“What is your duty? What the day demands.”
THE FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher
ROMAINE SAUNDERS,
Editor and Business Manager
Entered at the Postoffiee at O’Neill
Nebraska as Second Class Matter.
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A Word to the Public
Breathes there a man with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own,my native land;”
W'hose heart hath ne'er within him
burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned i
From wandering on a foreign
strand.
It is with something of the feeling
suggested in the foregoing lines by
Walter Scott that I come to O’Neill
to take charge of The Frontier. For
many years this was my home, and
while I have not “wandered on a
foreign strand” for the past score
years, it is like returning to the
familiar affairs of home to take up
work here.
Frontier readers will not care for a
voluminous pen production as to the
policies, purposes and principles of I
the new management. I hope to
merit the support this paper has en
joyed for over fitly years, and will:
do the very best I know how by square
dealing and honest adherence to prin
ciples which I believe to be right.
There is no change in the ownership
of the paper. Mr. Cronin retaining his
vested interests.
Time has wrought many changes.
The bitter political feeling that raged
in this county so long and disaster
ously is gone for ever. Sentiments j
have been mellowed, hearts enlarged
and charitableness for the faith and |
purposes of others comes with the
passing years. In the fire and vigor
of youth we are ready to crush an op
ponent; when the hair begins to grey
at the temples we can see the other
fellow’s view point while differing in
thought and still regard him as a
brother.
When Mrs. Saunders and I returned
to Holt county last July I had not
thought to come to O’Neill, but I). H.
and J. D. came to see me about tak
ing up work here, and when the
United States marshal and the county
attorney both come to your door you
might as well throw up your hands.
What The Frontier will be during
the weeks to come is not to be in
dicated in this brief introduction. It
must be seen as time progresses.
Romaine Saunders.
A good many think a proposal to
double* the gasoline tax should he dealt
with like you deal with a nasty rat
tler—get a club.
In localities where the corn crop
has been a failure, Hvhat are we going
to substitute for the corn husk to de
termine the severity of the coming
winter?
When resentment of the activities
of cattle inspectors reaches the stage
it has in Iowa the cattle growers
probably have grounds for their op
position.
Fairs and rodeos and “big events”
that most towns seem to regard as
necessary are over for the season.
From numerous quarters reports in
dicate a greatly reduced attendance.
Whether this is because of financial
stringency or the present generation
is “fed up” on this class of enter
tainment is net indicated.
“Life appeared a billion years ago
in mud and paddles in the shape of
tiny bits of jelly, px-obably the pro
ducts of ancient chemical forces,
which developed inte cell groups, ju
te small, worm-like creatures, into air
breathing fishes which became our
ancestors.” “So Ged created man in
His own image, in the image of . God
created He him; male and female
created He them.” The first quota
tion is a recent utterance of an em
minent member of the American
Museum of Natural History; the sec
ond quotation is from the Scripture
record of creation. Take your choice, i
My choice is quickly made. The
Scripture quotation is beautiful in its i
simplicity and sounds like good sense.
Lessons of the Night Sky
The heavens declare the glory of
God; and the firmament showeth His
handywork.—Ps. 19:1.
Do you ever feel that the guiding
hand of destiny is raised against you;
do perplexities, anxieties, sorrows,
disappointments well nigh overwhelm;
do you ever feel like it was no longer
worth while? Or do you become in
flated with self-esteem, over-estimate
your ability, talents, importance? Go
out under the open canopy of heaven
at night and take a lesson in faith
and humility.
You fieed not be a student of as
tronomy. You may not know where
to look for Orion with its glittering
bands — the constellation through
which astronomers tell us, is a path
way of light leading to the throne of
the Infinite; where Arcturus and its
sons have moved in their course since
hung there by the hand of the creator;
where the Pleaides radiates its seven
fold light or comprehend the myst
eries of the Milky Way. But if you
will let the eye travel the planes of
hea%ren and behold the gems of the
night y.,ur feelings will be subdued,
and you will say with the psalmist,
“the heavens declare the glory of
God.”
Contemplating the stars in their
perfect order in the midst of apparent
confusion, the calm and mysterious
constancy with which they hold their
course in the blue vault above cen
tury after century inspires faith and
revives hope in the downcast; humbles
the exalted and mellows and softens
the rudest of men.
These sentiments are somewhat out
of tune with the present harsh and
hard and mechanical times. Our lack
of sentiment and indifference to sacred
traditions brings its full fruition. If
tired of what is seen and felt and
experienced from day to day spend a
few evenings beholding the glory of
God as proclaimed in the heavens
above.
While fashion designers are bring
ing out new things, why not a change
in style of pie tins ? Remembering
the square cornered slices of ample
dimensions of boyhood days, the
wedge-shaped slice seems like a hum
bug. Give us back the square corn
ered pies.
Let’s Have Shorter School Year
Nebraska’s industrial interests are
predominately agriculture. That
which interferes with the orderly and
efficient work on the farm militates
against the best results and works a
hardship to those concerned. The one
most vitally affected is the farmer
himself.
Too much time is spent in the
school room. Long before the season’s
work on the farm is completed the
schools and colleges and universities
are calling the young and vigorous
men from the farms and dad is left
to shagg through the work the bast
he can and provide the cash to sus
tain the boy at school.
When another season of farm work
opens in the spring dad has to man
age again single handed. The most
strehuous work comes at the begin
ning and end of the season. The boys
ought to be on the farms just then.
The school year should be short
ened. A month would help. Two
months would be better. The sports
program might have to be rearranged
but little or nothing of cultural value
need be sacrificed.
A season like the past in former
times would have aroused much ir
rigation talk. Interest in irrigation
seems to be limited to a very few
who are using wells. Most everybody
leaves the wetting of their premises
to nature and if nature does not do
it wait until it does.
Nobody Likes to Pay Taxes
Holt county has never been di-nesed
to lag behind in anything of public
interest, and the movement for lower
taxes is no exception. Whether the
organization recently atTected here is
proceeding on right lines to bring a
bout and reduction in taxes or net
may be questioned. It is making
suggestions similar to that heard in
other quarters for some years past.
Honest discussion will eventually de
velop something.
If high taxes are due to any one
thing t is probable that the public
expects large things in all of the
multitude of items that go to make
the government budget. It is not a
single item as roads, bridges, office
expense, buildings, schools, pay roll,
or supplies. It’s all of these. In
many instances—particularly as per
taining to state expenditnoee less
would serve the purpose. Oni state
capitol, the most magnifieant building
in the world the guide will tell you,
is a notable example. About half the
building would be more appropriate
to a state with a population of a
million and a half.
It is probable that few if any local
communities are extravagant in the
use of tax money. Good roads and
safe bridges are a modem necessity.
Embezzling officials are a rare thing.
Possibly some item might be reduced,
but to the observer at this distance
it looks like while public demands re
main as they are taxes will remain
as they are.
Human life is pretty cheap when
it is sacrificed in defense of a water
| melon.
Scientists Probe Charges and Find
a Word, Zoophide
Washington, Oct. 1—Just another
attach from the zoophiles, two sci
| entisls have reported after invetigat
ing published charges in which an
; “emergency conservation committee’’
declared the ational Association of
Audubon Societies and especially its
president, Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson, had
cooperated with “the killers,” mean
ing hunters.
“The zoophile,” explained the in
vestigators, Dr. Thomas Barbour,
director of the Museum of Compara
tive Zoology of Harvard University,
and Chauncy J. Hamlin, president of
the Buffalo Museum of Science, “may
be defined as one whose arguments
are always based on sentiment and
not on reason, who with entire hon
esty believes that if a forest is to be
protected and preserved, no tree
should ever be cut down, and who be
lieves that no species of bird or anim
al can be adequately protected if any
individual of the species is ever killed.
“With this statement of the case,”
they added, “it is not worth while to
attempt to analyze or discuss the
charges made. They are not worth
the time it would take.”
The “emergency committee” is said
among other things to have taken
exception to Dr. Pearson’s statement
that “a majority of the most eminent,
influential and resourceful workers
for wild-life conservation in America
today are sportsmen” and that “it is
the hunter’s license fees that pay the
salaries of the state game wardens
who enforce alike the laws for the
preservation of game and also the
song and insectivorous birds.”
The scientists praised the work of
the national association and com
mended Dr. Pearson upon the con
structive manner in which the funds
of the organization have been ex
pended.
Too Many Fish Names, Cooks
Carry Pictures
ent A rose by any other name might
smell as sweet, but fishes are differ
ent, according to the wholesale—and
retail complaints which resulted re
cently in the publication of a “who’s
who” among fishes of California, re
ports a bulletin of the American Game
Association. The division of fish and
game through its state fisheries lab
i oratory issued the booklet to clear
; up confusion growing out of the fact
i that often the same species had col
! lected several names and likewise one
name had often become attached to
several different species. The chaos
had grown so acute that no house
wife was able to tell a dealer ex
actly what she wanted, and no dealer
e*uld understand even if she did. Now
both may refer to the handsome
photographs in the booklet. And the
department has advised anglers to do
the same before relating stories of
their catch, as “belief-i»*«rance.”
Only True Sportsmen or Perjured
Liars to Hunt
Before hunters can procure a lic
ense to shoot deer in Michigan this
fall they must tf* before a notary and
swear they have not violated a deer
law of the state in ike past three
years nor shot a person while hunt
ing during the past live years, says
a bulletin of the American Game As
sociation. This requirement was a
dopted by the 1931 legislature to
make the sport safer.
1 hey Live in Ice but Long for
Cold Winter
Inhabitants of the 28 glaciers on
the lofty slopes of Mt. Ranier will
be glad when this summer is gone,
to judge from a bulletin of the
American Game Association. The
heat has apparently been intolerable
for the millions of glacier worms.
They have had to stick closer to their
burrows in the ice, coming out only
in the cool of the evening to feed on
I the myriads of rninuta or invisible
plants and animals whith which the
i 48 square miles of glaciers are in
jfested.
Ihe wealth of life on the ice and
j snow of Mount Ranier National Park
was described recently by Dr. F. E.
, Matthes of the U. S. Geological Sur
j vey in his report to the National Park
I Service on the curious rose-colored
! patches of snow so attractive to tour
ists. He declared the snow wa» tinted
by the presence of billions of micro
scopic plants.
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King Sol's Adive on Ants Band
for Dieters
Washington, Oct. 1.— King Solo
mon’s wisdom in advising man to go
j to the ant, consider her ways and be
wise, would probably be questioned
today by dieticians and members of
a humane society, remarks a bulletin
J of the American Game Association.
A German scientist, Dr. F. Okland,
recently followed sagacious Solomon’s
advice, finding that ants not only do
not spend their summer laying in
wait for picnickers, but that these
insects probably deserve to rank as
the world’s heaviest eaters. They eat
half their own weight at a meal, and
: all of this banquet is sugar, of “honey
1 edw”. The scientist computed that
the 100,000 population of an average
size ant heap annually collects and
consumes more than 22 pounds dry
I weight of sugar.
This huge amount of sweets was
i found to be supplied by the ants’ own
J “domesticated animals,” or plant lice, j
The lice are free to “graze” on forest
vegetation even to the topmost leaf
of the tallest tree, bu are carefully at
tended by their masters and constant
ly drained of the sugar they obtain.
By counting the ants that visited
certain trees and by weighing hungry
ants going up them and gorged ants
coming down, Dr. Okland estimated
that through their aphid slaves ants
ii. a year sap from the average tree 13
j pounds of sugar.
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