THUESDAY, DEC. 1, 19S2. PAGE THRZB the IPlattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SE1H-WEEEXY AT PLATTSKOUTE, KEBEASKA Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth., Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PSICE $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. Bate to Canada and foreign countries, J 3-50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. With two life insurance policies, a fire insurance policy, taxes and Christmas, Santa Claus had better do his stuff right. :o: Don't worry about the little boy who always wants to "get even" with someone. He may turn out to be a great tariff expert. :o: How many can remember the timfc when a man wore bells on his spurs and proudly walked down the church aisle making a noise that awakened the sleepiest person present? :o: In the nitrate fields of Chile, the workers play a gambling game in which each man bets that he can hold a stick of dynamite, with light ed fuse, longer than anyone else. Winners collect or are collected. :o: As long as womenfolk continue to start kitchen fires with quick-starting motor fuel, you can expect a few of their menfolk to drag shotguns through wire fences muzzle first, now and then. :o: Hatpins are coming back, we learn from the fashion page. But they are a new, pacifist type, rather for orna ment than for utility, and ye don't suppose they will assume much im portance as weapons of defense and offense, as their forerunners did. :o: In reply to a questionnaire as to whether they would permit kisses from a young man on their first date after the introduction, 90 per cent of the senior girls in a California col lege said "Certainly." Even if the percentage does seem a bit high, we regard it as a very fine answer to a fool question. :o: Worry about the gold standard all you want to, but this country would be a lot better off with a lot of those bunglesome, old-fashioned, wagon wheel silver dollars in circulation. Of course a sufficient quantity ol paper ones would help some, too, but to our notion a few big sound silver dollars in the pants pocket beats their eqivalent in paper folded up in a wallet. From A New Look to Nelly Don for that SOMETHING TO WEAR gift sure to delight every feminine heart on your list. Cotton Frocks in stripes, dots And gay prints, lending captivating smartness and joy to festive holiday giving. Ladies "The Shop of FREE AIR, Whether the air is the property of the people is a philosophical ques tion which we are too lazy to go into at the moment. But the notion that it is the basis for the public regulation o? radio broadcasting, and it is also the basis cf complaints that during the last campaign cer tain candidates, who could not pay for their air, got a bum deal. Let us grant, for the sake of ar gument, that Mr. Norman Thomas, Mr. William Z. Foster and others have a right to unlimited quanti ties of free air for broadcasting pur poses. The question, as we see it, is whether the air is worth the taking. There are sound reasons for be lieving that, barring an occasional address by a principal candidate, broadcasting is a feeble, and even a dangerous vehicle for political cam paigns. The protests of the Canad ians, who were forced night after night to listen either to American campaign blah or to nothing at all, are significant because their protests are organized. The Irritation of the helpless American' voter at this ceaseless bombardment has as yet had no organized expression; but every one knows that it is very real. Is it sound campaign practice to blat into a voter's ear when h edoesn't want to listen? We doubt it. Also, there is the practical test. There were three candidates in the last election who were, in a manner cf speaking, children of the radio. These were Dr. J. R. Brinkley, the goat-gland specialist who ran for gov ernor of Kansas; Henry Field, the Iowa mail-order merchant who ran for the senate, and "Fighting Bob" Shuler, the preacher who ran for the senate in California. All three of these candidates were conceded to, have built up their followings al most solely by means of radio. The followings turned out not to be so large. All three were licked, badly. We suspect that those defeated candidates who now complain that they didn't get enough opportunity to spread their views on the air, didn't really miss so much, after all. Baltimore Evening Sun. Frock 1.50 to 1.95 Toggery Personal Service" GOING IN DEBT AND GETTING OUT AGAIN There are many empirical eco nomists who long have made it a practice to extol the advantages of going into debt. Indeed, up to the dreary autumn of 1929 the process of borrowing as much money as pos sible for business or speculative pur poses was widely regarded as the easy road to affuence. Winning wealth on a shoe-string by the use of other people's money had become a national pastime. Some of the more serious minded actually work ed at it and mads good in conse quence. But when the depression came the familiar old family mort gage and the assortment of bank loans with which a business enter prise was plastered no longer look ed like so many finger poets on- the road to happiness. Forced liquidation is no joke. The country has had three years of it and the process is still far from com plete. The experience is eo painful and so costly that individuals and business structures created by pri vate enterprise, as well as by muni cipalities and other governmental bodies, ought to try to get benefit out of it. The formerly popular view that the proper thing to do with one's credit was to stretch it a3 far as possible needs careful revision. For going into debt and never getting out is not likely to be regarded hence forth by creditors as an amusing vagary. Something may be said for not go ing into debt at all. Though that will be regarded by many as a revolu tionary doctrine, it is capable of be ing defended. Building business pro gress out of profits exclusively is eas ily possible .provicd the wolfish pack of big and little governments do not seize and devour all the earnings of private enterprise, which they have proved themselves capable of -doing. There are many indications that from now on costs will have to be figured much more closely than they have in the past and that taxes and interest must be kept as low as possible. A chastened business community must proceed to unload its needless bur dens with militant determination. The easy-money days are not likely to return soon. Liquication should go on by choice of those in control of sound enter prises. High pressure business is no longer a necessity in this highly pro ductive land. The same is true of high pressure family expenses. The j-pectacle of the formerly opulent Joneses, Crowns and Robinsons climbing down from heights of giddy expenditure and living happily on little cr nothing has a lesson for the rest of us. A competence is nearly anything in the way of income to which a family adjusts itself suc cessfully by intelligent self-denial. In making the adjustment it is a great help to be rid of the dear old family mortgage. A passion for get ting and staying out of debt might well be a valuable by-product of tht great depression. Chicago Daily News. :o: HD7DENBUP.G AND UacDONALD The health of two men is of par ticular importance today in Europ ean politics. One of them is Presi dent Paul von Hindenburg of Ger many, who is generally believed to be preventing the breakdown of or- derly government in his counrty un- err. city has failed to destroy tne der the strain of present economic ; air of courtliness that still lingers in conditions. The other is Prime Min-jtbe Cotton State. Expansive pillar ister Ramsay MacDonald of Great ed homes embowered in pleasant gar Britain, whose continuance in office i dens, where the beauty of magnolias still gives some support to the claim that in a time of national emergency his country is being administered by a "National" (i. e. nonparty) gov ernment. The retirement of either man probably would produce first rate political crises. In Germany there seems to be no other person who commands the re spect and confidence of the people as does President von Hindenburg. But the president is 85 years old, and in view of the division and bit terness in German politics the ques tion of what would happen if he should die or become incapacitated i3 serious. In Great Britain Prime Minister MacDonald also is a unify ing force, but the National govern ment he founded about a year ago, with the support of the Conserva tives, Liberals and a part of the La bor party, has begun to break up. The prime minister's health has not been good, and with the present dis cord In the dominant Conservative party, his retirement might promote a major crisis. Under ordinary circumstances, of course, the prospect of political re organization In Germany or Great Britain would not be of any special International interest. But because of the need for stability and con tinuity in national policies today, the disturbance involved In such changes "would retard, and might even endanger, the genera leconomic recovery of the worid. SETS EXAMPLE FOE PUBLIC OFFICIALS Governor Roosevelt's reception of a committee cf "hunger marchers" at Albany was an eye-opener for them and a fine demonstration of the public value of such an attitude on the part cf the authorities. He list ened to their complaints and de mands. Then patiently but firmly he explained to them that most of the positions which they took were abso lutely untenable. Even when they became impudent and abusive he did not lose his temper. He showed them that what the state and the cities and voluntary relief associations are already doing make it certain that no one need starve or freeze or go shelterless during the coming winter. For the rest, he quietly put aside their appeals to him to do var ious things wholly beyond his power. They went away sorrowful but soundly instructed, obviously feeling that in the act they h?.-.! lost their coveted new "grievance" in having the government refuse to see them. Like the action of Mayor McKee in lotting the communists interview him at the city hall, the course pur sued by Mr. Roosevelt may indicate a beginning of new tactics in such matters by public officials. It was stated at Washington last spring that President Hoover had refused to meet a delegation from the bonus army. Later in the year he consented to do to. Cf course, a busy and harassed executive cannot be expected to tear himself away from the public busi ness every day in crder to hear the protests and reproaches of all and sundry. But it is certainly well to prove to the discontented citizens that they may, on fit occasions, have access to headquarters. More than that, as we see by the action of Gov ernor Roosevelt, it is a good thing to make it plain that those in high office are not afraid to encounter ex tremists and radicals face to face. "Seeing" them does not in the least Imply either agreeing with them or making (them impossible promises, while it may afford a fine opportun ity to set both thorn and the public straight. Anybody in the guise ol an American citizen can safely be met by an American executive. Even If jsatan were to get in under false pre- j tenses, what he had to ray for him- self could be heard, even if the meet ing closed, in the fashion of Martin Luther, with an inkpot thrown at him. New York Timesl " " :o: A EKIGHTLY GESTUEE The Reconstruction Finance Cor poration may stay the foreclosure of mortgages, but it remained for a genial real estate man, W. A. Boyd, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., to make a bon fire of mortgages held by him and not paid off. Only rarely does Alabama make the front page of the nation's press. Something of elusive reticence clings to the old southern state, reminiscent cf the colorful epoch of ante-bellum times when conservative descendants of English gentlemen and gentle women invested its spacious planta tions with the unobstrusive charm peculiar to a leisured aristocracy. Today the smoke from a thousand chimneys may rise from the rolling mills of Birmingham the Pittsburgh of the South but even the rapid industrial progress of that very mod- aftd live oaks is made fragrant with the sweet scene of orange blossom and jessamine, link memories with a picturesque past which possessed a gracious traditional charm that the world will hardiy see again. But the southern neighborliness remains a fact and not a dream. With pockets bulging with mortgage pa pers, Mr. Boyd strolled into the of fice of the Tuscaloosa News last Sat urday and, with the help of the edi torial staff, burned them to the very last red seal. Then he placed the fol lowing advertisement in the paper: Notice to the greatest major ity of the people that I hold mortgages and open accounts against: I am today destroying approx imately $27,000 worth of this kind of paper, so, boys, you need not dodge me; come in and see me and let's talk things over and forget the past. The gesture of the Alabaman real estate man to stop the "boys dodging him" was more than generous. It had the touch of bigness. Perhaps who knows? it may start a train of thought among statesmen and peo ples that possibly there are other way3 of handling crushing debt bur dens than insistence on the full pound of flesh. :o: Remember when a fellow used to have to wait his turn in the barber shop before he could get a haircut? :o: Journal Want-Ads set results I How Modern Women Lose Pounds of Fat Swiftly Safely Gained Physical Vigor Yonthfulness with Clear Skin and Vivacious Eyes that Sparkle with Glorious Health! 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Fricke & Co., or any drugstore in the world. 1-2 EXPLAINING VOTE AS FAEIiI BOARD EEV0LT Surveying the details of the vote cf November 8 in the agricultural districts of the country, an Omaha news agency connected with the grain exchanges has concluded that "the old game of getting elected to con gress on a platform whose only plank is vituperative abuse of the private grain dealer and the local independ ent farm elevator has about played out." It cites the fate in Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and other states of representatives in congress who supported the farm board and the government co-operatives as proof of its assertion, adding: "Today is passing that era in Am erican politics when the most blat ant bellower against the buyers and sellers of farm products Avas certain of the 'farm vote.' " Whether the embattled farmers of the west, who took a whole section of states out of the republican list, were thinking of the grain dealers as much or nearly as much as they were of the farm board is not demonstrat ed. Perhaps the news agency has read into the returns a future im munity from "the loudest shouters against a distant 'Wall Street' " which were not really there. But some cf the examples they give of results in certain typical farm dis tricts would seem to prove that the administration's sponsorship of the farm board determined the republi can farmers to vote out all who ranged themselves with Mr. Hoover in that respect. South Dakota de feated these advocates. In Minne sota, according to the Omaha news agency, only one of the eight repub licans who stood by the board was re-elected. But its chief example of what was abroad in the food belt on November 8 is Representative Sim mons of the Fifth Nebraska district. He had served 10 years in congress; he had the backing of great farm or ganization leaders and he spoke em phatically in defense of the board. He was aided in his campaign by the chief agent of the Nebraska Farm Bureau federation, "whose word is said to be law among Nebraska farm ers." Despite all this. Mr. Simmons was defeated by a young, inexper ienced candidate, Terry Carpenter. Our Omaha authority makes the state ment that Mr. Carpenter's backing was chiefly country grain elevator men and independent farm elevator companies "which had refused to be come serfs to the government owned marketing agencies." Without doubt, the plowed land rose in revolt, its sprouting od dem ocrats having been merely incidental to the earthquake. The new adminis tration may not be able to satisfy the dissatisfied republican farmers, but 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, cell 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, Cas3 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 judgment 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. n3-5w. it knows enough about the result not to repeat the costly farm board ex periment. New York Times. :o: A New York judge says too many men who should be paperhangers are practicing law. Well, if the judge can show that there is steady em ployment and fair living in paper hanging at this time, there doubt less are some lawyers who would gladly make the change. 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 cf 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. PlattPmouth, Nebraska, November 1st, A. D. 1932. ED V,. THIMGAN, Sheriff Cass County, Nebraska. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk cf 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. cf said day at the south front door cf the 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 Minncar and Elizabeth iMay Minnear, his wife, and M. S. jBriggs, 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. THIMGAN, n3-5w ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for. Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State cf Nebraska, Cass county, ss. Fee Book 9, page 251. To all persons interested in ' the estate of C. N. Barrows, deceased: On reading the petition of W. G. Kieck. Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in thi3 Court on the 23rd day of November, 1932, and for assignment of residue of said estate, determination of heirship, and for his discharge as Administrator; 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 coun ty, on the 23rd day of December, A. D. 1932 at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be . given to all persons interested in said matter by publish ing a ccpy of this crder 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 band and the seal of said Court, this 23rd day of November, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) n2S-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. Fee Book 9, page 294. To the heirs at law and all persons interested in the estate of John Stu art Livingston, deceased: On reading the petition of Maud M. Livingston, Administratrix, pray ing a final settlement and allowance of her account filed in this Court on the 26th day cf November, 1932, and for assignment of the residue of said estate: determination of heirship, and for her discharge as Administratrix; 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 coun ty, on the 23rd day of December, A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, ir any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons 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 or hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 26th day of November, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) n28-3w 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 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, PC a Fee Book 9, page 32G. To all persons interested in the estate of Jonas Johnson, deceased: On reading the petition of Joseph E. Johnson and Fredolph N. Johnson praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 2Cth day of Octo ber, 1632, and purporting to be the last will. and testament of the Bald 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 probate and the administraion of said esate be granted to C. A. Johnson, as Executor; It is hereby ordered that you and ell persons interested in said matter, may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said county, on the ICth 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 of 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 peal of caid court, this 17th day of Novem ber, A. D. 1932. A. IL DUXBURY. (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 any interest in 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, real names unknown. Defendants. 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 ,W. El wood, Ellet B. Drake. Ruth H. Drake and all persons having or claiming any interest in the west half (W), except school grounds in the north west 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 Nebraska, real names unknown, defendants, the object and prayer of which action is to fore close a certain mortgage, dated July 23, 1923, filed August 6. 1923, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Cass county, Nebraska, in Book 52 of Mortgages, page 435, driven to plaintiff 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, 1955; 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 sum 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 therecn. at the rate of 5 per annum, from September 1. 1932. to the date cn 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 eaid 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 cay of January, 1933. BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEBRASKA, Plaintiff. By WM. C. RAMSEY and SHERMAN S. WELPTON, Jr. Its Attorneys. n21-4w Journal Want-AOs cost only m few cents and get real results I