25KXIIAY, FEEL 8, ItZX FXATTSrCTTTH SHU- WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TERES ue MaffsnioDtb Journal JUEimED SEHI-WEEKLY Entered at Poatoffice, Plattsmouth, R. A. DATES, Publisher ETTESCBIPTIOir PBICE $2.00 A YEAB IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living In Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, fS.SO par year. All subscription are payable strictly in advance. Too many people think they are broad-minded, when they merely are too lazy to form an opinion. :o:- Campaign managers will soon be gin to call the roll, but good party men with a roll are likely to be scarcer than usual. -:o:- Folks who hold the view that the impossible can't happen were stump ed when a Democrat was elected to congress from Ne Hampshire. -:o: Chicago has so many big hotels nowadays, it's pretty hard to tell which one the new presidential can didates will be nominated in. The hardest thing in the world to do these days, is to keep up the pay ments on a set of books that were contracted for two years ago. :o: A Plattsmouth man has kicked up a row with his daughter because her boy friend had the habit of carrying away the early morning paper. :o: Shoes are $50 a pair in Russia. This would become quite a serious problem if it should come the same year one needed a new set of tires. :o: There may be a shortage of other things, but with a presidential cam paign on this year is going to see a tremendous overproduction of bunk! -:o:- All we nope is tuat winter will be over in time to avoid another ap pearance of that familiar abomin ation a derby hat in a baseball grandstand. :o: When a Turkish court of law to day renders a decision on any civil or criminal case, the decision can not be reversed through additional legal ' fireworks. "Appeal has been abolished. -:o:- The President's generous impulse, apparently, is to give the best sec retary of the treasury since Alex ander Hamilton a chance to be the best ambassador to the court of St. James's since well, since Charlie Dawes. We .never liked the play, known as the "Shanghai Gesture" in the first "place, and we like it consider ably less now than ever, since it fur nishes the basis of innumerable sad quips on the Sino-Japanese situation at this time. General Smedley Butler says he is sorry regular army troops have been sent to Shanghai because the ma rines could have done the job with out "causing talk." But, probably the marines never would have ceased talking after it was over. :o: G. K. Chesterton says there are only three things in the world that women do not understand, and they are liberty, equality and fraternity. We were pretty sure when somebody found out what women didn't know, it would be something relatively un important. :o:- Mayor Jimmy Walker's physicians are worried about his health, since they found that his resistance is low. A lot of friends of other Thammany leaders have been worried about them, too, since Old Doc Seabury demonstrated how low their resist ance has been. -:o:- The 1,400 firms' which supply com modities to the royal family of Eng land today own warrants which give them permission to use the royal crest" on their windows, stationery and labels. They are located in many countries and make everything from wine corks to horse millinery. -:o: Now ' you see why Joyriding has such a lure for boys of a certain ir responsible age. If, in addition to having to push the car seven miles, they had been forced to change a couple of tires, the expedition would have "been, deemed a success, regard les of how it finally turned out. - - :o: When the Carnegie medals for life saving are passed out for 1932, we hope particular consideration will b given to the news correspondents at Santiago, .who reduced the number of dead from 1,500 in the morning papers to eight in the noon editions of the afternoon papers of Febru ary $. AT PLATTSUOUTH, HEB2ASXA Neb., as second-class mail matter Eveii if Tokio accepts the Anglo- American proposals as a basis for peace, the fighting will go on, ac cording to the Japanese government But, of course, like the bridge hand you play for fun while waiting for those at the head table to finish their rcund, it won't count on the' prize score. -:o:- An Emporian who fought through the World War has told the Emporia Gazette that if the United States de clares war on Japan, he wants one of two jobs, either "booing the Japanese acrobats who come here with the circuses next summer" or "breaking up the Japanese lanterns at the lawn arties during the summer social sea- THE COUNTY DOCTOR The students at the Long Island college of medicine heard wisdom in the recent address by Dr. Babbott its newly installed head. He gave praise to the vanishing "country doc tor, wnom ne described as not a scientific diologist, but a medical philosopher." And not the least of the remedies carried by the country doctor "was the confidence he in spired." It takes less time to become a scientist than a philosopher, who is usually the wiser person. Just 60 years ago, Dr. Oliver Wen dell Holmes, father of the retired chief justice, gave an almost similar address at Bellevue college hospital. He remarked: "See a wise old physician smile away a case that looks to a novice as if a sexton should be sent for; mark what a large experience has done for those who were fitted to profit by it. ... The young man knows the exceptions. . . . He takes things more quietly and is much more willing to let well enough alone." A new epoch in medicine was a direct result of that address. Prom time to time it is necessary that the old truths should be repeated. New York Amrican. :o: A STATESMANLIKE TAXATION PROGRAM Business of all kinds will read with relief the decision of the democratic leaders in the house of repersenta- tives to ban retroactive taxation and to balance the budget with a non- l.nrtisan levy. This announcement, made after a ways and means meet ing attended also by Speaker Garner, tends to confirm the growing im pression that the house maojrity is conservative, responsible and wise. It has been a brake on the wheels of business to be in doubt whether the new imposts would refer back to 1931. New enterprises were held in check. If the government was to reach back for a share of profits al ready spent, no business man would know before the end of March where he stood. Now the probability is that, even if the two wings of senate republi cans seek to Impose taxes retroactive ly, the house will not yield the point in conference. Under Speaker Gar ner the house has displayed ordar and firmness. The decision of tne ways and means majority to call in the republican members when t!ie writing of the tax bill begins is an other point for public approval. Re publicans about to write revenue leg islation have often excluded the min ority, the usual explanation being that they were in power in bcih the executive and legislative branch es and wished openly to assume V..e responsibility for which they had a mandate. Though the senate and tlie executive are in republican hands, Mr. Garner and his colleagues could have done the same thing. But their apparent attitude that, in a crisis like the present, two heads should be given an opportunity to prove themselves better than one, marks a more creditable and effective course. When Champ Clark was speaker and Oscar Underwood was floor lead er, Mr. Garner of Texas mixed a con servative attitude with some rather sectional and partisan performances. Now and then he has talked in shrill tones about financial questions. But since becoming speaker he has kept a statesmanlike appreciation of the country's situation steadily before him. He has led "his party carefully and soundly. New York Times. STRANGE CASE OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE From the western point of view the most striking feature of the military mix up in China is the de monstrated futility of Chinese op position To Japanese armed forces. In the various engagements in Man churia and in the fighting at Shang hai, disparity in numbers apparently counts for nothing. The small, well armed and well disciplined Japanese forces advance at pleasure, and the Chinese troops flee in disorder. Still more striking is the attitude of the Chinese populace. Though disorderly bands of students riot and destroy property, they accomplish nothing beneficial to their country. There are no reports of Chinese civil ians flocking to recruiting stations to take up arms in the defense of their country. The curiosity of the Chinese masses leads them to gather as spectators to mark the progress of the street fighting in Shanghai's native quarter, but no desperate ef forts to drive back the invaders dis close a fighting spirit among the citizens. Meanwhile Japanese reserv ists living in Shanghai rush to their country's colors and take an active part in the military operations of the Japanese marines. China's protests to the western powers, voiced by the feeble Nanking government, are both shrill and per sistent, but Nanking's call to the people of all the Chinese provinces to take up arms in defense of their common country is sadly belated. A citizen of the west fails to under stand why hordes of Chinese, armed with any weapons that might come to hand, do not sweep back the Jap anese by mere force of numbers, even though at enormous cost in Chinese lives. If the spirit of the Japanese or ..he spirit of the west had lodgment in Japanese bosoms, so great would be the uprising of the people at this time that great amorphous China .suddenly would become a united na tion, fused into an unconquerable mass of militant patriots. But China fights effectively only with boycotts, not with arms. Long years of civil strife, with provincial army against provincial army, apparently have brought the world's most populous nation no nearer to realize that internal strife and disunion, if long persisted in, constitute national suicide. China's lack of a : true national spirit is its fatal weakntss. It is a lack that has persisiea mrougn many nunareas 01 years, ana nas rurnisnea tne oppor- cunny ior a succession 01 alien con querors. Chicago News. :o: T.T.T DEMOCRATS FIND LOGICAL CANDIDATES There is only one logical candi date for the democratic presidential nomination. There are several as pirants for leadership, all of whom should be gently but firmly side tracked when the democrats hold their national convention in Chicago. After that operation, painful as it may be to the aspirants so served. the convention should select the one logical candidate. Following that, all I loyal democrats could be depended upon to support the nnrlnee at the J polls. The Journal believes in the two- party system such as we have in I his country. It is better in a dem- I ocracy if the division of strength be- ween two major parties is close. It I i probably would have been a good deal better for government and busi ness in this country if, during the last 25 or 30 years, the democratic party had been stronger than it was. Any political party, if a good deal more powerful than its rival organiz ation, can develop the desire to run things not only according to its wishes but in its own interest. There is needed a check against that de velopment. Let it be hoped that the time will come when the democratic party shall grow permanently strong er so it may operate as a check and balance against the republican party. And let it be hoped, too. that the re- publicans retain strength sufficient to operate as a check and balance I ainst ti e democratic party. There is just one logical candidate for the democrats to select this year when they have a real chance to strengthen their organization and sia and Japan. In Yakhon toff's re operate as a check and balance cent book. "Russia and the Soriet against the republican party. That Union in the Far East," a stout ap- candidate is not one the opposing pendix is devoted to the various hh forces would knife, and what knife derstandings on this subject between wielders the democrats are on occa-lthe two countries since the Russo sions! That candidate is one who Japanese War. Rumor has it that the could pacify hot-headed democrats and corral more votes than anyone else. And Who is he? Let the smart I democratic leaders figure it out, which they might do through a pro- cess of elimination. Surely they do I not have to guess as to the lack of J bility of half a dozen or ao who'd! give their right eyes for the call. Sioux City Journal. POM in your cakes: THE DOUBLE TESTED DOUBLE ACTING 25 ounces CQPYBtQHT I9S BY JAQUES MF5XJ RUSSIA IN THE FAR EAST Harbin is the headquarters of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which, owned jointly by Russia and Chinese interests, passes through a thousand miles of north Manchurian territory. and is a vital link in the Moscow Vladivostok railroad system. Today it is also the only town in Manchuria in which Japanese influence is absent an island in a sea of Japanese and Japanized Chinese authority. Since the Bolshevists regained their pre dominance on the railway in 1929, Harbin is a Russian island. Conse quently, to the Russians this is the vital fact in the new situation that has developed in Manchuria, and ac counts for the concern that has re cently been expressed in Moscow, a concern now reflected in . Mr. Maxim Litvinoff's move to conclude a non aggression pact with Japan. For some time nast the Union of SociaIist Soviet Republics has given t , , . , , I evidence Gf a new desire to promote peaceful relations with other coun tries. In the Kremlin the opinion used to be held that Bolshevism, be- in& a world movement, could not bave any locale; that, in John Wes ley's words, the world was its parish. Some went so far as to say that even in Russia it could not survive with out the existence of at least one more Bolshevist state. Under Stalin's lead ership, however, the U. S. S. R. is now apparently turned inward. Just now the Russians are absorbingly busy with their own affairs. In this light the nonaggression pacts with which the U. S. S. R. is encircling itself mean that it does not wish to be disturbed in its peaceful pursuits at home Perhaps the Bolshevists have more reason to try to obtain an agreement Iwith Japan than with any other coun try. No matter what degree of non interventionism is evolved in the Kremlin, north Manchuria must al ways remain of special concern to Moscow. This was proved by the lightning-like invasion carried thru by Russian troops in 1929. The facts of Russian geography in the Far East, which were the reason for ob taining the original concession to build the Chinese Eastern Railway, are as patent to Moscow as they were to St. Petersburg. North Manchuria forms a salient into Siberia which the railway interest has made into a kind of extramural Russian back yard. The Japanese have been slow to re spond to Mr. Litvinoff's overtures. They are still smarting over the un- ceremonious ejection of the Bank of Korea from Vladivostok and the dillv-riall-Hnir nirer renewal of Jan- anese fishery rights in Siberian wa- ters. Yet a policy of live and let live in Manchuria has hitherto de- terminer the rotations between Rua- policy has been reaffirmed even un- der the Bolshevist regime. It is well to recall mirh' mi understanding- an the two nations confront each other in north Manchurian territory. It may be a good augury for the non aggression pact proposaL ;o Journal Want-Ada nty faw eanta and ct real Q O for 25$ HARK TWAIN ON WAR In the most militant attack on war ever recorded by the clergy, the membership of the Ohio Pastors' as sociation says in formal resolutions: "We will never again sanction or participate in any war." But won't they? Without desiring to be cynical, we want once again to quote Mark Twain on war: "There has never been a just one, never an honorable one on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful as usual will shout for the war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously object at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub Its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be war. and will say, earnestly and indig nantly, 'It is unjust and dishonor able, anu there is no necessity for it.' "Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the oth er side will argue and reason against war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be ap plauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the antiwar audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Be fore long you will see this curious thing: The speakers stoned from the platform and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who, in their secret hearts, are still at one with those stoned speakers as earlier but do not dare to say so. "And now the whole nation pul pit and all will take up the war cry, and shout itjsejf hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them, and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." Twain wrote that years before the world war. New York World-Telegram. TEXAS WARNS TRADUCERS The editor of the Texas Weekly rises, rather wearily, to refute the "ancient lie" that this country seized his state from the Mexicans. That grossly inaccurate statement, ' it seems, recently has been circulated again by an eastern syndicate writ er, in connection with the Manchur ian episode. "Japan is only doing in Manchuria," wrote the misinformed Easterner, "what the United States did when it took Texas from Mexico." For his benefit, the patient Texan Once more has explained that, the LOne Star State was an -independent republic at the time it was annexed by congress and had been such for ten years. We fear, however, this is a snake which will be hard to scotch. A few.: misguided persons will always find it impossible to distinguish between the actions of the United States and those of a group of American citizens, to promptly approved by their government, as was tlx ease in Texas. To such persons, the al- most immediate recognition of the new republic of Texas by the United States, after American settlers had established it by force of arms, is quite as significant as the later an nexation. But we trust that the Texas editor will persist in his campaign against this calumny. It will never do to have American policy confused with the imperialism of foreigners. CONGRESS DESERVES A PAT OF APPROVAL Bertrand H. Snell, republican floor leader of the house, wants the ways and means committee to report "a government tax bill, not an ad ministration tax bill nor a demo cratic tax bill, but one that is fram ed with the interests of the govern ment and all the people equitably considered." This does not mean that the mil lennium has arrived, but it is sig nificant of a spirit that has seldom been shown in congress except at the beginning of a war, when a fer vent patriotism unite factions and parties in the common support of the nation. To be sure, we are fat ing an economic crisis that has al ready cost the country as much as a first class war. But too often in the past such a situation has mere ly augmented the bickering and party maneuvering in congress, and has made bad worse. Can it be that this congress is composed of pat riots rather than politicians, states men rather than strategists in sel fishness? The signs are good. The demo crats, who control the house, might have declared war on the republi can administration and senate. They have not seen fit to do so. They have whipped into shape and pass ed measures demanded by the pres ident. They have worked hard and with unusual expedition. Nor have senators wasted much time. The de bates in that house have been un usually pointed and intelligent, and the attendance has been remarkable, with more than 90 of the 96 senators at their desks day after day. The committees are functioning like ma chines; the most skillful brains are laboring at legislation rather than at politics. This is a remarkable spectacle in January of an election year, and the country may well take ncte of it and give this congress a friendly, pat of approval. Detroit News. . 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. lvely, prior to said hearing, of a copy of this order. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) j25-3w County Judge. 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 23 rd 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 (NE1) 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 a 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 costB 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 cessive weeks prior to the date of hearing. By the Court. JAME3 T. BEGLEY, Judge of the District Court. J26-Jw NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass Coun ty, ss. 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 6aid estate, with a view to their 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. I). 1932, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 19th day of February, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 18th day of January, 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) J25-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determin ation of Heirship Estate of Marion S. F. Wiley, de ceased, In the County Court of Cass County, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, To all per sons interested in said estate, cred itors and heirs take notice, that Joephine TIniblin, has filed her peti tion alleging that Marion S. F. Wiley died intestate in Alaska on or about the year 1921, being a resident and inhabitant of Alaska and died seized of the following described real estate, to-wit: An nndivided one-thirteenth (118) part of Lot seven (7) in the southeast quarter of northwest quarter (SE4 of NWi); northeast quarter of southwest quarter (NE4 of SWK); Lots three (3) and thirteen (13) in the northwest quarter of northeast quarter (SWVi BE); and Lots four and eight in the southwest quarter of northeast quarter (SW4 NE4); all in Section nineteen (19); Township eleven (11), N. Range fourteen (14), east of the 6th P. M., in Cass County, Nebraska; leaving as his sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to wit: Josephine Timblin, Lizzie L. Jenkins. Sarah F. Smith, Wil liam G. Wiley, Rosabell N. Hess er. Charlie E. Wiley, Addie E. Park, Annette N. Ellington, Warran M. Wiley, James C. Wiley, George E. Wiley, brothers and sisters; and Helen R. Read, Rose K. Smith and Malvern W. Read, children of a deceased . sister. . That the Interest of the petitioner herein in the above described real estate is that of an heir and praying for a determination of the time of the death of said Marion S. F. Wiley and of his heirs, the degree of kin ship and the right of descent of the real property belonging to the said deceased, in the State of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing the 20th day of February, A. D. 1932, before the court at the hour of ten o'clock a. m. in the Court House In Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 30th day of January. A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) fl-3w County Judge. 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; Josle 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 (S) of Lot two (2). in the northwest quar ter (NW4 ) of the northwest quarter (NW4 ), Section seven (7), Township twelve (12), Range ten (10), Cass County, Nebraska, containing five acres (5 A.). And. the north half N) of Lot three (3), in the northwest quarter ( NW4 ) of the north west quarter (NWi ), Section Beven (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 (SWVi ) 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 halt (W) of the southwest quarter (8W4) 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 16th day of February. 1932, at the hour of t o'clock p. m., at the Wag ner farm, one mile east and one mile Bouth 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. BBYANT. Plaintiffs Attorney. J14-5w