BRIEFLY STATED
A heavy hail and rain storm fell in
the southwestern part of the county
last Monday night.
Mrs. L. H. Snell returned last Sun
day night from a two days viist with
her mother at Genoa, Nebr.
James Harty, Bennett Grady and
Gene Gallagher left last Sunday morn
ing for Long Pine, where they expect
to put in a week fishing in that section.
Attorney Vincent C. Haskell, of
Omaha, was in the city last Wednes
day looking after legal matters.
Robert Lansworth returned to his
home at Tekamah last Saturday after
a weeks visit with relatives here.
Gene Gallagher returned last Sun
day morning from a ten day visit with
relatives and friends at Casper, Wyo.
Pete Todsen went down to Norfolk
Wednesday morning where he attended
a meeting of the managers of the
J. C. Penney stores in this district,
returning home Wednesday night.
Mrs. Bert Gunn and her sister-in
law, Mrs. Andrew Wettlauffer and
children, returned last Saturday from
a weeks visit at the home of Mrs.
Gunn’s sister, Mrs. Roy Hemming
way, at Chadron, Nebr. Mrs. Gunn
says that it is very dry in the western
part of the state and that this county
looks like a paradise compared to
that section.
Has the Brain Trust happened to
think that it might help the fishing in
dustry by eliminating every third sar
dine in the can ?
The song which the New Deal art
ists are now singing to the American
voter is “Will you love me in No
vember as you do in May?”
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
By Frank P. Litschert
Two speeches of more than ordinary
importance, delivered over the radio
during the past several days, give rise
to the belief that the coming campaign
will be one of more than usual inter
est. One of these addresses, by
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher, of the
republican national committee, accept
ed the New Deal as an issue for cam
paign discussion. The other, by Sena
tor William E. Borah, of Idaho, was
an attack on bureaucracy and certain
phases of the New Deal and fore
shadowed an intensive campaign on
the subject during the summer and
fall by the Idaho senator.
In accepting the gage thrown down
by the so-called Brain Trust, Mr. Flet
cher said:
"The New Deal is now generously
heaping invective upon everything
which went before the advent of the
new dispensation on March 4, 1933,
and we are all told now that the prin
ciples of government which made our
great progress and prosperity possible
are no longer worth while. We be
lieve that those principlees are worth
while and that the injustices and in
equalities which have developed can
be cured and corrected without twist
ing and deforming our American in
stitutions. We do not want to see
these alphabetic bureaucratic agencies
become permanent fixtures in our
national political life. If the next
congress is not more self-respecting
and conscious of its duties than the
last they may easily become perman
ent. The republcan party accepts
the issue of the New Deal. It will
seek to return to congress enough
members to oppose effectiively these
inovations. We believe we will be suc
cessful in this.”
All of which indicates that the cam
paign will soon be on in full force and
there will be no mincing of words or
beclouding of issues. Which is as it
should be.
In his address on the night of July
4th, Senator Borah in his inimitable
way stood spokesman for our consti
tutional government and paid his res
pects in no uncertain terms to the
growth of bureaucracy in America.
He called attention to the fact that a
complete dictatorship is not neecessary
for the taking away of human rights.
In a democracy this can easiest be done
by a bureaucracy which he said, “is
that form of government which steals
away man’s rights in the name of pub
lic interest and taxes him to death in
the name of recovery.” Continuing
the Senator said: "Of all forms of
government which has ever been per
mitted to torture the human family,
the most devastating to human hap
piness, and the most destructive of
human values is a bureaucracy. It
has destroyed every civilization upon
which it has fasteneed it lecherous
grip.”
Referring to the recent fight made
by the newspapers of the country to
preserve the freedom of the press
from what they termed the dangers
of suppression under the newspaper
teode offered them, Senator Borah de
clared that while a free press is es
sential to a free government, “the gov
ernment has just as much right to say
there are too many newspapers as to
say there is too much cotton being
grown.” He continued: “It has as
much right to reduce the size of
newspapers and turn the printers on
the street as it has to force the re
duction of cotton and turn the share
croppers on to the highway. The
government has as much right to say
under the constitution that the great
newspapers of the country should be
limited in circulation and curtailed in
issue as it has by law to curtail the
acreage of our wheat fields. * * *
If the government can take away
the right to grow cotton and force the
grower to plant according to some bu
reau’s judgment and thereby force
thousands to the point of starvation,
it is only a question of time, and it has
always been so, until this creeping
paralysis of bureaucracy benumbs the
hand of the editor."
Senator Borah announced in con
clusion his intention of “taking these
matters to the people of the country”
during the summer and fall. Yes,
this sure does promise to be an inter
esting “off year” campaign.
SOMEBODY BLUNDERED
Study of statistics reveals that a
majority of the 756,500 automobile
accidents in the United States in 1933
occurred on straight, dry roads in
clear weather, and involved cars in
good condition driven by persons with
a year or more of experiencee. Over
75 per cent of these drivers were per
sons of mature age—from 25 to 64.
The majority of the 30,000 deaths and
850,000 injuries must be attributed to
blunders.
A recent analysis by the National
Bureau of Casualty and Surety under
writers shows what the blunders were.
They are eight in all.
1. Drove too fast for conditions—
this accounted for approximately
three-fourths of all mishaps in 1933
assigned to driving blunders.
2. Failed to slow down at inter
sections.
3. Failed to keep to the right.
4. Tried to pass another car going
in the same direction w'hen view was
obstructed.
5. Failed to slow down on ap
proaching pedestrians.
6. Passed on the right of a pre
ceding vehicle.
7. Ignored important traffic control
devices.
8. Parked at dangerous spots.
If drivers will obey the eight com
monsense rules suggested by these
violations, the annual accident record
can be reduced to a negligible figure.
BAliGAIN homes
If present plans to stimulate con
struction mature, a typical home that
would have cost $9,500 in 1929 will
cost less than $7,000 in 1934, accord
ing to the American Builder. Financ
ing charges will be 18 to 25 per cent
less. Real estate costs will be lower,
by as much as 50 per cent in some
cases. And more efficient equipment
and. better planning will also produce
substantial dividends for the home
builder.
During depression construction has
stood still—but architects and design
ers haven’t. The five-room home of
today has the same efficiency as the
six-room home of a few years back,
due to better arrangement. New
methods have been evolved, new ideas
created. That means that the home
builder gets a better break than he
ever got before.
There isn’t an industry that would
n’t benefit from stimulated domestic
construction. Insurance, steel, electric,
railroad, lumber, paint, cement—every
time a home is built money is released
that goes into their coffers and thence
to the pockets of the workers. It is
reliably estimated that a potential
$1,600,000,000 of capital exists that
could, under favorable circumstances,
be turned into the channels of home
construction. If that is done, unem
ployment and hard times generally
will take a serious set-back.
EXCAVATION SHOWS HOLT
COUNTY WAS ONCE THE
HOME OF MANY INDIANS
(Continued from page 2.)
small exposed portions of grinders
wrere found in place and dentists who
examined the skull pronounced them
made for the task of assisting at meal
time. The bridges were made to wear
while eating and to be removed after
a meal and supposedly carried in the
pocket until time to eat rolled around
again.
One of the bridges fit on a single
tooth and another was to cover two
teeth. The Indians who lived north
of Butte have interested archaeolog
ists and only for the unsettled financi
al times the place should have been
intensely investigated. The culture
there had a habit of making a circular
hole in the earth, lined them with a
clay mixture and made a fire in them
to bake the clay plastering. The pits
were used to store things in but
whether they lived in them was not
determined. It was presupied some of
the pits were for holding perishable
foods at low temperatures during the
summer.
It was believed a pit was used as a
grave when some member left this
world and it may be found the people
lived therein and cremated the re
mains where death caught the victim
and abanonded that residence after the
funeral fire.
The pit grounds north of Butte
have beeen called a camping ground
but from this distance it would look
like ruins of a great ancient ciity of
possibly Mound Builder occupancy.
There must be such a ruin, or more
than one, somewhere in Boyd county.
Of the ten graves opened there it
was found they were dug round and
from six to seven feet deep, leading to
the supposiition the culture practiceed
cremation of their dead.
There came to light again a jug
which had been shaped in some kind of
wicker form. It was elaborately
carved and supposed to have been
manufactured about 1,000 years ago.
The layout sounds very much like a
Mound Builder village burying ground.
It is no wonder the Pawnee nation
fascinates leading archaeologists and
ethnologists. Their legends alone are
enough to stamp them as a nation of
poets, idealists and dreamers working
and fighting because they had to.
Among a myriad of Pawhee legends
one stands out as a yardstick for the
others they repeated from generation
to generation and that one is the le
gend of the great rains.
The Pawnee had a great assortment
of gods, but the chief of them was
Ti Ra Wa, powerful and always up
to some queer caper that must have
caused the children to ponder over the
queer works in the next world as well
as those in this one.
Many years before the whites came,
so this legend runs, a culture of giants
held forth in Nebraska and these
giants did not know any too much.
Mentally they were pigmies. As
time passed, the giants entertained
serious doubt as to the all-powerful
status of Ti Ra Wa. Ti Ra Wa got
hot under the collar, if he had one,
and if not, he generated plenty of
heat without it, because he long had
ran things on earth to suit himself.
The giants knew of the displeasure
and made great sport of the god out
of a job above where the thunder
rocked the atmosphere to a frenzy at
the will of some unseen power.
Ti Ra Wa let things slide for one
growing season arid the giants had an
other laugh period. The god looked
down now and then and decreed cor
rective punishments and pondered
what he should do. The giants got
by in fine shape and doubted stronger
than ever that Ti Ra Wa was all he
had been cracked up to be. He must
have lost his skill.
Nebraska was not what it is today,
geographically, or rather typographi
cally speaking, and there were moun
tains and hills everywhere and the
neglected god finally sent word he
wanted to talk business to the giants.
He did so, upbraiding them and ex
horting them to better actions in the
future. The giants grinned openly,
thinking of juicy buffalo steaks, inter
esting games, long excursions and
other pleasures they evolved them
selves and for which they owed noth
ing to anyone. The giants figured
they lived here and the god elsewhere,
and they should live and act accord
ing to conditions here and the god ac
cording to conditions confronting him
Dn his homestead. The giants jerked
gnurled hands to their faces and
thumbed their noses at the already
angry god. The god knew what that
meant and knew how to fix thumbs
bo they should mind their own busi
ness.
Ti Ra Wa got hotter than ever, lie
i cached down and ripped peaks off
mountains, heaved great chunks of
stone around as though he did not care
who he injured, crushed bowlders in
his hands and threw the dust in the
face* of the giants, thinking they
should know what was what before
he actually cast the entire sorry mass
to flames.
The god watched and waited to
determine if his warning sunk in any
thing but lakes and rivers. The god
got to thinking again and he noticed
the giants had nice corn that should
make at least 25 bushels to the acre
on the few tracts then suitable for
agriculture without an agricultural
agent. The god commenced to suck
in enough air to inflate all the foot
balls in America and when this air be
came hot he exhaled it right in the
giant’s best farming country. That
made the giants sore but they did not
brag about it.
The corn and small grains withered
and dead wisps hung in every field.
The giants gazed skyward and. hung
their heads but they had no thought
of running up a white flag.
Ti.Ra Wa threw dark clouds over
the sky and it became so dark the
giants could not find their boots.
Giants who had been bitter enemies
even found they were conversing be
cause they could not see the other
fellow. The chiefs were asked to do
something but they did not do it.
Barrels and tubs of cold rain poured
from the sky and continued days,
weeks, months and until the giants
left their homes and hit for the moun.
taains, or what was left of them. The
water crept higher and higher. So
did the giants.
(Continued next week.)
Philadelphia Distpatch: The aver
age mental age in America is 16 years,
according to the scientists. And life
begins at forty. No wonder some
fellows are so slow getting under
way.
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EDWIN E. SQUIRES
FORSUPREMEJUDGE
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eminently qualified by education and
practice for the supreme court. Dur
ing many years he has been the lead
ing counsel in a great per cent of the
more important litigation in his judic
ial district and has had much practice
in the Federal courts.
He is a graduate of the University
of Kansas and of the Nebraska Uni
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at Kearney and for the past 27 years
at Broken Bow. As a deep student of
law, he is recognised by attorneys and
the courts throughout the state for his
great ability and wide experience.
If you want a high type, able
lawyer on the supreme bench from
this district, you will be safe in voting
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate No. 2105
In the County Court of Holt County,
Nebraska, July 5, 1934.
In the matter of the Estate of Eliz
abeth J. Groff, Deceased.
CREDITORS of said estate are
hereby notified that the time limited
for presenting claims against said
estate is November 2, 1934, and for
the payment of debts is July 5, 1935,
and that on August 2, 1934, and on
November 3, 1934, at 10 o’clock A. M.,
each day, I will be at the County Court
Room in said County to receive, ex
amine, hear, allow, or adjust all claims
and objections duly filed.
C. J. MALONE,
County Judge.
(County Court Seal)
8-3 C. E. Cronin, Attorney.
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FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
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District at the Primary election Au
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appreciated.
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O’Neill, Nebr.
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