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MONDAY. FEB. 10. 1930. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOUEXAL PAGE THEEE 1. i Cbc plattsmoutb lourtial PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postofiice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles. $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries. $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Bib Bill Thompson of Chicago ap pears to have encountered a bigger bill! :o: Rivera quit, but there's a suspic ion that only death can write the resignation of Benito. :o:- The Great Wall of China is 1726 miles long, 20 feet wide at the bot tom and 25 feet hiigh. In the bootlegging industry there are many big combinations, but none, it seems, in restrains of trade. :o: After the first two or three, the thing a woman dreads most about surgical operations is the hospital food. :o: The scientific report that efficiency Is reduced 17 per cent by noise ex plains at last what's wrong with Congress. :o: Secretary Mellon has many reasons to be glad, but one of the greatest is that they're taking enforcement away from him. :o: Trying to stop the Old Mississippi with sacks of sand when she goes on a bust seems to be nothing more than dam foolishness. :o: Certain varieties of tortoise and turtles can live 400 or 500 years. Attaining their great ages, perhaps, because they don't speed. :o: The groundhog hereabouts saw his shadow Sunday, which means that the weather will be exactly the same as if he hadn't seen his shadow. :o: An Ohio man run down his fifth victim with his motor car one night last week. That should tnake him eligible to the Canadian Mounted. :o: When an old married m:n drives with one hand it is because the other one is getting a light to hi cigar that is, if the lady with him is his wife. :o: Peggy Joyce underwent an oper ation in a New York hospital the other day, but so far as we can learn. all the doctors and internes escaped unmarried. :o: Anyway, the woman who has di vorced her fifth husband has revealed a lot of self-control in simply divorc ing 'em when so many women are shooting theirs. :o: Nothing seems more usel?ss than the muscles used for smiling when a man wakes up to the fact he was just born to earn the money for three or four others to spend. :o: Paris is firm on long skirts Head line. It was Shakespeare, wasn't it. who started the practice of calling skirts "frails?" Well, it appears that it has gone on long enough. . :o: Speaking of flattery, what is flat-jing ten- we heard one man Dragging on liis wife as a cook the other flay. "Say," he remarked, "that woman can cook such delicious toast that have to screen the kitchen win- 1 we dows to keep the quail from flying in and lighting on it!" :o: A wife may get sore at times be cause friend hub raises such a howl about climbing into his party scen ery, but our bet is that the man who feels like a fool in a plug hat and like a waiter in a cafeteria in a Tux isn't the kind that had his fingers crossed during the wedding j ceremony. j Our Business is Picking Up DEAD ANIMALS Providing Hides are Let On Under Supervision of a Licensed Rendering Establishment HOWARD RfiARTBW Market 0326 Quick Service OMAHA, NEBR. i j 1 When a movie wants a big crowd it advertises "advance in prices." :o: Bloomers are named after Ann Bloomer, who was the first woman to wear this type of dress :o:- In thugdom we have Chicago pine apples and a Banana King; seems the crime business is mighty fruitful. :o: Congress refers number of arrests, meant the arrest of to "staggerin ' No doubt he staggering num- bers. :o: Another fool is planning to have himself shot to the moon in a rocket. He need not bother about a return ticket. :o: He who hesitates is old-fashioned. Monday is as popular a day of the week as February is as a month of the year. :o: Speaking of a wasted effort, there's the girl who takes a domestic science course when she expects to marry a drug clerk. :o: The manufacturer of Gilette razors has been divorced by his wife. Per haps he indulged in sharp and cut ting remarks. :o: At last we know why they call the conference program an "agenda." (All the delegates will be aged before it's agreed upon. The fellow who wants a house be side the road so he can be the friend of man. usually opens up a hot dog stand and filling station to help pay expenses. :o: Introducing the young man who eloped with Margaret Couzens. He is a piominent Washington young man. Anyhow, if he wasn't prominent be fore, he is now. :o: There may be some good reason why hospital food is so uniformly in edible, but all we ever could get out of headquarters on the subject was a lefty denial. :o: George Washington's birthday rcmes on Saturday this year. Holi- days shouldn't be permitted to fall on Saturdays and do some of us out of a half holiday. :o: Still, when you see what a woman will kiss in the way of men it isn't so doggone surprising to hear of some of 'em catching the parrot fever from kissirg their pollies. : o : But most of the boys we've seen selling magazines to pay their way through college impress us as the kind that would rather get coonskin coats than college educations. :o: Even the old-fashioned girl now wears short skirts, but you still can tell her by the way she speaks of not caring for a man instead of eom- right out and saying he is a pain in n:e msik, :o:- The discussion to give the Filipinos independence has sprung again. We believe in freedom for t'.'.e Filipinos. and then fewer oppressive laws in the United States. The Filipinos shouldn't be the only free people on this earth. :o: It would be okay with this depa t ment if Chicago would find some 011 er name for its indubitably G Id Coast. We never see the express:rn without thinking of a gargantu in grin displaying a long row of g-!d teeth. HAMSTRINGING THE ARMY President Hoover has named commission of army officers to survey the military establishment and re port what economies in its conduct may be affected. If Mr. Hoover has :n mind a re duction of the army, he may as well forget it. The army has already been reduced below the safety limit, and common sense suggests that it not be further reduced to the proportions of a police force. Memories of the enormous cost the people paid for un- preparedness in 1916-1918 are still too vivid to be lightly overborne. The extra billions they paid in expanding a skeleton army into the formidable American expeditionary forces are yet pressing heavily upon the national revenues and may not be fully dis charged by two more generations of our posterity. When the people know for a cer tainty that if they will not be called to arms to fight another war, they will be only too glad to cut their army down to an internal contabul ary but not until then. Ineffaceable experiences from those of Washington in the great Revolution down to the "Wilson mobilization warn thinking Americans to use the common pru dence of keeping their powder dry and their guns in easy reach. Mil lions of veterans and more millions of taxpayers will combine to impress upon Congress that they see more economy in preparedness for sure de fense than in the mere saving of dol lars by reducing the army to ab surd and perilous proportions. If Mr. Hoover wants to find a real trouble in the army he will take cog nizance of the large number of resig nations from its official personnel each year resignations so frequent that it is a matter of much worry to those in command. Reasons for these losses are not hard to find. One great reason, of course, is that with the strength of the armv held down to where the organization is a mere shadow of its former self, promotion is extremely slow for young officers. Under con ditions as they exist, they are oblig ed to serve for many years with no advancement in rank or pay. In civ ilian pursuits, men of equal educa tion and ability with them are mov ing upward in their business or pro fessions. and are winning increased compensation for their services. The pay of the army officer has been virtually stationary since 1908. During that time wages and salaries of civilians have been sharply in creased, and in every other branch of the Federal government the pay has been advanced measurably in nearlv every instance save that of the army. Those employed in these other branches and departments are receiving from 25 to 175 per cent more than they received 22 years aeo. At the same time it is esti mated that the cost of living has in creased in the United States about 104 per cent. Men well up in army command receive smaller salaries than many of the executives in business organiza tions who are far down in rank. As a matter of justice to army officers. If to the bystander it might seem their compensation should be raised, incongruous, while talk is alive in the world for reducing armies and armament, that salaries of army offi cers should be increased, deeper con sideration reveals exactly the op posite. If arms and armaments are to be reduced, then this government of ours cannot neglect to have first class commanders in charge. If the Academy men see no future ahead of them by reason of a career filled with stintings and denials, then they should be induced to remain with the organization by giving them a decent living. :o: FAR VOICES The canyons of the city, I've known and loved them well! The canyons of the city, Tve yielded to their spell! -I've loved the towering skyline Its artisans have drawn. But now my heart goes up the hill. Beyond the wood and on The dawnlight's silent omen Of scurrying crowds to come, . The restless beat of commerce. The city's ceaseless hum The thrill long known seems waning, Perhaps already gone, For now my heart goes up the hill, Beyond the wood and on From distant forest pathways That form a world apart Come far-off, haunting voices That echo in my heart! I long to follow new roads. And know a different dawn. For now my heart goes up the hill. Beyond the wood and on Chicago News. :o: Men are pretty inconsistent. They would be indignant if women insisted upon them being beautiful when they weren't born that way, and yet they're always insisting on women being consistent. MR. TAFT AND MR. HUGHES Mr. Taft's retirement from the chief justiceship of the United States Supreme Court closes a public career that is unique in the history of the country. He has been both President and Chief Justice, the two most dis tinctive and powerful positions in the republic. Ke has graced both high places, and he has retired from them with the affection and respect of the American people. The historian will hardly ascribe to him the qual ity of greatness; but that he was able and sincere, that he was pro foundly devoted to his country, and that he worked industriously for her welfare, is the judgment of his time. Mr. Taft served only one term in the White House, and the rebuke he suffered at the hands of the people in the election of 1912 was enough to have soured a saint. That he emerged from it with entire good humor and went back into the Gov ernment service during the war with out the slightest reluctance as co chairman of the Arbitration Board explains the popular esteem in which he was held despite his weakness as President and some of his perplex ing decisions as Chief Justice. There was almost no honor within the gift of the country that he did not enjoy. none to which he did not bring a serenity and a judicial discrimination that made him.as happy as he was useful. That he was no mean prophet is proved by his remarkable forecast of what would happen under na tional prohibition. It was worthy of Jeremiah. Mr. Hughes, who succeeds Mr. Taft, is scarcely less remarkable for .the variety of his public service. He has been Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Governor of New York, Secretary of State and Republi can candidate for President of the United States. He was spokesman for his country at the Washington Dis armament Conference of 1921, as well as the Pan-American Confer ence, held at Havana in 192S. He has been a member of the Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and m 1928 he was elected a Justice of the World Court by the Assembly of the League of Nations. From the view point of riDeness and experince in public life the appointment could not be surpassed. It is in relation to the almost static division of the court upon grave pub lic questions that the appointment will chiefly interest the country. It will be interested to know if Mr Hughes sympathizes with such views es those expressed in the Oraiion Railway and the wire-tapping cases, or if his influence is to support the consistent dissent of Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone, and sometimes Justice Butler. The latest utterance of the court on the subject of valu ation, that in the Baltimore Street Railway case, has filled the country with profound misgivings as to the tenableness of such a position. It is naturally wondered if Mr. Hoover, whose mission will certainly be to reorganize the court, feels that the future is safe for such economic ex travaganza as that enunciated in the O'Fallon and Baltimore cases, and such constitutional hersy as that en unciated in the wire-tapping and automobile search cases. Mr. Hoover has a very great op portunity in,this matter, one which it was clearly foreseen in the last national campaign that the next President would have. Six of the nine members of the court either have passed the age of constitutional retirement or very soon will pass it. The importance to the country of those replacements may be said to constitute Mr. Hoover's greatest re sponsibility. The Supreme Bench is n effect the final arbiter of most of our great public questions. Its de cisions go further toward setting standards of American mores and manners than any other governmen tal agency. The complexion of the court, the character and attitude of the men who compose it, is thus of the gravest importance. A disting uished lawer once said : "The Su preme Court IS the Constitution." :o: KEEP MEDICINE LOCKED UP Three Indiana children played hospital the other day. One young ster, aged 6, took the part of the doctor. He prescribed for the other wo some pills he found in a medi cine cabinet at home. The pills were not poisonous, simply physic pills. But one of his two playmates died from their effects which she ate six of them is not surprising. This pathetic little story serves to emphasize again the responsibility that rests on all parents. No medi cines of any kind, poisonous or oth erwise should ever be left in places where smal children can get at them. If they cannot be put out of reach they should be kept under lock and key. No other way is safe. :o: Just a few of the Cass county maps eft. While they last, 50c each. MM DOUBLE ACTION Flrt In the dough Then In the oren Same lee for over 38 years 2S ounces Cor 25 Use less than of high priced brands MILLIONS OP POUNDS USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT A WOMAN READS THE FUTURE Congressman Oldfield, of Arkansas, was one of the beneficiaries of an American queer conception of chiv alry. But Mrs. Oldfield has had enough of legislative career. She will not be a candidate for re-election. In giving her reason for this decision she exemplifies a wisdom not shared by too many of her American sister hood. She says that "now and a hun dred years from now the charge of public affairs will be in the hands of men." We have in thiscountry witnessed the political elevation of women to positions of executive, judicial and legislative distinction and honor. In almost every instance such elevation has been accomplished as a result of sentimental impulse. Women Sen ators, Representatives, Governors, Judges, suggest an incogruity in the administration of civil affairs quite as pronounced as would be presented in the activities of woman in the af fairs of the army and navy. The reasons chiefly are biological reasons. They are reasons stated and affirmed by Nature. In all the history of the world there is no record of independent feminine wholly competent rulership. Miriam does not compare with Moses. Elizabeth of England would have been lost but for Lord Burleigh and her ministers. Catherine of Russia's absolutism, capricious, unstable and grotesque, was qualified, guided and directed by her advisers and pro found!' influenced by the traditions of her masculine predecessors on the throne of her Empire. And there will never be a time, in this or in any other country, when woman will have usurped man in the control of public affairs. Her proper sphere of action may be wide and in clusive of many activities beyond the limits of the heme and fireside, but her material divorcement from the place provided for her by God and Nature could spell nothing but re tardence and calamity for the race of humankind. :o: If the family ever should pause long enough in its yelling for things it wants to count its blessings prob ably nothing would surprise it more than discovering father actually is one of 'em. I :o: FOR SALE Three dozen pure bred Rhode Is land Red yearling hens, $1.25 each. also Rhode Island Red cockerels, $1 each. MRS. ALBERT YOUNG. Murray, Neb. Rad th Journal Want-Ada. Farms for Sale! 80 acres, new improvements, good land, 12 acres alfalfa, running wat er, on gravel road, 3 miles west of Plattsmoutb.. 240 acres, splendid improvements. 30 acres prairie hay. All land has been seeded down to sweet clover and timothy and clover, and now produc ing good crops. Good small orchard. Three miles south of post office and ly2 miles from gravel. Terms to suit purchaser. Other Bargains in Cass County Farms See t. h. pollock PLATTSMOUTH, NEBR. 7 STBISON'S PLEA The United States doesn't do much just to amuse itself and its people. In this country government is taken more seriously that it is in some of the countries across the ocean, and big problems going with government are given more consideration here than elsewhere. Secretary of State Stimson, speak ing at a banquet in London, only a few hours before the opening of the naval parley, sounded the keynote of the purpose which will direct the course of the American delegates in the deliberations during the contin uance of the sessions of the confer ence. Mr. Stimson urged an end to arms secrecy. The delegates cheered his plea for unity. The secretary told his audience that America understood the purpose of the conference was "to re move the secrecy, the rivalry" that is the natural outgrowth of competi tive naval armaments. While the parley may not bear the kind of fruit it is hoped it will, its failure to do so well may not be just ly chargeable to America, which nev er has and does not now seek any advantage of any other nation, except such advantage as right entitles it to possess in its relation with the nations of the world. This being true and it is true the American delegates to the con ference convened in London should guard as no doubt they will the in terests of their country to such ex tent as to see to it that others are given no advantage over it in the way of self protection on the waters of the world. America has led all peace move ments of modern times. The United States is respected by the nations of the world. Much is expected in the way of leadership from its delegates in Ixmdon, and it goes without the saying that the delegates from Eng land. Fiance, Italy and Japan will find much for thoughtful consider ation in the matters offered for their consideration by Mr. Stimson and his ! associates. -:o:- FRANKLIN'S WISDOM Benjamin Franklin, the anniver sary of whose birth was recalled the other day, said many good things while he was active on this mundane sphere. Franklin was born 224 years ago. He didn't have the advantages men now have, but he was so con stituted that no opportunity for self- improvement was permitted to go to, waste. As a result he served his country and his fellow citizens wisely and well. Here are some gems he left to those of his day: "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." More good advice is this: "He that goes a borrowing, goes sorrowing." And for a na tion in which 90 old men out of a hundred die worth less than $100, this is valuable. "A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone." There is material for hundreds of good sermons in the common sense suggestions of Mr. Franklin. It would he a good thing for parents to call to the attention of their children some of the things said by Mr. Frank lin, the wise man of his day, who once said he sought in life no higher reward for his services than the con fidence of his fellow countrymen, and in death no higher honor than to have his resting place marked with a common gravestone containing the words: "Here lies a printer. :o: Life is funny. Here's the older gen eration sighing because the rising generation hasn't as much sense as it has, and the younger one pitying the older one because it doesn't know a darn thing! :o: Life was sweeter when it was. the stream rising from the corking meal his wife was cooking instead of the smoke rising from a cigarette she was smoking that greeted him when he opened the front door. NOTICE In the District Court or Cass County, Nebraska. Charles "W. Daniel. Plaintiff. vs. Orpha Daniel, Defendant. 1 u- OTICE To ORPHA DANIEL, Non-Resident Defendant: You are hereby notified that on the 11th day of January, 1930, Charles W. Daniel 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 wiiruny aDanaonea tne plaintiff without good cause, for the term of two years last past. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 17th day of March. 1930. CHARLES W. DANIEL, Plaintiff. By C. A. RAWLS, Hi3 Attorney. I3-4w A Triple Coml.irtt :.n W rtn '.! ! ci:iUiiiii. Kuiiii.: (for Ttoe Worms), Nicotine Su!ii;e (fcr Round Worms , and I'yrptrirum (for Pin Worrr.s) a;i JU ku IN&U1.VB1.E Ciirsnle. S TSMHS AS EFFECTIVE AS WOi.l HtV.3i5 CtVEN 17; POOD CR CRINK Why? It !s IVSOLIEI.E ami tbfr f..i C(.rrie ti.ruujrh to the tri:-aid. In the srizrutd it i ground up. j,ur:::ff the correct dose in full strenoih directly into the in testines ucon the wcrns. No ?arv5ne Wds to forr-e e:;tirs ri t.ai tastir; i ..od. tit-is nil ttirt-e ki:(i.fc ot worn.s. The n.&H r:fcient wurin remcdT jei rtiUM-.!. O i. Vv ..:. :e:.. I ,,',! ...t roommf ndfd !-y m.ti.y A(rrir,;:tur.il ( V.l!ips KMi-rimt-nt Station.. County Aprr.it t:d ln!l!i3 l-o.iltnr raiMrrs. Two ies: Adult, f . r rl.ickeiiS. f.:ilx, t., half rT"n or oM(-r. .r(i-c;itMiip Vir SI: ll)(t tor J1.7C: .r.rn f,,r 7: j ..,,. 812. Cl;jM; for ' t.ir.la under Lklf ip-own. fl ri-r 100. F. G. Fricke & Co. Phone ycor Job Printing order to So. 6. Prompt service. SHERIFF'S SAL 12 State of Nebraska, County of Casa, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale issued by Golda Noble I!val, Ch-rk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 22nd day of February. A. D. 1930. 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 bidder for cash the following real estate, to-wit : The southwest quarter (SWJ) of the northwest quarter (NWJ ) of Section twenty-nine (2D). Township eleven (11), North of Range fourteen (14), East of the Cth P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Alma Yard ley et al. Defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by William Sporer. plaintiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, January 20th, A. D. 1930. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. 32: .jW ORDER OF HEARING and Notice 011 Petition for Set tlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Behrend J. Beclcma:i, de ceased : On reading the petition of Anna Reinackle, Executrix, praying a final settlement and allowance of her ac count filed in this Court on the 2r.th day of January, 1930, and for linal settlement cf said estate and her dis charge as said Executrix; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in ii nd for said county, on the 21st day of February, A. D. 1930. at 9 o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer cf the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this 25th day of January, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j27-3w County Judge. SHERIFFS SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Execution issued by Golda Noble Real. Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 1st day of March, A. D. 19 30, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the court house in the City of Platts mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following real estate, to-wit: The undivided one-third ( '3 ) interest in the southeast quar ter ( V4. ) of Section eleven ( 11 ) : and the undivided one-third ( V3 ) interest in the east one half ( E ) of the southwest quarter (SWU) of Section eleven (11). all in Township twelve (12), North. Range twelve (12) East of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska; also The west 13 feet of Lot three (3) and all of Lot four (4), in Block fifty-four (54), in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska all subject to the life estate of Elizabeth Meisinger The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Carl C. Mei singer, defendant, to satisfy a judg ment of said Court recovered by Ed H. Tritsch, plaintiff against said de fendant. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, January 24th, A. D. 1930. BERT REED. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. i-5w