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The Plattsmouth JetarnaS
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
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A lot of faith in government was
lost when the United States bought
120,000 saddles for 22,000 horses.
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A pet-up used to mean something
you got for nothing. Today it means
something you get for something else.
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Maybe if they would make ax han
dles and hoe handles look more like
golf eticks there would be more work
done about the homes.
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An old-timer who leaves doors
open because he was brought up in
a barn probably is not starting any
cars in closed garages.
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It is a sinister circumstance that
when a bad man is on trial for a bad
crime the memory of the prosecuting
witness frequently becomes bad.
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Perhaps if Ur. Insull stays in
Greece long enough, the Greeks will
have a word for him. We trust they'll
let us know, as all of our words seem
a bit inadequate.
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The conduct of Chicago gunmen
who Ehot three painters seems the
more reprehensible because the vic
tims were honest, hard-working
house painters and not futurists or
cubists.
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The Inquiring reporter asked
grandma to what she attributed the
fact that she and grandpa had lived
together for fifty years. "Well," the
old lady replied, "we never played
bridge." Who shall say there is not
wisdom In them thar words?
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President-elect Roosevelt ha3 has
already suffered quite a blow socially
In his home state. When he turned
over the governorship to Mr. Leh
man, he automatically gave up motor
car license Nol 1. No 1 goes to the
new governor; No. 2 goes to the new
lieutenant governor, and No. Z al
rscdy belongs to Al Smith.
January
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LAMES
The Shop of Personal Service
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
Add to the ten ugliest words in the
English language: "Be home early
and do not lie to me again."
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A woman was elected speaker of
the North Dakota house. In most
houses they merely assume the speak
ership. :o:
The human enin is growing small
er, says science. And the nose is also
diminishing on account of the grind
stone. :o:
Leon Trotzky is reported to be
critically ill. This may go hard with
him now; he used to die frequently
and recover in good shape, but he's
no longer a young man.
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Workmen unearthed a score of
battleaxes, said to be more than
1,000 years old, in Buckinghamshire,
England. Probably the site of a pre
historic peace conference.
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Simplicity has marked most of the
inaugurations this year, and in many
cases there was also economy along
with the simplicity. Which is quite
remarkable, considering that economy
was the reason for most of the sim
plicity. :o:
Phrenology is being revived as one
of the more or less exact sciences.
It's a bad time to expect much speci
fic benefit from it, however, as many
of the bumps just at this time are
merely temporary contusions caused
by hard knocks from the depression.
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It is well recognized, even among
the wets, that nobody wants beer
just for the beer, but rather for the
revenue it will bring to help bal
ance our budgets year by year. Thus:
"All right, boys, let's have just one
more round for revenue only, y
understand and then we'll all go
home."
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Journal Want-Ads get results 1
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USING MORE SILVER
President Hoover stated in his war
debt message to Congress on Dec. 19
that "the larger use of silver as a
supplementary currency would be an
aid to stability in many quarters of
the world." There can be no doubt
about it. In point of fact, the state
ment might have been phrased in the
past tense: the larger use of silver
as a , supplementary currency has
been an aid to stability in many quar
ters of the world.
Mr. Herbert M. Bratter, whose re
searches on the subject have taken
him to the front rank of authorities
on silver, itemizes recent legislation
on silver in a brochure put out by
the United States Department of Com
merce. The record is astonishing.
Canada, Columbia, Cuba, France,
Germany, Honduras, Manchuria, Mex
ico, Peru, Roumania, Turkey, Yugo
slavia, Spain all these countries
have taken step3 within the last
eighteen months calling for the use
of more silver for supplementary
coinage. Mr. Bratter doc3 not ex
plain the reasons.
One can only surmise them from
the economic circumstances of the
various countries. Some nations have and there can be no stability where
clearly been faced with a lack of; the will is in rebellion, where there
popular confidence in their own paper j is not tranquility of spirit and a
money. Governments that are tooU.ense cf justice, of freedom and cf
free and too irresponsible in their 'right."
use of tho printing press are apt to
find their constituents demanding
hard cash, which has at least some
intrinsic value, instead of paper
money, which has none. Other, more
stable countries have leaned on sil
ver to eke out a deficiency of gold.
Germany is the leading example in
the latter category. On April 14 of
last year, its Federal Council ap
proved the minting of about $20,
000,000 of new silver coins, bring
ing the total silver circulation up to
300,0000,000. Tho announcement
was followed by orders encouraging
the use of silver in paying govern
ment salaries and instructing the
railroads to use silver coins in all
their small payments.
Yet, in spite of these striking
changes in money usages, the price
of silver is still low. In the last thrti
months it has dropped through the
historic low price quoted in Febru
ary, 1931, and is currently selling at
25 cents. The inference is that the
white metal is tied up in a hundred
different ways with the fortunes of
other commodities. These are all so
low that producers will probably ex
tract little comfort froni the opinion
of competent authorities that they
are in a zone of stability.
Nevertheless, stability must pre
cede an upturn, and if producers
would devote ' half the effort now
spent in trying to get favored treat
ment for their specialties to a con
certed drive for the reduction of the
arriers and barbed wire fences now
obstructing world trade, they would
see an upturn that would be bene
ficial to all.
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FARH BOARD WHEAT
The federal farm board is complet
ing its deal for Brazilian coffee, in
which 25,000,000 bushel3 cf wheat
were to be exchanged for 1,030,000
bags cf Brazilian coffee. Nearly a
million bushels of wheat i3 now be
ing moved from storage at Baltimore
to Brazil, and with its going it is
announced that the stabilization cor
poration's cash wheat holdings have
been reduced to "less than 3,000,
000 bushels." As the statement
comes from Baltimore, which has
been one of the chief storage places
for farm board wheat, it is not made
clear whether this means the total
amount in storage or that in storage
at Baltimore, only. Nevertheless it
is known that the corporation's cash
wheat holding in excess of commit
ments is Inconsequential. This latest
shipment of wheat is one of the
largest movements of export wheat
from that port in many months.
Since the British empire trade
agreement was made export wheat
from American ports to British ports
has been very light. In past years
the export of Canadian grains from
Baltimore to British ports represent
ed 50 percent of the total. No Ca
nadian wheat for British consum
ation is now moving thru American
ports.
One of the pleasing facts developed
by this information Is that the farm
board has diminished its wheat sur
plus and that it will not be long be
fore that alleged menace to prices
is removed. Another thing that will
not be overlooked is that this coun
try lost much in the British empire
trade agreement that keeps shipping
away from American railroads and
American ports.
Use of United States distribution
facilities has been hampered by trade
agreements and tariffs imposed by
other nations. These changes make
necessary many readjustments that
are not easily nor quicklp made.
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Phone the new.) to Ko. 6.
rORB-3 FROM WILSON
DEMONSTRATE TRUTH
"It must be a peace without vic
tory," said Wood row Wilson in one
of hi3 historic addresses to the sen
ate, in 1917. "Victory Avould mean
peace forced upon the loser, a vic
tor's term3 imposed upon the van
quished. It would be accepted in
humiliation, under duress, at an In
tolerable sacrifice, and would leave
a sting, a resentment, a bitter mem
ory, upon which terms of peace would
rest, not permanently, but only as
upon quicksand. Only a peace be
tween equals can last."
Sixteen years have passed and a
war-debt-weary world sees how truly
he spoke. The tragedy of the war
was followed by the tragedy of the
peace which was based cn making
the loser pa7 the utmost. It was a
peace that was a victor's terms im
posed upon the vanquished. It was
accepted in humiliation, at sacrifice,
it left resentment and bitter memory.
Resting temporarily, as upon quick
sand, it soon broke down. "The world
can be at peace," as the war-time
president said on the occasion already
referred to, "only if its life is stable,
The last week of the year brought
another anniversary of Wodorow
Wilson's birth, fresh wreaths on his
tomb and a growing appreciation of
his life's contribution toward peace
in the world St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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EXCHANGES TO HELP
PRACTICE OP BARTER
The growing resort to barter has
led to the publication in Lakev.ood,
O., by one cf thoe described as at
tempting to operate "barter ex
changes," of a little publication call-
p.-l iha Sv.ar). In a recent issue a
Lakewocd dentist announced his de
sire to do some dental work in ex
change for a regulation size pool
table.
An Ohio housewife winted, iu the
same issue, to exchange a whatnot
for a hall tree. A man who gave his
telephone number wanted to trade
his whipcord riding breeches, a belt
and a pair of boots, "worth $12 and
worn only tnrce times," for a male
wire-haired terrier. If no one had a
wire-haired terrier ho was willing to
consider a portable typewriter. An
apparent optimist was willing to ex
change tho "rear end" cf a model
"T" Ford for a set cf tires. Another
dentist was ready to extract teeth
and take his pay in grape juice.
Such items are picturesque but
minor incidents in a widespread dem
onstration of ingenuity, resource
fulness and courage in overcoming
the stoppage in the established eco
nomic system by a resort to barter.
In Michigan the Unemployed Citi
zens' league, described as represent
ing four thousand heads of families
in Detroit,, has arranged the exchange
of their services with farmers, not
for money but for food and firewood,
which is added to the league's gen
eral store. Labor is traded for cloth
ing; bakery windows are washed for
bread; labor is offered for shelter.
From many parts of the country,
from New York and New Jersey to
the Pacific coast, news comes of sim
ilar barter exchanges. Some are less
extensive: others' are engaged in
amazingly large operations. It is re
ported that in Los Angeles county.
California, a retired doctor organ
ized the "Unemployed Co-Operative
Relief association" with the result
that SCO thousand jobless have found
work and food by trading their labor
to farmers. Up in Seattle a young
Polish congressman-elect has shown
60 thousand jobless men how to swap
their labor in clearing stump land
for firewood and food and even for
barter and dental services to be al
lotted among themselves. In Min
neanoli3. a similar organization is
said to serve IS thousand families.
Its operations include firewood, food
and a sauerkraut factory. In Salt
Lake City the jobless are reported as
operating a sawmill, tannery, sugar
refinery and shoe factory, and as do
ing a business equivalent to 20 thou
sand dollars monthly with scrip for
the exchange of labor for commodi
ties. In addition to the direct relief of
acute local problems which these bar
ter exchanges afford, and their in
spiring exhibition cf what courage
and co-operation can accomplish,
they suggest possibilities for a con
tribution to the readjustment of an
economic system the most obvious
fact concerning which is that it is
out cf gear. A system grown de
pendent on the self-starter may be
salvaged, in the long run, by the
discovery that when the self-starter
quits there is still such a thing as
making- the machine go by hand
cranking.
The latest development is the pro-
posal to establish in New York a na
tional clearing house for the barter
exchanges which are multiplying
throughout the country. The clear
ing house would enable the sepa
rated groups of the unemployed who
are organized in Tbcal barter systems
to exchange goods and services from
locality to locality, from the agricul
tural raw materials of the rural dis
tricts to the finished manufactured
goods of the cities, without the use of
money in the usual form. Already in
Salt Lake City the scrip or credit
money issued by the management of
the barter system there is said to pass
current and to be cleared by the
banks. Springfield Republican.
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SOCIAL EiVEXTION
President Hoover's committee on
social trends, reporting on the first
day of 1933 after three years of slow
and laborious study, has raised a wee
small voice a tentative, cautious,
restrained voice against the system
of free competition in business.
"It is conceivable," rays the com
mittee, "that without any surrender
of our belief in the merits of pri
vate property, individual enterprise
and self-help, the American people
will press toward a larger measure of
public control to promote the com
mon weiiare.
The committee i3 only a commit
tee. Yet it ha3 standing. It bears
President Hoover's commission. Its
chairman, Wesley C. Mitchell, a pro
fessor cf economics at Columbia uni
versity and chairman of the Social
Science Research council. The ether
members, while net widely known
to the public, are equally as dis
tinguished in their proper academic
realms.
"Unless there is a speeding up of
social invention or a slowing dewn
cf mechanical invention," says the
committee, "grave maladjustments
are certain to result."
Everybody knows that mechanical
invention is not going to slow down.
You can't plug up the ru:-hing stream
of human ingenuity with a ccrk. We
have got to realize that it is up to
us to apply a part cf that ingenuity
to the social scheme. V.'e have got
to invent institutions as we invent
machines, bring about a gradual and
reasoned change in the social field as
we have wrought a rapid, well-nigh
overwhelming change in the field of
material production.
Tho committee, observing that we
have speeded up our power to pro
duce without speeding up half so
much our power to consume, sug
gests that a change in the distribu
tion of purchasing power would "go
far toward providing places for all
competent workers." Yet the most
obvious way to do this by raising
wages i. hopelessly impractical un
der present conditions. The employ
er has to make a profit on his stock
holders' investment and, above all,
he has to meet the competition of a
rival producer.
So the problem lies in the nature
of our competitive system. It is this,
the committee suggests, that we have
got to think through. Do we want
the government to fix prices, fix
wages, restrict production, eliminate
competition? Do we want the trend
begun in the interstate commerce
commission and the farm board ex
tended and widened?
The committee, fully appreciating
the difficulties involved, recommends
THE PUBLIC should be
prudent in seeking relief from
pain. Take nothing which does
not have the approval cf the
medical profession.
'BAYER ASPIRIN will never
do you any harm, and almost
always brings the desired relief.
But remember that the high
medical endorsement given
Bayer Aspirin does not apply to
ail tablets for relief of pain.
THE DOCTOR is careful to
specify Bayer Aspirin for these
important reasons:
It has no injurious ingredients.
Ko coarse particles to irritate
throat or stomach. Nothing to
upset the system. Not even any
disagreeable taste. The Bayer
process insures a pure, uniform
product.
INSIST on the tablet you
know to be safe. And the one
that has speed. Bayer tablets
dissolve so quickly, you get
immediate relief from your
headache, neuralgia, or other
pain.
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INSURANCE
Accidents are numerous and
damages run Ligh. Good in
u:ance is the enly safe
guard frcm Financial Loss.
FARMERS
Notice
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Farm Care. It will pay you
to cce us before you insure!
We Sell Every Kind of
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national economic planning to the
war as an example of what can be
achieved in the way of quick eco
nomic change and mobilization ot
national resource?, it asks for a sim
ilar mobilization in this new war
agaiiiFt chaos and aimlessness.
Nobody would seriously ruggestj
turning ever the nation to an oli
garchy of so-called experts. We are
sit-l: to death cf experts already. Cut,
as the committee ray?, there purely
i? a place for rational, non-parian
deliberation in our national councils.
In government we listen to the voice
cf multifarious s;ectional ard class
int?rosts; we liearken ot bankers and
manufacturers and farmers and states
and cities. "Why not listen a!o to
the impartial student of society?
The problems inherent in cur so
cial system arc there, not to be evad
ed by short-sightedness. "Nothing
short of the combined intelligence of
the nation," says President Hoover's
committee, can cope with them.
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PUEIIC SALS
I will hold a public sale of Stock
and Farming Implements at my home
about February 1st.
EDW. MURPHY.
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FOR SALE
Four dozen Rose comb white Wyan
dotte roosters. CilOO for your choice
Fred Drueckcr, 4 miles north of
Nehawlca.
NOTICE
Vrhoreas, Glenn Sharp, convicted in
Cass county, cn the 1st day of Febru
ary. 1932, of the crime of Larceny as
Bailee, has made application to the
Board of Pardons for a parole, and
the Board of Pardons, pursuant to
law have set the hour cf 10 a. m. on
the 14th day of February, 1933, for
hearing on said application, all per
sons interested are hereby notified
that they may appear at the State
Penitentiary, at Lincoln, Nebraska,
on said day and hour and show cause,
if any there be, why said application
should, or should not be granted.
HARRY R. SWANSON.
Secretary. Board of Pardons
N. T. HARMON,
Chief State Probation Officer
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of an order issued by the County
Ccurt of Cass county, Nebraska, in
favc;r of the State of Nebraska, and
against John Doe (real name un
known) and to me directed I will at
10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on the
21st day of January, 1933. at the
south front door of the county court
house at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, offer
for sale at public auction for cash one
Chevrolet Coupe. Model 1929, Motor
No. 1348005, taken as the property
of John Doe (real name unknown)
on said order.
Dated this 9th day of January, A.
D. 1933.
IL SYLYESTER.
Sheriff Cass County,
Nebraska.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
Fee Bock 9, Pare No. 33S.
In the matter of the estate of John
M. Kirker, deceased. '
Notice of Administration.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a petition
has been filed in said Court alleging
that said deceased died leaving no
last win and testament and praying
for administration upon his estate and
for sur h other and further orders and
proceedings in the premises as may
be required by the statutes in Euch
cases irade and provided to the end
that raid estate and all things per
taining thereto may be Anally set
tled and determined, and that a hear
ing will be had on Faid petition be
fore said Court on the 10th day of
February, A.;D. 1933, and that if
they fail to appear at eaid Court on
said 3 0th day of February, 1933, at
ten o'clock a. m. to contest the said
petition, tho Court may grant the
same and grant administration of
said estate to Ha Kirker or some other
Euitablo person and proceed to a set
tlement thereof.
Dated this 10th day of January, A.
D. 1933.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) J16-3W 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
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State cf Nebraska, County of Cass,
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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 paid 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 L'Sth day of April, A. D. 1933,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each
day to examine all claims against
;,aid estate, with a view to their ad
iurtment and allowance. The time
limited for the presentation of claims
aprainst said estate is three months
from the 27th clay of January, A. D.
1933, and the time limited for pay
ment of debts is one year from said
27th day, of January, 1933.
Witr-er.s my hand and the seal of
said County Court thi3 30th day of
December, 19 32.
A. II. DUXBURY.
(Seal) j2-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
In fhe County Court.
Fee Book 9, at page 334.
In the matter of the. estate of Wash.
Landis. deceased.
To the creditors of raid estate:
Ycu are hereby notified, that I will
Fit at the County Court room in
Plattsmouth. in said county, on the
3rd day cf 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 cf February, A. D. 1933. and the
time limited for payment cf debts is
one year from said 3rd day of Febru
ary, 1933.
Yv'itnoss my hand and the seal of
sail County Court this Cth day of
January, 1933.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) j9-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State cf Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
Fee Bock 9. at page 339.
To the heirs at law and to all per
sons interested in the estate of Sarah
E. Young, deceased:
On reading the petition of Mabel L.
Cook praying that the instrument
filed in this court on the 10th day of
January, 1933. and purporting to be
the last will and testament of the
aid deceased, may be proved and al
lowed and recorded as the last will
and testament of Sarah E. Young, de
ceased; that said instrument be ad
mitted to probate and the adminis
tration of said estate be granted to
Mabel L. Cook, as Executrix;
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 10th day of February, A. D.
1933, 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 that the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by pub
lishing a copy of this Order in tho
Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekl
newspaper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks prior to eaid
day of hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said court, this 10th duy of January,
A. D. 1933.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) jlC-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
on Petition for Final Settlement
of Account
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter of the Guardianship
cf John Warga, Incompetent.
Cuardianship Docket 1, page 170.
To all persons interested In the
matter cf the Guardianship of John
Warga, Incompetent:
You are hereby Notified, that James
E. Warga, guardian of the above
named incompetent person, has filed
in the County Court of Cass county,
Nebraska, his final report as guardian
of said incompetent, together with
his petition for the final approval and
allowance of his accounts since his ap
pointment and for his discharge as
guardian and for an order of court
accepting his resignation herein filed.
You are further Notified that the
raid petition prays for the appoint
ment of a suitable person to replace
tlie said. James E. Warga a3 guardian
of the said John Warga, incompetent.
You are further Notified that a
hearing will be had in said matter
on the final report, together with all
other matters pertaining to said
guardianship, and upon said petition
herein filed as aforesaid, on the 27th
day of January, 1933, at the hour of
ten o'clock a. m., in the Courity Court
room in the court house at Platts
mouth, Nebraska, at which time and
place j-ou or any of you may appear
at said hearing and make objections
to said accounts and petition, if any
you have.
You are further Notified that said
County Court will on said day of
hearing make such orders as may be
for the best interest of said Incompe
tent person.
By the Court.
A. II. DUXBURY, '
County Judge,, Cass County,
Nebraska,
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