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. "Clara Bow is back in the pic
tures." Yes, Clara has always been
generous about her back!
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A lot of people have thoroughly
enjoyed living who never got their
names in the Eocial register.
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Little did our mothers ever think
the time would come when they could
buy spinach and sauerkraut in cans.
-' What is bothering the politicians
about the 1932 presidential election
is not the heat of the contest, but
the humidity.
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When Oklahoma Democrats criti
else the treasury deficit they refer To
the one at the national capital and
not the one at the state capital.
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The man who seems cheerful and
contented, no matter what happens,
does -something toward transform
ing the vice and hypocrisy into a vir
tue. :o:
If the next war is to be started
by the nations most satisfied with
the outcome of the last one, we seem
to be in for. a long spell of so-called
peace.
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A writer on economics says unem
ployment will be unheard of in the
future. It will if posterity under
takes to pay off these debts we've
run up on it.
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It begins to look as though a far
seeing citizen might Just bequeath
his entire estate to the government of
the government of the United States
and be done with it.
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' The very least we can do, we sup
pose,, is to view with alarm the new
course in radio announcing whirh is
now- being -offered at -Kansas -State
college. Just imagine, if you can, a
youngster flunking out of school be
course in radio announcing which is
for a slight whistle when he talked.
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The only man who is a hero to
his own wife is just married or a
wizard.
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One half of the United States is
borrowing bridge tables from the
other half.
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According to the law of averages,
cut of ten wives, three are ideal.
But, the trouble is we can't all have
ten wives.
The "reception room" seems ap
propriately named, except perhaps to
those whose duty it is to clean it up
after the party.
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Chicago city employees no doubt
often muse on the question of wheth
er it is better to be unpaid and un
employed than unpaid and employed
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Another pleasure we've been look
ing forward to when Floyd Gibbons
gets back and we hope he doesn't
disappoint us is a broadcast in Chi
nese. :o:
it has had no zero weather in two
years. Chicago is trying to make us
forget that politically and economi
cally it has been below zero most of
that time.
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The foresight of the founders was
extraordinary, all things considered,
and still they might have saved the
larger cities millions by laying Main
street wide in the first place.
Russia's next Five-Year Plan, we
are told, carries a better standard of
living for the proletariat; provided,
of course, that the proletariat sur
vives the remainder of the present
Five-Year Plan.
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In times like this, it behooves busi
ness leaders-and the press to dissem-j
inate their views very thoughtfully
and intelligently, in order to coun
teract the hooey put cut by fortune
tellers and politicians.
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AGREEING TO DISAGREE
For the second time, Mr. Ramsay
MacDonald has thrown precedents to
the winds and embarked upon an en
tirely new course of his own. In Aug
ust he broke up Great Britain's cen
tury-old political party system to
form a National Government which
has since battled valorously against
the economic cyclone that has been
sweeping the world. Now he has up
set the time-honored practice of joint
Cabinet responsibility by allowing
ministers to speak and vote against
one of the main items in a policy that
is to be jointly pursued.
A hubbub has arisen among con
stitutional lawyers. The political at
mosphere in London resounds with
Opposition declarations that a divid
ed government cannot stand, that to
cry peace when ministers are not
completely in unison is to make an
impossible situation. How, it is ask
ed, can a government survive if min
isters attend confidential Cabinet dis
cussions and are then able to attack
in public decisions to which they
have thus been made privy?
Such arguments might have been
valid if the normal conditions of
party government had prevailed. But
the contrary is the case. The world
situation is such that party politics
has had o be thrown aside. Mr. Mac
Donald had only two alernatives to
the course he has taken. Either of
them would have created a far more
dangerous situation than that which
now has to be faced. He might have
allowed his Liberal ministers to re
sign. In this case, his Government
would not have been able to present
a united front upon important ques
tions of world policy, of which tariffs
are only one.
He would have driven some of his
ablest lieutenants into opposition.
His Administration, which has ren
dered possible an unprecedented self-
sacrifice to restore national solvency,
would have been broken up. Not only
would its foreign policy have become
once more subjected to all the vag
rancies cf party interests, but the
hope of satisfying Indian aspirations
and of binding the nations of the
British Commonwealth closer togeth
er would have been imperiled.
On the other hand, to have so modi
fied his tariff policy as to have en
abled ministers committed to free
trade to associate themselves with it
wolud have been no less impossible.
The end of theeoalition would have
been equally abrupt, since the Con
servatives, who are in a big majority,
would have revolted.
It is quite true that the present
situation presents difficulties. They
are difficulties nevertheless that are
well worth facing in view of all that
I is at stake. They are difficulties,
moreover, which are quite capable of
j being overcome by tact and moder
aticn on the part of what is now to
be an independent ministerial group
I in the Cabinet. This group consists
! of Viscount Snowden, Sir Don a id
! Maclean, Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir
Archibald Sinclair, all men well able
ito realize the necessity of discretion
jand unlikely to convert freedom into
license.
i It would have been far easier for
these ministers to have resigned than
to have remained in office as they
have done. Their action has been
consistent. They made no secret of
their views on tariffs at the general
election. Saving their political con
science on this point does not pre
vent their continuing to support the
Government's general policy. The
new departure is an experiment but
it is an experiment that deserves sue
cess.
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SUCH IS FREEDOM
Gandhi said he would gladly sacri-
fice a million lives that India might
be free. We seize this opportunity
of reminding India that freedom.
like other preferred stock, has de-
preciated.
A million lives is high: 750 thou-
sand would be nearer the market,
Consider what happened to freedom
since the Boston tea party! Instead
of paying a small extra sum to Eng-
land for tea, we pay a federal income
tax, a 10 percent fee to all waiters.
10 cents to every hat-check girl, $10
to ministers who marry us, a per-
sonal-property tax, a corporation tax,
an automobile tax, a driver's tax, a
dog tax, 3 a bottle extra on all
alcoholic beverages, 25 cents to no-
aries public and $5 to the postman
t Christmas.
It is freedom, but is it free? A I
million lives are a lot of lives. New
Yorker,
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The fact that potatoes are cheaper
does not justify certain radio croon
ers putting hot ones in their mouths
when they are before the micro
phone. It's time for the public to
wake up and realize that tomatoes
also are cheaper and act accordingly.
Rudy got his grapefruit, so why not
DEMOCRACY USES
AUTOCRACY'S T00XS
Winston Churchill, who has had
some experience with democracy as a
system of government, has revealed
the secret of its failure to work he
seems to assume everybody agrees it
doesn't work. Many will find the rea
son he assigns a surprising one, and
directly opposed to the whole theory
of democracy itself. It is that the
mistaken belief has been that dem
ocracy would work'through the appli
cation of the political methods
whereas it won't.
"The world today is ruled by ha
rassed politicians," he declares. "It is
a great delusion to think the people
have the kind of government they
want in any country in the world.
They've got the kind of government
they are told they want."
Real democracy, he declares, can
not come through the political action
of the people, because they are di
verted from its real objectives by
politicians who are merely self-seek
ing. Democracy, therefore, cannot
be handed up by the people to those
whom they choose to rule them, but
must be handed down to them by
their rulers, if they are to have it ai
all. The conclusion he reaches is that
only "eminent individuals" In a com
munity are qualified to give the peo
ple democracy. He illustrates by eit
ing the appointment by the President
of General Dawes to head the Re
construction Finance Corporation
That appointment was, he says.
remarkable and very hopeful step in
this general direction."
This process of administering dem
ocracy through the service of "emin
ent individuals" carries the infer
chillenme, in the example Mr. Chur
chill supplies, that if it had been
required that the people should se
lect the head of the new finance cor
poration they might net have select
ed General Dawes. He would have
had to "run" for the office as the
candidate of a political party and
against the rival candidate of an
other political party. The people
would have had no opportunity to
make their selection on the "emin
ent individual" basis, or on the qual
ifications of the candidates, but on
political considerations alone. That
in Mr. Churchill's view, is not dem
ocracy.
It's a good deal of a paradox that
the people who were supposed to get
the benefits of democracy can get
them only through what have been
regarded as dictatorship methods.
But experience seems to establish
that this is a fact. Mr. Churchill's
"eminent individual" theory is the
theory of autocracy. The heory works
fcr democracy when it happens the
eminent individuals are democrats in
the guise of autocrats. It doesn't work
so well when they are autocrats in
the guise of democrats.
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SAFETY IN TRAVEL
The death of Eddie Stinson. best
known probably of all American fly
ers, calls attention to the fact that
many needed safeguards against ac
cident are still lacking. Stinson, fly
ing over the lake, found his engine
failing. He turned to the land and
sought a place to alight. A golf
course seemed the safest opportunity.
In the attempt to land a flagpole was
touched and the plane wrecked. From
his place in the plane the flier could
not see the flagpole. Prevention of
such accidents seems impossible.
There will always be obstacles to
landing where emergency makes
landing necessary. Perfection of ine
chanism may never be obtained. The
flyer who has made more than a mil
lion miles in the air may meet his
death in the same manner and un
der the same conditions that a newer
man at the controls would face. Many
of the hazards of the air will never
be removed.
Nevertheless, flying is safer now
than it was a few years ago. More
miles per passenger are made with-
out accident new than then. Safe-
guards have made it possible to avoid
many of the accidents that were com-
mon in the early days of aviation,
The mail is flown over long routes
with few delays and fewer accidents,
The problem of safety has been tack-
led vigorously and earnestly. It is
heartening to show that some pro-
gress has been made,
The fact remains, however, that
many of the hazards of flying are
sitll eristent and that some of them
have not, and probably will not, be
removed. Flying accidents are still
common, more common than we like
to think. For that matter the men-
ace of highway travel grows. Rail
hazards have been reduced but an
occasional accident, sometimes a
fearful tragedy, reminds us that the
human element and the imperfections
of materials and mechanical devices
still remain. Humanity travels over
routes Btrewn with wreckage and re
minds of tragic failures of man and
machine.
VINES ON A MASS-
PRODUCED HOUSE
At a suburban lot one bright
morning trucks arrive, depositing
heavy loads. A house? Not one, but
a street of them. Mass production,
mass distribution, yea, and mass
credit are achieved. Fabricated steel
frame makes quick form. Sections of
aerated concrete are assembled into
walls by a crane. A roof frame is
swung into position. And lo, a
sharp-lined piece of cubist architec
ture smites the eye!
Instead of a cellar, a pit serves for
furnace and hot-water tank. And in
side? Partitions of thin metal, sound
proof, slide into place. Some of the
more modern-minded owners demand
partitions which at the throw of a
lever may be shifted on invisible
wheels to make space for a party or
change the sizes of rooms to fit a new
family need.
No visible heating pipes. Treated
air instead. Community refrigeration
services the built-in "icebox." A'
warming cabinet, a chemical-mechanical
dishwasher to name a few of
the housekeeping aids included.
Presto! The street of houses is com
pleted. The new occupants purchase
them for 15000 under the new mass
credit system, and crane and tractor
hurry off to conquer new worlds.
Will it soon be like this? It will if
certai n modernists are to be believed.
The old ways of brick upon brick,
plaster on lath, cutting and fitting
each board these bogies that help
to keep the cost of home building too
high are bound to give way, they say.
to mass production methods and to
an entirely different type of house.
But there is a hitch somewhere.
Many an American, it is found, will
read about the proposed concrete
"boxes" he is supposed to want to
live in will marvel, perhaps, at
their construction. Then he will, on
a Drignt day, leave nis modern sky
scraper mass-constructed office build
ing, hop into his mass-produced car,
drive off and arrange to buy a sweet
old house "down in Maine" or to
build the next thing to it because
he likes its "charm." None of your
steel and concrete iubes, says he.
Rose arbors over the door, shutters
at the windows, an individual touch
that is what he calls home.
In other words, he listens, for the
most part, unmoved by these proph
ecies of the fabricated mass-produc
tion house. Why? Because he sees
for his dream home not a set of con
crete cartons, but a little place having
many of the whimsical faults and
virtues of those he has always known
Sensible or not, mere efficiency, and
an erhibit of solid geometry offered
in the name of functionalism, do not
win him.
Would not house construction
methods be advanced more effectual
ly in the United States if modern
architects and engineers gave more
consideration to the present and
coservative tastes of American home
owners? Is it not possible that raak-
ng modernized construction synony
mous with the ultramodern style of
architecture may retard the progress
of home-building development? War
tern Europe turned with whole
hearted relief to the ultramodern in
many fields, and architectural style
went modern as a natural thing; but
America, less rolked, felt no such
urge to throw over traditional de
signs. Hence gradual changes in
CHILDREN
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'as a rale, but every child lores the
taste of Castoria- This pan eg abb
preparation m just as good as it tastes;
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recipe reads.
When Baby's err warns of eofie, a
few drops of Castoria have him soothed.
eep again in a jiffy. Nothing is mora
ahuble in diarrhea. When coated
tonsae or bad breath tell of constipation.
invoke its gentle aid to deanse and
regulate a child's bowels. la colds or
cfcadren's diseases, yon should nee it
to keep the system from dogging.
Castoria is sold in every drag
the genuine always beats Chas. IL
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methods of building, and applying of
these changes to the construction of
styles popular with Americans, are
likely to be more effective in the long
run.
Furthermore, charm retained even
with sectional, mass-produced walls,
standard in size; "homeyness," even
with a roof frame assembled by a
crane the very combination is a
challenge. Can America build with
skyscraper efficiency only if her
home builders copy the styles of the
new Germany, Sweden and France?
Is it not barely possible that adapt
ing the need of modernized house
construction to the styles most Am
ericans count synonymous with home
may actually evolve in America a
fresh contribution to domestic archi
tecture and housing?
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THE BARBER'S TIP
A patron doesn't tip because he
thinks it's the best thing to do, but
tips because it's the custom, or be
cause he doesn't want anyone to
think him cheap, and in most cases
he is trying to show you, after all
the nice things you have done for him
and all the nice conversation you
have given him, that you are still his
inferior, he is your superior, and he
wants the barber to remember it.
However, some tip because they want
to create a big impression, some be
cause it is a custom, and they don't
want to be cheap. Whatever the cause
may be, it is wrong. There are a
thousand arguments against it and
only one for it, and that is the petty
selfishness of he man who accepts
them. He would rather live on the
handouts from someone than raise
his standards and make his living
frcm a better source. Master Bar
bers' Magazine and Beauty Culturist.
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We read that Mr. Winston Chur
chill's chief concern, after his recent
accident in which be was struck and
seriously injured by a taxicab, was
that the driver of the cab might be
embarrassed by the publicity incident
to the affair. It probably was a great
relief to Mr. Churchill to learn,
when he felt well enough to be told,
that the driver was pursuing sis trade
in a happy and contented state of
mind.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District
Court of
Cass
County, Nebraska.
In the matter of the trusteeship
of the estate of Anna Gorder Ploetz,
deceased.
Now on this 23rd day of January,
1932, this cause came on for hear
ing upon the petition of Frank A,
Cloidt, trustee of the estate of Anna
Gorder Ploetz, deceased, praying for
a license to sell the following de
scribed real estate to-wit:
The east half E) of the
northeast quarter (NEi) of
Sectiond (18), Township (12).
Range (13) in Cass County, Ne
braska, and the undivided one
half interest in Lots 2, 3 and
4 in Block (35) in the City of
Weeping Water, Cass County,
Nebraska, for the purpose of
paying the specific legacies be
queathed in the last will and
testament of Anna Gorder Ploetz,
deceased, and costs and expense
of administration of said trust
estate.
It Is Therefore Ordered that all
persons interested in said estate ap
pear before me at the District Court
Room in the Court House at Platts
mouth, Cass County, Nebraska, on
12th day of March, 1932, at the hour
of 10 o'clock al m., to show cause, if
any, why a license should not be
granted to said trustee to sell the
above described real estate for the
purpose of paying specific legacies
bequeathed in the last will and testa
ment of Anna Gorder Ploetz, de
ceased, and costs and expenses of ad
ministration of said trust estate.
It is further ordered that a copy
of this order to show cause be pub
lished in the Plattsmouth Semi-
Weekly Journal, a newspaper of gen
eral circulation in Cass County, Ne
braska, for a period of three suc-
essive weeks prior to the date of
hearing.
By the Court. .
JAMES T. BEGLEY.
Judge of the District "Court.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska. Cass Coun
ty, 88.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Floyd
M. Saxon, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified, that I will
sit at the County Court Room in
Plattsmouth, in said County, on the
19th day of February, A. D. 1932,
and on the 20th day of May, A. D.
1932, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
of each day to receive and examine
all claims against said estate, with a
view to tbeir adjustment and allow
ance. The time limited for the pre
sentation of claims against said es
tate is three months from the 19th
day of February A. D. 1932, and the
time limited for payment of debts is
one year from said 19th day of
February, 1932.
Witness my band and the heal of
said County Court this 18th day of
January, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) J25-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
on Petition for Appointment of
Administrator de bonis non
In the County Court of Cass Coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Drury
M. Graves, deceased.
Probate Rec. 8. Pg. 397.
Upon reading the petition of Ralph
J. Nickerson filed herein on the 21st
day of January, 1932, praying for
his appointment as administrator de
bonis non of said estate:
It Is Ordered that the 19th day of
February. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m.,
be and hereby is assigned for the
hearing of the petition, when all per
sons interested in said estate may
appear and show cause, if any there
be, why the prayer of said petition
should not be granted, and that no
tice of the pendency of said petition,
and the time of hearing, be given
to all persons interested in said es
tate by publication in the Platts
mouth Journal, a newspaper printed
in said County, three weeks success,
ively, prior to said hearing, of a copy
of this order.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) J25-3w County Judge.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
S3.
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 house, in the City of Platts
mouth. Nebr., in said county, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for '"ash the following real estate, to
wit: Lots four (4), five (5) and
six (6), in Block ninety-three
(93) in the City of Plattsmouth,
Cass county, Nebraska
The same 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. Gold ing. plaintiff against
said defendant.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, January 5,
A. D. 1932.
BERT REED,
Sheriff Cass county,
Nebraska
By Rex Young.
Deputy Sheriff.
NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE
Pursuant to an order of the Dis
trict Court of Saunders County, Ne
braska, made and entered on the
19th day of December, 1931, in an
action pending therein, in which,
Nora Folsom and husband. Guy Fol
som; Margie Gilbert, a widow, are
plaintiffs, and David Wagner and
wife, Abbie Wagner; Edward Wag
ner and wife, Sarah Wagner; Harry
F. Wagner and wife. Anna Wagner:
William Wagner and wife. Rose
Wagner: Josie Nichols and husband.
James Nichols; Amanda Morgan and
husband, Morris Morgan; Jesse Wag
ner and wife, Neddie Wagner; Addie
B. Gilbert and husband, John Gil
bert; Emma Graves and husband.
Hod Graves; Nancy Graves and hus
band. Wallace Graves; Frank G.
Arnold and wife, Effie D. Arnold, are
defendants, ordering and directing
the undersigned Referee in said cause
to sell the following real estate, to
wit: The south half (SH) of Lot
two (2), in the northwest quar
ter (NWU) of the northwest
quarter (NWU), Section seven
(7), Township twelve (12J,
Range ten (10), Cass County,
Nebraska, containing five acres
(5 A.).
And, the north half (N ) of
Lot three (3), In the northwest
quarter ( NWU) of the north
west quarter (NW4 ), Section
seven (7), Township twelve
(12), Range ten (10), Cass
County. Nebraska, containing
five acres (5 A.).
And, all of Lot five (5). in
the southwest quarter (SW4)
of the northwest quarter
(NW) of Section seven (7),
Township twelve (12), Range
ten (10). Cass County, Nebras
ka, containing ten acres (10 A.).
And, the west half (Wi) of
the southwest quarter (SV4 )
Section seven (7), Township
twelve (12), Range ten (10),
Cass County, Nebraska, con
taining sixty and 28100 acres
(60.28 A.).
Notice is hereby given that on the
15th day of February, 1932. at the
hour of 3 o'clock p. m., at the Wag
ner farm, one mile east and one mile
south of the post office in Ashland.
Nebraska, the undersigned Referee
will sell the above described real es
tate at Public Sale, to the highest
bidder, for cash. Said sale to be held
open for one hour.
Dated this 12th day of January,
1932.
JOE MAYS,
Referee.
J. C. BRYANT.
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
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