PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOTTBHAL MONDAY. FEBR. 27, 1933. TThe Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT Entered at Postofflce, Plattsmouth. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living In Second Postal Zone, 12.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 1360 per year. AH subscription are payable strictly In advance. China, always fond of lacquer, now 13 undergoing: a Japanese finish. :o: . "Scotland gave whisky and golf to an appreciative world," states an advertisement. : :o: : It's pleasant, after the interrup tion of the last two week3, to resume cur reading of the flower seed cata logues. :o: Zangara's excuse of stomach trou ble as one reason for his attempt to assassinate the President-elect should be quite a boost to the patent medi cine Industry. :o: The magicians In Ohio met recent ly In state convention, and evidently have adjourned without finding out what became of the magic that used to insure success for Ohio in politics. :o: The United States leada the world in sauerkraut consumption. It even seemed to thrive through that period of history when we justified our posi tion and our taste by calling it "Lib erty cabbage." :o: Col. Raymond Robins, who disap peared five months ago while on the way to see President Hoover, com pleted his call the other day. This represents a distinct triumph of will power over amnesia. i :o: Women aren't so easily embarrass ed aa they - used to be. Mother had a horse of -her own because father's! horse stopped in front of every sa loon. It might have ben embarrass ing if mother wero going to a mis sionary meeting. : :o: One thing a lot of the hopers for quick repeal are forgetting; tooofuat4 on is human nature. It's the same human nature that people forgot to count on when prohibition was adopt ed. It was very difficult to figure then, and it hasn't improved any since. :or A legislator in Utah has a bill which would compel every person past the age of 18 to spend half hi3 money. That's what has contributed to the great mess; too many people have been spending half their money when they should have applied it on their debt3. ' :o: A boy accidentally dropped a coin in church Sunday which lit on a bare spot cn the floor with the cus tomary resounding whack. Our first thought was to say, "tails," but on momentarily more seriou3 second thought wihch i3 what saves us from exposure in many ways, and now isn't that the truth? we did not say. G(3 FOGOg mm mm ;25 ounces for 25$ You Save In Buying ICC.... c ; You Savo in Using ICC PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Nab., aa second-clasa mail matter If we are to have a dictator, we would much prefer Roosevelt to Huey Long. :o: The man who thinks twice before he speaks these days find that his listeners have changed the subject. i -:o:- The Globe says an Atchison girl who isn't strong enough to wash dishes, can change a tire in two min utes flat. . :o: Platform people from abroad find us Americans pretty much like pea nuts. We shell out better after we've been roasted. :o: The fellow who rocks the boat in the summer time puts in hi3 winters getting playful while going through revolving doors. :o: An unaccustomed quiet reigns over the French ministry, and it is feared the people put it into office and then went off and forgot it. : :o: Art breeds other art, say3 the critic. Royal Cortissoz. It would seem so. Of 600 pictures pained by Corot, 6,000 are in America alone. :o: A young looking mother of two high school girls refuses to take them to the dances she and her husband attend, because she is afraid they will cramp her style. . :o: The modern whisky-aging devices in use by bootleggers doubtless work pretty fast,' but not- much faster than the speed with .which the whisky ages the drinkers. .-. ;o:- President Hoover's latest plan to beat the depression contains seven points. Has anyone kept track of the points in all these recovery plans?. If eo, what is the score? 1 :o:" Tr. " Japan's assault on Jehol may pene trade as far as Peiping, we are told. But if the Japanese plans include pushing as far as Geneva, we think somebody should warn them that they're going too far. :o: A Milwaukee drunk aimed a kick at a dog, missed and fell to the side walk. He wa3 too drunk to get up, and the dog bit him 200 times. The marks were found by hospital physi cians, precluding the theory that it was an imaginary dog in the first place. :o: Do ycu remember the old-time city marshal who wore a badge the size of a pancake on the lapel of his coat and went to the depot every time a train cam in, in order to impress the traveling public that his town was a bad place for the "city slicker" to visit? use the double fasted EAST BECOMES AWARE OF THE FARM PROBLEM Very late the American nation as a whole is awakening to the fact that the great American agricultural industry is in a bad way. No longer Is it considered a bright and suffi cient summary to remark that the farmers are always grumbling. Henry J. Haskell, whose illuminating dis cussions of economic conditions are appearing serially in the News, says, "For the first time the cast is be coming acutely awaro that there is a farm problem of Immense import ance. Tho east ha3 not been the only part of cur vast and versatile pop ulation to overlook the fact that it is fed by the farmers in more than the crude sense that the farmer brings to town the daily supplies for the dinner tables. When an in dustry with a plant investment of upwards of 60 billion dollars and supporting a quarter of the popula tion of the country, slumps in one year 24 per cent of its capital, there is bound to be a kickback that will be felt by the other three-quarters of the population. That something was wrong with the farmers should have been be lieved earlier. For the last decade the farmers have not been inarticu late, but their most active organized efforts have been localized. This gave their activities an unfortunate sec tional appearance. The phases of the country's life that considered them selves "big business" refused to re cognize that agriculture also is big business and, what is more, basic big business. At last when the mlaady devel oped to the point that the farmers were trying to meet expenses at the prewar level with the 1932 50-cent dollar, and mortgages at the pre war interest rate were driving farm ers from their homes, the rest of the country began to take notice. The agricultural quarter of tho popula tion had stopped buying. The farm depression was putting a blight on the business of the entire country and of the world. Mr. Haskell is right when he quotes an executive of one of the biggest banks in the world: "Some thing will have to bo done to im prove the farm situation before we can get back to anything like nor mal." There can be no doubt that no ; greater - problem', confronts t the leadership ' of this .. nation; Detroit News. ' :o:- BUGH0USE DOCTRINE CAN BE OVERPLAYED William Allen White, the Emporia editor, celebrated his sixty-fifth birth day anniversary in a way he was showman enough to know would get him circulation the country over. That's all right. William Allen is an amusing cuss. To celebrate he wrote that in hi3 youth he had adopted the motto, for guidance in life, "Ain't it grand to be bughouse." He explained that it was grand because there is no insanity so devastating as utter sanity, and no worse addic tion, not even that to whisky, so bad as addiction to logic. No doubt Mr. White believes it, but he must go regard himself as a hermit in his idea. The whole state of Kansas joins him in tho credo. And there are many believers else where. The doctrine can, however, be overplayed. It frequently Is. It is not necessarily true that a citi zen escapes realities by taking a sun flower in one hand and a rattle in the other and dancing down the highway imagining ho is the great god Pan. The chump sometimes is sidewiped or plumb bumped in the seat of the pant3 by a truck he was too bughouse to avoid. Mr. White's bugliouse theory was made the germ of the farm board, for one thing, and Kansas can get the returns on it any time by driving a load of wheat or corn to the bank for a loan. Carrie Nation did not be lieve it was great to be bughouse, but managed to achieve it Just the same, and Mr. White can find that achieve ment in the worst laws the United States ever passed. It would not be so bad if a people ardent in their desire to be bughouse would confine their activities to their own properties. It's inherent in the doctrine that the gentleman who know he is Napoleon should demand that the other fellows should be Adam - and Eve: This confuses the world more than need be. Chicago Tribune. :o: They have removed the legal limits on the coverage of bathing Buits at Manhattan Beach, Cal., and we sup pose now if a woman wihsed to ap pear in a bathing suit such as was vogue In the gay nineties, in which nothing more alarming than a sun tanned elbow was possible, ' there would bo objection freni any of the authorities. POWER TO ROOSEVELT Large reorganization powers have been extended to the incoming Pres ident by congress. The house ap proved the senate provisions (with a few changes) giving the chief exec utive power to effect extensive re organization of departments and oth er agencies for the purpose of econ omy. This is more than was expect ed from this congress. However, ad ditional power should be given by the next congress. Democratic house leaders are in favor of giving the new President power to balance the budget, not only by curtailing and consolidating departments, elimination of agencies, but also by lowering of salaries and reducing statutory disbursements, such as veterans' allowances, the executive orders being subject to veto by two-thirds of both houses. This larger power is not granted in the pending bill, the omission being made to insure action in the cur rent session. Several compelling factors indi cate that the President must have extraordinary powers in the present emergency. Congress lacks the will or the capacity or both to act effect ively in tho present crisis. It has been demonstrated innumerable times that when political pressure is heavy, congress fails to retrench and fails to resist demands for new com mitments. For political effect, many members have voted for or against a measure contrary to their convic tions, because they have known their action would be nullified by the chief executive. With extraordinary pow ers now delegated to the President to do disagreeable things that timid members dislike or refuse to do, con gress not only insures a stronger eco nomic policy, but in some measure protects its neck while saving its face. If the Democratic pledge of econ omy is to be kept, the President will have to make it. good; congress can not. If the budget i3 to be balanced next year, .the President will have to balance it; congress will not. There fore, if the pledge is to be kept and tho budget Is to be balanced, con gress must delegate a power that it finds Itself incapable of using to someone who will havo the courage to exercise it. -:o:- FACTFINDING , Now that. fact-finding ha3 become an industry, of national, importance, why not a few fact-finding bodies in the home? These fact-finders would endeavor to find out: Just what becomes of all the pen cils when you are looking for one with which to keep a bridge score? Why a furnace keeps the house at blood heat in mild weather and as soon as a co!d; snap comes virtually ceases to function? . Where the draft, comes from that mother complains of and says there is a door or window open somewhere and she can see the window curtains blowing? Why the coffee is as weak as dish water one day and so strong the next that it is as black as ink? How the silver candlestick could be bent out of shape just as if some body had taken it by the end and hammered with it on the side of the table? Why, when you light the open fire, the smoke ccmes out and fill3 the room instead of .going up tho chim ney as it Is supposed to? Why, with a' clock in the . living room, a clock in the dining room, a clock on the thermostat, a clock in the kitchen, two clocks in the bed rooms, a man's gold watch, a boy's dollar watch and two wrist-watches in tho house, it seeni3 virtually im possible ever to have the right time? Whv. when everybody else has bowls of Ivy growing beautifully In the house and. putting out new shoot3, yours invariably shrivels up and dies? How father an announce that there is far too much extravagance and that at the present rate he will soon be in the poorhouse and then go and buy a couple of orchestra seats to an expensive, show? Why, when other people seem to entertain with ease and without ef fort, havi quests to dinner W w . ,J .v - simply exhausts the whole family and nothing really tastes good? Whether the- conditions stated abovo are peculiar to one household or whether they are characteristic of what President Hoover has In mind when he speaks of happier homes. Baltimore Evening Sun. :o: : Emerging from his conference with President-elect Roosevelt, Am bassador Claudel of France was ask ed if war debt3 were discussed. He spread his hands and said, "We dis cussed many things, everything." The spread of the hands indicates that he came away empty-handed, and proves that at least be didn't borrow any more. " PROTECT FARMING; INDUSTRY Senate Judiciary committee has reported a bankruptcy bill that elim inates all the provisions relating to railroads and other corporations. It contains, however, a provision dis tinctly applicable to farmers that is a departure from the usual practice in bankruptcy, in that it aims at giving a farmer opportunity to work out of hi3 difficulties instead of com pelling an immediate liquidation of his assets. In substance this part of the bill conforms to the proposal filed by Senator Robinson about three weeks ago. Instead of an immediate adjudi cation of bankruptcy to be followed by a handing over of the debtor's property to a receiver or trustee to dispose of by judicial sale, a concil iation commissioner, acting in place of a referee in bankruptcy calls a meeting of creditors for purpose of effecting a composition and evolving a plan by which the farmer, keeping possession of the property, can con tinue his operations for the benefit of the creditors. If proper provision is made for the security of the creditors during the period in which the debts are extend ed, this would seem a wise, a3 well as humane, procedure. At present a debtor against whom a decree of bankruptcy has been entered surrend ers all his property, except the small amount that the state lav exempts, and this is disposed of at forced rale. Rarely ever does property at judi cial sales bring anything mere than an insignificant percentage of their claims, while the bankrupt can get a discharge from any further liabil ity on those debts. So, it is to the interest of the cred itors themselves that tho farmers be kept on their farms with all their equipment free from molestation by execution creditors and te given an opportunity to work out of their dif ficulties. On their farms they are an asset to the country; but stripped of their holdings and forced into the ranks of unemployed they would be a liability. ThH bill should be en acted into law with all possible speed in order to prevent further sales and dispossessions. From the Wall Street Journal. -m: A PROVEICIAL ER20R The bill to ,.cor:p2l state institu tions in Oliio to u;-e only Ohio-produced . coal should be defeated. It represents poor Luciness and a nar row, provincial idea, 'of economy. It is an example of that insular trade psychology which prompted the "Buy American" campaign, is now propos ing to "Euy Ohio," and, if encour aged, will presently advocate that citizens should "Buy Cincinnati," "Buy Mariomcnt," "Buy Norwood," or otherwise disdain the fact that true economy is to be found in an open market. If the coal mined in Ohio is cheap er, delivered to state institutions; if it is as satisfactory as fuel; if be cause of the volatile elements it con tains it is r.ct more obstructive of heating system:;: if. in short, it is more economical over long periods, then Ohio coal chculd be bought. If coal mined cutsida Chio i.? more eco nomical and more satisfactory for the use of state institutions ,it should be bought. Ohio 13 blasted with industries and with an abundance of natural resources, including coal. Ohio, how ever, 13 not sufficient in the union unto itself, nor is the ctate Jn a posi tion to set t:p tentatiVD tariff walls againct neighboring commonwealths. It may seem rtrar.ge to the peudo economists behind the coal bill, but Ohio must tell as well as buy. It would be a grave mistake to set up Interstate barriers which would De no less real because they were mis' takenly ccntimental. Ohio cccl and in this the tax payers will concur chould be used in those institutions where It 13 genuinely economical. And it should be used nowhere else. It would be nonsense for Ohio to try to establish its own provincial trade system, ana the pending coal bill i3 part of such nonsense. Cincinnati Enquirer. :o: Ed Wynn, who never uses a gag he has seen r.nywnero in print, got a p-nnri r-5snonsD from ''his immediate audience tho other night by broad casting the ctsry cf the motorist who ran over a rcdootrian an then yell ed "Lool: out." What we don't un derstand iz Mr. Wynn's obvious pre- inst the one which ends "Dere's nobody here 'ceptin' just U3 chickens." His neglect or tnis noDie gag is rapidly reaching the point of downright rudeness. ' :o: Will exchange painting or paper- ine for live stock faed. Raipn wever, - w Phono 145-W. f23-4tw Don't oTvo your printing to out- of-town salesmen. Journal pay rolls are spent almost 100 per cent right hare In Plattsmouth. Lumber Sawing Commercial sawing from your own logs- lumber cut to your specifications. Wo have ready cut dimen sion lumber and sheeting for sale at low prices. - NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ES. Fee Book 9, page 338. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of John II. Kirker, 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 10th day of March, 1933, and on the 12th day of June, 1933, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m., of each day, to examine all claims against said estate with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate i3 three months from the 10th day of March, A. D. 1933, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 10th day of March, 1933. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 10th day of February, 1933. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) fl3-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an "Alias" Order of Sale issued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 18th day of March, A. D. 1933, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the south front door of the court house in said coun ty, sell at public auction to the high est bidder for cash the following real estate to-wit: The north eighty-seven (87) feet of Lots one (1), two (2), three (3), and four (4), in Block four (4) in the original town of Plattsmouth, Cass, County, Ne braska, as surveyed, platted and recorded The same being levied upon and taken a3 the property cf William A. Wells, and Flora M. Wells. Edith Martin, and the Becker Roofing Company, defendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by the Occidental Building Loan Asso ciation, plaintiff, against said defend ants. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, February 7th, A. D. 1933. II. SYLVESTER. Sheriff, Cass County, Nebraska. fl3-5w , NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE Notice -is hereby given that pur suant to' an order of sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska, and accord ing to the provisions of a decree en tered by said court on the 30th day of April, 1932, in an action pending in raid court wherein Lantie Mae Frost is plaintiff and Tetge Meyers, ct al., are defendants, commanding me to sell in the manner provided by law the real estate hereinafter de scribed, to satisfy the liens fixed and determined by the term3 of said de cree in an aggregate amount of $2, 9G5.90, with interest from the date of said decree and cost3 of such pro ceedings as in said decree provided, I will on Monday, March 20, 1933, at 10 o'clock a. m., at the south front door of the court house in Platts mouth, Cass County, Nebraska, offer for sale at public auction and will sell to the highest bidder cash the following described real estate, to- wit: The south half of Section 17, and the northwest quarter of Section 20, all in Township 12, Range 9. east of the 6th p. m., in Cass County, Nebraska, subject to a first mortgage in favor of the Conservative Mortgage Com pany at Lincoln, Nebraska. Dated thi3 14th day of February, 1933. II. SYLVESTER, Sheriff of Cass County, Nebraska. fl6-5w ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the District Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the guardianship of Gertie Beckner, insane. Now on this 11th day of February, 1933, this cause came on for hearing upon tho petition of Searl S. Davis, as guardian of Gertie Beckner, in sane, praying for a license to sell said ward's Interest in the following de scribed real estate, to-wit: The west 37 acres of the west half of the southwest quar ter of Section 17, and the east 7Yz acres in the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 18, all in Township 11, North of Range 13, East of the 6th P. M., in Cass county, Nebraska for the purpose of paying debts and expenses of administering said estate, and the support of said ward. It is therefore ordered that all per sons interested in said estate appear before me at the District Court room in the court house at Plattsmouth, In Cass county, Nebraska, on the 18th da7 of March, 1933, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any, why a license should not be granted to said guardian to sell said insane person's interest In the above described real estate for the purpose of paying debts, expenses of adminis tration and support of said ward. It Is Further Ordered, that a cony of this order to show cause be pub lished in the Plattsmouth Journal, a newspaper in general circulation In Cass county, Nebraska, for a neriod of three successive weeks prior to the date of hearing. - - JAMES T. BEGLEY, Judge of the District f!3-3w Court. NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, 88. In the County Court. Fee Bock 9, page 341. In the matter of the estate of Lew is H. Young, 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 17th day of March, 1933, and on the 19th day of June, 1933, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m. 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 17th day of March, A. D., 1933, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said 17th day of March. 1933. Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 17th day of February, 1933. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) f20-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. In the County Court. Fee Book 9, page 339. In the matter of the estate of Sarah E. Young, 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 17th day of March, A. D. 1933, and on the 19th day of June, A. D. 1933, at ten o'clock a. m. 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 17th day of March, A. D. 1933, and the time limited for payment of debts n one year irem said inn aay oi March, 1933. Witness my haid and the seal of said County Court this 14th day of February, 1933. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) f20-3w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS State of Nebraska, County of Cass, S3. In the County Court. Fee Book 9, page 342. In the matter of the estate of Dan lal Lynn, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: Ycu are hereby notified, that I will sit at the County Court room In Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 24th day of March, 1933. and on the 26th day of June, 1933. at ten o'clock, in the forenoon of each day to exam ine all claims against said estate, with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said, estate is three months from the 24th, day of March, A. D. 1933, and the time limited for payment of debts is one year from said : 24thr fl&7 -March, 19 33. , . , Witness my hand and the seal of said County Court this 24th day of February, 1933. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) f27-sw County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Settle ment of Account In tho County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss. Fee Book 9, at page 44. To all persons Interested in the es tate of Marshall W. Smith, deceased: On reading the petition of L. B. Egenberger, Administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed In this Court on the 8th. day of February, 1933. and for assign ment of estate and discharge of Ad ministrator; 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 10th day of March, 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 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 weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 8th day of February, A. D. 1933. A. II. DUXBURY, (Seal) fl3-3w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale is sued by C. E. Ledgway, Clerk of the District Court within and for Cass County, Nebraska, and to me direct ed, I will on the 20th day of March, A. D. 1933, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at the couth front door of tho court house in said county, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for -cash the following real estate, to wit: The west half (W), except school grounds in the northwest corner, of Section twenty-two (22), Township ten (10), north. Range twelve (12), east of the Sixth Principal Meridian, In the County of Cass, State of Ne braska, containing In all three hundred and twenty (320) acres more or less, according to gov ernment survev: The same beine IpvIah taken as the nroWtv tT"" -X: dants. to satisfy - J-Uftut Ut Bala CQUrt reCOvered by Bankers Life Insurance Company, aeSants011- PlainUff Wi-t -M 15tPhaISmi?Ut1933Nebra6ka' H. SYLVESTER, Sheriff Cass County, tie- ow' i