Nebraska’s Political Sower
By James R. Lowell, Lincoln, Nebr.
Everyone, including government
officials has finally decided that the
drouth situation is both undesirable
and tragic, and all hands are now on
deck in an effort to pull the afflicted
areas thru what promises to be one of
the most emergent situations this
and other cornbelt states have ever
faced.
Saving the livestock is demanding
much of the attention of relief ad
ministrators at present. Winter feed
is an immense problem, and agricul
tural college as well as relief author
ities are urging farmers to save all
roughages including Russian thistles
and sunfloweers thru use of trench
silos.
More than half a milion dollars has
already been paid to Nebraska farm
ers who have sold cattle under the
federal government’s drouth purchas
ing program. Approximately 60,000
head of cattle have been sold.
The Nebraska AAA program has
started its second year of operation,
and the plan thus far has brought into
the state about $4,600,000 to growers
signing contracts. An additional $0,
600,000 is to be distributed in benefit
payments before the end of the year.
Representatives of the purebred cat
tle associations are bringing pressure
to bear to persuade the farm admin
istration to purchase about 10 per cent
of the blooded, stock in the drouth
area. The animals bought would be
used for rehabilitation on subsistence
homesteads, Indian reservations, and
other government supervised institu
tions, but would not be slaughtered.
The 90 per cent of the purebred cattle
remaining on farms would be tided
over by government loans to serve as
foundation stock later.
Word has come to the office of W.
W. Derrick, assistant director of the
drouth cattle buying program in Ne
braska, that cattle in the greater part
of western Nebraska can be held over
for some time yet before government
buying need start. Only the cattle in
certain sections of Banner county are
in actual distress, it was stated.
Only fodder remains of the corn
fields over most of the state, a report
issued by the Lincoln weather bureau
stated last week. A half crop can be
obtained from the corn in northeastern
Nebraska, however, if favorable
weather develops during the remaind
er of the summer.
Developments in the program for
human relief in Nebraska included the
allotment of $387,547 to 67 out of the
93 counties last week by the state re
lief committee at the state house.
This money was for August needs and
will go io 28,014 families having one
(Political Advertisement)
Miss Bea A. Murphy
• Non-Political Candidate For
County Superintendent
I AM A LIFE TIME RESIDENT
OF HOLT COUNTY
Education: Attended rural school,
high school and am a graduate of
a Teachers Normal college. I
have a Professional Life Certifi
cate.
Experience: I have had over 25
yearsteaching experience in rural,
town and city schools. This ex
perience would be of great value
to me in administering the duties
of the office of county superintend
ent.
I Will Appreciate Your Support At
the Primaries August 14th.
(Political Advertisement)
Geo. H. Heinke
Nebraefca City
CANDIDATE FOR
Attorney General
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26 years as a lawyer.
12 years as County At
torney.
3,000 criminal cases prose
cuted.
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“Quit 'mollycoddling' the crimi
nal and end the reign of the
gangeter.”
or more persons on relief. This is in
addition to $402,653 of federal and
local funds already on hand for Au
gust relief, making a total of $760,201
for the month. Nearly $100,000 of un
apportioned funds is still on hand and
this may be used for supplemental
relief this month.
The relief committee adopted a defi
nite policy in regard to use of auto
mobiles by persons on relief. If the
one on relief is using a motor vehicle
but can show that the car brings in
a larger income than the cost of op
eration, then the cost of operation will
be allowed. Otherwise the person on
relief will be allowed no funds as long
as the car is being used.
Frank Henline, state director of the
relief canning program, announces
that some progress is being made in
such centers as South Sioux City and
Norfolk for the canning of food stuffs
as a relief project. Arrangements had
been made early this week for killing
and distributing meat from animals
slaughtered under the drouth relief
program in 43 counties. Canning pro
jects will get underway soon at Om
aha, Scottsbluff, Bridgeport, Lyman
and Sidney.
Nebraska has received an assign
ment of 200,000 pounds of cotton from
the Surplus Commodity corporation
for use in making mattresses as a re
lief project in Omaha and Lincoln dur
ing August. Four mattress factories
have been set up at Omaha and one at
Lincoln, while an additional factory is
scheduled for operation at Lincoln in
the near future. Fifty to GO persons
will be employed in each unit and each
will produce about 750 mattresses dur
ing the month. The mattresses will
be distributed generally to persons on
relief over the state.
A movement is underway to per
suade the federal government to ap
portion some of the $525,000,000
drouth relief fund to enable rural
schools in the drouth area to operate
next school term. Nebraska’s drouth
area contains 500 rural schools which
may not be able to carry on if they
are not helped, according to Herbert
L. Cushing, deputy state superintend
ent of schools. There are nearly 7,000
rural school districts in Nebraska.
One of the latest of the relief meas
ures proposed is a program of con
structing wells as community projects
to meet emergency water needs. Ponds
also would be constructed on farms
to conserve water in rural territory.
The projects would be paid for with
FERA funds. The possibility of util
izing such funds for irrigation pro
jects is still in doubt. The North Loup
project has been under consideration
for several weeks, but nothing defi
nite had been decided up to this week.
The closing days of the primary
election campaign finds the candidates
putting on steam for the final dash
when the people of Nebraska pick out
their favorites on August 14th. C. A.
Sorensen, republican candidate for
governor, has saved his energy until
the last when he is stuffing rural
mail boxes with a bulletin which sets
forth his qualifications and political
views. Political prognosticators look
for him to garner a large number of
last minute decisions in the primary
poll.
State Engineer Cochran continues
as the favorite for the democratic
nomination for governor, and his 11th
hour campaign tactics include a posi
tive statement as to his stand on ed
ucation, as well as a promise to ap
peal to the National Democratic ad
ministration to extend Federal Land
Bank loans for one year, as a thouth
emergency measure, and this deferred
payment to be caught up thru a period
of 10 years. He will also urge other
loan agencies to grant similar priv
ileges.
As for his views on education he
says: “I feel that the first and most
vital obligation of the people of any
state is to the health and education of
it's children. . . . Nebraska has been
65 years building up the present cred
itable school system, and we must do
everything possible to maintain the
high standard that has been attained
in our rural, town, normal schools and
university.” Mr. Cochran further
states that inasmuch as we are going
thru difficult times, every reasonable
economy must be practiced. He would
accomplish this by placing the empha
sis on adequate leadership, rather than
on an imposing building program.
Thedore W. Metcalfe, republican
gubernatorial candidate, who has been
gaining considerable strength among
the voters by his definite stand on
issues, has decided to engage Dwight
Griswold, one of Metcalfe’s two lead
ing opponents for the republican nom
ination, in open warefare as regards
the question of repealing the state
prohibition law. Metcalfe has been
openly in favor of repealing the state
law since he got into the campaign and
he charges that Griswold has been
straddling the fence.
Donald Gallagher, Lincoln attorney
and Norris henchman, who was picked
as the winner in the race for attorney
general in a recent survey of news
paper editors conducted by the Lowell
Service of Lincoln, has adopted a
major platform. He would cut the
cost of administering the office of at
torney general by one-third, by allow
ing county attorneys to handle county
affairs without interference from the
state office.
A project greater than the Ten
nessee valley project is State Forester
C. W. Watkins opinion of the recently
announced federal shelter-belt project.
Such a belt is certain to be of im
mense value in slowing up wind vel
ocity, checking soil erosion and de
creasing evaporation he thinks.
Mr. Watkins has received word form
Washington that the forest service
has set up an administration for the
100-mile wide protective forest belt,
which will stretch from the Canadian
border to Texas, with Nebraska as one
of the chief beneficiaries. The man
placed in charge of the project is Fred
Morrell, assistant forester of the na
tional government and a former Ne
braskan.
Sixteen varities of trees, 11 of them
native to Nebraska, have been picked
for the planting. They include burr
oak, hackberry, American elm, jack
pine, Ponderosa pine, box elder, red
cedar, white birch, green ash, poplar
and silver maple. The species not
native to Nebraska will be Russian
(Political Advertisement)
IRA H. MOSS
Republican Candidate For
Re-election To The Office Of
CLERK OF THE
DISTRICT COURT
Born in Holt county in 1892.
Graduate of Atkinson High
School.
Two years in Hastings Col
lege.
Two years of service in the
World War.
If re-elected will continue
efficient and economical ad
ministration of the office.
I PRIMARY AUGUST 14
(Political Advertisement)
LEROY S.
BARTLETT
Stuart, Nebraska
Democratic Candidate For
STATE
REPRESENTATIVE
64th District
HOLT COUNTY
RESIDENT OF HOLT COUNTY
18 YEARS ;
Favor lower taxes and sane and
economical government.
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YOUR SUPPORT WILL BE
SINCERELY APPRECIATED
at the Primaries, August 14th.
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James L. Tewell
Sidney, Nebraska
Candidate for
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Justice Supreme Court
For the pant 1.1 years has been
Judge of the District Court, 11th
Judirial District.
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olive, Russian elm, Chinese elm, Rus
sian mulberry ami the golden rain tree.
The work of planting is expected to
be in full swing in two years, while
the planting will be carried on over
a period of 10 years.
GIST OF THE STATE HOUSE
NEWS: The figure for Nebraska’s
state tax levy has been placed finally
at 2.1 mills, the lowest since 1916 if
considered in view of the amount of
state taxes that will be collected. The
levy last year was 2.39. The state’s
total assessment of farm lauds was
raised only $26,737 above the aggreg
ate as reported by county assessors.
Gross valuation placed on farm lands
by the state board of equalization is
$1,140,666,074, a decrease of $7,670,
749 from a year ago.
Expenditures of the state govern
ment for the fiscal period ending June
30, totaled $20,218,682, more than half
of which went for highway construc
tion and maintenance. Educational
institiutions cost $3,493,192; penal and
charitable Institutions, $2,067,769;
miscellaneous departments, $782,236;
code departments, $748,666; judiciary,
$383,684, and executive departments,
$341,024.
A $200,000 addition to the federal
aid road program in Nebraska was
announced last week.
J. R. Carnahan, state work relief
director, has received word from fed
eral officials at Washington that $16,
000 has been allotted to Nebraska to
finish airports started under the form
er CWA. Sixteen cities and towns
will be benefitted by the allotment.
President Roosevelt will be unable
to accept an invitation extended by
Governor Bryan to attend dedication
ceremonies for the state capitol at
Lincoln, Sept. 3. Previous engage
ments were given as the president’s
reason for not accepting. All gov
ernors of midwest states, Nebraska
legislators who passed the law creat
ing a capitol commission and making
appropriations therefor, four former
governors of Nebraska who served as
chairman of the capitol commission,
notables from over the country, a
1 number of architects and artists, and
others are expected to participate in
the dedication, however.
Political sidelights: Arthur Mullen
of Bryan-Burke senatorial contest
fame has left to be present at the
fort Peck dam on the Missouri river
headwaters in Montana when Presid
ent Roosevelt inspects the new pro
ject. Another notable from Nebraska
who will be present is Arthur Weaver,
of Falls City, former governor, who
was active in getting the government
to authorize the development.
Secretary James Miller, of the state
railway commission, is one of the few
candidates running for state office who
isn’t giving most of his time to his
campaign. As secretary of the com
mission, his official duties take up his
time six days of the week, leaving
him only Saturday afternoons, even
ings and Sundays to play the game of
politics. He figures that the voters
of the state will regard him as an em
ploye of the state who has served a
four-year apprenticeship to the office
he seeks and is due for a promotion.
Former Governor Keith Neville, of
North Platte, has entered the senator
ial contest as a speaker in behalf of
Congressman Burke of Omaha. Ne
ville is stumping the western and cen
tral sections of the state this week in
an effort to bring Burke in ahead of
Governor Bryan at the finish line next
Tuesday.
The Nebraska democratic state com
mittee meeting at Lincoln adopted a
resolution demanding that all candi
dates make a statement in writing
that they are in favor of the demo
cratic platform of 1932 and that they
will support President Roosevelt. The
move was engineered by Mr. Neville,
of North Platte, and was patently
(Political Advertisement)
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I W. S. KIRKLAND
Republican Candidate For
REGISTER OF DEEDS
Ex-service Man, and A Life-long
Resident of Holt County.
WILL APPRECIATE YOUR
SUPPORT
at Primaries August 14, 1934
aimed at Governor Bryan in an effort
to make him commit himself definitely
as concerns prohibition.
Congressman Burke, the governor’s
chief rival In the race for the demo
cratic nomination for United States
| senator, has pledged full and uncon
ditional support to the democratic
national platform of 1932, and he
especially indorses the party’s stand
in favor of prohibition repeal. Just
what Governor Bryan’s comeback, if
any, will be, remains to be seen.
(Political Advertisement.)
MARGUERITE WELCH
Non-Political Candidate For
County Superintendent
Born and Raised in Holt County.
A graduate of the University of
Nebraska.
Teaching Experience in Rural
and City Schools.
University Teacher’s Certificate
Valid for Life.
Degree of Bachelor of Science
in Education.
With Assured Fairness To All,
I Solicit Your Support At The
Primaries On August 14, 1934.
(Political Advertisement) (Political Advertisement)
TO THE VOTERS OF HOLT COUNTY
As there are a large number of you whom I wili be unable to see,
I am taking this means of soliciting your support at the primaries
August 14th.
A lifelong resident of northern Holt county.
Attended the Teachers College High School of Lincoln, and the
Chadron State Normal of Chadron, Nebraska.
Should you be in a position to give me your support, it will be
sincerely appreciated.
ARTHUR H. O’NEILL
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
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