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MOHDAt, JVm 4, 19fS. PIATTSMOUTH SLM1 - WEEKLY JOtTEZTAl PAGE THTjED Cbc plattsmoutb 3ournal ' 1 . . , FUBUSHES SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA R. A. BATES, Publisher &UBSfl3IPI10B PMCI $2.00 PES TEAK IK ADVANCE ; It is estimated tnat 110,000,000 people speak German. :o: - If you want excitement take a trip through Mexico, You may not be disappointed. :o: The only sure thing about the pen nant race ia that there will be a ticket scandal connected with it. . :o: Ilalf the battle Is won for the re publicans, if they can keep Al Smith from being nominated for president. :o: A Los Angeles organization has announced, a banquet at $100 a plate. There will be no speeches. Cheap enough. :o: One-third of the country's cases of enake bite occur in Texas, a fact of which the Democratic delegates should be apprised. -:o: An aged Belgian is going to walk all over his native country playing a drum. No doubt everybody will be glad to see him beat it. o: Dresa reformers have a good deal to be responsible for. They should think things over and consider re sults. They are not pleasing. :o: A writer says building trades existed in Asia Minor 1.500 years ago, and that they were unionized. Why should this be surprising? :o: Spain's prime minister is going to be married. We can remember when a fellow was afraid to take a wife unless he had a steady job. :o: It seems the proposed Farmer and Labor third party is not being re ceived with enthusiasm. Just where farmers came in never has been ex plained. . :o: For reasons best known to them selves, presidential possibilities are not dejing much In the publicity line. However, the country is not in a stew over it. :o: We are told that the Smith boom has emerged from a cave of silence and is resuming a full measure of ac tivity. In politics one can not re main mediating too long. : :o: The citizens of Vicksburg have voted to raise the municipal tax levy from 22 1-2 to 25 mills. We wonder if it is really worth two and one-half per cent per annum to re side in "Vicksburg. :o: The trip through the cemetery Was one of enjoyment to note the beantiful manner in which graves were decorated, the r and- j work mostly of Woman's Relief Corpe, who deserve great credit for their incessant labor. I :o: I Big Bill Haywood, who has just died in Russia, said of the United ; States before he left that everybody would have an automobile or no body would have one, so that he could not have died comparatively young because hia foresight was de ficient. GARAGE Our Repair Garagi 111! 9 is kept constantly busy because mo torists recognize it as the best and most reliable repair shop for every kind of damage a car can possibly sastain. And, being practical men of long and varied experience, all on; repair work is excellently and thor oughly done, without unnecessary de lay and at reasonable charge. FradyY Garage Phone 58 There are 22 bones in the human skull. -:o:- The eyes of affection have no need of oculists or opticians. : :o: You can never tell what a woman or a Jury is going to do. :o: The acme in daring: A pacifist spending his vacation in Chicago. :o: All the optimistic home garden ers are now busy sowing seed to fatten their neighbors' hens. :o: There are but a very few demo crats in the city that are not reliable, and they are spotted. -:o:- Never in the history of this gov ernment were there so many can didates for president at one time. -:o:- Hoover will not attend the repub lican convention, but will hold his ear to the telephone from Washing ton. :o: One big service Harry F. Sinclair has rendered the United States gov ernment he's given some of its bonds a lot of publicity. :o: Having heard several convention delegates deliver speeches, we can well believed that they are unin structed aud uninformed. -:o:- Hindenburg was eighty years old before he had a tooth pulled; that man never let anything" be taken from him without a stiff fight. :o: Roy Chapman Andrews, hunting human fossil in Mongolia, is phot in the left leg. And yet some people think archaelogy isn't exciting. -:o:- The deepest part of the Pacific is now said to be off the Philippines and we are going to locate it. When found it will not be kept a secret. :o: Four Louisiana oil men ; were drowned when waves swamped their boat near New Iberia. They failed to pour oil on the troubled waters. ' :o: There will be 1089 delegates in the Republican National convention and in the Democratic convention 1. 100. In this case Democrats are ahead. :o: A Kansas woman was granted a divorce because her husband struck her with one of her own biscuits. The judge decided it was extreme cruelty. :o: Radio broadcasting of the proceed- lings of the national political con- thejventions will be in part on short waves, corresponding, in a way, to the waves of enthusiasm for some of the favorite sons :o:- The democrats certainly, have the best show for success in this cam- paign, it they don't turn the tide by making damphools of themselves. Which they might do In the closing hours of the campaign. :o:- If the democrats let the repub lican leaders defeat Governor Smith for the nomination for president at the Houston Convention, take our word for it, they just as well hang up the fiddle, and bow and quit. :o: Jim Reed is one of the ablest mm this country ever produced, and would make an able president. He has a world of friends who wou'd support him for the nomination f r president, if they thought he could be elected. :o: Bandit armed with sawed-off slut gun held up a poker game down f t Hammond, La., the other night and relieved six players of about $6,000 in cash and jewelry. However, five of the players have little to worry about. No doubt there are sure thing played in the game who would have gotten it all, anyway. :o: It Is indeed a pleasure to be re membered by one's friends. On thi3 occation Colonel and Mrs. M. A. Bates owe Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Egen berger a debt of gratitude for a trip through the cemetery, Wednesday evening and also a fine, trip of sev eral .miles In the. country south of town. This occasion was certainly appreciated In enjoyment, and the manner in which it was given made it more than simply a pleasure and are never forgotten. THE GREAT AWAKENING "The laws relating to indictment as they stand today on the statute books of the various states probably are more diverse, more responsible for miscarriage of justice and more in need of reform than any single group of laws governing procedure In criminal cases." Such is the con clusion of Dean William E. Mikell and Prof. Edwin It. Keedy of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, following two years' compil ation and study of criminal laws in the United States for the American Law Institute. Amons instances cit ed are two where the guilt of the defendant was clearly established. One recent case collapsed because the indictment charged the theft of a pair of shoes," whereas the evidence showed that a verdict of first-degree murder was set aside because the in dictment referred to the victim j merely by name and failed to add the words "a human being." But the root of the trouble lies deeper than such technical absurd ities. The report frankly recognizes what American jurists, headed by Chief Justice William Howard Taft are coming more and more to rec ognize and declare: The reason why our criminal code today unduly fa vors the criminal is because that code is still based on English com mon law which grew out of condi tions existing in England 300 years ago. At that time there were ap proximately 200 crimes which were punishable by death in England. The courts opposed such stringent penalties and . when Parliament refused to amend them a natural sympathy for the defendant In the major ity of cases led to the introduc tion of Eupertechnicalities serv ing to bring about the acquittal of guilty persons. Legal precedents established when the situation was radically different continue to bind us to day, and as a result many a present-day offender facing only just punishment for his crime goes free of any penalty at all. The country is waking up to this at last, it is waking to the prepost erousness of an American code of justice which makes the court a feeble umpire holding the "rule book" while lawyers play a sharp game of wits or, worse, with most of the tricks secured in advance to the criminal. It is waking to the absurd ity and danger of treating a criminal in this twentieth century as if we must still protect him from a star chamber assuring- him that if he chooses to be silent about his crime his silence shall not be held against him, going out of our way to give him the advantage of every delay, the gain from every technicality, the benefit of every doubt. It is a fine, epoch-making work the American Law Institute, the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Law School, the Harvard Law School, the organ ized bar and many individual law yers and Judges are now doing to aid this great and needed awakening. If jurists will lead the public and its legislators inteligently follow, the j improvement in the administration j of criminal law in these United States will be incalculable. That ad- i . ministration will cease to be what Chief Justice Taft has repeatedly called it, "a disgrace to civilization." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o: MARY AND THE LAMB Was the celebrated schoolgirl, Mary, who had the little lamb, Am erican or English? The question was supposedly settled with finality when ! Henry Ford bought the school in Massachusetts that Mary and her lamb attended. Ford possesses not j only the place where it happened, but documentary evidence giving the j name of the girl and. the name of the Massachusetts man who wrote the poem, although there are au thorities who . maintain that the scene was in Newport, N. II. with an other set of characters. Nevertheless the people of Great Britain have just been celebrating the 88th birthday of the aforesaid Mary, now Mrs. Mary Hughes, who vouches for the fact that she took the lamb to school. And the poem, it is averred, was written by an Englishwoman, Jane Burl, by name, who lived in London. This is distressing. There ought to be an international commission ap pointed to straighten it out. :o: We candidly believe that Gover- I nor Smith is by far the strongest man that can possibly be nominated at the Houston convention. His ability has been proven by three : terms as governor of the great state j of New York. Inline he has proved j man of the people, and just such , a one as would make a good presi , dent. Honesty and ability should j go hand in hand, and that is the way they go with the governor of New York. MR. HUGHES SPANKS US Mr. Charles Evans Hughes was in a stern, pedagogical mood the other night when he talked cn the "funda mentals of law." He said "if the states have been shorn of power it is the states that are responsible." He also said that "an unnecessarily cen- tralizied government defeats liberty by holding its citizens in a thralldom from which they cannot escape be cause they are dominated by an over powering number of 'those who are not members of their own commun ities." Perhaps we needed the spanking. Perhaps it was well, too, to terrify U8 with that striking description of what centralization ultimately means. But does an instructor only meet the requirements of his job does an instructor truly meet the requirements of his job by spanking his pupils and then frightening them? We do not think so. The spank and the scare are all right, but a teacher, we think, sought to show us when, where and why we have blundered and thus assist us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Just how have the states surrend ered their powers to the Federal Government? What laws have we passed, what policies have we adopt ed, what experiments have we em barked on which have divested us of our original powers and authority and vested the same in the Govern ment at Washington? Mr. Hughes charges us with folly, and correctly. He has portrayed the consequences, and correctly. But he gives us no bill of particulars. He avoids men tioning one concrete instance in which we have erred. Ho does not say how to correct the terrifying situation. A severe critic, but not much of a coach. :o: GOOD LOOKING STRREETS A city that prides itself on its general appearance, but wants to im prove, is offering a prize for "the best-looking block of houses in town." Best-lookin? it explained. doesn't mean the most expensive or dignified. "It means the cheeriest, the block that seems to hold out the most cordial welcome to visitors." Beauty seems tq he assumed, but it. is well to insist on the cheeriness. Some group of houses in a modest neighborhood may win that distinc tion. They will be houses well plan ned and kept in good repair. They will not all look alike. There will be trees and shrubs in the front yards, and probably flower garden in the back yards. But they will not be too neat and precise. And there will be children and dogs in them. Other wise there would be no real cheeri ness or sense of welcome. :o: Ex-Senator Burkett, of Lincoln, was in the city Monday on some mat ters of business, and dropped in to see the Colonel. We spent a half hour very sociably, and talked over old times when he was in congress 25 years ago. We always had the higest respect for Mr. Burkett, per sonally, but he says he always knew where to find Col Bates politically. :o: One of our numerous anti-Smith correspondents writes to say that the prohibition law is being flagrantly violated. The statues against mur der, rape, arson, and various other felonies, are also being violated, and even the Ten Commandments are not doing so very well these days. -:o:- Canada offers attractions to new comers. It offers a quarter section of land free and will spend $1,500 in getting it ready for cultivation. Don't Neglect Your Kidneys! You Can't Ee Well When Kidneys Act Sluggishly DO you find yourself running down always tired, nervous and do pressed? Are you stiff and achy, sub- iect to nagging backache; drowsy leadaches and dizzy spells? Are kid ney excretions scanty, too frequent or burning in passage? Too often this indicates sluggish kidneys and shouldn't be neglected. Doan's Pills, a stimulant diuretic; increase the secretion of the kidneys and thus aid in the elimination of waste impurities. Doan's are endorsed everywhere. Ask your neighbor! DOAN'S PILLS 60c A STIMULANT DIURETIC KIDNEYS fbsier-Milburn Co. MfgCliem. Buffo!. NY. l Si. a. Same Trice Prw riimv linriVC I i lift UU&i kJJ lj&lifJ 'I 25ou$es2 USE LESS THAN OF HIGHER PRICED BRANDS Why Pay War Prices? THE GOVERNMENT USED MILLIONS OF POUNDS HEROES OF INDUSTRY It is not yet possibl to say how many miners have died in the Mather ber of the K. of P. in the state of "model mine" in Pennsylvania as a Michigan, last year soir.g by airplane result of a gas explosion. It is con- frm homt "rand IlaPid to , , , .'attend the grand lodge, ceded, however, that the list or dead j -he funeral Service;, were heid will be appalling. Thus far no blame j Monday at Wyandotte. Mr. Way is attached to the mine owners. It 'man is survived by the aged widow, is claimed that every known device ' Mrs. Harriett Wayman and one . . i daughter, Mrs. Cora Daniels, both ioi muKiiiji miniiis suit- viis in us.- ii. this particular mine. An investiga tion will determine. It is worth noting, too, that the claim is made that "every mine dis aster i of a different nature and usually of a different origin." This means that no matter what precau-, tionnn- mMcin nro thoro ran ' never be any certain' y that death does not lurk in the mines. And all this means just one thing that no occupation is more precar- ious than that of the men who dig from the bowels of the earth the coal that feeds the furnaces and warms the homes of men. It is well to bear this in mind in considering the compensation receiv ed by the miners. Just now we hear little of the "high wages" paid the miners. The industry itself ris in a precarious condition. But when i wages are "high" they are none too high considering the risks taken. A list of the martyrs of the mines for a generation would make a start ling figure. Gradually the barbarous working conditions of the old type mine have been improved, through the legislative agitation of the work ers. But they can never be made perfect. The risk will always be in it. Death will always lurk beneath the surface of the earth. It is well to bear all thi:: in mind when we are again invited to join in the hue and cry against the "un reasonable demands" of the coal diggers. They are really the heroes of industry. :o: DEDICATE MEMORIAL CHURCH Some thirtv years ago the only church building in the town of Man - 1,- ,.-.c- th.nt non erontr.I by the Methodist faith in that local ity and which at that time it was planned to sell. The members of the Roman Catholic faith which had a church in the country near Manley and suffered the loss of their church by fire, it having been struck by lightning, the members of the parish started the negotiations for the pur chase of the building in town that hail been erected by the Methodist. On the evening that the church was to have been disposed of a group of nine men, deciding that they' wished to retain the church in it3 former faith, borrowed the money and bought the building. These men were Peter Coon, Marsh Shipman, Sam Coon, C. M. Andrus, Dan Andrus, N. Calkins, Alex Miller, Fred Andrus and Aarov Jenkins. Of these but three are now living. The Union Sunday school that now holds its sessions in the old church on SundayTMay 27th met and dedi cated the building as a memorial "In Honor of Those Nine Men Who Saved This Building That We Might Have a Place to Worship God." The building is serving as a union church and any minister has an invitation to hold services there. The Union Sunday school meets each Sunday at 10 o'clock and has an attendance of from thirty to forty each time. There is no pastor at the church but the church has been serv ed for the winter by visiting pastors. The failure to purchase this church building by the members of the Cath olic parish had the result of pro viding Manley with another church as the beautiful St. Patrick's church was erected by the members of this faith in Manley and vicinity. HERE FROM FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Propst and TXr ami Mrs Klvin E. Greene. Jr.. of Lake Worth, Florida, are visiting rointivoa im rl friends In Nebraska, !Mr. Propst will stay all summer and from the 22nd day of June, A. D. Ulr. and Mrs. Greene will drive back 1928, and the time limited for pay I in a couDle of weeks ment of debts is one year from said This week they are visiting at the! 22nd day of June, 192S. ! home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kallstrom Witness my hand and the seal of in Avoca, as are Mrs. C. E. Wilcox said County Court this 22nd day of , and Marilynn of Plattsmouth, and May, 1928. Mrs. J. F. Sindelar and Kathryn Mae A. H. DUXBURY, "of Omaha. (Seal) m2S-4w County Judge. DEATH OF OLD VETERAN Notice has been received here of the death on May 23rd at. Wyan dotte, Michigan, of Capt. John Way- man, a former pioneer resident of Plattsmouth and the west, to which he came in his early days following the close of the civil war. Mr. Way man was one of the early Missouri river boatmen and was for a number of years engaged in the handling of the local transfer boat here and a friend and associate of the late Captain Peter Mann. After the coming of the railroad Mr. Way man fnsr:iirefl in work at. the RurlinK- ton shops until he established a small iron works and foundry in this? fifv it heintr lnr.it ! Inst rnst of where the IIei3el mill is now lo cated and here for a great many yeans Mr. Way man was engaged in turning out iron castings, many of which can still be found in the buildings in this city, one of these being the building occupied by the Journal. Mr. Wayman built the residence here at Seventh and Washington avenue that is now occupied by Her man Reichstadt and family, where the family resided until the they removed to Michigan some thirty seven years ago. While here Mr. Wayman was very active in the I. O. O. F. and also the Knights of Pythias, and at the time rf hiu Jbath of thn n fro nf iip-htv- . ' v .OQ tlwi i,iat T.,,c:;,Hcr t WvnnrlnttP GRADUATES FROM U. OF N. The Journal has received the an nouncement from Mrs. C. II. Van Wie of Lincoln, who will be remem bered here as formerly Miss Mary Carstens, sister of Mrs. Mike Lutz, anil niece of Mrs. Helen Rhode of this city, in which Mrs. Vanwie states that her son, William A. Van- j Vi0f ia to graduate from the elec ; trical engineering class at the Uni versity of Nebraska, on Saturday Mr. VanWie graduated four years ago from the Ashland high school and has since been attending the ; state university where he h?is won a ' great deal of attention by his school work. He is a member of Theta Chi, Sisrma Tau. Phi Tau Theta, Math club, A. I. E. E. president, N. E. S., Nebraska Blue Print Stan. He is also second lieutenant in the uni versity It. O. T. C. The young man will leave the middle of July for the east, where he will take up his electrical work at the East Pittsburgh plant of the Vestinghou3e Electrical Co Mr. and Mrs. C. H. VanWie, the parents of the young man, are living at 1417 Q street, Mr. VanWie being a linotype operator of the Nebraska State Journal at Lincoln FORM SEWING CLUB On 'May 29th, there was a Girls' Sewing club organized at the home of Miss . Leola Hell, leader near Cedar Creek. There are eight mem bers in the club. During the meeting the officers were elected for the season. They are: Mary Wagner, president; Mil dred Murray, vice president; Char lotte Mayfield, secretary; Mildred Heil, news reporter. The next meeting will be held on June 13th at the home of our leader. Miss Leola Heil. County Agent Mr. Snipes was !1'1 J,0 help organize and gave a I "Ulf LW K Oil Hie U1K. Good eating potatoes for sale at $1 per bu. at Murray Cream Station. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Cath erine Wiles, 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 29th day of June, 1928, and on the 1st day of October, 1928, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each day, 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 29th day of June, A. D. 1928 and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 29th day of June, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 2Gth day of May, 192S. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) m2S-4w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Sam G. Smith, 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 22nd day of June, 1928, and on the 24th day of September, 1928, at ten o'clock a. m. of 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 tnree montns Regardless of what party leaders think, it is an injustice to put on the national government the entire cost of flood prevention and control. There is no good reason why states concerned should not bear a fair pro portion of the cost3. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, S. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Martha M. Schliefert, deceased. To the creditor of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room In Plattsmouth in said county, on the Sth day of June, 1928, and on the 10th (lav of September, 1928, at 10 o'clock a. tn. of 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 Sth day of June, A. D. lszs. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said Sth day of June, 1928. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 7th day of May, 192S. A. H. DUXBURV, (Seal) ml4-4w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING on Guardian's Report a:id Petition. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the Guardianship of Joseph Mauck, Incompetent. On due consideration of the report of Hugh E. Warden filed herein on May 19th, 1928, and of hij petition f ho wing that his said ward claims to be entitled to possession and control of his property and desires that said Guardianship be closed, it is Orderer, that a hearing be had on said matter in this court on June 15th, 192S, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m., and that notice of the filing of said report and petition and of said hearing be given to his said ward and his sister, Mrs. Lucinda Conrad, to whom he was paroled, and Mrs. Margaret Chappell, by personal ser vice of notice and to all other per sons interested in said matter by pub lication of notice in the Plattsmouth Journal, a newspaper published and of general circulation in Cass county, Nebraska, for three weeks prior to said day of hearing. Given under my hand and the seal of said court this 19th day of May, A. D. 1928. A. H. DUXBURY, County Judge, Cass County, Nebraska. (Seal) m21-3w. LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska The Standard Ravings & Loan Association of Om aha, Plaintiff vs. Adelaide Burnett, formerly V NOTICE Adelaide Kramer, and her husband, J. J. Burnett, real name unknown, et al, Defendants. To Adelaide Burnett, formerly Ade laide Kramer, and her husband, J. J. Burnett, real name unknown, non resident, defendants: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 12th day of May, 1928, the plaintiff filed its amended petition in the above entitled action in the District Court of Cass county. Nebraska, the object and prayer of which upon its first cause of action is to foreclose a mortgage in the sum of f 1,4 SO. 0 8, with interest thereon at the rate of Sco from April 24, 1923, on Lot 5, in Block 61, in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Ne braska, which mortgage appears of record in Book 51, at Page 351, or the Mortgage Records of said county, and for equitable relief; and on its sec ond cause of action to reform and foreclose mortgage for $2,000.00, dated February 25, 1924, from the description of which mortgage Lot 1, in the NEU of the NE'4 of Section 30, Township 12 North, Range 14 East of the 6th P. M., in Cass coun ty, Nebraska, was ommitted by mis take and that the description of said mortgage should he as follows: Lot 1 in the NE4 of the NEU of Section 30, Township 12 North, of Range 14, East of the 6th P. M., and also the fol lowing described lands, to-wit: Commencing at the southwest corner of the SEU of the SEU of Section 19, Township 12 North, of Range 14, East of the 6th P. M., running thence east along the south line of said Sec tion 19, to the center of County Road No. 55, as now traveled and used, thence northwesterly on the center line of said county road to a point where said line intersects with the west line of the SEU of the SEU of Section 19, thence south along the west line of said SEU of the SEVi of said Section 19, to the place of beginning, containing 8 acres, more or less, all In Cass county, Nebraska; That said mortgage bears Interest at the rate of S from February 25, 1924, and is recorded in Book 53 of Mortgages, at Page 69 of the mort gage records of said county, and prays that an accounting he had, said mortgage foreclosed, and for equitable relief. J You are required to answer said 'petition on or before Monday, the 2nd day of July, 1928, or your de fault will be entered in the said cause , and decree granted as prayer for in ,said petition. THE STANDARD SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, of Omaha, Nebraska, PlaintifT. A. L. TIDD, Attorney for Plaintiff. m21-4w