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MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUSNAX FAQS THREB Cbe plattsmouth lournal t PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2D0 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers Hying in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, 3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13750 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. It's easier to say disagreeable things than it is to do them. -:o: In looking backward a man sees only the bright spots in the past. :o:' Cities have learned they must look after children in their play hours. :o: Some of the wise old saws are so old that they have lost their teeth. :o: If you hatet your neighbor, give his boy a saxophone for a birthday pres ent. Many a person who has never been up in a plane knows how an air pock et feels. But so far Mr. Hoover hasn't had to have the size of his trout ratified by the Senate. -so:- "Who Owns the Air?" a Canadian paper asks. Well, we've heard that all jilted suitors get it. co: If the Senate turns down the naval treaty the United States might just as well quit suggesting parleys. :: The situation in India continues to put to a severe test the average Brit isher's well-known sense of humor. :o: Fish are unable to close their eyes. But then, they don't have to worry bo much about getting dust in them. :o: Maybe the reason why some movie actresses keep right on marrying is that they hope to finally get the right man. :o: Now and then you run into a man who ought to be reported to the S. P. C. A. for over working the capital I. ALU hot not an EXTRAVAGANCE ISTINCTFIrASO LI N E" THE GAS COST per mile fcr the lowest grade fuel legally sold as gasoline is never mere than a Fraction of a penny less than for the gasoline that cut-performs all others. So it is not surprising that motorists by the thousand have switched to the new Red Crown Ethyl. The luxury of instant power plenty of power on high gear for hard hills less gear shifting in slow traffic a smoother running motor and no gas knocks absolutely dependable performance at low gas cost per mile never having to bother about getting carbon removed I These make the new Red Crown Gasoline a luxury but not an extravagance. At Red Crown S erv:ce Stations and Dealers everywhere In Nebraska, j STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEBRASKA "A Nebraska institution" COMPLETE REST ROOMS AT STANDARD CIS. SERVICE STATIONS Publisher Spontaneous combustion is the re sult of mixing wet and dry senti ments. -:o:- A woman refuses to acknowledge her inability to accomplish anything she wants to. :o: From the way speedboats rush around you'd think they were go ing somewhere. :o: An old-timer is one who can re member when a shady past was a handicap instead of literature. . :o: Some men are running for high way commissionerships in Nebraska who couldn't even limp into office. :o: The President wants Washington to be the model dry city. Does that explain his wish for Congress to ad journ? :a: Idleness of prisoners, the result cf overcrowding, has been one of the primary causes of recent prison dis turbances. -:o: A woman was robbed on a crowd ed street in Cleveland of $10,000. She must have been on a whale of a shop ping tour. :o: It is no disgrace to be poor, but you might as well give up thinking of going to the United States Senate if you are. :o: Listen girls: Going to bed with a lighted cigarette in your mouth is a bad habit. The fire department might arrive too late. An expert declares that the tele phone girl is neither in a business nor a profession. Anyway, she has a pretty busy line. D V Sometimes those soulful sopranos sigh so heavily while singing over the radio that we wonder whether they use Listerine. :o: If that Egyptian chess board hadn't been lost 3,000 years ago at least half a dozen games could have been play ed on it since then. It took the ladies a long spell to gain their political emancipation, but now that they have it they're mak ing up for lost time. :o: Why should astronomers keep on trying to discover new worlds when we don't know what to do with the one we are living on? :o: Meetings and findings of the Amer ican Chemical society are important as well as interesting. Sometimes they are also curious. so: Wonder what Representative Peavy, who described President Hoo ver as "so dry he squeaks," thinks of the Supreme Court? :o: The American soldiers are accused of introducing potato bugs into France. "If we took potato bugs over there," writes Kurvenal, "it was a damn bad trade." :o: THE OLDEST INHABITANT It might be worth while if those persons who are always looking for the oldest man or woman living, were to give a little thought as to what it means when they find such an in dividual. Merely as an object cf interest the oldest inhabitant deserves no more comment than the tallest man, the stingiest woman or the most mis chievous boy. These are traits or characteristics which bring little credit to him or to the community. It Is fullness of life we want; not mere length. Fortunate indeed is he whose years cover a long span of life; but more fortunate still is he who can make these years count for some thing in service to his fellowmen. We do not begrudge the oldest inhabitant the years he has accumulated. But the individuals who seek to enlist our interest in him could more easily get it, if we could feel that they were mindful of the words of the poet. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feeling, not figures on a dial. T3UBSBSSEO BETTER PAY NEEDED Now that Senator Read, of Penn sylvania, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, has returned from the London arms con ference, it is expected that the spec ial joint congressional committee of ten will start serious study of the proposal to increase the pay of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey. Recommendation for increased pay in these departments was sent to President Hoover by the Interdepart mental Pay Board, and referred by him to the Bureau of Efficiency. A considerable body of facts already has been brought to light and discus sion has progressed so far that final action on the proposal may be taken by the present Congress. The Bu reau of the Budget estimates that adoption of the Pay Board's recom mendations would increase by about 27 per cent, or $85,000,000, the an nual appropriations required by the six services. There is no question that com bined pay and allowances of men in the Army, Navy and allied services provide much less income than du ties of similar nature and responsi bility in civil life. Emoluments in these departments also are lower than in many other Government ser vices. This situation has resulted. as the War Department frankly states, in growing unrest and discon tent in the Army and in the other services involved in the present dis cussion. Resignations are becoming more numerous each year, and take from the service the most efficient and active officers, who accept the opportunities of civil pursuits. The eventual outcome will be to warn young men of ambition and ability away from these important services and to bring about a dangerous de cline in efficiency and morale. The solution of this important problem will hinge upon the find ings of the special committee. A de sire for close economy should not be allowed to outweigh the best Inter ests of the six departments and of the country at large. Cincinnatti Enquirer. :o: ILLINOIS AND THE DRY LAW Following the controversy at Washington over the significance of the referendum of 1926, when Illinois cast 840,000 votes for beer and wine to 354,000 votes against, the Chicago Tribune proposes that both wets and drys participate in another referen dum and settle the question of just where the state stands. Illinois would, in our opining, be much wiser to under take the repeal of her own dry laws. She will be faced in time . by a proposal to re peal the eighteenth, amendment, and she can best clear the decks for that action by repealing her state laws. This is the same advice we have given Missouri. Both these states have shown in the Literary Digest poll that they are far from dry. No at tempt to discredit the poll as a true index to public opinion can be taken seriously. The presidential polls taken by the Literary Digest have fully satisfied the country of its cor rectness. It does no good to know that a state is against prohibition without doing something about it. The search and seizure laws in Illinois are very drastic. They are part of the tyran ny of law which after ten years has convinced the American people that free government and Federal prohibi tion are incompatible. Thanks to Lin coin, the tradition of freedom Is more powerful in Illinois than it is in most states of the Union. Illinois cannot remain true to that tradition while she bows to the Anti-Saloon League. F. Scott McBride, national superin tendent of the league, has just testl fied that he sought to retain on the Federal bench a corrupt Judge be cause that Judge was friendly to prohibition. In the Frank L. Smith campaign of 1926, the league stood upon the side of a man for whom the utilities sought to buy a seat in the United States senate, because Smith's opponent was a wet. When public morals sink so low a3 that, it is time that Illinois assert her better self. We are confident that if she will stop shadow boxing and actually come to grips with those who shame and enslave her, she will emerge victorious. The secret of free dom is courage. St. Louis Post Dis patch. :ot It is just a little startling when ever the recurrent proposal to make a flock of new states out of the grand old empire of Texas bobs up. Immed lately one considers the almost dra matic possibilities. -:o: " Sporting News, the basebaTTeeli' ly, commenting on night baseball, says that some physicians call "night air not as good for the human as the air of the day." BUSINESS OPTIMISM On the supposition that much of the fluctuation in business activity is psychological, a good many public officials and industrial leaders have preached a doctrine of optimism in business for quite some months. And, within proper limits, optimism will help. To the extent that business concerns maintain their working forces, they assist in counteracting business depression. To the extent that they continue their purchases of materials on a normal scale, they further assist trade generally. But optimism of a different sort has had much to do with bringing on the present depressed condition of trade, and this sort of optimism mer its some comment. In planning with complete confidence an expansion of their sales by 50 per cent, several leading motor-car manufacturers last year forced some scores of related industries to overbuild plant facilities and develop inflated working forces. When the estimates of automobile sales had to be revised drastically the slump in motor-car manufac turing Avas necessarily extended, and with exaggerated influence, to all these allied indsutries. In short, the unjustified optimism call it the unsound enthusiasm of two or three major corporations led to a severe slump over a much larger radius. So closely inter-related are the iron and steel and glass and electrical industries and a tost of others that the mistakes of a few cause hardship among many. This is the cardinal sin in American busi ness today unsound business fore casting among industries which sell more or less directly to the final con sumer. Optimism, then is needed at pres ent, but it should be confined within the limits of what any given indus try reasonably expect as its share of the Nation's business. And any scheme of a single corporation to gob ble up twice its normal share of the available business in that line is al most certain to bring distress, not only to the concern responsible, but to others which have expanded their plans accordingly. This is the mod ern challenge to industrial execu tives to plan their programs In terms of a coming depression or an orgy of profit-making. :o: WHY SUPPOSE THE FACTS? ' There could hardly be a better and more timely example of the useful ness of the pending Bingham bill, providing for full publicity of the results o Inquiry Into major airplane accidents, than the recent fatal crash of a transport in New Jersey in which four lost their lives. The facts available to the layman Indicate that the plane left Albany for Newark after having received weather reports indicating at least dubious conditions in the vicinity of its destination, which, after the departure became worse. The pilot found his landing field enveloped in fog and in maneuvering for a landing brought his wing-tip into contact with a power line. Loss of four lives resulted. Another direct example was the crash in New York state in which a famous pilot and designer and two others lost their lives when their ship crashed against a mountain in a snow storm. Had they heeded weath er reports the accident would not have happened. .Publicity given the finding of de partment of commerce inquiries would keep the public informed of facts it should know. It wants to know when airplane accidents are due to recklessness and aviation will suffer less for the public's knowing. It is fair to the Industry to leave the public under the impression that the foult is with the ship when it really lies with the pilot or too adventur ous or Impatient passengers? :o: SIX NEW CATERPILLARS At the national air race last sum mer, spectators were thrilled im mensely when a big army bomber soared aloft and sent six men down to earth in rapid succession, by para chute. It made a grand spectacle. Yet the average spectator probably looked on it simply as a stunt devertlng and daring, but of no practical value. Now, however, it develops that the army officers who trained their men to do that sort of thing knew what they were about. The other day a tri-motored army transport plane ware soaring along near Fresno, Calif., when a propellor went to pieces and ripped open a wing. There were eight men in the plane. Six of them promptly Jumped out, opened their parachutes and floated down to earth unharmed. The other two stuck by the ship and managed to land it without hurting themselves. But the point of the mat ter is that this six-handed jump proved that it was something more than a stunt. KG I Baking Powder Same Price for over 38 years You save in using it. Use less than of high priced brands. MILLIONS OF POUNDS LUSED BY OUR GOVERNMENT 2 FUTURE OF THE WHITE RACE Figures gleaned from somewhere by a lecturer on that eternal question "Can the white race survive?" show that of the 12,500,000 babies born in the world every year only 2,500. 000 are of white parents. The re maining 10,000,000 include Africans, Orientals and other Asiatics, and all other non-white peoples. The same lecturer finds that the Negro population in America today is 15,000,000, compared with 250,- 000 in 1700; that the white British people number 67,000,000, while in India alone there are 70,000.000 Mo hammedans; that Japan's annual in crease in population is more than ten times that of Australia. Such racial statistics have a way of making alarmists of otherwise ra tional people. In fact the compiler of the figures given herewith fears the white race is destined to eventual extinction and cited his statistics as ''proof" that his fears are well found ed. His own computations, showing the white race to be multiplying at the rate of 2,50,000 a year, disap proves his theory of extinction. A Wesleyan clergyman has aptly remarked that the world was not made for white people; it was made for mankind. And another Anglo Saxon has observed that white men should not fear those of another color but should feel a tremendous respon sibility toward them. "Morality knows nothing of geo graphical boundaries or distinctions of race." And racial prejudices and fears are the fruits of differences in culture and customs, not in color. -:o:- Commissioner Whalen of New York says the stock in trade of the police in officers is the criminal ele ment. The commissioner is inclined to think the policeman isn't discharg ing the duty due the public unless he shows some inclination to see that crime is curbed by the enforcement of the law. :o: Read the Journal Want-Ada. Fradrnburs & Mattheira, Att'ya KnIIm Bids Omaha NOTICE OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE Notice is hereby given that on the 2nd day of June, 1930, at the hour of 11 o'clock a. m., at the south front door of the Cass county court house in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, the undersigned will sell to the highest bidder for cash one 1928 six cylinder Buick Coupe auto mobile, Motor No. 2198008, covered by a chattel mortgage executed by W. W. Wasley to the Drovers Vet erinary Union on the 11th day of September, 1929, which said mort gage was filed for record in the of fice of the County Clerk of Cass county, Nebraska, on the 12th day of September, 1929. Said sale will be held for the purpose of foreclosing said mortgage and satisfying the amount now due thereon, to-wit: The sum of Seven Hundred Ninety and No100 Dollars ($790.00) and accruing costs. DROVERS VETERINARY UNION, Mortgagee. ml2-? NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass Coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John H. Wile3. 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 6th day of June, 1930, and the 6tff day of September, 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., of each day to receive and examine all claims against said Es tate, and with a view to their adjust ment and allowance. The time limit ed for the presentation of claims against said Estate is three months from the 6th day of June, A. D. 1930 and the time limited for payment of debts is One Year from said 6th day of June, 1930. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 9th day of May, 1930. A. H. nUXpURY. (Seal) County Judge. For those who dislike violence in, disposing of the United States sen ate there is still an alternative. It is pretty well agreed that the coun try gets along somehow, no "matter what the Senate does, or does not do. It is a cheering thought that love, bridge, novel writing and backgan mon go on anyway, even without the advice and consent of the Senate. NOTICE OP ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Mary L. Wiley, deceased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested in said es tate are hereby notified that a peti tion has been filed in said Court al leging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and praying for administration upon said estate and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and provided to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally settled and determin ed, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court, on the 6th day of June, A. D. 1930, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 6th day of June, 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the. same and grant administration of said estate to Perry Nickels or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) ml2-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate or Adam Wolf, deceased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested In said es tate are hereby notified that a peti tion has been filed in said Court al leging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and praying for administration upon said estate and for such other and fur ther orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and pro vided to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally settled and determined, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 13th day of June, A. D. 1930, and that If they fail to appear at said Court on said 13th day of June, 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant adminis tration of said estate to II. A. Sch neider or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) ml9-3w County Judge. ORDER FOR HEAR ING AND NOTICE In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Fan nie McQuin, deceased. On reading and filing of the peti tion of Nettie Mougey, praying that Letters of Administration be granted to Lewis B. Mougey, as administrator de bonis non, to administer upon the goods, chattels, rights, credits, ef fects, and assets of said Fannie Mc Quin, deceased, not already admin istered upon; Ordered that June 13th, 1930, at nine o'clock a. m., be and is assigned for .hearing said petition, when all persons Interested in said matter may appear at a county court to be held in and or Cass County, Nebraska, and Bhow cause, if any there be, why the prayer of said petitioner should not be granted; and it is further ordered that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all persona inter ested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three suc cessive ' weeks, prior to said day of hearing. Dated this 17th day of May, 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, County Judge, Cass County, (Seal) ml9-3w Nebraska LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska Caroline I. Baird and Edith Estelle Baird, Plaintiffs vs. NOTICE Florence B. Jones, Minor; Fred A. Jones, Guardian of Florence B. Jones, a Minor, Defendants. Florence B. Jones, a Minor, and Fred A. Jones, Guardian of Florence B. Jones, a Minor, defendants, will take notice that on the 2nd day of May, A. D. 1930, plaintiffs herein filed their petition in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, against said defendants, the object and prayer of which are: To secure Judgment of the Court confirming a four-fifths Interest In plaintiffs in Lots four,' five and six in Block sixty-two in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska, and a one-fifth interest in said real estate in the defendant, Florence B. Jones; and for a partition of said real estate, according to the respec tive rights of the parties interested, or, if it cannot be equitably divided, that said real estate be sold and the proceeds thereof be divided between the parties according to their respec tive rights. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 23rd day of June, A. D. 1930. Dated May Sth, 1930. CAROLINE I. BAIRD and EDITH ESTELLE BAIRD, Plaintiffs. By C. A. RAWL8, Attorney. ml2-4w