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I THTJBSBAY. APRIL 28. 1932. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUE3IA1 PAGE THREE ulie PlaffsmGufh Journal PUBLISHED SE2II-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, HEBEASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, SUBSCBIPTION PBICE $2.00 A YEAS IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living: in Second Postal Zone, 12.50 per year. Beyond COO miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 93.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly In advance. They soak the rich to make them absorb the taxes. :o: The tightest sticking things in government bureaus are the salary drawers. :o: Not a war? Tell that ten years from now to the veterans of the Jap anese Legion. :o: After all, why be surprised at the country being a bit shaky when a Quaker heads it? :o: Singing increases the blood-pres-pure, declares a Southern doctor, but he doesn't say whose. :o: Another trouble in government circles seems to be too much fact finding and not enough fact facing. :o: No, "Little Caesar," we're not go ing to march in the beer parade May 14. We've decided to be the given point. :o: Congress has proposed that the Army and Navy be consolidated. They must want to beat Notre Dame every year. :o: Reflection persuades us that when the FillpinoE shall have become com petent for self-government, we shall have a lot to learn from them. : :o: "A good conversationalist is al ways appreciated at the table," says a writer. Unless It so happens that the other three are trying to play bridge. :o: The same people who are denounc ing the present Digest poll as padded were loud In their indorsement of the poll in 1928 which showed Hoo ver leading Smith. :o: A financial statement says that men everywhere are beginning to get their feet on the ground. The wonder is, we think, that the soles lasted as long as they did. :o: Congress is now challenging Mr. Hoover to specify on economies. It's the Bame Congres that, a few weeks ago, said Mr. Hoover . was stealing its prerogatives by specifying econ omies. :o: The old bureau in the bedroom was a place where you hid your money so you could find it when you wafited It. A government bureau is a plaee where you put your money and never find it again. Publisher You can prove almost everything by the Bible and everything by Bab son. :o: In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thought of most any thing but work. :o: We've begun looking forward to 3-cent postage as a last resort from the deluge of spring poetry. :o: A doctor says spinach is good for the eyes. It is indeed. In its wild state it is a beautiful sight. And it's too bad some very nice people can't let it go at that. :o: , The suggestion has been made that all candidates have printed on the backs of their cards "Good for one square meal." This, he believes, would be a sure vote-getter. :o: Spring is here at last, the Univer sity of Lawrence (Kansas) con cludes from the fact three of the in structors in the department of jour nalism had guest speakers take over their classes the other morning. :o: Days have passed, weeks have come, and still Rudy Vallee has not written a croon song that will make the public forget its poverty. Sir. Hoover possibly set the famous crooner to a more difficult task than that of fooling itself rich. :o: The surest way to make everybody hate you is to go around town "wolfing" about the way other folks do, about the hard times, and about everybody else being crooked. Hully gee, maybe we will ee the day that times like these may be something to oigh for. :o: Ossie Jacob y is going to promise to love, honor and try to improve his fiancee's bridge, and Ehe is go ing to vow to reciprocate, with spec ial attention to his tennis game. And it looks like a true love match, pro vided neither is ever called upon to teach the other to drive a car. :o: The somewhat mild statement on prohibition given . out by Senator James A. Reed on his arrival home from Rochester, Minn., is explained by the fact that he has been ill seven weeks, and probably two or three more will be Epent in light work at his office to injure his complete recuperation. Perhaps after that he will have something really definite to say about prohibition and other is sues of the day. KjlcjM on fiSae 1932 TcEcre2 MOME FO Economies are welcome these days. Here's one. Feed your motor the new STANDARD Red Crown GASOLINE. It will give you more power and more miles per dollar than any ordinary gasoline. Quality is up, but not price. This is why. STANDARD Red Crown GASOLINE is special non premium gasoline refined by an improved process which makes it quicker starting and more complete burning. It has a high octane number which indicates a more perfect balance for both power and economy. Tank up today with STANDARD Red Crown GASOLINE and. get more power for less STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEBRASKA -V AT ALL ESD CROWN SEBVXCE STATIONS AND DEALESS EVQYWHESS Et KES3ASXA WHY NOT A GRANDMOTHER'S DAY Sunday, May 8th, will be Moth er's Day. It is a pleasing sentimen tal custom to set apart one especial day in every year for the particular remembrance of everybody's mother. Very few of us are so unsentimental as not to have tender and pleasant recollections of childhood days in which mother was everything to us. She stood between the child and all that would harm it. Sire did not have to say, and probably never stopped to realize, that she would gladly give her own life, if necessary, to protect the life of her child. We have known of men and women whose lives have been wrecked by an excess of mater nal devotion, by the reluctance of their mothers to let them live their own lives, free from parental inter ference. But even those look back to their infancy with a tender de votion to the figure that stood be tween themselves and harm. We should like to see somebody, however, start a "Grandmother's Day." It is our observation that grandmothers have had about as much to do with shaping the lives of most of us as our mothers had. A good many mothers would have made a much poorer job of bringing up their children if there hadn't been a grandmother or two in the back ground, to give them the benefit of her wisdom gained from the exper ience of raising a family to matur ity. We hope that everybody who reads this will remember his or her mother with some appropriate gift, however small, on Mother's Day, but let's not forget grandma. :o: WHAT A SITUATION Pitiful indeed is the story which comes out of Washington about the advice given President Hoover by "political friends." These gentlemen, committed to the Hoover cause, have asked the president to give up all thought of going to California this summer on the ground that such a trip would be embarrassing. "If he traveled to California." the story says, "the voters in the towns along the way would expect him to stop and speak. If he did so, his advisers fear that he might be a target for a barrage of embarrassing political questions." Questions, it may be supposed, that would better not be asked if Mr. Hoover is to be re-elected, and questions which simply can not be answered. It is reported that the president is "veering" toward the view of these advisers. What a situation! The president of the United States, approaching election, doubts whether he dare go among his people for fear his stew ardship will be questioned. And the president's advisers, men who expect to stand with him through thiclc and thin, have so little faith either in his reocrd or hisx ability to answer criticism that they urge him to hide out on the Rapidan and conduct his campaign solely by radio, a medium which permits no heckling. Mil waukee Journal. :o: Hog's jowl and mixed greens are better than a peace conference. money. MOMEY A Nobraska Institution' 'PEANUT STAND" IN PERSPECTIVE Americans should thank General Dawes for calling the New York Stock Exchange a "peanut stand." His pungent description may help to break the strange obsession which has kept so many eyes glued to tick er tape in the last few years. The nation might well take to heart his further remark: It is not what the crowd in Wall Street thinks that con trols. It is what the mass of the people think and feel about it, - and. take it from me, the mass is feeling better. A great part of the public has been too much like a fireman who kept so Dusy watcning me sieam guage that he had no time to shovel. And in the case of the stock market, the guage has not always been even an accurate measure of conditions in the business boiler. Moreover, when the top blew off the gauge in 1929 and 40. 000. 000, 000 of paper prof its evaporated overnight, the fireman got the idea that the boiler had burst and he had lost his coal and water. General Dawes does well in ask ing Americans to turn their atten tion to the essential and non-evaporating wealth of the country and the vast volume of production, distribu tion and consumption as distinguish ed from the buying and Belling of shares. Recovery will come more quickly if the fireman gives more ef fort to producing and less to watch ing the steam. But, abandoning anx ious regard of the stock market as a barometer of personal speculation or of national prosperity, the public may find some study of its workings edu cational. One opportunity for such study is offered by the current investigation of short selling by a United States Senate committee. It is not the most favorable opportunity that might be devised because politics and prejudice are so largely involved. A better at titude, both of the public and of the stock traders, will be achieved if poli ticians can stop baiting brokers and exchange officials could drop some of their mystical self-righteousness. Politicians do positive harm by stirring up excessive fears of fero cious "bear raids," and Wall Street does not help matters by assuming the airs of a charitable institution. Brokers cannot be blamed for a gen eral collapse of values, but neither can they reject all responsibility for giving faulty advice. . Tbey . did not make the mania for stock trading, but they profited Ty it and encour aged it. The stock exchange will avoid drastic and perhaps harmful regu lation more readily by admitting that there had ben abuses in the past and showing a determination to pre vent them in future than it will by maintaining that it is merely a mar ket place and its members merely automatons. And it will allay sus picion and fear if it will lay aside the veil of mystery and give the pub lic a better understanding of how the "peanut stand" operates. :o: It stacks up about like this: An optimist has no money, and a pessi mist won't lend you any. BIGHT AND LEFT IN AMERICAN POLITICS In European politics the word "left" is generally employed to de note progressive principles and trends of thought. Obviously the word "right 'is used to denote stand patism, conservatism or toryism. Broadly speaking, the left con cerns itself principally with meas ures of human welfare while the right concerns itself with vested in terests and material things. Students of American politics ob serve in current developments a tendency to draw a sharp line be tween material and strictly human interests. The republican party un der Harding. Coolidge and, lately, under Hoover, has displayed an in creasing tendency to adhere to ten ets of materialism. The progressive spirit that found expression under Rootevelt and that was kept alive by the elder La Fol lette has been all but dissipated. The Borahs, the Norrises and others who heired the mantle of the great T. R., have been unable to sustain public interest in the principles he es poused. While the republican party has been more definitely turning to the right, as the Europeans would say, the human principles that belong to the left have more and more sought expression through the democratic party. But the democratic party of late years has not been the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson. It, too, has leaned more to the right than to the left. But the human principles are eternal, not partisan, and are cap able of expression through the me dium of any party that offers them sanctuary. It is already a matter of leadership. And because they no longer find lodgement in the party of Hoover, Mellon and Watson, and because they are insistent they now seek expression elsewhere through other leadership. It is not too much to believe that the insistent urge of human welfare for a restatement and a redramati zation that accounts for the swell ing tide in the fortunes of the demo cratic party and the definite swing to the leadership of Governor rank lin D. Roosevelt. And, beyond all question, Roose velt himself has experienced a def inite turning to the left, even with in recent weeks. Though the prin ciples of the left are his logical her itage, both by tradition and inclin ation they are clarifying themselves in mind for application on a broad. national scale. As frequently stated, the Issue of this campaign is "conservatism against liberalism." Hoover is ir revocably identified with the eastern financial community, which Is con- servatice, while Roosevelt more near ly than any other man, typifies the common aspirations of the plain folks of America seek to have trans lated into terms of law and social order. Sioux City Tribune. :o: THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN We think we live in a complicated age, but more than three hundred years ago everything was Just as topsy-turvy as it is today. Robert Burton, who waB borr. In 1576, pub lished a famous book called "The Anatomy of Melancholy" in 1621 And three hundred and eleven years ago he wrote in that book a number of paragraphs which have a very fa miliar sound in this year of grace, 1932. Here are some of them: "New news every day. Those ordi nary rumors of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massa cres, meteors, comets, spectrums. prodigies, apparitions, shipwrecks A vast confusion of vows, wishes, ac tions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, com plaints, grievances. Then come tid ings of weddings, entertainments, embassies, trophies, sports, plays, treasons, robberies, enormous villain ies of all kinds, funerals, death of princes, new discoveries and expedi tions. "Our summon bonum is commod ity, and the goddess we adore. Dea Moneta, Queen Money. "So many professed Christians, yet so few imitators of Christ; so much talk of religion, so much science, yet so little conscience. "To see so many lawyers, yet so little Justice; so many laws, yet never more disorders. Lawyers get more to- bold their peace than we to say our very best. "New books every day, pamphlets, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all Borts, new paradoxes, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, &c." Only the very young or the very inexperienced think that there is any material change in human nature and its manifestations from century to century. FELLOW SPRING POETS Perhaps it will not be decided this season whether the spring poet is an excrescence or a phenomenon. No doubt the crocus would bloom as early, the forsythia shine as sunnily, the birds . sing as blithely, if no spring poets were. It may be all the tiny exultations of field and wood land and stream would exult as ex ultlngly though no one watched and waited to preserve the memory of thei flutterings in rhyme. Still, would spring be spring without her bards? It is a small town that has not one spring poet. It is a big town that could hold them all. And it is a wise one that can decide whether to point with pride to, or view with alarm, those of its citizens whom spring has thus smitten. For the information of that mayor, alderman, town clerk, policeman, fireman, dog-catcher or staid resident who does not furtive ly conceal one of these palpitating poets behind a businesslike counten ance, it should be pointed out that the vernal versifiers are positively a necessity to a community's self respect during the year's whimsical adolescence. For spring poets are proxies ot ourselves. They objectify that part of ourselves which we find it diffi cult to laugh at. but at which we feel we should. So long as men feel that way, and so long as spring is kind, there will bud with the eager ness of all spring's children these long-suffering chirpers of the quill. Of course, not all who write poetry in spring can be called spring poets. Some of them are at it the year round. Neither, however, can many who do not write poetry in spring be omitted from the category, for sure ly these would like to if they thought they could, or if they dared. Now, since we are agreed that the spring poet is not only a respect able, but an indispensable citizen, why should we not all aspire to his position in the community? No doubt it is a duty. There is no way of tell ing how many of our neighbors need proxies and the more to laugh at, the more to laugh with. Somehow, too, one has the feeling that if he does not attempt poetry when the urge of spring is upon him he may never do so. And, verily, 'tis better to have tried to write poetry in the spring than never to have tried it at all. :o: COMMON HONESTY One evil, unless minimized severe ly, no economic Eystem can stand up under. That evil is fraud. It is the curse of capitalism. "Reported from Stockholm: "A 23 million dollar block of International Match," listed in the assets of Kreu ger' & Toll, cannot be found. This bears out the recent announcement of irergularities and deceptions in the last official Kreuger & Toll bal ance sheet for 1931. Ivan Kreuger was a Swede. Fraud in finance, banking and stock pro motion is not peculiarly an Ameri can Bin. There were enormous frauds committed by Hatry, a com pany promoter, in unauthorized is sues of securities, whose crash pre ceded our own stock market defla tion. Hatry was an Englishman with operating headquarters in London. Since his collapse, notes the financial editor of the Boston Transcript: "All manner of fraud has been exposed by the relentless shrinkage in security values, including mani pulation of collateral by a now de funct brokerage house, and mani pulation of industrial accounts. Bank closings have revealed the most questionable practices on the part of bankers individually." This observation has general ap plication at home as well as abroad. An optimistic turn to the situation is given by the Transcript writer in saying: "Apparently most of the in iquity has been exposed." The word apparently" indicates that he hopes so, but is not sure. Such cases as Kreuger & Toll re flect corporation deceit and perfidy. The Paris newspaper that printed, in the interest of speculators in for eign exchange, the false report that one of the largest New York banks had suspended payments reflects the unscrupulous gambler in currencies. Banking houses that swindle inves tors reflect the low morality of the trade in securities. Blessed be common honesty. With out it nothing in commercial life can survive. :o: We don't really know whether it was the Big Papa Bear, or the Mid dle-sized Mamma Bear, or the Little Wee, Tiny BeaV that sheared Little Goldilocks in Wall Street, but which ever it was did it effectively. :o: FOB SAT.E Delco automatic light plant, near ly new. Inquire Robert Patterson, Murray phone 3311. all-tfw Lumber Sawing Commercial sawing from your own logs lumber cut to your specifications. We have ready cut dimen sion lumber and sheeting for sale at low prices. NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY The line of cards for Mother's day at the Bates Book & Gift shop is one of the largest that has been brought to this city. Call and make your selection now. . NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter cf the estate of Ru doph II. Ramsel, 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 Cth day of May. A. D. 1932 and on the th day of August. A. 1. 1932. at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each day, to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allow ance. The time limited for the pre sentation of claims spainst said es tate is three months from the Cth day of May, A. D. 1932, and the time limited for payment cf debts is one year from said Cth day of May, 1D32. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 8th day of April, 1932. A. II. DUX BURY, (Seal) all-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State cf Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John Stuart Livingston, deceased. To the creditors of sa!d estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room In Plattsmouth. in eaid county, on the 20th day cf May, A. D. 1932 and on the 22nd day of August, A. D. 1932. at ten o'clock ir the forenoon of each day, to receive and examine all claims against said t state, with a view to their adjustmeni and allow ance. The time limited fir the pre-f-entation of claims agains said es tate is three months from the 20th day of May, A. D. 1932, r.nd the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 20th day of May, 1932. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 23rd day of April, 1952. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) a23-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass county, ps. To all persons Interested in the estate of Margaret Wehrbein, deceas ed: On reading the petition of John F. Wehrbein praying a final settle ment and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 18th day of April. 1932. an J for settlement and distribution of said estate and dis charge of executor; It is hereby ordered that 3'ou and all persons interested in said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said coun ty, on the 20th day of May, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. in., to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons In terested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said county, for three weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this ISth day of April, A. D. 1S32. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) a25-3w . County Judge. NOTICE OF SALE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the trusteeship cf the estate of Anna Gorder Ploetz, de ceased: Notice is hereby given that in pur suance of an order of the Honorable James T. Begley, Judge of the District- Court of Cass county, Nebraska, made on the 12th day of March. 1932, for the sale of real estate hereinafter described for the payment of legacies and expenses of administration under the last will and testament of Anna Gorder Ploetz, deceased, there will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the south door of the Court House at Plattsmouth. Ne braska, on the 30th day of April, 1932, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., the following described real estate, to-wit: . The east one-half (E4) of the northeast quarter (NEU) of Section eighteen (18), Town ship twelve (12), north of Range thirteen (13), east of the Cth P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska, and an undivided one-half inter est in and to Lots two (2), three (3) and four (4), in Block thirty-five (35), in the City of Weep ing Water in Cass county, Ne braska. That the sale will be held open for the period of one hour and that the highest bid will be submitted to the Court for confirmation and approval. Dated this 26th day of March, 1932. FRANK A. CLOIDT, Trustee of the Estate of Anna Gorder, Ploetz, Deceased. A. L. TIDD. Attorney. . m28-Bw