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WAR CALLED A NECESSITY
Annapolis. The Italian expedition
into Ethiopia was described as a life
and death necessity by Dr. Giovanni
Marcerta, former assistant fencing
coach at the naval academy, in a
letter received by II. M. "Spike"
Webb, veteran navy and Olympic
boxing coach. Dr. Marcerata, who
was at the academy about three
years ago, writing from Venice said
lie was not going to Africa, but that
his son "will probably go." "If I were
0 years old I would go immediately,"
he added.
"This African expedition is a great
affair for us," Dr. Macerata wrote.
"It is a question of life or death.
Italy could not go on with the crisis
1 million idLera, industry, com
merce ruined, 50,000 doctors, pro
fessors, engineers without any possi
bility to find a job like me who
cannot find a chair and I don't know
what to do. Therefore the war in
Africa is a necessity; if we conquest
one-half Abyssinia we shall send
there in 100 years 5 million Italians."
Bible School
Sunday, November 3rd -
"Judah Taken a Captive"
II Kings 25:1-12.
History does not record a tragedy
like the one depicted in our lesson.
No nation was ever exalted as high as
the Hebrews and fell as low. There
never was a people like them and
never will be. They are a peculiar
race. Oft it has been tried to (exter
minate them; they have been driven
from place to place still they ''aTe
with us, stronger than ever, some
15,000,000 of them. What is the rea
son for such treatment? Their dis
obedience to God's revealed will. They
were to carry the torch of knowledge
into the dark places of the world
and they failed God. They would not
heed the warnings God sent to them
through the medium of the prophets
and their doom was sealed at last
and the end came.
Jerusalem has suffered like no oth
er city in ancient or modern times.
Besieged, captured, destroyed and re
built many times. Here is a list:
Joshua (1429 B. C); David (1048
B. C); Shishak (974 B. C-; Joshua
(893 B. C); Assyrians (711 B. C);
Pharaoh-Necho (610 B. C); Nebu
cadnezzer (587 B. C); Ptolemy Soter
(320 B. C.) ; Antiochs Epiphanes (170
B. C); Pompey (63 B. C); Crossus
(54 B. C); Herod (37 B. C); Titus
Vespasian (70 A. D.); Adrian (135
A. D.); Chosroes (614 A. D.); Hera
chins (G2S A. D.); Omar Saracens
(637 A. D.); Soljouk Turks (Tutush)
(107S A. D.); Godfrey of Builton
(1099 A. D.); Sala-ed-din (1178 A.
D.); Turks (1217 A. D.); Crusaders
(1229 A. D.); Turks (1244 A. D.);
Selim (1517 A. D.); Bonapart (17S9
A. D. ) ; Mahomet Ali (18S2 A. D.);
Turks (1840 A. D.) and Great Brit
ain (General Allenby) (1917 A. D.)
Josephus, the Hebrew historian, re
lates some of the tortures and hard
ships the Jews suffered, some of them
almost unbelievable.
Our lesson describes the last years
of the kingdom of Judah. The great
revival under Josiah did not last
long. It was the last flare up of re
ligoion. From that time on the na
tion went rapidly to its doom. Josiah
died, his son Jehoaikim, the seven
teenth King of Judah, resigned after
three months, when his brother Je
hoiachin became king, the eighteenth.
Hp was taken by Nebudchadnezzer a
prisoner and sent to Babylon, where
he lived 37 years and died in cap
tivity. His brother, the third son of
Josiah, was made king and named
Zedekiah, who was the last, the nine
teenth king.
The final act is about to take place.
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
sent an army against Jerusalem, in
the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign,
and besieged it for about 18 months,
when the food supply was exhausted.
At the same time the army of Neb
uchadnezzer effected a breach in the
wall and entered the city. That night
the king, Zedekiah, and his army at
tempted to escape under cover of dark
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APPROVES GUARD ARMORIES
Nebraska WPA Administrator Fel
ton approved national guard proj
ects Tuesday at Kearney, Ashland
and Falls City, calling for a total
allotment of $72,173 and designed
to give employment to 122 men. He
said he approved these projects be
cause they met government require
ments as to sponsor's contributions
and because labor is available for
construction. Other national guard
projects for the state are pending.
The three national guard projects
approved Tuesday:
Kearney Single unit armory of
brick and concrete construction with
drill hall 60x100 feet, rifle range,
officers' rooms, locker room and sim
ilar rooms; 22 men to be employed
for seven months; $35,000 allotment.
Ashland Boxing stadiu mof 3,000
seating capacity at guard camp of re
inforced concrete construction; 78
men to be employed for three months;
$22,173 allotment to cover all costs.
Falls City Single unit armory of
same specifications as at Kearney; 22
mo nto be employed for seven
months; . $25,000 allotment.
Phone the news to Too. 6.
Lesson Study!
By L. Neitzel, Murdock. Neb.
ness, trying to gain the ford of the
Jordan near Jericho, but were cap
tured and taken prisoners," brought
before Nebuchadnezzer, who was at
Riblah, north of Palestine, where a
court was held, and the sentence was
immediately executed, namely, that
his children be put to death in his
pretence, then his eyes be put out, bo
thai the last scene he saw should for
ever haunt his memory. Thus was the
prophecy of Jeremiah and Ezekiel ful
filled. (Jer. 52:11; Ezekiel 12:13). A
terrible fate awaited all the leading
men of Jerusalem, they were all exe-c-.ited
the same day. The city was
plundered, the homes of the wealthy
were destroyed, also the temple and
all the costly vessels were desecrated
and destroyed. The ark of the cove
nant was also destroyed (this is the
last mention of the ark). The wall3
of the city were broken down, and the
people -carried into captivity. Only
some of the lower classes remained to
take care of the land. This captivity
lasted 56 years, when Nehemiah led
them back to rebuild the city.
The story of the destruction of
Jerusalem and the carrying away of
Judah is of the gra vest" importance.
It brings us face to face with the
fact of devine vengeance, as to its
reason, its slowness, its certainty.
The reason for the punishment of
Judah was that of the nation's aban
donment of high ideals, its determined
self-degradation and its consequent
failure'to fulfill its true function in
the economy of God.
The slowness of the devine method
was the outcome of devine compas
sion, which gave the rebellious na
tion every opportunity to return, and
continued to wait until there was no
remedy. The certainty of the ultimate
stroke was created by the determined
refusal of kings, priests and people
alike to obey the voice of Jehovah.
A state that cannot punish crime is
doomed, and a God who tolerates evil
i3 not good. The stroke of God never
falls until there is no remedy. All
that befell this nation can, and will,
find an application on the individual.
God will exhaust all resources to
bring man to realize his lost condi
tion before he abandons him. If man
persistently refuses to listen to the
voice of the shepherd, who is out to
seek the lost sheep, calling them to
come to him, then devine justice fin
ally steps in and meets out punish
ment according to the evil done by
man.
lien are taking a great risk by
trifling with a loving Father's good
ness. The goodness of God (should)
lead men to repentence. (Rom. 2:4).
This nation of the Jews, once the
"chosen" people, are today the most
hated, despised and persecuted of all
people. "There is a reason." Will they
come back? They can, in obedience to
God's invitation: "Look unto me, and
be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is none else."
(Isaiah 45:22).
NEW FARM PROGRAM FLAYED
Chicago. B. W. Snow, prominent
Chicago grain authority and former
assistant secretary of agriculture,
said President Roosevelt's pronounce
ment as to the permanent farm relief
policy "forecasts a program which is
to eventually destroy or make worth
less ownership of farm land."
"The shift from a temporary em
ergency basis to a permanent control
occasions no surprise for those who
have watched the bureaucratic grasp
ing for increased power thru the
regimentation of agriculture," Snow
said. "Up to this time the farmer has
only bound himself in each contract
In the matter of growing a single
crop but under the predicted plan
the land is put into control of Wash
ington so far as all crops are con
cerned. The owner of the farm thus
becomes merely a farm manager to
carry out experimentations ordered
by Washington swivel chair bureau
crats." AAA HAS NEW CHALLENGE
Philadelphia. One hundred eight
pork packers, cigar manufacturers
and other business concerns joined
in a new challenge of the agricultural
adjustment act.
Their action was in answer to a
government request that Judge Kirk
patrick dismiss the . suits they filed
against the act last summer. The
government held that amendments
passed since that time removed the
objectionable features, but the busi
ness concerns argued that the re
constructed act is more obviously in
valid than the original one.
MAY 'KEEP TRANSIENTS OUT
Tallahassee, Fla. Governor Sholtz
threatened to use the national guard
to keep transients out of Florida un
less the federal government continues
to provide relief after Dec. 1.
The governor said unless federal
relief is given after that date, 1,700
persons now quartered in transient
camps would be "taken to the state
border and turned loose. And, if
necessary, I'll place the national
guard along the border to see that
they don't come back."
DRESS 10,000 TURKEYS
v Deshler, Neb.--Tbe Midwest Tur
key,Growers association, composed of
turkey raisers of Thayer and nearby
counties, soon will start - dressing
more than 10,000 turkeys ; for" the
Thanksgiving day market. The Desh
ler wholesale house will be used as a
plant and also about 100 persons will
be employed there. E. H. Kahle is
president and W. R. Wicks is secre
tary of the organization. This is the
third season that the growers have
shipped co-operatively.
A SEEMING SENSE OF LIFE
As I sit beside the majestic
stream
And hear the waters roar,
It lulled me to sleep and I
fondly dream
Of the days that have gone
before.
The waters that flow over the
dam,
And falls in a mist and spray,
Will never return in storms
or calm,
To wash the lichens away.
When falls the evening tide,
As one whiles away the hour,
Or turns to view as his thoughts
abide,
On a rose bud, or some sweet
flower.
In pastures green he views
the kine.
Feeding on the earth's carpet
of green,
That points to a true and defin
ite line,
Which nature has marshalled
and covered with sheen.
O could I turn the sundial
back.
And shoot my arrow across
The border of limitation and
lack,
And retrieve my seeming sense
of loss.
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When flowing streams with their
crystal waters pure,
And beautiful flowers, that
makes life more easy to en
dure; Can speak to the heart, that is
filled with unrest.
When left without a guide to
the silent house of hill
crest.
Dry; yes dry do many rivulets
stay.
Until an overflow .of larger
streams make way V
For them to become useful to the
land they' break through,
And relieve it of the excess mois
ture remaining In view.
When the world loses its super
lative attraction
And the atoms and protons
their force,
Then Mind can apply the sanc
' tions.
That may seem inhuman and
coarse.
J. R. Tremble.
Senate Passes
Pay Bills in the
Name of People
Legislators Pave the Way to Raise
More Money to Get More
Federal Funds.
"Be it enacted by the people of
the state of Nebraska" were the
words constituting enacting clauses
on the first bills passed by the state
senate during the Tuesday afternoon
session, the two bills ' appropriating
from the state treasury $31,000 to
pay salaries and expenses of the spe
cial legislative session. The bills had
just passed ' the house. They were
hurried to the senate and there pass
ed as hurriedly under suspension of
the rules, andv soon legislators .vill
receive $100 apiece and 10 cents a
mile allowed them. Immediately the
senate adjourned until 10 o'clock
Wednesday, and the house did the
same. . .
While the pay bills were enacted
in the name of the people to pay the
cost of an extra legislative session,
the people directly have nothing to
do with calling a special session. The
forefathers provided , that in this rep
resentative form of state government
the governor should.be clothed with
power to summon the legislature
when in his judgment he thinks best.
This the governor has done and the
special session will be called upon to
get an unknown number of millions
out of the people by direct and in
direct taxes to raise a bigger fund
to get an unknown number of mil
lions of the public's own money from
the central government at Washing
ton.
The Norrls amendment to the con
stitution effective in 1937 will per
mit the legislature to meet biennially
and whenever ifc. pleases, or "as oth
erwise provided" by law," which is in
terpreted as meaning whenever and
however the legislature may deter
mine by law.;
Of the $31,000. appropriated from
the state treasury to start the legis
lative machinery in motion, $13,300
will go for salaries of legislators, at
the rate of $100 each for ten "days,
which may prove to be half prive for
their services if the session lasts more
than three weeks, and $3,698.40 will
go to pay mileage of legislators, if
their claims are the .same v,as wthose
for th regular session. - .
LIVING IN CHURCH
Stella, Neb.--Rev. R. Jt Boyer,
new pastor of the community church
here, is making his home In the
church building until he can ob
tain a house. When Mr. Boyer came
here, there was not a vacant house In
the town. An apartment was fixed
up in the basement of the church for
Mr. and Mrs. Boyer.
MAASWTNSHUSK3NG '
Wayne, Neb.-4-Chrls Maas, Jr., of
Hoskins, won the. county cornhusking
contest at the Ted Nydahl farm north
of Winside. He. picked a gross of 1,
845 pounds in one hour and 20 min
utes. His net 'was 1,775 pounds.
Clarence Boiling of Carroll, was sec
ond. -''See it before you buy it.'
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
.oveihfr 1-2
Wheeler & Woolsey, King Pranksters
'The Rainmakers9
An uproar from start to finish. They
make it rain in ,spite of the drouth!
Also
Comedy and Buck Jones in
'The Roaring West'
Adults 25 Children 10$
TIIH K 13 SHOWS SATIRDAV KITE
SUIVDAY-fiflOND AY-TUESDAY
Xovember 3-4-5
A Treat for All Shirley Temple in
'CURLY TOP' ;
See Shirley as she really Is. Her best
and happiest picture. A show no one
wants to miss. (JiV-e the whole family a
treat. Js'o raise in the admission price.
Sunday Matfneo at 2:30
Matinee Prices. Evening Prices
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
November U-7
Attention Everyone! By Special Ar
rangement Official Pictures
Joe Lewis vs. Max Baer
Prise Fight
See this Prown Homber in action. Most
amazing fighter the ring's ever known.
Also
A Big Full Length Feature Picture
'Men Without
Blames'
The Biggest Show ever offered
for. Low Mid-V.'eek Admission!
Adults. 25 Children 10 1
Elmwood News
George Miller was delivering wheat
to the Farmers Elevator at Elmwood
laEt Tuesday, receiving some 98c per
bushel for the same.
John Talhurst of near Raymond
was visiting with friends in Elmwood
last Tuesday, also looking after some
business matters for a short time.
E. L. Harper of Louisville was
looking after some business matters
for the Nebraska Power company in
Elmwood on Tuesday of this week.
Paul Hulfish and E. T. Comer went
over to Lincoln last Tuesday where
Mr. Comer was looking after some
business matters and Paul visiting
relatives for a few days.
Norville D. Bothwell was a visitor
in Council Bluffs last Monday where
he went to meet other members of the
board of managers of the Clover
Farm stores for Iowa and Nebraska.
A good many of the farmers in the
vicinity of Elmwood have started to
pick corn and while the corn is not
as dry as they would like they figure
it will soon be and if it Is not they
can stop until it Is ready, then it
rained.
Stuart Rough of Nehawka, was a
visitor last Sunday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard De Les Denier
a few miles east of Elmwood on the
highway. They all enjoyed a very
fine visit and an excellent dinner.
While Miss Bonnie Chandler,
daughter of Mrs. Guy McGill was
milking, the cow kicked, striking her
in the fact, inflicting a severe wound
which was so bad that she was
brought to town to have the injury
dressed.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gillett were
visiting for the day last Sunday at
the home of their daughter, Mrs.
Emil Meyers and family of Fairbury,
they going early in the week and re
maining until Sunday, enjoying a
very fine visit.
Some fifteen of the members of the
Farmers Union of Elmwood and vi
cinity with a truck as their convey
ance went to Aurora where the state
convention was in session, enjoying
the sessions as well as taking part
in the deliberations of the state or
ganization. The Methodist church of Elmwood
is holding a Father and Son banquet
at the church the coming week. This
is a very fine idea and one that should
meet with the aprobation of all and
be a means of Xhe fathers and sons
of the community getting together,
eating a fine banquet and. really, get
ting acquainted.
The window of the Green drug
store bears a dressing of the- books
written by the Elmwood authoress,
Mrs. Bess Streeter Aldrich whih, pre
sent an array of books of great worth
the last one being "The Coming
Spring Forever. These books should
be widely read by all and especially
of the readers of Nebraska and Cass
county.
Car Overturned Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning while John
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Fruit & UegefabSe Elfcrket
Emmett Rice, Prop.
Full Line o High Class Fruits and
Fresh Vegetables o All Kinds
HIGHEST QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICES
HATT BUILDJP4G
Main Street Between 4th and 5th Streets
Ruhge and his aged mother were
coming to Elmwood from their home
north of Avoca they were driving
along when another car came around
the corner at an Intersection, and
the two cars were nearly together be
fore anyone could notice It and as Mr.
Ruhge endeavored to get out of the
way his car ran into a ditch by the
roadside near the school house two
miles east of Elmwood and turned
over. The shaking up was severe
but the real injury was but slight,
and the cars were not badly damaged.
Suffers Severe Stroke.
While Charles Bailey was about
the home a3 he has been confined
to the house since the amputation of
one of his legs some time ago, being
confined to a wheel chair, he was
able to. get about the house and was
In the bathroom where he went to
secure a drink at the faucet, he lean
ed over and as he was In the act of
drinking the water he received .a
severe stroke of paralysis, falling
from the chair to the floor and at
the same time striking his head, se
verely bruising it. The good wife,
hearing him fall rushed to his as
sistance but Mr. Bailey being a heavy
man she could not lift him and im
mediately telephoned the doctor and
to bring someone along, a3 Rev. W. B.
Bliss was there they started to run
to the Eailey home and met B. I.
Clements. Calling to him they all
three hurried to the home where they
found Mr. Bailey still lying on the
floor. The three men got him in bed
where they straightened him out and
made him as comfortable as possible.
Since the stroke which occurred last
Monday he has scarcely held is own
and is still very poorly. Everything
is being done for the patient with
the hopes of his rallying.
Modern Woodmen Jleet. . .
The members of the Modern Wood
men of America met at their hall last
Monday evening where they enjoyed
a fine get together meeting with a
very fine program and a season they
enjofiyed in playing cards followed
by a fine banquet which all enjoyed
most thoroughly. The ladies of the
Royal Neighbors of America did the
serving, charging for the supper,
which added to their treasury ac
count. Want New Heating Plant.
The city of Elmwood is needing a
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new heating plant for the American
Legion community building and are
considering many ways for the at
taining of the same. There was a
meting last Tuesday evening for the
purpose of effecting the earning of
the money necessary for the meeting
of the expense of installing a new
heating plant. Just what will be se
lected for attaining that end is not
yet determined, but we are certain
they will accomplish their purpose of
getting the new plant.
Mrs. Ealph Eeeder Very Poorly.
Mrs .Ralph Reeder who has been
in poor health for some time past and
has been kept to her bed at her home
at Papillion, went to the hospital at
Omaha . last Tuesday where she un
derwent an operation. She was ac
companied by the husband and her
father, Mr. George F. Wilson. Mrs.
Reeder was formerly Miss Mable Wil
son. It Is hoped that the operation
while it is severe and a major oper
ation will ultimately result In the
return of her health.
SEXECTED ON BOARD
Miss Mia U. Gering of this city,
prominent worker in the diocese of
Nebraska, cf the Episcopal church,
has been named as a member of the
official board of the Bishop R. S.
Clarkson memorial hospital at Om
aha. Tlios hospital is maintained by
the Episcopal church of Nebraska.
Other members of the beard selected
are Edwin A. Fricke, of Ashland, and
Mrs. Evelyn Ryan, Grand Island, who
is the democratic national committee
woman for Nebraska.
SELECTED ON JURY
Several Plattsmouth and Cass
County men have been drawn for ser
vicei on theRfederal petit jury . fw
the rNovember term of the United
States .district court for the Lincoln,
district. These are to report for duty
at 10 a. m. on November 11th.
The local men selected are Carl E.
Day, Weeping Water, Adam Mei
singer, Cedar Creek, R. F. Tatterson
and W. A. Wheeler, Plattsmouth.
You wouldn't attempt a long
trip driving a few miles today and
then laying off till next week or
next month to proceed. Then why
conduct your advertising program
in that manner. It is the business
vehicle that will take you places
if you stay behind the wheel and
step on the accelerator.
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