THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1932.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Kitler lacks Putsch.
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While talk of taxes waxes, what
e need is taxes axes.
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America's untouchable caste seems
to be the big racketeers.
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Another thing just around the
corner is the lawn-mower.
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Automobiles may change, but the
back seat remains the same.
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The reason politics make strange
bedfellows is because they like the
same bunk.
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As a general thing, the region
where the population is too thick is
just north of the ears.
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We wouldn't say the national def
ifit is a crime, altho $2,000,000,000
is a pretty naughty sum.
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Our own solution would be to tax
out of existence the corner around
which prosperity is hiding.
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It begins to look as if the Five
Year Plan might succeed in about
two or three hundred years.
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Housekeepers say that if you want
to get a thing well done, just hire
a Japanese to beat your Chinese
rugs!
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If you dye a horse to win a race,
that's a crime; if you dye hair to
win a meal ticket, that's feminine
charm or something.
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Automotive engineers have found
ways to silence everything about the
new models except the passenger who
always knows you should have taken
the left-hand road about ten miles
back.
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This is the time of year that the
fisherman is looking over his tackle,
reading advertisements for baits,
plugs, flies and whatnot and, what
is worse for the purse, is believing
every ad he read3 as to the possibility
of the new-fangled baits coming
through.
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It is said that the old-fashioned
young man, when proposing to his
girl, always told her he was not good
enough for her. Having made in
quiry of certain elderly ladies, we
find that not only is this rumor true,
but almost invariably they break
down and confess that for once the
o. f. y. m. was telling the truth.
The Direct
MOTOR
Publisher
If he has his appendix and his
tonsils, the chances are he is a doc-;
tor.
Butter is $1.14 a pound in Russia.
Now the Russians know which side
their bread is buttered on; neither.
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When the government places a tax
on matches, it is going to be tough
on the fellow who has a habit of let
ting his pipe go out.
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Scientist says that this universe
is made up of protons, photons, elec
trons, and neutrons. Ke forgot to
mention the morons.
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Rumors circulate on main streets
in hick towns just a rapidly as they
do on Wall street, but these rumors
are of a different nature.
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Senator Dickinson of Iowa has
been chosen keynoter of the Repub
lican national convention. Good, we
were afraid it would be Fess again.
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"The best man's job," says Emily
Post, "is to see groom arrives wher
ever the wedding is to be on (irae."
Really, to be on the safe side, we
suppose, the best man should also be
the bestest man.
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America's first bathtub was im
ported, we are told, by Eli Whitney.
Mr. Whitney was the inventor of
the cotton gin. All of which has
nothing whatever to do with the
origin cf the modern term, bathtub
gin.
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Movies are always looking for box
office interest, and newspapers lite
to think of reader interest, and now
we guess our legislative bodies,
from congress to the city council, are
all trying to work up some taxpayer
interest.
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"Did you ever hear anybody with
a queen of hearts in his hand cry,
'Praise the Lord. I've got a queen of
hearts!" queries the chaste and
soulful Aimee, and then adds. "Cer
tainly not." Certainly not, indeed,
Mrs. Hutton, nothing le3s than the
tee would elicit that cry.
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A small boy in a grade school had
been severely chastised by his teach
er. "Do ydu think you ever can grow
up to be President and act like that?"
she asked. "I dunno," replied tne
culprit, "but take it from me if some
day I should get to be President, I'd
sure make you secretary of war."
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LISTING WHO'S WHO
IN SHORT SELLING
Disclosure of the big bears whose
short-selling maneuvers may be hid
den behind the operations of trading
companies is the vitally important
and Justifiable aim of the federal
senate committee investigating re
cent transactions on the New York
Stock Exchange. Efforts by aliens
to undermine American confidence
and shake the econoT3 structure
which it sustains are indicated by
facts already elicited facts that call
for thorough investigation. Efforts
of like purpose, inspired by political
considerations or other motives that
ignore the general welfare, if pro-
moted by American citizens would
appear to be even more nefarious.
The public has a right to know if
such attempts have been made and,
in that event, who were the persons
offending against the interests of the
nation. Trading companies must not
be permitted to screen the principals
in short-selling raids which have de
pressed the market and driven stocks
far below their true values.
Many stocks are selling below the
officially stated value of the net
current assets of the companies. For
example, on December 31 Swift & Co.
stock, now selling at about $15.50
a share, had a book value of $37.18
a share, the company's net working
capita! being equal to $20.80 a share
on the stock outstanding. Montgom
ery Ward & Co. common stock is
selling around $7.25 a share, al
though its book value is $25.68 a
share, and the company's net work
ing capital, amounting to $94.S03,
S44, is equal to $16 a share on the
common stock after deduction of the
face amount of the Class "A" stock.
Instances of the sort might be mul
tiplled indefinitely.
President Whitney's defense of
the stock exchange was made with
the air of one who believed that in
stitution to occupy a rarefied atmos
phere of impeccable sanctity as the
temple of speculation. He resents
rude intrusion upon its rites and
mysteries. But the American people
are not convinced by his high-priest
ly attitude. Short selling has its
legitimate functions, but it is also
subject to grave abuses, and there is
good cause to believe that, for rea
sons that shun the light, it has been
used deliberately to hammer values
to unjustified low levels.
To measure American capacity for
recovery by the syncopated yardstick
of Wall street bears is to cheat con
fidence. That cheating trick must
be exposed. Attorney Gray, expert
legal examiner for the senate com
mittee, has made a good beginning.
The country will sustain the com
mittee in pressing the leads he has
developed with insistence on discov
ery of all the facts. Chicago News.
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The j-oung lady who took her boy
friend for an 8-hour taxicab ride in
order to get him alone and propose
and received only an emphatic "No"
for an answer each of the dozen
times she propounded the question,
shouldn't feel too much the loser in
the transaction. If he had accepted
he would have made a terribly stub
born husband.
THAT
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PROVIDING GARDENS
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
The success of gardening activi
ties in providing food for the un
employed last year leads the presi
dent's organization on unemploy
ment relief to urge that the work be
taken up again this spring, and on.
a larger scale. Here is a method
that gives help where it is needed,
and without the pauperization of out
right donations. The unemployed get
work, and the crops are a return
from their labors, with a most whole
some effect on group morale. Vacant
lots and idle tracts near the cities
are put to a good social use by the
plan.
The returns from gardening,
whether sponsored by cities, indus
trial firms, organization?, or indi
viduals, are very large as compared
with the monetary outlay requiad.
The community gadens at Columbus.
O.. cost $983, with 270 families, to
taling 1,400 persons, taking part,
and produced vegetables valued at
13 thousand dollars. The Chicago
and Illinois Midland railroad rpon
sored gardens covering 23 acres at
Springfield, 111., at a cost of $1,250
and a return of 10 thousand dollars
in rood. Detroit, with a fund of 18
thousand dollars, financed 2,765
gardens, over three hundred acres,
which produced food valued at 218
ihousand dollars.
The health- thrift community gar
dens project has been organized in
St. l.ouis, under the leadership of
Julius A. Baer, and arrangemente
have been made to cultivate two ex
tensive tracts of ground. This is an
admirable nucleus, but the movement
should be expanded here to give work
and food to more of our estimated 90
thousand unemployed. In this con
nection the importance of canning
these garden products should not be
overlooked. St. Louis passed up the
opportunity to establish a municipal
cannery last summer, while thou
sands of bushels of fruits and vege
tables went to waste in adjacent farm
areas. Welcome Inn canned about
30 thousand quarts, the St. Louis
County Welfare league put up three
thousand cans, and an East St. Louis
group conducted a cannery, but these
barely touched Vae possibilities of
preserving food for the winter.
Other cities were not so negligent,
and carried on extensive canning ac
tivities, under municipal or organ
ization sponsorship, along with their
gardening campaigns! This lighten
ed the burden on Communitf Chests
and public relief, while providing
the needy with wholesome foods they
oculd not have bought. St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
CUTS
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CRIBBING BY CONTRACT
It is to be hoped that recent news
items bearing upon examinations in
American universities have founda
tion more in rumor than in fact.
If information reaching the Prince
ton Alumni Weekly is correct, the
existence of an organization traffick
ing in the contraband of the class
room known as "cribbing" material
has been uncovered. The purveyors
of this unpleasant product are charg
ed with endeavoring to develop their
activities into another major indus
try by offering students in univer
sities a four-year supply of essays for
$100 cash. Mass production in high
er education in the United States
has been the target for many at
tacks, but this extension of the doc
trine will hardly find favor with its
most ardent proponents.
The other announcement, in a
way, is even a bit more startling. At
the University of Chicago, says the
Associated Press, steps are being
taken to prevent outsiders shipping
in and taking examinations there
next June. "It's to prevent strang
ers who have paid no tuition from
intruding," Mr. George A. Works,
university examiner, is quoted as say
ing. Those intending to enter the ex-,
animations will be required to fur-j
nish in advance photographs of them- j
selves. It is contended by some of
the students that the measure is di-
lected against attempts at taking
"exams" by proxy.
It is difficult to say which is more
disquieting the assumption that a
wide-open, ready market exists for
substitutinf the easier way of decep
tion for the harder one of diligence,
or the fact that American institu
tions cf learning have grown into
such huge factories for furnishing
degrees that a student is known to
the faculty only as. "photograph
666."
One likes to believe that the racket
in cribbing will perish for lack of a
market, that honesty among young
men and women in school and col
lege is the rule and not the excep
tion, and that they are too sane in
their outlook and too intelligent not
to realize that the plagiarist and
purloiner in the classroom cheats
no one so much as himself or her
self. And the successful results of
the increasing movement toward the
tutorial method in- American uni
versities raise high hope that these
institutions may more nearly ap
proaeh that close association between
master and pupil which character
ized President Garfield's definition of
a university as "Mark Hopkins at
one end of a log and a student on the
other."
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A "BOLL CALL OF DISHONOR'
"The most lawless among the great
civilized industrial nations of the
world."
With, this indictment. Dr. Fred
erick . Hoffman, consulting statisti
cian of the Spectator, an insurance
publication of New York, concludes
his analysis of our national homicide
record for 1931.
Here are the coldly statistical
facts upon which Dr. Hoffman bases
his pessimistic conclusions:
The country's mountaing
homicide record has doubled dur
ing the last thirty years.
Approximately 12,000 lives
are thus sacrificed annually, at
the average age of 31.
The consecutive record for
thirty-one American cities, with
a 25 million population in 1931,
shows a progressive rise in the
homicide detth rate from 5.1 per
100,000 in 1900 to 8.5 in 19i0
r.r.d 10.8 in 1931.
These figures represent all deaths
resulting from "wilful actions rep
resenting various degrees of respon
sibility from involuntary manslaugh
ter to deliberate murder."
This is our national roll call of
dishonor, laments the Philadelphia
Evening Public Ledger, admitting
that "America still holds the unen
viable position at the top of the list
of the homicide records of the world."
Dr. Hoffman's cold, relentless fig
ures shock the press from coast to
coast, and no daily doubts their
soundness.
Many, too, agree with the indig
nant statistician, when he quotes a
French authority to the effect that
we "should legislate againsi me re
volver with as much severity as
against drugs." For,' insists Dr. Hoff
man: "
The means to murder, chiefly
roncealable firearms, are read
ily obtainable anywhere, for it
is a profitable trade.
Murder by firearms consti
tutes from two-thirds to three
fourths of all the deaths due to
homicide, according to the local
ities. The greatest of all scandals
is the facility with which gang
sters can obtain machine guns
and employ them in open war
fare against each other, and on
occasion against the public at
large. It also is a profitable
trade which congress apparent
ly reluctant to interfere with.
From the Literary Digest.
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SOME RESULTS OF ELECTION
The state canvassing board in ses
sion at Lincoln, have made the com
pletion cf the returns from the recent
primary election for the various of
fices and with the results as shown
below. The local candidate for the
democratic nomination for governor,
George Walter Olson, received 4,181.
The total vote was 2S3.S38, dem
ocratic ballots totaling 156. C4S and
republican, 127,190. In the 1930 pri
mary, 294 thousand ballots were
cast.
The official count finally decided
several "horse races," chief among
these being that between Harry O.
Palmer, Omaha lawyer, and Chief
Justice Charles Goss of the supreme
court, both cf whom were nomin
ated. Judge Goss won "medal" hon
ors by 589 votes. His total was 74,
467 and Palmer's 73,875.
Carpenter Wins by 32.
Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff
won the democratic nomination for
congress from the new "big fifth"
district, defeating a field of seven op
ponents, three by a very slender mar
gin. He nosed out Thomas C. Os
borne of Alliance by 32 votes. Guy
V .Doran, Sidney publisher, was a
close third. These three candidates
ran as follows: Carpenter, 4.70S;
Osborne, 4,676; Doran, 4,666.
The tabulation gave Dwight Gris
wold of Gordon, republican nominee
for governor, a plurality of 3.021
votes over State Senator Kenneth S.
Wherry of Pawnee City, the runner
up in a field of six candidates. Gris-
wold's total vote was 39,386 and
Wherry's. 36,365.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor
of New York, swept the state in his
democratic quest for the presiden
tial delegation. The vote in this race
was Roosevelt, 91,393; John N. Gar
ner, 27,359, and Governor William
"Alfaifa Bill" Murray of Oklahoma,
25,214.
Hitchcock High.
Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Omaha pub
lisher and former United States sen
ator was top in a field of 11 for dele
gates at large to the democratic na
tional convention. This race result
ed as follows:
G. M. Hitchcock, 91,460; Mayor
Richard L. Metcalfe of Omaha, 83,
115; Keith Neville. 75.239; Dan V.
Stephens, 62,951; W. H. Thompson,
59,878; Thomas S. Allen, 55,542; J.
J. Thomas, 50,323; I. J. Dunn, 50,
03S; George W. O'Malley, 49,988;!
Webb Rice 41,966, and Earl M. Mar
vin, 37,599.
FOE SALE
Delco automatic light plant, near
ly new. Inquire Robert Patterson,
Murray phone 3311. al4-tfw
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 of the estate of John
Stuart Livingston, 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
20th day of May, A. D. 1932 and on
the 22nd day of August, A. D. 1932.
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of
each daj. 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 against said es
tate is three months from the 20th
day of May. A. D. 1932, and 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, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
Seal) a23-3w County Judge.
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GECZASXA CASXET FACTC2Y
The To-He-Ho Camp Fire croup
met at the rublic library May 2,
1932. We discussed about Mothers
day and planned to have a bake sale
Saturday, May 14th.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter cf the estate of Wil
liam D. Coleman, deceased.
Notice of Administration.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said court al
leging that said deceased died leav
ing no last will and testament and
praying for administration upon his
estate and for such other and further
orders and proceedings In the prem
ises as may be required by the stat
utes in such cases made and provided
to the end that said estate and all
things pertaining thereto may be
finally settled and determined, and
that a hearing will be had on said
petition before paid Court en the
27th day of May. A. D. 1932, and
that if they fall to api?ar at said
Court on said 27th day of May. A. D.
1932, at ten o'clock a. m.. to contest
the said petition, the Court may
grant the same and grant adminis
tration of said estate to N. D. Talcott
or some other suitable person and
proceed to a settlement thereof.
-Dated this 27th day of April. A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) m2-Sw 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, ss.
To all persons interested in the es
tate of Etta Perry Barker, deceased:
On reading the petition of Bernice
Kiser. administratrix, praying a final
settlement and allowance of her ac
count filed in this Court on the 28th
day of April, 1932, and for final as
signment of the residue of said es
tate and for her discharge as Admin
istratrix thereof
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 27th day of May. A.
D. 1932. at ten o'clock a. m., 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 b)r publishing
a crpy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper 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 2Sth day of April, A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) m2-3w 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, ss.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Margaret Wchrbein, deceas
ed: On reading the petition of John
F. Wehrbeln praying a final settle
ment and allowance of his account
filed in this Court on the ISth day
of April, 1932, and for settlement and
distribution of said estate and dis
charge of executor:
It is hereby ordered that you and
11 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. m., 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 persona 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 18th day of April, A. D.
1932.
A. II. DUXBURY.
(Seal) a25-3w County Judge. .