MONDAY, JAN. 12. 1931. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THMI 0e plattsmoutb lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postofiice. Plattsmoutb, 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. Rite to Canada and foreign countries, I !t ntr voflr All unhaprlnt irmc o rti r,QvnMt atrii'tlv in itHvunrp It's never too late to spend. :o: Money doesn't talk until it gets big. :o:- That step to success isn't a Bide- Etep. :o: It's fine to begin at the bottom If you don't stop there. :o: Many a man with a laugh coming doesn't see it until it is gone. :o: Men who long for the old days would hate to go without socks. :o: Suggested sales slogan for farmers overstocked with wheat: "Say it with flours." :o: Keep out of trouble. It is very dis concerting to learn how few friends you really have. :o: The juices cf diamonds were cut in half in Amsterdam recently. The way of all flash! :o: Any good car would lar five years if there were on telephone p lea along the highway. :o: The hardest thing about lying to your friends is it makes von think they are lying to you. :o: Many a chicken has crossed the road to give us an object lesson in the peril of jay-walking. :: Senator Borah is urging an extra session of Congress, but he argued the President into this once. -:o:- Maybe it's too much to expect lame duck sitters to vote against lame - duck sessions. :o: Experience is a fairly good teach er, hut her pupil usually need a post graduate course. :o: It must be nice to be rich and keep the grocer satisfied with a promise to mail him a check. :o: "The past." says Carl Sandburg. , the poet, "is a bucket of ashes." Yes, the scene has sifted. : o : Since worry makes one bald, what a pity man can't worry with his face instead of his head. :o: John Ringling, circus man. has taken a bride. And now skeptics are saying he hasn't got a show. :o: Some of the citizens of Omaha who started the New Year with a lot of hip, hop, horray are now seeing green hippotami. :o: Senator Keflin wants to stop trad ing in stock margins, and we've be gun looking around for the fellow who hasn't. Why Count To Co to pOO much work, too much worry. Tired but tod nervous to sleep. Counting: imaginary sheep, re laxing your muscles, making your mind m blank, all no use. You'll feel "all in" tomorrow. Jmrt dissolve a Dr. Miles' Effervescent Nervine Tablet in a half glass of water. Drink the clear sparkling beverage. Unit off into deep areamiess in mwa ana ovay, ana Dr. Muss' Nervine is now Effervescent Tablet. BVj are the uei mem at your drug store ' Iroro Pr.iL-. t CI OA s' , lc An alcohol denatuiant that makes Washington had specifically warned the consumer sick without killing opponents of the Arosemena Govern hlm will take his mind back to the menl that revolution would not be good old days. tolernted hv thp T'niti1 St:itPs sn close :o: According to reports, some peo ple's liberality to the church is ex ceeded only by their liberality to the bootlegger. :o: The magnet road sweeper used in Oregon to clear highways, picked up 13.ST0 pounds of metal on state high ways last year. :o: Sinclair Lewis' motto, judging from his utterances abroad, seems to be: "Every day and every way I am growing bitter and bitter." : o: Sinclair Lewis declares that Am erican professors like their literature "very dead." They have always fa vored rather grave reading. :o: A western farmer claims to have found a dime inside a hen s egg. That's the first live stock of year to pay a cash dividend. :o: What has become of the old-fashioned woman who wept over popular novels? Oh, She's out in her car bending other people's fenders. :o: Secretary Hyde is trying to Stim- ulate the use of corn sugar, and hejhis ,and only to meet opposition, it can't claim he isn't getting plenty wjn be a choit.e of revising our latest of co-operation from the home-brew- foreign policy once more or sending ers- I troops into Panama to enforce it as There's a youngster In our neigh borhood who has his father's eyes, his mother's mouth, his grandfather's hair, and a voice like the familv auto horn :o:- It has been decided that chew ing gum is not a food. From the amount on chairs used by the happy steno we suspect it is a building ma terial. : o : A traveler just back from Green- mm land says there is no unemployment Conditions may "relurn to norm problem among Eskimos. It sceras Lle da-nit the fact that leeisl.it tiros they are always doing a whale of a business. UK- Chile being one of the few South American countries where a revolt has not been pulled off seems to be making efforts to get into the gen eral class. :o: j Someone has said that Adam got ;into trouble because he had too much jtime on his hands, so even In Eden the eating of apples was due to un- employment 1 -:o: There used to be a quaint idea that the successful high school stu- dent was he who graduated with honors; now its the shifty runner who get3 bids from the big football colleges. SAeep0 Sleep steep and get up in the morning reaay lor xr.-s c.y s duties or made in two forma Licruid nA same therapeutically. A POSER FOR MR. STIMSON In the course of 1930. with its fre- quem revolutions, our recognition i : i ae i i i pui.cy i.as siiueie.i some auiupi teratinns. Wood row Wilsons prill I ciple that we should not recognize I a Latin-American Government which came into power by violence has been J lost in the maze of political coups to the south of us. Only in the case I jot Guatemala did Secretary Stimson I withhold recognition of such a revo- 1 i lutionar luiivruui J M V VI U 111C1I I . Alt 11IUI CUOV ihe relied not on the Wilson lan prin- Ar fiAvaramAti In t lii t f .:o jiiple, but on a treaty of 1923, which Panama's strange case is a poser. to our canal. This made a difficult situation for Panamanians, who could tiot elect a new regime while Arosemena controlled elections, and likewise could not revolt without earning America's enmity. But revolt has become so general in Hispanic America, and our rigid principle so flexible, that a head strong group of Panamanians took the bull by the horns, revolted, suc ceeded. Although the street fighting took place within earshot of Amer ican territory, American troops did not intervene. But with the Guate mala precedent so young that the ink is scarcely dry the State Department cannot arafcefullv accept the new Government of Panama, born of musket fire. A way out of the dilemma may come through the action of the Su- thelpreme Court of Panama, which de clared Arosemena's election void very sensible, since he is in jail and called the Panamanian Minister to the United States as the de jure President. Alfaro. eight years in Washington as Minister, already has his luggage packed. If unruly Pan- -fl :1(.ppms Alfaro. Washineton's , it stands. :o: Spiritualists teil us that Sir Conan Doyle is trying to get a spirit mes sage through to the earth. Not a chance! We had three stations on one wave length. :o: The conviction grows that those in vestors who got stung buying at the top of the market are just waiting for an opportunity to buy at the top of another market. in 43 of the 4S states are to hold regular sessions this year, to say nothing of the special sessions. With things going like they are, about all that's needed to make Mr. Hoover jump in the lake is a rumor that Al Capone has been entertain ing the Wickersham Commission. :o: One New Year resolution we have decided upon is not to write any edi torials about conditions In China. In the first place, we know nothing about conditions in China, neither Idoes anybody else, and we care less, ' ;o: Mrs. Mabel Willebi andt's transi tion from chief enforcement of pro hibition laws to counsel for Califor nia grapo juice is the greatest liquid performance the world has witnessed since Gertrude Ederle swam the Eng lish Channel. :o: A Los Angeles poetess who be longs to one of those queer cults so common on the Pacific coast has just married the sun Perhaps she was looking for an unusual combination a red-hot husband who won't stay cut at nights. :o:- The first through airplane from Los Angeles to New York arrived eleven minutes late. Probably the de lay was caused by some California passenger stopping at a refueling point to tell about the glories of California climate. -:o: Motorists throughout the United States may look forward to a good year, for current activities of state highway departments and other gov ernmental organizations indicate that 1931 will equal if net exceed the re cord construction of 1930. :o: Major Clarence M. Young, Assist ant Secretary of Commerce for Aero nautics, just has announced that the scheduled airplane lines of the Unit ed States carried more passengers during the first six months of 1930 than during the whole of 1928. :o: In some ways this is a funny world. Al Capone, who has horns and cloven hoofs as far as most of us are con cerned, now steps forward as i great huraitarian, providing free meals for soma thousands of jobless Chieagoans daily. The spectacle is both confus ing and diverting. PANAMA'S FAMILY ROW Panama has added another to the . lengthening list of Latin-American 1 states which have gone through revo- Unions since the beginning of 1930. Harniodio Arosemena has been eject ed from the presidency of the Su premo Court has proclaimed Dr. Ri cardo J. Alfaro, Panamanian Minis ter to the United States and first de signate. President. Like others in the Republic, this revolution has been an overturn of public authority carried through in a short time and with few casualties. (To be exact, there were eight men killed.) Like them, too. it has been practically confined to the capital. It could hardly be otherwise, for along the tanious "10-mile strip" row known as the "zone," and chiefly at its two ends, are concentrated the only groups of population living on a standard of life approaching that of European civilizations, and the only groups in the state which take an active part in local politics. On the Atlantic side there is Colon, which has about 30.000 inhabitants, and on the Pacific side the city of Panama with about twice as many people. Outside the Canal strip there are 450.000 people in the Republic, but there are only about half a doz en towns with more than 2000 popu lation, all of which are in the part of the territory lying west of the Canal. This half, with the exception of a few villages, is country still to be conquered economically, and even the greater part of the west is in habited by people who have little connection with the Government, or with the outside world, and little in terest in either. The concentration of the national life, economic, social and political, in the two main towns, identifies not only Panamanian revolutions but all Panamanian activities with the Canal strip. This gives them a peculiar im portance for the United States and for the nations of the world at large interested In the maintenance of open transit through the great inter national waterway. Fortunately, they run parallel with the interest of the United States. Within the re gion states rights are explicitly es tablished by treaty and by the Con stitution of Panama. These make it unlikely that any revolution will be allowed to become a serious distur bance of the peace; also unlikely that any action taken to maintain peace and order shall become one which arouses protest by Latin-American Powers against "unjustified interven tion." Tho treaty of 1903 between the United States and Panama gave the former in the Canal strip the right to use. occupation and control of the zone for the construction of the Canal to the same extent as if it were it self the sovereign of the territory, to the entire exclusion of the authority of Panama. The Constitution of Panama declares in Article 136 that "The United States may intervene in any part of the Republic to re-estab lish peace and constitutional order in the event of their being disturb ed." Under these provisions actual intervention may be undertaken in Panama when it could not be justi- fied in any other country with which the United States has treaties. But. though under the provisions cited the United States "may inter vene" outside the Canal Zone, there is evidently no obligation to do so. and there will he little impulse to do if our rights in the strip through which the waterway passes are not threatened. Peace in Panama was certainly disturbed by the revolution, but it is so no longer. Constitutional order was upset, and it continues to be so, though, apparently, the new officials have matters well in hand. At the moment at least there is no compelling motive for forward action by American authorities. The position taken in recently refusing recognition to the Orellana Govern ment in Guatemala need not be fol lowed in the case of Panama even though the new Government has come into power by revolution. In Cen tral America the policy of the United States has been to follow the prac tice as to recognition of new Govern ments which the Central American states adopted for themselves in 1923. But Panama is not a part of Central America, a popular classi fication to the contrary notwith standing, and was not a signatory to the Central American peace treaties. The United States Department Of State is therefore free to follow the general rule of international law which brought recognition to revolu tionary governments established by force in other South American states. If the new authorities continue to show themselves able to keep order and continue to respect American rights in the Canal area, there is lit tle reason why the United States should seek responsibilities which law and practice justify it in de clining to assume. From the infor- Imation at hand this is a family quar- j rel, interference in which, like in-1 terferenee in most family qubrrels. j Altliougn the trattic fatality ligures would bring neither credit nor grati- are almost invariably extremely dis tude to outsiders, no matter how jcouraging, there is one single ray of praiseworthy the motives which (light to be derived from them. It de might prompt "intervention." jvelops that the various safety cam :o:- THE HOPE FOR 1931 Business conditions throughout the entire world will show a decided improvement by the end of the year course is clear. If Alfaro returns to 1931, and the United States will lead the way. This is the prediction of Irving T. Bush, President of the Bush Terminal Company and one of America's foremost authorities on shipping and foreign trade. Mr. Bush believes that fundamen tal business conditions are about at bedrock, and that periods of depres sion seldom last longer than two or two and a half years. Although world trade is out of joint, he declares there will be, there must be, vast improve ment during the coming year, agree ing with Sir Josiah Stamp, England's great economist, that the improve ment first will be evidenced and en joyed in the United States. There will be, he thinks, unfavor able comparative incidents and state ments before the return of world prosperity, but finds a deep consola tion in the thought that "the under- still with us, and best of all the un derlying character." In this view "it is character that determines the suc cess of a man or a nation." He coun sels courage and the exercise of com mon sense; the spending sanely what we have earned and refusal to mort gage the future. Trenchantly he con cludes: "We have been drunk with false prosperity. When we get over our headache there will be enough real fundamentals to satisfy anyone except those who expect sometning for nothing." In a word, it Is up to this and other peoples swiftly to win hack the pros perity so fatuously lost through in eptitude and economic debauchery. : o : MORE OR LESS, TRUE The vest of a man's evening duds is cut low in front, and the dress of his wife ditto in the back, and we dont's know but what the glistening white shirt front is easier on the eyes than the bony, bare back. It sometimes is easier to work up more enthusiasm over what's on a girl's head than what's in it. In these days of three-room apart ments another old-time custom that ha; faded out of the picture is that j of borrow: n ga cup of sugar or a couple of eggs from the neighbors. Sometimes the hot remarks passed back and forth at the breakfast table do more to ruin the day than the cold coffee. Getting in the rumble seat now gets even more and better results than getting under the mistletoe used to. i Women getting into politics hasn t improved the country as much as 'having cookbooks become the best sellers would. There is a lot of bunk about this talk of how a girl used to entertain her beaux with the family album when the old folks retired they weren't any more interested in the j pictures of the family than young couples now would be. It isn't until after the honeymoon that an average groom wakes up to the fact he isn't making enough to be able to afford a wife. One of nature's greatest mistakes, it sometimes seems, is that she didn't make the tongue more frail, so it would tire quickly. :o: DO THEYJENJ0Y IT? Do college girls really enjoy smok ing, or do they indulge In seances with My Lady Nicotine merely to ap pear sophisticated? The latter theory is probably true in many cases. Here is a conversa tion alleged to have taken place be tween two college girls at home for holidays: First Co-Ed: "Is anybody look ing?" Second Co-Ed: "No." First Co-Ed: "Then we don't have to smoke." Auctioneer C. P. BUSCHE Louisville, Neb. Farm and Live Stock Sales a Specialty Best of References by Many Successful Sales SAVING THE CHILDREN paigns put on in yohools throughout the country are beginning to have ef fect. Fewer children are being kill ed by automobiles now than were killed ten years ago. This represents a real achievement when you consider that the popula tion has grown considerably in that time, that there are many more autos on the streets and that the total casuality list has considerably in creased. The child today is safer from the traffic menace than he was a decade ago. and the people who have given their time to these safety campaigns can be very proud : o Phone your Want Ad to No. 6. NOTICE OF WATER EXTENSION BOND ELECTION Public Notice is hereby given that an election has been duly called and will be held In the Yillage of Alvo, Nebraska, on the 27th day of Janu ary. 1931, at which there will be submitted to the legal voters of said Yillage the following question: "Shall the Village of Alvo. Ne braska, issue its negotiable bonds of the principal amount of One Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($1.700.00, to become due in twenty years from date- of issue, but payable any time after ten years, and drawing interest at not exceeding live per centum (5) per annum, payable annually, for the purpose of extending, enlarg ing and improving the village water works: and shall saiti Vil lage levy and collect annually a general tax on all the property therein in an amount sufficient to pay the interest and principal of said bond-- as the same mature?" The polls for voting at said elec tion will remain open from 9:00 o'clock a. m. to 7:00 o'clock p. m., of said date, and the voting place will be as follows: Stewart's Hall. Alvo. Nebraska. Voters desiring to vote in favor of said proposition will mark an "X" in the square following the word "YES;" voters desiring to vote against said proposition will mark an "X" in the square following the word "NO." CARL D. GANZ, j5-3w Village Clerk. NOTICE OF WATER BOND ELECTION Public Notice is hereby given that an election has been duly called and will be held in the Yillage of Alvo, Nebraska, on the 27th day of Janu ary, 1931, at which there will be submitted to the legal voters of said Yillage the following question: "Shall the Yillage of Alvo, Ne braska, issue its negotiable bonds of the principal amount of Twelve Thousand One Hundred Dollars ($12,100.00), to become due in twenty years from the date of issue, but payable any time after five years, and drawing interest at not exceeding five per centum (5) per annum, payable semi annually, for the purpose of pur chasing, erec ting, constructing and maintaining a village water works; and shall said Village levy and collect annually a general tax on all the property therein in an amount sufficient to pay the in terest and principal of sail bonds as the same mature?" The polls for voting at s.aid elec tion will remain open from 9:00 o'clock a. m. to 7:00 o'ciock p. m. of said date, and the voting place will be as follows: Stewart's Hall Alvo, Nebraska. Voters desiring to vote In favor of so iti proposition will mark an "X" in the square following the word "YES:" voters desiring to vote against said proposition will mark an "X" in the square following the word "NO." CARL D. GANZ, j5-3w Village Clerk. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT 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 Lots SI, 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, Township 12 North, Range 14. East of the 6th P. M.. in the City of Plattsmouth. Cass coun ty, Nebraska, real names unknown, defendants not found: You and eacli 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 pray?r 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 10th day of February, 1931. MARGARET ELIZABETH MANSPEAKER, Plaintiff. By E. R. Leigh, Her Attorney. d29-3w Senator Borah who demanded the last extra session, wants another. Which shows wherein Senator Borah differs from the vast majority of his countryment. LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska. Daniel G. Golding. Plaintiff, vs. NOTICE Charles L. N hite. et al. Defendai mts. J To the Defendant, Charles L. White: You are hereby notified that on the 16th day of July, 1930, the plaintiff filed his suit in the District Court of Cass County. Nebraska, the object and purpose of which la to foreclose lien of a tax sale certificate on Lots 572 and 573, in tne village oi 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 ORDER OE HEARING on Petition for Appointment of Administratrix The State of Nebraska, CSSS coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of An ton Krajicek, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Frances Klema. praying that Ad ministration of said estate may be granted to Frances Klema as Admin istratrix. Ordered, that January 23rd. A. D. 1931. at 10 o'clock a. m.. is assigned for hearing said petition, when all persons interested in said matter may appear at a County Court to be held in and for said county, and show cause why the prayer of peti tioner should not be granted: and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all persons 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. Dated December 26th, 1930. A. H. DCXBURY. (Seal) d29-3w County Judge. NOTICE OP ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of George E. Wever, 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- i ieging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and i praying for administration upon said j 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 30th day of January, A. D. 1931, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said 30th day of January. 1931. at nine o'clock a. m. to con test the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant adminis tration of said estate to J. A. Cap well or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) j5-3w County Judge. 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, Incompetent : You are hereby notified that Nel lie M. Parmele. Guardian of the above named Claire De Lone, Incompetent, has filed in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska, her final report as guardian of the said Claire De Lone, Incompetent, 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 that Lillian Harmer, has filed in this court a petition requesting the ap pointment of herself, or some other suitable person to be selected by the Court, as guardian of the said Claire De Lone, Incompetent, to succeed the said Nellie M. Parmele. as guardian; You are hereby further notified that a hearing will be had in said matter upon the final report, to gether with all other matters per taining to said guardianship, and 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 the County Court Room in the court house at Plattsmouth. Ne braska, at which time, and place you or any of you may appear at said hearing and make objections to said final report or petitions, if any you have, why said report and petitions herein filed should not be allowed and approved and the prayer of said petitions should not be granted. You are hereby further notified that 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. By the court. A. H. DUXBURY, County Judge of Cass Coun (Seal) ty, Nebraska, d29-3w