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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1931)
“WE SHOULD BE AS CAREFUL OF OUR WORDS AS OUR ACTIONS, AND AS FAR FROM SPEAKING AS FROM DOING ILL/’ THE FRONTIER D. H. Cronin, Omaha, Publisher Romanic Saunders, Holt county, Managing Editor Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska as Second Class Matter. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertising on Pages 4, 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 26 cents an inch (one column wide) per week; on Page 1 the charge is 40 cents an inch per week. Local ad vertisements, 10 cents per line first insertion, subsequent insertions 5 cents per line. Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of sub scribers will be instantly removed from our mailing list at expiration of time paid for, if publisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract be tween publisher and subscriber. A Colorado saxophone player tried to freeze himself to death. We need some way to make the idea popular. The man who sets a bottle of moon ahine whiskey in the heavy side of the scale against wife and children has a had case of it. The brethren who are talking of bringing out a third party for the presidential campaign had better go back in the corner and think it over. An Omaha “nigger” got two years for stealing 90 cents. Is it to be inferred that this is a way of express ing judicial contempt for such cheap stuff. If this sort of weather does not “get" the hopper eggs they are going to be hard to eliminate. Nature has n way of adjusting things to main tain a proper balance. It is stated by the experts in statistics that 380'millions have been lost in check forgeries as agninst 250 millions in household fires. But that which forgeries account for are merely diverted to other hands, while that going up in smoke is a goner. Labor union heads, which means for the most part an element of in competent craftsmen who racketeer off of the efficient and industrious element, are backing a bill to legalize beer. Freedom of access to the foam ing mug is all that is necessary to make their happiness complete. Japan does not hesitate to let it l»e known that she jk in Manchuria to sjay. Atjoqt, the only purpose an international treaty serves is for writees and spellbinders <fo. moralise over. Japan 1s not only 4n Manchuria to stay, but that isn’t all. fthe next step is the control of the whole of China. .. The Nebraska state prison popula tion is placed at, in round number*' 1100. Sounds like a lot of them have missed the way, but it is less than one-eighth of one per cent of our population. Maybe the other 09 and seven-eighths per cent are entiled to credit or congratulations for keeping out of the pen. The time is at hand for another #tart with New Year resolutions. What advantage any day or date has in enabling one to put into effect a program of reform or change of habits is not clear. The New Year has long stood for the traditional starting point for a revision of human oanduct, and w\ll probably continue to be valuable even fhough mast of the high mcalves mme to aaagiit before the month is up. Prom the present outlook for trans portation companies it would seem to require some courage to build a rail road.. An eastern road proposes to construct an 800-mile line from Denver to San Pedro, California, following a new route across the mountains. A number of such • projects started in various sections of the country would -absorb considerable of the surplus labor. In the days of railroad build ing there was very little unemploy ment. ; rr—- ' The cheering information is given out that the railroads are inaugurat ing an increase in freight rates, effect ive January 4. The increase is from 6 cents a ton to 2 yents a hundred. Railroad heads see visions of 100 millions increase in their revenues, and it is explained the raise is nec essary to “tide over” several large roads that are facing a default or their debts.. Many city transpor tation companies have endeavored foi a number of years to save them selves from ruin by raising the fares but find a steadily diminishing patron age. The raise in rat^s. instead od increasing revenue has reduced it. An outraged public wj-ll not stand for ^ferytbiag. ___ The collapse of the League of Na-. tions vindicates American public opin- i ion, only for which the visionary idealists would have had this country a party to the farce. Public opinion is generally about right when it be comes crystalized. Just now we seem' to be floundering around without any j definite program, but when the Amer-i ican people catch their breath and get; started off in unison don’t worry a bout the results. The attempt to bribe jurors in an important criminal case recently be fore the ^<yirt,in this county calls for and has aroused public stntiment as nothing has done in recent months. That the verdict of a jury should be made the subject of barter and bet ting will be generally resented, coupled with a demand that the facts be brought to light and the offenders punished. Holt county tax payers are not wanting any frills or flour ishes, but they will stand by every effort to make an example by due process of law of those who brazen ly attempt to clog the process of justice in our courts. If the majority of the tax payers want to spend from $5,000 to $10,000 to have the county records examined by accountants it is their priviledge. But just how it will be ascertained if there be a majority. Because an in dividual’s name is on a petition does not signify the individual’s approval of the thing petitioned for. One might sign a petition to hang his neighbor but he would not approve of doing it. Boyd county spent between $7,000 and $8,000 at a time when they could ill afford it for the accountants to tell them that $1,600 in fees had been wrongly credited. Exporting public accounts is to satisfy a suspicion that one or more official is either incompet ent or extrnvagant or dishonest. If the ones who must eventually pay the cost feel that there are such in this county they ought to go to it and find out. Edward M. Barrows — not much known out here on the prairie—is unother to undertake through the Review of Reviews to set the country straight on its problems of govern ment, with much learned discussion of the “light and power trust.’’. A lawyer friend of the editor’s gets at the core of the matter in few words. “We have too d— much government.” Edward Everett, the great oratpr of the civil war period, was the orator of the day at Gettesburg, while Pres ident Lincoln came on after a two hour speech in a somewhat perfunct ory way. When Everett saw Lin coln’s speech in the papers next day he went to the president and said: “I should consider myself flattered if I could feel that I came as near the central thought in a two-hour speech as yt>u iftd Ih ten minutes.” The presidph^s J$eech remains one of our nation’^ plj^sips while Mr. Everett’s has been forgotten. “We have too d— much government” may not be regarded as a classic, but it tells it. The Small Tow’ll Must Survive H. Henderson, an attorney of New man Grove, has prepared at some ex pense and labor, matter for publica tion which he sends The Frontier, bearing on the future of the small towns. Himself a citizen of a small town he knows what the situation is and has come to some interesting con clusions. His article follows: The curbstone remark that the small towns are doomed is ill reasoned and untenable. The evacuation of population centers of the class men tioned is impossible for economic rea sons. In the United States, 14 million people live in villages and cities of the second class. About the same amber live in the trade territor*'. To depopulate aW of these 14,000 towns, it will be necessary to provide homes for 14 million people in big cities or somewhere. The cost of this change is a complete bar to the fullfillment of the prediction that small town will disappear. Incorporated villages and towns in this class have been important fac tors in the development of the middle west, and it is safe to predict that they will be greater and better in stitutions than ever. The 1930 census report says that smaller towns are more than holding their own agains.t the large cities in the retail trade, giving the retail sales of over $1,000 peT capita in small towns, while the big city had onl/" $700. The report says, “Neither good roads nor big city ‘high power’ ad vertising have taken the trade from the home town.” Villages and cities of the second class, holding within their limits the highest percentage of self-supporting, property owning, church going and law abiding citizens, being equipped with light plants, water work-, sowers, parks, playgrounds, paving and being crimeless and povertyless, are ideal location*, for family homes. Karle W. Hodges, international president of the Lions Club, said in a recent ad dress: "“Tbe greatest business iueti tution in the world is the home.” As those business and social centers are the most favorable locations for home building, it seems obvious that it is the duty of everyone and every agency, to support, build up and boost for the small town. The virtue and efficiency of schools in small towns deserve special men tion. Look over the list of honor students in the state universities and you will find that every hamlet in the state is represented. Juvenile judges and sociologists a grec that the crime wave is the result of lack of religious instruction. Churches and Sunday Schools thrive and are largely attended in the small towns, thus supplying a want that is required in these trying times. The weekly newspaper is one of the leading agencies for promoting pro gress and good will among people. They record the activities of the com munity from time to time, always telling about the good men do. They present the news of goods and services offered in the community. People want the small towns for business reasons. With lower taxes and cheaper rent, a business man in the village can and does undersell the big city merchant. Degeneration of government effici ency in big cities with consequent high taxes and lack of property protection, is rapidly making the city unpopular. Factories are leaving the cities and locating in villages. We have out grown the idea that vast population centers mean advancement. The vv ickersham report ana crime survey conclusively shows that the big city is a social and governmental failure. The city of Detroit raised a charity and unemployment fund of $18,000,000.00 and a small group of clerks appoined to administer this fund dissipated about $.'100,000.00 of it. Such flagrant abuse of a trust could hardly happen in a small town. A receivership has been ordered for Fall River, Massachusetts, a city of 140,000, to handle its affairs for ten years. A commission of ten men, only one a resident of Fall River, is in control. Machine politics, alliance between the underworld and big, re spectable business men, reckless and incompetent management, caused the order for receivership. Most of the larger cities ought to be handled in the same way. THE UNUSUAL Queer Quirks of Humanity In the News of the Day Unhurt, Jimmy Johnson, air mail pilot, dropped 14 thousand feet with his parachute when his plane crashed near Kylerton, Pa. Thieves caused more than one hun dred dollars’ damage in getting $65 worth of loot from a Falls City cloth ing store. The marauders broke two large plate glass windows. An Albany bank teller, bound hand and foot, dialed a telephone number with his tongue and let the outside world know he had been held up and and the bank robbed of $4,200. Horace G. Corell of Plainview still owns, and keeps in running order, a high w^ieel bicycle with which he toured Omaha in 1887, in company with two friends. Three brothers in their 70’s, none of whom has evef married, are living on a farm north of Burr, Neb., un aided by the hand of any woman. They are John, Duncan,and James Cameron. They have lived on the farm for more than half a century. Tacoma, Wash, has a resident who insists a bathing suit is the only pro per apparel for a male resident of the Puget Sound district. He is a defendant in a divorce action because of the bathing suit, which he adopted as his costume several years ago, and *i«ce Pha<t tang wears it whle engaged in his trade, as a shingler, winter as well as summer. Robert W. Taggart, the man who gave the country bus transportation, was sentenced by United States Dis trict Judge J. Foster Symes to serve thirteen months in Leavenworth pen itentiary on conviction of using the mails to defraud. Taggart sold the which he started with $17 in 1912 o a railroad company for $750,000 three years ago. Rev. J. W. Baker, living near Brocksburg, Neb., a minister of the Pentecostal faith, attains singular dis tinction. Mr. Baker tills a small farm near Brocksburg and thus supports himself by manual labor. He accepts no salary whatever from his needy followers, but instead when necessary, aids them financially as well as spirit ually. He says that his people need whatever cash is available to pay taxes and buy groceries during this trying time, and that he is willing to live Chrisianity as well as preach it. .-."T* "r;~' i t THE COUNTY PRESS Chambers Bun: The Chambers Post Office sold $51.32 worth of stamps a lone on Mypday of this week. Greet ing cards were used very extensively this year in place of the Xmas pack age. Between 2400 and 3200 greeting letters went out on Monday. Inman Leader: Calvin Geary, who has been residing on a farm south of Page during the past year, has moved to the old John Riley place south of town. He is building a new set of buildings on the place. The barn and poultry house are completed and he expects to start building a new residence. The Graphic: State Officers Bay and Tomlinson arrested two Atkinson men last Saturday on liquor violations. Fred Barnes was fined $100 and costs by Judge Richards for the illegal pos session of intoxicating liqupr. He was given an opportunity to raise money to pay his fine and in event of his failure to do so will be confined in the county jail. Christy Judge, also of Atkinson, was fined $100 and costs for drunkenness and disorderly con duct. He was unable to pay his fine and is being held in the city jail. Page Reporter: The Holt County Economy League held their bi-month ly meeting here in the auditorium of the school house last Saturday after noon. A large number of people of this community were present, as well as a good group of citizens from over the county. A talk by Mr. Bressler of O’Neill, on taxation and delinquent taxes of the county was the opening address. The discussion of a county audit was held and from appearance all present seemed strongly in favor of it, not in the hope of finding our county officers criminals of the law, but as a sound business basis, and to help establish proper records. A mo tion was also made and seconded that the Economy League help the County Board to hire a competent Auditing Agency. Over the County I INMAN NEWS ‘! Geo Davis of O’Neill transacted business in Inman Wednesday. Guests at the R. M. Conard home for Christmas were, Mr, and Mrs. George Conard and sons of Redbird, Mrs. Bridget Swanson and daughters Agnes, Anna and Emma and Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Peterson of O’Neill, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stevens and children of Page and Mrs. Gertrude Bowering of Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Conger enter tained the following guests for Christ mas dinner: Mr. and Mrs. Waller Jones and family of Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Sanford of O’Neill, Mrs. E. J. Enders and Jim Hoxie of Inman. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins and sons Charles and Harvey and Miss Carita Gifford went to Norfolk Thursday to spend Christmas at the C. E. Doughty home. Miss Carita Gifford of Magma Washington is here visiting her fath er J. A. Gifford and the L. R. Tomp kins family. Miss Carita left Inman seven years ago when a freshman in high school. Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Corey and Mr. Corey’s mother spent Christmas in Henderson, Iowa with friends. John Krantz who bought the Teidg en ranch south of Inman is moving onto the same. He has had his house hold good brought up from Norfolk. Mr. and Blis. Wilbur Gifford and daughters Glea Dee and zada Vey of Wayne, spent Christmas here at the Geo. Killinger home. onanes lompKins a student in the Nebraska Medical College is here spending the holiday’s with, his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins. Harry McGraw has purchased the ice house and has had it moved to the rear of his garage. He plans to put up ice as soon as the weather permits. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fowler drove up from Omaha Wednesday to spend the holidays here and at O’Neill. Miss Alberta Butler of Loup City, was here one day last week visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Hareld Miller Thos. Colmon went to Pender Thursday to spend Christmas with his wife and little daughte*. Miss Keoae Prfliil who is ntte#dVig suhwol at the Wayne Starte Normal came home Thursday evening to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Pribil. Calvin Geary v ho Vis ''armed south of Page the past ' car is moving to | the John Rley lar . «u th t' Inman. He s buldng a s. r ui! lings, the bars and poultiy ho . e being com peleted and the n .-icienc- oegun. Mr. and Mrs. N 1 C> a<-». and child ren of Shelden. I, ,v si Christmas here with her n ■*. Jis. Ellen Gallagher and other . ves. Mr. and Mrs. W. '.thicken and daughters Muriel, Dorolny and Wilma went to Creighton to spend Christmas with Mrs. Gertrude Portzline and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Butler and daughters Mary and Anella of Neligh, were guests at the A. N. Butler home ! for Christmas. j Mrs. Mary M. Hancock, Miss Gladys Hancock and W. C. Hancock, spent Christmas at the C. P. Hancock home in O’Neill. Chester Fowler is here from Sioux City spending the holidays with rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hoxsie and little sons, of Norfolk, are visiting here at the home of his mother, Mrs. E. J. Endeis. Evan Davis of O’Neill was here Monday visiting among fricM:> Mrs. E. R. Riley h. - cen in O’Neill the past few day.- wit! per sister Mrs. Naylor. . „ . „ j: Mrs. Hardin Anspech and sons Richard and Keith of Page, are stay ing here at the John Enspech home while Hardin is in Omaha consulting the doctors in regard to his health. Guests at the L. P. Mossman home on Chrismas were Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Roe and daughter Hazel, Mrs. Rose Roe and son Vince and Paul and Joe Bitner. ' Mr. Lester Cole of Sheby, Ne*. was a guest at the G. p. Moor hon»£ over Christmas. A community Christmas program was held at the I.O.O.F. Hall Wedges, day evening. The program was spon sored by the Latter Day Saints ,and Methodist Sunday schools, the Inman school and the Willow Lake school. The first part of the program was put on by the primary children of the school, directed by their teacher, Miss Pauline Raitt. This was followed by songs, recitations, drill and dialogues by the older children. A lovely little two act play, “Christmas at Sand Flats” was presented in a very cap able manner b,y the pupils of the Willow Lake school, under the direc tion of their teacher, Miss Lucille Rotherham. Those taking part in the play were Leila Marjorie Rouse, Del oros Clark, Dale Lines, Gearld Sabot ka, Marvin Youngs, Norbert Clark and W'alter Rouse. The program con cluded with the dramitization of the Christmas story as it is given in the Bible. The high school orchestra, and choru3 furnished appropriate music during the evening. Santa Claus made his appearance with treats for all the children, the committee in charge of tl e program was Rev. Miss Mertle E. Mute of the M E. Church, Mrs. Grace 1 avis, Miss Gladys Hancock and Wil n. a lirpwn. _ . . King Corn Turns the Wheels of American Industry Corn Derivatives Used by Hundreds of Industries; Foreign Imports Compete With American Product KING CORN has become an indus trial as well an agricultural mon arch. Entering industry under many guises this King now plays hundreds of important roles and holds such sway that you can hardly live out a normal day without in some manner paying homage. Providing food is the most obvious role of King Corn; there are many other roles. Without science corn would never have become the important product that it is today. Science took com apart, examined the kernel and found that corn was primarily starch which could be converted into other valuable products. That discovery raised corn in rank and ever since it has been helping to turn the wheels of industry and quietly furnishing us with neces sities. When you rise and dress in the morning you may make immediate use of corn, for starch is used to finish goods as well as in the laundry. When you pause to write a letter, starch may serve you as a filler or coating kinship, may contain crude corn oil and so may glycerine. And another, lesser-known use is as a cotton soft ener. Corn sugar plays its most important role in the preparation of foods but in its crude state it has certain indus trial uses. It serves one purpose in the tanning of leather and another in the manufacture of artificial silk. One would hardly expect to find corn as sociated with a textile like silk, but without crude corn sugar it would be impossible to impart the necessary fine finish. Just how or why the sugar works is not understood but its known results insure a large consumption. New Uses Being Found Many as are the uses of corn and its products, chemists are by no means satisfied that the limit has been reached. They believe that starch and dextrins in particular can be put to many uses not now known and devel opments give weight to their belief. Gumming of postage stamps is a very Agriculture and Industry are united by the products of corn, day the public uses corn in hundreds of forms. Every or me paper on wmcn yon write. The ink that traces the words may con tain corn dextrin and so does the gum that holds the envelope together and seals it. Now there is a very good chance that the adhesive on the back of the postage stamp will be made from corn. Licking a stamp, then, will simply complete a series of corn con suming acts performed millions of times every day in this nation. From the corn field to the gum of an envelope is a big jump but no greater than many other'll that could be named. We think of corn as a food product—and most of the corn grown is used that way, but so wide has in dustrial application become that im portance can no longer be judged by quantity alone. Importance of Corn Starch An enormous volume of starch Is used in the preparation of food stuffs and everybody realizes what a part it plays in the laundering of clothes, but th^re are other uses little known, yet quite essential. Manufacturers of high ex plosives use it and so do the makers of the non-explosive powder that aids beauty. It also contributes to the serviceability of flashlights and radio batteries. Starch passing through a simple but highly technical treatment becomes dextrin and dextrin has many uses be sides that of making adhesives. Calico and other textiles are printed with col ors that are thickened with it and even before the printing process dextrin has served a purpose by strengthening the fibre of the cloth. In foundries dextrin is used to bind the cores when molten metal is run off in to molds. Even children are served by dextrin, for every Fourth of July “sparkler” contains some measure of it Surprising Uses The greatest surprises are found in the uses of crude corn oil. The six principal commodities In which it is used can hardly be said to have any thing in common. It is a valuable in gredient of certain kinds of soap. Artificial rubber, not as yet a widely known commercial product, contains It Paint and varnishes, having some good example of the way new use* can and are being found. Corn dex trin yields more than seventy-five ad hesives already and to develop a spe cial tasteless one for this Government purpose should be a simple problem for the scientific minds which have accomplished so much. Every move of this kind insure* a larger -market for corn. Right now the. Government has to purchase about 80Q.900 pounds of tapioca dextrin every . year to satisfy post office re quirements and if that Item could be replaced by com dextrin in a satis factory manner it would aid in quick ening the demand for corn. Such Hems, though relatively small, help to swell the total consumption and so create a steady and active demand. Competition of Foreign Starches The actual use of products of corn is proof of its essential nature, but there is even more significant proof available. If starch were not essen tial in industry we would not find imports of tapioca starch assuming larger and larger proportions. Indus try must have starch from one source or another. If it can Import it from other countries at lower cost than it can purchase it at home, competition applies pressure to do so. That’s the reason for ail importation of 182,000, 000 pounds of tapioca starch which replaced 5,000,000 bushels of corn last 1 year. No tariff halts the flow to these shores and cost is the primary con sideration. f If a tariff were to he imposed on tapioca starch it would, of course, b© of immense help to the farmer for it would insure the use of corn in pref erence to tapioca and would safe guard the development of the market. No new products of corn seeking to utilize the kernel can be anticipated for nothing has been overlooked. Even the water used to soften the corn is boiled down for soluble ele ments. Where gains are likely to be made are in the discovery of new uses and that rests with science which has already demonstrated its ability and given promise of unfolding further secrets for the benefit of the corn grower.