MONDAY, SEPT. 12, 1932.
PZATTSHOT7TH SEZXX
LY JOURNAL
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"I wouldn't mind giving a dinner,"
a Plattsmouth, girl tells the Journal,
"if mashed potatoes came in tin
cans."
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In Texas a gentleman is not ex
pected to give a lady a seat, especial
ly not if the seat happens to be the
governor's chair.
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The grindstone and hay fever are
both pretty hard on the nose, but
hay fever, at least, gives its victims
a long rest in between visits.
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Senator Borah is likely to go down
as the statesman who was offered the
presidency by more folks who could
not deliver it than any other man in
American history.
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It has about come to the point
where an office man will have to put
up a "no parking" sign on his desk
to keep his friends from coming in
and parking their feet there.
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October 1 to 8 as been set aside
by the shops on Fifth Avenue, New
York, as "Fifth Avenue week." The
measure will be applied in the pres
ent extremity, but under any other
circumstances the boys over on
Broadway would have said the old
Avenue was going hick.
Even if liquor does come back, it
will take the bartenders a long time
to grow those curling mustaches
again.
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One local man has been the vie
tim at so many picnics this year that
he Jitters like a chigger and moans
like a mosquito every time he sees a
hard boiled egg.
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You don't pay any attention to
corn remedies until you have a corn.
Then you're interested. That's what
advertising does. It hunts out the
fellows who need what you have to
sell."
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Some of our slang, as well as some
of our fads, must be pretty ancient.
It will be recalled that an old Eng
lish bard wrote about one of his con
temporary sun tan beauties, calling
her the nut brown maid.
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Speaking as one who has tried for
many summers to find a place for
his pocket knife and make-up rule
and note book and office and car
keys and bill fold in which his mo
tor car license i3 carried, and foun
tain pen and red and blue pencil,
we welcome the news from haber
dashers that you can't get a Bhirt
anymore unless it has a pocket.
,Who can remember when the
youngster who confessed being glad
school started was an outcast second
only to the one who brought an apple
to the teacher on the opening day?
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The national2 campaign to pro
mote building repairs and improve
ments may be just the support need
ed by housewives who have "tried
for weeks to get John to mend a few
things around the house."
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Spain is going to borrow 40 mil
lion dollars to build new schools
which is better than borrowing
money for destructive war material.
We hope, however, that the loan will
not be negotiated in America.
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Jimmy walkers attorney was
warning the governor a week ago
that if Jimmy didn't stay. Chaos
would reign in New York. However,
now it seems his name is pronounced
McKee.
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He quarreled and nagged at me
constantly, but when he began beat
ing me, I decided to get a divorce,'
said the principal witness in a suit
at law. From altercation to alter
ation, as it were.
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During the primary campaign a
number of the candidates had their
names in one of those clock revolv
ing signs. The campaign over, the
clocks ran down, and one of them
stopped on the motto, "Say It With
Flowers."
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Remember the thrilling days right
after the war when you asked for an
appointment with a motor car sales
man, and if he considered you worth
while, he agreed to give you fifteen
minutes of his time after dinner on
the following Friday evening?
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It seems that if movie producers
are really looking for a chance to
economize and cut expenditures as
it is said they are, they are overlook
ing a bet in the 100-year-old Irish
woman who, the papers say, can play
a harp with one hand and the piano
with the other. She could take the
place of two of the Marx brothers for
only half the salary.
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FINANCIAL THIEVERY
AND HOOVES RECORD
you9 11 be carried away
by the new
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Such "flighty" little things can never stay in
our department long. They're so completely
irresistable! Turbans take on charming bows
at the side ... brims that all but obscure the
eye ... berets that are doubles for tarns ...
skull caps ... gobs ... all inj the smart new
felts and velvets I
In Black, Manilla Brown, Bordeaux, Red,
All Head Sizes
Greens, etc
Ladies Toggery
The Chop of Personal Cervloa
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
For the past five years this and
other progressive - minded newspa
pers,, economists, sound bankers and
others have shouted to the world
that the American people were being
robbed by blue sky security salesmen.
But neither the Coolidge nor the
Hoover administration moved to stop
the abuses that were apparent to
anyone who wanted to see.
Now, two years after the crime
was committed, President Hoover
chirps up and says: "There have
been exploitation and abuse of n
nancial power. We will fearlessly
and unremittingly reform such
abuses. The Americon people must
have protection from insecure bank'
ing. They must be relieved from con
ditions which permit the credit ma
chinery of the country to be made
available without adequate check for
wholesale speculation in securities
with ruinous consequence to millions
of our citizens and to national econ
omy."
Great Godfrey! Has the man Just
awakened or is he trying to "kid"
somebody? No, he has not Just woke
up, for, in the same paragraph of
his speech he says "for seven years I
have repeatedly warned against pri
vate loans abroad for non-produc
tive purposes." By his own state
ment then he has known for seven
years what was going on, but where
is the record of those warnings by
Hoover?
Contrast this belated admission of
ineptitude with a statement by Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt on Page
37 of the current issue of Liberty
magazine. After sketching the var
ious kinds of financial racketeering
that has existed under the very nose
of the government. Governor Roose
velt says:
"Unfortunately our naUonal ad'
ministration did not lift a finger to
point out the dangers of any of these
particularly vicious courses of finan
cial exploitation. It knew that many
of the foreign loans were utterly
unsound. It knew what the conse
quences might be from these invest
ment trusts which were fictitious
speculative devices. fThe govern
ment must protect its citizens against
financial buccaneering."
And that, let it be said in pass
ing, is one of the great issues of this
campaign. Financial thievery and
racketeering must be stopped. There
is no reason to believe Hoover, on the
basis of his record, ever would be
moved to do anythnlg to cheek it. He
has had nearly three and a half years
in which he might have done some
thing to halt these blue sky virtues.
As Governor Roosevelt says, he did
not lift a finger against them.
Sioux City Tribune.
A LOT OF BUYING POWER
A good deal of hopeful specula
tion is engaged in as to Just what
will happen when Mr. Average Citi
zen and his family begin to stock
up after their long buyers strike. It
is acknowledged that inventories are
low and business in general lor a
long time has accustomed itself to
hand-to-mouth buying.
As often as this subject is broach
ed someone usually is ready with the
comment that Mr. Average Citizen
will begin to buy when he gets the
money. As a matter of fact, how
ever, recent reports issued by the
American Bankers' association indi
cate that confidence rather than cash
is the lacking factor.
Savings deposits in the United
States total almost 28 and a quar
ter billion dollars. That' is a tre
mendous buying power which is im
mediately available to a very large
part of the country's population. An
other phase of the report also indi
cates that the prime necessity to the
launching of a tremendous buying
campaign is restoration of confidence.
Postal savings account of the post-
office department aggregate more
than 800 million dollars and are in
creasing at the rate of 50 million
dollars a month. Detroit News.
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THE COST OF GOOD B0ADS
The biggest item in the tax bud
get of most rural towns is the cost
of building and maintaining unim
proved roads. Practically all of the
hard-surfaced roads which consti
tute our main motor highways are
paid for by states or counties with
the towns contributing only a small
percentage. But there is something
worth thinking about in the report
recently published by the New York
State College of Agriculture, in the
discovery that was made that 76
cents out of every dollar in town
taxes goes to the maintenance of or
dinary dirt roads.
In the state of New York, and this
is more or less true everywhere else,
the typical town contains 23,800
acres, or about thirty-seven square
miles. It has an average population
of 1,500 with taxable property as
sessed at 12,250,000, and its annual
tax collection is about 16,500.
This was the average of seventy-
one towns which were studied by the
Agricultural College, and each of
these towns had a . n.et worth of
about sixty-five miles Df dirt high
ways in addition to the hard-sur
faced roads supplied by the state and
county.
Five cents of the town tax dweller
dollars in these towns are spent for
poor relief, to which the county also
contributes. Three cents of each dol
lar pays for the assessment and col
lection-of taxes. Two cents more go
for the administration of town af
fairs, and two cents more for elec
tions. Public health expenses tax
seven and a half cents out of each
tax dollar, and various other normal
town expenses run up to a total of
twenty-four cents on the dollar of
taxes. The remaining seventy-six
cents out of each dollar collected
goes for the upkeep of dirt roads
This is spent for local labor, for op
erating road machinery, grading and
filling mud holes and the other nec
essary work to keep the back roads
passable.
There can be no question of the
value of good roads to the farmer as
well as to the inhabitants of Tillages
But we sometimes wonder whether
all of the cost of trying to keep or
dinary dirt roads in such condition
that automobiles can travel over
them safely at high speed is a fair
charge upon the taxpayers.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is rapidly
proving himself the kind of fighting
leader that appeals to the mind of
America.
With the resignation of Mayor
Walker he was promptly confront
ed with a Tammany challenge of his
leadership. It was a three-pointed
program of hostility that was out
lined.
Walker was to be nominated for
mayor.
James A. Farley, chairman of the
state committee, was to be displaced
with a Tammany favorite.
The nomination for governor of
Lieutenant Governor Herbert Leh
man, a public servant of the hign
ets standing, was to be prevented,
and a Tammany choice was to be
substituted.
Farley, who is also chairman of
the national committee, consulted at
Albany with Governor Roosevelt over
the situation.
Upon his return to New York City
the following program was an
nounced, as published in the New
York Times:
1 Governor Roosevelt and his
friends will give "complete support"
to Farley at the state committee
meeting Friday. An attempt to oust
him will be "regarded as an open
declaration of war." If it Is success
ful a separate Roosevelt state or
ganization will be set up.
2 The nomination of Walker for
mayor will be regarded "as definite
ly hostile." If he is nominated an
independent democratic candidate
will be entered against him.
3 Lehman's candidacy for gover
nor will be uncompromisingly sup
ported.
There is nothing weak-kneed
about that. Not by so much as an
inch is the banner of honest politics
and good government lowered at the
behest of expediency. His stand for
principle may cost Governor Roose
velt the electoral vote of his own
state, its los3 may cost him the presi
dency, but he stands unshaken and
undaunted.
A man like that is a man to tie
to. The courage and resolution he
shows in his single-minded devotion
to duty as a candidate is an evidence
of the kind of president he would
make.
Tammany is great and powerful
But there are other forces in this
land of ours greater and more pow
erf ul, . that .are more of a menace to
good government, more dangerous as
sailants of the rights and interests
of the people than ever Tammany
has been. The man who as a demo
cratic candidate, with his fortunes
at stake, will stand up bravely
against the threat of the worst that
democratic Tammany can do, might
safely be depended upon, as presl
dent, to stand up just as bravely
against these other denizens of the
jungle whose hunting ground is not
New York City alone but the entire
nation.
And it is these, rather than the
Tammany tiger, that are his most
dangerous enemies in this campaign
World-Herald.
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ELEVEN MILLION JOBLESS
THE FIVE DAY WEEK
The five day week in industry has
been tried for a year or more in :
number of sizes, and the general ver
diet is that it works to the advan
tace of everybody (concerned. We
think it is something which was
bound to come sooner or later. The
period of depression from which we
are now emerging has merely hast
ened it along.
In almost every kind of business
in these days the Saturday half holi
day is generally observed. It is not
generally the case, however, that a
full half day's work is done on Sat
urday morning. Some of the large
organizations, like the big life in
surance companies, which have had
a five day week for their clerical
staffs for a long tim.e, say that just
as much work is done in five days
as used to be done in five days and
a half. Also, that their employees
get such a definite physical and spir
itual benefit from having their time
to themselves from five o'clock Fri
day until nine o'clock Monday morn
ing, that it has proved an actual
economy to cut down the owrking
week without reducing salaries.
We have too much of a tendency
In America to make a virtue out of
work for its own sake. A sounder
philosophy of life is that work is a
necessary evil, and should be regard
ed as merely a means to the end of
achieving more leisure in which to
enjoy the really valuable things of
life. If the world's work could be
done in three days out of every week,
we think that this would be a much
happier world in which to live.
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Let the other fellow have his half
of the road. Remtember you didn't
build it, neither are you paying all
the taxes on it.
The most agonizing thing about
work, someone remarked not long
ago, is not to have any.
This is the great agony that Wil
liam Green, head of the American
Federation of Labor, reports 11.400,
000 American workers are suffering.
In the face of that lack, most
poignantly evident in the great in
dustrial cities, but only too appar
ent also in cities like Omaha and
Lincoln and Fremont, the troubles
of those who have jobs and are draw
ing pay checks sir.k into insignifi
cance. The workers have the thing
that dignifies man, justifies his exist
ence, makes it possible for him to
care for his family. Nearly 12 mil
lions in this country, many more
millions elsewhere, do not have it.
One may become extremely tired,
exhausted, worn out, from toil. The
rest that comes from vacation days
is then a sweet solace. To have noth
ing to do but laze away the day, rise
in the morning when fancy dictates,
wander through the hours whenever
vagrant impulse leads, is good. Va
cation is good when it is a rest from
work and when there is work to re
turn to.
But an enforced vacation is more
tiring, more exhausting, more of a
nervous strain, than the greatest toil.
To faca the day that is empty because
one has no job, to idle because one
Las no place to go, i3 to suffer.
Man's incompetence to manage his
own affairs becomes rtartlingly ob
vious in the afce of unemployment.
This must bave been what the presi
dent of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science was
thinking cf, when he Kadi that man
is morally unfit for the power within
his hands; that Le has gained com
mand of nature before he has learn
ed ow to command himself.
We have been accustomed, for
some years, to prattie about the mar
velous achievements of the human
brain, that could fashion ores from
mother nature into machinery, apply
to wheels and cogs mysterious elec
tric power, and enable one man with
a control lever to do the work of
hundreds of men in former times.
Yet if all we have gained is a beau
tiful tool, while 99 men who had
Jobs stand with idle hands, we have
not accomplished much.
We have made machines that cut
and bind and harvest wheat; and
produced more wheat than the world
can buy while men starve.
.We have made-machines that spi
and weave and fashion clothes; and
have more clothing than stores can
move while men go naked.
We have destroyed our great for
ests to pile up lumber; and families
can't afford new houses.
We have looted the earth of Its
coal and oil; but children shiver in
winter.
Man has solved the secret of pro
duction, and he has thought that
was enough. Today he as learned
that the puzzle of distribution is yet
unsolved, and human misery abounds
When this problem is solved, as
it must be solved, will be time enough
for man to flatter himself on the
power of his brain. When the mil
lions of men who want work can
find it will be time enough to talk
about the progress of the race. When
man, who has answered the riddles
of nature, can solve the puzzles of
orcaniiznc human society, will be
time enough to believe that the four
thousand years of comparative civil
ization have brought much added
happiness to the human animal who
before light dawned upon his brain
knew no fear greater than that of
the lightning and the storm and the
Jungle beasts. World-Herald.
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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 FACT0BY
of the legal reserve business) an
nounced that this volume of new in
surance for the first seven months
of 1932 was off 15.3 per cent, and
that the July volume was off 3.5 per
cent. Despite the drop alert sales
men placed 5.700 million dollars of
group, industrial and ordinary in
surance in the seven lean months.
American life insurance has doub
led in the last ten year.. It now
amounts to 70 per cent of the world's
total. Accustomed to whopping big
increases year after year, insurance
men were disappointed in last year's
trifling increase in total insurance
in force. The 16.400 million dollars
of new business was almost entirely
offset by lapses and surrenders of
policies. From Time.
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 Studebaker
Touring Car. 1924 Model. Motor No.
110294-4 (D12 IS), 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
LIFE INSURANCE FIGURES HIGH
A Joy to megalomanaics are the
thumping round numbers of Amer
ican business. And the biggest and
roundest of all are life insurance
numbers. Insurance men delight in
rolling off the 108,800 million dol
lars of insurance in force and the in
dustry's total resources of 21 billion
dollars. That cum is larger than the
national debt of the United States.
The companies' annual Income ex
ceeds the normal federal budget. In-
urance men love to relate that Am
erican insurance companies hold for
investment more than 20 per cent
of all American railroad bonds, 35
per cent of all utility bonds, 35 per
cent of all industrial bonus and 22
per cent of all farm mortgages.
Two-thirds of the business is done
by the ten largest companies, of
which the leader is the Metropolitan
Life No. 2 American corporation.
No. 1 corporation is the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company.
with consolidated assets of 5,024 mil
lion dollars.) Though insurance men
are exceedingly proud of their de
pression record, they were glum
hen the Association of Life Insur
ance Presidents (culling reports from
forty-four companies and 82 per cent
The State of Nebraska, Cass coun
ty, ss.
In the County Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Clarence W. FJeshman, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I will
Fit at the County Court room in
Plattsmouth. in raid county, on the
23rd day of September, 1932. and on
the 24th day of December, 1932, at
10 o'clor-k a. m.. each day, to examine
all claims against raid 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 handBha1he Peal"6t"
said County Court this 26th day of
September, 1932.
A. II. DUXBURT.
(Seal) a29-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ES.
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 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 26th day of
August, 1932.
A. IL DUX BURY,
(Seal) a29-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the Department of Public
Works in the State House at Lin
coln. Nebraska, on September 29,
1932, until 9:00 o'clock A. M.f and
at that time publicly opened and read
for Sand Gravel Surfacing and In
cidental work on the Louisville-
Weeping Water Project No. 64 4 J,
State Road.
The proposed work consists of
constructing 3.5 miles of Graveled
road.
The approximate quantities are:
47,000 Sq. Yds. Sand Gravel Sur
face Course.
The minimum wage paid to all
unskilled labor employed on this
work shall be thirty (30) cents per
hour.
The minimum wage paid to all
skilled labor employed on this work
shall be fifty (50) cents per hour.
Plans and specifications for the
work may be seen and Information
secured at the office of the County
Clerk at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, or
at the office of the Department of
Public Works at Lincoln, Nebraska.
The successful bidder will be re
quired to furnish bond In an amount
equal to 100 per cent of his contract.
As an evidence of good faith in
submitting a proposal for this work.
the bidder must file, with his pro
posal, a certified check made pay
able to the Department of Public
Works and In amount not less than
One Hundred ($100) Dollars.
The right is reserved to waive all
technicalities and reject any or all
bids.
DEPARTMENT OF PUB
LIC WORKS,
R. L. Cochran,
State Engineer.
eo. R. Sayles,
County Clerk, Cass County.