ttOHDAY, J AS. 11, 1932.
PLATTdlOUTII SZZI X7HSJL1 JOUSIZAI
FAflE TOTIT73
fibe Plattsmoutl. Journal
PUBLISHED SZHI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTII, HEBILASXA
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R. A. BATES, Publisher
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600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries,
$3.60 pr year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance.
All tbe foreign countries now seem
to think our open-door policy extends
to the mint.
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Children are travelers newly ar
rived in a strange country; we should
therefore make conscience not to mis
lead them.
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The greatest thrill a man past 40
gets is when he runs across an old
photograph of himself wearing about
seven long curls.
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If the "red" menace and the "yel
low peril" do engage in war, it will
be enough to make the remainder of
the world feel blue.
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Rumblings of a volcano were
broadcast recently. That ought to
help radio listeners prepare for the
Democratic convention.
The life saving squad probably
will be worked to death for some time
using the pulmotor on the New
Tear's resolutions in an effort to save
them.
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"Half the world doesn't know what
the other half wants," remarked a
clerk in a store Saturday, as she com
pleted her day of exchanging Christ
inas presents.
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.Some of the house Democrats have
a novel idea lor raising government
revenue. They wish to tax motor cars
and ' gasoline. Why has no one
thought of this before?
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The secretary general of the
Fascist party, in an address at Milan,
suggests that the nation adopt as a
slogan, "Mussolini is always right."
And here we've been thinking all the
time that no one was allowed to be
lieve otherwise, anyway! - -
Ao Go
Quality Groceries
Telephones, 18-19 So. ParCx Store, 118
Corn Fed Beef
Round Steak, per lb 15
Loin Steak, per lb 150
T Bone Steak, per lb 1C
Beef Roast, per lb ict
Pork Chops, per lb 15
Fresh Pork Ham Roast, lb '. 130
Whole Pork Ham, per lb 110
Pork Steak, per lb ist
Bacon Squares, per lb 110
Fancy Santos Coffee, 4 lbs. for OSt
Special Coffee, 5 lbs. for 95
Butter Nut or Advo Coffee, per lb 37
16-oz. jars Fare Fruit Preserves . 22
Peaches in heavy syrup, 4 cans for C5
Canned Grape Fruit, per can 0
Pint jars J. X. Salad Dressing 23t
Jars Sweet Pickles - - 10c
Pink Salmon, 2 cans for 25
5-oz. cans Cove Oysters, 2 for 23 1
Large cans V. C. Pork and Beans 15
Lima Beans, per can 5 1
No. 2 size cans of Tomatoes, 3 for 23
Soup, assorted, 10 cans for CO
Fig Bars, 2 lbs. for 25
Xre-He Zuts Macaroni, 4 pkgs. for 23
Olive Oil Soap, per bar : 5
10 bars Bob White Soap for 20
C. W. Scouring Powder 5
Flour Flour
48-lb. sack Gooch's Best 51.CO
48-lb. sack Omar Wonder Floor 1-CO
48-lb. sack A. G. B. Flour X-C5
48-lb. sack Halo Flour -CO
Don't Miss Seeing "THE TUMULT"
A crashing: Comedy-Drama in three acts to be given at the
Plate Theatre Wednesday evening, Jan: 13. Tickets are on sale.
The fellow who is always hunt
ing an argument hates to hare you
admit he's right when he first makes
a statement.
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The feeling against kidnapers is by
no means confined to this part of
the ccuntry. The Toledo Blade says
electrocution is too good for them.
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When the news went out that a
Kansas man was charged with big
amy for marrying two telephone
girls, a local man remarked, "Wrong
number."
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We suppose the Japanese war of
fice assured its constituents that it
was a war to end wars, and so it
appears to be, at least as far as Man
churia is concerned.
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According to the present outlook.
no radical changes will be ma.de in
the football rules this year, and the
radio announcers will have another
year to learn them as they are now.
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A California scientist has perfect
ed a device to take the wrinkle out
of the prune. But the Pittsburg
Headlight points out that the wrinkle
is not the prune's most objectionable
feature.
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Paul Verlaine, the celebrated
French poet, once began his talk on
modern French poets, by saying: "As
there is only one modern French poet
of any importance, I will now talk
about myself."
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"Come on and get us; we're dead."
shouted the Springfield desperadoes,
when they decided the jig was finally
up. Which, we blush to confess, im
mediately struck us as being a new
and better variant of the old line.
Nobody here but jest us chickens."
BACH
It now is reported from Germany
that vitamin D is isolated, and ob
tainable in pure form, so maybe we
won't have to eat the spinach to save
our teeth after alL On the other
hand, it's unfortunate that it's over
ia Germany very likely we've got a
stiff tariff on it.
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A review shows that last year was
a big one lor the women, a large
number of them winning distinction
and glory in all sorts of activities.
Amcng them may be mentioned Jane
Ad dams, Ruth Nichols, Helen Moody.
Hattie Caraway and Emma Woolley
and we hasten to add Empress Eu
genie. :o:
We note that our state department
in Washington is being "very firm"
v.-ith Tokio, in the matter of the at
tack on the American consul in Muk
den. Our state department's firmness
with Tokio is a scene that we trust
the news movies will spare us; what
with "Frankenstein" and "Dr. Jek
yil." we've had about all the filmed
brutalities our nerves will stand for
the present.
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We were considerably excited over
the announcement the other day of a
new preventive against tooth decay,
until we found that it was largely
a matter of diet; because then we
knew that the diet was largely a mat
ter of vitamin D, and that vitamin
D was largely a matter of spinach.
And that left the discussion, as far
as we can see, about where it was
when it started.
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In time of financial depressions
and other trouble get out the old
family Bible and read it if you are
seeking advice. Right now you are
tempted to take what little money
you have and bury it, at least to hold
it ou of circulation. Turn to the
twenty-fifth chapter of St. Matthew,
fourteenth verse and finish the chap
ter. See what happened to the man
who said. "I was afraid and went
and hid thy talen in the earth."
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LIQUIDITY 0B STEAM?
Breathes there a man with men
tal faculties so comatose that he has
not heard through the year just
closed the crescendo of the business
advisers' chorus chanting. "Liquidity
and yet more liquidity?" To be "li
quid" in the financial sense, you must
have cash where you see it it or hear
it rustle or tinkle. In the United
States at least the individual has!
more than done his part. A billion
of cold dollars, economfsts say, are
sequestered in walls, fireplaces, old
clothes, sugar pots and cubbyholes,
awaiting the dissipation of fear.
Bank vaults are sagging with gold
and greenbacks, awaiting possible de
mands. Apparently never have banks
in general been so liquid. The busi
ness man and corporation, too, have
scrambled for cash. "Window dress
ing," this effort to make a good cash
'showing is called. It is the putting
on of the financial starched shirt
!a fashionable procedure for all who
have balance sheets.
In the stock markets, also, liquid-
i ity has run riot. Out of twenty-five
j active sessions during December, six
teen showed declines, industrial aver
ages dropping twenty points. Bond
j prices have suffered even more, as
trusts and institutions nave felt
obliged to sell in this far-flung pro
cess of "maintaining liquidity."
Now, cf course, liquidity may be
preferred to the congealed character
of that well-known figure, the "froz
en asset." Nevertheless, it takes
more than liquid to turn the wheels
of modern business at least since
industry has advanced from the wa
terwheel to the steam turbine. It
takes steam to generate business elec
tricity. And in terms of finance that
'steam is credit.
Kence the interest of the Hoover
admiinistration in organizing emer
gency credit faciltiies. The big Na
tional Credit Corporation, said to
have been suggested by bankers and
brought into existence by the Presi
dent, is functioning and aiding many
disquieting situations. The Recon
struction. Finance Corporation, bul
warked "by $2,000,000,000 of govern
ment funds, may soon be pouring its
revivifying credit flood into the bust
ness channel. Government capital of
$100,000,000 for support of farm
mortgages through the Federal Land
Banks appears to be assured. The
railrcad rate pool probably will be
operating in - January, assisting the
weak railroads.
Thus the Government is providing
the credit machinery. To get up
steam in it calls for the fuel of busi
ness initiative. Emphasis upon li
quidity has chilled the pipes when
there was already too much cold wa
ter in the boiler. Credit expands only
in the warmer atmosphere of confi
dence not merely confidence of men
in each other's integrity. Finance
must come out of the age of mill
ponds and waterwheels. What busi
ness needs is to get up steam.
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Journal Want-Ada get results!
THE FUZES TUBS REALIST
In view of the disappointment
everywhere over the failure of pro
hibition as a means of dealing with
the liquor question the result of tbe
referendum in Finland was not sur
prising. The emphasis with which
the Finnish people rejected its 12-year-cld
experiment, however, was
hardly anticipated. Repeal was
voted by a vote of about two and a
half to one, the supposedly dry rural
north turning thumbs down only a
little less decidedly than the wet
urban south.
The woman's vote, tabulated sepa
rately from that of the men, was an
interesting, if not surprising feature.
The guardians of the home and the
alleged chief sufferers from intemper
ance voted nearly two to one for re
peal. The total feminine wet vote
was in fact greater than the total
dry. vote of botn men and women
The masculine wet vote was merely
so much "velvet" for the anti-pro
hibition side.
Equally interesting in the unani
mity with which the electorate re
jected light wines and beer modifi
cation in favor of outright repeal
Less than 1 per cent of the total
vote was for modification
The experience of Finland with
prohibition has been not unlike our
own. Notwithstanding tnat it is a
comparatively small country with a
t-mall. hemogeneous population and
a powerful sentiment in favor of
temperance the law failed to accom
plish its purpose of promoting sob
riety. Instead it led to the same ex
cesses we have experienced, rum run
ning. moonshining, bootlegging and
clandestine drinking by youth. Tae
Finnish people apparently concluded
that it was a condition and not i
theory with which they were con
fronted and they voted, not for an
era of drunkenness, but for dealing
with the liquor problem in another
way.
The Finnish decision has no par
ticular bearing on the problem of the
United States, except a3 it offers us
an example cf how others attempt to
deal with the question. Our problem
is still cur own to be dealt with as
we shall ultimately see fit. The drys
will no doubt attempt to minimize
the significance of the result and the
wets to magnify it.
All we know with a reasonable
degree of certainty is that there has
been a considerable drift of public
opinion away from prohibition.
All
the signs point to it. As the memory
cf the evils of the old saloon grows
dimmer the disposition increases to
judge the question from the stand
point of the present rather than the
past. We are not, as may sometimes
i'ppear, divided into just two camps,
out of which wants to drink while
the other wants to prevent it. There
is at least one other great section of
the American people which wants
neither the abuses of the saloon sys
tem as we knew them prior to 1917
nor the abuses of prohibition as we
know them today. It would like to
have the liquor problem dealt with
in some manner to promote sobriety
and temperance and it would like to
have it settled in such fashion that
questions of political and economic
importance can be settled without
forever being plagued by this social
and moral intruder. World-Herald
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BREAD FOR PEOPLE WHO WEED IT
A house committee is assured that
the Red Cross will undertake dis
tribution of farm board wheat which
congress may authorize for use of
those in need this winter. That dis
poses of the most practical objection
that could be brought against this
proposal, the means by which tbe
grain actually could be made to reach
the people who require assistance.
The farm board is agreeable to the
arrangement, but takes the reason
able position that it should be com
pensated for whatever wheat is thus
withdrawn from its stabilization
The proposal itself is humanitar
ian, and its principle is not to be
questioned on the ground that the
action would establish a bad prece
dent. If people are hungry and the
means of relief are at hand, it is no
time to haggle over precednts or to
waste words over any sort of pretext.
The suggested use of this surplus
grain has grown out of a belief that
a genuine need exists in certain lo
calities that cannot be met by the lo
cal relief agencies. If this is true
and the Red Cross is in a position to
know that organization can be de
pended on- to distribute whatever
flour may be required for the regions
in need. The thing to do is to make
the assistance available and leave tbe
question of precedent to take care of
itself.
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We had beard that the hospitals,
surgeons, specialists and nurses had
noticed a general wave of good
health, as early as July, but ss we
recall the conversation, they were
calling It a depression.
HOW HAVE THE RICH
GROWN AHY RICHER!
Senator Norris draws an indict
ment against the republican admin
istration, with particular reference
to President Hoover, declaring that
the management of the government
has been a failure, and predicing that
President Hoover will be retired by
an overwhelming majority.
One of the statements the sena
tor makes appears to be rather dif
ficult to prove. He says: "Under his
rule (Hoover's) the rich have grown
richer and the poor have grown poor
er." Wher e are the rich who have
grown richer? Secretary Mellon
would like to find them so as to set
his tax collectors upon their trail
and exact money from them with
which to run the government. The
reviews of the year are being publish
ed, tables of stock market values and
ether statistics to show where the
riches are. If the rich owned stock
market securities they certainly did
not become richer in the past year
and they would be much happier if
they should see values back to the
level of even three years ago.
After the panic in the late months
of 1923, security prices recovered
somewhat. Most of the shares were
quoted at some time is 1930 at double
the closing prices for the year 1931.
The rich surely did not become richer
if they bought stocks, even after the
1929 panic.
Unemployment of labor has been
the subject foremost in the mind of
the country for the past two years
To assume that distress of labor has
afforded any comfort to the owners of
capital is absurd. When the worker
loses his job because the plant is
closed down, the owner of the plant
doesn't make any money. His prop
erty ceases making profits. Assum
ing that the owner of the property
represents "the rich" in Mr. Norris'
calculations, it cannot be said that
he has grown richer during the per
iod of curtailed production, reduced
earning power and decreased divi
dends. Where there have been re
ductions in wage distributions, there
have been greater reductions in
profits to the others. Unemployment
of capital, due to idle machinery,
has imposed a hardship, although it
has been less widely publicized than
unemployment of labor.
Senator Norris reference to tbe
rich getting richer during the period
of business stagnation, unemploy
ment, wage cuts, shot hours of work,
reduced or omitted dividends, looks
more like an effort to inflame class
hatred than to do something con
structive. Beatrice Sun.
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TO SIMPLIFY AND SAVE
Plans for reorganizing the bureaus
and departments of the United States
Government have a notoriously high
mortality rate. Strong vested interests-
resist every effort to reshuffle
the public services. But the discour
aging record of such proposals does
not doom in advance the recommen
dations for reorganization President
Hoover is shortly expected to make.
For today the necessity for economy
exerts a' powerful leverage in favor
of any endeavor to simplify and
save.
It is understood that Mr. Hoover's
first effort will be to obtain consoli
dation of all federal agencies engaged
in construction work, except that
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which is of a strictly naval or mili
tary nature. -as is a favorite pro
ject of the President, and be has
urged it, without result, in Beveral
messages to Congress. This year,
however, he is likely to find a new
ally in a tax-conscious public. If this
plan is accepted, it is expected that
the President will propose also that
all bureaus and boards charged with
the administration of shipping and
related interests be centered in tbe
Department of Commerce.
Both projects are intended to
simplify rather than to reduce the
federal services concerned. Indeed,
co-ordinated efficiency is as much an
object as is economy. And measures
of this kind already put through by
the present Administration afford ef
fective arguments for further efforts
along the same line.
The President reports that by the
consolidation of the agencies admin
istering pensions and the care of vet
erans between 110,000.000 and $16,
000.000 is being saved annually.
This record should encourage Con
gress to consider carefully any-pro
posals the President may make for
simplifying and saving. Too much
should not be expected from such
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slight in comparison with the vast
federal deficit. But the very vastness
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WASTE IN MATTING LIST
Many a direct mail advertising
communication is buried in the dead
letter office. According to Burton G
Cowls, superintendent of the divi
sion of dead letters, postoffice de
partment, these advertisers wasted
325 thousand dollars in the fiscal
year of 1931 because they used obso
lete mailing lists and failed to use
return addressed envelopes.
During the year the dead letter
division received 6,450,160 letters
containing advertising matter, about
one-third of all the dead letters in a
year. These represent only the first
class matter. There was a still larger
amount sent under third class post
age and destroyed at the local post
offices because of insufficient address
No record is kept of these.
Thus advertisers who use mailing
lists wasted hundreds of thousands
of dollars last year in their efforts
to reach prospects. This is only i
small proportion of the actual loss
While millions of these circular let
ters were disposed of by the post-
office, millions more were quickly de
posited in waste paper baskets by
the recipients.
This type of advertising is like
aiming In the dark. There is no cer
tainty that the letter will ever reach
anybody, and the chances are big
that if it does, the person so favored
will not be interested. Yet advertis
ers continue to utilise old mailing
lists and will even circularize the
same parties month after month, al
though there may never be a reply.
although the addressee may have
moved years ago.
It is a costly practice. Much bet
ter is newspaper advertising with
Its known direct appeal to thousands
of readers, reaching those who are
interested, who are in the market,
and who are not offended by the in
trusion, as with man. Miami Her
ald.
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If you want to sell anything,
try a Journal Want-Ad. The ooat
is small.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cats,
88.
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
by C E. Ledgway, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court within and for Cass coun
ty. Nebraska, and to me directed, I
will on the 6th day of February, A.
D. 1932. at 10 o'clock a. m.. of said
day, at the south front door of the
court bouwe, in the City of Platts
mouth, Nebr., in said county, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash the following real estate, to
wit: Lots four (4), Ave (5) and
six (6), in Block ninety-three
(93) in the City of Plattsmouth.
Cass county, Nebraska
The fame being levied upon and tak
en as the property of Fern Busch and
Fred Busch. defendants, to satisfy a
Judgment of said court recovered by
Daniel G. Golding, plaintiff against
said defendant.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, January 5,
A. D. 1932.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass county.
Nebraska
By Rex Young,
Deputy Sheriff.
NOTICE
ef 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, 1829
model; Motor No. 1108531, Ser
ial No. 3LQ34743 "
covered by chattel mortgage In favor
of the Dom-ler Chevrolet Company
signed by Ed Noell and assigned to
the Universal Finance Corporation,
Raid 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. 1731. 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: 1250.58: 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
rn the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
. Tc all persons interested in the es
tate of Viola G. Smith, deceased:
On reading tbe petition of Frank R.
Gebelman, Administrator, praying av
final settlement and allowance of his
tccount filed in this Court on the
2 let day of December, 1931, and for
assignment of the residue of said es
tate and hi discharge as Adminis
trator; 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 22nd day of January.
A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m.. to
show cause, if any there be. why the
prayer of the petitioner should not
be granted, and that notice of the
pendency of said petition and the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this order in the
Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly
newspaper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing.'
In witness whereof. I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of
said Court this 21st day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1931.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) d28-3w County Judge.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District
Court of
Cass
County. Nebraska.
In the matter of tbe estate or
Byron Atkinson, deceased.
Now on this 17th day of Decem
ber. A. D. 1931. it being one of the
days of the regular November. A. D.
1931. term of this court, this cause
came on for. hearing upon the peti
tion of Minnie Marolf and Harry F.
Marolf, executrix and executor of tbe
estate of Byron Atkinson, deceased,
praying for Judgment and order of
Court authorizing the petitioners as
such executrix and executor of said
estate to negotiate a loan of One
Thousand Dollars and secure the
same by giving a first mortgage on
the West Half of the Southeast Quar
ter of Section Twenty-six (26) in
Township Twelve North. Range
Eight, east Of the Sixth Principal
Meridian id Lancaster County, Ne
braska, for the purpose of paying
expenses of last sickness and funeral
of deceased, cost of administration
and taxes on real estate, there not
being personal property with whieh
to meet such obligations;
It Is Therefore Ordered, that all
persons interested in said estate ap
pear before me at the District Court
room in Plattsmouth. Cass county.
Nebraska, on tbe 30th day of Jan
uary, A. D. 1932, to show cause why
a Judgment and order should not be
issued by the Court authorizing said
executrix and said executor to mort
gage the real estate hereinbefore
described for tbe sum of One Thou
sand Dollars to pay expenses of last
sickness and funeral of said deceased.
costs of administration and taxes on
real estate of said deceased.
It Is Ordered that service of this
order be made by publication thereof
for four successive weeks in the
Plattsmouth Jo u rani, a newspaper
published and ia general circulation
in Cass County. Nebraska.
Dated this 17 th day of December,
931.
By the Court.
JAMES T. BEGLET,
Judge of the District Court.
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