MOJTDAT, FEBRUARY C,'19S9.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEF.7TT.Y JOURNAL
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Trip to Europe
Theme of Talk by
Murray Banker
W. G. Eoedeker Who last Slimmer
Made Auto Tour of Europe Gives
Talk Before Garden Club.
The Plattsmouth Garden tlub met
last evening: in the dining room of
the Hotel Plattsmouth. A large
number were present to take the op-
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eighty and 160 acre tracts. Also
city property. I buy, sell and match
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115 theatre seats, one steel safe,
one hot air furnace, two fireproof
McCasky systems, one new farm light
plant cheap, furniture and business
equipment. Twenty tons baled hay, a
few head of horses. See or write
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mechanism being held by the young lady is the result
of ten years of work by household refrigeration engi
neers. It is called a "Polarsphere-and is claimed to be
the most powerful electric refrigerator unit for its size
ever perfected. It revolutionizes household refrigeration,
and is being introduced this year in the new Kelvin-
atora, one of which is shown.
portunity of hearing Mr. Glen Boe
deker's speech on "A Trip to Europe."
A short business meeting, which was
in charge of Mrs. Luke Wiles and
Mrs. William Schmidtmann, Jr., pre
ceded the talk. Mrs. P. T. Heineman,
chairman of the library committee,
read a beautiful poem entitled,
"Grandma Called Carnal," by Bertha
Damon. Mrs. L. O. Minor, chairman
Df the plant identification committee,
presented a splendid talk on the
'Saint Paulia," and "Ionantha." com
monly called the African violet.
Following the meeting, Julius A.
Pitz introduced the guest speaker
of the evening, Glen Boedeker, prom
inent banker of Murray, who gave a
very interesting resume of his re
cent trip to Europe.
The following is the text of Mr.
Boedeker's talk:
Rolling hills of fertile farm land,
tree lined highways and rich green
pastures gave us our first glimpse of
rural Europe as we traveled through
ncrmerii trance irom liouiogne to
Paris. Traveling with our automo
bile gave us an unusual opportunity
to observe farming methods.
While touring six continental
countries: France. ItaJy, Switzer
land, Germany, Holland and Belgium,
we observed the limitless effort, un
failing ambition, and envied thor
oughness of the European farmer.
With these qualities the farmer of
the old world overcomes the handi
caps of his old-fashioned methods.
One finds teams of oxen replacing
our ultra-modern and expensive
tractor. Oxen are found in every
European country we traveled ex
cept Holland and Belgium, but they
are used most extensively in south
ern France and Italy. We were ex
tremely attracted one day to see,
while driving In northern Italy,
eight yoke of oxen pulling a large
Iplow. These oxen were manged by 3
men and were plowing deep In a
'small field of approximately five
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and wide for his persimmon
like puss, shows W. J. Golder.
president of the Anti-Sourpuss
League that he can smile with
the best of them. Fred's "Town
Hall Tonight" program is
broadcast over the NBC-Red
network on Wednesdays at
9:00 p.m.. EST. (Repeat for
western listeners at 9 00 p.m.,
PST).
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acres. Fields of such small extrem
ities are typical of European farms.
In Germany particularly, farm land
is divided off into numberless plots
of different sizes and shapes. A Ger
man farmer told us that if he had
100 acres of land, it would probably
be cut up into 200 plots. For thi3
reason large, modern machinery such
as the average American farmer
uses is unquestionably out of place
in Europe. Small plots of ground
call for small, primitive implements
and much hard manual labor on the
part of the farmer. However, great
as is the lack, of modern machinery
and methods of the European farmer,
these things do not keep him from
being successful. Certainly if oppor
tunities equal to those of our farm
ers in the United States were offered
to a farmer of the old world, he
would prove more than successful.
Because he is an economical farmer
not allowing an inch no, not one
inch of ground to go wasting or lay
idlo, the conservative European
farmer probably could, with the ex
pense account and waste of the aver
age American farmer, make a living
and put money in the bank.
Of keen interest to us was the
live stojk we saw on our tour. In
northern France five Percheron
horses were used for farming the
rather rolling land, while in south
ern France, horses were replaced by
large brow n oxen. Long horned oxen
of the Brahma type are typical of
Italy. Switzerland is known to many
for its fine cheeses, and one realizes
why this is so when one sees the
many herds of beautiful Swiss cows.
Throughout this small country are
found the same breed of cows.
Though many horses are seen in Ger
many, in certain sections of this
country, the farmers work the milk
cow. This comes about because of
scarcity of horses since the World
war and also because of their high
price at this age.
It is interesting to note that it
was in Germany that we first saw a
team of horses hitched together. In
France, we had seen the farmer
working one horse, and we had also
seen him working several horses
hitched one behind the other. Upon
reaching Holland we saw as many
as three horses hitched together.
Belgium has the large and very beau
tiful Belgian breed of horses for
Which that country is so noted. In
the cities in Belgium it was not un
common to see one of these fine large
horses hitched to a Tery heavy wagon,
pulling a load of as much as four
tons through streets and being driven
bv the simple means of a jerk line.
iThe Belgium farmer is proud of hi3
horses, and we wore told that he
feeds each of his horses one loaf of
bread each day besides their regular
feed of grain.
Unfcnced fields, charming farm vil
lages, beautiful flowers and trees
make the European countryside very
picturesque.) The small farm villages
are quite unique to the American
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Schnozzola Or, if we must
be technical, the Grosbeak
was snapped with a tele
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Iowa.
Ambassador for Mate
Manoel Correia, repre
sentative of the Institutio
Nacional de Mate, of
Rio de Janeiro. Brazil,
who recently arrived in
New York, stands over a
barrel of prepared mate,
willing to hand out sam
ples. He's here to popu
larize the beverage
brewed from the dried
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traveler. Instead of each farmer hav
ing his own farm home, many Eu
ropean farmers live in small settle
ments and go outside to farm their
land. In sections of France, Italy
and Germany one sees, however,
many farm homes. These are often
a combination house and barn.
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jit is not. These houses and barns
built together appear to be very clean
and are quite attractive. Flowers
are in great abundance throughout
rural Europe. On one German farm
home, we counted sixteen window
boxes, all filled with gorgeous flow
ers. There are no weeds on the farm
of the old world. A large amount of
rainfall makes the grass and trees a
scene of great beauty that is com
parable with some of the more mar
velous scenery such as the Swiss
Alps and the French and Ligurian
Rivieras provide.
The soil of European farms i3
varied in the different sections of
each country. In France, most of
the farm land is made up of shallow
soil and much fertilization becomes
necessary; in southern France one
can note some of the land quite
stony. In Italy you find the soil of
similar quality. Much of the farm
land in Germany is very stony and
this is hard to work. Holland has
the richest soil of any of the coun
tries we visited.
Even though the consistency of
the soil found in many sections of
Europe 13 inferior, the farm land
appears to be quite productive. A
great tleal of small grain is raised,
such as wheat and oats. The farmer
preserves his grain by stacking it
under cover or by stacking it in the
open in neatly built stacks with a
neat, protective (covering of straw.
The carefulness and extreme neat
ness shown by the European farmer
in these methods of preserving his
crops are admirable traits. Various
crops grown in Europe are potatoes,
grapes, olives, hops, hemp and beets.
Potatoes are one of the crops found
in all of the six countries we were
in. In Germany especially one finds
large potato fields. At harvest time,
men, women, and the children all
help with the digging and sacking of
the potatoes. However, we observed
that women in Europe are unusually
hard working at any time. Often
they are seen pitching Lay, helping
with the threshing of grain or hemp.
Hemp i3 raised in northern Italy and
is probably one of their chief crops.
Southern France is noted for its
large vineyards which cover mile
after mile of territory. In north
western Italy, along the Ligurian
Riveria. we were astounded to see
the hillsides that were covered with
olive groves. There hills are more
like our mountains. The farmer
terraces them by building up a wall
of stone, thus leveling, off a space
for the trees. In this way, every
inch of ground on that hillside is
utilized. Terhaps the most fertile
territory we saw ..was the famous
Marne valley in central . eastern
France. Here on the. rolling hills on
each side of the Marne river are
fields, pastures, and many vineyards.
Very little corn was grown in the
places we passed through. Most of
that we saw was small and of in
ferior quality.
In the "hill "Country" of north
central Italy, we experienced sights
such as had never met our eyes be
fore. The hills themselves reached
the height of our small mountains
and each hill was covered with small
hills so that the whole countryside
was hills upon hills. Some were al
most perpendicular and to look at
them, one could never believe it
possible to cultivate them for the
growing of crops. As we progressed
along the winding road, we noticed
that the majority of these hills, grue
jcine in their aspect, were plowed
and ready for planting. Later we
came upon several teams of white
oxen plodding slowly up the steep
inclines, followed by their master.
Every inch of ground was used
and not one fraction of a measure
ment was in waste. Though the
land was extremely arid, and in
! places very stony, these hindrances
-seemed to be blotted out uy tne
faithful farmer who toiled along be
faithful farmer who toiled along be
side his oxen, unconcerned of the
turn. He was aware only of the
necessity to gain-his living, and
what a meager existence that must
have been. If ever in our lives we
have seen true effort, we saw it
there. A sight such as this was sad
to see and yet it was touchingly
hopeful to know that some brave
sculs trusted so much in a higher
power to aid them.
From Italy, we entered Switzer
land near Lugano. This beautiful
city of Lugano is located on a lake
by the same name. A great feature
of Lugano's beauty.ri3 the multitude
of pretty houses and gardens that
cluster upon its shores and on the
mountain-sides. As we began our
ascent from Lugano, our eyes feast
ed upon 'an ever changing sight. The
beautiful valleys where we find
streams that form the headwaters of
the Rhine, the Rhone, and the
Danube. The lower slopes of the
mountains are covered with vine
yards, orchards, and meadows, with
pleasant villages in every valley.
Higher up are green forests of oak
and walnut, then tall, dark pines
and firs. And always through these
forests of pine we see open spaces
of meadow-land. Here little cot
tages, called chalets, are scattered
about for the neonle who take care
Jcf the cows. And as-you listen, you
hear the tinkle of the cowbells in the
'distance, which seem to come from
Sail directions. Still higher up in the
mountains, beyond the forests and
green pastures we see the tall, sharp
peaks, and glaciers, or rivers of ice.
We were close to the Rhone glacier,
whose melting ice gives rise to the
river and opposite this glacier we
saw the most beautiful natural pic
ture imaginable. The Indian paint
brush had painted the mountainside
with splashes of vivid color and mix
ed through the brilliant reds were
beautiful blue bells and adelicate
lavender flower. It was hard to bid
good-bye to Switzerland. The picture
of this beautiful country will fade
in time, but we will always have
the memory of it.
Flowers and trees are as in
separable from this European coun
tryside as large liners are from the
Atlantic ocean. In cities, in small
villages, and along the tree lined
highways of rural Europe, one finds
an abundance of trees and gorgeous
blossoms, radiant in their display of
color.
Paris is widely known as one of
the world's most beautiful cities.
Words could not begin to describe
the beauty found there, for it lies
deep in the age and romantic back
ground of the history of this great
metropolis of France. However, his
tory and romance of the olden days
aren't the only factors of beauty in
Paris. Large boulevards lined on
each side with wide spreading chest
nut trees and exquisite formal flower
beds are kept attractive during the
greater portion of the year.
In the spring the intricate and
fanciful designs of these flower beds
are made colorful with multi-varied
tulips. Some of these tulip bulbs are
of rare species and are sent by the
queen of Holland to the French gov
ernment. Later, as the trees begin
to leaf out, the chestnuts blossom In
to hundreds of lacy white flowers,
which with the fresh green of the
new leaves, have a beauty all their
own. Summer finds the experts who
design the gardens of Paris bringing
forth a diversified assemblage of
flowers. Even the grass seems to be
unusually green with a depth of
color, those of us who live in dry
countries have not seen before.
In the country, tall stately trees
border the small fields. Some of them
are trimmed in odd shapes instead
of being allowed to grow naturally.
A tree similar in shape to our wal
nut tree, grows naturally in the
lower trunk and branches, then a
portion of the trunk is trimmed of
all branches and left bare. The top
cf the trees grow naturally also.
Gardens are a part of every stone
house in France and other parts of
Europe. They are small, but im
maculately clean and well kept. In
northern Italy, along the coast line
of the Mediterranean, we saw gar
dens of asparagus, cabbage, and
many other vegetables. These were
especially attractive to us because
they were so carefully tended.
Europe is beauty itself. On every
side one sees some phase of it. Trees,
flowers, green meadows, and charm
ing, rustic homes make a heaven for
those who love such beauty.
Our journey abroad took us over
5,000 miles in six interesting Eu
ropean countries. In every country,
we experienced travel on some of the
finest highways we've ever driven
over. The famous Corniche highway
in Italy was probably the most out
standing one we encountered. Built
on the rugged mountains which rise
above the Mediterranean sea, it gives
to the driver opportunities for superb
scenic driving on an ultra modern
thoroughfare. It was extremely in
teresting to us to be able to travel
on the new and world known
"Reichsautobahn" in Germany. We
traveled this splendid new highway
from Bonn to Cologne to Duisburg.
It is a four lane highway with a
parking in the center which is sown
in green grass. This highway passes
through no towns or cities and has
no intersections or railroad cross
ings, the latter being provided for
by overheads and underpasses.
FEDERAL DEFICIT GBOWS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UP) The
federal deficit passed $2,000,000,000
on February 1, simultaneously with
a rise in the national debt to a new
all-time high,- the treasury revealed
today.
The deficit on that day was ?2,
046,035,465 which compared with
5S01.90S.716 on the corresponding
day last year.
The deficit was increased $50,000,
000 in one Jump by transfer of that
sum to the social security old age re
serve account. Although this trans
fer was in the form of treasury se
curities and not in cash, it was
credited as an expenditure, resulting
in raising the spending figure so
far this year to $5,297,192,565.
The same operation increased the
national debt to $39,684,970,614 be
cause the securities placed in the
old age reserve account will be oper
ations of the federal government.
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS
A number of new books, which are
ready for distribution, have been
added to the juvenile department of
the Plattsmouth public library. The
new books heading the list are:
"Heidi Grows Up," "Sails, Wheels
and Wings," "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs," "Password to Lark
spur Lane," "Clue to the Broken
Locket," "Message in the Hollow
Oak," "Mystery of the Ivory Charm,"
"Mark Tidd in the Backwoods," and
"Story of the First Men."
TO HALT JEW PERSECUTION
LONDON Feb, 4 (UP) Diplo
matic quarters reported today that
Germany has given assurance that
she will take no further measures
against Jews while negotiations by the
intergovernmental committee for ref
ugees are in progress. -
George S. Rublee, American dir
ector of the committee pressed Ger
man authorities for a guarantee that
Jews would not be molested during
the negotiations.
It was understood the Germans,
while wishing to avoid a public com
mitment, said no further action
against Jews was envisaged, baring
an unforseen incident like the as
sassination of Ernst Von Rath, Ger
man ambassador to France.
Greenvood
Mrs. Fred Palmquist is ill at this
writing.
Miss Jean Alton and Donald York
of Omaha called on Mrs. Fred Eth
eridge last Sunday.
The Dorcas society met (at the
church Friday with Mrs. Charles
Card entertaining.
Andy Leadabrand is confined at
home with illness and unable to at
tend to duties at his garage.
New officers were installed at
the meeting of the Rebekah lodge
Thursday evening. Visitors were
present from Havelock lodge. Lunch
was served.
Miss Iona May entertained the
school faculty at the Brehm home
Monday evening. Chinese check-ers
was played and Mr. Le Prevost was
winner. A delicious lunch was serv
ed by Miss May.
Mrs. Charles Armstrong entertain
ed her Sunday school class and their
mothers at a party at the church
basement last Sunday afternoon.
Lunch of sandwiches, cookies, cakes,
Jello and cocoa was served.
Aaron Wright, who is in the Uni
versity hospital in Omaha, under
went an operation Wednesday, hav
ing his leg amputated near the hip.
Ic is hoped this will improve his
health, but he is still in a very crit
ical condition.
Won from Valparaiso
Greenwood high school basketball
team played the Valparaiso quintet
here 'last Tuesday night, winning the
game by a score of 29 to 22. It was
a very good game and interesting to
the local fans largely because of the
fact that the team was accompanied
by II. E. Warren and family. Mr.
Warren, a former superintendent of
schools here, is now superintendent
at Valparaiso.
Deal-a-Deck Club
The Deal-a-Deck club met with
Mrs. Adeline Gustafson Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. Ardis Stewart was
high and Mrs. Laura Trunkenbolz
second. A nice lunch was served by
the hostess. The next meeting will
be with Mrs. Ardis Stewart.
Members and their husbands will
enjoy a party at the home of Mrs.
Myrtle Cameron Tuesday evening,
February 14.
Woman's Club ,
The Woman's club met with Mrs.
Frank Walton Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Hurlbut was assisting
hostess. The topic was "Home Eco
nomics" and roll call, "Household
Hints." Papers were read by Mrs.
A. J. Leadabrand, Mrs. Earl Dyer
and Mrs. Vernon Greer. The pro
gram consisted of a reading by Lu
cille Kelly, and songs by Emily
Nichols, Billy and Beverly. Casey,
accompanied by Mrs. Casey.
Legion Hosts to Auxiliary
Greenwood post No. 173, Ameri
can Legion entertained their wives
and other guests January 26 at the
Legion hall. Thirty-five were pres
ent, including R. C. (Pat) Patter
eon, department adjutant, of Lin
coln, and Dwight Jewitt of Waverly.
both of whom were guest speakers.
Dwight is the. young man Green
wood post sent to "Boys' State" last
June. He gave a very interesting
talk on "Boys' State," telling how it
was conducted and other important
details, and concluded by thanking
the Greetnwood post for affording
him the opportunity of attending
"Boj-s' State."
Mr. Patterson followed with a
very interesting address on "Legion
and Auxiliary Progress in the Past
and Plans for the Future," which
had as its high spot "youth activi
ties and child welfare." Both phases
are well worth anyone's time in this
age to hear and know about.
Mr. Patterson also told about the
laws which the Legion is backing in
congress at this time that would pro
vide for (1) an adequate national
defense, and (2) strict neutrality
and the Universal Service act that
would take the profit out of war. -He
concluded by saying that these can
be accomplished only by having two
guide posts to guide us, as stated in
the Legion preamble "For (1) God
and (2) Country we associate our
selves together ..."
The Auxiliary ladies served a
tasty lunch after which the evening i
was spent In visiting and at cards.
Florida Wife
Learns Husband
Slayer of First
Frank Lawson Flake Confesses He
Is Former Pittsburgh Wife
and Child Slayer.
TAMPA, Florida, Feb. I (UP)
Mrs. Frank Lawson Flake, who learn
ed from a newspaper story that her
husband had gone to Pittsburgh and
confessed the murder of Lis first wife
and baby, said todav that she loevd
him but never wanted to see him
again.
She had known him only as Flake
bartender in the Jacksonville hotel
where she had been cash!er. They
were married last August and kept
it secret for a while because the man
agement forbad employees to inter
marry. He had told her ho had been
married previously, and that his wife
and baby had died in an automobile
accident. He had not liked to discuss
details. Last week he di.sappean-d
it and she did not press him for
with $38G of the hotel's funds. She
reported his absence to police, believ
ing he had deserted her.
Newspapers revealed the truth tc
her yesterday. At Pittsburgh Flake
had confessed that he was Norman
Stewart, a dentist who on June 14
1935 had murdered his wife ard foui
year old son with a hammer and
butcher knife and fled. Poverty and
despondency had driven him to it. lie
had been unable to get work as a
dentist, had been trying to sustain his
family on a $15 a week job and des
paired of it.
KALTENB0RN AT OMAHA
H. V. Kaltenborn, writer, world
traveler and ace news commentator
for the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem, will appear in Omaha on the
evening of March 20 in a lecture un
der the sponsorship of the Omaha
Post No. 1 of the American Legion.
Announcement that Mr. Kalten
born has been signed for an Omaha
H. V. Kaltenborn
speaking engagement was made to
day by Morris Jacobs, chairman of
the Legion's finance committee.
The lecture will be prenenled in
the Technical high school audi
torium, Mr. Jacobs said, because of
the popularity of the speaker. Mr.
Kaltenborn's recent digest of cur
rent affairs in w ar-threatened . Eu
rope has made him a much demanded
and popular lecturer.
Tickets for the lecture will go on
sale late this week at the Legion
headquarters in the Omaha city hall.
All seats will be $1. There will be
no reserved seats. Mail orders will
be filled at the Legion headquarters.
Proceeds from the event will go to
the Legion's welfare fund, Mr. Jacobs
indicated. It has long been the policy
of the Legion to sponsor worthwhile
events in Omaha. Appearance of Mr.
Kaltenborn here is deemed timely
because of his ability to explain the
current European happenings.
FORMER SENATOR STEJWER DIES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UP)
Former Senator Frederick Steiwer
of Oregon died at Walter Reed hos
pital today.
The senator's death was announced
by the registrar's office. Steiwer
was 55. He resigned his senator post
January 31, 1938 and did not seek
re-election. .
Hammermill Bond Stationery, in
both Social and Secretary sizes, 100
sheets and 100 envelopes, printed
complete, $2.50 and $2.75. Ideal
birthday gifts.
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