jthe Frontier
D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor
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DEATH ON THF. RADIATOR
About one out of every ten of the
automobiles that use the public streets
and highways, should wear as an
emblem a large, staring death’s head.
It wouldn't be a pretty sight. But it
would be an accurate symbol. Ten
per cent of motorists are responsible
for our gigantic death and injury toll.
Not all of them, of course, have an
accident every year. But they all take
chances. They are irresponsible or in
competent or congenitally careless.
They drive cars with defective brakes
and steering mechanisms and poor
lights. They cut in and out of traffic,
missing oncoming cars by an eyelash
and feeling a thrill of achievement
while doing it. They pass on hills and
curves, and regard even the most basic
and sensible traffic laws as being in
imical obstacles which should be
avoided whenever possible. They drive
at high speed when road and traffic
conditions make it exceedingly danger
ou».
And—every year—they leave behind
them .'10,000 corpses and hundreds of
thousands of injured persons whose,
sole offense was that they happened to
be present when the reckless driver
was taking one of the chances he didn’t
get away with.
Yes, there should be the emblem of
death on a long line of automobiles
which otherwise look no different thnn
any other cars of their kind. This
suggestion may make some of the
reckless drivers think twice before
running a risk the next time.
Economic Highlights
The end of 1933 and the beginning
of 1934 witnessed an improvement in
general business. The decline in pro
duction, which followed the July peak
and wiped out the bulk of spring and
summer gains was reversed. Contra
seasonal improvement occurred in a
number of lines as it did the first half
of last year. There seems to be a more
hopeful outlook on the part of lenders
of a number of basic industries. The
hysterical excitement which followed
the creation of the NRA and other
phases of the recovery porgram is
being replaced by a more stable and
realistic viewpoint. Of importance to
business generally is the allaying of
the fear that the government would
embark on inflation by fiat money—it
is believed that the President’s move to
stabilize silver, and the bill to de
valuate the dollar,, make the issuance
of printing-press money highly im
probable.
It is doubtful it the current t ongrefis
will be so important to business as
most sessions are, inasmuch as it is
largely a rubber-stamp body, which
follows the wishes of the President
from A to Z. Mr. Roosevelt’s plans, in
general, are well known, and to that
extent there is less uncertainty over
legislative activity than there would
otherwise be.
A review of the business situation
follows:
Commodity Prices—The low for com
modity prices was reached on March
3, when they stood at F>5 per cent
of the 192<> level. High of 72.2 came
in October. There has been little
late change, and a degree of stab
ilization seems to have been reached
Level on January 12, was 72.
Domestic Trade—Contrary to many
forecasts, December retail business
was good. The inevitable slacken
ing followed Christmas but, again
it was not so great as some ex
peeted. Sales have been more sat
isfactory in the major farm area*
than in urban industrial centers.
Employment—An unlooked-for droj
occurred in this field at the end ol
the year, as contrasted with sue
cessive gains up to the middle ol
October. I.ate reports show a ‘
percent more than seasonal drop ir
employment, with a reduction of <
percent in payrolls. The industriu
employment decline has been some
what offset by rising employment or
federal puhlie works projects.
Finance—The stock market has beer
stronger with some substantial rise;
but it is still a speculator’s market
made uncertain by spasmodic profit
taking. Outside of federal issues
few new’ bonds h%ve appeared. Pre
sent money policies presage an in
crease in the price of medium-grade
bonds, a slight shrinkage in high
grade bonds.
Foreign Trade—Allowing for seasonal
influences, exports were about aver
age at the end of the year, imports
were below normal. Our favorable
balance of trade is increasing. Here
is another field in which dollar de
valuation will be an all-important
influence.
Construction—This, the most lagging
of all great industries during 1933,
seems to have imporved. At the
end of the year contra-seasonal im
provement took command. In De
cember there was a larger volume of
building than in any month since
October, 1931.
Transportation—End of the year de
cline in freight traffic was less than
seasonal experience forecast. In
Januaryall classes of freight showed
increases. Revenue continues to be
above a year ago, and new orders
for freight cars have been high.
Automobiles—New models have met
with an excellent response, and the
first two weeks of the new yeai
showed a sharp rise in production,
with demand running ahead of it.
Auto prices generally are higher
than last year. Fifteen out of 17
producers shows increased operat
ing schedules.
Chemical Industries—This industry
had a compartive good year in 1933
and recent reports show opera
tions continuing at a relatively high
level. Improvement in the automo
bile and iron and steel industries
major buyers of chemicals, are good
auguries for the future.
Lumber—In the middle of December,
orders were at the lowest level of
the year. Moderate recovery ap
peared in mid-January. Prices con
tinue to advance.
Steel—Steel output gained in Decem
ber, as opposed to the usual season
al experience. In the second week
of January operations were at 34
per cent of capacity—another gain.
Prices in most markets have ad
vanced.
Textiles—At the end of the year a
heavy decline occurred, and this was
one of the few industries with a
more than seasonal drop.
New Funds Alloted
For CWA Projects
Nebrnska emergency relief work
wns boosted financially by an allot
ment of $227,850 for use during Feb
ruary, according to announcement
from the state CWA committee which
met with Chairman W. H. Smith and
Federal Agent Hnynes. The totul al
lotment of all Nebraska counties now
amounts to $1,178,4.21. Among other
counties the following was designated
to receive for use in February:
C«dar $8,450.00
Cherry 950.00
Dixon . 1,050.00
Dakota 3,650.00
Boyd
Boone
Antelope
Thurston
Washington
Wayne
Stanton
Rock
Platte
Madison
Knox
Keyn Paha
Holt
2,100.00
90.00
850.00
2,100.00
2.700.00
1,000.00
350.00
100.00
800.00
4.500.00
1.500.00
1,000.00
2,000.00
Bernard McGreevy
Bernard McGreevey died at La Salle,
Illinois, last Sunday after a short ill
ness of chronic myocarditis, at the age
of 75 years, 8 months and 10 days.
The body was shipped to this city, ac
companied by his son, William, and
his daughter, Margaret, arriving Mon
day evening. The funeral was held
Wednesday morning, interment in Cal
vary cemetery. Three of his four
children were present at the funeral:
Miss Margaret and William, of La
Salle, Illinois, and Bernard, of Long
mont, Colorado. He is also survived
by a sister, Mrs. Thomas Naughton,
living northwest of town.
Bernard McGreevey was one of the
pioneer settlers of this section of the
county, living for a number of years
on a farm northwest of this city. He
later moved to town nnd became inter
ested in the banking business with
Patrick Hagerty. The bank failed
about thirty years ago and a couple
of years later Mr. McGreevey left here
and went to Billings, Mont., where he
resded for a number of years, leaving
there last fall and going to La Salle,
Illinois, where a couple of his children
had located.
NEBRASKA ONE OF THE
LOW STATES IN RELIEF
The national house of representa
tives last Monday passed an npprop
liation bill appropriating $950,000,000
for federal relief and CWA activities,
with only one vote against, a democrat
from Texas.
Hopkins, in charge of the federal
relief fund, in urging the appropri
tion, informed the house appropria
tiions committee that II per cent of
the families in the United States were
receiving relief from public funds in
November, 1933. West Virginia led
with 29 per cent of its families on re
lief rolls. The other states ranked as
follows:
r m, oouin v unumu vjk
lahoma 22, South Dakota 21, Alabama
18, Arizona 17, Kentucky lfi, Michigan
15, Louisiana 14, Montana 14, Penn
sylvania 14, Utah 14, Georgia 13,
North Dakota 13, Ohio 12, Arkansas
11, New York 11, Colorado 10, Dis
trict of Columbia 10, Deleware 10,
Kansas 10, Mississippi 10, North Car
olina 10, Washington 10, Indiana 0,
Maryland 9, New Jersey 9, Texas 9,
Wisconsin 9, Massachusetts 8, Rhode
Island 8, Tennessee 8, California 7,
Connecticut 7, New Mexico 7, Iowa 6,
Missouri fl, Nevada 6, New Hampshire
6, Oregon 6, Maine 5, Nebraska 5,
Idaho (1) 4, Vermont (1) 3, Wyoming
(1) 2, Virginia (2).
(1) October figures.
(2) Report not received.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
By Frank P. Litsehert.
A milestone in the journey toward*
adequate national defense was reached
in the House of Representatives the
other day when the navy bill passed
that body with a mighty chorus of
“ayes” and a comparatively few scat
tered “noes” in opposition. The bill
was sponsored by Chairman Vinson of
the naval affairs committee and is said
to have the full approval of the nation
al administration. That it will have
the full approval of all red-blooded
Americans goes without saying. It is
good to know that it was not a party
measure but an American measure.
Republicans and democrats lined up
shoulder to shoulder for this great
peace assurance bill and Representa
tive Britten, republican of Illinois, for
merly chairman of the naval affairs
committee, declared that there has
been less criticism of the naval bill
than any bill during the past twenty
years.
Of course the bill must still pass the
senate but the prospect is an encour
aging one, ns this is being written.
Senate Chairman Trammel of Florida
said that he planned to have action on
the bill as soon as possible, and within
a few days at least. The senate naval
committee has already approved a bill
similar in nature to the one passed so
overwhelmingly by the House.
The bill, which will start the United
States navy on the road to the parity
which was agreed to in the London
navel conference, authorizes the laying
down of 102 war vessels and the build
ing of a great air armada of nearly
1200 navy planes. The program pro
vides for work which is in addition to
that provided for by President Roose
velt in the PWA program a few
months ago.
The great naval construction pro
gram will be helpful in two ways.
First it will provide a stimulus to
American business. It means not only
the employment of ship workers, but
increased orders for the steel mills,
and many other industries throughout
the country. Second, it will give the
United States the insurance against at
tack by a foreign foe which it needs so
badly. As one of the leading countries
of the world in wealth and social and
cultural development, the United
States is certainly entitled and ought
to have a navy second to none. That
is what we will have if the present
naval program is carried out, although
the navy will not reach full effective
ness for a period of eight years.
It has now become evident to even
the most ardent internationalist that
the (treat World War failed of its ob
jective insofar as it was a “war to end
war for all time to come.” Not in a
long time have the war clouds hung
lower than at present. There are
danger spots all over the world, in
Manchuko, along the Rhine, in Austria
and many other places. Certainly
\Uncle Sam wants to keep out of all
trouble, and above all to assure him
self against attack in case of world
wide conflagration. The old argument
of the pacifists that great armanent
causes war, and that the way to pre
vent war is to disarm, has been ex
ploded so far as one-sided disarmament
is concerned. It now appears that it
is impossible to get a world-wide equit
able disarmament agreement. The
only thing left for the United States
to do therefore, is to look after its
own defenses. Absense of fighting
material does not prevent war. It
only invites attack from another nation
which is more heavily armed and feels
therefore that it has something to gain
by going to war. No nation deliber
ately attacks nnother nation unless it
thinks it has better than even chance
to win. The only way for Uncle Sam
to assure himself against any foreign
nation’s becoming a foe is to build a
navy that will preclude such nation
from having better than an even
chance to defeat us. If our navy is
as good as the best, we can depend on
the good old American spirit and our
geographical isolation to keep us out
of trouble. Surely the naval program
now in process of adoption at Wash
ington has not come too soon. It
shuld have been put under way years
ago. In fast, it would have been much
better and more economical if we had
not sunk our half completed battle
ships more than a decade ago in the
fond hope that such unselfish action
would usher in an eaa of world peace.
NEBRASKA OPINIONS
Beatrice Sun: By the way, what has
become of the red menace? For sev
eral winters I have heard it prophesied
that machine guns would have to be
How would you keep in (ouch with friends if you had no
telephone on your farm? How often you w uld miss out on
things —hut for chats with friends over the telephone!
/OUR TELEPHONE linlu your homo with neighbor* end
town...gat* help In Unto of danger, nidi in butinoss, banlthei lonelinoss.
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used to disperse mobs howling for
bread. The people’s fortitude and
patience have been commendable. 1
should like to hear those who have a
low opinion of the commonality say a
word of commendation for the bravery
with which many people have borne
their misfortunes.
Nebraska City News-Press: A Ne
braska fainter was arrested, and fined
for hunting without a license. The
game he killed was on his own farm,
nurtured there because he kept a sort
of private preserve. It is true he had
no license to hunt, but it will be pretty
hard to convince this man that any
sort of government, short of the Rus
sian, has a right to prevent him from
finding recreation on property which
he owns in his own right.
Falls City Journal: The creation of
old age pensions was urged strongly
the other day by Frances Perkins,
secretary of the department of labor,
in her annual report; the creation by
law of an insurance against poverty in
man’s declining years when he has
been discarded by the high-speed econ
omic organization of this modern era.
In theory, every individual has the full
opportunity to lay by enough during
his productive years to take care of
him in his old age. We know by ex
perience that the theory is not sup
ported by fact. We know that men
who drift by the 50 year mark and
then are unexpectedly thrown out of
their accustomed, places in the econ
omic organization moi^' frequently,
than not fail to find new jobs. Many
great organizations refuse to give
them a new start preferring if they
must train new men, to use younger
men, for the chances are the repeti
tion of this expense is thereby re
duced. We know that the insurance
companies frown upon accepting older
men as compensation risks or do so
only at higher rates. We know that
in the high-geared competition of to
day, the keen eyes and the agility of
youth are more sought after than the
experience of an older head. Every
day almost we see examples of this
crowding out of older men. We know
further that it is impossible for the
average man of small income to make
provision for this early crowding out
unless he lives his youth and early
maturity upon a close-fisted scale
which, if generally adopted, would
mean a general lowering of the plane
of living for us all. To force him to
live on such a scale would be con
trary to all of our new precepts of
social justice and economics as well,
old age pensions therefore, seem to us
to be an obvious need.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. James Lannigan, of
Greeley, were visiting friends in this
city last Sunday. Mr. Lannigan is one
af the prominent attorneys of Greeley
county.
Senator O’Furey of the Cedar County
News and his fellow townsman, Geo.
Beste, of Hartington, were in the city
today and favored this office with a
pleasant call.
Thru H. G. Asher, of Page, Patrick
Clemens, of near Page, exchanged a
farm to Peter Roudybush, Page, for
a half section of land situated be
tween O’Neill and Inman.
Mrs. Thomas Edwards, who went to
Plainview by train Monday, and then
to Sioux City by automobile, aecom
panied by her father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. John Johnson, returned home
Sunday evening-.
The Roosevelt birthday ball given at
Danceland to aid the Warm Springs,
Georgia, foundation netted the sum of
$271.20 and a draft for that amount
has been sent to the national treas
urer of the organization.
Firemen answering a fire alarm at
9:45 last Saturday evening found a
small blaze at the home of William
Haggerty, south of the cemeteries.
The fire was extinguished without ex
tensive damage, it was reported.
The third northwest sandstorm to
strike this vicinity roared in about
noon Saturday. The storm covered
parts of South Dakota, Iowa and Ne
braska. Temperature fell from 59 to
42 and below within a few hours. At
times the dust obscured the sun.
Two prospective democratic candi
dates for Congress were in the city to
day, Orville Chatt, of Tekamah, and
Senator O’Furey, of Hartington. With
a large field of candidates Edgar will
have easy picking winning the demo
cratic nomination, but the election,
well, that’s different.
Dick D. Rogers, of the Burt County
Herald, and Orville Chatt, an attorney
of Tekamah, were pleasant callers at
this office this afternoon. Mr. Chatt
is contemplating filing for the demo
cratic nomination for congress and is
touring the district feeling out public
sentiment.
One of the nicest parties of lhe
winter was that given at the Golden
Hotel last Saturday evening when Mrs.
M. F. Harrington, Mrs. J. J. Harring
ton, Mrs. F. J. Dishner and Mrs. K. R.
Morrison entertained with dinner
at the hotel and cards afterwards.
Mrs. Frank Froelich won high score
with Mrs. A1 Hicks runner up. Mrs.
Ira Moss won the consolation and Mrs.
H. J. Birmingham the all cut.
The Frontier’s special subscription
offer closed last Saturday night, and it
was very successful. A large number
of our readers paid their arreages and
a year in advance and we added a large
number of new readers to our large
family. We still have a number of
delinquents and we hope they will call
as soon as possible and get on the
right side of the ledger.
Mr. and Mrs. Romaine Saunders were
up from Amelia Tuesday, accompanied
by their sons, Ned and Romaine, Jr.,
and daughters, Mrs. L. M. Rohrer, of
Hastings, and Miss Maria, who is
making a brief stop with relatives in
Nebraska while on her way from Los
Angeles to Washington, D. C., where
she joins the staff as medical dietitian
of the Washington Sanitarium and
Hospital, a popular health institution
at the national capitol.
The nation’s accident bill for 1933
totaled 2 billion dollars in wage loss
and medical expense, and claimed 89,
500 lives and caused 8,500,000 disabl
ing injuries, the national safety council
announced. Deaths due to accidents in
1932 totaled 89,100, and the slight in
crease was accounted for in a rise in
the motor vehicle and home classifica
tions. Deaths were classified as fol
lows: Motor vehicle, 30,500; other pub
lic, 17,500; home, 29,500, and occupa
tional, 14,500. The total for occupa
tional also includes 2,500 killed in
motor vehicles while engaged in work.
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