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London BUitS. men are wearing green -:o:- When a man's popularity begins to wane his neighbors usually assist. ;o: A Senator who can't solve a dial telephone can't solve weighty Gov ernment problems. :o: The honeymoon is over when the wife brings home a $78 china dog marked down from $118.50. :-o: It is reported unofficially that prices will remain the same under the new dry law management. :o: The Government might solve the prohibition problem by creating a Stabilization Corporation to keep sup plies off the market. :o: Having taken over prohibition en forcement, the Department of Justice will have to dispense with blindfold ed goddess and look to see. :o: The old-fashioned home - made bread that used to be made with yeast was better than modern home brew they now are making with it. i :o: Plainly the newspaper is a good advertising medium, because, in the first place all those who read at all read a newspaper some time during the day. jo; Are you tortured with mosquitoes while sitting on the front veranda? Go out in the back yard, turn over the tin cans, and you will find out the reason why. :o: An American clothier declares that since the Mussolini regime the men of Italy are becoming the best dis position to Epeech-making, they're also the best addressed. :o: One of the reasons why all of our colleges are not 100 per cent effi cient is that so many of the students neglect Greek and Latin and give their major attention to Scotch. ?o: No pension machinery, however well planned, can protect the man who lacks the self-control to devote a small part of his earnings consist ently to the protection of himself and his dependents o: In the hot weather, the mountain eer's "hogs and hominy" or the New Englander's "salt pork and milk gravy" only serve to stroke the hu man fires and make external heat more intolerable. :o: John D. Rockefeller, Sr., recently celebrated his 91st birthday. Having retired from active business more than ten years ago, Mr. Rockefeller is doing absolutely nothing now except getting a little older each day. :o: While some states are suffering from a drouth Kansas is having floods and the fishermen of that state are catching trout in the cornfields. This is one heluva country in which we live. To make matters worse, noth ing can be done about it. :o: In Roxbury, Mass., a motorist de cided that it was safer to run his car on the sidewalk than to collide with another car. It was safer for him, but he killed one pedestrian and injured seven others. What the surviving pedestrians did to him is not report ed. :c:- The London naval conference was timely even if too largely ineffective, for it seems that last year the na tions launched 50 per cent more cruisers and 300 per cent more were in process of building than in. the twelve months preceding the World War. :o: The anti-tobacco crusaders have uphill work ahead of them. To say nothing of the legions of smokers, it has just been announced that tobacco is now the main revenue producer among commodities, bringing into the United States treasury "more than $1,000,000 daily." :o: A San Francisco man, who has Just died at the age of 10 3, from in juries suffered in a fall downstairs, believed his long life was attribut able to his bachelorhood and fre quently had asserted that if he had had a wife to nag him he would have been dead long ago. Publisher It is hard to grow both old and fat gracefully, remarks an exchange. Yes, but it can be done. :o: The endurance flight was staged to advertise the city of Chicago. Some how we fail to see the need. co: . Mr.. Morrow, on his return to Mex ico, will be greeted rather as a grandpa than an ambassador. :o: That smoking cures hams and saves women from getting so fat they have to go on diets and buy vibrators. :o: Miniature golf may be a new game but the gay nineties went just as woozy over miniature tennis. They called it ping pong. :oi Max Schmeling's manager balks at the arrangements for the proposed re-match between Srhmeling and Sharkey and the fight is off. so: The Western idea of the greatest statesmen seem to be the Senator who makes the biggest fool of himself in order to embarrass the President. :o: If you are driving at night a red light in the center of the street not only means stop, but also look out for some fool behind who is determined not to stop. :o: "People who drink buttermilk do not want whisky," says a New York doctor. It works the same the otherJ way Ppnnlp n.-hr flrink whiskv . , ... ( iJiiaii ui ills yu.1 iy s cunti esbiuiicti tum- not want buttermilk. '1 . :o: A Chicago doctor who predicts that we will forget how to walk in anoth er 100 years is "all wet." The dis tance between the parking place and the office lengthens all the time. :o: An appeal is made to the public for a radio set for a hospital ward. There should be a quick response every body being willing to give away the set owned by the next-door neighbor. :o: Well, they named that Lindbergh baby Charles, Jr., just as we sus pected all the time. And from now on they will follow the custom of newlyweds by calling him "Sonny Boy." :o: Senator Tom Heflin says the defeat of Senator Simmons in North Caro lina was a mistake. Next month Sen ator Simmons will have an opportun ity to say the defeat of Senator Heflin was a mistake. :o: It always makes a woman furious to think of the time she wasted doll ing up and the agony of keeping sweet all during the courtship just to annex a washout who has meant spending every Monday hanging a wash out. :o: Some five thousand Bedouin sheiks were recently given a "cinema" en tertainment in Jerusalem. What they thought of the movie of sheik has not been reported, but doubtless pic turesque Arabic cuss words would punctuate their avowal. :o: It was a heart attack that killed Sir Arthur Conan Doylo, noted R"it itsh novelist. With all due deTer ence, and no intention whatever to be sacriligious, a man in the writing game has no business with a hcrt. :o: There was 59,94 5 soldiers. 159 nurses, and 181,235 widows who re ceived Civil war pensions duTlng 1929. This number grows less e:eh year, there being a drop of 15,': DO soldiers receiving pension from IS.1'8, and 26,000 widows. :o: Apparently there are some lawyers whose charges even movie stars, prize fighters, and Babe Ruths have cause to envy. Witness that New York at torney's claim of $5,000,000 for ser vices in obtaining an income tax re fund of some $33,000,000 to the United States Steel corporation. It seems, however, that he hasn't got it yet. :o: So many actors are out of work and unable to pay their dues or house bills that the Lambs Club of New York has petitioned the court for per mission to place a second mortgage of $100,000 on the club house prop erty. Motion pictres and particular ly the "talkies" had hit the "legiti mate" actors hard even before the arrival of generally hard times A WALL STREET CONSPIRACY If the heavens haven't already fal len, they're due to come crashing down almost any minute. For the republican party is damn ing Wall Street! Nor do we mean by that the insur gent anti - republican republicans. There never was a time when they were not hurling a harpoon into Wall Street with the left hand at the same time they were harpooning their own party with the right. To the insur gents the republican party and Wall Street have ever appeared as Siam ese twins, conected by the unbibical cord of a common interest and gen erously feeding each other. It has been the same way with the demo crats, and the populists, and the bull moosers, and the greenbackers, and the farmer-laborites, and the nonpar tisan leaguers and the socialists and till the other bolshevists Wall Street has been their shining target. But Wall Street never minded that. Bryan might belabor it with his two fisted sword, Wilson threaten to hang its captains higher than Haman, Roosevelt , sneer at its soft bodies and hard faces. La Follette and Debs give it fits daily before breakfast, and in answer to all that Wall Street just laughed ha-ha and went serenely on its way getting ever richer and hap pier and more powerful. For Wall Street had a friend. And such a friend! The republican party, consumed with gratitude for favors extended and favors expected. The two, the street and the party, were sure-enough Siamese twins, feeding bach other, protecting each other, ttanding back to back to fight for oach other, and growing fat together. Whenever and by whomever the one was assailed the other growled in wrath. Theirs was a flourishing and mighty partnership. The one twin got the offices and the political pow er, and the other twin gathered in the money, and everybody was happy but the democrats and other riff-raff. And now! Just listen to Repres entative oods of Indiana, a regu lar, hide-bound republican and chair- mittee: "To my mind the strongest recommendation that can be had for our new protective tar iff law is the opposition of the Wall Street gamblers. There is every reason to believe that re cent manipulations in the New York stock market which have cost scores of thousands of small investors hundreds of millions of dollars, have been of political in spiration and intended to dis credit the national administra tion and the new tariff law. "I am strongly in favor of a congressional investigation of the dumping and short selling of stocks in the New York mar ket last year and this year for the deliberate purpose of disor ganizing the securities market and making political capital by the most ruthless, destructive and unpatriotic methods . "Such an investigation will reveal the names of those big business men who are in politics for profit and are willing to sacrific their country and their countrymen to satisfy their own malice and greed." Not Bryan and Roosevelt and Wil son and La Follette combined could ever have hit Wall Street harder than that. And not one of them that we can remember ever charged the gamblers with deliberately and un patriotically selling their stocks for a heavy loss just for the malicious pur pose of discrediting the government and destroying prosperity. The farmers must tome next. For obviously they are partners with Wall Street in the conspiracy against the administration. Greedily, malicious ly, unpatriotically, they are selling their wheat and corn and their cot ton and their live stock and their butter and their eggs at wickedly low prices and for what other purpose could it be than to embarrass the government? And the unemployed, too. Fine conspirators they are! Maliciously doing nothing and greed ily going hungry, Just to prevent the administration from boasting of the chicken it has put in every pot! It isn't Wall Street alone. It is the whole doggoned country, sinfully engaged in a "ruthless, destructive and unpatriotic" campaign to retard the restoration of prosperity which nobody but the administration wants. :o: PREDICTIONS FOR 1930 Prohibition problem will continue to get no better fast. Easy payments will be as hard as ever to meet. A lot of former speculation will be working instead of doing the loafing they planned. Mussolini will not develop an in feriority complex. Reckless drivers won't evolute into wreckless ones. The Reds .will win the pennant. (Subject to revision next October.) Bill Borah won't try to break the long-distance silence record. :o: Journal Want Ads get results. THE SMOKER IN THE WOODS The vacation and camping season multiplies the hazard of forest fires. Since the spring of this year losses on that account have been unpre cedentedly large in the eastern states, where hundreds of thousands of acres, valuable alike for timber and for rec reation purposes, have been burned. Who is mainly responsible for this destruction? According to the president of the American Forestry Association, Mr. George D.. Pratt, it is the careless smoker. The man who drops a light ed match or flings away a cigarette or cigar stub while its end is still red, or knocks "live" ashes from his pipe is charged with fifty per cent of the woodland blazes in New York, with thirty-eight per cent of those in New Hampshire, with thirty-seven per cent of those in Connecticut, with ninety per cent of those in Rhode Is land, and with a large proportion in all states that have suffered heavily on this sore. Such statistics, derived from thorough investigation, make up a severe indictment of careless ness -with burning tobacco, and should be pondered by every one who visits the woods, whether as camper, motorist or stroller. "A tree," runs the proverb, "can make a million matches, but a match can destroy a million trees" and with them an unmeasured sum of natural wealth and human happiness. The commissioner of forestry and fire protection for the state of Minne sota suggests certain precautions that cught to be observed the country over at all times and especially in the va cation months. "Be sure," he urges, "that the match is out sure before tossing it away. It is well to break the stick in two. Cigar stubs, cigar ettes and pipe ashes should be put out before they are discarded, and should never be thrown where there Is a possibility of starting a fire. Build a small camp fire while in the woods. Rake away all inflammable material before lighting a fire. Never build a fire against a tree or a log. And, most important of all, never leave a camp fire until you are sure absolute ly that it is out. Pour plenty of water on it or bury it with mineral soil. After you think it is out, feel of the ashes with your hand. If all travel ers in the woods will observe these few simple rules, the fires originating from this source will be reduced to a minimum." And what a savine for public as well as for private interests, for fu ture as well as present generations! A woodland fire is more deplorable, in some respects than one which blots out a building. Against the latter there is usually insurance, but rarely if every against the former. It anni hilates in a few hours wealth which nature was decades and centuries in producing, wealth which is the basis of important industries, the source of employment and livelihood for num bers of people, the prime safeguard against soil waste and ruinous floods It not only destroys the merchantable timber, but also stunts the growth and impairs the quality of the young er trees and seedlings, and robs the earth of fertilizing elements. It leaves poverty where there were riches and ugliness where thr was beauty. The careless smoker and the negligent camper are thus enemies of the com mon weal. No good citizen will be numbered amongst them. :o: CALIFORNIA The far Pacific Coast no longer is considered too remote for intimate political connection with the older part of the country, California has been growing. She has grown beyond the expectations of her own citizen ship. The census returns indicate that California will probably enjoy an increase of nine Representatives in Congres. This about doubles the state's present Congressional delega tion. It somewhat startles the Eastern and Midwestern thought to realize that this one is to have a greater representation in Congress than any except four states in the prideful East and Midwest. Other parts of the country humor ously or derisively, quite consistently have made sport of Californias "ad vertising methods," her assertive grandiloquence concerning a delect able climate, soil, scenery .opportun ities and so on. But it appears that these efforts to attract increased population have been far from wast ed. It seems before to have been re marked that advertising pays. Cali fornia with emphasis now confirms the statement. :o: Carl Williams, member of the Farm Board expresses much grati fication over the reduction of 1,250, 000 acres in the season's cotton crop, and seems Inclined to take unto his organization some measure of credit therefore. -:o: Phone your Want Ad to No. 6. Krejci-Fiash Go., South 3rd St. USB Let Krejci do your Grain Haul ing and Live Stock Trucking. Any Time Any Place Call 199 MORE OR LESS TRUE When we look through the old family albums and see what queer looking people used to be around, and realize divorces were very rare in their day we reach the conclusion that they must have had marvelous dispositions. Every woman thinks her children are better than anybody else's, but bragging about her husband doesn't take up much of an average womans time. Our idea of a saint is a mother who can spend a hot afternoon get ting up a big meal for the family and then be able to sit down to the table with these without having the dis position of a snapping turtle. A girl may spend money for kiss proof lipsticks, but nothing can sour her more on life than having had Nature give her a kiss-proof face. About the only thing that could be as hard as making a house pet out of a tiger would be trying to domesti cate some of these wild, little gold diggers. The cld-fashioned woman who waited patiently for his ship to come In until they both passed out, left a daughter who throws her disappoint ment over early in the game and goes out and annexes some fellow whose ship is already in port.. The styles may have changed, but the average girl's legs are still about as out of sight as an elephant's trunV Iiesf flowered, flimsy materials mafco attractive looking dresses all right, but we can't think of anything funnier than men going about wear ing pants made of stuff like that. The average husband isn't a tight wad or a thoughtless brute, but after the rent, running expenses and the various installment payments have been taken out of his salary his only chance of having any money to blow on his wife for flowers, clotes and jeweiry is to hold up a filling sta tion. :ot- THE HA WES-COOPER LAW The Hawes-Cooper law to limit the handling of prison-made goods in in terstate commerce was given a severe drubbing at the Governors confer ence in Salt Lake City. The law will prevent after 1934 the sale of prison made goods shipped into a state whose laws prohibit sale of such products. Gov. Roosevelt of New York term ed it an infringement upon state au thority. Roosevelt further expressed his belief that the law is unconstitu tional. Gov. Christianson of Minne sota said the law was "only another step in the process of subordinating agriculture to industry." The Gover nor said a binder twine factory, which has made it possible for Min nesota to build a new prison, would be put cut of business by the Hawes Cooper law and the taxpayers would be required to shoulder the burden of supporting the prisoners. Gov. Caulfield said the bill would make it necessary to revolutionize Missouri's prison industries. Gov. Baldridge of Idaho and Gov. Leslie of Indiana, both protested that states should be permitted to work out their own plans of aiding prisoners to live of usefulness without Federal interfer ence. The Hawes-Cooper bill was passed to please organized labor, which claimed it was unfair to ask it to if compete with prison labor. But this competition was certainly not of such proportions as to Justify a measure which will probably have the effect of throwing thousands of prisoners out of work. Idleness is the course of modern prison life, and it has been a major factor in the recent epidemic of prison riots. :o: Nothing makes daughter more dis gusted than having mother asking if her boy friend kissed her when they were parking on the front porch. She knows that even in mother's younger days, boy friends didn't come around to discuss politics and astronomy. 10: - Phone your news items to No. 6. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Mary L. Fitch, 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 1st day of August, 1930, and the 3rd day of November. 19 30, 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 1st day of August, A. D. 1930, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 1st day of August, 1930. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 5th day of July. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) j7-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of George and Eva Meisinger, 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 their estate and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the prem ises as may be required by the stat utes in such cases made and provided 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 8th day of August, A. D. 1930, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 8th day of August, 1930, at 10:00 o'clock a. m., to contest the asid petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to John R. Meisinger, or some otner suitable person ana proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) jl4-3w County Judge NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass, Nebraska Arthur N. Sullivan, et al. Plaintiffs vs. Adeline Spangler et al. Defendants. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the decree of the District Court, of the County of Cass Nebraska, entered in the above en titled cause, on the 15th day of Feb ruary 1930, and an order of sale en tered by said court on the 15th day of February, 1930, the under signed sole referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, on the 26th day of July, 1930, at 10 o'clock a. m., at the South Front Door of the Court House in the City of Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, the following des cribed real estate to-wit: Lots 10 and 11 in block 38 In the City of Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska; terms of sale 10 cash of the amount of the bid at the time of sale, and the balance on confirmation. Said sale will be held open for one hour. Dated this 14th day of June, 1930. J. A. CAPWELL, Referee. W. A. ROBERTSON, Lawyer. J23-5w 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 Martin Steppat, deceased: On reading the petition of Eddie Steppat and Martha Meisinger, Ex ecutors, praying a final settlement and allowance of their account filed in this Court on the 10th day of July, 1930, and for final settlement of said estate and their discharge as said Executors; 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 coun ty, on the Sth day of August, 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 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 10th day of July, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) jl4-3w County Judge. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Bank of Eagle, a banking corpora tion, of Eagle, Nebraska, at a special meeting of the stockholders on the 27th day of March. 1930, amended its Articles of Incorporation to extend the corporate existence until May 20, 19S0, and also amended its Artic les of Incorporation to provide for a Board of not less than three nor more than fifteen members, otherwise the Articles of Incorporation heretofore adopted remain the same. BANK OF EAGLE of Eagle, Nebraska. By Sterling Mutz, Its Attorney. j30-4w NOTICE OF SUIT In the District Court of the Coun ty of Cass, Nebraska. Clara Jones, Plaintiff vs. NOTICE Ed Jones, Defendant J You are hereby notified that on March 12. 1930. Clara Jones com menced an action In the District Court of Cas3 county. Nebraska, ae-ainst vou. the object, purpose and prayer of which is to secure an abso lute divorce in favor of said plaintiff and against you. and that plaintiff be restored to her maiden name, Clara Boom. You are further notified that you are required to answer said petition on or before Monday, August 25, 1930. or vour default will be enter ed and decree rendered in accordance with the prayer of said petition. Of all of which you will take due notice. CLARA JONES, Plaintiff. W. A. Robertson. Attorney for Plaintiff. jl4-4w SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by Golda Noble Beal, Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me di rected. I will on the 23rd day of August, 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, Nebr., In said coun ty, sell at public auction to the high est bidder for cash the following real estate, to-wit: East half of Lot 9 and all of 10 in Block 27 in the City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Cass county The same being levied upon and taken as the property of August W. Cloidt et al. Defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by Plattsmouth State Bank. Plain tiff, and Murray State Bank, Defend ant and Cross Petitioner, Plaintiffs against said Defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 15th, A. D. 1930. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. jl7-? SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Execution issued by Golda Noble Beal, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 29th 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 cf Platts mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at Public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following described lands, to-wit: The east ninety acres of the northwest quarter (NW',4) of Section 25, Township 12, North of Range 12 East of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska, subject to all liens; The same being levied upon and taken as the property of William Kaufmann, defendant, to satisfy a judgment of said Court recovered by H. J. Spurway, Receiver of the First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Ne braska, plaintiff against said defend ant, William Kaufmann et al. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 23rd, A. D. 1930. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County. Nebraska. j23-5w 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 Patrick J. Flynn, deceased: On reading the petition of Cather ine T. Flynn, Administratrix, pray ing a final settlement and allowance of her account filed in this Court on the 9th day of July, 1930, and for final settlement of said estate and her discharge as said Administratrix of said estate; 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 Sth day of August, A. D. 1930, at 9:00 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 pub lishing 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 9th day of July, A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) jl4-3w County Judge. CI