MONDAY. SEPT. 5, 1932.
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It occurs that the Democratic
search for the 'forgotten man" may
lead to John J. Raskob.
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Someone tells us that a porch
swing -will go 40,000 miles on a can
of axle grease and no gasoline.
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Industrial items which the news
papers are printing these days have
the look of smile posts on the road
to recovery.
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If the real article comes back, will
there be sentimentalists who com
plain it isn't like the beer that father
used to make?
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"Bootleggers aren't making a de
cent living now." Volstead. There
are those who think they never did
make a decent living.
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Amelia Earhart's flying from coast
to coast every now and then is evi
dently her idea of coming home and
settling down after an Atlantic
flight.
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Gene Tunney will enter the poli
tical arena as a Democratic speaker.
Now if the Republicans can recruit
Dempsey, there ought to be a right
lively argument.
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"She's the kind of a woman," a
Great Bend friend remarked, accord
ing to the Tribune, "who is reared
stiff of what the neighbors will say,
and for that reason she hasn't a mo
ment's peace, nor can she think for
herself."
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"Spain has a Eurplus of women
and no farm board to buy them up,"
says the Jewell Republican.
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"Will give party, fond of dogs, use
of home for a month," says an ad
vertisement. Never mind the dogs
when is the party?
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what this country needs is a re
turn to the old-fashioned paths. The
new ones have led many persons
astray in recent years.
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As we understand the pathetic ap-
tpeal of Charlie Chaplin, he wants
his children to be normal children,
but not to be too normal when
they're grown.
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Next to a head-on crash with a
truck, nothing brings an
minded motorist out of his
absent
reverie a smell
so quickly and completely as
of burning wool.
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A descendant of Alexander Ham
ilton ic new running for office in
New York or somewhere. You will
recall Mr. Hamilton he was the best
secretary of the treasury before An
drew Mellon.
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An Illinois college announces that
it will accept livestock, grain or oth
er farm products as cash in payment
of tuition. Probably this system will
not spread among the bigger col-
elges, however. It's all right to pay
the faculty members In produce, but
in most cases the football team will
demand cash.
warm or cold.
32c
5c
Plain or Hop Flovorod
3 lb
Who says prosperity isn't con
tagious? Right on the heels of the
advance in hog prices comes increas
ed activity in the pig iron market.
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A woman in Massachusetts has
just divorced a husband who had pre
viously divorced her. Still determin
ed to have the last word, we suppose.
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"Married men ought to wear some
thing to indicate plainly that they
are married," says a novelist. They
generally do the suit they bought
the year before last.
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Who remembers when people were
so honest they didn't need cash reg
isters? And who remembers when
the farmer always kept a horse and
buggy for the hired man?
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George Bernard Shaw says that
within thirty centuries children will
talk as soon as they are born, which
makes us rejoice more than ever that
we live in the good eld days.
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Vice-President Curtis is an Indian
and Speaker Garner is a cowboy. Un
less a lot of literature is inconceiv
ably false, what is going to happen
to Uncle Charles is just too bad.
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Certain African tribes require
that a man to be eligible to marry
must be able to run, jump, swim, and
fight. These items evidently are list
ed in the order of their importance.
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An early snow is reported in the
Rocky Mountains, dated August 30.
The "Springtime In the Rockies" that
the once popular song informed us
about may be looked for around
Thanksgiving, we guess.
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We hope and trust that the eclipse
wa3 a success in New England, where
elaborate preparations had been made
for it. As for the territory farther
West, we feel pretty good over the
outcome, since we traded an eclipse
worth about f 10 for a million-dollar
rain.
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If everyone had the optimism of
some of the brewers there would be
no depression. It is stated that sev
eral breweries are making real beer,
and will age and keep it so there
will be a plentiful supply when the
alcoholic content of beer is declared
by congress.
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A local man is In trouble. His
wife found a note on him which said.
"Come to the straw stack on Blank's
farm Friday night and you will find
ono gal there for you on the north
6ide." He can't convince her that it
was a gallon of whisky Instead of
some other woman.
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We saw a man and his wife who
were strangers to us, the other day.
and then saw them for not more than
a moment, still we know them for a
couple who get along well. As they
started to leave a drug store she stop
ped him, and asked him whether he
did not wish to buy himself a cigar,
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PAVING THE WAY TO EDUCATION
The little red schoolhouae. more
often scarred of paint than not and
woefully lacking in teaching facil
ities, holds a pleasant memory for
many who learned their Three R's
within its single room. Their ehll
dren hear of the three-mile walk
through winter's snows and sum
mer's dusty roads, of "sums" writ
ten on slates, and of first visions of
the outside world being unfolded
from the pages of McGuffey's Read
ers.
But many of these people, should
they venture to seek one of these
early educational institutions, would
be amazed to find that the muddy
or dusty road they once trudged
has been paved, and alackaday
the little red school house bell no
longer calls pupils from neighboring
farms. Modern highways have im
proved transportation to such an ex
tent that the little red schoolhouse is
a vanishing American Institution. In
its place, the red and yellow school
bus takes pupils from a twenty-mile
radius to a consolidated rural school.
There the facilities, at least, for a
better education may be provided at
lower cost, according to a recent sur
vey, i
North Carolina, for example, In
creased its modern highways by 2311
miles between 1924 and 1930 and
abandoned 1539 one-room schools as
an indirect result of the improve
ment. Over the same period Indiana
witnessed the passing of 1402 little
one-room schools and a gain of 2226
miles of paved road. Other states
show similar though less pronounced
change, and the trend continues.
Let the little red schoolhouse.
then, live in glamorous memory, for
it has served its purpose well in giv
ing the boon of literacy to rural Am
erica and will continue to flourish
in isolated districts. But who will
regret its passing, with the way be
ing paved to still better education?
A T.EATffift, AT LAST!
The country is rapidly getting
clearer view of Franklin Delano
RoOsevelt. And the better it sees
him the better it likes him. The
better it sees him and the better it
likes him the more surely the breath
of hope begins to flutter in its nos
trils and the pulse of courage to
throb once again in its arteries. For
here, coming over the brow of its
mountain of troubles, is a figure alive
and vital, a man of conviction and
high resolve a leader, at last, after
so many years of waiting.
It is not strange that many, at the
time of his nomination, saw Frank
lin D. Roosevelt through a mist
darkly. It was a lame man they saw
perhaps a hopeless invalid. It was
a man weak and irresolute, timid, a
compromiser, a self-seeaer. A man
not strong enough, physically, men
tally, spiritually, to be president in
such days of trial and stress as
these. A man greedily ambitious
whom clever politicians were folBt
ing upon the democratic party at a
time it should be summoning as its
standard bearer the ablest, the brav
est, the strongest, the most trust
worthy of all the notable galaxy of
leaders at is disposal.
Many saw Roosevelt so, In that
light, because it was so he was cun
ningly painted for them in as clever
as unscrupulous, as systematic and
well organized a campaign of per
sonal detraction as has ever. In so
short a time, disgraced American
politics. In the glare of its lurid
and distorted misrepresentations
there was all but lost to sight the
real man, who had served so bril
liantly and ably under Woodrow Wil
son; who had so greatly distinguish
ed himself in successive national
conventions of Ihs party and in its
hard-fought campaigns; whose rec
ord as governor of New York was so
luminous and outstanding; whose
personal Btrength and popularity in
the Empire state had broken down
party lines; and whose gallant fight
back to health from a terrible at
Ciction had evidenced a stamina and
will power that commanded a na
tlon's admiration.
How absurd the slanders to which
he was subjected are coming now te
appear, in the light of succeeding de
velopments following his nomination!
And, with true retributive Justice,
as the contrast between what be was
painted and what be la reveals It
self, how destructively the slanders
are recoiling on the heads of those
who gave them currency!
In his dramatic Epeecb before the
Chicago convention; in bis quiet,
earnest talk on his party's platform;
in his speech at Columbus where,
with merciless logic, he dissected the
record of the Hoover administration;
In his Seagirt discussion of the pro
hibition issue; in his handling of the
Walker hearing at Albany in these
successive appearances, surely, con
vincingly. Governor Roosevelt has
gone far to make the nation familiar
with his Qualities.
And it is a strong man that stands
revealed a strong man in an hour
when strength of leadership was
never more seriously needed.
To our own mind perhaps the most
Impressive thing about the Roose
velt Qualities is the admirable man
ner in which eool-headedness. poise,
self-control, are combined with i
high order of courage, serene conn
dence in his faith and purpose, and
a resolute will to carry them for
ward. Here is a man of the people.
thoueh of wealth and aristocratic
lineage, in whoch there is no talnf of
demagogy. He is a constructive dem
ocrat. He believes in Jefferson's
creed. He is a devoted champion of
popular government and its mission
He is an enemy of class and priv
ilege In the seats of power. But be
peddles no nostrums, no patent medi
cines. He resorts to no quackery. He
is no self-proclaimed miracle man
Because be has faith In the peo
ple he is transparently candid with
them. His words require no Inter
preter. There are neve too sides as
to their meaning.
Because he has faith in bis own
policies and Ideas be is glad to put
them naked before the country.
He Isn't afraid of a fight. He
doesn't dread it and shrink from it.
He Isn't sullen and resentful In the
face of criticism, even though it is
untrue or unjust. He goes Into bat
tle with a smile on his lips, a certain
winning gaiety of spirit that marks
the warrior, or the prophet, who es
teems his cause greater than him
self.
man with definite and construc
tive Ideas; a man cool and self-dis
ciplined; a fighting mna, stout of
heart and will; a man clear beaded
and forward looking, whose mental
processes are limpid, never muddy;
man who believes. In all honesty
and sincerity. In our American form
and theory of government; a
who frankly hates the privileges, the
injustices, the usurpations that have
brought so much distress in their
train, and who discloses himself as
their unsparing enemy where could
the democratic party have found a
braver champion, a more inspiring
leader ? World-Herald.
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MB. HOOVER'S GUESS
IS THE SAME OLD THING
"We are convinced that we have
overcome the major financial crisis,"
Mr. Hoover tells the conference of
business heads called to Washington.
It would be easy to go back and list
the many times in which Mr. Hoo
ver has missed with similar pro
phecies. But that would be unkind,
and we shall all hope that this time
he has guessed right.
It would be easy, too, to go over
numerous similar speeches by Mr.
Hoover during this -depression, to
other conferences, in which the words
"co-ordinate" and "co-operate" pre
dominated, and to show how little
these overworked words have meant.
That also would be unkind, and we
shall all hope that this time "co
ordinate" and "co-operate" will pro
duce something.
It would be unkind to bring up
these things, because Mr. Hoover,
sincere as are his efforts, simply
ifoesn't seem to understand. Again
he digs up every little revolution ev
erywhere in an effort to establish his
contention that this trouble we are
In is everybody's fault but our own.
Mr. Hoover cannot, or will not see
that the policy pursued by this coun
try beginning with the Harding ad
ministration is a policy that was cer
tain to bring us to a smash-up.
That policy is one of choking off
world trade; of lending money to
Europe for the purchase of our farm
and manufacturing surpluses, but of
not buying back from these foreign
cstomers of ours enough to allow
them to pay what they had borrow
ed. Inevitably the day came when
American lenders had to stop send
ing more money overseas, and the
result was a backing up of our sur
pluses in the home market with the
general crash that followed.
Inevitably that policy was follow
ed by retaliatory tariffs and trade
regulations against our goods. The
latest retaliation has Just been agreed
upon at the British empire confer
ence in Canada. There will be a
further restriction of purchases of
American farm products and manu
factured goods by members of the
far-flung British empire. And Mr.
Hoover's impossible suggestion now.
as set forth in his acceptance speech,
is to lend Europe some more money
by canceling the war debts and load
ing that colossal sum, on the Amer
ican taxpayer.
There will be no sound and last
ing prosperity in this country until
we enter Into agreements of tradf
reciprocity with the world. To do
this, we do not need to give our
shirts away. We shall, however, have
to make some concessions conces
sions that the Grundys and the Mel
Ions who have dominated Mr. Hoo
ver's policy will not like. These
agrements will give the smaller busi
ness man a fighting chance to get
back on his feet.
Wtih all the money made avail
able by congress, some pick-up should
be felt in numerous localities. What
this country wants, though, la a
cure that will return our economic
body to a healthy condition, not
merely a readjustment of the pillow
beneath the patient's head. Milwau
kee Journal.
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Mayor Cennak of Chicago reports
that conditions are improving in his
town so rapidly that the time the
big fair opens there next year Chi
cago will be the safest city in the
country. Well, we advise the mayor
not to overdo it. Many who go to
Chicago next year will be looking i
for thrills, and if word gets out that
there aren't any, they'll spend their
vacations in Philadelphia, Estes
Park or Lyons, Kas.
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One of the main troubles we have
with driving, especially on Sunday
afternoon, long about dark, is sonny
boy out with the family car giving
his sweetie a ride. The trouble with
sonny boy is that he usually is driv
ing with one hand, at about five miles
an hour and the car weaves from one
side of the road to the other.
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The long ordeal at Albany is tell
ing on Mayor Jimmy Walker, accord
ing to eyewitnesses, and he has the
appearance of being on the verge of
another nervous breakdown. For one
unaccustomed to long detention in
the rigorous climate of New York
state. Jimmy has stood up wonder
fully well.
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Borah might call a world parley
of his own and see how the other
countries feel about it.
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Jaurnal Want-Ada get results!
Reduced
Prices
In line with the times,
we have greatly reduc
ed our shop labor prices
effective at once. Now
You can have your work
done in a modern shop
by skilled mechanics at
prices no higher than the
alley garage.
WHY TAKE A CHANCE?
Ask us for an Estimate
Combination Wash and Grease
Job for $1.50
Plattsnouth Motor Co.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
PANTS BUTTONS AND
THE PEICE OF WHEAT
Expenditures of the federal de
partment of agriculture In the 1932
fiscal year total 318 million dollars.
Combined value of the 1932 wheat
and oats crops is estimated at 345
million dollars. Figure it yourself
At 30 cents a bushel, the average
farm price, the estimated 750 mil
lion bushels of wheat is worth 225
million dollars. Total, 345 million
dollars. Contrast this with 318 mil
lion dollars, the total disbursements
of Secretary Hyde's department. The
resulting sensation may prove sick
ening.
These figures, offered to a radio
audience by the editor of the Chi
cago Journal of Commerce, illustrates
the ends to which bureaucracy dares
to go even In periods of dire depres
sion. Nor does this huge expenditure
take into account the millions of dol
lars it cost the postoffice department
to transport around the country such
bulletins as No. 52 of the federal
bureau of home economics, depart
ment of agriculture, which tells the
depressed farm mother, or perhaps
her city cousin. Just how Junior can
be taught to button his panties.
The bulletin offers a design for
a very simple garment for the lit
tle lad and continues:
"It is suggested that, until a child
has become thoroughly familiar with
the intricacies of buttons and but
tonholes, all his trousers be made
from the same pattern, with fasten
ings in the same place."
The Portland Oregonlan 'resents
instructions from Secretary Hyde as
to the art of pants buttoning. Says
the western critic:
"Now we ask you, haven't affairs
come to a pretty state when the fed
eral government thinks It must teach
us freeborn American pe"5ple how to
button our pants."
The answer is that an instructor
should be allowed to teach that with
which he is most familiar. It is bet
ter for the department of agricul
ture to promulgate and distribute
nursery pamphlets, than to spend all
its 31S million dollars trying to
stabilize and merchandise 225 mil
lion dollars worth of wheat.
The tragedy of the huge disburse
ments by government bureaus lies in
the fact that the taxpayer who sup
ports them otherwise could purchase
any of a thousand products made in
or grown around Toledo and furnish
employment at a time when city fi
nances are cracking under the bur
dens of providing food to the unem
ployed.
Thus does Washington bureau
cracy run riot. Toledo Blade.
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BREAK WITH MRS. HUTTON
Des Moines. Thirty-two ministers
of the Iowa and Minnesota division
have voted to withdraw from the in
ternational church of the Four
Square Gospel. Rev. John Richey, di
visional official announced. The min
isters also decided to break all affi
liation with rMs. Aimee Sentple Mc-
Pherson Hutton, leader of the de
nomination, Richey said.
"Certain widespread publicity"
and policies of the International
church's leadership were given as
the reasons for the withdrawal. The
publicity has brought "undue re
proach" upon the work, Richey -de
clared.
Lumber Ssiving
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.
NEBSASXA BASKET FACTORY
OMAHA DETECTIVE KILLED
Omaha. Detective Sergeant Lloyd
Bolar was fatally injured shortly
after noon Friday when the car he
was riding in, alone, crashed with a
street car. Bolar died in an ambul
ance en route to a hospital. Bolar
formerly was head of the auto theft
bureau. Recently he had been work
ing the Harry Lapidus murder mys
tery. The crash came when Bolar
attempted to pass another car. He
was driving at a high speed and his
auto met the street car hcadon.
SHERIFF'S SALE
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
Pursuant to an order entered in
the County Court of Cars County,
Nebraska, in the case entitled. The
State of Nebraska, Plaintiff, vs. M.
Balthazor, Defendant, I ill sell at
the South Front Door of the Court
House at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, at
10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on the
10th day of September, 1932, at pub
lic auction to the highest bidder for
cash. One Ford Coupe, Model, 1928,
Motor No. A 92595.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, August
Cth, 1932.
ED W. THIMGAN,
Sheriff of Cass County,
Nebraska.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
Pursuant to an order of the Dis
trict Court entered In the case en
titled State of Nebraska vs. Leonard
Glover and one Studebaker, Model
1924. Motor No. 110294-4 (D12 18).
on the 9th day of August. 1932. I
will sell at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash, one Stuiebaker
Touring Car, 1924 Model, Motor No.
110294-4 (D12 18). the property of
Leonard Glover, at ten o'clock In the
forenoon on the 17th day of Septem
ber, 1932, at the south front door of
the court house, at Plattsmouth, Ne
braska. ED W. THIMGAN,
Sheriff of Cass County,
Nebraska.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Clarence W. Fleshman, 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
23rd day of September, 1932, and on
the 24th day of December. 1932. at
10 o'clock a. m., each day, to 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 23rd
day of September, A. D. 1932, and
the time limited for payment of debts
is one year from said 23rd day of
September, 1932.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 2Cth day of
September, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) e29-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Don
C. Rhoden, 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
23rd day of September, A. D. 1932.
and on the 24th day of December, A.
D. 1932, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon of each day to 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 raid es
tate is three months from the 23rd
day of September. A. D. 1932, and
the time limited for payment of debts
is one year from said 23rd day of
September, 1932.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 26th day of
August, 1932.
A. IL DUXBURY,
(Seal) a29-3w County Judge.
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, I
will on the 10th day of September, A.
D. 1932. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said
day at the south front door of the
court house in Plattsmouth. in said
county, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, the follow
ing real estate, to-wlt:
Lots five (5) and six (6) in
Block seventy-three (73) in the
City of Plattsmouth. as surveyed,
platted and recorded, Cass coun
ty, Nebraska
The same being levied upon and taken
as the property of Ray G. McMaken
and Glenna Viola McMaken, husband
and wife, defendants, to satisfy a
judgment of said Court recovered by
The Standard Saving and Loan Asso
ciation of Omaha, Nebraska, plaintiff
against said defendants.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, August 9 th,
A. D. 1932.
ED W. THIMGAN.
Sheriff Case County.
Nebraska.
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