MONDAY. AUGUST 1. 1932. PLATTSXOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TKKEB Ihe IPIattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR LN EIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, S2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, S3. 00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. If there is anything that can travel faster than gossip, it must be mis fortune. :o: "There is a certain amount of luck in bridge." says a writer. A good deal depends on a good deal. :o: Another thing that has been both ering a local citizen, is what people do with their empty ginger ale bot tles. :o: "There was a contest among the girls at our house last night." said a very droopy-looking young woman today, "to see who could stay out the latest, and I won." :o: Mary Pickford wouldn't resume an airplane flight because she couldn't get in touch with her astrol oger. Mary isn't quite as bright a star as many people think. :o: A machine to stop and collect enemy bullets has been devised fey a Japanese inventor. What is reeded now is something to prevent the bullets from being started. :o: The divorce evil has changed the meaning of . some words. For in stance, a girl was asked recently if she was unmarried. "Gosh, no." was the reply. "I haven't ever, been mar ried yet." :o: A year's observation has convinced the California magistrate who is re sponsible for stocking one of the jails in his jurisdiction with 1000 books that the inmates are profiting by their sentences. :o: After all. it's of little advantage to be of an inquisitive frame cf mind. Here, a while ago we were all agog to learn, what a torch singer is. Then one day someone explained it to us and today we've forgotten again. :o: A Moscow dispatch says baseball will be played this summer in the Park of Culture and Rest. That's raising the great American game In a new high standard. Or perhaps the name of the park will be changed. :o: We wouldn't like to play with Emily Post's crowd. We don't like the ground rules. She says corn shoulJ be held with only one hand while being eaten. The way to eat an ear of corn is to brace your el bows against the table, grasp the corn firmly with both hand3. and bend it around your face. :o: One of our contribs appends a note to his contribution expressing a feel ing of embarrassment because he was dressed strictly for comfort while writing his latest message to his public. There's no need for em barrassment, however. He ought to see how some of his readers are dressed when they read hi3 message. :o: Although Ziegfeld was a glorifier cf beauty and probably furnished more millionaires with wive3 than did any other man, he found time to marry only two of them Anna lie Id, who divorced him. and Billie Burke, to whom he had been married the last eighteen years and who was nearing his bedside when the end came. Still Mot! J Light, cool Shirts and Shorts for these torrid summer days ! JA11 to match the weather and every kind to suit your purse, priced at 25c 3Cg 49c II Phrt io'chiawlL. J It won't be long now until those who are desirous or becoming ser vants of the people can go back to work for themselves. :o: If men really cared about what other men were wearing, perhaps there would be as many men as wom en attending church. :o: Too much sleep is as harmful as overwork, according to a writer, but it seems a long time since we heard of a bad case of either. :o: The ones who really feel the evil of politics are the biographers who wrote books about the daik horses before the Democratic convention. :o; A Tennessee town had a moral up rising and burned a!l the bathing suits on the townsile in one bon fire. The blaze, it is reported, was visible at a distance of thirty or forty feet. :o: A tiny boy and his father passed under the office windows cue day last week and the child was begging for something. Finally he said, "Well, daddy, can I have it when the expression is over?" :o Money being plentiful and nobody caring what becomes of it. the gov ernment is printing a 25-volume his tory of George "Washington at a cost of $157,975. Probably the rets will go to the congressmen complimen tary. :o: Thousand- of empty bottles were found in the Chicago stadium after the Democratic convention adjourn ed. The explaantion mu?t be that the place wasn't cleaned up after the Republican convention the week be fore. :o: ' : Th? idea of a lady decorator that bad wallpaper makes bad tempers is all right, a local gent believes. He says his wife decided the wallpaper is bed and keeps asking for some new, and his temper is getting worse all the time. :o: It is said that we now are enter ing the season known as dog days. If some of us don't fill the cellar with potatoa:?, canned fruits and pre serves, dog days will start about the middle of November and last until turnip greens time. :o: In this progressive agt? when so much is bing said about frrm boards, trar'e boards, bank boards and town boards especially, Tlcuse- wives, seem to be forgetting tne pos sibilities contained in the old re liable dough board. :o: Here's a new one congress has appropriated $15,000 to salary for a man to go to Europe to look around and see what he can f.nd out about tobacco. Considering that this coun try knows more about tobacco now than Europe will ever find out, it ought to be a real snap. . :o: It is a curious and little-known fact that Napoleon narrowly escaped being born an Englishman. France and England had long been wrang ling about the possession of Corsica, and only a fevv- months before the birth of the great Napoleon in 1769 the matter had been settled in fa vor of France. -:o: The grand old game of passing the buck is cn the decline, declares a writer who believes that hard times have led people to a habit of check ing things up squarely to responsible persons. The explanation probably is that when people once get hold of a buck in hard times they are re luctant to let it go again. . -:o: Can you remember (and no of fence intended) the cans popular for small boys wear during the McKin-!ey-Bryan campaign of 18DG? The G. O. P. caps bcre a band across the front proclaiming "McKinley and Hobart" in black letters on a gold Geld; while the Democratic little boys' caps were for "Bryan and Sew ell" on a silver field; the gold and silver question was paramount in 1896. Those were the days when people really got out and tried to save the country in campaign times. COMMISSARS AND BOARD OF TRADE The farce of a hearing before an administrative board of political ap pointees having been gone through, the rights of the Chicago Board of Trade and its members are now to be tested in the only place they ever should have been tested: In open court. To anyone schooled in the tradi tional theory of American govern ment, the forms which have been gone through thus far in the board of trade case almost pass credibil ity. The government has an agency known a? the farm board which unes the taxpayers money to gamble in grain. The board of trade has per mitted the farm board to enjoy the privileges of the exchange, but at length conies to the conclusion that the agencies through which the farm board has been operating have not complied with the rules of the ex change or ct the grain marketing act ard thereupon withdraws those privileges. The law vests in the secretary cf agriculture the right to license mar kets in which future contracts can be bought and sold. He may also withdraw a license after a hearing before a commission consisting of himself, the attorney general and the secretary of commerce, all of them political appointees, all of them di rectly responsible to the wishes of the president who appoints them. buch an administration ooara migni be impartial, might respect individ ual rights, might even have a prop er knowledge of what private rights are. But such a board of commis sars might, with much greater prob ability, be expected to act as poli tical expediency and the lust for power dictate. To subject the pri vate affairs of American citizens to the whims, the ambitions and cap rices of ruch a trial board is a per version of justice, a denial of con stitutional liberty so gross as to ap pear fantastic. The absurdity ii heightened when the action of the administrative board is observed in connection with the complaint against the board of trade. The farm board wants its agencies to enjoy the privileges of the exchange and its clearing hou.e. The remedy, if cne is required, would plainlj- be to require the board to extend those privileges. Instead, the new tvranny dictates that the bocrd of trade itself must "be de stroyed and the livelihood of its members, not to mention the farm ers, cut off. Tyranny ir. the abuse of power at the expense of the citizen by his gov ernment. It is no less tyranny when the tyrant is net a king but an ad ministrative official appointed by a president. Fortunately, our con stitutional defenses against opres sion have rot wholly broken down. The commissars do not yet have the final word. That is still the province cf the courts. Chicago Tribune. :o: THE END OF SECRECY The secrecy which attached to loans made by the Reconstruction Finance corporation has been a scan dal from the beginning. We are glad congress has ended it, despite quali fications. The great sums being doled out of the federal treasury through the corporation are the people's money, and they have every right to know who are getting it. If publicity is sometimes prejudicial to the borrow er, as we can well believe, it is a thousand times more prejudicial to the public interest to keep the loans cecret. The Post-Dispatch has insisted from the outset that no secrecy should conceal the operations of the corporation. It is not surprised to observe that whereas only a few voices were raised against shoveling the people's money out under cover before the rush began, many people, including most of the members of congress, think now that publicity is safer. We are sorry Mr. Hoover, who sided in the debate with the power ful interests which fought publicity, could not agree that the utmost pub licity is the best possible guarantee against abuse of the great lending power placed in the hands of the cor poration. We said before a dollar was loan ed that the men charged with this great responsibility could not aford to lend themselves to suspicion that favoritism, or even politics, is some times a factor in making such loans, to which we imagine they assent. Certainly it ha3 not been pleasant for them to hear the criticisms of the SO million dollar loan to General Dawes Chicago bank after Ee had acted as chairman of the board. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o: If you want to sell anything, try a Journal Want-Ad. The cost is small. IOWA MAN SURVEYS TEE SEAT OF GREED Recently an Iowa business man stood with his 14-jear-old son atop the dome of the Empire building in New York. At their feet lay the great metropolis. Across the Hud son they could see Jersey City and the great industrial ports of New Jersey. Bridgeport, Conn., was vis ible in the distance. By use of bino culars they could see the dim out line of towns and cities in Massa chusetts. And as they stood mere, survey ing the impressive panorama about them, the Iov.an spoke to his son about as follows: From this point, son, we can ob serve the heart and nerve center of financial and industrial America. We can see almost to to the limits of the small area into which has been conscntrated the bulk of the power and liquid wealth of the nation. You see here the seat of green and selfish ness. "In this little area are gathered the so-railed 'best minds' whose thoughts and policies have dominat ed the government and business of the nation lor the last 12 "years, bringing ruir, hunger and want to all this great nation. "The American people now are engaged in electing a new president and a new congress. Almost, one might say, tne issue is between the interests of this little spot we see and the rest of this great land cf which we are all so proud. It doesn't seem right, and it isn't right, but it nevertheless is true. Their inter ests are not our interests out in Iowa. Their thoughts are not our thoughts. Their way3 are not our ways." That is just a paraphrase cf course, but it reflects the impressions of a thoughtful man with a keen sense of proportions and an evident flair for dramatics. And he knew whereof he spoke, for from "the seat of greed" as he termed New York, has emanated the invisible power thct controls government and shapes the affairs and selfishness. Let the people of these prairie states contemplate this man's vision and the moral he drew from it. Let them reject upen the relationship between the great farm regions and the restricted money center. Let them decide which party and which candidate speaks for the interests of the prairies and which speak3 for the "seat of greed." Sioux City Tribune. :o: CARELESSNESS IS STILL FATAL Individual carelessness still re mains the most destructive factor in injury and death from industrial accidents. A report compiled by the state department of labor shows that falls rank first as a cause of deaths and recond as a cause of injury. In a miner proportion of instances faulty construction, such as improp erly designed stairs, narrow window sills, lack of protective devices at openings in walls and floors, is to blame. In by far the greater number of instances personal heedlessness is at fault. This may be carelessness of a per son injured or of another. An open ing in the floor of a building un der construction was"7e"ft unguarded until after a workman had fallen through it to his death. For lack of a proper platform cn which to per form his work, a mechanic got on a box eighteen inches high to repair an auto top; the box tipped over; the man's head struck the concrete floor; he was killed. A butcher en tering an ice box for meat clipped on a piece of fat, fell and was fatal ly injured. A watchman stepped on a loose timer, which turned over; a driver cranking his automobile with out taking the trouble to observe it was in gear was crushed against the wall of the garage; an electrician carelessly put his feet where a slip brcugnt him into contact with a highly charged feeder wire; in each of these accidents death was the pen alty. Although makers of machinery strive constantly to devise new safety devices, they are unable to foresee and prevent accidents. A bulletin of the labor department puts it: "There is no essential difference between the heaviest printing press and a sew ing machine as regards accidents, ex cept in the size and degree of dam age." Employers should not only make sure that machinery is equip ped with every possible safety device, but they should also see to it that the instruction of each worker in accident prevention is continuous and persistent. From the New York Sun. :o: When a saleswoman says to a woman to whom she Is showing dresses, "the lines are good for you," that settles it; the customer is fat. WHERE'S MARK HANNA AND WHERE THE FAT The presidential campaign will not be actively under way, except as to the preliminary preparation, for another month. There have been no polls, as yet, to indicate the run of voter opinion. Men active in poli tics have their own private ways, however, of measuring the currents of public opinion. The betting fra ternity, for one, never sets out to fool itself. No matter who is to win, the gambler wants his money on the winning side. There is, therefore, some significance, though not the greatest, to Friday's report of Wall street odds of 7 to 5 on Roosevelt, the democratic candidate. National Committeeman Julian of Ohio declares himself ready to un derwrite an undertaking to pile up a 350 thousand pluralTfy for Roosevelt in Ohio. The majorities two years ago for Senator Bulkley and Gover nor White give credence to the pre diction. But Ohio goes democratic on state elections with much more ease than when the presidency is at stake. Electing democratic gover nors in Ohio is, indeed, almost a habit, while Ohio's vote for Woodrow Wilson in 1916 stands out as an extraordinary departure from the rule. If Ohio is to go for Roosevelt, v.e may as well admit that the re ported odds of 7 to 5 are sound. The logic of the situation, of course, favors the democratic claim. The times argue for change. The voters can fairly reason that, pretty much regardless of what they get by inge, they cannot be worse off than as they are. The frying pan is so hot that there is no fear of any fire. There is the matter of swap ping horses midsteam; but there are some horses, it can be answered, that should be swapped even on the way over Niagara Falls. There has been a preponderance of report from peo ple who cruise about the country to the effect that the tide is run ning as National Committeeman Ju lian says it is. There should be no surprise in that. Cut it is not always the candi date who seems ahead in July who turns up with the votes in Novem ber. It has always been judged that in the summer of 189C William J. Bryan had the votes to make him president. How Marcus A. Hanna fried out the fat to the tune of the largest campaign fund ever, up to thattime, even dreamed of, and by the most effective voting of cash the world had ever seen nosed Bryan out, is now a commonplace of poli tical history. But where is the Mark Hanna for the party of Her bert Hoover now? And if the Mark Hanna were to be had. where is the fat to fry? Dayton News. :o: HEAT There is some consolation in the assurance that summer heat, even in its extremes, is good for most of us. While excessive heat may be danger ous to the weak or to those unduly exposed to it, we are told that the normal person can stand a lot of it without harm, and perhaps with sub stantial benefit. But such assurances do not make us happy when we are drenched with perspiration, when the trees are like painted pictures for lack of breeze, when sleep refuses to anaesthetize us against our miseries, and when the heat has been sufficiently prolonged to penetrate almost everywhere, leaving us no place of refuge, even when we are free to seek it. One of the effects of torturing heat waves should be to make the world safer for democracy; it treats every body the same, and we all suffer in common. It should make us more sympathetic with one another and more responsive to suffering in gen eral. It should do that, but isn't it more likely to make us so heat-con scious that we become irritable and unreasonable and even unsympath etic? Sometimes it seems so. If ex treme heat has its uses, the uses must be physical; there are no evi dences that they are mental or spiritual. One of the things the government has not yet done for us is to gather statistics on swearing with respect to degrees of heat and 'cold. But in due time the sociologists of the bu reaucracy doubtless will supply the important figures, and then we shall find, by consulting them, along with the accompanying graphs, that in the latter part of June and in July and August the volume of realistic lan guage takes a sweeping upward course, ir, perchance, the heat wave is Interrupted by cocl days, the graph will show a precipitous downward shoot, almost as If expression had ceased. Until we hav access to authentic statistics on heat behavior, probably wc should take with some allowance the contention that heat that is, hot heat i3 good for us. PEOPLE MUST RUN COUNTRY "After all," said a cynic, "the peo ple have to be ruled by somebody. The choice is between their being ruled by those who want money and will get it by exploiting them or by those who want votes and will get them by fooling voters. It is rule by 'special inteiests' or by demagogues. Of the two evils I prefer the special interests." But is that the choice? Certainly it is, if we will neither care nor think. The exploiters can put up campaign funds, organize political committees and secure the services of expert propagandists. They will rule us for their profit if we are lazy enough to let them. Or if in reaction against them we get too excited the demagogue puts in his work. He is prefervid in his expressions of sympathy with the less fortunate, but very vague about what he will do for them. Or he offers them quack remedies which promise them what they want, but could not be fulfilled. In the guise of food he presents them bait. If we are indolent enough for the one cr gull ible enough for the other they will save us the trouble of ruling our selves. The remedy, then, is in ourselves. Democracy will work if we work it. Everything else will work whether we work it or not. The electric light will come cn when you pu.h the but ton and you do not need to know how or why. The water flows aT the turn of the faucet. Under our me chanized society and the division of labor most cf life is that way. But not government. That, under a democracy, will be run by and for the people if the people are willing to take the trouble to do it. If they do not, somebody else will run it by and for himself. The test is of the people. From the San Francisco Chronicle. :o: HIGHWAYS FOR THE PUBLIC The right of a state to act as it deemed fit to protect its investment, a public investment, in its highways wculd seem to be obvious. That i? the right recognized and sustained in the unanimous decision cf the court of appeals that New York state may erect screens cn the right of ways of highways to obscure un sightly billboards or advertising signs that would tend to attract the attention of motorists "a'nd interfere with safe driving. The placing of screens of lattice work cr the plant ing of trees and shrubbery as pro tection against commercialization of public highways is proving to be ef fective in a growing war against roadside ugliness and for promotion of safety. Perhaps it will not be necessary in a large number of cases to defend such procedure in court; but the decision in the Nw York case is en couraging as to the outcome when the test is made. There can be no d'mbt that, although the billboard or other objectionable sign may be erected on private property, the plain intent is to take an unfair ad vantage of the public's use of a highway. That condition the courts more and mere have come to recog nize in their liberal opinions on the matter. :o: AMELIA EESTS AT OMAHA Omaha. Twice conqueror of the broad Atlantic, Amelia Earhart Put nam is vacationing in the Eky. She flew into Omaha late Sunday from New Ycrk City, enroute to the Olympic games at Los Angeles. With her was her cousin. Miss Lucy Chal lis of Atchison, Kas., and Gene VIdal, vice presiden of an eastern sea board airline. "It's too warm, even for flying." Mrs. Putnam explained in announc ing the party would remain here overnight. She explained that she Is taking a brief vacation after her two recent record breaking exploits. the solo Atlantic flight and the hang ing up cf a new woman's record for a west-east transcontinental hop. Incongruously, her "vacation" con sists chiefly of flying. SEEK ELMER SATTERLEY Auburn, Neb. Officers are search ing for Elmer Satterley, forty-two, of Brock, Neb., who disappeared last Wednesday. He left here for Nebras ka City with a load of beans which he delivered to a canning factory. He collected money for the beans and then disappeared. Relatives fear foul play since he was carrying the money received for the beans. Satterley is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs about 14S pounds. He has sandy hair and has tatoo marks on his body, one being an American flag. He has a wife and three chil dren and is a member of the Auburn post of the American Legion. Leroy Stohlman Marries Popular Capital City Girl Church Wedding Unites Son of Form er Louisville Residents and Iliss Clara Johnson. A beautiful church wedding whicJi occurred in Lincoln on Sunday, July 9, at Trinity Lutheran church, was of great interest to the Loisville friends of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stohlman, of 2402 P street. Lincoln, former prominent farmers of this vicinity, when their second son. Le roy, was married to Miss Clara John son, daughter or :urs. iiara jonn son, of Vine street, in that city at lour o'clock in the afternoon. The impressive ceremony was con ducted by Rev. Theodore Hartman, pastor of the Immanuel Lutheran church at Louisville, who was form erly the pactor of the Stohlman fam ily when they lived here. Mtes Mar tha Stohlman. sister of the groom acted as maid of honor and Miss Heial Iledgcock was bridesmaid. Rex Touzaliu and Betty Larson of Omaha were flower children and Robert Stohlman carried the ring. Edward Stohlman, brother cf the groom, was best man and the ushers were Martin Stohlman, brother of the groom and Arthur Johnson, bro ther of the bride. The gowns of the young ladies of the bridal party were exquirlte and the altar of .the church was banked with palms and ferns with baske ts of flowers adding to the beauty of the affair. A reception was held later at the home of the bride's mother. The bride Is a' charming young business woman of Lincoln and the groom is a rising young attorney at law. He has met with splendid suc cess In his chosen profession and his many friends here have felt much in terest and pride in h'.s career. They will have the be?t wishes and hear tiest congratulations of their host of Ca.s county friends for future happi ness and success. They will go to housekeeping at 2145 South 35th street, in Lincoln. Their honey moon trip will be to the Black Hills. Louisville Courier. Business goes wnere It Is In vited. Merchants who advertise are the ones who "sell the goods" nowadays. Let the Journal assist you in keeping up sales volume during the coming year. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Th? State of Nebraska, Cass coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter cf the estate of John F. Gorder, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court rrom In Platts mouth, in said county, on the 19th day of August. A. II. 1932 and on the 21st day of November, A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each day to receive and examine ell 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 19th day of August, A. D. 1932. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 19th day of Aucrust. 1932. Witness my hand and the seal cf said County Court this 22nd day of July, 1932. A. IL duxbury. (Seal) j25-3w 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 es tate of Robert Willis, deceased: On reading the petition of Owen Willis praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed In this Court on the 21st day of July. 1932. and for final assignment of the resi due of said estate, and for his dis charge as Administrator thereof; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons Interested in said mat ter may. and do appear at tbe County Court to be held in and for said coun ty, on the 19th day of August, A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. ra., to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, ami 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 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 21st day of July, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) j25-3w County Judge. 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 FACT03Y