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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1928)
Selfish Pressure Chief Cause of Relatively Bad Results in Carrying Out Business of Government - By Rodney Dntcher, NE.% Washington Service. “What's the matter with congress?” The ques tion isn't brand new and it has met numerous answers. But, perhaps through delicacy, one doesn't Often ask a congressman th3t. I put it up to Con gressman George Huddleston of Alabama because George has sense, because he’s Independent and be cause he was one of the few congressmen one could think of who wouldn’t answer "The Republicans," "The Democrats,” or "Nothing!” “Congress," he answered, "wants to l»e re-elected. Congressmen do just what they think will get them re-elected. They're trying to be and do just what they think their people want them to be. They’re holding the mirror up to their districts. "Soma constituents don’t care now pitiful a man Is so long as he does what’s wanted. Some, who want a good man, are deceived. "Congressional districts are not controlled on a per capita basis. The congressman merely repre sents the dominant interests in his district, those which control the elections along with nearly every thing else* “Sometimes he is controlled by a mere political boss and his aspiration is to do what the boss wants him to do. In that case he holds the mirror up to the boss. "In many ocher districts, influential groups and organizations control him. He need only marshal anough of those behind him to insure his election. Then he holds the mirror up to them and assumes the role of the man they want him to be. Some times these groups control the political boss himself, in which case the congressman may be controlled di «*y either by the boss or groups. ^0"The most serious factor in this system is that nearly all the groups which are interested in politics are selfish groups. Show me a typical citizen and I'll show you a man whose political interests are along the lines of his business and financial interest. “Civic associations, trade bodies, Chambers of Commerce or other groups of merchants or manu facturers—whatever Influence the typical man brings to bear on his government is brought through such an organization. "Often we say a man is good and patriotic, when he doesn't belong to a good government club, a patriotic society, a consumers’ organization or any thing interested in the general public, but only to a trade or business association represented here Througn the United States Chamber of Commerce or some similar organization, he is told what he should believe. "My committee is now hearing a bill for consol idation of railroads, a measure of far reaching public importance. The same people will be found before us this year as last: Colonel Thom, one of Wash ington’s ablest attorneys who knows more about it than any other 10 men, representing the railroad association; a man representing bankers and brokers Interested in railroad stocks and bonds; a member of the Interstate Commerce commission, supposed to represent the public, but who was appointed at the behest of the railroads and is their man; a repre sentative of a shippers’ association favored by the railroads and actually their tool; a representative of the short line railroads which hope to shove their roads off on the big ones. "But the consumer is not represented; the general public is not represented and there is no one to speak for the common good or general welfare. "Meanwhile, the railroad committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce, composed of execu tives of great railroads, has urged passage of the bill. The committee will hear only the arguments and facts these selfish interests want us to hear. We’re not experts. Many of us are novices and most of us are dubs sent here to be somebody’s handy men, but we must cope with the best brains that can be bought. Even if we’re honest and want to protect the people, we must hunt out the real facts in a maze of tech nicalities. "Assume that we come out on the floor, reiterate the arguments we've heard and put them over on the other members, even more ignorant than our selves because they’ve had no opportunity to find out what it’s all about. Of course the bill is passed and signed by the president and of course the public interest is betrayed." BOTH CHICKENS HAIL FROM TEXAS Of eoursst they’ra not both chickens—one of 'em la a prize winning rooster—anil the lady displaying him in the Poultry Show at New York la Doris Rue, specialty dancer, from San Antonio, Texas. (International Illustrated .New»l Breakfast Conversation. Prom the C aha World-Herald. She: For Hec./en’s sake why don't you say som. :g? Don't you think a wife ever g aws weary of sitting across the b lu'ast table morning after mornir . week after week, month after . nth, year after year from a man vho doesn’t open his mouth once . i a blue moon for any purpose othc. than cramming food into it? You ush off to the office to spend the day with your friends and associr es. I fancy you do enough talk . r there. You’re prob ably the life of the office. How you must make *m laugh until they are fairly ill v. i merriment with the stale puns ' it you now and then try to get ac ss with me. Oh, you’re probably tl * Darling Boy with the sweet ycun lungs there. But they ought to s. • you at home. Sit here and not s one word throughout an entire mea. I said an entire meal. The place ; like a funeral. First it’s fhe rr ling paper, then it’s— He: I di '.’t g?t much chance to— She: Li n to that! Listen, dear Heaven, t • that! No chance! As if you ever \ nted j chance. As if you had ever ‘ ted TO make a chance. That's tn trouble with you and al ways ha. been You never take a chance. * ok at our financial con dition. J t look at it. We arc no better Oi. today than we were the day we r r? marred I say the day wc wr r .named. Other men pass you by. Other men get promoted. Why ill you ever get promoted? Other * nen’s husbands get their salaries sued at least once tn a while ' >w lens lias it been since you tie* a raise 1 say sine* you hid a ran; * The trouble with you u Tlte Neat stroke. ? m the Chicago News. 7?* iyer was the worst ever ie*n on th gi*il course, and the caddie felt b * burs'mg Into tears. At 1 t the plaver got badly bunk ered. t :»d. after a doneii vain a!* temp to get the ball out. he turned to the caddie and asked: *W .t shall I taka no*1 “Tl * tram Ik me." th* caddy and* grate l.&prfutlv, • • Q ’*» ta true that aont* sti'-s hat > if?ed ItmH? 1 W A l.thkian and Conner k*u» l'irr no a nv bile speed limit measured in n t you won't step right up to the boss and ask for anything. That may be all very well for you, but how about me? How about your wife? Who’s going to provide for me after you’re gone, if so, I say if you should go and you may. Anybody may. Anybody may any time. Today, maybe, or within the next hour. Just because you’re content to plod along doesn't mean that I particularly relish go ing along here year after year with no clothes fit to wear any plaoe ex cept maybe to visit your folks, and to cap the climax you persist in ignor ln meg. How many words have you uttered since we sat down to this meal? How do you suppose that makes me feel? I say how do you suppose it does? Don’t you think a wife ever loves to have little terms of endearment whispered to her once in a while? Don't you suppose— He: Really, my dear— She: Don’t you “my dear” me! You can’t soft soap me into submission. Besides I hate a milk-soppy sort of husband who will try to craw! into a woman's affection over the door mat of honeyed phrases. Give me a man! A big, strong—here, aren’t you going to even kiss me good-by? Co!ng without a word! Oh well, mother warned me. If you don’t change t ’.at shirt tomorrow morn.ng l I’ll never sjjeak to you again! • • Cloud .Morning, Mr. Death. From the Kansas City Star. L mucl K. Washburn died in New York recently at the age cf ita Just before 1:1s 78th birthd*v he wrote a Utile essay. "Gued Ns *ntng. Mr. ; Death.” which Is re ,r!nlt in the Literary Guide of London. „t fol lows; l will not say, I am glad to meet t Prerise Mamma, From the Chicago News An angler who had been endeavor- l Ing to hook *<:inething for the last ill hours was sitting gloor 1» at his task when two visitors, a mother and her small sen. came along. "Oil.” cried cut the youngster, "do let me ».*# you catch a ftthf The m Klwr said. - vercly. address* Ing Uf angler "Don* you do It. Hoi i or 1 he says PInu*,1" • • * V, rd f v Darla* Green F.%4.1 th? Detroit Free |*rea Any,.*,, the -Inat can be made for Darius Green Uwl he was anting the first to statu a fared funding. I RELATIVE VALVES William Feather. At luncheon some cne asked why certain men never seem to break down, even under the sever est strain. The name of a man known to every one was metioned. "He understands the reertive importance of things,” said a guest This was accepted as the true explanation of the public man's ability to do a thousand tasks without killing himself. Those who have studied the life of Benjamin Franklin are amazed that this Philadelphian could do so much. John Adams once unwittingly revealed the source o: Franklin’s strength. This was his refusal to get excited over little things. Adams, in anger, said that, while he (Adamst was "active and alert in every branch of business, both in the House and on committees, constantly proposing measures, supporting seme and opposing others, discussing and arguing ev ery question,” Franklin was to be seen “frem day to day, sitting in silence, a great part of his time fast asleep in his chair." “Yet,” said the biographer. “Franklin was appointed on every important committee, and Adams on few; and the sage, could he but have read his brother con gressman’s comparison, might have fairly retorted, with the wisdom of Poor Richard, ‘He that speaks much. Is much mistaken,’ or, ‘The I worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.’ ” you; but I will say. “Good morning, J Mr. Death.” I recognize the great benefit ycu have been to the world of man. You have removed a lot of objectionable persons from the earth. Ycu have suppressed a great many evil proj ects and overcome a host of bad i. ;asures. You hav. put an end to ir. ny an idea which otherwise would have ruined the human race. But I >.ve no wish to meet you at present, although I do not look upon you as r.iy enemy. I know that you are the friend of the old and infirm, the miserable and unfortunate. I might say, almost the only friend. Y:.i 3top pain when nothing else can do it. You relieve suffering when there is no other hope. You give balm to despair and '?ace to all. I r obably am no worse than my fellows and no better. I have no right to >expect any favors from ycu. and I ask none. I know that even tually I shall have to make your ac quaintance. and I wish that you may have no cause to complain cf my behavior. If I do now say I am glad that you have not knocked at my door, it is not that I have any ill feeling against you. It is only be cause I am so well and enjoy life so much. When I become helpless I shall be glad to have you call. I know that you have been painted with m. ice aforethought; I know that vou have been called bad names and looked upon as the arch-enemy of the human race; but I s e in you much to be c ;mmended. You have no favorites. You treat ail alike. You are just as kind to the beggar as to the millionaire. You enter the home of the fashionable as well as the, home cf the scrubwoman. You lay your quiet hand on the brow of the bad the s; v.e as on the heat, cf the good, on the unjust as well as on the just. There comes a time when we lose interest in ail things. When that time ccrr. ;• we shall be plrased to | say, “Death! you are welcome!** i When we erase to cn »y life, we can enjoy death. May Keep ( InUirt In Jan. From the Arkansas Gazette. Science lias iiruduced a rout ole ta wardrobe for women, drri■-**>, hone, ! I* welry, etc . from < h^mi< »1 syntheses. | It this keeps up the gltU will soon * be able to keep thetr t lot ties along | with their ronpltutui its jiiti op the | dressing table • • Q Is Baltimore larger than Wash ing ton» F n N A Ttv- utv tif fUHInr t** )i kirt^r I than the city of Wi mi HI Ac i op-iii' n (l lmates, i l its ..jtc la lit.- t i : to M>. ! If you smoke for pleasure —here it is—taste, rich fragrance and mellow i mildness. Camel is the cigarette that intro duced the world to “smoking for pleasure.” Camels “I'd walk a mile for a Comet" / <0 1919, I. J. TakaM* Campiiy, f initaa-Salam, (M. €. Too Much Contributor—What would you rIvp for those jokes? The Kditor—'I'eu yards* start. The BABY 1 I No mother In Hits enlightened nge would give her baby something she did not know was perfectly harmless, especially when a few drops of plain Castoria will right a baby's stomach and end almost any little ill. L'retful ness and fever, too; it seems no time until everything is serene. That’s tiie beauty of Castoria; its gentle influence seems Just what is needed. It does all that castor oil might accomplish, without shock to tiie system. Without the evil taste. It’s delicious! Being purely vegeta able, you can give it as often as there's a sign of colic; constipation; diarrhea; or need to aid sound, nat ural sleep. Just one warning: It Is genuine Fletcher's Castoria that physicians recommend. Other preparations may lu* just as free from all doubtful drugs, but no child of this writer’s Is going to test them! Besides, tiie book on cl re and feeding of babies that eorne* wllli Fletcher's Castoria Is worth its weight in gold. Children Procciiion ••Von have a grv*al following.** *‘l pope no," answered Senator Hor gliiini, **Bitl fit,it folio*, lug is entiling nloi g pretty fuel with ideas of I's oh n. KotitclimoM I ant not sure whet Iter I am being Inline itl or pur •nod." G» fat Men n e hi • iii.it* **»»t from oliiers •Mil In i t 111 * v have it 'More lrpe»i *he Ui ■•**! *d ,e of e,e thing and gw ll.eir l;ln*n! » «ge s\ ll !| tiorre istnll-leiu e t -I |m i*r,« Am t un At v u a Makes for Increase in Grain Production A newly invented German machine, designed to d<> for occidental grain Helds what Chinese coolie labor has done for centuries In the rice Helds of the Hast, is attracting considerable attention on the pnrt of British agri culturists. Instead of sowing seed like an ordinary grain drill. It sets out sprouted and rooted seedlings at the rate of 12,000 plants an hour, one to every square foot. It Is asserted that this method of raising grain requires only one-lhlrtleth as much seed as now used, and that it will yield from three to live times as many bushels to the acre. This is said to he the re sult of the greater freedom each plant has to develop a more vigorous root growth beneath (lie soil, nnd, especially to tiller, or “stool out," above Its lir.se. From thirty to forty stalks a plant are usually developed. Sometimes the girl helps her bash ful lover out and sometimes her fa ther does II. Apple Monuments A well-known monument to applet!, In the form of a pillar, was erected In 1895 at Wilmington, near Lowell. Mass., to the Baldwin apple. There Is also a tablet In the town of On mlllus, Onondaga county, New York, on the original site of the Primate ap ple tree. Another monument In New York 1.8 the monument to the Northern Spy, erected In 1912 at Bloomfield. The Wealthy apple is commemorated by a monument at Excelsior, Mina. This was unveiled in June, 1912. Bell Covers for Plants In a vegetable garden In England bell-shaped glass covers are used, ono for each plant. They are more suc cessful in most respects than hot beds and no permanent structure 1* needed. - 1 Extensive Travels Jack—“Does your wife drive tho car all over now?" Bill—“You guessed It—sidewalks and all.”—Pathfinder Magazine. / Tf.c whole world knows Aspirin as an effective antidote for pain. Hut it's just us important to know that there is only one genuine Mayer Aspirin. The name Bayer is o| every tablet, and cm the Imx. If it says Bayer, it's genuine; an* if it doesn’t, it is not! Headaches arc dispelled by Bayer Aspirin. So are cokls, and tlw pmttt that goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis, and rheumatism promptly relieved. Get Bayer—at auy drugstore— with proven directions. Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart to UU Iffeto m.rt e*j*t UM fiiHW *t II b»mhimiCto«tor «< C4lt.>lni<i
