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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1924)
]afterAevtry meal Cleanses month and 1 teeth and aids digestion. Believes that over eaten feeling and add month. Its 1-a-s-t-I-n-g flavor satisfies the craving lor sweets. Wrlgley's Is double value in the benefit and pleasure ft provides. (feed C AREY-IZEDI SULPHURIZED I SALT BLOCKS I Sand lor FREE Booklet B "Mon Monty from Liven lock"’ ■ CARRY SALT GO. DapfeMi j fiutcninsoa, _UONkl The Self-Possessed Prince Bernard Shaw, as everyone knows. Is self-possessed to the verge of being inhuman. In a letter to a friend he |once illustrated the fact that he never ;cried over spilt milk by likening hlm !self to an Indian prince whose favor jlte wife, when banqueting with him, Icaught fire and was burnt to ashes be jfore she could be extinguished. The [Indian prince- took in the situation at jonce and faced it in a thoroughly IShavian manner. “Sweep up your missus,” he said to his weeping staff, "and bring in the roast pheasant 1"— Passing Show (London). j When firmness is sufficient, rash ness is unnecessary. Permanent roads are a good investment | Why. — ot an expense I America Must Have More Paved Highways Almost every section of the United States is con fronted by a traffic prob lem. Month by month this problem is becoming more and more serious. Hundreds of cars pass a given point every hour on many of our state and county roads. Down town city streets are jammed with traffic. Think, too,how narrow many of our roads are, and how com paratively few paved highways there are in proportion to the Steadily increasing number of cars. | If the motor vehicle is to con tinue giving the economic aervice of which it is capable, we must have more Concrete highways and widen those near large cen ters of population. Every citizen should discuss highway needs of his community with his local authorities. Your highway officials will do their part ii given your support. Why postpone meeting this pressing need? An early start means early relief. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 111 West Washington Street CHICAGO of National Organisation to Improve and Extend the Uut of Concrete Offices in 29 Cities I-,- ■■ , . ■ ■ J CANVASSERS—WOMEN AND MEN ^Real proposition. No expense, no money to .advance. Earn $10 or more daily. S. D. |SPECIALTIES CO., Box 1»4. Yankton, S. D. / J»I0UX CITY PTQ. CO., NO. 46-1024! MENANCE OF CONSERVATISM • John tV. Davis. The Irreconcilable conservative 1* as much the enemy of the con stitution as any man in all this broad land. For governments are living things. They are. as some body has said, merely the skin of a living organism—the natldn it self. They must change and alter and progress with the changing needs of men; and no nation has ever been so wise, so profound, so foresighted, that it could anticipate the needs of the generations that were to follow and bind them in a strait-jacket of unchangeable lay. And if the constitution of this country, my friends, ever falls, it will be because of these insidious foes that attack it from within and1 not those who oppose it in the open where they can be met. TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE In Indiana, according to Louis Sei bold, old parties are forgotten; the Ku KIux Klan is the issue. One story, guaranteed by its narrator, but not by this writer, describes the scheme of an Indiana democrat. Working for the democratic state ticket, this statesman secured the services of a colored man whose two ears Were cut off with razors in a "crap” game. The task assigned to this earles* colored worker for democracy is as follows: He walks about the streets of In dianapolis, and to sympathizing col ored brethren, asking how he lost his ears, he replies as mysteriously as possible, "sh-hh, I come from Ala bama. The Ku KIux did that to me. And they will do K to you up here if they get control. Bette*- vote for the democratic party. They are against the klan.” -_ War hatreds die rapidly. The other day American patriots wanted to lynch musicians for playing Wag ner's music—not knowing, presum ably, that Wagner had to leave Ger many because of his opposition to the German kaiser. Last Monday night in the biggest theater in New York, a crowd of 6,000 gathered to honor Captain Eckener, of the ZR-3, rose to applaud "Deutschland Uber Alles.” Some of La Follette's admirers not only deny that Germany caused the war, but insist that the war was made by J. Pierpont Morgan and company. That's going too far. J. Pierpont Morgan did not make the war, but the war certainly did make J. Pierpont Morgan. We have a little war in America, born of prohibition. In that war 40 bootleggers have been killed by United States government agents, and 18 more by coast guards. In addition, hundreds have been killed In bootleggers' quarrels, and in fights between bootleggers and hijackers that prey on bootleggers. It costs the government more than $10,000,000 a year to carry on the, thus far, unsuccessful fight against whisky. Possibly light be^r, which might provide successful competition 1 with iootleg whisky, and would certainly yield the government a revenue of $500,000,000 a year, may eventually be tried. Definite hope of a passenger flying service across the ocean conics from Akron. The American Goodvear-Zeppelin corporation, now owning the Zep pelin patents, will build in Ohio, es pecially for trans-Atlantic passenger service, an airship of 5,000,000 cubio feet, twice the size of the ZR-3. Before many years you will go to Europe, swiftly, comfortably, through the air, without seasickness. Busi ness men in a hurry will leave for London or Paris on Monday, transact business in both cities, and be back in America for the following week end. And that is no dream. You will live to see It as a'matter of course, and will answer the question "Papa, when are you going to fly to Europe again?” The Russian government an nounces a budget, balanced without issuing any paper money, for the first time since the revolution. The total budget is only one billion gold dollars, pitifully small, compared with ours. Whoever questions the ability of Russians to perform miracles know* little :4>out Russia's history. The country that Peter the Great could change from a stagnant. Oriental despotism to a great western power ,n one lifetime, can adapt itself to difficult conditions. Jacob Franks, father of the boy murdered by Loeb and Leopold, es tablishes a fund to be used, after his death, to prevent release by pardon, parole or otherwise of the two young murderers condemned to life Im prisonment. Franks’ money may balk some good natured or corrupt official, will ing to release the young murderer* hereafter. It is likely, however, that the parents of those two boys will do more than any fund to keep their sons in prison. There they or* saf* against themselves. The Mystery. From the Toledo Blade. What does a law-abiding citizen want with a car that can travel 30 miles faster than the speed regula tions permit? . . Not a Solid Investment. From the Boston Transcript. The disadvantage of building a castle in the air is that you can't raise anything on a mortgage. Weather Wise. From the Passing Show. London. Widow Waffles—Yes—three times I’ve dreamt you and me was going 'and in’ and down the church path. I winder wot It do mean? Widower William (a laggard lore)— A-ah now—I shouldn’t wonder if It don’t mean we be goln’ to have a drop ’o rain. The name ’’Camembert" applying to chte. e cannot be registered as a trade mark in France, according to a recent decision, because it is known to the public as merely a type of cheese and not as the product of a particular man ufacturer. Conservative Democrats Not Likely To Heed Butler's Tardy Call From the Wichita Eagle By some twist of the mind Butler, national republican cam paign manager, has succeeded in getting the present national can vass into a curious condition. Butler, either with or without instruc tions, started out with one idea and that idea was to compel the vot er to support Coolidge. The foundation of his campaign was to sat urate the nation with the calm assumption that Coolidge was un beatable. He counted on the help of most of the newspapers in this and obtained it. But newspapers do not make men unbeat able. They can merely help in such an assumption. Butler, hav ing got the assumption to working, followed it with an attitude of indifference to groups. The progressive democrats, who were left in a strange mood after John Davis’ nomination, were not appealed to by Butler in Coolidge’s behalf. Seemingly he didn’t care for them. The pro gressive republicans, who earlier in the campaign were a good deal at sea, were specifically ioarred out of the republican plan. WTithin the last three weeks the republican managers have for the first time made a distinct appeal for other than republican votes. They are now driving for the conservative democrats of the East. This makes their present plan one in which they ex pect victory through a coalition of conservatives regardless of party. It was not the plan at first. That plan was to put Cool idge and Dawes before the country and assume their victory. Those who preferred not to vote for Coolidge and Dawes simply chose to be in the minority. It was an attitude of “take it or let it alone.’’ The position was: if the citizen cares to help in the election of a president, he can vote for Coolidge; he has no choice as to the winner himself; that has been pre-detf.rmined. Now the curious development in this is that while those who chronically hunt the bandwagon may be more or less impressed with the Cool idge cinch, everybody else has been alienated, and when Butler now turns to the conservative democrats for help he finds them singularly cold. In 1896 Mark Hanna was out for the conserva tive democrats early in September. Butler in 1924 didn’t let them know he cared for their votes until late in October. BORES Irving Cobb. Once a bore, always a bore. When a man speaks of himself invariably he is interested, for he has what to him is the most fascinating tonic on earth; but how rarely does he succeed in be ing Interesting to the audience! Take the average confirmed egotist, whether he be an after dinner speaker, a chronic candi date for office or a mere lay worker, and harken to him as he studs his conversation wi*J» «&pt- 1 tal I’s, planting them in thicker »and ever thicker as he goes along, rand what do we get? A mental 1 picture of a picket fence extending all the way around a vacant lot— that’s what we get. TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE [ Ford gets things done. He loads j tractors, cars and trucks on his own ships, at River Rouge, in the heart of this country, 1,000 miles from the ocean. The first boat, “the Onon daga” will sail in a few days from the Ford plant to Buenos Aires, South America. Another Ford ship, "Oneida” will carry cargoes from Ford plants in Detroit to Jacksonville, Florida, New Orleans, and Houston, Texas. Ford is to be thanked for showing the people of this country what ought to be done and can be done. — The government, which found so many billions for the wars of other people in Europe, ought to find a few dollars for building the canals that this country needs. One canal would unite the lakes and the Mis sissippi valley with the gulf and the Pacific via Panama. Another canal for ships unites the lake country with the Atlantic. “Every big Amer ican city a seaport” should be our motto. The Rev. Dr. Stratton, a fl~m be liever, suggests that a shark, not a whale, may have swallowed Jonah. The Bible doesn’t say “a whale,” it only says "a great fish.” A shark has been known to swallow a deer whole, the deer subsequently being found in the shark’s stomach. If a deer, why not Jonah, asks the Rev. Dr. Stratton. But what about the shark’s gas tric juice and its effect on Jonah's Bkin? In Jonah, chapter 1, 17th verse, It says, “And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." There is the real miracle. Why was he not digested, or smothered? There is an answer. It says "now, the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.” It was evidently a fish “especially pre pared.” It might have had a stomach as big as a dining room, with spe cial ventilation arranged through the fish’s gills. Dr. Stratton is right in his statement that everything is pos sible. The "National Security League,” j apparently a rather timid, shaky, I shivery organization, wanted Uncle Sam to refuse admittance to Coun tess Karolyi, wife of the former ' president of Hungary. A little com mon sense leaked in somewhere. The countess was allowed to land here. The “security" of this country of 112,000,000 must be dubious and un ! certain if it can't stand the arrival of a well educated, intelligent woman whose husband sought to establish in Hungary the kind of a govern ment that we have here. A man 86 years old, runs away with s girl of 14, his own step- | grandchild. That’s In Kentucky. In Chicago, a girl of 16 Is accused of leading a band of robbers. In modern foolishness and crime the cradle and the grave seem mixed up. The Chicago girl Is a sordid, Imi tation young Circe, luring men to places where they might be conven iently robbed by her band. The Crisis. From the London Times. A certain canny Scotsman had car ried on a courtship of long duration without definitely committing himself. I The girl, If she worried herself at tho | long probation, gave no sign until one morning her tardy lover, thumbing a small notebook, said: "Maggie, I hae been weighing up your guid points, and I hae already gotten ten. When 1 get a dozen I'm goin' tae ask ye the fatal question." "Well, I wish ye luck, Jock,” an swered the maiden. “1 hae also gotten a wee book, and I hae been puttin' doon your bad points. There are 19 in . It already, and when it reaches the ] score I'm gassg accept the tdackamith." Revising Legends. From the Boston Transcript. Listen, my children, and you shall hear The amended story of Paul Re vere. So might It read In revised version were certain remarks made this week by Louis P. Benezet, superintendent of schools of Manchester, N. H., to be accepted as correcting- history. Before Molly Stark Chapter, Daugh ters of the American Revolution, Mr. (Benezet, according to the Manchester Union, said that it was Dr. Samuel Prescott, instead of Revere, who car ried the news to Lexington that the British were on the way. Among the members of Molly Stark Chapter is Mrs. Louise W. Woodman, a daughter of the late Samuel Adams Drake, the historian. Mrs. Woodman promptly comes forward with defense of the accepted story of the ride of Paul Revere, pointing out that it was after he reached Lexington and had start ed for Concord that Revere was held up by a British patrol, and that It was to Concord that Prescott rode after he had escaped when Revere was captured Mr. Benezet appears to have fallen into the error that this occurrence was before Lexington was reached. The controversy in Manchester while it fails to diminish the glory of Paul Revere, serves to call attention to the fact that much that appears in (published history is essentially traditional in its character, its ac- • ceptance being based upon probabili ty rather than because it is suscep tible of proof in accordance with the rules of evidence. There, for example, is the famous remark attributed to [ that doughty warrior of revolution ! ary fame for whose wife the Molly Stark Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution is named. Did Gen. John Stark on the eve of the battle exclaim: "We beat them today or Molly Stark’s a widow?” The talo has been generally accepted. It Is not improbable that a brave man might have made such remark. But in later days it has been asserted that Mrs. Stark’s first name was Elizabeth. Is Molly Stark Chapter, through its name, perpetuating his tory, or tradition? Perhaps the mem bers are able to answer the question. Shocked By Young Generation. Dhan Gopal Mukerji in the Atlantic Monthly. I must say that besides unlearning many* things (upon my return to Calcutta) I was forced to learn a great deal. The younger members of the family, mostly my nephews and nieces, were very forward and asser tive. I said to myself, "They have no manners at all. Why, when we were their age—18 or 20—we were seen, never heard. The young are a hor rible spectacle nowadays, the world over. No doubt they have their ex cellence, but that does not excuse their demerits. Imagine young peo ple thirty years ago arguing to prove one of their seniors wrong. We never did such rude things.” My nephews and nieces not only contradicted me, but told me to my face that I was not good but—goody good. I was so enraged that I could have murdered the lot of them, and felt no regret. Every dog must have his day, how ever, even those modern youngsters. My niece told me that she thought men ought to attempt to "live up" to the women. (Yes, she spoke Eng lish.) As if they had done anything else these centuries. She added in sult to Injury by saying that a man like me, who relaxes too much at home, will not be tolerated within an other twenty years. I was advised to keep up the, mark at home as I did abroad. Then another niece, an orthodox soul, enjoined upon me two baths and three meditation hourT a day. She also thought my relations with God were too loose. Now I ask the traveled reader if this does not sound like his own home-coming. 1 have since then decided to live on steamships and Pullman trains. Never shall i will ingly go where the young are shaping the future nearer to their heart’s, desire. Due To Training. Prom the Youngstown (O.) Vindi cator. If you teach a boy that money isn’t everything, don’t blame him if he takes a white-collar job instead of laying bricks. Representatives of the German Junk ers Company have just completed an air survey to give regular airplane serv ice between Moscow and Peking, with a possibility of extending it ultimately into South China. The line will fol low the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow as far as Verkne-Udinek, and from there will turn south to Urga, and then t* Piking. ; j CALUMET THE WORLD’S GREATEST , BAKING POWDER Sales a1/* times those of any! other brand; IS truly me world's great* es* baking ^ pawder^jj^^ r It has produced Pure Foods Better Bakings —for over one third of a ceo* tury Makers of Smokeless Powder Retain Secret Gunpowder is it mixture of niter (saltpeter), charcoal and sulphur. It Is black or brown In color, according to whether the charcoal used is com pletely "burned” or “underburned.” Such powder always produces more or less smoke when exploded because there are fine particles of the salt peter and charcoal which are not com pletely burned, says the Detroit News. Smokeless powder, on the other hand, is not a mixture at all, but a chemical compound. The best smoke less powder is made from guncotton or nitrocellulose, which is made by treat ing cotton with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric adds. When smokeless pow der explodes it Is all converted into gases, such as carbonic acid gas, nitro gen and water vapor. The exact meth ods of making smokeless powder for rifles and other small arms are kept secret by the manufacturers. Give the other fellow a chance to talk; he will appreciate the courtesy and you may learn something. To business that we love, we rise betimes and go to it with delight.— Shakespeare. Silage Gases Dangerous ! According to tlie United States De-| partment of Agriculture the poisonous) gases formed in a silo overnight whiiei the silo is in process of being filled are] deadly to persons. Freshly cut silage; In the partially filled silo is the cause.. When there is no air circulation the gases remain in considerable volume;! immediate death may result from cn-| tering such a silo. To avert fids dan ger, says tire department, run the en-' silage cutter for a few minutes before} anyone enters the silo. Air currents: stirred up by the blower will either* dilute the gases or drive them front the silo.—Exchange. Shave With Cuticura Soap And double your razor efficiency ns. well as promote skin purity, skin com-i fort and skin health. No mug, no slimy soap, no germs, no waste, no irri tation even when shaved twice daily. One soap for all uses—shaving, bath ing and shampooing.—Advertisement. Tomatoes in Europe Tomatoes were introduced Into Europe toward the end of the Six teenth century and about 1583 men tion is made of them by the Dutch, who speak of their being good to eat with pepper, salt and oil. MOTHER:- Fletcher’s Castoria is a pleasant, harm less Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, espe daily prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Proven directions on each package, physicians everywhere recommend it Taught Heat Principles By the aid of a polished brass mirror which catches the sun’s rays and gen erates steam to run toys, pupils of schools In Germany are taught the principles of heat, energy and engines. Almost Depressing Light—And after the dance lie tool? me right straight home. Dark—IIow vulgarly original!— Southern California Wampus. He Knows Her Weakness Mrs. Benham—I suppose you thought I would borrow trouble today, but I didn’t. Benham—Were the neighbors all out of it? The Dangerous Age “What Is the uge of discretion?” “The age tit which you are too young io die, and too old to have any fun.”— Georgia Yellow Jacket^ / N SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! 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