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KONDAY. AUG. 17. 1931. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEJKIY JOURS' AX PAGE THK! Cbc plattsmouth 3ournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, I-lattsinouth, Neb., as second-eiass 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. The things we put off yesterday look just as objectionable today. :o: Money will do almost anything. but it'i best pertormunct is vanish ing. : o : Then there is the type of business man who, even when business is good, doesn't like it. :c; If sleeping through an earthquake is equivalent to being unwilling to spend a dime to see one, we're guilty. :o: Florida is also paying for some of her political folly. The gasoline tax in that state has been raised trom six to seven cents per gallon. :o: It has been a great season for watermelons and musbmelons. Even Uncle Andy Mellon got a nice vaca tion in Europe with all expenses paid. :o: There are big town hicks as well as little town hicks, and one kind of big town hick is one who tries to get a $50 traveler's check cashed in a little hick town. :o: A few months ago Herbert Hoover was urging us to make an earnest effort to keep up the standard of living. Now he can shorten it to: '"Try and keep living." : o : Hollywood sends out word that there'll be no more gang movies, and we wonder what the gangsters will do with the early part of their even ings. Go to Norma Shearer pictures, maybe? :o: There's utterly no excuse for all this timidity being shown by our foremost financiers. Anything so popular and universally est-emed as money should not suffer from an in feriority complex. :o: Edna May Oliver is getting a di vorce, because her husband wrote her and asked her to do so. We dis sent from the popular opinion that the husband took this step alter see ing her work in "Cimarron" and other recent films; we are inclined to think he delayed the action until a number of his cronies had seen the films and submitted reports. :o: Motor cars are only one cf the dangers that assail child life in the city these days. Wild ballets from the guns of wild gangster? are also to be reckoned with. And of course there will be more bullets if. as and when the police catch up with the gangsters. It seems a lot of us are lui ky to have grown up in the good old days when nothing much men aced a child's safety as long as some body could keep him from playing along the railroad tracks. CHILDREN CRY FOR IT CHILDREN hate to take medicine as a rule, bat every child loves the taste of Castoria. This pore vegetable oreDaration is iust as good as it tastes; just as bland and just as harmless as the recipe reads. When Baby's cry warns of colic, a few drops of Castoria have him soothed, asleep again in a jiffy. Nothing is more valuable in diarrhea. When coated tongue or bad breath tell of constipation, invoke its gentle aid to cleanse and regulate a child's bowels- In colds or children's diseases, you should use it to keep the system from clogging. Castoria is sold in every drug store; the genuine always bears Chas, H. Fletcher's signature. Judging from the conversation of doctors and nurses, more people re main well when times are hard. : o : Kansas farmers are in a quandry as to what to do with their wheat. If they throw it away it will grow where they throw it. :o: Statistics show that To per cent of all motor vehicles in the world are in the United States. We also have about S5 per cent of the emergency wards in the world's hospital. :o: A lot of folks are trying to ex plain to the butcher and the family grocer that if they will just call everything off for a year or so, times will immediately become more pros perous. It sounds god even if it isn't sensible. : o : One thing to be said of the cur rent epidemic of beach pajamas: they come in modest, subdued shades. It thye had happened to arrive in any thing suggesting loud colors or srik ing patterns, we don't suppose they'd have been permitted. Not for a mo ment. :o: The height of devilment, in the old uays, v as to steal clothes off the cre k b'.nk and hide tiu-m while the owpers were in swimr.iing. But now, we understand, it is a much higher type of humor to slip up on a party of modern swimmers and hide their bathing suits. :o: A Memph's citizen has complain ed to the police department that his home has been robbed fifty times within the past two years, and ne wants something done about it. It does seem that even a Memphis po liceman ought to be able to catch a robber who is such a familiar figure on the premises. : o: We like the stand recentry taken by the New Orleans Federation of Women's Clubs. Their program does not aim at the usual trite reforms, most of which use up a lot of gas and achieve no mileage. Their pro gram is to oppose loud radios and beach weddings in bathing suits and beach pajamas, both measures which almost anyone is glad to support without reservation. :o: It is now possible to cash in on a promising case of hay fever. Hos pitals in Illinois will pay hay fever Fufrerers to undergo observation in their wards. It doesn't however, seem quite fair to those of us who haven't hay fever. We felt the same nay when the hospitals were paying headache sufferers last winter. We producd several different kinds of headaches, but the doctors always said ours weren't the kind they were looking for. We suppose when they finally get around to advertising for chilblains, ours won't be the right kind. You'd think we'd broken a mirror or something the way our luck runs. :o: PvOADS ON THE IN STALLMENT PLAN As the individual buys furniture, automobiles, refrigerators and v.hat not out of iucome, so can the com munity buy roads. Modern, scienti fic developments in surfacing mater ials have made "roads-on-the-in lall-ment-plan" both practical and pos Mble. The method varies with the local ity, but the principle remain: the same. Roads of local materials, whether gravel, clay or top soil may be asphaltically treated at a very low cost, and the result is a weath erproof, year-round thoroughfare suitable for all but the heaviest of traffic. As traffic flow increases new layers may be placed on the surface, building it up to any necessary thick i.ess. In this way rural areas can get the good roads they need without go ing deeply into debt: the farmer and the inhabitant of the small town can be given the contact with the outside world that is so vital to his progress and standards of living. The day of the cow path, impassable during sev eral months of the year, is coming to an end. The model rural community of the future, with quick accessibil ity to main highways and the facil ities of the great cities, will be a far different place from the average community of the present. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF There is a general agreement that 1 there will be a worse unemployment condition next winter than there was last year. President Green of the American Federation of Labor pre dicts there will be a total of seven I million out of work. A survey of ly4 cities has revealed that the re lief needs probably will be twice as great as they were last year. All of which is unnecessary for i the reason that it is avoidable. The i country is looking toward the winter season with too much resignation, is accepting the fact of an inevitable, worse condition as a matter of i course. Instead of doing something i to remove the cause of human dis- tresa, it is preparing to alleviate the effect of unemployment. Resource ful, efficient, thoroughgoing America appears to be falling short of her boasted competency. The American people are follow ing the lins of what they think is least resistance, flow strange that such an impression should exist! As a matter of fact the country stands ready to undertake a much more onerous task in providing relief for the idle than if common sense steps to understand and remove the cause were taken. We are going to mud dle through. We have left our initia tive somewhere along the road. And we are going to pay heavily for these shortcomings. Eventually we shall shake off this lethargy and do something to put an end to the disgraceful situation in which we now find ourselves. At last public opinion will acknow ledge that it is better to provide a different kind of relief for the people who are out of work. The kind of relief needed at this time is a job rather than a handout. Workers pre fer wages to doles. There may be a menace in this humiliation of millions of good Am erican citizens. If it does not create within them a bitterness toward the economic, social and political order, it will weaken their spirit of inde pendence and shake their courage. America cannot afford to have the confidence of her people shaken in this way. Our people to succeed must retain their natural virility. Even as there is danger of physical weakness because of malnutrition and undernourishment, it is reason able to assume that our morale will suffer. Mr. Green echoes the Journal when he says the only permanenf solution to the unemployment prob lem is shorter hours. Let big busi ness put men to work, thus increas ing the country's buying power. Let us keep our charity list at a mini mum. It could be done if we only would do it. Sioux City Journal. :o: A CIVE1 WAP. Martial law is never a cure for any unhappy governmental situa tion: at best it is a palliative with irritating after effects. President Machado is the doctor and Cuba is the patieut and martial law is the medicine he prescribes regularly and in large d sen. The doctor is not a particularly skilled one. He cannot cure the patient. But he has been successful in maintaining his posi tion n the comn.unty by adminis tering liberal doses of his favorite prescription, a concoction strong enough to keep the patient weak in the knees for a considerable period after each dose. And a weak kneed patient is not likely to knock the doctor's block off. The fact is that President Mach ado's martial law declaration merely covets up a condition of rebellion. Cuba is actually suffering from an acute attack of civil war. The op position has long been unable to gain any voice in the government thru constitutional means. Machado defeating every move of this kind, so it has resorted to arms. The village of Seirra Morena is reported to have fallen into the hands cf the armed opposition. Rebel forces are gathering there. Another rebel group has captured the city of Santa Clara, killed a number of soldiers and has driven troops from the vciinity. Skirmishes are report ed from other points, even in the out skirts of Havana. The Cuban government has long maintained a close watch on the press, often censoring individual publications and keeping important government news secret. As a result the information coming from that country is at best incomplete, and is probably colored. It is impossible to find out exactly what the govern ment has been doing and is now in its desperate effort to maintain con trol. Moreover, the rebels lack a na tional leader unless former President Menocal can be classed as one and government forces have been on his trail for some time so that he can do little more than keep out of custody. If the opposition can be organized into a single driving force, a civil war will be on n earnest. AN EASING CRISIS Relief at the result of the Prus- Mahatma Gandhi, the chief lead sian state election Sunday has been j er of the movement for self-govern felt far beyond the borders of Ger many. The reaction in France, where the efforts of the Hitlerites and the C jnimunists to overthrow responsible gc vernment in Germany have been watched with special anxiety, is par ticularly significant. For an improve ment in Franco-German relations is essential to the peace and well being or Europe. The French, traditionally suspic ious of Germany, had become in creasingly alarmed at recent develop ments across the Rhine. They had noticed the enormous strides made by the Hitlerite party in the national election of September. 1930. when it polled nearly 62 million votes and became the second largest in the reichstag. The Hitlerites, they knew, were the sworn enemies of the peace treaty. The wild speeches and writ ings of the Hitlerite leaders had fur ther disturbed the French, as had the military demonstration of the "Steel Helmet" society near the Polish frontier some time ago. The Bruening government, well intentioned as it has been, likewise had contributed to French distrust of German motives by its naval pro gram and particularly by the secrecy with which the Austro-German union was negotiated. The French govern ment reflected thi popular distrust by delaying its acceptance of Presi dent Hoover's moratorium proposal tor seventeen days and by holding back until the last moment its agree ment to attend the recent 7-power conference in London, called to con sider the German crisis. France, however, had demonstrated its lack of confidence in Germany most ef fectively by withdrawing a huge vol ume of French loans and thereoy bringing its neighbor to the verge of a financial collapse. France has been the only nation, except the United States, to be in a position to help Germany financially at this time, and American investors naturally would not shoulder the burden as long as Franco-German relations remained so uncertain. The issue in the Prussian election was clearly drawn. It was between the policy of the Bruening government in abiding by its international obli gation and that of its opponents in repudiating them. Prussia, which is nearly two-thirds of Germany, now has decided to support the govern ment. The result has been immed iately to increase Frenc hconfidence. The Germany government is not yet out of the woods, but it is beginning to see light through the trees. :o: MEDIUM FARM LOSING OUT Cheap wheat is only one of many things happening to American farms. Census figures just released tell a story of agricultural conditions not wholly calculated to foster optimism. The average value of land and buih'ings fell from $10,000 to $7,000 per farm between 1920 and 1930. and from $69 to $48 per acre In the same period. The total value of farm land dropped nearly 20 million dollars. In the same decade was seen a falling off in all classes of livestock except milk cows and chickens. The widespread popularity of the Sun aay dinner of one-half fried or a la king is reflected in the 20-million in crease in poultry production. Nor d.cs the American fondness for fresh -"fc yet succumb to the general ag ricultural decline. Census enumerators found fewer farms run by their owners or man agers and more by tenants than heie tofore, emphasizing a trend that has b-jen observed for- years. What this may mean in terms of a vigorous, in dependent, native farm population, alert for good gcornme'it and iris'.-:-nt on right social conditions, out leaves to the experts to deter mire. l is at least a tuatiou not foreseen y men who bmiixfat a virgi.i con tinent under cultivotion. These 10-year figures reveal an other trend capable of a different in terpretation. They show that farms of twenty acres or less and farms of more than 500 acres increased if! ' umber; but farms between twenty and 500 acres are fewer than before. The Fmall place and the big place ?eem to prosper, but the middle- sized plot, the class on which farm prosperity was built, succumbs to a condition which economists may re- gret. but cannot control. The farm small enough to permit its owner to maintain it nracticallv unaided, and the farm big enough to justify substitution of machine pow er for man power, both continue to multiply if not to prosper. It is the farm of the size formerly operated by its owner and a hired man which economics appear to be crowding out of tbe picture. :o: Have yon anything to sell? Tefl the world about it through the Jour nal's Want Ad department THE MAHATMA'S TOOTH BRUSH ment in India, is planning to start tor London shortly with a spare loin cloth, a spinnig wheel, two goats and a copy of Thoreau. It is an nounced that he will not even take a tooth brush. The simplicity of the mahatma's equipment will be in striking contrast to the importance of his mission. (He will be the sole rep resentative of the congress party, which has engineered the rebellion against British rule, in the negotia tions for a new Indian constitution.) It would be unfair to suggest that the contrast will be a play for pub licity. Gandhi has long led a severe ly simple life from conviction. He hates modern civilization. For In dia's salvation, he has declared, all "railways, telegraphs, hospitals, law yers, doctors and such like" will have to go. Presumably he does not carry a tooth brush because he regards medical science as the "essence of black magic." It can be seen from this attitude why many sensible Englishmen sigh at the thought of having to reach an agreement with such a negotiator, no matter how deeply they respect his sincerity. The Manchester Guardian, the great liberal newspaper of Britain, has summed Gandhi up a "saint who has strayed into politics, a politician who has turned sairil." Politicians, the Guardian observes, are hard enough to deal with, but "saintly politicians" are impossible. How ever that may be. the mahatma is undoubtedly the most picturesque figure today in political life. His parish-like simplicty must be all the imore spectacular to hs fellow Hin dus, so acustomed to a rigid system of caste. : o : THE SHOES ARE WEARING OUT. TOO That the shoe industry in June could practically equal its high pro duction record for that month, which was set in June of 1929. is sugges tive of one fairly evident fact. Goods wear out and. where they are essen tial, must be replaced. The boot and shoe industry, along with the woolen and worsted branches of the textile business, has had a remarkable comeback. What this, together with other signs of betterment here and there, may mean for business as a whole is not readily to be determin ed. But it is an encouraging situ ation. Taking the one industry, shoes, alone, there is both actual accomp lishment and a prospect reported by leaders in the business as distinctly bright. For the first six months of this year, department of commerce figures show, the industry was ahead of the corresponding period of last year, with its May and June records unusually good. Production for the entire years is not expected to equal that of 1929. but it will equal, it now is indicated, that of 1928, which was a good year. August. September and October usually are the busiriest months of this industry. An index to present conditions is the report that one concern employing 17,000 persons has been operating six days a veek and having difficulty in fill ing orders, while several others are reported operating at 95 per cent of capacity. One explanation of the activity is that the industry has been able to pass on to consumers the benefits of lower prices in raw materials. That should oe possible, of course, in all teases. It naturally would tend to stimulate buying, but only on the condition that the goods were needed and trie money was at hand for the purchases. :o: WE ALL PAY TAXES Less than 3 per cent of the population of the United States pays more than 96 per cent of the fed eral income tax, and less than 7 per cent of all corporations in the country pay more than 95 per cent of the corporation income tax. The average person, merely glanc ing at these figures, might decide that taxation is merely a matter af fecting the rich individual, or the big business, and so none of his con cern. But. unhappily, taxes do not work that way. If a company is tax- ed a dollar or a million dollars, there la but one way it can raise the funds U" Pay by passing the cost on to ' those who buy the articles or services ;11 sells, : Every person in the country is a tax-paytr. When he buys food, pays rent, buys gasoline, takes out an in surance policy or goes to a theatre, he automatically pays seme of his money to government. The old say ing that death and taxes are inevi table is- truer today than it ever was. And. as a result, tax reduction, far from being a matter that interests only the wealthy few, is a matter of tremendous personal importance to each of us. Do you know that over a period of 18 months 1,900,000 Persons were In jured in Auto Accidents Why not get your Liability in surance TODAY and protect yourself against damage suits? L. D. HI ATT Crabill's Store Telephone 434 Plattsmouth, Neb. OUR NEXT PRESIDENT All paths of discussion concerning the national party conventions for 1932 now lead to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as the Democratic nom inee. Highly interesting is an article by the Boston Transcript's Washing ten correspondent, Oliver McKee, Jr., who writes with the cool detach ment of a trained observer outside of Democratic ranks. Surveying revent developments in national politics, he says: "The New York Governor now seems assured of the widest possible geographical support. He is the choice of his party in most of the Eastern states; he has received assurances of the strongest sort of support from the Middle and Far West; and in the South his increasing populari makes it reasonably certain that he will be an acceptable candidate to most of the delegates from yirginia to Texas. Some observers, indeed, go so Car as to predict the nomin ation of Roosevelt on the first ballot, so strong do they rate the tide that is moving him forward. His strengtn in his own party appears all the greater because there is nowhere in the open any definite opposition movement." Particularly significant, in Mr. Kee's judgment, was the visit to New York the other day of Mayor Cer rnak of Chicago. Some months past Illinois was supposed to be chilly to ward Roosevelt, but evidently there has been a change. "And if Cer mak reflects the point of view of oth er Democratic stalwarts in his state, its delegates will be found under the Roosevelt umbrella." In the East a no less meaningful omen is the prediction of Joseph F. Guffey. perhaps the most influential Demo crat in Pennsylvania, that the Key stone delegation will be virtually .-olid for the New York Governor. Touching the South, Mr. McKee notes that there Roosevelt "enjoys a high measure of popularity." "Ke has been a frequent visitor in the Southland. His genial personal ity has struck the chords of many a friendship with Southern leaders, and his family traditions make a strong appeal to the region of the cavaliers. While a liberla in his views on prohibition, he has not un duly concentrated on this issue, sub ordinating it to his economic and so cial program. While retaining the support of Tammany, he seems to have been able to steer clear of any- damaging allinces with the fmous New York City political organiza tion." NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE In the District Court of the County of Cass. Nebraska William Mangold and wife Lola Mangold ; Ruby Mangold, single; EHla 'lock and husband. Jacob Rock; Edward Mangold and wife, Lottie Mangold; Alice Hughes and bus band. Perry Hughes; Oscar Mangold and wife. Hazel Mangold; Walter Mangold and wife, Mary Mangold 3nd Winnie Dudley, widow. Plaintiffs. vs. Paul Mangold, a minor, and Louis Schiessl. Defendants. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that under end by virtue of a decree of the Dis trict Court of Cass County, Ne braska, entered in the above entitled cause on the 29th day of July, 1931, and an order of sale issued by said court on the 29th day of July, 1931. the undersigned, sole referee, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the south front door of the Court House in the City of Plattsmouh. Cass County, Nebras ka, on the 1st day of September, 1931, at 10 o'clock a m.. the fol ic wing described real estate, to-wit: The northwest quarter (NW) of section twenty three (23). Township twelve (12), north. Range twelve (12), east of the 6th p. m.f in Cass County, Nebraska. Said sale will be held open for one hour. Abstract of title will be fur nished to purchaser; terms of sale 10"f of the amount of the bid at time of sale and balance on confirm ation; possession to be given March 1, 1932. Dated this 29th day of July, 1931. WILLIAM G. KIECK. Referee. (V. A ROBERTSON, Attorney for Plaintiffs. j30-6w ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass Coun tv, Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass County, To all persons interested in the estate of Mary Burian. deceased: On reading the petition of Andrew Rabb. praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 28th day of July, 1931, and for assignment of the resi due of said estate and for his dis charge as administrator of said es tate; If 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 28th day of August, A. D. 1931, at ten o'clock a. m. to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not he granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per rons interested in 6aid matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal a serni-v.-eekly 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 28th day of July, A. D. 1931. A. H. Dl'XBl'RY. Seal) a3-3w 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, ML To all persons interested in 'he estate of Margaret Martens, de ceased : On leading the petition of Henry J. Martens, executor, praying a final settlement and allowance of his at ioun( filed in this Court on the 2Mb. day ot July. 1931. and for an order of assignment and distribution of the residue of said estate and for his discharge; 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 28th day of August, 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 pend ency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publish ing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said County, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 29th day ..f July. A. D. 131. A. H. DUXBLRY. (Seal a3-3w 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, as. To all persons interested in the estate of William D. Wheeler, de ceased : On reading the petition of W. A. Wheeler, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 8th day of August. 1931 and for assignment of the assets of said estate and his dis charge as administrator: It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said mat ter may. and do, appear at the Coun ty Court to be held in and for said county, on the 4th day of September. A. D. 1931 at ten o'clock a. m. to show cause, if any there be. why the prayer of the petitionei should not be granted, and that noti'-e of the pendency of said petition nd the hearing thereof be given to ail 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. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this Sth day of August, A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBLRY. (Seal, al0-3w 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, ML To all persons interested in the estate of Byron Atkinson, deceased. On reading the petition of Minnie E. Marolf and Harry F. Marolf pray ing that the instrument filed in this court on the first day of August. 1931, and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said de ceased, may be proved and allowed and recorded as the last will and testament of Byron Atkinson, de ceased; that said instrument be ad mitted to probate and the adminis tration of said estate be granted to Minnie E. Marolf and Harry F. Mar olf: It is hereby ordered that you. and all persons interested in said mat ter, may. and do. appear at the coun ty Court to be held in and for said county, on the 28th day of August, A. D. 1931. at 10 o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if any there be. why the ?rayer of the petitioners should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order 111 the Plattsmouth Journal, a emi weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and the seal ot said court, this 1st day of August, A. D 1931. A. H. DUX BURY. (Seal) a3-3w County Jidge,