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THURSDAY. DEC. 25. 1930. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTTBNAI PAGE THRU Cbc plattsmouth lournal j PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffiee, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postai Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Only two shopping days before Christmas. : o : No nnow to speak of. but the boy with the red sled is looking tor snow. :o: Full many a gem of purest ray serene isn't reported to the tax asses sor. :o: A gossip is a person who can read between the lines when there is noth ing there. : o : A $10 overcoat will keep a man warmer than a pawn ticket tor an OTercoat with for lining. :o:- The objection to Sherman's des crip of war is that it applies to too many other things as well. About the only secret that has not been shown on the New York stage is the personal life of a goldfish. :o: However, the speaker's car must now be almost too serious a subject for Lungworth and Garner to Joke about. -: o:- Who can remember when grandma grouped S' me five or six vague a'l .".ents unr'fr the general head of "a misery?" : o : The weak point in the Democratic Republican truce is that it was not signed by Senator Bruce and his fel low insurgents. :o: Of course the only way the Cov et nment can aid the California grape growers is to educate the country to make more Jelly. -:o: Some men are born unemployed. Some achieve unemployment and only the willing workers have unemploy ment thrust upon them. :o: The final proof of genius is the ability to write advertisements that will make people y-arn for a cer tain kind of spinach. -:o: A demon statistician says that women's feet are larger than they used to be. The figures did not come from the shoe manufacturers. :o:- Lady Astor had to use male waiters at her manless party. There never was a party where men didn't have to wait before, during and after. -: o: Some of our self-styled literary iconoclasts are suffering so severely from an inferiority complex that they would be benefited by the attentions of a psychoanalyst. :o: A geographical note says that when the Dalai Llama gets his new automobile going Thibet, he won't need the yok any more. Nope. What he'll need will be the jack. :o: Judging from the apparent change for the better there seem;: reason for believing that Amos Woodcock. Pro hibition Commissioner, was in earn est when he told his agent not to shoot if they felt they were going to trip. Gravel or Pave Your Driveways and Sidewalks ! Muddy roads and walks into and around YOUR house should be graveled or paved. Our men will deliver and spread. Terms Can be Arranged Estimates Free No Obligation We haul a distance of 25 miles from our plant. Stock trucks returning from the yards loaded very rapidly. Phone: Plattsmouth 21 I George W. Bell Co. S Pit on Highway 75, South Side Platte River K BdoooocoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobI It is getting so we do not hear anything about endurance fliers until they fall. :o: A "larger sphere of usefulness, being translated, means a job that pays more money. Chicago seems unable to catch that elusive bird Capone. Why not try sprinkling salt on his trail? :o: As a final solution. Chicago might put ail its innocent citizens in jail so racketeers can't get at them. :o:- A New York doctor who advises against too frequent bathing in win ter is making a strong bid for popu- : larity. :o: We shall reserve comment on Sen lator Heflin'a plan to prohibit trading in margins until we hear from Bishop Cannon. : n:- What a grand tiling it Would he if coal would just burn all up, like gas oline, and leave no ashes to be toted out of the cellar. :o : There is a suspicion in some quar ters that the adjective in "bull mar tret" also describes the talk about it-turning prosperity. :o: Many a man who has missed the experience of being held up by out laws still knows how it feels to be held down by in-laws. -:o: A hick town has been described as a place where nobody feels a pain in the neck if somebody inherits $4,000 and acts modest about it. -:o:- Particularly timely is the release from Hollywood of figures on the daily wages of various members of the animal kingdom in the movies. -:o: Apparently congress is to use up most of the next three months dis cussing whether or not there ought to be an extra session in the spring. Our notion of misapplied generos ity would be the sending of a pack age of food to a starving family with a note "Do not open until Christ mas." -:o:- A free land is one in which the government builds a Bfty-million-dol-lar dam and a citieu whose tax is $1.24 a year howls about "the waste of our money." :o: It's nobody's business, but the amazement of innocent travelers who are fined for not declaring their Eu ropean purchases makes you wonder how they got rich. :o: The laughter of babies has noth ing whatever to do with their na tural intelligence and the things they laugb at have no humorous signi finance whatever for adults. : o : Here's a bit of cheering news. Be tween now and the first of the year building and loan organizations in the United States will pay to share holders approximately $225,000,000. We can come pretty close to guess ing how a successful bridge player is gonna solve the problem of finding gifts for the relatives without buying them. :o:- A refractory mule is taught some times to pull by teaming it up with three ur four tractable animals, but we never see it work cut with a mule. And now that a way has been found, and adopted, to make illegal liquor unpalatable, but not murder out, who is benefited, the bootlegger or the public? :o: Short detective story: Once upon a time a man opened a day-coaeh window with no difficulty. He was immediately arrested and discoveied to be a famous safe-breaker. Since .Match 4. 1929. there has been many an occasion when the Am erican people would have been thrill ed to the marrow by angry Herbert Hoover, bitting out straight from the si oulder. Sinclair Lewis, American winner of the Nobel prize, told European jour nalists "I am only a little reporter with a fondness for whisky and soda." Yes. and in a pinch Lewis can get along very well without the soda. Those Indianapolis Judges who have announced they will hear no di vorce cases after Dec. 20 because Christmas is "the day of the child and the home" seems to forget that it also is a day of "peace on earth good will to men." JUDGE CLARK'S VIEW It is not unnatural that the de cision of Federal Judge Clark, of New Jersey, which was based upon his conclusion of the invalidity of the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment, should have occasioned general remark and interested atten tion. Judge Clark is an authority on the Constitution. He believes that an amendment such as the Eighteenth should be proposed and adopted by Constitutional convention procedure that such is the intent of Consti tutional provision. The opinion is not a new one, but it baa not been passed upon by the Supreme Court. A distinguished member of the Wickersham Commit tee is said to entertain the same view. Elihu Root heretofore has argued on its behalf. There is a world of authorities available in its support. Judge Clark very ably pte Isents them. j It was not so long ago that James M. Beck, one of the first among Am erican constitutionalists, in summing lip a discussion in relation to the Eighteenth Amendment, its present status and its future fate, declared something as follows: There are many people who believe that any I measure of restriction may be im posed on the public, though it were absurd, if only you can get sufficient votes to give to it the authority of law. organic sanction or statutory definition. Hut. said he. the wise know that the foolish legislation or provision affecting the rights of states land the living of people is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twist ing; that the state must follow, and 'not lead the character and progress of the citizen. Judge Clark's ruling and conten tion may be reversed and denied in a higher court, as he appears to anti cipate, but. as he hopes, "it may at least have the effect of focusing the country's thought upon the neglect ed method of considering the consti tutional amendments in convention." :o: THE VIRGIN STAR It glistened i In fragil loveliness. The bleating of a lmb Kchoed over the moonlit hills. Through the silver shadows The angels' voices sang I "Peace on earth. Good will to men." It was Christmas Tve In Hethlehem. 1 ! , Each Advent i j His star grows dearer, I His purpose clearer, I I And His coming nearer. 1 1 Many now follow His star ; i 'Finding its beauty j In the eyes of a It it Ie child, 'Seeing its radiance Reflected in a sad heart. Finding its peace Beyond the present sorrow. Over valley and hill. Over hamlet and city The Virgin Star still shines. I Each Advent, Pale, clear and bright. It is brought to us, I In the great purpose Of those who prepare For His coming. Charles Bancroft in the Philadel phia Inquirer. :o:- Large map of Cass county on sale at Journal office. 50c each. CONGRESS AND THE WAR DEBTS The first semi-annual payments for the fiscal year ou the war debts owned to the United States were due Dec. 15, when the U. S. Treasury re ceived from 11 foreign countries in principal and interest a total of $122,989,450. Of the total, $30,854,- 052 was in payment of principal and $92,185,397 for interest. Interest payments were received as follows: Belgium, $1,625,000; Es tonia. $150,000; Finland. -129,885; France. -19.325.000; Great Britain, $06,390,000; Hungary. $28,804; Italy. 11,260,625; Latvia. -50.000; Lithuania. -93,804. and Poland, $3. 082.555. Those making payments on the principal included Czecho-Slov-akia. $1,500,000; Finland, $55,000; Great Britain, $28,000,000; Hun gary. $11,755, and Poland, $1,287, 297. All payments were iu gold. The war debts totaled, before these payments, $11,641,508,461. Over 90 per cent of the payments just made came from Great Britain. France and Italy. These three countries owe al most 90 per cent of the total. Great Britain has paid in round numbers $1,751,000,000. Her indebtedness is now reduced to $4,398,000,000. France has paid $446,000,000. and still owes $3,865,000,000. Italy has paid $83,000,000, leaving an indebt edness of $2,017,000,000. The Baltimore Evening Sun re marks of the British payment that this is very good news for us, since it does not come out of our own pockets. "But what about Great Britain?" asks the Sun, which adds: "From the standpoint of the international economy the transference of such a sum is a serious matter, indeed. France and the United States be tween them now possess more than 60 per cent of the world's gold re serve. France has more than two bil lions of gold in its vaults; the Unit ed States somewhere around four bil lions and a half. Great Britain, on the other hand, is struggling along on a basis of $750,000,000. Greet Britain is on a gold standard, and any further drain must seriously ef fect her fiscal position. Add the per ilous state of her finances to British industrial difficulties, unemployment and overpopulation, and it isn't hard to see why some Englishmen are call ing for strong men to set them right again." Secretary Mellon has insisted that the war debts and reparations are re lated, on economic fiction in which both Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover have acquiesced. Yet Germany under the Young plan is compelled to pro vide all of this money which the Allies are paying on their account with Uncle Sam. In the fiscal year beginning next April 1. she is obli gated to pay $400,000,000. Mean while, Germany is not able to bal ance her national budget. Her pres ent deficit is about $300,000,000. Since the war she has borrowed out side the country some $5,000,000,000 and has paid on reparations less than half as much, which plainly shows that such payments have been made out of borrowings and not out of revenues and industrial earnings. The whole problem of this vicious circle must inevitably be considered by Con gress. As pointed out recently in the Magazine of Wall Street by Louis T. McFadden. chairman of the House Banking Committee, neither the Al lies nor the American bankers who have been lending money to Ger many agree with our administration t hat the war debts and reparations are not one and the same thing. Said Mr. McFadden: "The Allies feel that they cannot pay us unless Germany pays them, and our international bankers agree with them that in fact the two are one and inseparable." It is the interdependence of na tions that has brought the world to its present economic plight. Not one of them has been able to escape the fate of all. If, as the Baltimore Sun points out, the gold handed over to us a few days ago by Great Britain is a serious matter to the international economy, how long we can continue to deny that the fortunes of Great Britain are indissolubly linked with our own? Mr. McFadden thinks that the whole scheme of war debts and reparations has involved us in a mud dle from which we may not be able to escape except by cancellation. Wheth er this is true or not, the spectacle of impoverished Europe, plagued as she is with unemployment and busi ness depression, stepping up thin week to make her semi-annual pay ment to us shows that blood can be squeezed out of a turnip. But who knows how many times $11,000,000,000 it would probably cost us actually to collect all that money? St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o: Charges ot conditions "scarcely distinguishable" from slavery in Li beria, where vast American rubber plantation projects are under way, bring the far-off Negro Aepublican into the public eye again and under another unsavory light. IF SANTA CLAUS FORGETS Little boys are pressing their freckled faces against the plate glass windows where trains go round and round on silver tracks, and little girls are holding out their arms to dolls that smile back understanding ly. The magic season is here again. All over the country children are measuring their stockings so they will be sure to hang the longest ones by the bedposts where Santa Claus can find them. And there isn't one heart that doubts that the benevolent tdd saint will climb down his chim ney or use a pass-key on his door. Perhaps he didn't come last year, they understand. But that is all the .nore reason that he will be 'here this year. Letters are going to the North Pole every day. and switchboard operators are telling countless chil dren that the shining workshop where the master toymaker lives is too far to be reached by the longest long distance. But when Christmas morning comes thousands of these same starry eyed little boys and girls will find that their stockings ate cold and flat, unless the rest of us understand how disappointed a little child can be when he is left out of the Christmas feast. We accuse the inkeeper who would not make room for Mary the night that the Christ child was born. But we who wound a little child by mak ing him think that he has been for gotten break trust with life just as surely. It takes such a little bit to make a child happy. There are enough toys which aren't being used in our homes to make every child in the country wake up on the magic morn ing with a feeling in his heart that life is good and Santa Claus still comes. Grown people have had experience enough to understand the reasons un derlying things when their di earns don't come true. Children can't do this. They only know that Santa Claus has stood on the corner and in toy shops, asked them what they wanted him to bring . . . and then forgotten them. They are puzzled, and their bruised hearts don't know how to understand a giver who can be so generous to some children and so thoughtless of others. If we would keep alive the chil dren's belief that life is good and dreams come true, we must not fail them. They won't talk about the gifts that they didn't get. these boys and girls who are going around the streets with such shining eyes today. But they will have a dull little pain in their hearts if Santa Claus breaks trust with them. And nothing in all the world is so pathetic its a child who was left out. :o: RELIEF FOR FARMERS Congress is now devoting a great deal of verbal attention, at least, to so-called relief measures. The greatest relief which Congress could give the country would be to pass the necessary appropriation bills and adjourn. One of the great troubles with the country today is muddling by Con gress through so-called "relief" measures, trying to boost the price of wheat and cotton and as a result only lower the prices of these com modities, while costing the taxpayers 'millions of dollars. Several days ago the New Orleans cotton situation was the muddling of Congress with the cotton market, I through its so-called relief measures. When a Congressman talks of relief measures some think of "doles," and a handout is what a great many ap parently think they should receive. If Congress would get through in a proper and efficient way with the measures that concern it that of governmental appropriations and then adjourn, there would be relief. But there is not going to eb any permanent relief through quack measures that place a great tax bur den on the majority of the people, and are supposed to get the farmer vote in the doubtful states. If Congress wants to relieve agri cultural and industrial conditions, it will pass the necessary bills for the efficient operation of the govern ment, and then give the people a chance to work out their own sal vation without muddling and inter ference at Washington. Auctioneer C. P. BUSCHE Louisville, Neb. Farm and Live Stock Sales a Specialty Best of References by Many Successful Sales 7"HEN you start at sud den noises, worry over trifles, can't bear the noise that children make, feel irritable and blue ten to one it's your nerves. Don't wait until your over wrought nerves have kept you awake half the night and paved the way for another miserable day. Take two teaspoonfuls of Dr. Miles' Nervine and enjoy the relief that follows. Take two more before you go to bed. Sleep and wake up ready for the days' duties or pleasures. Dr. Miles' Nervine is now made in two forms Liquid and Effervescent Tablet. Both are the same therapeutically. Liquid or Efferves cent Tablets at all drug" stores. Price $1.00 tt'lmil NEST-CE-PAS ? Almost 300 years ago the French Academy began work on its standard grammar of the French language. .Vow comes word from Paris That the great work will be published in a short time. This is too important an announcement to lose sight of, even in the bustle of Christmas prepara tions and the lame duck session of Congress. For thousands of the vol ume's diselosures may be little short of matters of life and death. Should the Grammarians, for instance, ban ish double gender nouns to St. Helena many a distracted son and daughter away at college would take a new lease on life. Elimination of the preterit indicitive and the imperfect subjective from the speech of Mo liere and Villon would save at least another semester for numberless oth ers. There is no use dreaming of out tight emancipation from the terror of irregular verbs, but what a great forward step in the world'-; civiliza- tion it would be if a program were laid out for dropping the defectives of the successive conjugations at four five-year intervals? Or, since it costs no more to aim high, a plan for eliminating the congugations them selves. We leave it to the class. N-est-ce-pas? -: o : - BUFF ROCK COCKERELS Accredited; blood tested. Price $1.50. Mrs. F. A. Stohlman, Louis ville, Nebraska. n20-12tw Phone yonr Want Ad to No. 6 NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of N'ehraska. Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Ransom M. Cole, 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 16th day of January, A. D. 1931 and on the 17th day of April. A. D. 1931 at nine o'clock in the forenoon of each day. to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and al lowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 16th day of January A. D. 1931 and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 1 6th day of January A. D. 1931. Witness my hand and the seal of Bald County Court this 17th day of December. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) d22 3w County Judg. LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County. Nebraska. Daniel G. Golding, Plaintiff, vs. Charles L. White, et al. Defendants. NOTICE To the Defendant, Charles L. White: You are hereby notified that on the 16t.h day of July. 1930, the plaintiff filed his suit in the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska, the object and purpose of which is to foreclose lien of a tax sale certificate on Lots 572 and 573, in the Village of Greenwood, in Cass County, Ne braska, and equitable relief. You are hereby required to an swer said petition on or before Mon day, February 2, 1931. And failing so to do, your default will be enter ed and judgment taken upon the plaintiff's petition. This notice is given pursuant to an order of this Court. DANIEL G. GOLDING. Plaintiff. By A. L. TIDD. His Attorney. d22-4w WANTED Cholera Hogs Dead Horses Cat ii, r, w cu'ivni f a. fn 1 l 1 ..!,. . V. T . . ' I. "'II... . " . , !PLATT8MOUTH. NEBR. L ft. Greer, i Agent. Phone 35. We Buy Hides and I Furs. We Pay Phone Calls. d4-3tw SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, Pounty of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale issued by Colda Noble Beal, Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 29th day of December, 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 Platts mouth, Nebraska, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following real es tate, to-wit: The south 4 7 feet of Lota " atid 6, in Block 4.!. In the City of Plattsmouth, in Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of John F. Wolff, Edna .1. Wolff and the Platts mouth Loan and Building Associa tion, defendants, to satisfy a judg ment of said court, recovered by Paul H. Gillan, plaintiff against said d -fendants. Plattsmouth. Nebraska, November 22nd, A. D. 1930. BERT REED, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. 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, as To all persons interested in the estate of Mary L. Pitch, deceased: On reading the petition of Robert H. Fitch, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account Bled In this Court on the 2nd day of De cember, 1930, and for discharge of himself as administrator of said es tate; 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 Becond day of Jan uary. A. D. 1931, at 9 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 Jourrral, 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 aid Court, this 2nd day of December. A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) d8-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set lement of Accounts In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Mary L. Wiley, deceased. On reading the petition of Perry Nickles. Administrator, praying a fi nal settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 20th day of December. A. D. 1930, and for final settlement of his ac count and discharge as such Admin istrator ; 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 16th day of January A. D. 1930, at ten 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 thP 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 2oth day of Decem ber. A. D. 1930. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) d22-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Robert Troop, deceased: On reading the petition of Lois R. Troop praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 18th day of December 1930. and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and al lowed, and recorded as the last will and testament of Robert Troop, de ceased; that said instrument be ad mitted to probate, and the adminis tration of said estate be granted to H. A. Schneider, as Administrator with will annexed; 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 16th day of January A. D., 1931 at ten 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 that 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. Witness ray hand, and seal of said court, this 18th day of December A. D.. 1930. A H. DUXBURY. (Seal) d22 3w County Judge.