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PUBLISHED SE1H-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
Entered at Postoff ice, Plattsmouth, Neb., aa second-class mail matter
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That American bullfighter is one
American we can't work up any en
thusiasm about.
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Easy street has fallen into such
disrepair of late years that one can
hardly distinguish it from Tin-can
alley.
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Lord Cornwallis dedicated a bust
of his famous ancestor at Yorktown
That's what we were celebrating
there.
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Twenty-three countries have aban
doned the gold standard. About the
only thing gold will be good for
pretty soon is bridgework.
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Efforts to be permanently useful
must be uniformly joyous, a spirit
all sunshine, graceful from very
gladness, beautiful because bright.
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A man should never be ashamed
to own he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying in other words
that "lie is wiser today than he was
yesterday.
Before long some reformer will
suggest that criminals be made to
sim an agreement that they will
not kidnap the warden or else be
barred from prisons.
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The Culbertson lead Js now so
commanding that it will be all right
with us if the coach sends in the
second team and lets the first team
go to Florida for the rest of the win
ter. :o:
The victory of the wets in Finland
prompts a local dry to remark that
it may be necessary to send mission
aries to that country. We believe we
could arrange one to go in a very
few weeks.
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A farmer living near here tells us
that if he could get his son to work
out in the field as he does on tne
football and basketball fields there
would be no reason why the farm
shouldn't pay.
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There are a lot of people who In
sist that life is what we make it
Which. Jack Blanton of the Paris
Appeal believes, is au indirect way
of reminding humanity that it ha3
done a pretty sorr7 Job.
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An Ohio editor says he can take
the younger generation down a peg
bv askine anv of them. "Whats a
whiffle tree?" It seems an average
youngster today doesn't know wheth
er whiffles grow on trees or vines.
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Now we begin to get the real slant
on the "bridgers" and their intri
cate and sure-fire systems. We knew
it was coming. As it was in the be
ginning, is now, and ever shall be,
one side has announced that "far in
ferior cards" account for its deficit.
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Science has enabled tne movie
producers to make a double-exposure
film in which a vocalist sings a
duet with himself, but science will
never pay off his debt to society in
full until we can make the telephone
bore unload his story into his own
ear.
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We are thoroughly in sympathy
with Ely Culbertson, who protested
at the presenct of a certain kibitzer
from West Point because he disturb
ed the Culbertson "emotional bal
ance." There are people who do just
that. It was, in fact, about all Pepper
Martin did in the world series some
months ago he disturbed the Ath
letics' emotional balance.
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- We were pleasantly surprised by
Tulane's showing against Southern
California in the New Year's game.
It seemed to us Tulane looked as good
losing as the Trojans looked win
nings. And henceforth we shall be
strongly tempted to claim Tulane as
a Mid-western institution, instead of
a southern one, as heretofore.
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' Chinese students, far from being
pleased at the turn events have taken
in their fatherland, have organized
to go and weep at the tomb of Sun
Yat-Sen. This, of coures ,is very
amusing to us of an enlightened land,
where college students read only the
sports page, and their only revolu
tionary gesture is to vow occasionally
to let their young and pliant whis
kers grow until the team beats the
Aggie.
"Bigamist plays queer prank on
himself weds two women who are
childhood friends." Well, what's the
use of calling in some rank outsider?
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A drop in postal receipts abroad
is attributed to the slump in tourist
traffic. The disturbed trade balance
between this country and Europe has
also been blamed, in some degree,
upon the tourists who stayed at home
last year. The worst thing about this
sort of news is that it tends to hn
press upon the tourist that he is be
coming a very important person.
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SHAW HEARS VOICE
OF THE MIDDLE WES'
A recent reception In London
brought together a former distin
guished Nebraska n, Ambassador
Charles G. Dawes, George Bernard
Shaw, Aga Kahn, the Indian poten
tate, and other equally prominent
men. The combination of Dawes and
Shaw held the promise of an evening
of i-harp exchanges between men of
nimble wits and sharp tongues and
such it proved to be.
in the peacefu! circle of a grate
fire, after an excellent dinner, with
the added- companionship of pipes
the smoke from which curled lazily
and rest fully, it would have seemed
an ideal setting for congeniality and
good will. But not so with the rest
less Shaw. As usual he took his place
in the spotlight and for some time
amused his company with a running
gunfire of criticism against the cap
italistic system. It was too much for
Dawes. Removing his pipe, he pound
ed the table and fairly shouted at
Shaw these words:
"It's about time you stopped this
paradoxical, half-baked, socialistic
nonsense of yours. You are mis
leading youth. You are filling their
heads with ideas which I don't think
you half mean yourself. You are daz
zling them with your brilliance
which youth is unable to properly di
gest and estimate. You are leading
them to false and dangerous conclu
sions."
That should have been sufficient
for Shaw because it so clearly repre
sents the thought of millions not only
here in the United States but in the
Britisher s own country. He Is a
revered and loved literary figure.
With that instinct so deeply implant
ed in all cf us without regard to na
tionality there is a proper British
liride in his contributions to the
world of letters. But Shaw has been
an insufferable bore in recent months
with his amusing, adroit wailing
against the civilization of the west
ern world. The best test of his own
soinceriiy is his unwillingness to
leave the conveniences, the comforts,
the luxuries and the very consider
able riches which his own outstand
ing abilities secure for him in the
system which he insists is a failure
to throw it all into the common pot
of Russia. No, Mr. Shaw does not feel
deeply enough to do that although
he has all of the money he could pos
sibly use to live in comfort in Rus
sia, which he accumulated under a
capitalistic system. He prefer to bite
the hand which feel3 him, which
when everything has been said is
about as despicable an act as any
one can plan.
Yet it is not possible to perturb
this suave, cosmopolitan Britisher.
In that gentlemanly and mild man
ner which he has elevated to classic
perfection he replied:
"That was the voice of the mid
dle west."
So it was and we are proud of it.
Here in the middle west the glory of
individual achievement still has its
roots deep in the soil. The millions
working prodigiously, constantly.
day after day, in the face of discour
agement and hardship, are not ask'
ing favors or charity. All they desire
is an opportunity to create for them
selves home and competence. Here
the fires of freedom, of independent
thought, still burn brightly to cheer
and hearten those who have seen one
nation after another succumb to the
weight upon its shoulders and in
falling crush the ideals which have
been responsible in these last two
hundred years for human progress.
Lincoln Star.
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Advertising Is the life of trade.
and the merchant who advertises
consistently and regularly will
reap the greatest benefit. Let the
Journal assiet you.
A MAN OF FEW W0BD3
"By their deeds ye shall know
them."
And It was with deeds deeds of
kindness, generosity and compassion
that "Bert" Reed, as he was affec -
tionally known throughout the coun -
ty, won a place in the hearts of his
constituency that time will not efface.
It was those same deeds that returned
him to office a year ago last fall by
the largest majority a Cass county gave them to the host, and said unto In fact, so equitable are Judge Beg
candidate ever received. Ihim: "Take care of him; and whatso-hey'8 decisions that he is frequently
"Bert" Reed was a man of lew
words. He believed in doing things
rather than talking about them. And!
when it came to running for office
he staked his cnances on the record
and said nothing about his opponents.
In fact, he often remarked that he
wasn't a politician couldn't and
wouldn't be one.
Now, his work finished, his voice
stilled in death, Cass countyians re -
gardless of party or creed pay him
fervant tribute.
He was a capable and conscientious
official one in whom the people had
great faith one whose shoes will be
hard to fill.
The Journal extends its sincerest
sympathies to the family of this
splendid citizen who had resided in
Cass county for fifty years and of
whom it can be truthfully said, "His
friends were numbered by the scope
of his acquaintanceship."
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DISMAL BROADCAST
PROSPECT FOR 1932
Coolly, objectively, without refer-
ence to particular siawons or ciiatur,.
me oroaacasi pruspeci lur
as yet inducements for thoughtful
listeners-in. The broadcasting year
just past nas nau its uigH-uguis suu
even us sensations, it nas naa, nev-
ertheless, its heavy harvest of tinsel,
drivel, and dross. Allowing even for
the still formative stage of this new-
est and most teeming and varied of
the arts, have we really been going
forward? Great things have been
done, many lesser things of interest
have been tried, and yet, summing
up and looking back on 1931, there
ate shudders thickly sown among
me nil ma.
Certainly it would be quite pos-
sible to avoid repeating last year's
more harrowing mistakes. No de -
sire fcr novelty, for example, no
playing down to the groundlings or
up to tne gaueries, can jusiuy me
willful resort to methods that must
vulearize taste and offend both theL- i. i
ears and the minds of the reasonably
appreciative. The jazzing up of tne
musical classics, which knows no
compunctions and holds nothing sa-
cred, could perhaps be excused in
the urchin age of radio, in whicn
the raggamuffin psychology rules.
But one of the jrreat hoDes ooened
up by radio was the expectation that,
by hearing the best in music, well
rendered, the true love of music.
starved as it had been among the
irnwda who larked the nrine of irnnri
-
concert or opera seats, would be fed
from this magic table of the air, on
which could be snread the choicest
viands from every century and from
every clime. To seize upon the score
nr i p.ie arpi. inr prnmnip nnn nr.
trots as luncheon music, is to sinl
against the Muses not only but to
desecrate their worship. To pluck
snatches from the great symphonies I
and degrade them into incidental mu-1
sic for a night club sketch is a like I
profanation.
Then, too. the stations regard-
less of location have been forced
into takinz some sustainine features
ui niunermK laiocy ana excruciai-
m Liiii j x a. I
ing inferiority. Some of the greater j
stations are conspicuous offenders in I
picking their own solo favorites, I
rather than the public's, and seeking I
to naiiynood and plug tnem Into a I
false popularity, whereas the ob-
viuusiy uesirea penormers, wnom i
everyone wants to hear, have found
parts in the talkies but rarely a place
before the microphone. Surely, the
public might be given at least the
chance to pass unon the voices and
personalities it is to admit Into the I
home and music room.
What the program makers need,
decidedly. for 1932, is a thorough
shaking up. There are Dlentv of men
and women who can play and sing
well and who have attractive radio
personalities. They should replace
the brash, strident, ill-enunciating
inferiorities that mav have the atn-
dios spell-bound but certainly have
the audience squirming and rebel-
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lious. I
TTnieaa .
dio. prince of entertainers lnhe
r,eat nt
ueif -w. .,tM
posed and its meretricious appeal re-
buked. Worcester Gazette. I
The American girl must have more
and fuller curves than last year to
pass muster, according to Flo Zieg-
feld standard of perfection. This
means they must reach for more meat
and potatoes. I
GENEROSITY OF NEKtASXANS
But a certain Samaritan as hel Decision of Judge Begley to allow
journeyed came where he was; and lb8 name to go before the electors of
wnen he saw him he had compassion
on him.;
i Anf tn him and hnnmi im nialery voter in the three counties. For
1 Wounds pouring in oil and wine ande,ghteen years Judge Begley has oc-
8et nim on nl8 own beast, and brought
him to an inn and took care of him
I And on the morrow when he de -
parted, he took out two pence and
eTer thou spendest more, when I come
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Luke 10:33-35.
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I Generosity, a virtue in those days
I of two thousand years ago, remains
toady the great cardinal achievement
0f mankind. Men may be shrewd in
business transactions, tight in per-
gonal expenditures, miserly and down-
lrjgnt stingy so far as themselves or
families are concerned, but if they
are imbued with the milk of human
kindness and generous to the appeal
Gf the weak, the sick and hunerv
I they will merit the esteem of their
fellow creatures and a nlace In that
I nr everiaatini?
Nebraskans, generally, can qualify
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ag good Samaritans. They have dem-
onstrated their willingness to give and
cive generously on more than one oc-
casion. Bound together by a certain
unified interest, each feels the re-
sponsibility of being "his brother's
keener."
And. so. when crops fall and want
and nrivatinn VM even atarvaHnn
ramnant , rprtaln eHon. n,
fnrtnn9tB hmth.r." winw i
I erougly to alleviate the suffering
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Taken all in all. the people of this
country aren't such a bad sort. The
journai columns in weeks past have
chronicled many instances of a help-
lng hand eJttended to a worthy broth-
er in distress of husking bees, of
qulltl ng parties, of stork show ers, etc.
l an because the milk of human
I kindnM!l tn nu- .nizpn has not amir
ed and they 8tand ready to tend
aid when and where needed
Tho nRt few weelca naa mpfn a
mnnt ,.,., i Asanoiated rhariHe
drIve carried on ,n Plattsmouth. The
l response was wonderful and every dol-
la every item of food or ciotnng
wag given wholeheartedly.
'nw. anothpr mil u hiiir hMrl
L , ..--n- aa 1rnrun nH
not De w!thin sight of us as we go
about our dallv tasks. We refer to
the northeast Nebraska drouth and
Nrrasshonner sufferers. The svmna
j thetic attitude of Nebraska generally
i3 reflected in the press reports that
Lhow moPP than haif a hun(iP4i rara
f .Mnaj
areaf with some towns shipping two
and three cars.
still the need continues Increases.
ln fact. as colder weather and snow
Ljj . i.n
auu ii iuc ii luuiaiiuus ui iuubci
farmers who must sell for a nittanee
or gIve away tneIr live 8tock to pre-
I ito oth hv iiimiAi. .,nin,o
V A Its UCtfcU J BCS initvu UlllCTOO
feed is noured into the drouth coun
ties steadily from now until spring
I vi 11150 sisao iui giuiug auu a piuui
ise of neater success in 1932.
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Feed for animals, food and cloth-
lng for human beings are among the
things that are needed, and again, we
predict Cass county will not be found
derelict in performing its simple duty
as a samaritan.
Alreadv Elmwood and Louisville
have snonsored car-lot shlnments of
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supplies, a car is being assembled at
Piottamrmth thio vb on H
neve that when the interest or our
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people are aroused in this worthy
cause, the response will be so groat
that not merely one, but several cars
win be sent to alleviate suffering and
enable our less fortunate fellow-crea-
tures to get through the winter.
That same Christ who eave us
the narable of the erood samaritan also
said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto the least of these, ve have like-
wise done it unto me." Now is the
time tn riemnnetrate mu- tme rhHa.
Hon nature and honniw we oan
Lay that most of the neonle of Platts-
mouth and Cass county will do their
full share.
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trot out rr ilnnn Intn 4Tia wMa mien I
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Piaces, ne Maes a cnance on neing
8UbJct for the coroner the yictim of
BBS. 11 u nciusuy on
the highway in his car, it is more
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If you really wish to make a reso-
llution this year and will stick to it
after you have made it, why not try
and resolve to let tae other fur Wk
his business pay a dividend without
your assistance. I
WELCOME NEWS TO ELECTORS
j the Second Judicial district for re
(election will be pleasing news to ev
I cupied the bencti n this judicial dis-
Itrict and in all that time has scarcely
1 bad a single decision of his overruled
fcy the 8tale supreme court.
calIed to 8it witl1 tne suPreme court
land help unravel cases brought from
(district courts over the state
I Not infrequently has Judge Begley
I been spoken of as a likely candidate
I for the high tribunal itself, a position
he is eminently qualified to hold. But
this distinguished jurist prefers to
live here at home surrounded by his
neighbors and friends and continue
j his well-known equitable justice, to
I seeking a place amon.i strangers, even
I of such high rank as state supreme
I court member.
I In addition to his splendid service
I as district judge, Mr. Begley has an
equally good record as a citizen
lot our community. Since coming to
Plattsmouth to reside, he has always
had the interest of nis town and
community at heart has labored
efficiently on Chamber of Commerce
committees and done his full share in
masonic circles iu oring auuui
ex-
Pansion of the state Masonic home
I nere-
Tne Journal congratulates the sec
lOnu judicial UlSlrlVl in uavillg o tap-
able an incumbent and aspirant for
anoUler term as is Judge James i.
Begley . His overwhelming victory at
tne P0"8 foUr yea ag Wi" duM"
less be repeated again this year
should he face opposition for the of
fice, a possibility which we consider
rather remote.
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THE STUBBORN JUROR
RECEIVES A REBUKE
Pending direct reform of criminal
procedure by modification of the re
quirements for unanimous jury ver-
diets, a measure advocated by many
members of bench and bar as a means
of expediting and reducing the costs
of administration of justice, some-
thiD? "f7 accomP"shed by wider
application of the principles of jury
duty approved by a United States
supreme court decision recently.
The case under review was the
Propriety of a charge in a criminal
I prosecution in which the sitting
,Udge emPhasized the duty of jurors
to question their own opinions if
they found themselves at odds with
a large majority of fellow members
The judge had used this language:
While undoubtedly the verdict of
a i7 should represent the opinion
OI eacn individual juror, it Dy no
means follows tnat opinions may not
oe cwugvu y wmercoce id ue jury
room- ine very ODJect OI ine 'ury
room Hy8tem 18 to secure unanimity
I Oy a Comparison Of Views. ... A
Juror 8hould 8ten witn deference to
tDe aruments and with a distrust of
I Uls uwu judgment
if he finds the
large majority of the jury taking a
different vlew of the case ,rom .tnat
I " uveo .muon.
This supplemental charge brought
a verdict from a jury that bad dis
agreed for two days' In U the sup
reme court found no reason to re
verse its approval by the lower tri
bunal. If the duty of jurors as thus
described were more generally re
cognized there would be fewer dis-
agreements and a considerable saving
,n lue cosl ut rei"ais witnoui injury
1 it A - M A. 1 111 A.
to me cause oi justice. r-nuaaeipnia
Bulletin.
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FRESIDENCY WORTH ITS COST
It costs the taxpayers more than
$1,650,000 a year to maintain the
presidential office on its' present
scale, according to a Washington
disPatch. But, as a matter of fact,
lhe President himself gets only $75.-
11 u OI inai sum iDal 18 not an "
1 agan fia,ary ror ine CDleI execu-
llve ot a nation oi lo million peo-
Ple and indeed is modest by compar
"pean royal families and the sal-
anes paia ny "Dig ousiness" in Amer
lea to men occupying posts of respon
sibility and authority,
The running expenses of the White
House are heavy. But that establish
ment is maintained for the public as
well as for the President and his
family- and the Dublic takes Pride
in It. It is one of the chief points
0l interest in Washington for every
TlaItor to the cit At anv hour wne
i( ,8 open to tne puW1Cp 8ight8eer8
fpo . nf th rollntrV HIIT be
BtollIne about lta ouna aA
l1"111 the buildings and eagerly In
specting public rooms. Who would be
willing to have its grounds neglect-
ed, its interior ill-furnished or 111
kept? And who will begrudge any
money it takes to maintain the dig-
nity that becomes the surroundings
and official life of the chief magfs-
trad te of the nation?
SOME AMERICAN PRIMITIVES
The lawless ness of the people of
the eastern shore is giving Gov.
Ritchie of Maryland much trouble.
The situation is one a candidate
would prefer to avoid, with a nomin
ating convention coining in the next
year, but the people of the eastern
shore are indifferent to their gover
nor's prospects, because, as is explain
ed in the state .they are dry and he
is opposed to the eighteenth amend
ment and all of its works. Maryland,
for the most part, is with him on
that. The eastern shore is a peculiar
piece of political geography across
the bay, a Balkanized peninsula with
Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia,
occupying what, with the survival of
the fittest, might have been all Dela
ware, or Maryland, or Virginia.
The trouble is lynching, or, as the
eastern shore Marylanders call it,
"demonstration." There have been
lynch law executions of Negroes. Oth
ers accused of crimes have been re
moved to safety in Baltimore. The
eastern shore people say they have
demonstrated their respect for high
principles and their regard for the
sanctity of the social order. The civ
ilized people of Maryland say that
the western shore has demonstrated
its barbarism and obscene brutality.
As is usual in communities charged
with savagery, the accused citizens
are either indignant and defiant or
secretive and sullen.
The eastern shore is primitive and
in its dry recitude, mitigated, of
course, by private indulgence, and in
its jubilant or truculent lawlessness,
it is an exhibit of the social stratum
in which the eighteenth amendment
may be expected to make its last
stand. A characteristic of fanatical
prohibition is its disregard of law.
The primitive minds in which pro
hibition is a fixed enthusiasm have
no idea of society as in a body of
law protecting the individual in his
rights and accomplishing its purposes
by defined and unemotional processes.
They may think they have, but they
are never more mistaken than when
they do. TUjey are controlled by
habit, customs, prejudices, beliefs.
conventions, and enthusiasms. All
people must be-so controlled to some
extent, but society governed by law
endeavors to get dogmas, perjudices,
and enthusiasms out of the picture,
to yield to dispassionate procedure,
and to have high regard for .je
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""" f - w Gobelman, Administrator, praying a
the Individual. f,nai settlement and allowance of his
The primitives will disregard lo- account filed in this Court on the
cal rights whenever the individual 21 day of December, 1931, and for
j , tu .1 .1 ao assignment of the residue of said es-
is found in the path of their pas- ute and n,a dIgcharge aa AdmInlH.
sions, their prejudices, their dogmas, trator;
or their frenzies. It becomes, thus. It is hereby ordered that you and
a virtue to lynch a man accused of a11 persons interested in said matter
crime and a weakness to elve him may' and do' aDDear at the County
crime ana a weakness to give mm Court tQ be ne,d ,n and for .a,d
the doubtful benefit of a trial, even county, on the 22nd day of January,
in their own excited community. If A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m., to
the lynching should be the act of show cause. If any there be, why the
lawless elements condemned by a Prayer of the petitioner should not
lawless elements condemned Dy a Qe grantedf and that notJce of tne
shocked citizenship, it would indl- pendency of said petition and the
cate only that violent and brutal hearing thereof be given to all per
people may be found almost any- sons Interested In said matter by
where hut If the rnnmnnltv Rimtninn
wnere, Dut n tne community sustains
and defends the act there is an in-1
dicatlon of general and accepted
principle. It proves that law is not I
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in command. It is not regarded as
the control. The people do as they
please when and as events prompt I
them. Their habits, their passions,
their modes, and their dogmas are
their Justifications for what they do,
and they have pride ln their virtue,
when their conduct is a reproach
Of such stuff are fanatical prohibi
tionists made and in regions where
there is the least self-restraint or I Now on this 17th day of Decem-k-gal
restraint will be found many er. A. D. 1931. it being one of the
of the die-hards of the eighteenth
amendment. It is congenial to their
code of suDDlantlne a lesral orean-
izatlon considerate of the Individual
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with a system of coercion flattering
to their customs or their prejudices,
It is notorious that the most zeal-
ous nrohibitionists are Inconsiderate
proniDiuonists are inconsiderate
of all other laws. They are indiffer-
ent to political rascality which
threatena the ineerttv nf government,
They have given their support time
and again to the most transparent
scoundrels of this generation. They
have been found delinquent In money
, . . . . , . . . . ...
trusts. They have injected brutality
into the criminal law. They have
made it vindictive instead of dispas-
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sionate. They have revived methods
m . . .
of excessive and cruel punishment. I
They have sent petty offenders to I
prison for life. They have committed
murder and have condoned it. Ex-
cited clerical volunteers have been I
willing to ply the pike as Cromwell's I
men did In Irelai.d.
. . .
Evcry eccentricuy. perversity, and
incongruity which the eighteenth
amendment has thrown into the ad-1
ministration of Justice has been
urged upon government and injected
into it by the primitive fanatics who I
have no idea whatever of the our-
pose of law and no respect for it
when it would check their excesses.
They the not governed by law and 1
never will be. They are governed by I
the!r passions and the evil that 1. 1
in them they call their virtue.
Sr did the people of the eastern!
shore who hanged and burned vic
tims to whom they would not give a
tr'ai, and they,' too, are prohibition
ists.- -Chicago Tribune.
:o:
Despite motor cars and the radio a
librarian who has checked up on the
matter reports that Americans are
reading many more books than ever
before. Americans appear to be do
ing more of almost everything than
ever before. Have they cut down on
their hours of sleep?
NOTICE OP PETITION
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of
Ferdinand Schuelke, deceased.
The State of Nebraska. To all per
sons interested, take notice that
Richard E. Schuelke has filed a peti
tion asking that the above estate be
opened and that a supplemental de
cree be entered in said estate deter
mining the heirs of said deceased,
which petition has been set for hear
ing on the 15th day of January,
1932. at nine o'clock a. m.
Dated December 18th. 1931.
A. II. DUX BURY,
d21-3w (Seal) County Judge.
NOTICF5 '
of Chattel Mortgage
Sale
Notice is hereby given that on the
20th day of January. 1932, at eleven
o'clock a. m., at the Dowler Chevrolet
Company, of Weeping Water. Nebras
ka, the undersigned will sell at pub
lic auction to the highest bidder for
cash :
One Chevrolet Truck. 1929
model; Motor No. 1108531, Ser
ial No. 3LQ34743
covered by chattel mortgage in favor
of the Dowler Chevrolet Company
signed by Ed Noell and assigned to
the Universal Finance Corporation,
said mortgage being dated April 30th,
1931, and having been filed in the
office of the County Clerk of Cass
county, Nebraska, on the 19th day of
May, 1931. Said sale will be for the
purpose of foreclosing said mortgage,
for costs of sale and all accruing
costs, and for the purpose of satis
fying the amount now due thereon,
to-wit: $250.58; that no suit or other
proceedings at law have been insti
tuted to recover said debt or any part
thereof.
UNIVERSAL, FINANCE
CORPORATION,
(Assignee) Mortgagee. .
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 es
tate of Viola G. Smith, deceased:
l iM a wa uia went iuii va a' niiaw ik
P"""0"B a "c
. journai a semi-weeklr
newspaper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of bearing.
in witness wnereoi, i nave Here
unt gft my hand and the seal of
sajd court this 21st day of Decern-
ber, A. D. 1931.
A. H. DUX BURY,
County Judge.
(Seal) d28-3w
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District
Court Qf
Cass
County, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of
Byron Atkinson, deceased.
fitt thTs courrthis caule
came on for hearine UDon the Detl-
tion of Minnie Marolf and Harry F.
Ma"lf. executrix and executory the
estate ot cyron auiiisuii, ucixaseu,
a ln for Judgment and order of
court authorizing the petitioners as
such executrix and executor of said
estate to negotiate a loan of One
. . and the
Lame hv tHvinc a first mnrteacre on
the West Half of the Southeast Quar-
ter of Section Twenty-Six (26) in
Z?h .Vh $Sl
Meridian, In Lancaster County, Ne-
braska, for the purpose of paying
expenses of last sickness and funeral
of deceased, cost of administration
and taxcs on real egtatef tnere not
being personal property with which
to meet such obligations;
a w mi. m sv l . j .11
" .i?:r"UIT , ruIir' A
yciBuua ill ici catcu iu gaiu nwiv cfr-
ear before me -t the District Court
room in Fiattsmoutn, cass county.
Nebraska, on the 30th day of Jan
uary, A. D. 1932, to show cause why
n liidsrment and order should not tA
iaaai hv the
executrix and said executor to mort-
?age . re e8iaie nweinoeiore
aescriDeo lor me sum oi une inou-
d j.. t eXDenses of last
sickness and funeral ot said deceased.
costs Of administration and taxes on
pea estate of said deceased.
order be made by publication thereof
for four successive weeks in the
Plattsmouth Jouranl, a newspaper
ft y." a.aia.C,rCUlatl0n
Dated this 17th day of December.
1931,
By the Court-
judlh.1 bSSST&h.
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