THE O’NEILL FRONTIER — 11 —"" — —« P. H. CRONIN, Publisher. O'Neill. Nebraska *- ■: u:—g» "School Life,” one of the official publications of the department of ed ucation, which Is sent free at the ex pense of the government to school of ficers throughout the nation says the democratic nominee for the presi dency favors better pay for teachers and greater opportunities for educa tion. and quotes editorially: ‘In a re cent letter to the Commissioner of education, Governor Cox wrote: " ‘You may rest assured that my in terest In the cause of education will oever lag.’ ” Plans have been made for the an nihilation of the herd of buffalo on Buffalo Island, in Great Salt Lake, as the animals are not a paying invest ment One hundred of them will be killed during the coming winter, their carcasses sold to butcher shops and their hides tonned for robes. The herd is said to be the largest in the United States and with its passing will go the only group that is retained in a wild state. There is an old church on John street New. York city, very near where the recent bomb explosion took place, whose clock was presented to the church by Wesley himself, has been ticking steadily for 153 years. The works are said to be of wood, but no one has examined them. No in formation Is obtainable as to whether or not the clock was stopped by the bomb. The District of Columbia pays its school principals the highest salaries, followed by California, Arizona and New Jersey in the order named. Ne braska pays the lowest. Maine, Michigan, Indiana and Iowa together with several southern commonwealths are also classed among the “poor pay ing" states. Nyack, N. Y„ won’t take the word of Washington as to what its popula tion is. Washington says the old town has lost 269 Inhabitants during the last 10 years, and Nyak, counting on its fingers, knows better. The board of trustees has ordered the police de partment to count the Inhabitants of the town, first of all. The neuro-psychiatric society, re cently in session in Milwaukee, decid ed that "It preventive measures are not taken, the United States will be a nation of neurasthenics within 60 years. The stress of living and the continued uncertainty of the times are Weakening the nervous systems especially of young men and women." Two Frenchmen, who quarreled re cently in China, arid wished to settle the matter "on the field of honor," were persuaded by their friends to fight the duel with fire hose, both principles belonging to the volunteer fire brigade. The combat lasted 16 minutes. Fashion centers say that high bar ber rates are changing the fashion in hair cuts. Everybody wears it longer. And, confides one barber, “a great many who formerly thought that they could not shuve themselves have dis covered that they can.” The abundunce of fish in the Sea of Galilee Is to this day the wonder of travelers. Most of the fishing done by the Syrians involves the use of nets probably identical In construc tion with those of the apostles. The wine grape, which was said to be suitable for wine only, has been found to be marvelously adapted to the making of Jellies, marmalades, syrups, breakfast foods, confections and even a certain kind of bread. A Massachusetts professor is soon to attempt sending a rocket to the moon, Just to prove the practicability of the method. He says the chief reason the work is proceeding slowly, is lack of support. "Watch out! Something big is go ing to bust in the east this week.” An employe of the West Milwaukee shops ot the St. Paul railroad shops made this remark to a fellow worker last Monday. A motor car driver of Rio de de Janeiro recently offered a special Thanksgiving mass because he had completed hi* 10th year as a motor car driver without being involved in any accident. Because congress, in writing the code for the District of Columbia, used the term “man” in connection with Jury duty, it is ruled that wom en can not tpialify for Jury duty there. Paris is quite offended because Mary Pickford called Paris skirts “too short.” The only explanation Paris can think of is that the ankles of the American girl must be, "well— robust!” One director of a state employment service is not convinced that em ployes are interested in saving money. They prefer the fee paying agencies. Two thousand soldiers have been placed on farms comprising 480,000 acres in southern Alberta by the Cal gary branch of the soldier settlement board since the beginning of 1919. During the last eight years the United States government has built up a secret police and Investigative organization which 1s costing consid erably more than 150,000.000 a year. lluring the laat year the deaths of pure bfooded Hawaiian* totaled 1,009, while there were *76 births. There are approximately 25,000 pure blooded Hnwalians living on the Hawaiian Islands. A bill baa been introduced in the British parliament to cheek divorces. One provision calls for Jail terms for both male and female corespondents In divorce suits. The American association of the baking industry aims at a $1,000,000 Institution for tha development of (scientific bakers. Four hundred thou sand dollars «M pledged in one day this week. Announcement has been made that a process haa been discovered by which artificial wool nan be produced from cotton waste. The new ma terial has, it is understood, been subjected to severe Oests by tho tex tile department of Ihe Iscedu (TJ">k - la^d) university, wfcertf It has bees successfully converges ****■*" i -M | TWO CROPS GROWN Nebraska Farmer Successful in Producing Second Crop of Potatoes, Both Being Good. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 4.—Two crops of potatoes from the same plot of ground in the same year represent the results of the efforts of Heniy Lonam, a farmer living near Palmyra, to lessen the h. c. of 1. Commission men say they never heard of It be ing done before. The ground used consisted of two acres, and the first crop was planted March 25 and har vetsted July 4. The second crop was planted July 10 and the potatoes therefrom were dug on September 25. The total yield was between 400 and 500 bushels. They are of the Early Ohio variety, and were fine specimens. Mr. Lonam said he had n< ver heard of two crops the same season from the same ground, but the conditions were so favorable that he thought he would make the ex p« riment. PHYSICIAN BARRED AFTER 38 YEARS OF PRACTICE Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 4.—After hav ing practiced medicine for 38 years or until she has attained the age of 80, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Turnell, of Kear ney, finds herself barred from any further efforts to heal the sick of her neighborhood. She cannot prac tice any more unless she takes four year course in some medical college, and at her age she doesn’t think it worth while. The situation arose because of her failure to file with the state medical board, when it was created by law 2!> years ago, the certificate to prac tice she had on file with the county clerk of her home district. -+ PHONE COMPANY BALKS AT BEING “ALARM CLOOK” Lincoln. Neb., Oct. 4.—By notifying the public that its operators would no longer act as alarm clocks for sleepy citizens, the Lincoln Telephone Company has roused considerable wrath. For years It has run a call up system on the hotel style, ringing the subscriber’s bell at the hour 're quested until the said subscriber got up and promised to stay up. It says this is no part of a, telephone com pany's job. and that the annoyance and cost are such that it would be cheaper for it to buy alarm clocks for those who desire that service. It is suggested as a compromise that it charge 5 cents a call. — ♦' 1 MYSTIC WORKERS MUST PAY HIGHER ASSESSMENTS Omaha, Neb., Oct. 4.—Increase of lssessmcnt rates, amounting to ap proximately 150 per cent, was voted at the closing session of the Mystic ,Vo iars of the World here Thursday iftcrnocn. Former rates ranged from :j cents to $1 a monlh, according to go. The new rates amount to from 1 u S3 a -month. According to Secretary Leo Car oil this action will not bring the or dir up to the required 100 per cent ctuarial solvency, but is a step in that direction and fulfills legal re quirements. -4 KNOX COUNTY FAIR DRAWS LARGE CROWDS Bloomfield, Neb., Oct. 4.—In spite of the cold weather, the Knox county fair drew u big crowd. The exhibits of dve stock were especially strong this year and the showing in the household and fine arts department was above the ordinary. —4— LINCOLN—Otto Liebers tuts returned from Wyoming with the body of ills brother. Carl Liebers, returned soldier,, who was tile victim of a murderous As sault near Riverton, at the hands, pre sumably. of.robbers. No trace lias been found of flue robbers and killers. The automobile which Liebers was driving along a country road when assailed, has bi en found in Denver. BROKEN BOW—Walter Wagner. 40, a resident of this city, was crushed to death when the east wall of the sower trench in which he was working, < aved in, forcing him to the west ’ wall and almost entirely covering him with dirt. His assistants, Frank Moore and 1‘. C, Glen, were badly, though not seriously. Injured. Wagner leaves a wife and child. LINCOI>N—The annual state conven tion and show of the Nebraska Potato Improvement association, will be held at Kimball November 10, 11 and 12, ac cording to H. O. Werner, secretary of the association. A feature of the show this year will be the exhibits of certi fied Nebraska seed potatoes. FRANKLIN—The county commission ers have ordered a special election for October 28, to determine whether Frank lin shall be named the county seat or whether that honor shall remain with the town of Bloomington. ALLIANCE—Elver Koch, year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Koch, was drowned in a slop barrel when he es caped from his mother’s vigilance. BARTLEY—Reports indicate that the heavy winds of the last week are blow ing out the early sown wheat badly as the ground Is very dry. The soviet has mobilized the en tire population of Petrograd and com pelled them to go to the forests and cut wood; and even under this meth od, it is estimated that the city will have only a sixth the fuel necessary for this winter. NEBRASKA PRICES ARE ON THE TOBOGGAN Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2.—Potatoes are quoted at $1,50 per bushel wholesale here touhy and, Michigan apples at 1C twits per pound retail, a drop of pearly 50 per cent under last week's price. Rice is wholesaling at 5 cents per pound below the quotation two weeks ago. Sugar is rivaling rice on the t phi a* i:an V ^ " FOR OPPOSITION Northwest Nebraska Territory Seeks Rail Extension to Connect With Sioux City Markets. O'Neill, Neb., Sept. 29.—Resolu tions condemning the Lincoln Com mercial club and the members there of for officially opposing the exten sion of the Burlington railroad from O’Neill to Thedford, Neb., because it will give Sioux City access to trade territory not now served by any rail road, were adopted by the board of directors of the Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming Development associa tion at their meeting here this week. Every resident of the territory comprising a strip 90 miles wide and extending through Holt, Rock, ljrown and Blaine counties, at present with out railroad facilities, will be notified of the action of the Lincoln Commer cial club in deciding to oppose the extension, and in requesting the Omaha chamber of commerce to as sist it in defeating the project. Stock men, merchants and owners of some of the most fertile land in Nebraska, which at present can only be used for grazing, because of lack of a rail road, will be requested to remember the unfriendly attitude of Lincoln. The association at present has an action pending before the Interstate Commerce commission to require the Burlington to build the road. The road will shorten the distance to market by several hundred miles from points west of Alliance, in ad dition to giving the country through which it runs an outlet it does not now possess. The resolution protests against the Lincoln club’s action, asks a valid reason for the opposition, and con demns the unfair tactics being em ployed. It declares the club should not be permitted to prevntnutv.a. ~ •% I ’» Our Foreign Loans Which It Is Proposed to Cancel ! -.-i~i Jm I To Reach $12,000,000,000 in 1922 When Interest Pay- I ments Are to Be Resumed According to Agreement. ............................................... •• I By Arthur Sears Henning. „ _ "Washington (Special to The Tribune.) The allied governments will owe the United States nearly $12,000,000,000 for loans made to them during the war by the time they are scheduled to resume interest payments in 1922. Negotiations are still in progress between Great Britain, France and the other allies on the one hand and the United States treasury on the other in regard to placing the loans on a new basis with interest due, but unpaid, included in the principal. The United States loaned a total of $9,534,622,043 to nations at war with Germany, distributed as follows: Debtor Loaned Repaid Great Britain .$4,277,000,000 $64,164,007 France . 2,967,477,800 12,147,000 Italy . 1,631,338,986 . Belgium . 338,745,000 10,000 Russia . 187,729,760 . Czecho-Slovakia . 60,624,041 . Serbia . 26,780,466 606,000 Roumania . 26,000,000 1,794,180 Cuba . 10,000,000 500,000 Greece . 10,000,000 . Liberia . 26,000 . By virtue of the accounts repaid the total outstanding principal of the loans is now $9,455,401,528. Cuba is paying its interest regularly. Russia paid interest up to November 15, 1917. The other debtors paid interest in full up to the spring of 1919 when they deased to pay on account of the unsettled exchange situation and sought a three years’ suspension of in terest payments, now the subject of the negotiations with the treasury department. The debtor nations undertake to pay in full eventually both the principal and the interest in arrears, compounded semi-annually. The interest accruing between April, 1919, and May, 1920, totalled $463,« 215,613, distributed as follows: Paid Great Britain .$211,828,890 $1,200,333 France . 139,904,272 1,810,441 Italy . 79,596,669 . Belgium . 16,822,078 . ’Russia . 9,399,365 . Czecho-Slovakia . 2,515,004 . Serbia . 1,340,606 . Roumania . 1,163,359 . Cuba .. 600,686 251,369 Greece . 144,808 . Liberia . 969 . Up till May 15, 1918, the various loans bore Interest at varying rates per cent., but on that date, by arrangement with the respective foreign governments a uniform rate of 5 per cent, has been fixed for all loans. Interest becomes due every six months, two-thirds being payable on May 15 and November 15, respectively, and the remaining one-third on April 15 and October 15. The arrangement whereby the total interest due every six months be split into a two-thirds and one-third payments was made mutually by the debtor governments and the United States treasury as being more satisfactory to both parties. In the case of the debtor gov ernments it gives tftem greater freedom, both as to time and the number of securities or amount of exchange to be purchased, while it enables the United States government to retire on a more even basis a certain number of short term treasury certificates of indebtedness, thereby avoiding in both instances, an undue disturbance of the money market. , The proceeds of the payments of interest and principal by the allied nations will be employed by the treasury department to retire Liberty and Victory bonds. The total amount of the loans, if paid in full, with inter est, will enable the treasury to retire approximately half the national debt created by the war. j How Henry Watterson Went j j Down. j From the Los Angeles Times. "Marse Henry” Watterson is one of the typical Americans who will g. continue to live for at least a generation after he is dead. He wrote edi torials for the Louisville Courier-Journal for more than a quarter of a century and has published a volume of personal memoirs; but some of the most piquant and possibly the strongest things which he has written exist in the form of personal correspondence and will not be published during his lifetime. - Colonel Watterson was the heart and soul of the Courier-Journal, which was so dominated by his personality that he was generally believed to be the owner and publisher. As a matter of fact, he never owned but a small amount of the stock of the publication; but the paper was so popular and the property so profitable under his editorship that his personal opinions on the leading questions of the day were synonymous with the policies of _ the Courier-Journal. There canqe a day, however, when the men who had labored with him. for the glory and the prosperity of the "new south” during the reconstruc- , tion period were dead; when the majority of the stock of the paper passe into the hands of the younger generation and when new owners sought to impose their policies upon the veteran journalist; and that day piecipi tated an explosion that tore into shreds the organization of the Courier Journal. Perhaps the new owners were not to be blamed. They sought , to keep the publication abreast the trend of thought of the new era, to dis card the sectionalism and the prejudice in which were embodied the pic turesqueness and the chivalry of the old south. The old order was passing, but Colonel Watterson refused to jom procession. If Dixie was to be engulfed in a tidal wave of new ideas, "Marse Henry" would go down with the ship. He would stay by the tattered en sign and let those who would take to the lifeboats. Colonel Watterson fought every threatened invasion of the home as. savagely as though his own domicile were attacked. He clung to the be lief that a woman's name should seldom appear in the columns of the daily press except when she was married and when she was dead; and when tne women organized a political movement for universal suffrage he combatted it with all the verbal'weapons in his armory. To him the very word suf frage was filled with venom. Better a shameless bolshevist with bis riltn and his folly than an unwomanly woman. The editorial columns o Courier-Journal waved in the vanguard of the anti-suffragists like plumes of Henry of Navarre. ...... . . About the same period the advance guard of the prohibitionists mowa upon Kentucky and the dark day came when prohibition enforcement o - cers were detected sleuthing about the mint bed in Marse He > S den. Colonel Watterson donned his battle uniform and enteicd the edi torial sanctum ready to repel the invaders. On defk jas a brl^ com munication requesting him to attend a meeting of the board of dire-tors of Se courier-Journal.8 There he was informed that the new owner was a leading advocate of prohibition, that his wife was an ardent suffi agist ana ■ ti nt they had made a peremptory demand for a change of policies in t They held Colonel Watterson in the highest esteem; they had no de s re to depose him; but they were constrained to request him to modify his editorials in conformity with the trend of the times and the opinions of the owners. While lie had been guarding his mint bed other hands had 11U1'* M -M-se"I tenry,ndeceived the deadly thrust without wincing. He was too chivalrous to rush into print with a denunciation of the new owners and the chanced policy. He expressed his dissemt with an epithet as con clusive as that credited to Cambrcnne on the night of Waterloo and retired. r ater he wrote to the new owners his resignation, embodying in it a. few personal observations, concerning prohibition and woman suffrage^ Two or three persons who were fortunate enough to see a copy of that leUer say it is "Marse Henry's" masterpiece. But it will not appear m nubile nrint while Colonel Watterson lives. Tlmt resignation was the last broadside of the torn but unyieldta*. chivalry that died fighting, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, when pro hibition and woman suffrage swept over the south After it was written "Marse Henry” broke his pen ur.d threw his inkwell out the window in the direction of a suspicious character, still sleuthing about the mint bed in biS Happy the next generation. They will read something superior to the I "l^iy cf the Ancient Mariner.” Arvother "Farm” Bureau. From Guaranty Trust Co. The .American Farm Bureau Federa tion has announced its intention to ask congress to establish immediately a credit for Germany and other central European countries equar to the fund now held in this country as the net pro ceeds of sales of the alien property cus todian. It is asserted that funds from this source which must eventually be turned over to Germany and her former associates total nearly $1,000,000,000 and that a credit vof that amount can theie fore be granted without further increas ing Germany’s indebtedness to the United States. In support of the plea for such a credit it is pointed out that Germany has need of certain raw ma ter'als in order to get on an efficient producing Laris and that we now have surplus stocks o£ some of th^se matert ials* The world’s reserve stock >f wool is unusually large, being about a full year's suppVy. X-ailv all cf ttki cjui> Plus Is of the coarser grades »n« t nas accumulated because Germany and A us tria have not bought and consumed their usual amounts. The accumulations ofi coarse wool have affected^the price of" the finer grades downward with tUa re sult that In this country# where about half the wool produced te fine wool, every pound of which 16 ne ded for clothing, the grower is un&ble to obtain in the open market a price that will yield him the cost of production. The current wool clip l£* therefore being held for higher prices, thus tying up large amounts of credit and prevent ng prices of woolen goods from receding?. It is. held that a credit to Germany would provide an outlet for coarse wools and would prevent enormous lo*se* to wool pioduccrs here. Not There. From Liondon Tit-Bits. “And we’ll giow old together, dear est . ’ ’ iter father’s voice from v tair$— "Well, you needn't st&Pt dciiuj, .. down there, reed yen*-*'’