MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUSNAX
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It's easier to say disagreeable
things than it is to do them.
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In looking backward a man sees
only the bright spots in the past.
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Cities have learned they must look
after children in their play hours.
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Some of the wise old saws are so
old that they have lost their teeth.
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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.
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"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.
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The situation in India continues to
put to a severe test the average Brit
isher's well-known sense of humor.
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Fish are unable to close their eyes.
But then, they don't have to worry
bo much about getting dust in them.
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Maybe the reason why some movie
actresses keep right on marrying is
that they hope to finally get the right
man.
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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.
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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
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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.
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From the way speedboats rush
around you'd think they were go
ing somewhere.
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An old-timer is one who can re
member when a shady past was a
handicap instead of literature.
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Some men are running for high
way commissionerships in Nebraska
who couldn't even limp into office.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes those soulful sopranos
sigh so heavily while singing over
the radio that we wonder whether
they use Listerine.
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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.
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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?
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Meetings and findings of the Amer
ican Chemical society are important
as well as interesting. Sometimes
they are also curious.
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Wonder what Representative
Peavy, who described President Hoo
ver as "so dry he squeaks," thinks
of the Supreme Court?
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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