MOanXlY, TOE 27, 1932. PLATTSMOTTTH SEJD- WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THE El TThe IPlattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOTTTH. NEBRASKA Entered at Poatoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Poetai Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles. $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries. 3.S0 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. If the Indians want the country back, now is a good time to let their wants be made vocal. :o: As a general rule, the average man becomes a pest a3 soon as he finds out be can make - a speech. :o: The principal trouble in the busi ness world right now is too many receivers and not enough receipts. - :o: -What shall we invent next?" asks The Literary Digest. If you do not receive a better suggestion, how about a self -balancing budget? :o: It's a happy marriage if ten years later the one who loved and won doesn't envy the lucky boob who loved and lost. :o: Governor Roosevelt has blo33omed out with a spokesman, who has one of the usual shortcomings of spokes men talking too much. :o: Law and order, says a reformer, is the need of the day. Personally, we could get along with fewer laws If we could get a few more orders. :o: Another tax that won't be so popular with folks is the one on boats, and this just before a Tot of candidates are due to go up "Salt River." to;- The average American, it is esti mated, works sixty-one days in each year for the tax collector. The other 204 days he works for the install ment collector. :o; A teacher says the matter of breathing is of little importance to the crooning type of vocalist. Oth ers, more radical, are for dispensing with this entirely. . , :o: J Due to th great number of coun terfeit coins circulating in Siam to day, the large banks keep staffs of trained monkeys to test, by biting, all their metallic money. - :o: As further evidence of how the tide is setting in against prohibition. It is' reported that fifty new verses Cf the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Lave been discovered in Persia. o: - Soviet Russia, where stern treat ment is accorded the slipshod work man, is giving baseball a trial, and we expect to hear any time that S00 short-stops a week are being cxe cuted. :o: Chicago expects 50 million visitors to the world's fair. Perhap3 that would be a good time to start a war on the hoodlums, pobably at that time having them slightly outnumbered. Fifty and Fit Mm MAN is as old or as young 1 a his organs. 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Cavemen are believed to nave found them so. :o: Congress appropriates millions from an empty treasury and then de nounces the bears for selling stock they do not own. :o: Even if beer should come back, where ran we fird any of those huky boys who used to drive the big horses and toss the big iecs? :o: With both political conventions in Chicago this year, Al Capone missed out on a lot of business because he didn't pay his income tax. :o: One difference between the girls of early days and those of today, is that they ued to kiss and make up. and now they make tip and kiss. :o: A man in a Boston court spoke a language none of thirty interpreters could understand. We'll bet it was Negro dialect as written by Yankee authors. :o: Occasionally the very same man who whooped it up for Ritchie at the party last night comes out f.atly and firmly next morning for F. Scott McBride. :o: Much to their credit, all of the Seabury investigation reporters man fully resisted the temptation to say that Jimmie was wisecracking under the strain. :o: Covernor Murray announces that he has no hope of getting the Demo cratic nomination. This makes the Governor practically unique anions Democrats. :o: Apparently those Navy officials who have ruled that ensigns can't marry until two years after they've graduated discount the value of prac tical fighting experience. :o: Someone has noticed that all the football Etar3 who a few years ago would have become bond salesmen are now going in for crooning in Jazz orchestras. It Just seem3 that no mat ter how the economic situation changes around, the ex-football stars have to croon to somebody. :o: Senator Reed of Pennsylvania as sailed S2nator Huey Long of Louis iana the other day because Long has been absent from the senate and looking after state affairs down at home. Huey, it Eeems, simply cannot give satisfaction. 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And we can remem ber when big league baseball would have been considered in very low es tate any time anything that hap pened to Mr. Shires was considered costly. :o: The Toledo Blade has noticed that whether your vocabulary is 500 words, or 5,000, the word you want when you want it has a woy of es caping. There is a word which ex presses this condition exactly, but it seems to have escaped us, for a moment. :o: A Hollywood movie producer who has announced he will make a pic ture 'with a complete cast of Eski mos, may believe that is what he will do. but we are willing to bet 2 to 1 that in the finished produc tion at least one of the characters will say "Dahling" and "bean." :o: The Veterans of Foreign Wars have demanded an apology from Sen ator James Hamilton Lewis. This item probably is interesting chiefly to Sinclair Lewis, who will be glad to learn that there is another Lswis to receive some of the demands for apologies which he usually receives. :o: Governor Roosevelt announces that his name is pronounced "Rose-a-ve!t." We hadn't thought much about it before, but it does seem im portant right now. How long it will remain important, of course, de pends upon several other fellow Dem ocrats whose pronunciation is less in doubt. :o: Ruth Bryan Owen, having been defeated for nomination, announces her determination to resign her seat in the national house rather than serve out the term as a lame duck. Babe Ruth, who is slowly but sure ly losing a battle against Father Time, refuses to cling to a New York pension, but will leave the Yankees at the end of this season and become a magnate on hi3 own account. Our modern Ruths are frequently good sports, after all. :o: $48,000,000 INSULT TO WAR VETERANS The vote in the senate defeating the proposal to save 4S million dol lars by eliminating abuses in the veterans bureau is a gratuitous in sult to the more than four million men who served in the army of the United States in the world war. It should be understood that this 4S million dollars was to have been saved by the elimination of mani fest graft secured at the expense of the decent, patriotic ex-service men by unscrupulous individuals who had worn the uniform. To defeat a proposal of that char acter is to assume that the men who made up the American army during the world war not only condone, but approve, graft at the government's expense when indulged in by for mer soldiers. That is an unwarrant ed assumption and an indefensible arpersion on the patriotism and good citizenship of the red-blooded Amer icans who wore the uniform of the United States, and brought victory to the allies' cause. Not only is the assumption that ex-service men as a whole approve selfish exploitation of service in the army untrue, but the action of the majority of the senate in defeating the proposal under discussion is elo quent . of the cowardice that reigns in the ranks of both political par ties. Honest ex-service men every where, both republicans and demo crats, are opposed to granting retired pay to former emergency officers on the mere presumption of injury in the line of duty. The injury must be actual, as in the case of regular army officers. Honest ex-service men do not want vseran3 to enjoy retired pay at the expense of the government while earning salaries in their civil ian capacity ample to provide for their needs. Honest and patriotic ex service men are perfectly willing to have curtailed the privileges of vet erans not incapacitated in line of duty. To assume otherwise is to assume that the men who made up the great army that won the world war are not good citizens. The exact reverse is the truth. They constitute the backbone of our citizenship. The small percentage of their number who seek to exploit their service at the expense of the rest of the coun try represent but a negligible frac tion of the millions who answered the call to arms In '17 and '18. If the senate is too cowardly to vote out abuses in the veterans' bu reau, what hope is there for any sat isfactory program of economy that will balance the federal budget? Chicago News. NO SINCERE EFFORT , FOR RETRENCHMENT On the question of economy in Washington, the plain truth is that tho whole outfit is determined to get from under. That goes for the Hoo ver administration and it goes for both parties in congress. They can impose new taxes, and imposed them with a vengeance. But when the equally necessary duty of retrench ment is approached, and morally the more obligatory duty, they run out and pots begin calling kettles black. At no tima has the move for econ omy been free of political jockeying. And at no time has either the admin istration or congress been on firm ground a3 to what had been done or what could be done. With Washing ton full of accountants and book keepers, nobody, either in the admin istration or in congress, made an honest effort to trace cut the effect of proposed curtailments for the pur pose of presenting a clear, definite and dependable picture of the re sults. Nobody either in the adminis tration or in congress has gone to the trouble to guard against decep tion of the public through duplica tions of proposed curtailments. No body either in the administration or in congress has surely and reliably segregated mere postponements from actual curtailments. They all started in insincerity and they have gone on in careless inefficiency. When to that is added their subsurvience to the various groups that are in terested in preserving the status quo, the result could scarcely have fail ed to be the farce that the nation has witnessed. They offer lip-service to economy in loud shouts and they dod,e constantly. It is a disgrace, for it amounts to extortion and robbery upon a dis tressed people. It also is a menace, for it leaves the national budget dis tinctly short of the balance which was promised by all. They all knew at every' stage of the tax bill's pro gress that it did not carry enough to balance the budget, not even after the administration belatedly and hesitantlv revised its estimates of need on May 31 and congress there upon stepped up in some measure the amount of taxes. At every Etage they knew that an honest balance of the budget depended upon large econo mies a3 well as upon taxes, and they repeatedly promised large economies. But once the taxes were laid, the standard of a balanced budget has drooped in neglect. Mr. Hoover and his administration,, the republican and democratic leaders of congress all of them had their minds and their Interests elsewhere. Balti more Sun. :o: VICTIM OF SIEGE OBLIGES New lork Twenty - two po licemen stood outside a house in Brooklyn tossing teaf'gas bombs at Stanley Caroli, holding forth inside with a butcher knife, only to see them tossed right back again. Finally one of the officers had a bright idea. "Throw out the knife, too," he yelled. Caroli did, and from them on it was simple. :o: Now that tie college gang is home we hear a lot of talk about Greek letter sororiti and fraternities. We overheard tvo little tots talking about fraternities and sororities yes terday and id doubt they recently heard the names of two of the or ganizations. Dne of them declared his sister waj a "Dama Fine Baby" while her brother wa3 a "Signify." 1 :o: Phone ttJ news to No. C. we are all looking ese days of the at depression. In view of, this fact, we are offering the f ollowig labor specials for a lim ited time inly. Bring your car in! ttlve Special Including Refacing and Reseating Valves Cleaning Carbon and Tiling up the Elotor Chevrolet 6 $3.50 Chevrolet 4 2.75 Ford, IMel A 3.75 aring Special Ad J ust i Pain and Rod Bearings ad Cleaning Oil Pan ChevrolJ 6 S4.C3 ChevroW 4 1 Ford, Udel A 5.CO ove Prices are for Labor Only C V. Bryant are whsi j for tl i gr, 0-K farage Phone 76 LACK OF POWER OR LACK OF PURPOSE? At a recent meeting of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London one of the speakers, refer ring to the project for an interna tional army which has just been dropped by the French delegation to the Disarmament Conference, sug gested that it might be impossible to rely on such a force, because the League would not reach a decision in time to help the people unjustly attacked. Instead of drawing the moral that the League would not be strengthened by being militarized. nor would militarization increase the sense of security, he went on to argue that measures should be taken to re-enforce the Covenant, whose flaws "had been exposed very promi nently by the conflict between Japan and China." In reply, M. Marcel Ray, an ex tremely able French publicist, who was one of the collaborators of M. Briand, and who is always moderate in his statements, put his finger on the real point when he said that "the feebleness of the League is more moral than organic, and what it suf fers from is not lack of power, but lack of will. So far as the Sino-Jap-anese conflict is concerned, the League, with the powers at present at its disposal, could have done many things, and cid not do them." There was no desire on either side to criticize the League, but merely to state the facts and to suggest how the League might be improved. On the one hand is the assertion that the League not only needs an army, but greater possibilities for the speedy application cf sanctions. On the other hand is the affirmation that the League does not use the means already at its disposal, and it is not by multiplying those mean3 that it will become more powerful. but rather by strengthening its moral purpose. And surely it is M. Marcel Ray who is right. The French have a saying that the bad workman always complains of his tool3. The advocates of sanctions are perpetually obliged to argue that if only the League had this or that all would be well. If. indeed, the League had this or that, they would go on to protest that it should have something else. The truth is that the League is hampered and harassed by the pos session of theoretical powers which it cannot use, and that it would be still further weakened were it given greater powers which it would be equally unable to use. Here is no paradox: the fear that it may log ically be forced into a policy of sanc tions is a perpetual embarrassment to the League and enfeebles its will. That is why enlightened opinion in Europe is turning away from the idea of a militarized League, and a League which may physically men ace a wrongdoer; and is turning in stead to the idea of a moral League which, relieved sfrom considerations of the consequences to itself, would be free to exercise fearlessly its moral authority. The American public has always, more or less instinctively, believed the obligation to apply sanctions au tomatically to be a danger. The ma terial conception of the League tends to destroy the moral conception of the League. The choice must sooner or later be made. It is probable that if the unfortunate Article 16 were dropped completely, the United States would be drawn toward a moral League. If Europe Is prepared to scrap its sanctions, which have always been a stumblingblock to Anierican co-oper alion, inasmuch as they imply hypo thetical (though ineffective) obliga tions, will not the United States thei be prepared to recognize the neces sity of consultations in all circum stances that touch the interests and ideals of all nations? These consul tations are in fact inescapable; but they would have a far greater moral weight if they were given their proper status in the international polity. The time, has surely come for the European and American govern ments to consider whether the sys tern of automatic sanctions should not be definitely and publicly aban doned in return for the establish ment, also definite and public, of a system of automatic consultations. :o: STRANGER THAN FICTION Was there ever such a complicated. unsolved mystery plot outside of the pages of a detective novel than the Lindbergh tragedy and its ramifica tions have developed into? The kidnaping itself was suffi ciently horrifying. The discovery weeks later that the little boy had been ruthlessly murdered was one of the most gruesome shocks the Am erican people have ever received. The subsequent disclosures of at tempts to profit from the grief of the agonized parents make one wonder whether there is any such thing as honor and decency left in the world. The total failure of Federal, state and local authorities to get any tan gible evidence of the identify of the criminals is almost beyond belief. Then the suicide of the servant girl in the Morrow household, who took poison rather than face another in quiry by the police, adds still another touch of mystery and tragedy to the whole affair. When the whole truth is known, if it ever becomes known, the plain, unadulterated, straightforward story of the Lindbergh affair will take its place with the classics of detective fiction. :o: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Perhaps the most tragic figure in the world today is net the exiled King of Spain or the dethroned Kaiser mourning for the lost glories of the Hohenzollerns, but the man who only a few veek3 ago was the head of the greatest light and power industry in the world and who to day is penniless except for a small pension. Stripped cf hi3 power and his property, with all of his private means and those of his family gone in the effort to save his great power combine from collapse, Samuel In sull, at seventy-four, is going to le turn to his native England, to spend his few remaining years on a pen sion of $18,000 a year, $G.000 from each of three of the corporations which he formerly dominated. There have been violent differ ences of opinion about Mr. Insull's business methods and ethics. There never has been any difference of opinion about his enormous energy and his business genius. Eorn ir. England of Jewish parents, he got his firct employment as a rteno grapher in the London office of Mr. Edison's very young electric light company. His reports to Mr. Edison were so intelligently phrased that the inventor sent for him to come to America as his personal secretary. That was more than fifty years ago. Tae collapse of the Insull Empire is of slight consequence. The power companies which he established and amalgamated will continue to do business and doubtless to develop along the lines of his vision. And at seventy-four it probably is not a serious matter to have only 118,000 a year to live on. It has been a ter rible blow, however, to the man's pride, and entitles him to everybody's sympathy. At the same time, we feci that he is entitled to a word of praise for his honorable conduct in sacrificing his personal fortune rath er than remain himself enriched by the expense of the investors in his securities. :o: We ate a sizeable wedge of straw berry shortcake the other night just before going to bed, and Oboyoboy- oooy, wnat a nigntmare ensued, ue dreamed it was the day after elec tion and Herbert Hoover was presi dent. Doc Erinkley was governor of Kansas and Henry Field was senator from Iowa. :o: Hoarded money will not help business conditions to improve. It's the money in circulation that counts I Read the Journal ads and take advantage of the many bar gains Plattsmouth business men will offer you the coming year. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. Pursuant to a stipulation entered Into between the State of Nebraska, plaintiff, Walter C. Johnson, defend ant, and The General Motors Accept ance Corporation, in the case en titled The State of Nebraska. Plain tiff vs. Walter C. Johnson, Defend ant, in the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska. I will sell at the west front door of the Court House at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on the 16th day of July, 1932. at public auction to the highest bidder for cash. One Deluxe Chevrolet Coupe, 1931 Model, Engine No. 2S33SC2. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 13th, 1932, A. D. ED W. THIMGAN. Sheriff of Cas3 County, Nebraska. J13-5w SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. 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, 1 1 will on the 9th day of July, A. D. ' 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m. of paid day at the south front door of the court house in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate, to-wit: Lots seven (7) and eight (8) In Block fifty-seven (57) in the City cf Plattsmouth, in Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of John Bauer, Jr., and Emma Bauer, defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court re covered by L. F. Holferty, plaintiff against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, June 3, A. D. 1932. ED. W. THIMGAN, Sheriff of Cass county, Nebraska. 6-5w 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 SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Ord r of Fal issued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the Dis trict Court wi'.hin and for Cass coun ty, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 2nd day of July. A. D. 1932. at 10 o'clock a. in. of naid day at the south front door of the court house in said county, f-ell at rublic auction to the highest bidder for tath the following real estate, to-wit: The south tne-half (S1) of Lots five (5) and six () in Block twenty (20). in the City of riatismouth, Cass county, Nebraska The same being levied upon and taken as the property of 15. A. nosencrans et al. Defendants, to satisfy a judg ment of said Court recovered by The Standard Savings and Loan Associa ticn, plaintiff against said defend ants. I'lattsmcuth, Nebraska, May 2Cth, A. D. 19C2. ED. W. THIMOAN. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. m30-5w NOTICE OP ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun iy, Nc bra-ka. In the matter of the estate of John F. Oorder, deceased. Fee Bcok 9. Page No. 305. Notice of Administration. Ail persons interested in said es tate are hereby notified that a petition ha: been filed in said Court alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and testament ani praying for administration upon his estate and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the premises as may be required by the statutes in surli cases made and provided to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally set tled and determined, and that a hear ing will be had on said petition be fore said Court cn the 22nd day of July. A. D. 1932, and that If they fail to appear at said Court on said 22nd day cf July. A. D. 1932, at 9 o'clock a. m., to contest the said peti tion, the Court may grant the same and grant administration cf said es tate to Henrietta Gorder or nome other suitable person and proceed to a tettlenient thereof. Dated this 22nd day of June, A. D 1932. A. H. DUNBURY. (Seal) j27-3w County Judge. OF1DER OF HEARING Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account nd In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cans county, sr. To all persons Interested In the cs tatet of John Rich, deceased: On reading the petition of Frank A. Cloidt, Administrator C. T. A., praying a final settlement and allow ance of his account filed in this Court on the 18th day of June. 1932, and for final assignment of the resi due of said estate and for his dis charge a3 Administrator, C. T. A. thereof It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested In said matter maj. and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for nald coun ty, on the 15th day of July, 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 interested in paid matter by publish ing a copy of this order in the riatts- 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 ISth day of June, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURV. (Seal) j20-3w County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE To Byron Cough, Joseph Kinsey and all persons having or claiming any interest in or to 33 acres off the south side of Lot C. and in or to Frac tional Let 27 of Government Lot 3. all in Section 33. in Township 12. North, Range 14, East of the Sixth Principal Meridian, in Cass county, Nebraska, real names unknown, de fendants: Notice is hereby given that Louis Stava and Samuel T. Gilmour as plaintiffs, have filed in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, their petition against you as defendants, praying for the decree of said court barring and excluding each and all of you from having or claiming any right, title. Interest or lien in or to any of said real estate, and quieting the title to "3 acres off the south side of Lot 6 in Section 33, Township 12, North. Range 14, East of the Cth P. M.. In Cass county, Nebraska, In Louis Stava: and quieting the title to frac tional Lot 27 of Government Lot 3 In Section 23, Township 12. North, Range 14, Eat of the 6th P. M.. in Cass county, Nebraska, in Samuel T. Gilmour, all In fee simple title. You are required to answer fald petition in said Court at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on or before July 25th, A. D. 1932, cr your default will be en tered and a decree entered. In accord ance with the prayer of said peti tion. LOUIS STAVA and SAMUEL T. GILMOUR C. A. Rawln, Plaintiffs. Attorney. j6-4w