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    The Frontier
D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor
Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill,
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LONG TIME TO WAIT.
Ashland Daily Independent: Wars
will end when we have an encyclopedia
and a history all peoples can read with
out getting mad.
WILDERNESS OF VOICES.
Lowell Evening Ledger: In these
days of radio broadcasting even a
voice crying in the wilderness does
not lack an audience.
PLENTY OF LISTENERS IN.
San Antonio Express: A Long Is
land society belle accepted a propos
al by wireless. The swain whose girl
has given him the air may take heart.
BUT THEY DID STOP.
Cleveland News: Firemen of Mon
roe, Michigan who drove their engine
into the side of a speeding freight
train can logically claim that they
stop for nothing.
IF NOT, SUPPOSE HE WAS.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: Man
who has just returned to a Cambridge,
Mass., library a book he had out for
88 years is evidently what you might
call a careful reader.
WET THINKING.
Washington Star: Jud Tunkins
says opposition to the Eighteenth
Amendment has caused many people
to think more about what they drink
than about what they think.
GREAT TO KNOW -SOMETHING.
Almost any American audience now
sleeps through a discms|8ion of the fi
nancial situation, but 'cheers wildly
when beer is mentioned. They actu
ally know what the speaker is talking
about whcp he jpentions beer.—Oklo
homa City Daily Oklahoman.
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The deipocrais in the national senate
the forepart of the week agreed on a
broad prbgram for the short session
of congress. Among the list proposed
is the repeal and the modification of
the Volstead act. They will try and
carry out the democratic promise of
*‘Beer for Christmas.”
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
By Frank P. Litschert.
The question of the foreign debts
and whether or not they will be paid
continues to^be(tjie all absorbing topic
of the day. The propaganda for can
cellation goes ahead in Europe and in
certain financial quarters in the United
States. Up to this time there is no
evidence that the progaganda is hav
ing any great effect among the chosen
representatives of the American people
in Congress. We are told that the
British pound sterling is slumping to
ward zero because of the necessity for
war debt payments; that nations will
be forced into repudiation of their in
ternational debts with fatal effects on
foreign trade; we are told that if the
debt payments are continued the de
pression will continue and that cancel
lation will mean immediate prosperity.
But to each argument someone in
favor of retaining the validity of these
debts has found an answer. One finan
cial writer of national reputation tells
us that there is good reason to doubt
the permancy of the recent slump in
the British pound. He opines that it
may have been in part manipulated by
financial interests who want to put the
worst possible phase on debt payments
for the purpose of frightening Ameri
ca into cancellation. He adds that
some of the slump is undoubtedly due
to the short selling of the British mon
ey, and that when the covering comes,
as it must, there is apt to be a rapid
advance. He believes that if the pay
ment is made, much of the fog and
furor will disappear, the pound will re
cover and business will go along as
usual.
While it is possible that some of the
smaller countries who owe us money
and whose credit is none too good at
any time may be forced to repudiate
their obligations, temporiarly at least,
there is apparently little fear that
countries like Great Britian and France
will use the remedy of repudiation.
They have too much at stake in the
way of national credit. Some finan
ciers seem to be of the opinion that If
any nations are threatening, the soon
er they get to it the better. The
Commercial and Financial Chronicle
said recently:
“If some countries should actually
default in their war debt payment,
that would not be half so unsettling
as the constant agitation of the ques
tion with attendent uncertainties.
The counry now needs a rest, and
should be spared from the constant in
jection of foreign issues in its daily
affairs after having suffered so severe
ly from these during the last eighteen
months.”
Some of the eastern seaboard finan
ciers who think cancellation would be
such an unmixed blessing are evidently
out of touch with the people back in
the states, and do not realize the state
of public feeling. In this regard, it
may be said, that cancellation of war
debt payments would be followed not
only by a protest, but by a demand
for the scaling down or cancellation of
private obligations in this country.
There are many mortgages on many
farms in America, because of which a
great many farm owners now face
dispossession. Many of these will be
unable to see why, if we can forgive
Europe’s debts, a little cancelling can
not be done at home in the interest of
the American who owes money. The
seaboard financier would doubtless
shudder at such a proposal as spelling
the end of financial order, but let him
not forget that cancelling the Euro
pean debt would set a dangerous prece
dent and one which might have reper
cussions in various parts of the coun
try, far different from the kind that
might be ordinarily expected.
In view of Europe’s present attitude,
that the debts are purely political and
that the allied nations are being harsh
ly treated, it is interesting to note just
what was said when these loans were
being negotiated back in 1917. Then
the pleas to Uncle Sam to aid were
vehement and frantic. As the Wash
ington Star recently stated: “Dis
patches of Lord Balfour, British sec
retary of state for foreign affairs;
Walter Hines Page, American ambas
sador to London; many other continen
tal statesmen, and Admiral W. S.
Sims, show the pressure under which
President Wilson and Secretary Mc
Adoo of the Treasury sanctioned loans
of approximately four billion that year
to Great Britian, France, Italy, Rus
sia, Belgium and Serbia.
“On June 28, 1917, Ambassador
Page said: ‘Financial disaster to all
European allies is imminent unless the
United States government advances to
the British enough money to pay for
British purchases in the United States,’
and added: ,
“Unless we do come to their rescue
we are all in danger of disaster. Great
Britian will have to abandon the gold
standard.”
The New Era of Road Building
Ohio recently completed 1,800 miles
of dustless, mudless farm-to-market
roads at an average cost of but $2,000
a mile. Commenting on this, State
Highway Director Merrell said, “The
relationship of flattened public pocket
books to the ever increasing need for
new roads opens up a new era of road
construction.”
Like all other “commodities,” roads
have gone through constant evolution
in this country. At the beginning of
the automobile age, there are few
highways that didn’t tax the re
sources of even the horse and buggy.
J'hen came the beginnings of the
superhighways, costing untold thous
ands of dollars a mile. “Political”
roads were built — splendid, high
priced arteries, traversing country
which had no need for them. Millions
of dollars of tax money were wasted
in this way.
Now, as Mr. Merrell said, we have
come to a new era. We have learned
that the cost of a road must be meas
ured by the return it gives us—that
it is as wasteful to build a $20,000 a
mile road where a $2,000 a mile road
would serve, as to build a low cost
road where traffic demands an artery
HOLIDAY
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Beginning December 10th and
continuing to December 24th.
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Guaranteed Waves with ringlet
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Hot oil treatment—Shampoo and
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Shampoo—finger wave and Nu
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Violet Ray Facial and Eye Brow
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Thero-oil Shampoo and finger
wave.$1.00
$1.00 bottle Permanent Wave
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that can withstand the constant pas-'
sage of the heaviest vehicles. Science,
has given us materials and processes
making possible the construction of i
first-class, weatherproof rural road
for very small sums.
States which are buil^jng low-cost
roads, connecting farms and small
towns with the outside world, are lay
ing a foundation for the future. They
are setting the stage for more profit
able farming, and for accelerated com
munity development.
Mail Bandits .Make Big Haul.
Five bandits robbed a registered
mail carrier in Chicago last Tuesday
and got away with $500,000. The mail
was intended for one of the larger
Chicago banks. The vice president of
the bank said that of the half million
taken by the robbers there wrs pos
sibly $200,000 that might be clashed as I
negotiable.
HOLT COUNTY FARM
BUREAU NOTES
James W. Rooney
County Extension Agent
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Judging Team Wins Third at Chicago
The Holt county Girls Room Judg
ing Team* consisting of Martha Fisher
and Birdie Doolittle of Amelia, placed
third in the judging contest at the
Eleventh National 4-H Club Congress
held at Chicago November 29th to
December 2nd.
In individual judging Martha placed
sixth and Birdie ninth. These girls
competed with a number of tdams
from various parts of the United
States.
Women’s Project Meetings
The leaders of the women’s project
clubs will meet at ten o’clock on
Thursday December 15th at Atkinson
at the World Memorial hall and on
Friday, December 16th at Ewing at
the City hall at the same time for the
third training meeting.
Seedling Trees Will be Available
Nebraska farmers will again be able
to get broadleaf and evergreen seed
lings and transplants for wlndfrreak
and woodlot planting next spring, ac
cording to an announcement made to
day from the College of Agriculture
by Extension Forester Watkins.
Present plans call for the distribu
tion of about 850,000 seedlings. Aa^in
other years they will be distributed
through the extension service and lojcal
farm bureaus by virtue of the Clarke
McNary congressional act. Farm ;rs
will pay one cent each to cover he
digging, packing and shipping char ;es
on the trees. - *
Practically the same-varieties t lat
were offered last year will be av li
able again this spring, Watjuns ss ya.
Though some red cedar seedlings i rill
be available for planting, the distri iu
tion of this variety will fee restric ed
to western Nebraska in ehler to h :lp
prevent the spread of cedar r ist
among apple trees,
In the past six y&ars it. is estimated
that Nebraska farmers have planted
approximately twelve million seedlings
for woodlot and windbreak purposes.
Last Spring 950,000 were distributed
in practically every county in the-state.
Favorable weather conditions ftsfe
ideal growing conditions and the per
centage of survival was large.
Application blanks for seedlings
have not yet arrived at this office arid
further notice will be given when the
blanks arrive.
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Verdict of Coroner’s Jury
The Coroner’s jury, which was em
paneled on November 21 and heard
evidence on the killing of F. J. Sex
smith, prominent Holt county farmer
who was found slain at his farm home
on Honey creek, northwest of this
city, on Sunday morning, November
21, and which adjourned without ar
riving at a verdict to meet again at
the call of the coroner, convened again
last Tuesday morning. In the mean
time the murder mystery had been
solved, a confession obtained from one
of the guilty parties and both of them
are now in jail. The coroner’s jury
returned the following verdict:
State of Nebraska i
Holt County ) ss'
At an inquisition holden at O’Neill
in said county, on the 6th day of De
cember, A. D. 1932, before me Julius
D. Cronin Coroner of said county, upon
the body of F. J. Sexsmith lying dead,
by the jurors whose names are hereto
subscribed, the said Jurors, upon their
oath, do say; That F. J. Sexsmith
came to his death on the 20th day of
November, 1932, as a result of gun
shot wound feloniously inflicted by one
Frank Mackay aided and abetted by
one Lloyd Hammond.
In testimony wereof, the said Jur
ors have hereunto set their hands the
dav and year aforesaid.
L. G. Gillespie
William Grutsch
Eugene Krier
Mat Ernest
J. C. Parker
S. J. Weekes.
BRIEFLY STATED
Editor Murfin, of the Page Report
er, was an O’Neill visitor this morning.
Rev, B. J. Leahy left last Monday
morning for a few days visit at Sioux
City, Iowa.
E. C. McElhaney, of Omaha, was in
the city last Wednesday visiting rela
tives and friends.
W. T. Fisher, for many years a resi
dent of Atkinson but now living at
Randolph, was an O’Neill visitor last
Sunday.
Mrs. H. M. Uttley, president of the
Holt county W. C. T. U. attended an
anti beer rally held by that organiza
tion at Atkinson last Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Todson and child
ren drove<to Grand Island last Sunday
to attend the funeral of Mr. Todson’s
nephew, Peter Hitchler, aged eight,
who was buried in that city on thati
day.
Mrs. Della Shaw left last Sunday for
Irvington, Kentuckey, where she ex
pects to spend the winter. Her daught
er, Mrs. D. H. Clauson and Mrs. J. P.
Brown accompanied her as far as Om
aha, returning home Monday evening.
Our Indian summer weather was
checked last Tuesday night when the
thermometer dropped down to 5 be
low ?ero. AH day Wednesday it was
(ptite cool, never getting-ovex 7 above.
That night it dropped down to 6 below
and all day today it has hung around
zero. v.ywy little snow ,has fallen here
and the indications are that it is going
to clear ijp without further snow.
Weathef olifcerver Harry Bowen has
been on the job checking the weather
at this station for the Federal weather
bureau for fifteen years, since the
spring of 1917. During all that time
he says that last month was the first |
month in all the fifteen years that
-there was not enough moisture here to
register. Even the dry year of 1931
there was sufficient moisture here to
enable them to record it.
Whiel Ed. Heeb and family were at
church last Sunday some one broke
into his home and broke the door of a
safe that he had in his living room.
The door of the safe was not blown off,
but the hinges were torn off and the
door badly battered, so that entrance
to the safe was gained. There was
not much of value in the safe, so the
perpetrators of this theft were not
very well paid for their pillaging.
T. T. Waid was a pleasant caller at
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Have established a Wrapping Department to take
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we will box and wrap your Xmas Packages, ready
for mailing.
A CORDIAL INVITATION TO VISIT I
The CHAPMAN STYLE SHOP I
this office last Saturday and for the
thirty-fourth annual time renewed his
subscription to The Frontier, paying
up to January 1, 1934. Mr. Waid
says that he subscribed for The Front
ier a week after he arrived in this
county and has taken it ever since and
will continue to read it the balance
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of his life. He says that this paper
is like the beverage outlawed by the
Volstead act, that it improves with
age. Many thanks for your kind words
of appreciation “Wink” and we hope
that you will live many more years to
enjoy the weekly visits of this dis
seminator of current events.
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The Junior Class
of
O’NEILL PUBLIC SCHOOL
Presents
“The Red Headed Step Child”
and
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
at
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Friday, December 16, 1932
Evening performance at 8 o’clock. Adm. 25c & 15c
Matinee at 2:30.—Adm. 10c, 15c & 25c
We urge that children attend the matinee.
Wealth is born in a bank account
and dies out of it.
The O’Neill National
Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided
Profits, $125,000.00.
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.
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At Meal Time
Beans fcHIGAN^NAVY 3 POUNDS 10c I
Hominy SSK can.5c
North State Peas, 3 ans. 25c I
Cane Sugar, 5 OUNDS_ 24c I
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PINEAPPLE M. 1 Sc I
Large No. 2\ Can-A I
GRAPE JAM This seedless ^rap« jam 2 1>01 Nn ■
is a fine spread. Grape JAH H
jam sandwiches add to the variety in the school lunch ■< H
—a delightful filler for layer and rolled cakes. X £ H
MORNING LIGHT GREEN BEANS Qc I
Fancy, tender, young beans. As free from strings as Rf|
those you have in season from your own garden. CAN— ^
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for soaking I I IC
clothes,for dishes, III
for boiler, for
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