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An old-fashioned woman is one
who still refers to it as pin money,
Instead of as cigarette money.
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Mother and the youngsters are be
ginning to check up to see what they
might like dad to surprise them with
Christmas.
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Jimmy Walker says he has been
offered $0,000 for his memoirs. For
purposes, we wonder, of publication
or of suppression?
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Next to a tub full of pink roses,
the nicest proposition to have in the
neighborhood is a long-legged man
when your roof catches fire.
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Persons who make propositions like
that should be careful lest they offer
too much. It tempts a man to re
member far more than ever happen
ed.
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Santa Claus letters are appearing
in the press, but not all of them ask
for dolls and toys. Some of them
seem to hint rather broadly for war
debt cancellation.
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It was reported to this office that
a young maiden went to sleep in her
bathtub one evening last week, and
was awakened by neighbors, who
called late in the evening.
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Bibles are being bootlegged in Rus
sia, according to a recent report, and
perhaps we may next hear that a
Testament racketeer has been sent
to Siberia for falsifying his income
tax returns.
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We are hoping for Mr. Ford's
speedy recovery and release from the
hospital. No man who finds so many
things to say on all sorts of topics
can fail to have something Interest
ing to report about his operation.
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These court dockets are very un
satisfying to a number of our people
In that they only state Mrs. Blank
vs. Mr. Blank. "What they want to
know 13 who Is the other woman
or man. Making a guessing contest
of it really involves too many com
binations, now and then.
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Borah may be an Idaho potato,
but he's not a sweet one.
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About the best thing about castles
that we build in the air is they are
tax free.
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Our main trouble is that the poli
ticians think they are economists
and the economists think they are
politicians.
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It is stated that a German in
ventor has perfected a silent cannon,
Now if the people who howl for war
could only be silenced.
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With all the disadvantages obvious
in the German election system, the
fact remains that the loser gets his
return bout wtihin sixty days.
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For the benefit of those who still
are loyal to the older style of loud
speaker Minnesota is returning Mag
nus Johnson to the new congress.
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Historic words were said by Hoo
ver and Roosevelt in their private
10-minute conversation. So were
those of the two Carolina governors.
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A movie director recently said he
would not give on "Blessed Event"
for ten "Grand Hotels." After all,
what would one do with a hotel
these days?
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For weeks we've suffered and fond
ly looked forward to the relief that
was to come when politics was off
the radio completely overlooking
the fact it would make room for more
crooners.
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Just to show how desperate the
employment situation is becoming,
no less than six men have appeared
in the news lately avowing their
willingness to marry women who
have plenty of money.
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Borrowing $10 from a secret serv
ice man, as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt
did in an emergency the other day,
is likely to revive presidential ambi
tions in the minds of many men who
haven't cared much about such great
responsibilities in recent years.
CAN THERE BE
PERPETUAL PEACE?
Benjamin Kidd, In one of the most
famous of his politico-philosophical
works, argues that there has never
been a rational sanction for the so
cial organization of mankind. But
it does not follow that, In the evolu
tion of civilization, reason will not
replace what he calls the antiration
al instincts. It is indeed clear that,
despite terrible lapses Into primitive
barbarism, such as we have known
In our generation, the role of reason
is increasingly dominant in human
affairs.
We must beware of falling into
two opposite blunders. The first is
that there can be no eradication of
those deep-seated passions and fol
lies which result in war. The second
is that there must necessarily be a
sudden transformation. If we adopt
the first view, it is obviously useless
to make any efforts whatever. We
must give up in discouragement. If
we adopt the second view, we may,
whenever we experience a setback,
feel disillusioned and again tempted
to give up in discouragement,
Edouard Herriot the other day, in
a moment of frankness, realizing the
magnitude of the task that faces any
European government which works
for the establishment of perpetual
peace, cried:
What folly to promise a def
inite peace for tomorrow, when
for thousands of years there has
been inscribed in the manners of
mankind the infamous barbarity
of war, and when we see that
the first arms were made when
the first utensils were made!
The best artisans of peace are
those who place themselves above
the vanity of formula?, and seek,
step by step, to realize a work
whose consummation they will
perhaps not themselves see, but
whose accomplishment, never
theless, demands a continuity of
resolution.
It would be sheer folly to explain
to soldiers in the full fiush of action
that they will probably never see the
triumph of their cause. It is no less
depressing to declare to those who
believe in the speedy victory of rea
so nover the warlike habits of men
that the yare indulging in Utopian
dreams which, if realized, will only
be realized generations hence
But there may come a time when
enthusiasm has spent itself and the
obstacles seem greater than ever. At
that time It might appear foolish to
promise results which are not In
sight. . What is then needed is an
appeal to determination. Rightly or
wrongly, it Is felt in many quarters
that expectations have been pitched
too high, and that, since the walls
of Jericho have not fallen at the
blast of a trumpet, there is nothing
more to do. Difficulties have become
apparent that were hardly antlei
pated. The true nature of the task
presents itself with greater clearness.
In these circumstances It . may
well be desirable, as M. Herriot be
lieves, to remind ourselves that we
are out to overthrow a terrible hu
man institution that has stood for
thousands of years: and 'that the
qualities that are required are not
such as might be successful in a sud
den assault, but such as are needed
in a patient and perhaps prolonged
siege of an ancient fortress. "It is
better," says Robert Louis Steven
son, "to travel hopefully than to ar
rive;" and although the phrase can
hardly be applied accurately in the
present connection, since the purpose
is to arrive, yet in any event we must
continue to travel hopefully,
Though M. Herriot's reminder may
be thus justified, it should not be
allowed to go nchallenged. Man has
indeed done many things for thou
sands of years which he has suddenly
ceased to do because he became en
lightened. He continues to do many
things out of mere habit. They are
survivals which have no real place
in human economy. One of these
things is the making of war.
Benjamin Kidd also points out that
while the Idea of war and of em
pire was the basis of Roman civil
ization, it is the very negation of
our modern civilization, which is
supported by industry and Interna
tlonal exchanges in the various do
mains of trade, art and intellect. If
it persists, it is an anachronism. And
anachronisms do Indeed suddenly
disappear when their absurdity, their
costliness and their hurtfulness are
realized. Christian Science Moni
tor.
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Five turkeys were sent President
Hoover for Thanksgiving. All of
which means nothing in the case of
Mr. Hoover, but if it had happened;
to some of us, it would have meant
turkey hash for a month.
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Since things in general are not
as prosperous as they have been,
there will probably be a number of
surprises about Christmas time.
Those who have been expecting a
wrist watch, a new dress, etc., may
open the package to discover an ordi
nary compact or a handkerchief.
THE NEW SECURITY
OF SIMPLE NEEDS
The Atlantic Monthly carries an
article which sounds almost as it
Jael Kent, the name signed to it,
were really an alias for a Wall street
famous one who still lasts in anec
dotes; namely, Mrs. Hetty Green.
There are three in the Kent fam
ily, husband, wife and 9-year-old
John "city folk" who have moved
into a remote Vermont hill town to
live, and this is the new home chron
icle: "We shall never again be. fright
ened by the bogey of hard times. We
have been freed from the narrow, con
fines of our own class, as surely as
any serf or Negro slave was ever
freed from his. We have, found a
new security the security of simple
needs.
"For the old budget of 15 thou
sand dollars a year we substituted
one of nine hundred dollars. It cov
ers everything: Rent, light, laundry,
telephone, fuel, food, gasoline, auto
license, clothes, incidentals.
"If you have $20 a week, you can
move to a New England farm or into
a New England village and. enjoy
life."
When once a newspaper reporter
sat as host to Mrs. Hetty Green at
"a midday snack" at the too-long-ago-gone
Astor House the lady of
the millions and the dauntless ' vo
cabulary confided:
"Ordinarily I confined myself to
a couple of meals a day. What's
the use of stuffing yourself into
stupors in the midst of a day's busi
ness? Of course, the gossips say that
I starve to save my pennies. What I
save is my health. And let me tell
yo one thing that'll stir your high
priced doctors up: I am going on to
a pretty fair age a newspaper the
other day called me 'an old lady'
but since the day I quit boarding
school I never have known what it is
to have an indigestion pain, or a
billious attack, or anything else of
that fashionable sort not a single
stomach ache, even. I'm immune
from doctors' bills because I know
how to eat like a human being
ought.
"Up in Vermont last year I kept
a diary, put down what I spent to
keep house. Except fuel, postage
stamps and rent and taxes for my
home I happen to own,. I totaled a
dollar a day . . . and, don't you
guess against it, I lived mighty well.
There were two of - us, sometimes
three. Scimp? Why should I?
Henry Alloway in Wall Street Jour
nal.
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PIE FOR A FLATEOSATJRTJS
Harvard paleontologists have a
problem. This should not Imply that
paleontologists generally "are free
from problems in paleontology ai
there are in the United States Treas
ury. But this particular' problem is
one of mathematics, and is as con
founding as the 'Einstein theory. It
concerns the amount of food that
should be served' to a full-grown
Plateosaurus after it has done a hard
day's work in the morasses of the
Triasslc period.
The Plateosaurus in question is at
present idling away its time in the
Harvard 'Museum of Comparative
Geology after some 160,000,000 years
of what might be called innocuous
desuetude. Having weighed some
thing like 40,000 pounds in the full
ness of its adult Plateosaurushood, it
is believed to have had a fairly good
appetite. A couple of tarts or a cin
namon bun would have held no In
terest for this pre-historic creature.
When it thought of a meal it un
doubtedly contemplated what today
would establish a first-class commis
sary department for an average South
American revolution.
The Triasslc period has handed
down no printed menus and the ques
tion of "how much could one of the
critters eat" becomes largely one of
plain algebra. It has been establish
ed that an adult Indian elephant
weighing 8000 pounds can readily
absorb about 800 pounds of vegeta
tion in a day. This being the case,
may it not be assumed that the five-
times-heavier Plateosaurus could
have disposed of something like two
tons of lemon meringue pie or what
ever delicacies the Triassic period
had to offer it after a ' day's romp
among its playmates?.
Fortunately, these specimens of
animals of ages gone by do not have
to be fed. One can scarcely vision
troop of Harvard professors lug
ging - a day's . rations for a hungry
Plateosaurus.
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Italy may substitute "autista'V for
the French "chauffeur," "conteg-
giari" for the English "flirt.? VXassi".
(Mussolini's invention) for ' our
taxi," and "giazzo" for our "Jazz.
but when she calls our sandwich
panino inbottito," it is too much!
to: r-
Journal Want-llda ooal cnW a
few oenta and get fM result ' '
FARM INCOME LOSS
HEART OF PROBLEM
The department of agriculture es
timates that American farmers will
received in 1932 a gross income of
$5,240,000,000. This compares with
$11,950,000,000 so recently as 1929.
In three years farm Income has fal
len 56 per cent. No further evidence
is needed to indicate the serious
questions ocnf rontlng American agri
culture, or to suggest the difficulties
in the way of industrial recovery
when the purchasing power of one-
forth of the country's population has
been reduced by nearly seven billion
dollars.
Two measures have been employ
ed since 1929 in an attempt to check
the. swift decline. As nearly as it
can be done by a high protective
tariff, the farmer has been given a
virtual monopoly on the domestic
market. Simultaneously, an attempt
has been made by the federal gov
ernment to "peg" the prices of farm
products. This effort has been dis
continued recently, but not before
several hundred million dollars was
spent to take surplus wheat and cot
ton off the market. As the depart
ment of agriculture's figures show,
neither this "stabilization" program
nor the protection afforded by the
Hawley-Smoot tariff has averted a
catastrophic decline in profits. This
is because prices of most farm sta
ples are established in world mar
kets and world stocks have been
steadily accumulating. A report pub
lished recently by the economic in
telligence service of the League of
Nations indicates that between 1925
and 1931 stocks of cotton increased
by 90 per cent and those of wheat
by 113 per cent. In the face of
enormous surpluses In world mar
kets that the federal farm board at
tempted to lift prices by absorbing
a comparatively small domestic sur
plus, and republican statesmen con
tinued hopefully to insist that a high
protective tariff is "the very basis of
safety" for the American farmer.
Experience suggests that a more
promising solution of the problem
would be provided by reversing the
method of approach. American agri
culture needs foreign outlets for its
surplus. In countries which are not
driven by force of circumstances
either' to curtail their imports from
us in order to avoid purchasing ex
change at a heavy cost, or to stimu
late domestic production of farm
products by means of subsidies and
bounties in order to liberate them
selves from dependence on our out
put. To obtain such outlets requires
reconsideration of American policy
regarding both tariffs and intergov
ernmental debts. New York Times.
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THERE'S A BETTER TONE
Slowly, : perhaps, but inevitably
there is being developed in this coun
try a new psychological attitude to
ward the problems of depression and
recovery. This is marked by grow
ing confidence rather than growing
volume of business. Recovery thus
far has been less actual than indi
cative.
People realize there are plenty of
difficulties still In the way of re
covery, but they have gained new
confidence in their own ability to
solve them. While echoes - of the
cheering over the - election results
still reverberate in the distance, the
people observe that government is
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setting about to perform the acts it
was given a mandate to carry out.
Measures for farm relief, monetary
and banking reform, prohibition re
peal and other matters are begin
ning to take form. Enactment of
these measures will follow within a
few weeks. There 13 reason to be
lieve they will form the basis for
new credits that will release money
now sterilized in the vaults of east
ern banks and stimulate the call for
funds.
Even the pessimists recall that the
United States has passed through six
major depressions prior to this one
and that each has been followed by
marked periods of prosperity. Cer
tainly the race has lost none of the
virility, initiative and capacity for
readjustment that characterized those
periods. The way out may still be
a long and tedious one but the grow
ing belief that eventually we shall
arrive bathes the prospect in a new
glow of hope. Sioux City Tribune.
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"One of the Joys of using a row
ing machine," according to the In
dianapolis News, "i3 the knowledge
that a big speedboat isn't going to
dash across the room in front of
you."' Well that's one, sure enough.
What are the others?
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are sow being taken at the Journal
office. Call and secure your pick o
the line while it is still unbroken.
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 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 this Court on the
2Srd day of November, 1932, and for
assignment of residue of said estate.
determination jof 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 copy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of said
Court, this 23rd day of November, A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) n28-3w . 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 of 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, 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 in
terested in said matter by publishing
a copy of this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper printed in said county, for three
successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of said
Court this 26th day of November, A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY,
(Seal) n2 8-3 w County Judge.
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ORDER OP HEARING AND NO
TICE OP PROBATE OP WILTJ
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 cf 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 26th 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
probate and the adminlstraion 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 of the
pendency of 6ald 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
newEpaper printed in said county, for
three successiye weeks prior to said
day of .hearing.
Witness my band, and the seal of
said court, this 17th day of Novem
ber, A. D. 19S2.
A. IL DUXBURT,
(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), TownBhip
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 tbe office of the Register
of Deeds of Cass county, Nebraska,
in Book 52 of Mortgages, page 435,
jrlven to plaintiff by -Jerome G. St.
John and Cora St. John, husband and
wife, covering the following describ
ed real estate, to-wlt:
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 Becure 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 tbe 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
thereon, at the rate of fi per annum.
from September 1, 1932. to the 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,
1933.
BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF NEBRASKA,
Plaintiff.
By WM. C. RAMSEY and
SHERMAN S. WELPTON, Jr.
Its Attorneys.
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