The Frontier
D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor
Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill,
Nebraska as Second Class Matter.
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tween publisher and subscriber.
SOMEWHAT PERSONAL
TO THE MERCHANTS
OF O’NEILL,
NEBR.
I READ
YESTERDAY
THAT A MIMEOGRAPHED
TABLOID
IS TO BE
STARTED
IN O’NEILL,
AND THAT IT
IS TO BE
GIVEN AWAY
EVERY DAY.
I AM WONDERING
WHAT YOUR REACTION
IS GOING
TO BE
TOWARD IT.
IT ISN’T
A NEW IDEA.
DURING TIMES
OF BAD BUSINESS
THEY HAVE BEEN
STARTED
ALL OVER
THE COUNTRY.
I KNOW
YOU REALIZE
THAT IF YOU ARE
TO KEEP UP
IN THE RACE
FOR BUSINESS
YOU SHOULD USE
ADVERTISING
AND FIGURE IT
AS A BUSINESS
EXPENSE
JUST LIKE RENT.
AND NO ONE KNOWS
BETTER THAN I
HOW HARD
IT HAS BEEN
TO MAKE ENOUGH MbNEY
TO RUN
YOUR BUSINESS.
AND FOR THIS REASON
I KNOW
YOU WILL BE
TEMPTED
TO TRY THIS
CUT RATE METHOD
OF ADVERTISING,
BUT IT IS
HITCH HIKING.
YOUR NEWSPAPERS,
LIKE ALL
NEWSPAPERS,
ARE HAVING
A HARD TIME.
THEIR TAXES
ARE HEAVY
AND THEY ARE
TRYING THElfc BEST
TO MEET THRIR
PAYROLLS
AND KEEP
A JOB
FOR EVERY ONE.
SOME OF THESE
DAYS
YOU ARE GOING
TO WANT
TO PROMOTE
YOUR COUNTY FAIR
OR SOME CHURCH
DOINGS
AND YOU ARE GOING
TO GO OVER
AND ASK
GEO. MILES
AND DENNIS CRONIN
TO HELP YOU
DO IT
AND RUN
ALL OF YOUR
PUBLICITY
FOR NOTHING,
AND THEY ARE
GOING
TO DO IT,
BUT I KNOW
WHAT EACH
OF THEM
IS GOING
TO BE THINKING
OF YOU
AT THE TIME.
IT IS EASY
TO DESTROY
YOUR NEWSPAPERS
JUST AS
THE WYNOT BRANCH
OF THE M &. O
WAS DESTROYED,
BUT OVER
THE REACH
OF TIME
DO YOU REALLY
THINK
IT IS BEST
FOR THE WHOLE TOWN
OF O’NEILL?
G. H.
The above from the pen of Gene
Huse of the Norfolk Daily News ex
presses the feelings of the average
newspaper man when faced with fly
by-night competition. For over fifty
years The Frontier has been an O'Neill
institution boosting for the up-building
of the city and county, the happiness,
joy, prosperity and contentment of
its people. It has also recorded the
births of hundreds of its citizens, their
marriages and progress through life.
It has also recorded the passing of
hundreds of its residents and joined
with the sorrowing parents, sons or
daughters at the passing of some loved
one. This is a duty it owed its readers
and the people of the community it
serves, to give them the news of the
! city and county. Hundreds of dol
lars worth of advertising space has
been donated to O’Neill public enter
prises and donated cheerfully during
the years the paper has been published.
Our money is invested here and it is
our home and has been for over fifty
years. O'Neill has two newspapers
that will measure up favorably with
the papers in any town in the state
of the same size or even larger. If
the people of the city desire to Bee
them prosper and continue to reflect
credit on the city they must continue
to receive the support of the business
people. Every dollar given the tabloid
sheet is a dollar taken from the legit
mate medium of advertising, the news
papers.
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
"If the world is sick enough to have
gained any sense, the (Economic)
Conference will be a success."
So spake James Middleton Cox, one
of the American delegation, just be
fore sailing. His attitude jibes with
that of most observers. They believe
that the world is sick enough; they
know likewise that a sick world is not
necessarily a sensible one. When
George V, Imperator and Rex, form
ally opened the Conference, none felt
that it would be un unqualified suc
cess, many were unable to believe that
it would produce much of a definite
and permanent worth. There are too
many warring interests at play; as in
a drama, plots and counterplots will
underlie the seemingly smooth tenor
of the proceedings.
It is a safe forecast that during its
first weeks, the delegates will be spar
ring for position, testing their ground.
There will be a great many polite
speeches, pretty gestures, abstruse
discussions. The real work will come
later. There will be a continuous,
thinly-velied battle between various
sectional interests, opposed philos
ophies. As the Conference opens, the
world it faces might be described,
briefly, in this manner:
A Europe which is closer to war
than at any time since 1913—with
armed troops patroling unfriendly
borders and looking j'ealously at alien
lands, An increasing spirit of nation
alism in many major powers, of which
Germany under Hitler is the classic
example. In the Far East, a growing
spirit of Imperialism on the part of
the Japanese, which must inevitably
cause the Chinese to develop a still
greater enmity for all foreigners.
Widespread unemployment and indus
trial debility in every country. Chaotic
monetary systems and tottering cur
rency standards. And, in most pow
ers, fear and distrust of the rest of
the world.
I These matters are not discussed in
the Conference’s agenda. But they
will have much to do with the policies
of the delegates, and they will influ
ence the proceedings at every turn.
What the agenda does specifically
mention for discussion follows: Mon
etary and credit policy; prices; re
sumption of movement of capital re
strictions on international trade; tar
iff and treaty policy; organization of
production and trade.
These are high-sounding labels and
the subjects they cover are Greek to
ninety per cent of the world’s people.
But the economist can translate them
into terms of jobs, wage scales, living
standards. If the Conference collapses,
it will be because the politicians, dom
inated by racial prejudice and nation
alistic passion, do the dictating. If it
succeeds, it will be because the world
has at last become so sick that it is
willing to go the limit for a cure.
On the eve of the Conference, the
Department of Commerce announced
that world trade slumped to $26,000,
000,000 last year, as compared iwth
$68,000,000,000 in 1929. Not all of this
is the result of depression. Much of it
is the result of such slogans as "Buy
British”—“Buy American”—even “Buy
in Homeville.” It is the ar nuonced
purpose of the Conference to demon
strate the folly that such slogans
represent, and do away with them.
Of great importance to the nation is
President Roosevelt's program on the
relationship of government and busi
ness. Research indicates that cut
throat competition, with the resulting
tremendous waste, is a strong influ
ence in prolonging depression, inas
much as it forces prices down and
prevents them from rising. In the past,
the anti trust laws have stood in the
way of agreement* to offset this. The
President's plan is to abrogate the
trust laws, permit industries to work
together in controlling production and
prices, with the government as arbiter.
Government would have a strong voice
in determining wages, hours of labor,
output, price, etc. Business has shown
itself ready to cooperate.
Factors at play now justify the be
lief that a heavy upturn in building
work will occur before long. During
the past two months small residential
building has been moving steadily up
ward, the material makers have noitced
a better than seasonal gain in orders.
Building upturn would be felt in
every industry—lumber, steel, trans
port, metal, paint and varnish, electric,
gas, etc.,—apd would provide a vast
amount of new employment, with a
consequent jump in buying power.
Also important would be its favorable
effect on security values.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. Quinten Deaver and
children and Miss Anna O’Donnell re
turned last Saturday from a two weeks
visit with relatives and friends at Cas
per, and Cheyenne, Woyming. The
Dtavers left Sunday morning for the
south and will board a ship the first
of the week at New Orleans for the
trip to their South American home,
after a visit with relatives and friends
in the United States of three months.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Downey returned
last Saturday from Chicago, where
they spent two weeks taking in the
sights at the Exposition. Sumner
says that they put in fourteen days on
the grounds and as they kept moving
while there he is of the opinion that
they saw about all the interesting
things there. He says that it is a
great show and that it is being very
well attended, in fact the attendance
so far has been far greater than had
been anticipated. On their way home
they stopped for a few days visit with
relatives in Omaha.
Captain apd Mrs. D. A. Daly and
son, Tommie, Mrs. E. A. Doyle, and
Bobbie Ryan will arrive today from
Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Doyle was
formerly Miss Loretta Ryan. Mrs.
Daly is a sister-in-law of Mrs.
Doyle. Mrs. Doyle will spend a
month or six weeks here visiting with
her father, J. B. Ryan. Captain Daly
is a retired officer of the U. S. Army,
afnd is on his way to California with
his wife and son, where they will make
their home. Bobbie Ryan is returning
from the World’s Fair which he has
been seeing for the past ten days.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
HOLT COUNTY BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS
■ Continued from last week.)
The petition of J. B. Ryan for a re
fund of some 1931 tax paid erron
eously was present at this meeting.
On motion by James, seconded by
Steinhauser, that prayer of petition
be granted and refund warrant be is
sued in the amount of $22.80 in pay
ment of said refund.
Carried.
5:00 P. M. On motion, the Board
adjourned until May 26, 1933. 9:00
A. M.
John Sullivan, John C. Gallagher,
Chairman ClerJ:.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
May 26, 1933. 9:00 A. M.
Holt County Board cf Supervisors
met as per adjornment. All mem
bers present. Meeting called to order
by the Chairman. Minutes of pre
vious meeting were read and, on mo
tion, were approved as read.
The following claims were audited
and approved and, on motion, were
allowed and warrants ordered drawn
on the 1933 estimate of the General
Fund in payment of same:
John A. Carson __$ 52.80
Louis W. Reimer_ 42.00
J. C. Stein . 46.00
John Sullivan 46.50
Hugh L. James_ 53.00
Rodell Root __ 63.8(1
John Steinhauser_ 48.76
Communications of County Attorney
in regard to some of the new laws
recently passed by the legislature and
the application of same, were read at
this meeting.
The following claims were audited
and approved and, on motion were al
lowed and warrants ordered drawn on
the Bridge Fund in payment of same:
J. \V. Black 8 5.35
John Haskin 3.75
Fred Firmer \
Rodell Root
Schaffer_ 6.25
John A. Carson 33.00
P.. C. Root_ 8.25
Alfred Gottschalk_ 5.60
PUBLIC SALE
Saturday, June 24th
i
We will ttell a good 2 row Eli,
u walking cultivator, a nplendid 4
wheel trailer, a heating Move und
other things too numcrouH to
mention. Saturday. 2.30 I*. M.
If you have anything to Hell,
bring it in.
JOHN L. Ul’IG. Manager
In The WEEKS NEWS
TOMORROW’S RAILWAY? Latest in rail transpor
tation. a 42-passenger gasoline-powered car, was tried
out this week in Long Island. The rail-car, which is
equipped with pneumatic tires and can make 90 miles
an hour, is shown running_beside crack steam train.
SPEED! Barney Oldfield, auto
mobile speed king, eating one of
those popular new World's Fair
Sandwiches (made of bacon and <■ f
mayonnaise) just before hop- ^
ping to Chicago on one of the
new United Air Line planes
which make the trip in 5 hours.
THE HEAD MAN—Kenneth Fields
of Elkhart, Ind., West Point’s '32 ace
gridiron star selected honor man of
’33 graduating class, having won
awards in seven of nine scholastic
events. Fields with trophies shown
at right.
- lj
SpACK SHOWS HIM HOW—Jack
Dempsey, ex-champ and newly-ar
rived fight promoter, shows Primo
" Camera, heavyweight contender,
just where a right does the most
damage. The Man-Mountain is in
training for his championship fight
with Jack Sharkey on June 29.
FAMILY SECRETS—Over a thousand domestic
problems a day are submitted to the Voice of
Experience, radio psychologist and problem ad
viser, for his advice and counsel. Photo shows
the anonoymous philanthropist's secretary sort
ing the day's mail for his perusal.
CAREERS OR BABIES? BOTH! Helen Twelvetrees,
Jobyana Ralston, and Arline Judge (left to right) prove
that they can be first-rate actresses and first-rate moth
ers at the same time. Photo shows Miss Twelvetrees’
son, Jack Woody, Jr., Richard Arlen, aged three weeks
and Miss Judge’s baby. Charles Ruggles, Jr.
John Steinhauser _ 4.10
Roy Worden 2.40
Motion by Carson seconded by Root,
that claim of Mrs. Max Karo in the
amount of $44.75 be rejected for rea
son that same is not a proper charge
against the County.
Carried.
The following bids were submitted
on furnishing claim blanks for the
County as follows:
5000 blanks each General Road
Dragging
The Stuart Advocate $21.17 $21.17
The Ewing Advocate 20. 20.00
The Frontier $45.00
Holt Co. Independent 37.25 29.75
Motion by Stein, seconded by Reim
er, that the Ewing Advocate be award
ed the printing of the county Claim
Blanks it being the lowest and best
bid.
Carried.
12:00 nooni On motion, the Board
adjourned until 1:00 P. M.
John Sullivan, John C. Gallagher,
Chairman. Clerk.
May 26, 1933. 1:00 P. M.
Holt County Board of Supervisors
met as per adjournment. All mem
bers present. Meeting called to order
by the Chairman.
Motion by Stein, seconded by Stein
hauser, that a refund warrant be is
sued to Ralph Jungbluth in the amount
of $5.00 for refund of Dance Hall
license which application for license
was rejected.
Carried.
The officers of the Holt County Fair
Association appeared before the Board
in regard to securing County aid for
the fajr this year.
Motion by Steinhauser, seconded by
Carson, that $2000.00 be approprited
for Road Dragging purposes for the
year 1933.
Motion Carried.
Reimer voting no, favoring larger
appropriation.
5:00 P. M. On motion, the Board
adjourned to the call of the clerk.
John Sullivan, John C. Gallagher,
Chairman. Clerk.
IN DISTRICT COURT
The Connecticut General Life In
surance Company has filed suit in the
district court against Harry Leisy,
et al., to foreclose a mortgage given
by Mr. Leisy and wife to the Omaha
Trust Company on February 8, 1928,
for $15,000.00. The petition alleges
that the loan was to draw interest at
the rate of five and a half per cent and
was to be paid semi-annually. The
loan was to be paid as follows: $500
January 1, 1929; $500 January 1, 1930,
$500 January 1, 1931, and $13,500 on
January 1, 1933. To secure the pay
ment of the above loan the defendant
gave the company a mortgage on the
following described real estate: The
west half of section 18, township 31
north, range 9 west; the west half of
northwest quarter and south half of
section 13 and the northeast quarter
and the south half of section 14, all
in township 31; and the north half of
the northeast quarter and the north
west quarter, and the north half of
the southeast quarter of section 24, in
township 31.
Shortly after the mortgage was
given it was sold and assigned to the
plaintiff who is the present owner and
holder thereof. They allege that the
installment due January 1, 1931 and
prior thereto were paid, but that the
defendant failed to pay the taxes for
the years 1930 and 1931. They ask
the court to determine the amount due
and that the land be sold if the said
sum is not paid within a reasonable
time.
The Occidental Building and Loan
Association has filed suit against
Walter H. Stein, et al., to foreclose a
mortgage for $3,000.00 given on Sep
tember 15, 1926, on lot 16, in block
1G, in the original town of O’Neill.
They allege that default has been
made in the payment of the agreed
upon monthly payments and that there
is now due the sum of $2,389.54. They
ask that the amount due be determined
and that the property be sold to sat
isfy said amount.
The decorative spender
doesn’t adorn his com
munity like the humble
saver.
THE
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits,
$125,000.00
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.
