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A CHANGE
Having purchased my brother's
interest in the store I wish to assure
the public that I will continue to
give you the same courteous treat
ment that you have received in the
past.
Cash paid tor eggs.
Butter taken in trade at highest
market price.
Our meat market is equipped to
furnish you with the best all the
time.
Phone 35.
Henry Bay
Successor to Bay Brothers.
The Frontier
L>r H. CRONIN, Publisher.
W. C. TEMPLETON,
Editor and Business Manager.
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MILLIONS NOW PAID IN EXOR
BITANT RENTALS TO
PRIVATE PARTIES
Washington; Aug. 22. Oongresswill
be asked to give support to the plan
initiated by the Postoffice department
for the ownership of postofflee build
ings throughout the country.
This step seems likely as a result of
the decision practically reached by
high officials of the Postoffice depart
ment that this plan of government
owned postoffices, instead of the pres
ent system of rented offices, will be
made the major endeavor of the de
partment for the remainder of the
administration.
Congress will be consulted at every
step in the scheme, which envolves the
purchase by the United States of
more than 5,000 postoffice buildings and
sites for many more, as the parcel post
business of the nation grows
The present system of paying enor
mous rents, running into the millions
of dollars, is regarded by the postal
officials as perhaps the most unbusi
nesslike spectacle in a government ser
vice which in the past presented many
such unbusinesslike ways of proceed
ure.
Under the present way of doing
things a private builder borrows money
say, at 7 per cent, and builds a post
office, for which the government pays
rent year after year., The govern
ment could borrow money at 4 per cent
it is pointed out, :nd then would own
the building itself, tax free, whereas
in paying rent for postoffices it must
also pay taxes, the taxes being figured
into the rents by the owner.
Government ownership of all post
offices, it is pointed out, would allow
the government to take the
advantage of the growth of cities, and
purchase ground in advance. Thus
the government would get the advant
age of low cost.
It is expected that the Treasury de
partment will fully cooperate in the
plan, and that the Secretary of the
Treasury will do all in his power to
end the present method of renting.
Officials recently were shocked at the
enormous rental to be paid for a new
postoffice building in New York, run
ning up into many millions of dollars
in as many years.
The office of the supervising archi
tect of the Treasury nows plans the
building of all new postofficcs. The
new plan would mean that postoffice
men, familar with the modern prob
lems of postoffices, would_design and
supervise the building of all offices.
Cities and towns of the country
would greet the new plan with joy, it
is held, as all would welcome a federal
owned postoffice in their midst.
It is seldom, officials believe, that a
plan for betterment of a government
service held so much real economy and
so many points in which real buicness
methods can be demonstrated. For
this reason it should be popular through
out, {.be country and in Congress, when
properly explained. It is in this con
nection that the officials hope to get
the President to send a special message
WELFARE WORK IN POSTAL
SERVICE MAKES GREAT
GROWTH
Washington:—Last year a new na
tion-wide organization started with a
membership of nothing. It now num
bers more than 125,000 people. This
is a story of the Welfare Bureau of
the Postoffice Department, according
to an announcement just given out.
As a part of the plan to improve the
conditions in postoffices all over the
country and bettering the working rel
tions of postal employes, the idea of
having representative councils in the
various postoffices came into being.
Since that idea began to take a prac
tical form, 896 councils have been
started in all parts of the country.
There are three kinds of councils:
local councils in first and second class
postoffices, central councils and county
councils. County councils take in mem
bers of the staffs of third and fourth
class postoffices and rural free delivery
carriers.
WAR DEPARTMENT HAS CUT ITS
OFFICE FORCE ONE-HALF
Washington:—The War Department
issues complete statistics regarding
employment of departmental and
field civilian employes by that depart
ment as of March 3rd 1921 and July
15, 1922. The figures show that the
force during that period of time was
decreased in our balance of trade of
$77,000,000 16 months of 4,653 or 49
per cent.
GEORGE WETNGaRTNER
LOSES HIS FfcbCK
Someone relieved George Weirr
gartner of the responsibility of caring
for his flock of ninety-one purebred
chickens last Tuesday evening when
they loaded two crates of the fowls on
their vehicle and drove away. George
had crated the chickens preparatory
to moving them to his home near the
round house, and retired for the night.
The thieves evidently had been keep
ing a pretty close watch over George’s
hennery and undoubtedly knew that he
had them assembled ready to move.
No trace of the robbery has been
found.
OLD SETTLERS PICNIC
A SOCIAL SUCCESS
The Twenty-second Annual Old Set
tlers Picnic was held in the W. V.
Hunter grove eight mileg. north of
O’Neill, Thursday, August 17th. One
of the largest crowds in the history of
the organization was present, a num
ber of old settlers were there from
distant towns, some of whom make
the old settlers picnic their annual
vacation.
Hon. J. A. Donohoe delivered an in
teresting address during the after
noon. The O’Neill Concent Band fur
nished a number of selections during
the afternoon and evening.
An interesting ball game was play
ed between Emmet and Lynch which
resulted in a score of 5 to 3 in favor
of Lynch. Other sports such as foot
races, horse races, etc., took place
during the day.
The unanimous opinion of those
present seems to be that the 1922 an
nual picnic was about the most enjoy
able and quiet one that has been held.
WHAT THE WILSON
ADMINISTRATION LEFT
TO THE COUNTRY
Speech by Hon. William J. Graham,
in the House of Representatives,
May 18, 1922, extract from the Con
gressional Record—Free.
Mr. Graham of Illinois. Mr. Chair
man, in recent utterances Mr. Cordell
Hull, chairman of the Democratic con
gressional committee, has attacked
the present Congress and national ad
ministration for alleged incom
petency, and has insisted that condi
tions now existing in the country are
due to the failure of this administra
tion to function properly. Like crit
icism has been heard on the floor of
this House.
In view of these constantly and ap
parently concerted Democratic at
tacks upon the present Republican ad
ministration it becomes legitimate and
necessary that the exact causes of the
conditions which exist in our country
today be well understood.
When President Wilson first as
sumed his office March 4, 1913, the
total interest-paying indebtedness of
the United States was $965,706,610,
on which the annual interest charge
was $22,835,330.40. Labor and money
were employed; agriculture, labor and
manufacturing were protected by an
adequate tariff law, and we were
prosperous. The new Democratic ad
ministration enacted a free-trade
measure, and by August, 1914, in a
little over a year from the date the
Democratic administration began,
labor was unemployed and business
depression and stagnation crept over
the land like a cloud.
Then came the European war, and
by means of it the industrial salvation
of our country. Of our participation
'n the World War and the events lead
ig up to it I shall not further refer,
xcapt incidentally to point out here
"ft-r some of the problems we now
ave and their underlying causes.
It is sufficient now to say that we
came out of the World War with an
immense burden of debt, and _£hat in
terest-paying debt when President
Wilson turned over the administration
to his successor in March, 1921, was
$23,820,073,465.45 the annual interest
upon which is $1,001,620,434.62. We
are confronted by the necessity of ap
propriating vast sums of money for
the purpose of paying this annual in
terest. Our Democratic brethern,
having contracted this indebtedness
and being utterly incapable, in the es
timation of the people, of offering any
method by which the country can pay
its debts and rehabititate itself, have
given up the reins of government to
the Republicans and now shout their
criticisms of the present administra
tion because it does not immediately
repair the damages which it took
them eight years to do. Just what
they spent some of the items of ex
penditure that go to make up this
vast sum, I shall attempt to now de
tail:
me war uepartment expended
from April 6, 1917, to June 1, 1919,
$14,544,610,213.65.
Of this vast sum, in itself over one
half of our entire interest indebted
ness, a large proportion was absolute
ly wasted. 1 have heretofore called
the attention of this House in an ad
dress delivered on June 1, 1920, to the
utterly wasteful and unnecessary im
providence of these expenditures. It
is sufficient to summarize here: The
Ordnance Department spent $3,991,
489,570.48 and obtained 72 cannons
and 20,000 shells. The War Depart
ment spent $116,194,974.37 on nitrate
plants that produced no nitrates, $20
000,000 on by-product coke ovens that
produced no war material, $35,000,000
on picric-acid plants that produced
nothing, countless millions on tanks
and produced no tanks, $116,000,000
for poison gas and obtained no gas,
approximately $200,000,000 for pow
der plants that produced no powder,
$127,661,000 for port terminals that
were not used, $1,200,000,000 for
camps in which the waste of mate
rials and labor constituted more than
one-half of the outlay, and $1,051,
511,988 for airplanes and received no
fighting machines.
It is entirely safe to say that of this
vast sum of over fourteen billions
more than one-half was wasted and
given away to war contractors.
If this were all, we might wash our
hands of the whole matter. But con
nected with these expenditures were
thousands of unexecuted contracts and
contingent liabilities of the Govern
ment. Also, many of these expendi
tures were made and contracts enter
ed into after the armistice was sign
ed and when there were every incen
tive for economy. For a year or more
I after the armistice many contractors
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were turning out Vast quantities of
contracted goods when there was no
reason for so doing. To illustrate:
After the armistice, in the period
from November 14, 1918, to July 3,
1919, we had manufactured and ac
cepted incredible amounts of war ma
terials from American contractors,
among other items being 903,886 37
millimeter shells, 1,798,096 76-milli
meter high-exposive shells, 1,676,290
75-millimeter gun shrapnel, 182,393
155-millimeter gun gas, 822,796 155
millimeter howitzer high explosive,
115,366 155-millimeter gun and how
itzer shrapnel, 88,882 3-inch Stokes
shells, and vast quantities of other
production. Even after July 3, 1919,
American factories turned out for the
Government large quantities of shells
and war materials, as, for example,
50.000 3-inch high-explosive shells and
35.000 240-millimeter howitzer high
explosive. Hundreds of cannon were
accepted by the War Department even
after July 3. 1919, as for instance, one
order of 345 240-millimeter howitzers,
costing approximately $10,000 each.
Several of the factories m England
and France were kept running on
American orders which our War De- ■
partment would not cancel. We re- I
ceived in France after the armistice I
944 75-millimeter guns and carriages I
of the old 1897 model; 198 155-milli- I
meter guns, carriages and limbers; I
700 155-millimeter howitzers, car- H
riages and limbers; and 200 English
60-pound guns, 100 6-inch guns, 355
8-inch howitzers and carriages, and
40 9.2-inch howitzers and carriages.
When one remembers that the cost of
one 8-inch howitzer and carriage was
$54,000 and the other materials above
named in proportion, it can be appre
ciated what expenditures these con
tracts entailed.
Much of this war material was ob
solete, and not such as had been per
fected and was used in th*- last days
of the World War. Col. G. J. Jenks,
testifying before a congressional
committee August 13, 1919, said about
the artillery we had acquired: “None
of the material that we have meets
the present views of the service as to
range.” It is obsolute, “as far as de
sign goes, as to power and range.”
Mr. Williamson. Will the gentle
man yield ? |
Mr. Graham of Illinois. Yes.
Mr. Williamson. What became of
those guns that were manufactured in
England and France after the armis
tice? ;
Mr. Graham of Illinois. I am going
to tell you about that. The explana
tion that was given by the adminis
tration was that they did not want the
factories of England and France to
close down too quickly; that France
and England did not desire it to be
done because of the disturbance of
their industry which would be caused
thereby, and therefore these factories
in England and France were permitted
to run on American orders after.the
armistice was signed in order to keep
a friendly feeling between the nations,
although this was costing us hundreds
of millions of dollars. These guns are
now stored in various places in the _
United States, some of them—as, for
example, the English 60-pounders—
being practically useless for any mili
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Dodge Brothers
COMMERCIAL CAR
The car’s long-established reputation
for faithful, low-cost service has not
influenced Dodge Brothers in their
constant seeking after betterments.
A semi-floating rear-axle is now pro
vided, embodying the latest ideas in
rear axle design. The main housing is
75 per cent stronger. One large
Timken bearing at the hub replaces
two small bearings and gives 100 per
cent greater carrying capacity. Larger
ring gear and drive pinion make pos
sible a new,tooth shape, giving quiet
operation and 45 per cent increase
in strength. Larger front and rear
propeller shaft bearings more than
double the drive thrust capacity.
Conservative changes in body lines
have materially enhanced the attract
iveness of the car’s appearance. -
ARTHUR G. WYANT
0’NEILL,|NEBRA5KA
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NINTH ANNUAL
ANTELOPE COUNTY FAIR
SEPTEMBER, 12, 13, 14, 15
Neli^h, Nebraska
The Fair where you will meet all of your friends
and enjoy a visit in beautiful Riverside Park.
FINE EXHIBITS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS
Prizes to be awardeefby competent judges furn
ished by the State College of Agriculture. The hog
exhibit alone, having two furturity shows, is worth |
the price of admission.
SOMETHING DOING ALL THE TIME
SIX SUPERIOR FREE ACTS IN FRONT OF THE S
GRAND STAND
BAND CONCERTS AFTERNOON & EVENING
BALL GAMES EACH DAY BETWEEN THE
BEST CLUBS IN THIS PART OF THE STATE
CHILDREN’S DAY
Wednesday, September 13th. All children under
15 years of age, attending school will be admitted ?
free. Bring the children and enjoy the day with |
them. |
Bring an exhibit to the Fair and remember that all j
entries close at 4 o’clock P. M., Tuesday, September 5
12th. - - \
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ADDRESS
JAS. ALDERSON, Pres. J. C. HARRIS, Sec’y |
Elgin, Nebr. Neligh, Nebr.
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SALE BILLS—THE BEST AT THE FRONTIER.