MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1933. PLATTSIiOUTH SEM WEEKLY JOURKAI PAGE THREB The IPlattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY 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 Postai Zone, 52.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, S3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. France's debt payment was a franc failure. :o: Did anyone ever fall down in an isolated place without anyone seeing them? :o: We Ehall always remember 1932 as the year we got a lame back bow ing to the inevitable. :o: Jobs at good wages make markets. That is the long and short of all the bewildering rhetoric that is being set before the people. :o: "The new legislature is promising that the license plate shall not be worth any more than the motor car," eays the Jewell Republican. :o: Another thing that is keeping pros perity from coming around the cor ner, is that too many fellows are trying to get another start. :o: Believe it or not, but it is stated that people are still buying 3 mil lion dollars worth of gold bricks an nually in the United States. :o: "Half the world doesn't know what the other half wants," a salesgirl i3 reported as saying, after a hard day at the exchange counter right after ChriEtmas. :o: "I wish I looked like Kay Francis," sighed a tired, middle-aged woman, looking at the Sunday paper. "I wish you did, too," said her husband en thusiastically. And the temperature In the room went down twenty de grees. :o: Now that the forthcoming report of the Ten-Year Plan audit has been announced as a reply to charges from the Civic Service Institute, we are relieved from the necessity of read ing It. No one can remain in doubt as to what it will show. :o: Judging from remarks from the Georgia rural press, Georgia is still pretty angry with the governor of New Jersey for refusing extradition for the fugitive from the chain gang. They seem to think the governor has broken a chain letter system or some thing. :o: Coach Sutherland of the Pitt Pan thers offers no alibi for his team's defeat at the hands of Southern Cali fornia Monday afternoon, merely re marking that the Trojans had the better team. Although nobody ser iously believes that the Trojans were five touchdowns better than Pitt, everybody is grateful now and then for a 35 to 0 score. It's very diffi cult to alibi for a score of such dimensions. How ? :-a??:'.-.-::s I :s; x :' V ':'::.'i::;i 1 Be doesn't look a day over fifty. And feels like forty. At the age of 62. That's the happy state of health and pep a man enjoys when he gives his vital organs a little stimulant! When your system is stagnant and you feel sluggish, headachy, half-alive don't waste money on "tonics" or "regulators" or similar Eatent medicines. Stimulate the ver and bowels. Use a famous physician's prescription every drug store keeps. Just ask them for Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin. This appetizing syrup is made from fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin- One dose will clear up almost any case of headache, biliousness, constipation. Mr. Insull says he left Chicago for his health. If only that guy had got sick ten years ago. :o: As a final gesture of independence a young man is said to have pur chased two dozen neckties of his own cnooEing the week before he was mar ried. !o: We may all be better fishermen this year. There are few calendars being given out, and we will have to drop back to the old almanac and its signs. :o: Men have their moments of de spair, but where i3 the chap who suffers the utter depths of hopeless ness of a woman who has forgot ten her compact? :o: There are laws governing most crimes, but there seems to be noth ing to do to the bridge player who comments, as he looks at his cards, on how rotten they are. :o: Another example In division is bothering the average American hus band. He can't figure out how to divide one car between himself, his wife, two daughters and three sons. x: 20 0JI DAYS FOR MOONSHINERS A local man tells me that for every still which flourished in these parts (the Kentucky mountains) be fore the war there are now ten. This may be an exaggeration, but there are certainly many more. They pay! The federal officers sometimes line up as many as twenty culprits at a swoop. A man may get only two years for killing another, while a boy I know was given five years for being caut going over the moun tain with a load of moonshine. This boy wa3 let out on parole pending his trial so that he could help with the crops. His mother re marked plaintively: "He's such a good boy, I'm afeared he'll git a pen sentence. "But," she added bright ly, "I've heard that they feed 'em good and larn 'em to do somethin.' " Incidentally, the boy married dur ing his parole, and departed to serve his sentence feeling that he was a victim of circumstances. From his point of view, he had done no wrong, morally, in violating what he con sidered an unjust law. Had not his ancestors made moonshine "clean moonshine" for generations? Al freda Withington in the Atlantic Monthly. ' i :o: Read the "New Deal" Sale Ads In this issue of the Journal. Two items in each "New Deal" Sale ad offered for less than their wholesale cost. Pick them out and help yourself to some most un usual values Wednes., Jan. 11. Old? But if you want to keep in fine shape, feel fit the year 'round, take a spoonful of Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin every few days. You'll eat better, sleep better and fed better. You will never need another laxative. Give the children a little of this delicious syrup two or three times a week. A gentle, natural stimulant that makes them eat and keeps the bowels from clogging. And saves them from so many sick spells and colds. Have a sound stomach, active liver and strong bowel muscles that expel every bit of waste and poison every day I Just keep a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin on hand; take a stimulating spoonful every now and then. See if you don't feel new vigor in every wag. it Yr-v 4 r?m.M - , i WATtTTRT) BY HARDENING OF HITMAN CHARACTER This has been a tougt- old year, but not without signs of hope. The continuance of depression has been marked by a hardening of human character. Compromising, soft-soap methods of recovery have given way to a more positive attitude. Not only here but in all lands people are re conciling themselves to the stubborn fact that their one chance lies in greater exertion, not on the part of a few but by everyone. The presence of temper, even though it verges on wrath, is re assuring. There is no danger of a man freezing to death once he gets mad enough to thrash around and talk loud. The same thing is true of nations in distress. "We are getting healthily sore- sore about war debts, prohibition, taxes, credit restriction, the failure of business to revive automatically and other conditions. Last summer our two great par ties called for repeal of the Eight eenth amendment. Last fall we dared to "swap horses in midstream." Just now we are letting European govern dents know that they cannot get concessions for the mere asking. To sensitive souls all this may seem rather crude, if not dangerous, but to us common folk it looks like a revival of the old American spirit. As C rover Cleveland once said, we face conditions, not theories. The things that have happened to U3 are very real and call for real remedies. In form they may have the ap pearance of novelty, but in prin ciple they are moth-eaten with re petition. There is not much mystery in the glutted markets and restrictive tar iffs which have spoiled trade or in the hoarding by which people with cash have sought to protect them selves. Civilization overproduced in cer tain lines of endeavor, which means that it underproduced in others. Wo were infatuated with the Idea that life could be industrialized, com mercialized and mechanized. Art, culture and refinement were side tracked for business efficiency and speculative profit. Like the chattering hordes of Babel, we tried to reach heaven by building skyscrapers and mistook the discomfort of unnecessary con gestion for progress. Racketeering was -regarded as a first class joke because so many were in it and because it brought such quick returns. Much crime had to be tolerated or condoned in order to preserve bootlegging. It was a grand spree of compromise and makeshift, with America right out in front. Solemn treaties became mere scraps once more, despite the crosses in northern France; the constitution was mocked and laws were hardly given a second thought. This terrible year marked low tide in the ebb of moral stamina, but by the same token it marked a turn. We are about ready to ad mit that human weakness and hu man folly were at the bottom of this depression, and that's half the bat tle won for recovery. New York World-Telegram. :o; DIVIDED WE FALL In seeking the causes for the deep distress of the nation at this holiday season, Senator Borah finds them chiefly in stupid foreign policies of governments. Debts, tariffs and arm aments are the three problems upon which business revival turns. Doubtless this seems rather far fetched to those who cannot see far ther than the nose. And, of course, it is heresy to those who seek na tional salvation by the self-suffi ciency trail. But, whether we like it or not, the universal brotherhood which Jesus taught as a spiritual law is a basic economic law which nations in the modern world violate at their peril. This is a depression of plenty. It is not a drought but a flood. We are sinking beneath surpluses. We cannot get rid of what we produce fast enough to keep from being en gulfed. Yet we pick this time to dam up the foreign outlets for our factory and farm surpluses. Unrevlsed debts and high tariff walls make it harder for others to sell to us, and they can not, buy because they cannot sell. Meanwhile we and the others go on paying for a dangerous arms race out of deficits. Still with world trade blocked we wonder why factories are closed and farms are a liability. With vast sums flowing away on wars and pre paration for war we wonder why the highest taxes cannot balance government budgets. Here is self-sufficiency. The de pression is the Isolationist's dream come true only it happens to be a nightmare. New York World-Tele gram. THE FIRST STEP TO RECOVERY When the Hawley-Smoot-Grundy bill was pending in congress, provid ing for radical Increases of the tar iff, more than a thousand American economists signed their names to a warning and a protest. Their pro test was unheeded. The hill was pass ed and signed. These economists warned of a fur ther dislocation of the price level, with some commodities unduly high and other unduly low. They warned of the damage to the farmer, who would lose his for eign markets and be compelled to sell cheap and buy dear. They warned that restricted lm ports would injure our large export trade, and provoke other countries to retaliatory action. They warned that unemployment would be increased rather than di minished, "because employment can- not be increased by diminishing trade." They warned that the bill would work to the Injury of the protected manufacturers themselves. All, and more, that they then pre dicted has since come to pass. Today a score of the ablest eco nomists of the country are once more sounding a warning note. In an open letter to the president-elect they out line "a minimum program for eco nomic recovery." And they declare that the most urgent immediate need is for improvement in the lor eign trade situation. They say: "Lacking an adequate ex port market, agricultural prod ucts and raw materials bring ruinously low prices, and there is an immense unbalance be tween them and manufactured goods. As a result even the rela tively scant output of the fac tories is marketed with diffi culty." What is demanded is reciprocal tariff reductions. And "our own tar iffs should be lowered to such an ex tent as will admit enough additional imports of diversified finished manu factures to take out our own agri cultural and raw material exports without the necessity of foreign loans." Such a course, they declare, will not decrease employment in manu facturlng. To the contrary, by stimu lating the farmers' purchasing pow er, and by contributing to recovery in Europe, "it will produce a very great Increase in manufacturing ac tivity an demployment In the TJnlted States." ' " This is the voice' of the foremost economic authorities of the country discussing an economic issue. Their opinion is an informed opinion. It Is the result of careful research and long study, just as was the opinion of 1,028 leading economists who warned against the Smoot-Hawley- Grundy tariff. Three years ago the advice of the wise men was unheeded. The entire country the whole world has since paid the frightful price of reckless folly. Today again the wise men are speaking. Others, not so wise, are speaking too. TheBe others are clam oring for further restrictions on com merce, for boycotts of foreign goods, for stiTT higher tariffs The choice once more must be made between Grundyism on the one hand and sound economic policy on the other. World-Herald. :o: - HUMBLE HOMES BUILT STATE'S GRAND PALACE "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." Members of the Nebraska legis lature will probably not be ' over loaded with pleasures, but they meet in a building which comes nearer being a palace than any they will ever see. It seems opportune to re mind our representatives that their first duty is to the home, to the homes burdened with excessive tax ation. Anything which they are able to do for the relief of people who own their homes, subject to debt and taxes, will be more than wel come. It may seem strange to spend one's time talking about economy in the midst of the state capitol's regal grandeur. The Immediate presence of such exquisite glories and riches as go to make up the state house must not divert our representatives' attention from the fact that all this art and architecture must he paid for by people who are confronted by the stern necessity of economizing. Four years ago the legislature was struggling with the problem of what to do about the bank guaranty situation. Within the legislative hall, a visitor heard members tell of the distressing conditions in their home towns, and out in the lobby imported craftsmen were laylns mosaic tiles into forms of beauty, and the beholder was held entranced by the magnificence of the color scheme. One member said that bank f&ll- REMEMBER The Depression of 1932 . tough, wasn't it? but it left prices cut to the core and that's something to start the New Year on. Come, see for yourself how much cheaper you can buy a Suit or Over coat here. ures in his home town had caused depositor losses amounting to more than the assessed valuation of the town. In the various offices one found employes unconscious of any depression. One member of the legislature, a banker, had made a brave fight to save his institution. His was one of the pioneer families of the state who had long played an important part in the business of his home com munity. He had put his entire pri vate fortune back of his bank and feaved it, but at considerable sacri fice. Out in the lobby of the capitol one walked through halls shining with marble and brass. The vigilance of the citizen is the welfare of the state, we are told in chiseled stone. The citizen looks to his representatives to be vigilant, to be alive to his interests. In some respects Nebraska is not a wealthy state, and that fact ac counts for much of our prosperity. There is less loose money, fewer sud den fortunes here than in some other states, for we do not have mineral resources such as other states have. Lack of these resources, our depend ance upon the top 12 inches of the soil, has prevented much lavish spending which some fo our neigh bors have gone into. Thanks to the grasshopper, sym bol of pioneer adversity, we have no bonded debt. When the pioneers were making the state constitution they inserted a provision that the state should not borrow money to exceed 100 thousand dollars except to repel invasion. They were meet ing just after the grasshopper years 0 ME I ill r HO I) Hi. That Must be Sold at a Great Sacrifice FROM A GOOD HOME! Tfcis lot consists of: One 9x12 Wool Wilton Rug, 15.00; Two $150 Royal Wilton Rugs, 8-3x10-6, $45; one 12x 15 Axminster Rug, $25 ; three Wilton Throw Rugs, $2.50 to $5; one $235 Chase Mohair Living Room Suite, just like new, $75; two $35 Occasional Chairs, $7.50 and $10 ; one Telephone Desk and Chair, $3.50; one $60 Lady's Desk, genuine Burl Walnut, $25; one Coxwell Chair, $5; one $30 Burl Walnut Occasional Table, $10; one Solid Walnut Rocker, $7.50; one $225 Electric Radio, $50; two 4-sec-tion Mahogany Book Cases, $15 each ; one $575 Cable-Nelson Piano, in gen uine Circasion Walnut case, with bench to match, $75; one $225 Wal nut Dining Room Set with China Cab inet to match, $45; one Hall Tree, $5; one $15 Floor Lamp, $4.50; one Walnut Tea Cart, $5; one Extension Breakfast Set, 5-piece, $10; one genu ine Mohair Couch, $7.50; one $125 Gas Range with heat control, $35; one Flat Top Man's Desk, $5; one Safe. $10: one $150 4-piece Walnut Bed Room Suite, $50 ; two solid Wal nut Chests, $10 each; one solid Wal nut Case Mirror, $3; one $125 3-piece Walnut Bed Room Suite, $40; one Jennie Lynn Bed, $7.50; two excep tionally large Walnut Dressers, cost $85 each, going at $25 each; three Bed Springs, $4.50 to $7.50; three $25 Mattresses, $5 and $7.50 each; four Bed Room Rockers, $2.50 each; one Lawn Mower, $5. Many Articles Not Mentioned See Goods at Ghrist Furniture Co. Plattsmouth, Nebr. 122 South 6th St Phone 645 when crops had been destroyed and everyone felt poor. They knew the danger of debt. On the top. of our state capitol stands the figure of "The Sower." From the ground he looks like a dancing bacchante. He is sowing, scattering something from his hand. Let us hope that no member of our legislature will get the notion of scattering the people's hard won money as he stands under the spell of this bit of statuary. It would have been more appro priate to put a statue of the grass hopper on the highest point of the state house, for it was the grass hopper which saved us from debt. If he had done a more thorough job, he might have saved minor govern mental units from extravagance which burdens them. Let us hope that our representa tives will remember the folks at home, the debts at home, the tax bur dent of the home folks, as they walk through high vaulted corridors and shoot at the brass cuspidors. Bea trice Sun. HALL FOR LOWER TAXES George E. Hall, new state treas urer, issued a statement endorsing the work of every tax reduction league in the state and expressing hope they will establish a "people's lobby" in the legislature. He said: "During the present bienniumn the state government is spending of the peoples' money more than it fpent during the three bienniums 1913 to 1918 inclusive, and we are wor?e off today than we were then. "The whole responsibility rests upon the state officers and the in dividual members of this legislature. The pruning knife should be used all along the line and cut expenses from 25 percent to 50 percent of what they have been during the present biennium. It can be done." Hall said the state had overdone good roads and educational building for the present financial condition of the people, and "it is" time for the federal government to stop brib ing the states into spending money for either of these purposes for the next two or four years at least." He promised to give all possible assist ance to efforts to reduce taxes. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS Notice is hereby given to all stock holders of the 'Plattsmouth Loan & Building association, that the regu lar annual stockholders meeting will be held on Monday evening, January S, 1933, for the purpose of electing three directors and such other, busi ness as may come before the meet ing. The meeting will be held at the office of the association in the Brown Jewelry store at 8 o'clock. C. A. JOHNSON, E. P. LUTZ, President. Secretary. " . NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. In the County Court. ' Fee Book 9, at page S3 4. . In the matter of the, estate of Wash Landis, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: ' You are' hereby notifiedthat I will sit at the County Court .room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 3rd day of February, 1933, and on the 5th day of May, 1933, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each day to examine all claims against said es tate,, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 3rd day of February, A. D. 1933. and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 3rd1 day of Febru ary. 1933. . Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 6th day of January, 1933. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) j9-3w. County Judge. NOTICE OF HEARING In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the Guardianship of John Warga, Mentally Incompe tent. ; To all persons interested in the guardianship of John Warga, mental ly incompetent: You are hereby notified that an application has been filed in this Court by James E. Warga, Guardian of said John Warga, mentally incom petent, for an Order of Court author izing him to lease the land belonging to his ward and now leased to Albert Warga and Charles Warga on a grain rent basis, in lieu of a cash rent basis as heretofore ordered by the Court. It is proposed in said application to rent said land - for two-fifths of all grain raised .upon said land and pas ture land to be rented at such rental as may be directed by the Court. You are further notified that a bearing -will be bad in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska, at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, upon said ap plication on the 21st day of January, A. D. 1933, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m., and that you are required to show cause, If any there be, why the prayer of said application should not be granted, otherwise the prayer of the said petitioner may be allowed and authorized. By the Court.: A. H. nUXBURY, (Seal) j9-2sw t County Judge. Lunbcr Ssiving Commercial sawing from your own logs lumber cut to your specifications. We have ready cut dimen sion lumber and sheeting for sale at low prices. NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY NOTICE OF SALE Noticet is hereby given that by vir tue of an Order issued by the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska, in, favor of the State of Nebraska, and against Gus Whitely, and to me di rected, I will, at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on the 14th day of January, 1933, at the south front door of the County Court House, at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, offer for sale at public auc tion for cash one Ford Tudor Sedan, Model 1929, Motor No. A 1710029, License No. 20-1112. taken as the property of Gus Whitely on said order. Dated this 2nd day of January, A. D. 1933. H. SYLVESTER. Sheriff Cass County, . . Nebraska. j2-4sw NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. In the County Court. Fee Book 9, at page 333. In the matter of the estate of Henry C. L. Ofe, 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 27th day of January, A. D. 1933 and on the 28th day of April, A. D. 1933, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each day to .examine all 'claims against said estate, with a view to their ad justment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is three months from the 27th day of January, A. D. 1933, and the time limited for pay ment of debts is one year from said 27th day, of January, 1933. Witness my hand and the seal cf said County Court this 30th day of December, 1932, A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) J 2-3 w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Settle ment of Account. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. Probate Fee Book 9, at page 307. To the heirs at law and all persons interested in the estate of Bertha Halmes, deceased: On reading the petition, of John N. Halmes, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 24th. day of December, 1932, and for assign nl en t of the assets of said es tate; 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 county, on the 20th day of January, A. D. 1933, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer 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 24th day of December, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) J26-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship Probate Fee Book 9, at page 235. Estate of Frances Bartek. deceased. In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska: To all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Jo seph E. Benak has filed his petition alleging that Frances Bartek died in testate in Cass county on or about March 5th, 1922, being a resident and inhabitant of Cass county, and died seized) of the following described real estate, to-wit: Lot five (5) of northwest quarter of southeast quarter and southwest quarter of southeast quarter of Section two (2): northwest quarter of northeast quarter of Section eleven (11), all in Township twelve (12), North, Range thirteen (13), East of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Cass county. Nebraska leaving as her sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to wit: Paul Bartek, widower; Wes ley Bartek, son; Mary Benak, daughter; Fred Bartek, son; Henry Bartek, son; Anna Bar tek, daughter; Paul Bartek, son; William Bartek, son; George Bartek, son; John (Bartek) Hes- ser, son ; That the Interest of the petitioner In the above described real estate is that of a purchaser of said real estate, and praying for a determination of the time of the death of said Frances Bartek, deceased, and of her heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real property be longing to the said deceased, in the State'.of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing on the 20th day of Janu ary, 1933, before the County Court of Cass county in the court house at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 19th day of December, A. D. 1932 A. H. DUXBURY. (Seal) d26-3w , County Judge.