MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1930.
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Speakeasy proprietors in New York
do net make a good deal of money.
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A fat man's idea if the ideal male
ensemble for summer is undershirt
and pants.
That Hawley-Smoot tariff bill
doesn't miss a thing. It even puts a
tax on youi mind to read it.
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Coming right down to facts, has
anyone ever seen a Senator who was
worth spending 1350 000 on?
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Uncle Eph thinks the Jersey pri
mary is Just another one of those
newfangled summer garments.
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Among the yellow races we must
Include the one that won't enforce
a sane law if it endangers business.
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Mention law enforcement, and the
average man promptly concludes that
you are going to talk about prohi
bition. :o:-
There's a law in Constantinople
which makes It an offense to use the
Arabic alphabet. Now they're talk
ing Turkey.
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Motorists and pedestrians ho in
sist loo Btrongly oi their light of
way often have a ambulance bell
making one for them.
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At any rate ths Senate has had
the fancy to pass the tari ff bill Fri
day the thirteenth. It never has been
any Fourth of July affair.
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The plan to cut a tunnel under the
English channel is off, but there's
probably quite a little underground
communication between France and
Britain now.
oPU DOING
"A DISTINCTLY FINER GASOLINE'
COMPLETE REST
A United States of Europe without
a Senate might get something done.
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The Bishop not only proved him
self saintly, but also Cannonized the
committee.
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People who would shoot dice in
Wall street are turning up pretty
regularly on the front page.
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Fermentation is an act of nature,
of course. But nature doesn't-squeeze
the juice out and add sugar.
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The probable slogan for the- next
educational campaign will be "spare
the cui.1 and save the snuffles.
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Mrs Hoover's social secretary has
resigned because "Uire -vs too little
to do." What do you make of that,
Watson ?
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"Liquor Laws Not Perfect, Says
McBride" Headline. And the liquor
is pretty punk, too, if anybody writes
in to ask you.
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Uncle Sam's employes now number
587,000. That'll be news to those
who thought there were that many in
the prohibition unit.
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Now we know why the United
States has no poet laureate. The sen
ate could never agree on confirming
any nomination by the President.
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Conditions would seem to be im
proving gradually in the great wheat
centers, in Minneapolis can afford
three bank robbers in three days.
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Most women buy shoes that tor
ture their feet, and some of them
seem to pick husbands who will be
sure to make them miserable, too.
New Red Crown Ethyl looks like any other red gasoline.
But there the likeness ends. Nebraskans and visiting
motorists find many points of superiority In this dis
tinctly Finer gasoline.
Instant power for quick starts and a smart getaway
less gear shirting in slow traffic mastery of hills on higJi
gear unrivalled power no gas knocks low gas cost
per milel
v.
The proof of superior gasoline is better motor perform
anceon all points, in every type of motor.
Fill up the tank of your truck, trector and passenger car
with new Red Crown Ethyl. You'll notice better motor
performance in the first five minutes. At the end of a
week you'll find this distinctly finer gasoline gives low
gas cost per mile.
At Red Crown Service Stations and Dealers every
where in Nebraska.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
OF NEBRASKA "a Nebraska institution"
ROOMS AT STANDARD OIL
When a man has both push and
pull, nothing but death can stop him.
tor-
It doesn't seem to matter which
pitcher starts or finishes a game for
the Reds.
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Now the tariff question is settled;
wonder what the Senate will do for
something to quarrel about.
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Since the enacting of the first tar
iff there has been a major tariff re
vision on the average of every seven
years.
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A country club guard in Cleveland
who shot a boy hunting for golf balls,
did it, we suppose, as a matter of
course.
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Incidently, the radio gives one a
line on the number of young fellows
in this country who think they are
comedians.
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The pickle consumption in the
country amounts to $72,000,000 per
year. This does not include the cost
of getting pickled.
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Perhaps Chicago police made such
an extended search for that beer
baron, because he hasn't paid the last
installment on his protection.
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The surprising thing about a drug
store lunch is that they don't serve
paregoric with it so the stenogs will
be able to finish the afternoon's work.
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The chief trouble with Senatorial
primary expenditures is not the huge
sums disbursed, but what the United
States Senate usually gets for the
money. "
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We may be unduly optimistic, but
we still live in the hope that some
thing will be proposed for the gen
eral good and get it adopted without
a lawsuit.
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We are getting back to normalcy.
Almost a whole week has passed and
President Hoover has not named a
new commission to investigate some
problem not worth while investigat
ing. :o:
A Texas student worked his way
through college by constructing cross
word puzzles which have appeared
in newspapers of all parts of the
country. Feihaps you've already put
in a good word for the fellow.
Id saying
SERVICE STATIONS
THE TARIFF BILL
The country did not expect Mr.
Hoover to veto the tariff bill. Such
an act of courage could have been
looked for in the Mr. Hoover of cam
paign propaganda. Mr. Kaover as
President has failed sadly to mec.sure
up to that idealistic portrait. Thru
out this protracted tariff fight there
has never been a word of direction,
an inkling of leadership, from the
White House. The press of the coun
try, friendly to Mr. Hoover and wish
ing him and his administration well,
regardless of its political inclination,
has besought him repeatedly to
speak; urged him to take command
of a situation that had gotten com
pletely out of hand; challenged him
at last, in the name cf the country's
economic welfare, to assert himself.
To all such entreaty and demand he
never made the slightest public re
sponse. There was but one conclu
sion, therefore, to draw from hi3 de
meanor and silence. He would sign
whatever tariff bill Congress put on
his desk.
But the country was not prepared,
n our opinion, for the defense of
the measure attempted by the Presi
dent and his effort to persuade the
American people that this bill fulfills
his party's platform pledge and car
ries out the official recommendations
of his message to the special sess'on.
He asks the country to believe that
this bill has been drafted primarily
n the interest of agriculture and
that the limited revision implied in
the Kansas City platform and explic-
tly requested in his message has been
complied with. It is not so under
stood by the country. The spokesmen
of the farmer in Congress have in
veighed against the measure, have
declared that agriculture has been
betrayed, that the relief it purports
to bestow is a sham, that, so far from
being benefited, the great farming
population as a whole, will have
heavier taxes imposed on them with
out compensating award. In the
words of Senator Brookhart, they
have taken a dollar out of the farm
er's pocket for every dime they have
put in it. Accurate or not. the criti
cism expresses corn belt sentiment.
To speak of a bill as "limited re
vision wnicn lias Deen Deiore con
gress for 15 months, which has writ
ten hundred.; of new schedules a
program so diverse and complex as to
be beyond the capacity of any Presi
dent to follow in detail, as Mr. Hoo
ver confesses; to speak of such an
elaborate enactment as a "limited
revision" is to flout the facts. Con
trary to the Kansas City platform,
contrary to the President's recom
mendations, contrary to economic re
quirements, contrary to public ex
pectation, Congress has written a
new tariff bill which carries the the
ory of protection to unprecedented
heights.
The reaction at home and abroad
is the most adverse evoked in the
whole history of tariff making. Alto
gether some 36 nations have form
ally condemned the embargoes placed
upon their trade. Their protest has
been endorsed by American business
leaders, American economists, by the
press of the United States and by
American public opinion. Against
such preponderance of evidence even
the voice of a President is indeed a
minority report.
Inequalities are, to be sure, admit
ted, and many of the practices in the
fashioning of the rates are deplored,
but hope is held out that the flexible
provision of the bill which enables
the President to correct the mistakes
and that henceforth readjustments
can be accomplished by commission
and executive processes. Experience
thus far with the flexible device has
been most disappointing and expert
opinion finds no prospect of efficiency
in the latest contrivance.
Rosy results are prophesied by Mr.
Hoover. Everybody hopes they will
come true. The country does not
share that optimism. The informed
opinion of the country is that the
Hawley-Smoot tariff is a dreadful
mistake. For the consequences Mr
Hoover will row necessarily be held
answerable. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Wee Willie Upshaw, of Georgia, is
making another vain but valiant en
deavor to get into the limelight. He
wended his way into Washington the
other day, butted himself into the
session of the Senate investigating
committee where he had no business
whatever, and challenged Senator
Blaine for a debate on the wet and
dry issue. The member from Wiscon
sin didn't even notice Willie's hys
terical outburst.
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We don t suppose the time will
actually come when everyone will
run a filling station and the popula
tion will live by selling gas to one
another.
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The fact a hotel porter in Detroit
made $12,000 a year in tips suggests
he carried in hia pitcher something
more potent than ice water.
MR. HOOVER'S FAILURE
Nineteen months ago Herbert Hoo
ver was elected to the presidency by
the greatest popular vote in our na
tional history. When he took office,
15 months ago, he enjoyed, to au un
usual degree, the confidence of the
country. He was the engineer in poli
tics, an expert in economic science,
the masterful business executive who
would fearlessly cut through the red
tape of politics to lead the way to
an even greater national prosperity.
During the 15 months of his in
cumbency his prestige has steadily
dwindled. The prohibition contro
versy, which he endeavored to bury
in an investigating commission, has
risen from its grave continuously to
harass him. His Farm Board, which
was to rescue agriculture from de
pression, has plunged itself into hot
water by using tax funds to specu
late in commodity prices. The arms
conference, in which, he had great
hope, has fallen upon suspicion be
cause he will not grant the Senate's
entire right to full confidence with
the W7hite House. His nomination
of Judge John J. Parker to the Su
preme Court has been rejected by the
Senate. Congress has enthusiastical
ly overridden his veto of the act in
creasing the pensions of veterans of
the Spanish-American War. He has
experienced the worst stock market
crash in history. He has only to say
times will be better for stocks to
turn turtle, as his announcement of
Sunday that the new tariff bill would
make conditions better precipitated
stocks the first of the week to the
lowest since the collapse of last No
vember. He asked Congress to give
him a limited revision of the tariff
for the benefit of agriculture. Con
gress has given him a general up
ward revision of industrial rates
which will make the farmer s plight
even sorrier tomorrow than it is to
day. Movie audiences who once
loudly applauded his predecessor
maintain an ominous silence when
his likeness is thrown upon the
screen.
The Grundy tariff bill gave him an
opportunity to re-establish his wan
ing prestige. It is a bill which will
saddle an outrageously heavy burden
on the American consumer, damage
the farmer, place obstacles in the way
of our export trade and engender ill
will among our customers abroad, all
in order that special favors may be
given to certain politcially powerful
groups. Had he vetoed the bill he
would have emerged from a year
of weakness and indecision as a man
of strength and courage. By an
nouncing his intention to sign he for
feited all claim to his status as an
economist, an expert, a scientific
man. He has branded himself defin
itely as one of the ordinary garden
variety of politicians, paying his
petty political debts to those who put
him in office, sacrificing the country
to political expediency.
This was the test of Mr. Hoover.
It was his test as an economist and a
statesman. His failure to show him
self either is pathetic.
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WE LEAD THE ALL
America leads the world in many
things, but of them all it derives the
greatest satisfaction from its leader
ship in number of bank accounts.
There are more bank books and more
bank books per capita of population
in the United States than in any
other country. Even in this presi
dential year, which by tradition is
supposed to be an off-year economical
ly, bank deposits are growing at an
amazing rate.
There is deposited in the banks of
the United States $3,000 for every
family. This does not begin to in
dicate the volume of private savings.
In no other country is there so wide
a distribution of shares in business
enterprises, so many small holdings
of bonds, so many people who, as
owners of capital, have a stake in
the prosperity of business and in the
welfare of the country. Moreover,
millions are saved each year in life
insurance.
Why? Continued prosperity. A liv
ing wage for all who will work. Pub
lic faith in the integrity and safety
of banking institutions and business
enterprises. And deep-seated Amer
ican thrift, which persists though
living standards rise and installment
plans multiply.
Under such conditions radical so
cial and political movements find this
barren soil. The man or woman with
a bank account, life insurance and
a block of stock or bond or two has
no appetite for political or social
experimentation. Neither has he or
she a taste for a political parity sup
orting an issue holding some threat
for the nations prosperity.
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Boston is. of course, disappointed
with her census returns which, ac
cording to a preliminary announce
ment, show a population of 774,729,
or a gain of only 3.6 per cent over
the figures of 1920.
GIGANTIC CONFLICT
Four hundred thousand men at the
moment are embroiled in the strug
gle for supremacy of China. Presi
dent Chiang Kai-Shek himself, of the
Nationalist Government, in command
of 150,000 troops, is hard press2d by
the Northern rebels, who, together
with the organized armies of Com
munists, have made sinister advance
ment pillaging, burning and massa
creing as they come. Great and im
portant cities are threatened with at
tack by the sweeping hordes from
the North Tsinan, Hankow, Wu
chang and others. Battles are being
fought every day. Nationals ire ap
pealing to their Governments for
protection. There are Americans at
various Chinese centers of disturb
ance. They have been urged to flee.
The Nationalist armies are battling
desperately. Business is paralyzed.
the price of silver diminished, and
famine, worse than ordinary, hovers
over the land. The rebels are on four
fronts, with reenforcements daily
rushing in to challenge the supre
macy of the Nationalist Government.
The fighting has reached huge dim
ensions. The future of China is being
determined.
China is an ancient land, a wealthy
land, potentially and actually; an
exploited land; a land that long has
been ravaged by war and flood and
famine and disease; its vast popu
lations are being made the victims
of causes and circumstances against
which they are helpless. The world
hopes for the successful resistance of
the nationalist Government, and the
issue hangs in the balance. But the
world may not interfere at least
will not though the great former
empire, struggling toward the light
of democracy, go down under the
floods of retardent savage rebellions
and the Red legions inspired by the
influence of Moscow.
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WHAT AVIATION NEEDS
A couple of years ago leaders in
the aviation industry were talking
eagerly of the day when airplanes
would be as common as autos; the
day when the average' citizen would
own his own plane and would gad
about the country in it, for business
or pleasure, as nonchalantly as he
now does in his auto.
Now it is becoming apparent that
that, day is a good deal farther off
than was then supposed. William B.
Stout, famous Detroit airplane manu
facturer, contends that it is the fault
of the industry, which has failed to
improved the design of the plane so
that the ordinary man can operate
it.
"Things are going to be different,
says Mr. Stout. "We are going to
fix it so that' a man can take a couple
of lessons on Friday and fly his plane
on Monday."
Mr. Stout has exactly the right
idea. When planes become that
simple, aviatio nas an industry will
boom just as the auto industry boom
ed. But it won't until that day actu
ally arrives.
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They might have withheld until
after hayfever time that yarn about
crossing the rubber goldenrod with
the ladyslipper to produce natural
overshoes.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Mary L. Wiley, 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
7th day of July, 1930, and the 8th
day of October, 1930, at 9 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 7th
day of July, A. D. 1930 and the time
limited for payment of debts is one
year from said 7th day of July
1930.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 6th day of
June, 1930.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) j9-3w County Judge
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Alfred W. White, deceased.
To the creditors of Eaid estate:
You are hereby notified that I will
sit at the County Court room in
Plattsmouth, in said county, on the
7th day of July, 1930, and on the
8th day of October, 1930. at 10
o'clock a. m. each day, to receive and
examine all claims against said es
tate, with a view to their adjustment
and allowance. The time limited for
the presentation of claims against
said estate is three months from the
7th day of July, A. D. 1930, and the
time limited for payment of debts is
one year from said 7th day of July
1930.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 6th day of
June, 1930.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) j9-3w County Judge
President Hoover has his summer
home in a picturesque spot down in
Virginia, not so far from Washing
ton. President Coolidge, it will be
recalled, passed a summer in the
Black Hills of Dakota. President Ben-
amin Harrison and Mrs. Harrison,
however, chose the New Jersey sea
side. That of course, was in the
"gay" nineties, and an interesting
story.
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Job Printing at Journal office.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale Is
sued by Golda Noble Deal, Clerk of
the District Court within and for
Cass County, Nebraska, and to me
directed. I will on the 22nd day of
July 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, Nebraska, in said Coun
ty, sell at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash the following
real estate to-wit:
Lot Twelve (12), Block ninety-three
(93) in the City of
Plattsmouth, as surveyed, plat
ted and recorded
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Harry II.
Kuhney, et a!., defendants to satisfy
a judgment of said Court recovered
by Standard Savings and Loan As
sociation of Omaha, Nebraska, plain
tiff against said defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June lth
A. D., 1930.
BERT REED.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Settle
Ment 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 Malvina Coffin, deceased:
On reading the petition of Watson
Howard. Executor, praying a final
settlement and allowance of his
account filed in this Court on the
10th day of June, 1930 and for final
settlement of said estate and his
discharge as said Executor;
It is hereby ordered that you ana
all persons interested in said matter
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 11th day of July, A.
D. 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., to show
cause, if any there be, why the pray
er of the petitioner should not be
granted, and that notice of the pen
dency of said petition and the hear
ing thereof be given to all persons
interested in said matter by publish
ing a copy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper printed in eaid 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
6aid Court, this 10th. day of June,
A. D. 1930.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) J16-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on 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 Asbury Jacks, deceased:
On reading the petition of John
W. Elliott, Administrator, praying a
final settlement and allowance of his
account filed in this Court on the
16th day of June, 1930, and for final
settlement of Bald estate and his dis
charge as said Administrator;
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 and for said
county, on the 11th day of July, A.
D. 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show
cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of 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 16th day of June,
A. D. 1930.
A. II. DUXBURY.
(Seal) jl6-3w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
By virtue of an Order of Sale
issued by Golda Noble Beal, Clerk of
the District Court within and for
Cass county, Nebraska, and to me
directed, I will on the 12th day of
July, 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, Nebraska, in said coun
ty, sell at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash the following
real estate, to-wit:
Fractional Lots 1 and 2 and
all of Lots 3 and 4, all in Block
22 in the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass county, Nebraska, subject
to the mortgage in favor of the
Nebraska City Building & Loan
Association, not Involved in this
suit.
The same being levied upon and
taken as the property of Ella E.
Hale et al, Defendants, to satisfy a
judgment of said Court recovered by
H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the Clar
inda National Bank of Clarinda,
Iowa, Plaintiff against said Defend
ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 6th,
A. D. 1930.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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