THURSDAY. MARCH 19, 1931. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL FAGE XHRSB Cbc plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA Entered at PoBtoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living la 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. Nostrums never lack a good mar ket. :o: Most of us would rather have what we want than be happj-. : o : Legge says the farm board is a go ing concern, going, going, gone :o: The White House seems to be suf fering from deflation of the veto. -: o:- The first Continental Congress met in Carper's hall, in Philadelphia, in 1776. :o:- A heavy fall of snow helps the farmers and boosts the sale of porus plasters. : o : Another business that suffers from lack of vision is the poison liquor business. -: o:- Did Capone return to Chicago to vote or to decide the election some I other way. :o:- Two popular senators tne otner one from luano ana tne otner one;., from Nebraska. :o:- One way to make a safer city is to make it decidedly unsafe for care less and reckless drivers. :o: A fur expert is one who can look r at a leopard skin and tell what kind of a dog formerly used it. . :o: It is not a question of how early an individual gets on the job, but what he accounts for results. : o : Boston is famous for many things these days even for bombarding , Rudy Vallee with over-ripe fruit. :o: The fellow who can tell the pres''- ' dent just where he was wrong will soon be yelling: "Kill the umpire. :o: The fellow who believes that the only safe place is with the major- ity under any and all circumstances in the matter of a state constabulary, fear that the market could not ab-:ing that "it will be a scientific trag will never be accused of originality and evidently the bank robbers are sorb a large issue was. to say the.edy" if these researches are to be in thought or action. Like Tea EVEN the Japanese maiden who laboriously picks the tea leaves knows that before you sip the delicate beverage from your cup, leaves of an other npe of tea must be added, for the best teas invariably are blended. When the tea merchant takes a quaniuy ui Japanese China tea, and a touch of Ccylonese, then blends them according to the - dictates of his expert knowledge, he 7 parallels the making of CONOCO Gasoline. For this is a blended gasoline. It is blended because this is the only method which brings together in one mi the desirable properties of several types of gasoline. No one type of gaso line can contain them alL THE BALANCED - BLEND Benjamin Franklin was the first post-master general of the United States. :o:- 1, ls The seventy-first conpress proved that one can mix politics and finance. :o:- It seems you can call the Dry law everything and anything but uncon-!et institutional. -:o:- "The Maple Leaf Forever." by Alexander Muir. is the national hymn of Canada. :o:- The unkindest cut of all was that nobody asked Senator Blei.se to stay until the show was over. :o: The country is still waiting for someone to criticize the impartial ity of the Wickersham report. : o :- An aniazing lot of people are these folks who parade across the front pages of the newspapers each day :o: - A lot of ra(iio jazz programs give - .h. imnrpssinn rhnt thuv :irt nut r on to boost the patronage of the bug- houses. :o:- For a staid, uudermonstrative peo ple the English are doing a pretty good iob of welcoming Cliarlev Chan- ., . lin home. : o:- Canada should get something so i startling as to take its breath away. The Dominion is to have- an "Eat more onions week." :o: The President of Peru doesn't seem to have a chance to stay on the job long eough ever to be worried by the bad actors in the Senate. :o:- Modern progress is a wonderful thing. It has made it possible for man to get indigestion and a remedy ! !for it at the same drug store. :o: It's all well enough to pussyfoot heartily in accord with the idea. . . . the bes : is Blended CONOCO refiners use: Natural Gasoh::?, for quick starhtg; Straight run Gasoline, for power and long mileage. Cracked Gasoline, for its anti-k::ock properties. There is no secret formula covering the elements which compose this triple-test gaseline. The secret is in the knowledge behind the blending. Knowing how makes one tea blend better than all others . . . and knowing how places one gasoline in a distinct quality class. Experience the perform ance advantar a of CONOCO Balanced-Blend Gasoline. You'll find it wherever the CONOCO Red Trian gle is displayed. 8 uj, a un ui CONOCO IS ; The optimist who thought March would behave like February is now running for President of the pessi mists. : o : "Why worry about the railroads and bus lines; the railroads have al ways been able to take care of them : selves?" :o: After all the talk, nothing much has as yet been done about gluttony. 'This world has its uses, but is it indispensible? : o: Green face powder is coming into vogue, say the cosmeticians. This will save a lot of women the trouble of tinning green with envy. : o: There is no doubt about ignorance being bliss when it comes to knowing too much about the activities of the,,tne latter instrument the Powers af - llihc:ups of the underworld. Th. old bicycle club which dis- banded in New York recently might some comfort in the fact that we sull have our business cycles. :o:- You see. it isn't wicked for the Government to take part of the li quor revenue if it's called an in come instead of a license fee. :o: Alfred Smith, conservative, of New York visiting the capital, expresses the opinion that "the number of Wets has grown considerably since 1928." :o: RESPONSE TC NEW GOV ERNMENT FINANCING ,, , , . . , , , . Mr. Mellon a phophecv that the . , , . ... puBsage of the veterans loan bill would have a disorganizing effect n the Government's financial struc- i v i IU1C Utts UUl Ut V I I UUi lit UU I . On the other hand, the Govern ment has just offered '1.400.000 000 worth of bonds and certificates tmdei the most favorable terms ever ob tamed by the Treasury on a major Issue. The response was amazing. Tim Snti non noo Imm of 1S.vmu ., . , - . o -s per cem uonus was oveis-uu- scribed four times rpi ,. . Cru ernment could have sold $2,000,000, 000 worth of this security. The one year 2 per cent : v i vci i i i v u iv. o I of indebtedness. In the amount of $000,000,000. was oversubscribed twice. There was even a heavy de mand for an issue of $200,000,000 in six-month certificates bearing only 1 2 Per cent interest. It is obvious that the state of the money market just now is peculiarly favorable to the sale by the Govern- ment of its securities, and that op-i position to the loan bill based upon i least, an inexpert view. Gasoline GASOLINE A PROTEST FROM GERMANY Now that the Franco - Italian treaty has established naval under- standing on a five-Power basis, it is when Prohibition was an issue, ul timo again to consider land arma- though not the major issue. In a na- ments. Welhelm Defense Minister, Groeuer, German calls the world's attention to the unbalanced military j Wet and Dry line-up, notably in the situation in Europe. Germany at the (election of Dwight W. Morrow and close of the World War "disarmed to Robert J. Bulkley to the Senate. But an extent unparalleled in history," jdespite this, the events of two years supposedly as a prelude "to a general jmake it painfully apparent that our limitation of armaments of all na- political parties, as parties, are tui tions," he says. Today she finds her-jlikely to solve the liquor question 10: self still disarmed, and her neighbors armed to the teeth, heedless of their pledge. Groener's charge is based on the slemn engagements of the Versailles treaty and the League Covenant. In firmed 12 years ago that "the main tenance of peace requires the reduc- tion of national armaments." Ger- many surrendered her navy, her ser ial equipment and her war materials, and cut her army from war strength to a police force of 100.000. Failure of the other nations to reduce their forces has led to the building up of dangerous private military organiz ations in Germany, said to number 1,000.000 men. It is futile to expect Germany to remain disarmed while her neighbors increase their estab lishments, and statesmen in other European natious have said bo. Should other countries decline to re- duce their armaments, then Germany is entitled to arm herself similarly. iFor this, however, she does not ask. i :Her people have learned the bitter i lesson of what a high-geared military machine inevitably costs. After years of preparation, the world disarmament conference now . . , ... IS SCiieUUieu to meet in tjri its . outcome depends the late of Europe. whether for murderous war or peace- ful progress. Meanwhile the Bruen- ing Government continues us enorts to instill patience into the German I people and to meet the nation's tre - - - , , , r - . UI6UUUIH uuiiftauiuiD. .uuu.iiri j v- .ner, in calling attention to the uii I just situation, in effect repeats Wil- r mMtinii tar-seeing truism oi is. 'Only a peace between equals can llast. -:o: THE PLIACENE MAN Will the Pliocene mar. be discov ered? Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews j believes that he will be discovered. perhaps in the Gobi Desert. He has i conducted the fifteenth Central Asiatic expedition cf the American Museum of Natural History, declar- stopped because of untoward local' j conditions the exactions and depre dations of bandits. Already his discoveries are monu- mental mastodons and prehistoric j remains of many other beasts, all sealed in the Pliocene strata. The Pliocene man is the oldest type of humankind. In the view of j Dr. Andrews, he may have sat on the hills "watching the mastodons struggling in the bog." Compared with him the Pieping man. discover ed in 1929, Is a mere infant. And still the seekers labor. In a gypsum cave nesr Las Yegas, Ne vada, there has recently been dis covered the bones of a man estimated to have lived there 20.000 years ago a late earth-comer. He is chal lenged by the antiquity of the Neanderthal man. the Javan Pithe- canthropus, the Cro-Magnon finds of the scientists. In China the scientists have dis covered the Pieping skull the Sin anthropus, in union with the types of Java and Piltdown. the pro claimed Dawn Man, a million years young. It is a quite perfect skull. It is the opinion of an English au-iin thority that the owner of the skull lived long before man had begun to fashion stone instruments. He holds it to be a hitherto unknown genus of the human family vastly more ancient and primitive than any other human remains. And yet it is not a Pliocene skull. Little by little the earth yields Rb secrets, dim in the mist-shrouded ages before history began. Dr. Sven Hedin. associated with Dr. Andrews, continues to carry on with Chinese students. The volume and value of the work mounts. Interest in these researches is stimulated by the dis- covery of a prehistoric beast well ing the fact that no individual can preserved in ice that has held it forjhold more than $2,430 worth of cer ages flesh still intact, measuring 24tiflcates at the same time, there is feet long, weighing 1.000 pounds, no provision against individual mem- with a head like an elephant's. A flesh-and-fur-covered lizard 26 feet in length, similarly incased in ice, has been discovered, while in Canada the oldeBt deposit of preserved wood, this way, a "normal" Irish family said to be 15,000,000 years old, has may acquire a very respectable cash been brought to light in Northern reserve. Alberta. But the Pliocene man sleeps on undisturbed. Will he greet us some frne morning with authentic intro duction by Dr. Andrews or another? The indefatigable ecientlcts have hope that this dream may come true. WET AND DRY CURRENTS A good deal of bad whisky has flowed under the bridge since 1928, tional political campaign. In politics there have been some changes in the us. Mr. Hoover is prepared to stand hie ground as an emphatic Dry. It is unlikely that he will have a cor- responding Wet opponent. And even if he did, even if the issues were j clearly drawn, the problem is letns- lative in character, not executive. Party platforms are no less vague in the hopes they hold of settling this persistent question. If there were no other miT""'" than those of party politics it would ; . 1 be a most discouraging situation. But the fortunes of Prohibition to date have not been linked with a single party. Prohibition came about as a constitutional and statutory entity through a powerful lobby acting on both parties. Any readjustment of our present set-up is likely to come about in similar fashion. What, then, are the currents of late years? One. certainly. is ttie j trend away from state action, 1 Steadily more of the states are aban- idoning their attempts to support the I Federal Government in its liquor pol- llcy. Another trend is toward larger tolerance of wine and beer making on a small scale for domestic use This is apparent in states and local . , u .uieas a. wen us in reueiui iuin More important is the trend among a wide public toward rational debate on temperance schemes which are nut pamcuia.iy ei oi uiv m a nB'u ! sense. Men and women everywhere ;are giving up their aelf-iroposed ia- , . . ...... 1- ; j - v ...... u for a grave social problem, and are,. Tl ,'no, . to. ii, . refusing to see the question as the tug of war of two sharply defined tactions. This greater objectivity in respect heaI.ing "thereof be given to all per to the liquor question undoubtedly sons interested in said matter by pub- arises from a fuller appreciation of . , . , . . !. . . . , midt ihuci mmm iTin n tcu v ' !do, and from a realization of the vast importance of the bootleg liquor ; trade as the economic foundation of I 'the Nation's syndicated crime. It is no longer a simple choice, as j tin the era of headlong reform, be - 'tween allowing liquor and not allow ing it. Today it is the recognition of a complex fabric of illicit industries, the admission that ths fabric is built on popular desire for liquor, and the choice of a dozen alternatives to miti igate the evil. We are still a long way from suf ficiently clear thinking on the ques tion. But as a people we are making tangible nrogress. And the sooner .... . . . we ceas-e to divide ourselves into "wets" and "irvi" ttip ennnpr wt urvs uie suoner f will find a workable middle path be - tween the intolerable saloon age and the equally intolerable epoch of the speakeasy and the hijacker. :o: THE IRISH FREE STATE From Old Erin, that "most dis tressful country" of which poets of the Jeremiah bered formerly sang so touchingly. there comes now the strange cry of "too much money!" The Irish Free State Treasury has too much money, the people have been hoarding up cash in savings certificates. They have grown thrifty, with a vengeance. This is strange even in contra dictory Ireland, and it came about this way: The Government has been issuing savings certificates a form of thrift copied from "tyran nical" England shortly after the war. The principle is the issue of a $4.86 certificate for $3.72. This cer tificate of 5 per cent compound in terest becomes worth $4.80 to the investor in five years. It is exempt from income tax and need not be de clared in income tax returns. The Irish people simply "ate it up" this economic proposition of a be nevolent Government. The security was gilt edged; it was a most de sirable form of investment for people with small incomes. Not withstar.d- bers of the same family holding up to the maximum amount. And Ire land is a land which does not pnic tice birth control. So it is that, in But the rush for these certificates has been so great that the Govern ment is not able usefully to employ all the money which is being put into certificates amounting to the respectable sum of nearly $10,000, 000 in the current year; and as the Government must provide the inter est yearly, it naturally is anxious to tum it into some other directions. where the interest Is much less and there is no bonus. Hence it is seek ing for expedients to get out of an economic hole. Perhaps it might en ter into correspondence with Uncle Andy Mellon who no doubt would sugeest disposition of the money by lending it to former soldiers. :o: FOR SALE Several hundred good barrels, good for feeding troughs, water barrels or garbage cans. 50c each. See Mr. Wil liams at Smith Bros, camp on Mis souri river. m9-4sw Life in New York is getting to be a;- picturesque and uncertain as it was in Rome in the days of Borgias. NOTICE OF SALE On the 1st dny o' April. 1931. nt 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon, the undersigned will sell One Blue Jew- ett Touring Car. belonging to n- iam Oertell. Motor Number 240225 at public auction to the highest bid i der for cash, a' the North front door of the Murray Garage at Murray, Cass Bounty. Nebraska, to satisfy a lien for 'abor. material and storage I in the sum of $07. S5. A. D. BAKKE, ml6-2w. Lien Holder. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass Coun ty. Nebraska. State of Nebraska. CasB County, BE. To all persons interested in the estate of Amanda V. Wiley Dills, de ceased : On reading the petition of Addie E. Park. Administratrix with Will : annexed praying a final settlement and allowance of her account filed in this Court on the 14th dav of March. A. D. 1931. and for final set- jtlement of said estate and for her uiscnarge as Administratrix u ill annexed u jg hereby ordered that you and all i persons interested in said matter! may and do. appear at the County Court to be held in and for said fniintv on the Ifith il:iv r.f Anril show cause, if any there be. why the I . . . . j . p i IV II v v iu v n. CI . ill., prayer of tne petitioner snouiu not be granted, and that notice oi tne npMilpncv of saifl netition and the "ning a copy oi tnis oroer in tne Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly i . m m . - i . i newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to saidlbrasKa. i day of hearing. In witness whereof. 1 hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 14th day of March. A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. : (Seal) ml6-3w County Judge, ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass Coun ty. Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass County, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Minnie Kaffenberger. de ceased : r ,i ; .v, ...... m. ...... iW'ill n n n-rfi nravinff for a finnl set .. : r ' 1 ..... .... ..,,! .. 1 1 . . ii- i n if. . . t ri i o r . i j - . . . ,..v, count filed in this Court on the 14th jday of March. A. D. 1931. and for finnl sfTf Ipnient of said estate and fnf hie rlicnhnrffc no Iflminictrntrir mu Tt iu li . i .-.i it nrrl nroH ttmt vnn ;i n rl flll persons interested in said matter may. anu do. appear at tne t ounty Court to be held in and for said County, on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1931. 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 Riven 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. j In witness whereof. I hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 14th day of March. A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) ml6-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss. To all persons interested estate of Edward D. Slocum In the deceas - ed: On reading the petition of Theo dore L. Amick, Administrator, pray ing a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1931. and for final settlement of said es tate and for his discharge as said Administrator; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter ; may. and do. appear at the County j Court to be held In and for said county, on the 3rd day of April, A. D. 1931, at ten o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if eny there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendencv of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per- sons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this 2nd day of March. A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Sealj m9-3w County Judge. wu ieu...B "ZT" " Lillie and Augusi Doering and prav- Kaffenberger. Administrator with:ftl . n ormin:i.in nT th tim NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of W. D. Wheeler, de'-eased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested la said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and testament and praying for ad ministration upon his estate and for such other a?id further orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in such cases made and provided to the end that said estate and all things per taining thereto may be finally settled and determined, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the third day of April. A. D. 1931. and that if they fail to appear at said Court on said third day of April. 1931. at ten o'clock a. m. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to W. A. Wheeler or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) m9-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass County, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of William Shea, deceased: On reading the petition of Searl S. Davis praying u final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 26th day of Febru ary, A. D. 1931. and for final settle ment of Bald estate and for his dis charge as Administrator It 1b hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may. and do, appear at the C'unty Court to be held in and for said County, on the 27th day of March. iA D. 1931. 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 pub- withllishing a copy of this order in the : Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to I said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here- liintn sft mv hand and the Seal of said tn!rm,rt thio 9f.th ,v nf WMu mm t cw1v, mwm m mmmm m mnmmw & 0 A. D. 1931. H. DUXBURY. County Judge. iseaii m.'-jw NOTICE OF HEARING I i-f -i f r if I II I ill. Ilorn-llic 'il.J l 1 T ft r"V '"J , T: "T a W' Christina Doering. both deceased, in the County Court of Cass county. Ne- The State of Nebraska, to all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Ern estine Jahris hn.s filed her petition alleging that Julius Doering and 'wife. Christina Doering died intestate in Plattsmouth prior to 192"' being residents and inhabintants of Cass county, Nebraska, and died seized of the following described real es tate, to-wit: Southeast Quarter of Section Thirty-four, Township Seven teen. Range Nineteen, all in Custer county. Nebraska. leaving as Ms sole and only heirs at law the following named persons. to-wit: Ernestine Jahng, Minnie of the death of said Julius Doering and wife. Christina Doering. and of L. . .. , T ,. . , their heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real PfPerO belonging to the sa'd de- ceased, in the State of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same stand for ca.rJPF hp 27lh. da- of Marc.h A. D. 1931. before the court at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m.. in the Court House in Plattsmouth. Nebraska. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 28th day of Febru.irv. A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) m2-3w. County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE In the District ( ourt of Cass County. Nebraska . Carl S. Foster, Receiver of the First National Bank of Plattsmouth. Nebraska. Plaintiff vs. William C. West and Emily S. West, Defendants NOTICE To the Defendants, William C. West and Emily S. West: You. and each of you are hereby notified that on the 3rd day of March. 1931. the plaintiff filed his suit in the District Court of Cass I county, Nebraska, the object and 1 prayer of which was to re over on two promissory notes aggregating $1,859.83 with interest at the rate of 87C from May 20. 192G to August 1. 1926. and 10 interest thereafter, and costs of suit. That affidavits were filed for attachment and gar nishment, and on the 4th day of March, 1931. service of attachment and garnishment was served upon Henry A. Schneider and the Platts- mouth State Bank, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, to recover funds in the possession of said Schneider ana said bank belonging to you. You are hereby required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 20th day of April. 1931. and failing so to do, your default will be entered and judgment will be taken upon the plaintiff's petition. This notice is given pursuant to an order of this Court. CARL S. FOSTER. Receiver of the First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Plaintiff. By A. L. TIDD, His Attorney. m9-4w . i Job Printing at Journal office.