THURSDAY, NOV. 24, 1932. ' PLATTSMOUTH SEM-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAQZ TTTTIT8 TThe (Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SE1H-WEEZLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 3S0 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Down in Kentucky they vote one day, sober up and count the votes the next day. :o: The trouble is that men -who drink like a fish don't drink what a fish drinks. :o: Now that they have invented a pneumatic tire for wheelbarrows, what are they going to do to im prove the pick and shovel? :o: 1 The most notorious woman in Asia today is Lai Choi San, a pirate queen who operates a fleet of twelve heav ily armed ships in the South China Sea. o: The puzzling aspect of Germany's four or five elections a year is when the tooth paste maker manages to get his message on a national net work. :o: The Chicago young woman who has been asleep for ten months may as well wake up now, as the cam paign, which doubtless put her to sleep, ended two weeks ago. :o: We, on the surface of the earth, are passing our lives at the bottom of a great ocean of air, just as certain fish may pass their lives at the bot tom of the great ocean of water. :o: The Joplin (Mo.) Globe asks If any of Its readers are old enough to remember when the business men in a small town all chipped in to raise a fund to bring the election returns the night of the national election. x: The principal item in the weekly press this week is the warning to the rural correspondents to get their news in a day early, so that ye ed can get his paper out on Wednesday and observe the Thanksgiving holiday at home on Thursday. :o: It is thrilling to read tha heroic measures that were taken to save the Insull properties. And when one read3 of some of the measures taken and the salaries paid to those who tok them, one wonders if the effort wasn't almost too heroic. jo: The Ohio State Journal says science hasn't succeeded in finding any way to improve the baked potato. But it keeps on trying and flopping. One of the more notorious cook scoop3 out the potatoes, mashes cheese into the contents, and replaces them back In the skin. There ought to be a law. :o: Ruth Elder said she hardly knew what to do when her about-to-be-divorced third husband wrote her a letter at Reno and Invited her home to Thanksgiving dinner. But Ruth decided what do and did it. getting one of Reno's slot machine divorces. Maybe she couldn't call to mind the address of her home. :o: Scientists have made a startling discovery that the skeleton found about two years ago in Minnesota probably is that of a prehistoric 17-year-old American girl slain violent ly 20,000 years ago. Now if the learned men can discover a Stone Age tabloid of that date the crime prob ably will be cleared up for this generation. M8QTOfl(E! Ear Cora We pay Market Prices. Can handle unlim ited amount. White or Yellow. Farmers Grain & (Luiiitar 6& Cedar Creek, Nebr. Louisville Telephone No. 2003 The President upon arriving home turned his attention immediately to debts, just like other vacationists. :o: The electors gave Mr. Roosevelt a mandate, and with the big major ities goes a gentlehint that they hope it will not become a forgotten man date. :o: Dry agents were a year assembling evidence on a speakeasy in a mid western college town. The entrance requirements everywhere, they say, are stiffer. :o: The old-fashioned party game of postoffice is not played very much these days because folks are afraid some government inspector might come around and check up on them. :o: (Thanks to their literary abilities, moEt of our ex-Presidents seem to be able to take care of themselves pretty well. The trouble this time is going to be what to do with the ex-postmasters. :o: America i3 a grest country for presidents. It's a president of this and that organization, president of this and that club, president of this and that board, president of banks, president of railroads, president of wholesale Louses, president of cor porations of various kinds, president of colleges, president of fairs and president of wheat growers, and wool growers, pools and so on for eter nity. :o: MORE FUTILE GESTURES Irresponsible persons with nothing better to do now are engaged in pro moting a "march on Washington" by farmers while another group i3 try ing to organize another demonstra tion by bonus seekers. For the good of both farmers and veterans and the interest of society in general, it is to be hoped that these efforts will fail. Nothing is to be accomplished by sending an un organized mass of farmers or veter ans to Washington. The American electorate express ed itself on the issues involved and the government that will take office March 4 understands w hat is expect ed of it. The presence of misdirect ed malcontents in Washington would only tend to embarrass the new gov ernment in carrying out the man date it ha3 received from the Amer ican people. Agricultural relief will come about in due time. By the time it is ready to take office the new gov ernment will know exactly what it intends to do and will proceed to do it with a minimum of delay. Employment relief also will be effected as rapidly as possible. Once that is accomplished the demand for payment of the bonus will lose point. There is a period of waiting ahead for everybody, but the fact that the people have named a government in which they have confidence has al ready developed a better spirit that is reflected in business throughout the country. There is nothing the individual or small groups can do to advance natters. Developments must be permitted to proceed in an order ly manner. Sioux City Tribune. WORLD GOLD OUTPUT SLOWLY INCREASING Cabled reports that a rich, but hitherto inaccessible Australian gold deposit is yielding to modern mining methods suggest that the value of the yellow metal may be entering an other of its cycles. For the history of modern commerce, which began with the nineteenth century, is re plete with protests against the scarc ity of gold as a monetary base, and of subsequent discoveries of ore which brought a remedy. The Napoleonic wars were still in progress when parliament appointed a committee to investigate the high price of gold bullion in the British isles. Discoveries of gold in Califor nia and Australia about the middle of the century brought worry of an other variety, and for the next 12 years learned English, French and Scotch economists, and less learned pamphleteers, debated their effect One schol Insisted that the new abundance cf gold would bring high er commodity prices and social dis turbances; the other "that the value of gold will net become depreciated by the large discoveries of that metal." In 1S96 William Jennings Bryan thundered his denunciations of "the cross of gold" in the United States, and insisted on the free coinage of silver as a form of counterinflation. The echoes of tho free-silver cam paign were scarcely ended before the rush to tho Klondike began. The Alaskan output of gold, combined with new discoveries in Colorado and other western states, permitted the conage of $437,500,000 in gold by the United States in the five years ended with 1902, whereas the five-year av erage output from 1S73 to 1893 had been only 224 million dollars. New gold and the moderate credit infla tion due to the Spanish-American war halted in this country a 33-year decline in commodity prices which began in 1SC5. As recently as 190S, the author of a series or .New lork market letters felt called upon to prove that the United States gold reserves were not too great. Following the collapse of the decade of credit inflation in 1929, however, most cf the discus sion has been cf another nature, and the debtor class attributes most of its troubles to the rapid appreciation of the value of gold, expressed in of the value of gold, expressed terms of commodities. That increase is again producing its own cure. Old veins of the ore are being reworked in the west and there has been a revival of placer mining. The gold output cf the Unit ed States in 1931, valued at $4S, 907,100, was 52.755,300 more than that of 1930. The gold output of the Transvaal in March this year set a new monthly record, and that of Canada is increasing steadily. The Australian reports may be treated with skepticism until sub stantiated by actual results, but if there should be suddenly added to the world's gold reserve five billion dollars, as a result of the new dis coveries, the economists might again be talking of the cheapness of gold and the resultant recovery of the prices of wheat, cotton, copper and other commodities. Chicago Daily News. :o: THERE SHE SITS Good old Vermont. C. J. Caesar thought the Northern Star was fixed and constant, but compared with Vermont, that little sky-twinkler is changeable as a weather vane and variable as the quivering aspen. Ver mont is as i3 and ever will be. Look t her constitution, though you'll have to go to Montpelier to see it. Written and adopted in 1777, the tert of her organic law remains as in the original manuscript. No jot has been removed and never a title added. In birch canoes they still glide down the Ottaquechee in June's chaste moonlight, when the maple syrup has been bottled and jugged. And in August, or make it Septem ber, if you're fussily accurate, they coast the snowy slopes of Mount Ascutney, while the skaters yield to the lure of Lake Mempfcremagog's icy bosom. Their oaks are of a sturdier fiber, their elms a loftier pride, their poplar3 a deeper mysticism, all re flecting the character of a people tenaciou3 and immutable. And, politically, Vermont is rigid in her republicanism as the marble of her green-clad mountains. Her neighbors, fickle New Hampshire and eccentric Maine and mercurial Mas sachusetts, may be beguiled by the printed word or the fluctuations of fortune or the radio's siren voice. Not Vermont. Everyone remembers, of course, how it was in 1912, when all New England gathered her skirts about her and leaped Into the democratic pool. All New England, but not Ver mont. Semper fidelis was Vermont. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. BLONDS FOR DEMOCRACY Reference was made the other day in our Berlin correspondence to the use which Hitler is making of the doctrine of Nordic race superiority as originated by a Frenchman and developed by an Englishman. The Frenchman was Count Gobineau of nearly a century ago. The English man was Houston Stewart Chamber lain, son-in-law of the great Wag ner. Since the publication of Cham berlain's "Foundations of the Nine teenth Century" in the years before the war much has been said about his famous ascriptions of all the great acts of history to the blue-eyed, blond- haired races back to the very begin ning of the present era in Palestine. The liberation of the pure German ra.e from the perils that beset it the treaty of Versailles, Marxism, the jews is an integral part or tne Hit ler teaching. It has just been sub jected to a spirited examination by the Vienna Arbeiterzeitung, the lead ing Austrian labor and socialist daily. It found its text in the recent Swedish general election, which re sulted in tha replacement of a con servative government by a socialist ministry under P. A. i-Jansson. In Denmark a socir.list government has been in power for soire time. Now it is odd, argues the Vienna journal, .hat just when Hitler is stigmatizing democracy, socialism, and labor ism as traits of the lower non-Nordic races and exalting the dictatorship method as the only one suited for the rescue of the pure Germanic races just at this time the social-democratic prin ciples of government should be most strongly affirmed among tho most northern of Nordics, among the very blondest cf Teutons, among the fair haired, blue-eyed, long-headed na tives of Denmark and Sweden. if there were something in the old Wotan blood that is Instinctively re pugnant to freedom and self-govern ment for the masses it ought surely to be visible among Wotan's close: neighbors. The Vienna writer scores hardest when ho turns from Scandinavian Nordicism to Scandinavian culture Sweden and Denmark he describes as standing at the very top of popular education in Europe. It is there, he says, that one may find "in almost j every farmhouse a peasant lad who i has baen through high school and whose little book shelf wil lshow, along with his textbooks in agricul ture. translations of Goethe and Shakespeare." The Scandinavian countries have not escaped the world depression. Tariffs and quotas have played havoc with the dairy Indus try in Denmark. Economic life in Sweden i3 reeling from the effects of the Kreuger crash. But in neith er country have the people sought salvation in fascism. On the con trary, they have moved further on toward democracy The educational test Is a useful one to apply in all discussions of the alleged doom of democracy. It cannot be sheer coincidence that Eu ropean fascism flourishes in an en vironment of high Illiteracy, while the countries of advanced education have remained true to democracy, Germany is th9 only country of high standing in popular education where the democratic cause is on the de fensive. But Germany'3 very culture is an excellent reason for maintain ing that in the end German dem ocracy will come out on top. New York Times. :o: THREE REASSURING DAYS The history of three days cannot be a certain index of the four months between election and inauguration. But it i3 clear that the three days which have followed Governor Roose velt's victory have seen a confident steadying of the national nerves and a denial of the prophecies of evil with which the governor's opponents were so ready. Mr. Hoover's effectively worded telegram cf congratulation to Governor Roosevelt, patriotically pledging "every possible helpful ef fort." has proved a reassurance of large importance, more especially since it was immediately followed by similar expressions from the mem bers of the cabinet and department heads at Washington. Four months is altogether too long a period between election and In auguration; but in view of the states which have already ratified the "lame duck" amendment, to which Massa chusetts will be added In conformity with tho recent expression of popular opinion, it is apparent that this is the last year in which the president elect will be forced to suffer such, an interval before assuming the actual power and responsibility. Spring field Republican. :o: What has become of the young man who thought he couldn't dance unless he had on a pair of high-heel ed boots, a checkered vest and a celluloid collar? . GLOUCESTER BURIES HERO OF THE BANES Gloucester, which has buried many seamen and commemorated the pass ing of many more who found their sudden graves at sea, paid her last homage on Sunday to another of her sons. He was Howard Blackburn, whose great feat of enurance in the winter of 1883 has been remembered now through nearly half a century. Captain Blackburn and his dory mate, Thomas Welch, were setting trawls from the schooner Grace F. Fears on January evening when a sudden snowstorm drove in around them and cut them off. Lost from their schooner, there was nothing for it but to row ashore cn Newfound land against a strong northwest wind. The dory was half full of water, and in bailing her Blackburn's mittens were inadvertently sent overboard; he knew his hands would freeze, so he locked them around the oar looms and let them freeze there. Welch finally died amid the bitter and heaving seas; Blackburn pulled on, however, through five frightful days and nights, and reached Newfound land alive. It cost him all the fingers of both hands and was the end of his career as a fisherman. But 16 years later he was infected with that curious germ which sends people to sea in small boats, to make stupendous voy ages alone across the empty oceans for the pleasure of the achievement. He entered the roll of the "single handers" with a 30-foot sloop, which he took from Gloucester to Glouces ter, England, in 1S99, handling her by jamming the lines between his thumbs and the palms of his hands. Two years later he made a second transatlantic voyage alone; and he once sought to prove his faith in the dory as the greatest of all sea boats by attempting to sail one to Europe. For all her virtues, how ever, the dory is hardly adequate to that, and he had to give up after a week or so at sea. He was a quiet and pleasant man, but the toughness of the iron that must have been in him sometimes ap peared in other ways than fighting wind and weather. As honorary pall bearers at his funeral there was a distinguished group of men the sec retary of the nav, the explorers MacMillan and Bartlett, business and political leaders of Gloucester and master mariners from her fishm fleets. Their presence was a tribute to the great hardihood of body and spirit with which tho sea endowed those who followed her service in the old way. New York Herald-Tribune :o: ROOSEVELT'S GREAT GIFT OF CHARACTER Bathing its eyes in the tidal pro portion of Governor Roosevelt's vie tory, the Chicago Tribune writes in this reassuring vein: "He is free from particular obligations which he might re gret. Tho claims of clique and group upon him are not impera tive. He has taken his mandate from a whole people and there are no special services to be re garded as imposing either moral or material obligations. When a great vote, both in tbe popular election and in the electoral col lege, makes a president he is free from the importunities of special interests and special pleaders." The moral prestige which Gover nor Roosevelt will derive from the tremendous majorities piled up for him in almost every section of the country will indeed prove of ines timable benefit to him as president, but the best assurance that he will be free from the "claims of clique and group" lies in the genuine in' tegrity of his character and Intel lect, in hi3 ability to determine his course by his own convictions and not by the direction of others and in the fine enlightenment of his dem ocratic beliefs. Even without the overwhelming mandate from the peo ple to take on the job of vigilantly guarding their interests, there would be no chance for anyone to play horse with him. For the democratic president-elect has not only the lean of leadership. but the keenness of political judg ment which usually accompanies it We are very confident that Governor Roosevelt will give the American na tion wide-visioned and progressive leadership. We said before his nom ination for president that he was he most progressive candidate put be fore the Chicago convention, and we think his conduct and utterances during the last few months have proved it. Governor Roosevelt has a gift of getting along with people of all ranks and classes, and those who meet him are impressed with his funda mental sanity. He has a keen sense of humor, which prevents him from harboring a too arrogant notion of his place in the political heirarchy. He ts richly endowed with many of the magnetic qualities which rally men to the support of . important causes. It is no light task under taken in easy conditions and it can be achieved by no ready-made path of official correctness, no harking back to the catchwords and the com promises of an older day. In view of the tremendously grave and complicated problems confront ing the country, and the vital neces sity of composing the political fears are ;conomic prejudices which are such formidable obstacles to their solution, tho presence in the White house of such a skillful reconciler and common-sense politician as Franklin D. Roosevelt can only be looked forward to with the most cheering reassurance and hope. De troit News. :o: Henry J. Allen, who directed tbe Hoover publicity during the recent campaign, Is going to Rumania for a month. It is hoped while he is there he will look into the Rumanian publicity methods, particularly as it applies to Rumanian royalty and of ncial life, it appears to be a very high grade of publicity, judging from the spread it gets in the newspapers :o: Ten miles In a car is not time enough for anything. It's no wonder we can't get more things settled in this country. That far in a carriage with neighbors used to be time enough to reach a conclusion occa sionally, but in a car on a hard road these days you are there quicker'n thought can get a good start. :o: Gene Tunney's contribution to poll tics during the last campaign was able, but not enthusiastic, and we are of the opinion it will be his las effort in that direction. It is evry dizicult to keep politics, as it is now practiced, on a high literary plane. :o: Christmas cards for printing can be found at the Journal office. Come and look over the line. 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 County, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem ber, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m of said day at the south front door of the court house, in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash the following real es tate to-wit: The north eighty-seven (87) feet of Lots one (1), two (2), three (3), and four (4), in Block four (4) in the original town of Plattsmouth, Cass Coun ty, Nebraska, as surveyed, plat ted and recorded; The same being levied upon and taken as the property of William A Wells, Flora M. Wells, Eduth Mar tin and Becker Roofing Company defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by Occidental Building and Loan Association, plain tiff, against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, November 1st, A. D. 1932. ED W. THIMGAN, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska, n3-5w SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass County, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decern ber, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m of said day at the south front door of tbe court house in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate to-wit: Lots 1 and 2 in Block 31 in Young and Hays Addition to the City of Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska; The same being levied upon and taken as the property of James E. Waller, Clara Waller, husband and wife; Walt Minnear and Elizabeth May Minnear, his wife, and M. S Briggs, defendants, to satisfy a judg ment of said court recovered by The Plattsmouth Loan and Building As sociation, a corporation, plaintiff. against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, November 1st, A. D. 1932. Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. ED W. TIUMGAN, n3-5w SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale, Is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the District Court, within and for Cass County, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 3rd day of Decem ber, A. D. 1932, at 10 o'clock a. m of said 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 numbered one (1) and two (2) in Block twenty-seven (27) in Young and Hay's Ad dition to the City of Platts mouth, Cass County, Nebraska, excepting the west thirty feet of said Lot two ( 2 ) ; The same being levied upon and taken as the property of Thomas S. Svoboda and Anna Svoboda, husband and wife, defendants, to satisfy a udgment of said court recovered by the Plattsmouth Loan and Building Association, a corporation, plaintiff, against said defendants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, November 2nd, A. D. 1932. ED W. THIMGAN, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. n3-6w. , 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 ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss: Fee Book 9, page 326. To all persons interested In the estate of Jonas Johnson, deceased: On reading tbe petition of Joseph E. Johnson and Fredolph N. Johnson praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 2Cth day of Octo ber, 1932, and purporting to be the last will . and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and allowed and recorded as the last will and tes tament of Jonas Johnson, deceased; that said instrument be admitted to prcbate and the administraion of said esate be granted to C. A. Johnson, as Executor; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter, may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said county, on the 16th day of December, A. D. 1932, at 'ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioners should not be granted, and that notice f the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a copy of this Order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of (hearing. Witness my hand, and the seal of said court, this 17th day of Novem ber, A. D. 1932. A. IL DUX BURY, (Seal) n21-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS To: James T. O'Hara. Roy Stewart, George L. Kerr and all persons hav ing or claiming ,aay interest in tbe west half (W), except school grounds in the northwest corner, of Section twenty-two (22), Township ten (10), North. Range twelve (12), east of the Sixth Principal Meridian, In the County of Cass. State of Ne braska, real names unknown. uerenaants. You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 19th day of No vember, 1932, Bankers Life Insurance Company of Nebraska, a corporation, as plaintiff, filed its petition and commenced an action in the District Court of Cass county. Nebraska, against Jerome G. St. John, Cora St. John. James T. O'Hara. Roy Stew art, George L. Kerr, James ,v. ti wood, Ellet B. Drake. Ruth H. Drake end all persons having or claiming anv interest in the west half (W), except school grounds in the north west corner, of Section twenty-two (22). Township ten (10). North. Ranee twelve (12). east of the Sixth Principal Meridian, In the County of Cass, State of Nebraska, real names unknown, defendants, the object and rraver of which action is to fore close a certain mortgage, dated July 23, 1923, filed August G, 1923, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Cass county, Nebraska, in Book 52 of Mortgages, page 435, B-lven to nlaintlff by Jerome G. St. John and Cora St. John, husband and wife, covering the following describ ed real estate, to-wit: The west half (W), except school grounds in the northwest corner, of Section twenty-two (22), Township ten (10), North, Range twelve (12), east of the Sixth Principal Meridian, in the County of Cass, State of Ne braska to secure payment of a certain prom issory note for $22,000.00, which, with Interest thereon, was due and payable in sixty-three semi-annual installments on the first days of March and September of each year. from and including the first day of March,-1924, until and' including the first day of March, 1953; that de fault has been made in the payment of said installment which was due March 1. 1932; that default has also been made in the payment of said in stallment which was due September 1, 1932; that default has also been made in the conditions of said mort gage, respecting the payment of the taxes assessed against said real es tate for the years 1930 and 1931, said real estate having been sold for the delinquent taxes for 1930, and re demption from said tax sale not hav ing been made; that plaintiff, by rea son of said defaults, has elected to declare the balance of the principal of said note immediately due and pay able; that there is now due and ow ing to plaintiff the sura of $726.00, with interest thereon, from March 1, 1932, at the rate of 10 per annum; also the sum of $726.00, with inter est thereon from September 1, 1932, at the rate of 10 per annum; also the sum of $19,561.74, with interest thereon, at the rate of 5 per annum. from September 1, 1932, to tbe date on which plaintiff's petition was filed. and with Interest thereon, at the rate of 10 per annum, from the date on which plaintiff's petition was filed. You are further notified that plain tiff's petition prays for a decree of foreclosure and for the sale of said real estate; for costs; and for gen eral equitable relief. You and each of you are further notified that you are required to an swer plaintiff's petition on or before Monday, the 9th day of January, 933. BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEBRASKA, Plaintiff. By WM. C. RAMSEY and SHERMAN S. WELPTON, Jr. Its Attorneys. n21-4w Journal Want-Ads cost only a few cents and get real results 1 -