The Frontier
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Economic Highlights
Many of the Washinton correspond
ents, of late, have been commenting on
a strange phenomena which is fur
rowing the brows of senators and rep
resentatives. There is a growing vol
ume of public criticism of Adminis
tration legislation—unaccompanied by
criticism of the man who is respons
ible for it, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
All the Congressmen have been find
ing their mails flooded with letters
reading, in effect: “You should vote
and work against the stock exchange
bill (or some other White House
backed bill which holds the limelight
at the time), because it will delay re
covery . . . Support the President!”
That isn’t at all far-fetched. Thous
ands, perhaps tens of thousands of
such letters have reached the capitol,
and the more prominent the legislator
the more he gets. In spite of their
obvious inconsistencies, such letters
are important. They show something
that is of vital interest, and will be a
vital influence in coming political
campaigns: That the voting public is
beginning to fear that the New Deal
is more revolutionary, both in prin
ciple and practice, thun it had bar
gained for—but that its fairth, its
trust, and its affection for the Presi-^
dent is as strong, perhaps stronger,
than ever. Mr. Roosevelt, in its view,
can make mistakes, but he cun do no
wrong.
The Wirt inquiry brought the crit
icism to a head. Mr. Wirt’s startling
charge—that members of the brain
trust were conspiring to overthrow the
government, und regarded Mr. Roose
velt as the Kerensky of the American
revolution, eventually to be replaced
by its Lenin—wasn’t taken very ser
iously. Again, there was nothing
thrilling in his statement that men
such us Dr. Tugwell want changes in
the American government—Mr. Tug
well hus written many books, made
mnny speeches, given many interviews,
and his ideas are hardly a secret. But
in the wake of Mr. Wirt came other,
more moderate and better known
■critics who offered the opinion that
■we were drifting toward facism, thut
ithe public hadn’t much idea of what
was going on, that the shoals weren’t
far ahead. They ware backed up by a
substantial volume of newspaper com
ment.
Any every one of these critics, as
well as Dr. Wirt, was careful to avoid
anything that might be construed as
a knock at the President.
All of this indicates that Mr. Roose
velt is liable to find it tough getting
some of his more unusual legislation
thru future sessions of Congress—but
that his personal hold on the American
electorate will continue to be firm.
There are plenty of potentialities for
political excitement in that unique
situation.
The federal government is spending
money in a big way—but not in so big
a way as was, anticipated three months
ago. On January 15, the President
estimated that the government would
spend $10,500,000 in fiscal 1934—$7,
500,000,000 of what was classed as
emergency expense. Nine months of
the fiscal year are gone now, and ex
penditures have only come to $4,800,
000,000—well under half. This is only
about one-third more than the Hoover
administration spent in the same per
iod of its last fiscal year.
Principal reason for the drop is
found in the fact that emergency pay
ments have totaled only $2,800,000,000.
And that, in turn, is largely due to
the happy experience of the RFC. The
budget included almost $4,000,000,000
for that bureau—however, since Jan
uary 1, a quarter of a billion dollars
has been paid back on loans made.
Head man Jesse Jones believes that re
payments will take care of all loans
to he made until July.
Next to the UFC in economy is the
Public Works Administration. It was
allotted $3,300,000,000— has spent but
$803,000,000.
The budget message likewise in
cluded estimates for forthcoming rev
enue—and in this the President was
much nearc'1 right than In his guess at
expenses. Collections were forecast at
$3,200,000,000- arid actual nine months
collections came to $2,300,000,(88)
which makes the estimate look quite
accurate. Tax collections for March
were $-420,000,000 higher than in any
month since June, 1931, income tax
revenue was running a third ahead of
last year—and Treasury officials
smiled happily.
There is still a wide gulley between
revenue and expense—but the problem
is looking easier than it was expected
to be a few months back. And the
other day the Treasury attempted an
experiment—it offered to exchange 3 Vi
per cent twelve-year bonds for 5th
Liberties and Treasury notes falling
due May 2. Investors jumped at the
offer—and trading was brisk. Treasury
prestige is thus potent.
Not quite so happy was another
phase of the income tax collections,
when analyzed. There was a sub
stantial rise in collections from in
dividuals in the “over 5,000’’ class, a
substantial drop in the “under $5,000,”
a fact which primes the guns of
people who believe the NRA is bene
fitting those-Who-have-at the expense
of those-who-haven’t.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
By Frank P. Litschert
Business indices like bank clearings,
car loadings and electric power con
sumption continue to show a gain over
the same weeks in 1933. This is in
part accounted for, of course, by the
fact that a yeur ago the banking sit
uation was regarded as critical and
we had only just come out of the na
tion-wide bank holiday. But aside from
that there has been an undeniable
pick-up in retail business and light
manufacturing. Just how much of this
is due to the spending of government
money thru relief agencies, and how
much to the natural turn in the tide,
which is being experienced all over the
world it is impossible to state. Many
financial authorities say that they will
not feel entirely comfortable about the
situation until there is a pick-up in the
so-colled heavy or capital goods in
dustries, which are still in the dol
drums. If such an acceleration comes
in the near future we will undoubtedly
be headed for better things in the near
f uture.
Perhaps no industry in the country
is a better barometer of general con
ditions among the people themselves
than one dealing with motion pictures.
There is a reason for this. The motion
picture is the one great entertainment
for the masses. Of course our cul
tured folks attend too, but it can be
safely said that the movie is peculiarly
the diversion of whut William Jen
nings Bryan used to like to call the
great common people. Even during
the darkest hours of the depression,
most of us found time and money to
forget ourselves and our troubles be
fore the silvered screen occasionally.
As Will H. Hays, head of the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors
Association stnted recently in a trans
oceanic radio address for the Cinemat
ograph Trade Benevolent Fund:
“In the dark days of depression, the
motion picture has been a great refuge
for humanity. The doors of a motion
picture theater are mugic portals be
yond which lie the restful country of
our dreams. There, for a little time,
one can lay aside the worry and reality
and. live in a blesed land of make
believe. Motion pictures have made
their contribution to the courage and
sanity of nations.”
Now, according to figures compiled
by the motion picture industry, the
motion picture attendance during the
darkest days of the depression aver
aged about 40,000,000 weekly. At the
height of the boom, before the crash of
1029, the average attendance of motion
picture theaters was 100,000,000 week
ly. Now during the year 1933 the
average attendance in the United
States was 60,000,000 weekly. This
means that at the time most of us
thought things were entirely hopeless
40,000,000 people were buying tickets
to motion picture theaters of the
country each week, in an effort to find
relief from the gloom. Last year the
average was 60,000,000 so that the
attendance had climbed 50 per cent
from the low. It can be estimated,
while there are no figures for so stat
ing, that normal attendance in the
country now ought to be around 80,
000,000 weekly, half way between the
1933 attendance boom period. This
would mean that, if the theaters are
any bormeter, and they are undoubt
edly a good one, the people as a whole
are just now half way back on the
road so far as normal spending power
is concerned. And there are good in
dications that the business is improv
ing further up to this time in the
year 1934.
Of course it will not be wise to be
lieve that the toughtest part of the
trip is over and that we are soon to l>e
back to normal. There are many dang
ers to overcome, and many specters
lurk in the background. Rut so far as
present spending ability is concerned
the figures above g'vrn indicate that
the people a* a whole are considerably
Iwter off than at the depth of the de
pression. The question is where do
we go from here? I.et us hope that
sound policies at Washington and in
every state and community in the
country will point the way upward.
Living ‘Who's Who
A CQUAINTED with more great
figures in world events than any
other single newspaperman, Edwin C.
Hill is a veritable “walking Who’s
Who.” His background stands him in
good stead, for it gives an intimate
touch to his newspaper and radio
“Human Side of the News” interpreta
tions, which have won him a tre
mendous audience. He was a cub under
the wing of another great newspaper
man, Richard Harding Davis, and bids
fair to esjual his friend's fame.
War Prospects Good
Dr. Thomas Healy, who is assist
ant head of Georgetown university’s
foreign service school, Washington,
D. C., speaking before a congress of
the Daughters of the American Rev
olution there, told the women that
America has passed from the post-war
era to a new pre-war era.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler was
quoted and called a mighty poor war
prophet. Butler was quoted as saying
that during the world war there was
no sanity in arming against “nobody,”
and recently as asserting that Napol
eon and Bismark are dead.
Dr. Mealy said: ‘“The ignorance of
the American people is not so abysmal
they are not aware of the fact that
Napoleon and Bismark have been re
placed by modern and possibly more
dungerous counterparts in Hitler and
a host of other military dictators at
this moment ruling a large part of the
world.
“Unlike Napoleon and Bismark, the
nazism of Hitler and the communisia
of Stalin have reached over into tm>
very heart of America in an attempt
to undermine the structure of our
government.
“The far eastern situation is at least
as dangerous as the European situa
tion with Russia and Japan both fev
erishly preparing for war and almost
ready to fly at each other’s throats.”
The daughters decided to bring one
school girl from each of the 48 states
to Washington on a patriotic pilgrim
age, to back the teaching of American
history and civil government in
schools, and will demand a more mod
ern merchant marine and will back
demand for large and sufficient appro
priations for the R. O. T. C. and the
C. M. T. C.
Many world renowned authorities on
war say strife is sure to break this
spring and others deny this is possible,
giving as their reason there is a lack
of money. Some say war is possible
if nothing but clubs are available.
Topeka Capital: Asked where he got
his thirst for knowledge a high school
boy said he got his knowledge from his
mother and his thirst from his dad.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00—It. M. Sauers
Superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00 — “Regu
lated Lives.”
Intermediate C. E. 7:15—Rogenc
Eyer, Leader.
Evening Service 8:00 — “Brother
hood of Man” This will be a third in
a requested series of sermons.
The word “all” is frequently used
in the New Testament with reference
to the assembling of Christians to
gether. They were “all" present. We
are encouraged with the increased at
tendance and interest but we shall n,-t
be satisfied until “all” are present.
II. I). Johnson, Pastor.
Boys here report that one husky
lad teasing an aged man under cover
of night recently was chased und suc
cessfully struck his head on some post,
which claimed it was where it was
quite accidently. The young bullock,
it was reported, lay unconscious in
the weeds until one o’clock central
stundard time, Moses in the bullrushes.
Another young man is reported to
have crashed into a clothes line post
one night, loosening four teeth and
rutting his cheek. This fellow was
merely playing with others in the dark
and has our sympathy because that
same clothes line once raked us off u
a pile of bricks, and exhibited stars
crooked horse, stood us on our head on
las large as a washtub.
THE CIRCUS
Kids of the East turning to stone is
a hard one, but should this occur, ac
cording to personal experience, a little
after the first of September, it should
be a welcome transformation.
Dear Circus:'“Do chickens produce
eggs or eggs produce chickens?”—
Constance C.
Answer: You must be hatching up
a shell game, “now you see it, now you
are unable to see anything.” Another
peep out of you before bedtime and
we’ll crack you on the ankle with a
toothpick.
Ting-a-ling, birdies, sing,
Gosh a-Friday, spring!
My heart’s afire for a beau,
And for him ”d warsh and seau.
Have you heard of the big earth
quake between Chambers and O’Neill?
Well, no one has.
Wild hay men must be just as wild
as the name sounds. They often go
out on bale, always are going haywire
and cut up and associate with rakes in
a manner to make a fellow sickle of
the clan. Besides, hi late summer,
they remain near a bar and wild chick
ens, yes, mower and mower.
Mary Ann McFuddle’s me name,
Way I raise money’s a shame.
I hoists me wallet o’er me head,
Banks the furnace an’ goes to bed.
Wife: The scales and yard stick are
in the closet.
Fisherman: What I want is a sur
veyor.
Wife: What for?
Fisherman: To mind his own busi
ness.
They say there is to be a nudist
camp in every town next summer.
What—short skirts coming in style
again ?
A Pennsylvania man hung himself in
effort at curing an aching tooth. Won
der if the darn thing worked ?
Why does a lost penny hurt more
than a spent dollar? Because it is
unnatural to let loose of money with
out getting a fair exchange.
Nebraska is larger than all of the
New England states put together.
Nebraska is 45‘J miles in legnth and
207Mi miles in width.
Maybe they plant potatoes by moon
light to fool the neighbor’s chickens.
Teacher: Willie, where is the lowest
point in Nebraska?
Willie: They haint any. They was
one but they dumped junk in it and
filled it up.
Well, nevertheless, the highest point
in this state is Banner county and she
is 5,040 feet above the level of the sea.
A very few boys here whang away
at such birds as robins, woodpeckers
and meadow larks, little dreaming of
the consequences, if Bird, life was
erased entirely. In three years after
birds were extinct, human life would
be impossible because worms birds eat
would devour every morsal of vegeta
tion and starvation would be a sure
thing.
Why does a bachelor wash clothing
on a rainy day? To get it clean.
Remonetization of silver means
small change in a big weigh.
And. now it is make hay while the
son and daughter shine.
What is the difference between a
rich and a poor man?
Oh, about ?1,000,0()I).
There is enough yucca root in Holt
county to feed 15,000 persons two
years.
Why, oh why, do kidnapers stud
iously avoid taking old maids? The
’napers arc afraid someone might call
the affair an elopement and have them
thrown in for wife dodging.
One of the jokes played on an
O’Neill boy, now a man and still here,
had to do with a bachelor the boy be
lieved strictly honest. One morning
the lad saw the man start a fire and
he was curious to know the liquid
used to hurry the blaze.
“Water,” the bachelor said. The
fire reared and the lad wondered. “One
must hold his breath though, to work
body magnetism into the water.”
The boy went home, and hopping
out of bed one cold morning, tried the
wonderful stunt. He built a slow fire
and as his toes acted as if they would
turn to ice, he dashed a generous
quantity of water on the fire. The
blaze sputtered and went out. What
the boy said and thought never was
learned as he quit the bachelor right
there.
A great discovery has been made.
For years it was noticed Monday
morning papers were thin and con
tained little information. It has been
discovered there is too much Sunday
snooze, hence there is not enough
snooze left for the Monday morning
snoozepapers.
Kid: Mama, I saw a great big bird
wif stripes and a green bill; what kind
was it?
Mama: A jail bird, I presume.
BRADDOCK HEREFORDS
AT AUCTION
Wednesday, May 1(>, 1934
O’Neill, Nebraska
15 coming two year old bulls,
46 coming yearling bulls,
46 coming yearling heifers.
Superior Domino and Beau Elect, two outstanding sons of Domino
were at the head of this herd for many years. Assisting them was
Valient Brummel, whose dam was by Domino. There probably is a
greater concentration of Dumino blood in this herd than is to be
found in any other herd.
These calves will be presented for your appraisal at
the Ranch 1 mile south and 3 miles west of O’Neill.
Plan to attend this sale. Catalogue mailetf only on request. A postal
card will bring one to you.
JULIA BHADDOCK-GILMORE
Col. FRED REPPERT, Auctioneer Col. ART THOMPSON, Auctioneer
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