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MONDAY, APEIL 1, 1929.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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MR. EOEAH "CHUCKLES'
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PUBLISHED SE1H-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTIL, NEBSAEKA
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?irESCKIPTI05 PEICE 2.00
Don't run if you want to catch
your breath.
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Mellon holds that sinking of Brit
ish vessel was justifiable.
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People who have the least to say
usually have the most to talk about.
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No man should object to thick
poles on his shoes, as the objections
will wear away.
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Modesty in a woman is like the
color in her cheeks decidedly be
coming if not put on.
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As one editor remarks, a new baby
is a greater event than a new auto
mobile. And there is no deprecia
tion. :o:
Catch a boy and shake him al
most any day now, and if he's nor
mal he'll give forth a sound of
rattling marbles.
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Prisoners in a Missouri jail were
discovered making liquor. It teems
that even in Jail a fellow can't have
personal liberty any more.
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A Federal clerkship, in Washing- j
ton or elsewhere, offers little in the
way of advancement. It is a modest
living, and that's about all.
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Husbands of the next generation
will probably complain: "Why don't
you open Borne of those good old tin j
cans like mother used to buy?"
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A local citizen remarks that when1
you bet on three aces that's gambling !
and something to be condemned, but
when you bet on wheat, that's busi-
cess.
One exceedingly sac reature of
thefie spring floods is that it will de- '
lay the fishing season at least two
weeks. The cat-fish ought to be biting .
right now.
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Women now hold 41 per cent of
the wealth of the United States, and lor reports that the Amazon and La
a statistician predicte they will hold plata two of the greatest rivers of
all of It by 2035. If so. it will be a America are really one rivt.r
sweet revenge to put men on an al- running two ways. A sort of valve
lowance, lu.ii m,tfu
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The McComb Enterprise calls at-
tention to the fact that last year
the Illinois Central paid $107,000 in
taxes in Pike county, and the bus
lines, operating in active competi
tion contributed only $250 to the
public treasury. j
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The groundhog saw his shadow on
Feb.
He therefore slept again un-
til March 16 One week later the
temperature went to 92. forsvthia
bloomed and the shadbrush showed
white in the somber woods. Yet we
maintain a Weather Bureau.
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The Port Gibson Reveille says
Senator Pat Harrison is "not much
force but a pretty clever fellow."
Yeah, Pat packs a wallop not much
harder than that of a full-grown
mule, and when he goes into action
all the Republicans take to cover.
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Speaker Shanahan of the Illinois
House of Representatives was given
the Job of appointing a committee of i
seven to invesetigate what state leg-
islators are on other payrolls. Peo
ple who think being speaker of the
Illinois House is a pretty nice job
teem to be slightly wrong.
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The United States has more money j
than any other country on earth and
enjoys a greater prosperity; yet a
useful statesman like the late Sen-
ator Oscar Underwood dies with an
estate of but $50,000 while an Ar-
nold Rothstein gambler, done nur-
veyor. and racketeer leaves about
$3,000,000.
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BATES , Publisher
PEE TEAS US AEVAKCI
is ne
No matter how tall a man
is not above criticism.
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All women are equally fair-
-when
the lights are extinguished.
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Why do they try to prohibit Tom
Heflin from making a ppeeeh? Isn't
he a good talker?
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Instead of waiting for his ship to
come in a man should charter a tug
and go out to meet it.
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A vine bears three grapes the
first of pleasure, the second of drunk
enness, and the third cf repentance.
Anacharsis.
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This should be a wonderful Easter,
judging by the number of Broadway
showers that have been laying eggs
for the occasion.
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Well, the more ships John Bull
and Uncle Sam build in competition,
the more they'll have to help one
another in time of trouble.
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Talk about paying political debts
with patronage, the appointment of
(Arthur M. Hyde as Secretary of Agri-
culture, was nothing else but
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President Hoover abandons the
( Mayflower. And what is he trying to
ido make Coolidge economy look, like
the extravagance of Louis XIV, the
well known Bourbon poker?
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A bottle thrown at Senator Tom
Heflin after his speech at Brockton
struck and injured a policeman,
Mebbe Tom misses his bottle, but
this is the first bottle that ever miss-
ed Tom.
According to figures issued from
Washington, Nebraska is far short of
her share of persons holding civil
service positions in Washington. Ne-
braska isn't the only state that is
short on this deal.
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An explorer in the Brazilian inter-
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A little more than ten years ago
the nations of. the world finished
fighting a war that nearly wrecked
all but a few of them a war fought
to end war. Today all of them are ,
preparing for a new war more ener
getically than ever before.
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I The value of the radio in bring-
e minions ui pr-isuus into i-uuuai
wltb Public ispues and Publ!c mf'n ,
was fullr demonstrated in the last
campaign when $2,000,000 was spent
h P"tical Parties for broadcasting
j privileges; New York Times consid
ers it great debunking influence.
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Thomas A. Edison has lived for S2 J There are. of course, situations in
years. During that long lifetime he, which worry seems inevitable and In
has won great distinction. He has. which it seems the right attitude to
worked hard and long, and has giv-( ward trouble. We cannot think high
en to the world many extremely use-ly of a person who deludes himself
ful inventions. There is not a town into imagining that there is nothing
in the country that is not a differ-
ent place because he has lived,
Wealth and honor have come to him
as a result.
Pol
Three separate prizes for non- top
flights around the world have '"'en'
offered in the last few days. At the
same time, a western millionaire of-
fers $25,000 to any man who can
communicate with any one of the
planets in our solar system. A T.lt-
iBh statesman, furthermore, predicts
that 100 years from now we s:,a!l
have such knowledge of obsecure n'.iy-'
Rical nroeesses that we can chance
the climate of any climate of any
part of the world to suit our tastes,
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Senator Borah believes that the;
,Eighteenth amendment was put into
the Constitution by unconstitutional
methods. He thinks the provision in
the amendment, when proposed, giv-
ing the States seven years in which
to ratify it, was irregular. Had that
point been taken to the Supreme
Court, the constitutionality of the
I amendment might have been serious-
;ly questioned, in his opinion.
Tint thP nr.int -a-n npvor raised.
and it is now too late to do any
J thing about it. and, as the Associated
Press reports him, the Senator from,
Idaho chuckled as he told how the
wets had overlooked their one best
bet.
Possibly it is funny. But on whom
is the joke? Is it on the wets? Or
the people as a whole? Or is it on
the Constitution?
Let us try a hypothetical question
on the Senator. Suppose an amend
ment were proposed to the Constitu
tion carrying an unconstitutional
provision similar to the seven-yc-ar
ratifying allowance contained in the
amendment. Suppose Mr. Borah op
posed the proposed amendment.
Would he keep silent about it, or
would he attack it as an unconstitu
tional procedure? Our guess is that
as a professing 100 per cent con
stitutionalist Mr. Borah would lay
on MacDuff.
Then why was he quiet as a mouse
while the Eighteenth amendment was
being illegally incorporated into the
organic law? Are we to understand
that Mr. Borah is a prohibitionist
first, a constitutionalist afterwards?
Let the "chuckling" Senator from
Idaho laugh that off. St. Louis Post
Dispatch. :o:
FERDINAND FOCH
The World War produced no Na
poleonic genius but there can be no
question that, in the opinion of the
allied nations, Ferdinand Foch em
erged the supreme military figure of
those reeling years in the competent
Judgment of Hilaire Btlloc, it was
Foch who stopped the first German
drive on Paris by divining the one
weak point in the enemy's advance
and by a desperate stand succeeded
in damning the flood. That grandi
loquent decision, "My right wing is
shattered, my left is crumbling, my
center is demoralized and from here
on I take the offensive, it was dismiss
ed by Foch as a bobastic myth, but
even so, the hyperbole 6erved to in
vest a secondary officer with a sym
bolic invincibility. Certainly an
aging military instructor, esteemed
within his profession as the most
brilliant tactician, was suddenly
transformed by popular dictum into a
man of destiny.
That popular expectation was fin
ally realized. Reputations bloomed
and withered in the bloody stale-
mate of apparently hopek-ss Flaugh
ter and destruction until experience
and exhaustion at last demanded that
th? armies of the allies be placed
under a supreme commander. Foch
jrp-'miijeniiy Hmiit iueu me u um
imposed in him.
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DAILY LENTEN THOUGHT
Worry is a form of distrust. It is
an enemy of the soul because it never
i makes any situation better.
wrong when, perhaps, there is a great
deal wrong; and there are people in
life who shrink their burden of worry
and who take everything easy only
by passing on the burden to some-
body else.
But if we analyze the matter at
all, we shall see that there is a great
difference between the courage of
faith, meeting wrong situations with
the purpose of making them right,
and the worry that simply weakens
one's power of wise and courageous
action in great emergencies,
Worry never yet solved any diffi-
rultv. The darker the niirht of one's!
experience the more need there is ofjrecord 38 the low mIleaee of 1919
seeking light and hope and faith:'
whereas, worry only lets the gloom
of night darken all the windows of
the soul. j
! Worry breaks down the spirit while
hope and faith builds up and inspires. ,
It is Just when there is mo6t to!
. worry about that one most needs the '
attitude of faith.
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J Charles M. Schwab says that last .
year he viewed with alarm the wide- j
what he feared never materialized.
"I think now that perhaps the pub-
lie is right," he adds. Mr. Schwab ,
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was wrong last year in warning the
public against expecting a continued
irise in the prices of stocks. Should
.that add force to his present implied
prediction?
An item says as high as $50 is be-
ing paid for stumps of black walnut
trees in a fair state of preservation,
and what do you suppose such are
wanted for? Not for furniture, but
for gun stocks, being the best sort
of wood for that purpose. Not only
the stump itself is taken out, but
also all roots, all utilized in gun
manufacture. From this it would
seem black walnut plantations would
1 be profitable in a rew years and
farmers with land to spare would
do well to start right in, for walnut
wood is also in demand tor furniture.
So is cherry, but it does not ap
pear cherry gun stocks are in re
quest. It is said wild cherry treeB
are preferable for lumber, but these
could easily be planted and when
mature enough could be utilized.
Then there are many stumps of hem
lock still in the ground, and no wood
is more desirable in paper making
than pulp from the hemlock.
All this well illustrates how care
less, how shockingly reckless we
have been with our forests. Billions
of feet of lumber have been liter
ally wasted, and this is wanton de
struction and sheer waste, without
taking into account forest fires that
send up in smoke many millions of
dollars annually. The waste and the
fires are both largely preventable,
but the great lose goes on year by
year, with not very much doing to
check it.
Tree planting is in progress in
some localities, with the government
carefully nursing its lCO.O00.00e
acres of its forest reservations. Sev
eral prominent railroadB are seed
ing large areas along their lines, with
the government assisting all within
its power. Better transportation
methods could provide for utilization
of a good part of the trees now left
to rot on the ground after the lum
bermen have taken their straight
cuts from the main truck. Then the
waste at the sawmills might be made
use of instead of being burned as is
the custom. All around for many
years it has been a shameful story
of waste.
It is not likely all waste can be
prevented, but certainly a great im
provement can be made with more
tree planting. A third of a tree ought
not to be useless waste as good au
thority Bays is the case now. That
one-third can supply much that can
be made use of.
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EXCUSE THESE TEARS
Referrng to President Hoover's
failure to name a Southern man for
his cabinet. Grover C. Hall, editor of
the Montogomery, Ala., Advertiser,
says:
"It's a ead story, mates, and Just
as soon as our sinus trouble Improve
a little we're going to enjoy our
selves by weeping in a manner al
together becoming to us."
Grover, old boy, we also have that
sinus affliction, and its a darned
nuisance, but It haa not restrained
us from weeping, whether becoming
or unbecoming over the bitter dis
illusionment that has befallen the
bolting Democrats of the South, es
pecially in Tennessee, Virginia
North Carolina, Florida, and Texas,
who had so fondly believed that Her
bert Intended to put at least one
Southerner In hie cabinet.
As a matter of fact, Grover, we
commenced Bhedding large crocodile
tears Just as soon aa the new cabinet
was announced, and a full realization
of the horror dawned upon us. Our
lachrymos output up to this time
guages a little more than ten gal
Ions. This, it must be admitted, is
rather high-clas crying.
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Looking backward a decade we are
struck with the changes that have
come about in the everyday things
of life, particularly in highway trans
portation. The American Automobile
Association, the world's largest group
of car owners, tells us that the aver
age day's run of motor tourists is
two hundred and thirty-four miles as
against one hundred mile ten years
ago. The feature of this statement,
it seems to us, is not so much today's
An Old Fashioned
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What farm wife would not appre
ciate saving the better part of a day
once each week? The Maytag does
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hour or two.
only tlie
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It is a simple,
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RADIO'S FAB FLUNG EXPANSION
We are now assured that all plana
lor merging the Western Union Tele
graph with the radio transmission
business are off and the two will be
come more competitive than ever.
The Radio Corporation of America
seem to be only beginning to find
itself. Ita new plana are comprehen
sive of the whole world business of
Intelligent communications. Not com
petition with Western Union alone,
but also with the American Tele
phone and Telegraph. Also with the
International Telephone and Tele
graph combined with the Mackay
cable.
This communication development
will be carried on for the Radio Cor
poration by Its newly formed subsid
iary, R. C. A. Communications, Inc.
The parent company will confine it
self to the manufacturing end of the
business. Undreamed of things are
etill ahead in the radio field. Great
and wonderful as are its develop
ments packed into the paat few years,
says Chairman Owen D. Young of the
Radio Corporation, "the surface f
radio's possibilities haa only been
scratched."
It is well known to automobile
travels the less efficient it becomes.
And it is also an axiom among high
way engineers that the higher the
speed limit for a certain high
way, the more costly do? that high
way become in proportion to those
built for lower speed traffic The road
must be wider, the pavement muBt
be smoother and faultless, and the
curves must be banked higher and
higher, saving space therefore, in this
urge for speed is the airplane, not
the high-powered automobile.
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Palestine still is the land of milk
and honey, although the former now
flows through very modern cream
separators and the latter goes to mar
ket by railroad trains and motor
buses. While the blood and culture
of the Holy Land of the days of the
aspect of twentieth century material
progress. Still absorbed in the laws
of Moees, the people also are absorb
ing the principles of water power
and bond issues.
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HATCHING EGGS
White Leghorn, good strain.
J2.K6 hundred. Mrs. W. H. Kehne,
Plattsmoutb. Neb. aa26-2td 2tw
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would not appreciate the economy of
the life-lasting cast-aluminum tub;
the saving in clothes by the gentle
water washing
What farm wife
tator; the saving
effected by the
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evenly dry and
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Residence District
at Louisville
Oak Heights to Be New Addition
to City With Residences Not
Less Than $3,500 Vanle
A new addition has been joined
to the pleasant little city of Louis
ville which is designated as Oak
Heights and which will be a very
exclusive residential section and one
that will have the bars up on any
residences that cost less than $3,500.
The filing of the new addition
has been made at the court house
and the persons making the filing are
Elmer Sundstrom, mayor of Louis
ville and WJ 111am VanScoyoc.
The new addition to the cement
city is located in the southwest part
of the city and consists of seven ir
regular lots and which are owned by
Harvey Koop, Elmer Sundstrom, Vic
tor Breeden. Alfred Johnson and
William VanScoyoc.
The new addition will be exclusive
for residential purposes and is locat
ed in one of the most attractive sec
tions of the city and where with the
homes of the type that are planned,
will make it a real place of beautiful
homes that the property owners de
sire to have preserved by making the
specification as to the erection of
homes.
FEEDERS DAY
This La inviting you to attend the
17th Annual Feeders Day, Friday.
April 19. 1929. College of Agricul
ture, Lincoln. Don't miss this.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of David
G. Babbington. deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I will
sit at the County Court room in
Plattamouth, in said county, on the
19th day of April. 1929. and the
20th day of July. 1929, at 10 o'clock
a., m. of each day. to receive and ex
amine 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 19th
day of April, A. D. 1929 and the time
limited for payment of debts is one
year from said 19th day of April,
1929.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 13th day of
March, 1929.
A. H. DUXBUSY.
(Seal) Dll-4w Couaty Judge.
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HOLDING OWN NICELY
From Friday's Dally
The reports from the Immanuel
hospital at Omaha today state that
Mrs. W. F. Gillespie, who was forced
to undergo an operation for the am
putation of the right arm at the
6houlder, on Wednesday night, was
doing just as well as could be ex
pected. The ordeal haa been a severe
one and with the strain that the
patient has been through she has
Fuffered a great deal but if she la
able to hold her pre8?nt rate or prog
ress for a forty-eight hour period it
is hoped that she may soon be able
to show definite improvement and
the infection und poison be checked.
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equipped to turn out anything from
calling: cards to sale catalogs.
NOTICE
To Rosie Brown, non-realdent de
fendant: You are hereby notified that on
the 1st day of December. 1928, Vir
gil Brown filed a petition against you
in the District Court of Cass county,
Nebraska, the object and prayer of
which are to obtain a divorce from
you on the ground that you have
wilfully abandoned the plaintiff with
out good cause, for the term of two
years last past. You ars required to
answer said petition on or be.Jor
Monday, the 6th day of May. 1929.
VIRGIL BROWN,
By Plaintiff.
W. G. KIECK,
ml8-3w His Attorney.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass.
as.
By virtue of an Order of Hale
Issued by Golda Noble Deal, Clerk of
the District Court within and for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to ms
directed, I will on the 20th daj' of
April. A. D. 1929, at 10 o'clock a.
m. of said day. at the south front
door of the court house in the City
of Plattsmouth, in said county, sell
at public auction to the highest bid
der for cash, the following real es
tate, to-wit:
Lots 7. 8, 9. 10, in Block 3.1,
and Lots 5 and 6. In Block 63.
in the City of Plattsmouth, and
Lots 7. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, in
Block 6. in Dukes Addition to
the City of Plattsmouth, Cans
county. Nebraska
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Mrs.
Sampson, first and real name un
known, et al. defendants, to satisfy
a Judgment of said Court recovered
by Louis Ackerman, plaintiff against
said defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 15,
A. D. 1929.
BERT REED
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska
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