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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1929)
By Williams Uut Our Way LET MS ■see mo -Tt-MS LEVER OPERATES TH*~ ~ M-K/N-T^A- ' Tt-V TfV » tv -—uv, \-r DOES iHA-r EFPlClEKlC^ \/"om,TP-iaT GOW »S> "ffWIM* TO | Cu^/ AGAtNJ ? LEARM V40VAJ TRUKJ j VVM'-/ X UMOE.R mac s machimE from MAC . so l_\E. CAM SHOW ^ y MAC MG'Al T’ROM -4M+ T 13 ‘STANlO whem HE TOOV< t-AvS COR P es POtsiOEMCE LESSOR CM -THAT S>ToEf= Tn m achimE GoT LOST |M TH‘ MAIL. The professor of speed ologv. 0rf?VJ»lllA.M3 Ol)» ■¥ MCA MAVtCl.. WC. Wisconsin Estimate of Recent Prohibition Referendum There fNote—The following discussion is submitted merely as the viewpoint of a Wisconsin newspaper that had held something of a compromise attitude. The Milwaukee Journal, although cool towards prohibition, supported the "dry" side in the recent state referen dum.] From the Milwaukee Journal. AVi111 about three fifths of the precincts reported, the vote stands two to one for repeal of state prohibition en forcement. The lead probably will be cut down, but it will not be overcome. Though by a much smaller vote than it carried the “beer referendum” in 1926, Wisconsin has voted decisively that it does not want state enforcement. Outside observers are not surprised. Their astonishment came last fall when Wisconsin, which in the minds of other states is wet above all else, failed to vote for Governor Smith. Other states learn now what informed persons knew last fall, that the religious issue counted heavily in Wisconsin where, a> elsewhere, it was deliberately used by said party workers. But the Wisconsin vote on state enforcement speaks for more than Wisconsin. It is not just in the hope that without state enforcement it will be a little easier to get a drink, that taxpayers have voted to do without some hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue collected from fines. The cities, where state enforcement has counted very little, have voted wet most decisively. This is protest, and protest not merely against prohibi tion. No one thinks so large a vote would have been regis tered 10 years ago. Indeed the prompt ratification of the Eighteenth amendment by the legislature shows that, it is protest against the kind of prohibition we have. To this result almost all the incidents of enforcement have counted. The violence of federal enforcement against the small offender in the face of its evident failure to do much with the big offender, the invasion of homes, the dis regard of life, the exalting of one set of laws above the hard-won safeguards of human liberty. The protest is working in other states. In some it will doubtless take the illogical and unfortunate form it does here of abolishing state enforcement laws. Already it takes the form ot' elect ing men to office unqualified except by their opposition to prohibition. We are sorry Wisconsin found no better way. It is to be regretted that revenue from state fines must be sacri ficed. It is more to be regretted that voters in cities have made a gesture inviting law violators to rural regions for tljeir operations. But this and other steps even less wel come are to be looked for. The public is groping for a way 4o express disapproval, and as yet the revolt against prohi lition has found no effective or distinguished leadership. Lacking such leadership, the vote is all the more significant. . The days when senators and congressmen could double and turn by voting dry and sending reassuring orders to their henchmen about enforcement seem tending toward con clusion. The lot of legislators is not all a happy one. The signs in the sky do not point wet or dry; they point toward confusion and muddling, one experiment and then another. And, as in the days from the Missouri compromise until Ft. Sumter was fired on, many statesmen striving to do their best are to fall by the wayside. Lneroot Not Fit. From Milwaukee Journal. The rteport that President Hoov er is considering the appointment of Irvine L. Lenroot, former sena tor from Wisconsin, to the United States court of customs appeals, is disquieting. It has been hoped that there was to be a different stand ard in presidential appointments than has prevailed during the last eight years, Mr. Hoover surely feels no obligation to send in Mr. Len reot's name becouse Mr. Coolidge did. And such an appointment by Mr. Hoover would acquire no sanc ,ty it lacked when made by Mr. Coolidge. A federal office, above all other offices a federal judgeship, is not something the president has to give *o someone it pleases him to grati fy. Not because Wisconsin decided Modern Gang a Menace. Howard McClellan in the American Review of Reviews. The menace of the gang to boy life in America is now alarming. Its most shocking asptct is the -peed with which the modern gang transforms the boy into the sea soned criminal before he attains majority. The reason is that the activities of gangs have undergone radical changes in 10 years. Gangs, as a phenomenon, have been much writ ten about, but from most of these writings little is learned about the real reason why gangs exist and why their existence is assiduously it no longer wanted him for sena tor is Mr. Lenroot disqualified for a judgeship. But by what possible stretch of the imagination can any one deem that Mr. Lenroot lias qualified for a judgeship, either through the various public offices he has held or by his logil prac tice before he began to hold office? Mr. Lenroct’s legal experience since he ceased to be senator stands in the public’s mind for just one thing. He was valuable to the com bination of public utilities fighting investigation at Washington be cause he had been a senator. In what wav can such employment, profitable though it has been, quali fy o man for judicial service on a federal court? The idea of appointing Mr. Len rcot may have arisen from person al frtenship or from that queer promoted. Assurances are even given in the more picturesque gang romances that the old type of hood lum gang, which had its natural birth in the saloon has passed from the scene, and that there are no big gangs today. In a measure this is true. The Gophers, Hell’s Kitchen Dusters, Car Barn and River gangs, all no torious in New York history, and others with an extensive assortment of picturesque names, have gone. They were hoodlum organizations whose members duelled over the favor of gang women, or battled for votes to keeo a corruot uoluical sense of political “obligation” which takes care of so many lame ducks with federal offices. But the ap pointment would mean one thing. If would stand for approval by Presl dent Hoover of the policy that led the powerful utilities of the nation to combine in opposing investiga tion by the United States Senate. The Fleeced Lambs. From New York World. Those who saw a defiance of tn» Federal Reserve board and a prom ise of unlimited support for the bull market in the measures taken by New York banks to meet a money crisis in the stock market ought to have been disillusioned when they read the National City bank's ar gument for a ti per cent discount rate and its indorsement of the Re serve Board's credit policy. If tha behavior of the stock market is any indication, they were disillusioned; for the street witnessed another day of recessions. For the market as a whole this shaking down process may be de sirable. but its sad feature is seen in ius effect cn the amateur spec ulators who have been tempted at ttie 11th hour to seek their share of the riches they heard were to b« picked up in Wall street. They ara not creatures of one’s imagination. This is what a New York savings bank has to say about them in an advertisement in yesterday's news papers: Every day old men, young men, women and girls excitedly rush into the savings banks and draw out the savings of a life time. Their stock will be sold out on them if they do not meet their margins. The distress of these depositors Is touching, and in most cases they are firm in their statement 4 never to al low themselves to get caught again. It is the small and inexperienced traders who are the last to go in and the first to get hurt, and who usually gets hurt the hardest. They are victims of what is sometimes called the "psychological lag.” Their bullish enthusiasm comes too late and is poorly directed. Instead of cautiously investing, they are prone to buy volatile stocks on margin and thug play into the hands of those who know the market bette- and who can afford to irdutge the lux ury of a chance. The experience may be worth something to them, but it ccmes too hieh. Anchoring Money Trust. Prom the World Tomorrow. The consolidation of the National Bank of Commerce in New York and the Guaranty Trust company brings into being the largest bank in the world, with resources approximately *2.000.000.000. Mr. Thomas W. I.amont, of .T. P Morgan and com pany. i3 said to have been the mov ing spirit behind the merger. The board of directors of the new or ganization includes many of the most powerful financiers in the country. These men. bv member ship on numerous other boards of directors also dominate the policies of hundreds of industrial and com mercial corporations, with total as sets running into many billions of dcllars. Th” National Cify hank hrs in creased its ranit.nl stock to $100, noo.ooo. f 'em ti 000.000 in 1000 to os 000 000 in not. to *10 000.000 in 1920. to *3O.on0.Q00 in 1923 to *7.3. onnooo in 1927, and to *00,000 COO in 1928. The surplus and undivided profits, after juicy dividends have b"cn nald annually, amount to *111. 000 000. net, counting the capital and surplus of the suhsid'arv National C>tv company: a total of *811.000. 000! Th” car value of the stock lias been reduced to *20 a share in order to 'ncrease the number of small in vestors. And so th” size of r*nancial un!fs increases. The trend everywhere is toward decentralization of owner ship and concentration of control. Tire bankers are nlaving an ever -core important role in our national life. loader in uower, or fought over ra cial issues. In their place has come the new er and more alarming underworld organization, the murder mob. with its kindred alliances made up of beer mobs, payroll mobs, mail truck mobs, dope mobs and racket eers’ mobs. Good Idea! From Life. Burglar to his wife: I’ve tried blasting ard I've tried a sledge ham mer. but I still can’t get this safe open. Wife' Don't give up: Let the baby olav with it. 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The past year, they say, has been »ne of the blackest for the nutrit ion street plant, which, during the Jays of long hair, was the largest go mb producer in the worm. Instead >f a crowded schedule, there has been anl.v restricted and Irregular employ ment. EVERY engine, regardless of l ype, gives bet ter result s vilh Champion Spark Plugs. There is a type specifically designed to give belter results for every operating condition. Consult your dealer CHAMPION SPARK PLUGS tsledo. Ohio Young Wife Victim of Life’s Ups and Downs Senator Frank L Smith was talk ing about a political rebuff. “The poor duffei," he said, “must have felt as had as the young wife. “The young wife, you know, put on a new dinner gown and danced gaily Into her husband's dressing room to he admired, for they were going to dine at a restaurant and do a theater and night Hub afterwards. “But her husband didn't like tlie new gown, lie bated It. in fact. And as he tied his tie and then slipped on his white waistcoat lie reproached her furiously for going in for such a short skirt, such transparent material, and so fortIi and so on. “In her disappointment she burst out crying. “ ‘I didn't get dressed up,’ she cried, ‘Just — boo, boo — to get dressed down ” The housewife smiles with so t Is fa c tlon as she looks at the basket of clear, white clothes ami thanks Red Cross Ball Blue. At all grocers.—Adv, Dumb-Bell* Little Marjorie went with her moth er to her older sister's school ex hibition of physical training which took the form of Indinn-club drill, dumb-bell exercises, and so on. Mar jorie watched with delighted interest, and while the second group cam* on she whispered eagerly to her mother; “What are those?" “Dumb-bells," laconically answered her mol her, her attention on the per formance. “Yes. 1 know," returned the little girl, “but I mean, what are those things in their hinds!" Nuff'i Enough “I hear Simpson and Ids wife hove been doing a good deal of scrapping since their baity arrived." “Yes, lie says he Is a floor walker all day and he thinks she ought to be It at night.” A false mind is false In everything. Just as a crossed eye always looks askant.—.loubert. The Secret of Skiis mad Hair XiOveliness In THE regular daily use of Cuti rura Soup and the occasional use of Cutieura Ointment, women everywhere have discovered the secret of natural beauty. The Soap, fragrant and pure, to cleanse; the Ointment, antiseptic and healing, to remove pimples and irritations. Soap 25c. Ointment 25c. and 50c. Talcum 25c. Sample each free. Addrtu: "Cuticira,” Dept. B6, Malden, Mass, The Chanceful Lifa “Some dity you will l»e riding to tho United Stale* Cnpltol in uri airplane." “1 don't feel the need of the addi tional thrill, ns yet,” answered Sen ator Sorghum. “1 have t-> take channel* enough after I get there." 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