam and Santa Claus. -:o: Fortunate the office-seeker who comes to the race as he came into the world with nothing on him. :o: Maybe the British have paid some or our high prices until they have ae cided to rub it in with rubber. -:o:- The only thing worse than Christ mas cigars are the Jokes written about Christmas cigars, including this one. -:o: Some men stay around the home so much that when they come down to the once they have forgotten how to talk. ' :o: Governor McMuIlen is .to ,vIsit,lwould neyer haye b her haIr bobed riaiiBmouia tomorrow mgai, uuu will club. address the Happy Hundred -:o:- The dictionary says static is a state of rest or equilibrium, proving that the dictionary doesn't know much about static. :o: Public school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., had to close for lack of coal. Thus the striking anthracite miners scored their first victory. :o: The annual story of the1 first bath tub in the United States has appear ed again. It is Cincinnati's only way of breaking into print on years when t doesn't win baseball pennants. :o: The resignation of the president of Nicaragua establishes a new prece dent. According to conservative cus tom In that country, he should have stayed until he was thrown out on his ear. :o: Judging from the numerous merg- ings of country newspapers during the last two or three years, it seems that high expenses rather than the minister decrees that "two shall be as one." :o: j Now that a college professor has figured it out that most of the weird poetry of the past was the result of opium and other narcotics or alcohol there will be a growing curiosity to see what sort of verse will 6pired by modern moonshine. be in- Dr. John A. Griff n, Dentist Office Honrs: 9-12; 1-6. Sundays and evening by appointment only. PHONE 229 Soennichsen Building M"M"I"I"I"I I"t"!"t M-M-T. 1 Money to loan on Farms Several Good Cass Coun ty Farms for Sale on Very Reasonable Terms. See T. H. Pollock Peace on earth, Good will to man; Pay your account, Or what you can. -:o:- Bad colds seem on the increase. -:o:- Did you start out right New Year's morning? Then keep it up. -:o: Kind words never die, and some of 3 the other kind live quite a while. :o:- Sure when the radio folks get the static out of the air they will really be ecstatic. Corn, wheat and eggs will be no cheaper until our farmers produce fewer quarter backs. People who have expensive autos 'should have a care for them this slippery, sloppy weather. :o: Commence the New Vear by tam ing down the auto speeders and the road hogs. It can be done. :o: A French explorer has found some bread 2,400 years old. Hope he doesn't sell it to a restaurant. -:o:- A man who lived In Alabama went hunting and got careless with the gun, so now he isn't living anywhere. :o: A Toledo, O., autoist ran into a new building going up. Guess he will say it was going up on the left-hand Blie -:o:- On February 3, 1919, E. W. Howe printed "Damn a Ford, anyhow!" Is it not about time he was ashamed of himself -:o: You are not a loyal citizen of your home town unless you feel that that town is the Florida of your part of the world. :o:- We have reason to believe that Ma if Pop had cigraettes. not begun to smoke -:o:- Probably, we would all do better if we paid more attention to our children and less attention to the older heads. :o: To a pedestrian who doesn't know a thing about automobiles it is puz zling, the way they get red-hot only when they're frozen. -:o:- Probably no one i ever resolves on New Year's to forsake his vices. He merely looks them over and resolves to indulge in them a little differ ently. :o: Omaha wants a free bridge across the Missouri river. Well, isn't she big enough to get it? She usually gets what she goes after, don't she? Well, I 6hould say. :o: A Boston violinist says he can put out ,a flame with the vibration of his fiddle. But that's nothing. A saxophone slightly off key can out an entire orchestra. put :o:- Happy New Year and if the pro hibition sleuths get you, don't call us up to come down and give bail. We don't expect to be at home to answer the telephone, anyhow. :o: A small boy, not far from Platts- mouth, received a popgun for Chridt- mas, ana announcea as ne sianea oui with the weapon over his shoulder that he was going out to shoot a few craps. :o: The farmer has been going throu gh trying times. His problems deserve attention and study. But in discu s lng plans for the future it Is esscn- tian to make sure that they will not have a flareback that will leave things in worse shape than they were be fore. -:o:- This country cannot become invol ved In the politics of Europe without accepting obligations. America never has refused to do its share when it has determined that it ought to take a hand. But is it to break with its past policy and permit other nations to determine when It shall intervene? :: The richest man in Fralfce lasted only a fortnight as minister of finance. Andrew Mellon, in spite of being quite well-to-do, has managed to lead the treasury department of the United States for almost five years. Perhaps he stays on for lack f the usual excuse for resigning "to recuperate my personal fortune." HOW TO THAW FROZEN PIPES The middle of a frozen pipe never should be thawed first, says the United States department of agri culture, because expansion of water confined by ice on both sides may :burst the pipe. When thawing a water pipe work toward the supply opening a faucet to show when the flow starts. Wen thawing a waste or sewer pipe work upward from the lower end to permit the water to drain away. Applying boiling water or hot cloths to a frozen pipe is simply effective. When there is no danger of fire a torch or burning newspaper run back and forth along the frozen pipe gives quick results. Under ground or otherwise unaccessible pipes may be thawed as follows: Open the fro zen pipe on the house end. Insert one end off a small pipe or tube. With the aid of a funnel at the other end of the small pipe pour boiling water into it and push it forwards as the ice melts. A piece of rubber tubing may be used to connect the funnel to thaw thrt pipe. Hold the funnel high er than the frozen pipe, so that the hot water has head and forces the ! colled water back to the opening, (where it mav b catisrht in a nail. The 'head may be increased and the fun- nel may be more conveniently used if an elbow and a piece of vertical pipe are added to the outer end of the thaw pipe. Withdraw the thaw pipe quickly after the flow starts. Do not stop the flow until the thaw pipe is fully removed and the frozen pipe is cleared of ice. A small force pump is oiten used instead 01 a iunnei ana is much preferred for opening a long piece of pipe. If available, a jet of steam may be used instead of hot water; being hotter, it is more rapid. Frozen traps and waste pipes are sometimes thawed by pouring in caustic soda or lye, obtainable at grocery stores for about 25 cents per pound. Chemicals of this character 'should be labeled "poison" and be kept where children cannot get them. To prevent freezing, the water in the traps of a vacant house should be removed during cold weather and the traps should be filled with kero sene, crude glycerine or a very strong brlme made of common salt and water. :o: IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE It pays to advertise. Secretary Hoover says that the American peo ple spend ten dollars on cosmetics to one on scientific research. Well, that's natural. Science does not adver tise. Cosemetics were, driven into the advertising field by a peculiar cir cumstance. Medical advertising got so bad that the better magazines cut it out entirely, and the newspapers, if they did not all refuse it, put it under increasingly stringent limita tions. The medicine business had con- cl- t,- r , io- and factories to manufacture . them. It had consisted almost entirely of advertising. It was easy to scrap the laboratories and sales organization, but the ad vertising department had to find a job. So they began demanding, "just what they mean by 'medicine?" If the answer was "anything remedial that goes inside," they promptly start ed something that went outside. Hence the flood of cosmetics. The vogue of the movie actresses "helped. If the movie queen had to make up, to photograph corectly, her imitator did the same thing, in the revealing light of day. So everybody bought something to make her beau tiful. And it costs ten times more than the entire investment in human progress. :o: MORE SPEED Now comes the president of the Piere Marquette to predict that rail roads of the not-so-far future will move as fast as airplanes, and more safely. Concrete roadbeds reinforced with steel beams will criss-cross over the country, he cays, and trains will run on roller bearings at incredible speeds. And it will all be safe. Sounds Interesting, and not as im- probable as you might think. This nation has a way of overcoming al most any kind of obstacle to obtain speed. -:o:- HIGH FINANCE George J. Gould lost $4, 500, 000 in his railroad manipulations, according to the testimony of his son in New York recently. Probably there were good reasons why he lost it. But It strikes the causal observer that there was one "king of finance" who was misnamed. It hardly seems as if a king of fi nance, even a second-rate king, ought to lose quite that much at one fell swoop. :o: Cheapest accident insurance Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil. For burns, scalds, cuts and emergencies. All druggists sell it. 30c and 60c. URIfiLEYS IT. if. NEW HANDY PACK Fits hand pocket and purse More for your money and the best Peppermint Chewing Sweet for any money Look for Wrigley's P. K. Handy Pack OBomejrsjCflnanterT . HIS CHANCE IN PRISON A man convicted of murder tells briefly and concisely what is the matter with the court and prison gyg. tem ,n the UnUed gtates Thig hap. pened at Leavenworth, Kansas, when John Black was found guilty of first degree murder. But Black thanked the members of the Jury for their verdict. He said: "I am glad they found me guilty of murder instead of being crazy. Now I will go to Lansing and stay a little while, get a pardon and get out. If I had been found insane it would have taken a dozen doctors to get me out of the asylum. Now one man can give me my freedom." When juries are exposed to an in sanity defense they usually render crazy decisions. This case appears to be an exception; yet its decision seems remarkably suited to the de sires of the accused. It is thus shown to be true that criminals in the United States really have little to fear at the hands of the law. Once in a while some very notorious criminal is caught in a big crime which arouses public opinion and which can not easily take the lenient course open in cases where Jury members are subject to personal prejudice, soft-heartedness and gen eral ignorance of their true obliga tions as jurors.. But as a general rule a person who has committed a crime has little to i fear Americans seem to have a race I which sees in crime only an interest- inS Phase of the day's news. The most brutal criminal act will not arouse half the sentiment that flowa forth when it is suggested that the ' person responsible for the act pay for it in proportion to the damage inflicted. If a prison sentence does not mean anything any more, we should put something in the code of punishment that will. Either that or abolish pun ishment altogether and satisfy our selves by saying, "naughty, naughty," when murderers are brought before the court of justice. :o:-- "Listen," said a wife to her hus band, "Christmas is over! I indulged your whims and permitted you to have your way because it was so good a policy to do so. From now on you come back to earth, so hang up your good clothes, there is work for you to do." -:o- We want to know why people live in Canada, when there's no law re quiring them to. Cold snaps like the one of the few days past make us realize the advantages which a local messenger boy enjoys over a Canadian bank president. :o: If more people would clean the snow off their side walks as soon as it has fallen, there wouldn't be very many slippery side-walks. And it would not hurt the city to have their crossings clearned once in a while. Truck and Transfer l -1 - n - E Call Phone 342-W or see me at the Valleiy Sales Pavilion, Plattsmoutb. Wade Porter 5pLive Stock Hauling a Specialty. PROLONGING LIFE The average age of man promises to be increased several years in an other generation through prevention of disease. Some of the largest in surance companies recently have Joined the movement promoted by the Goras Memorial Institute of Chi cago, looking to the extension of a wider interest in disease prevention. These Insurance companies have pro vided for yearly and bi-yearly vol untary examinations of their policy- holders. not whollv in the comDanles' interest, but to afford the insured the opportunity of a thorough physical sickne8Sf or inabiiity to secure data) A iazy iiver ieads to chronic dys examination that may prolong their to make a correct return. In granting r,ensia and constination weakens lives. It is estimated that of the 114,000. 000 people of the United States, not less than 3,000,000 are seriously illjon or before the date prescribed by at all times. Probably one-half this law for filing the return. number, it claimed, are sick of di sease that are wholly preventable. Preventable diseases include not on those caused by germs but disease due The extension will be granted only to faulty living, such as Bright's if explaination given is satisfactory disease, heart disease, arterial schlor- toTthe., collector ,,,,, . , . I In this connection it is held that osis and nervous breakdown. . the niness or absence of a particular When Carlyle in his essay on!0fgcer of a corporation or of a mem- j "Characteristics' 'said "the healthy know not of their health, but only the sick," he stated a truth which physicians have been trying to im press upon patients for a long time. Health is not alone a protection against germs. Many diseases that attack persons of middle life are pre ventable, or at any rate, susceptible to being arrested. Physicians who are of the Gorgas Memorial Institutions insist that thousands of persons can escape disease by the exercise of rea sonable precaution. There is no rea son, for instance, they claim, why any one should contract smallpox or ty i phoid fever when vaccination will ' prevent it. Many chronic diseases that attack older persons, particular ly, can be prevented by periodical ex '. animations. A doctor's favorable il ' lustration is an automobile. "When : there is a knock in your motor, or your car labors going up hill, or it has no pep' on the getaway, you take it to a mechanic who look9 Inside." .he says. It is the same with humans. I With the advent of X-rays, doctors j now are able to look inside as well as outside. The can "see" the heart, the lungs, kidneys, stomach and in testines, in fact all the organs of the body, and in many cases determine what causes the "knock." Regular physical examinations these experts assert, wil save many thousands of persons from getting sick and eventually lead to a long er average life, beyond the allotted "three score and ten," ven reaching perhaps the age of Methuselah. :o: ACCEPTING OLD AGE There is no way of making an old person young by an operation, in spite of the enthusiasm of various oper ators and other romances, physiolo gists attending a convention in Cleve land tell the reporters. Well, really, what of it? We go through the normal experiences of life from childhood to old age. One phase succeeds another. We test the possibilities of each as we go along. After we have had one kind of ex perience we are ready for then next We would not continue in our 'teens Maturity brings Its opportunities. We try them out. Why should we not be ready to move on to the next stop ping place and leave the stage to the younger players? A philosophy and serene old age has its own value. Its own beauty. But an old person who is fuming and fretting overt his lost youth spoils the satisfaction he might get from age and makes himself a nuisance to his friends. :o: THE DREAMERS Kipling once paid an aloquent tribute to the one man to whom he was willing to doff his hat "the dreamer whose dreams come true Dreamers are ignored or despised by us practical people. We are brisk, efficient and businesslike. They idle their time and build air castles. But sooner or later we find our selves bowing the knee to them. Cecil Rhodes dreamed that the At rican Jungles could support an em pire; they do, because of his dream The Wright brothers dreamed that man could ply, fast planes speed from coast to coast with the govern ment mails. Marconia dreamed of sending his voice through the air; millions listen in on radio every night. Beware how you laugh at dream ers. For saying that civilization pro gresses is only another way of say ing that somebody's dreams are com ing true. :o: The best wise crack of the holidays was the nomination of Jack Dempsey for the 1925 Nobel peace prize. :o: Feel languid, weak, run down? Headache? Stomach "off?" A good remedy is Burdock Blood Bitters. Ask your druggist. Price $1.25. Extension of Time for Filing Income Report But Only in Stringent Cases, Absence,' Sickness, Etc.; Application Must Be Made Before March 15. Under a recent ruling of the Treas ury Department, collectors of in- ternal revenue are authorized to gnt extensions of time for filing such extensions the following must be observed: No extension of time may be grant - ed unless application therefor is made The application for the extension must state specifically the reason for ey requesting that the time for S,' Apnlic:itlon l theJ t1"?: MJ.ot A. O. Ault. Administrator of the ber of a partnership does not con stitute in itself sufficient reason for granting the corporation or partner ship an extension of time within which to file its return. In no case may a particular ex tension be granted covering a period of more than 90 days. The usual time given will be from 30 to 60 days. In the case of corporations no ex tension of time may be granted un less conditioned upon the filing of a tentative return and payment of one fourth of the estimated tax on or be fore the date prescribed by law for filing the return. In the case of individuals, tenta tive returns are required and one fourth of the estimated tax paid on or before the date prescribed by law for filing the return, whenever in the opinion of the colector it is possi ble for the particular individual to do so. In all cases where an extension of time for filing a return of income is granted, conditioned upon the filing of a tentative return and payment of one-fourth of the estimated amount of tax shown thereon, the filing of such tentative return and payment of the required tax becomes a condi tion precedent, and unless compiled with the extension is of no effect. By a "tentative return" is meant a return on the appropriate income tax forb showing only the name and ad dress of the taxpayer and the estimat ed amount, if any, of the tax due. The items and schedules shown on the form need not be filled in. Interest is collectible at the rate of six per cent per annum on the dif ference between the amount of tax shown on the tentative and completed returns from the dua date of each in stallment up to and including the date of the expiration of the period of extension. A copy of the extension granted by the collector must be attached to the tentative and completed returns when filed, in order to insure the protection to the taxpayer which this ruling contemplates. Taxpayers will please be governed accordingly. A. B. ALLEN. Collector of Internal Revenue District of Nebraska. K. 0. CLUB ELECTS The K. O. club composed of the young people of the west portion of the city enjoyed a very pleasant meeting at the K. S. hall on Sunday afternoon that was very largely at tended by the members of the club to take part in the important busi ness session of the organization. The club elected as officers for the ensuing year the following: President Mike Vitersnek. Vice President Miss Marie Svo boda. Secretary Miss Frances Krejci. Treasurer Frank Koubek. After the election of the officers an initiation was held of several members and the harrowing cere monies were staged with great pomp and spirit, the chief part of the in itiation ceremony being in the hands of Frank Sedlacek, chairman of the initiation committee. All the candi dates were given a thorough work out and fittingly inducted into the mysteries of the club. The occasion also being the birth day of the president, Mr. Vitersnek, it was made the more pleasant by the appearance of a large birthday cakq which assisted materially In making the afternoon one of great est enjoyment for all. Have you anything to buy or sell 1 Then tell the world about it through he Journal Want Ad column. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Christina Barr, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room in Plattsmouth in said county, on the 15th day of February, 1926, and on the 17th day of May, 1926, at 10 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 allow ance. The time umitea ior me pre sentation of claims against said es tate is three months from the 15th day of February, A. D. 1926, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year irom saia laia uay oi February, 1926. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 4th day of January, 1926. j A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) j7-4w County Judge. BLAME FOR THE COLLAPSE Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 4. Blame for the grand stand collapse here New Year's day which resulted in three deaths and more than 200 injuries, was placed by a cornorer's jury late today on Paul F. Mahoney. who built the stand, and the building Inspec- iessnes9 and neglect" were charged nn the findings. TRUCKING Live 2904. stock and grain, telephone HUGH DKOWX. tfw the whole system. Doan's Reguiets (30c per box) act mildly on the liver iand bowels. At all drug stores. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the District Court of Cass coun- Estate of Edward P. Mcliride. de ceased, for License to Sell Heal Es tate to Pay Debts. Now on this 31st day of December, A. D. 1925, comes A. O. Ault. Ad ministrator of the estate of Edward 1. McBride, deceased, and presents his petition for license to sell real es tate of the deceased to pay debts out standing against said estate; and it appearing from said petition that there is insufficient personal property in the hands of said administrator to pay the claims presented and allowed by the County Court and the expenses of said administration and that It is necessary to sell the whole of said real estate of said deceased for the payment of claims and costs of ad ministration; It is therefore Ordered and Ad judged that all parties interested in the estate of Edward P. McBride, de ceased, appear before me, James T. Betfey, Judge of the District Court, in the office of the Clerk of the Dis trict Court in the court house, in the City of Plattsmouth, In Cass county, Nebraska, on the 20th day of Febru ary, 1926, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any there be, why license should not be granted to A. O. Ault. Ad ministrator of said estate, to sell all of the real estate of said deceased so as to pay claims presented and al lowed with costs of administration. It is further Ordered that notice be given to all persons interested by publication of this Order to Show Cause for four (4) successive weeks in the Plattsmouth Journal, a legal newspaper published and of general circulation in said County of Cass, Nebraska. By the Court. JAMES T. BEG LEY, j4-4w District Judge. NOTICE In the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska. Ida F. Applegate; Jessie A. Potter; Julian E. Applegate; Palmer C. Applegate and Delia A. Anderson, plaintiffs, vs. Herman M. Nye; Eliza Barnum; Thomas G. Barnum; J. F. Hartman, real nome unknown; John Hull; Anna Maria Jennings: George Jennings; Otoe County National Bank of Nebraska City, Nebraska; John II. Bayley; Edward Goorttn ough; Charles E. Bayley; Jennie F. Bayley; William Horrigan; K. W. Barnum, real name unknown; Henry W. Moore; Milton Tootle; Stogdell Stokes; George W. Hunt and Lee Ap plegate. and all persons having or claiming any interest in the west half of the northwest quarter (NW'i ) of section twenty-seven (27). township (10) north of Range Thirteen (13). east of the Sixth Principal Meridian in Cass county, Nebraska, real names unknown, defendants. To the above named defendants: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 21st day of December, 1925, Ida F. Applegate; Jessie A. Potter; Julian E. Apple gate; Palmer C. Applegate and Delia A. Anderson, plaintiffs herein filed their petition in this action in the District Court of Cass county, Ne braska against the above defend ants, the object and prayer of which petition is to quiet title to the fol lowing described real estate, to wit: The West Half of the North west Quarter (NW'i) of Sec tion Twenty-Seven (27), Town ship Ten (10). North Range Thirteen (13), East of the Sixth Principal Meridian in Cass, county, Nebraska. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 8th day of February. 192 6. Dated this 21st day of December, 1925, at Lincoln, Nebraska. IDA F. APPLEGATE, JESSIE A. POTTER. JULIAN E. APPLEGATE. PALMER C. APPLEGATE, DELLV A. ANDERSON. Plaintiffs. By Frederick J. Patz, Their Attorney. 5w NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Thomas Walling, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room In Plattsmouth in said county, on Janu ary 11, 1926, and April 12, 1926, at 10 o'clock a. m., each day, to receive and examine all claims against said estate with a view to their adjust ment and allowance. The time lim ited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 11th day of January, A. D. 1926, and the time limited for pay ment of debts Is one year from said 11th day of January, 1926. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 7th day ot December, 19 25. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) d!4-4w County Judge.