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The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska as ^Second Class Matter. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertisments on Pa^es 4, 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 25 cents an inch (one column wide) per week; on Page 1 the charge is 40 cents an inch per week. Local advertisements, 10 cents per line first insertion, sub sequent insertions & cents per line. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, in Nebraska-$2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska — $2.50 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. NATIONAL AFFAIRS By Frank P. Litschert Some newspaper man the other day, in commenting tersely on the differ ences of opinion which have grown up between Henry Ford and General John, son, suggested that if everyone who is disatisfied because the NRA has raised the cost of living more than it has raised his income, were to buy a Ford car, the famous Detroit man ufacturer would not be injured to any great extent by a proposed govern ment boycott of his product. While there is neither the time nor the space available here to discuss the whys and wherefors of the controversy between Henry Ford and the NRA, it is undoubtedly true that a great deal of such dissatisfaction as may exist among the rank and file of our people today is due to the fact that generally incomes have not risen as fast as the cost of living. That is behind the latest wave of farm discontent, and the complaint can be heard on the street corner in the city as well as in the rural districts. While it is un doubtedly true that the recovery pro gram in shortening hours and increas ing wages has helped the workers in many industries, it is equally true that such workers represent only a small percentage of the great body of Amer ican consumers, even in the urban districts. That the rise in the price of finished products has outrun the rise in the price which the farmer gets for his produce is undoubtedly true and this furnishes the inspiration for u great deal of the present demand for infla tion. In the towns and cities too there are many workers who have re ceived no increase in wages commen surate with the increase in the price of the commodities they have to buy, and there is another great class of consumers who live on fixed salaries or fixed incomes who are undergoing the same unpleasant experience. The government has sought to help the farmer with a processing tax on wheat and cotton, but up to this time the policy has only succeeded in raising the price of necessities in the city without aiding the farmer to any great extent. And the processing tax on wheat, for example, is not a sound method for increasing the consumption of flour, no matter how it may be viewed from other angles. Evidently on the theory that the new farm recovery plan has not had sufficient time to work itself out, the government is going ahead with an extension of processing taxes. The latest pronouncement of Secretary Wallace is for an allotment plan for corn and hogs. The procedure is similar to that in tne wheat plan for cutting down production, and to pay the cost of hiring the farmers to re duce hog production, a processing tux which will amount to two dollars u hundred pounds by February 1, 1934, is to be levied on live hogs. Just how this will work out remains to be seen. It used to be the theory that when there was a surplus in the country one way to remedy the situation was to in crease the demand. This is evidently not the present theory, however, as raising the retail price of pork in the markets of the country will not tend to induce the ultimate consumer, who is already a little peeved, to increase his consumption of pork. And it is not to be forgotten that a tax of two cents a pound on live hogs is apt to be multiplied many times before it gets to the ultimate consumer. One thing leadjn to another. Since they realize that higher pork prices may tend to induce people to turn to beef, some so-called economic experts are now suggesting a small processing tax on beef in order to “even up" when the price of pork goes up although it is generally admitted that there is no great surplus of beef cattle in the country. The entire governmental recovery plan with its many ramifications has now become so involved that a great many students of economics are be ginning to wonder just where we are going to come out. Some of them are wondering whether it wouldn’t have been a better, as It certainly would have been a simpler recovery plan, to have passed minimum wage and min imum hour laws in the first place, subject to review and modification by competent authority, and let it go at that, trusting to the good sense of the American people to finish the work, aided as they would have been by federal construction and the natural forces of recovery which have been trying to improve the situation in America for several months now, just as they have been improving in Eng land, in France, in Germany, in Italy and in South America. ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS It is now expected that the New Year will see the approval of all the industrial codes. That will mean that the National Recovery Administration has completed its first great task. At this writing, 59 codes, covering the basic industries, have been approved. One hundred and thirty-seven are be ing revised. Forty-seven are sched uled for early hearings. By the time this is read the retail code, which was one of the most difficult, will have been approved unless an unlooked for problem crops up. Most interesting feature of this code is that it will eliminate selling at less than inven tory cost, a practice which has been prevalent, especially among large stores, which advertise “leaders” at less than cost in the hope that custom ers buying them will buy other goods on which a profit is made. Very small stores, in towns of bottom-bracket population, will be immune to code provisions. One important NRA problem is go ing to be the attitude of the press. Here’s where the recovery administra tion made a possibly far-reaching mis. take. When General Johnson excluded two reporters from his conference, be cause he didn’t like what they had been writing about NRA, he was doing the unprecedented. Then he put his foot in deeper by advocating a licens ing system for papers, and just about every metropolitan editor in the country ran for his typewriter. On top of that, an NRA representative in the South called on the editor of a medium-sized paper, told him if he didn't stop making unfriendly com ment on NRA labor provisions, he’d find himself in trouble. The editor spoke up in his paper and found the whole press, including the most zeal ous supporters of the Roosevelt pro gram, behind him. This threatened press censorship is vitally important, and sparks are going to fly when it really comes to a head. General belief is that Mr. Roose velt is heartily in favor of u free press —that his mistake is in not holding tight enough rein on some of his as sistants. One fine afternoon back in 1913 an obscure prince was shot in the equally obscure city of Sarajevo. To most of the world the event simply meant one more scarehead and nothing more. Then armies began mobilizing. Lights burned late in chancellories. The British Navy set out for maneuvers several weeks ahead of the normal time. And the greatest war in history was underway. Matters are not especially different in Europe now. Hitler’s withdrawal | of Germany from the League of Na tions and the disarmament conference, has sent the greatest scare since those 1913 days thru premiers and emperors, congresses and parliments. The Hit ler position is that the Versailles treaty is unbearable—that the refusal to meet Germany on an equal basis so far as armaments, especially, are con cerned, thrusts the blame onto the other powers and that whatever hap pens will be their fault. Position of the other powers is more vague than that, and more confused. But they definitely fear Germany. Theoretical ly she has no army, save a small Reichswehr made up of picked men in for long terms. Practically, she has a great army, consisting of Hitler’s brown shirts, which, under command of schooled Reichswehr officers, is powerful indeed. Her great lack is the weapons of offense—artillery, tanks, planes. Final decision may be left to France, which has most at stake, is most afraid. Many European statesmen believe it is time to declare a prevent ative war on Germany, crush her ab solutely and unseat Hitler, before she has time to prepare. Smaller coun ttries are alarmed—barricades are rising on the Swiss frontier, and her small, but first-class army received increased appropriations. Went into harsh training. There is a link of nations around Germany of which but one, France, is great—the others, how ever, by cumulative action, could make it very unpleasant for Hitler. So far as the United States is con cerned, these events are of only econ omic importance. Roosevelt policy will doubtless be to keep hands off—even in case of war, to pursue complete and dispassionate neutrality. It’s Europe’s affair—and the fires are burning faster daily. Speaking of fires, the U. S. has one of its own. It’s consuming the prairie country. Not a literal blaze, it is in the minds and hearts of farmers, who believe the AAA has failed to aid them; have watched their purchasing power, in many instances, go sharply down while other prices went sharply up. The Administration is frankly worried as the farm strike movement grows, takes in more farmers, more kinds of products, more states. Milo Reno, who can be both a fire eater and a fire maker, came into sight again with his Farm Holiday Association, told his followers to buy nothing, sell nothing, pay no taxes and no debts, until selling price at least reached cost price. Two governors expressed them selves as being in sympathy with the farmer’s strike. Whole future of the Administration farm program is at stake and strong est efforts will be given to bringing order from chaos. FEDERALIZED SCHOOLS Philadelphia Public Ledger: A doubly dangerous doctrine was ad vocated in New York this week by Dean William F. Russell, of Teachers College, Columbia University. First was the familiar plea for federal aid to education. Second, the threat that without it the schools of America will be unable to stem the tide of despot ism in government or their students be adequately instructed in the en lightened purposes and principles of a planned economy. It is despotism which is feared by the opponents of federal control of education, which is the ultimate aim of most of those who want the schools supported by federal funds. There is political despotism, the probable con sequence of putting expenditures for education under bureaucratic control. There is the despotism of doctrinaires in education, given too much author ity in a national school system. It is a sophistry that the schools must be given federal aid so that they may instruct the citizens of tomorrow in their duties under the “new deal.” Nothing much worse could happen to the schools than that they should be made the proving grounds of econ omic policies or an outlet for prop aganda. Dean Russell, of course, urges that American education be rescued by Washington so that it may train “citizens who will have the back ground and knowledge sufficient to judge clearly the efforts of our lead ers toward economic reconstruction.” Does he believe that a federal depart ment of education would encourage such b critical and judicious spirit in the schools? Will teachers under such conditions feel free to bite the federal hund that feeds them? Or will education become the most ob vious of all instruments for swaying public opinion to the will of those »* authority over its destinies, its pur poses and—above all—its financial support? Hard times have aggravated this issue, without changing its character. Free education in the United States is tempted to sell its soul for a mess of public money. When prosperity and stability return, the agitation may die a natural death. Until then the fed eralization of education must be fought by all who believe in real freedom for the schools and those who work and study in them. AVOID LEAGUE TRAPS Chicago Herald: Speaking as Presi dent Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Swanson tells his fellow citizens on the Pacific coast that he is opposed to American membership in the League of Nations court unless “the United States should have a veto power on the issues touching her.” The United States has that veto power now by reason of the fact that this country is not a member of the League’s judicial branch, which is what this court is. The best way to keep this veto power is to keep out of the League, and out of the League Court, and out of the League’s bank, and out of other similar traps set by the League and controlled by the League. The only citizens in the United States today who are still attempting to entangle the United States in the League of Naions, its court or its bank are an organized minority of professed internationalists. Theodore Roosevelt, whose memory the American people delight to honor every year on October 27—the anni versary of his birth—aptly described the internationalist when he wrote in his book, “The Great Adventure”:' “The professed internationalist us ually sneers at nationalism, at pat riotism and at what we call American ism. He bids us forswear our love of country in the name of love of the world at large. We nationalists answer that he has begun at the wrong end; we say that, as the world now is, it is only the man who ardently loves his country first who in actual practice can help any other country at all.” The American people will hope that, in dissociating himself from the min ority of internationalists which is at tempting to lure the United States into the League of Nations thru the trap door of it* private court. Secretary Swanson speaks not only for himself but also for the Roosevelt adminis tration and for the Democratic leader ship in both houses of Congress, WIRES CROSSED Boston Post: “Think of your brain as a telephone swithchboard,” says the Literary Digest. With the oper ator half the time asleep at the switch. PAST EXPERIENCES RECALLED Manchester Union: Why is it still said that unwanted articles aren’t “worth a Continental?” Because a “Continental” was inflated currency. Thus in our own country, the past furnishes sad object lessons enough to prevent us from repeating past mis takes. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. O’Neill, Nebr., October 3, 1933. Council met in regular session. In the abscnse of the Mayor the President of the Council presided at the meeting. Present: Johnson, Phalin, Harty, Gillespie and Brennan. Minutes of previous meeting ap proved. City Treasurer’s statements were read and approved. Moved, seconded and carried that the following claims be allowed: On General Fund: Ralph Millard ..$ 14.40 G. E. Miles 4.00 Anderson Co._ 12.75 Ed. T. Campbell .... 16.00 N. W. Bell Tel. Co. . 2.75 W. J. Hammond . 25.00 The Frontier ... - 46.40 Interstate Power Co. .211.30 Scott Hough .— 85.00 L. G. Gillespie, Agent - 182.10 Elmer Neal _ 5.00 On Water Fund: National Lead Co.. 63.36 Continental Oil Co. 28.61 Uhl Transfer .. .50 Jos. Filsinger . 100.00 C. B. & Q. R. R. Co. _ 5.84 Ed. T. Campbell _ 10.00 Bob Davidson _. 2.50 Roy Johnson _ 41.50 On Road Fund: D. D. Hunt .$125.00 Motion was made, seconded and car. ried that the application of G. A. Fox for an off sale license to sell bever ages in accordance with the provis ions of House Roll No. 585, State of Nebraska, and also the bond filed with such application be accepted and licensse issued in accordance wiith such application. Motion was made, seconded and car ried that the resignation of C. P. Han cock, city treasurer, be accepted. Moved, seconded and carried that Edward Quinn be appointed City Treasurer for the unexpired term of C. P. Hancock. Motion was made, seconded and car ried that Frank Shaner, of Ainsworth, Nebraska, be employed to run six test holes at a cost of $25.00 each for the new well contemplated for the city, said test holes to be 100 feet or more, and location of test holes to be desig nated by the Council. The Council adjourned subject to the call of the Mayor. ED. T. CAMPBELL. City Clerk. O’Neill, Nebraska, Nov. 2, 1933. Council met at the call of the Mayor. Present: Mayor Stout and Council men Coyne, Johnson, Phalin, Brennan, Harty, Gillespie. , Motion was made, seconded and car ried that the agreement between the City of O’Neill and the State of Ne braska for the construction, according to plans, of highway through O’Neill be approved and signed and returned to the State. The Clerk called the roll and re sulted as follows: Yeas: Johnson, Coyne, Phalin, Brennan, Harty, Gillespie. Nays: None. No further business the Council ad journed subject to the call of the Mayor. ED. T. CAMPBELL, City Clerk. PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOLT COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS O’Neill, Nebraska, Oct. 24, 1933. 10:00 A. M. Ilolt County Board of Supervisors met as per adjournment, taken on (Continued on page 4, column 4.) Notice of Farm Allotments and of Maximum Acre ages of Wheat for 1934 Under Contracts for Mem bers of the Wheat Production Control Association of Holt County, State of Nebraska. Listed below are statements of the allotments which have been determined for members of the Holt County Wheat Production Control Association. These allotments are to hold for the duration of the present wheat contracts, and they are the basis upon which adjustment payments are to be made. EWING COMMUNITY Community Committee: N. C. Christianson, Joe Mlnarik and H. M. Imsick. Total Allot- Maximum Name of Applicant Section Acres on ment in 1934 W. •Farm Bushels Acreage J. L. Blair . 13 200 80 17 Clem Bollen . 13 80 32 7 N. C. Christianson 21 240 52 11 Paul Funk _ 22 100 53 7 ♦♦George Holloway . 3 100 150 17 II. M. Imsick ..._.. 4,13 480 228 43 Frank Mlnarik __ 22,20,27 880 320 38.4 Joe Mlnarik . 27,34 320 218 19 Frank Schmiser _ 30 100 233 34 John J. Funk . 15 200 00 13 STUART COMMUNITY Community Committee: James 1). Beck, Lyle Radciiffe and Mahlon Shearer. Alfons Batenhorst _ 11,14 200 995 79 James 1). Beck ..... 1,12 900 109 17 L. R. Cobb ..8,35 040 1227 152 E. J. Collins . 1 800 08 14 Floyd Fuller _ 22 320 93 9 James Havranek _ 28 320 91 17 C. F. Jonas .. 10,35 245 55 7 Joe Kaup, Sr__ 8 320 393 47 Toney Lockman _ 5 100 1524 105 Aaron Lofquest . 3 320 52 11 Chas. M. Mulford . 33 300 47 9 E. C. Ninas _ 18 100 299 38 Alphonse Olberding _ 32 500 108 23 Lyle Radciiffe . 22,27 320 407 41 ♦♦John Shald . 10,11 320 549 41 Mahlon Shearer _ 7 100 140 14 O’NEILL COMMUNITY Community Committee: Jos. Schollmeyer, Harry Fox, Asa Hubbard. David Bellar _ 29 320 52 11 Frank Burival . 14 320 091 147 G. A. Conard . 30 080 97 17 ♦♦Harry Fox.. 5,31 320 301 28 Preston Jones _ 34 420 177 20 Wm. G. Kraft . 28 100 44 9 ♦♦Guy Noble . 5,8 320 83 8 John G. Oetter . 21 040 94 8 E. J. Itevell _ 32 1000 1325 180 I. R. Ridgeway _ . 7,14 320 08 14 Jos. Schollmeyer _ 5 720 100 21 John Schmidt . 22 040 150 34 Sam Schultz _ 10 100 104 14 C. L. Shanner . 3 100 171 23 Anton Soukup _ 25 320 219 23 Roy D. Spindler .. 31 GOO 100 19 Joseph F. Winkler .... 12 480 197 40 Asa B. Hubbard . 15 040 109 21 David Isaacson .. 21 520 10 1.7 Enlisted Under Banner “l Serve**^ School Children Help the Needy IN 1933 there were 6,840,000 mem bers of tho Junior Red Cross in the public, private and parochial schools of the United States. They ranged In years from the twelve-year-old In grammar school through the senior classman In high school,.and numbered about equally between boys and girls. Like the adult organization—the Amer ican Red Cross—every race and creed have equal rights under the Junior ban ner "I Serve.” These boys and girls have aided in a magnificent degree in the huge un employment relief work the American Red Cross has been carrying on for several years. Through funds they contributed, hundreds of schools were enabled to give free lunches to children ot the jobless; they have collected and distributed clothing; in their manual training classes they made thousands of toys; extended Thanksgiving and Christmas cheer to the veterans in hospitals, the aged, crippled and sick in their communities. One of their major works was the making of thou sands of garments in their sewing classrooms from the cloth furnished by the Red Cross, They aided in many communities In canning surplus vege tables and trulls for winter stores for Above, handiwork of boys and girls In California school— dresses they made and food they canned for jobless; be low, school girl of Pittsburgh trying suit she made on a email school fellow. the needy. Two outstanding; work3 of mercy were the distribution of thousands of Christmas greeting cards in braille writing for the blind, and the children’s toy party given in Ellsworth and Au burn, Marne, following devastating fires which made several hundred fami lies homeless, and destroyed all of their household possessions. The chil dren nad been reclothed, but it oc curred to Red Cross workers that they had lost their valuable possessions, too —their dolls, books, wagons and other playthings. Junior Red Cross members In ten cities were telegraphed about this state of affairs, and immediately thero came rolling in great bundles of gifts for the childreu of tho two Maine towns. A grout toy party was held, and each child rocelved at least three gifts, candy and ice cream to repletion, and tho occasion was gay and festive with balloons anti other decorations. "As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined" might well be the motto of tho Junior Red Cross. Since the days of the World War, when the children of America were rallied under its ban ner so that they might also participate iu sustaining the morale of the Army and Navy, millions have reached their maturity, and are today found enlisted us members of the adult organization. Their Interest in their fellowman. inculcated in the school days when they were Junior Red Cross members has made of them substantial and helpful citizens today, when the nation Is bat tling the greatest economic depression in history.