THURSDAY . JAN. 1. 1931. PLATTSM 0 TJTH SEMI- WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TB1SB Cbe plattsmoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI -WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmoutb. Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, 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 Beyond the Alps lies Italy under a thumb. :o: Wben it comes to speeding, most of it is conversational. :o: Half the trouble with working is knowing you can't be loafing. :o: Another very good tonic is a set of girls clamoring for new frocks. :o: Men don't fail because they knock; they knock because they have failed. :o: Keeping out of trouble is almost as much trouble as getting into it. :o: The closed season will soon be here on prowling around closets and old bureaus. :o: Wben you see a man all sleepy and worn out he may have a bad baby or a good radio. :o: A cheerful man is one who knows it is impossible for things to be as bad as he thinks they are. :o: We assume that if Floyd begins talking first Mrs. Gibbons has no chance to get in a word edgewise. :o: Speak of class wars, something should be done about the feeling be tween the freshmen and sophomores. : o : Another example of double jeo pardy is removing the cap from a milk bottle before eating grapefruit. :o: The latest news from Germany is that there is some difficulty in the preparations for meeting the repara- tions. :o:- If the fellow who wrote about the silent night could come back now he'd certainly have a hard time find- ing one. o : As someone has put it, the stand of those who oppose incineration of garbage is for "open doors openly ar- rived at." : o : "Frog's Legs Newest Canadian In- dustry." says a headline. They're in terested in hops of one kind or an other, it seems. : o : A publishing company boasts that one of its books sold over 100.000 copies in a year. That's nothing to grow enthusiastic about. :o: Well. Christmas is past and the New Year Just around the corner, how about those resolutions, or have you so lived that you need not make any? :o: The price agreement which has Just been reached by the producers and distributors of pasterized milk in different territory marks a furthei and important advance in their rela tions. Relieve mat pa i n O E S pain ruin your ""temper, spoil your looks, interfere with your busi ness or pleasure? Millions of sufferers from Neuralgic Pains Functional Pains Ordinary Headache Simple Neuralgria have found relief by using DR. MILES Anti-Pain Pills Why don't you try them? At all drug" stores. 25 for 25 cents. 125 for $1.00. Publisher are payable strictly in advance. j Human nature is what makes life worth living. :o: Education makes you understand how little you really know. :o: Distance doesn't lend very much enchantment to a rough road. :o: We all do things without thinking and one is being bored with wife. :o: A parasite is one who goes throutrh a revolving door on another's posh. :o: Soon there will be machines to do everything except ladle soup for the breadline. :o: Cluims of publishers uotwithstand- ing, the most popular book for dad la his check book. :o:- Even when you call them chess ' lamps instead ot bridge lamps. you still trip over the floor cord. :o: The tormented celebrity who longs for obscurity might try being the smartest boy in a graduating class. -:o: We presume that New England will eventually decide to turn Rhode Island into a miniature golf course. :o: It is more blessed to give than it ! is to receive, but most of us are will- ing to let the other fellow have the j blessing?. :o: ot The majority of folks who get their education by reading 15 min utes each day have just that kind of leducation. -:o: A man isn't necessarily super stituious just because he believes in signs made by his wife when com- pany is present for dinner :o:- The report that Chicago retail ; trade is improving would be more conclusive if we knew the survey didn't include gun dealers, ;o; his wife for Detroit man. suine divorce, says she stabbed him with a pen put maybe that was her quaint way of getting across a point. : o : Possibly by the end of another year amateur investors will have forgot ten some of the ciphers they added to their stock market lessons. That illuminated motto ma gave jng. an inevitable trend in our eco pa last Christmas for his den has 1 110mic life, is largely accomplished, turned up again. Ma found it hang- pave perhaps in banking, and that ing in the cellar over two kegs. : o : It appears that Alfonso has saved his crown again, but he must view with some trepidation the possibility of one day losing his head with it. :o: According to the Wall Street Jour nal, this was a banner year for the red ink industry. Another good buy would be Rose Tinted Glass. Prefer red. : o : An optimist is a bill collector 'thinks people are going to stop at .this time to pay old bills when they tare so darn busy running up new tones. :o: Thirty-four persons claiming kin ship with Einstein sought to vis': him in New York recently. This i ; another slant on the relativity theory. : o : A writer who probably doesn" . have to stay awake nights to count his money says that justice alway . thinks twice before indicting a mil lionaire. :o: Mr. Lucas has presented Mr. Nor ' ris to the Democrats as a Christma i Igift. but we're afraid the Republi cans are going to look in vain for a note of thanks. :o: In his annual report to the Gover nor of the Panama Canal. Col. Harry- Burgess notes that $270,000,000 was ticn's decision, that, if the federal collected in tolls in the last fiscal j government is sincerly resolved to year a slight decrease from the pre-carry out the big program, as it evi ceding year. After expenses of oper-;dentiy and thoughtly intends to. It ation were met, the net receipts from the canal were 18.000,000. :o: The appointment of Lord Willing- don, the present governor general of Canada, to be viceroy of India in sue- cession to Lord Irwin will happily set at rest rumors that the MacDonald government might regard that office as patronage for the British Labor party. A REAL TREATY Arthur Henderson. British For- , In all weathers, under ail skies, 'eign Secretary, just has said in ajhe plods sturdily along his appoint t broadcast to America that it is his;ed route, carrying the valid residue hope that within a year or so from of all human affairs under his arm now the nation? may agree upon the! first treaty whereby all the armies, j navies and air forces in the world , shall be limited and reduced, i It is a good hope. It could be real I ized. It will be realized if the na ! ticns sincerely desire the peace they ('aim to be their objective, j .Mr. Henderson says that England land America now must choose be jtween peace and war. the two na j tions primarily, lor there can be lit itle hope for successful conflict by any j nation or nations that have not the approval and assistance, directly or indirectly, of England and America, j If. he says, the world relapses into the barbarism of the past it will be because Britain and America will be at fault. Together they should be 'able to hasten and secure the era iof peace. The Secretary points to the Lon don Treaty and the Kellogg Pact as steps made toward peace during the past year. And such they are. But the Secretary should remember that it has not been America that has stood in the way of disarmament he j would like to see. Geneva is his an- ;SWer to that. America is ready and jwining to meet and go with England and all other nations in the effort to aonroach an international accord. tMs &g n all mher matterfi- she has proved it by her commitments at London and in the presentation of the pact agreement to the outlawry of war, and in other ways. America is the only nonbelligerent nation on the face of the earth. :o: MERGERS DECLINE One of the most interesting facts brought out by the Federal Trade Commission's report for the year is the lower number of acquisitions. consolidations and mergers in 1930. compared with 1929. It is difficult jto evaluate this change of trend, be cause statistics are inadequate. How ! great have been the gains of our many mergers of banks, factories and merchandising houses, cannot be de termined accurately. Neither is it possible to estimate the losses of the merging process, through the tech nological unemployment it causes and other disadvantages. At most, it is possible to regard ;the ultimate effects of business eon- 'solidation as wholesome, in the sense of greater efficiency in production and distribution. On the other hand. the vast number of mergers in 19-9 , doubtless accentuated the business slump that followed. Once the sur plus of labor is absorbed into other growing industries, nowever, e stand to pain, in the country as a whole. Perhaps the most cheerful aspect of the problem is the fact that merg- from now on the process will be more leisurely and less disturbing to busi ness generally. The inadequacy of the Federal Government's data on this matter em phasizes the need for new legisla tion regarding business combina tions. The Federal Trade Commis sion, despite several wise changes, still is something of a policeman, sruardinir against violation of the J anti-trust laws, instead of a statis wno ;tical and advisory body, watching the trend of business organization, pre pared to advise executives on con templated moves. :o: BILLIONS FOR WATERWAYS At least all of the territory of the United States between the Allegheny Mountains and the Rockies, from Canada to Mexico, is inteiested more or less in projects for improving the entire inland waterway system. By the inland system is meant not only the Mississippi river and its tribu taries, but the Great Lakies with which the Illinois is being connected and with which the Mississippi and Ohio in time will be connected. The Mississippi Valley association went on record at its recent conven- tjon Ior completion of navigation im- jprovements and flood control within five years. The cost probably would be more than a billion dollars. This may be said of the organiza- s a Iact that there are large capital ,and other losses through delay, andjsion, a right economic conclusion as this is a practical argument in sup- well. port Df the association's declared policy. , :o: , Announcement that the $2.50 gold I piece has been withdrawn from circu- lation causes some of us to wonder wnether the same thing hasn't hap pened to that good old $10 bill. FOR THE NEWSBOYS in his canvas envelope. On gusty street corners be plants his feet against the wind's challenge, and seeks to enlighten hastening human- ity about its destiny. Sometimes hejsongs of birds and the silent color is vociferous, sometimes silent; one i paeans of floral beauty and fia- day he is shrilly excited over a secret ne wants to snare anu me iiexc uav i returning co mess cue eaiiu un he may be appropriately vague about .light and warmth. It is now Decem the triviality of his wares. Always ber, but soon the joys of June will he is accountable to a rigid routine. I be with and around us. and he must above everything be faithful and punctual and lively. Ac customed to his presence, those whom he serves seldom notice him, but if suddenly he were absent from his place a great and disturbing gap would appear in the fabric of daily life. He is indispensable. He is tbe newsboy. All in all, his importance is neg- lected. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, who is a very busy man, has leen taking time to acknowledge the newsboy's service, and to say some complimentary things about hun that are eminently in tune. The "paper route," he has observed in a long career of public service which began in a newspaper office, is an ex- cellent training for youngsters Itlwe are passing shall ever again tax inculcates patience and punctuality. courtesy, and self-reliance. The voune salesmen who operate from a fixed station, and depend upon their own salesmansnip ior suicess. aiejine worm is a roou uuu; uui we equally deserving of a pat on the jail must assist to make it so. We back. Sometimes they are co'd. but their cries are always warm au.l ar resting. Under all conditions, and against all natural obstacle-, they s n.ehow maintain a unif rm Btr.ai arl of enterprise rnd service Senator Capper comments genially on these things, and his remarks are reminder of what we neglect to a notice. All the miracles of modern life which we wfnnctnriiv have a human agency behind their fruition. The newsbody does his part, and there is no harm in allot ting him full credit. :o: ERE WING AT HOME Passing o the household arts is sometimes deplored. Pies, perhaps not the kind that grandmother used to bake, come from the delicatessen shop around the corner. "Mother's bread" is the product of the bakery. Pickling and preserving have gone to concerns famous for fifty-seven varieties, or numbers approaching.be a great boon to that, male human that figure. But one of the ancient zero who likes to hide behind a wom household arts is being revived. Fred jan's skirt. Pabst, Sr., president of the Pabst cor poration, which once played a part in the production of the beverage that made Milwaukee famous, esti mates that the consumption of home brewed beer in the United States in creased last year IS per cent. The estimate is based upon sales of malt syrups. More than that, home brew ing continues to spread. The increase of IS per cent in a year compares with an increase of 34 per cent in J October. 1930. as compared with Oc- tober, 1929. Here is a household art that tends to keep the men at home. The brew ing of the family beer is a task that appeals to the man of the family. He Is no longer a stranger to the kitch en, or the kitchenette, as the case may be. He may never have learned to cook a steak or an omlet. but his technique in apportioning the syrup and the water approaches perfection. and he is versed in the temperatures to be maintained while the brew "working." Do your own comment ing. :o: LET TIS HASTEN The signing by the President of the new additional public works law should do much to stimulate busi ness and relieve unemployment. States and communities ran add ma terial assistance. Results must soon be forcoming. Materials must be purchased and work extended. The itide of dollars will go far and wide. It will affect you and me. The farm er may soon rejoice with the indus trialist and the business man because the Government has done that which in its province lies for their encour agement and assistance. But there should be such haste as may be possible in this expenditure of millions by the Government for the relief of retardence and distress. As the Chairman of President Hoo ver's Committee on Employment well has said. "Better a job than a loaf of bread." It is a humanitarian conclu- He was arguing for a cutting out of red tape, of all delays preventing a speedy return to times of activity and prosperity. He is a master In the matters of economic diagnosis and survey. He has organized the coun try and his words are the words of wisdom and of hope, of faith. THE RETURNING SUN We just have passed the shortest day of the year and winter officially begins. The landscape may become black and desolate through the im- ; minent succeeding weeks, but we should be consoled by the thought that Nature's sleep will end in the shouting of liberated waters, the jgrance. The sun, day by day. will be As we have passed the short, drear day of winter's initial entrance, so, we judge from many signs and omens have we passed the darkest period of the country's business depression, of employment's weary tragedy. There may be weeks perhaps months of varying and variable experience, but the sun of prosperity assuredly is re turning day by day. The Government and the people are in collaboration. Doubt and fear are being dissipated. ! Public confidence in the fundamental (soundness and stability of business laffairs is being swiftly restored. Great 'agencies for industrial and financial good effectively are at work. There is promise that no untoward situ- !ation such as the one through which jthe fortitude and patient endurance jof the people. The sun of normalcy is returning. We shall be better able ;to meet the rigors of another winter. must learn the lesson of the mired carter who prayed to Hercules for as sistance. :o: MORE OR LESS TRUE what If some of the frails got they need most for Christmas their i stockings would be so stuffed full of warm undies there wouldn t be anv room left to squeeze in com- pacts, cigarette cases and silver j' flasks. There's nothing a wife gets fed ud on more quickly than her hus- band's everlasting giowl, we eat?" When do Another advantage the old-fashioned girl had over her modern sis ter was that when she cried on a fellow's shoulder he didn't have to jsenu the coat to the cleaner to have :tne paint removed. The return of the long skirts will Another hie mvsterv of the times is the way girls go around in such thin hosiery and paper-soled pumps and;. yet you never see them fighting the cmu-rt to tret to the counter where the stuff for chilblain is on sale. There isn't much difference be tween the modern sheik and the old- fashioned dude, but probably the rea Va son a modern frail never is spo of as a butterfly is because a butter fly never looks as if it had just taken a bath and had forgot to put its clothes on. It isn't calculated to give the male a swell head when he notes how his wife will always tune in on a poor sap of a crooner yet never tune in when station HUB is broadcasting. The pity of it is that Santa Claus can't bring new faces and new dis- ! positions as Christmas presents Tor isthem as needs 'em. S pm Old married life starts when he hairing tnkintr off his comnanv man- ners with his overcoat in the front hall. -:o:- NEWS REEL Philadelphia police invoke 1794 blue law to stop Sunday movie show for benefit of unemployed, and Balti- more authorities, disregard State iaw. permitting Sunday show benefits to j raise $50,000 for relief; three proof - sheets of Eugene O'Neil's "Dynamo" are sold for $600 each, and $90,000 in notes held by defunct Fayette (Mo.) bank is sold for $517; Rocke- fe'.lers give $1,500,000 to New Yorklgether wjth an other matters per unemployment fund, and Standard (Oil raises price of gasoline 2 cents a gallon; Senator Oddie i-itroduces bill for embargo on all goods made in Russia or made from Russian raw P Auctioneer C. P. BUSCHE Louisville, Neb. Farm and Live Stock Sales a Specialty Best of References by Many Successful Sales N A EVE'S PARK Dancing Every Sat. Night m ) Ordered, that January 23rd. A. D. 1931. at 10 o'clock a. m.. Is assigned materials, and Senator Borah urges .for hearing said petition, when all U. S. lend money to develop Soviet I persons interested in said mutter industrv; Frank Nitti. Capones lieu- W appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and tenant, gets IS months in U. S. prise n ;pnow cause why the prayer of peti. and is fined $10,000 for income taxjtioner should not be granted: and evasion anu Jack uuzik. t apone s "business manager vagrancy charge; Robert H. Lucas, executive director of Republican Na tional Committee, says he worked i against Senator Norris because Nor- i ris is "not a good Republican," and i Lucas admits he spent $S00 trying to ; eleoti Gilbert M. Hitchock, Democratic candidate; French memory wizard re tires on finding he has forgotten date of own birthday, and Chicago sword swallower is taken to hospital when dime slips down his windpipe. :o: Have you anything to sell? Tell t"r,w"J """"6" ' uaA 54 " ucpm uucui.. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun- 1 ana for final settlement of his at -ty, ss. Icount and dis; barge as such Admin- In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of I Ransom If. Cole, dec-eased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that 1 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 trom tne lt-tn lay of January A. D. 1931 and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 16th day of January A. D. 1931. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 17th day of j December, 1930. A. H. DUXBLRY, (Sealt d22-3w County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County. Nebraska. Daniel G. Golding. Plaintiff. vs. Charles L. White, et al, Defendants 1 NOTICE To the White: Defendant, Charles L. You are hereby notified that on the 16th day of July. 1930. the plaintiff filed his suit in the District Court or Cass Countv, Nebraska, the onject and purpose of which is to foreclose ien of a tax sale certificate on L.ots 572 and 573. i Greenwood, in in the Village of Cass County, Ne braska, and equitable relief. You are hereby required to an swer said petition on or before Mon dav. February 2. 1931. And failing so to do, your default will be enter- ed and judgment taken upon the i plaintiff's petition. This notice is jiiveil puisuani to an uiuc-i vi j Court. DANIEL G. GOLDING, Plaintiff. Bv A. L. TIDD, His Attorney. d2-4w NOTICE OF HEARING In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. In the matter of the Guardianship of Claire De Lone, Incompetent. To Claire De Lone, and all other persons interested or concerned in the guardianship of Claire De Lone. ( "' notifid that Nel 111 T- .. 1 ,. f ' .7 . t K.i oVkrur lie M. Parmele. Guardian of the above named Claire De Lone, Incompetent, I has filed in the County Court of Cass county. Nebraska, her final report ! as guardian of the aaid CTaireDe Lone. Inromnetent. together with a petition for the final approval and allowance of her accounts as guard ian and for her discharge as said guardian and for an order of court accepting her written resignation herein filed as such guardian: You are further hereby notified jthat Lillian Harmer. has filed in this j court a petition requesting the ap- pointment of herself, or some other suitable person to be selected by the i Coim ag guardian of lhe 8aid ciaire ne Lone. Incompetent, to succeed the ;said Nellie M. Parmele. as guardian; iou are hereby further not inert that a hearing will be had in said matter upon the final report, to- i taining to said guardianship ana upon said petitions herein filed as aforesaid on the 23rd day of January. A. D. 1931. at the hour of ten o'clock a m in tne County Court Room in the court house at Plattsmouth, Ne tm j . : - ,i - or any of you may appear at said P. ?VnS "d irli?? final report or petitions, if any you have, why said report and petitions herein filed should not be allowed land approved and the prayer of said ; petitions should not be granted. You are hereby further notified ithat said County Court will on said day of hearing make such orders as may be for the best interests of said Claire De Lone, Incompetent, j By the court. A. H. DUX BURY. County Judge of Caes Coun j(Seal) ty, Nebraska. n29-3w ORDER OF HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administratrix The State of Nebraska, ("ass conn ity. SB. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of An ton Krajicek. dec-eased. On reading and filing the petition iof Frances Klema. praying that Ad ministration of said estate may be granted to Frances Klema as Admin istratrix. mat nonce ui cue penueui i .wu is cleared of'Petilion and the neannB thereot be given to ail persons interested in saui matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a serai-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Dated December 2Cth. 1930. A. H. DLXBl'RY, tSeal) n29-3w 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 dav of December. A. D. 1930, istrator: It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may. arid 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 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 mv hand and the seal of I said Court, this 20th day of Decem- ber. A. D. 1930. A. H. DUX BURY, (Seal) d22-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO NON-RESI- DENT DEFENDANTS To Harry Ross Manspeaker and Mrs. Harry Ross Manspeaker, real name unknown, his wife, non-resident defendants, and all persons hav ing or claiming any interest in Lota 31. 33, 34, 35. 86. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42, 43. 44. 45 and 46 in U. W. Wise's Out Lots in Government Lot Number 10. in Section 18, Township 12 North. : Range 14, East of the 6th P. M.. in ;the City of Plattsmouth. Cass coun- ityf Nebraska, real names unknown. defendants not found: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 26th day of De cember, 1930, Margaret Elizabeth Manspeaker, as plaintiff, filed her petition against you in the District Court of Cass county. Nebraska, said petition now being on file in said court, the object and prayer of said petition being to quiet the title of plaintiff as against you and each of you in the following real estate: Lots 31. 33, 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40, 41. 42, 43. 44, 45 and 46 in U. W. Wise's Out Lots in Government Lot Number 10. in Section 18. Town ship 12 North. Range 14. East of the 6th P. M., in the City of Platts mouth. Cass county, Nebraska, and to exclude you from all interest in the same; also to enjoin you from asserting any title to the same. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 16th day of February, 1931. MARGARET ELIZABETH MANSPEAKER, Plaintiff. By E. R. Leigh, Her Attorney. n29-bw. 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 thiF court on the 18th day of i 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 . foil rorcnn merited in said matter. may. ana ao, appear ai iw v-oum 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 or tne pen J petition and that th i hearing thereof be given to all per ;Sons interested in said matter by lt tne riiiuvmuuiu juuiuoi, weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and seal of said court, this 18th day of December A. D., 130. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) d22-3w County Judge. Legal and commercial printing of all kinds at the Journal office.