THURSDAY, JAUUARY 28, 1533. .'
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Sometimes it is necessary for a
man to marry a woman to find out
what she thinks of him.
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As to technocracy, considerable
manual labor was done away with
when radio brought the orator's arms
down out of the air.
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If beer does come back, persuading
the home-brewer to abandon his
plant and buy a weaker product may
be something of a problem.
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The New York Electrical Society
is now taking photographs in the
dark by means of heat rays. We may
yet be able to catch a ghost in the
very act.
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A school boy, who drives a car to
school, told his class the other day
that a big worry to all motorists is
the Presbyterians. It turned out that
he meant pedestrians.
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A Wisconsin man has a blind
turtle which sings like a canary.
That's the kind of turtle stories we
like, even if we are not convinced
of their truth. We have become very
weary of reading about turtles that
can do nothing but run races.
Culture implies tillage of the soil,
an artificial improvement of qual
ities supplied by Nature.
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What most of us want is to get
back into that grand old Pool's Para
dise, not to have mere good times
come back.
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What, by the way, was ever done
with the good will which last sum
mer's Olympic games was to promote
among the nations?
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A fashion authority writing in the
New York World-Telegram says that
male garb befits very few women.
Very few? Name two.
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' President-elect Roosevelt is deter
mined to save SI out of evety four
now spent by the government. It is
suggested he attempt to save SI out
of every four wasted by the govern
ment. :o:
We note that Eddie Cantor, in his
current movie, makes graphic use of
the gag, commonly attributed to Noel
Coward, of closing up his suitcase
and then trimming off the edges with
a pair of scissors. And a very good
gag it is, too.
A radio bulletin warns listeners
that a recent broadcast from Niagara
Falls was the "last chance to hear
the big roar thi3 season." Closing
down, perhaps, for rest and recuper
ation. :o:
There are some days when we fin
ish our study of current periodicals
with the conclusion we'd be Just as
happy if we were in complete Ignor
ance of what kind of soap movie
actresses use.
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We fear we haven't been listen
ing to our radio with proper atten
tion. It occurred to us only yester
day that we haven't heard a song
sung "by special permission of the
copyright owner" for several months.
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Tho late Calvin Coolidge is credit
ed with the aphorism: "I have never
been hurt by what I have not said."
However, that is different from the
experience of most others who have
often been wrecked by not saying
"No!"
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Columbus named the island of
Haiti which he discovered in 1492,
Espanola, "Little Spain." When
Queen Elizabeth asked Columbus to
describe the island, which is very
mountainous, Columbus improvised a
rough relief map by crumpling a
piece of paper and throwing it on
the table.
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"Louisiana is ashamed of Huey
Long's conduct in the senate," says
the editor of the newspaper at Mon
roe, La. Since being properly
ashamed of Senator Long is rather a
large order for any one state, the
nation is glad to assist in the good
work, and is as ashamed as it can
be, considering that there are sev
eral other senators almost constant
ly requiring deprecatory consideration.
TRADE IN SPITE OF OBSTACLES
An exces of 295 million dollars of
exports over imports of merchandise
in a total foreign trade of nearly 3
billion dollars last year, as reported
by tho department of commerce, must
be considered as an encouraging ex
hibit. It is especially encouraging
in view of the complications and re
strictions involved in the payment of
international balances, with most na
tions doing business with depreciated
currencies and limitations imposed in
many nations on the payments to for
eign countries, for good3 as well as
for debts.
The year's foreign trade was less
than a third that of 1929, but much
of the decrease is due to lower prices.
Cotton, which is the largest single
item In exports, was selling last year
for only about a third of 1929 prices
and prices of grain and meats have
declined about as much.' General
average of prices of goods entering
Into foreign trade Is not available,
but when figures of quantities of
good3 moved in foreign trade of the
country are compiled it probably
will be found that the aggregate last
year was larger than in any year be
fore the great war.
It is significant that the aggre
gate tonnage of vessels entered and
cleared at United States ports in
1931 in foreign trade, amounting
to more than 121 million tons, was
jonly about 10 per cent less than in
1929, and was actually larger than
In any prior year to 1926. The fig
ures for 1932 will not be far from
those of 1931.
With an average of more than 200
ocean vessels entering or clearing
at United States ports every day in
the year, it is evident that America's
foreign trade is maintaining a vol
ume larger than might be supposed,
judging from the current published
accounts of the numerous obstacles
to international transactions.
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FAITH IN ROOSEVELT
SUSTAINING FACTOR
America the whole world, in
fact waits patiently to learn what
Roosevelt has to offer. Nobody ex
pects much if anything from the
fading regime. The nation lives in
a moment of great anxiety, hope and
unprecedented faith in one man.
Probably it is no exaggeration to
state that the public faith in the
vision and leadership of Franklin D.
Roosevelt is the one great sustain
ing factor in this period of uncer
tainty. He is the floodgate holding
back a vast volume of pent-up na
tional emotions.
Fate has given few men the priv
ilege of commanding such a vast
measure of trust. The faith the peo
ple impose in him renders the meas
ure of his personal responsibility all
the greater.
Roosevelt has talked but little
since the election. He has display
ed characteristics of . poise and re
serve that have strengthened the
faith the people have in him. He
has skillfully avoided the traps set
for him by a designing opposition.
He has refrained from attempting to
influence the course of the outgoing
congress.
The chaos and confusion that at
tended the struggles of the depart
ing regime, the hesitancy, the bick
ering, the futility that marks the ef
forts of congress to legislate do not
Inspire the resentments nor draw the
condemnation they ordinarily would.
The people are looking ahead to the
day when the stage will be cleared
of these actors and a new troupe
comes on.
"What will Roosevelt do?" That
is the question upon every lip. That
is the query that animates every
thought concerning the common wel
fare. Just what is the "new deal"
and can he put it over and will it
work? Hopefully blindly, almost
the people endure with patience and
bide their time when a new pattern
of life and action shall be unfolded.
Sioux City Tribune.
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IS SEEN IN GERMANY
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this Gas in Your Car
Conoco refining chemists nave produced a
new, improved motor fueL No matter how
different it is, we most call it g-a-s-o-l-i-n-e;
for that is the name the public knows for
every motor fuel. But this gasoline deserves a
special name; one that suggests how "differ
ent" it is. How else may the public know?
Conoco ( ?) Gasoline! If you can ive
os the name we want, $5,000 in cash is yours.
$5,000 more will be divided among those
who suggest the best slogans to describe it
"What we seek is to make motorists "under
stand."
To describe the"differencc?you must knout
the difference. To know the difference you
must feel it. in your motor. The man at the
Conoco station will tell you the exciting facts;
give you, free, an official contest-information-and-entry
blank. Prepare yourself to produce
the winning words. Fill your tank with this
gas. "Within 10 blocks, you'll know why your
words may be worth $10,000.00 to us. .
75 CASH PRIZES
GRAND PRIZE foe WINNING NAME
$,000
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CONTEST RULES:
1 Names must be not more than 12 letters; slogans not
more than 12 words. Submit either or both on single
sheet; plain white paper; one side only; but preferably
on official contest lntormation-and-entry blank, free at
Conoco dealers and stations. Elaborate presentations
receive no extra credit.
2 Contest closes midnight, February 23, 1933. Entries
must be postmarked before that date and hour.
3 Continental employees, members of their families
and others connected directly or indirectly cannot
compete.
4 Should more than one person submit exactly the
same name or slogan, each will receive full amount
of any prize such entry may win. All entries become
Continental Oil Co. property, and none will be returned.
5 The Company reserves prior rights to phrases and
slogans of its own creation, already in prepared ad
vertising. Also it reserves the names "Continental" or
"Conoco" gasoline, "Conogas", and "101" gasoline.
'Whether or not the winning contest name is adopted;
prize money will be paid; but the Company reserves the
right to use a name of its own creation if decided more
suitable and more protectable under trade-mark laws.
6 No purchase is required of contestants. Continental
Oil Co. executives will be the judges and their de
cisions final. Winners will be announced over radio, and
prize money paid as soon as possible after contest closes.
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Ever since the successful conclu
sion of the Lausanne conference a
new spirit of cheerfulness and hope
has pervaded Germany and dispatches
from Berlin more and more reflect
an apparent belief that the turn in
the world depression has actually
come
We cannot be sure, but the reich
Is perhaps today in a stronger posi
tion than any other of the major
powers in its prospects of economic
improvement. Once regarded as the
weakest link in the international
chain of world trade, it may be Ger
many that is destined to blaze the
trail for reOirning prosperity.
In support of the view that Lau
sanne ushered in an era of basic eco
nomic progress, the German minister
of economics. Prof. Hermann "Warm
bold, gave to the reichstag's budget
ary committee the other day an en
couraging picture of what is happen
ing in Germany. He cited three indi
cations of underlying improvement
and returning confidence: Industrial
production in Germany, which had
declined from 100 in 1929 to 52 in
August, 1932, had in December risen
by steady stages to 65; the rate of
increase in inevitable seasonal unem
ployment is today only a third of
what it was a year ago, and stock
and bond averages have advanced
from 39 to 51 and from 46 to 69, re
spectively, over the past six months.
These are barometers of business ac
tivity which make sensational read
ing when we look back upon the Ger
man situation just a year ago.
For the reich to be able to main
tain thi3 rate of recovery the solu
tion of various vital problems in both
the economic and the political realm
is essential. There must be govern
mental stability, settlement of the
short-term-debt problem so as not to
disrupt German exchange, and ex
pansion of foreign markets for the
absorption of surplus manufactured
goods. Nevertheless Germany's pros
pects are today brighter than would
have been believed possible at the
opening of 1932. The relief from
the burden of reparations has ap
parently had not only a practical
economic effect but also a far-reaching
psychological influence which has
driven the nation back to work as
nothing else could have done. New
York Evening Post.
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Governor Landon of Kansas is not
going to accept a new motor car from
the state while in office, but will use
the 12-cylinder car formerly used by
Governor Woodring, which, has trav
eled 52,000 miles (the car, not the
ex-governor). Governor Woodring
was criticized by certain of his poli
tical enemies for riding about in a
12-cylinder car, but perhaps Gover
nor Landon will be able to forestall
that Bort of thing by proving it is a
used car.
A PRETTY DILEMMA
FOR THE DEMOCRATS
Two movements in this country
are in direct opposition. One is the
lower tariff agitation. The other is
the "Buy American" cry.
The lower tariff people argue that
our high protective rates keep for
eign goods out. Since we can't buy
foreign goods, other nations can't
buy our goods. Therefore we can't
dispose of our surplus products. They
remain to glut the American market
and keep prices low. Factories are
closed because the home demand for
their products is satiated and tne
foreign demand is nil. Let us nego
tiate, they say, with foreign coun
tries to secure reciprocal arrange
ments. Let them reduce their tariffs
on our goods, and we'll reduce our
tariffs on theirs.
The "Buy American" folk say that
cheap foreign goods, made by poorly
paid labor in countries where cur
rency is depreciated, are coming in
to the United States over the tariff
wall. Therefore people should boy
cott these goods, paying higher
prices for American products to keep
American factories going.
Success of the "Buy American cam
paign would mean, of course, that
countries now selling us goods in
spite of the tariff would no longer
be able to sell them here, and con
sequently would not take American
goods in exchange. On the other
hand, if we reduce our tariffs we ad
mit more foreign goods, but we sell
more of our goods abroad In ex
change for them.
It reduces to this that industries
hit by foreign competition in this
country are crying "Buy American"
to eave themselves, while industries
that want to get into the foreign
market are demanding lower tariffs
or reciprocity so that they can sell
their products abroad.
Then there is still another angle.
Those who want Europe to pay her
war debts to the United States esti
mate that for this purpose our im
ports must exceed our exports by
about 800 million dollars a year. Our
exporters, however, want the balance
the other way. Which shall it be?
It's a nice dilemma for the incom
ing democratic administration. De
troit News.
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TOR SALE
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
Plattsmouth stores offer every
shopping advantage of the larger
city, plus a personal contact be
tween buyer and seller that means
far more than the "opportunity of
choosing from an extra shade or
two of pink."
NOTICE
Whereas. Glenn Sharp, convicted In
Cass county, on the 1st day of Febru
ary. 1932, of the crime of Larceny a3
Bailee, has made application to the
Board of Pardons for a parole, and
tho Board of Pardons, pursuant to
law have set the hour of 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 TO CREDITORS
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Fee Book 9, at page 334.
In the matter of the estate of Wash
Landis, 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
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
paid County Court this 6th day of
January, 1933.
A. II. DUXBURY.
(Seal) j9-3w County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING AND NO
TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL
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ness.. Priced right.' Sam Archer
Plattsmouth. J23-2tw
Phone tho news To Wo. 6.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the Cour.t7 Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
Fee Book 9, Pace No. 338.
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 will and testament and praying
for administration upon his estate and
for such other and further orders and
proceedings in the premises as may
be required by the statutes in such
cases made and provided to the end
that said estate and all things per
taining thereto may be finally set
tled and determined, and that a hear
Ing will be had on said petition be
fore said Court on the 10th day of
February, A. D. 1933, and that if
they fail to appear at said Court on
said 10th day of February, 1933, at
ten o'clock a. m. to contest the said
petition, the Court may grant the
same and grant administration of
said estate to Ha Kirker or some other
suitable person and proceed to a set
tlement thereof.
Dated this 10th day of January, A
D. 1933.
A. II. DUXBURY,
(Seal) jl6-3w County Judge
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
of the Bank of Avoca, Avoca,
Nebraska, to File Claims
Notice is hereby given that on the
14th day of January, 1933, the Hon
orable James T. Begley, Judge of the
District Court of Cass County, Ne
braska, wherein the undersigned, E.
H. Luikart, as Secretary of the De
partment of Trade & Commerce of
the State of Nebraska, was appointed
Receiver of the Bank of Avoca, Avoca
Nebraska, made and entered an order
pursuant to the term3 of which all
creditors and persons having claims
against said bank are ordered to file
the same with the said E. II. Luikart,
Secretary of the Department of Trade
& Commerce of the State of Nebras
ka, Receiver, at his office in the City
of Avoca, Cass County, Nebraska, or
with the Clerk of the District Court
of Cas3 County, Plattsmouth, Nebras
ka, on or before the 28th day of
February, 1933, under penalty of
having their claim3 not bo presented
forever barred, unless for good cause
shown, the court shall by order di
rect payment thereof within six
months after said day.
Hearing on claims shall be had at
the county court house in Cass Coun
ty, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, upon the
28th day of March, 1933, at 10:00
o'clock a. m., o ras soon thereafter
as they may be heard. Any creditors
not receiving through the mails
proper forms for filing claims may
procure them from the receiver at
his office in the Bank of Avoca,
Avoca, Nebraska, or from the Clerk
of the District Court of Cas3 Coun
ty, Plattsmouth. Nebraska.
E. H. LUIKART,
J19-2w Receiver.
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, County of Cass,
ES.
Fee Book 9, at page 339.
To the heirs at law and to all per
rons 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 te3tament of the
said deceased, may be proved and al
lowed and recorded as the last will
and testament of Sarah E. Young, de
ceased; that raid 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 the
Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly
newspaper printed In said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of
said court, this 10th day of January,
A. D. 1933.
A. II. DUXBURY.
(Seal) J16-3w 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
of John Warga, Incompetent.
Guardianship Docket 1, page 170.
To all persons interested in the
matter of 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
said petition prays for the appoint
ment of a suitable person to replace
the said. James E. Warga as 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 County Court
room in the court house at Platts
mouth, Nebraska, at which time and
place you 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. H. DUXBURY, '
County Judge,, Cass County,
Nebraska.
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