THE O’NEILL FRONTIER 3. H. CRONIN, Publisher. NEBRASKA An increasing number of lunerai pr-occssions going across the Swiss border into Germany, recently aroused the suspicions of customs of ficials, who halted one of them. It proved to be a smuggler's parade. The casket was a false bottomed affair and a figure in the coffin was stuffed with gold, silver and other contra band. Capt, W. W. Nutting, of New York city, has just completed a round trip across the Atlantic and back in his 45-foot ketch, Typhoon. He left the United States on July 17 and at tended the yacht races at Cowes, Eng. He was 10 days behind schedule oa his return, owing to ripping off a sal] In a storm and running short of sup plies. Investigation of the naturalization papers of Otto H. Kahn, well known financier, proves that he has been legally admitted to citizenship, It is reported by District Attorney Koss, at Brooklyn. Charges that Kahn Is not a legal citizen were made during the recent presidential campaign, when his right to vote was chal lenged. Girls are said to have taken a prominent part In the Sinn Fein raids tn Dublin Sunday. One girl wus ar rested driving a motor car In which wan found a quantity of ammunition and several rifles and pistols. Other girls are said to have guided “murder parties-' to the homes of intended vic tims. England nas started inquiry into the concessions of land In the form of a lease secured by Washington D. VanderMp, In Kussla, It is officially announced from London. Under Sec retary of State Davis has announced the department Is "convinced of the soundness of the American position on Kussla.1' Four thousand laborers have been thrown out of work by the closing of the dominion steel corporation works at Sidney, N. S. W. An ultimatum of 125 railroad employes for a settle ment of wago disputes before a cer tain hour was met by the company with orders to suspend ah work and bank the blast furnaces. “Slight reductions in food prices have had little effect in reducing the cost of living to the average wage earner/' says Ethelbert Stewart, com missioner of labor statistics. "The ■decline In prices has been largely on articles not entering largely Into their living costs.” Washington considers that soviet Russia lias gained a diplomatic vic tory tA negotiating a trade agreement" With Great Britain. The view of many 41plomals is that the soviets have ob tained an opening wedge for their long sought recognition by other gov ernments of the world. Despite official disoouragement by the United States government, Ameri can trade with soviet Russia is in progress. The volume exceeded, up to a recent date, the amount which Great Britain and all her dominions were doing in the same territory, says Via Milwaukee Journal. Scores of counterfeit Polish pass ports have been Issued In the last Xew weeks to persons going to th«. \Jnltcd States, according to the Paris police, who say they were sold for from 500 to 1,000 francs to persons to whom the authorized Polish consu late refused to give vises. Americans in Cuba have Joined Cuban bankers and business men in making fresh complaint of the worn out paper money in circulatltn here. Except sliver, the only currency in use, is American. It lias been chang ing hands gp often that it is tat tered almost beyond the point of rec ognition. Re 'y one-balf or the disburse ment. at tlie shipping board emer gency %ci .corporation over a period of 17 months, totaling over $2,000,000, 000 were unsupported by proper vouchers, according to the audit of the corporation's accounts, Kansas wheat is moving to market very siowly u report of the state de partment of agriculture for the past week says. Corn is said to bo selling as low as 35 cents a bushel in the central part of the state. All records tor cattle receipts it the ! Chicsgo stockyards were broken last week when lll.yfiS head wore received and sold, with 16,281 cr.ivcs. Alto gether 40i.yoo animals were received and sales totaled $15,031,000. Massachusetts food prices declined 4 per cent, in October as compared With September, it is reported l*y the commission on necessities of life for _ the slate. Cost of all necessities de creased 2*4 per cent, in tile same time, the report say.'i. Saskatchewan, which celebrated its fifteenth birthday as a s> If-yovern ln« pi'.'vincc on fteptomber 1, lias bad an increase in population in the last decade and a half of 439 per cent. It •has 8J3,()00 inhabitants. Many n army oflicers of Germany are in her prevent army of unem ployed. not a few of them working at hard labor. They must work ha'f a day' for the price of a pound oi meat •nil all day for a pound of butter. Winter weather In Holland. Ger many and Denmark has been judged too severe for commercial aviation. *i t e daily aerial mail service between Holland aud England, and GMiami and Germany will be dis • ‘ nued until next spring. People o? North Dakota an being urged to sed their farm products and come lo the rescue of the b a1-.-:, sev eral of which are already d arid •tiiers are said to be in distress. —** • -— — Complete returns inditate the state constitutional prohibition enforcement of Missouri—which includes St. Jkouis '—carried by a majority of more than *0.000. A new record for supreme court P ceeduro w'as set a few days ago *yh. n a petition was received, con * i red and acted on in loss tlian IB minutes. Turkey is to cost from BO to 52 cents a pound wholesale in Chicago this Thanksgiving time, and scares •t that. Cheaper birds arc in pru»' ♦eel for Christmas, it is claimed. Head of Nebraska Welfare Association Says 20 Per Cent Atendance Increase Due to Lack of Work. bmnha, N'eb., Dec. 13 (United Frees).- Hard times Is filling Ne braska churches, according to Itev. John H. (Jarretson, of the Nebraska Welfare association, who has Just completed a visit to all churches In '.he state. Ho attributed a 20 per i cot. increase in attendance to lack of employment and the financial de pression. When a fellow gets on his uppers, be gets down on his knees,” sold the minister. “As long as he Is prosper ous he passes up the church, but when in trouble, moral or financial, he ceks refuge there.” JUST JAIL SENTENCE FOR SHOOTING INTO HOUSE Kearney, Neb., Dec. 13.—Frank Schwab, charged with shooting with intent to kill, was found guilty by a district Jury of assault, carrying with it only a light fine or Jail sentence of 30 days. Schwab In September ap pro rod at the home of Mrs. Christina Jacobson of Hlverdale and fired sev eral : hols from a rifle Into hor house. He had previously severed all phone communication with the premises. Hrs. Jacobson fled through a rear door and sought safety among neigh bors. Villagers were bitter In their feeling over the shooting and posses scoured the country for Schwab wlth ■ vail. All evidence submitted in the case, however, Indicated that Schwab meant no bodly harm, and only used 11 Is means of frightening Mrs. Ja cob on, following a misunderstand ing with her over some work he had don Great Pianist and Great Man. T. P. O’Connor, in London Tfmes. f.o Paderewski is to play no more. This is the tragic news I find in the news papers. 1 will refuse to accept it as long as 1 can; it would mean too great a lofcH to the world. I wonder how many people outside his own countrymen— know tiie real Paderewski? I knew nothing about his inner personality till an accident brought him and me to u* tlier. lining in America on a mission, 1 found mvsclf coining iri contact with him con stantly whei business brought bo*h him and me to Washington; and I began to foim quite a different impression of him when, brought face to face, wo discussed political “problems. But the real occa sion on which 1 was to get to under stand him thoroughly came when 1 at tended a great Polish meeting in Chi cago. It was a most impressive gather ing.’ There were 20.000 Poles present. I had heard him for an hour. I could not understand him. of cour e, for the speech was in Polish, but l could see the effect on the audience; and I realized that this slight, almost fragile looking man. could rnvay the emotions of these people as completely and as promptly as the breezes sway the fields of growing wheat. It was my first surprise. A greater came when later in the ntght 1 accepted his invitation to dine with him. For four hours on end I listened to him as lie spoke on everything and a few other things. It was one of the most fascinat ing experiences. Melancholy! lie was the greatest talker I lmd heard for years. Story followed story; all light hearted. And he spoke in several languages— mainly in English—and with such ease and perfection that it w*fiM hard to real ize tY t he was not a native of each of the countries whose language lie spoke. Then 1 realized that Paderewski was not merely u great pianist, but a big Get Together. Prom Los Angeles Times (republican.) ^ The democratic and r -publi^an plat- * form* Wei v' f o nearly alike that there I was hardly a flr;ht between them, even in the day? qf *6ft-pedal buttlia^ The j m.r.-.ocraU were in and the repumk ar.s were out. That was the main differ* ti.ee. outside of that, by switching a few commas and juggling words the party declarations could be construed • .-uln lantiully the .same. Democrat" who opposed the League of Nation voted for Harding in order to get aw ay Lorn Wilson. Democrats who U' voj’cd the League of Nation ? voted for tlardiag because they thought an agree ment wouhl be reached quicker through 1 a president and Senate who were In ac cord. Some republicans who were for the League of Nations voted for Cox be cause they thought he represented the Wilson ideals. A few republicans against the league may have supported Cox bo cair-o they thought he wouhl kill it if he could or knew that he would be un able to accomplish anything, anyliow. l-abor unions talked about Cox and Vi t d for Harding. Take it by and large there was about as much difference between the two parties’ professions as between a couple j of cocoa nuts on the beach. One of them may be slightly decayed in the center or its mill; may have soured, but so fat* as the eye goes they are dead ringers for one another. So with the republicans and the demo crats. There is no reason why they < ouUln’t amalgamate. Some of these Napoleons ought to promote a demo-, republican merger. The democrats haven’t s-o very much left to merge and should be perfectly willing. A man and his wife will dwell in the cune room, though one bow in prayer whilst the other doesn’t even believe in Santa Claus. They may divide and dif fer on everything from psychology to plain cooking. Yet somehow or other they lodge under the same quilt. A blend of the democrats with the re publicans ought to be easy. They wouldn't have to give up anything but their false teeth. The Canadian Manufactures’ nsso ciation are advocating a protective tariff, and the theory that reciprocity would be a bad bargain for Canada. ANOTHER STUNT FOR RADIUM. From the Indianapolis News, it is possible to change the color of precious and semi-precious stones by exposing them to the action of radi um. A Frenchman who has devoted b.mself to this study lias obtained remarkable tesults. He bought sapphires of different kinds and put them in a box w-ith a small quantity of radium. At the end of a month tile transformations w-ere as follows: White sapphires had become yellow ; blue, green: violet, blue; w ine colored stones, red. and dark blue, violet. ' 10 BEAPPEALED Finding of District Court in Suit Against Two Counties Is to Be Given Test— Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11 (Special).— Rephesentativea of the estate of Frank E. Brienzo, a former resident of South Sioux City, have appealed to the supreme court from a Judgment of the district court finding that the counties of Cedar and Dixon were not responsible for his death. Brienzo had business in Wynot and employed his brother to drive him there in an automobile. They took with them a young woman from Sioux City named Mace. After they left Newcastle the driver lost his way and finally took a by road that led directly into the Mis souri river. It was night and the lights of the car were not working well. Frank Brienzo and the girl were drowned. The road was or the county line between Dixon and Ce dar, and it was claimed that they were impressed with the duty of plac ing proper harriers across the road. The Judgment went against the plaintiff because It was shown that the road was not a public highway, that it was grass-grown and brier strewn and that the defendants con tributed to the fatality by their neg ligence. It is claimed by appellants that the negligence of the driver can not be imputed to his passenger or guest and anyway it was error to al low the attorneys to question the sur viving Brienzo about an arrest in South Dakota on a charge of drug ging girls. —4— PLEADS GUILTY TO SLAYING HIS FATHER Grand Island, Neb., Dec. 11 (Associ ated Press).—Mike Curtin, alleged slayer on .June 2 last Of his own father, lias pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was today sentenced by Judge Bayard Payne to imprisonment for life. The ease had been set for trial by jury on December 13, but an agreement was reached be tween the defense and the prosecu-. tion to offer and accept such a plea in open court and the court to fix the degree of the crime and impose sen tence upon hearing the main evi dence, —4 ■ FURLOUGHED PRRISONER BACK TO THE PEN Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11 (United Press).—Aacting Governor P. A. Bar rows lias ordered the return of Frank St. Claire, furloughed prisoner, to Nebraska penitentiary. St. Claire was sentenced following his convic tion of automobile theft in Buffalo county and was furloughed In May, 191!'. lo attend his farm near Council Bluffs, la. Information to Lieut. Gov. Barrows that St. Claire was “impli cated" in the Council Bluffs mail rob bery was the reason given for his re turn. —4— BIG MOTOR CONCERN ADJUDGED BANKRUPT Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11 (Special).— The Hebb Motors Company and the Patriot Motors Company were ad judged bankrupt in federal court to day thus putting a practical end to the hopes of Nebraska investors, many of them farmers, who had placed over a million and a quarter in 111" piv.nt. Tlie court found that the companies had committed acts of bankruptcy in preferring creditors. J. E. Uostnftld, receiver named a week or 10 days ago, said that he found the concern was owing $930,000 find that he placed a value on the asset.: Of $4(1(1.000, Another witness thought the present value of the prop el ty to be half a million, and that as a going concern it would be worth a million. A. G. Hebb, the man who promoted it, said it was worth $1, 600,000 as a going concern. He added $700,000 as good will acquired in ex pensive advertising campaigns. —4— CHARGED WITH USING MAILS TO DEFRAUD Omaha, Neb., Dec. 11 (Associated Press).- Two men whose names were given as It. .!. Grant and I. F. Biglow, who are alleged to have-advertised for students desiring to qualify as motion picture actors are under bond to appear before a United States com missioner here late today on a charge of u.-ing the mails to defraud. Com plaint was tiled by United States Dis trict Atorney Frank A: Peterson, who said they were not equipped for their business. The accused are residents of Omaha according to their counsel. Attorney Edward Bradley, who de clared “there was nothing to the case.” Collar Line at College. All Harvard students are now re quired to take some active part in athletics. There Is no longer any line drawn between the students who go in for development above the collar and those who favor development be low the collar. A girl arrested In her expensive apartment on a charge of having stol en money from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Chicago, admit ted taking it, but insisted: "What else Is a girl with a college education go ing to do when she can only get $8 a week working?" Stunt to Cure Hiccoughs. A Spanish physician claims to have been very successful in curing stub born cases of hiccoughs by this treat ment: The patient lies down and draws up his knees until his thighs are pressed tightly to his abdomen, the lower part of the legs being pressed against the thighs by bend ing the knees. The position Is held for several minutes. The effect of h s is to press the abdominal organs no against the diaphragm and to sus tain the pressure until the diaphragm •■;'.S'?s its spasmodic contraction. SENSATION SHOWN IN COURT FILING Omaha People Said to Have Attempted the Old Time “Badger Game.” Fremont, Neb, Dec. 10.—An inter, vention petition filed in a mortgage dispute by Ogden Milligan of Scrib ner alleges sensational conspiracies in the case of T. P. Curran, of Omaha against John Milligan. Plain tiff holds mortgage on property for merly owned by defendant's son, Jos eph. Curran attempted to secure a loan on the property when parents of the boy interfered and the case was taken to court to quiet title. Ogden Milligan comes forward and asks for an intervention and that the deed be held null. A conspiracy is al leged in the petition that Jack and Zelma Short, both of Omaha, sought to entrap Joseph Milligan, setting forth that he is mentally Incompetent and a victim of fear and that ho has disappeared on account of this case. It is further alleged that Short pre tended to be the husband of Zelma Short and that they inveigled Milli gan into a love affair by which they proposed to threaten him with a suit for alienation and white slavery if he failed to sign an agreement to pay Short $10,000, to be paid by deed ing certain property over to Curran. The case was adjourned until Wed nesday. WOMAN WANTS PART OF JOHN NEAL ESTATE Lincoln, Neb, Dec. 10.—Attorney General Clarence A. Davis had hardly announced his intention of trying to obtain for the state a $1,000,000 es tate of John Neal, deceased South Carolina tobacco king, when he re ceived an application from Mrs. Dor othy B. Stuart, 506 East Twenty first street, University Place, for enough of the money to buy her a comfortable home. In reply the at torney general’s assistants have dip lomatically said that unfortunately there is no method by which state funds, actual or prospective, can bo distributed to needy citizens, no mat ter how worthy they are. —4— CITY MANAGER PLAN FOR NORFOLK, NEB. Norfolk, Neb, Dec. 10.—The Norfolk city council called a special election for January 22 for a vote on the city manager plan of government. STRINGENCY HITS COLLEGE STUDENT Many Young Men and Women Working Ways Through School No Longer Able to Land Jobs. } ■■ —.. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 10 (Special).— University authorities say that there is every reason to believe a consider able number of young men who have been working their way through the state university will be compelled to quit and go back home, because there are no jobs for them and they can not borrow any more from the friends who have helped finance them. It is also believed that with the second semester a number of farmers’ sons will have to drop out because of the tightness of the money market and the low prices for farm produce; which will force the withdrawal of jnany young women, as well. —4— DAKOTA COUNTY PIONEER _ IS DEAD AT HOMER Homer, Neb., Dec. 10 (Special).— Mary A. Meyers, the wiie of the late John B. Meyers, was buried here Tuesday. She was a continuous resi dent of Dakota county since 1857. The funeral was held from the Catho lic church. Rev. Father O'Toole, of Sioux City, was in charge of the serv ices. Mrs. Meyers came to Dakota county with the Tracey colony, from Dubuque, la., 83 years ago and set tled at St. Johns, two miles north of Jackson, which was a little later moved to Jackson and consolidated with that place. She was one of the first school teachers in Dakota coun ty. C. J. O'Connor, president of the Homer State Bank, T. J. O'Connor, a wealthy stock raiser, Louis N. Smith, a wealthy retired miller, all of Homer, and Mrs. Helena Green, of Sioux City, being among the pioneers who attend ed her school south of Homer. She was married in 1867 and was past 81 years old at the time of her death. —L— MEAT PRICES BEING CUT BY NORFOLK DEALERS Norfolk, Neb., Dec. .10 (Special!.— A meat war is believed to be on in Norfolk. The independent dealers in dressed beef and pork are said to be the objective of those waging the war. Dressed hogs started at 18 cents, delivered. Then they dropped to 17 to cents, and later to 1C to cents. "Beginning the last part of this week we will be delivering to Nor folk homes dressed hogs for 16 cents a pound,” one retailer says. "The packers are doing it. I don't even have to worry about the delivery part of it,” he said. "We are going to sell United States inspected hogs, dressed, for that price. We are going to tell the people they won’t have to take any chances of buying diseased hogs." _ _ _ ORD—Terribly burned so that the flesh dropped off in several places, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brickner is expected to recover from in juries received when she sat down in a pail of scalding water. AUBURN—Schoolma'ams in Auburn must refrain from dancing according to a resolution recently passed by the board of education. Teachers are said to be I indignant, but are complying with the rule, I.EXINU.TON—Landing on i: head ! rfter a to foot fall from a wuu’miU. Al t .Nn.gari. Tu a farmer, u. . . | [v l :r.„l H *. »»~el v.:. . ! rt I ..... ... A Word for the Farmers *---i j From the Investment News. Kansas, Iowa and Texas farmers demand and deserve a square deal In the marketing of their grain. Their agitation for a better price for their crops and proper credit C® finance them may be a passing incident In the world’s industrial readjustment, but it bears an Important relation to '.he deep, quiet, evolutionary and orderly transition which Is going on in the great American farming flldustry is a result of the war. In withholding their grain fvjrn market In a probably fatal attempt to force the price of wheat up to $3 a bushel, when there is an oversupply ^ of wheat, farmers of the wheat growing states are not pursuing a Simon pure economic course. But they are demonstrating that the plow, the har row and the seed drill are no longer the simple poetic symbols of a mythi cal pastoral bliss and abundance, but the practical working tools of an In dustry which has unlimited power to enforce its rights and has determined to exercise that power in a way that will bring results. America has never seen a farmers’ strike and probably never will. But the farmer can ask some pertinent questions about recent goings on in the general industrial field that would be hard for anybody to answer, and he can rake up enough past history to Justify him in going to any length at this late day to get his share. To the undoubted fact that there is too much wheat In the world for It to sell at $3 a bushel the farmer will reply that he answered the call for increased production, paid excessive wages and excessive supply prices to raise a crop which he cannot now market without a loss. If the farmer is to be asked to dump his wheat at $2 or less when it was produced on a higher cost basis he will demand that every other producer, wage worker and distributor sell his goods or services correspondingly down so the farmer may buy more labor, supplies, fertilizer and machinery for his smaller profit on $2 or lower wheat The farmer has been accused of holding out on hungry humanity be cause he did not dispose of all his previous crop as soon as it was har vested. He has stood false charges that would have shamed the worst profiteer. But seldom has he been commended for using good business judgment, exactly as it is exercised in the best managed industries, when he has practiced or tried to practice very sound principles in spreading out the sale of his wheat to stabilize the market and prevent spasmodic price declines which give big interests, foreign and domestic, the oppor tunity at crop making to gather in great yields of wheat At low prices to be passed on to the consumer later at prices as high as if the market never had seen a recession. It would require more than an expert hair splitter to define the differ ence between carrying on credit for gradual distribution 1,000,000 or 10, 000,0d0 tons of raw materials used in industry to pre.vent a too rapid break in prices, and carrying on credit a part of the wheat crop on the farms to prevent a collapse of prices. The wheat crop will be carried over any how, for the world will not buy more than it needs; hut it will be carried over in such manner as to, put the profit from prices stabilized to the con sumer Into the pockets of somebody besides the farmer. Farming is naturally a speculative undertaking, the farmer a natural ■ speculator, for his fortune rides on the fickle wind and his profits may dis appear with an early frost. Even with all the uncertainties of weather and other conditions beyond his control the farmer knows that under tha jfree law of averages he can make out. But he has learned that he never can make out if he is hoodwinked by a shell game which shows him $3 for a bushel of wheat when he is producing it in June and only $2 a bushel when ho is marketing it in October. Unless the country is prepared to have the farmer curtail his crops in the future and thwart the very doc trine of increased production preached from every housetop as the only way back to abundance and comfort, an attentive and sympathetic ear must be turned toward the tiller of the soil and sincere minds must devise • remedies for the conditions which give rise to his complaints. Give agri culture the credit it needs and provide a fair market for its crops, or the day will come when It will make the market on its own terms. Down on the Ol’ Bar-G. The boss he took a trip to France Down on the ol’ Bar-G. He left his gal to run the ranch, Down on the ol’ Bar-G. She wouldn’t let us chew nor cuss, Had to keep slicked up like a city bus. So round-up time was u-nan-i-muss Down on the ol' Bar-G. Our round-up cook, he soon go th’u, Down on the ol’Bar-G. Found his clay pipe right in the stew, Down on tho ol’ Bjir-G. But when we let that feller go We married grief an' we married woe, For the gal opined she’d hake the dough, Down on the ol Bar-G. Wi-sht you'd seen her opnin' meal Down on the ol’ Bar-G. We all blinked twict—seemed plum un real, Down on the ol’ Bar-G. We had figs an’ fudge an’ whipped up pru'in, Down on the oT Bar-G. An’ angel cahe all dipped In goo’in, “My Gawd!” said Tex, "my stomlck’s rulnt”— Down on the ol’ Bar-G. We quit that job an’ cook ladee Down on the ol’ Bar-G. An’ pulled our freight for the lone prair-ee, Down on the ol’ Bar-G. For out on the range we could chew an’ cuss An' git real mean an’ bois-ter-uss, Whar apron strings they couldn’t rope us Down on the ol’ Bar-G. —Phil Lenoir, in Poetry. Taft and the League. From the Indianapolis News. In a recent article In tho Philadelphia Public Ledger, former President Taft, speaking for a large number of repub licans, argues that it would be much better for us to seek for a revision of the present league covenant than to at tempt to form a new association. He shows that the changes could very easily bo made and that they would meet, pre sumably, the objections of Senator Hard ing. By consenting to the covenant thus amended we should, as the former pres ident points out, in ratifying that also ratify tho Versailles treaty. And that he rightly regards as a matter of the greatest importance. He says: The United States, by ratifying the treaty with this new league. In it. would make formal peace with Germany and secure the benefits which the treaty ac cords to us as a signatory, and thus every obstacle to the resumption of trade with Germany on the old basis would be removed. By the treaty heavy burdens are Imposed on Germany. She deserves as heavy punishment as she can stand for what she did, but she must not be broken down. She must, in the in terest of the world, have the opportunity to reconstruct herself. France and Eng land particularly the former, are not •lear visioned In this matter. leniency will probably have to be shown Germany .in the interest of all. She and the world need the United States as a disinterested participant at the council table, and In the league* to deal reasonably with the subject and to restrain France and Eng land to what Is practicable. The Influence of the United States Is greatly needed, for many reasons, and would he most helpful. We must, whether we will or not, be partners with other nations in the ordering of world affaire. We could be much more useful, and greatly more Influential, if we joined directly with them In tho work and assumed our fair share of the bur den and responsibllitT Victory an